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Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 14

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THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY. LONDON. September 28.—The Internationa] Cotton Committee, in eluding English and Japanese representatives, reaffirmed that a 10hour week in the textile industry is impracticable'. ■ A. slight general production improvement was reported. LOST AIR LINER. LONDON', September 2S.—The Boadicca search has been abandoned. ROWER LINKING. Our Parliamentary reporter telegraphs: The Southland ratepayers’ emphatic decision that the Government’s terms ho accepted for taking over the Power Board’s undertaking, finds the Minister of Works (Mr Semple) ready to promptly proceed .with the practical details. TEc (informed your! correspondent that the statute provides that immediately the notice is gazetted, the undertaking will be taken over and this step will be taken within u fortnight. * ‘‘The department,’’ he continued, is immediately proceeding to _ invite tenders, and to order poles for building the necessary inter-connecting transmission line between Dunedin, Centre Bush, and Gore, the present northern terminus of the Southland scheme. Special transformers to interconnect the Government's ll,00(>-vo!t line with the Southland GO,OOO-volt lino will ho purchased and installed at the Gore end,” SUBSIDY SCHEME TO CEASE. The Minister of Labour announced this afternoon that the house-building subsidy scheme operated by, the employment division of tbe Labour Department will oease to-SWflfrpw. Applications reasiveii later than the first post o a Thursday will not receive conSidarution Parliamentary reporter.;'