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TELEVISION fans in the area of London saw Frances Day singing and chatting from a suds-filled bathtub during a programme. The cameras veniently faded out when Frances jumped behind a screen to dry herself. (Acme)

P.O. Doesn't Like Woodpeckers

of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Bamboo Trees Are Thriving In Cornwall

(By Our Qwn Correspondent)

LONDON, June 2.

A small advertisement in a Cornish local newspaper early in the war was the first step in the building of an industry which today holds out the promise that Britain will shortly be able to grow all the bamboo it needs, making it indepen- dent of the Chinese market.'

The advertiser was Mr F. Nettleinghame, a Cornisliman, and the story of the development of the British bamboo industry really began when he bought a property known as St Benet's Abbey, in his honie county. Part of the estate was devoted to a roadhouse business, while the rest, on which a good deal of bamboo grew naturally, was turned into a nursery.

of what was

The war killed the road-more decorative than useful. The onc is. an house business almost be dwarf variegated

Justance, and the Bambuss fore it had started. Dispatmate is another. We .once Mr Nettleing-tought a clump heartened, hame decided to sell what held out to be Bambuso fastuorn from a lending firm in such: he could of the chuttela on matters. They stated it would the estate and quit business

Krow 25 feet in a year. altogether.

hoped much from it. If it did Brow 25 feet a year, it did

We

It was while he was inspect-downward, for above ground it: ing his assets with a view to dis-died fastuosa!"

that he re-i posing of them membered the bamboo, which

*But

since we went

into

he had had the foresight to cultivation seriously on a large Henle we have luld down many divide up and plant oui. looked around for a buyer, het groves of fastuosa, and have fem nobody who was willing grown canes 25 feet high and two to take the lot. He did, how-incties in diameter. We have a orders for number of other varieties that ever, receive many canes that were cut to specified will produce longer canes up to 30 and 33 feet, but two Inches tenis.

diameter represents the faticst."

The

HUGE MARKET

were

Wan

01

of

TUESDAY JUNE!

SOMETHING FOR THE

BOYS

THIS is an airview of the almost completed US$22,500,000 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Veterans' Administration Hospital at Peekskill, New York. Consisting of 37 buildings on 883 acres, the hospital will have facilities for 1965 patients.

She never diots

In their fight against the tap-tap of the green and greater spotted woodpeckers, who cause consi-

Mr Nettleinghame accounts for derable damage to the six million or more telegraph

this limitation on diameter by The orders he received con- the fact that there are no root; poles scattered throughout Britain, the engineers of the General Post Office are pinning their hopes of vinced him that here was a huge locks of the thicker varieties of and permanent market. But bamboo in this country. But if the overhead final victory on silencing the hum of

And he enough bambon trees-they were imported, he believes Indredi, were there wires.

enough they would grow just an high hamboo trees In the whole and thick as they do in their Some time ago they had (Ever since then it has been war, ees untry--to satisfy this demand? native around. a conference with experi- the cloves off, for these other mission

although not entirely one with The advertisement, seeking per- 10 eut down other

FANTASTIC enced bird fanciers, who wise beneficial birds are pro-people's bamboo trees, was just Mr Nettleinghame

is CX- tha

tremely vocal in the praise of in their tected In most countries from the first step. suggested

advertisement yielded bamboo as a commercial pro- search for sui le nesting March to July and in some lu-

heartening results. Bombon { position. sites the woodpeckers had tancer permanently.

The value per acre of canes a nuisance in a trees can he

seems with mistaken the humming

timber Even so, regular inspections arden, and many people in the

"The incre he were made of all poles in coun. West Country

said, the wires overhead in

only too slight breeze for the activi- try districts and new borings kind of the offer to take them mental value of canes per acre is

first Mr astronomical. At perfection But at ty of wild bees they thought noted. These were filled in with away.

such compositions as litumastic, Nettleinghame

only in-cultivation, 25,100,500 half-inch were deep down in

could be grown to

to the Iron, far, concrete and mortar, terested in buying canes-the cance but they were not always suc- acquisition of rool stock

Even without intensive cracks of the poles.

cessful. Now a standard com- later.

cultivation do not expect to we do not Checks

on a position on a secret formula "There are perhaps 30 spectes achieve that number. We shall number of "noisy poles" and in used, but the woodpecker has of Bambusae that grow well in be satisfied when wo reach 10)

That means two season they were always the alternative of bor- England." season after

Mr Nettleinghame percent of it. The tolri me. "Several of them are and a half million canes an acre, found to have been systems-ing new holes,

And in some of And

DUT early tically attacked by the wood-

we aro in measure of clontinga

chleving this figure."

Despite the virtual closing of the Chinese market, there are large stocks of Chinese canes in this country, but they are rapidly being drawn upon. Users of canes have become ac: customed

buying to

only Chinese canes that they lend to

13 French film actress Marie look upon the British product

of Den. In Paris they call her hair certain amount ย suspicion. and

Mrlyle Gribouille-after hours one of

the north to Nettleinghame's hardest jobs is after midnight in

were

sonde

the

peckers, who

are partial to

wild beer time after time.

