Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 27

Plenty of but no one to give it to Staff at Whiston's new Citizens Advice Bureau are spending most of their working hours on their own. Since opening in Januery, only 63 people have visited the offices at Whiston Community Centre, for advice. And organiser, Mrs. M. Simm, says that on many occasions, the two voluntary workers who sit-in at the twice weekly sessions do not speak to a single member of the public.

"I just cannot understand it," she said. Records suggest that the reason behind the low numbers is not that people from Whiston do not have any problems, hundreds of people from the area have visited bureaux in Prescot and Huyton. Mrs. Simm added: "Obviously there is a need for a bureau in Whiston. Maybe people just don't know we are here, and call in at the others while they shopping.

Now we are going to carry on in the hope that things will look up in the future." Girl was injured in assault A quarrel between as Old Swan man and his girlfriend led to his appearance before Liverpool magistrates. James John Mullady, aged 22, of Ronald Street, Old Swan, pleaded guilty to assaulting 18-year-old. Susan Fong, causing her bodily harm. Mr. lan Davies.

prosecuting, said the couple were living together and at 8.20 a.m. during a quarrel. Mullady punched and kicked the girl, who sustained severe bruising to her right thigh and back. He was fined £5O. More than 19 people were at a charity evening at Kirkby Liberal Club which raised 05 for Kirkby Sea Cadets Unit based in Holt Way, vale.

Said one of the organisers: Many club members have had a member of their family in the Sea Cadets at one time or another, so we feel a certain closeness to them. The unit is largely maintained by voluntary subscriptions, so we held the show to help them out." Councillor Val Crowley is pictured presenting Lieutenant Joe Boylan, Commanding Officer of the Kirkby Sea Cadet Unit, with a cheque. With them are officers from the Unit and members of the Whitefield Liberals Organising Committee. HELPING HAND YATES IS THE NAME WE ARE looking for relatives of the late Mr. Arthur Yates.

All we know about him is that he lived in Liverpool, fought in the Boer War, had a sister named Alice. and died in 1947. The inquiry comes from a member of the family, Mrs. D. L.

Forth, who lives in Beaumont, Texas, and would like to contact her relatives in Liverpool. We will give her full address to any member of this particular Yates family. To Help You to "MAKE ENDS MEET" Whole Head Permanent Wave for £4.00 Available Alt Day Wed. and Saturday afterneen. HI I LL 9 SALONS 98 Rohl Street.

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Crosby. Neswall. Naston. Itrenton, Upton (Wirre. heading here Soccer-crazy youngsters from Sweden will travel to this country next year for a week-long training session.

Weather conditions are often so bad in their country, just before the start of the season, that amateur clubs are prepared to travel abroad to get same practice. Normally, they head for London, but next year several sides want to travel to the North West and Merseyside in particular. Knowsley Council has already been approached to provide grassed pitches. And the borough's Director of Leisure, Mr. Alan Pearson, said: "They insist on having a ground right next to their hotel.

And the Golden Eagle in Kirkby seems ideal. It By John Toker sounds strange for a team to travel 800 miles, but apparently they have been doing it for several years." Mr. Adrian Grubb. sales manager for the firm which owns the Golden Eagle, said: "Soccer fans in Scandinavia say that Liverpool is title Mecca for football in Europe. "They are willing to travel over just so they can practise on decent pitches.

We have already sent details of our hotel in Kirkby and the club seem most enthusiastic." The teams usually travel to England during February and March. Mr. Pearson said: "Now that they are breaking away from London, we will give them a good time up here. We are even hoping to arrange visits to Anfield and Goodison, for them." The ages of the players vary from 13 years to 20. ACCUSED OF GIN OFFENCE A Rainhill man charged with dishonestly handling stolen gin in London was given bail until December 13, when he appeared on remand at Highbury Court, North London.

Michael Kay, aged 31, a labourer, of Rainhill Road, is charged with dishonetsly receiving aquantity of stolen gin, on or about November 10. He had previously been remanded in custody but was given his own £5OO bail with asurity of £5OO. you find COINS OF VALUE AN ORMSKIRK reader asks the value of two halfsovereigns, one of George IV dated 1824, and the other a Victoria of 1879. Both, he says. are in mint condition.

If they are in the condition he says the George IV half-sovereign is quite valuable £3OO in uncirculated condition. If it is worn. it is worth between £55, and £2OO, depending on the degree of wear. The Victorian coin is not so valuable, between £6O and 9 0 uncirculated. according to the die, and between £2O and £55 if showing signs of use.

TAUBER RECORDS? IN THE unlikely event of anyone having unwanted Richard Tauber records. we know of a housebound pencioner. aged 76, who would be grateful for them. He did have his own collection, but they were destroyed by a fire at his home, and he is not finding replacements as easy to acquire as he thought. "Every Richard Tauber record hold a memory for me, as records so often do for so many people," he says.

Can anyone help him? A former nursing sister at Burtonwood now living in Tucson. Arizona. is looking for a copy of the war book. The Wooden Boxes," by Derrick Kinne, published in 19,55. but now out of print.

Would anyone be willing to part with a copy? it hard pay the rent THE DEPARTMENT of the Environment estimate, that about 200,000 private tenants are losing money by not claiming rent allowances. And, they say, rent allowances are going up this month, which means that many more people will become eligible for them. The Department believes that either people think they earn too much to get a rebate, or too many tenants do not know, about the allowances. The fact is that in some cases a family earning £75 a week or more can claim, no matter how high or low their rent is. Aq other examples, a couple or single parent with two dependent children, with a weekly income of £4O and rent (not including rates) of £5 a week could get all the rent paid; a couple without children, an income of £5O a week and rent (without rates) of £6 could claim £1.26 allowance each week.

