... IN the next few days the coal industry will have been under nationalisation for three years; for it was on January 1, 1947, that the blue flag of the National Coal Board was first flown proudly at the masthead of every pit in the country with the excep tion of the 400 or 500 one-horse collieries which the Government did not think worth while commandeering. What is the record ot the National ...

... A NEW THEATRE FOR THE R.A.D.A. Sir Kenneth Barnes, Principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic I Art, discusses the model of the new stage with R.A.D.A. instructors Wilfrid Walter, Mary Phillips and Nell Carter. The new theatre, which will cost approximately £ ...

... BUSHMEN OF the barotse An Expedition to the Primitive Bow and Arrow Men Between the Zambesi and Mashi Rivers The Bushmen, the most primitive aboriginal race South Africa, were once the sole human inhabit^ of the southern part of the continent. Their southw j path has been traced along the eastern tablelands f the continent, and they appear to have brought ft,. North Africa, or even from Europe ...

... By Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Lyon SHOULD this heading catch the eye of the ski-ing enthusiast it will cause him no little horror and wonderment-- in fact, to spend a holiday in Switzerland in November at all would appear to be an act of lunacy, and yet I have rarely enjoyed twelve days abroad more than I did when I accompanied my friends of the British jumping team to Zurich and Geneva-- the two ...

... TRADE at the English Guernsey Cattle Society's Winter Sale at Reading was most satisfactory, 108 females making an average price of ^249 and 27 bulls reaching an average of £241. Highest price for females was 850 guineas, paid for Colonel the Hon. J. J. Astor's heifer Hever Mulberry 9th, and top priced bull was Mr. Vivian Cornelius's Erlwood Robert, born August 1948, by Malverley's Robert's ...

... The Distiller's Art How Real Scotch Whisky Is Made By David Innes WHY is an old Highland Malt Whisky so unique in its characteristics, and why, in this age of the chemist, cannot its subtle charm be copied? This last thought puzzled me when I was shown over a distillery by the brewer. It all seemed so simple: but such whisky does not come by the craft of a chemist but by the mysterious ...

... Other Cup and Championsh ip Winners THE Smithfield Show in its new setting was a success. Admittedly, in the vast air-conditioned Exhibition Hall of Earl's Court there was no tang of the farmyard to make the sensitive wrinkle their noses and the bucolic sniff with appreciation. Some regret the strong, murky atmosphere of the Agricultural Hall at Islington which so un mistakably brought the ...

... THIS was a great show for Chivers and Sons, _ of Histon, with their Middle Whites ar J Large Whites, both in pens of two and single pigs. It was their Large White which w is judged the supreme single pig and their pen if two Large Whites the best of all pens ov r 5 months. The Berkshire breed, too, were n the forefront with S. D. Player's pen the best- two of all under 5 months and with ...

... Onlt) 45 seconds to cross-cut 24 eUa.Oakj ft The demand for ultra high speed Tree felling and Cross-cutting is fulfilled by MeS CHAIN SAWI m TeLeS Chain Saws are made in many Writ today sires of maximum cutting-width, ranging from 2' 0 up to 7' 0*. and for are powered by petrol engines, ivji ucuaio electric motors or compressed air, Credit facilities can be arranged according to individual ...

... IT is claimed that the world's first ski-club was at Kiandra (4,606 ft.), in the Australian Alps, the highest and coldest township in, Australia. Kiandra to-day is a ghost town, with a few buildings and a chalet for skiers, but ninety years ago it was a gold-rush town, a tent city with thirty hotels. Heavy winter snow forced the diggers on to what they called snow shoes --not the racqiiet ...

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