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"Modern Portia" Renews Her
Building Society
Duel With
TAXIMAN HUSBAND TYPED DOCUMENTS
Known as the "Modern Portia" because she has shown such ability in conducting her defence in a building society action in the Chancery Division, Mrs. Elsy Florence Eva Borders, wife of a taxicab driver, again acted without legal aid when the hearing of the case was resumed recently.
She arrived in court carrying five law books and a bundle of documents typewritten by her husband and herself. The hearing was adjourned.
Bradford Third Equitable Beneft was before him that he thought the Building Society claimed possession case should be started all over again. Mr. R. F. Roxburgh, K.C., then of a house at West Wickham (Kent)
on the ground that Mrs. Borders was stated the three months in arrear with repay-society. ment instalments respecting a 093 advance made by them on security of a mortgage.
for tho casc
building
The question of collateral security,: the he said, was one which affected every
building society.
The core had to be adjourned Inst January, us the services of Mr. Justice Bennett were needed in the Court of Appeal.
"MUST BE LIMIT"
It was a matter of policy which had Parliament. If u the approval of decision were obtained that it was "Parliament must put During the interval Mrs. Borders ultra vires, obtained leave to amend her de-right the muddle that Parliament has fence and counter-claim.
"MISLED"
.
creat created."
Mra. Borders only interest in the society was that she owed it money and she had no
power to impeach the transaction.
Mr. Justice Bennett: There must.
NOVEMBER 18, 1938.
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payments She denied that her were in arrear and claimed damages, alleging that she had bern "wilfully
His Excellency the Gavernor, Bir Geoffry Northcote, accompanied by tradition. Book and Lyrics by James and fraudulently misted" in to the be some limit to the activities of Lt.-Cal. H. B. Rose, the Volunteer Commandant, Captain 11. S. Batty- Dyrenforth. bellef that the house was good building societies.
Smith, A.D.C. and Lt. H, A. de R. Botelho, when he made his inspre-Smith Mr. Roxburgh said the question tion of the Blangkong Volunteer Defence Corps at Fanling last week- security for the money advanced.
By her amendment, Mrs. Borders could only be raised by a share-end.King's Studio. challenged the validity of the mort-holder or somebody having a real
Interest in the society, gage.
continue
Mr. Justice Bennett: Is it the in- She said that as security for the money advanced the society took nottention of this society to merely a charge upon the house, but to make advances, net only on the also, by way of callisternl security a security of the house but on that with collateral coupled charge upon money depoalled with security, them by the builders from whom she security given by a builder?
Mr. Roxburgh: If such transac- bought the house.
their powers tions are ultra vires under the statute, which they deny, they do not intend to continue them, but they do contend that they are entitled to fortify their freehold or security by
This, Mrs. Borders contended, was a transaction outside the powers of the society, us prescribed by their the Building own rules and Societies Act.
ورة
Mr. Justice Bennett said so much leasehold time had elapsed since the matter security.
collateral
Mayfair
Major Now Plans World Tour
Mrs. Kathleen Stapley, fair-haired artist wife of Major Frank Goldsmith Stapley-the "monocled major" who ran a ten-guinea-a-week Mayfair flat, set out for the Old Bailey recently with heavy heart to await what she felt sure would be news of a jail sentence on her husband.
SAVERNAKE
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Open Verdict On Highlander Who Fell From Verandah
cause of death was shock and haemorrhage from a fractured skull as a result of a fall from the top flour, but the evidence before me is insuficient to show whether the fall was accidental or otherwise," sold the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, recently, following an deatli of Pic. inquiry into the
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Willam Stronach, aged 22 years, of Gordon High- the 2nd. Battalion, landers.
An open verdiet was recorded. Stronach, who lived on the top floor of block No. 6, Selarang Bar- racks, Changi, was found lying in
a pool of blood on the pavement be- low, shortly before midnight on Oct. 23.
