... In happier times Kershaw all British Binoculars will be available again for your enjoyment. SOHO LTD., COLHAM MILL ROAD, WEST DRAYTON, MIDX. (Branch of A. Kershaw Be Sons Ltd.) Last year, thanks to the warning we issued about the shortage of books and thanks to the heed that was paid to it most of our customers were able without undue difficulty to make a satisfactory selection for their ...

... By Our Motoring Correspondent IT is one of the great regrets of all motoring critics that the interests of security dictate that nothing or very little shall be said of the manner in which the great motor-car manufacturers have turned their works over to the production of war materials and especially to those needed for building up the air power of the United Nations. In the days before the ...

... vmm l, _ I H.M.KING GEORGE Vl I v BHEk lots./ THE ONLY GIN THAT HOLDS THE BLUE SEAL Of THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE ^uTTM ...

... WINTER FASHIONS TAILORED SLACKS AND SKIRTS TRUBENISED COLLARS AND CUFFS A PARTICULARLY interesting exhibition of all kinds of Utility clothes was recently held at Simpsons, Piccadilly. There were about sixty models which, being Utility, were sold under the Government Price Control. The highest price for a suit now that the purchase tax has been removed is 97s. 4d. others are a little less 92s. ...

... WE reproduce with pride from our issue of November 22, 1940, a frontispiece picture of Acting Squadron-Leader W. S. Fielding-Johnson, M.C., D.F.C., and his wife, taken at the Shorthorn Society's Show at Reading. Acting Squadron- Leader Fielding-Johnson won the M.C. as a twenty-three-old captain in the Army in the last war and has now won the D.F.C., at the age of fifty, for participation in ...

... T^vRIED eggs are much in the news, for it looks as though they will be the only eggs we shall eat this winter. Rather vaguely. Lord Woolton has said he hopes that everyone will get plenty, and the American hen is being encouraged to do a bigger job than she has ever done before. Actually, the in dustry was not a big one in the States, for never more th^n 10,000,000 lb. of eggs were dried in ...

... Acorns, Beech Nuts and Rabbits PROSPECTS for the beech harvest this year are reported to be moderate to good in the north, south and south-east, but poor to fair in the south-west and poor in the east. The acorn crop is expected to be good in the south-east, moderate in the south and north west, patchy in the east and poor elsewhere. The moral is that the collection of this useful feed for ...

... The Belle of New York (Coliseum) THERE is hardly a revue nowadays without a sketch which reproduces, and usually burlesques, the fashions of forty or fifty years ago. So this revival of The Belle, which is the real thing, is most apt. Miss Enid Stamp Taylor, who gives the brightest performance of all, might have stepped out of a fashion drawing of the 'nineties, with her big, floppy hats ...

... C ^acbtcLiLi to Port LANDLADY: So Mr. Brown has found something fresh to complain about this morn ing. Maid No, ma am it s the eggs. Extract from a letter to a friend We are expecting a happy event. Nothing is a hundred per cent, nowadays. Oh, thin am I as any lath What use to me the 5-inch bath The fat man, with his ample spaces, More H ,0 than I displaces. 'Tis he, so generously fashioned ...

... avicf WE get called over the coals sometimes for what our critics regard as over- publicising the many demonstrations organised up and down the land by the Ministry of Agriculture and the various County Committees. Mr. Hudson, however, put the case for demonstrations succinctly in his recent speech at the Eynsford (Kent) demonstration. There is still an enormous gap, he said, between the good ...

... I *1 Unfruitful i Fruit Trees 8 By Our Horticultural Correspondent FEW things in a garden are more disap pointing than fruit trees which, though perfectly healthy, consistently fail to blossom and bear fruit. Such failure often occurs where trees are planted in rich soil or where manure has been applied to the roots at planting time. An excessively moist root run may also be a contributing ...

... HPHE United States, for long picturesquely described as the Granary of Europe, is now, together with Canada and Argentina, a part of the greatest granary the world has ever had. In the U.S.A. alone the 1942 harvest is estimated to produce 904,000,000 bushels of grain. (U.S.A. plus Canada began the present year with a reserve of 975,000,000 bushels. The new comDinea crop is estimated at 1,394 ...