ARTICLES ON ROYALTY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28800, 22 January 1959, Page 11

ARTICLES ON ROYALTY

Palace Officials Criticised

(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, January 21. The Palace authorities had been slow off the mark in securing an injunction against the former Superintendent of Windsor Castle (Mr William Charles Ellis) to prevent him publishing articles about the Royal Family, the ® Te]egrapfr "

He was commenting on the case heard yesterday when Mr Ellis gave an undertaking through his counsel in the High Court not to disclose for publication matters concerning his former employment in Royal service. Mr Justice Havers was told that the action arose from an article in the “Sunday Pictorial” on January 11. According to the columnist the “Sunday Pictorial” announced on January 4 that it was “proud to tell the inside story of the Queen in her castle .. by the man who ran her castle for her.’’ Mr Ellis’s first article appeared the following week. But it was not until last Thursday, nearly a fortnight after the Palace had been, so to speak, warned, that any steps were taken, the columnist said.

Saying that he entirely sympathised with the Palace's apparent determination to put a stop at long last to backstairs gossip about the Queen and her entourage, the columnist said “this particular nettle" could easily have been grasped more quickly. Requests by former employees of the Royal Family for permission to write about their service would continue to be dealt with by the Queen on their merits, Buckingham Palace said yesterday after the Court case involving Mr Ellis, the “News Chronicle” said. “It would be an intolerable burden for the Royal Family If everything they said or did were published.” said a Palace official, according to the “Chronicle.”

“It is well known that people leaving the Royal Family’s service are offered large sums of money, which are tempting. If the agreement (promising not to give information about the Queen or her family) is in force, it makes it easier for the individual to refuse.”

BIZARRE GARB OF DUSTMEN

“Like Primitive Tribesmen”

SYDNEY, January 21

Garbage men in Newcastle, an industrial city 100 miles north of Sydney, were today accused of looking more like primitive tribesmen than tradesmen.

Addressing the works committee of the Newcastle Council, an alderman said some of the garbage men were searing housewives by doing their work half naked and unshaven. “Some of them have great stomachs, hairy chests and wear only shorts,” Aiderman H. Edwards claimed.

“Many people complain about girls who wear too-revealing clothes, but garbage men wear the least possible,” he said.

Aiderman Edwards said he was willing to work for a week on a garbage cart to show be could “keep my shirt on.” He is pressing for overalls to be standardised as the uniform working dress of all garbage men in the council's employment.

Stock Car Title.—The world stock bar champion (Jim Larkin, of Australia) will defend his title against drivers from three nations at the championship to be held on Sydney Show Ground on Saturday. His competitors will include Peter Dykes (New Zealand), Les Cooper (South Africa), and Tony Donato (Italy).—Sydney, January 21.