THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1939
News Snack Bar
NO SUITS AT
£100,000
The postman would like a new suit, of better style and cut, but he's not going to get one because it would cost £100,000 a year to give it to him, · and the Post Office (which makes a big profit each year) "can't afford it."
The Post Office workers decided they could do with a new spring uniform, so they got the union to write about it to the P.M.G.
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Veteran's "Half A Century. Fifty horseshoes, representing one of the set of racing plates used on each occasion he has won his race adorn the stable door of "Mike" the 17 year old Northolt hurdler who is the oldest jumper actively engaged in racing and one of the most popular race- horses, under the Pony Turf Club. Photo shows "Mike" proudly pos- ing with his unusual testimonials at Mr. Baxter's (his owner's) stables at Swindon, where it will be noticed that there is still room to win a few more races before he retires.
TELL THIS TO THE R.S.M.
The P.M.G. considered the ap- plication "personally," he said, in his refusal, but he quoted fall- ing rovenue, a tailors' bill that would have to be computed in tens of thousands of pounds.
"Costly improvements in quality, style and cut might conduce to a smarter appearance, but would not by any means necessarily make the garments more serviceable or con- duce to the better health of the staff," says the official letter of refusal.
It estimates that the reforms of uniforms requested by the union would cost something like £100,000 annually, or even more.
The letter adds that during the past few years an additional ex- penditure of some £60,000 a year has been incurred as a result of improvements of various kinds to uniforms.
POOR RELIEF APPLICANTS
INCREASE
The First Jewish Aviation School. The first Jewish aviation school has just been opened at Lydda Airport, Palestine, by the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur MacMichael. Pupils of the school Photo on passing out. will be given Palestinian flying licenses shows crowd inspecting some of the planes on the tarmac at Lydda during the opening ceremony.
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PRESENTED FROM];COURT
Heard in London police courts. Witness at Ealing: I don't think the couple had ever quarrelled be- forc. When the woman cried the. man said he was sorry.
Man at Tottenham: Why did I not stamp my employees' unem- ployment cards? Why should I? They were not unemployed.
Woman at Wapping: My hus- band and I used to go everywhere together. Even when we went for a ride in the car we used to take it in turns to push.
BRITAIN BUILDS LINER IN
28 WEEKS - RECORD TIME
In the record time of twenty- an 11,000-ton ship, long, has been
WAITING ROOM TURNS
CHAPEL
In the waiting-room at Cotham (L.NE.R.) Station, near Newark (Notts), are chairs with horsehair seats, a table and a fireplace -the usual furnishings of a railway wait- ing-room.
But this is no ordinary waiting- room. It is equipped with an or- gan, too. On Sundays the organ is played, when the waiting-room is used as a chapel by local Methodists.
Every Saturday night after the last train has gone the men of the congregation prepare their place of. worship: Chairs are arranged in rows and a pulpit is improvised.
There are no trains to disturb the services.
Usual attendance at this strange chapel is about twelve. Sermons are preached by lay preachers.
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WEDDING FEE 3D, BITS
When Mr. Alfred Thomas Cole--
Minister of Health Walter Elliot, issued his quarterly statement eight weeks showing persons in receipt of poor measuring 530ft. relief in England and Wales for built by John Brown, Clydebank. the quarter ended December 31, She is the New Zealand Line motor man, twenty-three-year-old batcher's (Kent), 1938, to be 1,066,295, an increase passenger liner Essex. Construction roundsman, of Tenterden
to make way for was married the other day at Tens
Miss terden Church to
Dorothy, of 35,319 when compared with the was speeded up September quarter. But the in- naval tonnage.
Special apparatus will suck in Emma Smith, he put seventy-two crease was only 7,306, compared with the December quarter, 1937. 13,000 cubic feet of sea air every twelve-sided three-penny pieces and minute and distribute it among a penny on the vestry table for the fruit for cooling and preservation. fees.
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And what of this? Apples breathe, They were only part of Mr. Cole- He has been collect- and the gases they exude will be man's store. trapped, cooled and wafted through ing them ever since they were first the holds to prevent fruit tainting, issued.
*. POOLS SWEEP P. O. BUSINESS
The proportion of postal orders A resolution protesting against the use of bad language by officers issued for football pools and such of South Africa's Defence Forces business was estimated at about 30 per cent. for 1934-35 and a little against their subordinates was pass ed by the Dutch Reformed Church over 40 per cent, for each of the
So Major FAMOUS “BEARDED Synod at Bloemfontein. It is to be succeeding four years. forwarded to the Army com: Tryon, Postmaster-General told the WOMAN" DIES
Commons.
manders.
£8,900 TO FILL IN
CRISIS TRENCHES
** ** * 5,981 IN LANT ARMY
the House of Commons.
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Up to April 17, 5,981 women en- rolled in the Women's Land Army. Sir Reginald Dorman Smith, Mme. Clementine Plateaux, known throughout France as the Minister of Agriculture, stated this NEW GOVERNOR OF BENGAL
Sir John Woodhead is to be new Bearded Lady, died at Epinal, aged in a written reply to Mr. D.
Her beard and Lipson (Ind. Con., Cheltenham) in Governor of Bengal (India) from seventy-four,
several inches At an estimated cost of £3,900, June 11 in consequence of the moustaches, Islington (London), Borough Coun- grant of leave to Sir Róbert Reid, had earned her a small fortune at cil is to fill in the now waterlogged Governor of Assam, at present sideshows. She retired to marry a cafe owner. In recent years how- useless trenches dug during the acting Governor,
she shut herself up in her September crisis. Approximately 75
room because she disliked people staring at her.
per cent. of the cost will be met
by the Home Office.
JUROR ASLEEP
Catching a juryman sleeping at Southend Quarter Sessions,” the recorder, Mr. John Flowers, K.C., stopped the case and asked coun- sel if he would be prepared to go on with only eleven jurymen, as one had been asleep for twenty minutes.
Counsel agreed to carry on with one man short, and the recorder, discharging the offender, told him to sit at the back of the court for the rest of the session, remarkfig "You ought not to take the cath as a juryman (F` you want to go to sleep:
Bal Tabarin Revue At The
3. Photo shows, a three- ad worn by Elisabeth Dell
from Budapest.
ever,
long,
NO WAR FOOD DELAY
Reporting to the Council of the
National Farmers' Union, on
his
discussions with the Ministry
of
Agriculture concerning home production in time of war, Mr. T.
food
"I
the
to
Peacock, the President, said: am thoroughly satisfied that Ministry will be in a position put their plans into operation with- out a moment's loss of time.
"We were given a very frank'ac- › count of the Government's plans for an emergency.
"The Union would come into the picture immediately an emergency arose."
The "Kootchie-Kootchie" Dance. A native girl at Nassau, a mèm» ber of a band of wandering enter- tainers, shows how the "Kootchie Kootchle" dance' ls done to the strain of music supplied by her companions.