GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

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[United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

LONDON, April 16

If the Empire broadcasting cabled yesterday is successful and the Imj ieria.l Conference approves of the service, a new station will be built at Dav-eiitr.v to supersede Chelmsford involving fifty to a hundred thousand sterling. To this Britain, Dominions and the- Colonies are expected to contribute on a proportional basis.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT

BY TWELVE SEAPLANES

ROME, April 16

, Plans are being advanced for the Rome to New York flight by twelve seaplanes. Thirty pilots are in training for the flight and of these twelvewill be selected. Two cruisers and six destroyers are being stationed beween the Azores and New York for rescue if the planes are forced down. It is expected the flight will commence iu the autumn.

TiN OUTPUT.

LONDON, April 15,

A meeting of the Tin Producers’ Association unanimously resolved to regulate plants so ns to produce in 1930 not more than eighty per cent, of the actual aggregate outputs of 1929.

N.Z. APPLES

LONDON, April 15.

Westmoreland’s and Tamaroa’s New Zealand apples.—Cox’s 16s to 18s, Jonothons and Delicious 13s to 14s, Dunns 10s to 13s, Lord Wolseleys 11s.

SIR J. PARR

LONDON, April 17

Campaigning at Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare, on behalf of the Empire crusade, Sir James Parr said that farmers in New Zealand favoured Empire free trade, because it would double their market. He emphasised that Australia and New Zealand were Britain’s best customers, but they were treated no better than the Finlanders and Siberians 1 despite the fact that New Zealand gave Britain her highest preference.