GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

PLUCKING h OWLS BY MACHINERY.

OPERATION COMPLETE IN FORTY-FI'VE SECONDS.

(Received Oct. 19. 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19

The outstanding novelty at tlie Dairy Show is a machine for plucking fowls. It makes six hundred revolutions a minute and plucks a bird in forty-live seconds by suction, the feathers being drawn inio the machine by a fan. then gripped, pulled out and caught in a collecting bag without the possibility of tearing the llesh.—A.N. Z.C.A.

LABOR, VICTORY LIKELY IN NORWEGIAN ELECT!ONS.

OSLO. Oct. 18

The general election results are incomplete. but indicate a Labor victorv is likely.—A. and N.Z.O.A.

AUSTRALIAN LOAN TERMS

LONDON. Oct, IS.

The Financial News states that there is everything to be said for Dr Earle Page’s contention that the Australian habit of short term loans is short-sighted and is due to failure to realise that long term bonds are always appreciated and readily transferred.—Times.

BRITISH LABOR

UNITED POLICY. BUT MINOR DIFFERENCES.

LONDON. Oct. 17

l ‘l know very little difference between tho Labor party, the Independent Labor party, the left wing and the right wing,” declared Air Arthur Henderson at a mass ~ meeting at Burnley. “The aims and purposes of the Labor party are tjie same with all representatives, though some are anxious to find differences where none exist.—Times.

ELECTION PETITION DISAHSSBD.

SYDNEY, Oct. 18. The Equity _ Court dismissed Nield's petition in connection with the election at Hurstville, asking the returning officer to declare the number of atisent voters.—U.P.A.

STOWAWAY FROAI N.Z. FINED £lO.

SYDNEY, Oct. IS

Joljn Howard Young, an Englishman, who pleaded guilty to ■stowing away on the steamer Maheno from New Zealand was fined £IO.—U.P.A.

SUMMER COMMENCES IN SYDNEY

(Received Oct. 19. 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 19

After a. long drawn out winter, summer lias comc with a rush, the thermometer in the city to-day registering 97.2 degrees.—XT.p.A.