... WANTED Empty Cartridge Cases An Official Appeal to All Who Handle Shot-Guns THE ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS has been authorised to make an official appeal asking its readers and, in fact, all who handle a shot-gun to get together in the vital drive for saving paper. There is real value in used cartridge cases, and not a single cartridge fired by any thinking person should be ejected ...

... By E. L. Hawke, M.A., F.r.a.S. Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society HALCYON days-- phrase beloved of journalists out to describe all that is brightest and best in summer weather, and used, by analogy, as a synonym for peace and plenty in human affairs. Few people seem to know the origin of the ex pression. It is a survival from classical times, when the ancient Greeks and Romans ...

... Foxhounds met at Great Westwood, King's Langley, Herts. Captain S. G. R. Barratt, the joint-Master, is on leave, and enjoyed a day's hunting with his many friends. Mrs. S. Barratt, in Captain Barratt's absence, is acting-Master and field-master, and is assisted by Miss E. M. White, acting as whip. MO VI NG OFF The pack starts the day's work. The Master (in uniform) and the acting-Master and ...

... Australia's Wonderland AT this moment, when the British Commonwealth and its Allies are fighting for their existence, reserves of munitions, raw materials and essential foods are vital for victory. The British Empire, founded by the enter prise of British people, is now providing these reserves in rich measure and no part more liberally than the Commonwealth of Australia, of which the State of ...

... 7 THE story of the Peg Tee, or, as it was known in the early days, the Reddy Tee, is a story with a moral, which is very obvious; but it is once again the story of an invention so simple that no one thought of it. It was a great commercial success until people began to infringe the patent and copy it, and finally unsuccessful law suits ruined the inventor's prospects of taking things easily ...

... 3 Swansea Fights Back We Refuse To Be Bombed Out LIKE so many towns that have suffered from the savagery of the Luftwaffe, Swansea has risen to the task of shaping its own destiny. Here amid the scarred and ruined buildings is no defeatism, but in its stead a tremendous enthusiasm to rob the enemy of the opportunity of starving us out. Swansea is digging for victory with a vengeance, and ...

... Problems for the Reorganisation Committee Newmarket Sales N.H. Sport at Cheltenham I WAS called over the coals early in the season for having suggested that we were having too much racing. That was in the period when we were still having selling races, with fields running into twenty or thirty apiece for selling events. All that, of course, has now been stopped and, especially during the ...

... By Playbill IF this revue, which has opened the Hippo drome after a long, long closure, is intended partly as a compliment to our American friends, I trust it will amuse them more than it amused me. The author is Mi James Hadley Chase, the English author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which I have not read, but gather to be tough. Th; revue also is tough. Indeed, it is not: so much a ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent 4^^ AS the hours of daylight get less, most people will have little time available for gardening. It is all the more necessary therefore to tackle the various jobs which need attention in the order of their importance. I have already urged readers to get as much ground dug as possible before severe weather sets in. After all, digging is the biggest and most ...

... Unions for Victory MEN of the Balloon Barrage sites are doing a fine job in their spare time. Personnel of one site in the London area have grown vegetable produce to such good account that they alone have supplied all the Sections in their Command. The smile and attitude of this airman are amusingly reminiscent of happier days, when the Breton onion-sellers used to ply their trade in the ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent AT both ends of the scale the Royal Air Force bombing fleet is being extended and reinforced. During the past fortnight the Air Ministry has announced some details of the Avro Manchester-- one of the biggest and most powerful twin-engined aircraft in the world-- and of the Hawker Hurricane bomber. The Manchester has been in service for some time and has earned good ...

... By H. Hunter, D.Sc., M.A. THE importance of the flax crop as a source of fibre for the production of vital war materials and of linen goods for export is now very generally and fully appreciated. Before the war, a very large portion of the fibre used in the manufacture of linen goods in Northern Ireland (in Belfast alone 875,000 spindles are busily employed) was imported from the Continent, ...