GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 279, 19 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telesrapli-Press ABBodatlon-OopTrifrM A Sydney message states that at a meeting of the Tennis Management Committee, Brookes was appointed sole selector of the Australasian team. Since the introduction of the Victoria Licenses Reduction Board in 1507, 1400 hotels have been closed, and the licenses cancelled. The closures involve the payment of ,£681,000 in compensation. Dr. Madsen has been appointed to the Chair of Electrical Engineering, and Dr. Lovell has beeu appointed Associate-Pro-fessor of Psychology at the Sydney University. These are two newly-created Chairs, and both appointees are local men, Tho Chair of Psychology is the first of its kind in Australia. Further increases in railway and tram fares are foreshadowed for New South Wales. The Financii Statement for tho past year shows that the earnings of tho railways- -were £13,000,000, md of the tramways ,£2,800,000. The expenses were .£9,500,000 and respectively. Tho total credit is £3,900,000, and the interest amounts to ,£4,000,000. There is a deficit of <£137,57 d. The annual report of the Amalgamated Wireless of Australasia, Ltd., states that tho Federal Government \s considering tho company's proposal for a direct commercial wireless service between Australia! and England. The company daily receives messages direct from England, France, Germany, America, Japan, and Hawaii, proving the possibilities of a direct service with all parts of tho world,