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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGR

February

1939:

WESTMINSTER'S £250,000, SHAMPOO Findlater's

Shower Baths For Dustmen

WHILE most of the thousands who work or live in Westminster are asleep the City Council nightly carries out a tremendous task.

To keep everything spick and span involves the sweeping and washing of nearly a hundred miles of streets and moving 400 tons of refuse every 24 hours.

To do the job properly the council has just built a new cleans- ing and transport depot with a river dock near Ebury Bridge. It has cost £250,000,

A demonstration was staged re-| cently Covered vans drove up and the contents tipped onto carriers. These transferred the refuse to al big barge waiting in the dock under- neath.

A load of decayed frult was used, followed by loads of house and hotel! refuse from other shoots emptying in an endless cataract.

FORLORN SPECTACLE Christmas decorations formed large part of the barge's cargo. forlorn spectacle it was,

A

MARRIED

SECRETLY

OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE. CLINGING to the arm of her 17- years-old husband here recently, a slender brunette revealed buw, she Wh secretly married early in the morning at an Oldham church, when Up went the porteuills and the her flance's widowed mother had barge, with a cover on top, sailed been persuaded to

agree to the i away down river, where the refuse match.

is used for the reclamation of marsh- The bride, Mrs. Eva Cole, who is land.

18, was surprised that the name of Now take a day-or a night-in her husband, Mr. Frederick Cole, was the life of a dusinan, (Interlude: called out at Oldham magistrates' "Why do you wear the sleuch hat, court recently dustman?" "They came in after the ention for Boer War. The ordinary round caps with the shiny peaks were knocked

every time

shouldered load.")

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Most of the Westminster cleansing and refuse collecting has to be done

at agreed hours because of traffic and general conditions and much of the work is done at night.

FREE CLOTHNG

his appll- marry her. MOTHER RELENTED

Permising

when their names were called.

A tangled heap of wreckage is all that remains after a plussenger and freight train collided head- on near Barbacena, Brazil. This wreck, in which the death toll was expected to reach 100, with another 100 injured, was the. worst in Brazil's history. Among the passengers was a delegation of Boy Scouts, Jamboree-bound.

1,520 Miles

For A Party

At a previous hearing Mr. Cole's mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Cole, of Carlisle-street, Oldliam, opposed the murringe on the grounds" that she thought her son was too young. The magistrates adjourned the case for WH

WHEN he was working in 12 weeks.

Southampton last year Mr. Mother and son did not answer F. Clark, an Imperial Airways The dustman of to-day has boots

Said the young Mrs. Cole at her station officer, attended a staff and special clothing lasued free. He mother's home in Hollins-avenue,party at the South Western comes to the depot and puts his Waterhead, Oldham: "We have been Hotel. It was much a good party clothes in an electrical drying room, married for nearly a fortnight.

that he decided to go to another "We went to see Fred's mother, and has his own shower baths.

Up-

and she relented. Getting her-ap- event, and was "among those stairs he has his own restaurant cenoval has made us both very happy. present." trally heated and run by his own We are deeply in love. committee.

"We are staying with my parents It was

these night for some time. My husband has not workers often woke Hight steepera. a big wuge, So the Westminster Council have puti their cleaners in rubber-soled boots ding, as I was married on the same

"Few people knew about the wed-ing-boat. and run silent electric cars instead day as my sister Ethel, who is 20. had to fly back again. of motors with noisy exhausta.

We held a joint reception here. It Fifteen hundred and twenty miles The depot is also the garage for is n relief that our romance has end-is a long way-"but the party was the council's many vehicles. It has ed so happily."

worth it," he said. its own repair workshops and stores,

found that

OLD WOMAN

FOUND SHOT

A woman of 74, found dying from revolver wounds it a hospital asked the doctor to "Anich her off."

This story was told at the St. Panera inquest recently on the wo man, Ignacia Dafofter Gardner, ot Wellesley Road. Chiswick, who died in University College Hospital.

!

But Mr. Clark is now on the Im- perial Airways staff at Morseilles. and to attend the party he flew 760 miles to Southampton by Empire fly-

He had only four days' leave, so

Blind Man Was Forced

To Leave His Wife

GATESHEAD.

REFORM of the Blind Persons Act may result from

the case here of Mr. Harold Watson, who has been forced

Workless Man

Returns Reward

WORKLESS John Shore, thirty-one, staying in a shilling-a-night Hammersmith hostel, received a cheque

for £500-payment for a good deed he had done sent

it back by the next post and walked to the West End to earn half-a-crown as a sandwich-board man so that he could pay for his next night's lodgings.

