FRIDAY,
JUNE 10, 1927.
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PRINCIPAL HOTELS, CLUBS & DEALERS,
OBJECTION TO NOISES.
OF MOTOR CARS,
THE HAWKSMOOR DEDICATION.
In the Chancery Division, Lon- "It is really worth while for don, in mail week, an injunction every county to have one or more anima! sanctuaries. was granted against Major Victor bird and Beaufort restraining him from There is always a risk that the leaving motor cara atanding in wild life, and especially bird life, Lyall Nows, Belgrave Square, with may become impaired by the na- engines running and allowing tural growth of the population motor horns to be blown in such which takes away its suitable sur- a manner as to cause 'a nuleance to roundings," said Viscount Grey of neighbours. Major Beaufort was Fallodon, in mail week, in accept- the sub-lessee of premises which ing on behalf of the Council of the form part of the Duke of West- National Trust the title-deeds of minster's estate.
the Hawksmoor Nature Reserve, near. Cheadle, Staffordshire.
Mr. Topham, K.C., for the Duke of Westminster, said that the cove innt of the lease prohibited the making of noises calculated to in- convenience or disturb the neigh.
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Six hundred feet above sea level, Hawksmoor Reserve commands one of the most beautiful views in the Midlands, and is the centre of an area in which a large propor tion of the 95 species of birds Complaints were made of motor which nest in Staffordshire and cars being left outside the pre-many varieties of raro wild mises with engines running, and flowers are found. of motor horns being blown oarly in the morning.
The letter of complaint sent to the Duke's soliciters was signed by eight persons. It stated that the people visiting the defendant's flat were in the habit of driving into the Mews between 1.30 and 2.30 in the morning. There were noises of laughing and shouting by the men and women visitors.
Particular complaint was made about a party which returned to the flat after the Albert Hall ball in November last.
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The enclosure covers 200 acres, and was bought by Mr. J. R. B.' Masefield, who initiated the scheme, for £1,200. The whole of the sum has been raised by public subscription. and only a small amount is needed for. fencing re- pairs.
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Commending the work of the National Trust, of which he is a vice-President, Viscount Grey said 14 it was a most desirable thing that 15 there should be a central national 18 One who is defeated. authority which undertook to hold 18 Join.
Perceived with ear, the title-deeds of places valued 18 Mr. Reginald Arthur Pond, who for their historical interest, thoir 20 Open. protested from a window, was in-beauty, or their suitability for 21 Spike of corn.
23 Observe. vited by the defendant. to come preserving and protecting wild at Used in golf, downstairs and receive a thrush-life. Although those places were 26 Heavenly orb. ing. It was further alleged that controlled by local committees, the 28 Back of the neck. the language used was bad enough National Trust ensured that what- 31 Leoward. to have left a bargee speechless. ever changes in personnel there 38
Centre. Mr. Harman, "for Major Beau- might be the original purpose 35 fort, said his client was now in for which the generation of the America, and had been away from day wished those places to be pre this country since January. It served was always maintained. was admitted in his affidavit that
A Real Distinction. a party had returned to the Mews after the Albert Hall ball, but it Places of public resort where 45 Blunt swords.
47 Small lake. was denied that any excessive the natural beauty was unspoiled 48" Needy, noise was then made. ...
must be to some people like 460 Certain. Further, Major Beaufort denied luminous distance to which, while 69 Covezz the head. that he had ever permitted any they were at work, they could look 64 Rodents. noise on any other occasion, or forward to visiting at week-ends. 57 Consumed, that there had been any hooligan-Hawksmoor would be cared for 50 Permit
under conditions in which its wild 61 Stern of ship. life would be preserved. The 62 Monkey. Played, the Piano,
growth of population threatened 64 Minuto akin openings. Counsel went on to say that the to interfere with the haunts of 68 Part of circle.
66 Custom. flat since January had been cc-birds; but if there were sanctu- 70 Metal. cupied by a Commander Henniker-aries in different parts of the coun-71 Driven by a locomotive engine. Heaton, under arrangement with try where they might find a safe 72 Actor's part, Major Beaufort. The Comman-home, especially in the breeding 73 Dells. der's evidence showed that on season, the various species would 74 Termination. March 20 inst, he met two Army bo assured of preservation. officers und another friend, whom "I am told that at Hawksmoor be took back to the flat carly in the you have three different kinds of morning. While supper was be-British woodpeckers, three kinds ing prepared, one of his friends of wagtails, five kinds of titmice, played the piano for about ten and three different species of owls. minutes, but there was no other Anyone who studies birds will sup- noise or disturbance.
