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Birmingham Gazette. Monday, February 27. 1956 Pap Times SKIERS OUT IN MRS- SQUIRES SAILS TO MARRY IN U.S. PUPILS PUT ON PANTOMIME ROBBERY CHARGE wkares. ueep found a diamond and emerald watch.

Now he will receive a £25 reward from Mrs. G. 0. Lawton, 01 Woodville. Burton.

had lost the iAatch. Mr. Eeman, a 66 year old Londoner. has worked out many of his methods by watching animals at the 700. He asked a volunteer City Notes by Our City Editor Sales or turnover tax? WOULD it be better to making a total of 17 per Net profits rose on the year from the same rate cent.

for year, supersede purchase tax £169.095 to £.200.000, and the 20 as for 1954. by a sales or turnover tax per cent. ordinary dividend was The pending issue is one-for-one paid out of net earnings equal to Mr. lames P. Philipps.

chairman at par After that there is to nearly 88 per cent. of Ilford Ltd. (manufacturers of be a free scrip issue of one-for- The newmoney is needed to photographic plates, papers and two, finance increased factory space and films and one of the largest ex- new machinery for the introduction porters). th.nks it would. THE rights issue fore- of new models.

This is his argument: Mr. But- shadowed by the chairman of mingham, is one of the oldest ESLEY AND SCOTT, of Birler, while Chancellor of the Ex- Villiers Engineering last November chequer, spoke of the possibility of is now fixed at one new ss. share businesses in the country. converting purchase tax into a at 12s. for every three held on sales or turnover tax.

February 24. It was formed in 1790 and be" I feel it would be an admirable Provisio nal allotme nt letters will came a public company in 1897, its name being changed to the present thing if the present Chancellor be posted next Monday. This Wolverhampton company, were to follow this and title in 1906. at the same time make the tax The business is that of general under the a i manshipof Mr. more broadly based on a wider r.

H.F arrer, makesinternalcorn- arrer. range of goods at a low figure.revolvers, air-pistols and aircraft bustion engines, free wheels. rnag" This would have less distort-components. netos, carburettors and has ing ff ect than the present discri- a wholly owned Australian sub-Earnings have been progressive minatory system. with its complex many years, though for 1955 the sioiary.

definitions and classifications.preliminary figures show a small The price of existing ss.shares When the product of an in- andustry is in good demand and is about igs. and on that basis Profit. after taxation, is va ue of the rights "is ls. there is clearly a good case for nnounced at 01.581, compared with a share. £55.099 for 1954 and £45,048 for expanding production to meet a The climate for new issues, how- 1953.

public need, too often official action has been to increase the ey.er, has been changed by the latest The dividend on the ss. ordinary deflation measures. tax to check the growth of the i shares is maintained at 10 per cent. The company 's year ends with backdustry concerned and to frustrate and calls for 03.002. so the and for 1954,55 a record turn i ng is very adequate.

the satisfaction of an economic July. ing is very adequate. over was achieved. but the profit Mr. J.

D. Johnson has been ratio turnover was reduced because Cony ersely, successful cases appointed a director of the Tube have been pressed for reduction of much of the increased cost of Ins estments subsidiary. Simplex materials and wages was not passed Electric Company. of Oldbury. and tax in the case of industries where on to customers.

Blythe Bridge. Staffordshire. He demand was failing. "In a free and flexible economy will continue as commercial such dS need here, this sort of Notes for the manager. Simplex division.

discrimination is economic non- Gloucester Railway Carriage 6e. Expanding industries Investor and Wagon: Interim dividend 6 per should he allowed to expand and cent. (5 per contracting industries to contract. Ido not believe that any THIS COMPANY'S SHARES Chancellor or Treasury official can truly decide what is a luxury and what is not." ARE WORTH STUDYING I view of the recently announced proposed issue of new ordinary yea F.D. COMPANY have a capital and the statement that the All modest profits for 1955 will not be less than and in 51 19 5 4.

the directors of Wiliam oi Li'uv Breeden Inoldlngs) inform ordinary per cent. preference shares. shareholders that they are asking The company makes flotation the company's auditors to expediate gear for all types of aeroplanes. the audit of the accounts for the pneumatic dinghies. wind indicayear 1955 and so enable the tors.

and is also engaged in directors to publish the profit textile screen printing. figures for that year as soon as For 1954 the total paid on the possible. ordinary capital was 25 per In the meantime the directors and since then there has been a announce that, on the figures be- one-for-two free scrip issue in 2s. fore them, they propose to morn- ordinary shares. rip a one-formend a final dividend of 11 pet twenty in £1 per cent.

preference shares. For the year 1955, the interim dividend on the larger ordinary capital was 6 per ent. and, taking the conservative view that the final dividend is only 6 per the yield. with 4s, as the current price of the shares. is 6 per cent.

