GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT SYDNEY, July 30. * Ram continues. Nine and a half inches fell in Sydney in a week. Mr Poynton has announced that shipbuilding contracts amounting to six million have already been let, including 26 steel ships, averaging 5500 tons.— Press Association. Contracts have been let for 24 wooden vessels, averaging 2400 tons MELBOURNE, Jul y 30' j Among the twelve final acceptors for the Australian Hurdles there are no New Zealanders.—Press Association.