OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1928, Page 2

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

[Special to Press Assn, by Radio.] ELECTRIC TRAINS. CHANGE-OVER IN LONDON. RUGBY, June 18. The scheme of electrification of suburban traffic on the Southern Railway was carried a stage further to-day, when the change over from steam to electric trains took place on the central sections of the system, involving 79 miles of track, which have been electrified at a cost of over, £1,000,000. Most of the electric trains, of which there are now 300 more daily than under the steam regime, run into the London Bridge station, which has to handle a thousand daily. It is accommodated with twenty-two platforms, which is more than any other station in England.

WORLD’S BIGGEST SHIP. KEEL LAID AT BELFAST. RUGBY, June 18. The keel of a’, GO,OOO-ton passenger liner, ordered recently by the White Star Line, which will cost nearly £7,000,000, is being laid by Harland and Wolff at their Belfast yards. It will be the greatest sliiji afloat and will take three and a half years to build. 11100 NEARLY READY. ATLANTIC FLIGHT IN AUTUMN. RUGBY, June 18. The great British airship RIOO is nearly completed .and will he launched next month. It has a capacity of 5.000,000 cubic feet, Rolls-Royce engines and accommodation for 100 passengers. After the Air Ministry tests have been passed a flight in the early autumn will !be made from England to Canada and New York and back to England. BRITISH AVAR MEMORIAL AT ANTWERP. RUGBY. June 18. A memorial to the million dead of the British Empire who fell during the war was unveiled at Antwerp pathedral by Sir George Grahame, British Ambassador to Belgium. Detachments of British, Belgian, French and Italian ex-service men were present.