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8 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1946 FOOD FACTS i 'i- V1 T- ROVE Let's use some of oar points to solve the podding problem. Far some mea and most children fts the "afters" that make the meal. One of Finiain Fine Can FRUIT WHIP (TOH PABTY SWBBT SBBVS IV IKUIVrjJUAL GLASSES) Ingredients 8 level tablespoons emotiu. pint milk, yt plat fruit palp, leva! tabfesDOons smear, lemon essence to BLACKBERRY COMPdTE Method Mix the semolina to emrcth pasta vith Uttto cf the mUk. Brims the remaining milk to the boll.

Pour over blended so mo Ilea and return Bring to boil, stirring all the time, and oook for 6 mlmitea. Beat In palp, sugar and but not set, ccKM3uu. vuui ana. wdrq com beat until light and frothy Inoredisntt lb. blackberries, yA pint water, 3-4 level tablespoons sugar, a few drops lemon flavouring, 3 level tablespoon lemolina, pint milk and water.

Method Stew the blackberries In the water until soft. Add the sugar and lemon flavouring. Blend the semolina to a smooth cream with a little of the milk and water, bring the remainder to the boil and poor on to the blended semolina. Return to the saucepan and, stirring all the tune, bring to tha bofl. Boll gently for 6 minutes.

Add the blackberry mixture and mix well. Pour brio individual dishes and serve cold. MACARONI PUDDING THIS IB OEAJfD WITH BTBWID FECIT OB JAM OE BYE UP BAUOl) 4 oz. macarooi or docmQm, 1 oz. melted margarine, 2 level tablespoon sugar, 1 level teaspoon cinnamon.

Method Boll the macaroni until tender, about 16-20 minutes. Brain very well and tosa in the melted margarine. Sprinkle with the sugar and cinnamon. EGG SYRUP FLAN (THIS BJK3PB WrjiL AIBO KAE9 8UJLLL TABT8 FOE TEA) InffTodienli 0 os. short-crast pastry, 8 dried tcp, reconstituted, 8 level tablespoons syrup, a few drops lemon substitute.

Method Line a plate with pastry. Mix together the eggs, svrup and lemon substitute. Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake a moderately hot oven for 20-30 minutes. Serve hot or cold. PEARL BARLEY MILK PUDDING (OOOK THIS WITH THE SUNDAY JODTT IS A COOL PAST OT THB OVER) ImjrtdienU 2 ox.

pearl barter. 2 level tablespoons sugar, 1 pint milk, oz. margarine, nutmeg. Method Mix the pearl barley, sugar and milk together and leave to soak overnight. Place in a pie-diah with the margarine and grate nutmeg over the top.

Bake in a alow oven for hours. The Ministry of Food, London, S.W.I FOOD FACTS No. 325 FROM THE POINTS TABLE Household Mjitr (on sals toon) 2 pts. Macaroni pta. 2pta.

2pts. Noodle Spaghetti Vermicelli Semolina Pearl Barley Dried Eegs Syrup Treacle 2 pta. 2pta. pta- 8 pta. a ptrt.

16pta for 2 lb. 16 pte. for 2 lb. The Rover Co. Solihull, Birmingham; and Devonshire House, London CVS-44 The National Trust issued its Annual Report last week and will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday.

This view of Borrowdale shows Rosthwaite village with the peaks of Glaramara, Great End, Scafell Pike, Lingmell, Green Gable, and Great Gable. All save Glaramara are National Trust property. MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INSURANCE By Appotrtmefil Psek Frer. Co. Ltd.

