Berkshire Chronicle Reading 09-1919

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Sir Artlau c.u Doyle hal di800vend •
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which have taken
tbis wt'ek against
s of Ihe ('ounly for .
in Broad Street
III issue: IJ tb~
hop in Reaqing it is
many cases they must
, and as their busi• .
establishments canin a minU1e or two, it
ell rs must remain in
Ittl ~ time.
Everytbing
to ('ncourage tbe county
In I,<eading-the .commade agains t some of
th.1I tile\' have done ..
LClndon-'-bu( if they
proH'cution because _
outside a tradesman's
engaged in
inevitably be
hat the interbusiness is very
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is a wide thorough•
dealing witlf, a big
and it cannot be said
seriou difficulty in
er. It cannot be ex.... ill put th eir cars
lu st for a few minu tes.
corporatIon themselves
,. ht're tbe\' call s'tand
reasonabl'e'ne~s o( the
now being
afford to lose good
should make known
Ithe <::hamber of

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thiIICl as ~'lU'Iils mea, 1&.
laid: "There are IIIOI'e mea eat

dooation as retr~ men has COllie dOWII
coasiderably. IIost of the Qaen Uemployed are discbrnd soldWin. .ho
cot"
ctym ttle oat-of-work- doaariDli As ~and olber pl;I.ces,
gints civilians wbo h&~ beeD .ID
there is a branch m&IIa8er.
_nition
ve. ID rile a&ID.
In reply 'to a question as
attained lOme ..au ill .worki", a lathe
dition of women Labour in
or ~ automahc".macbiDe, \M!t they are
Whlt~ey replied; Ie About
not wanted uill the · ~
ago. we haa about a t
eo~. ..ain.
SeYerai ReIIlIIiq
unemployed in the area
'bY
~ ~iD. reolW'~ised. aod I tiink
Reading Labour ExchaJl6e. Now
WUJ e.-eatually ~e , OIl mailY of theM
total nnre for the whole ...~ as rccuds melll. We place in employment CftI'Y
women, is about 460 UoetllJlllOyed. The wedt about 150 men. ~, boys, and
majority are married woIIÂ¥!D whom we girls--that is our ave.....e.
find gteardifficully in placin , as a good
CARPENTERS WANTED,
many of the facto~es in the neighbour." There is... big demaad for carhood will not t~ke ma,rried women. penters, joiners, aDd also for painters,
. especially stipulating or s' gle girls. but' you cannot get them. .-ost of tlie
Others UJlemployed are clerka or women mer. on our books are labourers 01 semiwho hav.e been ~n munition orks, and skilled men. We also have clerks. but
have galIl;ed a btt~e knowiedce. I>ut are thet'e is no demand for clerks just now.
not suffi~len Iy skilled for
to 'place
"[ think every trade will boom very
them ~asJly. As regards the o\l~-of-work shortly. The starting of the Reading'
donahon, l so~e three or. four months ago housing n scheme will provide work for :i.
we werl? paYlDg a c:onslderabie sum, but great many of the men on our books. r
to·day It has p~ctlC:~Uy c ed as re- und~stand that · tbe contract is, already
ga~ds women, sbowtng th
numbers out for tbe sewers. A new cinema is
wblch have been pla<:cd I~ y. Mess~s. 1 also to be built, and that will help to
Huntley and Palmers a~ ocher fu'rils provide employment,
have taken ~n a 10t ' of girls ,lately, an,d l "ifhe engineering ' trade is again adwe ~re '~lacmg a number m domesn~ Yanoing;. There.is plenty of demand for
I skilled men-fitters, turners, tool
servIce.
WOMEN AND DOMESTIC SERVICE. I mak rs, pattern makers. iron-moulders.
" Are women taking better to domestic etc., but you cannot get them. Men
service?" Mr. Whiteley was asked! and will not come bere because there are no
be replied: "Tbey are taking It up houses to be obtained. whUe it is also
much better, but if we had 400 or 500 difficult to secure lodgings, If they
women to-morrow we could placer tbem, come they frequently stay but a
as domestic servants . ate . badly wanted short time owing to tbe llU'..:II.""
all round the district. Very Hood pay is difficulty,
More houses are
offered them in every case, a;nd the needed. I think th",t Reading
conditions are altogeiher different from show a considerable 1I'I'0wtb if we had
what ther used to be,
the bouses to put the men into.
"Out register is likely to be fu P
"Speaking generally,"
said
Mr.
again soon, because we understand th:.t . Whiteley, " there is not much to grumble
2,000 W,R.A.F.s are to be clemobilised. about as regards the state of employBut we shall be able to place most of the . ent in Reading' and district, and there
girls
in the factories
;thol.\t any s every prospect that the majority of
difficulty, as there are vacancies Jtow in bosq unemployed will be absor~
a good number of the ReaAling firms. .ithout any difficult.y.1l
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ALLOTMENT HOLDERS'
SHOW.

