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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1989

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Pupils from the West Ham Municipal College of Art, were given special permission to enter St. Bartholomew's Church, the second oldest church in London, in order to sketch portions of the old architecture from various angles. This church together with Durham Gathedral is the only building in the British Isles of both Gothic and Norman design, Photo shows the boys at work during their novel sketching lesson. BILLETING 'YES' 100-PER-CENT M. P.'s 3d. LUNCH

NEW DEAL FOR HOUSE BUYERS

A new charter for the small house owner to free him from the profiteering builder and an in- tensified drive to put Britain to work are part of the Government's plans to help the little man.

Mr. Chamberlain, alarmed at the failure of his Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, is to set up an inquiry into unemployment. Mr. Eden is fore- cast as the next Labour Minister.

Miss Ellen Wilkinson has intro- A. Tidby came across what she duced in the House of Commons thought was a lump of old iron. the Building Societies Bill which She told her husband, who unearth- will protect those buying by hire ed it-to find that it was an anti- purchase houses valued up to aircraft. shell. It is now at the £1,000.

police station.

If the buyer finds, after occupa- tion, that the house is not pro- perly built he will have the right to demand from the local authority a survey and a certificate showing the house's defects..

The owner can then go to the building society who must put right the faults.

It the society refuses, the owner may go to a county court and get authority to withhold all payments until the work has been completed. Even should Miss Wilkinson's Bill not become law, there will be a Act involving the building societies.

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of West-Farnborough (Hants) has Legally, Mr. (Philip H.) Davies, no Christian name. A clerical error in the registration of his birth was responsible.

He has tried, unsuccessfully, to have his birth certificate amended.

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FOR UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL

built there will be a complete cm- When St. George's Hospital is re-

ergency hospital two floors below the ground. The winning design (by Messra. W. H. Watkins and Partners) provides for 500 beds instead of the present 300.

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For Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced

MORE STAFF THAN PATIENTS that, after the issued raised by the Every householder in the St.

"Tenants' K. C.," Mrs. Elsy Bor- Clears division of the Carmarthen Parliamentary

When Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,

Richmon Victoria Hospital, two- ders, in her case against Rural District has undertaken

Secretary

a storey building" in Queen's road, to the society, new building society legi- Richmond, Yorkshire, to Board of Education, accommodate children

opens

has more and their council schools at Selsey, Sussex,

new glation would be introduced. mothers from crowded districts in he will be

staff than patients. During

the the event of an emergency evacua- Sussex Education Committee

entertained by West WOMAN DIGS UP SHELL

past year, the daily average num- tion.

ber of patients was 2.6. The staff two-course threepenny lunch

consists of five-Matron Bessie An- derson, day nurse Muriel Thomas, Digging her garden at 15, Chat- night nurse Joan Hird, a domestic area, and the canvassers, who com- This school has 270 pupils, two- tern-road, Ashford, Middlesex, Mrs. and a charwoman. ploted their work Inst night, found thirds of whom have lately come that even the poorest person -

was from Special Areas. More than prepared to make some sacrifice to 100 children each day have this help those who live in the threepenny lunch

To-day's menu is steak and kidney pudding, All the canvassing has been done boiled potatoes, sprouts, fruit jelly by members of the St. Clears Wo- or blancmange.

Recently an appeal was made by Sidlesham School. preachers from every pulpit in the

danger areas.

men's Institute.

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PRESIDENT'S VISIT COSTS

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MORE 'PLANES TO PARIS

The Minister of Health sanction- Imperial Airways are to operate. ed expenditure not exceeding £3,000 eight services a day each way, be- by Westminster City Council for tween Croydon and Paris from street decorations on the occasion April.' This is an increase of four of the visit of the French President, services each way a day.

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Five wrinkled Terrapins or water tortoises, recently brought back by the Oxford University Cayman Island Expedition, are the latest ar- rivals at the London Zoo. When fully grown they will be a foot long. They are extremely delicate and live da water. Insects which are specially bred for them. Photo shows the five terrapins with another new arrival, a Florida alligator, until recently kept as a domestic pot. grown it will be 15 ft. long.`

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SUPER SCHOOL OPENED. A super secondary school for boys, the Chislehurst and Sidcup County School has just been offic

of the most modern buildings in the country, it will boys. The buildings are of reinforced concrete glass area. A predominant feature

main staircase. This is designed to

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