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Dutch Gift To Britain
Netherlands
Ambassador
Mrs D. Bükker, wife of the (who watches at right) plants some of the first 30,000 bulbs, La gift from the Assoclated Bulb Growers Holland, in tho Battersea Park Festival Pleasure Garden, London, In the background, Jennifer Ball (left) and Dorothy Beckley, are in
Daich costume—Express Pisto,
Giving British Coast Areas A "New Look"
London, Dec. 30.
Various, spots along Britain's coastline have had a sudden surprising "face lift". They are the sites of the giant new refining plants which have mushroomed into being over the past few years. Sometimes the entire 'installation is a brand- new creation; sometimes an extension of an exist- ing plant. But in every case it has meant a pro- digious amount of "spade work" in the literal
sense.
Huge areas of marsh or sand- dunes have had to be reclaimed from the wind, the tides and the seagulls, and all the modern refinements of civilisation loid
on.
+-
it is easy to visualise that site as it will look in the future after the mud and the rubbish have been cleared away. Then, hard, clean roads will bo bordered by
trim, well-kept
A visit to such a síte em- open spaces. The phasised just what a job the wil all gleam
ons
"Canned" TV For The Colonies?
London, Dec. 30, Commonwealth and Colonial countries, with the exception of Canada, are still a'long way from having television. Some might say "Just as well." All the same, it is practically inevitable that one day they will be sprouting TV aerials and tending more to become stay-at home countries.
That dny has been brodant Much nearer by recent British advances in the development of "canned" television progtamines.
These indicate that. When transmitters have at last bien
up round The Common- wealth, T VIewers will mainly see film reproductions of
plo- grammes originated in England
in much ihn same way that BBC sound features are now recorded and flown to some areas for re-broadcasting
It has become increasingly clear CB television spreads slowly round the world that the problem of its establishment, is hot entirely centred on the cost of building stations. A power- ful deterrent la the cost and dimculty of providing pro-
grammes.
Together, these obsittelen have prevented countries with limited resources for broadensting and
In scattered population," from
jolning Britain, America
dnd
Odd Numbers
Lendon, Deo, 30. Windmill Street, Graves- end, is one of the oddest numbered roads in Kent,
It starts with No. 0, da, la, 2a, 3a, én, and Sa hinti} It reaches cinema which I No. 1.
TV HELPS
PUPILS' ENGLISH
Bristol. Dec. 30. The headmaster of a Bristol
The Continent in the television | school defends television against whirl. Public demand though, | criticism that it is having an is there, so niso is the desire to adverse effect оп children's appease it.
homework.
THE SOLUTION But the building of adequate television studios is usually beyond available resources, and cych if the studios are erected, the supply of artists including actors, comedians, musicians, doneers, scenic designers-may still be lacking.
The solution lies in the use,
alms made for another purpose
He is Mr Raymond O. Davis, headmaster of Bristol Secondary Technical School.
He
says:
"Any serious student
that his will realise time for homework will need to be safeguarded.
"Television
may well be of considerable value in the adult language, the liberal vocabulary of which boys experience far too little
"Many programmes iro in the Queen's English, beau-
the intelligent use, of Alm. Old won't do; the quickest way of tifully spoken. is to all it up ruining any television servico "It television restores the
with the als-
centre of gravity of a boy's industry. Jite back to his home. and proves ir counter-attraction to
cards of the cinema Specially-aimed television pro- so claim British TV experts looking overseas.
ductions are the only answer,
It might be asked why "canned" programmes have not
the youth club, the cinema and dirt track, it may well prove an outstanding social blessing."
been widely produced before Zoo To Get
Firstly, films made by orthodox two-minute-a-day cinema methods are too costly. And
·ទ is second reason that the
of taken direct from the cathode- Technical quality pictures ray tube, as in television, has till recently not been entirely in coats of shining aluminium satisfactory. The demand every- site was 600 acres of former paint as do many component where is for quality reproduc swamp, fringed by the
open unita already. And in the sea. When the
distance will stand construction
out the
Me gangs arrived a little more than friendly red roofs of a large two years ago, they had a vir- new housing estate that the 1ual quagmire to deal with.
oil men have
Nave
taken on. The
5,000 to morrow the site will look
thetion.
