1939-06-19 — Page 27

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 19, 1939,

PLAN TO SAVE THE NEW FOREST

UFS

Sonja Henic, Ice-skating flm star, left, herself of Norwegian birth, greets Crown Prince, Olay and Crown Princess Martha of Norway as they arrived in Los Angeles. Later Sonja gave a command rink performance for the popular royal couple.

SLEEP-WALK TO DEATH THEORY

A THEORY that a man whose partly-clothed body was found recently in a trench on a building site in Ferrars-road, Sheffield, fell to his death while sleep- walking or delirious is being investigated by Sheffield C.I.D.

When I returned home" this morning after working on the night shift I found the front door open. I did not think it unusual, as Mr. Globe often went for early morn- ing wolks."*

The pollee sinted that the pas A wound at the back of his hend might have been caused by his fall-sibility of the man being knocked down in the road when he was walk- ing into the trench.

Ing and being put into the trench:

The man was identified as the house. Henry Globe, aged 68, of Rad- cliffe-street, Rotherham

Workmen found the body clothed only in shirt, pants and vest.

Detective-Superintendent

head

Allen,

of Sheffield C.1.D., sald that fivefchuld not be ruled out.

Hours before the body was discovered

a lorry driver and a private motorist

LAMBETH WALK AS A SIN

THE

HE Lambeth Walk and allier mcdern dances may be de- clared a sin by the Synod of the Butch Reformed Church in South Africs.

Praising folk dances by con- parison, the Rev. D. G. Van der Merwe said he feared these did not satisfy the taste of modern youth because they could not eling to one another.

Hongkong Girl Fined

driving along the Sheffield-Rotherham It's Pronounced As recently, and

rond 400 yards from the trench saw

a man in his underclothing walking

towards Sheffield.

"We are anxious to, interview these two drivers and any person who can give Information," said Mr. Allen. "The body was In a huddled-ups: position, face downwards."

Spelled

MARY CHAN, a Hongkong girl, appeared before Mr. C. H. Whit- lon, in the Singapore Trome Court pleaded guilty to charges of driving without a Heence and without a third party Insurance palley,

Cape Town.

Imposing fines of $2 and $13. res- The longest word in South Africatively. Mr. Whitton told the de-

Moolmelatesfonteindistrikjuurlik- scuamesettendedingannafeesvierende fundant she was liable to a fine of It means $500 for driving without an insurance Mr. Frank McCarthy, with whom 1ommissieledevergadering. deceased lodged said that Globe had Mooimeisiesfontein District Annual policy.

Combined Dingaan's Celebration been for three days,

Committee Members' Meeting. It is pronounced as it is spelled.

"He must have become delirious during the night and walked out of

Chan was also disqualided from driving for a period of three months.

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Control of Population

And Amusements

SOME of the most drastic recommendations ever made to preserve the beauty of the countryside are con- tained in the report of a Committee of Planning Officers on the planning of the New Forest and its environs set up after a conference of the Forestry Commissioners last year.

Buildings, vehicles and road works, people, overhead wires and advertisements are the principal sources of danger that beset this beautiful stretch of forest, the prime requirement of which is quiet and freedom from disturbance.

"The forest is a miraculous. The character and possibilities of survival in the twentieth cen- every village in the forest have been examined and the population Agures account be tury, of part of pre-Norman indicated, should on no England," says the report. It exceeded. Sinking, for instance, of has suffered change... but it is Lymington, the report says:

"Those visitors whose main delight the direct descendant of the pre-is in mechanleat amusements Norman scene and contains foreign to the natural charneter of many of its original characteris- the place." tics.

RICHES KNOWN TO FEW "It still remains the habitat of number of rare plants and insects which have disappeared elsewhere

are

NO DOG RACING There should be no amusement park at Lymington, no dog-racing track, or similar undertaking. Fan- parlours are of the same nature, but their effect would not be so great.

It harbours rare birds... Its full With regard to the control of camps riches are known to few. It is, in un official of the Forestry Commission fact, nature reserve which would said: "As a matter of fact, It is quite leave the country infinitely the poorer ali right for ordinary campers to if it were destroyed."

anywhere in the New Forest The very bogs which many regard where it is open forest. Obviously as a symbol of neitieel are an essential campers cannot go into the enclosed part of the nature reserva

The report advocates!

Two roads only

for through traffic, and other restricted to Forest traffle;

Control of the population, purti- cularly in the Forest villages;

The suitable development Southampton and Lymington relation to the Forest:

of

in

or

No mechanical amusements permanent holiday camps;

Strict control of poles, overhead wires and advertisements.

