THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 28, 1939.
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SCHOOL OPENS TO END SEARCH FOR BEDS
SO GREAT HAS been the influx into Salisbury of men working on Government contracts, chiefly mili- fary camps, that it has been impossible to accommo- dote them.
Private houses and lodging houses are full, and after a hard day's work the men have slept on seats in open spaces, and in church porches or have walked about all night.
Noel Coward For
Stockholm
the playwright contract director
Mr. Noel Coward, and author, has signed а with Mrs. Pauline Brunius, of the Swedish Dramatiska to appear in Stockholm next according to reports which Copenhagen.
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Explorer Dies
In Office
Complaints were made to the au- thorities.
Result: At the meeting of the City Council, the Mayor, Mr. W. C. Brid- ge, said the Council were, to open a disused school as a dormitory, where the men would be given beds for fid. a night
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Teatern, Pupils As
summer,
reached Labourers
Mr. Scoresby Routledge, the an- thropologist and explorer, collapsed and died in the office of an india- rubber manufacturer in Paddington, London. He spent many years with his wife living among primitive
tribes to study them.
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1,000 In Rent
Strike
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Flat tenants on Grove Park Estate, Leyton, decided at a crowded meet- ing that no more rents will be paid. The money will be collected by ten- ants and will be paid into a trust fund, over which the Mayor of Leyton will be asked to be trustee. A thous- and tenants are affected. Last week their landlord, Mr. J. W. Abrahams, announced his intention of increasing the rents of 96 flats by 1s 6d per week.
Pupils of Bedford
Modern School are to become farm labourers.
More than forty of them have re- sponded to the desperate appeal of farmers in the county for help to get in the harvest. The severe shortage of land workers there has been accen- tusted by the calling up of men for military training.
Those boys who are age fourteen to eighteen, will work from to sundown.
SPORT ACTORS
Sir Malcolm Campbell's new 2,500 hip. motor-boat, Bluebird showing Sir Malcolm in the cockpit. (Copyright, Fox).
sunrise Auxiliary Firemen's
And, the Farmers' Union amounce
that they will receive farm labourers Paris Trip
minimum wages.
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Three Lead For
£1,000 Prize
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Lord Provost P. J. Dollan, Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, well-known bene- factor to the city, and Sir Cecil Weir, president of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, are "favourites" for the St. Mongo £1,000 prize to be awarded to a Glasgow citizen who during the past three years has done most to make the city "more beautiful, more healthful and more honoured."
A visit to Paris will be made at the end of August by 25 members of the Wembley Auxiliary Fire Service, who will study French
fire-fighting methods.
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Memorial To
Racing Motorist
£180,000 By-Pass
Ready
Crawley by-pass, on the London- Brighton road, which has cost about £180,000 and is said to have the best. carriageway in Britain, has been opened.
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Fire At Paper
Mills
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Fire which broke out in a paper store of Vegetable Parchment Mills A bronze tablet to the memory of (Deleroix) Ltd. at St. Mary's ́Cray, Richard Seaman, the British racing Kent, was prevented by Orpington and motorist, who was killed in the Bel- the works fire brigades from spread- gian Grand Prix on June 25, is to be ing to the main buildings. Italy and Bulgaria have signed a erected at the Brooklands track, cultural agreement in Sofla.
Weybridge.
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Sir Malcolm Campbell breaking the world speed record on Lake Coniston in his new speedboat “Blue- bird."
10,000 Tons Of
Coal Ablaze
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Ten thousand tons of coal on waste land adjoining Croydon's electricity works are on fire. The outbreak was discovered by a patrolling police con- stable. Firemen found it impossible to, extinguish the fire and left it to burn. Relays of men will shift the coal, a task expected to take about a week.
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To Handle London
"Super" Airports
London's air traffic for the next generation will be planned by the London Civil Airports Joint Commit- tee. It will allocate traffic between airports and receipts will be pooled between the Air Ministry and' the Corporation of London.
At present four airports are planned to deal with the traffic; Heston and Fairlop (near Ilford), which are to be "super standard” airports with concrete runways. over 2,000 yards long, and Croydon and Lullingstone, which will be "standard" airports With 1,000-yard runways,
Fairlop, new City of London airport. will cost £1,100,000, and is expected. to be open at the end of 1941.
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