THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1939
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Three flats occupied by employ- ees in the grounds of a wallpaper factory at Perivale, West London, are built in a water tower nearly 100 feet high. On top of all is the water tank, containing 13,000 gallons. The tower being octa- gotal, there are windows at all di- gles, and central heating replaces chimney and fires. Photo shows residents hanging out the washing outside their Water Tower Home.
PEERS TOTAL NEARLY 800
The House of Lords is approach ing a membership of 800.
WOMEN EIGHT TIMES BETTER BEHAVED
Mankind is at its wickedest at the age of thir- teen! By the time boys are sixteen their tendency towards crime drops by half.
So it goes on until it reaches vanishing point in the average man between forty-five and fifty.
WANTS NO MORE
“ICE-BOX” HOMES
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Britain in winter is neither clean nor a healthy nation, and the cold months for most are an ordeal, according to Mr. Matthew Ander- son, director of the Coal Utilisation Council.
"The standard of heat comfort in Britain is low," he said. “In such
These are facts revealed in the Home
Office crime statistics for
last year.
Among every 1,000 boys aged thirteen there were 13.5 guilty of indictable offences last year.
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The 2nd Battalion the Scots Guards are now in Cairo and have just been issued, with their tropi- cal kit. Photo shows a smiling Scots Guardsman with armfuls of topees.
Fifteen to eighteen is the most WOULDN'T PART WITH KILT lawless age for girls, with a
similar decrease as they grow SO HAS 750 DESCENDANTS
older.
Just 150 years ago a sergeant of
The report shows that while the the Black Watch flatly refused to homes bath may be a penance or number of youthful offenders re- give up his kilt for breeches on be even a danger except to the young. mains high, the number who con- ing transferred to London.
The obdurate Scot. was Sergeant
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I am surprised that no far-seeing tinue to commit offences as they soap manufacturer has suggested grow older is comparatively small. co-operating with the Ministry of Then comes a footnote for boy- John Small. As a punishment, he Health and ourselves in a campaign friends The amount of crime was drafted to New South Wales for central heating and constant hot among men is eight times greater among the soldiers who guarded
water in every home.”
than among women.
the first convict settlers.
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The roll of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal for the new session, contains 783 names. This, however, includes several minors who will ITALIANS IMPORTED TO
not be able to take their seats until DECORATE NEW GIANT LINER they are twenty-one.
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MANX LANGUAGE EXPERT DIES
Mr. John Joseph Kneen, a lead ing authority on the Manx langu- age, has died at Douglas, aged sixty-
LAUGHTER IN COURT
Repartee in Highgate Police Court
Prosecuting solicitor: Are you sure the woman on the telephone was your wife?--Yes, she gives a sort of signature tune before starting to talk.
Clerk of Court: Do you object to this witness being allowed to leave the court? Not at all I wish he had never come here.
Motorist (giving evidence): My head struck the windscreen and there was a shower of glass and wood splinters.
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Italians have been imported decorate Britain's
newest wolder liner, the Queen Elizabeth;
They are working at Clydebank laying down floors of private rooms, in mosaic style.
To reduce weight a new kind of composite material is being used to form floors. Instead of a concrete foundation, a mixture of cement and granulated cork is applied, and the marble chips are laid in these.
The new liner's engines are to be similar to those in Her companion ship the Queen Mary..
The designers are relying on the new hull design to give the greater spied needed, despite the fact that the Queen Elizabeth is a larger vessel.
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KING OF THE HUNT
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· MARQUIS IS PRESIDENT
The Marquis of Exeter Has been elected president for 1939 of Peter- borough's Agricultural Society. The Marquis is the head of the great. Cecil family and is directly des- cended from Lord Burghley, of Queen Elizabeth's days.
MARINES' BAND' FOR CANADA
Small married soon after he reached Sydney, and his daughter was the first child born to white parents married in Austria. Ser geant Small received the first grant of land made at Ryde, now And to-day Alderman R. W a popular residential suburb.
Small of the Ryde (Australia) Coun cil, great-great-grandson of the Sergeant, occupies the house built by John Small in 1812. There are now 750 living descendants of Aus- tralia's first Mr. and Mrs. Small..
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TRIBAL CHIEF
The band of the Royal Marines (Portsmouth Division) will accom-' pany the King to Canada and the United States. The band will be "I am beginning to feel that we appointed to H.M.S. Repulse for are establishing a Lansbury tribe." the King's tour in May and June So remarked Mr. George Lansbury
next year.
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THE KING WINS MORE PRIZES
The King won the gold medal for "King of the Hunt" the best Highland steer not ex- is the name given to ceeding two years old at the Scot- Mr. Pirow, the South tish National Fat Stock Show at African Minister of Edinburgh. He also won prizes Defence, because he for sheep at the Birmingham Show. has shot 140 phea- sants
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five. Mr. Kneeu was a past president rabbits during two days' hunting at THEY WANT £1 A WEEK and secretary of the Manx Society, Suesswinkel, in Silesia (Germany), which seeks to preserve Manx lan- guage, literature and music,
Manx language, one of the oldest in Europe, it a form of Celtic-but it is in little use to-day.
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24,101 ALIENS IN MONTH
as the guest of an old friend, an African explorer, Dr. Merensky.
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ENJOYED BEING AN OLD MAN
Mr. Charles Murless, a Wrexham magistrate who boasted in court Total number of aliens who land- when he was eighty that a man did ed in the United Kingdom during not begin to enjoy life until after October was 24,101–10,602 of whom sixty, has died at Wrexham as a re- were business visitors. From Ger- sult of an accident. He was eighty- many came over 4,000, Austria 350 five.
and Czechoslovakia 600. "Stateless” visitors totalled 332,
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CINEMA INTERPRETER
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TO PLAY ON GOODWIN SANDS
Kiddies who go to Ramsgate next
when announcing the arrival of another grandchild-his twenty- second! The child-a boy-was. born to the wife of his youngest son, Mr. Eric George Lansbury, of Chingford, Essex.
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DEAN FOREST AS NATIONAL PARK?
The Forest of Dean, with an ad- jacent estate, forming in all nearly 20,000 acres in the angle of the Wye and the Severn, may become Mr. Walter McDonald, aged a National Forest Park. A Forestry seventy-five, and 'Mr. Alfred Wood, Commissión committee considers seventy-wearing a top hat-were the Forest suited for the purpose. among thirty old-age pensioners who It is within easy reach of the Midlands, South Wales and Bristol, but, apart from the Wye Valley, near Tintern Abbey, is little known to the public.
OF THE
year will play on the Goodwin walked from St. Paul's Cathedral to Maria Taylor, French usherette Sands, once treachermous bank. Its the House of Commons with ban- at the London Odeon Theatre în sands are to make an artificial beach ners and a war cry-"We Want £1 Leicester-square, acts as interpre on the Western Foreshore at Rams- a Week." They were led by the ter, too. She speaks eight languages. gaté. A steam-grab is already on the Rev. William Paton, aged thirty- fluently and worked at the Faris job of taking the sands five miles four, who is directing their cam Exhibition.
into the shore..
paign.
This would be Britain's third National Forest Park, the first and greatest being 54,000 acres border- ing Loch Lang, in Argyll, while the second is being formed in Snow- donia
The Dean Forest has many camping sites, and the Youth Hostel movement could be entrusted with increasing accommodation.
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(and only) woman manager of a Russia claims to have the first
railway. She is Zinaida Troitsky, recently appointed head of the Mos- cow Belt-line Railway. She started working in 1930 as engine-driver.
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