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OXFORD GROUP LOSES
Movement Has No Existence In Law
He decided that a £500 legacy to the Group was not valid.
THE Oxford Group does not exist legally, accord- ing to Mr. Justice Bonnott, giving judgment against the Group in the Chancery-Division recent- ly.
Giving his decision, the judge referred to a book from which extracta had been read, and pointed out that in its opening sen- tence it said: "You cannot belong to the Oxford Group. It has no membership last, subscriptions, badges, rules or definite location."
DOCTOR'S FORTUNE
"With that statement in mind,"{ said the judge, "It seems to me im-
Dr. Margaret Grace Thackrah, of possible to hold that there is or was in existence any association of which Belsize Park Gardens, N.W., and anybody could be secretary or proper Harley Street, who died in January. officer capable of giving a receipt for 1937, leaving residuary estate of
£11,000, gave
*£500 free of duly to the legacy and the residue of the
the secretary or other proper officer estate."
of the Oxford Group whose offices are at present situated at Brown's Hotel, Dover Street, W." There was also a bequest of certain residuary money to the Group.
New picture of Luigi Cardinal Maglione, appointed Papal Secre- tary of State by Pope Pius XII. He is 02, a year younger than the Pope, but their birthdays occur together on March 2.
Empire News
GAOL STRIKE OVER
EARLY RISING
NAIROBI.
A strike occurred among native
POST OFFICE GIRLS
GET A RISE
INCREASES amounting £201.000 a year in the pay of 28,000 post office girls and tele- graphists were announced by the Post Office recently.
*
Senior girls will receive Ds. Od. weck extra In their 74. A week ware.
The rises are scaled down from this Ogure to the under- aixteens who get a shilling more on their 18s. dd. wareR.
Fortification Specialist
"NATU
【ATURALLY. I can't talk about my work in Hongkong," sold Brigadier G. B. O. Taylor, who is on the War Office staff, on his arrival In Singapore from Hongkong in the Blue Funnel liner Antenor recently.
Brigadier Taylor, a specialist on fortifications, is on nn inspection tour of British garrisons in the Far and Near East. He spent a short time in Hongkong, was in Singapore nine days, and will visit Palestine on This way home.
The executor, Mr. T. H. Thackrah, of Gray's Inn Place, E.C., sought the He was mentioned in despatches direction of the Court on whether when serving in the Great War, was Mr. Roland Whitwell Wilson and Dr. Assistant Director und Inter Deputy Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, both Director of Works of the Expedition- of Brown's Hotel, were entitled to re-ary Force at Salonlea from 1017 to ceive the money on behalf of the 1919, and in the post-War period he Groups
has been Staff Officer to the Chief Dr. Buchanan 1s founder and Mr. Engineer. Aldershot, Assistant Direc- Wilson has neted as treasurer of the tor of Fortifications and Works at the War Office and Chief Engineer, group.
Northern Command.
The contention of the executor was that the Oxford Group consisted of
an Indefinite and unascertainable whether there was a body or associn- number of persons possessing notion known as the Oxford Group, of which either Mr. Wilson or Dr. Buch- man was "secretary or other proper mcer" That was a pure question for fact.
officers.
Mr. Justice Dennelt asked whether the Oxford Group taught any spiritual doctrine unit whether it had any inan whose business it was to tesich anything.
LAW AND CHARITY
AIMS OF THE GROUP
Before the Court could And that there was an association there must Mr. Andrewes Uthwatt for the be some rules, written or oral, by Attorney-General (one of the defen- which those supposed to be members dants), submitted that there was were tied together. There must also evidence that the group, which was be some constitution. undenominational, did promole Christian religion.
Mr.
Discussing the question whether
C. R. Romer, x.c., representing the purposes of the Oxford Group are the infant next-of-kin (who would charitable or not, the judge said that beneft the event of intestacy) rendfcharity had a technical meaning in extracts from the Group's book, law.
"What is the Oxford Group"
"All this Group does," he comTM
It was suggested that the Oxford
mented. "is to advocate certain Group existed for the advancement of
methods of living with a view to people leading decent lives. It does
religion, but he did not find anywhere in the evidence that the Group exist-
not come within the ambit of religion for the promotion of religion in at all."
When Mr. il, B. Valsey, H.C., (for Dr. Buchanan and Mr. Wilson), referred to the Oxford Group as "movement," the judge remarked: There was an Oxford lovement at some time, I understand from my history book."
the legal sense.
No doubt the Group sought to bind people together by religious bonds. But that was not what was meant by the "promotion of religion" as under- stood in the courts.
The judge ordered that the costs of Holding that the gift failed, the all parties should be paid out of the jjudge said that the main question was jestate.
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Ghost Train
Runs 500 Miles
A “Ghost Train” made a 500-mile journey on the L.M.S. rall- way recently.
It was 20 coaches long, the luxury of which was at the dis-
prisoners at Dar-es-Salaam Gaol be-posal of fewer than 20 men. esuse a number objected to getting
p so early to begin the day's work. They were officials trying to find out the capacity of the The town was full of rumours that latest Coronation engine built at Crewe-the Duchess of Abercorn.
the go. These rumours were ac-
violent renes hm occurred inside: The return trip between Crewe and Glasgow-244 miles- centuales by the arrival of a visit was covered in 268 minutes. No effort was made to reach ing Justice and a senior Government maximum speed. official.
Persuasive
The train was made up of a load of 600 tons,
arguments were nd- Object of the run was to see how the time of long-distance dressed to prisoners on the health-passenger expresses can be reduced on the main line.
Details of the engine's performance were recorded on instru- ments in a dynamo-meter car,
giving effects of carly rising. These
find their effect and the situation is now normal,
April 29, 1939.
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