CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 September 1934, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BRITISH RAILWAYS. [BY CABLE —PBESB ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] RUGBY, September 13. A significant feature of the railway traffic receipts for last week, which showed an advance on the four mam lines of £lOl,OOO over the corresponding week last year, is that the increases were due almost entirely to the greater volume of merchanidse and coal carried, thus reflecting the continual steady improvements in the country’s trade. The increase in business over last year’s receipts is also regarded as particularly satisfactory as the comparison is with, a week in 1933, which showed an increase over 1932 of £151,000. SAFETY CROSSINGS. RUGBY, September 13. The Minister of Transport has decided to increase the number of pedestrian crossings in London, as one measure for reducing the risk of street accidents. There are at present 2000 such crossings in the metropolitan area, and these will he increased- to 10,000. NEW DESTROYER. RUGBY, September 13. The destroyer, Electra, left the Tyne for trials, and afterwards proceeded to Portsmouth. Of the destroyers ordered under the 1931 programme, the Electra is the second to be completed. PRINTERS’ STRIKE. LONDON, September 14. “The Times’s” Dublin correspondent states that the Typographical and Stereotypers’ Societies have rejected a proposal to submit to arbitration the printers’ claim for a fortnight’s wages, thus resulting in the strike continuing. ANG 1.0-G ERMA N TR ADE. RUGBY, September 14. The import restriction imposed in the decrees recently announced by Dr. Schacht are being carefully studied by the appropriate Government departments in London. The newspapers anticipate that their effort on the An-glo-German exchange agreement will be the subject of early negotiations with Germany. The “Daily Telegraph” says the object of such negotiations would be to seek to define an entirely new basis for the whole commercial relations between Germany and the United Kingdom. In connection with the discussion on the broader issue, attention is directed to .the decision of the Lancashire cotton spinners to reject the German proposals for a settlement of their outstanding commercial debts. The decision caused but little surprise in the newspapers, reflecting commercial opinion, as the proposals generally were regarded as most unsatisfactory.