... A GAME OF SKILL is the work of these Folkestone schoolboys who are making stone walls in districts of the Black Mountains. No mortar is used in their building work, which has already been warmly praised. A FORWARD HARVEST, near Ross-on-Wye, meets its match. The corn, already cut, is being- threshed and the straw made into bales by this elaborate but highly efficient machine. DEEDS OF NEW ...

... Training Women as Horticulturists A Visit to the Waterperry School By our Horticultural Expert THAT gardening offers an interesting and healthy career for women is gradually being more widely recognised, and the longer the war continues the greater will be the scope for their employment in private and commercial horticulture. The training of women for this highly skilled profession is, ...

... 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. ...

... Next Week's Work in the Garden Vegetables CONTINUE to earth up celery as necessary. It is better to do the job in several stages, and it may be continued in the case of late plantings throughout the present month. Occasional dusting with soot is an excellent thing to keep pests at bay. Second early potatoes are mostly ready for lifting and if it is intended to save any for seed it is a good ...

... By A. Croxton Smith RECENTLY our Labrador Brutus was enjoying a bone on the lawn as a bomb fell in the vicinity. Giving a mighty woof, he was off before anyone could get to him, and no calling or whistling could bring him back. We were not greatly concerned about the ultimate issue, for he knows every inch of the country, and if he did get really lost he was wearing the Tail-Waggers' Club ...

... BRITAIN'S grain harvest is over. The wheat, the oats and the barley have been gathered in under conditions which have not been easier since 192 1 so easy, in fact, that hardly any call has been made on the reserve of volunteer labour. The Government's machinery reserve, however, has come in very useful, especially on those small grass farms that were previously growing no corn at all. ...

... THESE are hitherto unpublished photographs of the late Sir Abe Bailey and of his lovely Dutch-style home in Cape Province. Millionaire-sportsman, gambler. Imperialist, he enjoyed his life, in spite of the physical pain which he endured so bravely towards its close. He chose his own epitaph ten years before his death. RUST-EN-VREDE, MUIZENBERG. I HAVE HAD A GOOD BITE OUT OF LIFE. OVERLOOKING ...

... By Highwayman ALL possible progress in preparation for the 1941 crops must be made before winter sets in. Tractors must be kept working during every hour of daylight and even later. Double-manning of tractors will be necessary in many cases. This extract from a recent official exhortation to the farmers of Britain is significant not only of the country's reliance in its hour of need on its ...

... By Our Air Correspondent NEW tactics were introduced by the Germans in their bombing raids on this country during the past week. They were to be expected, for the earlier methods had failed and the German air force had lost heavily. The new tactics were designed to keep up the pressure while reducing the losses. By day huge formations came over just as they had done before but when they had ...