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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1928.

`ART TREASURES.

LORD LEE'S ADVICE ON PURCHASING.

"CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF."

Advice to British collectors was given by Viscount Lee of Farehan, when opening the exhibition of art treasures arranged at the Grafton Galleries by the British Antique Dealers Association. Mr. Francis Mallett provided at the ceremony.

Among the suggestions he made for their guidance were:

SPARKING.

TRAMWAYS AND RADIO.

RECEPTION HINDERED.

AT OLD BAILEY.

SWEET HERDS ON THE BENCH

THE RECORDER EXPLAINS.

The bid-time custom of the Lord

THE CHINA MAIL,

Mayor, alderman, and Judges carrying bouquets on to the bench of the Old Balley between May and October was explained by the Ro- corder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) dur- ing his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the Sessions recent

The custom, he remarked, often awakened the curiosity of visitors to the court, and it had greatly in- terested a well-known American lawyer present at the opening of the sessions.

Mr. Walter Baker, M.P., for Enst| Bristol, who has complained of the interference with broadcast recep- tion caused by electric tramways, has received a letter from the Bri- tish Broadcasting Corporation, in which it is pointed out that a change in the present trolley-wheel system of overhead collections ly. would be an extremely costly step for local tramways. A system must therefore be searched for which will be attractive from the point of view of maintenance costs Of course, you may make mis-as well as likely to improve broad- takes. Even dealers do. The coat reception conditions. people who do not make mistakes never make anything.

Take your courage in both hands. Buy what you like your self, not what you are told to buy, provided that always the quality is right.

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The latter expresses the opinion] that no aseful purpose can at pro Do not, at any rate, make the sent be served by additional ex- mistake often made by collectora perimenta at Bristol until such in America of thinking more of time as the conversion to a new the documents and certificates system of overhead collection has than the beauty and artisatie been completed in other towns, value of the objects themselves, when further experiments will take He had heard adverse criticisms place in an endeavour to confirm both of the objects of the exhibi- the results which have already tion and of his action in opening been obtained experimentally. it. "Some people," he declared, The Wireless Correspondent of "say the result of it will be atill"The Daily Telegraph" writes: further to diminish the number of The B.B.C. have been conducting our dwindling national treasures, experiments for some time in con- and soon there will be nothing left junction with local tramway au- in this country, that our heritage thorities with a view to reducing will be dispersed, and all for vul- interference from overhead trol gar cash-by which they usually leys. As a result a device has infer dollars-and, in short, that been discovered wirich promises to we are jointly engaged in a semi-mitigate the nuisance. Several au- unpatriotic enterprise.

thorities have undertaken to teat "In my view the truth is pre-it in practica. The interference, cisely the reverse, because if the which has drawn complaints from British public really care about various parts of the country over these beautiful things, if they will since broadensting commenced, is only take advantages of this uni- caused by live sparks when the que opportunity, the best of the trolley jumps the overhead wires treasures which you see will be, at junctions. or should be, retained in this coun- try."

The bulk of them were in the market.

American Invadera, Lord. Lee advised his listeners to lose no time before the Amor сап invaders arrived.

The B.B.C. gaining experience from Vienna, has found a way of greatly reducing this sparking. It'

DIAMOND CUTTING.

BIG PLAN ASSURED IN SOUTH-AFRICA.

A £30,000 SUBSIDY,

Cape Town.-The early establish- ment of the diamond cutting indus- try on a large scale in South Africa is now assured.

R.S.P.C.A. MEETING.

COUNCIL WALK OUT IN LONDON.

BANBURY "SHOUTED DOWN.”

bis.

FROM THE DOCK.

A WOMAN'S REPLY TO A PROPOSAL.

"THINK IT OVER.”

Lord Banbury, who presided at A marriage proposal was made. an extraordinary general meeting from the dock at the Old Bailey of the Royal Society for the Pre- when Bertram Loy Roberts, 46, vention of Cruelty to Animals at clerk, stated to have had four The Select Committee on Publie Cantral Hall, Westminster, recent- "wives,” was sent to prison for Accounts have recommended the ly was howled down, and later he twelve months in the second divi. ratification by Parliament of the declared the meeting adjourned. sion for bigamy. agreement entered into last year be- The trouble began when the Mr. B. H. Waddy, prosecuting, tween the Government and Messrs. chairman, dealing with a proposal said that Roberta was first married Rosentrauch Brothers and Korbi, of that members of the society should in Cardiff in 1905 and there were Antwerp, with this object in view. be allowed to vote by proxy, refer three children of the marriage. In In return for a subsidy of 250,000 red to a circular letter issued by 1910 he went to Canada, and two and certain other advantages the the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, a year later appeared to have gone firm named undertake to train not which it was alleged that Lord through a form of marriage with a fewer than

