Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March
24,
1939.
Threat To A.R.P. Denied
No 'Merger' With
The Police
AIR-RAID wardens, though pollse controlled, ure not to be merged with the police force.
That was the promise given re- cently by Sir John Anderson, niter
Home Omice conference,
Muny complaints have been made that the change of control of A.R.P. wardens would seriously affect pre-) sent organisations. There were also suggestions that police control would
Napoleon
Said It
tend towards militarisation of ARP. And Our Army Is
of
At the conference with representa- tives of outer London authorities, Sir Philip Game, Commissioner Police, said that he had agreed to accept the new responsibility only it the air rald wardens organisation, were kept reparate from the police.
Sir John Anderson emphasised that I was never contemplated that the existing nie rald wardena service should be scrapped, merged with the pulice, or lose its identity.
In a statement to the "Daily Herald" on the question of police control of wardens, Mr. Herberl Morrison said:
Doing It Better Than Any Other
RMY food and Army cooks have improved by leaps and bounds since the war days.
Now, at the request of the War Offee, the L.C.C. Higher Education Committee have started a course for nrmy cooks
at the Westminster Teclinical Institute.
Up to 24 men are to take a series 12 of practical lessons covering weeks.
"The proposal was approved by a of the Metropolitan majority
"WEST END" TEST Boroughs Standing Joint Committee, which consluts of three representa- Their passing-out test will be to Ulves from each of the Metropolitan cook a dinner equal in flavour and Borough Councils. Within that variety to that at a West End hotel, mujority was a substantial majority with the difference that it will have of Labour representatives,
The question is one of effective adniínistration, and in the light of their experiences I gather that most of our people took the view that the police organisation is more suited to the job and would be administrative- ly more effective,
"Moreover, many of the duties of the A.R.P. wardens are not dissimi- lar from the civil and humanitarian duties of the police.
to show a minimum of waste.
giments all over the country.
This aerial view shown the. $18,000,000 bridge between The Bronx and Whitestone, but-lying districts
of New York City, which workmen are speeding to completion in time for the opening of the World's Fair, on April 30. This is the sixth bridge to link Long Island and Manhailon and in the longest of its kind in the world.
EMPIRE NEWS
NATIONAL REGISTER FOR AUSTRALIA
Sydney.
The Federal Cabinet, meeting at
in the light of the recent report by Work has begun on n £140,000 Mr. S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner Army school of cookery at Aldershot. in London..
MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH
Job Is Waiting For a New Swiss Family Robinson
THE Swiss-Family-Robinson kind of story gets an up-to-date twist in the news of the quest of the National Trust for a warden to live on the Calf of Man (writes Stanley Baron).
In the book, you remember, it was Mr. Robinson who decided he wanted no more of civilisation. And what
Successful students will join re- Hobart, considered defence questions Robinson said, in the dutiful eighteen-hundreds, went.
But the Calf of Man will be an affair of woman. So strongly do the National Trust feel on the subject that
than a after going through more
thousand applications and. reducing the list to two or three, they have decided to send the final candidates, with wives, over to the island to see conditions for themselves.
It was decided to establish imme-
A War Office spokesman said: "Adlately a voluntary national register this is more than justified by the in- as a guide to man power and the in- creased staying-power, health and dustrial and food production capacity of the Commonwealth. The register: temper of the men,
will include both men and women.
"Wo believe that no country has "When the police take over the an army which could outstay the warden services, the Police Commis- modern British Tommies.
soldiers to the "It is our boast that the sioner will be responsible Home Secretary, und
Home never see the same menu two days Secretary directly responsible to Par- running. llament.
the
"They have ratluning committees
It is believed that a voluntary basis was decided on because such
bic drawn register can
up inoru rapidly.
A committee has been appointed to consider a large expansion in iiquid
In the Provinges It is quite com-in every battalion for denting with fuel storage. mon for the wardens to be under the suggestions. direction of the Chief Constable.
That greatly impressed those who took this decision,"
THREE HOT MEALS
By 170 votes to 123. London burn oil-fuel, are so designed Trades Council has refused co-opern- when troops are on the march. the tion in the Government's voluntury longer they march register scheme for civil defence, on food gets,
the ground of opposition to Govern- ment policy.
the hotter
1,500 Told To Try Nursing
And how the wives will react will probably settle the cholce.
MAKING DOUBLY SURE ·
Mr. D. M. Matheson, secretary to the National Trust, said:
"We came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be fair to send anyone out without making doubly sure that he knew what he was in for.
Fifteen hundred school-girls, faces Ministers stated that it was im- eagerly upturned, listened attenlive possible to buy a capital warship, asly at the Gulid-ball recently while a Britain could
one. not spare
A pretty, uniformed probationer nurse be, explained to them through a micro- "The new portable kitchens, which British expert will probably
The Job (looking after 615 acres that invited to
finest professions they could take up. of bird sanctuary and running a for a battleship, dock on the site phone why nursing was one of the
Antarctic Research-Members of "If you talk to the average nurse"," farm) will probably be one of the the
the Cabinet have had informal dis-sold Miss Hellen Few (who is at Lon-loneliest In Britain. It isn't the "Every soldier gets three hot meals cussions with Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth.don Hospital), "you will find her a husband we worry about so much as
her the wife. n day, and often a high tea as well." the American explorer, who arrived cheerful person, interested In
at Hobart from the Antarctic. The work and getting the best out of life."