Last June the chairman said the order book was satisfactory and the board was confident that prospects remained favourable. The shares have not a wide market, especially in present conditions, but they appear to be worth attention. Marion Crawford and Malcolm Lamb were appearing in the pantomime Aladdin" gisen at the Birmingham and Midland Institute on Saturday by dancing pupils of Miss Daphne Glenn in aid of the R.S.P.C.A. Most of the players were pupils from Mars's (onsent High School. Principal girl and boy in Aladdin were Maureen Burnett.

of South Yardley (left). and Joyce Lacey, of Handsworth. Both are 17. Here is a newcomer to the Standard Motor Company's small-car range. It is a cut-price 10 h.p.

model named the "Family It joins the "Family Eight," the "Super Eight" and the "Super and it costs £614 17s. (including tax), which makes it £3l 10s. cheaper than the "Super Ten." The new model has the same specifications as the "Super Eight," The larger 948 c.c. engine gives a top speed of 68 m.p.h., with fuel consumption of 38 miles to 47 miles a gallon. The engine 323 b.h.p.

at 4.500 r.p.m. The car is equipped with tubeless tyres. As the pictures show, the fine lines of the other Standard models are preserved. The luggage behind the rear seats convenient to reach. Mr.

Blake remembered hotel staff THE maid. waitresses and the Deverells. Nailsworth. Gloucester- a i rs. Mari Miss chef at a Droitwich hotel hi who died last Autumn.

left Kld 1 were remembered by its former 5OO to Mrs Ethel Turner. for 36 Olive K. Harrison: lOO to owner. another waitress, Miss Ethel ears housemaid and waitress at Daniels: and £5O to Mr. Arthur In his £15,746 will 85-year-old Mr.

Arthur Blake, of The St Andrew's House Hotel; £BOO Griffiths, the chef. AFTER hearing a surprise witness for the prosecution, Walsall magistrates on Saturday committed men to Stafford Assizes on a charge of robbing a shopkeeper with violence. and other articles to the value of £l3O. They are also jointly accused of stealing a £6OO car from Sedgley. Leddington is further accused of breaking into a house at Sedgley and stealing items worth £9 Os.

6d. P.c. Mailings told the court that as soon as Tasker saw his mother he asked if she still had a cat. She replied that'he knew very well the cat had gone a long time ago, and Tasker said: "Oh, you don't understand what 1 want you to say." Opening the prosecution's case, Mr. E.

G. MacDennott, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, had said that hairs from three cats owned by Garbett had helped the police. The cats always slept on a busman's coat which was spread over a couch beneath the scullery window at Garbett's home." he said. "and the coat was consequently covered with cat hairs. "The attackers broke into the premises through the window, and they had to step on the couch to get into the room.

After Tasker had been interviewed by the police, the day following the attack, it was found that cat hairs on his shoes were identical with those on the coat." The witness, called after 21 other people had given evidence for the prosecution during the two and a half-day preliminary hearing, was P.c. Lrnest Mailings. SAW MOTHER He told the court that one of the accused men. who had seen his widowed mother at his own request while in cells at Walsall the previous day, had questioned her about the ownership of a cat. Earlier in the hearing the prosecution had said that cat hairs were vital clues The man who had the conversation with his mother was Ernest George Tasker (26).

of no fixed address. With Denis Leddington (28). also of fixed address, he was accused of robbing Alfred Garbett, of Burrowes Street. Walsalt. It is alleged that they stole £2O, a television set, 3.050 cigarettes AUSTIN COMMERCIAL VEHICLES SKIERS OUT PH puma.

gpvummucilip apirgainawr 4m 11IMINIAS OM moo This is the 4e: ta 4 A 4' 1 11 easy i opiolif 7, 4 .4,,.... 3, )4, k- 1, 111 oiligisv No mind to cry "Mush" to urge on South. He made a willing sledge dog towing his four-year-old mistress on Beacon Hill yesterday. 4 A 8 ilk A' oil 4 t- 4 4, .4 ,44 54 '0 .2 A A 4 611 9. 1..

