GENERAL CABLES.
CLAIM BY AERO ENGINE INVENTORS.
(Received October 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 6.
Tho Royal Commission on awards to inventors considered, the claim_of the Walton Motors, Ltd., for £609,000 on account of Aero engines. Eleven, thousand Dragonfly engines were ordered but only one thousand were deliyered. None was used in the war. Sir Gordon Hewart said two millions sterling of the tax-payers' money had been, spent in a vain effort to make Dragonfly engines practical.
FRENCH RAILWAY DISASTER. (Received October 7,» 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, October 6. The latest estimates show 25 killed and 150 injured in the Bbtignollee railway accident.—A. and N.Z.C.A,
WELSH WOOLLEN INDUSTRY
LONDON, Oct. 6. The West Wales woollen manufacturers have decided not to reduoe the price of flannel owing to dear dyes. The larger factories have been at a standstill for a month, without signs of revival.— A. and N.Z.O.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6204, 8 October 1921, Page 5
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