OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1928, Page 2

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

• ■*£»— MU BALDWIN’S HOLIDAY. RETURNING TO LONDON SOON. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, Sept. 18. Mr Stanley Baldwin, who has greatly benefited by his holiday at Aix-ies-Bains, will be back in London on Sunday night. .He and Mrs Baldwin are now in Paris. Mr Baldwin will remain at Downing street for a day or two and will have consultations with members of his Cabinet. He will leave on September 2Gth. for Yarmouth, where, on the.following day, he will address the Conservative conference. It is expected that he will make a pronouncement on the future programme of the Government.

BRITISH INDUSTRY. WESTMINISTER BANK REVIEW ! RUGBY, Sept. 18. The monthly review issued by' the Westminster Bank, one of the great banking corporations of Great Britain, anticipates increasing industrial prosperity during the autumn. It points out that there is now a prospect of improvement in the coal industry, that iron and steel are doing better, and that shipbuilding and shipping

prospects are more satisfactory. The survey states: “General indications of trade prospects are, as a whole, favourable. World harvests of foodstuffs and raw material are on ij bountiful scale. The United States has; recovered from the depression, in trade activity of recent months, and ■Europe is threatend by no wave of economic* depression, while, at the other side of the world the outlook for a period of political peace and economic reconstruction is reasonably bright. At Home the rank and file of trade unionists have given their emphatic endorsement to a. policy of constructive and co-operative solution of problems common to both Capital and Lnboilr.” The review also mentions that Bn tish agriculture has experienced one of the most successful seasons in recent' history.

R.A.F. PLYING BOATS. RUGBY, Sept. 19. Sir Samuel Hore, Secretary for Air, has sent the following telegram to Group Commander Cave-Brown-Gave, Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force on the Far East flight: “Warm congratulations to you and those under your command on your return to Singapore, and on the success of your achievement with four machines over a flight of 25,000 miles, which affords convincing proof of the reliability and mobility of the flying boat.”

ENGINE TROUBLE. PANAMA, Sept. 19. Byrd’s City of New York lias returned to port with engine trouble.