HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17632, 3 September 1925, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHINGBRITISH COLUMBIA TIMBER. More than 35.000 acres of timber lands, containing well over two billion feet of logs, a sawmill with a capacity of more than 50.000 ft of lumber a da , three large tugs and a complete logging outfit, are involved in a deal which has been completed and under which the Campbell River Company, of White Rock, has purchased the total holdings of the James Logging Company, of Vancouver. The deal i* said to involve a sum of more than 5.000.000 dollars, or over £1.000,000. :: THIEF'S £3OOO GEM COUP. Scotland Yard detectives investigated the mysterious theft of jewellery worth £3OOO from t.he luggage van of a corridor train between Guildford and London. Mr Joseph Baum, a traveller for a Birmingham firm, placed a bag containing the jewel* which included over 400 diamond and dress rings, in the luggage van of the train at Guildford. When the train arrived at Waterloo the bag was missing. Mr Baum had been travelling in the Guildford anrl Woking district-*, and it. is believed that he must have been shadowed by a thief. :: GIRL FOUND DOWN PIT. Rachel Cobley. aged twenty-five, single. of Maesycwmmer, Rhymney Valley, having been reported missing one Sunday night, search parties were formed. One of these reported that cries had been heard from a disused pit-shaft near Bryn. Police laid a beam across the mouth of the shait. and an ex-sailor. J. Robinson, descended by a rope Toft to the bottom of the

shaft. He found the girl suffering from a fractured skull. She was hauled out by means of the rope, but died soon after admission to hospital. How she got there is a mystery, as the shaft is fenced in. SUICIDE THROUGH INCOME TAX WORRY. An inquest was held at Llandudno on Samuel Hall (fifty-threeL market gardener, who died from self-inflicted wounds in the throat. A police constable. who found deceased in a field, bleeding from the throat, said he handed witness several sheets of paper, one of which was addressed to Mr Lloyd George, and on which was written : " I hope you will bring this up in Parliament, as I have been hounded to death with income tax papers. I have tried my best to pay, but they have put me to bankruptcy, and drove me mad, and I have lost mv head. I .have done my best for my workmen ’and my wife and family—Your broken-hearted Britisher, S. Hall.' A verdict was returned of "Suicide while suffering to a certain extent from unsound mind." :: "GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE.*’ A Garden of Remembrance, in the centre of which stands a beautiful cross of Cornish granite, on one of highest parts of Wimbledon and Putney ( ominons. is the Wandsworth and Wimbledon Memorial to the Glorious Dead. This Garden of Remembrance has been laid out in the midst of fortytwo acres of newly-acquired fields. On the plinth of the grey-white cross, a solitary and lovely landmark rising above the gorse and wild grasses of thu vale, with a deep green strip of Coombe Wood for background, are inscribed the names of many heroes, and an unusual inscription reads as follows. - " Nature provides the best monument. The perfecting of the work must be lei u to the gentle hand of time—but each returning spring will bring a fresh tribute to those whom it is desired t j hold in everlasting remembrance. ’ 3 THE INDUSTRIOUS lIEN. A Government publication contains the information that Britain is spending £30.090.000 yearly on eggs. No le-* than £14.000.000 worth of eggs are produced by British hens, but £16.000,000 worth are imported. The growth <i the poultry industry is amazing. Britain s egg output is already rivalling its wheat yield, for to-day it grows one* about £15.000.000 worth of wheat, and rhis amount is decreasing, while ti.j poultry business is increasing steadily. The vast scope for development i:. the poultry industry is proved by the fa«~t that upon holdings of an acre and upwards there are less than two chickens to the acre. Yet in Lancashire there are 206 laying hens and 263 young poultry on each hundred acres. If the rest of the country could be brought up to the Lancashire standard in .his respect, the countrv should no longer be spending £16.000.000 a year in buying foreign eggs, and should also sa\e some £6.000.000 yearly that is now spent in the purchase of foreign poul-