The Kington Times - March 1918
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Kington Times 30th March 1918 - Page 4
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| Date | 30/03/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 30th March 1918 |
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4 The Eve of Rations . HOW WE ARE HELPING OUR ALLIES . A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES . SPADES V. SUBMARINES . year . GROW ONIONS . TAME RABBITS AS FOOD . SPADES V. SUBMARINES . Victory depends very largely upon a success- ful campaign in gardens and allotments this Every ounce of food that the soil of Britain is made to yield strengthens the bul- warks against the Boche . The U - men are weekly sinking our food ships , believing that through the starving of these islands they will force a German peace and dominate the world . You can help to prevent their achieving what to us and the world would be a dire calamity . Food is now the all - important factor of the war . We can beat the Germans on sea , in the air , and on land - we must also beat the Huns under the land . You cannot sink a submarine with a spade - that is , not directly ; but indi- rectly your spade can be used as a weapon against the U - boats , by combating the food shortage which they cause . peace . Every vegetable we can produce will help to mitigate the menace of the German submarine and the danger of a peace when there is no A great cultivation crusade in this C country is our safest insurance against famine . Gardening which in peace days was often re- garded largely as a pleasurable pastime has now become a patriotic task of the utmost necessity , and war - time gardeners will derive additional pleasure from the knowledge that their work will help to kill Kaiserism . A cultivatable square yard of British garden or allotment that Allied is left idle is not contributing to an victory - it is an asset to Germany . Don't give an atom of our soil to the Huns ! DUCKS WILL BOARD THEMSELVES . Ducks should be kept by all who have suitable range to offer them . If woodland , pasture , or ponds are available it is surprising the amount of free feeding a flock of ducks will procure . A suitable foraging breed , however , must be kept , and the Indian Runner is hard to beat . Next comes the Buff Orpington duck which can , if so desired , be crossed with the Runner . These are " land " ducks and they will forage well and travel a goodly way in search of natural food . Ducks are easy to manage , and any approved outhouse , shed , stable , or barn can be utilised as accommodation . It must be light , roomy , dry and well ventilated , and be bedded down with litter . Section off the furthest corners of such a building by means of bricks fill in the spaces so made with nesting material and the nests are ready . Runner ducks are as prolific Ducks lay very early in the morning and do not require breakfast if the range is good , and only a light tea need be given to welcome these free boarders home . in egg production as most breeds of hens . THE EVE OF RATIONS . THE KINGTON the new rationng scheme is explained by specially instructed panel of speakers . a Speakers are sent out to address meetings under the following heads : - ( 1 ) . The food situation generally ; a world shortage arising from a world war ; the importance of goodwill . ( 2 ) . National Kitchens and the purposes served by them . ( 3 ) . Practical advice in the use of available foods . ( 4 ) . Explanation of the new general meat . rationing scheme . ( 5 ) . Scientific information on food values . Sets of lantern slides and a typewritten lec- ture , entitled " The Food Buttle and how to win it , " will be lent on application When the food situation has been explained the Ministry is prepared to follow it up by sending domestic science teachers trained in the latest methods of economical war - time cookery , who can pass on this information in a clear and simple form . They will also be ready to demonstrate with any cooking uten- sils which are to hand . Specialists are sent out to any large institu- tions , such as hospitals and canteens , to advise on cooking in bulk and the saving of all waste . Applications should be made to the Speakers ' Section , Ministry of Food , Grosvenor House , London , W.1 . CHILD COLLECTORS . The appeal which was made to the schools throughout Great Britain to help in the work of utilisation of waste has had a splendid res- ponse . Many letters are being received every day from school teachers asking for further particulars and expressing the readiness of themselves and their pupils to help . The teachers are quick to recognise the opportunity for giving their scholars a practical lesson in patriotism and public service , and the children are eager as children always are - to take up some fresh activity . Last year the school children gave some really