44 0 A It may look uscoadoetabie. but it is another aid to relaxatiOn. 1 Legs up Bow-tied Mr. L. Leman, lecturer on relaxation, shows a is.

volunteer how to take it easy. ZOO ANIMALS GIVE AS ON HIM IDE 4, HOW TO. RELAX R. LEON EEMAN likes ima gine raising them. Then ne a I it rai a is ilem people to fall asleep fo you." while he is lecturing.

He even he said. taking hold of the man's takes his own beds to trouser turn-up. Both legs came up MOM encourage he demon- Mr. Eeman was assisting strafes the art of relaxation. onl on e.

en When we are working, we do Mr. Leman prepares another volunteer for healing" Four people slept during his visit not realise that we are so tensed r'' to Warwickshire beauty spot he explained. Sleepers joined by tape tied to the fingers pass their energy to one Edstone. a nature cure resort near "It is not hypnotism. It is the another, he saes.

Wootten Wawen on Saturday. opposite. Everything is done Mrs. Annie Squires (69), of te r' Others stayed awake and heard consciously." It Mr. Eeman advise how to con- What did members of the I 7 4.

serve energy by letting tension audience think of the demonstra- Elizabeth at Southampton as she looks at photographs of her snap. He says several doctors Lions' One said It seems per- 101 4" li back his claim to be an expert on fectly rational that we should re- childhood sweetheart, Mr. Nor- lax in the way that animals do 1. It i t. man Woodward (70), of Dor- 44 relaxation.

without carrying it to ridiculous cheerer, U.S., she Is going A TAPED lengths." 1 1 lir" to marry. Mr. Woodward will meet her aboard the liner at New Mr. Roland Dray, a keen skier, made the mast of the snow-covered Nerve su ff erers, businessmen Blind man queues .4 1 slopes the Uckey Hills Yesterday before the thaw set in. and elderly widows filed into the darkened room and, from comfort- lilifto4 s-4 9 able armchairs, watched the volun- for Cup ticket tier sleepers.

A 55-year-old blind man. Mr. 4. The sleepers were connected" Douglas Hutton. of Cumberland .4 by white tapes tied to their fingers.

Terrace. Sunderland. was among 4, 44 iip 00 0.0-'• gilt In that way they passed their the 10.000 Sunderland football fans energy to each other instead of it who queued yesterday outside the running to waste from the finger- Roker Park ground for tickets for tips. said Mr. Eeman.

the Newcastle-Sunderland F.A. a complete circuit like a Cup-tie on Saturday. series of batteries. One man can Said Mr. Hutton.

who has been 77 ''1 9 i pass on to the others the resistance blind for five years: "Although ') he may have to a disease from cannot see the game. I enjoy the wh: crowd ch he has st recovered." he atmosphere and there is said always someone beside me to tell me how the match is going." Mr. William Willox. the resort director aged 65 and not a bad advertisement who snored once Lucky drop 4 New Standard during the lecture, said: A very Surprise witness tells of talk in cell fine method of relaxation." The radiator dropped ff a lorry being driven near Burton-on-Trent Family Ten has He missed the man who was so by Mr. Thomas Hunt.

of Burton. tense that he lifted his legs un- Looking for it in the deep snow. rte TWO FOR TRIAL ON 1.4 tubeless tyres 1 4 :7 1 :47 4 4. 1 'llO A. 4 4.

1 4" .001 0 34 41 4110 SI Vtit 1 I 14p7 ii 1 4' 7t Principal girl and boy in Aladdin were Maureen Burnett. of pge space behind the rear seats South Yardley (left). and Joyce Lacey, of Handsworth. Both are 17. is ample and convenient to reach.

7. 41 44 111111111 1 4 4 "it e. 1, Ilk 0 0 .40 0. lir Manager Paul Itielberes at doe Ikkhilifire Orioles baseball teas gives his attention to a new as 1 Air Marshal Sir Isis Clummer. a Britain's Royal Air Force.

He was visiting Orioles' spring training camp at Scottsdale. Arizona. Sir John is on a tour of the United States. CWT. tio TONS eto Joint Distributors for Greater Birmingham EVANS KITCHEN LTD HURST STREET, BIRMINGHAM, 5 PATRICK MOTORS L' 479, BRISTOL.

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