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EDUCATION OF

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ARE MARINE ENGINEERS MANUAL WORKERS ?

AFFIRMATIVE DECISION BY

WELSH JUDGE

The question whether marine engineers can be properly regarded as manual workers and brought with in the scope of the Workmen's Com pensation Act notwithstanding the receipt of salaries of over £250, was a point raised before Judge Bryn Robers at Merai Bridge County Court recently.

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THE JOY AND SORROW OF ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF

MAS, HEDGER.

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CLUB.

LADIES' SECTION ANNUAL MEETING.

ROMANCE OF POTASH.

GERKIN HOPES FALSIFIED.

Until quite recently one, of Ger many's trunip 'cards which she relied upon playing at the coming Peace Conference was potash.

This substance, though never

Bock and-Moxon's cup won by tap. so that sheer need of food: would IKA: Gordon and Mr. Leith: Mr.sooner or later compel us to accept Congdon's cup won by Mrs. H. Hum-her terms.

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The man in the parable, we are told, having but one talent, wrapped it in a napkin and refused to use it. The annual meeting of the Ladies That was foolish as well as wrong. Section of the Royal Hongkong Golf for, as I learned in the difficult days | Club was held at the Holena May of my apprenticeship at the Mission. Institate this morning. Lady Rees-occurring free in Nature, is present one talent rightly used will go a long | Davies (Captain) presided, being sup in any fertile soil, from which it is way. Life could never, I suppose, ported by Mrs. Maitland Secry, extracted by plants. When it has all have been a difficult matter either to Mrs. Moxon, Mrs. J. W: Taylor, Mrs. been extracted, it must be replaced, the Vicar, so seif-confident and right- T... Arthur and Mrs. A. Ritchie. otherwse the plants wither and die, 4 ly self-confident, or to the Junior In speaking on the report the Gap- Now, before the war, practically Curate, so richly dowered with all tain said it had been decided to handi-the entire world's supply of this the talents.. Nor did the Senior cap only on the Happy Valley Course. valuable plant food came from the Curate And life a difficult task, for he Last year they had five more com- miries of Stassfurt, Prussino Saxony, had one simple rule alike for the day petitions than in may other year. The where it was deposited by the (and for the whole'ol life, To do the cup presented by Mrs. Dreaper was evaporation of vast inland salt-

thing that came to hand, without won by Miss Jessie Roger Lady water lake in prehistoric times.. haste, or doubt, or fear, and when Re-Davies' cap won by Mrs. Flein- Without, this potash of hers, Ger was done, as well as he could doing and Mrs. H. Griffin; Messrs. |many argued, our harvests would to pass on to the next thing, and so, at the end, to skep-that. I think. was, his rule. But for most of us, at any rate in the hor and restless days phreys; Mr. Wodehouse's cup. wor But very early, in the war our of youth, life is often difficult indeed. Mrs. Kilgour and Mrs. J. Taylor..

chemies and scientific agriculturiste And so in my 'prentice days at the Mission I was often glad to encourage press thanks to the Men's Committe, doubled talent which I had to set to record the championship and one myself by remembering the one un-ho had given them a board on which

against the Junior Curate's many. for the best gress score, and seats for was the talent-rere I think, precious the dressing room at Deep Watered their attention to the waste pro- First of all the potash-seekers-turn- I am sure of being talked to. I do Bay. They were all very grateful to ducts of the blast furnacest sed in not know what were its roots. Pr he Men's Committee and she thought the manufacture of pig-iron. It had the best way to show it would be by long been known that potash existed Taking themselves scarce on Wednes-in the dust drawn from the stoves days and Saturdays and not playing and boilers of blast furnace works. over the course on Sunday mornings.

The only drawback was that there Some discussion took place on the was not enough of it. Potash s old Committee on the bogey which at present was 91. It of the blast furnaces most of it was question of volatile stuff and in the terrific heat

had been suggested that it bo in driven off in the form of gas and so; creased to 94. She thought that was lost.

matter the new Committee should. The first obvious problem that the deal with.

investigators had to tackle, there fore, was to recover the potash from the gas, This was accomplished in the end by a system of first cooling and then washing the gas, so that all the foreign elements in it were precipitated including, of course, the potash.

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haps an unconscious recognition, or the part of those who talked to me, of the fact that I have, have always had, what Stevenson calls "an ill regulated interest in the phases of life and human character." But whatever wore the causes the fact remains. Whether in the Lads Club, where I spent much of my time sitting on the end of a table listening to the stories, lerg, ram bling, and involved, but full of in- cident, adventure, and character, told The point arose from the sinkingne by the boys, or in cottages in the of the Royal Mail' steamer "Leinster" afternoon, when I wasted hours listen by enemy action in October of lasting to a few mothers which should. rear, the widows Richard George Hughes and John David Crispin. the Vicur thought, have been devoted third and fourth engineers, claiming it was the same thing.

to Rying visits to a hundred houses, compensation from the City of Dublin members of the staff often wondered And other Steam Packet Company.

a: the quantity of miscellaneous in formation I managed to acquire.

