Cable Jottings
airway TO AFRICA.—Sir Alan Cobham. on Wednesday, llew from Oroydon to Dijon, on his way to Africa, "here ho will, with representatives of Imperial Airways, choose landing grounds and organise facilities for a London to Capetown air scrTIIKA S r RE- S HI V S A KE. The Italian treasure-ship Leonardo da ■ inci, laden with the greatest treas,,re of works of art that a vessel ever curried, valued at £14,000,000. was •stfely berthed at London on Wednesday after a great battle with raging SCas * The pictures, ivories, furniture * statues, and other irreplaceable "'•>rks have not been damaged. OF WOMEN. — In the Ilouse of Commons the Undcr-Secre-tir>’ of the Dominions, Mr. W. Lunn, stated that the number of single women a nd domestic servants assisted oversea* in the year ended in September 6,834. of whom 4.748 went to Canada, 1.020 '.o Australia, and IST to -New Zealand. The wages varied, the average being £3 10s to £ 9 a month ln Canada, £4 to £S in Australia, and to £7 in New Zealand. Mr. Lunn ?®*d there was no fund for providing lor their return if the work was uncongenial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 9
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190Cable Jottings Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 9
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