GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1937, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

FLYING BOATS LEAVE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). RUGBY, May 19. The Air Ministry announces that four -Singaport 111 flying-boats of No. 209 Flying-boat Squadron will leave Felixtowe to-morrow for. a training cruise ,of -the Mediterranean. They will fly to Malta, via Hourtin and Beere, arriving at Malta on May 22. The return journey will begin on May 26, and will include a short stay at Gibraltar and Lisbon. During the stay at Lisbon visits will be paid to Sebutal and Averio (Portugal).

LONDON POLICE. LONDON, May 19. Following investigations by Scotland Yard, Superinfendent Stubbings, head of the London Criminal Investigation Department, has resigned. It is understood that a number of other senior officers are likely to follow suit. Stubbings was a member of the city police for 25 years. The investigations were originated some time ago in consequence of statements made by a man who was then on bail. They resulted in the prompt dismissal of Detective-Inspector Nicholls, fourth senior detective of the city police. Nicholls had handled some of the most notable prosecutions for fraud in British police history.

GRAIN SHIP SIGHTED. BARQUE IN MID-ATLANTIC. LONDON, May 19. The Finnish four-masted barque Pommern, which left Port Victoria, South Australia, on March 3, with a cargo of wheat for the United Kingdom, was sighted by the British freighter Ormister in mid-Atlantic, not far off the Brazilian in about the same latitude as Pernambuco. The Swedish barque Abraham Rydberg is the only one of the sailing ships which has so far reached England with a grain cargo, but she left Wallaroo on January 12. The Pommern is less than 70 days out,, and has a chance of making a very fast passage. ,

JAPAN’S MOTOR TRADE. FOSTERING OWN INDUSTRY. TOKIO, May 18. Higher tariffs and a restriction on the activities of foreign motor-car companies operating in Japan were suggested by the Minister of Commerce, Mr Godoh, to-day. His object, Mr Godoh said, was to place the Japanese motor-car industry on a paying basis. He said that he proposed to limit the number of cars assembled in foreign-managed factories to 10,000 a year. If the Japanese motor-car industry were to be placed on a profit-making basis, he added, an export trade must be established.