Maximum number of houses for each of the Forest villages.

The local authoritics concerned should be asked to set up a permanent Joint body with the object of con- affect the Forest is another recom- mendation.

trolling all development likely to

BUILDING RULES

pitch

parts.

"We are not affected," said on official of the Youth Hostels Associa tion. "The pinces we have in the New Forest area are old houses or small farms.

The following were members of the

Messrs.

Dudd, K. S. -committee: Ministry of Health: D. W. Young, Forestry Commission: A. H. Schofield, Hanis County Council; W. L. Clowes, Bournemouth County Borough; H.

H. T. Cock, S. Hants Joint Planning Com- miltze; A. W. Currie, Lymington Boratgh; L. B. Wise. Christchurch Borough and F. F. Freeth, New Forest Joint Planning Committee,

Dog Haunts Old Home

SALINAS, Cal. For six years, Van, a 13-year-old The last two decades have seen the dog. lived with his master in n 71- residence. Recently his rude breaking of the Forest's seclu-year-old alon by the motor-car, which has master moved and the house was dis- made a lonely and remote district of mantled. Yet, every day at the same 144 square miles Into "desirable hour, Van leaves his new home. residential neighbourhood," says the makes his way through the su report. The expansion of the villages traffic and returns to his old stamp- into fair-sized towns would destroying grounds to nose hmong the vines their character. There is no guaron- where he used to hide his soup bones. tee that future owners of possible building land will exercise restraint,

and control is essential.

The report boldly advocates "No building at all" in certain internal areas and sets out a list of the sug- gested maximum numbers of houses that should be allowed in various villages.

Girl, 21, Heads G.O.P. Club

Akron, O. Twenty-one-year-old Madge Hea- The area just outside the forest, 100, cock, who "never dreamed of getting should be subject to a low-density into palities" has been elected presi- residential zone restriction e.g., one dent of the Young Women's Re-! She is the house to five acres. Where rows of publican Club here. houses already exist in these fringing youngest president in the history-ol areas they should be screened by the organization. trees.

CONTROLLED ROADS

Special care should be taken in dealing with Bling stations. They should be made unobtrustive and the number of advertisements should be reduced to a nininum. Through

n'

Pheasants To Leave Jail

Plitsfield, Mass.

traffle must be made to use a few About 200 pheasants which have spectiled routes and all roads should wintered at Berkshire county jail was be controlled. It is anticipated that released on the first of April and dis- county two major roads designed in sym-tributed throughout the pathetle spirit should be sufficient for "wherever they will do sportstuen the ali time to d 1 with through traffic. most good."

Fate Puzzles Yeop, The Pump-Man

YEOP CHING-PUI, Chinese pump-hand in the British steamer Mactra, left the Old Bailey recently carry- ing a kit-bag as big as himself.

He had just been found not. guilty of the murder (and alter- natively the manslaughter) of] hia bo'sun,

But he had also heard that Japanese bombers had smashed up his home at Nantou, in Conton.

He was a little puzzled by Fate, The death of Ah Sing took place 300 miles west of the Canaries; Yeop was tried at the Old Bailey because, m law, British ships the world over come under its jurisdiction.

The Chinese witnesses in the ense took the path in their own fashion by breaking a saucer.

Yeap pleaded self-defence. After his acquittal, he said, in mechanical, carefully thought out English, "I am very happy."

But he was still puzzled as he set out for his lodging-house.

He was thinking of what had been his home in Nantou-

Law To Protect Blind

CONCORD, N.-H. The legislature has passed a bill to protect the bllod. The measure re- quires motorists in'cities or congested districts to come to a full stop when they see a person with 'n white cano- which indicates blindness.-

TOO BIG FOR

A GAS MASK

Mr. WUllam Marcham, an eighteen-statio retired Metro- politan policeman, is тап with a “large face. There is nothing extraordinary about IL Ho is a large man with a face. to match.

But the largest Kas mask Issued for civilians wilt not fit film. The largest mask of the type issued to wardens will go over his faco-with much ad- Jualment of straps. Even so, he cannot see properly through the eye-plece.

He lives at Seafield-road, Hove (Bussex), and all ove "A.R.F. "authorities-haya--been able to tell him-after a special consultation with regional head. quarters is that he will havo to travel to London (at his own expense) and be fitted for A special mask (for which he wil have to:pay)..

He thinks this unfair, has written to his local MP, and is now walling for something to be done for him,

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