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MOVED FURTHER ALONG STREET

The King, bookseller, has moved his shop from one part of Kings- way to another.

TAILS AUGUST 27, 1988.

THE BURNING BUSHES. A PROBLEM

Court Decision About Spirit Stove

The question of whether or not Recently the bookshop of His a spirit stove is a combustible arti- Majesty's Stationery Office opened cle was settled by Wimbledon in York House, Kingsway, and the magistrates recently when Edward old shop in Adastral House was Ayres, of Cobbold-road, Shepherd's closed,

Bush, was summoned before them for lighting a combustible-article on Wimbledon Common on June 19.

Hundreds of thousands of blue books and white papers have been moved down the street. The open- ing ceremony of the new. shop was performed by Lord Southwood, and Sir William R. Codling,

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Mr. Frank Townley, head keeper, said the point was a debatable one. The Common by-law, under which Printer the summons was issued, stated Controller of the Stationery Office, that "no one must let fall any presided.

lighted or combustible substance.” A window exhibition of State

There had been. 76 fires on t

the publishing, past and present, marks Common since April, the change of address.

Keeper Mills gaid that he sud- facsimiles of the Domesday Book denly saw bushes near the wind- and of Manga Carta, one of the mill burst into flames and noticed earliest reports of a Royal Commis- Ayres with a small spirit stove sion, the first volume of Hansard, which he was picking up and plac- and the first volume of the official ing in a pocket. verbatim report of Parliamentary The Chairman, Mr. E. Trim (to debates, which was made inTM 1909. Keeper Mills): If anyone were making a cup of tea on the Com- mon would you stop them?

As old manuscript minute book shows the record of the setting up of the Stationary Office, as it was then spelt-the modern Stationary Office claim that jokes of that type are now out of date.

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Keeper Mills: Oh, yes, I would stop. you if I saw you lighting a stove.

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opening, a “Brief Guide to Govern until about 11 o'clock at night is ment Publications" (3d.) by Mr. F. now printed by the Stationery Office R. Cowell, which gives an idea of in two pamphlets, one for each the vast publishing business which House, in time for delivery in Lon- has grown up. since the Office was don by 9 a.m. the flowing mrn- ̈ ̈ first allowed to sell publications ing.

In addition a mass of non-parlia- direct to the public in 1913.

Before that, the work was done mentary papers, compiled by Gov- by wholesale agents, who paid for ernment executive departments, are the privilege. Government, publi-published and sold by the Station- cations have been sold to the public ery Office. since 1836.

AGRICULTURE IN GARDENS

Many of them are brought by peo- ple who have no technical or trade

A workman passing the Station- ery Office bookshop not long ago was heard to remark "These chaps on have got something everything," and this short guide to the publications amply supports

seem to

that claim. ·

The subjects upon which the Government publish papers range from water pollution to forestry, from agriculture to diplomatic his- tory, from water pollution to fores- try, from the national income to art in the museums or from Britain's ancient monuments to the food the

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The sales of the series of A.R.P. handbooks already exceed one mil- lion.

Typical of the social questions with which the publications deal. are treatises on, "Sterilisation of the unfit", which was described as an authoritative document of first- class medical and social importance on "Sky-writing," "Corporal Pun- ishment," "Prison Labour."

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