OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1928, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

BRITISH CARS

INCREASE IN EXPORTS

STATEMENT BY MINISTER

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, Oct. 17

The steady post-war rise in the value of British motor-ears exported vra oreferied to in a speech by the Minister of Overseas) Trade, Captain Hacking, at Birmingham, in a speech in which he dealt with the rapid expansion of the motor industry.

He stated that the makers of one car turned out 300 vehicles in 1920. In the following year the output was ten times greater, and last year the number of vehicles manufactured by this firm totalled 27,000. British factories turned out an aggregate of 209,000 cars last year, compared with 88,000 four years earlier. British exports of motor-cars, which represented a value of about £3,900,000 in 1923, had mounted by last year to a value of over £10,500,000. >

MR LLOYD GEORGE.

LIBERAL' LEADER SEES THE CESAREWITCH.

RUGBY, Oct. .17

For the first time in his life Mr Lloyd George, the Liberal leader, today attended a race meeting. He was staying near Newmarket as the guest of Lord St Davids, and took the opportunity to go with his host to the Newmarket meeting.

The big autumn handicap, the Cesarewitch Stakes, was the chief item on the programme. Mr Lloyd George showed great interest in the proceedings, both in thte paddock and on the racecourse, but declined to make a bet. though many bookmakers were willing to give him generous odds. To Press interviewers he defended liis presence on the racecourse by 'saying that he believed that anything which played so great a part in the social life of the nation as horse racing demanded his attention.'

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. BRITISH (SCIENTISTS GOING TO THE EAST. RUGBY, Oct. 17. Four British scientists, have been appointed by the joint permanent committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society to take observations in the Malay peninsula and Siam during the total eclipse of the sun on May 9 next year. The scientists will sail from England in February. One party will establish its headquarters at

Alor, in the Malay state of Kedali, and .the other will establish a base Pk near Patani, in Siam. Attempts will be made during the eclipse to measure temperatures and pressure of gases round the sun and to take important spectroscopic observations. It is anticipated that the ! Einstein theory of relativity will be ~ reaffirmed by what is known as the astronomical test.

HISTORIC CASTLES

KING’S GIFT TO ISLE OF MAN

RUGBY, Oct. 17

The King has presented to the Tsle of Man two famous castles, Peel Oastle and Castle Rushen. The former is a picturesque ruin, hut the latter, which was once the residence of the Kings and Lords of Man, is one of the most perfect specimens of mediaeval military architecture in the ■British Isles. . , The gift also includes the fair ground at Tynwald' from the mount on which the Man laws have been proclaimed annually for 1000 years.

OBITUARY

SIR FRANK DICKSEE

PRESIDENT OF ROYAL ACADEMY

RUGBY, Oct. 17

Sir Frank Dicksee, president of the Koval Academy, died to-day, at the age of seventy-five. He would have retired from the presidency next month, having reached the age lim-

it. Sir Frank’s career as an artist was one of urtbrokne success. For Victorian art, of which his work was representative, he had an affection and loyalty which never faltered, and on his election as president of the Academy he publicly proclaimed his dislike of modern tendencies of ait.