OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1929, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

PORT OF LONDON

GREAT INCREASE OF TRADE

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April fi

Statistics issued by the Port of London Authority show that the trade o'f the port lias grown enormously of recent years. In 1!)()!) the value of foreign imports and exports was £.‘122,000,000. while in 11127 it was .£70(5,1)00,000. Passenger trallie has also increased considerably. About 2d0,000 sea-going passengers now arrive and depart In the year, which is one-third more than the number a few years ago. The combined water area of the King George V. Dock, the Royal Albert Dock and the Royal Victoria Dock, which is one huge dock divided into three sections, is 24d acres, and is the largest sheet of dock water in the world.

EAST AFRICA

CLOSER CO-OPERATION OF

COLONIES

RUGBY. April !). Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Undcr-Secretarv lor the Colonies,

London this afternoon for East Africa to confer with the local Governments and representatives of unofficial opinion on the Hilton-Young report regarding closer co-operation between Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Sir Samuel is accompanied hy Lady Wilson, and will he absent lor three months.

DISTRESSED MINERS’ FUND.

RUGBY, April 0. The Lord Mayor of London’s land for the relief of the distressed mining areas, which will be closed on April JO now amounts lo £1,101,000. A Government contribution of. a like amount will he added to this total for distribution to deserving eases.

DEATH DUTIES

WINDFALL FOR. TREASURY. RUGBY, April 0. More than £">00,000 will be yielded )o the Treasury in death duties on two wills. Sir John Brunner, a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, left unsettled property amounting to £87(5,102. The death duties on U>* sum amount to about £2(50,000. Mi Herbert Gosling, a director of Barclay’s Rank, left £«.“«>,030. death dull." on which amount to about £270,000.