... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE clearance of early vegetables, such as peas, Spring cabbage, broad beans, etc., will free a number of plots in the kitchen garden for further cropping, and the maintenance of ample and varied winter vegetable supplies will depend to a large extent, on a judicious use of these plots. Provision should be made for plenty of autumn and winter greenstuffs for ...

... INFORMATION, illustrating the difficul ties under which German farmers are working--shortage of labour, fertilisers, machinery, etc.--is periodically released by the Ministry of Information. This, we are sorry to see, is often seized on by the daily Press (aided and abetted, one suspects, by the Ministry of Agriculture) with an air of rather smug satisfaction. There is presumably no great harm ...

... THE large sheep-farms in the mountainous part of the South Island, where half-bred flocks graze on the sparse vegetation of the bush slopes, provide a healthy but strenuous life during the mustering, dipping and shearing seasons. Extra labour is engaged and youngsters from the towns come up to help in the less skilled farmwork. Sheep are driven from the hill-slopes and mustered at the farm. ...

... England v. Australia One-Day Holiday Test Match at Lord's A RECORD crowd of over 25,000 enjoyed every minute of Whit Monday at Lord's, for the one-day test against Australia was a great success. England won with wickets to spare sbi of them but only ten minutes in time. THE ONE-DAY TEST: Whit Monday at Lord's was grand holiday weather, holiday crowds and a match played to a finish, England ...

... BY the time this is read, Parliament will have returned to work after the brief Whitsun recess and, all being well, the House of Commons will have passed the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Bill which will now go to the Lords. There was also arranged for this week a debate on loca tion of industry, the regulation of which is of great importance to agriculture. This was the subject of the ...

... Men will speak with pride of our doings Drawing by Olive Snell Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery spoke these words in a stirring message to his troops made shortly before he led them in the greatest assault that history has ever known, 011 the enemy-occupied coast of Northern France. The Army Group commanded by the General is made up of British, Canadian and American forces, and in the Prime ...

... Jack Buchanan is to play the role of Lord Arthur Dilling when Frederick Lonsdale's comedy, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney with Coral Browne in the name-part, is revived by Firth Shephard at the Savoy Theatre to-morrow night. It is a part which might have been written for him, and he should be at his most fascinating best as the amateur Sherlock Holmes who catches the mysterious, lovely crook Mrs. ...

... This Happy Breed, for Actors' Charity Mrs. Ernest Bevin, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Eden and Mrs. Churchill were at the gala performance of the film version of Noel Coward's play, held in aid of the Actors' Orphanage Mrs. Coward, mother of the playwright, was at the Gaumont Jo see This Happy Breed and is seen with Laurence Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh Right M. Fedov Gusev, the Soviet ...

... Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since May 1943, also Minister of Commerce and Production, Sir Basil Brooke has played an important part in harnessing Northern Ireland's industries to the war efTort, and has a reputation for constant hard work. On the establishment of the Northern Ireland Parliament in 1921 he became a member of the Senate, resigning in 1922 to take up full-time duties as ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings T hin Richmond, Capt. Peter Thin M.C., The Royal Dragoons only sou of Col. and Mrs. E. G. Thin of Aston Somer- villi Hall Broadway, Worcestershire, married Mrs. Susan Richmond, widow of Capt. Leslie Richmond, 10th Royal Hussars, and daughter of Col. and Mrs. Mark Sykcs, at St. Paul's Knight sbridge Egerton Leigh Branch PjO. Neville Egerton Leigh, ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 249 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i The Rest Cure-- I never experienced the Edwardian rest cure. It was the fashionable remedy for too much nice, expensive fun in the 1900's. I was too young and too humble for any but the crumbs of fun. But now again the old cure is fashionable among middle-aged folk, who have had too much nice, clean, concentrated wartime fun. The doctor ...

... Behind the new Allied drive in Italy lies the story of Operation Strangle-- the gigantic air offensive which choked off supplies and reinforcements to Nazi troops on the fighting fronts. This campaign, launched approximately two months before the ground offensive got under way, May 11, 1944, accurately and systematically drew a noose by bomb and machine-gun and cannon fire around the entire ...