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MEDICAL AND NURSING SUPERFLUOUS Hair acientiflcally destroyed by all Facial Blemishes consult Marion Dakin (orer 25 yrs. estab.) Room 9 City Chambers 319 Broad St. Phone Mid. 2981 Dentists Anto-clare Oren Opcra- tive to 1001b. steam temperature State 967 Post SITUATIONS VACANT oj the vacancies for women advertised in our columns relates to a woman between 18 and 40 inclusive unless such a woman (a) has living with her a child of hers under the age of 14, or (6) is registered under the Blind Persons Acts, or (c) has a Ministry of Labour permit to allow her to obtain employment by individual effort.

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3453. Coventry :52, Hertford St. 4708. Help yourself PART TIME ASSISTANTS are Required lor this easy form of Counter Service in LYONS TEA3HOP in BIRMINGHAM. Also STAFF TO CLEAN AND WASH UP.

Evening duties P-ia. Good wages, plus efficiency bonus and excellent staff meal facilities. Previous experience not necessary. Apply ANY DAY between 9 a.m.—4 p.m., 61. NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM.

CANTEEN MANAGER or MANAGERESS Required for Modern Factory Canteen at Engineering Works in Worcester. Catering for 100 dinners daily. Trolley services and teas. Must be fully experienced in works catering, staff control and food rationing Procedure. No week-end or night work.

Give nil details, age and experience, qualifications and salary 952, Post. ASSKTANT Analyst with exper. in analysis of plain alloy steels Sound technical traming essential pton giving age exper. approx, sal. reqd.

973 Post A. Modes Ltd. Req. immed. several capable Women exempt natl.

service with good clerical exper. Full-time positions Good sal Manager New at. C'sHEF 2nd good alt round live in or out for 112 Post CHIEF all-round single-handed good-class' trade perm, live in or Hotel Knowle 2488 COOK lat-class for all-ronnd hotel trade perm. comf. Hotel Knowfe 2488 COOK good plain Wtd.

private hotel light work for husband if reqd. High wages Good oil Hote4 Tewkesoury COWMAN Wtd. to look alter small herd of dafry cows at Hall Dairy buildings general work good Cottage nr. Burman Home Farm Swinferi Lichfield DRAPERY Experd. Saleswoman lor Hosiery A Glove Depta.

Good saL live Rightons (Evesham) Ltd. Manchester House Evesham Worcs. EXPERIENCED Marcel Waver Reqd. in Hairdressing Dept, over 45 yrs. or Staff Office between 9 10.30 any morning EXPERIENCED Women Clerks Reqd.

to train lor interesting key positions oyer 45 yrs. or Staff Office Lewis Ltd. between 9.0 A 10.30 any morning Experienced shorth. or copy Typist Reqd. urgently good prospects knowledge engnrg.

terms advantage Broad St. rHI4I Post EXPERIENCED Second Chef Reqd. for large city restaurant No evening work 4 no Sundays Excel, 982 Post EXPERIENCED Cutter with first-class exper. Reqd. for bespoke men and trade in well-estab.

984 Post FEMALE Reqd. tor central office Essential works Good postn. old-est. business Introductoryinstrnctlon will be given if 1096 Post GOODS Loader A Sack-Trucker Heqd. on nights heavy work Only conscientious workers need Arrow Deliveries Ltd.

Waterloo Rd. Vardley HEAD Foundry Foreman Wtd. by Ironfounders Dudley dist. to supervise the production of light A medium weight engrg. castings Vacancy offers excel, prospects to a fully experd.

man capable of planning A estimating from drawings obtaining good quality confidence stating sal. read. 959 Post INTELLIGENT Women with good presence Reqd. fo- sale of exclusive dress matenaii stating age A exper. 983 Post INTERESTING Positions for Girls 15-16 yrs.

in hairdressing StaH Office between 10.0 A 12.0 any morning INVOICE Clerk female Heqd. by large coy. Must be quick at figures able to type A willing to wort in after period of ing at head office nr, Box 315 Sells Ltd. Brettenham House Strand London W.C. 2 Ltd.

Req. experd. Saleamen for their Floor must be Staff Office OPPORTUNITY Occurs for a young discharged ex-Serviceman tingle as Clerk in country town Clerical exper. essential Suitable applicants will be idterviewed by appointment A travelling expenses fully J. M.

