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NEW TESTS FOR MOTORISTS

Draft Of Home Rogulations

"EXAMINATION" TESTS PLANNED

BEST DRESSED NATION

ENGLAND LEADS THE WAY

Laxity in dress among the pro- Sir Francis Joseph, speaking at Cossional classes was regretted by the annual banquet held in con- nection with the National Fedora- Draft regulations to govern the ton of Merchant Tailors · Con efficiency tests which new appll-ference at Buxton. cants for driving Heences will in

The workaday world to-day, be

future have to pass, were issued added, was better clothed than it recently by the Minister of Trans had ever been before, port. It is emphasised that the

regulations are provisional and England WAH now, the best.

are for discussion amony motor-dressed nation in the world, and lats and interested bodies. They both American and Continental are in no way final.

peoples were coming here in large

The applicant, according to the numbers to replenish their ward- draft regulations, wil have to robes. satisfy a "duly authorised exami- ner" that he is fully conversant with the Highway Code.

In addition, he must satisfy as to his abilty unaided to deal with his car in the following manner: Start the engine of his vehicle: Move away straight ahead or at an angle;

and

As a result of the prevalence of small ears it was Impossible for a doctor to wear 'n tall hat, and with the passing of the tall hat the his doctor had also discarded Truck cont.

Criticism of the slovenly dress

, worn by some men, and also of the

Overtake, meet or crow the path (new Army' uniform, was made by of other vehicles

inku at Mr. R. H. Stone, of Norwich. the

retiring President.

appropriate course;

Stop the vehicle in [2] emer- in the

"Are we to stand idly by," he xency or normally, and latter case to bring the vehiclejasked, "and see our soldiers dress- to rest at an appropriate part ofled like cheap hikers? Can dress

such as is suggested engender dis-i the roud:

It cer- Drive backwards, and while so cipline and smartness?

will nat improve the doing enter a limited openingtaily either to the right or to the left:oldier's idea of dress when in

Reverse the direction of the muft! or when he retires." vehicle by use of forward and re-,

Mr. E. M. Meggitt, Manchester, verau gears;

Give

the newly-elected President, sald hand appropriate

he believed that a change and mechanical signals at appropriate" times to indicate intended actions; Improvement in men's dress was Act promptly on all signals coming soon, and that the ubiqui- riven by traffic aigns, traffic conisers would disappear.

tous sports cont and flannel trou- trollers and other road users.

ANOTHER FEE.

or

Anyone seeking a licence must, ele or invalid carriage, shall be apply to the Council of his County ran in the vehicle with the ur Boraugh, and applications will holder of the provisional Beence." be dealt with at any time within CONDITIONS FOR LEARNERS. one month of the effective date of the licence.

A vehicle driven by a learner The present fee of aa, for the licence is to be con- holding a provisional Üleence is fo tinued, but an additional fee (7s. Tearry a white dise seven inches in fid. is suggested in the draft re-diameter, or a white square of the gulatious will be charged for the same size with a red letter "14" 12, high and 12in, base, the test.

The draft regulations continue width of the letter being p the rule relating to physical dis-Finch.

test. These

include:

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of an

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MONDAY, OCTOBER

8, 1934,

́“A CENSORSHIP

FOR NOVELS".

The first performance will take place shortly of the presentation of "Little Dorrit", by Charles Dickens, in which the title role is to be played by Frau Schmeling, better known sa

Anny Ondra.

HOW IS YOUR MEMORY?

POSERS FOR THE SCHOOL-BOY

WIDE READING NECESSARY

If the boy of to-day wishes to pass his school examinations, It would appear that he has to be a very close render of reliable newspapers and student of European and world situations, as they effect politics and economies

The last Leaving Certificate "xamination set by the Scottish Education Department naked, for instance, questions. Hitler,, Marconi, diétatorship, the cinema, rating, and foreign exchange, e

ON

In the Day School Certificate

one question in the general paper

....

