GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

N.Z. FRUIT. 'United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)- : ■ (Received this dav at 10.30. a.m.) LONDON, -Vlsly 22e New Zealand apples Ifrom the Middlesex, ‘ Coptic and Herminus—Jonathans 14s 4d to 16s; Delicious 16s; Cox’s 18s to 20s; a few at 27s 6d. BRITAIN’S BEST CUSTODIERS. LONDON, Dlay 22. The re-elected President of the Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce said the present prosperity of Australia and New Zealand was cause for congratulation. The Austra-r Han population in the last fifteen years had increased by twenty-nine per cent and trade hv ninety-two per cent; New Zealand 24 arid 123 per cent respectively. Australia in 1928 derived 43i percent of her imports from Britain and New Zealand 48. The two together were Britain’s host'customers. BIG ’QUAKE IN JAPAN. TOKYO. Dlay 22. The 'severest earthquake experionebd for years has occurred in the Miyazaki and the Oita Prefectures. At Kyushiti the inhabitants are fleeing to tho open country. No deaths are reported. IRAQ FLOODS. BASRA, Dlay 22. Tiie whole countryside is a most remarkable spectacle. Fully one third of the distance of 350 miles is inundated and tho railway is broken m two places, where a mile of track has disappeared. Cultivators are faced with enormous losses. Floods stretched to the horizon, interspersed with tiny islands of grain stacks. The Euphrates is falling hut no benefit is possible downstream until volumes of the flood waters are drained off numerous depressions.