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TRUST CHECKS CHILD OFFENDERS
Putting them on their word of honour to be- have themselves has proved more effective with ju- venile offenders in Darlington than placing them on probation.
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While other towns and cities are battling with an increase in juvenile offences, Darlington's crime record is decreasing.
NATIONAL SERVICE HENS
Last year British hene and ducks provided 4,220,000,000 eggs, of which 3,250,000,000 came from England and Wales. Minister Ramsbatham gave these figures in a written Commons answer,
MINISTER EXPLAINS ELGIN
MARBLES “WASH-UP”.
During the six months ended March 31, 105 persons fifty-five were bought before the Juvenile children and fifty young persons→→→ were brought before the Juvenile Court a 40 per cent. reduction op the figures for the corresponding period of last year. :
The magistrates attribute it to the new method of dealing with young offenders.
Instead of placing them on pro- bation they put them on their honour to behave themselves for six months.....
The cases are adjourned for this
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PRESENTED FROM COURT
In a statement in the Commons period and rarely do the children concerning the unauthorised clean have to appear again. ing of the Elgin Marbles, Captain Crookshank said. he WOS. informed took place
it fifteen months before its discovery last September. He understood no steps were being taken to bring the methods employed to the notice of the Director of the British Museum. He added that if any damage had been done it was completely
im- perceptible to ordinary people, and he doubted if it was very obvious, even to experts.
-Elgin Marbles-were brought to England by the seventh
Lady Pollock (in centre) who opened the St. Mary's Church Bazaar last Saturday.
SACHA GUITRY FOR FILMS
Sacha Guitry the French actor, HORSE-POWER -
has at last succumbed to the lure of Hollywood and is short-
GOVERNOR WANTS MORE·
A recommendation that a State
ly going there. Since 1917, M. coach be acquired for the new Gov- Guitry has written: 104 plays, in ernor of Bermuda was adopted at all of which he has played the lead himself.
an unofficial meeting of members
From London police courts. His most recent triumph was the after the House of Assembly
he staged before prorogued. The coach - would be Witness at Wood Green: I don't performance think he had been driving long, King George and Queen Elizabeth drawn by four horses, would cost When the lights turned red he on the occasion of the state visit of £2,000, and £600 for upkeep. stopped.
President Lebrun to London.
No motor cars are allowed Bermuda.
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I have moved into the flat above TALLEST BISHOP TO RETIRE my husband, but I am still no nearer
The present Governor, Lieutenant- his 'money. Wife at Wood Green. Said to be the tallest Bishop' in
Woman driver at Ealing:` The England he is more than 6ft.the General Sir Reginald Hildyard, 'an- Earl of trouble with one-way traffic is that Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Martin-nounced his retirement seven weeks Elgin (1766-1841), a noted diplo- you don't get much chance to change Linton Smith), who won the D.S.O. ago because he has found it
in France during the war, is to re possible, without the use of a car, mat. They are of
Woman motorist at Bow-street: tire. He is nearly seventy. finest marble origin, possibly the Ancient Greek your mind. sculptures in the world. Now they can scarcely exaggerate my inno- lie in the British Museum, having been bought for the nation at the bargain price of £36,000.
NO A.RP. APPLICANTS
cence.
WANT.THEIR OWN A.A, GUN'
penny a week voluntary deduc- tion from their wages to finance There have been no applications their own A.R.P. organisation has for a number of temporary ap- been agreed to by the '1,500 workers pointments of technical assistants on the Treforest Trading Estate for A.R.P. work advertised by (Government-aided venture in South Woolwich Council commencing at Wales). They intend to buy their £300 a year.
= `own anti-aircraft gun.
carry out properly his duties.
Police officers taking notes after an accident at North Polnt in which
· this car came off badly.