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AIR MATERIAL DEPARTMENT

Commander R. St. A. Mallesori. AF.C., took up the new post of Assistant Director of the Depart- ment of the Director of Air Material, on June 23. The depart- ment was Instituted in January last to administer the supply of aircraft and their equipment and stores for the Fleet Air Arm; con- sequent on the Government's decision to transfer the full re- sponsibility for all ship-borne alr- craft to the Admiralty,

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SECRETARY OF A.R.NO, Commander H. J. Lancaster: D'S.C., is retiring from the post of secretary of the Association of Retired Naval Officers, which hẻ has held for nine years. He will be succeeded by Commander C. P. Satow.

ELECTRICIANS' EXAMINATION The following: chleb and electri ..cal

at artificers qualified

the examination for the rank of war-

rant electrician held in March:-

E. J. D. Elliott. L. G. Palmer. H. C. Maule, A. W. Farnley, W. J.

F. Gibba B. J. Buckett

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Williams. N.G. Peters. L. E. Boyer, J. Carter, H. C. Hocking. F. C. Wiseman,' and 'A. W. Durrant.

FLEET ACCOUNTANT: OFFICER

Paymaster Captain E. H. Wethey, OBE accountant officer of the boys' training ship Caledonia at Rosyth, has been appointed to H. M Kent for duty as Fleet

Accountant Oficer on the China Station, and will be succeeded by Paymaster Commander W. M. Hawkes.

HOWARD PRIZE

The Howard' Prizë, awarded an- nually by the Royal Meteorological Society for competition among the nautical training establishments/ has been won this year by Cadet C. D. Thorpe, of HM.S. Conway.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS The following appointments are made by the Admiralty:-

Lt.-Odrs.-J. R. D'Öyly, to Pre- sident for R.N. College, Greenwich (July 5); B. F. Johnson, to Victory for R. and R.T. School. (July 6).

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AT TRAINING SCHOOL

A Moth seroplane belonging to the Far East Flying Training School photographed at Kal Tak Air Fort.

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AIR MINISTRY ORDERS £7,000,000

OF AIRPLANES

A £1,000,000 order for a large number of Airspeed Oxford monoplanes, designed on the lines of the King's air linar, has been placed by the Air Ministry. They are to be used as trainers.

The order is the largest ever placed in this country for train- ing aircraft, and is several times the size of the order just given for 200 American trainers, writes the "Evening Standard” Aviation Correspondent

The Oxford is a twin-engined|

Some are to be built monoplane. by Airspeed. Ltd. of Portsmouth. the designers, and the remainder by the De Havilland Aircraft Co..

of Hatheld, and the Percival Air- craft Co.. of Luton,

Detective Studies U.S. Methods

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DISCOVERIES

IN ENGLAND

TUESDAY, JULY 5,

New discoveries during farther] excavations #t Wroxeter, nesr Shrewsbury, were described by Miss Kathleen Kenyon, at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Lon-| don.

Miss Kenyon is the daughter of Sir Frederick Kenyon, President of the Society, and it was under ber jaupervision that the excavations were recently carried out by the Shropshire Archaeological Society

The aircraft are constructed to seat pilot and twn papils for in- termediate, and tranced Instruc- tion. They are powered with two Leslie, of Scotland Yard, has ar Armstrong Siddeley. Cheetah arrived at Washington and has en- cooled engines each of 375 horse-rolled as a pup at the police Power. The top speed in 190 mph. academy of the U. S. Department

understand that the whole of Justice in Washington. order is to be completed in abour two years

Durban's Air-Port Plans

He will spend the next three months studying the methods used by American "G-Mén" (Govern ment Detectives) in tracking down kidnappers. bank robbers and blackmailers.

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on the site of the Roman City of WEDNESDAY; the 6th JULY, Viroconium or Uriconlum," which

lies under Wroxeter,

The city, she explained, was Juriginally founded about AD. 43 as the headquarters of the 14th and 20th Legions, which were stationed there while, Males" was being subdued, When the Legions; were moved north to Chester, the elty became the tribal capital off the Cornovil,

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Commencing at 2.30 p.m.

At their SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE

"HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Comprising:-

"The baths building, which had

Teakwood Bedsteads, Dressing been excavated in 1850 was re-Tables Chests of Drawers, Ward- examined." she said. "It was found robes, Dining Tables, Chairs, that the original building had not Armchairs. Sideboards. Chester- been baths at all, but consisted of reid Suites. Teapoys. Ornaments, ranges of large rooms, one Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Sewing either side of an enclosed court- Machine. Gramophones and Re- yard and beside it a long two-cords. Clocks, Radios, Glass and (aisted hall."

Porcelain Ware, Brass and E.P. This complex dated to about Aware. Ice Chests, Enamelled Bath. D. 140. and though its purpose Cooking Utenalla, etc., etc.

also

not clear it must have formed part

of the public buildings of the town, together with the nearly contem- A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD porary Forum oppvarte.