Stokes grower A merchant Evesham Worcs. PAINTING Supervisor thoroughly practical to supervise all types contracts knowledge of quantities A estimating an advantage refs. A expected C. Bryant A Son Ltd. Whitmore Rd.

Small Heath PART-TIME Lady Clerk Reqd. urgently by engrng. firm priority work Broad 142 Post PRODUCTION Controller Reqd. for engrng. works in Sth.

London manulctg. small machines aircraft components A assemblies About 500 employees on day A night shifts Exper. of mod. production methods essen. Sal.

offered according to qualifications should write to the Ministry of Labour A National Service Central (Technical A Scientific) Register Advertising Section Alexandra House Kingsway London w.C. 2 for the necassary forms which should be returned completed on or before 3rd April 1944 The Ref. No. 2070 XA must be quoted REPORTER Sen. verbatim specials descriptive lor old-estabd.

Weekly Permanency for suitable Stratford-on-Avon SENIOR Analyst experd. in analysis of minerals ferro-alloys A ferrous metals keen disciplinarian able to organise A supervise work of juniors area Good post-war giving age exper. A approx, sal. reqd. 972 Post SENIOR Comptometer Operator Reqd.

mast be exempt or over 41 giving age exper. 992 Post QTRONG Youth 16-l7 yrs. Reqd. for Re- morals Dept. Excel, training in trade will be Ltd.

Staff Office any morning. rpHE services of a gentleman of active nature A good edneation with the highest credentials is Reqd. for the war period afterwards to hold A extend the goodwill of a large organisation of repute with connections throughout Great Britain amongst engnrg. Applicants who can fulfil these requirements should reply with exper. age A sal.

reqd. to 810 Post Telephonist-receptionist tor manuftra. Stirchley 963 Poat THERE are pleasant light Cleaning JoOs in Dept, for Women StaH Office between 9 A 10.50 a.m. TTHERE are aplendld opportunities for careers A with a post-war future lor boys A girls to 17 yrs. with secondary school details will be given on application at StaH Office Ltd.

Applr 11.0 to 12.0 or 3.30 to 4.0 p.m. nnHERE is an Opening for a Boy 15-16 yrs. A secondary school education prefd. as a Jun. Clerk in Bank The position is progressive -W 986 Post Assistant male Reqd.

for A high-class retail shop capable of managing if necessary exper. in the trade essential in writing to Fredk. Wright Ltd. 8 Promenade Cheltenham TTY FIST Reqd. pref shorthand Broad St.

dist. A Govt work engrng. 140 Post occurs for a Gin bf good per- sonality A pref. of School Certificate standard in the Personnel Deph of large commercial concern The position has immediate interest A very definite prospects for an intelligent Post VITAITRESSES Reqd. full of part time In large city restaurant no Sun.

or evening work Good tips meals stating exper. A wages reqd. W987 Post ANTED Motor Drivers for publicity work long Ullenhall Henley-in- Arden tor Coal Depot Langley Green A vv Oldbury dist- Man over mil. age or exempt from mil. service State age A exper.

Ac -X 811 Pest YVTANTED fot mineral water factory Mixer vv mao used to machinery Perm, for good Swadlincote YOUTH An exceptional opportunity to learn very useful trade Ford Spare Parts Assistant Good pay splendid prospects for willing intelligent Motors Ltd. Main Ford Dealers Aston Rd. SITUATIONS WANTED BY A CCOUNTANT qualified experd. Seeks xA Engagement or dist. professional or business firm Part-time 314 Post ACCOUNTANT Secretary Office Manager 24 yrs.

sound commercial exper. all duties Seeks permanent Post with post-war prospects Capable organiser accustomed to staff control -M 317 Post CARETAKING offices or something similar or dist. services highest refs. 805 Post ENGINEER executive Exp. planning maintenance elect, plant installation Used control staff Highest technical quals.

808 Post Reqd. full or part time i.l welfare progress any responsibility extensive business entertainments A factory 815 Poat itrOEKS Manager M.X.P.E. age 42 available TT similar post or Production Manager factory 1,000 operatives conversant planning estimating rate-fixing jig A tool design Ac. toolroom graduate sheet metal specialist Min. sal.

285 Post DOMESTIC SITUATIONS VACANT UFFEUR-GARDENER Beqd. Children Hospital £4 by letter to House Governor COOK-HOUSEKEEPER Wtd. 1 Udy-Mrs. Lakm-Smith 48 Weitfleld Rd. £ag.

