OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1928, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

BRITISH UNEMPLOYED. SITUATION IMPROVING. [Special to Press Assn, by Radio.] RUGBY, June 24. In a speech at Rugby yesterday Lord Hailsliam, the Lord Chancellor, said that although unemployment presented a gravo problem there were now 535,000 more people in work than four years ago, and the buying powei of wages was £100,000,000 more annually than in 1924.

BY-ELECTIONS AT HOME. FIVE SEATS NOW VACANT. RUGBY, June 24. Of the fivo v Parliamentary by-olec-tions now pending," little interest is being displayed in those taking jdace in Epsom, Holborn, and Hallam (Sheffield), owing to the substantial majorities by which the Conservatives have held these seats in the past. In Halifax, no election has taken place for many years, Air Whitley, a Liberal, having secured unopposed return ever since his appointment as Speaker of the House of Commons seven years ago. Three candidates are now contesting the seat.

There are also three candidates for the scat at Carmarthen, which is rendered vacant by elevation to the .peerage of Lord Melchett, formerly Sir Alfred Aloud, who was returned as a Liberal at the hist election, but later crossed the floor of the Houso.

CHEAPER ELECTRICITY. REORGANISATION IN BRITAIN. RUGBY, June 24. Sir John Snell, the chairman of the Commission to reorganise the electricity Supply Act, anticipates that within the next seven or eight years the average price of electricity in Britain will be reduced to one penny per unit as the result of reorganisation. In the north-west area the average price should l>e substantially below ono penny per unit within a few years.

UNCONTROLLED TitOOPS.

SITUATION CAUSES ANXIETY

RUGBY, June 24. Tho absence of control over large

numbers of Cliihli-Slmntung troops in the coal-mining area of Tongshnii and Riiilan is causing considerable anxiety, and there is danger of all discipline ainong the troops disappearing. The situation already has been rendered acute owing to their threatening attitude and internal quarrels. Tn order to protect British and

Chinese lives'and property in the area a battalion of British troops was yesterday dispatched from Hai Hai-wei for "Cliin-wang-tao, whence they will proceed at once to Tongshnii. ATLANTIC AVIATORS. RUGBY, June 24.

A moving tribute to the meinory of ono of the pioneers of trans-Atlantic flying was paid yesterday by Lieutenant Stultz and Air Gordon, pilot and navigator respectively of Afiss Earhart’s Atlantic seaplane, Friendship. They flew to Arfinchester and after a civic reception laid a wreath on the grave of Sir John Alcoelc, who with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic in 1919.