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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1988,"
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70 x 90
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92 x 80 x 108
99
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$15.25 ea.
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24 x 48
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27 x 54
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Garment Bags
Jeldi cotton rugs Oval shape
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Fussy Britons Eating Better
The Trend Is Quality Not Quantity
London.
THE
O'DONNELL PEARLS
RE-APPEAR
AFTER 30 YEARS
BRITAIN'S standard of eating in the past five Teame muit
years has not only "substantially improved” but people are also becoming more particular about WHAT they eat.
That is the Treasury's verdict, given in its monthly Bulletin for industry last week.
tor
The statistics nre
the Terted between 1003, when rationing ended, and 1987.
During those five years the percentage changes in average weekly consumption for each person of the main foods were:!
Up: Butter, 81; canned fruits, de..
44; sugar, 20; carcase inent, 19; cheese, 16; eggs, 11.
Down: Preserves, 30; bread, 17; flour, il; potatoes, 9.
Relatively btable: Tea and other beverages; cakes and bis- eults; all other meat; quid: milk; bacon and ham; vegetables (excluding potatoes); fresh frull; margarine; and fish.
THE REASON
The Wandering Well-Stuffed
Old Safe
London.
A wandering, welletufted
safe was back where it started complete with the £100,000 worth of jewellery and plate found inside it.
Frank Offord.
D
Landon
The spectacular rise in bulter,| says the Bulletin, was continu- businessman, returned the safo
London.
famed O'Donnell pearls of their hiding place last week for the first iime 30 years, but they proved just as much a mystery
is over.
The pearls, reputed to bo priceless, were taken from of the vaults of the Bank England for showing to the Spanish Duke of Tetuan, 469- whose late wife was a
cendant of the enclent O'Donnell family of Ireland, owners of the pearls. The pearls, each about the size of A man's thumbmali, for Years have been A mystery
to on
exports, One Expert fokalis and shells. Dr L. I. Qox, who was on hand to see them last week, Cón- feated himself baffled an to their oririm. "They are quite valiko
forell or shell we know day." Cox said. Cox had also
any
to
'El Nino
The Austin Was Falling
To Pieces
Eastbourne.
OVELY Vora Fusok, 26- Lyear-old actress, fell in lovo with a 1930 Austin Car last September, and bought it for £15,
the
Inspected them at the last A few weeks later, an East- airing, 30 years 250.
bourne policeman noticed Chapman Bus
not fur-car-nicknamed El. Nino-when Was prised. He said the pearls are Vera had parked it outside the "ilve avoimena, not fossils, theatre where she was playing. dating from the Mioceno Ast millions of years ago" "They are the only *pecimens of their kind in the world." ho zaid.-U.P.L
FOUND BROTHER AFTER 46 YEARS
A
London. RETIRED San Francisco contractor left for home after Anding his brother by look.ng him up in a
After pointing out a number of illegal defcets in El Nino. he said, "If I were you, Miss, I'd put a match to f
" Broke Down' She got a mummons, and be cause she was rehearsing an- other play and couldn't get to court, she pleaded guilty in + letter in which she said:
"After the police had told me that the car was absolutoly no good, I broke down and wept. I love that car very much and I did not know it was in such bad shape."
The Eastbourne
magistrates
smiled at the letter, bul fined Vera £5.
Vera had to get rid of the
Qus Another striking contrast to a Árm of auctioneers after JA between freth fruit and being "faced with the prospect London telephone directory and ending a 46-year separa-car the first she ever owned- canned (and bottled) fruit, of a lawsuit."
This
tion.
the
safe -
in n reflection of the Offord 1001 growing prefermeo for labour- supposedly a worthless relic no saving foods.
one could open-from a former employee. He bought it for 30/-
The fall in the amount of bread and potatoca eaten, says the Treasury, is a long-term trend) normally associated with rising living standards in any ad- vanced country. But it
was
not fully apparent in Britnin Enti controls were lifted.
Between 1953 and last year the everage weekly expenditure
AUCTIONEERS
The former employee got it from the firm of auctioneers as tip after he did some work for them.
But when Offord got the sate with open and formd it stuffed for each person on food rose Jewellery and gold and silver by 24 p.c.....from £1 Zu. Bd. plate, the auctioneering fr to 21 10s. Id.
said it was taken in error and that another safe was intended as the tip.
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Prices went up on average by about 17 p.c., so there was "real" increase in food pur- chases of about 8 p.c.
NEW TREND Last year this rate of increase declined to only about 4 o.c.) The Treasury has on explana- tion for this too,
It may possibly be, says its Bulletin, the beginning of a new trend with people putting Jess emphasis on the quantity they eat and more un improve ments In quality and service.
Housewives, writer Juha Winter, will have to use more imported potatoes than last year, and prices are likely com~ tinue high throughout winter and spring. The home-grown crop is 150,000-200,000 tono below 1057.
When they threatened
William Falbey, 66, joined his; prenticed in the building trade brother Christopher, 01. London last August und
In and both left home at an early invited age. him and his family to move
Mrs William Falbey sald her to Califondo to live.
husband "couldn't wait until he Falbey said his granddaughter saw la brother. There was hud called the San Francisce nothing to do but pull up and itbrary in June to see they make a trip here," she said.
Fulbeys listed in the London telephone directory.
"They said there was one, AC Falbey," he said. "It was only a chance, but I wrote
anyway because I hadn't heard of my brother for 40 years."
Tho
find any
to 80 paid off. to court to get the safe and i contents back, "I decided to
up," Offord
U.P.I. give them
RESTAURANT A
NIGHT.GUJU
granddaughter's
The brothers are
the
bunch
Christopher Falbey said when he received the letter from his brother in San Francisco, gave me the jitters."
"it
was
"I didn't know anyone left of the family," he said.
Mrs Christopher Falbey said she and her husband and three two of their five children were pre-
Call
said.survivors of eigth children born paring to Immigrate to
in Tralee, Erin. Both were ap-fornia.-U.P.I.
and buy another. Now she owns a 1928 Austin U.P.1.
Santa Was Called A 'Cheapskate'
Stillwater, Okl. Santa arrived here the other day but the smallfry than enchanted.
were less
"Cheapskate — Cheapskate," the youngsters shouted as Santa moved through Stillwater's main street in the... annuai Christmas parade.
Santa was dispensing plenty of Yuletide cheer, but he had forgot to bring along any candy. -UP.L
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