CABLE BREVITIES MORE BRITISH FILMS FOR NEW ZEALAND

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1946, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES MORE BRITISH FILMS FOR NEW ZEALAND

An important agreement which will result.in more filjns toeing shown in Australia and New Zealand has been made between Sir Alexander Korda and distributing and exhibiting interests in Australia and New Zealand. The agreement provides for films released by Sir Alexander Korda’s organisation, the British Lion Film Corporation, which he bought at' the beginning of' the year for £250,000, to be distributed in I Australia and New Zealand through the 20th Century.-Fpx International Corporation.—Sydney, Sep : tember 19,. British Pacific Air Service.

An Australian National Airways Skymaster landed at the Oakland municipal airport on the first familiarisation flight from Australia and continued its journey to Vancouver.—San Francisco, September 18. " ' - Britain and Egypt’

“The worst yet,” is how a member of the Egyptian treaty delegation described the new British proposals for a joint Defence Committee and the Sudan, which the Egyptian delegation discussed yesterday, says the Alexdria correspondent of the Daily Mail. The Egyptian delegate added that the Sudan proposals were totally unacceptable.—London, September 19. ’ ’

Family’s Flight from England. After two months’ hying in easy stages from England in a single-en-gined Proctor aeroplane, Mr. F. Ogden arrived at Darwin late on Wednesday night with his wife and six-year-old daughter. The aeroplane arrived unheralded, and the Ogden family could obtain no accommodation until the Royal Australian Air Force came to their assistance. —Darwin, September 19.

New South Wales Road Accident A woman was killed and seven persons were injured when a tourist bus and a semi-trailer lorry collided on the winding Jenolan Caves rqad, in New South Wales. Eleven others received cuts and bruises. The bus, which was returning tQ. Katoomba from the Jenolan Caves, had one side torn away. The police arrested a man and charged him with manslaughter and dangerous driving.— Sydney, September 19.

Flight to South Africa A Vickers Viking aircraft from the King’s Flight will leave at midnight to-night on a proving flight to South Africa, carrying two crews one ol which will be captained by the New Zealander, Wing Commander E. W. Tacon, D. 5.0., D.F.C. The aviation correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the King will travel to South Africa by warship, but the flight will follow, and is likely to be used extensively during the Royal tour which will last from February to April.—London, September 18.

Indonesian Demand. •‘The Indonesians are prepared to co-operate as an independent nation and give the Dutch economic preference ” said the vice-president'of the Java Central Council (Mohamed Haifa) in a speech at Jogjakarta on the eve of the opening of the truce talks. “The Dutch apparently have a military plan to support the negotiations by force. The Indonesian people, if fighting breaks out spontaneously, will resort to . a scorched earth policy.”—Batavia, September 19.

China’s Economic Policy. The Chinese Foreign Minister (Mr. Wang Shinhchieh), emphasising China’s eagerness to attract foreign capital and technical skill as a means of developing her resources, said the Government would follow the open door policy of granting equal economic opportunities on a reciprocal basis to all nations without discrimination. China at present was negotiating commercial pacts with Britain and America, and was expected to make similar agreements with Russia and France. —Nanking, September 18.

Lincoln at Sydney. The first Royal Air Force Lincoln bomber to fly to Australia, the Excalibur, arrived at Mascot aerodrome this afternoon from Melbourne. Aboard the bomber was a team of Royal Air Force bombing experts from the Central Bombing Establishment. headed by a New Zealander, Group Captain S. C. Elworthy, who will discuss modern tactics with the R.A.A.F. and the R.U.Z.A.F. The Excalibur will fly on to New Zealand and return to England via Brisbane, Darwin, and SingaporeSydney, September 18.

Fire-bug Suspected. A fire was started deliberately last night at the five-storeyed premises of the Australian Wool Brokers’ and Produce Company, Ltd., at Ultimo, where £250,000 worth of wool is stored. The store is opposite the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency wool store, which was gutted by fire a few weeks ago. Suspecting that a fire-bug is about, the police are watching all wool stores. Last night’s fire had been started by someone setting fire to kerosene which had been poured under a door. Fortunately, a passerby noticed the reflection of the flaipes, and the fire brigade dealt with the outbreak before’much damage tvas done.— Sydney, September 19.

Australian Airlines Competition Trans-Australia Airlines, which is the operating company for the Federal Government’s National Airlines Commission, has reduced the passenger fare between Melbourne and Sydney by 15 per cent. This makes the regular adult fare £5/10/6. The company has abolished the system of passengers having to sign tickets, and isliow sellingzthem in the same manner as tram or train tickets. A rival private company, Australian National Airways, has announced that it will ignore the Civil Aviation Department’s instructions on prioriiv The terms of the mail contract bind it‘to’carry priority passengers “Apparently the fight js’ now an, cZmented the managing director, CaptaS Ivan Holyman.-Sydney, September 19.