GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 July 1925, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. t rBY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT. LONDON, July 27. . Bradford wool business is at a standstill, the machinery being mostly idle owing to the textile strike. A White Paper gives the total cost of old and new naval construction programmes from 1925 to 1930 as £58,000,000. The Daily Express states King Feisuj of Mesopotamia will shortly visit Finglancl. It is understod that he is seriously ill and will consult specialists. It is feared a serious operation will be necessary. In the House of Commons Mr A. M. Samuel (Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department) said the British exports to Russia in 1924 were valued at over £11,000,000. VANCOUVER, July 27. In an interview, Lord Burnham said the half-ratified Canadian - Australian trade treaty was a big step. in “the. right direction towards Empire solidification. PARIS, July 27. The Belgian airman Simonet remained for six hours aloft in a motorless ’plane. Then he crashed and was killed at Cherbourg before the eyes of his young wife. Another airman, who was aloft for ten hours, crashed into the sea. and was unhurt. LONDON, July 27. Mr L. W. Tibbie, a cutter employed in an East End printing establishment, who had on frequent occasions during the past five and a half .years given some of his blood for patients in the London hospital, was presented with the Meritorious Service Medal and the Order of the British Empire, as announced in the King’s Birthday honours. On fifty occasions Mr Tibbie has ♦-given a pint of his blood, and although a poor man, he has always refused to ' accept for himself the usual transfusion fee, presenting the money to the hospital.