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Air Minister and Farmer

... SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, the Minister for Air, is a keen farmer and valuable stock is reared on part of his 100,000-acre estate at Thurso Castle, Caithness, in the north of Scotland. Sir Archibald entered politics after the last war after serving in the 2nd Life Guards, and he has represented Caithness and Sutherland in the House of Commons since 1922. His appointment as Air Minister met with ...

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Terminal Field Day at Dulwich

... THE pictures of the Dulwich College O.T.C. at work on these and the following pages were taken on the occasion of the Terminal Field Day when twelve platoons took part in competitive operations for the Stewart Tactics Shield. The O.T.C., which was formed in 1908 out of the old Rifle Volunteers Corps, is com manded by Major E. Lax, and specialist training is given in Signals, Intelligence and ...

One Way of Spending the Long Vacation

... NEARLY seven hundred Oxford under graduates have volunteered for forestry work during the Long Vacation, and one of the many camps in England and Wales organised by the Oxford School of Forestry and the Forestry Commission is at Tintern, Mon mouthshire, one of the most beautiful and densely-wooded districts in the Wye Valley, where the pictures on this and the following pages were taken. The ...

From Trainer to Farmer: How Fred Templeman is Helping the Country and Himself

... From Trainer to Farmer How Fred Templeman is Helping the Country and Himself THE average racehorse trainer usually manages to combine a little farming with his other work, but there are few in the profession who have taken up farming seriously. Mr. Fred Templeman, who in his younger days rode a Derby winner, and who later, as a trainer, has achieved many notable successes over a considerable ...

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... TIMBER SHORTAGE? No signs of it poles have been rammed deep down. A Boys from Marlborough have dug the pits and the stout young birch hundredweights of nails and hammers, expertly handled, do the rest. ...

What are we Working For?

... THE average farmer-- and who, nowadays, if he has a bit of land, is not a farmer?-- if he is to keep pace with the spate of literature at present being poured forth for his guidance, will soon need a secretary and a card-index system for dealing with it. During the past few weeks he may have done his best to comply with the ex hortations and instructions he has received. He may have put his ...

Round the New Shows: At the Theatre

... Round the New Shows At the Theatre ONE of the most remarkable theatrical enter prises in London is the Revudeville show at the little Windmill Theatre (which, un like most of our little theatres, is within a stone's throw of Piccadilly Circus and not in the remote wilds of South Kensington). It has now been running for nine years. That puts even the Chu Chin Chow and Me and My Girl ...

BENTLEY MOTORS (1934) LTD

... BENTLEY MOTORS (mi) LTD BENTLEY MOTORS '(mi) LTD.. BENTLEYg The Silent Sports CarTSj^k 16 CONDUIT ST. LONDON. W.I. m: MAYFAIR 44 I 2. PRINTED IN ENGLAND for the Proprietors, the Sporting and Dramatic Publishing Co., Ltd., by Odhams Press Ltd., Long Acre, London, W.C.2, and published by the Propr ctors, 32-34, St. Bride Street, London, E.C.4. Entered as second-ckss matter at the New York Post ...

How to Handle a Revolver

... THE WRONG W A T TO FIRE The hand holding revolver is too low on the butt. The recoil will throw revolver upwards, as there is no proper support to take the shock. It is impossible to shoot quickly by sense of direction with revolver held this way. THE RIGHT WAT Arm outstretched and hand gripping butt as high as possible and firmly, with the fingers well round. Second joint of second finger ...

Lambeth Boys on the Land

... Hundreds of Lambeth bovs belonging to the Christ Church (Oxford) United Clubs, Kennington, will be spending their summer holidays working on the land. They have volunteered to help the farmers under a scheme recently inaugurated by the clubs and their response has been over whelming. Those who run the clubs are doing their bit, too, for of the twenty men who came down to form an advisory ...