valuable help in saving waste from being wasted . In one school the little girls collected all the worn - out clothes of their dollies , and made quite a big parcel to go to the old rag depot ; while the little boys contributed a useful collection of old tin and rubber toys . It gives the children a pleasant sense of importance to feel that they are really helping in the war , and it is no trouble or expense to let them collect old rubber balls , goloshes , jam pot rings , or broken tin trains , potted meat lids , chocolate wrap- pings , & c . If there are any children in your neighbour- hood who are not already helping in this way , you should organise them into collecting bands . Any further information you may desire can be obtained from : Lady Amherst of Hackney , 35 , Park Street , London , W.1 . GROW ONIONS . If we want onions this year we must grow them . Before the war 90 per cent . of the onions we ate came from abroad - but now we require the ships to bring us stronger things than onions . Every gardener and allotment holder should raise as big a crop of onions as possible this year . While onions are stronger Ducks can do without grain much better than in flavour than in nutriment as compared with fowls as scratching exercise is not as essential potatoes , they provide certain valuable stimu- in their routine to promote health and egg - lants and add much savouriness to the plainest production . Ducks do not scratch ; they gain meal . healthy exercise by foraging . Let ducks help To secure a plentiful crop of medium - sized to defeat the Hun . onions for winter use , seed of any well - known variety may be sown any time in March or early April , in drills about a foot apart . From How WE ARE HELPING OUR ALLIES . time to time the seedlings should be thinned ( By E. BRETT YOUNG ) . The onion bed must be out very carefully . At a moment when the country is on the eve dug deeply , liberally manured , broken up of a national scheme of rationing , it is well finely , and the surface levelled with a close- that everyone should realise exactly what this toothed rake . Wood ash , soot , and lime should implies , and why it has been found necessary be used as a top dressing . To obtain onions to impose it . As everybody knows , increased for pickling purposes , seed of a small growing consumption and diminished production , joined variety should be sown early in May , thickly with the scarcity of tonnage , are chiefly res- and broadcast . The soil must be good , but not ponsible for the shortage of food in this coun- too richly manured . Thinning out should be try . It has long been impossible , in the great done when required , and a small quantity of centres , to leave the distribution of our avail - artificial manure , such as nitrate of potash or able supplies to chance , or , what amounts to poultry manure is most beneficial for this much the same thing in these days , the law of variety of onion . supply and demand . But it must be realised , not only that our national safety depends upon . the imposition of a scheme of rationing , but that the actual needs of our Allies cannot be met without it . This country is not going short of food , but it is going on short com- mons . In so doing , it is not merely securing itself from the submarine menace , but protect- ing from want those who are fighting with us in the cause of justice and civilisation . cannot be too plainly understood that we economising , not for ourselves alone . It are In fact , the whole problem of feeding the Allies , both in the field and at home , in the munition areas and the commercial centres , has become one and indivisible . It is of no avail for one of the Allies to have plenty , if another goes short . The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link . There has arisen the need of rationing between nations , as well as between individuals . This is not to say RICE AND CARROT PUDDING . Two ounces cooked rice ( cooked in 1 pint milk and water ) . When done add 2 ozs . cooked potatoes . Sweeten and flavour with lemon and Then make pint custard , add to this 4 ozs . carrot puree . Sweeten and flavour . Fill a souffle dish alternately with rice and custard until the dish is full . orange . Cover with chopped nuts and a little reduced fruit syrup . Carrot purée is made by cooking the carrots and rubbing them through a hair sieve . TAPIOCA AND CARROT TIMBALES ( for Children ) . Cook 2 ozs . tapioca in milk . Add about 4 ozs . carrot purée . Sweeten and flavour to taste and cook for about 20 minutes . The milk can be omitted , and the carrots added to the plain tapioca . FRENCH PANCAKES ( for four ) . that rationing might not be necessary , even if we had only ourselves to consider . But it is impossible , in any case , to look at the matter in this purely national light . No Briton would eggs , 1 oz . flour , 1 oz . potatoes . oz . fat , 1 oz . sugar , 1 dessertspoonful cooks ' Melt the flat , mix in the sugar , then the egg . Add the flour and potatoes , and mix well with pint hot milk and water . Bake in a moderate oven in four saucers . Spread with jam and cut in four . consent to live in luxury while his Allies in Beat well . this great struggle went short . It is share and share alike in this crisis of the world's history . To those who are tempted to grumble at the advent of rations even into districts where no sieve . serious shortage has made itself felt , this and dry for a few minutes and rub through a In preparing potatoes for all dishes , boil thought should serve as a corrective . It is absolutely necessary to see the problem in its proper proportions , if we are to do our duty by ourselves and our country . As a matter of fact , the whole world is short of food . least that we can do is to ensure that those nations that are fighting for the world's lib- erty shall make the very most of the resources Grate the rind of a lemon , or add any other available to them . Mix with This imposes upon the flavouring preferred . water to a British people , who are still , in a very real batter , and boil for 2 hours . sense , the mainstay of the Alliance , the double duty of economising food where it is not rationed , and of supporting cheerfully the res- trictions that have been found necessary for the safety of the cause for which we are fight- ing . LEMON PUDDING ( for 9 ) . The 3 oz . sugar , 2 oz . fat , 3 oz . flour , 4 oz . ground rice , 5 oz . potatoes , 1 good teaspoonful baking powder , pinch of salt . a FRUIT OR JA FRUIT OR JAM FLAN . 5 oz . flour , 6 oz . potatoes , 2 oz . fat , pinch of salt , teaspoonful baking powder , not quite 1 gill water . Rub the fat into the flour , baking powder and salt , then rub in the potatoes which have been peeled , boiled and sieved . Mix with water to a dough . Spread with jam or fruit and bake in a sharp oven . DOGS ' WAR WOOL . TIMES . PARA - QUIT KILLS LICE , FLEAS & OTHER PARASITES KEEPS OFF Mosquitoes and Sandflies Supplied in large quantities to H.M. War Office In Tubes 1/3 Sold by Chemists . Stores and Canteens or post free in U.K. from sole makers LAWSON & CO . ( BRISTOL ) LTD . , ST . PHILIP'S.BRISTOL MoonP.Q . 118 cot beans , oaten flour , groats , rolled oats , flaked oats , or large and small manufactured lentils , which are fit or capable of being made fit for use for human consumption , is an offence against the Defence of the Realm Regulations , and punishable on conviction with a fine of £ 100 or 6 months ' imprisonment . It is also an offence , punishable in the same way , to waste or permit to be wasted , or dam- age or permit to be damaged , any of the above , as for instance , neglecting properly to thatch a rick . It is also an offence , similarly punishable , to aid and abet any person in any of these offences . In order that the food sup- ply may be sufficiently conserved , those aware of any of these practices should immediately communicate with the Local Food Control Committee . TAME RABBITS AS FOOD . Tame or hutch " rabbits can very greatly help to increase the nation's food supply , and all who have grass land or garden waste avail- able or who can collect wild plants should keep a few of these useful animals . A well - bred doe will have up to five litters per annum , each numbering from five to eight young and making a grand total during the season of 30 The doe will be or 40 rabbits for the table . ready for breeding , when but seven months old , is with young only 30 days , and whilst the young rabbits are usually weaned when six weeks or so old , the mother can be mated up again if so desired when still caring for her . first litter . She need not be separately hutched again until a fortnight before her second lit- ter is due . Thus bunny will provide the home - establish- ment with a steady supply of well - fleshed young table rabbits . The best variety of table rab- bit is the Flemish Giant and Belgian Hare- and a cross between the two proves a big suc- cess . MARCH 30 , 1918 : CANADA'S GAS ATTACK . 5,000 DRUMS USED . The following telegram has been received from Mr. W. A. Wilson , Canadian correspon- dent at the front . Whilst British and German troops were Prudential Assurance Company , Limited . Chief Office : HOLBORN BARS , LONDON , E.0 . 