Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 19, 1939.
PLAN TO SAVE THE NEW FOREST
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Sonja Hente, ice-skating film star, left, herself of Norwegian birth, greets Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway as they arrived in Los Angeles. Later Sonja gave a command rink performance for the popular royal couple.
SLEEP-WALK TO DEATH THEORY
THEORY that a man whose partly-clothed body was found recently in a trench on a building site in Ferrars-road, Sheffield, fell to his death while sleep- walking or delirious is being investigated by Sheffield C.I.D.
The man was identified as Henry Globe, aged 68, of Rad- cliffe-street, Rotherham.
Workmen found the body clothed only in shirt, pants and vest.
When returned home the house.
on the this morning after working night shift I found the front door open. I did not think it unusual, as Mr. Globe often went for early morn- ing walks."
The
police stated that the pos A wound at the back of his head might have been caused by his fall-sibility of the man being knocked down in the rond when he was walk- ing Into the trench.
ing and being put into the trench
Detective - Superintendent
head
Allen.
of Sheffield C.1.D., said that five could not be ruled out.
hours before the body was discovered
a lorry driver and a private motorist
driving along the Shemeld-Rotherham It's Pronounced
roud 400 yards from the trench saw
a man in his underclothing walking
towards Shefeld.
We are anxious to interview these two drivers and any person who can give information," said Mr. Allen. "The body was in a huddled-ups: position, face downwards."
Spelled
LAMBETH WALK.
AS A SIN THE Lambeth Walk and other
modern dances may be de- clared a sin by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa,
Praising folk dances by com- parison, the Rev. D. G. Van der Merwe suid he feared these did noi satisfy the taste of modern youth because they could not cling to one another.
Hongkong Girl Fined
Control of Population
And Amusements
SOME of the most drastic recommendations ever made to preserve the beauty of the countryside are con- tained in the report of a Committee of Planning Officers on the planning of the New Forest and its environs set up after a conference of the Forestry Commissioners last year.
Buildings, vehicles and road works, people, overhead wires and advertisements are the principal sources of danger that beset this beautiful stretch of forest, the prime requirement of which is quiet and freedom from disturbance.
The forest is a miraculous The character and possiblities of survival in the twentieth cen- every village in the forest have been examined and the population Agares tury of part of pre-Norman indicated. should on no account be England," says the report. It exceeded. Speaking, for instance, of has suffered change... but it is on, the report 'says:
visitors whose inain delight the direct descendant of the preis in mechanical amusements are Normun scene
and contains foreign to the natural character of many of its original characteris- the place.". tics.
RICHES KNOWN TO FEW it st remains the habitat of number of rare plants
and insects which have disappeared elsewhere. It harbours rare birds.... its fut riches are known to few. It is, in fact, nature reserve which would leave the country infinitely the poorer if it were destroyed."
The very bogs which many regard as a symbol of neglect are an essential part of the nature reserve,
The report advocates:
through restricted to
Two roads only for Tramic. and others Forest traffic:
Control of the population, parti- cularly in the Forest villages;
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of
amusement
NO DOG RACING
110 There should be park at Lymington, no dog-racing track, or similar undertaking. Fun- parlours are of the same nature, but their effect would not be so grent,
With regard to the control of camps an official of the Forestry Commission said: "As a matter of fact, it is quite all right for ordinary campers to pitch anywhere in the New Forest where it is open forest. Obviously campers cannot go into the enclosed parts."
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"We are not affected," said an officlat of the Youth Hostels Associa tion. The ploces we have in the New Forest area are old houses or small farms."
The following were members of the committee:
Messrs. K. S. Dodd, Ministry of Health; D. W. Young. in Forestry Commission: A. H. Schofield, Hants County Council; W. L. Clowes. Bournemouth County Borough; H. T. Cock, S. flants Joint Planning millee; A. W. Currie, Lymington Borel; E. B. Wise, Christchurch Borough and F. F. Freeth, New Forest Joint Planning Committer.
or
The suitable development Southampton and Lymington relation to the Forest;
unusements No mechanical uni permanent holiday camps;
Striet control of poles, overhead wires and advertisements.
Maximum
number of houses for cach of the Forest villages. The local authorities concerned should be asked to set up a permanent joint body with the object of con-
MARY CHAN, a Hongkong girl, trolling all development likely to
Asently, and
Cape Town.
