GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph .—Copy right.) ACTUARIES EXAM. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , LONDON, July 27. ( Successful candidates at tlie May examinations of the Institute of Actuaries, part one, Gastineau Hills (Sydney), part two section A., Lockett (Wellington), Templeton (Sydney). The -j latter also is in section B. Melville 1 (Adelaide) qualified for a .fellowship. A THUNDERSTORM. AMSTERDAM, July 27. ■ A thunderstorm of tropical intensity and torrential rain caused a complete suspension of the training of the Olympic athletes. The downpour is bound to affect the stadium track, and seriously rendering record breaking even less likely. REPORT RELEASED. LONDON, July 27. The Imperial Wireless Cables report is released. TO SWIM IRISH CHANNEL. LONDON, July 27. Miss Mercedes Gleitze made an attempt to swim tho Irish Channel from Donagliadee to Port Patrick in Scotland, a distance in a straight line oi twenty-two miles. Miss Gleitze abandoned the effort after swimming thirteen miles in fourteen hours. MOTORS CORPORATION PROFIT. NEW YORK, July 27. The net profit of the General Motors Corporation for six months ended 30tli June including equity in undivided profits of subsidiaries not consolidated totalled 161,287,974 dollars after all charges, compared with 129,250,200 dollars for the first half of 1927. t TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE. MONTREAL, July 27. With her stem pierced, twisted and buckled, plates on the port how torn, and port bow anchor missing, the Montrose was docked with over a thousand passengers after a collision with the Rose Castle, a large collier, on the St. I Lawrence River. Tlie passengers were shocked int" , wakefulness hut there was no panic. The Rose Castle was beached. WOMAN AIR PILOT. LONDON, July 27. , For the first time in the history of civil aviation, a woman aviator has I been engaged to pilot a regular passenger air liner. She is Lady Heath. She will fly from Amsterdam to London I | in charge of a Royal Dutch air linei, p a' biff two-engined Fokker Jupiter to , morrow. She obtained a passenger pilot license recently, and will be nc eompanied, according to the usual rou tine for new pilots, by a regular pilot in the cockpit. The plane carries - ’ f u ll complement of fifteen passengers. It is understood that it is Ladv Heath’s ambition to pilot the giant Imperial Airways’ triple screw plane, ; the world’s largest plane.