COOK-GENERAL Wtd. a In family hasten 118 Post TAOMESTIC Help Wtd. lor labour-Le countrj hse. off Coventry-Kemilworth rd full-time employed Good full parties. 8C 9810 Post DOMESTIC Help or Housemaid Wtd.

3 in tamil; no children cook kept Comfortable hse. good wages B'bam bns passes door-40 Streetly Lane Sutton Coldfield EtDERLY Cook-Housekeeper for elderly lady Good home wages country nr. 321 Post EXPERIENCED Person for household work or Working Housekeeper help for rough work no washing Wages £5 Beechwood Marlborough Avenue Bromsgrove Housekeeper i business lady mod. flat all duties no rough State 30 Ashleigh Rd. Solihull HOUSEMAID Wtd.

between 50 60 yrs. of age 1 in family cook kept Gool sal. A Miss Baker 25 West Hill Rd. Kind's Norton 30 ANNIE help mod. hse.

Good wages onti-s ings Phone Sutton Pilkmgton Sutl. Coldfld. DOMESTIC SITUATIONS WANTED C't ARDENER fully qualified Seeks Post bead 4" or single handed with modn. Cottage 2 children highest Interview State requirements 809 Post APARTMENTS IDIJIGTON Bupr. Purn.

Accom. soil business 119 Post APARTMENTS WANTED Gentleman Acoom. p.g. Sutton-Four Oakt 132 Post lADY Reqg. large or Flat lurn.

carpet curtains only no attendance No. 17 dist-M 308 Poet SEASIDE AND COUNTRY QUARTERS BLACKPOOL Why not try The Cambridge Hot-1 3. Shore? Every mod. convenience Reasonable charges good fare Book immed. for Easter Si later to avoid disappointment MONMOUTH Comfortable Brd-Hes.

or Bod A Breakfast at Moat Hse. At. James Bq. Easter onwards MONMOUTH comf. Brd -Res of Bed A fast at Bank House Wbitecross St.

Easter onwards RESTFUL surroundings family Res. det. or. sea Wales well fnm. fully appointed No linen available Any period eobiect prior 954 Post ST.

Annes-on-Sea Westlands Pvte. Hotel Long Week-end Easter 4gna. Jk A e. in all bedrooms THE BIR Birmingham fost AND JOURNAL Founded by John Frederick THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1944 The Building Programme Neither Mr. Wlllink, who yesterday opened a Parliamentary debate on housing, nor Mr.

Tom Johnston, who wound up the discussion, can be said very greatly to have enlarged the bounds of public knowledge. Freshest, no doubt, was Mr. reference to an extended scheme of post-war subsidies; though the necessity for such assistance must have been well-nigh universally foreseen, by builders, by local authorities and by the general public alike; and what little the Minister of Health vouchsafed to mention as to his intentions fell a long way short of what all parties concerned are still waiting (not without anxiety) to hear. Thus, we still lack information in regard to the character and extent of the financial aid which is to be given; we must still guess, if we can, what types of houses will and will not rank for subsidy; and while it is impossible to forget how large a proportion of all new house building between the wars was the result of unofficial private enterprise, nothing that was said would seem to indicate a Ministerial intention not to discriminate against the independent builder when this war comes to an end. Again, no further light was cast upon certain essential aspects of the long term the result that once again considerable Parliamentary impatience was displayed.

Still, we are bound to admit, ip simple justice to the Minister of Health, that not all the criticisms thrown at him on this score would seem to be completely justified. He has a two-year programme already, in some measure, in hand, and soon to be more actively advanced, when plant acquired for aerodrome construction purposes can be turned over to the preparation of land for building. It is with this programme that he is bound to be largely preoccupied; and tho main point he had to make was that in his view it can be regarded as practicable. We are afraid he will be found rather to have over-simplified some of the terms of his problem. For instance, it is good to know that local authorities are already in possession of 16,000 acres of land (roughly enough for nearly 200.000 houses) and are in process of acquiring 14,000 acres more; but when it comes to the point it will probably be found that some of the land acquired is not immediately required; that some which is wanted has not been included in the early that some local councils have been dilatory.

