1938-11-24 — Page 13

THE CHINA MÁIL, NOVEMBER 24, 1938”

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PAWNING THEIR DAUGHTERS

Don't let your daughters be a liability Raise money on them. Give them as security for that loan you need. You must keep it strictly under the hat, of course, for it's nominally illegal But it's done, and in British territory.

That's the way native cocoa growers and trad- ers raise capital in our Gold Coast and Nigeria Col- onies.

That came out in a report published by a West African Government Commission.

One of the oldest locomotives in the world capable of hauling a train, the 100 years old “Lion” engine has 'just' paid a visit to the Crewe works of the L.M.S. Rail- way for a thorough overhaul in order that it may take part in the London and Birmingham Railway Centenary celebrations at Easton Photo shows the ancient locomo tive being prepared at alongside a modern streamlined express,

CANADIANS” “MOTHER”.

Here are their own words:-

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Motor cycle trials as part of the Army training for mechanis- ed units are being undertaken by Aldershot Command. Part of the trial will be ridden in gas masks and hill climbs and "rough riding" will be featured. Photo shows the team of the 4th Batt, Royal Tank Corps wearing gas masks during practice at Farnborough,

"A native who has already pledged his property and has no other se curity to offer, may obtain a loan by entrusting a young daughter or niece to the lender to act as his servant until the debt has been paid. "Although this method of finan- cing is illegal, one farmer volunteer- ed to us the information that

"They are supposed to have a live could always hand over four or five fly once a week," she said, "but al- of his nieces when he needed capital. marmalade as a trap, no flies were though I went as far as spreading "If a girl reaches marriageable age while in the lender's 'keeping' and becomes his wife, or if he gives her in marriage to a relative, the loan is thereby extinguished."

'AINT. NO FLIES FOR ANT-IES BORSTAL LABOUR CAMP" Mrs. Grey Wornum, whose hus- FARM PLAN OPPOSED

·band has charge of decorating the Queen Elizabeth, now fitting out, spent four days vainly trying to "labour, camps" for Borstal boys Opposition to the establishment of catch a fly in the sister-liner Queen from Portland Institution was ex- from the ship with a colony of Mary, She landed at Plymouth

pressed recently. twenty-four ants.

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We seem to have heard the same thing in Hong Kong called the Mui Tsai system. Crewe

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TALK HITS TRADE

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Sir M. A. Young, Governor Tanganyika, speaking at Dar-es-

procurable aboard."

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GIVEN £235,000,000 LOANS

Mr.

More than £235,000,000 has been lent by the Halifax Building Society since 1953 to help people to acquire their own homes. So said David W. Smith, general manager of the society, at the opening of new office premises at Southend-on-Sea. : That's one way Britons' have

It came from Mr. F. C. James, farm workers representative, at a meeting of Dorset Agricultural

Committee.

bring boys out of Borstal to work "It is not right," he declared, "to

when there are so many unemployed about. If we are not careful, legis- lation will be passed

allow workers on the land and elsewhere to be replaced by men from his Majesty's prisons,”

But in spite of Mr. James's pro- test, the Committee approved the establishment of a camp on the River Frome.

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Spinster "mother" of the Cana- dian Light Infantry during the war, Miss Jenny Macgregor Morris Salaam ascribed the country's Bud- managed to get a stake in their own IT WAS FALSE ALARM arrived home after a three-inouth get deficit of $150,000 to serious dis-country: And there are lots more visit to Canada as guest of the sol- quiet about the future of the man- building societies. diers she mothered between 1914–18. date. This anxiety affected trade She was known as the London and commerce.

There had also

mother of these troops and they been a heavy drop in commodity showed their appreciation of her prices.

kindness and hospitality by paying

for her to visit Canada.

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OLDEST FARMER (100)

Oliver

TEDDY BEARS FOR HANDBAGS RETIRES

Little Koalas (tree "teddy-bears" England's oldest farmer, of Australia) have inspired fash- Chaulker, of Keinton-Mandeville, ion's latest handbag whim. Hand- near Yeovil, Somerset, who celebrat- bags are said to be made of the real ed his 100th birthday a fortnight skins of the animals. Another ago, has decided to retire,

handbag can be bought in the shape farm stock is to be sold.

of a tiny kangaroo.

Koalas are strictly protected ~all

over Australia, Killing of them brings heavy punishment.

ASHES IN THE MOUTH

Marshal Petain: The fruits of the victory of the Great War have vanished. France has 'drift- 'ed into an era of great peril. The only answer is national disci-

pline,

BABY BORN IN NO-MAN'S-LAND

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THE SAME AGAIN

All his

No municipal elections for Bur- ton-on-Trent (Staffs) again this year. Nominations closed and all the eight retiring councillors who offered themselves for re-election were return unopposed. The Mayor, Alderman J. W. Clark, was one of them. Burton has had no munici- pal election for years.

One of the finest roof gardens in London is that on the top of Adelaide House at London Bridge. Complete with rock garden and putting green it affords a magni-" ficent view of the Metropolis.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London's Highgate Police

A fire engine, answering a call in London mounted the pavement at the junction of Union-street and Great Guildford Street, Borough, S.E. and this is what happened: "A stone pillar was smashed and a big hole was knocked in a high wall. All the firemen were cut and bruised and needed first aid. A crane had to be used to tow the damaged en- gine away, while another fire en- gine went to answer the call.

And it was a false alarm!

OUSTING JAPANESE SEAWEED

Japanese seaweed, used in the manufacture of iodine in Britain, may be displaced by seaweed from Kintyre, in Argyllshire. Try-out 'consignments of Kintyre seaweed have been ordered by a London clinic. Experiments are also be- ing made in a factory at Kintyre.

GIRL BIDS TO SAVE DOYLE

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Husbands who forget to bring Court. home that wedding anniversary Motorist: When anything goes bouquet had better take lessons wrong with my car I always look from the Rev. T. N. Smith, of Ley underneath. I am not tall enough tonstone (Essex).

to look over the top.

An effort to save Jack Doyle from It's fifty-nine years since he was a Elderly labourer, summoned for expulsion from the United States dashing bridgeroom. But he's bad language: I had to swear. It was made by Eleanor Troy, show- A baby was born in No-Man's never forgotten once to say it with is the only language my wife un girl who recently slapped Doyle in Land, a strip of territory roughly a flowers,

derstands.

a New York night club. There is mile and a half wide between the He's a double reason for remem 'Said a police constable, giving a provision in the U.S. immigration temporary German and Czechoslovak bering the anniversary because it's evidence: I told the defendant he laws which permits an American frontiers, near Hryschka. The also Mrs. Smith's birthday. When would be reported, and he said. woman to file guardianship papers mother was one of a group of Mr. Smith brought her a bouquet "How much will the fine be.. ?" to get an alien husband admitted to oighty-three Jewish refugees. she was eighty.

Magistrate: Ten shillings.

the country!