NEWS OF THE WORLD

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7191, 24 June 1933, Page 5

NEWS OF THE WORLD

EDITORSHIP OF “8.0. P.” SECOND CHANGE IN 54 YEARS For the second time in 54 years there Js a change in the editorship of the “Boys’ Own Paper,” Mr Pocklington, after 11 years in office, retiring in favour of Mr G. J. Northeroft. Thirty years ago tile “8.0. P.” had no rival whatever in its class, and it still has a strong following of boys of all ages. It was the “8.0. P.” which gave ns G. A. Ilcnty, W. 11. G. Kingston, Jules Verne, Talbot Baines Reed, and many other “best sellers.” CHILD’S SOBS BROADCAST AN UNEXPECTED INCIDENT During a special children's hour broadcast from the children’s ward of the Middlesex Hospital, England, rc- ■ cently, a child burst into tears and her sobs were heard all over the country. She; was frightened by the cheers given by tile other children for Prince Arthur of Connaught, after lie had ae- ■ •ccpted a cot and unveiled a tablet ini’ scribed ,“Radio Circle Cot —11)113.” The children in the ward bade a loud , “Good afternoon, children,” to the thousands of their listeners. WIDE SQUARE FOR CARDIFF STREETS TO BE DEMOLISHED Streets in the centre of Cardiff are to be demolished to make way for the of a wide open square in /front of the new railway station. It is ’/.proposed that there shall be a comLmodious open space and a bus centre Unear the station, which will be a good --junction for their road traflic of South Wales. The cost is estimated to be between ' I'SO.UOO and £IOO,OOO, but the corporation will reap a rich benefit for ground rents of buildings bordering on the square. The railway company has already decided to enlarge the station. MEREDITH’S GARDENER SOUGHT AFTER BY AMERICANS Frank Cole, who for 30 years was gardener and constant companion of ■ George Meredith at his Boxhill home, and whose death occurred recently at West Humble, Surrey, where he had been living in retirement, was 73 years of age. Under iiis will Meredith left to his gardener the manuscript of “Diana” and the “Amazing Marriage,” which were bought by Picrpont Morgan tor £BOO. Ur Cole was much sought after bv American visitors who visited Boxh'ill. SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS CHILDREN’S GIFT TO POLICE Bath policemen had a very pleasant f surprise when masses of primroses, ‘ bluebells, anemones and polyanthi were delivered at their station. They were gifts from children who had not forgotten a kindness. With the flowers was a letter of thanks from the children for a wonderful treat the police gave them last Christmas. They explained that they did not write at Christinas as so many other children must have done —they ; waited for spring' to “say it with flowers.”

THIEVES IN CATHEDRAL ' DELICATE FURNITURE DAMAGED Thieves who broke into Llandatf Cathedral, Wales, also searched the Deanery, occupied by the Dean of Llandaff (the Very Rev. D. J. Jones') and stole 11/3 from the handbag of his wife and a presentation fountain pen. Most of the rooms were left in a state of disorder. The thieves missed the St. David’s Day collections. Considerable damage, however, was done to the cathedral doors and to delicate pieces of furniture. An unsuccessful attempt was made to break open a safe in the Chapter House. ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE I TOBACCO FOR PRISONERS '] A sentence of six months’ imprisonl ment was passed at Durham, England, i on Walker Bradley, who was charged i with attempting to smuggle tobacco into Durham Prison. In consequence of a letter written to an inmate watch was kept and defendant was found outside the prison wall walking with his arms outstretched as though feeling for something suspended from the walls. In his possession was found a parcel of cigarettes. Defendant admitted the offence and said three men had lured him into it. PRESERVING RURAL ENGLAND CHILDREN’S ASSISTANCE SOUGHT Button badges and pledge cards for schoolchildren are being used by the Ryedale (Yorkshire) branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, to get children to refrain from dropping paper and orange peel and generally to co-operate in the care of the countryside. Already 27 schools in the area arc cooperating with the branch, the children signing the simple pledge, “I promise to do my best to keep the country clean and beautiful,” and wearing the green badge bearing the initials C.P.R.E. In Ireland and Wales the scheme is working, and also in Essex. Ryedale is one of the lovely districts of Yorkshire. Within a few miles of Helmsley, its chief town, are Byland Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey. Coxwold (Laurence Sterne’s parish) is only six miles away. CYLINDER THROUGH ROOF /ALLS INTO ORIGINAL PLACE A large cylinder, weighing about a ton, used at the works of the United States/Metallic Packing Co., Ltd., in Allerton Road, Bradford, for receiving compressed air from a compressor tore away from its seating one day, and was projected through the glass roof of the covered goods yard in which the receiver stood. Emerging through the roof it turned over several times and then fell back through the same hole on to the place where it had Iclt. -

Arthur Howard (45), a fitter, was injured by falling glass and masonry, and was detained in the Bradford Infirmary suffering from cuts. The damage was confined for the most part to the yard where the receiver, along with others, were standing, and it was due to the fact that the flight of the receiver was perpendicular that the adjoining departments escaped.

