GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH FINANCE

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, Jan. 1

The returns of the Exchequer for the first nine months of the current financial year show the receipts amounted to £-195,023,395. and the expenditure £(523.-14)2.5.15, a deficit of £137.719,159. The revenue for the first nine monthdecreased to £(5.990,917 compared with the corresponding period last year and expenditure £19,403.156. It should iie noted the largest portion of the revenue invariably comes in the last quarter of the year.

TALLOW SALES, (Received this day at 10 a.m.) I (;\LGiN. Jan. I. Tallow slock totalled 191-1, Imports 1512, deliveries 7-11.

DIVIDEND DECLARED

LONDON. Jan. I

The Union Bank of Australia lias declared an interim dividend of fifteen ner coni.

GUIDING AIR LINERS

(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, Jon. 1.

The international weather reporting system for guiding air liners, is now tpcrative. It divides Europe and North Africa into zones from which meteorological information is collected. At brief intervals control towers wirelessly telephoned to flying liners.

AIR CHIEF MARSHAL. LONDON. January 1. Sir John Salmond has been appointed Air Chief Marshal.

A GENEROUS GIFT. LONDON, Jaimarv 1

West Australian visitors to London, Mr and Mrs McNoss. gave a cheque for £(533, enabling the Royal Noithern Hospital at Holloway to claim a gift of L‘35,000 to erect a block of private beds, in a last-minute race against time. The nine ials had to collect £35,030 in order to claim a similar gift from an anonymous donor. They made .strenuous efforts to obtain the'remaining- few hundreds before midnight and were despairing when MeNess walked in and promised lo make up the deficit. He is an entire stranger to the hospital. ;iud declined to give his address.