Biscuit Vita-Wear Cmpbread Manufacturers Dental Fees: Issue May Go To Cabinet By A Special Correspondent 'J'HE controversy between dentists who take insur Increases in National Health and Pensions Contributions as from 30th SEPTEMBER, 1946 ance work and the Ministry University Schemes For Rebuilding By OUR UNIVERSITY CORRESPONDENT COL BRITAIN'S CRISPEST CRISPBREAD 'In view of the substantially higher rates of OijJ Age Pensions which will in future be payable under the Contributory Pensions Scheme, the rates of Pensions Contributions are being raised. NEW RATES of National Insurance may soon force an issue which will call for decision on Cabinet level. The dentists, protesting against the new scale of fees imposed by the Minister, with effect from tomorrow, are being advised by their professional associations, (united in the Joint Advisory Dental Council) to refuse dental letters, which means that insurance patients would be able to get only private treatment at their own cost. The dentists' protest is based on the Minister's refusal to accept the higher scale of fees recently recommended by the negotiating committee of the Dental Benefit Council. Sixty-nine local meetings of dentists have lately been held to HEALTH AND PENSIONS INSURANCE CARDS OF PERSONS INSURABLY EMPLOYED MUST BE STAMPED AT THE FOLLOWING WEEKLY RATES ON AND AFTER 30th SEPTEMBER, 1946: EMPLOYED MEN consider the situation.

At all but Age 18 to 65 65 over Age 18 to 60 60 over 3s, OtL (instead of 2s. 2d.) 4s. Od (Instead of 2s. 2d) 2s. Od.

instead of Is. Id.) 2s. 4d (instead of Is. 8d.) 3s. 4d.

(Instead of Is. 8d.) Is. 8d. (instead of lOd.) EMPLOYED WOMEN one of them it "was decided to refuse dental letters. Next month the Joint Advisory Dental Council will start to mobilise a nation-wide resistance campaign Officials of the Council will address meetings of dentists throughout the country, and it is believed that a very high percentage of support will be obtained Breakdown Danger Meanwhile, the four dentist members of the SDens Dental house famine, have been sold as private dwellings, and landladies have gone out of business.

For the rest, more affluent and accommodating tenants have been found than terminal scholars. So that, even when the bulge is gone, the question of the size of the colleges will remain. The relation between the old and the new universities has yet to be precisely defined. Under the new education system, will more students than ever set their faces toward the two ancient foundations? How could or should these two universities expand to meet such a demand? These questions are very much in the air and one can only note some "thinking-points." At neither university is it likely that many colleges would want to expand permanently: as already indicated, there are certain limitations imposed by library and laboratory facilities, as well as by more aesthetic and architectural considerations. The optimum size of a college is widely held to be not more than 300, although larger foundations do exist On the other hand, lodgings in the cities are likely to dwindle still more, and this may well force colleges to bring more of their men into college from outside lodgings.

This is more profitable financially for the colleges: whereas the erection or conversion of huts for a temporary tenancy might well involve them in loss. This is at a time when expenditure is rising (on renovation, servants' wages, new furniture, etc.) at a greater rate than income. Some colleges have kept their fees, at a comparatively uneconomic low," and for many the prospect of diminishing returns from their investments in Govern? ment stock must be a serious matter. World Rubber Control May End This Week By Our Far Eastern Correspondent next Tuesday, or at latest Wednesday, the International Rubber Committee, now meeting in Washington, is expected to answer the question on which all the rubber world is hanging whether the allocation of rubber to the different countries is to. end now, thus opening the way for the restoration of a free market in London.

A statement is also expected from the Board of Trade Mission now in Washington (which includes such experts as Mr. F. D. Ascoli, chairman of the British Tyre Manufacturers' Conference, and Mr. C.

J. Pyke, economic adviser to the Malayan Government), which is discussing, among other things, a new contract for rubber purchase by the U.S.A. when the present one ends on December 31. The whole rubber world is In a state of confusion owing to the unexpectedly large production in Malaya and elsewhere. By December 31 Malaya's production is expected to amount to 350,000 tons, to which must be added 80,000 in stock in Singapore at the beginning of this year and 175,000 expected imports from the Netherlands East Indies, Borneo, and Siam a total of 605,000 tons.