1 . struggling far to the south , in the opening Summary of the Report presented at the Sixty - ninth Annual Meeting , held on March 7th , 1918 . clash of the spring campaign , the greatest projector gas bombardment in the world's history was carried out by the Canadians to - night ( Friday ) against the enemy positions ORDINARY BRANCH . - The number of policies gether with the amount available from the profits of between Lens and Hill 70. Sharply at 11 issued during the year was 56,502 , assuring the sum of the year will enable them to allocate a reversionary o'clock the signal rocket gave notice of the £ 6,951,269 , and producing a new annual premium in- bonus in respect of the years 1915 , 1916 and 1917 of 1 beginning . A moment later over 5,000 drums come of £ 567.472 . The premiums received were per cent . per annum on the original sums assured of lethal gas were simultaneously released 5,495,205 , being an increase of £ 265,035 over the year under all participating policies which were in force from projectors , and were hurled into the 1916 . on the 31st December , 1917 . The bonus so allotted will not for the present carrý enemy territory from the outskirts of Lens , The claims of the year amounted to £ 4,852,409 , of and northwards to Cité St. Auguste and the which 398,385 was in respect of War Claims . The the option of surrender for cash , but facilities will be Bois de Dix - Huit . From his front lines and number of deaths was 14,629 . The number of en- afforded enabling policyholders who desire to obtain strong points favouring winds carried the dowment assurances matured was 28,430 , the annual National War Bonds by means of our special War poisonous clouds back upon the enemy's sup- premium income of which was £ 152,559 . Bond Policies , to apply such portion of the bonus as The ports , reserves , and assembly areas . The number of policies including annuities in force may be available towards payment of the necessary whole of the front was lit up with enemy at the end of the year was 934,075 . premiums . For this purpose the rate of discount flares , dimly seen through the heavy mist , INDUSTRIAL BRANCH . - The premiums received adopted will be the British Offices ' Table of Mortality while the men in our lines could hear the during the year were £ 9,376,858 , being an increase of with interest at 4 per cent . enemy's gas alarms and cries of distress from L479,135 . In the Industrial Brauch the surplus shown is the hostile trenches . The claims of the year amounted to £ 4,352,031 , of £ 616,260 , including the sum of £ 184,530 brought for- which £ 1,109,240 was in respect of 65,665 War Claims . ward from last year . Out of this surplus the Direc- The bonus additions included in the claims amounted tors have added £ 335,623 to the Investments Reserve to £ 38,710 . The total number of claims and surrenders , Fund , which , after deducting £ 35,623 , representing including 22,078 endowment assurances matured , was realised loss on investments , stands as at 31st Decem ber , 1917 , at £ 1,700,000 , and £ 92,470 has been carried forward . A MIGHTY REVENGE . Nine minutes later our field artillery , sup- ported by heavy guns and heavy trench mor- tars , opened up with a slow bombardment , which gradually increased in intensity , until , 402,635 . 40 minutes later , the enemy positions were The number of free policies granted during the year swept , with a short intensive creeping barrage , to those policy holders of five years ' standing and which raked his forward and rear areas with upwards who desired to discontinue their payments high explosive . Caught by our gas without a was 56,880 , the number in force being 2,009,872 . The moment's warning , caught again as he was number of free policies which became claims was emerging from his shelters by our artillery , 51,290 . the enemy's casualties must have been very heavy , for the effctiveness of our smaller gas operation has been emphatically proved by the evidence of prisoners . To - night's bombardment was three times greater than anything of its kind ever at tempted by us on the Western front , and much greater than anything ever launched by Germans . Canada has had a mighty revenge for the intermittent gas activity , of the Hun during the past three weeks , though the score of the second battle of Ypres and other reckonings are still to be settled . There is no question to - day of the deadly superiority either of our gas or gas methods over those of the enemy , while our protec- tive measures are also more effective . 11 The total surplus of the two branches , as shown by the valuation , is £ 2,200,800 , and £ 1,000,000 will be trans ferred from the Ordinary Branch Contingency Fund , thus increasing the surplus to £ 3,200,800 . Of this amount £ 400,000 has been added to the Investments The total number of policies in force in this Branch Reserve Fund of the Ordinary Branch , and £ 335,623 at the end of the year was 21,730,468 ; their average has been added to the Investments Reserve Fund of duration exceeds thirteen and three quarter years . the Industrial Branch , £ 1,794,295 will be allocated to The War Claims of the year , in both Branches , participating policies in the Ordinary Branch and number 70,488 and amount to £ 1,507,625 . The total £ 400,000 to the shareholders in accordance with the paid up to the present on this account since the out- Articles of Association of the Company , leaving break of War exceeds 3,400,000 , in espect of over 270,882 to be carried forward , amely £ 178,412 in the 160,000 claims . Ordinary Branch and £ 92,470 in the Industrial Brauch . GENERAL , BRANCH . - Under the Sickness Insur- The provisions of the Courts ( Emergency Powers ) Act continue to affect the Company's resources ad- versely , and the Special Reserve has been maintained at € 350,000 . The large increase in the outstanding premiums in the Industrial Branch is partly due to the inclusion of premiums outstanding on policies ance Tables the premiums received during the year were £ 6,721 and £ 3,744 was paid in Sickness claims . Sinking fund policies have been issued assuring a capital sum of £ 134,850 and producing an annual in- come of £ 2,663 . The Company is now empowered to act as Trustee still in force by reason of the Courts ( Emergency or Executor , and during the year has commenced to Powers ) Act . It is impossible to estimate what por- transact this business . tion of these outstanding premiums will be eventu- A very considerable amount of Aircraft ( Personal Injury ) Insurance has been undertaken with results " ALL CLORY TO THE BRAVE BRITISH which up to the present have been highly satisfactory . ARMY . " Paris , March 25. - The British communiqué was not issued in Paris until three o'clock this morning . The impression in the city of the offensive is excellent , and the greatest confidence reigns in all circles . The " Petit Journal " defeat . " When weaned the young rabbits can be run in lots of sixes until three or four months old , and only if quarrelling commences need the Sometimes young rabbits sexes be separated . of both sexes can be kept together until they are ready for the table . The young does will says Despite the live amicably together , even till maturity is falling back of the British troops the situation reached . If desired , however , the young rab- created does not shake our confidence in the bits can be placed in lots of threes during the slightest degree . We know what bloody losses last week or so when they are undergoing the the enemy is suffering and we can await with- final finishing - off " process . During that out uneasiness the forthcoming developments . " The Petit Parisien " : " The British armies period small boiled potatoes mashed up and dusted with bran or middlings can be benefici- have retired , it is true , but that does not They have inflicted terrible aliy added to the menu . Young rabbits fatten mean and thrive better when accommodated in small losses on the Germans . Even if they have left in the enemy's hands some battalions , some groups than when placed singly in hutches . The plant necessary for rabbit - keeping can guns rendered useless , and some material diffi- be installed at a very low figure . The hutches cult to transport , even if the withdrawal has can be made from sugar boxes or packing cases , had to affect some towns like Peronne , Ham , these for preference being carefully taken to Bapaume , Nesles , we will not give the slightest pieces and built up to an approved standard credit to discouraging reports . An army or a design . A hutch measuring 3 feet or 4 feet portion of an army may bend momentarily long by 2 feet wide and 2 feet high will be under an impetuous infantry shock and the large enough for the heaviest breed , and for effect of asphyxiating shells , it may go back breeding purposes one - third must be divided some kilometres , but while it is unbroken , as off for the nesting compartment , the other is the British Army , it can re - form and can be A wooden reinforced by fresh troops , and can prepare two - thirds representing the run . partition must be fixed inside from back to for fresh fighting with every confidence in the front to form the nesting - section and an aper- ture must be cut therein ( near the back ) to act " The British High hutch is boarded on all sides except for the as a run - through " from nest to run . The Command has just sent congratulations couched in a style quite military in its restraint to the front which consists of a hinged wooden door British armes who have borne the shock of the covering the nesting compartment , with a German divisions selected and grouped to- All hinged wire - netting door for the run section , gether for their immediate crushing out . France joins single - heartedly in this homage , and bows low with the deepest emotion before the traditional heroic tenacity of those Allies who are shedding their blood on French soil for our mutual defence , and for the triumph All glory to the brave British Army . " each being simply fastened by means of a wooden " button . ' issue . " The " Intransigeant Before the hutch is ready for the doe the tarred and the interior whitewashed , floor should be tarred and sanded , the exterior holes being bored in the back and sides ( near of a common ideal . a few the top ) for ventilation purposes . THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY . An army " FOOD PROBLEMS . In the House of Lords last week Lord Rhondda ( Food Controller ) , replying to Lord Balfour , said as far as could be seen at pres- ent it would be possible to allocate this year about 10,000 tons ( possibly more ) of sugar to the private fruit grower , for making jam . He hoped this could be done without reducing the supply to manufacturers . the ally received , and the fund of £ 350,000 is in the first place necessary to cover any loss which may be sus tained on account of non - payment . The fund , how . The total amount of premiums received on these con- ever , is also necessary to provide for future contin- tracts was 11,003 , and the claims paid during the gencies , which include the payment of claims and the year amount to £ 627 . In view of the difficulty of continued non - payment of premiums on all policies gauging the value of the unexpired risks on existing which may come under the Act . During the past sickness and Aircraft Policies it has been decided year the losses due to the operation of the Act have to retain the whole of the General Branch Fund of been very considerable . 638,244 in reserve against liabilities . The Company has also had to face the severe de- The assets of the Company , in all Branches , as preciation in the value of investments , and has con- shown in the balance sheet are £ 107,283,371 , which tinued to make up the difference between the Service after reduction of the balance of £ 3,487,500 owing in and civilian pay of all members of the staff who are respect of the advance from our Flankers for purchase serving in His Majesty's forces . of War Loan shows an increase of £ 4,672,125 over 1916 . Apart from the Ordinary Branch Contingency Fund , In the Ordinary Branch the surplus shown is and in addition to the reserves held against the £ 1,584,540 , including the sum of £ 218,240 brought for liabilities shown by the valuation , an amount exceed- ward from last year . Out of this surplus the Direc - ing 64,740,000 has been reserved or carried forward , tors have added £ 400,000 to the " Investments Reserve and is available to meet depreciation or other con Fund , which stands as at 31st December , 1917 , at tingencies . The Balance Sheet includes 2,400,000 , and £ 178,412 has been carried forward . over £ 27,250,000 During the past two years an interim bonus of £ 1 British Government Securities ; this represents an in- per cent . per annum has been paid on all participatmg crease over last year of about £ 9,500,000 . The four Prudential Approved Societies have during in policies which became claims either by death or maturity , and the Directors feel that the existing the year paid to their members at their own homes total policyholders , are equitably entitled to a bonus of benefits amounting to a £ 1,303,380 , making equal amount on any distribution of profit . The amount of £ 7,044,956 paid in this way since the com- mencement of our National Insurance work . A Contingency Fund which stands at £ 1,500,000 was set up for the purpose of safeguarding the rights of striking feature of the year has been the large num- The Directors now ber of women admitted to membership , the number propose to transfer £ 1,000,000 from this fund which to being 232,787 as compared with 92,298 males . holders of participating policies . Balance Sheet of the Prudential Insurance Company , Limited , being the Summary of all Branches on the 31st December , 1917 . LIABILITIES . s . d . 00 L Shareholders ' Capital 1,000,000 Life assurance fund Ordinary Branch 49,349,826 9 10 Life assurance fund Industrial Branch 47,061,486 7 2 Insurance fund General Branch Investments reserve funds Contingency fund Courts ( Emergency Powers ) Act Reserve Advance by Bankers secured on £ 5,250,000 5 per cent . War Loan 1929-1947 Claims under life policies intimated and in course of payment Annuities due and unpaid Balance of bonus under life policies reserved for distribution ASSETS . onl property within the United Kingdom on property out of the United Kingdom Loans on parochial and other public rates Loans on I , ife interests Loans on Reversions . Loans on stocks and shares The Prudential Assurance Company has been much in the public eye since the war broke out . of its own , enrolled from members of the staff , has gone forth to fight for King and Country ; its contri- butions to the finances of the nation have been on a grand scale ; its leading officials in one direction or another have rendered willing and valuable service The allocation of the sugar to private fruit to the State . Prudential war policies for those growers would be made by the local Food called to join the forces of the Crown have supplied Control Committees , in co - operation with the Mortgages a widespread need . Investors have been heuped by War Agricultural Executive Committees . Per- an