... New Zealand's High Commissioner Mr. W. J. Jordan William Joseph Jordan is British-born his home town was Ramsgate, and his mother, to whom he is devoted, still lives in England. He migrated as a young man of twenty- five in 1904 and became a farmer and a member of the Labour Party. After the last war in which he served in France, he was in the New Zealand Parliament for fourteen years, until ...

... Hounds of Spring The British Army Experiment in Training Dogs for Purposes of Patrol Dogs Under Discipline at Exercise Four soldiers who are helping in the training of dogs for the Army, take them out exercising. They must always be kept under discipline must walk on the left side of the handler, without a lead, and keep in single file. This picture shows two Alsatians, a Labrador, and a ...

... Hunting Again Two Opening Meets in Ireland The Co. Limerick Foxhounds Hounds are seen moving off after the opening meet of the Co. Limerick Hunt which took place at Fedamore. The pack was formed over 100 years ago with Mr. George Fosbery as Master from 1828-1845 after the scratch pack which hunted hare deer and fox, owned by Mr. Croker, of Ballinagard was given up Collection for Earl Haig's ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Hendrie Scale A military wedding at a garrison town took place when Major William Brown Hendrie Cana dian Army, son of the late Colonel William Hendrie, atid Mrs. Hendrie, of Gatcside, Hamil ton, Ontario, was married to Betty Scale, daughter of Lieut. -Colonel and Mrs. J. D. Scale, of Clutha, Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey Marshall Gilmour Captain ...

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... Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor are heroine and hero of Waterloo Bridge which tells, in an adaptation ot Robert E. Sherwood's play, of a ballet dancer and a young officer who met, parted, met again, and finally parted for the last time on Rennic's now vanished bridge. Robert Taylor wears his first moustache, also makes his first appearance as a middle-aged man, a soldier of 1910 whose romantic ...

... A The Hon. Mrs. Patrick Ogilvie-Grant and Geraldine Jeanet Geraldine Jeanet Ogilvie-Grant, born in June this year, is the first child of Lord Strathspey1 s son and heir and his New Zealand wife whom he married in 1938. Mrs. Ogilvie-Gfant was Alice Bowe, daughter of the late Francis Bowe, of Timaru. Her husband s family have lived in or been connected with New Zealand for several generations. ...

... By Ashley Courtenay An English country house, com fortably furnished, a varied library, good cooking and plenty of scope to satisfy normal pursuits. What more need one ask of an hotel in peace or war? The brochure of the Brockham End Hotel, four miles from Bath, states with all the pride of possession that It would be difficult to find anywhere in England-- or elsewhere-- a small hotel ...

... ^4 DETACHMENT OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS visited. Eton on one of the Colleges recent field days in Windsor Great Park and gave the cadets a demonstration of company tactics. In this picture a Corps company has taken up a position for advance. Horsemen are. only used to direct exercises. TRENCH MORTAR bomb carrier being shown to cadets by a Guardsman. DEMONSTRATION of the right and wrong way of ...

... By Our Horticulturzl Correspondent IN the greenhouses at Medmenham Abbey, the historic Thames-side home of Mr. A. G. Bendir, I have seen a very fine display of chrysanthemums grown under the super vision of Mr. J. Roberts, the head gardener, who has thoroughly mastered the cultivation of a flower which needs more than ordinary ability to bring to such perfection as his blooms have reached. ...

... The Birth of a Butterfly Remarkable Pictures of the Rare Swallowtail^ Vx The female swallowtail selects a leaf of the sweet fennel plant. Fluttering into an opening between the sharp spines of the leaf she bends the tip of her abdomen into contact with the leaf, and cements a single egg into place. Still hanging entirely by the loop, the chrysalis has opened the divided claw at the tip of the ...