NEW TESTS FOR MOTORISTS
Draft Of Home Regulations
"EXAMINATION" TESTS PLANNED
BEST DRESSED NATION
ENGLAND LEADS THE WAY
Laxity in dress among the pro- fessional classes was regretted by
Sir Francis Joseph, speaking at the annual banquet held in con- nection with the National Federa- tion of Merchant Tailors' Cony ference at Buxton.
Draft regulations to govern the efficiency toata which new appli cants for driving licences will in
The workaday world to-day, hej future have to pass, were issued recently by the Minister of Trans-added, was better clothed than it port. It is emphasised that the had ever been before.
beat-i
regulations are provisional ant England was now the are-for-discussion among motor-dressed nation in the world, and lets and interested bodies, They both American and Continental are in no way final.
peoples were coming here in large The appifcant, according to the numbers to replenish their ward- draft regulations, will have to robes. satisfy a duly authorised exami-! nor" that he is fully conversant with the Highway Code,
As a result of the prevalence of small cars it was impossible for a
In addition, he must satisfy as doctor to wear a tall hat, and with to his ability unaided to deal with the passing of the tall hat the discarded his his ear in the following manner: doctor had also
Start the engine of his vehicle: frock enat, Move away straight ahead or at an angle:
Overtake, meet or cross the path
and take of other vehicles
appropriate course;
Stop the vehicle In
an
An emer. the
gency or normally, and in
Criticism of the slovenly dress worn by some men, and also of the new Army uniform, was ninde by Mr. R. H. Stone, of Norwich, the retiring resident.
"Are we to stand idly by," he latter case to bring the vehicle asked, "and see our soldiers dress-
fL
cer-
to rest at an appropriate part of ed like cheap hikers? Can dress
such as in suggested engender dis the road:
Drive backwards, and white nelpline and smartness?
not improve the doing enter limited opening tainly with either to the right or to the left; soldier's idea of dress when in
direction of the mufti or when he reflres." Reverse the vehicle by use of forward and re-
Mr. E. M. Meggitt, Manchester, verse gears;
Give
the newly-elected President, said url hand appropriate
and A change mechanical signals at appropriate he believed that times to indicate intended actions; Improvement in men's dress was Act promptly ail signal coming soon, and that the ubiqui given by traffic signs, traffic con-itous sports coat and flannel trou
sers would disappear. trollers and other road users.
on
ANOTHER FEE.
Anyone seeking a licence musicie or invalid carriage, shall be apply to the Council of his County present in the vehicle with the or Borough, and appltentions will holder of the provisional licence, be dealt with at any time within CONDITIONS FOR LEARNERS. one month of the effective date of the licence, The present fee of
be com G. for the licence is to tinued, but an additional fee (78. d. is suggested in the draft ve gulations) will be charged for the
A. vehicle driven by a learner holding a provisional Heence is to carry a white disc seven inches in diameter, or a white square of the same size with a red letter "14" 24in, high and in, base, the The draft regulations contine width of the letter being of an the rule relating to physical disinch- abilities which debar an applicant
test.
Additional regulations
in the
from holding a licence or evrn draft provide that a licence shall from.claiming to be subjected to be signed by the
failure owner.
test.
There
include: Epilepsy,
being punishable by a
Ane
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MONDAY, OCTOBER ‘8,
"A CENSORSHIP
FOR NOVELS"
The first performance wili taka place shortly of the presentation of "Little Dorrit", by Charles Dickens, in which the title role is to be played by Frau Schmeling, better known as
Anny Ondra.
HOW IS YOUR MEMORY?
WIDE READING NECESSARY
If the bay of today wishes to pana his school examinations, It would appear that he has to be a very close render of rellable newspapers and a student of Furopean and world situations, as they effect politics and economies, The last Leaving Certificate examination set by the Scottish Education Department asked, for instance,
Hitler, questions on Marconi, dictatorship, the cinema, rating, and foreign exchange.
