Britain’s highest railway trough, from which express engines pick up water without stopping, has been fitted with hot-wator pipes to prevent freezing. It is on the main line to Inverness and 1.480 ft above sea level. The traditional “ tails and white shirtfront ” of the waiter are to go in Italy. This decision has been reached by the National Fascist Tourist Federation and the Fascist Union of Hotel and Boardinghouse Keepers. A few luxury hotels may be exempted. A short, black alpaca jacket and an enveloping apron are recommended as “ correct waiters’ wear.” An old Frenchman and bis wife, who spent many hundreds of pounds during the war in sending comforts to the French troops they had “ adopted,*' have now, in their turn, when they survivors.
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Dunstan Times, 13 May 1935, Page 6
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