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THE RITZ CATERERS Meal at all hours from 8'2.m. to 12.00 midnight

OAKS OF BRITAIN.

SOME FACT AND FICTION.

THURSDAY

MARCH 11, 1926.

PUBLIC MOCKERY.

VOLUNTEER ORDERS.

SCOTTISH COMPANY.

Guard of Honour will parnde for practice at the Garrison School (near Lower Peak Tram station)

WHERE SARCASM IS AN

OFFENCE...

According to a correspondent

There is much of romance in more senses than one about the puks of Britain, but, romance apart, the roots of some of the re-on Thursday and Friday at 6 p.m. of the N. C. Daily News the markable trees referred to in ra- cent letters to The Times undoubt-

Dress for Thursday.-Mufti, Manchurian G. H. Q. recently. promulgated an order whoroby

edly go deep down in the history of rifle, belt, bayonet and frog.

our country... How deep no one! Dress for Friday-Review or-1"any person or person's found can say with even an approach der: Glengarry, Khaki tunic, kilt uttering words or making actions to accuracy, for these grands sporran, diced hose tops, lashes, of a detrimental nature to the seigneurs of our parks and woode spats, rifle, bayonet, belt and

prestige of the Army will be public- are in ruins, and so their age can frog.

ly flogged." The reason for this not be computed by the customary

Medals and decorations will be

Now serving Special $1.00 Tiffins Morning and Afternoon Teas, centuries or even more may well bons 1 inch long.

Good Assortment of Fancy Cakes Wedding and Christoning Cakos to order.

ONLY THE BEST FOOD AND WINES HERVED.

NOWELL B. WHITE

Proprietor. Telephone-C. 2336

growth; moreover, two or three

"

methods of counting the rings of worn if in possession; if not, rib-order lies in the fact that in certain parts of Manchuria, where the local folks have a have passed before the really an-" No. 6 (Kowloon) Platoon will greater sense of sarcasm than the at the Dockyard on, rest of their fellow-provincials, a cient oaks, now regarded with parade sentimental respect, were suffi- Wednesday, 17th March; at 5.80 now habit recently came into. ciently noticeable to be singled p.m. for practice in Guard Mount-being, but not now. practised, namely that of covering the nose out from other fine trees which ing.

when passing by a number of must have been common enough

"Quarry Bay" Cup-Items soldiers, or when a detachment in Britain before our forests were (Fire Control) and 5 (Guard of them was passing. Noodless

sny, ..it either thinned, or stripped, or our Mounting) as detailed in orders of t

conveyed that estates enclosed.

last week will be competed for at rilitarists were in had odour. junior commanders, Like so many other, everyday Corps Headquarters on Thursday, Certain MASSAGE HALLbjects of the countryside, they 18th March at 6 pm. Dress for have been taken for granted by competitors as detailed for Guard 23 WYNDHAM STREET generation after generation, and of Honour.

no careful records kept of them, MRS. H. MORITA.

MARTIN'S

*APIOL &

TEEL Sureandtertain for allFemale complaints. Every lady should, keep a box in the house."

Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietor: MARTIN, Chemil, Saathampton, England

MRS. SEKAI

MASSSAGE

Tel. No. C4433, 2nd. floor

nor any particular respect paid toļ...

them. Witness the pair of re-

we do.

having got wind of the matter, approached their superiors with the roquest that people gifted

with an acuto sense of sarcasm should be compelled to practiso their gift alsowhore. Consequent- ly, the public at large are now very wary of having anything to do with their noses when soldiers ure anywhere near! However from latest accounts, sarcastic Manchurians have adopted a new by largely imitated stunt. students, namely that of closing

markable trees called Adam and would have used it, a Eve in Lug Meadows, neur More Good oak is none too easy to work, ton, one of which, when the particularly with machine tools, and Shrewsbury and Hereford line was so in an age when expedition and under construction, was converted general convenience count for so into a dwelling by navyies. The much, more easily worked timber top of the trunk, which was 8ft. has largely ousted oak for all but a. tit. in diameter was thatched, uses for which it will probably the eyes, as if in deep medita- Breplace and ch'mney built in, always be retained. "Though untion, when soldiers are about. and a door fitted. When the enable, the tradition that season. The military commanders have! navvies moved elsewhere the new ed oak, never dies is no doubt not yet haid anything in refer- station-master moved in, and no fostered by the fact that wood of enco to this new stunt, but they sooner had he quitted his aerial undoubted age removed from old will doubtless do so in due course, lodging than the place was used buildings and put to fresh uses for their, men are complaining as. a lamp room. Among scores often splits and cracks, and has that they are being considered an

syesore! of other cases of what would now been known to warp: be called vandalism, there is the once famous Green-dale oak at Welbeck, the trunk, of which was so huge that an opening was hewn [through it of sufficient size to allow a coach and four to pass,

No:, Duddeil Streat, Hongkongnd incidentally, to allow the

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noble owner of the day to pocket!

And a bet he had made about it. how many of our historic oaks have not at one time or another seen and fel a fire in the hollow of their trunks

18 is just possible that one or two of the ruined patriarchs máy have seen every change that has taken place in our history since the first William landed on our shores, but it is doubtful if there is a single well-preserved cak in Britain in vigorous health which, i felled to-day, would" show 600 annúal rings,

It is hardly likely that oak trees cat ever recover the place. they once held in our history, Their principal use for, centuries after we became a maritime nation was for shipbuilding, and later on he provision of Limber for the Navy became a national concern. In the time of William 111, an. Act was passed to provide for the en-1 closure and planting with oak of 2,000 weres in the New Forest solely for the use of the Navy. Further, 200 acres were to be en- closed annually for the 20 years, At the time of the Napoleonic in- vasio scare, when ships of war were built as fast as men could build them, "the call for oak of the, right kind was so great that prices rose to a figure which would tantalize present-day land-owners who find ouk practically unsale- able. The Torestry accounts of the Nunwell estate, on the east side of the Isle of Wight, where the oak is of peculiarly slow growth and much esteemed of ol for shipbuilding, show that in 1806, the owner, Sir William Oglinder, was 'called upon to sup- ply nearly 170,000 feet of oak, the best timber realizing 4s. 11d. per Cool, and the rest 38, 8d. In 1897 the average price bad risen to 4s. Gd, per foot, und next year to 5s. 10d. But though the demand con- tinued almost Insatiable, the aup

Holyoak Massey, & Co., Ltd. ply of oak near the southern yards,

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ut Buckler's Hard and other places, Was diminishing, and }# 1809 prices rosu again to an nyorage of 78. per foot. All the time elm, too, was in demand, the prices rising from 28. Od. ped foot In 1807 to 35 8d. at the end of the

scare,

Of only slightly less importance was the use of oak in building.

AIR PRICES and even nowadays it is easy for RESH STOCKings to see when one is in au INE QUALITY pak country.

be a cottage of respcetable anti- quity in Sussex. For instance, into

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