AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
(Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.) AN AMUSING INCIDENT. NEW YORK, Aug. ID An amusing incident, revealing the acuteness of American business enterprise. lias just been disclosed in connection with the plans for the establishment of a Commonwealth Bank agency here. When the fact was published in the local press, enterprising and real estate brokers, apparently wished ■ to forestall a competition among those desirous of providing quarters for the agency. One individual wirelessed Afr Armitage Mason aboard the Tahiti, offering to sell them a well located sky-scraper, twenty storeys high for slightly over five million dollars. It is understood the agency’s plans call for a more modest beginning, namely only a few rooms.
WORLD PEACE. OTTAWA. Aug. 11
At Winnipeg, addressing huge crowds from the window of Parliament Buildings. before entraining for the East, Air Baldwin denied the signs of decadence appearing in Britain. ‘■What we feel at Home and what 1 think must he more difficult for you to realise than it is for us—is that on us
- mainly on people speaking the English tongue, and people of British stock that rests the greatest hope tor world peace and continued peace. Peace is a vital necessity for the world and for no part in the world is it more vital than for the Empire. All we want to do is to develop ourselves and cur countries in a peace that will be our great -oiitributiiai to the world.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 2
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