OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1929, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

ENGLAND’S DROUGHT. ft . ■: DRIES'!' PERIOD/FOR SIXTY V YEARS../" , (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. The Air Alinistry has issued a statement that the first nine months of tips year constituted th© driest period rri, tjie last sixty years, although there .was yery . little,: rain in the yea,rs ,1870,' 1887 1921. In both 1887 an.d ,1921 the last three months of the year were dry, so that it is not certain yet whether this will rank as; driest on reyord.yO The rainfall over: the British Isles during geptember was just less thai\ half the usual amount. */, During the last. sixty years there have been four drier. Septembers, •pf which only, those pf 1907 and 1910. were appreciably drier, and those of. 1894 and 1895’ were slightly drier.

BRITISH SQUADRON

VISIT TO TURKISH PRESIDENT,

V 'rRUGBY, October 15,

Admiral Sir Frederick Field, Ooiri-marider-in-Ghief of the Alediterranean Fleet;- who last week proceeded with a British Squadron on a visit to Constantinople, yesterday, in company With the British Ambassador, gir George Clerk, was received by the Tprkish, President, Alustapha Kenial Pasha, at Angora. Later, , the Admiral visited tlje Prime Minister, the Foreign Miniswr and the Afinister of National Defence

and attended a luncheon given in his honour. At night he attended a ,banquet given by the Foreign Minister,. He will return to Constantinople this evening. . , , ' " , "', ■

Sir Frederick Field, in an interview to the Press, recorded the deep impresGm>; that the Turkish cordiality had made upon him.