1939-06-16 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1939. ·

News Snack

FISHERMEN ASK OWN MINISTRY

A deputation from the Devon Sea Fisheries Committee will next month urge the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to set up a Ministry of Fisheries as a separate department.

This, fishermen think, might help efforts to im- prove the economic position of the industry. In Ply- mouth, the one-time fleet of one hundred fishing vessels has fallen to ten, and few of these are mak- ing a profit.

Rose Stradner, Columbia's Contin- ental star, wears a pastel blue print of Chinese inspiration with white pussy-willow stalks bending gracefully over the surface. The high neckline is scalloped to form an open boxed triangle, and is complimented by sim- flar scalloping on the loose, short sleeves. To match the narrow white felt and shell bracelet, Miss Stradner wears white Mexican haranches and a wide-brimmed off-the-face hat, starched line.

TINPLATE MILLS REOPEN

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Increased demand for Welsh tin- plates will result in the reopening of Messrs. Richard Thomas and Company's four mills at Aber, which have been idle for many months. There are hopes that the Cwmfelin tinplate works at Swansea, where twenty mills have been practically. idle for several years, will reopen to limited extent. Four mills are to be restarted by the Upper Forest and Worcester Tinplate Company at their Morrison works.

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BOY-LIFE' GAOL'

For killing a Jew an Arab youth under the age of sixteen was sen- tenced to life imprisonment and twenty strokes of the Birch by a military court: at. Jerusalém

'Uneconomic competition has been one of the main cases, but the great fish famine is also responsible. For seven years fish became fewer and fewer, but the fishermen believed in a seven-year cycle and this sea- scn the fish were due to return, they thought.

The Marine Biological Laboratory experts at Plymouth, however, said the fish had migrated further into the Atlantic, and would not be plentiful this year.

The biologists were right.

An £800 fishing boat, the Hono- rah, was for sale for £50 at Ply- mouth recently. There were no buy.

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HEN LAYS 61⁄4 OUNCE EGG

A Rhode Island Red hen belong ing to Mr. R. Day, of Frog-lane Farm, Durston, near Taunton, Som- erset, laid an egg weighing six and a quarter ounces.

But this is not a record. Seven days ago a hen at Lydney, Glos, laid an egg weighing more than seven ounces. Normal weight of an English egg is about one and three- quarter ounces.

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14, WINS BIGGEST MUSIC PRIZE

Heimo Haitto, fourteen-year-old boy violinist from Finland, has won the biggest musical award in the world-the British Council of Music

prize for 1939. Judges expressed astonishment at his ability.

Young violinists from nine coun- tries competed for the prize, which provides for residence in England and full musical training at one of the royal schools of music for three years.

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Their Majesties the King and Queen, whose speeches at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to-day, are being broadcast by the B.B.C. from Da- ventry.

UNDER THE SPREADING

TREE. HE RINGS A BELL

Underneath a spreading beech Beard is bell-ringer at Guarlford tree sixty-four-year old Mr. George Church, near Malvern Worcester-

shire.

Thirty years ago an earthquake. and made it impossible to hang the shock weakened the chancel roof

bell inside the church....

So it was hung outside, on a tree opposite the porch.

When it is wet the bellringer holds an umbrella in one hand.

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HELD INQUESTS ON FIRES

Mr. F. Danford Thomas, City of London coroner, died at Northwood (Middlesex). Aged sixty-five, he was secretary and a past president of the Coroners' Society.

As coroner for the City, Mr. Dan ford Thomas had the unique power to hold inquests on fires whether fatal or otherwise.

"The "Empress of Britain,” the crack luxury liner of the Cana- dian Pacific, which is bringing the King and Queen home from their Canadian-American tour, sailed from Southampton on June 3. för Canada. Photo shows the Empress of Britain” outward bound from Southampton to Canada to fulfill her Royal duty,

SO NOW WE KNOW

Professor Lloyd James, B.B.C. linguistic adviser, at a London luncheon.

"The question I am most fre- quently asked is where would you say the best English is spoken?

"It is such a stupid question, and I always answer it negative- ly.

"I say it has been located in every town in the British Isles except Wigan."

PRESENTED FROM COURT

Heard at Highgate Police Court: wife left you lying near the bill of Solicitor: Was the note your the debt she had incurred?

Men: Worse than that. She had actually written her note on the back of the bill.

Motorist:

`I was positive I had not inconvenienced anyone on the crossing, but when a pedestrian shakes his fist at you it certainly makes you, wonder.

Woman: My husband promised to give me less money, and I went back to him.

16,800 ASK BIGGER PENSIONS

Mr. Marshall (Soc., Brightside, Sheffield) presented a petition sign- ed by 16,865 old age pensioners in Sheffield and district in the Com- mons pointing out that hardship and poverty were prevalent amongst them owing to the inadequacy of the present pensions: They asked the House of Commons to bring them relief by increasing the pensions scale.