17 AUGUST 1934, page 3

The Nuisance Of Pneumatic Drills A Recently Reported Ease Of

suicide attributed to the unbearable noise of pneumatic drills brings home to us the importance of lessening the nuisance of these most effective but horrible instruments for......

More Police For The Saar By A Majority The Saar

Governing Commission has asked the Council of the League of Nations to give them powers to raise the numbers of the Saar police force from 1,000 to 3,000 men. It is a big......

Half A Mile Under The Sea The Diving Record Achieved

by Dr. William Beebe and Mr. Otis Barton near Bermuda serves to remind us that there are new worlds for the explorer to conquer below the sea, just as Professor Piccard's......

Petrol Stations Petroleum Filling-stations Arc Of All...

of them are attractive, but a majority are ugly. The London County Council has taken a step in the right direction in deciding to regulate them in certain streets and places......

The South Wales Miners So Bad Is The Condition Of

the coal industry in South Wales and so serious the unemployment among miners that the last thing desired by the South Wales Miners' Federation is a quarrel with the owners. But......

Bakers And Night Work There Should Be Considerable Public...

with the demand of the Union of Operative Bakers for the abolition of night work and a seven-day week. When night-work in bakeries was discussed at an International Labour......

Tariffs And The Empire The New Australian Tariff, Which...

heavily on textiles, is having unhappy repercussions and Lancashire is threatening to back up its objections to it with a boycott on Australian goods. At Bolton, for example,......