Single people with no families can also claim. Finding out about rent allowances is simple, and allowance is strictly between the tenant and the council. and the landlord need never know. The scheme is straightforward, and the best way of finding out about it is to inquire at the local rent allowance office. There is nothing to lose, and there is a good chance of getting the amount of rent you have to pay yourself reduced.

There is a similar scheme for council house tenants, and to help with rates. More detailed information can be obtained from a new rent allowance leaflet which describes who qualifies for the allowance, and gives an easy-to-follow table for working out how much allowance can be got. The leaflet is available from council offices. libraries, citizen's advice bureaux, rent offices and housing aid centres. CASH GIFT TO A SON "I AM unemployed and receiving Supplementary Benefit." writes a Wirral reader.

"As I don't want my son to experience the difficulties and trials and tribulations I have had. I wish to sell my present home, move into a cheaper one and give the resulting cash surplus to him as a nest egg. hands it over to his son, the question of benefit might well be reviewed. Before he makes any move. he should go to his local office of the Department of Health and Sodal Security, ask for a confidential interview, and talk things over.

"Will this disqualify me from future benefit?" If the gift to the son is likely to be in the region of £lOO or so, the Department may well take a sympathetic view. This is a matter for individual negotiation and it depends largely on how much money is involved. If it is a great deal more they will prob- ably take a dim view and stop Supplemen tarn Benefit, because they have to remem- Anyone receiving Supplementary Bene- ber that they are paying out taxpayers' fit can have savings of up to 0.200 before the benefit is affected, and it the surplus money and it would not be fair to allow cash after the transaction brings our our reader to make a large cash gift to his reader's capital above this sum before he son at the expense of taxpayers as a whole. SCHOOL DINNER LADIES TO STRIKE Soccer-mad and If to Guitarists stole from drummer Two guitarists appeared in court at St. Helens following the theft of musical instruments belonging to another member of their group.

Dennis Hayes, 31, of Dean Close, Billinge, was charged with stealing a £173 drum kit from Edward Goldsack. Graham Jackson, 29, of Beth Avenue, St. Helens, faced a charge of receiving the instruments knowing they had been stolen. Both pleaded guilty to the charges, were given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £B6 compensation each. Driver fined Wirral magistrates at Birkenhead imposed a £4o fine on Kenneth Houghton, aged 45, of Violet Road, Birkenhead.

who admitted driving a car without due care at the junction of Upton Road and Heather Brow on June 2. Conducted by Neil William The late ing ladii A Fair at St. Jude's Church, in ('antril Farm, has raised ver £2OO towards church funds. Pictured (left to right) are some of the helpers: Billy Kirby, Lorraine Driver, Marian Wainwright, Rose Williams and Betty Fell workil The be govei whi' whether support schools provide families normally meals. oblig thei served.

will for imt The Liverpool Echo, Wednesday, November 23, 1977 I. ir 4 A k. 0 ir 4 I 4411 1 4 of 4140 .4 .1 4 1r i 4 1---- 77 7 Alt es.thee '4O i Atift i 4 4 0 1 f. 1 1 't, 46 -46 Ilik A .4 7,.: Atk, 'i I' illr. 4 il of ill 4 lES TO STRIKE Dance to A boost ...4 si IN CII Row.

fund r. 4 Knowsley's Silver Jubilee Appeal Committee is plan- ning to charge £4.50 a Li KNOWSLEY'S school-dinner ladies are to hold a one-day LI head for tickets for a New A )ken strike, on Friday, as part of a dispute over cuts in thei r. Year's Eve dance, despite 7PI poor attendances at lower- working hours. priced events earlier in the ju year. The strikers are mem- By Mark Thomas go back to the situation The committee hopes to 4 of the N.U.P.E local before the latest cuts while PP, sell 400 tickets for the on, we negotiate how great ivernment nion, and The council says it has they should be." dance which is to be held Nile it is not certain reduced hours to fit in She says that if this at the Huyton Suite.

hether non-members will with take further strike does not happen the union Ippon their action, many guidelines over the amount A spokesman for the ..1 will be unable to to be spent for every meal may committee said: "We are 4 action: "But we will still ovide a meal on Friday. needed, and points out confident of a large turn- .4 give schools 24 hours It will hit hardest those that in a sixth of the notice so that parents can out for the dance. Other tj, milies whose children borough's schools it has be informed," she saicL functions during Jubilee irmally get free school increased the working Year have not been very As eajs. The council is only hours. well attended but we think iliged in law to provide Borough Ed cation that could well have been eir meals free when Officer Mr Peter Neafsey NEW FIRM because they dashed with Tved." so that families has written to the kitchen other events and holidays." -6.

ill have to pay for food staff of the schools with MOVES IN The dance is one of the meals without re- advice on how those still final three events being ibursement. working should deal with A newly-formed com- planned to boost Knows- The dispute is over the the strike so that as many pany. S.P.R. Chemicals, of ley's contribution to the test review of the work- meals as possible can be Bradford, has moved into a Jubilee Appeal from its Al hours of the dinner served and there will not 5.400 sq. ft.

factory on the present £4,000 to over dies. They say that cuts be too much food wasted. Knowsley industrial estate £5,000. Another dance is to hours have gone too far, Mrs. Lily Toner, spokes- and expects to employ 20 be hell at the Huyton 1, Id want the hours man for the strikers, said: people when fully occupa- Suite next February and a 'stored to what they were "We are not saying there tional.

The firm spetialises sports-fashion show is to fore, while th cannot be any reductions in the removal of enamel be held at Kirkby Sports tgotiate. in hours. We just want to and paints. Centre next March. 4., 4.4 2...

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