HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1935, Page 5

HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

QUEEN MARY’S COMMANDER. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS] RUGBY, November 25. Captain Sir Edgar Britten, Commodore of the Cunard-White Stai’ Fleet, who has been appointed to the command of the Queen Mary, is 61 years of age. He was appointed Commodore of the Fleet in February this year. He first went to sea in 1892, in a sailing ship, and is one of the few captains who have taken a master’s certificate, both for sail and steam. FILM CENSORSHIP. Lord Tyrrell has been elected as president of the British Board of Film Censors, in succession to the late Hen. Edward Shortt. The Board of Censors is appointed by the trade itself, and to-day’s election was at a. meeting of representatives of exhibitors, renters and manufacturers. Lord Tyrrell, who is 71, was. Permanent Ender Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1925 to 1928, when he became British Ambassador in Paris,. from which post he retired in April last year. STEEL CORPORATION. The English Steel Corporation has announced an expenditure of threequarters of a million pounds, on the modernisation of plant at Vickers’ works, Sheffield, bringing the total amount spent on the works in recent years to two million. TRANSPORT PROBLEM. A difficult transport problem results from the big electric order executed for steel works at Cardiff, by the English Electric Company, at Stafford. The armature for the mill weighs 73 tons, and special arrangements have been made for its conveyance by road on a fourteenwheeler articulated lorry. In some places, the roadways will have to be specially reinforced with steel planting, while the lorry passes to protect water mains and cables.