A

few of the poles were so badly pecked that they had to be re-

placed with new ones,

Similarly, tests

were made

with the silent variety of pole, and it was seen that these had been untouched by the wood- peckers.

ON INCREASE

Yorkshire,

Nottinghamshire and Essex were the areas suf- fering most from the de- predations of the woodpecker, | so the research: engineers Ket busy, 'Lead strips were lapped opirally Over the first ten inches of wire and over the Insulators between cach

of posts,

the

was

Dair

The result was that fatailler humming sound eliminated and the poles ignored by the birds.

are

The experimenters, however,;

risking

premature

110

halls of viclory. For the last few years, green woodpeckera. have been on the increase, suitable rotting trees as havens for wild bees and nesting sites for the woodpecker have de- creased, so that, humming or no humming, the woodpecker may be driven to further onslaughts telegraph poles, But the

engineers are hopeful oti

on

P.D.

ultimate Glumph.

NESTING HOLE

The woodpeckers search every spring and summer for old tim ber, preferably dead or rotten, and hacks out a nesting hole. Often they

forces a particular preference

certain telegraph poles by regular pecking, result- ing in holes often with

11p to four inches in diame

and as deep as eight inches. P.O. engineers had for a long time been puzzled at the appearance of these scars, but it was not! until 1952 that woodpeckera were found to be responsible.

MARTINIQUE

STRIKE

came acre.

GOVERNMENT officials march through the streets of Fort De France, Martinique, as part of a general sirike. They were demanding statehood for the French Antilles, or the same political status as France's departments. Communication with the out- side world was cut for a month. (Acme)

K. O. CANNON-

AHITHENS HE ISLE MIGHT,

· HAVE GUESSED HE

WOULDN'T BE ALONE) FOR LONG..

DOBYNSTAIRS

· EH7 TD BATTER

FOLLOW HIM.;

with

DICTURED hire In London

to persuade them that British 3 am. In the southern-most canes are equally as good as counties. those from the East.

(Acme)

This Is

Is No

No Mere Or Fancy

Fad

Lord Mayor Again Has To Reply

London, June 5. The Lord Mayor of Lon- don has found it necessALT to reply for the second time to criticisms in the press of the National Thanks- giving Fund which he launched two months ago.

The Fund, whose object is to bulld a

£2,000,000 overseas students' centre In London as an expression of gratitude to the Commonwealth and the United States for help received during the war, continues to prouse controversy in Britain.

In a letter to the Daily Tele~" graph this week, the Lord Mayor answers criticismās voleed recently by one of the leading columnists of that paper. This writer, ho - says, had conveyed the jm- pression, first, that the Thanks- giving scheme had been devised by the Government and that the | Government had pressed it upon him; second, that the Fund's progress was unsatisfactory.

further "Nothing could be from the facts, ald Str Frederick Rowland, the Lord Mayor.

PROCEDURE

What the Daily Telegraph columnist actually said was this: The timing of the Fund and the buildings upon which it was pro- posed to spend "have led to more criticism than I can recall In connection with any other Ford Mayor's Fund. This has affected subscriptions. Stirred

Noticeable fashion among officers of all ranks of the by these criticisms, the Lord. United States destroyers Hawkins and Meredith, which Mayor, I hear, made a significant isclosure at a recent City din- recently tied up at Leith in Scotland on their "showing those The Thanksgiving Fund, flag" tour of duty—a duty usually carried out in troubled he said, was a Government Ides times almost solely by Britain-is the wearing of massivo which he had been asked to put heavy signot rings set with a large stone. It is a fashion, lo action." too, among tho Army officers.

To this, Sir Frederick pointed out that it was common know- ledge that (apart from where a sudden disaster was concerned)

Careful scrutiny of the cresta This is no mere fad or faney, but a tradition of the will reveal the inscription of the no Lord Mayor launched a no- United States Forces. Every magic number 2.5, the pass mark tional appeal except on the nd- the American system of vice and request of the Govern- officer who graduates from in

of the United States bas

one.

casc.

a naval or military academy grading cfficer cadets. Top mark ment. That procedure, he said, is 4.0. The rings are presented had been followed in the present to the wearer a year before graduation, and he who falls is And he added: "But I cannot sumclently emphasise my entire and wholehearted agreement On one "shoulder" of it is required to return his. worked the crest of the officer's

purpose and The ring is first worn by tha with the Fund's Academy. On the other shoulder midshipman at the "Ring! objects."

of the particular Dance," a most formal affair class graduating cach year occurring 12 months before com- which is designed by

missioning. Ho takes his a close

To the suggestion that the committee, but the stons is girl to the dance and she were Fund's progress

unantial

is the crest

ribbou,

best

APPRECIATION

Wie

left to the choice of the indivi- the ring round her neck on a factory, the Lord Mayor, mid dual. Popular stone is the spinell -a stone coloured Uke a map- phire. Rarely Is the d'amond sported, for the setting has room for a genu about threepenny piece.

