The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 6

0 00 INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS £64m A YEAR FROM FOREIGN PUPILS By JOHN IZBICKI, Education Correspondent INDEPENDENT schools, so detested by the Government, are earning more than £6,500,000 a year for Britain, it was disclosed yesterday. There are now more foreign pupils at public schools than before. The number of Americans attending the schools has leapt by 16 per cent. since last year- 577 in 1974 to 672 this year. In all, nearly 3,000 foreigners are now receiving a public who is in charge of the Isis school education.

statistics department, said that They include 1,203 Asian fees had increased by per and Arab pupils, 413 Africans, cent between last September 135 Australasians and 548 and last month. Average fees are now £1,351 a year for boardfrom Europe. ing schools. It is becoming clear that Americans in particular are creases have tended to Although boarding insending their children to British keep in with the nation's inflation public schools because they are rates, those day schools have becoming increasingly worried soared by per cent. They about the standards of education climbed from £492 last Septemin their own schools.

ber to £604 in January, to £663 Like British parents, they are in April. seeking schools which are not "The impact of higher salaries too big, have reasonable dis- paid to teachers under the cipline and make children work Houghton recommendations tohard." gether with inflation have hit Fr chairman day schools more than they have of the Headmasters' Conference, boarding schools," said Mr Donsaid yesterday: "Parents want ald Lindsay, director of Isis. schools which have an atmosphere. That is the word repeated again and again." No sign of decline Street, London, EC4P 4BL. headmaster of Highgate School, shown that, although total numGood value means much more at Currys The little things prove it These are only some of the wide range of smaller appliances on Currys shelves.

They're all very good quality at value for money prices. They're all fully guaranteed. Many are at special prices for a limited period. And if you change your mind within 7 days, your money is refunded under Currys 'buy and try' plan. Come to Currys where our friendly staff will give you all the help you need to make the right choice.

PHILISHAVE TOWER POPULAR COLOURED 90 SUPER KETTLE SHAVER 3 pint kettle with attractive polymer finish. Mains shaver with two rotary heads. Complete with travel pouch. RECOMMENDED PRICE £10-30 RECOMMENDED special price £750 SAVE £2-80 PRICE Currys special price £850 BRAUN £3-76 SYNCHRON PLUS Mains shaver with REMINGTON 3 ultra- -fast microslot Mains shaver foil-head, hair SELECTRO 3 cutting heads, selector trimmer, slim design dial for beard type. and presentation and presentation case case with mirror.

with mirror. RECOMMENDED PRICE Currys PRICE RECOMMENDED special price Currys £1395 special SAVE £4 price BRAUN 91199 SAVE £6-47 MINI KENWOOD COMBO SUNBEAM -SLICE TOASTER FOODMIXER 3-speed, mains powered mixer. MINI' Complete with bowl, and stand. RECOMMENDED PRICE £15-25 Currys special Takes up to four slices of price Browning control, chrome and £995 black RECOMMENDED finish. PRICE SAVE £5-30 Currys special price SAVE £7-60 SANKYO DIGITAL CLOCK CURRYS 16 Mains alarm clock with illuminated face.

Snooze alarm rings at set intervals to make sure you are HEATED HAIR awake. ROLLER SET CURRYS USUAL PRICE 16 rollers in Currys special price £885 three Made exclusively sizes.1 1 SAVE £1 for Currys by Carmen. Currys special 7 130 20 Sank yo DIE A GLO £850 All items subject to availability Currys 170 Good value means much more at Currys Surprisingly, the number of pupils at independent schools is showing no sign of a decline, according to the latest survey published yesterday by the Independent Schools Information Service (Isis). It claimed that there were now 297,698 pupils compared with 284,000 at this time last year. Previous surveys of the 1,024 schools that are members of Isis, included children in independent nursery schools, aged 4-plus.

The present survey is of secondary school children only. When adjustments have been made, the increase is about 2 per cent. Alfred Doulton, former The Daily Telegraph, Friday, May-30, 1975 STANDBY GENERATOR SETS Caterpillar Other Makes EX STOCK LUDLOW SALE HIRE--IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 45 2500 KVA New and Used. Larger on short delivery ex stock U.S.A. THE DIESEL GENERATING CO.

