1939-01-09 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 9, 1939. '

News

Snack Bar

Mr. W. Nash, Miss Joyce Nash and party. At the K.C.C. on New Year's Eve.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London police courts:- Elderly woman at Highgate: I thought the policeman was an in- valid. He was in a car.

Motorist at Bow-street: I was very embarrassed. A police officer was pushing through the crowd, and one man kept pointing at me and saying, "You won't half cop out.".... I^did!

Defendant at Willesden: I start- ed out with nothing. I have had nothing since. My life's one long succession of nothings,

HAPPINESS-

WITH A WARNING

Several hundred Tyneside fami- lies can expect many, months. of security now that Messrs. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, of Wallsend and Walker-on-Tyne, have been awarded a £1,800,000 contract to build coastal vessels for Turkey. But so long has been the depression that one firm which re- cently advertised for skilled men had 1,000 applications yet less than 100 were suitable for modern me- thods.

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BARONET CO-RESPONDENT

Sir George Rowley, Bart, was cited as co-respondent when Mr. John Neville Parker, managing di- rector of Overseas Communications of South Africa, Ltd., was granted a decreo nisi by Mr. Justice Lang- ton in the Divorce Court because of the adultery of his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Alice Parker. The suit was not defended.

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NOT: AN EARLY STARTER ·

Lord Burghley, M.P., presenting prizes at Bisley School, near Wok- ing, told the boys that when he was their age (at Eton) he did not man- age even the semi-final of the hur- dlos;; although afterwards he "achieved some success."

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That, "success" included Olympic championship and eight British athletics championships.

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SHE STALLS HER CAR

You've heard of London's Cafe-: donian Market, famous for its stalls with their mixed collections of va- luables and junk. Well, it's being. brought up to date-by a woman. She drives up with her stock of goods in a small car, stops and dis- plays her wares on and around it. Then she sits inside and waits for customers She's a hustler, too. If business is slack she just pucker up and drives away.

VICAR OWN GRAVEDIGGER

"STRAD"

MYTH

IS DEBUNKED