GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

j (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. ' FLOODS. LONDON, Feb. 17. Heavy floods have occurred in North A\ ales Imrder counties and portion of Derbyshire, following fifty hours rain. At Cor won many were iesoued from the fop storeys of houses. Railways were damaged, traffic held up and stock drowned. A fishing 1 vessel was wrecked at St. Hilda Island and twelve of a crew of sixteen were drowned.

FI.YT.YC; BOATS PROGRESS. RANGOON'. Fell. 17. Tlio Royal Air T one superman fly ilia; boats journeying to Australia reached Penang, Singapore on the 1 “tli. The flying boats when they arrive will lx> the first planes to use the Singapore base. A labour force of 17,00 has been making rapid progress in the past eight months and six hundred acres of jungle have been cleared. The steel work is arriving shortly and the construction oT two hangars and the landing ground, of two hundred acres, is expected to lie finished in twelve months. The concrete seaplane sli|>wav will shortly be completed

OTA XT AIR LIXKR. ROXHOX. Foil. K). Replying to questions. Sir Snniuol Honro gave the latest details of the airship RIOO. She is capable of a nonstop flight from England to Egypt, which is the first stage of a normal service to the East, with hundreds of passengers and ten tons of mails and freight.