GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 June 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

STRENGTHENING BRITAIN’S AIR FORCE.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, June 16. Sir Samuel Hoare (Minister for Air), speaking at London, said he to stimulate in Britain and over the whole Empire an air sense, and so make Britons an air people as they were now proud to be a- sea people. The Goernment’s air programme would make Britain three times as strong as when they took office. This would involve only a 60 per cent' increase in expenditure. CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST. LONDON, June 15. The Earl of Ronaldshay, at the Royal Geographical Society’s annual •meeting, said that the members of the Everest expedition had not accepted defeat. The question of a final effort depended on Tibet’s willingness to allow another .expedition. TWO NEW ELEMENTS. BERLIN, June 15. Addressing the Prussian Academy of Science, three co-discoverers, Dis. Noddack, Ottoberg and Ina Facke, the latter being a woman, announced that they had found masumium and rhenium. The discovery leaves three elements to complete the ninety-two on Mendeleff’s list. The practical va.ue of the new elements has not yet been determined. WEMBLEY EXHIBITION CHARGES. LONDON. June 15. There is considerable unrest among exhibitors at Wembley owing to the relatively small attendance, and the high rents and expenses. Exhibitors demand that a popular sixpenny day should be inaugurated, and the price of admission after seven o’clock every evening reduced to sixpence. The exhibition authorities are already considering a reduction of the entrance price to one shilling. SOCIETY DIVORCE. LONDON, June 15. The Marquess of Queensbury was granted a divorce on the grounds of his wife’s misconduct with Sir James Dunn. KAHA NAM OKU ’ S FEA T. NEWTORK, June 15. Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian swimmer, figured prominently in the rescue of a fishing party of 17 on board the Newport yacht Thelma, which capsized. Kahanamoku made six trips on a <surf board, bringing one ashore each trip. Kahanamoku assisted the other rescuers to secure six more of the Thelma’s party and then located the bodies of five who were drowned. BRITISH TAXATION. LONDON, June 16. The House of Commons agreed to all the claims in the Budget dealing with the liabilities of Dominion Governments to taxation respecting trading operations, also granting further relief from “Taxation on the incomes of High Comm iss ’oners, Agents-General and their staffs. SOCIAL WORKER DEAD. "tOKIO. June 16. The death Is announced of Madam Kftiiko Yanina, a noted woman social and temperance worker. She was 93 years of age.