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WOMEN TO GET

SAME PAY

AS MEN

UNIONS and employers in the engineering industry settled in London the terms on which women could be employed to replace men in that industry.

The agreement, which is the outcome of lengthy negotiations, provides that women so introduced shall be regarded as tem- porarily employed.

Records are to be kept of all | changes made under the agreement. With regard to wages, there are three aluges in the agreement.

Women affected by this arrange- ment shall flest serve a probationary period of eight weeks at the women's national schedule time rote and bonus

WAR HEARD'

ON "RADIO

OF NATURE”

Next, for a period of 12 weeks,

HUNDREDS of visitors to they are to rezelve that rate and bonus, plus one-third of the dif- Fritton Lake, the north Suffolk ferenco between the women's beauty spot near Great Yar schedule rate and bonus and these mouth, have listened-in recently of the men they replace.

After those 20 weeks, for a further to the battles than 200 miles period of 12 weeks, they are to re-away. celve 73 per cent, of the men's rate and bonus,

Picca Rates

The phenomenon is caused by a natural radio a combination of etherle conditions which result in the Thereafter, women who are note fresh water, becoming a giant sound- lake, a long tree-bordered strip of to carry out the

work of the mening board like the baffle-board of a without special supervision are to re- celve the basic rate and

national radio.

Mr. William W. Ward, of Frit- bonus appropriate to the men they

ton Old Hall, a lake boat-owner, replace.

told the Sunday Express: "When conditions are right the sound waves are trapped by the en- closet water and it one keeps dead sill it is possible at times to bear the Bring continuously. "We heard many big battles in the at war. When the German battle-

Those women who are unable to carry on without additional supervi- slun are to have their rate specially negotiated.

The terms

governing piece rates nre on similar lines,

Net result of the agreement is that, after the probationary and

traling period, qualified women s Bluecher was attacked keen

get the same rate as men for the listeners could distinguish between Job they lake on.

the light callbre guns and

There were separate negotiations heavles,"

on the subject of the rates of wages

for women doing; work normally done by women.

Increase Asked

The unions had asked for an in-2 crease of 10s, a week.

A Joint recommendation was ar- rived at; it is being submitted to the Constituent bodies.

Both sets of negotiations were be tween the Engineering Employers' Federation and the National Union of General and Municipal Workers

the

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July 19, 1940.

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The 3rd. Australian con-

tingent which has arrived direct from Australia is here.

scen on A march in tho Mother country. A sing- song by men of a Maori bat- talion of the New Zealand troops after disembarking in England,

EVERY STREET TO HAVE ADVISER

IT is the Government's aim to have one responsible

and the Transport and General person to every street to whom people can go, in times of

Workers' Union.

Last night the employers' repre- rumour or danger, for official news and advice.

sentatives met die Amalgamated En-

gineering Union, which also signed

the agreement.

This project was revealed by Mr. Harold Nicolson,

That unlon does not organise wo Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information,

men, but is concerned to safeguard

The interests of its members who muy in the House of Commons last night.

be replaced.

ALIENS

MUST NOT

ENTER HERE-

NO person of allen nationality, whether naturalised or not,

is to have access to any premises occupied by Middlesex County Council for civil defence purposes.

The Council reached this decision; following an irickdent, particulars of which were not given, at a school partly used for Civil defence.

Germons are serving as wordens and als-raid sheller marshals at Hampstead, N.W.

This was disclosed at a meeting of the borough counell.

The Terror, aged 8

WHEN a boy of eight appear- Councillor . E. Arnholz, chair-ed in Newport, Isle of Wight, man of the Emergency Committee for Juvenile Court it was stated Civil Defence, said there were no that he had been seen by an- aliens occupying key positions in the other boy in a park feasting on A.R.P. personnnel,

There were, however, seven Ger- mans or Austrians acting as war-

dens.

chocolates. toffees, enkes, and dates from a woman's shopping. basket he had stolen.

The second boy told the police, and this led to the discovery that

Six, including four Germans, were the eight-year-old had--

air-raid shelter marshals, and one, af German girl, aged 10, was a conteen worker.

Councillor, R. 3. Cleaver askedj what steps would be taken to have them dianlssed.

Mr. Arnholz said the chief warden and the town clerk were considering the matter.

Two Germain-Jewish girls, whờ| have been appointed probationer ntirses at Wembley Hospital, are to

lar

Camouflaged a grey car with

Stolen £ from his uncle, gune by train to Cowes, there stolen 125. from the clothes! of girl swinners, then stolen a baby's tricycle on which he rode Ave miles back to Nowport;

Stolen money from school and chased by a school attendance officer for playing truant:

Boarded boats in Newport hor- bour and had good feeds. And when ordered to an approved

be kept from contact from any school, he was chewing gum and

soldiers who may enter the hospital. smiling,

These "sensible people," he! said, would get their informa-1 tion from regional officers.

He had in mind the possibi-| lity of a temporary breakdown

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BEING

PARENTS

LONDON'S new evacua- tion scheme, which will go into operation whenever air bombing starts, will take six days to complete.

