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HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
WORLD'S YOUNGEST MONARCH.
Eleven-year-old King Peter, a gentle child with a troubled and en- quiring look on his face nowadays, is by many years the youngest | monarch in the world.
But there is one living ruler who ascended the throne, at an even earlier, age, Queen Wilhelming, of the Netherlands. She was only ten when she acceded in 1899.
HOW DO
DO BRITAIN'S
LIVE?
CLERGY
STRANGE ANOMALIES
OF THE LIVINGS
UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION
(By John Betjeman)
London. The report of that committee has TOW well I remember staying at just been published.
H°
the Rectory in the days of my It says, in effect, that nothing youth. There was the journey on can be done.
Incumbents are allowed to sell the branch line from the junction, Next in youthful accession come the rector's dogcart in the quiet their parsonages if they are 100 three oriental rulers. The Sultani
of Morocco was 16 when he came to evening, the imposing front gate, large for their incomes. But no one the throne in 1927; the King of the gravel drive between the rhodo-will buy them.
Some clergy take in backward dendrons, the large fire in the hail, Afghanistan was 19 and the King
lies.
Your Daily Smile!
*
Landlady: "On the bed."
note.
*
Опе
* Tactless
*
the Church Times suggesting that
notice of the committee altogether.
the clergy should earn no more than the Church of England for helping the working man. But in that case in the upkeep and improvement. for they should be allowed to live as selling purposes, of the many large. working men, in houses of reason- parsonages which encumber poverty,
stricken incumbents. But money is unevenly distributed.
There are many comic anomalies. in the Church of England' like the
..
UNEMPLOYED GAOLED
the
of Iraq 21 when they became Kings the Morris wallpapers in the bed- boys as pupils. But in so doing rooms, the long walk down carpeted they neglect their duty towards the last year.
The temporary King Michael of passages to the bathroom, fourteen parish.
The usual solution is for the in- the candles in silver sconces on Roumania, however, was only seven
cumbent to live in one or two rooms dinner table. on his accession.
I went to that same rectory early only. But he is not allowed to let King Peter has a tradition of
Another incumbent had the rest of the house fall down. He- this year.
the hard and long working hours before
to get money from taken the place of my friend. A tries him one day if he is to follow in
Thired taxi met me at the station, Dilapidations Board of his diocese the footsteps of his late father.
the front gate was broken and to keep his house in repair. This It was possible to have audience
weeds covered the gravel drive. is not always easy.... of the scholarly King Alexander in'
Overlooked Solution There was no fire in the hall,! the Palace here at eight in the patches of damp showed through One solution has escaped the morning, by which time he had
the wallpaper. motored down from the little palace!
I leapt from island to island of There are over fifty livings worth he had built a few years ago outside rush matting, barefooted in my more than a thousand a year, where the capital. The air there was con- bedroom to the brass can on the the parishes have under a thousand sidered better for the health of his washhand stand. One lamp was on inhabitants. The rector of Stainby- children than that of the city in the dinner table and we had corned with-Gunby in the diocese of Lin- whose centre the big Royal Palace beef, followed by tinned apricots, coln, for instance, has £2,376 met And it isn't that the present incum-income a year. The inhabitants of bent of this vast Huntingdon rec-lonely Stainby-with-Gunby number tory is inhospitable or mean. He 216. Two-thirds of his income has to keep up a house with eight might help several atarving clergy. At a political gathering an orator bedrooms, a large garden, a wife The town of March, a decayed little waxed indignant and exclaimed: "To
place where one waits for hours if Bradford, Australia cannot pay ridicule the idea is to follow the exam and two children on £400 a year.
Nor is his the worst case. There travelling by train in East Angila, for British goods and at the same ple of the camel, which buries its head time full her obligations to in the sand when an enemy approa- are still eighty English livings has about ten thousand inhabitants, worth less than £201 a year. Over many of these dissenters. The four The rival speaker rose and retort- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1934. British bondholders, especially ches."
if Australian imports to Britain are curtailed for the sake of ed: "Surely the gentleman, in giving a thousand are worth £300 a year charches in the town have livings utterance to this remark, must have and less. Over two thousand are worth, when added together, just Imperial Trade Relations British agriculture. In regard meant to refer to the ostrich, which, worth between £300 and £350. in under five thousand a year (net). to foreign trade, restriction of in those circumstances, has a habit of some cases outside grants or pri-Each living is worth over a thou- Meanwhile the parish of vate means help the incumbents. I sand. imports means a disequilibrium putting its eye through a needle."
am not suggesting that the clergy Sparkhill in Birmingham has 24 At a luncheon at Manchester,jof the trade balance, which the
Prospective tenant: "But you adver- should be rich, indeed there has thousand inhabitants and the living which celebrated the inaugura-nation concerned will naturally tion of the direct Manchester-endeavour to adjust by restrict-tise a bed-sitting room. I see the bed, been a recent correspondence In is worth 600 odd pounds a year.
