THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
DECEMBER
3, 1938.
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"If Mr. Smith Digs, He Might
Disturb My Sleep
SO CHURCH SAY 'NO CABBAGES HERE'
Which would you prefer) to look on from your back window -- cabbages or rub- bish?
The Ecclesiastical Com- missioners think-rubbish!
They own a plot of waste land behind houses in Hartswood - road, Shepherds Bush, W., and refuse to let it fall into the hands of allet- ment owners. They say neighbour- Ing tenants would object.
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But if allotinent men allowed to ket busy with their spades and forks, these tenants will be left with an nere of overgrowni wilderness and rubbish at their back! doors.
This is the situation that faces Mr. Robert Smith, of Steventon-road, W., leader at Hammersmith allotinent workers, JA their fight for new ground.
One of the intentions of war seems to be to tear humans apart and then to try to put them Anyway, together again. Obviously, they probably would have been better off in the first status. here are members of the Chinese New Life organisation aiding wounded soldiers in a Bankow hospital.
best to the the men ground, but we He is trying to get the Hartswood-cangot ruk the expense of a legal road site once a nursery--for fifty inquiry. In a borough like Hanmer- allotment holders whose plots were smith' it is difficult to find any spare confisented three years nga for build-1 ground. ing purposeR.
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Hanunerania Borough Council have shirked a legal fight with the commissioners, who might oppon a compulsory hirins: order. Mr. Smith is now organising petition, and a possible town's mccling, to
the council to fight.
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"I admit I'ru no garden lover;} alt he is mow the own when it Arts six inches high. My eighty- year-old father-in-law does it all.
I understand the urge to dig and! from Bed-! grow because I corne fordshire village.
"We are sury to see so many Opposing him on the commell are the allotments committee (led by allotments going, and we are already hustling ex-country-boy, chairman, thinking of looking for allotmenti Alderman W. Turney) 21711 the ground outside the bacough." finance committee (leader. Mr. R. J. Buckingham, genlal, self-made deputy mayor).
il Mr. Buckingham is in position than the allotment men.
better
ile
Besite, bring finance chairman of the council he is finance chiet of the National Union of Railwaymen. Mr.j
says this gives him Buckinghain sympathy for the allotment men.
MOTHER GIVES BABIES POPPYHEADS
London.
A mother who was said to have Other opponents to the "Grow boiler poppyheads and
Riven the More Food allotment workers:
ar to be frand among the real- juice-substantially morphine and dents of Hartwonds-road. One of onlum-to her triplets to make them at Haverford
them wrote to the council saying:| =temp was sentenced the nice of spade, would wake weet, Pembrookshire, recently to a him in the morning,
She WRS month's imprisonment.
of Mrs.
Huts, bonfires, and rubbisa dungo they would not be able to complain of, becaure the men have agreed to do willst them.
One resident said: "We don't like the iden of allotinents over me back Jeneer. We would rather have it as
is now."
41. Grace Taylor, aged Haverford-west. Her husband was also goled for a month. The couple were accused of neglecting their six children. Mr. Ward for the NSP, C.A. said the poppy boiling incident
becurred in 1932.. The mother was
bas a private plut of ground — ni And that, according to Alderman Riven a stern warning. Another in-
NO GARDEN LOVER
"super allotment" he calls it-out- Turney, is "a Alderman Turvey, Socialist school-side the borough, where he goes to Western Front master, said: "We have done our grow potatoes.
Hurrah!
jungle."
ITUSS between the spector of the N.S.P.C.C. suid the ther bedclothes were green with mildew
and the bolster black with grime.
in 1910
and
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