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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL ·

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HER Majesty the Queen planting a mulberry tree

to commemorate her visit to the Drapers' Hall, where she dined with the Drapers' Company. The Clerk to the Company, Mr Hugh Farmer (bands behind his back), stands beside the Master, Colonel F. C. Stern." (Express)

LEFT Sir Richard Acland, former Socialist MP for Gravesend, who resigned from the Party because he did not agree with its support of H-bomb development plans, is to contest his constituency as an- In- dependent. He is seen scrubbing the floor, of his electioneering premises. (Express)

IN his dressing room during his farewell performance at London's Albert Hall, tenor Beniamino Gigli refreshes himself between songs with sips from a Vichy water bottle, while an attendant massages his scalp. (Express)

LEFT: Mr Aneurin Bevan arriving at Trans- 'port House for his meet- ing with the eight-man committee of the Labour Party which was to de- cide on his political future member. 2 Party

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ACTRESS Patricia Medina, who flew from California to London last week on her way to Rome, had an enforced stop. over in London while she recovered from a bout of laryngitis. She has since left for Rome where she is to start film work in "The Red Cloak." This picture of Pat. (left) was taken in her London notel suite. (Express)

AFTER a winter of snow and freezing, winds, the first rays of spring sunshine have been gladly welcomed by most of the animals at the London Zoo. Lakshmi,

the young elephant, helps his keeper clean down the outside of the elephant house so that it will be spick and span when visitors come. (Express)

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BELOW: The Queen and the Queen Mother made it a Royal occasion at Liverpool's famous Grand National They saw jockey Pat Taffe win on Quare Times. Picture records a proud moment for the owner, Mrs Cecily Welman, as she leads in her horse after the vic- tory. Quare Times, a nine-year-old gelding, is Mrs Welman's first Na- tional horse.· (Express)

WHAT the well-dressed factory couple will wear. For the lady, a nylon overall. For the gentleman, a fully pressurised suit with a transparent plastic helmet specially suitable for cleaning storage tanks. Hilary David with "Charlie," sometimes known as "The Man from Mars," favourite dummy at the Factory Equipment Exhibition in London. (Express)

INSIDE the new Control Tower at London Airport. This is the Control Room, showing staff at work directing traffic at the busy airport.

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PROUD smiles of five cadets who won prizes at the annual presentation of the 1st Cadet Battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment at Wellington, Surrey. From front to rear they are C. Donovan, 15, of Carshalton, who won the Appleton Cup as the Best Cadet of the Year, C. Tween, 15, H. Bick, 19, R. Paul, 17, and P. Wells, 19.

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