Although so much has been writ ten and spoken on the subject of the education of the engineer, the question as to which is the most efficient method of training appears to be as far from settlement ap ever. The reason for this is probably that there are so many variable factors which affect the results, that no system can

be definitely allocated to the first place. Every system has produced both good and bad engineers, and some very successful men have received their training under conditions that would now be regarded as highly unsatisfactory by educational authori ties. So much depends upon the Evidence was given that the duties characteristics of the individual that of the engineers involved manual it is impossible to be dogmatic. The labour in varicus forms. No evidence was offered by the respondents, but subject, however, is always of im their counsel contended that the mediate interest to those about to duties were supervisory and did not set out on an engineer's career, as inrol.e, any special amount of man well as to those responsible for them,ual labour.

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with costs.

Stay of execution was granted in case of an appeal..

It was so that I came to know the

For all ber

life's surrow and the secret joy of litria Mrs. Hedger. homely Saxon name she was Celt to the backbone; a Hittle black-haired, black-eyed, fiery Welsh woman whose maiden name was Mary Morgan, and

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No decision was arrived at by the meeting on the question of whether a player on winning the Championship should have her handicap reduced to scratch. The opinion seemed to be har there should be some reduction..

The Committee elected was as fol- lows: Mrs. J. Johnstone. Mrs. Win-

slow, Mrs. Montagu Harston. Mrs. J. Taylor, Mrs. Maitland and Mrs. N. L. Smith.

Mrs. Johnstons was elected captain.

and the old Committee concluded the Vores of thanks to the Secretary

meeting.

he

threatened our food supplies from A potash famine, and they set them!

selves to overcome it.

'POTASH FROM PIG-TRON..

potash in the dust was trebled, and By these means the quantity of

in some instances quadrupled. Stil the investigators were not satisfied. They can about for some method of increasing the amount of potash pro duced.

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After elaborate and exhaustive: ex- periments, continued from the au- tumn of 1914 down to the spring of 1916. it was found that by adding

· could da produced in enormously in- creased quantities.

WASHED PROM WOOL- The drawback was that the supply did, upon the quartities of pig-tron was still too limited, depending, as it

made. So once again the investigat ors get to work, Experimenting in regard to the by-products of allied and other industries. Success once more attended their efforts, and some times in quite unexpected directions; as for example, the recovery of large quantilles of by-product potash in connection with one process of the woolcombing Industry, which is centred is Bradford.

and it may therefore be useful tgineers in question were clearly two things which long years in Lon- are lovely in the eyes of those who

The Judge decided that the en- who had brought with her from Wales stone, on the hills of her native land/common salt to the furnaces polash record the views of successful within the scope of the Workmen's don could not take from her. Cock-worship in them, and why those who engineers, and others who have Compensation Act, and made a neyfied by years in South London, in buit them called them Bethel, or studied the question, in order to declaration awarding the maximum thought, and speech, and manner, she Bethesda, or Ebenezer," seeking for compensation (306) in each case, still retained a voice which no Lon-them strange and beautiful names, as assist interested parties to make their own decisions. Sir William

den logs could rob of its rich volume men will for the place where they first Ellis, G.B.E., D.Eng, has recently

por of a certain wild freshness, as of learned hew the Spirit can mountain air across open hillsides, bid time break and let us through expressed his views on the subject of

and a passionate religious fervour Into eternity, our due.. the training of mechanical engineers

which burned in her like a fire Poor little woman, religion was not in an address to the Yorkshire drawing office, and also, possibly, to often wondered what brought our merely her chief, it was almost her Association of Students of the Insti- spend some further time in the shops, other women to church. Some came, only happiness, Honestly I never tution of Civil Engineers, and these He also urges the importance to the as I knew well, because they were found any explanation of her husband views may be helpful as we have young engineer of taking any optrue saints, though saints in a quiet, mere convincing, than the theory that suggested above. Sir Williams is of portunity which may occur towards restrained, homely English way. was possessed by an evil spirit. the opinion, and few will dispute it, the end of bis training of doing some Others, poor souls, came because the A clever workman, a life abstiner, that a successful career as an engi work abroad. The fact of being church was a place of "quier" where, he had a heart compacted of hates and · Up ill comparatively recently the neer is open to any young man of away from home, more or less upon for a little while, they could sit with fears and grudges, and was a past-method used there for washing the ordinary ability, provided he has the his own responsibility, undoubtedly their hands in their laps, hearing good master of the art of making himself raw wool was to scour if in het necessary strength of character and tends to develop character and self words, without too much exertion of and all sound him wretched. To the water with alkali and soap in three determination. With regard to the reliance in a young man, and these tired bodies and, minds, Same came world at large bis wife kept up the or, four different vessels. The in- very vexed question as to the order qualities will add materially to his because church-going was an outward Tction that he was a good husband,vestigators discovered that by the in which practical and theoretical prospects of success. Engineering, and visible sign of growing respect but when all reserve between us was simple expedient of subjecting the training should be given, Sir William Sie William concludes, is a serious ability, and of an upward tendency in at an end she spoke plainly. There's wool to a preliminary wash in cold holds the view that a boy should en profession, and must be regarded the social scale; and others came, many women," ter the shops immediately on leaving seriously by all who enter it. At openly and unashamed,

