OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1929, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

PALESTINE ENQUIRY. EVJDENCE COLLECTED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. Members of the Commission of Inquiry into the recent disorders in Palestine are expected to leave England within the next few days. Since the appointment of the Commission, Magistrates and local officials in Palestine have collected written evidence which will be placed before the Commissioners on their arrival. Oral evidence will he taken from representatives of both Arabs and Jews. VISIT TO MEDITERRANEAN.

RUB GY, October 10. MV Tom Shaw, Secretary for V • and Mr C. G. Ammon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, arrived at Horne yesterday and are due to-day at Naples, en route for Malta. They will make a brief stay at Gibraltar on the journey back to England. The wish are of a purely Departmental character.

LORD D’ABERNON RETURNS. RUBGY, October 10. Lord d’Abernon head of the British Economic Mission to South Amerjoa, arrived at Southampton to-dav, on his return. Interviewed, he spoke very "hopefully of the result of the mission. NEW CABLE TO BELGIUM. INCREASE IN TELEPHONE CALLS. RUBGY, .October 10. Following the rapid increase in telehone calls between, this country a Europe, the firm of Siemens Brothers, of Woolwich, have received an important contract to make and lay a new Anglo-Belgian cable. It is estimated that tne cost will considerably exceed £IOO,OOO. The cable, which will be over 75 miles in length, will be a duplicate of the land and submarine line laid on the same route in 1926. Work will begin almost at once.