Near 1941 Total That is only 170,000 tons less than the gross export of rubber (Malayan and other) from Singapore in 1941. Even this does not give the whole world picture. The Netherlands East Inaies may have 40,000 tons to export this year independently of what goes to Singapore; Siam Indo-Chma perhaps 140,000, counting her accumulations last January in all, another 185,000 tons. Ceylon, India, South and Central America, nd Papua all produce rubber perhaps this year 175,000 tons. Most of it they use themselves, but that does not allow of their being left out of the world picture.

In Malaya's recovery the small Asiatic estates of under 100 acres worked by their owners and their families and thus not having the heavy labour costs of big estates count for much. In August alone they produced 21,000 tons compared with 16,000 from the big European and Asiatic estates. There is undoubtedly a wide desire for the restoration of a free market, both to remove the uncertainties with which official control darkens the whole outlook and to assure London's position as the centre of the world's market. What the result would be Is, of course, guesswork. Some observers believe that there would be such a demand from the small countries now starved of rubber that prices might even go up a little, to drop again when this demand was satisfied; and that America would hold off until she thought the minimum was reached.

But one merely mentions this as a conjecture. No fresh cards will be issued. Contribudons at the increased rates should be paid on cards now held, using the new value Insurance Stamps. The contribution for persona over pension ago (65 men, 60 women) is payable wholly by the Employer. Afc por particulars of deductions from wages which may be made in the case of employed persons under pension age and for the rates of contributions, applicable to special Hi contrDulors (e.g., Voluntary Contributors, Excepted Persons, see LEAFLET C.l.i obtainable at any Post Office or Employment Exchange Waken up your breakfast with the snap and crackle of buttered Vita-Weat.

A treat with real FOOD VALUE. Committee, set up to consider the future remuneration of dentists under the National Health Service, Issued by ch Ministry of National Lruuranca. are expected to withhold their co COMPANY MEETINGS operation so long as tne controversy over current fees persists It seems likely, therefore, that the Minister of National Insurance. Mr. James Griffiths, will shortly be faced both with an immediate breakdown of national insurance dentistry and with the prospect of a widespread refusal by dentists to participate in the dentistry side of the National Health Service.

The official view is that the Minister had everv rieht to turn down BREAKFAST CHEER! At last! Taste the wheel has come full circle at the older universities. The libraries and lecture rooms, in wartime de-pressingly forlorn and untenanted or tenanted by anyone, it seemed, but undergraduates will be filled to capacity next month by the greatest influx of undergraduates in their history. Most of the newcomers will be ex-Service men and women eager to come to terms again with the Don and the dossier. When it is fully known how room has been found for these thousands of students despite shortages of accommodation, teaching staff, servants, and feeding facilities, it will be appreciated as one of the major accomplishments of these ancient foundations. It has not been easy, but somehow, somewhere, 6,000 undergraduates, 5,500 of them men, will be-squeezed in at Cambridge against some 3,100 last October and 4,850 in October, 1938; and there will be 440 scientific research workers against 270 in 1938.

The 6,000 undergraduates expected at Oxford represent an even greater comparative increase. The increases are all the more remarkable in that there Is really very little that the colleges can do in the way of immediate expansion to meet the pressure of what is now known as the post-war and, on the other hand, there are certain very definite physical limitations to expansion. To take these in turn. The immediate expansion at Oxford includes some building. New College is building huts, and, before they were seized by squatters, the huts on the Balliol field were intended for use as hostels by two colleges.

St. Anne's has bought and furnished two hostels; Jesus College intends to adapt its laboratories to house 20 men; and Trinity and St. John's propose to expand in St GEes at a cost of 27,000. Saturation Point But it is within the colleges, as they are, that the present increase In numbers has taken place. This has been done mainly by doubling-up in rooms and by having two sittings for college dinners.