Burway, Ludlow. Ladlow 2101. Telex $5418. SUCCEED WITH GLASS FIBRE These easy- kits with full step by step instructions enable you to do extensive structural repairs of all kinds, holes in car bodies and boat hulls, heavily rusted water tanks; ISOPON guttering, etc. and P.38 Repair Paste ISOPON FROM YOUR MOTOR ACCESSORY AND HARDWARE STORES david's ISOPON USE STRYPIT The world's finest stripper for.

Paint, Cellulose, Emulsion, French Polish, Polyurethane, Lacquer, Varnish Stove Enamel Safe, quick and easy! From Halfords, paint, D.I.Y. and hardware stores. of over 100 D.1.Y. products, write to RUSTINS LTD WATERLOO RD LONDON NW2 MAP OF EUROPE In colour. Political map featuring roads and railways, air distances.

40" Through booksellers or 45p 55p by post from Dept. EM, Daily Telegraph, 135, Fleet bers are not falling by any means, some parents are beginning to, consider taking one or more children away from the schools. So far salaries have kept pace inflation, but fewer parents with at public schools will be able to afford the constant increase in fees -particularly at day schools. But places will be rapidly snapped up by parents who have been on waiting lists. EARN Parents' problem A father earning £6,000 a year, with one child at a day school charging the average £663, plus extras and fares, could longer afford to send his seoond child to such a school.

By September, fees at boarding schools will be about £1.400 and by this time next vear, £1,750. In order to be able to afford the additional £350 between September and April next near, the father would have to be given a salary increase of £600 a year. If fees rise by 20 per salary increases ranging from 30 per cent. to 40 per cent. would have to be obtained in order merely to stand still financially.

Turning for help According to Mr Barry Schreiber, director of C. Howard and Partners, a firm specialising in public school fee insurance schemes, those on his lists earning on average £10,500 a year are accountants, medical men, civil servants, including local government officers, and top salesmen. Parents are having to turn increasingly to their own parents for financial help fees. The £1,000 a ay year exemption girth scheme is turning out to be a useful asset in such cases. OAK CUPBOARD SOLD FOR By Our Art Sales Correspondent A MORNING and afternoon sale of furniture, pewter, totalled £41,403 at Christie's yesterday.

A private. buyer gave for an oak cupboard, and a Charles II walnut gateleg table obtained (Littlecote Antiques). In the afternoon session, the Charles G. Shaw collection of tobacconists' figures and related material brought in £14.168. The earliest of these carved wood figures, which were placed outside tobacconists' shops from the 17th century onwards, are black boys or blackamoors, and later there were also Highlanders and Turks.

Villager, a German cigar manufacturer, paid for a pair of black boys, 32 inches high and dating from about 1710 They have, tobacco headdresses and carry tobacco leaf rolls. Two other black boys, both dating from about 1780, went to. Oxberry for 580gns and to Reemstma, a Hamburg tobacco manufacturer, for 560gns. Two, inches Highlanders, high, both 46 dating inches from about 1740, were also acquired by Reemstma, for 500gns each. SILVER SALE £1,700 for tankard Sotheby's silver sale realised £42,129.

H. R. Jessop gave £1,700 for a James II tankard, 22 ounces 11 dwt, and a Charles II tankard. 21 ounces 12 dwt, fetched £980 (Koopman). The foreign silver included an 18th Century Dutch table 10 ounces 2 dwt, sold for £950 and also acquired by Koopman.

Old Master drawings Sotheby's sale of Old Master drawings brought in £24,477. A gouache of a river landscape by Hackert, 1768, was bought anon. for £680. THAMES GATE STEEL TO BE IMPORTED By Our City Staff The Steel Corporation, which faces a loss of £375 million this year, has lost an order for 1,800 tons of steel for the Thames flood barrier gates because it cannot meet delivery dates, despite being desparately short of work. The steel for the gates, worth £300,000, will now be imported.

66 The total steel involved in the gates will be 14,000 tons," a spokesman for the Corporation said last night. There will be 10,000 tons for the gates to be built by Cleveland Bridge. The position is that our General Steels Division has had to tell Cleveland Bridge that cannot meet their immediate requirement for plate. We have a fairly full order for plate, sO Cleveland will import 1,800 tons, but will get the rest from British Steel." HIGH ALUMINA CEMENT RISK LIMITED By, Roof Our beams Science made Correspondent alumina cement may have an unacceptable risk of collapse, a report by the Building Research Station said yesterday. But where the cement was used in flooring, buildings were relatively safe.