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The man who sent him the cheque was Mr. John R2303. Simplicius-Waltz Son, (Strauss,) Poweys-Rea, who lives in the South of France.

He met Shore recently, lis- ward. But this is a case of human tened to his point of view and life," he said.

"It was my duty to help. I did told him he was a fool.

what anyone else would have done In the circumstances." Later he said: "I admit ↑ was tempted. It would be criminal of me to accept the money, know what it is to go hungry. I know I could do a lot of things with £500. But to-night I am much hoppler for having refused it.

Litst summer Mr. and Mrs. Powrys-Rea were slaying in na ex-| clusive hotel on the sea front at Southsea.

In another hotel John Shore was working as receptionist.

One morning John was taking his daily before-breakfast dip when he saw elderly

an

woman strolling "I treasure my independence. My along the esplanade.

father is retired Civil Servant v- Suddenly she, collapsed. In

in Exeter. He has asked me to moment, John was racing up the come horse. But why should I be- deserted braeli to help her. He lift- come a burden to him at my age? ed the woman to her fect, then half-

"Blame

Christion upbringing if. {led, half-carried her to her hotel you like, but I just could not accept}

the money."

That woman was Mrs. Poweys-Rea. She and her husband have been grateful ever since to the young man whose prompt action probably naved her life.

KEPT HIS SECRET

ing

Said Mr. Poweys-Ren; "He is a fool. I made no stipulation about his use of the money.

A verdict of "Suleide while of un- to leave his wife to obtain the full statutory grant to Poweys-Ren and his wife went to win all, his action saved my

sound mind" was

vas recorded.

WORRIED ABOUT EYESIGHT

Hoylake,

Mr.

John Holt, vi Cheshire, said that he had known He believed her husband was in New

Mrs. Gardner for about SU Yours

enable him to live.

London.

am

thought he would like to start a le business of his own or the sort. something of "After When the summer was over Mr.

from a

a lengthy illness. Five live in Lourdes. John Shore, his hundred pounds is really a small re- seasonal jeb over, returned to his ward, But I felt I lnd to recognise Mr. Watson, whose sight was partly restored in "mir-long dreary days of job-hunting in his good deed in a atting way. acte" operation four years ago, is only allowed 5s, a week pension

Forry I have been unable to per- for his infirmity under a "means test" regulation which rules workless man wrote to one another.

The grateful husband and the suade him.. I did my best. that £1 a week, earned by his wife for acting as caretaker to a But John never breathed a word Dr. Roderick Payton, surgical blind social centre, must be taken into account as his income. about his poverty. He wrote happily; registrar at an ophthalmic hospital,

about everything except work and said he found Mrs. Gardner with a Mr. Watson notified the authorities His case is, however, being taken

money. revolver by her side. She said to recently that he is leaving his wife up by Alderman Peter Hancock, him, "I em qulie Incurable. Please and going into lodgings to obtain the chairman of Gateshead Corporation finish me off."

full grant of £i a week.

Blind Persons Committee, who said: It is wrong that a blind mon--for Mr. Watson is still blind to all intents and purposes should be penalised because his wife is making a little money.

Zealand.

Further Reductions

during

Thursday & Friday

Last Two Days

of

Maizee's Sale

Alexandra Bldg. Des Voeux Rd. C.

"When he leaves his wife he will have to apply to my committee for the full grant of £1 a week. I in- tend to see if something cannot be done to circumvent the red tape with which the Act is bound."

Falling a satisfactory outcome of Alderman Hancock's efforts the National League for the Blind may take the matter up with local M.P.a.

Mr. Poweys-Rea did not know! that every morning John tramped from Hammersmith Lo King's

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Then when day after day there was no work for him, he walked round the big West End stores look- Ing for Johs addressing circulars at six shillings a thousand.

But Mr. Poweys-Rea was wonder- ing how he could reward the modest young man who had probably saved his wife's life.

Thinking that a hotel recertionist) might have ideas of running a cafe on his own, he sent him a cheque

£500.

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meet John Shore hoping In an effort to avoid having his son he might change his mind. associato with criminals, William Recently they went to see a Alm Forrester suggested that the 24- together and then had tea. But John year-old youth receive lashes instead was adament.

Underground developments which will be completed during the year include,

January: Opening of recon- structed St. Paul's station.

May: New Eastcote station. Reconstruction of King's Cross.

June: Northern line to East: Finchles

October: Bakerloo traing

to

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Road: Trolicy bus routes extended by 33 miles, with 409 new vehicles; 340 new buses and 87 new coaches.

Rail: Recently the Southern Rail- way's new electrified line from Virginia Water to Reading and from

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