Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 285, 22 February 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

PAX-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.— The Pan-American Conference completed its final to-day. Speeches of goodwill were delivered by the delegates. No further mention was made of tho intervention question.—A. and N.Z. INDUSTRIAL PEACE.. —The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. S. M. Bruce, ha? approved the suggestion that the Industrial Peace Conference should be mi.de a permanent body, to be called tb l Commonwealth Economic Conferenre.—A. and N.Z. SEATS FOR CUP FINAL..—The English Soccer Association states that applications for tickets for Wembley for the Cup final have exceeded 1.000,000, which is treble the nuniber for last year. The ground holds 90,000. —Sun. GIFTS FOR NATIONAL, DEBT The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Winston Churchill, announces the reeei Pt of 14 more anonymous donations aggregating £238 as additions to the of £500,000 for the redemption of the national debt.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. ggggp CAR’S COST.—The car Blue Bird/’ in which Captain Malcolm amp sell drove at the world’s record J*te of over 206 miles an hour at DayBeach, Florida, yesterday, was deJJgnec, and built at his own expense. a cost £ 2D,000.—A. and N.Z. Toll OF TRAFFIC.—A total of ■>•o64 street accidents were reported : aat year in Sydney, 206 persons having °f en killed and 5,644 injured. There ‘' ere 157 deaths and 4,443 cases of SS 7 Causec * by motor vehicles. In •Jaaition, 1,643 accidents occurred outthe metropolitan traffic district, mese resulted in 112 deaths and in in Jury to 1.117 persons.—A. and NZ.