Trade Minister makes a
check
Hertford, Jan. 13.
Mr Reginald Maudling, president of the British Board of Trade, went on a personal shopping tour in Hertford to check on prices.
He did so to fulfil a promise But he could not find a pair
The
42-year-old
They are protesting against the made on belevision to see if of overshoes to wear ph his grocery prices Are specially forthcoming trip to the United Unions' acceptance last weekend of a
reled for Saturday shoppers. States and Canada for econo
Minister, mié and cochiliereksi talkin pay rise of ten shillings and sixpence in
carrying shopping lat, in his China Mail Special, Answer to the demand of about £i a week
hand, mixed unnoticed with for skilled men whose maximum rate
housewives at two ble klores was £12 16a Gd a wook.
and a self-service shop in the letty coilée.
window-
At the same Ume the management offered unskilled members a rise of nine shillings a week.
PUBLICITY
The inen belong to the Electrical Trades Unlon, the Amalgamated En- gineering Union, the Associated Society of Woodworkers, Associated Society of Building Trades Workers, the Plumbers Trade Union and the National Union of Metal Workers, Braziers and Copper- smiths.
A Harwell spokesman said todny, "by staging this strike when the Rus- sians are visiting the station we presume the men expect to get more publicity."
Strike organiséra have stated that they will ensure there is no relaxation of norinal safety precautions. "Union mem- bera responsible for safety against radiation hazards will be instructed fo carry on working during the strike," n spokesman said-Reuter,
CHENG MAY KAY
After further shopping down the main street he returned to his nearby home tired but salighed that prices were not being put up at the weekend
Ho brought home a pair of scissors,
pound of tomatoes at two shillings and threepened sterling — "there were Pomo at two shillings à pound but I thought these botter" and some butter.
Boycott called
Copenhagen, Jan. 13. The Union of Danish Socialist Students today urged the Scan- dinavian countries to lead full-scale economic boycoti against South Afrien because of her racini apartheid policies.
ONLY
UAR AWARD FOR BRITISH
ENGINEER
Cairo, Jan. 13.
Mr Geofrey Kerzieds, senior partner of a "London ärm who supervised the building of the bc- Aswan Power plant, has come the Brat Briton to receive In Egyptian decoration since the Suez detrting.
Afr Kennedy saldi. "Provident nwarded me the Nasr has United Arab Republic Order of Merit, First Class I expect to receive the award on my next visit to Catro."
He leaves for London 10- |morrow-China Mail Speria).
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13 Island gun. (5)
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Runaway heiress: 'I wouldn't care less about money'
Attorney J.
Paris, Jan. 13.
Runaway New York debutante Gamble Benedict and her married boyfriend found help and pro- tection today in a Rumanian lawyer's apart- ment in the most select neighbourhood in Paris. Cocacescu con- | Avenue after attending a de- Armed last night his fellow butante ball on December 27, Rumanian refugee, Andrei Gamble's grandmother, Mrs 18-Henry Harver! Benediet, was Porumbeanu, 35, and the year-old Remington typewriter | reported Ill with pneumonia in heiress was "guest of myself New York and to have sent in ond my wife" in the Coscescu lawyer to Paris to persunde apartment in the fashionable Gamble not to go through, with | Purdy quartet,
plans to mauty Purumbeanu The lawyer sald he would once he gets a divorce. That will make us do I stant between the runaways "I wouldn't care less about batter. (5)
fund "mybody!....they don't my grandmother's money . . .”
want to pee?"
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zur. (8)
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28 Nothing to wille? That's
obvious. (4)
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GRANDMOTHER ILL
Gramble declared. "I will marry hiz.
"If necessary I will be, a #ul Comsoncu allowed
typist to help us live, 1 căn London Daily Meme writer to type but if I do I can tell you talk with Porumbeati, deccribed it won't be on a Remington, in Now York as a choufour and The heiress to the Remingite handyman, and Miss, Benediet, typewriter fortune Bald sho wbo dipperrod trom hereverbed that Andrei bed boen grandmother's manalora" off sth | called a chauffeur,a=UFİ."
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