The undergraduate may call this "slumming," but the main hardship, one feels, will lie not here but in the shortage of text-books, library facli-ties, and teaching staff. At both universities temporary lecturers have been appointed to help in this difficult period. The colleges have done their best, but there are definite limits on expansion feeding, lodging, and teaching capacity being the main. Fellows cannot be made overnight, and in any case, libraries and laboratories have by now reached saturation point-Oxford's licensed lodgings have been cut by half by the demands of the Town." In normal times a third of the undergraduates lived in digs." At Cambridge, where there are at least 1,500 more civil servants than before the war, 1,200 fewer lodgings are now available. Feeding, again, is a problem.

The problem of accommodation would have arisen without the return of the soldiers. Both Oxford and Cambridge have grown in population through the influx of evacuees who never went back and of Civil Servants. Lodgings, in the the scale of fees recommended by the negotiating committee of the ansion Expi Dental uenent Louneu. it is pointed out that the scale, although approved unanimously by the committee, secured from the full council only a majority vote, with the representatives of the Approved Societies abstaining. It was therefore the Minister's normal duty to pass final judgment on the case.

and richness of the Seville orange QUALCAST, LIMITED RECORD TRADING PROFIT The twenty-seventh annual general meeting of Qua least. Limited, was held on September 24 at Derby, Mr. J. E. V.

Jobson (chairman and managing director) presiding. The following is an extract from his review, circulated with the report: The trading profit for the year is a record at 166,681, an increase of 17.800 over last year. Your directors feel fully justified in recommending a final dividend on the Ordinary shares of 40 per less tax, making a total distribution for the year of 50 per less tax. They also recommend the transfer to general reserve of 74,641. The general reserve now totals 350,000, which, together with, the carry forward to 46 992 represents 233 per cent on the iisued Ordinary capitaL The past record of Qualcast as a company is one of which we may be proud, particularly our war record.

Our present position is that we have got through our reconversion period and to-day we are a much larger and stronger group than before the war with record outputs. In the course of an analysis of the figures for the period since they became a public company, in 1928, he said1 Our manufacturing costs relative to turnover have decreased slightly, but for practical burposes remain the same, showing that our increased profits have not been attained by inflation of prices but by increased volume of output. The figures showing how profits have been divided speak for themselves a an example of the benefits of private enterprise and as a warning as to the future unless taxation Is reduced Unless it is, I fear that this country will eventually lose its commercia I position and degenerate into a second-rate commercial power. As regards the future, this is very difficult to forecast in these times of controls and restrictions, but I can very definitely say that if we are allowed to run our business as we have done in the past by private enterprise subject to free competition, we ought to be able to see steady expanding work for our organisation for several years ahead. This, however.

wfl be governed by our ability to obtain the necessary Labour and raw materials. The plant in our various factories has been kept in first-class condition, The report was adopted Orson Welles to Play Herod Orson Wells is coming to England this winter to produce and direct a film of Oscar Wilde's Salome." in which he will also play Herod. The subject has been chosen as the first of the series which Mr. Welles will Droduce for London Films, under his agreement with Sir Alexander TARRAN INDUSTRIES, LIMITED CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH The adjourned eleventh ordinary general meeting of Tarran Industries, Limited, was held on September 26 in London. Mr.

Aian P. Good (chairman) said that the meeting, which was adjourned in December last, had not been held before as the directors had hoped to finalise the claims against Government Departments so that the balance-sheet for September 30, 1945. could be submitted to shareholders with the outstanding claims settled. Secondly certain investigations were being made by the Director of Public Prosecutions and it was desirable to postpone the meeting until these investigations were completed. However, the meeting could not be postponed beyond September 30.

and it has therefore been necessary to convene it although all claims have not been settled, nor the investigations completed. Shareholders will remember that the company had two contracts with the Ministry of Works; one for the production and erection of 1,000 houses in Hull, the other for the production only of 10.000 houses. This latter contract has been extended to 11.000 nouses. The contract for the houses in Hull was completed at Easter 1946, and it is hoped to complete the other contract before the end of January. 1947.

