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CASTIGATED
(By Sir Max Pemberton)
ROAD TRAFFIC IN ENGLAND
Many Highways To
Be Rebuilt
SPECIAL REGULATIONS ISSUED
London. To-day.
CRIMES Kingston by-pass, the nine-mile
Vainglorious Speed
stretch 00 · London-Portsmouth road, one of the first of the great by-passes to be constructed on roads out of London soon after the war, is to be reconstructed.
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comparatively new
a growing feature of these re- constructions. The number has
erament
to
LISE.
place truck roads
The
His Honour, Sir Atholl Mac-HESE are difficult days on perceived nothing of the kind; The road, which cost £400,000 and The bills the taxi-driver who advises the took four years to build, has since Plaintiff Gregor, took the case
the high road. appeared in person, while defen- of mortality show no decline. lordly chauffeur of a Rolls to it came into use in 1927 acquired dant was represented by Mr. The maimed and wounded are "go and 'ave arf-a-dozen more a bad reputation for the number The proposal is to As lessons," the charming girl of accidents.. Y. Kwan
more numerous than ever.
a dual car- In the witness-box, plaintiff, of old time, so now, the quick who, when she has met your reconstruet it with speaking in English, said that he are those who get out of the car head-on to hers. will tell riage-way separated by a central The lighting will also had witnesses but they were not way, the dead are those who you perkily that she is not reserve.
afraid of looking any man in be improved. The work, which present in Court. He felt, bow- do not.
to ever, that he would be able These appalling figures un- the face; the sailor who, driv-will begin on the two-miles sec- prove his claim to the satisfaction fortunately leave many people ing for the first time, exclaims tion west of Surbiton, will be put
indifferent. Mr. Runciman was able to of the Court.
Dashing drivers to this mate, "Bill this 'ere in hand immediately. speak recently with much satis- Continuing, plaintiff said that decline to take any notice of gir's a rum 'un-when you put
A great increase of traffic has faction of British trade during he arrived in the Colony from them. Even the good luck of her to port. she goes to port."
All these we know and some necessitated the rebuilding of the past 12 months, and with Rangoon in April 1935, and he their own accidents does not quiet confidence of its immewent to the defendant's boarding always move them to any ex- of them we meet every day: number of
I heard fortunate is the man who does roads and dual carriage-ways are diate prospects. The President house where he was put up for a pression of wisdom. of the Board of Trade believed few days. After about a month, recently of a festive trio which not shake wheels with them. that with industrial peace at defendant suggested, that he set out at dead of night to drive home and no major develop should work
Of a different quality is the grown so rapidly that the Minis- great for the boarding!"from a party" to a
They main-person who really ought not to try of Transport is issuing special ments of a distracting charac-house. at a monthly wage of $30. University town.
Some while regulations regarding their ter abroad" the progress of the This was agreed to and though he tained a modest speed of nearer be driving at all. last three or four years would worked there for 12 months. he 100 miles an hour than 50 until, back. I was twice bumped in in order to secure uniform obser- continue. The former condition had only drawn $25, this being just as a diversion, they failed! Kensington by a meek little vance of the one-way working of lies entirely within our own because he had agreed to let de to take a corner. went over alman in a very small car. As be each of the two carriage-ways. control: the latter rests with fendant save the money for him hedge, and "turned a couple of merely smiled at the second The recent decision of the Gov-
attempt. I told him to draw in others, and the dominating in order that the total thus saved somersaults in a field.
In the back of this splendid to the kerb or something un- motives which have recently may be used in an effort to secure machine sat a youth who had pleasant would happen to hìm junder the central authority of the. determined the course of
decided to sleep during the He obeyed me like a patient Ministry of Transport will facili- of modernisa- events on the Continent have employment in Samoa
"Jack Of All Trades" not been industrial and com-¡
journey-just to show his apdog and, having extracted him-tate the measures
such Plaintiff told the Court that he preciation of the good wine he self from the coffin in which he tion
as the plar mercial Not till they turn again in that direction can we was the "jack of all trades" in the had enjoyed at the party. rode, offered me his explans for the Kingston by-pass.
of the matter is em hope for a real revival of inter-boarding house, for in addition to When his friends, who had tions.
They were slightly in-urgency national trade and the removal looking after the English corres escaped injury as it were by a coherent and suggested a City phasised by the number of new. Mine was the third motor vehicles registered each or mitigation of the restrictive pondence. passports of the guests miracle, came round to see dinner.
ard steamship tickets, be had also what had happened to him, car he had bumped, he de-month The figures for June, at regulations which have SO
transport they found him still in his seat, clared, and one of the others 38,536, were more than 6,000 in effectually strangled it during to do the work of
He said that the reason but obviously annoyed.
belonged to his sister. The excess of those for June last year. the last six years.