Besides there are areas in which everything must depend upon the future of new war emergency factories, as to which nothing is yet known. Incidentally, we are likely to find that some at least of the biggest building schemes relate to areas in which, on the showing of the Barlow report, building ought not to be encouraged, but rather deprecated. It is therefore only with a good deal of hesitation, if at all, that one can endorse Mr. obvious expectation; which is that while the two-year, house programme is being rapidly and smoothly carried into effect, decisions which in one way and another must vitally affect the operations of future years can be reached more less at leisure. It is upon the basis of such expectation that he is bound to work, no doufit.

But if he is to retain either Parliamentary or public goodwill he must at least begin to get his plans for the future into with no avoidable delay: and he must show that a good start has been made with the 300.000 houses perhaps onetenth of the number ultimately this moment in view. It will require the full strength of the post-war building trade to make a success even of his relatively modest two-year programme and, rightly or wrongly, he will be held responsible for every little hitch in its execution. Finnish Stockholm tells us this morning that the Finnish Parliament, after discussing armistice conditions in a long secret session, yesterday decided (by 160 votes to 40) to pass on to the next business. That means, in effect, that Parliament endorses the policy of marking time accepting nor refusing proposals. It may also register the strength in Parliament of elements suspicious of Russia; the fear of grave domestic disturbance, however decision goes; perhaps also some lack of contact between Parliament and the nation lack of contact for which, as the news shows, the present Government of Finland must be adjudged responsible.

Nobody in Great Britain or the United States is likely to underestimate difficulties. None the less, both Britain and the United States have made it quite plain that they regard terms as reasonable, even generous, and acceptance as highly desirable. For the rest, Helsinki ought to INGHAM POST, understand, by now, that terms are reasonable, even only because Moscow wants them accepted quickly. Inside Eussia, there is very strong resentment of the Finnish attack of 1941; very definite resolve that Finland shall never again be able to put Leningrad in jeopardy; and, above all, a great urge to end the war quickly. Probably main motive in offering Finland such good terms was desire either to get rid of or get at the dozen good German divisions in Finland, Every day of grace Helsinki has been given has been a day of grace also for these German day in which they could either go safely to other fronts; or, alternatively, settle down in Finland to stubborn defence.

There have been a dozen or more such days already; and Finland cannot complain if patience is near exhaustion. Clerks The administration, of justice appears likely to be strengthened if there is an adoption of the recommendations made by the Departmental Committee on Clerks, whose report was published as a White Paper last night. The Committee, over which Lord Roche presided, urges that all clerks should have a professional legal qualification. That should be a sme qua non, but, in actual practice, justices in many small towns are advised by part-time clerks who may or may not possess the legal capacity and experience for such an important position. No doubt the Committee had such persons in mind.

Nevertheless, the definition professional legal qualification requires clarifying. Up to the present, the appointment of clerk is held by a solicitor, a barrister who has been at the Bar for some six or more years, or a clerk with more than ten experience of the work. The clerk is often a trustworthy adviser with a wide knowledge of criminal jurisprudence, and it is doubtful whether the Committee wofild desire to lose the services of such an experienced person. But in making its recommendation it is looking to the future, and therefore may have solicitors or barristers in mind. Of equal interest is a recommendation that appointments of clerks, except in large boroughs, should be made, not by each petty sessional division but by a committee of the general body of justices in each administrative county.

The county also is brought into closer contact by the recommendation that separate Commissions of the Peace should be abolished in all towns with a population of less than 25,000. The Committee rounds off its recommendations with the interesting suggestion that the description, Police Court should be abolished in favour of the more suitable title, Courts of summary jurisdiction are not instruments of the police, and there is doubtless something in the suggestion that the change would helji to emphasise their independence. Art and the Horse The horse, our copybooks taught us when young, is a noble animal; but what most strongly impressed many of us as we grew up was the uncertainty of the speed over a given number of furlongs. Off the racecourse, the horse in our time has been in a decline, alike military and civil. True, the decline has been partially arrested by the exigencies of war, so that what the horse has lost on the cavalry swings it has made up on the roundabout.

If there were to be a revival of Mr. A. P. HerbertVDerby would not be likely to alter his line about the almost obsolete but charming horse. It has remained for the Royal Academy to overlook the obsolescence and succumb to the charm.