EXCELLENT

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QUAUTY

PRODUCE.

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Han v niIIMd from ·the
UTe ,,"'perf,.
'Ti, DOW' -.n's turD to ..
hia form"
See 1\ ~ot. of fis. '<:>tball en pel'S.

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tu,;d&J"
alUtouah
tl!.llt.' ·
Qut
eaV7
whilemomillv.
it lasted, did
very little _~Ial hO'lff
fot- 'maliy
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Association are indeed to · be con. e in the district. It ...&8 accompaaW ..~ i&D. SuacIaY. thy •
eDcIIIi.1lOUr
gDtulated on ~ succesl attendi,;ng ., lIeTeral loud peals of thuader. &tid at to 410 10 wltllo'llt ~~ eI....a.... to
their first annual vegetable show, held at imel tbe li,btning pretl8llted a ' bM1ltif1li wotlt to proYide fOr ~etr amtd«D~nt.
the . Adult 1 School. Granae Avenue, jcture. The 'boroU8h Inrveyor'e depart; ~e$ 1 !lhould be rellt.ric:f¢ to the ,fterReading, on Saturday, Conaide.ring. i?e
ent of the R4Wiing Cor;oratioll J'8CI)rded AO()I1.0 aDd.. dioS& ,~~.· wlUcit tremendous
emelY dry summer, the exhIbIts ·
fall of ,'11 iMhe8' of min. The IIUrface of ground preparations were
necessary
w e excellent, onions and canots 1\.• __ .l .
f tb$ hill d' triet8
sbould tind no place, Tbere should not
.be II' of a very bigh standard. , Entries ~~..-...8 11\ IIOoD).& ~.
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be any pte-'IJlC)iIeY 4ar.,dd. He wOuld
to the number of 124 were received for d.ist:a~, bnt this will be .put ri«ht. at restrict them to the afternoons, because
the 12 classes. Mr, S. R.
itIey, J .P .,
fJ hUle cost. _ Several c~pe of 8tandilw he thowrht upportllDity for
worship
president of
the association,
and
'rn were damaged to a consicfe!,ble ex~t ~bould be -giVeD w;everyo~e in the momgovernor of tbe Agricultural Society, y the rain.
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mg. 't'hey 'sbould finish at the latest
kindly presented the prizes, He ppinted A black popln.r tree, 8OJ;1le 60 teet iIi height, early' in th!, eve !liM. jn ord r t~t tbt'
out 'tbe necessity of increa
p!~tJc.
the belt of tr_ in Mr. Co'll'u:tC,})ad- evenln.g 1Il1I'ht p~ftde opportunl\fOr
tion of the soil, A man with a bollby of ock in the Addin«ton Road, Rea
,cloee worshlR alsot..
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any sort was generally a good fel~!>w and
Cardigan Cottape, . W&8 IIttuck at lO.i5.
o:rh.e Rev.~. E. LII1'Y, Vlc!!r of O~Y
a national asset; the bobby of cultivating ~e peal, iDUDediately after a J>rilliant 'I~tyl Reading, expressed It. as hIS
an allotment was not only healthy bu't ~
ked .a'-Il Wall deafen i .... The bark __ OpIDIOn. t~t peopl,
~t. certamly play
very profitable one, As a member of r
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games on SDDday. pro.-iding tbat ·they
the Small Holdings
of Ahe
rll olf oa It. tbin line 00., the lIOuth aild "e~t to church first 'of all.
Reading Town Colplcil he
realised orEIL ' lidee of t~ tree. which d081l DOt a;'
DESIRE FOR THEM
the noed of more land for
at reeeDt appear ~o have ' au_ed lIluoil
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the east end. but in Mr,
. mage. 'Poplare are very ee1da1a strack 1I1
The e-/, James Mitchell, of York
bad 'an agent who was
Uab.tnina
Road Presbyterian Chan:h, states ;who would grasp ~very
1 . D,A.!U.G~ A.T K(mTl1lEB..
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Dot in favour of Jll;ariaa' .-mes on
secupng land wb.en
Th te ifi to
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Fri S1lI1Cla)\. I do not believe that any
quality of die exhibits that
was
e. rr c s rill. .",hlCh OOCG.
0Jl
• larlte proportion....
oar youna- meo
excellent; yet, although a good stan had itay Diah~ in last week al; ~om..r ~QMd 4e811'0 either Sunday football or Sunday
been made, he 1L0pcd lJ)ucll larier pre· ebi~IlS~' t'1B,peciall7 - . . til. cricbit; My. ~~.n FrQce as a
mises would be required for . the next
t ~:. .::.:
q~.~!!: chaplain leads me to think that. if th~
.shOw,
xperienoeci a wolWl..tona The rail!.
mell. .ho hue retvaed UIOm adJve ser
~r .. .E, J. Do~e, chairman of the East .!tOrrential, the lifhtniq ia~l.T vivid,::: vice..-nted to ~,~ 9Q Sunday,
DlstTlCt Comnuttee. who worked ex- the tlruDder claplloud aDd ~ 'Mu they W08Id tie 10 ~_ltinc lor the
treme1y bard to make the
11' sucb
a IA. fe'll' peopla had retired for t,la. lliPt:
of
the Press,
~.uccess, mo,,~ a vote of
nics to the o then deoicIAMI to t:., up uW tile ....;
fQ.9t~ on
Judges, Messrs. Loader, T~send, and . . .....1 ~ the to
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tllmply for
Fulker: He was q~te cert*. they. mUlt land'r'b;r tWo chilllren.
l~ OM : ;
nO comha~e bad. ,reat dUliculty
comma' ~o Itwo 1adjoiAiJla' hOlJMl at the _ of .....
for 59thw deaslon~. but 1M
h~ theu
Ai aboat 11
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bave
results had 8'l"en eY~
actiOD.
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comMr, Townsend, in....., f the j-.es,
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rdesnd to the high I
of the s·
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IIlJKts, especially the
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DeCeSIaI'Y, to eo t~h
e of '
bed,
eOibits twice to be certaiD
the lIOiBts.
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Ba also hinted for the·
Of future
eOibitm:s as to the ~
of a.imiD,c
at . quality and uniformity, Del Dot so
much at size. A very
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With Autumn bere, the ba~lD« belleil

