THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1939
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UNIVERSITIES
FAIL COMMERCE
Six months in a business alternating with six months' full attendance at a University, is one of the recommendations in a report issued by the As- sociation of British Chambers of Commerce.
The annual recruitments of young university graduates to commerce (for the purpose of train- ing for the higher executive posts) are stated to be well below 100,
Mrs. Dorothy Grant is frequent- ly seen in public in London smok- ing a cigar. She is, in fact, an habitual cigar smoker. She smoked her first cigar 'six years ago and since then has preferred them to cigarettes. She lives at Nell Gwyn House, Cadogan Square.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard in Highgate Police Court: Motorist: This road is very de- ceptive. The houses end just where: the built-up area begins.
Motor-cyclist: I crashed off my. machine and rolled-into the gutter. An old lady came running up and said, “You must not sit there, you will catch cold.”
Witness: He told me not to knock as he had a key. He then took a fly- kick at the door and so opened it.
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£2,150,000 FOR WHEAT GROWERS Registered wheat growers — 61,600 of them-will each receive a che que, as their share in the Wheat Commission's £2,150,000 advance o account of deficiency payments for the cereal year ending July 31.:
Payment will be made at the rate of 48. per cwt. (188. per quarter of 504lb.) on valid certificates deliver- ed between October 28 and Decem- ber 31.
LEFT ESTATE AS MEMORIAL
Miss Mary Morris, of Kelmscott Manor, Lechladé, Gloucestershire, daughter of the late William Mor ris, the poet and artist, and her self famous as an embroidreas, left her Kelmscott estate to Oxford Uni- versity, and $3,000 for its mainten- ance as a House of Rest for artists, men of letters, scholars and men of science as a memorial to her father. Of her £38,000 inheri- tanca” she gave the residuo to the Society of Antiquaries.
One large concern, which had for many years regularly recruited graduates in some numbers, stated: "Experience has led the manage- ment to be prepared to find that a brilliant academic record, combined with a brilliant athletic record, has been achieved at the expense of permanent exhaustion.”
In order to enable the recruitment of a larger number of University
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· graduates in commerce, the Com- mittee recommend::
Preference for the Bac. Com- merce degree;
··Higher degree of mathematics for certain professional occupa- tions;
Incorporation of practical com- mercial experience in the Uni- versity course.
The problems of the late starting age and the high initial salary, de- manded by graduates are mented upon.
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HAIL KILLS SIX SHEPHERDS
Hailstones reported to weigh 1lb. bombarded villages in the, southern parts. of the United Provinces (In- dia) during a storm lasting ninety minutes. Six shepherds and hun- dreds of cattle' were killed.
Although he took up pole vault- ing only last year II. W. Yjølder is now rated the third best pole- vaniter in England. He is being coached by H. G. Dyson, chief athletics instructor at Loughbor. ough College, and in view of his. progress-In^ twelve, months great things are expected to him. Photo shows I. „W) Ylekler vaulting
style during practice at
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· · PARIS IDEAS FOR THE SPRING.-A hat in keeping with the occasion is what Paris decrees shall be worn in the Spring. amall hat in straw is decorated with spring flowers, and is finished This off with a small veil.
MRS. GANDHI AGAIN ARRESTED
Mrs. Gandhi, wife of the Mahat- ma, was arrested' at Rajkot (In- dia) on her arrival to take part in the civil disobedience movement in Rajkot State. It had previously been Indicated that she was liable
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"arrest if she took part in the campaign. This is the seventh time that Mrs. Gandhi has been arrested on political grounds. She is sixty-eight,
TO CO-ORDINATE
FIRE SERVICES
Power to submit a scheme to en- sure' mutual assistance among local authorities has been given to the new Fire Service Commission.
The names of the four members were announced yesterday as Sir Vivian Henderson, Lieutenant-Co- lonel G. Symonds, Dr. J. M. Newn- ham and Mr. R. Bryce Walker.
600 P. C. PROFIT IN HELPING INDUSTRY
Britain's Department of Scienti- fic and Industrial Research-the Government office which assists in- dustry in the application of scienti- fic knowledge and, where necessary, undertakes industrial research spent last year £872,000.
This is shown in the annual re- port.
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Toward that sum more than £280,- 000 was received from industry as fees for special investigations, contributions to co-operative re- search and as payments by other Government Departments for ser- vice.
So it is claimed that the annual expenditure of the Department must be earning a dividend of at least 500 to 600 per cent.
At the National Physical Labora- tory, Teddington, there is a staff of nearly 700.
AIRMAN FINDS TWO LAKES
Captain n R. O. Mant, Flight Su- perintendent of the Australia-New The Commission will have impor- the air two lakes, hitherto unknown, Guinea service, has discovered from tant functions under the Fire Bri- in New Britain, large island of the gades Act, passed in July last year. Bismark Archipelago, in the Pacific. This places the councils of borough
New Guinea Islands are still
and urban and rural districts in The New
world:
England and Wales (and county and the most unexplored regions of the town councils in Scotland) for the first time under a statutory obliga tion to maintain efficient firo ser- vices.
·COAL COST 849 LIVES IN 1938
Persons killed by accidents, in coal mines in Great Britain during 1988 totalled 849, according to n statement issued by the Mines De- partment. Fourteen were killed in other mines and sixty-five in ríes.
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In 1984 plt deaths totalled 1,168.
Heath toll
PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard in London police courts: -Woman at Wood Green: When & woman's reputation is in danger sho will do anything.. She will even go bail for her hus band..
· Husband at Hammersmith: I'm no authority of wi I've rosi
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