GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

1)7 Teteeraph.—Press Assn.—Copyiijtit. The New South' Wales Amateur Athletic Association's five-mile State crosscountry championship was won by if. Haydon (Botany) in the record time for itlie course of i'Srnin. 104-osec, Both the A and ]i grade teams' races, were won by Botany. : The Bureau of Mines at Washington las reported"thntithe gasoline producVon in ,the first six months of 1920 was ; IS fier cent, greater thhn during the i snme period of but consumption I increased by 32 per cent, in the same time. Sir Auckland Geddes. spealiing at To- | fronto; said: "Now that I am a servant 1. of India. Australia, Xew Zealand and . South Africa, no less than oE tho West ,Indies and Canada, .1 can realise how much for us all depends upen Canada's efforts and success in the Islands. Canada has a great opportunity by virtue of her position of acting as interpreter l>'tween Britain and the. C'nited States." ! The Post Office Department at Washington is inaugurating an nerial mail I between Cuba and. the United States. Bulgaria has re-opened its legation :h London. Her representative is M. • .Narinroft'. son of a former Bulgarian /.Minister in Britain, lie states that. Bulgaria is seeking British credit in exii'hnngp for cereals, with which her barns are bursting Bulgaria urgently needs manufactured articles, which will be ordered in Britain out of the credit granted.—Ttont.er.