THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1989–
News Snack Bar
When the King and Queen visit Canada in May he will unveil Canada's National War Memorial at Ottawa. This is the enormous sculptured work which has occupied five of the seven Marsh brothers for most of the last 13 years at their home near Farnborough, Kent. The twenty two bronze figures, each eight feet high and weighing a ton, and the 17ft. high statue which crowns the memorial were de- signed, sculptured and cast at Farnborough. Photo shows a strik- ing picture of Canada's National War Memorial at Ottawa which the King is to unveil. (Air Mail).
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From Tottenham police court: -Man (witness): My employer said she would send my money in fourteen days. She kept her pro- mise, but I was none the better off because she sent my wife round with it.
Motorist, caught for speeding: There has been so much talk about these courtesy "cops" that I was prepared to take a chance. Cyclist: I admit I drove be- tween two pedestrians, but I didn't know I was separating man and wife,
BIG-SHIP ORDER FOR BRITAIN
SCIENCE TO TELL
WHICH ALIENS
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There are now over 200,000 aliens resident in the United Kingdom.
More than half of them have crowded into London.
Since 1927 the alien influx has averaged about 6,000 persons year, increasing rapidly from 1933 (when it began to be augmented by refugees), so that the influx in 1937 was more than 11,000.
Commenting on these figures be- fore the Eugenics Society in Lon- don. Mr. R. S. Walshaw, Liverpool authority on migration, said the question would become one of tical politics soon,
prac-
said,
LONDON NEEDS LIFT CONTROL
Necessity of compulsory supervision of lifts in London a point given new urgency since the recent lift death of four-year-old Christopher Coats has been brought before the London County Council.
"For two years," says Chairman Henry Berry, of the Town Planning Committee, "we have been trying to get power to control lifts.
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"Never has there been any safety inspection badly as it is needed. Accidents have happened from time to time, and my committee has long seen the necessity of control from a safety point of view.
"Now we have included a clause secking power of control in the London Building Acts which will be before Parliament. this session. There was no such provision in the Acts of 1894 or 1930."
Up till now only factory lifts have been controlled. There are thousands of others in public buildings and homes that need the same inspec- tion, at least at the time of in- stallation.
Details of control have not been worked out yet, but the power, if granted, will include lifts already in use as well as those installed after the Bill is passed.
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COUNTY POPULATION—19,770
Radnorshire, smallest county in Wales, has a population of only 19,- 770, a fall of 4.000 since 1922. During past two decades population under twenty-five years has declin- cd sixteen per cent.... And there has been an increase of eighteen per cent. in persons between forty-- five and sixty-five years.
In Rutland, England's smallest county, there are 17,401 people, and in Clackmannanshire, Scotland's smallest, 31,947.
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TRAFALGAR RELIC SOLD
was
Miss Megan Taylor, the World Champion ice skater, has arrived back in London from St. Moritz, to compete in the European Ladies* Championship at the Empress Hall. Earl's Court, London. Photo shows Miss Taylor seated on some of her luggage on her arrival at Victoria Station. (Air Mail).
FIRE CHIEF AT 29
twenty-nine, a sub-officer in Willes-
A tiny box, formed from a splin-
Mr. Bernard Walter Smith, aged ter of Nelson's ship Victory, and
the den set with an ivory carving of
has. (London) fire brigade, British Fleet off Trafalgar,
been given charge of three fire. sold for $105 at Christie's.
brigades and three auxiliary units by Godstone (Surrey) Rural - Coun- The Caledon Shipbuilding Com-
Putting this mildly, he
Once this piece was the property cil. He will be responsible for the pany, of Dundee, has received an or- among many aliens wishing to live of Lady Emma Hamilton, as Emily fire service over an area of eighty- der for the hull of a
in this country there might be Lyon, daughter of the village black- two 10,000-ton
square miles, in which are tanker from the Swedish shipbuild- many with characteristics which
smith of Great Neston in Cheshire, twenty-three villages and hamlets. ing firm. Gataverken, of Gothen- would make them suitable citizens. later became. She was the favourite
model of the burg. It is understood that
artist Romney, the the vessel is for Scandinavian owners,
"If," Mr. Walshaw said, "scienti- wife of the British Minister to the SWARMING BEES DISPUTE fic men could decide on some of the Court of Naples, and later the mis- MAY GO TO LORDS biological aspects of emigration and tress of Nelson, with whom give guidance as to which aliens lived, and by whom she had a son, Have are desirable as permanent members Horátio Nelson
beekeepers the right to Thompson, born follow their bees when swarming of our society, what in some quar- 1801. After Nelson's death gam- into other people's property? The
has been called the alien bling led her into debt; she fled to answer
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MR. J. R. CLYNES BEREAVED
she
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to that question affects
Mrs. Winifred Clynes, aged forty, ters daughter-in-law of Mr. J. R. Clynes, menace could very quickly be turned Calais and died in poverty in the every beekeeper and to it the Court M.P. Home Secretary in the last into an immense opportunity."
has died in
a London nursing home after being
Socialist Government,
ill for several months.
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L.C.C. HAS "MORE SLEEP”.
PLAN
More sleep, less play is the I.C.C. Education Committee's plan
for
children in its schools. It will issue 500,000 pamphlets to parent on the Fubject:
Permitted by the
Lord Chamberlain for the first time Fairies of Covent Garden's pantomime, “Red · Riding Hood,” fly-. ing over the heads of the audience at rehearsal
year of Waterloo.
of Appeal has said "No" but at the same time it granting leave to appeal to the House of Lords.
A beekeeper near Hull claimed damages against his neighbour who had refused to allow the beekeeper. to go into his garden and recover bees which had swarmed
some there.
The County Court Judge dismiss- ed the claim. The appeal was
that against the County
decision, and ended with
"No.":
Court's
another