HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1938, Page 12

HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

LONDON TRANSPORT

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, January 2.

Twelve millions sterling will be spent in 1938 by the London Passenger Transport Board, under the great forty million improvement scheme. 4 YEAR’S RAINFALL | The meteorological office report on J British weather in 1937, says the raini fall from January to March in England and Wales, exceeded any similar period since before 1727. Sunshine was almost everywhere short of the yearly normal. BOOKS PUBLISHED According to the Publishers’ Circular, the record number of 17,286 books were published last year. SAFER FLYING 1937 was a year for safer flying for British air services. Despite the increase in mileage, sixty-seven lives were lost against eighty-five in 1936. TRADE OUTLOOK Both the “Times” and the “Telegraph,” in leaders on the prospects for the new year, fix on the economic improvement as the most important and hopeful lines of advance of both home and international planes. The “Telegraph” says: “Negotiation of a trade agreement with the United States is one of the most important tasks for 1938, and all the omens for its success are good.