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possesses (film "Always, When I am Happy'); and professionally pressed by stilled disclosing obtaining credit without
Europe's longest-runge bombing Manola (lm 'Always. When I am that he was an undischarged bank-way to hospital.
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A friend of the deceased, Pie. Gar-planes-machines capable of reaching Happy'); Always, When I Am Happy operators and with modern methods. Cecil Whiteley) had said: "There rarch, who was with him that night, any one of twenty Continental nations must be a term of imprisonment for told the coroner that Stronach had with half a ton of bombs and flying Stapley, but I should be influenced if been ill some months ago and that he home again without landing to re- tini money he owes is paid."
had been upset over his illness.
Wellesley 800 h.p. engined mono- Earlier witness was with Stronach Not a penny of the 250 Stapley owed for rent, wines, dresses and in the canteen and Stronach had six planes are the bombers similar to groceries had been paid, but the pints of beer, but he was quite sober the four long-range planes for the
him to Australia non-stop flight attempt. It was quite not
normal
they Common Serjeant decided to give
chance, and let him drink that
quantity of beer.
Dickie,
With 1,000-lb. of bombs him another
Pipe Sergeant Major
can cruise 2,500 miles non-stop at walk from the dock a free man.
N.C.O. in charge of block No. 6.
158 m.p.h. think it stated that he did not possible to fall over the verandah
Savernake Forest, oldest and re- puted lovellest private forest in Great Britain, over 4,000 acres in extent. Is to lose the deer which have roam-
Mrs. Stapley awaited the verdict ed among its trees since Saxon days in a restaurant, Her little son David at Thames The Forestry Commission, which was in the caravan recently took possession of Severnake Ditton, Surrey, which has been the shortly Stapley home since they left the on a DB-year lease, will
Mayfair flat three underiske scheme of renovation, luxury of their Including clearance of dead timber months ago, and replanting with beech, oak, and other broad-leaved species for which the forest has always been famous. One of their first steps will be the diminishing of the deer herds by means of the provisions of the Deer Removal Act.
Deer and young trees, they have discovered by experience in other forests, do not go together.
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Played by The Constant Lambert A radius of half that distance-toString Orchestra conducted by Con-
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tra and Maria Olczewska (Contralto) (Weber)..... "Tubel" Overture Folkestone, takes
"Jube over under normal circumstances. A member of the R.A.M.C. station countries: Germany, Italy, France, Berlin State Opera Orchestra cond.
Poland, ed at Chang, stated that Stronach Spain.
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Inspector Yeo led evidence for the Slavia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, tratto) with Plano accomp. by George Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Reeves; Torch Dance No. 1 in B Flat Portugal, Albanin, furmania, and a Major (Meyerbeer)...F. Weissmann big slice of Algeria.
and Berlin State Opera Orchestra; The whole of Italy, except Sicily Sapphic Ode (Brahma); The May and the "tor of the boot," comes-in-Night (Brohms)...Maria Olszewska (Contralto) with Flano accomp. by side the bombers' radius.
George Reeves; "Der Rosenkavalier" (R. Strauss); Wallz Movement from Act 3....The Berlin State Opera Orchestra cond., by Alols Melichar.
11.00 Close Down.
Through the restaurant came the fifty-year-old major, at- tache-caat, swinging, his face al Crown. smiles. Mrs. Stapley leaped into his arms.
TEN MILES I had failed him, that everything TEN
OF BEAUTY SAVED ON THAMES
She said afterwards: "I thought
weeks I was hopeless. For three had been trying to raise the money, but all I have in my purse to-day
shilling. "went to many friends of ours An old custom, exercised by privi- of the good old days. Some were lege, is also likely to disappear. This people on whom my husband had is the collection of fallen wood, per-spent hundreds of pounds. Not one mitted to inhabitants of Savernake would help. parish by the Marquis of Allesbury's estate.
"But I'm so grateful I have Frank back. That's all that matters."
