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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 4

While nearly everyone who has shot over country in the district of the •Stratford Acclimatisation Society has bagged a pheasant, the birds are not plentiful and one pheasant in one day is about the best that most of the sportsmen have managed, Quail have been more numerous. but the warm weather and consequently plentiful supply of natural food has kept the pheasants from coming down to the crops. Sportsmen are therefore looking to a cold snap to increase their chances. If the Post Office workers in Britain were granted a 40-hotir week it would mean an additional expenditure of £6,000,000 a year, according to a statement made by the Postmaster-General.