An Unenviable Job.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

An Unenviable Job.

A woman in Long Buckly, Northamptonshire, has the distinction of being the only licensed cattle and horse slaughterer in the British Isles : an unenviable profession, one would think. Miss C. Payne is the head of an extensive business there, with branches at Rugby and Banbury.. She is assisted by her sister, Mrs. E. Chapman. The business was founded by Miss Payne’s mother over fifty years ago, in an attempt to introduce a more humane killing instrument than the polc-axe. Ultimately a well-known humane killer was adopted. In an interview with a representative of the “Farmer and Stock Breeder,” Miss Payne, said that there was nothing bloodthirsty or horrible about her. She was a member of the R.S.P.C.A., and spent a great deal of time every week at various cattle markets with the object of trying to prevent the repetition of any cruelty that she observed. Marlborough House.

'There will be plenty of room for the children to play in the gardens of Marlborough House, which the Prince of Wales has lent to Mrs. Geoffrey Dawson for July 1 to help the reconstruction of the Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street (states a writer in the Daily Telegraph). Passers-by the house where Queen Alexandria lived for so long do not realise that the garden extends to two acres. There arc four lawns, two large, oblong in shape,- and two smaller squares, with flower beds surrounding them. At the time when the party is being held the dahlias, which form the chief flowers in these beds, will be in bloom, showing a riot of various, colours, both in single and prize double blooms. One corner of the garden near Carlton House terrace is set apart for the dogs’ cemetery, and little stones are erected here to* the beloved pets of Queen Alxaridra, -