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COMRADESHIP OF THE EMPIRE.

Admiral's Views. Admiral of the Floot Lord Jellicos, lata Governor-General of Now Zealand, was the guest of honour at the monthly luncheon of the Oversons. League at tha Criterion Restaurant, London, the other day. He was accom-

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BATHING GAPS THAT LAST

We have just unpacked a largo assortment of

the latest in bathing caps.

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.

bo of the greatest assist power before team enginea and ,000 to the Admiralty in blast furnacos signalised à ro- maintaining the freedom of the volution in the making of soas. (Checrs) Now Zealand was machinery.

There are two main kinds of following suit by taking on herself the maintenance of a se- windmill-the post mill and the cond light cruiser. (Choere.) "As the tower or smock mill. In tho these Dominions increase in first, the whole body of the mill," population and wealth, he said.usually of timbor, square, oblong, they will, I fool, do more andor octagonal in shape, revolvos more to help the Old Country to on a central post. In the other maintain the soa communicationsa lator pvolutionary form which are absolutely essential te only the dome or cap of the the safety and the prosperity of mill which carries the saile ra

valves, the power to sond the the Empire as a whole.

heavy roof round on rails being furnished by a little subsidiary set of sails, cooked up aloft above the projecting platform or gallery which makes those smock mills! so picturesque. The dumber of sails is usually four, but some- times there, were six. Until quito recently there was a sixsailed mill near Lowes. They can still be soon in East Lincolnshire, and in Boston there is a mill with the odd number of five saile.

"The most important thing for consideration by both tais coun- try and the Oversos Dominions at the present time is the question of oversos sottioment. If anybody can further good sobemes of oversos settlement bo will be doing inimenes sorvico to the whole British Empire."

VANISHING ENGLISH WINDMILLS.

Lord Jellicoe, who was received with loud choors when be rose to respond to the toast proposed by Sir Ernest Birob, said he and Lady Jellicoe had left New Zealand with the deepest regret. curse during the time they spent the e-rather more than four happy years- oy had mot with the most open-hearted kind- noas, with the greatest good will, and with every sympton and Where Still To See Them.quito close to or in London still evidence

of cordiality. Tho The movement for the pre regret of Lady Jellicoe and him-servation of Dutch windmills, embodied in, the society. Holland's Mille, to which the Observer's Dutch correspondent has drawn attention, might well be omulated in respect to Eng lish windmills says a correspon dent to that journal. For years past they have been neglected and dying out. Only last month

golf at leaving it was shared aqually by their children, who at Tilbury had said, "Let's got on board that ship which is going out again, and go homo to Now Zasland."

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It Now Zealand, Lord Jellicoe continued, the people were very full of their pride of race. There was a tendency in England to run down, everything. British Even before he went to Now Zealand he often noticed that

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MILLS NEAR LONDON, Although the only windmills

remaining appear to be that at Wimbledon Common and the trunk of one at Brixton, there must have been many all round the outskirts of medieval London, if the Windmill Inns (as at Clap- bara Common and elsewhere), the Mill Rows (as at Haggerston) and the Mill and Windmill Hills signify. Farther out there were plenty, as at Couldsdon and Reigate, but it would seem that

they were never as plentiful on the North Downs as on the South hill ranges and I do not recall one on the actual crests of the North Downs in Surrey. On the

other hand, thors were many on the South Down heights-of which a few remain in shell or whole, as at Friston, Rotting-

picturesque post-mill at Leavonheath, in Essex, which was said to have been standing for 300 years, was damolished. Englishmen thought, or, rather, They do not always go in this said, that everything was good root-and-branch. What that was not British, and nothing gonerally happens is that they that was British was really good. are left to mere decay, Repairs Everybody criticized the British, are neglected. Slats drop away but they criticized themselves

from the sails: fragments of the more than anybody else. In Now

timber drop here and there, and dean, Patcham, Clayton West Blatchington, and Halaaker. rain, wind, and careless destruc- Then, too, there were many-and selves that they were more British tion do the rast, until the build-still are several on the sub- than the British, and the speakering is left to be a more ragged

sidiary heights just below thought that was perfectly true.

and distcembered trunk like tho Well over 90 per cont. of them battered old bulk on Coulsdon the.South Downs, e.g., at Ring- were of British descent, he said,

Common-to name one of those mer, Ditchling Common, Chailey, and added, "I don't think you

Jolesfield, Ashurst, and Shipley. nearest to London.

Of those the last named is a can say that of the people of England at the present moment."

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LET'S GO TO THE STAR!

It is a most regrettable thing that the wind-mills should dis- appear. Of all the buildings of THINKING, IMPERIALLY..

man's making, they are, and The people in New Zealand always have been, next thought Imperially. They realiz-churches, the most conspicuous ed to the full what it meant to

themselves and to the Empire if the Empire held together. (Choers.) They realized that their existence, or, rather, their prosperity, deponded on the safety or the sea com- munications of the Empire. In this country not only the pros- perity but the very existence of the people depended on this safo- ty. Leagues such as the Overseas League did much to bring to people's minds what the Empire stood for, and what was necessary to keep it together. "This league standa first for comradeship," said Lord Jellicoe, and comradeship is wanted to-day more than it was ever wanted before

There is an interdependence between the Mother Country and the

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ESSEX AND THE FENS, In the north-eastern corner of

buildings in the landscape, to Essex, too, there still remain a which they have always added fow windmills, some of which an artistic beauty comparable to still work and in this level coun- that of a sailing ship on the sea, try they can be seen like the accentuating by their tall towers church towers, from afar. But in and spreading agile every fall England there is not and above the natural levels of the never has been, any such con- glomeration of windmills as in country.

the Fens, and particularly in PRE-STEAM MACHINERY.:

East Licolnshire. Hord they Their external boauty and ap add to the charm of rail- pearance bas boon familiar to all way or motor journey in every and particularly to those brought direction, for every tiny town has up in the country thirty, forty, or the outline of its clustered build- Afty years ago, when the mills ings broken by the towers of the were still working in vastly church and the mill, or often, of greater numbers than the at-two mills. Town after town in tenuated battalions of to-day, the fons, whether it be March, or Their internal beauty of form Boston, or Bourne, or and mechanism is not, however; another, lives in memory by its Bo well known. Windmills lie buildings outlined in all of them. remote from buey haunts. They Nort only to the great eastern work nowadays but spasmodic churchos, the mill or the mills

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Overson Dominions that can neyorally, and the ordinary man gets are the boldest, most notable and be too much emphasized."

fewer opportunities of clamboring most characteristic of the build- from floor to floor in their dusky ings.

Lord Jellicoe recalled the great services of the Dominions to the Mother Country during the war, and observed that in the straiten- od financial circumstances of this country to-day the Dominions had much, to do, and were doing much, to support the British Navy The great Australian Commonwealth had just launched programme which would

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interiors to lumbering music of Windmills are worth prosorv- their great machinery. Auding for their artistic influence on what machinery it is! Hand-otherwise undistinguished tanda- made, of immonse timbers and capes, and as survivals "of me- hand-wrought iron, the dioval conditions and, of a vanish. machinery of a windmill is per- en handicraft of wonderful skill. haps the finest example in the England might do worse than world of what could be done in start a movement for their pre- the way of gathering, transmitt-servation, for they are rapidly

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