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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 10, 1988

News

GAS

PROOF

SHELTER

FOR

ITS & OTHER SMALL ANIMALS.

Snack Bar

A gas-proof chamber for animals in the event of an air raid has now been invented. The animal would be placed inside and 'the side screwed down tightly.

TO SILENCE CHIMES AT NIGHT

A campaign to stop clock chimes during the night in Britain's towns. and villages is to be launched

BOON.

An M.P. is to be petitioned to raise the subject in the Commons. The question will also be brought to the notice of the Hotel and Res- taurant Association and similar bodies.

Prime mover in the campaign is Mr. C. S. Watson, kotel manager, of St. Austell, Cornwall. He says that a church clock only fifty yards away from his hotel bed- room keeps his visitors awake all night by chiming · every... quarter of an hour.

SPEECH BY TELEVISION

After Mr. J. B. Priestley, the, author, had eaten at the television festival dinner of the Royal Photo- graphic Society on November 2, he Was to have gone to Alexandra Palace to make an after-dinner speech by television. He found him- self however compelled to appear in his own play owing to the illness of an actor, and Beverley. Nichols had the honour of making the first television after dinner speech.-

THEY PREFER NOISE OF.

TRAFFIC TO CHILDREN

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RAT HUNTS--AT 1d. A TAIL

HOWLERS BY B.B.C. ANNOUNCERS

B.B.C. announcers are noted chiefly for impeccable urbanity of speech, but an official of Broadcast- ing House has been showing them in a new light. He has made a collection of announcers' “howlers”—including mistakes, oddities and Spoonerisms.

"You have just heard the Bathroom Orchestra from Pump," said one announcer at the end of a concert at the Pumproom, Bath. Another, describing a volcanic eruption, stated: "A large area of lager is rapidly overcoming the village."

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During a description of changes

the equipment of London's mobile police the remark occurred: "Arrangements have been made for the London police to change their combinations 'this winter."

The Offenbach work "Orpheus in the Underworld" was announced as "Orpheus in the Underground," and the former conductor of the B.B.C. Rats are causing great damage Military Band, B. Walton O'Donnell, in Carmarthenshire, and as a penny was called "Wee Bolton O'Donnell." is being offered for every tail hand- ed to officials unemployed men are organising hunts—and earning good

-money.

NOT FOR “BIRDIES”.

Threepenny bags of grass seed are being sold to players on the first tee on Rosanne golf course, Mel- bourne following a request by the captain that players should not only put back divots, but also sow seed where the turf has been lost.

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HEIRESS WEDS GOLFER

Miss Barbara Louise Bourne, heiress to the Singer Sewing Ma- chine fortune, has married Horton Smith the famous U.S. golfer, in Washington (Connecticut). Well- known golfers acted as ushers.

LOW ADVENTURE

War was rich and glamorous for

Harding Davis chaps- Flashing sabers, plunging horses,

dangerous, perhaps; Everybody mentioned the destruc-

tiveness of war,

But no one ever whispered that the

darn thing was a bore. So I went to Flanders quite expect-

ing to be killed→→→

SAT ON A RECORD gaid that he was unable to play the On one occasion an announcer

last record in a gramophone recital because he had just sat on it. At the end of another recital the an- nouncer apologised by saying: "Ex-

England's West coast had the rare visitation of a violent' sand- storm as the result of the wild gale which raged last month. This pic- ture shows the effect in one dis trict. (Copyright. By: Air Mail).

cuse me, I have got so wrapped up But they never warned me of the in this that I have gone on seven

sand-bags to be filled,

minutes over my time."

Faced with a choice between traf- No fic or children making a noise out- side their houses, Harringay, Lon- don, N., residents say they prefer

traffic!

And

one ever pointed out that trenches must be dug,

corrugated iron is the darnest thing to lug, Bringing up revetments is the mean-

est kind of chore,

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During one of the Empire pro- grammes in the small hours of the morning the ammouncer apologised for failing to make a preliminary announcement at the opening of the broadcast. This lapse, he said, was due to partaking of excessive sleep.”

Mr. G. E. Waldron, secretary of In short, they never, mentioned that the Harringay Ratepayers' Associa- the army was a bore. tion, said: "Several times we have Waiting for reliefs to come, and CAMERA EVIDENCE asked the Ministry of Transport crouching in the rain and the Borough Council to close. Are no more high-adventurous than these streets off Green-lhnes, Har- waiting for a train, ringay to traffic, so that we could We were lousy, cold and frowsy get a little peace.

Loopy of Loch Ness has been pho- tographed. Not just snapped, but shot with a movie camera. The film (summer Argonne weather), was shown in London, and taken Sometimes scared and always bored rather unfortunately on a dull day, suggested that there is. in Loch Ness something with a long neck and a flat head.

(the two can go together), Staring through the broken woods

when misty was the dawn,' Yawning mortars,✨ yawning men;

“Nothing was done. Now we hear there is a proposal to make some of these roads into street playgrounds for children, If that is the only way we can get them closed to traffic, we would rather have the traffic” -'- "And Mr. Edgar A. Bishop, the chairman, has informed the Minis- try of Transport and the Tottenham But no one ever pointed out that Borough Council . to that effect.

our life was one'big yarn: Mud I'd thought of, rats I'd thought

of, any kind of gore,

fighting was a bore.

There may be those who, having recently had their passport photo- graphs taken, refuan to accept the avidence of a camera. That does not matter, for monsters do not depend on more evidence.

VILLAGE SOLD

The village of Sneaton, near Whitby, Yorkshire--the hall, the inn, eight farms, houses, cottages and woodland has been sold by auction.

Mr. R. J. M. Rastall, of Gros- mont, secured Manor Farm and. Manor House Farm (216 acres)

£8,000.

Manor Farm includes the site of a pre-Norman castle.

GRISLY OFFER

It was a misguided_Canadian of the name of Charles V. Millar who started the "stork derby."

You may

grisby com new that this rather

was organised to see which mother could produce the most children within a specified time. A large sum of money was. to be donated to the winner.

Now from Nationalist Spain. comes a grim parallel.

A "bereavement trophy" of $25 · has been offered by the Municipality, of Soria for the mother who has lost. the most sons in the Spanish War.

£25 IN PENNIES

After saving his extra pennies. for years, William Cehak decided to buy a car.

He walked into a suburban motor agents and laid down a sack con- taining

6,400

pennies. weighed 44 pounds and sented his down payment

car.

on

They repre- the.

Mr. Tom Morrish, the well known- Cardiff. howls player, ho won the. Great Am

Ation Tour- for

Be year. Photh