Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 973, 16 May 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

NEW AIR M a TI An air mail route from France to South America will be inaugurated. M. Jean Mermoz, the trench aviator, will make regular nights once a week. FRENCH RUdBV TEAM. —The New South Wales Rugby Union has decided ‘o invite the French Rugby Union to send a team to Australia in the near future. New SUBMARINE.—A new British submarine, the Rainbow, one of the R class of the 1928 programme, was successfully launched at Chatham Dock>ard on Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Addison, wife of Vice-Admiral Addison, Director of Dockyards. PICKING UP PLACES—The Senate at Canberra, by 21 votes to six. agreed to a motion by the Leader of the Opposition, Sir George Pearce, for the disallowance of regulations providing for a single picking-up place for union and volunteer wharf labourers in Melbourne. LEACUR COVKXAXT. Rouse of Commons, Mr. H. Dalton, parliamentary Under-Secretary of the foreign Oflice said the Government generally favoured the proposed amendments to the covenant of the League of Nations, and after seeking ■he concurrence of the Dominions it """Id support their adoption at the Genet ASBembly ° £ tUe L,easue at

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