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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 8, 1939..
POET'S DAUGHTER SEEKS LOST WORKS
Trying To Solve Puzzle Of Symonds Family
DAME
AME KATHARINE FURSE is trying to solve a. family mystery- the disappearance of the private papers of her father, John Addington Symonds, the critic and poet of the past century.
Symonds left them to his friend Horatio Brown, the historian, who removed them to Venice, and on his death in 1926 left them in turn to a person whose name is un-; known.
Dame Katharine is anxious to get in touch with this person before she finishes her memoirs, on which she is now working.
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Among the missing papers was the autobiography of her father, which was not to be published until 1976.
At her Chelsen flat Dame Katharine said that she has had the strange experience of "discovering" her own father. She had never read any of his works until she began to consider writ- ing her memoirs.
Now she is fascinated by the personality disclosed in the books.
"DID NOT LIKE BOOKS"
"As a girl," said Dame Katharine, "I never listened to the talk of the brilliant people who gathered around my father's table. I did not care for books, but loved sports and outdoor life."
Woman Cyclist Gets £7,921
MISS BARBARA FISHER
She had no schooling, and the family did not seem greatly con- cerned whether she ever learned to read or write,
Two other famous members of her family will appear in Dame Katharine's book-her husband,
Charles W4 Fut
aged 27, who used to cap-died in 1004, and her aunt, Martanne tain her works' hockey team and North, the naturalist, whose flower
paintings are in a special gallery at } was "completely crippled" by an kew." accident while cycling, Was
awarded £7,921 damages at Symond's translation of Benvenuto Lancaster Assizes recently.
The original manuscript of
Cellini's Autobiography was given to Miss Fisher Is the daughter of the the Red Cross during the War by one of Dame Katharine's sisters. Rev. Charles Fisher, a retired clergy- Dame Katharine's Red Cross staff man, of West Bank, near Lancaster. bought for £450 and presented it It wan stated that a car driven by to her. She has now given the the defendant, Mrs. Mabel Ritchie, of manuscript to the British Museum. Norwood-drive, Torrisholme, More-
eambe, ran into Miss Fisher's ma-
chine from behind.
When her father retired she
Miss Fisher received a wound on secured n past as shorthand typist, the head in which reven stitches had end a letter from her employers to be inserted. Rheumatoid arthritial stated that she had excellent pros subsequently developed.
pects of promotion.
Liability was admitted, and the is sue was one of the amount of dam-
nges.
As a girl Mes Fisher was a good student, and at 17 took a course in agriculture at the lonmouthshire Agricultural College, Usk.
Miss Fisher's left arm was stated to be useless, but she could raise her right arm to her lips. Her jaw wa
so damaged that she could ony open her mouth about half an inch.
Taree specialists pronounced her a complete cripple.
• Generalissimo Francisco"Franco,] left, chats attentively with Pilar Primo de Rivers, daughter of the late Spanish dictator, Primo de Rivera, a reception in Rest imonastery, Madrid, following re- cent victory parade.
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THE world has just grown the largest crop of wheat in its history; and there are abundant supplies of barley, oats and rye.
The world's granaries are bulging, prices have collapsed, and while some Governments, such as the German, are passing measures to prevent use of these ample supplies, others, such as the Governments of U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Argentina and the Danubian countries, have had to intervene with price guarantees to save their farmers from being ruined by their own enter prise and the bounty of nature.
This is the latest picture of our mad world painted with an unfaltering brush in the Imperial Economic Committee's Report on "Grain. Crops," published recently by H. M. Stationery Office, price 2s. 6d.
'NEARLY 20 PER CENT. UP The world In 1038-30 has grown 120,498,000 tons of wheat, or just Upon 20 per cent, more han the previous year,
of wheat a year, look particularly aitrneliveto the rulers of the Releli. arise in the report are, firstly, that Two minor points of interest that Holland with an
average yield of, 23.Jewt, per acre, is the most inten- All the chief exporting countries sive producer of wheat in the world; have shared In this bumper output and North America exceeded her Jenormous erop of 33,830,000.tons in 1031 by an extra 500,000 tons in 1938.
Apart from clloris in certain countries, including Great Britain grow more wheat at home, there has been a tendency to use less wheat
compares with 18.Jewt, in Britain and only 0.4ewt. in Canada,
The other point is that although supplies and prices of wheat have fluctuated so widely in the past five years-prices by as much as 100 per cent.-the world utilisation of wheat and wheat flour hus remained rough- | ly the same in each of these years.
Wheat appears to be one of those
for animal food and more of other commodities in which a fall in price kinds of fodder instead, particularly does not stimulate demand. L. F. E. grass. As our knowledge of grass
management increases this tendency
is ilkely to be Intensified,
Germany has also been insisting upon high rates of wheat extraction by her millers and has enforced the mixture of other vergal flour and potato four with her wheat flour.
"GERMANY'S-RESERVE-
But Germany in 1936 was the second largest Importer of whent in the world, a position usually occupied
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THIRTY trees, all differenti
specimens, represent the strange hobby which Mr. G. H. Clarke enjoys in his garden in Windsor Road, Cambridge. The United Kingdom, of course, is A civil servant, Mr. Clarke devotes far and away the largest, for we all the time he can spare from his normally inport about 5,000,000 tons wite and family to the care of his EL year, compared with Belgium's plantation, which he set 18 months normal Import of about 1,000,000 go.
by Belgium,
10:19.
He said recently: "Most of my
From the Bures given it is fairly trees are commercial timber, includ- evident that Germany has bought ing. Californian redwoods, which | and is conserving a big reserve of row as high as 300 feet, western wheat, for her 1,248,000 tons of im red cedars from Canada, Ave dif ports in 1030 were more than double ferent kinds of pluc, the mountain her imports of the more normal frgh, and the Italian black poplar." years such as 1931 and 1932,
Mr. Churka hopes to put his hobby In addition, her production at home on a commercial basis. has alightly increased, and there are the measures already mentioned for
COASTAL SOIL BEST decreasing the use of whent in "I am watching the growth of the Germany.
trees," he cold, to ser how they But it is estimated that the in-react to the soll and the climate. clusion of the Sudeten areas in the "My Californiun redwoods Reich has increased German require- only two or three inches high, but ments by between 300,000 and 370.- when I have had time to study them 000 tona, while the added wheat I shall try to buy some land on the production is only between 27,000 Cornish coast, where I hope to grow And 54,000 tons.
saleable timber..
are
This heavy demand upon Ger- "The Forestry Commission have many's wheat reserves by her new found that these glant redwoods acquisitions in Central Europe must grow best in constal valleys, and I make Rumania and Hungary, with a believe they are growing some in Joint export of about 1,200,000 tons Wales."
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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure In 1930 on behalf of sick and destituto children is estimated at $30,000, against which the Income to dato is $20,000 only.
In order to continue his work, the Society asks for the balance of
$10,000 before the closs of the financial year on 31st October.
Ion, Treasurer!
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building."
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o The Banque do L'Indo-Chine,
3rd July, 1039, Hongkong.