SODIUM street lighting proved to be a source of interference affecting radio reception.
The Post Office asked local authorities to fit suppressors where lights were causing trouble.
Fears were also growing that high level Treasury talks would spell the end of the Lancashire cotton industry. Local chiefs believed the Treasury had weakened and lifted the ban on Japanese textiles entering major colonies supplied by Lancashire.
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