By its choice of Mr. J. Munnings as President, the Royal Academy has done the noble animal belated but 1 "ample justice. British art, it must be confessed, owed the horse some amends. Of some works of our painters and sculptors, who put the art before the horse, it might Se said, as of John Gilpin, that the horse never in that sort had handled been On the other hand, some of the most skilful painters of horses were beneath the notice of the Academy of their day.

artist primarily an animal painter has previously been President of the Royal Academy; Sir Edwin Landseer was elected in 1866, but turned the honour down. Mr. his at Epsom Downs in Birmingham Art not a portrayer of horses pure and simple; he holds the mirror up to gipsy nature and paints a pretty goat. But he is preeminently a horse master, the best living painter of Both Arab, racehorse, hunter, hack, And nags of low degree. Lovers of the horse will be glad that in the declining years of its popularity, when it is being (so to speak) skied on the roads, the Royal Academy has hung it on the line.

Fifty Viears Ago The Mikado of Japan has a mother-in-law, and that motherin-law was lately attacked by a serious illness. So grave were the symptoms, says the that 423 specialists were at once summoned to the sick lady's bedside. This, however, is not quite the right way of putting it. The doctors being so numerous the patient had to go to them, andalthough the case was not a surgical operating theatre of the largest hospital was selected as the only suitable arena for the united labour of the 423. It is not surprising to read that after the first hour she showed signs of the greatest exhaustion.

(The March 16, 1894.) HURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1944 LONDON LETTER 88, Fleet Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday Night The mission of Prince Stirbey as an unofficial representative of Roumania has received much attention; but the impression here is that nothing is likely to come of it immediately. Admittedly, he carries more weight than any of his countrymen who have attempted to take peace soundings among the Allies in recent months; and he has with him a seventy-four-year-old general, whose age does not prevent him from representing the Roumanian Youth Movement Yet, until the present military and political situation develops, it is difficult to see how Roumania can hope to escape from the position in which she finds herself. It would be a different matter if there were Allied troops on, or near, the Roumanian frontiers or even if Turkey Tvere a belligerent. There are not many German troops in Roumania at the moment, although strength may soon be increased by sections of rapidly retreating armies; but there are considerable numbers of Nazi S.S.

and police; and, in addition, there are probably about twelve Roumanian divisions accepting German orders. Their presence is enough to make it difficult tor Roumania to get out of the war, much as a majority of her people would like to do it. Housing Disappointments In housing debate in the House of Commons, the Minister of Health came under a sharp cross-fire of criticism. For this, he only himself and the Government of which he is a member to blame. The House looked for an elaboration of his statement of last week, on the immediate building plans after the cessation of hostilities; but Mr.

Willink had little to add to his qualified promise of 300,000 new houses in the first two years of peace. He had no indication to give of the long-term policy, no indication of its proposals regarding the acquisition of land, and no indication of its attitude to the Uthwatt, Scott and Barlow Reports without knowledge of which local authorities and others can scarcely proceed to formulate plans. The disappointment of Members was clearly shown in the debate that followed. From among the younger Unionist Members, Mr. Molson led the attack.

Sir Herbert Holdsworth was even more severe. He demanded that the Government shall make full use of private enterprise and the building societies, and not rely so much as the Minister seems to intend on the local authorities. The debate left a general feeling that the Government needs to think again, to think promptly, and produce something more far-reaching. Roumanian Peace Feelers on an international basis. The proposal is that each of the countries concerned shall have a holding in, and be represented on, the directorate of the venture.

It plans to take an active part in the building of air ports, the provision of equipment for night hying, and to operate some 800 aircraft on the various European routes. The concern intends to model itself to some extent on the International Sleeping-Car Company. The approval of the Governments of each of the twentyfour countries to he touched by the services will be necessary. Already some of them have been approached and applications for licences submitted. Civil Aviation Claims The call for definite plans for civil aviation after the war, heard in Parliamentary debate, is underlined by the activity of private interests.

Already, in the United States, there has been much stakingout of claims for participation in the opening of air routes after the war; and there are signs of a similar tendency here. I hear of the formation of a new company, with offices in London (ultimately to be transferred to Brussels as a central traffic point in European services), for the operation of air lines throughout Europe Russia and Italy In recognising the Badoglio Government without previous consultation, the Soviet Government has scarcely been courteous to its Allies; but nobody suggests that Russia has any ulterior motives. Representations have been made to Moscow on the subject; and) it seems clear that, although her action is a blow to democratic critics of the Badoglio Administration, and a set-back for its political opponents in Italy, Russia does not propose to send a representative with the status of an Ambassador or Minister. The purpose is to establish more direct contact with the existing Italian Government. Apparently, Moscow feels that, although there is a Russian member, the Allied Control Commission is primarily an Anglo- American affair; and Russia would like to have a more direct contact with developments in Italy.