the size of a

PAGING THE DOCTOR

to

that the figures that were avail- able and had been published A KISS SEALS IT

the latest figure was, just over

Only £600,000 related The couple enter the ballroom amounts received by him direct through an eight foot archway at the Mansion House. They designed as a replica of a ring. did not allow for the fund-rals- Nearby is a ship's binnacle con ing activities which were taking taining samples of water from place on an increasing scale the seven seas. The girl removes locally throughout the country. the ring from her neck ribbon, water,

The Lord Mayor ended his dips the ring into the

with these then slips it on to the midship-letter

words: "I man's finger and scals the act cannot sufficiently stress the

with a kiss. This is quite a essential consideration, which is ceremony that the response to the Fund nerious, traditional Starting zoon, the New York every US. naval academy mii- should be such as to leave no doctor will always be at his die must go through. patient's call even when he is

at the theatre or playing golf.

remains While he

Ꮵ minds of doubt in the generous benefactora overseas a class that their outstanding kindness, He will be reachable through a man he wears the ring with the often shown at great sacrifice, la class crest pointing nearest his deeply appreciated by all of us, new short-wave radio service.

cart. On commissioning he and will for ever be gratefully Each doctor will be given a turns it round $0 that the remembered." code number. And every time Academy crest takes the position, he is wanted urgently, a trans-No American officer worthy of

It is black, cut short, with OFFICIAL TESTS

many gold, "sunbeam" streaks. Mile. Dea 19 staying with Omcial tests have shown that friends in London, She speaks British canes are as strong a little English; but already shemitter will broadenst his num- the name er of his commission those from China-it is, Mr admires Scotsmen: "Very de- Nettleinghame claims, just a lightful, especially in kiltä.” matter of re-educating the user;

accept this fact.

to

with all the

In Paris, Mile. Dea has

Of the future, he says: "There root-top fiat in the suburb of is not the slightest difficulty in Passy. She lives alone, has two permanently supplying this dogs, a "French fox," and a tan country

garden and white spaniel. canes it needs and. canes for

She never diets, drinks wine many other purposes. We can grow in this country all canes but no spirits, smokes little. used with the exception of the She dresses with a Parisian's rattans and malaccas and any simple elegance, likes black truly tropical cane. We could sults and small, pinin hats. also build up a useful exporting saw her in a shirt-waist dress

of black business."

shiny lussore, with buttons from neck to hem, and

plaited primrose belt. Over this went a loose coat of smooth primrose wool.

Homesick Horse

This is the story of a Danish horse whose homesickness prob- ably killed it.

'.

"Teenicide”

Charge

Carl Thomsen, a small-holder from the island of Laeso in the Kattegat, bought a horse on the Jutland mainland. Early one morning his wile wan

The kind of reckless watering the horse when the animal bolted.

driving that has been de- For days

was scribed as "tcenicide" caused hunted in vain until a fisherman the arrest of two 14-year- found the corpse drifting at scold boys. The arresting': The owners thought it had tried to swim the 20 miles from officer reported: Laese to Jutland, where it was born.

the

horse

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

“OUT,MESIELI..THE OFFICE M'SIEU"

ZUCCI USED TO USE IS WAY UP THOSE IRON STEPS..DANDENDUS, TOO..GIRLS USED

TO CATCH THEIN

HOELS..

.. AND I WON'T SAY, MYSIEU, THAT A GOOD MANY OF THEM DIDN' BALL...YOU FOLLOW ME, MSIEU?..

"K.0.8MBY) COME) WITH YOU? PLEASE)

"One was driving and the other was in the back seat. The driver opened the door on the right side of the car, climbed on the funning board and got Inio the back seat. At the same time the boy In back opened the left hand back door, walked on the running board to the front door and took over the driving-

"It was a continuous merry- go-round, one change after the other, and all at a speed of about 30 miles an hour"

The boys were turned over to juvenile authorities.

BLAME TV

ber at least every minute. The ever gives away his graduation doctor will carry a pocket-sizet ring, nor does he go out without radio receiver which will pick up wearing it.

the broadcasts within a 25-mile radius of New York.

When he is "paged" the doctor will then just have to telephone hearquarters and find out which

is worried patient

over symptoms.

·Next term·· ati "the pupils of Cleveland. (Ohio) -- sokóNİN SWELL De leest in an metra hotir, 1 AVILLA DEMOKpected to dis Homework they no longer do at home because of TV during NEA

Dot and Carry

A Jersey cow belonging to a Danish former recently frac The design is popular in tured a front leg. As the cow miniature. 08 00 engagement was valuable for breeding pur- ring when these men con poses, the vet decided to am-

marriage, but template

very putate. The animal has sinc much in miniature unless the been provided with a wooden and is apparently quite girl is rather partial to wearing leg something like a knuckleduster. | happy,

THEY'RE

FAST

FRIENDS

els the bear have become fást hiding the airgirl commissa

amily a lively time but`i