The findings. are based on tests on 200 beams. The report was commissioned by the Environment Department last July following the collapse of roof beams over the swimming pool at Sir John Cass's Secondary School, Stepney. (High Alumina Cement Concrete in Buildings. Building Research Station.

Garston, Watford WD2 7JR.) DICE PICTURE: KENNETH MASON Sign here Brig. Roy Redgrave, Commandant of AID FOR the Royal Armoured Corps Centre at Bovington, LONELY REJECTED By JOHN GRIGSBY Local Government Correspondent THE LONDON BOROUGH where the bodies of two pensioners lay undiscovered for seven or eight months recently turned down a request from voluntary workers for the names of people who might be in a similar situation. A community group wanted to run a good neighbours scheme and call regularly on lonely single people, particularly pensioners. But Hackney Borough Council said that to give the names would have breached the confidentiality between the social services department and its clients. council also feared it might be liable for insurance claims if one of the volunteers was injured while visiting.

Nobody called The council has started an inquiry to find out why the body of 66 Mr Richard Miller lay undiscovered at his council home in Evering Road, Stoke Newington. It will concentrate on why nobody called on Mr Miller about his rent arrears. Hackney council has no rent collectors and rents are collected either by Giro or at three rent offices. Rent collectors were withdrawn after attacks and muggings. Last week.

the St Pancras coroner described a 62-year-old woman, also found after seven months. of Fields Estate, Landsdowne Drive, as just a cypher addressed by computers. PIG DISEASE Ministry last night. One of the advantages of this disguised as tourists. ing drive.

PRICE FOR PRICE cbm CALCULATORS FUNCTION BY FUNCTION COMPARE com The Per Performers ers AT FULL PRICE THESE CALCULATORS GIVE YOU MORE GENUINE PERFORMANCE FOR EVERY PENNY YOU SPEND The new low-priced CBM calculator range costs less that's CBM research and development in action; backed by because of radical new MOS (Metal Oxide semi-conductor) the experience of over 7 million -wide sales of technology. Performance goes up as prices come calculators made by CBM in Britain, U.S.A. and Japan. CUSTOM FINGERTIP RECHARGEABLE GREEN LINE MASTER PERCENTER Easy-strike large keys Pocket-size calculator with memory facility and that gives you direct 8427556 green display readable access percentages. even in sunlight.

Price includes recharger. cbm GL976MR cbm385R 7 9 Memory store ON 060 8 digit display 6 Live percentage key Live 4 5 ANTI- Floating -GLARE decimal 7 digit 460 Full floating percentage decimal key Automatic constant a 3 display Rechargeable 000 Rechargeable 0 RECHARGEABLE 00 RECHARGEABLE com (plus £1.36 VAT) plus f1.12 VAT) inc. Recharger inc. Recharger. All machines carry a full -year Guarantee.

CBM Calculators can be found in most good stores i.e. CURRYS, LEWIS'S, MEMORY VALUE DEREK GARDNER, DEBENHAMS, BOOTS, HARRODS, Memory percentage STONE, LASKYS, SELFRIDGES, calculator for only SUSSEX GUILDFORD CALCULATORS, £7.99 inc. VAT LANDAU RADIO, METYCLEAN, MARBLE ARCH. 2948613 cbm 776MD 'To: CBM BUSINESS MACHINES com Live percentage key EAGLESCLIFF INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, Memory store FREEPOST, (No Stamp Required) decimal STOCKTON-ON-TEES, CLEVELAND.TS16 0BR. Floating 7 digit display Please send me 9 operated 976MR CALCULATOR(S) at £18.31 each inc.

VAT 385R CALCULATOR(S) at £15.07 each inc. VAT 4 776MD CALCULATOR (S) at £7,99 each inc. VAT 3 1 enclose being full payment, or charge me through my CREDIT CARD. 000 ACCESS BARCLAY ACCOUNT NO. ACCOUNT NO.

(Plus 59p VAT) Mains Adaptor DINER'S ACCOUNT 12.50 extra 20p VAT NAME cbm: Business Eaglescliff Machines Industrial Estate, FREEPOST, ADDRESS Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, TS16 0BR. The company you can count on, count on, count SIGNATURE DT1114 VAT No. 207-593-164 Registered in Englarid. Reg. No.