The status of the representatives to be exchanged) has not yet been determined; and, so far, it is not clear whether they will be given diplomatic privileges. That is a point on which conversations are proceeding with the Soviet Government. A Year Over Europe The Americans have prepared, and H.M. Stationery Office to-day has published, the tTnited States Army Air official story of the Bth Bomber first year over Europe. as it is called, is an eighteen-penny booklet, lavishly illustrated; comparable with those that have told of the doings of the several R.A.F.

Commands. Under a unassuming title, it contains a stirring account of the application of the American idea of high-altitude, daylight precision bombing which, admittedly, was an experiment. The reader learns something of the anxiety with which the experiment was launched on August 17, 1942, with the railway marshalling yards at Rouen as the first objective. That test was passed without loss; and, from then on, the Bth Bomber Command grew in numbers, in experience and effectiveness. There have been doubts and delays and tragedies as well as triumphs; but, as the book says, the policy that brought the Bth Command into being has proved itself beyond all In a foreword.

General Arnold declares, Hiigh-altitude, daylight precision bombing has come through a period of doubt and experimentation, to triumph and vindication and of the book, Sir Archibald Sinclair, in a letter reproduced opposite the title-page, says: It is a brave story of brilliant organisatiorv and massive achievement, of gallant endeavour and epic City Boys Who Wish to Take Up Farming The national campaign to grow more food has fostered in many schoolboys in the big towns and cities a lively interest in agriculture and horticulture. In Birmingham, many schools have their own gardens, and the area of land under cultivation has increased considerably during the war. The girls keenness in their work on the land, and there have been extensions of their activities to include pursuits such as bee-keeping, poultry-keeping and pig-keeping. The local education authority gives every encouragement and assistance. Mr.

C. H. Dobinson, headmaster of King Grammar School, Five Ways, has now raised the question of Government financial assistance to city boys who wish to take up farming as a career but are unable to do so because their parents are not in a position to meet the cost of continued education at an agricultural college. Ministry of Agriculture scholarships at present are offered only to sons of agricultural workers or those similarly placed. The cost of a course at an agricultural college is not less than £lOO a year, and that means that city boys whose parents cannot afford such an amount are precluded from taking up agriculture as a livelihood.

A Cotswold Camp School Shortly before the war, farm buildings and land at Evenlode, in the Cotswolds, were bought by trustees financed by the King Foundation and used as a camp school by boys of the Five Ways, Aston and Camp Hill Grammar Schools. The camp school was opened in 1937, and Old Boys of the three schools supported the venture financially. At first the camp school was used for holiday periods only, but from March, 1939. regular parties were there in school time. A curriculum was drafted and an instructor appointed.

The experiment was well under way when war was declared and the school camp was taken over for other purposes. Five Ways Grammar School was evacuated to Monmouth, and agricultural interests have been developed there. The instructor was transferred from Evenlode to Monmouth, land was secured, and by March. 1940, the school had twentyone pigs, several dozen head of Need Financial Help to Obtain Necessary Education poultry, some geese and a goat. The land was cultivated.

A peace-time experiment at Evenlode was thus continued under war conditions. Mr. Dobinson told a Birmingham reporter that every year two or three boys at his school express a desire to go on the land. In asking that Government assistance should be forthcoming, he had in mind boys who might not have reached the high standard of winning a scholarship on the Higher School Certificate examination result. An experiment in establishing boarding schools in rural surroundings has been undertaken by Birmingham Education Committee.

At the beginning of the iwar, the National Camps Corporation had just completed a number of camps in various parts of the country. Eventually, the larger evacuation authorities were invited to take charge of them. Birmingham has for girls at and one for boys two miles from Rugeley and on the borders of Cannock Chase. The curriculum at the school for girls is that of a Birmingham senior school, widened by gardening, bee, poultry and rabbit keeping. At the school, all the normal school subjects of a senipr elementary school are taught, and, in addition, there are faftning interests.

