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The Serpentine, “George Lansbury's Lido", is packas with bathers this hot weather. Who would think this was the heart of London.

COUNTRY WITHOUT A NIGHT CLUB

AMERICA'S DISCOVERY OF LAND OF EVANGELINE

By E. Chapin May

Taking a night boat out of New York by way of Boston we had landed at Yarmouth at an early morning ⚫ hour and travelled by rail along the famous Annapolis, Valley through Digby, Annapolis Royal and Kentville to Grande Pre, some-time home of "Evangeline." By the end of the afternoon our train had taken us into the Pro- vincial capital, Halifax.

For days and nights thereafter we journeyed hither

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH FRIDAY. JULY 2:28.. : 1935..

BRITISH PLANES

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TO BE USED FOR LONG FLIGHTS

Tokyo.

Five now British planes aro to be purchased immediately for the Tokyo-Hsinking-Dalron airways inj order that the one-day service! which was started on May 1 may be continued through tho winter, months. The machines are Bach [capable of carrying eight pas

sengers-United Prans,

members of our Provincial Cabinet and Judlefäry have belonged to our Halifax Curling Club, which la celebrating its 110th anniver- sary this year.

"One of our most active curlers i Is Captain Noll Hall, doing a good job as skip for thirty-five of his Boventy-seven years. Mr. Clifford Kerr, one of the runners-up at our last charity bonsplel, has been skipping forty-six yeara Вис- cessively and successfully. When New Glasgow's veteran curler, Mr. Poter A. MacGregor, følt a) little weary after a long night of curling he attributed his fatigue to an automobile accident which befell him in his eightieth year."

'Curling is mentioned in this Instance because it is probably the only purely amateur sport which thrives without employing re- ferees or umpires. One must be a gentleman and a good 'loser to stay with curling. year in and year out.

WINTER COMES LATE

Winter

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comen late in Nova Mussolini harvests with his oap backwards, his shirt off and bis goggios on.

That's to show he's a dictator.

below zero.

pool and a pipe.

haddock and halibut follow them voraciously. Just ዕዱ hungrily fishermen pursue the big sh. Be- tween deep-sea expeditions they go in for aquatic contests. Hence there comes into the scene each July La Nova Scotinn Deep Sen Rodeo and Aquatic Carnival, held in the north- west arm of the sea flanking Half- fax, where casting contests, swim- ming races, high and faney diving, water polo, surf-board riding be- hind fast motorboals, canoe tilting and "fishing" for humans are added to shell races and other festivities

In the meanwhile, white-sailed yachts race from Boaton or New York to Nova Seblin or race ench other in Nova Scotian waters.

On the western side this Mari- time Province has its own activities. Each May comes the miracle of millions of apple blossoms, fore- runners of the 2,000,000 barrels of apples which will be borne by trees In Annapolis Valley. And, of course, Kentville must have its Apple Blossom Festival,

A few miles south of Kentville,

aboriginal Micmac Indians join in celebrating the landing In 1604 of Timothe Pierre de Monts and Sleur Samuel de Champlain and the founding of what is now Annapolis Royal, oldest city except St. Augus- tine on the continent. This July- August festival also commemorates founding, by Champlain, "Captain in Ordinary for the King in the Navy, Soldier and Gentle- man of France," of "The Order of the Good Time," America's first Rocial club, at his first "Habitation" In America.

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and thither through the Canadian Province named "New K..pinng cool in London te no trial for this gentleman. All he needs la a Scotland" by King James I of England in 1622. Kind- ness, courtesy, a shy conservatism marked the men, women and children with whom we mingled. The beauty of cliff-Scotia. The offshore Gulf Stream 7 inches, thereby shattering a pre-near the site of Fort St. Anne at has something to do with this. vious world's record of 126 feet. Annapolis Royal, with people and crowned seacoasts, public gardens, broad acres of wheat, at before winter has finished At Lake Williams, also, George barley and potatoes; the greens and fairways of sporty lingering In the lap of spring. Skinner makes good his cry, golf courses; thousands of square miles of apple orchards; sixty inches of snow may fall en "Twenty-five out of twenty-five!" in "Now Scotland" and the tempera-competitive trap shooting: Indian leagues of dyke-protected meadows adjoining the soaring ture may drop to 11 degrees Chief Johnnie McEwan of Bear tides of the Bay of Fundy; the peace, quiet and simplicity Fahrenheit

