BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1926, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright)

RUGBY WIRELESS . LONDON, January 28 .

From January • 31, private radios will be dispatched from Rugby, cap- i ' able j of reaching any ship' anywhere*' in the worjd. This will replace the ; Oxford station,, which is limited in range to three thousand miles.

ITALIAN CENSUS.

ROME. January 28.

The census shows the population of Italy as 42,115,000, an increase of threo millions compared with 1921. '• Milan leads the list of the cities with 2,030,000, Naples and Rhine hayffl 1,500,000 eadh, Turin ■ f,300,00 )and : Genoa, Florence, .and Bari each under one million.

/ EX-KAISER’S BIRTHDAY. AMSTERDAM, January 28., ' Dutch authorities, refuses to allow, the >. eX-Crown Prince to visit his father at Doorn, on the occasion of the latter’s birthday.’ This * unexpected ,decision contradictsthe permission granted. previously, and the ex-Kaiser isdisappointed at ’ what he calls the ridiculous interference with a mere reception. It is suggested in certain f quarters that the Allied Governments intervened to prevent the visit.

FOOD TRANSPORTATION ! LONDON, January 27. - X A paper on the problems of sea -. transportation and Conservation in store of ripe friut, was read before the Society of Arts by Professor Ji M. Thompson of the Liverpool University. He said that the problem whether all fruits now used as food could betransported in ships and stored in dormant riperiess',- ttas- being studied in the laboratories of the Liverpool University ,also the nature and effects of certain ’ parasitid organisms re- ' sponsible for important flosses in vegetable foods during' iea transport. •. There-was encouragement for the. belief that the food wastage could be practicalH eliininated by. simple inexpensive means, and that the day was' not far distant whefl niany. varieties of important produce now considered not transportable vfould be made available. •.■••’- , ‘