TO ARCTIC POSTS PLANS OF SHACKLETON’S SON Mr Edward Shackleton, the 20-year old soil of the late famous explorer, went recently to Copenhagen to discuss Arctic exploration with the leading Danish experts in preparation for an expedition to Ellesmere Land. Mr Shackleton, accompanied by three friends, intends to travel by a Danish vessel lo Bisko Island, and thence to Ellesmere Land with the Canadian Ice Patrol, which once a year visits the Canadian Arctic posts. GIANT TORTOISE’S DEATH date CARVED ON UNDERSHELL London papers record the death from influenza of Sopa, the giant female toitoise at Hie Zoo. there is no doubt that her registered age, 1;>0 yeais, is correct: there had been carved upon her undershell the year of the I eacc of Versailles, 1783. . , This 3ewt reptile, alter having been ill for some weeks, developed pneumonia and died in her prime. The animal was a native of Galapagos Islands, oil the coast of Ecuador. In spite of her death, Sopa will continue to be ail object of interest, since she is to be mounted for exhibition purposes in the galleries of the Natuial History Museum at South Kensington. RAILWAY CARS IMPROVED LIGHT SIGNALS FOR BELLS The sleeping-cars on the German railwavs are to he equipped with light signals instead of hells. When the passenger presses the button, a disc in the compartment, with the words “Steward is coming,” lights up. Half of flic cars have alreadv been thus equipped. In compartments with rubber-flooring, a rug in a freshly laundered slip is supplied dailv. This is a further hygienic improvement, doing away with the last “dust-catcher,” for olie compartments are finished in hardwood with no hangings.

PHYSICAL TRAINING SCHEME UNEMPLOYED MEN ARE AIDED Through the efforts of the Salford Council of Social Service, England, physical training under a paid instructor for unemployed men is now ill progress at the Great Clowes Street and Cross Lane drill halls, Salford. It is intended to develop this idea ot physical training for unemployed men, which is a novel one, in various directions, such as organising football teams and boxing matches. The Mayor ot Salford appealed for old boxing gloves, discarded tennis shoes, and any kind ot gear or indoor games which might he useful to the men, and a good response was made. HAT SMUGGLER CAUGHT WOMAN IS FINED £lO For trving to conceal eight straw hats, a pair of shoes, a cotton tray cloth, and 12 ounces of artificial silk with intent to defraud the Customs, an English woman was recently fined £lO. Evidence was given that Mrs Leona Julienne Martin, a milliner, arrived at Newliavcn from Dieppe, and when asked if she had anything to declare produced a small bottle of perfumed spirits. „ In her baggage were found eight hats, and concealed round her shoulders under her coat she Inul a quantity of millinery trimmings. Mrs Martin said that she thought she had not to declare hat shapes. NATIONALITY LOST

A “MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY”

Pascliale Grazado, an Italian by birth, who became known in England as “the man without a country,” recently received permission to enter the United States to rejoin his wife and family there. The British Home Office, after making a deportation order against. Grazado, suspended it to enable him to make arrangements to go to America. Grazado forfeited his claim to Italian nationality when he joined the British Army during the war. Later he went to the United States, but was ordered to leave, and on returning to . South Shields he was charged with being an unregistered alien. TOWN PLANNING EXHIBITIONS IN ENGLAND The “New Homes for Old” Exhibition, organised bv the North of England Division of the Town Planning Institute, which was held at the Leeds City Art Gallery, ranged over the townplanning of Babyion and Roman Ostia, through some of the older cities like Vienna, and on to modern plans. A large number of photographs showed slums and overcrowding and the rehousing schemes at home and on the Continent. There were models to show the haphazard development of the old villages, and overcrowded conditions of other days with 70 houses to the acre arc contrasted with modern conditions of 12 to the acre. The “Neiv Homes for Old” Housing Exhibition was first held at Central Hall, Westminster, in December, 1031. Tt appeared again at the Building Trades Exhibition in September, 1032, and since then sections of it have been borrowed for exhibitions in different parts of England. The exhibition has now permanent headquarters at 53 Davies Street, London, W.l, and is going still farther afield.

RADIO IN GREAT BRITAIN TRADING RECORD SET UP A new record in the year’s trading was set up by the radio industry in Great Britain in 1932, states the “Wireless and Gramophone Trader.” The turnover was £36,(527,425 of which £4,000,000 represented imported goods. The total for 1931 was £29,000,000. Factory-made receivers of all classes sold during last year totalled 1,436,849, equalling a cash value of £19,323,198. The public spent £9,000,000 on accumulators and batteries, £5,000,000 on components and accessories, and £2,854,425 on valves, apart from those supplied in sets. Six hundred thousand new listeners bought manufactured receivers during the year, the remaining 300,000 “new” licences being made up of home constructors, “pirates” raked in by the Post Office drive last autumn, and “coupon” gift sets, which alone totalled 120,000. While radio prices dropped still lower during 1932, many more people bought better grade .sets, with the result that the year's trading, though showing an increase of only 170,000 in set sales, brought in £7,000,000 additional cash.