... 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 ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Bluff THERE was a time when a meeting between Hitler and Mussolini was an event of importance. In all parts of the world there were people anxious to know why they had met and what they had discussed. By his propaganda Goebbels was able to produce headlines in all the capitals; and there was the usual boast about Axis solidarity. Usually these meetings did portend ...

... he Show Goes On but Blackmail, Strangulation, id the Hidden Hand keep the Actors Busy Back-stage ^Vliat city but New York could sponsor another Gypsy Rose Lee? Complete mistress of the art of strip tease, author of best-selling thrillers, queep of a Bohemia all her own, her life-story would make a score of Hollywood films. Strip Tease Lady (Odeon, Leicester Square) is based on her lurid novel ...

... Garden Party at Windlesham Chilean Ambassador Lends Home to Aid Royal Naval War Libraries The grounds of Thankerton House, Windlesham, Surrey, home of H.E. The Chilean Ambassador, were thrown open to the public recently for a garden party in aid of the Royal Naval War Libraries, founded by Mrs. Ivan Colvin, O.B.E., shortly after the outbreak of war. The Libraries work directly under the ...

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... -/4 By Sabretache 'Mre Amazin' Instance of THE rest of the sentence is a pop'lar man and the reference is to Surtees' celebrity, who was always so anxious to do every thing that was handsome and popular. The thought is induced by something someone back not so long ago from Somewheres West of Suez said to me about that luckless person Von Papen. who, the Scout says, is extremely ...

... Surgical and Nursing Staff at a Royal Naval Hospital D. R. Stuart Front row Surg. Lt. E. Elines, L.R.C.P., R.N.V.R., Sister I. S. Martin, Surg. Lt. M. G. Low, M.B., Ch.B., R.N.V.R., Sister D. Miller, Surg. Cdr. A. S. Bradlaw, M.B., Ch.B., R.N.V.R., Superintending Sister L. Broadbclt, Surg. Lt. R. G. Harcourt, R.N.V.K., Sister M. E. E. Williams, Surg. Lt. S. M. Musgrave, R.N.V.R. Back row the ...