BRITISH RAILWAYS
GREAT FUSION REPORTED. ' ; Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 3., (Received August 3, at 7.55 p.m.) It is reported that a great fusion of i ; : railways, distinct from the groupings underthe Transport Act, is about to take place. The following railways are said to he involved;—The Great Central, the Groat - Eastern, the Great Northern, the Great > North of Scotland, Hull and Barnsley, the North British, and the North-eastern. The total issued capital is £343,000,000, and the gross receipts for . 1921' were • £90,000,000. The combined mileage is ,; more than 7000 miles.—A. and N.Z. Cable MANILA, August 2. (Received August 3, at 7,55 p.m.) . Senor Vincente Llanes, a member of the Philippine Independence Committee which visited Washington, announced that plans had been made for a non-00-operatioa movement in the Philippines surdlar. to Mr Gandhi’s movement in India.—A. slid . ' N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18624, 4 August 1922, Page 5
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