Select five of the following and sy, very briefly, what has made each of thom famous:-Lord Prince Howard of Ellingham.

abilities which debar an applicant, Additional regulations in the Rupert, Joseph Addison. Duchess from holding a licence or even draft provide that a licence shall of Marlborough, William Wilber- from claiming to be subjected to he signed by the owner, failure: force, Sir John Moore, James Watt,

being punishable by a fine not Abraham Lincoln, Marconl, Mrs.-- mental defectiveness of certain exereding a duplente licences Pankhurst, Earl Halg, Adolf Hit- types, liability to sudden giddiness shall be issued, in the event of a ler. or fainting, and inability to read loss or defacement, at a cost of a car number plate at 25 yards in one shilling: records shall good, light and with glass,

Tests will be conducted by such Government Departments, bodies, organisations or person as the Minister may from time to time appoint."

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Kept by the Licensing Authority ot all endorsements, and a copy of all particulars recorded by them shall be supplled to the police on application.

A certificate of competence is! No mention is made in the draft to be lasued to successful candi-regulations of the date from which dates. Those who fail to pass the the driving texts shall apply, but 'test shall be ineligibir to submit since it was laid down in the Act to a further test for two months. that new applicants for driving The applicant is required to pro-licences after April 1 this year vide a motor vehicle “of suitable were to be subjected to a test. It is type" for the test.

assumed that, when final regula-

In the Leaving Certificate Eng- lish paper the following is de- manded

Write a composition, not ex- eeeding three foolseng, pages in length, on any one of the follow ing subjects:---

(a) "Fresh air and exercise for healthy outlook on life." Dis- cuss the merits of this slogan.

(b) "Sports and societies (de- prominent in the modern school." bating, dramatic, &c.) are too Discuss,

(e) Describe a duy among the

hills, or a day by the sea.

(d) The respective advantage of the theatre and the cinema:

(e) The importance of posRUSH-

Drivers who are not resident in tions are issued they will apply Great Britain are not required 10¦ectrospectively to that date. pass the test.

Provisional licences are to bei The draft regulations have been granted, according to the draft issued to, the various motoringing a sense of humour. regulations, to enable the holders organisations for their examina-

In a history puper they are asked

Lo use them "only when under the lion and comment. When the to show very briefly the historient supervision of a person fit and views of these bolles have been signißcance of the following:- competent to give instruction in received by the Minister,

final The coronation of Charlemagne;

the driving of a motor vehicle gulations will be drafted in the who, except in the case of a motor-light of their observations.

Its sharp and slender lines bespeaking, the speed with which it can bunt and harrası enemy ships, the now destroyer U.S.S. Mao- Donough is being prepared at the Charlestown, Masi, navy yard

for service with the fast.

the mission of St. Columba; the Biarriage of Henry 11, of England; the battle of Agincourt; the divorce of Catherine of Aragon; the National Covenant (1638): the Act of Setlement; the Fall of the Bastille; the Indian Mutiny: the Franco-British Entente 1904.

DOCTOR WHO TOOK WRONG TABLETS

EXPLANATION OF MOTORING OFFENCE,

of

Dr. Archibald Magill, a medical ofcer at Pembury Hospital, Tun- bridge Wells, was fined £10, with £2 13. Gd. costs, at Tonbridge recently for driving a car while under the influence of drink or tiruga,

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Should Output: Be Restricted?

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

THAT BORE

A suggestion that the Library Association should inquire into the possibility of establishing some kind of pubilention censor- ship over navels, on the lines of the censorship of films, was made at recent meeting of the Asso vistion held at University College, London...

to

be

worth

The suggestion was put forward by, the Iv. E. St. G. Schomberg, Deputy Mayor of Westminster, He and that the public had a right to expect from its public Bbraries the supply of any book that had any kind of claim reading, but it seemed to him that nowadays there was an increasing no such claim either on literary output of books which could make intellectual, artistic. educational, or romantic grounds, or, in fact, on nay grounds whatever.

The President (Mr. S. A PIR, Glasgow) said that the suggestion would be considered. To give any į such guidance would call for con- siderable tact, n great deal of! time, and probably would lead to X battle with publishers .and others.

The famous air woman Amy Mol- lison is the first woman.cross channel pilot ever to be employed in England.

fob to get into practice for the event. Australia mir race and has taken this She has entered Toy the England.

