Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 859, 31 December 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

INVENTOR DEAD.—The death is announced of All*. Alfred Bates, artmetal worke.*. He was the inventor the steel helmet which the British troops wore in the Great War. FACTORY DESTROYED —Fire yesterday destroyed a furniture factory belonging; to O. K. Elliott, Ltd., at -Vnnandale, a suburb of Sydney. A large quantity of valuable timber and machinery \;as ruined. The damage 18 estimated at £7,000. SYDNFTY '’OMMUNISTS. —A Communist conference at Sydney decided tp nominate candidates for the New Wales Parliamentary election in opposition to the endorsed Labour nominees. Also, the conference condemned the White Australia policy on tfle ground that it cultivated race Prejudice. hOST AIRMEN.—The Soviet has ordered Lieutenant Chuknovsky and 'tner airmen, who participated in the or the crew of the airship talia, to assist in the search for Lieuin D c? t ielson a nd his companion, lost in Siheri a . This is the second expedition the Soviet has dispatched to *** Eielson. GEOLOGIST KILLED.—A message •lom Dallas, Texas, states that Dr. Jonathan Carver, a noted British geolod , • killed in a motor-car col.\fn° n ' tho British •museum. Dr. Carver had been digging Indian ruins in Arizona for months. He was on his way dPoTv* 0 London with specimens when ueatn overtook him.