AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) DOLE RACE REQUIEM. NEW YORK, Sept. 13. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergy joined in leading the huge crowd in the simple ceremonies in remembrance of the lost Dole race aviators. The -Maui sailed to scatter flowers 700 miles off-shore. RUBBER FOR. U.S.A. NEW YORK. Sept. 14. A report here states Henry Ford lias purchased twelve hundred thousand acres of land in Para, Brazil, up the river Amazon, for a sum of forty-two million dollars, the land to be used for a rubber plantation. This scheme is an effort to affect further economies in tyre production. Mr Ford lias also obtained an option over twenty-eight hundred thousand additional acres.

CANADA’S MINES. (Received this day at fi.?Q a.m.) VANCOUVER. Sept. 15. T. AY. Bignay, Controller of the Consolidated Alining and Smelting Company of Canada, addressed the Empire League. He said Canada’s output of lead and zinc had so increased as nearly to equal the output of the Australian States, which at present were the leading producers in the Empire. The hulk of Canada’s supply was obtained from Sullivan, British Columbia, the largest zinc mine in tho world.

GRAIN-CUTTING AT NIGHT. VANCOUVER. Sept, 15. "Winnipeg telegrams report novel scenes in parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta last night, when grain cutting proceeded by moonlight. Farmers took advantage of a hot wind during the day having dried the fields, which were drenched on Tuesday, and got their reaping machines and harvesters humming to forestall possible damage by frost.