500 young South Banbury had spoken, against the wondan In Victoria, British Colum- It went back to 1786, and showed | Africans as diamond cutters before Dogs Protection Blil. the humanity that had been brought the agreement expires five years From the back of the hall came He served in the war, becoming to the administration British hence. The Select Com kittee's re A demand that Lord Banbury a staff sergeant major with the Justice. On the site of the present commendation is, however, contin- should vacate the chair in order to R.A.S.C. in Egypt. In 1918, while Old Bailey the jails at that time gent on certain minor modifications make his reply. Lord Banbury re- in Caire, he married" again, and were kept in such a dlthy condition in the text of the agreement, and mained standing at the table, and bis "wife" in British Columbia took that a Lord Mayor, aldermen, and they urge that all the advantages immediately there was a loud out divorce proceedings against him." about fifty others died of jail fever.❘ apart from the subsidy shall be cry, silenced for a moment by the Returning to England he It did not seem to occur to the au- given to the existing cutting fac-shout, "Have you been elected by courted Miss Mary Alichia, a busi- thorities to make the jails sanitary, tories' and any others that may be the council to take the chalrt" ness girl, as a single man and they but they gave the Lord Mayor, established.

Lord Banbury replied, "Yea" Up-were "married" in Kent in 1925. aldermen, and judges bouquets of

roar broke out again, a number of After two years of happy "mar- flowers, and strewed the bench with

people shouting for the production ried" life Mias Allchin discovered sweet herba.

of the minutes by which the apa letter written by the Cairo "wife." pointment was made.

She consulted a solicitor and bigamy proceedings followed.

"Now," added Sir Ernest, "courts and cells are absolutely sanitary, but we keep up the custom because we want to remind ourselves that it is our duty to administer justice with mercy."

Cases involving death or bodily injury were fewer than on previous occasions, said the Recorder. An unsatisfactory featdre of the calendar was that it indicated a re- crudescence of the crime of bigamy, there being no fewer than thirteen such charges. Crimes of violence also seemed to be very prevalent at the present time.

is hoped that the method will ETHYL AND HEALTH.

AMERICAN WITNESS AT GOVERNMENT INQUIRY.

Exact details are being withheld prove inexpensive and efficient. until the efficacy of the plan has Shortly heen demonstrated, when it will be' after he had remarked that he suggested that its universal adop trembled to think what would tion might be appreciated by a tee appointed to Inquire into the The Ministry of Health Commit- happen if a telegraphic order cameteners, The B.B.C.'s powers arc, possible dangers to health from the from Mr. Ford saying he would however, limited, and it is only use of motor spirit containing lend buy the lot, Mr. Ford arrived at through the cordial voluntary co-tetra-ethyl began its task recently operation of certain authorities at the Office of Works, St. James's that progress has been possible.

Park: Sir Frederick Willis is chair-

the exhibition.

"There is no doubt whatever." he continued, "that the prices in England are much lower than pu the Continent for the same quality of goods. Yet we have, this curt ous phenomenon. that the average Englishman, who has all those wonderful things under his nos will very often never buy in Eng land, wherens he will go abroad for an expensive holiday and make the must gullible and unfortunate pur- chanea at much higher prices than at home." Ife hoped the exhibition would provide a remedy for such

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CANAL MYSTERY.

DROWNED GIRL AND CYCLE.

Mr. Colbourne, of

A verdict of found drowned was recorded at an Ealing inquest on Mabel Emily Colbourne, aged 20, whose body was recovered from the Grand Junction Canal at Greenford, near the spot where a motor-cycle had been found a week previously. a condition of things.

St. Helen's Twenty-five years ago he was gardens, North Kensington, the being shown by the late Mr.girl's father, said that his daughter Pierpont Morgan over the latter's left home on the morning of April. great collection at Princess-gate, 15 to go to a new situation at à and the owner paused before a por confectioner's shop. Greenford was trait of a little Dutch girl, saying: unknown to her, and he did not "That is the thing I like best. Do know if she had any friends in that

She had you know why? Because I chose neighbourhood.

man.

