GENERAL CABLES.
. Received October 21, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 20. The British graving dock at Gibraltar is to be immediately enlarged at a cost of £,600.000 to accommodate the largest battleships. Tho Daily Telegraph says that King George of Greece is paying an unofficial visit to England early in November. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 20. About three thousand candidates will be nominated to-morrow for the 1377 seats to be filled nt the municipal elections for London boroughs on November 1. With a few exceptions Labour candidates are offering themselves in all constituencies.
A general advance in wages for steel workers in West«jjSVales was agreed upon at a .joint conference of employers’ representatives and representatives of the Iron and Steel Trade Confederation held at Swansea.
Fog interfered to-day with part of the programme arranged for the German Air Force officers who are on a visit to Britain. After inspecting the flying training school at Wittering the visit to the Bristol Aeroplane Company’s works at Filton had to be abandoned.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19371021.2.131
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 21 October 1937, Page 10
Word Count
169GENERAL CABLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 21 October 1937, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in