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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1925, Page 3

17 BIG KN'GIXKS. LONDON', December 2. Seventeen locomotives, each weighing all,ml 100 ions, are being assembled at Birkenhead for transport to India m out* shin. Tl iev listvo boon built by the? \ ulraii Kon miry, Ud.. Kariesiown. UncnSi .re, r.ncl are l>t»in«£ sent in sections »>> rail to the docks at llirkenhead for assembly. Formerly locomotives were sent to the Fast in parts, but recently request has been made for delivery in mimin'; order. It is expected that the 17_wiU be ready for shipment in a fortnightKadi will bo swung into vessel by means of a crane. nnGGF.It BANK HYMN'S. LONDON. December 2. Almost as fast as the sets can he fitted British trawlers are being provided with wireless apparatus, so that they will hear the special broadcasting for fishermen winch is to be be-

jr„„ shot tly from Hammirg. \lreadv in a trawler fitted with a receiving: set, writes a correspondent, I have joined in the -in-tin.;, on the Bogoer Bank, of hymns sung by n London undience. As the Hamburg fishermen a station will broadcast weather reports for mariners, the state of the hs.i market, and “news from borne ’ tor too German fishermen, this will have a greater interest for us than a solely musical programme. The German venture will mean that German fishermen will get up-to-date news from their own homes. Canned one station, he asks, be spared to tell the British North Sea fishermen m.eh things? Should luck be out and wintry davs unusually v.dd. five or sin ne e«.» m av pass before our ships return to Grimsbv or Hull. Wireless could make our world for the long spells at sea something bigger than a 3fio tons trawler.