Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

PEOPLE’S THRIFT.—The total of toe depositors’ balances in the State •avings banks throughout Australia at toe end of last month wa>* £167,750,000. SUZANNE RETIRES. —Mademoiselle Suzanne Lenglen's father has taken of her affairs. He has written to a French sporting paper that “my daughter will not enter a public court Privately.”— A. and N.Z.-P.A. FISHER MEMORIAL. —An influential committee has been formed in Britain with a view to the erection of J Memorial on the grave of Mr. Andrew Fisher, as a tribute to his great and invaluable services to Australia the Empire.—A. and N.Z.-P.A. BQMBAY'S GOVERNOR. MajorGeneral Sir Frederick Sykes, the Gov-ernor-designate of Bombay, and Lady fcykes. have left England for India. Sir Frederick will take over his post trom the retiring Governor, Sir Leslie Wilson, on December B. —British OfflWireless. COMPULSORY FLIGHTS. An 2£der has been issued by the British >'ar Office providing that officers and other ranks in the Army may be or dered to take flights for reconnalasdnce and other purposes. Officers men of the Royal Navy are already under an obligation not only co 8o aloft but also to go under water jJ^ u hmarin e s when required.—A. and yo penny POST.—The Chancelof the Exchequer, Mr. Winston '-hurchill, said in the House of Com“|OIls that, contrary to reports, there 'y* no intention to revert to penny Postage for letters in the near future. he re-introduction of penny postage hn the pre-war basis would entail a to the Treasury that was estiat between £3,25 n ,OOO and *l,2so,ooo.—British Official Wireless.