It is only right to emphasise the fact that the new directors came into control in December, 1944, and that the trading for the year represents little more than six months work by the new board. Nevertheless, considerable progress has been made during the year. New factories have been acquired under lease at Beishlll, near Glasgow, at Middlesbrough, and at Sutton-on-Hull. The factories at Clough-road, Hull, and at Thorpe, Leeds, have been considerably extended so that the covered space and capacity Is more than twice what it was at the beginning 1945. In last year's report the directors stated that they were unable to explain the loss in the previous years because the records of the company were insufficient to provide the data required.

The provision of accurate costing and accounting records therefore have been one of the primary tasks which directors have undertaken, and we have now achieved a satisfactory accounting setup. The company has taken an interest in Woolaway Constructions, which controls the British patents on a form of prefabricated house which is suitable to rural areas. The Woolaway House, which is built of prefabricated units made out of lightweight or aerated concrete, has been approved by the Burt Committee and passed by the Ministry of Health for loan purposes. A number of contracts for the erection of Woolaway Houses are already in hand. The comoanv has also rivpl-niH COMPANY MEETING Korda.

In one direction, though, the universities are expanding. At Oxford, work has already begun on the University's 1,086,850 five-year building plan. Laboratory accommodation, which is one of the physical limitations on student numbers, is being expanded and work has begun on the Geology Laboratory, the Botany Laboratory, and the Imperial Forestry Institute. Other projects include a Physiology Laboratory, restoration of the Bodleian flooring, and the new Nuffield College. Cambridge University has a building programme which it hopes to begin in 1947.

Particularly urgent is the construction of buildings for the Departments of Chemistry and Engineering, for the Department of Chemical Engineering, for research in nuclear physics, and for the School of Clinical Research and Postgraduate Teaching which, in accordance with the recommendations of the Inter-departmental Committee on Medical Schools, the University wishes to establish in collaboration with Addenbrooke's Hospital. A final point. The decision to simplify the syllabus of the Oxford School of Politics, Philosophy and Economics and provide for a further research degree in one or ather of its aspects may well signify the increasing importance attached to this school as the possible successor to Greats in training the Civil Servant, politician and public man of the future. No doubt this and other points will be discussed with all the old wit and feeling in the Cherwell when that undergraduate maga7ine is revived next term. It will be issued fortnightly at a shilling Welcome it to your table the finest marmalade we've been able to offer you for five long years! Wait till you taste it all the tang and zest of the Seville orange every golden strand is pure Seville peel.

It brings a real pre-war touch to your breakfast table. Look out for it in the shops, but because supplies are limited, bear with your grocer if he cannot always supply you. The Salome is to be the British stacre actress Eileen Herlie. who has HARTLEY'S MARMALADE just signed an exclusive contract with Korda, following her ringing success in the Cocteau play, "The Eagle Has Two Heads." Miss Herlie emphasises the fact that her new film engagements will in no way interfere with her work in the theatre. Salome has been filmed once before, in the silent days, with Nazimova in the title role.

The new version is to be made in Technicolor, and production should start at the beginning of January. Vincent Korda, who was responsible for the beautiful art direction of his brother's Thief of Bagdad," Lady Hamilton," The Private Life of Don Juan," Rembrandt," and other pictures, will design the sets. C. A. L.

HUDSON'S BAY The 277th Annual General Court of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay was held on September 37 London, Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper (Governor) presiding. The following are extracts from the Governor's circulated statement: The company's trading profits show a substantial improvement over last year's results, reflecting the larger profits from the stores department. Throughout the year the trend of sales was still upward, and there is no doubt that the company has greatly benefited from the higher purchasing power in the hands of the Canadian public and the consequent increase in effective demand for consumer goods. The competitive forces which have been dormant during the war will probably be brought into play soon, and therefore affect the trading profits the future. Taxation again absorbs the greater part of our profits, but with the removal of in the United Kingdom at December 31.

