Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

GERMAN UNEMPLOYED. The number of unemployed in Germany increased by 26 per cent, in December. The total number of unemployed throughout the countrv is 1,300,000. — A. and N.Z.-P.A. GREYBEARD SCHOLARS. obedience to the new and peremptory summons, men and women of all ages, greybeards, and mothers nursing their babies crowded to the newly-impro-ved Turkish national schools, to learn *he new Turkish alphabet. Instruction in reading and writing will be given to fully two-thirds of the population of the country.—A. and N.Z.-P.A. ROAD AND RAlL.—Another important development m road and ra i 1 transport has taken place in ShefDld, when joint bus services, operated >’>’ the Sheffield Corporation and by Jhe London and North-Eastern and London, Midland and Scottish Railways, were inaugurated—British Official Wireless. HIGHER FREIGHTS. and Customs officials in Melbourne estimate that the increased shipping koights on imported goods will cost Australia an additional £ 10,000,000 a year. girl OVER rr.lFF.—The police at Sydney headquarters have issued a statement saying they are satisfied that tore were no suspicious circumstances ■•sociated with the death of Xola Rowwho fell down a cliff at Echo Point, katoomba, but an inquest concerning her death will be held next week. •NEW CHINA TREATY. —The new f oaty between France and China abol- , the previous treaty, and contains iDwisions regarding tariffs. It prodes foi* China’s tariff autonomy. The application of the most fav- , re< ? nation” treatment will be operaimmediately it is ratified. — A.P.A.!>'E.MPl.oved INQUIRY. The Committee of representatives pf goour and leading industrialists of tdt l0 ’ under the chairmanship of • tJ’t, Melchet.t, has, according to the , aily Mail,*’ agreed on a series of for dealing with the nil j Ploymeil l problem. The recomform ations will shortly be issued in the ( ,L. °T an agreed report.—British °"cial Wireless.