GENERAL CABLES.
i COMMERCIAL FLYING. LONDON, August 24. The Handley Page Company L? opening a daily passenger service between Paris and London on Monday. Each machine will carry ten passengers, the fare being /fifteen fiuineas. The Aires Aeroplane 'Company is establishing a daily goods service at the rate of 7/G a lb. Britain and America are requesting permission to establish aeroplane landing grounds, and also an observatory, at | Teneriffe.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) BAKERS' AWARD. LONDON, August 24. The Arbitration award in the bakers' strike gives an advance of 5/ a week, making the wages 60/ in the country and 65/ in the towns for a 4S hours "week, payment at the rate of time and a-quarter for the first two hours' overtime, then time and a-half. — (\. and \ Z Cable.) JAPANESE MERCHANT FLEET. TOKYO, August 22. The Minister of Communications announced today that the Jap.-.nese merchant fleet increased 40 per cent during wartime. New construction was confined to standardised cargo boats —(A and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 5
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