The first witness, Dr. Graham Edgar, Director of Research for the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, New | York, said elaborate arrangements had been made in the United States for an investigatinñ to go on inde- finitely into the possible conse quenes of the long use of ethyl

petrol.

Dr. Edgar made particular re- ference to the tests which have been carried out on behalf of "The Daily Mall,"

He stated:

A feature of the report is the disclosure of an offer by the London diamond syndicate to establish cutting factory with a capital of £100,000 without a subsidy, provid. ed no exclusive privileges are ac. corded to other undertakings of the kind, This offer the committee recommends to the serious attention of the Government.

Improved Prospects. Evidence was given before the

Mr. Arend committee by

Brink, formerly valuer of the De Beers Company, to the effect that the dia mond cutting industry, which he had formerly deprecated, can now be established here on a satisfactory economic basis, The new factors which have made it possible are:

1. The imposition of an export duty of 10 per cent. on rough and uncut diamonds.

Lord Banbury: If members here do not wish to hear the truth the best thing for them to do is to go out.

A Member: You aro taking sides.

Lady Cory, who sat on the chair- man's right, clapped her hands, and Lord Banbury, turning to her, made a remark.

At this point the Hon. Stephen Coleridge walked from the body of the hall to the foot of the plat form, and was loudly cheered. He said: "What some of my friends apparently feel is that if you are going to make attacks upon me, some other person should be in the chair."

Mrs. Roberts, the legal wife, sald that she had not heard from her

husband for seventeen years after he had left her, and she would like; to divorce him..

The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) advised her to go to the Poor Persons Department at the High Court.

Roberts, from the dock, said that he was willing to marry Miss Ali- chin if she would marry him.

The Recorder: I will ask her, Calling her forward. he said:

"Would you like to marry him if you could?"

Miss Allchin: I would rather think it over.

Lord Banbury began: "What The Recorder, passing sentence, 2. A material increase, prob-happened was-" But there were said that as the marriages In Bri- ably 50 per cent, in the price of cries of "Who is going to take the tish Columbia and Cairo had not rough diamonds, which has add-|chair?" and "Where โร the been strictly proved, he should not ‚ed to the value of the export daly minute?" from all parts of the pay attention to them.

to the local cutters.

hall. "We have no chairman,” 3. Amendment of the Diamond quickly became a general chorus. Cutting Act, ensuring a supply The noise died away, when the DIRECTORS LEAVE. of diamonds for local cutting at Hon. Stephen Coleridge again ap the producers' selling price to the proached the platform, and told DISAGREE WITH VICKERS Syndicate, less the export duty Lord Banbury that they wished to

MANAGEMENT. and other export charges.

hear all that Lord Banbury had to 4. Reduction In the disparity say, "but let some other member Eight directors of the Matro between the cost of living infof the council take the chair, while politan Carriage, Waggon, and South Africa and in Europe, you make your speech." (Cheers.) Finance Company (issued capital Lord Banbury: What I am doing £3,658,230), one of the biggest sub- Mr. Brink stated that the exist is perfectly in order. If the meetsidiaries of Vickers, Ltd., have re ing small cutting factories are to-ing will not listen to me I shall signed owing to a difference of! day exporting a considerable pro-

simply dissolve the meeting. opinion with the general manage- portion of their cut goods, as their

(Cheers.) output exceeds the South African demand. In preference

to agree-

After more interruption Lord Banbury said: "I have consulted ments of the nature under invest with the council (who were on the gation, he suggested that the Gov-platform), and as the meeting has crament should offer a £50,000 pre- refused to hear me, I will adjourn mium to the first diamond cutter the meeting." Lord Banbury and who during a period of twelve some members of the council then months cut and polished not less left the platform. than 50,000 carats.

There has been recently publish- ed in a newspaper the result of an

Sir David Harris, director of De investigation carried out in this Beers, referring to the Syndicate's country by Dr. Myer Coplans. In offer, said that the risk of illelt this investigation two mechanics, diamond transactions would be lea never who had for a short while sened if the Syndicate controlled it ntyacif." (Laughter and cheers.) been on the pillion seat of a motor-"serviced" care using ethyl petro! the cutting operations. "I say to the rich collector of to-cycle as far as he knew,

were subjected to medical exam- day," Lord Lea added. "ge and do

Mr. Colbourne added that he ination. likewise."

would like to have the matter of the Ho admired the association, he motor-cycle settled, and the coroner concluded, because it was a move agreed that there was certainly a ment of many excellent objects-mystery connected with it. Ile as- the raising of the status of the sured the witness, however, that profession, the protection of their the detective officers had not been

idle, since the discovery. interests, and the helping of such of their members as had fallen by

the way. He was glad to see so have removed the landscape and many familiar friends, with some Holy Family. Please say what of whom he had crossed swords in am to do with the Coronation of the past and occasionally hnd George V." (Laughter.) crossed cheques.