LABOUR NEEDS RAILWAYS AND HOSPITALS WANT MANY WORKERS There have been two satisfactory labour developments in Birmingham recently. To the appeal for bus conductresses and to the appeal for evening workers in cafes there has been a good response. Serious needs, however, remain in the city. One is for railway workers. Porters, oilers and greasers, liueswomen, painters, carriage-cleaners, goods motor-drivers and enginecleaners are all wanted.

Hospitalsand sanatoria are also in need of helpers. Hospitals will generally taike domestic helpers at hours to suit the women who offer themselves. households are suffering hardship through lack of domestic help. There a heavy demand for cleaners, L'" or time, for factories, canteens and schools. British Restaurants ana day nurseries also need labour.

omen still are required for factory work of many One Labour Exchange in Birmingham has placed more than eighty disabled men in during the last month. Birmingham Grants Alderman Wilfrid Martineau, chairman of the Birmingham Education Committee, told a Post reporter that the attitude of the committee towards agricultural interests is indicated by the fact that estimates containing financial provision for certain aspects of the Evenlode experiment have been passed. The normal grants apply to students taking up agriculture as to anything else. I do not think it is generally recognised how wide are our recommendations for Of the schools at Hugeley, Aiderman Martineau said: are many city children who have been evacuated to the country, carrying on their school work and other additional interests in admirable surroundings. I am hoping that we may be able to carry on in peace time this most interesting experiment, which has arisen entirely out of the LATEST WILLS Onions, Miss Edith Anne, of Baysn-ater.

left £18,020 (net personalty £l7 986). Bequests included £3OO to Market Drayton Cottage Hospital. Woods, Mr. Courtenay, of Maidenhead, formerly organist and choirmaster of St. Alphege Church, Soilhull.

left £9,300 (net personalty Chellingworth, Mr. Samuel Shadrach, of Cheltenham, left £6,126 (net personalty Seccombe, Engineer Captain Arthur Eyre Smythe, R.N., retired, Shuthonger Manor, near lewkesburv, left £559 (net personalty £464). Maudslay, Squadron Leader Henry Eric, D.F.C., of Broadway, who died on war service, left £21,536. York, Miss Jane Anne, of Emberton, near Olney, left £17,631 (net personalty She left the residue of her estate among Northampton General Hospital, Buckinghamshire Association for the Blind, Waifs and Strays Society, the Church Missionary Society and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Charles, Miss Henrietta Bessie, of Bournemouth, left £5,745 (net personalty She bequeathed £lOO to Miss Society for Poor future of OU herds NEED TO production (By Our Agricultural What of Our Herd of a paper read before j'oi' Club by A.

T. of the facts of the eXIs ibib tie wide vision of future clear-cut realism a ds measures, the paper st ab 00 of most of what one re otb er stock policy. Above e' sideration, Mr. oC connection between fertility, on the ne the other, the plam fa sei flocks and herds are to i must furnish a profit 0 a 13 w. As ho saj's, you may bjn to grow this or that JivfL pelnug him to develop production is a niucn business.

jg fb His first major Ol increase livestock ju ifp; more cattle-feed, 0 implies greater gen, potash and at once raises the issue phosphate supplies, 0 national share after lie be not only less than jay. less than we are getting, is that we must aCO up deficiencies, returning 1 to the old cycle of to tread flO make the dung to give the straw for re cS McDougalj so Michael Graham in 3 i quoted here, that it JS we must look, rather sheep, as a fertility reminds us of a fact oti i that the "hills of Scotia tens of thousands pt before they became deer forests. Indeed, f' of Galloway alone animals a year canie fba 1 feeding-lands of Norfolk- thl allowed it. Now that 01l is normal, our outlooK been revolutionised; XSt ng ty tl.T imagination. One i more illuminating Hi 0 statistics' or whole be thesis.

One sixty-acre 1 ftetK sheep all summer, untn hro and 150 sheep right winter. Even this does p-JeO, whole tale, which is ca ijed when the ley is ug nourish the soil. Our trouble is that smarter at producing jr the animals that are ie ep' ment. Wo need more dairy cows and, above cattle, if both our rn, a and our diet are to be ol and we shall get them A they pay the producer a tj When people are say that about profits, a a salutary douche. Tm 1927-29 prices ns 100, ba 1 in 1942, and 350 in ro addition to the £3 an was 172.