There is certainly the money in Australia shipping facilities, inling her purchase of Australian but where's the sitting room?" which the Ellerman, Shire, and exports." "Already certain foreign Federal lines are participating, countries are protesting at their Mr. Bruce. the Australian High adverse balance of trade with!
Already Germany, A Negro bishop was introducing an Commissioner, made significant Australia. reference to certain problems of by reason of the decline of Ger- English churchman of high rank.
"Breddern," he said, "it is not often able size. imperial trade relations. He man exports, cannot afford to arise to present a white speaker in An Unwanted Living urged Lancashire to realise that buy Australian wool, upon which this church. But you can be sure he
At Corringham, in Essex, the its interests "are not irreconcil- she has been forced to put an has a powerful message for you. An able" with those of Australia. embargo. At the same time she while his skin may be white, his hearts parsonage house has 20 bedrooms,
no gas or electric light, and the rich Deans of Peculiars and the a wool sub-is as black as any of wel"! In an earlier speech at the is manufacturing
the
wages of a gardener and his assist-Door Dean of Arches. But the Textile Society's dinner at stitute called "Wollstra,"
ant come to £2 159. a week. The anomaly of large parsonages
hardly comic. Bradford he declared: "It is ne-success of which, in time, may cessary to understand each mean the complete loss of Ger- Uncle John came to stay, and before living is worth £400 a year and is other's point of view and to dis-many as a buyer of Australia he ieft he gave his nephew a pound at present vacant. So, I should
think, it will long remain. "Now, be careful with that money, perse the atmosphere of hos-wool-a serious blow to her most
Tommy," he said, "Remember the tility, of which, unhappily, there important primary industry. are too many signs to-day." On the other hand, the scienti-saying. A fool and his money are soon tory with 26 bedrooms. It was once
parted. Such a sign was the resentment fic policy of a planned economy,
I want to thank of Lancashire cotton-spinners at resting broadly upon the basis of "Yes, uncle," replied Tommy,
for parting the new Australian cotton duties co-operation and the ideal of it, just the anme." which they regarded as infring-unity within the Empire, along ing the letter and spirit of the lines indicated by Mr. Bruce, may' LOCAL NEWS Ottawa Agreement. In Lanca- help to solve her knotty economic
BREVITIES shire an official boycott of Aus- problems. Some slight tralian dairy products was provement might be made in re- threatened. This was postponed lationship with foreign countries! through the representations of by reducing, the margins between reported in the Colony during the Australian High Commis- British Preferential and General 24 hours ended Monday. sioner. The new duties affected Tariffs. An alternative is an only 3.7% of the total British adjustment determined by the cotton export to Australia, whilst relative trade balances with by Mr. Lee Ting. Fung, wos one principle of Ottawa was that various foreign countries import-$10, for allowing their dog out on them now.. They are relies of the Detective Sergeant Goodwin Australia had the right to deveing into Australia. Dealing with the road without a muzzle, by Mr. days when the youngest son went peared for the prosecution on behalf his brothers of the respective complainants, Ip lop her secondary industries. imperial trade not long ago the Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis-into the Church as
went into the Services. The Yung, of No. 27, Pottinger Street, The "Economist," however, "Times" emphasised the definite tracy this morning..
"fatter" the living and the less the Fung Lai, of No. 124, Nam Cheong stressed the importance of the and continuous improvement in
A fine of $20 was imposed on the work, the better it was. In those Street, Wong So, of No. 122, Cheong principle involved, and represen- the economic position of the tations on behalf of the cotton- Empire, the basis of which Cheng Yue firm, of No. 33 Ko Shing days Settrington, in Yorkshire, was Sha Wan Road, and. Tang Fook of spinners have been made by the was laid at the Ottawa Confer-Street, by Mr. W. Schofield at the living worth having, for it is No. 354, Queen's Road. British Government. .
ence," adding that "the system of Central Magistracy this morning, worth £1,106 a year and there are The real issue is contained in reciprocal preferences should be for failing to furnish the Imports only 600-odd inhabitants to minis Mr. Bruce's plea to the different extended." Mr. J. H. Thomas and Exports Department with full ter to.
