Building Concession
SIR,—You say under More Building Concessions: " Persons who wish to enlarge their houses by about 10 per cent. will be able to do so without development charge." This has,......
Prejudiced Film Criticism ?
Sta,—Having read your film critic's review of . Ruy Bias and noted her 1' untamable personal prejudice " against M. Jean Marais, I feel prompted to ask what may, I fear, be......
Poor Richard
SIR, —Can any ardent Janine annotate the italicised word in the follow- ing quotation from the first chapter of Northanger Abbey? " His father was a clergyman and a very......
In The Garden
That blessed word "mulching" is much in vogue ; and according to some of its votaries it enables the gardener to grow plants, especially bush-fruit, in much more serried......
A Female Sandy Cat
SIR,—Recently a sandy cat was introduced to me as " she." " But he's a tom," I exclaimed. ", Far from it," was the reply, "She's already produced three families." Some fifty......
Country Life
AT a date when much of the population meditates a visit to the coast, the facts of pollution by oil become almost domestic. The clothes of children are in danger of suffering as......
The Use Of Scent
The chemists, I am told, are busy at the jot of discovering what is the use of the sweet (or sour) smell of flowers, and to this end are investigating the essential oils. These......
Multiplying Harpies
The comparative absence of gamekeepers is being deplored in unexpected quarters. They greatly reduced the numbers of thp birds of prey ; and one of the most active of these, the......
Food Or Coal ?
As grim an alternative as the German "guns or bunter" must be faced in England. No fewer than seventeen counties in England are threatened with large-scale surface mining of......
Pity The Petroleum Officer
SIR,—Buying your paper to renew an "old acquaintance," a few days ago, I confess I was greatly shocked, on turning to your competition page, to find that Regional Petroleum......
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