... THE Richmond Public Schools Fortnight's key match the North v. South ended magnificently. Set to get 41 in 25 minutes, the South lost their first wicket for three runs, then M. J. Turner got going and, hitting 29 in about ten minutes, bore his side on to a nine wickets victory. The final scores were The North, 236 and 136 South, 332 for 6 declared and 41 for one. A. L. Evans and A. J. Pickard, ...

... Big Guns at Aldershot New Zealanders in Action [\|EW ZEALAND troops have been playing a good deal of cricket since their arrival at Aldershot, and last week-end they met a side raised by the Aldershot Command which included several well-known county players. Though the game was drawn it was a very bright and breezy affair, characterised by big hit ting by both teams. The Com mand declared at ...

... HERE are some practical preparations to include in your next parcel to friends in the Services. Coty's Avocado Shaving Cream is made from the soothing Avocado Oil, and gives a close, concentrated, lather. Both this and the Avocado shaving stick cost is. 6d. each. Then, for after shaving, there is a special lotion and the well-known Coty talc. Available all over the country and at 2, New Bond ...

... The Body Was Well Nourished Diana Churchill and Barry K. Barnes are practically the whole show in this comedy-thriller by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Launder and Gilliat were the authors of those two very amusing films The Lady Vanishes and Flight Train to Munich. Nearly the hour when the time-bomb is due to explode and they can't find it. Diana Churchill, George Cross and Barry K. ...

... WHERE TO STAY HUNTING, RIDING GUESTS ETC. piARTMOOR, Farm House, as Private Hotel, U run by Naval Officer and wife. Own stables and riding school. Resident pupils taken. Private golf course tennis, swim ming-pool. Electric light central heating. Terms from 3$ gns. Apply, Secretary, Bullaven Farm, nr. Ivybridge, Devon. r* UESTS received, delightful country house, own farm. Peace and quiet. ...

... Up and Down the Land News From All Quarters A DURHAM EFFORT: The good-looking crop of oats which we show on this page comes from County Durham. The land had been in grass for 50 years and was ploughed in mid-November, 1939. The oats were sown on April 12 and fertilisers were applied at the rate of 1 ton of lime, 8 cwt. of slag, and 2 cwt. potash salts per acre. The crop was rolled six weeks ...

... MESSRS. Goffs organised a small but timely sale of bloodstock at Holyport, Maidenhead, last week. Notabilities present included the Duke of St. Albans, George Smithwick, W. Smallwood, Alec Taylor, Sir William Waldron, Mr. George Cloke and many well-known trainers. Prices were small (and bargains correspondingly plentiful) but two unbroken two-year-old fillies fetched 300 guineas apiece. These ...

... A NEEDLE demonstration was recently given on the premises of Mr. Broom, Sondes Place Farm, near Dorking. These pic tures show the laying-on of ready-made thatch- matting,. which is easily stitched by means of the Darby thatching-needle. This new method, as well as being a definite saver of time and trouble, dispenses with skilled labour and at the demonstration a whole side of the rick was ...

... THERE were few evidences of wartime conditions at the Greenpark Racecourse, Limerick, where the long- established Society held its two-dav Show. Almost every class of event and competition was represented, entries top ping the 2000 mark more than 500 dogs were entered in the respective classes. The Department of Agriculture scored a big success with its display, which featured apple- growing. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith SOMEWHERE in the Forsyet Saga John Galsworthy re- marks that a strange life is a dog's. The only four-footer with the rudiments of altruism and a sense of God. Dogs are not purely Forsytes, they love something outside themselves. Those of us who have studied the mentality of dogs as well as their physical charac teristics will give an approving word to this sentiment ...

... SOCIAL ROUND-ABOUT The Tatler in Town and Country By BRIDGET CHETWYND The Ship of State THE above always sounds important, picturesque and familiar, and presumably applies to the House of Commons, where the dining-room offers a National menu as an alternative to the ordinary one. It reads like a complete tour of the kitchen garden, including Herb Corner two tightly printed lines of carrots, ...

... TWO OF THE PREMIER'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ONE AN ACTRESS, THE OTHER A CHARMING DEBUTANTE Miss Sarah Churchill, in private life Mrs. Vic Oliver, takes her name from the p Prime Minister's great ancestor was winning his brightest bays in the ne o able name for herself on the stage, and her most recent activity is in t bill with her husband in the opening programme of the new C. B. Cochran rai of ...