OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1928, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

POPPY DAY

BIG SALES EXPECTED

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY/, October 30

It is anticipated that the immen.se sum ol L'020,000, which was raised hv street sales ol artificial poppies on Armistice Day last year will be exceeded by this year’s collection for funds for wounded ex-Servic-e men. Poppy Day jvill lie celebrated on Saturday, November 10th, hut churches during the Armistice services on the following day will he decorated with sprays of poppies.

Some 32,000,000 poppies, made hv wounded soldiers and sailors, ol whom 310 are regularly employed in their manufacture at Richmond and Edinburgh, nre being distributed for sale throughout Britain and at 280 centres overseas. The Dominions have their own ex-Serviee Associations for the care of the wounded, hut outside the Dominions every British community in the Empire has ordered poppies from the London headquarters.

NEAV LABOUR MEMBER. RUGBY, October 30

'The successful candidate in the Ash-ton-under-Lyne fiy-election, Mr Albert Bellamy, who is a railway engine driver and an ex-president of the National Union of Railwaymcn, has taken a prominent part in public life?. He is a Justice of the Peace and a member of several local bodies in Stockport, where he lives. He has on two former occasions stood unsuccessfully for Parliament.

.MUNICIPAL ’DROMES. 1

AIR MINISTRY’S APPEAL

TO TOWNS

RUGBY, Oct. 30

A remarkable new step towards the promotion of civil aviation has been taken by the Air Ministry. The Ministry has addressed a letter to the town clerks of the chief provincial cities and towns asking iliem to consider the advisability ol establishing municipal aerodromes with as little delay as possible.

The letter says: “The development of internal living is almost entirely dependent on the provision of aerodromes at large centres. The provision of aerodromes and auxiliary services by air must necessarily, if only on tlie grounds of capital cost, lie confined to terminal points on trunk routes. 'I he establishment of a network ol aerodromes throughout the' country to serve the general purposes of internal living, must devolve on the local authorities, who may, indeed, expect to benefit ultimately by the traffic and commerce which will follow the provision of these facilities. It is the opinion of the Air Council that every town of any importance will sooner or hlter find it just as essential to possess well-sited aerodromes as it does to-day to possess railwav stations, roads and garages.”

This appeal to municipal authorities is reinforced by a statement of the progress made by regular British air services. These consist at present ot the operation of cross-Channel air routes and of the route between Cairo and Basra. The growth of traffic on the cross-Channel air services is showing a marked increase. In 1927 British machines carried 16,533 passengers, compared with 5256 in 1921. Notwithstanding keen competition by four foreign air lines operating to Croydon from various parts of the Continent, it is pointed out, British machines are carrying by far the largest number of passengers. In 1027 Belgian machines carried U9O, French 5199. German 1972 and the Netherlands 358 G.

ART EXHIBITION

U.fi. REMOVES DIFFICULTIES

RUGBY, Oct. 30,

The difficulties raised by the United States Customs authorities in New York regarding the proposed exhibition of pictures l,y British artists on hoard the Canard liner Berengaria, have been satisfactorily overcome. The sponsors of the exhibition, Sir Martin Conway and Sir Joseph Duveen have fulfilled certain technical formalities at the request of the Customs authorities. A private view of the pictures was held yesterday, and a public view is being held to-day aboard the linci, <is was originally arranged.

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

empire SERVICES

RUGBY, Oct. 30,

A steady increase in trans-Atlantic wireless telephony has necessitated additional buildings and apparatus being provided at the Rugby wireless station. Meanwhile the General Post Office is in communication with the Governments of Australia. South Africa and Tndia, with a view to bringing the whole of the Empire within reach of the human voice. A service with Canada was opened a year ago and has worked most satisfactoiily.