... LOOKING back on a most en joyable and successful Red Cross and St. John trip to the east coast of Scotland last week, one of the things that stands out is that rivalry between the two towns I visited, Fraserburgh and Peterhead. These two typical East coast of Scotland towns have thrived on this competition for many years and golf being the national game, in no other issue has feeling been more ...

... Mr. Chase to Mr. Gardener 17, The Grange, Chertsey. NOVEMBER. Dear Mr. GARDENER, There are only two sowings which can be made this month peas and broad beans. Neither is absolutely necessary, and. if your cloches are all in use the sowings can well be deferred until the New Year. But it is always nice to get the very earliest vegetables, and there is this advantage, too the sooner they are off ...

... M\ OF THE WAR By ''Foresight Caution IT was the caution of a veteran militarist, as well as the wisdom of a politician, which compelled the Prime Minister to warn the nation and the world that the war in Europe might go on until the spring days of 1945. As a politician it is obvious that Mr. Churchill felt it necessary to underwrite possible public disappointment should the war not end this ...

... London Film Premiere First-Nighters at The Hitler Gang Lord Bruntisfield had his eldest son Major the Hon. John Warrender, M.C., with him at the premiere Sir Charles Portal and Sir Archibald Sinclair Lady Louis Mounthatten sat beside Mr. Noel Coward, who recently returned from entertaining the troops in the i Middle LEast Right Beatrice Lillie was there and was photographed in the foyer at the ...

... -/4 9 By Sabretache To the Valiant THERE are horses like men the good and the bad, game 'uns and shifters, and some that JL mad ;but give me the one on four legs or two, whose heart is pure gold, whose colotir 's true blue! Here 's how to all those who fight till the end through rough and the smooth as Fortune may send! Drink it in bubbly or drink it in beer, down it, no heel-taps, and give ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Personality ENGLISH novelists, since the novel began, have packed their pages with charac ters-- comic, resplendent or sinister. So gladly do we, enter this gallery, so much entertained are we by these personages and by the super-life with which their creators endow them, that we seldom ask how deep characters go. These fictitious men and women more than play their ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Civil Air I HAVE sympathy with the plea that civil aviation should be taken out of the hands of the Air Ministry and handed to some other ministry. In fact I expressed my views clearly enough in my book, Air Power and the Expanding Community, wherein I argued that there should be a single fighting service and that air transport should become the interest of the ...

... THE English Guernsey Society's Annual Show and Sale at Reading was once again extremely successful. It is quite evident that the demand for this famous breed is on the increase if the prices are any criterion at all. As at last year's sale, the highest-priced bull this time Mr. W. H. Harrison's Wychnor Moss-Trooper trebled the figure realised by the champion of his class, the Countess of ...

... The Hop Harvest in Kent Work in Progress at Spelmonden Farm, Goudhurst HOPS are grown in two main districts in England. One is the Kent-Sussex area and the other is near Worcester. Successful cultivation requires very special technical knowledge on the grower's part, and makes a heavy demand on labour. It is an expensive crop to produce, and returns, even with skill and care, are affected by ...

... f^cUHeSi. ow The Case for N.H. Sport Autumn Big Race Surprises AS I write, there is no official news regarding the prospects of a resumption of jumping in the New Year. There is however, a general air of confidence among owners and trainers, a good number of whom are prepared to support racing if permission is given. I only hope that the Stewards who are conducting the necessary negotiations ...

... From Our Parliamentary Correspondent.] Westminster, Monday October 9. IN the course of the Committee stage of the Town and Country Planning Bill in the House of Com mons, last week, there were two dis cussions of special interest. One of these arose on Clause 35 of the Bill which extends to farm buildings the provisions of planning schemes and makes it necessary for farmers to submit designs ...

... MILK TARGET 1,000,000 GALLONS PER DAY Average Yield for in 1943-44, as per ENGLISH MILK MARKETING BOARD REPORT, 7,031 lbs. If all the Dairy Cows in England were the TARGET would be reached without increasing the Dairy Cow Population. THEREFORE BUY ! The greater the number of the nearer the TARGET. Information from HUGH BONE, Secretary. Ayrthirt Cattle Herd Book Society. 58 Alloway Street. ...