... waterworks to offset the increased reservoir capacity having failed, both authorities decided to oppose the Bill in Parliament. Speaking at the Catchment Board meeting, Mr. D. G. Watkins said that with the present flow of water the Wye below Hay was so filthy ...

... the four conveners of the Aims and Objects Committee, reported on the work of their particular section. Mr. Eric Skinner, speaking on Boys’ Work,” remimlied his hearers how war-time conditions had brought unusual difficulties. Despite that, when he was ...

... French friends, —It was with real pleasure that I accepted the invitation to talk to you to-day. lam happy to think that lam speaking not to strangers, but to friends, for I can claim long acquaintance with your country. I was only nine years old when I paid ...

... ißothenstein will give a talk on the Royal Academy United Artists’ Exhibition and later in the evening Sir John Boyd Orr’will speak about the people’s food in war time. 7. 0 a.m.— Time and news 7 lo ~?plm f ioforte) rl Gri6K played b v Arthur Dulay l Lift ...

... British Empire. Here again we have seen not only a repetition but, as it were, an intensification of history. General Smuts speaks as Prime Minister of a South Africa united beyond Nazi imagination. It is a real Union, to which the outbreak of war means ...

... off the stage always remained a gentleman and scholar with little trace of the actor, although he was always happiest when speaking with amiable detachment of Shakespeare and the stage. Sir Frank was not without honour in his day and generation. In 1910 ...

... n. This is the position of public and preparatory day schools that made their own arrangements in September. One can only speak from knowledge of some seven or eight schools in part of London, and of those only two arc carrying on in the country for next ...

... BRITISH NATIONAL LIFE “NEGATIVE AND EMPTY” —Bishop of London T , HE Bishop of London, Dr. A G. F Fisher, speaking at a New Year service in London to-day, said that British national life and ideals, so far as they were positive, were still Christian, but ...

... GREAT BLOW Speaking from her bedroom to a reporter to-day, Madame de Navarro said, in referring to the death of her friend, Sir Frank Benson; 41 He was a delightful person and a very old friend of mine. Sir Frank’s plays at Stratford-on-Avon were always ...

... POILDS An association of French-Canadian women has been formed at Quebec to give moral and material aid “to poilus and French-speaking soldiers abroad ” who are without families or personal resources. The Society will recruit members to make up parcels of ...

... brought up in Manchester, where his parents still live. He has been in Canada for 12 years, ten of those in the Army. Mr. Eden, speaking into microphone coyly hidden under a miniature Union Jack, gave them a welcome. The new world has come to challenge tyranny ...

... note of menace. Taking the cue perhaps from Goering’s week-end threat in the Voelkischer Beobachter that Hitler has only to speak the words for a destructive load of bombs” to be carried over Britain, all the New Year messages emphasise that a decision ...