HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1937, Page 7

HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

HOUSE FOR NATION,

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, December 10.

The National Trust announces that Mrs Geoffrey Mander, M.P., is presenting to th e nation, Wightwick Manor, near- Wolverhampton. The house, which was built in 1887, is generally considered to be a remarkable example of work done under the influence 'of the pre-Raphelite School.

KING’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

LONDON, December 10.

Official: His Majesty will broadcast a message Empire-wide from Sandringham House, on the afternoon of Christmas Day.

TELEVISION AND CINEMAS

LONDON, December 10.

The “Guardian” states that a most successful television broadcast was carried out from the Broadcasting Corporation’s studios, Alexandra Palace, when it projected to a full-size cinema screen thirty miles away, by the new Baird apparatus. The audience stated that the vision was equal to that of a directly projected film.

The Gaumont British, owners of the cinema, were so impressed that they hope the Broadcasting Corporation will encourage similar experiments, and they are willing to co-operate, supply stars, and organise variety programmes for projecting films from their entire huge circuit of cinemas, as a supplement to the normal film entertainment.

TEXTILES SLUMP.

LONDON, December 10.

Asked in the Commons, if he were aware of the sudden steep depression in the woollen textile industry, where the number of unemployed had more than doubled in the past few weeks, Mr Euan Wallace replied that it was largely due to the withholding of orders, as the result of the recent fall in raw material, but there was no reason to suppose the recession was other than temporary.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

RUGBY, December 10.

The Chairman of the Nobel Committee handed 1 to the British Minister, the Oslo peace prize recently conferred on Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. i Sir Cecil Dormer said that Lord Cecil hoped later to deliver a Nobel lecture in Oslo.