It is oftleiully known as "Plan 4." The names of 33,000 children have been added to the register, making

A total of 83,000 in London and 25 or cuter areas registered under the new

wireless broadcasting other channels of information. scheme.

"But we are still disappointed with With the aid of the "street the response," said a London County

Council official advisers," it was hoped to pre-

"We are registering at the rale of vent the spreading of false in-thousand a day, but that covers 409

registration centres.

formation.

POCKET CARTOON

"Well, we can always say we thought it was a' tank."

STILL SELFISH

"But mostly it seems to be left to the children to decide. Parents tells us, 'Oh, Jhuny doesn't want to go." or Joon doesn't think she'd like it!

These are all'old excuses. But 1 discovered a new one, It is the parachutists.

Two registrars reported that some parents are worried about the dan- ker of parachute troops landing in rural areas,

invaded and they are separated from They feel that if the country is their families, they will never meet again," one registrar said.

"They would selfishly rather all be blown up together" than give their "The parents of 367,000 children children a chance of safety." still appear to be unwilling to send | •* their children out of London.*

I visited several registration cen- ires to see why, says. a correspondent. First I went to White Lion-street School, N. I expected to see queues uf anxious others. Instead Lound mai muxious Registrar.

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"I look no nomes yesterday,” she said, "and only one to-day Mrs. Zazzaro, of Donegal-buildings, Rising Kl-street, had registered her little Luy Stephen,

"Yes, of course I reglstered him," Mro. Zazzura told me. "1 lived in Tottenham during the last war; and we had Zeppelin ruids.

"I know what raids mean and just how frightened you get. That's why I have made up my mind to send Stephen away."

Mrs. Zazzara is a widow. She has a5a, a week perulon' whitch le sup- plemented by the wages of her other two children.

When Stephen goes she may havo to pay up to is, a week för his billet- ing allowance,

Next, I went to Canonbury-rand School, N.

"I have taken 27 nomes during the past fortnight," the registror enid. this "Three this morning and one afternoon.

"Ona mother put down her child's name on Thursday. On Friday she returned to say Father sald ho wasn't, to go."

Boy got three parachutists

A LITTLE boy, playing in his father's garden at Massy, a suburb of Paris, saw a parachute open below. un airplane.

He ran to tell the police,' who caught three Nazi parachutists.

M. Mandal, Minister of the Interior, sent the boy a savings bank book with £11 to his credit.

Does Not Know Of War

Mr. William Wall, of Dudley Road, Rivedale, Staffordshire, who was 108 recently, is unaware of the war. He is deaf and almost blind, and rela-j tives have kept the news from him.

Game of the Navy

LUDO is the Navy's most popular game, especially, on the lower deck. In the ward-room Chon Kina, intro- duced from the Far East by officers who have served on the China Station, is the favourite.

clenched.

Chon Kina needs sharp wits, hands behind backs, they put one. but no special board or ap-two or all three into one hand and paratus: A matchbox is placed then each player holds one hand out on a table between the two The object is to try to guess the playors A and B.

total in the two hands. It can be "A" then begins a slow chant any number from 0 to 6, and the. "Chon Kina, Chen Kina, Chon number in your own land is, of Chon Kina Kina." ending up with course, some guide.

a rapid siring, of Japanese, words, and Anal "Yalt."

At ench word he slaps the match box, and "B" must hit the table with

ls flut hand.

At any moment either player may pick up the box and the other must

then

In an East Coast port last night

I saw a Welsh officer guess correct-

ly five lines out of six:

"The Cell," he explained, "Is

always psychic

The absence of Ludo boards does

not stop the ratings playing it during

tap the table with his Ast the long hours on patrol. A board clenched. As soon as the box is can be chalked on the deck and dice dropped the fint of the band is used made out of blocks of wood. again.

So it goes on, the chant getting faster. and foster, until one player makes a slip by using the open hand when he should have had it clenched, or vice versa. For this he loses "He"-usually a match-and the loss. of three ends the game,

Chalked on Dock

In another game from the East each player has three matches. With

C-IN-C AT PALACE

London, Juy 18. who was recently appointed Com- Vicc-Admiral Sir Geoffroy Layton,

mander-in-Chief of

China Station, was received at Buckingham Palace to-day, when he was invested by the King with the insignia of the Kaight Commander

of the Bath.-- Reuter.

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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

$35,000

in 1040 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destituto children in Hongkong, against which the Income to dato is $22,000 andy.

In order to continue its work, The Bociety ap peals for the balance of

$15,000

before the close of the ananclat year on Jiat October.

The Society now administars to over 3,600 children at eight Centres and, in addition, supports 20 childrent at variouse Institutions and so bables at its Creche,

Han. Treasurers (tram, whom a copy of the Atmual Report for 1930 may be obtained):

Mr. A. McKellar, CAI

c/o Mackinnon Maskansie & Co.,

P. & O. Bulding.

Mr. Kwok Chan:

c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine, PATONG KONG, 1st June 1940.

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