956774 outbreak of swine vesicular disease was confirmed at Bradenstoke, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, by the Agriculture France to kill 2m hens in egg glut By GODFREY BROWN Agricultural Correspondent TWO million be slaughtered by the French reduce the egg glut which British farmers claim is forcing them out of business. Peart, Agriculture Minister, has been accused by M. Christian Bonnet, his French counterpart that the slaughter would begin next week. Peart said the slaughter should reduce pressure on egg markets in the EEC, including our own. Major Barry Webster, leader of the militant egg farmers, said: 66 It seems to me he is trying to fob us off to get through the referendum." Mr Don chairman of the Farmers' Union French scheme should poultry he committee, said the lead to more stable market was therefore welcome.

66 We hope problems there to will delay be no the last scheme." Immediate action wanted Mr Bernard Mallett, chief executive of the Eggs Authority, said promised the hen killing start in midFrencha April. In fact exports increased in April by well over 36 million eggs. 6 6 We are now told it is going to start next week. In the meantime our producers, have suffered further drastic losses. Quite frankly, we want to see some immediate action." Mr Peart said prices were at satisfactory levels in April, when imports were also high.

This month price has fallen, even though the volume of imports Mr had Frank also droppedarketing director of the country's largest egg marketing organisation, said Mr Peart was just sticking his head in the sand. 66 He doesn't want to rock the boat before the referendum." INDIAN NAVY Dorset, accepting a World War I tank yesterday for the centre's Tank Museum from Capt. Michael Mansergh, commanding MS Excellent establishment at Whale Island, Portsmouth. The 1917 model--the oldest working tank of the Great War -had been presented to Excellent in 1919, and has undergone three years of restoration work. On top of these fees, one would have to add a number of such as lunches (at day schools), music tuition, excursions and books.

The cost of books often adds about £30 a year to hills and music lessons another £45. Mr said that he been staggered to be told had the past six months that parents had not been seriously affected by the increase in He said that in two years the situation might have altered. But present, schools were doing their best not to increase fees more than necessary. At least one had appointed a 66 business manager to rent out its premises during holidays. My own investigation into the position of public schools has Cost of extras West's defence 'must be integrated' By Brig.

W. F. K. THOMPSON, Defence Correspondent of the matters on which Nato Defence Ministers expressed particular concern at their ONE recent meeting in Brussels was the difficulty of getting over to the public the scope and nature of the Russian military build-up and its implied threat to Western Europe. In this times they felt that handi- were at unduly capped by military security restrictions imposed to sources of intelligence.

One means by which the public can better informed an authoritative publication by the Institute for the Study of Conflict, New Dimensions of Security in sale. Nature of threat The report the nature of the thanalysthe vulnerability of the West and suggests means by which this can be reduced. Subversion and terrorism are covered, as well as the overt The importance threeatly increased standardisation and military integration and specialisation among the Nato allies is underlined, as is the importance of the EE'C in making this possible. General Goodpaster, when he was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, expressed the opinion that complete standardisation in Nato forces would increase their overall effectiveness by one third. lucid publication, for the layman seeking information, are the charts that make clear comparisons between Warsaw Pact and Nato ground forces, country by country, in the Central European area which is the subject of the negotiations on mutual and balanced force reductions.

The Nato Military Committee last week expressed concern to the Nato Defence Ministers meeting in the Defence Policy Committee at the shortening of conscript service for which they believe 18 months to be a minimum. All Nato conscript forces in central and northern Europe now do lesser periods. The Institute reports usefully, and unusually has a chart showing the of conscript service of Nato member and the very much longer periods of the various members of the Warsaw Pact. Dimensions of Security in Europe ISC. 17 Northumberland Ave, London W.C.

2N 5B.J. £3 50. TOURIST TRAP More than 600 passengers were delayed at Luton Airport last night when Italian police closed Milan Airport following a bank raid. It was feared the raiders would attempt to escape PRESSES FOR HARRIER JET By Our New Delhi Correspondent The Indian Navy is to renew efforts to get the British vertical take-off Harrier aircraft in spite of its relatively heavier costs and stiff payment terms set by Whitehall. The decision to press for the Harrier follows a full review of the Navy's needs after the events in South East Asia.

It also backs up an earlier decision to retain India's only airand refitted Vikrant active craft carrier the British service. The Vikrant needs the Harrier for sea reconnaisance, strike submarine operations and COURT MARTIAL The magistrates court at Ilkeston, Derbys adjourned early yesterday when the band of the 1st Bn, Worcester and Sherwood Foresters. started playing outside support of a.