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... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL Court Wews: Good news from his doctors brought the New Year in happily for the King. They were able to tell His Majesty, after a further very comprehensive examination, that his progress had been such that he would be able to travel to Sandringham much earlier than they had at first thought possible. Accordingly, arrangements were put in hand for the Court to move to Norfolk ...

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... AGRICULTURE does not often figure in the New Year's Honours, so the names of Sir John Boyd Orr, Dr. W. G. Ogg and Mr. James Turner in this year's list, will be specially welcomed. Each in his own sphere has accomplished much. Sir John, who now becomes a Baron, has long been an authority of international renown on nutrition. Till recently he has been Director-General of the Food and Agriculture ...

... CYPRUS is economically dependent on agriculture, but neither in food supplies nor in raw materials for clothing is the island self-supporting. The correction of this situation is the main concern of the British Colonial administration. The story of Cypriot agriculture is one of improvidence and thoughtless exploitation until the British took over from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, but the vital ...

... The Tsetse Fly and Sleeping Sickness In Africa They Have Sought to Exterminate I The Fly Itself THE announcement by the Colonial Office of the discovery of the new drug, Antrycide, which protects cattle from the effects of attacks by the dreaded tsetse fly, gives hope at last that vast tracts of that continent which have hitherto been virtually wilderness may in the course of years become one ...