1939-06-12 — Page 13

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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1939.

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AT 80 WEAVES HIS OWN CLOTHES

Helped only by a manservant ten years his junior, the Rev. H. C. Ker, eighty-year-old rector of Gayton-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire, does all his own housework and cooking in his seventeen-roomed rectory and weaves his own carpets and clothes.

He is still wearing an overcoat he wove more than forty years ago. Another of his triumphs is the rich red carpet which covers his old-fashioned staircase.

NICE WORK

it was stated at Clerkenwell County Court that the Metropoli- tan Water Board charged 2s. 6d. for a turncock's services.

Mr. Registrar Friend: I should not mind spending the whole day turning round water taps at 2s. 6d. a time.

Yet fifty years ago the loom on which this work was done was thrown away as being useless; the rector found it in a London dus- tbin.

This was only one of his pieces of

luck.

In Venice he bought, three or- dinary-looking boxes for 1s. 6d., and gave them to his son on his wed- ding day. Later they were found to be solid walnut chests of Charles II period, valued by experts at £5,000.

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POET'S BIRTHPLACE

AS MONUMENT

Wordsworth's

birthplace,

at

Cockermouth Cumberland, was open- ed as a national monument on June 3.

When the poet's birthplace wag threatened with destruction to make way for a bus station the purchase money was raised and the fund closed at £2,400.

PRESENTED FROM COURT.

Heard at Court:-

Tottenham

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COLOUR ROADS FOR CITY

A road along which a prominent Newcastle temperance worker said he was afraid to drive when the road-houses closed Ponteland- road, Newcastle-has been surfaced with two different coloured gravels. red and black.

Eventually all roads in Newcastle Police will have-coloured surfaces.

"Ponteland-road has not

red

Man: When I told my wife I had come home for good, she said, "What's good about it?"

Motorist: I was listening to the wireless in my car when the police gong sounded. I thought I had got a foreign station. -

into

TO 1,000TH OF A SECOND. Clocks and watches of Great Britain may shortly be regulated by the vibrations of a quartz plate, set in a new super-clock recently delivered to Greenwich Observa- tory. The new clock, which will replace the five free pendulum stan- dard clocks at present used, will be correct to one thousandth part of a second, and is operated by a quartz plate oscillator. Though. it looks more like a transmitting set, here is the new clock.

R. A. HONOURED

on

LAND CLAIMED AFTER

been. A Companionage of the Order of TWENTY-TWO YEARS divided

and Chivalry, the Order of the Crown black halves to keep mo- of Stuart, has been conferred

Twenty-two years ago, under the torists returning from road-houses Mr. Augustus John, A. R., for merit wartime Cultivation of Lands Or- on the straight and narrow path," and his consistent services to art.

der, Wandsworth Council took pos- said an official of the Roadways De- The order was instituted in 1932 session of a piece of land at the partment. 'We have coloured the in memory of all the country's junction of Mellison-road, and Him- two

halves instead of marking Stuart sovereigns. It was founded ley-road, Tooting, S. W., on the Man: I didn't like my wife's late white lines.

within the Royal Stuart Society, and ground that the owner could not be hours. Sometimes when I got home "We think that in a black-out the decoration which goes with it is traced: at two o'clock in the morning she driving will be easier on divided awarded for services to art, science,

After the war the land was placed history literature and social work.

at the disposal of the local Allot- ments Society, whose members have cultivated it ever since.

wasn't in.

roadway."

Now a claim to ownership of the land has been presented to the coun- cil, and notice has been given to the Allotments Society to give up pos- session "if and when the claimant proves his title to the land.".

The AM!

- this picture taken.

Even the fireworks get try-out in the rehearsals” as

HE COACHED FAMOUS

CRICKETERS

Charles Etheridge ("Bottle") who taught the Duke of Gloucester, King Leopold of the Belgians, Lord Tens nyson and G. O. Allen to play cricket has retired *after being cricket coach at Eton for forty years.

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Nickname "Bottle" was given to -Etheridge as a young man because of the skill and rapidity with which he opened lemonade bottles when the players came off the field for refreshments.

MORE TREFOREST FACTORIES

Six more factories have been built at Treforest Trading Estate, South Wales, making 54 completed and 49 .occupied, giving work-to more than

2,000 people.