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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 5

/V new roarino station is to be bqilt at Dover to meet the needs of the Continental traffic by the South-Eastern ami Chatham Railway at a cost of C 140,000. The station will be about 770 ft. long by 170 ft. wide, and be constructed on a site of twelve acres, which will l>o reclaimed in two and a .half years by riieans of a new sea wall. The cost of building the wall and reclaiming tlic land, which will amount to ahout £400,000, is to be paid by the Dover Harbour Board. Tho origin of the band on silk hats was explained at a Selbomo Society lecture by Mr. Wilfrid Mark Webb, who said it was an outcome of tho ancient habit of tying a band round a shawl placed over the head, and could bo scon in its transitory 'stago on Scotch bonnets and children's sailor lints. The fact that nil' ornninents oil men's hats were worn on thfc loft sido was a relic of tlio dnys when it was necessary to use a sword, which would hnvo beon impeded by plumes, or other oruamonts, if worii on tlin right.