GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

RADIO RIVALRY

MARCONI V. AMERICANS

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LONDON, March 24

Marchess Marconi’s 'telephony achievement at Sydney indicates an interesting (battle with the American International Coy, operating between ship and shore in a service across the Atlantic, on which thq best result hitherto has been two thousand miles. Marchese Marconi set off with the idea of getting Buenos Ayres, but he decided to attempt the longest possible talk. with, surprising results, on it set measuring only three feet by three feet, and aerial of fifty or sixty feet.

ARMY BEEF CONTRACTS

LONDON, March 25

In the House of Commons, Mr Shinwell, dealing with the question of the supply of British meat and bread for the Army, pointed out' that the Conservative Government had previously insisted that the cost of purely British supplies was prohibitive. Moreover the hulk of the Army heel was drawn from the Dominions. Were they to destroy the Dominion trade because of a dubious advantage for the British farmer. To supply the army with British grown beef had in six months cost £200,000

TARIFF TRUCE,

GENEVA, March 25

At the final meeting of the Tariff Conference, eleven Powers, including Britain, France and Italy, have signed a convention maintaining their commercial treaties, which are to be unaltered for a year