BRITONS ON HOLIDAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23512, 28 May 1938, Page 6

BRITONS ON HOLIDAY

£4,000.000 PREPARATION ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL (From Oub Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, May 7. A higher level of wages, less unemployment, and an increase in paid holidays will mean ? greater influx of visitors to Britain's holiday centres during the coming summer. In preparation, improvements costing £4,000,000 are being made at principal seaside resorts At East Brighton a new 48-acre camping and recreation ground costing £30,000 isi being I built, and Folkstone is spendinr £250,001) on improving beaches and promenades, Worthing? £IO,OOO. In several places money is being spent on sunken gardens, lawns, new esplanades, open-air swimming „P° olsminiature 'pitch and putt golf courses, pleasure wheels (one is 80 feet high) children's lakes, floial decoration schemes, sun lounges, bathing chalets, tennis courts and sun terraces. SPREAD OF THE MILK-HABIT Milk bars in England have spread a new habit, and throughout the country there are now 1100 places where'milk drinks can be obtained. The latest idea is to send the bar round to villages and the seaside nartT"t anH fetes, to seek the holiday crowds This week saw the first comnlete mobile milk bar leave London for Brighton on the hrst stage of a tour throughout the countrv ' If nab been specially designed by the board to demonstrate to the small milk dealer how he can increase his turnover It is equipped with refrigeration oiant. fruit-iuice containers milk oumos and the other mvsteries needed co " milk shakes": it can 2jo drinks at one sitting, or switch on to a heating plant and produce hot milk and soups I» cost? £3OO RADIO LESSONS • Listening in for lessons ' is an increasing habit in English schools. During the present term 82U0 schools in England ano Wales will be listening regularly compared with 6400 at the same time last year. <=ix thousand elementary schools, about one-fifth of the total number, are now on the BBC register, and. out of 1700 secondary schools HHi ire eauiDoed with wireless The chief handican to development has been the auestion of cost To-day ou' of 316 local education authorities 249 give assistance of some kind, chough only 53 oav the "full maintenance. Some authorities. such as those ol the Isle of Man and Ayrshire, have installed receivers in all the schools under their control. Isolated rurai schools, which are in the maioritv on the 8.8. C register benefit most from the wireless lessons But in manv cases children still have to raise funds for the receivers and their maintenance by the organisation of school concerts and similar efforts