... THE Government, with another appeal to the farmers to make every effort to meet the needs of the nation and a small increase in prices, feel that they have dealt with the rise in farm workers' wages and the upset in the farmers' production programme. We think that another problem will loom before long which it would be as well for the Government to start considering now. What is to happen ...

... DLUNDELLS won the Ashburton Challenge Shield at Bisley with a total score of 461. Sedbergh and Eton each had 460, but the former took second place by scoring 235 at 500 yards to Eton's 234. Blundells also received the Kinder Cup and medals for the highest aggregate score at 200 yards in the match. The Spencer- Mellish Cup individual competition was won by the Hon. John Baring, son of Lord ...

... I WE had the old Henley back again this year but brought up to date with some new events and a whole lot of new ideas new grandstands and loud-speakers to tell us what was happening in every race of the world's happiest rowing festival. For the last day there was sunshine, enough breeze blowing up from Temple Island to keep the flags a-flutter and to help crews put up fast times. Best feature ...

... DURING the war a strong bond of comradeship existed between members of Fleet Air Wing Seven (United States Navy) and No. 19 Group, R.A.F. With the object of com memorating and perpetuating in time of peace the happy spirit which prevailed in conditions of hardship and danger, the Commander of the United States Air Wing presented a silver trophy to No. 19 Group to be awarded to the station ...

... PRACTICE week has gone. It was a quiet week, and the players seemed to arrive rather later than usual, towards the end of the week. I expect the high cost of hotels and general tournament expenses had something to do with this. The American players arrived early on Friday just in time to get in two full days practice (no play on Sunday), which the locals thought was not enough. I had a few ...

... AT THE PICTUKET JAMES AGATE Shakespeare for the Masses THIS week I propose to discuss the first of a series of films by which Marylebone Film Productions hope to bring Shake speare to the masses. I was horrified, con founded not by the attempt but by the deed. First let me get rid of the popular miscon ception that there is no need to take Shake speare to the masses because the masses lose no ...

... ONE night in September 1898 William Mollison, actor, arrived home late at No. 15, Elm Tree Road, St. John's Wood; went into the room where his five-year-old son, William, was still awake and, tossing his top hat on the bed, exclaimed to his wife: God-- what a failure! Only a few hours before, the curtain had fallen on Mollison, senior, and A uld Lang Syne at the Lyceum Theatre, and a frigid ...

... D. B. WY1HAII LEWIS BLASTING Heligoland-- the late Kaiser's dagger pointed at England's heart-- into a rubble-heap seems such an obvi ously sensible thing for the Navy to do that one is apt to forget that the British politicians who exchanged Heligoland for Zanzibar with Germany in 1890 were covered with adulation and flattery by rich women, and deemed themselves gods. An aged but ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Downdraught JUNE this year omitted to start flaming at the proper time, and before that there had been danger from frost to fruit crops. So the scheme of Professor A. W. Farrell deserves notice. It is to protect orchards and fruit in general from frost by hovering over them in a helicopter. It seems that there is a strong downdraught from a helicopter rotor, and ...

... RODRIGO HOYMIIAIV, A.R.A.-OF THE SELECTION COIQTTEE Some years ago an advanced and gifted group of young artists had their headquarters over a fun-fair near Euston Station. Of these a prominent member was Rodrigo Moynihan, who has recently been commissioned by the Queen to paint a portrait of H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth. Moynihan, who was born in the Canary Islands thirty-five years ago, held ...

... ARRIVING at Sutton Place, the Surrey home of the Duke of Sutherland, for the dance the Duchess of Sutherland gave for her daughter, Miss Wendy Shakespeare, was like driving into fairyland. This lovely mansion, built by Sir Richard Weston between 1523 and 1525, was floodlit for the occasion, showing up the fine Gothic outline to perfection. The Duke and Duchess stood in the Great Hall to ...

... By Oliver Stewart WE venerate old timepieces and laugh at old motor cars. The old clock is an object of respect; the old crock of mirth. Yet they are both notable for the same thing; a large amount of handwork. And it is one of the paradoxes of the time that handwork carries an aura of quality rarely found in machine-made things, even when the machine-made things are finished to much finer ...