In the Day School Certiflente nze suration in the general paper Is-
Select five of the following and say, very briefly, what has made them famous: ford each of
Priner foward of Ellingham. Rupert, Joseph Addison, Duchess of Marlborough. William Wilber force, Sir John Moore, James Watt, Abraham Lincola, Marconi, Mrs. Pankhurst. Earl Haig. Adolf Hi Jer
In the Leaving Certificate Eng- not fish paper the following is des pental defectiveness of certain excerning £5; duplicate licences rounded; types, Hability to sudden giddiness shall be issued, in the event of a or fainting, and inability to read, loss or defacement, at a cost of
composition, not - a car number plate at 25 yards in
jone shilling: records shall hereeding three foolscap pages in good light and with glasses,
Tests will be conducted kept by the Licensing Authority length, un any one of the follow-
for all endorsements, and a copy of ing subject:--
such Government Departments, all particulars recorded by them bodies, organisations or persons shall be supplied to the police on as the Minister may from time to
application. time appoint."
A certificate of compinnen is. No mention is made in the draft] to be issued to successful candi-, regulations of the date from which dates. Those who fail to pass the the driving tests shall apply, but test shall be ineligible to submit since it was laid down in the Act to à further test for two months. that new applicants for driving The applicant is required to pro-licences after April 1 this year vide a motor vehicle "of suitable were to be subjected to a test it is type for the test.
assumed that, when final regula
Write a
(a) "Fresh air and exercise for *, healthy outlook on life." Dis- euss the merits of this slogan.
(b) Sports and societies (de- are too bating, dramatics &c. prominent in the modern school,“ Discuss,
te) Describe a day among the hills, or a day by the sea.
(d) The respective advantage of
Drivers who are not resident initions are issued they will apply the theatre and the cinema: Great Britain are not required to retrospectively to that date.
(e) The importance of possess- 18 the test.
The draft regulations have beening a sense of humour. Provisional licences are to be
the various motoring granted, according to the draft issued to
In a history paper they are asked regulations, to enable, the holders; organisations for their examina
comment. When the to show very briefly the historical to use them "only when under the lion and supervision of a person, Bt and views of these bodies have been significance of the following:- competent to give hustruction in received by the Minister. nul The coronation of Charlemagne the driving of a motor vehicle rgulations will be drafted in the the misston, of St. Columbia: the narriage of fenry II. of England; who, except in the care of a motor- Ught of their observations.
the battle of Agincourt; the divorce of Catherine of Aragon; the National Covenant (1638); The Art of Settlement he Fall of the Bastille: the Indian Mutiny: the Franco-British Entente 1904.
Its sharp and slender lines bespeaking the speed with which it can hunt and harrass enemy ships, the new destroyar U.S.S. Mae. Donough is being prepared at the Charlestown, Mass., navy yard
for service with the floot.
DOCTOR WHO TOOK WRONG TABLETS
of
EXPLANATION OF MOTORING OFFENCE. Dr. Archibal Magill, a medical ofleer at Pembury Hospital, Tun- bridge Wells, was fined £10, with £2 s. 6d. costs, at Tonbridge recently for driving a car while under the influence of drink or druga.
Should Output... Be Restricted?
CHILDREN'S * BOOKS
THAT BORE
A suggestion that the Library Association should inquire into the possibility of establishing some kind of publication censor ahip over novels, on the lines of the censorship of films, was made nt a recent meeting of the Asso ciation held at University College, London.
The suggestion was put forward' by the Rev. E. St. G. Schomberg, Deputy Mayor of Westminster. He said that the public hud uright" to expect from its public libraries the supply of any book that had any kind of claim to be worth reading, but it seemed to him that nowadays there was an increasing output of books which could make no such claim either on literary, intellectual, artistic. educational, or romantic grounds, or, in fact, on any grounds whatever.
The President (Mr. S. A Pitt, Glasgow) sald that the suggestion "would be considered. To give any such guidance would call for con- of siderable tact, a great deal time, and probably would lead to
'battle with publiskors others.
a
and
Miss M. Watt-Smith deplored the fact that so little effort was made to find out what the modern and to child preferred to read correlate his tastes to the books circulated by librarians.
