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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 17, 1989

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TO RECLAIM THE WASH..

Land regained from the sea in recent years has provided Britain with much of her best arable soil, according to Mr. L. Dudley Stamp.

He told the Royal Geographical Society that at- tention should be turned to such areas as Chiches- ter Harbour and the Wash, which were available for reclamation.

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A woman at work on some of the huge figures for the forthcom- ing carnival at Nice.

READ BIBLE IN COURT

A man who read an extract from the Bible in a loud voice at Bow- -street replied "Praise the Lord," when Mr. Fry, the magistrate, re manded him for a medical report.

Charles Edward Sharpe, forty, salesman, of Birchington-road, Kil- burn, was charged with riotous be- haviour in Westminster Abbey be fore Divine Service.

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The Wash could be treated simi- larly to the Zuyder Zee, by the con- struction of a main dyke between Hunstanton and Wainfleet. That would convert the Wash into a non- tidal freshwater lake. Three main polders, west, south and east, could then be enclosed, leavingbroad. channels for the outflow of the exist. ing rivers.

Such a scheme, he thought, would add some 150 square miles for agri- culture, an area equal to the Isle of Wight.

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GIANT: FIGURES FOR NICE CARNIVAL-Preparations are now being made for the forthcom ing Nice Carnival and Battle of Flowers. Huge, grotesque figur es are a feature of this carnival. Photo shows two of the amusing figures which will be seen at the Carnival.

AIRMAN HANGED IN CELL

Joseph Gardner, aged nineteen, an The wedding of the Nawab of R.A.F. aircraftman, stationed at St. Pataudi, the England cricketer, and Athan, Glam, was found hanged in Princess Mehertaj Sajida Sultan, se. the military detention barracks at · cond daughter of the Nawab of North Camp, Aldershot.

home Bhopal, takes place at Bhopal Gardner, whose

was at

April 21.

Gateshead, is stated to have been The Nawab, who will be twenty- serving a short sentence and bad nine next month, got his Blue at been in detention only a few days. Oxford in 1929 and scored 102 in his first Test against Australia in FOOTBALL MADE HIM

Both bride and groom are TOO HOT-HEADED 1932. Moslem, under the "purdah” law. They were

ASKING A LOT

To find out what sort of life the modern undergraduate leads- what he grumbles -at, what he spends on food and drink and fuel questionnaire is being sent out by University Peace Coun- cil. It asks questions about the hire of furniture, tips to "scouts.” Undergraduates

be will also questioned about whether they are satisfied with the facilities for dancing..

introduced by Mr. Fishermen became firemen at

he Leigh-on-Sea. Essex when the TWINS WITH HORSE SENSE Gandhi in the ship in which was travelling for the India Round fire was under the cap of one of their Table Conference.

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Christopher John Martin Keep, a verger at Westminster Abbey, said he was on duty in the choir of the 161⁄2 SHEEP PER PERSON Abbey and Sharpe came down the and transept waving his reading aloud.

arms

"I requested him to stop," said Mr. Keep, "but he continued to read

aloud.

"I persuaded him to accompany me to the west cloister door where I called a police-constable and him into custody.”

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gave

age

Pelton, village of eighteen houses near Oundle, has fifteen old pensioners and two widows who draw pensions.

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Mr. Robert Lee,

mates.

Two foals, one black and the other Bert (Curly) Osborne, star of brown, were inseparable sisters on of fishermen the farm of Mr. Golding in the New scratch Soccer teams who play on a concrete and asphalt Forest, where they were born last pitch, headed the ball.

spring. His head felt very hot. He threw

His hair and eyebrows were on

Australia's population is now only 106,918 short of seven millions. off his cap. Official statistics, yesterday, add there are now 114,256,619 sheep in fire. the Commonwealth, sixteen and a half to every person. Australia's out the flames. production for last year was worth £456,735,000.

MORE NEW CARS

REGISTERED

His mates rushed to his nid, beat

was

In December, the black one sold to a fariner at Dounton, fifteen miles away,

Last week the brown foal vanished from Mr. Golding's field. He sear- ched everywhere.

Like many fishermen, Bert keeps He had given up hope until his cigarettes and matches in his postcard came from the farmer at cap. The blow from the ball had Dounton informing him that the

brown foal had turned

up in the ignited the matches.

field where her sister is kept.

HIS LETTERS TO A KING

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New motor vehicles registered in "My correspondence with the late Great Britain during December last King Edward VII relative to the

Heard in London police courts. numbered. 35,181, compared with closing of Smithfield Markets on the Man at Willesden: My wife seventy-seven, 36,295 in December, 1937. Cars occasion of his Coronation" is ways goes back to her mother after and his son James, are still engaged totalled 26,018 (25,795 previous among the bequests in the will of we have had a row she keeps a Case in building and repairing the cobles year), cycles 2,178, hackney vehi- Mr. Joseph Robert Madewell, of Cul packed ready. used in the Tweed salmon fishing, cles 577, goods vehicles 5,604 other verden-road, Balham S. W. He This work has been carried out by vehicles 804. their family for 300 years.

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E.; T. Price, taxi-driver, of 318, Park-avenue, Southall, Middlesex, has just completed, a portrait in oils, of the late King George V. He was his own art tutor and this is his first big work,

NOT A TOWN FOR TAXIMEN

** ** RAISED TRAFFIC-CIRCUS

A new kind of traffic roundabout, the first of its type in this country, is being built at the junction of Caterham by-pass with Croydon- road, Burntwood-lane, Godstone- rond, Succombs Hill and Wolding- ham-road.

Traffic will flow in a clockwise direction around a central island. 180 feet in diameter on an elevated car-

Only thirty-five taxi-drivers are left in Cardiff with its quarter of a riageway 40′ feet wide. Four pe- million people, That is fewer per destrian subways from the converg head of the population than in any other city in Britain,

ing roads will lead under the elevated carriageway into a circus 50 feet in diameter. These covered foot- paths will enable pedestrians to In cross the junction at ground lever

beneath the traffic.

"In London there are 11,600 taxi- drivers, one for about every 600 folk in the Metropolitan Area.. Cardiff it's one to every 7,000.

left the letters to Mr. Robert Hill,

Defendant at Ealing: How much have I paid my wife during the last six months? On an average- nothing.

Witness at Highgate: What followed is a blank to me. All I. remember is a woman talking, then a man talking, then the woman talking then silence.

STUDENTS GET £54,000

Lord Normand, chairman of the Carnegie Trust for the Universi- ties of Scotland, states that in the past year the Trust has spent £54,000 on assistance to nearly 8,500 students. He acknowledges · with gratitude the recel

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of pay- beneficiaries return for

Ived.