OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1928, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

SPITA LEI ELDS MARKET

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(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY. Nov. IS

The now market at Spitallields, which the King, accompanied by tbo Queen, will open next Thursday, will be the finest fruit and vegetable market in the world. Built at a cost of £2,000,600. it will embody under its roof every known improvement in market methods. 'Pen and a half acres of slum streets have been cleared for the site of the market, llie inhabitants lici'ng re-boused in new residential blocks elsewhere. Round the in •.•■!;<•* ii-i b' narrow alleys have b. on built into wide .■.(roofs, but further work in this direction has still to he done.

NEW COTTON FIBRE

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RUGBY, Nov. 18,

An imnortant development of the Lancashire cotton trade is expected as a. result of the cultivation on a commercial basis, of a now artificial cotton fibre product. Valuable qualities of tbo new plant were discovered by two English .scientists who, when in South America, were attracted by the singular construction of a certain bird’s nest. They watched the bird collect what appeared to he a common weed, soak it fin a pool of water, and weave it with its beak. Tests showed it to contain an iron compound and the scientists, after eight years oT experiments. have succeeded in producing it on marketable linos. Between -3,009,00;) and 4,000.0091 b of this artificial cotton are now being grown in Essex and Sussex, and are to be available in Jnlv lo the cotton spinners at a fixed price of fid per lb, representing an immediate saving of at least -kl per lb on what they are now paying. Weaving houses in the North and the Midlands are reported to have tested the new product and to have been satisfied that it possesses a soft- and lasting sheen and lustre. Tt- is claimed that the low price is possible owing to many valuable byproducts that are obtained, including parchment, light building material, and a drug from the stems, leaves:, and roots of the plant.

A corporation has been formed to market the product.

ARGENTINE TRAINING SIT'D RUGBY. November 20.

The First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr Bridgemnn. accompanied by Rear-Ad-miral Fullerton, went to Portsmouth to-day to visit the Argentine training ship, Presidente Sarmiento. The Argentine Ambassador was also in tin party. The First Lord was very interested in all he saw and particularly in the exhibition of sail drill by cadets.