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Got 15s. Job After Spending £10,000 Legacy Went in 5 Years

AFTER spending a legacy of £10,000 at the rate of £2,000 a year, Brian Lambert Brown, of Warwick-road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, got a job in an en- gineering works at 15s a week. The job lasted a month

Brown said this recently at: Ipswich Bankruptcy Court, when

September 9, 1939.

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HUGUENOT MUSEUM IN SOUTH AFRICA

JOHANNESBURG.

The

250th anniversary of the arrival of the French Huguenols in South Africa is to be celebrated shortly.

The Huguenots settled in the Dwikenstein Valley, north-enst_of Cape Town. A colour #tm of their

his assets were said to be £7 24. Girl Of 7 Gets £500 old settlements has been made, onl

There was a deficiency of £416.:

He told the Official Receiver! that his bankruptcy was raped by ¦ "over optimism."

" inherited £10,000 in 1933," he raid, and bought farm. After spending 25,000 to £6,000 on it

old it at a loss."

info Polly's Tea portasy shops which were run by two ladie both of whom Were Bankrupt

For Scar On Leg

IN the belief that short skirts and shorts will still be in fashion [when a girl of seven grows upi, Judge W. G. Earengey, K.C., wariled her £500 damages re- fcently.

The end. Margaret Rose Spendir, underharged jut Homey-road, Holloway, lahad comanges in Clerkenwell Corsty Cont against Herbeut Larktruck. haulage £10,000 frontractor, of Wigston-line, Leicester. who long hard korked at down, Mi. Ryder itchardson, her counsel, and that afting operations had left a "horrible long sno

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the old Huguenot parsonage at Paarl is to be converted into a museum. ' where a facsimile of the Etliet of Nauten will be exhibited. A monu- ment is also to be erected.

The French refugees from the Ediet of Nantes who came to South Afrien were a comparatively small group, but they played an important pari in the development of the country.

They introduced to the Cape the French art of viticulture, which was to become one of the most important indiestries of the country. Their descendants, thoroughly assimilated with the Dutch settlers, are stili playing a prominent part in the cul- tural, religious and political life of South Africa.

INDIA

MILITARY SCHOOL

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CALCUTTA. Following Congress party criticism ng the administration of the Thom- con College. Roorkee, pe of the leading military schools of India, the withdrawn Army Department has Major Reid from the college, tr which he had been lent.

Four Army endels have been trusferred to Quetta for training. The Army Department has also can~ ered Its annual grant of £3,000 to the college.

The United Proviners Government has already set up an inquiry into the allegations regarding the college nininistration.

Hostile Wazir Shot. Mushki Alamkhan, notorious for his anti- British netivities in North Waziris- tan, and popularly known

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A prospector, named Carrott, and his son have made £57,000 from gold-bearing ore on their property near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. One parcel alone yielded £15,000, and was one of the richest ever treated, in Western Australia,

Previously the father and son hatt won nearly £12,000 worth of gold from the block. They have sold an option on the land for £20,000 each to a mining company.

Espionage Precaution, Drastic measures for the prevention espionage; sabotage and subversive propaganda in Austratio munitions factories and defence works were an- nouneed by Mr. R. G. Casey, Com- inonwealth Minister of Supply, re- cently. They include a ban on the employment in munitions factories and defence works of "persons of direct foreign extraction."

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cently appointed Miss Marianne Helweg, 24-year-old linguist, to be hostess to a party of foreign radio officials who have been invited to visit Eng- Fland.

Ming Helweg, a play adaptor and translator in the Drama Department. speaks six languages nad lins travel- led in all parts of Europe.

She and Mr. A. E. Harding, the B.B.C's recorded feature expert, will take the representatives of Switzer- land, Holland, Poland and France to Windsor, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, Bristol, the Lake District and Edin. burgh before bringing them back to xoend August Bank Holiday Hampstead Heath, at the Zoo and at the White City.

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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN SE

The total Expenditure in 1988 on behalf

of sick and destitute 'children is estimated at $28,000, against which the Income, to data is $22,000 only,

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance' of

$6,000

before the close of the financial year on 31st OctobeT",

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.

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