Now, perhaps, the rector is not sections of the Empire to pre-has also pointed out that, despite particulars of their exports on
in auch an enviable position. The serve economic unity "by rea-the depression, "British exports October 24.
parish is no bigger, but the rectory sonable understanding of mutual to the dominions, and vice versa,
cases of diphtheria is too big. It has 21 rooms, three objective and interests, and mak-have increased" Food consump ing readjustments to meet the tion during the last four years with nine deaths, one case of scar-stairesses, a drawing-room 80 feet ment Civil Hospital, yesterday suf- changing times." Empire unity has increased considerably in let fever (imported), three cases of long, and stabling for 11 horses.
Tithe Agitation in the broad sense is essential, Britain, and this increase is enteric fever (one Imported); with but it can only be obtained by a hopeful augury, especially in two deaths, four cases of meningi-Non-payment of tithes has not facing the mutual problem of view of recent developments in tis, with three deaths, and one case made things easier. Just over two trade relations in a way at once refrigeration and the expansion of puerperal fever were reported in months ago, in a South of England frank and friendly. It must be of the chilled beef industry. The the Colony during the week ended parish where there had been con- recognised that the problem has Empire Marketing Board, un-Saturday, both Imperial and international fortunately expired last year, but aspects, each of which contains the Imperial Economic Commit DOG OWNERS FINED church. Medical examination proved conflicing elements. It goes betee and other such organisations yond tariffs to the broader ques-remain as machinery to secure tion, the policy of self-sufficiency, greater co-ordination in the pro- Unfortunately, there is much duction and marketing of com truth in Sir William Beveridge's modities within the Empire. recent claim that "the dominions The Empire Fruit Conference, in economically are not the best London, for instance, secured Messrs. R. H. Wild of No. 177, the Church Assembly appointed a complements to Britain." The agreement to a rotational scheme The Peak, D. B. Scott, of No. 28 Joint Committee to Inquire into fostering of the textile industries for co-operative marketing be Conduit Road, S. P. Lorne of No. 14; this question of unwieldly parson- hits directly at Lancashire and tween England, Australia, South Kennedy Terrace, and Mrs. Pages. Three people represented the Yorkshire. The British policy Africa, and Canada Imperial Pateram of No. 6, Kennedy Road Ecclesiastical Commissioners, rich of Elliotism Contained in the trade relatio in future, will were each fined $10 for allowing landowners of church property, and
doge abroad without muzzle or three people represented Agricultural Marketing Act is in have to replace the
im-
you
One case of enteric fever
The parish of Wigan has a rec-
the pride of the town that the
with
but
rector kept a coach and four and
that there was always a horse wait- ing at the lodge gates for any of the curates who might be called off
to distant parts of the parish.
Theft And Entry To Private House
Pleading guilty to the charges of the larcency of one. silk suit, one Even on £1,106 a year it was hard suit and five keys, one over-coat, and
to keep up auch state. Now, in of entering No. 354, Queen's Road
was densely populated town requiring with intent to commit a felony, Latt many curates the income is totally Ming, an unemployed, was
the
sen- inadequate.
tenced to five months' hard labour These enormous parsonages are when he appeared before Mr. E. J. The Canadian Cafe, represented relics of the days when far more Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis-
fined people had private means than have tracy this morning.
Thirteen
Muzzles And Leads Forgotten
siderable tithe agitation; the vicar dropped dead on his way back from
that he had died of exhaustion brought on through lack of food.
In 1988, after a hot debate on s subject that hardly seems debatable in a Christian collection of people,
opposition to the interests of the
ernecine compe
Australian primary. Industries, larger and more effic
the lead, ciple]
ELI.
Mr Bruce pointed out
the they appeared before Mr. Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, Wynne Janes at the Central who have several hundred thousands,
Court this morning
to play about with.
FALL FROM LADDER
While working at the new Peel Laboratory, Liu Cheung, a Hong Kong University employee, fell from a ladder and was sent to the Govern-
fering from body injuries.
neighbours
"I overheard the "reading my poema
"Listeners seldom hear any rood
of themselves."