GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1937, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON TELEPHONES (Per British Official (Wireless.) RUGBY, May 15. Londoners are at present making nearly 23,000,000 telephone calls a week, an increase of about 3,000,000 compared with a year ago. This enormous total of calls is being handled bv 259 exchanges in the London area, 113 of which have already been converted to automatic working. It is expected that before the. year is out 12 new automatic exchanges will have been brought into the service.

DROP TO DEATH PARIS, May 16. A Gride of three months saw her husband, Amlie Yassard, the famous French parachutist, who had made 2000 descents, killed at an aviation fete at Tours. The parachute failed to open after Vaasard had vainly struggled with the cord. He fell almost at his wife’s feet. A DEMONSTRATION UTRECHT, May 16. Many Australian visitors wen? among eight hundred Britons who attended an Oxford Group demonstration here, in which one hundred'.thou* sand of all nationalities participated.

The speakers included Lord Addington ; the Dutch Ambassador, M. Pagijin; and three British Generals. The populace enthusiastically welcomed 150 Scottish pipers, who attended.

SIX DAYS CYCLE RACE LONDON, May 175. Nine thousand people watched Miss Orcie Fields, at midnight, start a sixday cycle race at Wembley. There are fifteen teams competing. They represent eleven different nationalities. The* teams were introduced by their respective National Anthems.

Opperinan and the Australian Rogers early set a pace exceeding forty miles an hour. They led for a brief period, but they soon dropped hack. Six riders crashed within the first ten minutes, including the Australian, Rogers, who was not hurt. He scrambled up and rode on.