"None of the candidates, so far as Queen Mary, was about to leave to Government is expected to buy Mr. Ellsworth's ship. Wyatt Earp, for use attend an overflow meeting, but she know, has lived alone on an island by an Austration expedition to theas so Interested that she waited til before. We think we have the right three in the last selections. So the Antarctic at some later date.
the end of Miss Few's speech.
Mont of her audience were giris question is now: 'Can Mrs. Robinson from big London and provincial stand it'" secondary schools. Most of them will sit for their school certificate? ex- aminations in the summer.
Rabbit Fights Dogs And Likes His Beer
A lion living in a back-garden at Pinner, Mid- dlesex, and a bear kept as a pet by a family in Croy- don made news`recently.
But the strangest pet is a rabbit that drinks beer and fights stray dogs.
Bill is his name. He came to London four years ago, a pet for tho-twelve-year-old-on of Mr. Frank Harling, manager of a public hause in Marylebone Iligh-stivel, W.
He was put in a neat hutch in theḥ, cellar. Next morning he was found outside the hutch-in a drunken
stupor.
He had been drinking beer. that dripped from the barrels.
Spot, the family fox_terrier, walk- ed down into the cellar two hours
Inter and Bill, by this time burdened with a hang-over, attacked him.
The terrier, fat with easy living. ran from the cellar yelping with fright.
Princess
Designs Hats
NEW ZEALAND
SPEED URGED IN DEFENCE PLANS
تم
REACTION TEST
A National Trust oficial is to be To help them, and at the same time put at the disposal of the candidates to see the Referring to the Dominion's de-o try to Interest them in joining the who have been chosen fence needs, the New Zealand Herald depleted ranks of the nursing professland. He will guide them round states that speed is the essence of the ion, they were invited to a big re- and observe their reactions. preparations.
cruiting rally. The Government
final But the making of the with social and
when the BETTER CONDITIONS pre-occupled
decision depends upon economic security without national Mr. H. L. Eason, tall principal of candidates can get across. tecurity. The Dominion at present London University, told them: "Con- lacks self-reliance. Ipolation is na ditlons of nursing are changing very They will go separately-and the excuse. The Devonport naval buse rapidly to meet the changing condi- currents which cut off the isle from Auckland is suitable for refits tons of the world. They are going the Man mainland, sometimes-for which are at present being carried to be made more attractive."
weeks at a time, are among the worst i out in England, with a great waste There was only one nurse, he said, in Britain. of time. The paper urges the forma tion of a naval auxiliary force. SOUTH AFRICA
at
BIG CAPE WATER STORAGE PROJECT
Cape Town.
An ambitious hydro-electric, water storage and irrigation scheme, based on the construction of a huge dom near Villlersdorp, in the Western models designed by Princess Natasha Province of the Cape, is now re- Bagration, 24-year-old granddaughter celving the attention of the irrigation of Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, Department of the Union Govern- who is a cousin of the Duchess
Bill bas bulled him ever since. SOM
COME of the hats, soon to be shown Sometimes Bill does tricks in the in the spring fashion displays, are saloon bar for the customers. He can take the lid off a biscult barrel, overturn the barrel and eat a piece of sponge cake.
He can drink a glass of milk with- out spilling it, and he can do a jug- gling trick with a bunch of keys.
TAKE HIM AWAY'
Kent.
to every 500 of the population.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, read a message to the girls
from Queen Mary, which ended!
"I appent to the girls of the country to ask themselves whether they may not find in this great profession not only a carcer of interest and useful- ness but one of the truest and noblest forms of national service."
"I decided to be a nurse long before to-day." one girl said afterwards: "It will be hard work, but great fun."
Busy Life At 85
Smuggling
In China
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Mr. Day asked a further question in the House of Commons recently regarding smuggling in China when he enquired whether any action had been taken by the Government to which had safeguard the position of ment.
TOONGABBL, Australia, recently arisen by the continued This scheme would make available Robert Ferguson way too busy on smuggling China, and what the... The Princess works in the hot de-jan additional water supply for Cape his 85th bithday to do anything urge the Government to amend the nttitude WDS. Mr. partment of Paquin's London shop, Town, and would also supply current more than just carry on his regular Government's
the replied designing new to surrounding districts, including work—that of running a
that, while and, apart from
five acre Butler His fans tell of the time when al models, nets as a saleswoman.
Hermanus, Caledon and Worcester. ferm single handed. He attends to Government naturally viewed with woman went into the bar with a More than once she has posed to The dam would have a capacity of his orchard, picks and packs all his disfavour all evasions of payment of cocker spaniel. She was alone the Duchess of Kent, an expert 4,000,000,000 gallons.
fruit and other producis, miks nine Customs duties in China, no reports until customers in the other bars artist, for her portrait.
Zulu War Veitran's Death-The cows twice dally and during the past of smuggling had been received since heard her screaming:
death has occurred at Dundee, at the few months hos re-painted three the reply he gave to Mr. Day on November 16 last, On-that occasion rabbit off my dog"]
age of 82, of Thomas Henry Cunning-houses.
Mr. Butler stated that, according to ham, a friend of Rider Haggard and
the Government's Information there had been an appreciable decrease in smuggling.
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The cocker, backed into a corner, He had to run 150 yards for home was being kicked and bitten by Dill. nnd safety, the greyhound about
young life nearly ended, † three feet behind him all the way. though, when he attacked a grey- Mr. Harding has not let Bill, out
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hound in Marylebone High-street' into the street since then.
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