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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 8

A remarkable licensing anomaly which exists on the borders of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire was mentioned at a recent sitting of the Maidenhead licensing justices. Counsel applied on behalf of licensees for an extension of closing hours on week days during the summer until halfpast 10 o'clock instead of 10 o'clock. An hotel near Maidenhead Bridge, counsel said, was in two licensing areas, and to mark the boundary a nail was driven in the counter. If river enthusiasts stood on the right side of the nail, he said, the barmaid would serve them, as they would be in Buckinghamshire, where the closing hour was half-past 10 o'clock. If they were on the left she discreetly advised them to move into Buckinghamshire. The extension of hours was granted. Goods worth more than £20,000,000 are made every year from plastic materials, the basis of which is resin, mixed with paper, powdered wood, slate or asbestos. The compound is hardened under pressuMu