OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1928, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

FLEET AT PORTSMOUTH. SHIPS FROM TRAFALGAR TO TO-DAY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 21. Portsmouth is having what is known as “Navy Week” during which warwhips are open to the public. One of the principal features is the aircraft carrier Furious. The Furious is prominent by reason of its superstructure. Below tlie main deck she is an ordinary cruiser, but above the main deck she is a vast steel aircraft hangar of two floors, on top of which is a flying dock seventy-five feet above the water line. The aircraft are raised from the hangar to the flying dock or brought down from it by steel lifts. LATE LORD HALDANE. THE KING’S TRIBUTE. RUGBY, Aug. 21. The newspapers continue to publish tributes to the work of the late Lord Haldane, who will bo buried privately at Gleneagles, Scotland, on Thursday. The King in a. message of sympathy, to his relatives, says: “Lord Haldane will he remembered with respect .and gratitude, for his services to the State, and especially by all wlm recognised that it was chiefly duo to his able administration as War Minister that, fourteen years ago, on the outbreak of hostilities, the British Expedition- I ary Force was promptly and efficiently mobilised and despatched abroad.”