GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

AERIAL TRANSPORT. COMMANDER’S COMMENT. (United Press. Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, October 20. Commander Burney in „ the “Observer,” reviewing the problems df airship transport, says it may. be disappointing to the country to realise -that further technical progress is necessary, before it is possible to construct a vessel capable of fast, long distance transport urgently needed for Empire purposes, but nothing is to be gained by self-deception or under-estimating the magnitude of the problems. R.IOO and R.lOl represent a great advance, and fully justify the time, energy, and money devoted to them, .and to say they are obsolete before completion and trials is nonsense. Burney expresses the opinion that the trials will show both 'lire safer and more reliable than any airship yet built. He stresses that that the larger airship involves a greater difficulty in landing and housing. RADIO SERVICE. BETWEEN SPAIN AND U.S.A. 1 •;>' !/n MA^Rlffifoblr 21. ; A dir bet radioifel&phonic |ervice between the United States _and Madrid will be opened • to-day, 21st, when King Alphonso of Spain and President Hoover; will .exchange greetings. . ' j : 1 ■■■] ; ''

OLD J MOTOR OARS'-- RACE. J WINNER 32. YEARS OLD. LONDON, October 21. In various stages of external decrepitude, but with their engines chugging bravely, thirty-one out of thirty-five motor cars completed the course, fiom London to Brighton, in an “Old Crocks” Race. The winner, on points, was a 32-year-old B-enz machine, with a 27-year-old Panhard car second. A 28-year-old Lanchester car, travelling at 30 miles , per hour, finished first. The oldest competitor was a 1893 Panhard. . MONSTER SEAPLANE.’ TAKES RECORD PASSENGER LIST. (Received this day at 9;25 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. The giant Dornier Wal seaplane took off from Altenrain, Lake Constance, at 11.15 for a two hours’ flight, carrying 150 passengers and a crew of ten. No machine, whether lighter or heavier than air, ever carried such a number before. The seaplane weighs fifty-one tons and carries a weight of twenty-onA tons, atari- average' speed of 115 miles an hour.

BENEFICIAL RAINS THROUGHOUT ARGENTINA. (Received this dav at 9. a.in.) BUENOS AYRES, -Oct. 22. ; Heavy rains throughout Argentina in the last 48 hours have been of incalculable benefit to the wheat and linseed; cifopsp, which suffered from a long drought. , Crops in many sections have been ' set back' by frosts, but the rain' will make reasonably sure a medium harvest at least, will result. Favourable weather will be necessary, I henceforth, to permit of a normal proportion of the grain reaching the uAual export standard.