TRIAL FILM
television
Polish For
Coronation
an
London, Dec. 30. Plans for
extensive "brightening-up" of London Zoo for Coronation year are now nearly complete,
High definition on men are building to house some
They Include the erection of This year-end, the one-time of the married employees screens has now been achieved
scores of flag poles, large-scale swamp represents A vastly among
the 1,000 to 1,500 people by inost British makers, This repainting of the houses, an -changed-picture.The guilt the permanent Staff of tho has led to the formation in the extensive horticultural display.
long grown used to the reinery will number. For, tom past year of a British company and an
electronic
extension of clangour of bolween
the oh which is perfecting
catering department. 6,000 men working full pressure different again compared with filming techniques for the pro-
An official said: "We shall throughout the day and night. Its present unfinished state as grammes. It is directed by Mr increase in
duction of "fanned" pro- have to cater for Д Jarge That one plant represents, in it does now compared with the
the number Collins,
of Norman material, 600 miles of me when it
1 former terms of
was a sweep of controller-general of
visitors, and to provide extra television restaurant space, pipeline, 22 miles of road, five marsh.
at the BBC. miles of railways, 110 tons
This is the sort of new look steel, 270 miles of high-tension wire, 328,000 cubic feet of tim- ber, 37,000 tons of cement and nearly 20,000,000 bricks
Sand
cubic
"The Society's Sports and Social Club are to move from
that has been given to several A trial film has plready been building opposite the Mappin parts of Britain's coast and made an experimental studio that is
It is an example of the work and camera equipment. It has Terraces, and this will be used
as impressive as it is been shown. widely overseas as a restaurant. Over
000,000 cubic yards of
of important to Britain's prosperity with marked success. Thus had to be pumped on to
In the years ahead.
encouraged, the company has the site and 2,000,000
now set up a studio in London yards of earth had to be moved
and will shortly be making full during the work of levelling
trials with its new equipment.
It is apparent that the Bridsh development of canned" TV entertainment will reduce
costs
the site and raising all sections
above sea-level.
HUGE
Just one
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"Tables will be put on the -verandah during the summer. From there people will have a good view of the bears and mountain goats' enclosures.,
We have ordered a large number 40ft. flag poles to go up alongside
which are
of
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in countries which already have the main, pathways. They will ant other television. For more important bear Union Jacks London, Dec. 30.
"Painting work will be around Britain's world is the prospect that the a bigger scale than ever. It fair-sized houses even at post-coasts have been launched more programmes Will Help smooh includes most of the houses, fella in color by
000/£40,000: the
scraper - cost between £30,- price of 10
tainment in other parts of the
war rates. I was no surprise times during 1852 than ever the way for the introduction of the Aquarium entrance, main to learn that the whole project before in a peacetime year.
economical TV sérvices.
is expected to have cost around
£40,000,000,
Mr A.D. Burnett Brown. recretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, says, in a
Even now, the site still pre-
sents a scene reminiscent of a letter to Mr. K.F. Speakman, Earn Dollars
modern battlefield. Vast holes | secretary of the Ramsgate
branch:
" is remarkable how, sinco the war, the work of the life-
London, Dec. 30. Britain's pedigree dogs are to-
Wo
gates and Children's Zoo. hope to have this task com- pleted by Easter,
"Chief project of the
-203
dening department is a special display of spring flowers, mainly tuilps."
One
efocus, narcissi end
point still under dis-
pock-mark the ground like so many shell craters and along the mud-plastered roads rum- ble endless streams of heavy boat service has increased. This day bringing more dollars into cussion is whether the Zoo bulldozers, graders, year looks as if it will set up the country than ever before, shall have the "late night open- The number of thoroughbredings," popular in prewar years, anes, tractor-trailers another record. and coneixers whose
animals exported annually has powerful
been growing rapidly since 1947, those of tanks.
when 577 went abroad.
vehicles mobile
Easier To Steal
Montreal, Dec, 80,
That increase has meant on might be increase in the responsibilities of the secretaries of our stations, Bulkings still
In the Brat 10 months of this In skeleton Their work is double what I form, dovold of doors or win-was 20 years ago.
year the number was 2,020, "During the past
six years
As much as £1,500 has been Montreal with stealing four dows, look like some vicious blitz.
the cost of the service, has in-paid for one dog.
motor vehicles to the police tions from the public," creased, and so have contribu- Leading breeds
are cocker he was "Just top lazy to take spurile, Alsatians and Peldinese, the bus home,"
comunities of
The startato beat of count Jess rivetting hammers sounds like background music of inter- mlitent small-arma fire, while the illutaton of prowling around theatre of war is heightened by the fact that most of the constriction army wear old battledress under ex-Service greatcoats and have military- typo bérets tugged over their Heads
NO PIONIC Elting wind from the sés The makes tijlek clothing as essential ng the all-prevalent mud makes thin wearing of gumboots." It is no, plente either for the con- struction gangs or for the oil
who have moved in for
the initial "switch-on".
But if one has an eye for the shape of things to come,,
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