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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16471, 6 July 1921, Page 8

IP From 75 to 200 square yards of cloth Arc necessary to covet* a set of aeroplane wings. There are twenty-one telegraph companies operating in the United States of America; with a total pole line of *241.012 miles and 1,888,793 miles of single wire. More than 155.000.000 messages were transmitted each year. The employees, numbering 39,600. receive salaries amounting to nearly £8,000,000 annually. The restoration of the time ball at Lyttelton, by which standard time was indicated to the people of the port, was ‘ strongly urged by Mr F. G. Norton at to-day's meeting of the Harbour Board, and he gave notice to move that the Government should be urged to f restore it. The proposal to supply free school books in State schools is regarded bv ! local booksellers as unfair to them, and a protest has been forwarded to the Minister through the Chamber of Commerce. It is said that the sale of school i books constitutes one-third of the trade of booksellers, and it ri calculated the proposed innovation would aim a gerious blow at the trade, and at a fctimo when it is least able to bear it. If Number two jetty at Lyttelton, I which used to be tho ferry wharf, is [ now ready for use; but work is held up owing to the delay of the Railway | Department in erecting a passenger I platform and verandah. At to-day*s | meeting of the Harbour Board a letter [ was read from the Railway Department I plating that plans had been approved. I and that the work would be put in hand I ** as soon os a suitable opportunity L offered.’* The engineer (Mr Cyrus I. Williams) stated that on receipt of the Kt' letter he had written stating that the | would be ready in two weeks, and I Jnggesting that the work should be put mj n Rand without delay. He understood I now that the work would be gone on I ■ tVout delay- '