"TWO BOB LEFT Major Stapley has frittered away will be emcient tens of thousands of pounds. Now,
This was revealed
'PRENTICE PRINCE
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IN OVERALLS
Air
the Wood, Sir Kingsley Several thousands of acres of the most beautiful country in the Thames Minister, is to visit the College of Valley are to be preserved as an open Aeronautical Engineering, Chelsea, Under the Forestry Commission,
space for ever,
and talk with young men in the Britain's clearing of the undergrowth and cut-
may be at the South workshops who ting out damaged imber done systematically. With
he says, is £750 parties, his yacht, Bucks Planning inquiry which con-aircraft designers of to-morrow. forestry, it is claimed, Savernale can his racehorses, his country housecluded at Slough recently. be converted from its present some- "Just a
fur oft memory, old boy." what neglected condition to one of timberlands in the best hardwood
Dest England.
Rondaide picknicking and wood-
"Kathleen and I are going ahead have been land rambling which
with our plan to tour the world by allowed in the past is not likely to motor-car. shall lecture and write meet with any substantial check. in varlous cities.
Sir Lawrence Chubb, secretary of "Now I am going back to the cara- the Commons, Open Spaces and van to rest. It will be heaven after Foot-paths Preservation Society, ex- these last few weeks in prison.” plained that no actual public rights And, turning his wife, the exist in Savernake, which probably "monacted major" said, "Come on, ceased many hundreds of years ago darling, let's invest that two bob in to be common in the old sense.
"But our fares home ," sho hesitated.
LOCKING THE GATES
Elon College Estate.
In seven years 600 students have The area includes three of the: He said: "I have two bob between most famous estates in South Bucks: passed through the college. This year Cliveden, the home of Lord and there are over 200 names on the roll, including that of "Michael Roman- me and starvation. Still, I know I
Lady Astor;
Grand Krandson of the shall come up again.
Taplow Court, the seat of Lord off,"
Duchess Xenia of Russia, sister of Desborough;
Dropmore Park, once the home of the late Tear. the late Mr. J. B. Fortescue; and This aeronautical school does not teach flying but why an aeroplane nies, what it is made of, how the and what pleces are put together happens inside the engine.
Boys from school put on overalis and start work as student engineers. This means that between six and į Three years later they pass out quall- seven thousand acres adjoining the fed to begin a career in the affcraft Thames in Buckinghamshire, and ex-industry.
grub.
Frank Goldsmith Stapley.
The owners have all entered into agreements with the planning autho- rities for the estates to be preserved for posterity.
GREEN BELT FOR SLOUGH
"The estate prevented them from " attend to that," said Major tending along its banks for about ten coming into being by locking all the gales in the forest on one day of the year. No other important restric flons were made, however, and it is to be hoped that in its plans for de- velopment the Forestry Commission
character of the forest, as well as the question of access.
Savernake owes its glory to the
miles from Eton nearly to Marlow, will not be built on. The famous playing fields of Eton will be enjoyed by future
generations,
South Bucks Planning Committee are also anxious to surround the
Hums Way Into Pictures
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will treat the area with full sympathy fact that it has always been a decl- for the public, who in the paal, duous woodland, and in the words of rapidly developing Industrial town of thanks to the generosity of the Alles-a member of the committee, "It would Slough with a green belt and at the bury family, have had extraordinary be disastrous if fir trees were grown same time to preserve the amenities pictures to-day after
casicat "breaks" on record. Dancing Hberty."
there
in regimented rows
considered with a friend at Hollywood night A committee of members of the flovers on an allotment like caull- and the views of Windsor Castle.
Some of the birches in the forest highly satisfactory by the local au- spot, Miss Rat, humming a song at- Council for the Preservation of Rurot England has been formed at Marlare believed to be among the oldest thorlies and warm tribute has been tracted the attentive of borough to study the possible effects in the kingdom. Ita pride is its paid to the public-spirited action of acout. She started, her career
$100 a week. of the change of ownership on the Grand Averue, three miles long.
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