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FURNITURE

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house"

"Not very much later the whole was transformed into a public bath building of the elaborate and com- 2 Electric Refrigerators "Westing- plicated type found all over the Roman Empire. At the time of this 1 Electric Refrigerators "GE” alteration the body of an infant Electric Refrigerators "Erigid-

was placed below the floor, possibly as a foundation burial."

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2 Bedroom Suites

Diningroom Butte,

Miss Kenyon also described how two successive defensive systems 1 Piano and Piano Stool 'Moutrie" Inspector Leslie's visit to Wash-

of the town were identified. The 1 "Table Golf" ingtor is part of an interchange earliest consisting of a turf. revet-

1 Large Tientsin Carpet. arrangement between Sir Philipted rampart with a double Citch

Game: Commissioner of Police, and Mr. Edgar Hoover, head of the "G-Men."

American government de- Active steps are now being taken to provide Durban-South Africa's tea c. Mr. Bernard Akers, is al- air-terminus of the flying-boat ready in England and has enrolled service from England-with a fine, as a pupil at the Hendon, police college to study English methods permanent marine air-port.

of criminal detection.

Lts.-J. P. Mosse, to Osprey (July ID; J. T. Kimpton, to Walpole The equipment. is to include a (July 12): J. O. C. Hayes, to Dryad specially designed foaling-dock July 16): D: S. Tibbits. to. Brynd which is to be sent out from Eng- (July 18); E. M. Usherwood, to land. Greyhound (July 28),

A large sum is to be devoted to Payr. J. F. Allen, to Pem-making the air-port completely up- broke (July 2).

to-date in every technical aspect:

Sub-Lts- R. Lang, to Viscount

In addition to the provision of (June 30); I J H. Gamble, to a floating-dock, there are to be Vernon (July 1).

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PROMOTION Sub-Lt. (F/O., R.A.F.).-K. V. V. Spurway. to rank of Lt. (seny. March, 18).

large hangars, and every facility

Wt. Cook.-W. V. Stear. to Cale- for maintenance and overhaul. donia (July 1).

"Soil dredged and excavated is to be used on land reclamation work necessary on the site for hangars and workshops, and also to pro- vide ample 650 feet long

Flying-boat passengers will alight a jetty forming part of this incle.

RETIREMENT Lt.Cdr.-E. W. Dennett, with at rank of Cdr. (June 9).

ROYAL AIR FORCE

STATION ADMINISTRATION

AIR MAIL SPEEDS

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A station headquarters will form

UP IN S. AFRICA at Leuchars, Fife, on August 1, and i

Amplified air facilities in South take over the executive command Africa, scheduled to becoine effec- of the station with effect from tive next month, will ensure the August 28, when No. 1 Flying delivery of the previous day's mails Training School will be transferrd to and newspapers to people at isolat- Netheravor and the station willed outposts in Bechuanaland and be transferred from the Training south-west Africa who, previously, Command to the Coastal Com- have been almost completely cut mand in No. 16 (Reconnaissane) off; from civilisation for long Group.

periods at a time.

Everest Unconquered

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Reports from India make # clear beyond any reasonable doubt that the present Mount Everest expedition, the seventh since 1921, has been forced, to abandon its attempt on the mountain. Like the expeditions of 1933 and 1936. it.”has been defeated by the weather, says the Manchester Guardian of June 18.

Until now it has been generally it was expected, sweeping across aasumed that if Mount Everest is India in four days and striking to be climbed at all!it, will be the mountain on May 247 It was climbed in May or June in the this which prevented the 1936 ex- Tew weeks, between the time when pedition from getting beyond the the weather becomes sufficiently famous North Cal and which if warm for climbing at high al- reports are true; has again pre- |-titudes- and the-arrival of the vented the present expedition summer monsoon from the south. from approaching the final stages; which plasters the mountain with

To Mr. Tilman and his corp- deep, soft snow.

After that only the return of panions the disappointment must the cold north-west winds in Sep- be keen, especially when they had tember can sweep the peak clear a right to consider that, given good of snow, again, and by then (it conditions. success was within haz Always been thought) the their reach; to have gone so far and to have been forced back weather is, top cold for elimbing.

In many years this all too brief while still on the lower slopes period is deduced still farther must be a bitter blow.

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either by the-fallure of the north- They may be tempted to try once west wind to keep the mountain}more in the autuma, 'against' all | clear after April or by the pre-previous experience, rather, than -mature-arrival-of-the-monsoon return-home-at-once-knowing thei

In 1936, for instance, the mon-cost and difaculty of organising soon came a fortnight cariler than another, expedition,

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outside, dated to the end of the first century A.D. or the first years of the second.

They were succeeded by a system consisting of a stone wall of which the footings alone, survived, with a bank behind It. and a much deeper ditch, erected in the middle of the second century A. D.

Mr Howard Harding.

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