ltecomin,
to . working 'on cltUlll
me
resist anything

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The East
District
Committee
of n'lbe'
R.ea~
Small
Holdings
and Allotment

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FROM "LONDON OPINION."
AcoordiiaIr to the ".eAiD, News." ..
r_Dt briae e&rried "white caDraUoD ....
Sllch a. precaUtion is adri8able wi th the
food itua(.ion apia . .....ttl"'" critical.

the
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that
tile eftctt of com- 1l me-. Ioatr. OD
to 1\"Odc to provide enter· ....hieh t"''' llJeediq
othet. The suqestion the little i . . . ~
8bep:
has. 9n1y the Sunday for herd. who aleo came to
ald
ho.d
games
a l{ood deal of its force he had! beea stabbed by a _ _ n.
one DD the
Il.W that the worlci.q-classes have more 8.. wound iI!. the abclomen
inaer~de of the Yl'i t. w41ich W&8 bleedirur
leisure.
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profu 11. Both wounds were about aD inch
A symposium ot the subject publiShed lonlf
It. d Vfl'J deep, Wibael!le JWM hitnded a
in onfJ. the London morning papers
!<~ I knife, and Shevh"rd Mid that ....s
reveals some , iaterestixlg (and very
rument '*'II, lIe. took, both men to
decid
eXpressions of opinion. Some..ex- ._~
hlire JJospital. Shetlwd waa d&padIes are in fav?,llr of Sunday ' gam~, ...... ned for an imroedia\e opl~tion. When
but the\; would re triet them to Suntiay ch1ll'W the IIOOU!1ed made a _hon tateiJl.8Dt
ilftern06n. Other -wti ers Point to the to tile ell'eet tbat me truck two r three
crowds in the streets, and suggest that ~l~ws; he did not' no'll' wbat ~ ~e WM
lld was eony if she did any barm,
they wql;1Ld be better in the parks listen- "'On0~'
I ·S
day witn8/11 ~mined~ the clothing
ing to ~e bands than aimlessly. walking ",om by Sbep~l'\I, and fonD cuts on tho
about. On the otbet band Mr. W. Casey, cloth lfhicb m_ed that the ife kad ~
M.J'. for Attercliffe, makes a 'strOng t1'\lted thrlMJl'\ to the 8.toIIh.
POint "ben he says: 't If the parents D.I. Waltei-s ~d that ~rd, on. being
are goiplr to spend Sunday a temoons t Iren to the hospital, underw nt OD OJ.N\J'aand '11'&8 better that roo nl!', He had
playil!'I .l'ames, how can they expect alion.
in the abdomen , one in the ch.t.
the cni!oren to go to Sunday school r andwound
t,ro OIl the left arm . '
The pe pIe do not ant "",",n" \I'
Aocqsed "'II8 ' l'etDllnded for Jl'ht daYs, an
They ant to keep the
application for bail being ref NI.
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holy."
It.is ignificant lhat many of those
..,ho a sist to provide sport for th
people re strongly opposed to Sunday
MORRIS.
"ames. Mr. A. J. Darnell, chairman
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Of tbe' uthern 'L eague and hon. secre~ of the ·Northamptonshire County ft..r.Ina. ATED BY THE TAFF VALE
E::iicket 'Club, said; "1 am 4ead against
IWLWAY CO.
Sunday games, bed4 e I believe that
there idiould be ,~e day's rest in
seveD (or everyone. I do not belie.-e in
interfering with Sunday, especially as I
realise that any epoI1 means a lar-ge
emp).oY!Dent of labour."
LOCAL OPINIONS,
RIDAY NIGHTS STORM.
Dur'
tbe week a representa.tite of
this p
'fl-sited 'several of the local
cler
n who have acted as chaplains
VERY
DAIIlGE.
durinl' he war, and ~ted their vi~ws,
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which were thus' exbI'MWi:I'COll[1P;\I:IY,
brol.e over 'D·-di.... aD
The Rev. tC.~ W, O. J«:nkyn, .M.C .• of
Tb e IIt ·orm -"I'ch
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Bz:~Os. C~
.' stated that he
Friday ~st week, commeDciDa about 10 ",ai entirely' i'.b. ,.
W, ·. . . ., being
'" Don'" ~hi1Ig ill. tht M~" 1lours
played.,. s-day.
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DaDdy: . "I "" ' Poli~emaD, her&'.ehi14 t.o1lowin' mo, L.t ita JicliculQ
pareD ' ckIeul't t.o.r ",.here it's ~t the
wretched thil\P, Haft yoo 6Ily Jde-oll r

