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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1939

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WOMEN TO TALK ON ALL BUT-MAN

Soon there is to be a conference of women to discuss all manner of subjects except Man.

The delegates will be more than 1,000 country women-300 from America, eight officials from Germany, others from New Zealand, Norway, Yugoslavia, Sweden, France, Italy and Palestine.

BOYS BANKED STOLEN MONEY

Three Huddersfield boys had a craze to go to Australia, so they committed twenty-one robberies and banked the proceeds until they had enough to make the voy- age.

At Huddersfield Quarter Ses- sions the boys one seventeen. the other two sixteen-appeared before the Recorder, Mr. G. H. B. Streatfeild, and were bound over to come up for judgment in a year's time.

Chief Inspector Chadwick said they had stolen goods and money valued altogether at £310.

Of this, £160 had been recover- ed. Police had to go to the bank with the boys and their bank books to recover the money.

They were asked to select from a long list the most productive topics for discussion, and their "Modern chosen themes include Agricultural Development,” “Ad- ministration of Health Services in Rural Areas." "The Flight from the Land," and "Home Apprentice- ship for Girls."

One discussion in which man is sure to get a mention-honourable or otherwise is that on the divi- sion of labour in the family, and he should also figure in the debate on the country woman and money affairs.

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15,000-MILE TRIP FOR

REFUGEES

for.

After a 15,000-mile journey by GROTTO FROM DUSTBIN CHINA rail, sea, air, on horseback and on China ornaments collected from foot to investigate the possibility of dustbins at Camberwell during the settling. refugees in British Guiana, past fifty years are cemented in a Sir Crawford

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When The Duchess of Gloucester visited Skegness on May 25 she called at Butlins Holiday Camp, the first Holiday Camp in the coun- try, where she made a tour of the building and various sections of the camp. The Duchess of Gloucester also planted a tree at the camp and is here seen treading it in, in true professional style.

PREMIER MEETS THE

"WOLVES"

Wolverhampton Wanderers, who were defeated by Portsmouth in the Cup Final, met the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. The team Douglas-Jones and had lunch at the House and saw the grotto beneath the window-sill of Sir Geoffrey Evans returned to Speaker's procession to the Cham- 59, Green Hundred-road, Peckham, Liverpool in the liner Samaria ber. S.E. Mr. Thomas Collins, sixty-one,

retired dustman, started the grotto from New York. They represented when he was ten years old. It now the British Government on the Com- includes soapstone groups, chine mission sent to British Guiana to dolphins, chariots, tiles and

inquire into the suitabilty of an shells, some 100 years old.

area of 44,000 square miles for re- fugee settlement.

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AIR PIONEER AS RAIL CHIEF

sea

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CAME 3,000 MILES ON

"FAIRY TALE" QUEST

TRADITION AS EXCUSE

Asking a commission in Lon- -don for permission for juveniles under sixteen to work forty-eight hours a week instead of forty-four in biscuit factories, Mr. E. A. Wrottesley, for manufacturers, said some firms over 100 years old were proud they had employ- ed families from father to son.

The memory of Hans Andersen's PALESTINE FLOWERS FOR fairy tales learned by heart at his BRITAIN mother's knee brought an American

Flowers grown on the coast of Mr. K. W. C. Grand has been ap- FISH “DICTATOR”

3,000 miles to buy thirty letters of

The Palestine are now being flown 3,000 pointed principal. assistant to the

Britain's latest food "dictator" the story-teller he idolised. general manager of the G.W.R. at Paddington. Mr. Grand joined the is Mr. John T. Bennet, Jnr. He has Americen, Mr. N. Weyhe, a book miles to London and provincial company in 1919 and played an im- been appointed Director Designate dealer, bought the letters in Lon- markets. They are sweetpeas in lilac, deep purple, red and pink portant part in developing railway of Fish Supplies in connection with don for £73. He outbid a dozen

cultivated by refugees. air services, being a director of G. nation-wide plans for distribution other dealers. W. and Southern Air Lines, Jersey of fish through fifty-five key points Airways, and Railway Air Services. in the event of war,

The letters are in English, Hans Andersen (1805-75) was a Dane.

Sweetpeas flower in England from June to August. In Palestine they appear in March.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London police courts: Motorist at Highgate: I have been driving for some years now, but I don't think the police have heard of me before now.

Man at Tower Bridge: Have I re- cently looked for work? No. I'm waiting for the rain to stop.

The American Flying Bost “Yankee Clipper" arrived at Southampton on May 23 after its first flight across the Atlantic with malls. Photo shows the Yankee Clipper tying up at Southampton next to two Imperial Airways machines. (Air Mail),

Constable at Highgate. (of motor ist summoned for "no lights"): I first became aware of defendant through not being able to see him..