CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1935, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BRITISH MOTORS.. (Press Assn. —Copyright.) RUGBY, August 8. Statistics issued by the . Motor Manufacturers . an d Traders show a great expansion m British motor industry, which gives work to nearly 1,250,000 people in the manufacture, sale, repair and operation of niotor vehicles, and thus claims rank second only to the distributive trades as the largest employer of labour. The output of new motor vehicles has remarkable recovery from the depression period, reaching a total of 342,499 in 1934 against 146,600 ten years callier, and 238,805 in 1929, the peak year before the crisis. The total value of exports of-motor vehicles last year wa more than £14,250.000. In connection with the reduction 5/- per horse-power in private cars, a tax which came into effect in January an interesting claim is made that the exchequer is already reimburi• ed for the sacrifice by the increasein the number of cars maintained in use during winter months.

BRITAIN’S HOUSING REFORM RUGBY, August 9. One of tho most important among bills which became law at the end ot last week, before Parliament adjourned. was the Housing Act. which completed the legislative framework of the Government’s plans for dealing with the housing problem, and which for the first time, lays down a statutory definition of overcrowding. Ihe Minister of Health lost no time in circularising local authorities fining them of the readiness of the Minister to give any assistance in his power to those able to take immediate action to abate overcrowding. A circular just issued draws attention to the changes tho Act makes in slum clearance, and state the first stage l a survey in each locality to date - mine where overcrowding exists. JAPANESE POLICY. LONDON, August 9. “The Tinms’s" Tokio correspondent! states that Cabinet has approved the general principles for the abolition of | extra-territoriality in sixty Manchu-| i kuo districts. The abolition will be I effected gradually witli a view to i avoiding sudden changes in the life I of the Japanese communities, ensuring free development of Japanese policy. Japan will retain the railway zone and the administration rights over it, transferring concurrently the abolition of extra-terirtorlality. Japan’s rights in Kwangtung will not be affected.