women, but em.,., . . .t .......aM IDCD
has improved, 1IDd our out4-wod

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"TIle llarchiol\
w~ a d
of
tn.i\ ~ rllarm
,witll
matoIl./'-" Pall )(all Ga.tt."
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Jr. JlULY say t jlt it ~
re........ that of a trank c&ll, but il .ot

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~Iuen uy arrives at Be.;
the wovl~
•• r.,O\l,n·, to.s«: tbe So •
station. u' 1S1II!IIIII
back for a lew
iCOIISC<luel~tly
the
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and WU{)'
with trams w
on the S,
·. R. train
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s iQ tbe even DlLif
\x'yond Readint •• The
,W.R. train was COlt-<
:l1Id die! no' r
orne time after it • •
'. R. train bad a-cme..
two )lOllng ~~.
on to th
Mida certain train, aact
the Read in If traia
their desbn'ation.
,ome soldiers-- jU&l
""ere a 150 stranded:
:It Basingstoke are
be count d, bUI it is
thl' rc~pective companies
time-tables and dove
that this grem buging pablic should be

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"TIie two ~ilWe tried the

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ahein" the BIUOO F'UDmer cottage for
month, and noW' they're deadly enemi8il."

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THINGS SEEN IN
READING.
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Standin,

on. Sunda., morn~ at m., 'll'iat

do.... smoking a contemplative Cigar I l!Sllied
an urchin of 10 or 12 .,ears, oomm. down
tne pavement, On reaching the Lamp jut
mo tel' which is the catchpit, he .toJ>1M!d,

d loonn, ltealthily round producei:l a
piece of .triog. with a. loop at ODe end, into
~ich h fitt«l a
ODe, and carefully low.
ered t rOlllh the grating. Withdrawing i~
be thell fitted a Iir,igbt di c into the loop
and repeated the pr~ but this time lift..
ing the string minllll the dise, NcW' as.lIuming It. ·most dilOODBOlate air be pt\el'ed
(~nm the grating, and 110 continued absorbed
in appIIl'6nt mel&nchoIJ. until a. paa-.<ec-b,
stopoed . I w his hand Ito to his pookef,.
and 'he. wtnt olf leaving the urchin 8lIliling,
But he ~n resumed his dejected.. air and
contemplt-tion of th.a grating. Mol'e. than
one' mol'e 1I8dostrin.!J aocosted the. u tcllin,
",'ho each 8ma received baeahE!l!8b. Ope.ning
my front dool' ve1"1 quietly 1 went a little
way u~ the treet, I\J1d returning, accosted
e. urchin, ,. He had been eent out to bur
a paper, but had dropped a penny doW'll
the crating;. ahull 'll'hat... woold happell .Vbe went home without this ne."s~per. etc. '
I thonght him cute, bot I did not feel
be'DevoLentI., diann....! towards him.
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RAT CATCHERS FOR HIRE.
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FoUl rat.c~tctiers 'bave been appointed
by the . Surrey Agricultural . Executive
Qommittee for tbe Hambledon
and
puildford ' areas. Farmers and otbers
may engage th.eir services at Is. 6d . ~r

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