port me in saying that it would be It was complained by Comman- very difficult to find another 200 der Henniker-Heaton that one of acres lying in one enclosure in the the neighbours came to him a few country where 'one can find all 9 Sheltered side. days afterwards in a very agros- these particular species breeding. 10 Having wings.. sive manner and abused him. It is a real distinction to have in 11, Solicitude. with fire alarms, which have a sua permanent current, and its in. Other neighbours told the Com- such an enclosure such a fine re- called closed bircuit. For if the terruption by the burglar, is ap-ed and refused to sign any letter and thirty-five properties had now mander they had not been disturb-cord of bird life." One hundred burglar himself is to close the plied. From ray-transmitter, circuit, there is a danger, na past) which looks Into the room to bei of complaint.
been handed over to the National Mr. Justice Clauson said that he Trust, and everyone was being experience has frequently shown, protected like" un electrical, eye, } NEW POSSIBILITIES. that he may first of all, by simply ultra-violet, i.c., invisible rays are could not help thinking that the preserved for the public interest cutting a wire put the whole plant sent out, and pass through the gentleman in question did not ade- and for the public. The Trust had Modern technical science has out of action. The safety connex room like a bean, till they fall on quately recognise that while he no great endowment, but relied long been engaged in devising on which Blut has contrived in the mirror of a receiver, where was in a position to come home at on that real source of economy, volves, on the contrary, an inter- they strike a photo-electric cell 10, and to give A supper party, the local interest and public spirit means for the protection of pro-ruption of the current when a burst which is fixed there. In such a cell, there were a number of others of the different districts.
Lord Dartmouth, the Lord- perty against burglary. Among glar touches it; and an alarm sign-impressions made by light pro sleeping nearby and trying to got its inventions, an essential part is al is then released by means of a duce electrical tensions, which are a night's rest. To play the piano Lieutenant of Staffordshire, said played by the electrical alarmi ap relay.
specially strong in the case of in- was, to say the least, inconsiderate. that when wild duck went courting visible ultra-violet rays. In Blul's Mr. Harman expressed the view it was only the male bird that made paratus, with contacts of the most. The following example will invention, the effect of these ten- that the trouble really arose out n fool of itself. He suggested a varied kinds for staircases, doors make the working of Blut's safely sions is, that two plates are held of the animosity of two neigh-set of by-laws for the inhabitants floors and walls; and the great device clear: suppose à table is to fast in a receiving-relay, a little bours.
of the bird, sanctuary framed to Holice exhibitions in Berlin, Hame protected, an account of some distance apart. If the photo-cell His. Lordship, who remarked restore the equality of the sexes. burg, and other German cities have thing standing on it, or of some is obscured for a moment, so that that it seemed lamentable the ac- (Laughter.) shown mach "that is new in this thing in the drawers. By Blut's the electric charges in it disap-tion should proceed further, grant- Viscount Grey said that the com-
safety connexion, it is placed in a pear the plates come together, anded an injunction till the trial, the mon wild duck for the
greater Two inventions, among others, current circuit. A burglar ap- thereby set an electric alarm ap costs to be costs of the action. part of the year dressed in exceed- excited special interest at these proaches the tables, and touches paratus in action.
ingly gay colours, while the female exhibitions: the safety device in- it, or some object on it. The re-
bird never wore gay colours at all. vented by Blut, and the Photo- suft is, that the current is conduct-i If a burglar enters a room which
It is "Imagine what the result will be," Alarm of the German Raumschutz-ed through the burglar's body-it is crossed by these invisible, and tection against burglary, Gesellschaft (Roon! protection is interrupted and an alarm sign- therefore unnoticed rays, and if he specially suitable for large rooms, he said, "if you begin to model company).
al is heard: the burglar is nn- touches ever so slightly the path such as stores, exhibition-halls, your customs on the wild bird life
of these rays, the above described museums, etc. The house-breaker of Hawksmoor." Laughter.)
In addition to the wild birds in The Berlin engineer, Walter Blut,
interruption of the illumination of has no protection whatever against
area there are bases his invention on the princi- ple that only those safety plants the experimental stage, the Photo-alarm signal is released.
where or from what quafter he is foxes, badgers, fallow deer, squir afford real protection which are Alarm of the German Raumschutz-
threatened; and thus it may well rels, shrews, and boles, and the supplied with a constant electric Gesellschaft is already in practs- This photo-alarm seems to afford be that the ideal protection against varieties of wild flowers are ex-
ceptionally numerous. current, as is the case for instancel cal use. Here too, the principle of the best possible guarantee of pro- burglary has been found.
Distributors: Cilman & Co., Ltd..
PROTECTION AGAINST
direction.
JAUHOUEZ
BURGLARY.
nounced,
While Blut's invention is still in the photo-cell occurs, and the this invisible foe, not knowing the Hawksmoor
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
WHY CERTAINLY YOU'LL
GET MARRIED SOME DAY TAG JUST LIKE MAMA AND MYSELF'
WHERE'LL YOU AN" MOM LIVE WHEN I'M MARRIED?
R1647 HERS!
Ile Has to Have a Place, Too
MOM, WHERE ARE YOU AN' POP GOING TO LIVE WHEN I 6C7 MARRIED?
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