THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1939
News Snack Bar
Britain will soon be producing air liners with an all-round per- formance at least comparable (and in many instances showing a marked advance) with the most up to date passenger carrying sero, planes in the world. The new altcraft-ät present unnamed--is the outcome of an invitation by the Air Ministry to leading British aircraft manufacturers to design a large, fast air liner embodying the latest developments. The Fairey Aviation Company, Hayes, have now been notified that the design they submitted Has been success- ful and an order has been placed with them. Photo shows a section view of the model of the now air liner showing the seating ac- commodation.
BIG DROP IN
RAIL PASSENGERS
Decrease of 85,165,330 in the number of
passenger journeys 'made during the nine months end- ed September 30 last compared with the corresponding period of 1936 is shown in the railway statistics. Total number of passenger jour- neys in the period was 945,677,300. And the decrease in the receipts from passengers (excluding season- ticket holders) was £523,401, - the total for the nine months being
BOYS AS POLICE
Mr. Jessel Rycroft, Manchester coroner, would like boys to be appointed as patrol officers to see children safely to and from school.
"It is a fine ides to ́ ́înstruct senior boys in the care of little people of their particular home districts and it would help to save lives," he says.
£45,641,746. The decreases were roughly similar from London's elec- "BIG POTATO” tric system to the most distant branch lines.
BAN EXPLAINED
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LESSONS FOR
BRITISH WIVES
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Believing that British women are behind the Americans in the art of running homes, domestic science teachers are going to New York to get tips and hints.
Experts in the United States have invited the women to visit New York and the World's Fair.in August. There they will see the newest labour- saving devices and household equipment (probably many of British origin).
Miss A. M: Lumby, secretary of the Institutional Management As- sociation, which gives advice to housewives, says:
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"We've made great strides in Britain during the last few years, but we are still behind the U.S.A. in the running and planning of homes...
"They study diet more carefully' than we do so we should be able to learn one or two things about that.” Arrangements have also been made through Miss A. M. Fergu son, secretary of the Association of Teachers of Domestic Subjects, and. Miss Lumby, for a tour Canada.
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So Britain's in-dirty' again. Well, we can't cook; our women dress like horses; we can't produce music.
Yet we lead the world in production of electrical equip- ment-and often have to give it a foreign name in order to sell it.
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TWO GIRLS
'EARS' OF B.B.C.
The B.B.C. gets so many in- quiries over the telephone that it has to employ two girls who do nothing else but handle them.
Another section of the staff deals with letters from listeners -100,000 a year, nowadays.
This huge mail lets the B.B.C. know what listeners are thinking. It incidentally reveals that broad- cast exclamations like "Hell!" or even "Blimey," always provoke a few hundred people to grab writ- ing paper and protest.
Borrow
Many letters tell of illness and and, some even ex- press thanks for features in the programmes.
NEARLY BROKE Potato Marketing Board has ex-
“BROCCOLI FIRST" CRY plained why they are "quité justi- HIS HEART, TOO fied in prohibiting the sale of 'out- Speeding up the wing in a prac- FOR SAFER ROADS)- size' potatoes" Unfortunately, tice game, Jimmy Evans, thirteen, Strangers in Northants some- there are too many potatoes in the
Many road crashes are of Folkestone Schoolboys' football times think that the letters ARP country just now because last year team, slipped and broke his left thought to be due to drivers not on motor-vehicles have something there was the biggest yield per acre arm. As doctors set it, he asked taking enough broccoli.
ty's new motor registration sign.
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his
team -
now
often
to do with Air Raid Precautions within living memory. If... there
Accidents after dark are if he could play for Actually ARP is the coun- were no regulations, farmers would against South London in the final caused by lack of vitamin A. Now,
unload as many potatoes as they
of Division I of the English Shield says the Home Economics Bureau could—good, bad and indifferent competition. They assured him that of the U.S. Department of Agricul- with the result that the prices the arm would be mended in time. ture, persons whose livers are short would drop to non-profit limits.
When the match was played Jimmy of vitamin A don't see well at night. was there. But his place was on Experiments were made on three the sideline. The doctors hadn't persons who got no vitamin A for failed him
he'd broken
After thirty-six days his six months. the one of them required ten times as
PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE DARK
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Several hundred boys and girls, HELPED BUILD OUR EMPIRE- while sitting in pitch darkness, had their photograph taken in Lon Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Hard-, other arm while playing in don. The picture was made at a ing, Provincial Commissioner of snow recently, and that put paid much light to see normally by lecture at the Royal Society of Arts the Gold Coast, 1918-22, died in to his hopes. Folkestone lost. But night. A week later he required 10,000 times as much light as or- on the magic of the invisible infra- London, aged seventy-five. His if Jimmy had been playing
dinarily. red rays by which the picture was home was at Caversham, Reading. well, you never know. taken, Cameramen rushed away to Colonel Harding served during the develop the negative, and later the Mashonaland rebellion, recruited children saw the picture thrown on and equipped a force of 500 police to a screen.
HOW DANCES ARE BORN-- A fan sent Elcanor Powell this na-. tive doll,
1. which ✨ the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer star is displaying on the set. It gave Miss. Powell
for North Rhodesia, and later com- manded the native police force of Barotseland.
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POTATOES
Japanese women have been asked to stop eating sweet potatoes and so help Japan to win the “incident”. in China.
Potatoes are now being used for conversion into industrial alcohol which is badly needed:
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THE ORANGE-SPOTTER
Inquest has revealed a peculiar job
Richard Allen, forty-eight,
of Southwark, who had gassed him- self, was employed as an Admiral- an lick for a new dance; which they chart colourer. His job was
will create and perforin in a forth- coming in
described as putting orange" spots on maps to represent Hghtships.
Boys at the Duke of York's Mi- litary School at Dover are put through an intensive physical. training programme, in which box-... ing plays ́an_important part. Photo, shows substance' and sha- *Two of the lads' easE. dow boxing. perfect shadows" ne" they practise. boxing.
Broccoli is a vegetable rather like a cauliflower. Easiest ways of taking vitamin A are: Eat broc- coli and eggs; drink orange juice and milk. These counteract "night blindness."
LADY HAIG'S PLEA
Countess Haig has been unwell anxious
for a very long time, writing
to finish a book that she
and she, therefore, asks that any- one purposing to write to her will pause before doing so and think whether the letter is necessary. Countess Haig asks that she be left in peace to get on with her book.''
MEMORIAL 20 YEARS AFTER
Twenty years after the Great Wor
h' movement is now on foot to provide memorial in Droitwich: A meeting of townspeo-
ple is to be called.