she said who envy water considerable quantities of school, not only to gain some in-the same time he calls attention to But there was no need to ask why I'd rather he go drunk twice a week and many hundreds of tons weekly for doles me having a restotal husband. But nearly pure potash were recoverable, sight into machine shop operations the need for maintaining the proper linte Mrs. Hedger came. and engineering processes. but more relationship between work and play..

and beat me, if only he'd be pleasant are now being produced from this particularly to come lato direct con-considering a certain amount of the bur she knew the psalms and most of could be so happy, if he'd let us."

She could neither read nor write, in the house between whiles. We source alone. tact with workmen while at the most latter ze essential a factor in making the hymns by heart, and when there And her first six boys (she had no impressionable age. period, which should extend for abounties for young engineers, he con est sen, in the choir, taught it to her.

ten to us for sucess as anything else. Opportu was a new hynin set down her young girls) were a bitter disappointment to two years, the youth should endra siders, are greater to-day than ever

her. They favoured their father,' and she never made a mistake. True, being heavy, light-haired, loutish lads, vour, by evening" study, to equip before, owing to the fact that many in Jerusalem, my happy home" she foul of mind, loul of tongue. Earn- cement kilns have beep found to con-i himself mentally for the University such have given their lives in the made Our Lady sings Magnifesting good wages, they gave their course he would commence at the great conflict, and others have been into "Our Lady sings magnificent," mother the least farthing she could end of his first term in the shops. In diverted by it from the careers on the case of youths going forward to which they had already embarked. bulk of the congregation.

buz in that she was at once with the keep them for, and exacted in return the University to take a degree course There is a dearth of young men of

She liked the last ounce the money would buy. after only two years practical train suitable training to take up positions Vicar favoured, and so wes at her seventh. I wonder how many fings Britain is in a fair way to become

a more florid type of tune than the But she found her consolation in her

The set result of it all is that ing, Sir William considers it desirable of increasing responsibility in con- for them, after completing the course, rection with the many schemes which best at the Senior Curate's open-air she has told me of his birth. to return to the firm with which will be put into operation all over the

services at the corner of Salisbury they put him into my arms," she would after-the war supplies of potash, and When independent of Germany for her they commenced their training in world as soon as financial conditions Row. But her religion was more than sey, loving to tell of it, I saw God that British industry and British order to gain experience in the become more stable-Enginaring...

a mere love for hymn-singing. Each had sent me one for my own. He's agriculture are being benefited. year before the Dedication Festival a Morgan, not a Hedgor. And oh she scrubbed the church from end to how I've prayed that he might grow end as her thankoffering. Iva no up to be a blessing to me. And 'I] money," she would say," and I can't asked the Vicar to tell me a name do fancy work. But I do know how that would mean he was God's gilt to to use a scrubbing-brush, and there's me, like those mothers you read of none of the others as will grudge me in the Bible. He said Theodore the job."

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The salt process, again, has been sucrestally applied to other than blast furnace works, notably those connered, with the manufacture of cement. The waste gases from the

these large quantities have been tain large quantities of potash, and further increased exactly as in the case of the blast furnaces by the ad dirion of salt.

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It was while engaged on this task a strange outlandish name at first that she first told me her spiritual ex But it's a true one. He's all that to periences." There are things which | me." And he was. I knew him may be spoken heart to heart, but from the time he was ten till he was M. A. at the Helena May Institute must not be written, for the world to eighteen, and he is among the nurn-

on Wednesday, January 21 at 530 read, but as she spoke to me, kneel ber of the most attractive human pm. ing on the wet floor, girt with back-beings I ever knew. 3

ing.scrubbing-brush in hand, I felt I've called her "poor tile Mrs. WALLA WALLA? Lännches at that I understood why a hundred littic Hedger." But was she really so poor, chapels, of dingy brick or rough-hewn.' as folk go in this sad world?

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