1939-07-11 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1939

News Snack Bar

OUR SAVINGS! £1,496,000,000

Recently a firm wrote to the British Museum and asked the advertising rates in the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle. They thought it was a magazine published by the Museum.

(Actually, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, earliest history of England in English (10th and 11th cen- turies) are priceless manuscripts held by the Museum).

GETTING HIS SLICE

A seaman, fined 58. for drunk- enness at West Ham, was stated to have entered a fried fish shop and insisted upon being allowed to fry his own supper. Police elected him and found, him wielding # fiske slice. But when Thomas Gunn pleaded guilty to the offence he was blissfully ignorant of what had happened.

COAST ROUTE BY-PASS

Work is about to begin on the Asford by-pass, Kent, the first of the four great improvement schemes planned for the London Folkestone road A 20 -the "Gateway of Eng land,

PYTHON ESCAPES:

amuse-

Mr. Arundell Esdaile, secretary of the Museum, told this story in his presidential address to the Library Association in Liverpool,

Discussing present-day reading, he said that many books dealing with current matters of public con- troversy were "high explosives. of "Is hysteria and lies,” and asked: not the reading of “Vanity Fair” or 'Kim' a thousand times more pro- fitable than the reading of the latest vapouring about the Spanish -civil-war or the-latest-book-on-

flying.""

INTEREST AT 433 PER CENT.

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This picture just received from Morecambe shows crowds in the deck-chairs in the warm sunshine,

OUR SAVINGS! £1,496,000,000

FIXING CLOTH PRICES

When Mrs. Kate Ekillett, of Byron-avenue, East Ham was sum- moned at West Ham for carrying on National Committee, told the Lon- adviser to the Government on cloth- Lord Mottistone, Chairman of the Sir Frederick Marquis, honorary, business as a money-lender without don Savings Committee that at the ing and textilst supplies, has invited a certificate, it was said she lent end of last May there were 41,773 six Manchester business

savings groups in the country, an serve on a committee to arrive at increase on the year of 2,848, and fair prices for cloth and other ma-

record..

terials needed for Service clothing.

money to people living in a block of flata, and charged 1d. a week in terest on each shilling Interest worked out at 433-1/3 per cent, a year She was fined £5.

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A 14ft. Endian rock python es- caped from its cage in an ment park at Pool Quay, Bourne- QUESTIONS DOCK-TOW mouth, and was found under the cage floor boards,

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WATER-MILLER WANTED

CONTRACT

The National Trust has bought a to Alexandria has been awarded to water-mill at Burnham Overy Stai- a Dutch firm: and, if so, why British the, north Norfolk coast, and seeks firms were unable to secure it. a tenant to keep it going in its old picturesque style.

men to

The balances held on April 30, 1939, were £693,000,000 in the Post Office savings bank, £284,000,000 in PAPER-WEIGHT WORTH £500 trustee saving banks, and £518,000,-- 000 in National Savings Certificates —a total of £1,496,000,000,

PRESENTED FROM COURT

"lump of brass," used as a paper-weight has now been found, This is an increase on the year of at Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, to £56,000,000, or more than £1 58, for be a gold ingot worth £500. It was Mr. Shinwell (Soc., Seaham), will every man, woman and child in the found in a water-meter box in a ask in the Commons if the contract“ country.

yard and was thought to be worth- for the towage of a Government- Captain Crookshank, Financial less. owned dry dock from Portsmouth Secretary to the Treasury, told the meeting that much of our greatness as a country and an Empire had been built up by the readiness of citizens to undertake, voluntary work of national importance.

Then he added: "If more of us, not run as I was wearing a dress. I would follow the noble example had made myself. which the King and Queen had set Police constable at Hammersmith: Bir Gervais Rentoul, K.C., the the matter of voluntary service I told the defendant he would be West London magistrate, told the

in The Lord Mayor, Sir Frank New Health Club in London that he place than it is to-day.

our country would be even a happier ported for a summons and he said, Bowater, and Sheriffs attended the did not believe in the born criminal.

"That's right. Bite the hand that Pepys Commemoration service at St. "It seems to me," he said, “that

feeds you." Olave's, Hart-street, when a new most habitual criminals behave as wreath was unveiled on the diarist's such because they have no education monument.

or capacity to be anything else.

PEPYS DAY IN CITY

CRIMINALS: “POOR DEVILS"

NEW GLIDING RECORD

CLAIMED

A new record for gliding acroša water is claimed by Mr. Ted Bellak, who made a flight of ninety miles

Lake Michigan.

From London police courts. Woman at Bow-street: I

dared-

re:

Man at Marylebone; The police- constable then entered my parti- culars in his

crimes of the

among the

SIT DOWN", AT BRITISH

PAVILION.

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The world record for long dis

liding is said to be 225 miles uplished by a German, Brauti-› ployed last · April. Britain's long dis: New tance record is 206 miles, put up by dow Philip Wills, in 1988.

window

cleaners

the British Pavilion at th rld's Fair staged a "sit- nstration for higher They were ejected by police."

LORRY HITS SCHOOL WALL

involved in a

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without touc