1934.
The famous air woman Amy Mol. son is the first woman cross channel pilot ever to be employed in England. She has entered for the England. Australia air race and has taken this iob to get into practice for the event. The picture shows Mrs. Mellion photographed receiving her log book at the Stapleford Aerodrome prior to departure for Paris.
FAMOUS WAR ›
MEMORIAL
BRANGWYN PANELS GO TO SWANSEA
The famous Brangwyn paneis, painted for the House of Lords' "The most noticeable gap in coh. temporary juvenile book provision war memorial, and rejected, amid is the absence of any satisfactory great controversy, were sent re-. books for children between the cently from London to Swansen, ages of ten and fourteen.
where they will be placed in the "After a couple of years spent Assembly Hall of the new Civic reading the better class fairy tales the modern girl turns to something A little more grown up. And what
Centre.
The Brangwyn panets, which is there? Just school stories; number 10, were commissioned In badly written, of doubtful morale, 1925 by the late Lord' iveagh, who the plot usually taken from petty intended to present them to the Mr. Brangwyn's jealousies
far House of Lords.
snobberies
The ceara records 4 violent episode during the recent fatal Communist rioting in Amsterdam, Holland. Here is an officer. felled by a flying missile, as he toppled seriously injured from a car which was rushing police reinforcements into the riot zone.
divorced from', the life of the fee was £20,060. average schoolgirl.j.
LURID READING.
con-
When, in 1930, the first five were submitted, they were demned by the Fine Art Commis- Is it any wonder that after the ston, and finally rejceted. Mr. boredom of reading a thousand Brangwyn went on with the re- school stories the girl turns to maining eleven, and on the death something lurid on reaching the of Lord Iveagh, the fate of the adult library."
panels was left in the hands of
The major fault of many boys' the Iveagh Trust.
An offer of £40,000 was made books was that they were out of date. Henty and his contempor-for them from America, but the aries were going ut laat, but too present Lord Iveagh and the tran slowly. The modern boys' book tees decided that they must re- was better than the modern giris" main within the Empire. book, but it was not perfect.
Many applications were made by who considered There was a large output of municipalities nature books, though the majority they had halls suitable for them-- of children saw the country, each six of them measure 20 feet by year for a few hours only and 12 feat, and the remaining 10 are He explained that he had re- spent their lives facing four walls each about 14 feet square-but cently suffered bad headaches, and a chimney. Yet we expected Swansen's claims were considered accentuated by business troubles, them to enjoy reading about the strongest, for the panels will be and on the night in question In- neating habits of the pled wagtail. in harmony with the scheme of tended to take some sodium bro-
They wanted more technical decorations of the new Assembly mide tablets but took four allonal books, more books on games play Hall. Hablet by mistake Feeling uning more travel books, which took well, he decided to go for a drive a good look Instead of just peep-
Mr. Brangwyn, who-is-of-Welsh
to get some fresh air, but could ing, and, above all, more good his parentage, supported the decision only vaguely remember what hap-tory books and biographies, with of the Ivengh Trust.
pened. after that. He was prac not so much insistence on battles, The panels will be placed In
tically an abstainer, but had two or three glasses of sherry that evening because of stomach pains, Police Constable Tritton said he found Dr. Magill sitting in a car across the road with its back in a-hedge.
The Chairman (Mr. G. F. Stacey) said the Bench accepted the explanation but the public must be protected in such cases, accident or no accident.
empires, moldiers, and sailors.
their Anal setting in good time Parents, teachers, and brar- for the opening ceremony of the, inne chose the wrong books for Civic Centre, which will be per- children, and were partly to blame formed by Prince George on
October 18. for the popularity of "penny dreadfuls:??
A male delegato expressed the Smith, They are our heritage, but opinion that the English classics not the children's heritage. They were part of the, structure of our were not written for children."*
The President spoke of the need Ilves, and were part of our heri-j
for further legislation to improve retorted Miss Watt-library administration.
tage.
"Yes,"
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