AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.J WILKINS OFF AGAIN. VANCOUVER, April 10. A message from Fairbanks states: — “Captain Wilkins hopped off this morning in tho aerpolane “Alaskan” on his second trip to Point Barrow. The main object of this flight is to succour the party who are endeavouring to carry his siipjilies overland to Point Barrow from the Alaskan railroad, and who are reported to bo starving. Wilkins is planning to drop food when the party is sighted. Captain Wilkins and his colleague, Kielsou, left Fairbanks this morning in matchless flying weather. They aro carrying two tons of freight, including 150 extra gallons of gasoline for their later trip across the polo. While en route to Point Barrow they will attempt to relieve Die Bess party. Cajitain Wilkins expressed doubt as to whether they will be able to locate them ;tnfid tlie difficult country and the tangle of rivers where they are. v held up. , , ML He declared: “It will oe like locking for a needle in a haystack. It is very unlikely that we will be able to deliver dog feed. Our flying height will be at "least five thousand feet, and we might strike serious trouble rf we descended within one hundred feet ot the ground to drop packages. Captain' Wilkins hopes to return from Point Barrow on Monday of Tuesday. U.S.A. WORKERS’ PROSPERITY'. BRITISH DELEGATION'S VIEWS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.t NEW YORK, April 11. The British Trades Union delegation is sailing to-day. following on a month’s visit in a Study of tho American methods of industrial production. The delegation informed interviewers that President Coolidge told them that the secret of high wages i'll tho United States was work. _ _ One delegate, when asked if they would return to preach the doctrine of work to the British workers, replied that there is no necessity as tlie British workers know how to work. ■V Browning, of the Associated Blacksmiths’ Society, said that- standardisation was probably responsible for tlio American working man’s capacity to earn high wages. Felftoll McPherson, head of the delegation, said the American high .wages Were due to production and high eonsumption and that their high standards of living are due to aTI these .conditions. Mr McPherson also commented on the movement to encourage working men to invest part of their savings in the industries employing them and the movement atul joint ownership seemed to have splendid results in Ilia fly eases'. TROPICAL MEDICAL CONFER- '■ ENCE. WASHINGTON, April 9. General Ireland, . Surgeon-General, and Mr Davis, Secretary for War, have recommended to the State Department that tho United -States participate in the Tropical Medical Conference at Melbourne in 1927. Mr Davis has asked the Plnllippme Government whether it will participate.