OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1928, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

LONDON'S LORD MAYOR. THE NEXT ELECTION. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, September 15. It is expected that London’s next Lord Mayor will he Sir Kynastoii Studd, who has for many years been prominently identified with social work and was, in his younger days, a notable cricketer. He played for Eton and -Middlesex, and captained tlie Cambridge University team in 1874.

The election of Sir ICynaston is made probable by the generous action of his friend, Sir Harold Moore, who, although a much younger man, is the senior Alderman eligible and would normality have become next Lord Mayor. This is the second occasion on which Sir Harold Moore has stood aside to enable an older man to assume the highest municipal honour, his similar action last year having made possible the election of the present Lord Mayor, Sir Charles Butlio. The election ceremony takes place at the end of this month.

MACHINE TOOL TRADE. GREAT VOLUME OF ORDERS. RUGBY, September 15. Sir Alfred Herbert, president of the Machine Tool Trades’ Federation, which is holding an exhibition at Olympia, has sent a letter to the Press in which be says: “The machine tool trade is rightly looked upon as one oT the barometric industries. It is a basis on which all manufacture ultimately depends. In common with most other.industries, it has passed through periods of depression since the war, but at the exhibition at Olympia there is most widespread optimism. This is not without foundation.

“The volume of orders on hand in the industry is greater than at any time since 1020, and many machine tool manufacturers are unable to cope with the demand, in spite of the fact that overtime is general throughout the country and night-shifts are being worked in many engineering shops.”