OVERNIGHT TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 12

OVERNIGHT TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. The attendance record at the Exhibition is. now over the 1,300,000 mark, and on the way to the second million. There -welc over 22,000 visitors on Thursday, bringing the grand total up to 1,313, 300. Tire new Air Force gallery in the British Government Court is proving a popular feature. Numerous models of aeroplanes are posed over typical scenes of country where they were employed, and tell an entrancing story of mini's conquest of the air. The series begins with models of early machines used by A. V, Roe and Colonel Cody in their first experiments over the peaceful English countryside, and. includes a wonderful set illustrating the types used in the. Great War, and the development- methods of aerial warfare. These models arc shown over a typical trench that marked, the battlefields of: Flanders and Franco. Another interesting series depicts thei development of big passenger craft, which liay.fi already linked up all the European capitals and will soon be reaching out from London to Cairo, Bombay, Sydney and Auckland. The Air Forco exhibits and battle models in the Army gallery, which tell the story of- the British Army, have come straight out from Wembley, whero they were new exhibits last year. PALMERSTON NORTH, last night.

The Rongotea police received a report to-night that the body, of a man, had been found that afternoon on the Rangilikei beach. It is believed to be that of Third Officer Batty, of the s.s, Kuiuara, who was drowned at Wanganui on January 2:1 through a boat being dashed against the mole and: capsizing. WELLINGTON, last night. A - cable message recently published which gave the impression that a method of showing films arid producing,, not; only . the movements of the actors but also their spoken words had been discovered in Germany and was ; ,tp bo exploited at large. In actual fact this idea has already been developed by Dr. do Forest, the noted wireless, authority, and the rights to hisi-inventiou in this Dominion hayo.bcen secured-by a Now Zealand company before the cable message appeared. To some extent, therefore, the publications of the message was calculated to Interfere with _ the operations of this company, and it .is proper to make this explanation. The iirst machine for the now process has arrived and was shown in operation at Wellington to-day, exciting considerable curiosity in view of the possible developments of ffhis new invention. flff; MV.' • :... .