... NOW that high summer has arrived, the war-worker's mind turns to thoughts of the holidays of the past, and of the future, when victory will allow a return to the pleasures of pepce. But it is still possible to snatch an occasional week-end, and the picture above shows a riding party on Cartmel Fell, north Lancashire, where Mr. George Dickenson's stables provide a pleasant canter for his party. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THE great clearance of property in the heart of the City of London attributable to enemy action is to have one result that must have been entirely unexpected. A garden party and fête is being held in the devastated area adjacent to St. Paul's, on Saturday, July 31, and the following Monday, the organisers being the London Fire Force. After the deduction of expenses the ...

... THE 22nd annual general meeting of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany was held at the headquarters at Cambridge on July 15th, and the popularity of the event was shown by the large attendance of farmers, members of the seed trade and others. The event meant a busy day for the staff committee meetings all the morning with such famous plant- breeding experts as Sir Rowland Biffen, F.R ...

... TWO great wars in a quarter of a century have made heavy inroads upon the forests and woodlands of our country. Timber imports are drastically reduced in wartime, but the need for timber remains as great as ever. hi early 500,000 acres 01 timDer were ielled in the last war, and very little of this was replanted. Planning for the future must include reafforestation, and if supplies of home ...

... TWflj Tyi A FAST train from Victoria will reach Coulsdon in 36 minutes, even in wartime. The adjacent Chipstead Valley is largely residential hardly a place to go to for hay making pictures. Yet the photographer has been able to obtain pictures which might have been taken in the heart of the country. The scene is the L.C.C.'s Chipstead Valley Farm, on which a team of Land Girls have been busy ...

... THE queen isn't laying enough eggs, said the expert. You should re queen. It is quite simple. You order a new sovereign and introduce her to the hive after killing off the old queen. Now, though for the benefit of visitors I often lift off the roof of the hive and turn up a corner of the quilt to expose the busy workers, I am not a person whom they say talks to his bees. The thought, then, ...

... Henley ONLY four schools were able to accept Eton's invitation for a race at Henley. Radley rowed their boat the 50 miles down to Henley, spending one night at Reading. Eton rowed the 26 miles up-stream, and two other Eton boats were also rowed up from Eton for the use of Shrewsbury and Winchester. The course was about a mile up-stream. 1 zr 7 r 7 s 1 i1 1 Mini FIIM ETON: (Left to right R. D. ...

... MOST golfers, or perhaps I should say, most really keen golfers, must have dreamed sometimes of a golf course of their very own where they could invite their friends down to play and enjoy their golf going round at their own speed, no starting list and no cries of Fore! from behind if they were taking their time or trying putts over again, to chase them on their way. I must confess I have ...

... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight Offensive HITLER'S anxiety to disown any responsi bility for the new offensive in Russia caused some mystification in the first instance. It seemed so odd that armies should go into battle as the Germans did and that their people should be told that they did not launch the attack. The reason for this cannot be difficult to find. German morale is not in a state to ...

... At the Board of Trade The Rt. Hon. Hugh Dalton, P.C., M.P. Mr. Hugh Dalton became President of the Board of Trade in 1942. Born in Neath, Glamorganshire, fifty-five years ago, he is the son of the late Canon J. N. Dalton, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., who was for some years tutor to Prince George of Wales, afterwards King George V. Mr. Dalton was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, spent three ...

... -/4 By Sabretache King Willoic IN spite of everything, and even in spite of what The Vermin have tried to do to some of his playgrounds, His Majesty has still a firm and very graceful seat on his throne, and nothing is ever likely to knock him off it. These one-day matches, naturally, are not so satisfying either to the gnarled veteran, who likes to yarn and jaw about what the second ball ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Telebusiness A COMPOSITE, and partly fictitious, picture of the business man, continuously busy, hurrying from place to place, going through papers, examining documents, sitting at conferences, is conjured up when ever air transport is under consideration. For this business man is regarded as being perpetually in need of moving from place to place at high speed and ...