The picture shows Mrs. Mallion photographed receiving her log book at the Stapleford Aerodrome prior to

departure for Paris.

FAMOUS WAR MEMORIAL

BRANGWYN' PANELS GO TO SWANSEA

Mine M. Watt-Smith, deplored the fact that so little effort was made to find out what the modern child preferred to read and to

The famous Brangwyn panels, correlate his tastes to the books painted for the House of Lords circulated by librarians,

! war memorial, and rejected, amid

"The most noticeable gap in con-¡ temporary juvenile book provision treat controversy, were sent re- is the absence of any satisfactory cently from London to Swansen, books for children between the where they will be placed in the nges of ten and fourteen.

Assembly Hall of the new Civie "After a couple of years spent | Centre. reading the better class fairy tales the modern girl turns to something The Brangwyn panels, which a little more grown up. And what number 10, were commissioned in is there? Just school stories;

badly written, of doubtful morale, 1925 by the late Lord Ivengh, who the plot usually taken from petty intended to present them to the

snubberis Jealousies and

far Itune of Lords. Mr. Brangwyn's

The caDiora records a violent oplode during the recent fatal Communist rioting in Amsterdam, Holland. Here is an officor, felled by flying missile, as he toppled seriously injured from a car which was rushing police reinforcements into the riot zone.

divorced from the life of the fee was £20,000. average schoolgirl,

LURID READING.

"Is it any wonder that after the boredom of reading a thousand school stories the girl turns to something lurid on reaching the adult library."

When, in 1930, the first ve were submitted, they were cpm- Lioned by the Fine Art Commis ion, and finally rejected. Mr. Brangwyn went on with the re maining eleven, nhd on the death of Lord Iveagh, the fate of the panels was left in the hands of the Ivough Trust.

The major fault of many boys' books was that they were out of An offer of £10,000 was made date. Henty and his contempor- for them from America, but the aries were going at last, but top present Lord Iveagh and the trus slowly. The modern boys' book teek, decided that they must re- was better than the modern girls'main within the Empire. book, but it was not perfect.

Many applications were made by There was a large output of municipalities who considered nature books, though the majority, they had halls suitable for them- of children saw the country each six of them measure 20 feet by year for a few hours only and 12 feat, and the remaining 10 aro He explained that ho had re- speat their lives facing four walls each about 14 feet square-but cently suffered bad headaches, and a chimney. Yet we expected Swansea's claims wore considered accentuated by business troubles,them to enjoy reading about the strongest, for the panels will be and on the night in question in- noating habits of the pied wagtail. in harmony with the scheme of tonded to take some sodium bro- They wanted more technical decorations of the new Assembly mide tablets but took four allonal books, moro books on garaes play- Hall. tablets by mistake, Feeling un-ing, more travel books, which took well, he decided to go for a drive a good look Instead of just. peep-

Mr. Brangwyn, who is of Welsh

of the Iveagh Trust,

to get some fresh air, but coulding, and, above all, more good his parentage, supported the decision only vaguely remember what haptory books and biographies, with pened after that. He was prac- not so much insistence on battles.

The panels will be placed 'In tically an abstainer, but had two empires, soldiers, and sailors. their final setting in good tinc or three glaseca of sherry that evening because of stomach paina.

Police Constable Tritton said he found Dr. Magill sitting in à car across the road with Its back in a hedge.

Parents, teachers, and librar for the opening ceremony of the ians chose the wrong books for Civic Centro, which will be per children, and were partly to blame formed by Prince George on for the popularity of "penny October 18. dreadfuls."

A male delegate expressed the Smith, "they are our heritage, but, The Chairman (Mr. G. F. opinion that the English classies not the children's heritage. They Stacey) said the Bench accopted were part of the structure of out were not written for children."

The President spoke of the read tho explanation but the public lives, and were part of our heri- must be protected in such cases, ·tage.--

for further legislation to Improve accident or no accident.

Yes," retorted Miss Watt-library administration.

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Trudition through many years of Tailoring · ex- perience, combined with the practical application of pro- gressive ideas in the most criticised of all arts; has giren Mackintosh's the right to claim for their made-to- measure garments, all that their patrons have a right to demand and expect.

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