GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SIR J. BABB'S APPEAL. LONDON, June 15. “Xu country in the world oilers better prospects to ;i niiin with small capital than Xew Zealand,” said Sir J. Parr at the Colonial Institute meeting at which Lord Jellicoe presided. Sir J. Parr added that if emigrants of this type were prepared to work and wait they could not go wrong. He appealed to retired business, professional, navy and military men to consider the prospects of their families from this viewpoint. Lord Jellicoe remarked that he wondered why Britishers ate Danish butter when New Zealand was available. lie appealed to the audience to encourage the consumption of New Zealand and Australian butter.

BANK’S BLUNDER. MADRID, June 15

The Bank of Spain, discovering a few counterfeit notes, refused to cash them. A rush on the coinage followed. Since Saturday 100,000 residents in Madrid have demanded notes be changed for cash, with the result that 3.) million sterling worth of paper money has already been changed, and only twelve false notes have thus Inr been found.

Director de Hivern denounces the Bank’s folly of dis;rediting the paper currency, instead of changing a few notes without a profit.

PICTURE FILMS AT WEMBLEY LONDON, June 15.

British Incorporated Pictures bought for £147,500, 25 acres at Wembley Exhibition, including the Palace of Engineering Hall, Lake and half the Kingsway, with the neighbouring gardens north of the entraine to the building and Exhibition bank. Ralph Pugh, Managing-Director, says the Palace of Engineering is the largest covered concrete building in the world, enabling it to be made the world’s largest film studio. Thirty film shooting spaces are available simultaneously. Outdoor scenes will he filmed in the Lake Gardens. There is a possibility of producing 150 films yearly, which will be Britain’s answer to other challenges. Filming begins in January. Pugh added that one of Wembley’s greatest, assets is its publicity value, as it is known throughout the world, and the name awakens the memories of many associations.

PRO-BRITLSH REPLY. LONDON, .Tunc 15. .British motor car representatives resent the antagonistic attitude of Labour Aldermen, cabled yesterday. One prominent importer says it is a great pity some of the City Aldermen should he victims of vicious anti-British propaganda that is so assiduously prosecuted by foreign manufacturers to down British trade and get a stranglehold on British markets. Ho says if British cars were purchased in Australia instead of foreign, it would result in two hundred thousand of Britain’s million unemployed finding work in English factories to-day. Notices are posted up pointing out that Australia is buying English manufactures, and in return for English people should buy Australian products, and they arc doing so. It is only right therefore that wo should do all that lies in our power personally, as well as nationally, to promote reciprocal trade r.vfcii the Motherland.

SALVATION ARMY SCHEME. LONDON, June 14

The Salvation Army has chartered the White Star liner Verdic, of 14,000 tons, for the purpose of transporting 700 migrants to Australia from Liverpool in October. These include 200 youths trained at Hadleigs Farm., and 400 domestic servants. The remainder are all married, and are guaranteed employment. Commissioner Lamb, speaking at a luncheon, announced that if the experience proved successful, other ships would follow, conditionally upon employment being secured beforehand.

CABLE COMPLETED. VANCOUVER, June 10. The last link of the second Pacific cable is completed.

RACING MOTOR BOATS. PARIS, June 10. Ettoire Bngatti, the racing motor designer, is constructing a super motor boat with which he will attempt to make a voyage from Brest to New York in forty-eight hours. The boat is shaped like a submarine, and is fitted with eight petrol engines of a new type, totalling 2100 horse-power. It will be 120 feet long, and seven feet wide. Its maximum speed will he eighty-seven miles an hour. If the sea is calm it can l>e navigated from trio bridge, hut otherwise it will he sealed up, like a submarine, and will he steered by means of a periscope. The crew will number eight.

LABOUR. PROPOSAL. LONDON, June 15. Labour members of the House of Commons made a suggestion that the workers should abstain for six months from the use of alocohol and tobacco as a protest against the Trade Union Bill, but this has been abandoned in favour of a scheme by which the workers will contribute a fixed proportion o their wages in order to continue resistance to the Bill.