CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1933, Page 12

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

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LONDON, October 28

Australia swept, the pool in the Empire dried fruit, sections and also scored well in (ho Empire canned truits at Bristol Show. Most of the awards for the canned fruit went to Kyabtani and Shepparton in Victoria, Avhile those for dried fruits went to the Mildura, Irymple and Renark packing companies of Victoria, and the vt es Australian Farmers’ Company.

BRITAIN’S INDUSTRIES.

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RUGBY, October 27., A steady improvement in Britain s industrial situation is continuing, ant evidence of increasing activity in leading trades comes from areas all over the country. It was reported today that eleven basic steel plants in Sheffield are now fully employed and the production exceeds last years iy nearly 1000 tons daily, while cutlery orders average 45 per cent, heavier than last year. Birmingham jewelleiy manufacturers also are working nil time and skilled craftsmen are fully employed. United Kingdom exports of wool products increased 48 per cent, in September compared with the year before The demand for steel products is hv no means confined to the home market and orders fiom abroad have shown an'chcouragtng increase.

NOBEL PRIZE.

STOCKHOLM, October 29. The Nobel physics prize is likely to be awarded to Dr. Piccard, for exploration of the stratosphere.

KING’S XMAS BROADCAST.

LONDON, October 29

Details are being planned for His Majesty to broadcast from Sandringham on the afternoon of Christmas Day. The arrangements will be identical with those of 1932.

BRITAIN’S BACON.

LONDON, October 29.

The Ministry of Agriculture announces that the home bacon industry in a single bound has reached a position it was not expected to attain before 1935, which will necessitate a further reduction of 1G per cent in imports of foreign bacon. At the present rate, the Home consumption is about three million cwt., compared with the 1930 output, the latest for which figures are available, of 1,750,000 cwt.

BRITAIN’S ELECTRICITY.

RUGBY, October 28.

The Council of the British Electrical Development Association has appointed Sir William Ray, M.P., of the London County Council, and a a wellknown figure in the public life of London, to be its executive chairman, at a salary of £5OOO annually. He controls an expenditure of £lOO,OOO annually, to be made with the object of making Britain “electrically conscious.”

PRINCE’S TOUR.

LONDON, October 27.

Prince George’s visit to South Africa in January, arises out of a suggestion made by General Hertzog, at a luncheon in London in 1930. The Prince probably will travel as an ordinary liner passenger. He is expected to be absent, three months, but. there is no indication thus far whether this visit will prejudice the prospects of Prince George going to the Melbourne centenary celebration. OPIUM HOARD. SINGAPORE, October 29. The Malay States customs have discovered 31 petrol tins full of opium buried in a cave, on an uninhabited island. The customs officers have been searching for weeks among hundreds of islands and along miles of coastline, but their task has been made hazardous owing to sharks, octopi, and crocodiles. It is believed that there are several other caches.

TIN PRODUCTION.

LONDON, October 27.

The International Tin Committee announce that Bolivia, the Malay States, the Netherlands, the East Indies, Nigeria and Siam, have signed agreements for the continuance of the control of production and of export for three years as from January 1. 1934 to 1937. The scheme does not differ in its essentials from the existing scheme. The agreement increases the export quotas: from 33 1-3 to 40 per cent., plus a special four per cent quota for 1934.

BRITAIN’S BIRTH-RATE.

LONDON, October 29

“The Dispatch” says: A group of religious and political leaders, including members of the House of Commons, Lord Wolmer, Mr Grattan Doyle, Lord Hugh Cecil, the Bishops of Exeter and St. Albans, and Lady Winefrede Elwes, alarmed at the falling birth-rate among the middle-class people in Britain, have formed a League of National Life, to urge bigger families.

GERMAN LINER’S RECORD.

LONDON. October 29.

The “Daily Mail’s” Cherbourg correspondent says: The Bremen steamed to New York and back to Cherbourg, in ten days seven hours 18 minutes. This is claimed as a double crossing record.

“And now a word or two about the New Zealand tobacco”, wrote Mr Abel Snodgrass in a London trade journal recently. “Well, truth to toll. I was unaware that New Zealand' was amongst tobacco producing countries until I visited the Dominion last year. However, I soon discovered, when 1 got there, that ‘Maoriland’ was not only growing beautiful tobacco but that the latter possesses some unique qualities. It boasts a peculiarly line flavour and a bouquet you’d find it hard to beat. Also —note this! —owing to it being toasted it contains scarcely any nicotine. Consequently it does not cause throat irritation, or affect heart or nerves. You can smoke it from 'early morn till dewy eve’ without the slightest fear of consequences. It is as safe as it is alluring. Naturally it is very popular. Nearly every man met seemed to be smoking it”. Mr Snodgrass (an authority on tobacco) might have added that there are four brand's only of the genuine toasted: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). —Advt.