19 JUNE 1926, page 17

The Midsummer Ball [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] .sir,

—As you were so kind last year to allow me to write in your paper as to the Ball which was held in Hyde Park Hotel in aid of the Fund for the British Empire Cancer Campaign, I......

Driving A Car On Waste Wood [to The Editor Of

the SPECTATOR.] Sim,—On page 900 of your number dated May 29th, 1928, there is an interesting article on " Driving a Car on Waste Wood." The writer may be interested to know......

Tn1 Trade Disputes Act [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

your article, " Trade Unionism " in the Spectator, rMay 29th, you have made a mistake. Referrin g to the Labour amendment, you go on to say, " Subsequently Sir Henry......

Poetry

A FLEET OF GEESE AT Fiddler's Island in the Thames, Just outside Oxford town, I watched a crowd of cackling geese That riverward came down. Oh how they craned and trumpeted !......

Tips In Trains [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sin,—"

Rubberneck " quotes dining-car attendants' wages as being no more than 33s., basing his statement, apparently, on what individual waiters have told him. Since writing my......

Children's Country Holidays : The " Spectator " Fund As

we announced in our issue of June 5th, we shall be glad to receive, acknowledge in the Spectator, and forward to the Children's Country Holidays Fund any donations our readers......