Fat cattle obviously true that, on a good arable farm, j. fa' is doing well, the had a thin tiifie; an ost si unable, with wages an (l pt' jiresent level, to make prices only 34 per cent- slump level of every word when Mm it not for the planted lore of the -pjc 1 livestock, and did he 1 tila terms of money, there a cattle beast feeding 1 lic of England to-day. Tha be changed, and change The trouble, of course. 15 has set a limit to cycle for pig production at eighteen months, gi)t years, and for cattle and, whatever planning the scale on which that I succeed depends almost prices. last worth quoting in full: 0 1) guess and fear what position of Europe win gf comes.

Any shortage even vegetables, under tions, with such en 1 niy of power available, nc ed 1 porai-y. That is not products of livestock. 0 the children are Vitaminised enough. Where arc stocks to come from 1 be prepared to play how can we do it if tve grievously short? COURT AND PE M. J.

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rind 0. Flower 15 White: 19, 1 (i 5. Sinprles; 22, Begin. BROADCASTING FIXED POINTS IN THE RADIO PROGRAMMES In the last few years, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the war, the 8.8.C. programmes have made great progress.

The inevitable shortages of new material and bright ideas have not prevented the consolidation of a programme service that is much more tailored to suit the needs than the pre-war service with all its ramifications. The early morning programmes, for example, have filled a definite place in the routine of most households and breakfast-time music and early-morning news are as much an institution as toast and marmalade. Incidentally, I imagine tllat the frequent reminders about the passage of time will have had a noticeable effect on punctuality. The passer-by who was so punctual that you could set your watch by him was a rarity in pre-war days, but now the early morning parade is so regular in pattern that the watches in any neighbourhood could be set by any number of human time signals. Another war-time development that has attained a permanent place is the light entertainment on Sundays.

Few people remember what a dull day Sunday used to be, in spite of the fact that it was the one day of the week when most people could listen in comfort. Among the programmes that bear the manes of permanency I should list Trust. Some of the novelty of this dish of mental hors has worn off, but in spite of many shortcomings it retains its hold on its variegated public. I thought last effort under the chairmanship of Lord Elton was very dull. Not one of the team produced a dash of wit or a pinch of personality to season the concoction.

I see that, on March 21, Francis Meynell is to be the Question Master. His previous performance a few weeks ago raised a good deal of controversy, but I like his handling of the Brains batsmen and his assumption of the role of the howler for the home team. The following week Donald McCullough will take over the chairmanship, and Geoffrey Crowther will he a member of the Brains Trust. On April 4, however, this relationship will be reversed. Geoffrey Crowtner will be in the chair and Donald McCullough will sit at the table to help in answering questions.

Saturday Night Theatre is another feature that deserves its place in the permanent peace-time schedule. Some of the more stagey plays creak very badly before the microphone; hut that could not be said of Poison broadcast on Saturday. The adaptation had been so skilfully contrived that the play might have been written for the radio medium. At the outset of the new Forces programme, I thought J. B.

variety magazine, was a likely candidate for perpetuity. Further acquaintance, however, has proved disappointing. Mr. Priestley announced last week that he would no longer present the feature, but he did not state whether he would continue to contribute. The Black Country The Black Country will be the subject of the Transatlantic Call programme on March 19 in the Homo Service and on the Columbia in North America.

The script has been written by Harold Small and Edward Livesey. Mr. Small is an authority on Black Country dialect, wrote radio The Nailers and The New Hoad and arranged the first continental exchange broadcast of singing games between Claverley and Marburg before the war. Mr. Livesey, Midland Features Producer, wrote The White Country programme about the Potteries, and has recently written and produced programmes about Shropshire and Herefordshire.

F. B. PROBLEMS OF MOSELEY HALL HOSPITAL MORE VOLUNTARY SUPPORT ASKED FOR The Lord Mayor presided at annual meeting yesterday of Moseley Hall Convalescent Hospital for Children. It was reported that although there had been an increase in income during the year there was a deficit of £527. This was attributable largely to the increase in paid to the nursing staff.

There is a long waiting list for admission to the nospital, but it is felt that it is not possible to reopen wards at present not being used. A strong appeal was made for more voluntary support, and thanks were e-pressed to Birmingham Hospitals Contributory Association for its aid. Officers appointed were: Mr. W. A.

Cadbury president; Mr. H. J. Humphries, treasurer; Dr. E.

H. Fennesfey, medical officer; Mr. W. H. Coley, secretary; and Messrs.

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