CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1937, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BRITISH EXPORTS.

[PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

RUGBY, April 28.

The Board of Trade has now calculated the volume of overseas trade in the first quarter of the year, compared with the corresponding periods of 1936 and 1935, by a revaluation of the trade of all three periods at the average values of the whole of 1935. Comparing the first quarter of this year with the first quarter of last year, the exports of United Kingdom goods increased in volume by 10 per cent. Re-exports declined by 4.5 per cent, and imports increased by 2.5 per cent.

There was a record increase in the retail trade in March. The total of daily sales was 15.2 per cent, higher ■than in March, 1936. Stocks were 3.7 per cent, higher and employment 3.1 per cent, greater.

ACTRESS’S TOUR

NEW YORK, April 29.

It is understood that the actress, Miss Katherine Cornell will visit Australia in May, 1938. Thence she is to proceed to New Zealand. These visits will be part of a world tour. Hei’ repertory comprises plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Ibsen. SCAPA FLOW SALVAGE LONDON, April 29. The German twenty-five thousand tons battleship, Friedrich Der Grosse, scuttled at Scarpa Flow in 1919, was raised from a depth of twenty-three fathoms by Metal Industries Limited. The barnacle-covered wreck, which lay at the sea bottom, keel uppermost, rose to the surface in thirty seconds, by means of compressed air.

FASCIST BIRTHMARK.

LONDON, April 29.

“The Times’s” Rome correspondent says: Ardent Fascists have been known to express on their deathbeds a wish to ho buried in' a Black Shirt. Now a Roman baby has been born, with a birthmark on the forehead in the form of a perfect fasces (bunch of rods with axe protruding which is the Fascist insignia). The father is' a zealous Fascist member of the militia.