CABLEGRAMS & WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1929, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS & WIRELESS

WORLD COURT PROTOCOLS. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) GENEVA, December 9. The United States Charge d’Affaires at Berne has signed the Protocols for the United States’ adherence to the Permanent Court of international Justice. This, however, is subject to ratification by the United States Congress at Washington. METEORITE’S HAVOC. ' RIGA, December 10. A huge meteorite fell at Kamschatka, killing a hundred and thirty reindeer, and creating a crater which became a lake. CANADA’S EXPORTS. OTTAWA, December 10. As a result of the success following the Government subsidised freight service from British Columbia to Australia, the Minister for Trade and Commerce (Mr Malcolm) announced to-day that he was considering the establishment of services, from Canada to India, Ceylon, and. East Africa. In the four months during which the Australian service has been existent, Canada’s lumber shipments, which averaged 2,400,000 ft per month, in 1928, increased to 6,000,000 ft per month. If this rate of increase continues, it is expected that Canada’s business with Australia will reach 7,000,000 ft in twelve months. For August, September and October, the exports of all commodities to Australia were worth 5,592,829 dollars, an increase of more than half-a-million dollars over the same period of last year. The subsidised service from British Columbia to the British West Indies and the Northeast Coast of South America is also helping lumber. Other subsidised services ply to New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, and West and South Africa.