1946. and the reduction of other taxes, in both Canada and -the United Kingdom (including the more comnlctp reliefs ft IS nun EVERYMAN CROSSWORD. No. 32 UlWHf A Wnnderful Cnllvrtirtn nf ETC from double taxation, now awaiting ratification we can reasonably hope that the net amount of profit available ifeili PCRCI AM PADDCTQ ItUeJll ior aismounon to Proprietors will show a gradual improvement. We are -on the threshnM nf a new era, and this fact, combined with the restrictions of the war years in regard to repairs and renewals, means that much, expenditure will be necessary to modernise and re-equip various departments, and to take advantage of opportunities for development.

Each department is making the necessary preparations so that action can be its own model of a factory-made bouse taken as soon as circumstances permit. This year the retail stores afam STAVELEY COAL AND IRON EFFECT OF NATIONALISATION The ordinary general meeting of the Staveley Coal and Iron Ltd was held on Wednesday at Sheffield. Mr. D. N.

Turner (the chairman), presiding. The following is an extract from the chairman's circulated statement In mv statement last year I told you we were awaiting the Government scheme for nationalisation of the coal mines. This has now become an Act of Parliament but the vesting date has not yet been announced. Trie colliery owners nave been criticised for lack of opposition to the ov -eramerst's nationalisation scheme. My view is that the Mining Association of Great Britain, of which your company are members, has achieved mora by negotiation than it could have done by direct and political opposition.

I am satisfied that their case was ably presented and that the industry owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Foot and all those associated with him. In May last the Government announced their intention of. nationalising part of the iron and steel industry including iron ore. pig iron, coke ovens, and spun iron pipes Your company does not produce steel but it does produce iron ore, foundry pig iron, coke, and spun iron pipes.

Under divided ownership 'it is difficult to see how this highly complex organisation, with its varied and far-ranching activities, could function smoothly as it does at present. All spun pipe plants, even in this country, are not adjacent to blast furnaces, and In America I know of none so situated It is a separate and distinct industry and it ts not an adjunct to the pig iron Industry It ts realised that in this traditionary period some form of control m-jst be exercised, but the iron and steel industry, along with others, look forward to the earliest possible removal of these restrictions which hamper trade. We are still continuing to have difficulties owing to the shortage of labour. At the present ttrne we employ a large number of German prisoners. tnST ar sent back to Germarrjr sbau In still grskster difficulty, Th report wsta adopted.

I 3 4 I JO znzdznz znpnznz azazDZ znznzni CEZSr in- Zdznzdz znzDzni. ZDZDZGZ ZDZDZDZ ZBZBZpjs ei tn broke all previous records for sales and profits, and it is interesting to note that each store contributed to this outstanding result. The Interior Stores Division also showed a marked increase tn its operations, and we look forward to a steady and satisfactory expansion and development of this ACROSS 1 A little bird that has got hold of its ABC (8) 5 Give me a short drink in a long form, will you? Charm'd! (61 10 This terrestrial bal (5, 7, 3) 11 Comme ll faut (7) 12 Often trodden on the floor (7) 13 Less popular than ladders (6) 14 A bier is easily obtained the wide open spaces (7) 16 Quite a youngster, a big noise In pantomime 71 19 Falher gets round an idol in its abode C61 22 Could vou find anything when this blind broke up' Yes, lees' (71 23 Marble town, where the Gunners made three appearances one a reverse (71 24 Event often erroneously associated with a tuc-of-'var (5. 5. 51 25 Ynu'U have to send for the port I6 The wild (lower to put in vnur palliasse (81 OWN 1 For a portion of turkey you must stand on your head and get married, chum! (6 2 A low haunt for the economical 17.