BUILDING RULES
appeyed before Mr. C. H. Whit-affect the Forest is another recom- ton, in the Singapore Trafle Court mendation.
pleaded guilty to charges of driving without a lleence and without a third party insurance Jolley.
Imposing fines of $2 and $13, res- The longest word in South Africa
Mooimelslestanteindistrikjaarliksretively. Mr. Whitton told the de- sesamesettendedingaansfeesvierende- fendant she was liable to a fine of It means $500 for driving without an insurance Mr. Frank McCarthy, with whom kommissieledevergadering.
Annual policy. deceased lodged sold that Globe had Mooimeisiesfontein District
Combined Dingaan's Celebration been ill for three days.
"He must have become delirious Committee Members' Meeting. during the night and walked out of pronounced as it is spelled.
It is
Cham was also disqualified from driving for a period of three months.
LIB.BEER
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Dog Haunts Old Home
SALINAS, Cal.
For six years, Ven. n 13-year-old The last two decudes have seen the dog. lved with his master in a 71- Recently his rude breaking of the Forest's seclu-year-old residence. slon by the motor-car, which has master moved and the house was dis-1-1 mude a
a lonely and remote district of mantled. Yet, every day at the same Van leaves his new home, 144 square miles into a "dearable hour, residential neighbourhood," says the makes his way through the auto report. The expansion of the villages traffic and returns to his old stamp- into fair-sized towns would destroying grounds to nose among the vines their character, There is no guaron where he used to hide his soup bones. tee that future owners of possible building land will exercise restraint,
and control is essential.
Girl, 21, Heads G.O.P. Club
The report boldly advocates "No building at all" in certain internal areus and sets out a list of the sug-i gested maximum numbers of houses that should be allowed in various)
Akron, O villages.
Twenty-one-year-old Madge Hea- The area Just outside the forest, too, cock, who "never dreamed of getting -should-be- subject to a low-density into politics" has been elected presi residential zone restriction e.g., one dent of the Young Women's Re
She Is the house to five acres. Where rows of pubiican Club here. houses already exist in these fringing youngest president in the history of areas they should be screened by the organization.
trees
CONTROLLED ROADS
Pheasants To Leave Jail
Special care should be taken in dealing with Alling stations. They should be made unobtrustive and the number of advertisements should be reduced to & minimum. Through traille must be made to use a few About 200 pheasants which have specifled routes and all roads should wintered at Berkshire county jail was be controlled. It is anticipated that released on the first of April and dis-
two major roads designed in sym-tributed.
Pittsfield, Mass.
throughout the county
pathetic spirit should be sufficient for "wherever they will do sportsmen the all time to deal with through traffe. most good."
Yeop,
Fate Puzzles
The Pump-Man
YEOP CHING-PUI, Chinese pump-hand in the British steamer Mactra, left the Old Bailey recently carry- ing a kit-bag as big as himself.
He had just been found not guilty of the murder (and alter natively the manslaughter) of his bo'aun.
But he had also heard that Japanese bombers and smashed up his home at Nantou, in Canton,
He was a little puzzled by Fote, The death of Ah Sing took place 000 miles west of the Canaries: Yeop was tried at the Old Balley because, in law, British ships the world over como-under its jurisdiction.
The Chinese witnesses in the case took the path in their own fashion by breaking a saucer,
Yeop pleaded self-defence. After his acquittal, he said, in mechanical, carefully thought out English, am very happy."
But he was still puzzled as he sel aut for his lodging-house.
He was thinking of what had been his home in Nantou.
Law To Protect Blind
CONCORD, N. I. The legislature has passed a blil to protect. the blind. The measure re- quires.motorists intelties or congested districts to come to a full stop when they see a person with a white cane- which indicates, blindness.
TOO BIG FOR
A GAS MASK
man
Mr. William Marcham, An eighteen-stone retired Metro- pollian policeman, Is A with a large face. There Is nothing extraordinary about it. He is a large man with a face to match.
But the largest gas mask fasued for civillana will not ot him. The largest maak of the type issued to wardens will ro over his face-with muctí að- justment of siraps. Even so, ha cannot see properly through ilio eye-pieces.
Ito Lives at Seafield-road, Hove (Sussex), and all Hove A.R.P. authorities have been able to tell lilm--after a special consultation with regional head- quarters is that he will have te travel to London (at his own ; experise) • and be filed for a special mask (for which he will have to pay).
He thinks this unfair, has written to his local M.P. and
· Is - now - waiting for....something to be done for him,
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