Joy of Collecting.

tion, in the chair.

It la only necessary to point out that no conclusions can be reached from consideration of data so frag- mentary.

The remainder of the report in question is confined entirely to an- alytical data of doubtful algnik- cance, to discussion of Industrial

IMPATIENT.

TOO SLOW PROGRESS OF CO-OPERATION.

Sir James Douglas was then adopted as chairman. He at, once suggested that a deputation should go to the council, and ask them to

return..

Sir James sent a messenger, but it was learned that Lord Banbury had already left the building, and that members of the council had refused to return.

Six voted for the proposal to in- troduce proxy voting, and the re mainder of the audience against it.

MONEY-LENDERS.

STORY OF POSE AS

PROFESSOR..

street.

street.

ment of Vickers.

They are:

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Sir Edmund Wyldbone Smith

(chairman).

Mr. Bernard. D. F. Docker

(deputy chairman).

Mr. Ludford C. Docker. Sir. Lingard Goulding. Major J. R. Greg. Mr. J. T. Sanderson. Mr. B. H. Binder.

Mr. M. B. U. Dewar, This leaves on the board: Mr. A. Spencer (vice-chairman), Siri Vincent Caillard, Sir Mark Webster Jenkinson, and Mr. T. L Taylor.

Vickers, Ltd., announced that the following had been appointed add!-| tional directors:

Mr. J. P. Crouch. Mr. R. C. Irwin. Mr. G. G. Sim.

Mr. Howard Williams.

Sir Edmund Wyldbore Smith, the| retiring chairman, is a director of Vickers, but at the offices no in- formation, could be obtained as to whether he was resigning also from the parent company.

The Parent Company. By the changes in the board' of

pany the directorate, is brought

more closely in touch with the the Metropolitan Carriage Com

parent company, '

* Viokers, 'Ltd., owns nearly all. from Maxmillian Edward the share, capital of the Metro from Richard Ferguson, of Finance Company, which, in turn, Lammert, Duke-street.

politan Carriage, Waggon, and Clifford Investments, Regent includes the Ashbury Rallway and street.

Iron Company: Lancaster Railway He was also charged with at- Carriage and Waggon Company; tempting to obtain.raja £600 from Frank Clements, George Oldbury Railway Carriage and Brown, Marshalls and Company;

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Socialists were, a little impatient lead poisoning, and to speculations at the slow rate of progress made concerning what might happen were A. V. Alexander, M.P., speaking on towards Collectivism, said Mr. the use of ethyl petrol universal.

Dr. Edgar described the circum- dinner of the Women's Advertising the Co-operative Movement at a

Until the board was reorganised A New Regeneration. stances in which a number of cases Club of London, held at the Troca

in connection with the formation Ralph Edgar Gott, aged 48, a of the Vickers-Armstrong fusion, Viscount Burnham, who repiled, of poisoning and fire fatalities os dero. "It is a truly lovely collection of auid that they had been assisting curred in 1924 at a works in New

Civil Servant, of Alexander-road, Sir Edmund was chairman of the works of art," said Sir Philip that day at the regeneration of Jersey engaged in the development he added, "what is the effect of charged at Marl-berough-street re- Vickers, Ltd.

"They quite naturally ask me," Southbourne, Bournemouth, was industrial management board of Soon, M.P., proposing the toast our national museums. It was a of a new process for the manufae the growth of the movement on the cently with obtaining by false pre of the Art Treasures Exhibition, at rebirth badly wanted. What was a dinner of the British Antique now necessary

ture of tetra-ethyl lead and saki was more enthu- that experiments had shown that on larger and heavier industries. We tences the following sums from Dealers Association, held at the siasm, more ideallam, and more the average, from an engine-burn-

have seen grow up all over the West End money-lenders:—— Mallett, president of the associa We could stand comparison with of the lead may enter the exhaust model of the British movement. If £400 from John Graigner, of Duke Hotel Vistoria, with Mr. Francis imagination in our museum policy. ing ethyl petrol, about 25 per cent. world a network of co-operative or £360 from Albert Bromst Conduit

ganisations, all founded on the any other country in the supreme gases in a form sufficiently finely you go to Russia you And a 'tro- The exhibition, continued Sir excellence of our museums and gal divided to float for a time in the mendously powerful and successful £500 Philip, must exercise a great edu lories. On the other hand, he air, but only a small fraction of the co-operative movement there. cative force on all who visited It. would like to see A short walk through the galleries a little more of that popular en- ad by human beings.