As Mrcoolie Runciman
"Dear, boy," he said to the lady had been very angry, with ----British Wireless Service." expects no large why he was dismissed was because scale improvement in the near he had agreed to oblige the owner driver, "must you really do him. he admitted; and I was future we cannot look for any of another boarding house by get this?""
of his
As, however, it was evident rapid expansion in British ex-ting a passport for one-
A Gig Ashore
to me that the police might be ports. We have to be satisfied guests.
Questioned by his Lordship, This fashion of joyousness quite unkind to him if they¦ with the fact that the improve-
continues - it was plaintiff said that during all this we appear to have always with butted in upon our talk, I told ment
There are other types, him to drive away at once, to £1,415,258 in the last six time he lived on the "tips" receiv- us. months and that the rate of ed from the guests, while his fa- however, and they also appear keep close to the kerb and by a to be permanent. The lady no means to exceed 20 miles an British expansion is higher ther, in Rangoon, made him than that of our trade rivals. monthly remittance of 10 rupees. who signals to you that she is hour. This advice he promised In cross-examination. Mr. Kwan going to turn both to the right to take but how he fared, With the serious exceptions! of cotton and coal our major put it to the plaintiff that there and to the left; the stern par- naturally, I do not know. It industries have done extreme was never any agreement regardent who never does more than must have been quite a miracle saiding a salary, but plaintiff persist- 30 miles an hour and is angry if he got home without any ly well Mr. Runciman that cotton was not quite so ed that there had been a definite when he is bumped from the unpleasant questioning.
rear; the old lady who goes
Butting In depressed, but he had little agreement.
Mr. Kwan then suggested that "hot and cold" when driving: encouragement to offer about
Consider again the wicked the yacht Nahlin sailed early yes- the coal export trade. Whether insofar as the English correspon the lorry driver who asks, as
the work one deeply injured in his finest habit of butting into the high terday morning it will be restored with Italy dence was concerned,
feelings, "didn't you see
me road.
Despite all that has Dubrovnik, and later anchored in now that sanctions are removed entailed was almost negligible.
'old out me 'and?"-you having been said and written, the the beautiful bay of Plechivisti, remains to be seen. Too much Always In Trouble
maniac whe comes blinding out where King Edward spent a con- has been made of the effect of Plaintiff: There was quite a lot botany, but he excelled particular- of the side road is still with us. siderable time fishing. Owing to ly in philology, having mastered 72 "I was only going at five miles His Majesty's desire for privacy The plain fact is that long be Mr. Kwan: But you only dealt
languages. His writings on many an hour," said one of them in a and quiet no fixed programme in fore sanctions came into opera- with the Urban Council and the subjects comprise a good sized recent case. As if it mattered: connection with the cruise has been
bad our exports of coal to boarding house never
(Continued on Page 9) larranged-Reuter. Italy had fallen to small propor, trouble with them? Oh no, the tions because cash payments boarding house was constantly in were difficult to obtain. Speak-trouble with the Sanitary Depart ing generally, exporters were ment
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advised to rest their hopes "on In answer to a further question, the continued expansion of Bri-however, plaintiff agreed that in tish trade with Empire coun-the course of the 12 months that tries and with foreign countries he had worked there, he wrote less within the sterling area. The than 10 letters to the Urban President reported favourably Council.
on the results of the many bila- The defendant then went Sato teral trade agreements he has the box, from where he stated that carried through.
he had never made any agreement
No change was foreshadow to employ the plaintiff who, being ed in the Government's basic the son of an old friend of his. commercial, policy. None was was allowed to have his meals and seriously expected, though an lodging there absolutely free attempt was made in certain charge. quarters to make out
a case
1.
of
The action was dismissed. Do
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for a larger volume of protec-order being made as to costs. tion on the strength of rapidly rising volume of imports. These were higher by £43,500,000 in the first half of this year than for the same period in 1935. The situation was described by one speaker as "very alarm- jing," and as foreshadowing an inevitable return to the condi- tions of 1931 which 'compelled the change over to protection. But that is a palpable exag-DROFESSOR Samuel Brassy or geration. Admittedly, the im-1 Brasaai (1800-1897), was, port returns for the next six appointed to the chair of philoso- months will need to be closely phy at the University of Kolozs- watched by certain industries, var, Hungary (now part of Ruma- if the rate of expansion con- nia) in 1837. He had a distin- tinues, but for the moment Mr. guished career as a professor of Runciman's view that "we can both the Kolozsvar and 'Budapest afford these additional im-Universities. He taught, philoso ports" may be accepted as rea-phy, mathematics, algebra and sonable. After all, in 1931 the
staple industries which are vity in other directions is be now working to capacity were ing created by the large Gov- sunk in the depths of depres-ernment orders in connection sion, while the market was with rearmament. All the re- flooded with foreign stuff at cognised tests are favourable prices, with which no British employment figures, railway competition was possible. The returns, retail sales and even building boom, plus protection, the blackest spots with one or saved the situation from 1931 two exceptions are diminishing to 1935, and now intense acti-lin number and intensity.
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