... THE Red Poll Society report increasing interest in their Reading Shows. The recent Spring Show attracted many buyers and sellers from the West and South, where the Red Poll is popular because of its suitability for the bail system of milking. One hundred and two head (76 females and 26 bulls) of attested cattle averaged £152 3s. 4d. Vendors included Lady Palmer, whose husband, the late Sir ...

... I Lakeland a! i Eastertide THE majority of holiday-makers are obliged to wait until summer for their annual vacations. The fells in spring are very lovely for those mostly from the North and Midlands who are able to walk through the hills and dales of this unspoiled corner of England. It is a wonderful country for young people, and happy indeed are those groups, such as our young Austrian ...

... Oil Long Hitting EVERY golfer, whatever his actual standing in the world of golf, would be untruthful if he did not admit that he gets a real kick out of hitting an extra good one one off the meat, or, as they say in America, one on the nose. How far it goes depends on one's own timing, limited directly by the amount of speed one can impart to the club-head, and that is dependent on the ...

... BY keeping pigs in harness. Brigadier E. G. Warren, C.B.E., of the Northampton- shire Regiment (retired), plans on his eleven-acre County Limerick holding to show how more bacon can be produced. Pigs, he says, do not gain enough weight when they wander where they like they damage fences and time is lost rounding them up. The remedv A harness. This is made of two straps. One fits over the pig ...

... Safety Record Did you know that every journey made by a French locomotive is exactly recorded every yard of it on the Flaman apparatus carried in the cab? As the train runs, a mechanical pen draws a chart of its speed and punctuality. So precise is this record that when a signal ahead is at danger, the Flaman records the fact auto matically as it passes the preceding or distant signal. The ...

... THE GREAT L.C.C. CONTROVERSY_THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN WHICH CONSERVATIVES (WITH 64 MEMBERS) DEAD-HEATED WITH LABOUR AT THE POLLS Presiding is Mr. J. W. Bowen, the Labour nominee for the decisive office, who, after being defeated in Wandsworth Central, was brought in as chairman. The Socialists are seated on the left of the Chamber and the ...

... EASTERTIDE BROUGHT THE CLIMBERS OUT ON LAKELAND HEIGHTS Arthur Black, a Manchester bank clerk, climbing a rocky pinnacle on Windgather Rocks, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, an area very popular with week-end climbers. The North Country abounds in experienced climbers, such as Arthur Black, but at holiday-time a number of tyros try their luck among the mountains, and more often than not the call ...

... *P o-day there are just under 1 ,000,000 Arab refugees within the borders of Palestine, and 26,000 of them are in pitiful plight at the Jericho Refugee Camp, described as a Near Eastern Belsen. The pictures on this page relate to the Arabs of Faluja, who, following the Rhodes Armistice, have elected to live in the Arab-held part of Palestine. The pictures show the transfer from Faluja to ...

... THE REDECORATION OF YORK HOUSE, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, HOME OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER Scaffolding has gone up and the house is now having its first exterior coat of paint for over ten years, and rooms which were occupied by a caretaker while the Duke was Governor- General of Australia, are to be redecorated. St. James's Palace came into Royal possession in 1532, when Henry Ytlt ...

... A udley End, a relic of the days when domestic building was on a scale of vast magnificence, is to-day but a fragment of the great house built in the seventeenth century and covering almost five acres. It is a truly remarkable fragment, however, and when the news became known last summer that Audley End had passed into the hands of the nation for preservation as an ancient monument, it was ...

... I n addition to winning the Montana Cup, valued at £50, Mr. John Derry, de Havilland's test pilot, has won a prize of £100, presumably payable in francs, and a fortnight's holiday in Cannes, presumably at the establishment of M. Dissat, the hotelier who put up the Montana Cup. The performance of Mr. Derry's jet machine was watched with great interest by French aeronauts, who, with the aid of ...

... The return of the bright lights to London after an absence of ten years provided a free show which Londoners were not slow to appreciate, and the crowds in the West End during the first week-end in April were quite the biggest seen since the end of the war. The week-end before last, which brought tens of thousands of Scots to Wembley for the International football match, resulted in more big ...