Hence River wins the gulfes' log-chopping Aummer in the visitors' Besson. contest, letting the chips fall where of "The Land of Evangeline" impressed us profoundly. Each summer myriads of world- they may; and Guides Champion weary travellers venture across Eber Peck demonstrates perfect co- Nova Scotin was charm brightly he explained. visualised. But it was not until Subsequent investigation sub- the North Atlantic Ocean or the ordination of muscles while log- our good ship Evangeline was stantinted this declaration. Al-Bay of Funndy or go up through rolling his competitora Into cold about to ateam homeward front though luring

Maine of

and New Brunswick by water multitudes Yarmouth Harbour that I was vacationists to its shores, "The rail or motor to relax in "The Impelled to ask a leading question. Land of Evangeline" has not "gone Land of Evangeline."

"How many night clubs are re-Broadway," nor has it suffered Most of these pilgrims have been quired to entertain your 500,000 materially from this eccentricity. brought

Longfellow's Nova Scotians and their visitors?" ita 500,000 natives get along nicely "Evangeline." More than 18,000 summer for growing children, who than 4 dozen intriguing golf I asked our galde, mentor and in-and have a splendid time in spite of them annually write their names drink fresh milk from tested dairy courses in holding a valuable associate.

of their deprivation.

In a guest book of the Norinan herds, play on the sands and deve- Camival at Pictou during July and "We have no night clubs in Suid white-haired, handsome chapel which marks the site of lop huge appetites, Out in deep there and then Nova Scotia," he replied without "Kod" McColl, looking up from a Evangeline's Church of St. Charles water the mighty Zane Grey and "Loster, King"; has started a five- crowning its morning paper filled with accounts at Grand Pre. To these elders and others famous in the art piscatorial year plan for perfecting its miles "Not even in Halifax with its of railroad excursions to a cham- youngsters, for whom romance still catch champion tuna fish. Thomas of motor roads; has opened some of 60,000 citizens?" I demanded. pionship hockey match and stories lives, Grand Pre's Memorial Park, Howella's 966-pounder is still the the most

"We have never needed any; we about Nova

comfortable hotels in Scotia's

French willows, fertile world's record with rod and reel. enstern North America. But in the mighty old have too many natural attractions," leurlers: "Our Premier, several ineadows, remains of French roads

Early each spring the herring main Nova Scotia is still Acadia, and the iron cross which marks the spawn in bays and inlets. Cod. just grown up a little. point at which Acadians wore ex- pelled from their beloved. village have frresistible fascination. Dele- gations come from Evangeline's burial place in Louisiana to gaze al- most reverently upon her beautiful statue in the place of her birth.

hesitation.

Here's one of those "Robot" planes England has been ex

perimenting with. There's the pllat, watching it.

up on

SPORTSMEN'S PARADISE

Yot sportsmen and realists vie with romanticists and artists in flocking to a region innocent of highly heated night life Many a thrilling camera shot has rewarded the stalker who, penetrating Nova Scotian woods on a hot summer's day, comes stealthily upon a magni- ficent bull nloose feeding on water illes beside a trout-filled stream or finds himself photographing the graceful Virginia deer or a flight of woodcock fleeing from cover.

Trout and salmon were Nova Scotia's original inhabitants. The cool, clear waters of hundreds of apring-fed streams and lakes still harbour uncounted thousands of Anny folk. For more than a quar- ter-century the Nova Scotia Guides'. Meet has held a unique charm for hunters and flahers, until the annual August gathering at Lake William finds four hundred tents filled with campers and 5,000 visitors witness- Ing the sports programme avery day.

Lake Willams is where "Bon" Annis of Boston introduced "Bill" Edson to a fly-fishing multitude and where "Bill" cast a fly 127 foot and

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