GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

STRANDED CELTIC

LITTLE HOPE QE REFLOATING

(United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Dec. 12. Salvage experts express little hope of vetioating the Celtic. They say if I she had missed the rocks by only her own width, she would have keen unscathed. bat she struck under the engine room, and there is a rock through her like- a pinnacle. There is now twenty-five tcet: ol water in the engine room and the stokehold is flooded. The cargo probably will he thrown overboard. pathetic lonely figure, in his cabin is the Commander, who has been calling at Queenstown for thirty years without an accident. SUGAR PRODUCTION. (Received this day at 10 80. a.iuQ LONDON. Dec. 18. At a meeting of the Sugar Federation of the British Empire, tin* Chairman, Sir .Morgan, made a statement regarding his visit to all the sugar producing areas in the Dominions, lie was of the opinion Hint ii further preference was given, the output could be enormously increased. 'I lie Federation passed a resolution to make representation to the Imperial Government concerning the matter. AUSTRALIAN FI LAI. ENGLISH PRESS COALMEN’!’. LONDON. December 12. ’The “Daily ’I olograph’’ describes an Australian-made film, “I lie Romance of Ban a i bebe, ’ ’ as another reminder of ibe vast negTe: led resources which the Empire oilers for making films. Hie picture interests by its sincerity ami air of reality. If should be a. harbinger of many others with a background iit Australia. A COAIAIENT. LONDON. Dec. 18. Ben Tillett, discussing the (ommon tendency to buy g aids exported irom oilier countries said: “A lew days ago I saw d ickers unloading currants and sultanas from the Levant. I know the living conditions and the wages paid the men and women who cultivale am gather them, i relic ted that nearby .ships were unloading smaller limits from Australia, whose standard ot living is more in accord w.tli that lor which we are striving, and 1 could not liMp feeling that therein there was a in-oral for all ot us labour folk, and a sc;i:-o!iable moral, too. 1 appeal to my follow country men—tor lairplav within me Empire.”