Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

DISASTROUS FlßM.—Fire at the ham and bacon factory of J. C. Hutat Preston, six miles from Melbourne, destroyed a large packing room •Tfid its contents. The loss is estimated at £50,000. BILL of INDEMNITY.—The House «r Commons passed through all stages th« Bill of Indemnity rendered necessary through the appointment of seven instead of six members of the House as under-secretaries. SUCCKSS OF MISSION. —In the House of Commons the president of the Board of Trade, Mr. W. Graham, Was asked whether, in view of the sue--of the recent economic mission to South America, it was proposed to sen d similar missions, to other parts the world. He said the question was • tinder consideration, but he was unable 3®t to make any statement. °FT:ra TX BRITAIX. —The Prime Minister. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, was disked in the House of Commons Whether, in view of the fact that £IOO.OOO had been collected from •*O.OOO subscribers to the Imperial League of Opera, the Government intended to give assistance in establishing national opera. While expressing his warmest sympathy with the aims the Opera League, the Prime Minuter said he regretted he could not Promise it a grant from public funds.

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