... ONE result of allowing the daily news papers all the paper they want for circulation has encouraged trouble between farm worker and farmer over wages. The Daily Express, desperately anxious to increase their country circu lation, suddenly comes out with a leader demanding increased pay for farm hands in the hope, one presumes, that one good turn will deserve another. We do not want to go into ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent PRUDENCE and patience are virtues which always stand the gardener in good stead, but never more so than during the month of January. With the first sign of lengthening hours of daylight, he feels chat it should be possible to take the first steps towards the production of those delectable first dishes of peas, carrots, broad beans, cauliflowers and all the ...

... THE reclamation of the land, with its long history of success and failure, continues to occupy the attention of our engineers and agriculturists who, despite all difficulties, are slowly winning their long battle with the elements. It may be said, years hence, that the period 1940 to 1950 was one of almost desperate endeavour to bring every possible square yard of land into cultivation. The ...

... T)OXING DAY meets are traditionally arranged so that members of the public may have a good view of the proceedings, and although this time sport was impossible in many parts of the country because of severe frost, Masters paraded hounds in town squares and on village greens, supported by a good percentage of their normal fields. Public enthusiasm was as great as ever, and at the children's ...

... FOR centuries Britain has specialised in the breeding of gundogs of all types, and to-day is the principal market for the overseas' buyer who requires a first-class dog for stud purposes, whether it be of a breed particularly evolved for finding game, retrieving it when shot, or both. Despite the setback to breeders caused by the feeding difficulties during the war and, indeed, ever since, the ...

... Four of the younger followers at this successful ball Mr. J. F. Somervail, Miss Goddard, Mr. W. R. Cahulle and Miss Diana Aitchison Miss Anne Scott Aiton sign ing the Sportsman's Pledge, watched by Huntsman Bob Jones Capt. D. 0. Farlie, Miss Daphne Andrews, Miss Felicity Andrews and Mr. Ian Stewart were also guests. The ball was given at the Dryburgh Abbey Hotel Clapper ton, Selkirk ...

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... who will lead in Dan Sutherland's Breach of Marriage, to be produced at the Duke of York's on January 25, is in his early thirties and comes of a Cornish family. Educated at King.'s School, Canterbury, his first job was in his uncle's paper mill at Tilbury, and he began his theatrical career in repertory at Westcliff, playing juvenile leads at the age of eighteen. He had made several West End ...

... Moving off from Castletown House, the residence of Lord Carew, which is the largest private house in Eire. Lord Carew is joint-Master with Lt.-Col. J. Hume Dudgeon, who spoke to the children on 44 The Etiquette of Hunting Lady Levinge, wife of Sir Richard Levinge, Bt., adjusts the bridle of her daughter's horse Miss Kathleen Hume Dudgeon, the hon. whip, and one of the finest horsewomen in ...

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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Stormy Beginning.-- The revellers and others who let the New Year in, let in a veritable gale of wind and rain and sleet and snow, and darkness over all. And all over the world the political barometers registered stormy. One had only to glance at the headlines of a sober journal on January 1 to collect a sorry total of deep depressions. The world's leaders in ...