in Britain most finely divided dust was retain-have thirty-five affilated national £300

We

would start in many men and thusiasm which the American

organisations, with a membership women who had not yet succumb. Museum Association had elicited.

Mr. H. S. Tegner, of the Anglo of 50,000,000, and the world trade -ød to the chase a desire to collect But he honestly believed that American Oil Company, said his of these associations is £3,500,000,-

something artistic.

public interest in our museums was company thoroughly satisfied them-000 a year. "It depends on your yordict," growing by leaps and bounds. His selves of the 'safety of tetra-athy! The development of our interna- added. Sir Philip, "whether a mas agreed that there should be more before marketing it in England. tional trade is going to be a very tar will live or not, so that in a interaction and mutual help bo- He added:

considerable factor in helping un- manner of speaking you are thetween the national.collections and Ethyl petrol is being attacked in employment and other problems. architects of immortality.".

local museums. Was it not pos- the Treas, but from every source of We have financed the co-operative The President, replying, saldalble to take a wider outlook in evidence that this company has wheat pools of West and South Aus of Public Prosecutions, and that worth Iron Company. Also it Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong

Mr. E. Clayton, for the Director tree Company; and the Willinga. **) that the exhibition was designed to niutual service of our museums been able to consult and from our tralla and farmers there have ex- Gott was a first-class valuer en owns the entire share capital or during June, 1928, standard time stimulate interest, and more parti and Institutions at work outside own experience in handling the pro- Pressed the view that co-operation cularly British Interest, in art. It for the education and Illumination duct through our blending plants, of the type we introduced there ployed by the Board of Inland Re- the Blake Bollor, Waggon and En- for the 120th meridian, East of was hoped that the exhibition of public taste? would creat fresh buyers und

where our staffs are regularly ins would ultimately be out of the ways venue at a salary of £660, rising to gineering Company, Greenwich, is as follows enlarge the circle of home: collec-bibitions of old masters and paint toners, we have not encountered at present carries nearly all the Civil Servant for 18 yearØNNERSSON BAT Why was it that we only had expected by competent medical practie of saving the primary producer who 700, with bonuses. He had been added ings-of certain periods and, no us the alightest indication that the day is covered with a girdle of co- The toist of "The National hibitions of the decorative arts? handing of ethyl petrol does or can operative effort not merely idealis falsely represented himself as Pro-Before these

SAR secretary to the Commissioner Messums and Art Galleries" was Why should there not be oppor produce the slightest deleterious tic but consisting of financially fessor Lionel, William Lyde, pro- Gott had either obtained

In calling upon Mr. Grainger he Inland Revenue proposed by Sir William Plonder, tunities of judging the surpassing effects to the worker, the motor-car successful undertakings. This de fessor of geography, of the Univered to obtain sums who recalled the story of the merits of our works in decoration American who purchased a Holy by having exhibitions of periods user, or the public generally. velopment fa one of greatest hopes Family by an old master. To exhibitions which would show that Mr. Pye, of the Air Ministry, said of humanity. Some people com sity College Gower-street, sind said muggle it out of the country the for solid beauty we had no rivals that exhaustive, experiments had plain that we get privileges others he was receiving £1,200 a year and American had a landscape paint in that branch of national handl been carried out. At no time had say, that if we succeed others are residing of Oliphant House, Clar fed over it. On arriving in the craft? It might be possible to there been any report of Illness bound to suffer. But our principle ence-crescent Windeor.........~ He

States he gave instructions for the make our national galleries play, a among the personnel handling is that of the greatest good for this falls represented landscapes to be removed, and much greater part in our national, ethyl spirit. later received the Intimatio, "I art.

stora

The inquiry was adjourned;

world on his back. The world to-

greatest number, and so it is boundl to be. for the good of the race.

A Professor

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lenders, but they forgav

ended that embarrassed, and

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