81 '1 used to have an artificial basin 4 Cold ones may defeat even the best co nbinal ons i 7) The hub isn central; it may set your teeth on edge i 7 i Ine ihofCapabinnrn orolaPM 19 St 8 nc 3 dm lene nlri-fnshicnrd '8' i-" ''n-r ker-p; i.nc I tn.i.k -iti'h IN ''u h'nv 10 sif he 'Si I '(-t1 uu: 1 lU 1 7 iH ij.iti (n 'uiUer 1 I vuiu ilmw I hut 1 1 ih1 19 A carnHt'on in the middle of the bed'' No. the oppns.te i 7 1 20 Don't slep on the gas inside them, but let it swaliow its rage iT) I 21 Thank Owen for helping you find this Eastern city 161 ljl-r Famed for their hard-wearing qualities, ff HiSf" 1 rxy 7 these heavily handwoven carpets are 1' available in rich colourings and angular l) It They are offered, subject to jj 11TQ being unsold, as follows' if il I Ho mia-Mur No. 9670S. (Urn, wtth 1J jt, A LJ 1 -iu 7 6 blue and rreen II LI i f1 I' PrlC. 73.10 mci.H.on S.it 11' 3' V) AT 'H LJ No 84 D.rk biuc It Ho 81- Ruit iroun-J 1 3VS 1' mrdiHion Sue with freer, and but -'1 -'-64' iin i i-1' a- lC 1 Vmj Pi No ns "ir' 'ih'aMiinbio- rn 7 lV r- cream medail on Sue 10 I 7 O' Jl Price tt2.t A 'WSU I 1 I 21 34 'C- 'A'.

orancn oi our ous-iness. Fur Trade Department nroflts. h1. though satisfactory, showed a considerable decrease compared with the previous year Following the cessation of hostilities, market conditions aiuwuie iui uiuusinai areas, eauea tne Newland House. This house has also been passed by the Burt Committee and approved by the Ministry of Health for loan purposes.

Contracts have yet to be made for house with the different local authorities, but we have arranged to control local authorities and obtain the necessary orders, and we see no difficulty in obtaining sufficient orders to keep the company's factories fully employed during next year. In addition, the company has developed a bungalow specially suitable for rural areas, and it Is anticipated that during next year the company will develop a range of models so as to be able to cater for the varying needs of different local councils. It is hoped that the accounts for the year ending September 3o, 1946, will not be delayed for anything like the thme the present accounts nave been delayed, and we hope that these accounts wil! be presented in the course of the next four months. It is the jntentLon of the directors at the same time to submit proposals for reconstruction, wh.ch ine should be ao.e to do as soon as the claims agdLnst Government Departments have been settled and as soon as a number of contracts for the production of the Newland House have been obtained It is reiterated that on the reconstruction any new issue of shares will be offered to the Tilting shareholders In Ch first were unsettled in September. 1945, the British Government announced the removal of war-time restrictions on imports of furs into the United Kinfidnm, and.

with the sunnort nf thp Government, steps were taken to resume the London auctions an enteaour to -e-estribi'n Lon Ion on.t.oa the fu trd-ie of ih world In the Land Deparlment receipts on account of capital and revenue were considerably less than last vear. The decrease was due to the continued substantial reduction in outstanding instalments and unsold acreage. Efforts are being made to develop other activities by tnii department. The report wai adopted. EVERYMAN No.

31. SOLUTION ACROSS. 1. Fartfmg damages. 9.

Inuring. 10. Porcine. 11 Brassetsd: 12. Hovel, 13, Rebecca, 15, Wealden.

16, Incense: 13 The palm, 20, Inapt: 21, Martinmas. 23. Bugaboo: 24, Algeria; 25 Three times three. DOWN. 1, Flibbertigibbet; 2.

Rhubarb: 3 Heira: 4, Nightmare. 5. Duped; 6. March bare; 7. Grieved 8 Spelling mistake: 14.

Constable; 15, Water-rate; 17, Admirer, 21. Maori; 2B. Ingot. riU- VfcZ A laTCBl 'liV KM Mfl 1H -JSC.