ingenious Prudential scheme to purchase War mits would be granted by the Food Control Mortgages Bonds . We have already written enough to justify Committees . The issue of sugar would be at the sentence with which we open this article ; but the rate of not more than ten pounds per head who can doubt that the public have watched with for every member of the household who was keen appreciation of the good work being performed , receiving rations of other foodstuffs , but , a the continuous increase in the war claim figures , larger allocation might , be made where published weekly - their passing of the first , second Committee considered this desirable . and third million , their steady approach even to the EXTRA JAM TO BE FOR SALE . fourth . Whatever experiences of the company we might expect to find narrated in the report for 1917 , In any case where an extra allotment of we should couna , first and foremose , on evidence being sugar was made it would be required that the given of the enhanced popularity of the Prudential . jam made from the extra sugar should be That evidence - surpassing in volume , perhaps , the placed at the disposal of the Committee aut anticipations of the most confident believer in the current prices for sale for consumption by the company - may be summed up in the following re- general public . sults Ordinary branch new business , 56,502 policies Applicants for sugar would be required to for £ 6,951,269 , increase of premium income £ 265,035 ; give an undertaking that the sugar would not be used for any other purpose . as compared with 48,258 policies for £ 5,080,989 and a They would premium increase of £ 72,654 in the previous year . In be credited with 14 lb. of jam for every pound dustrial branch premium income , £ 9,376,858 , as against of sugar supplied , and would be expected to £ 8,897,723 in 1916 - an increase of £ 479,135 , following reduce their purchases of jam to this extent . one of £ 392,660 . The result of the company's opera- DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH RESIGNS . tions , as epitomised in these figures can only be described as a magnificent success calling for sincere congratulations . SOME PRUDENTIAL , FIGURES . During the year 1917 the Prudential paid on En- In the House of Lords , the Duke of Mari- borough intimated that he had resigned from the Board of Agriculture because he disagrees with the policy of ploughing grassland in March . HOME - FED PORK . Loans on Company's policies within their surrender values Loans on Personal security Loans to Educational institutions sc- cured on income . VOL . XI SALES BY By Messrs . EDW BAL LEOMINSTER H NEXT Friday , Apr SHOW A OF V HEAVY and L Leon Schedule and Entr Note . - All Farmer get a Permit to Se County Agricultural LEOMINSTER AT TUESDAY , AT Cattle and S 11.30 ; Store Cat Entries kindly soli EDWARDS , Leominster , Herefo THE UPPER H Threequarters of a St DWARDS , RUSS Efavoured ' with in Jones ( who is giving by Auction , on 9 MONDAY , A The whole of the Agr Gearing , Dairy Utens Household Furniture , Excellent DAIRY ( with Young Cal Sale at 1.30 Auctioneers ' Offices and Tenbury . THE NEW IN DWARDS , RUSS Efavoured with Downing ( who is givi by Auction , at the UH permission of Mr. C. MONDAY , A 11 Capital CROSS 10 Nice Cross - Bre Young Sow , Agricult THE CRAIG , BARG DWARDS , RUSSI Ereceived instructi 350,000 00 ASSETS - continued . 6. d . Brought forward ... 25,153,902 19 5 Investments : - Deposit with the High Court ( 17,122 145. 5 per cent . War Loan , 1929-1947 ) 38,244 I 10 British Government securities ... 4,100,000 o Bank of England stock 1,500,000 o o Municipal & county securities , United Kingdom Indian & Colonial Government securi- ties ing , & c . 16,080 19 1 27,243,467 1 ' 299,779 5 9 3,487,500 o Colonial provincial securities ... 2,033,855 4 9 5,313,195 4 I 1,376,963 18 8 391,616 , 9 " Indian and Colonial municipal securities 3,5 , 658 9 4 , III о Ο Foreign Government securities 6,927,706 19 S Foreign provincial securities 379,871 S о 587 9 Foreign municipal securities -2,701,852 8 ∙ Railway and other debentures and £ 107,283,371 9 I debenture stocks and gold and sterling bonds - Home and Foreign 12,739,590 3 11 Railway and other preference and guaranteed stocks and shares and shares Railway and other ordinary stocks Rent charges ... 3,285,471 28 2,933,576 132 533,738 18 21 4,783,030 o 9,206 14 o 4,546,453 12 9 8,912,383 1 9 Freehold ground rents and Scotch feu duties 311,340 12 7 Leasehold ground rents House property 11,915,576 13 4 Life interests 1,094,762 15 II Reversions 45,716 10 5 Agents ' balances 184,390 17 10 Outstanding premiums Outstanding interest and rents 2,651,642 I 7 Interest , dividends and rents accrued Nil but not payable Bills receivable 38,090 6 Cash - On deposit ' Carried forward £ 25,153,902 19 S In hand and on current accounts 34,626 14 6 1,143,188 14 I 8,371 13 8 943,300 2 8 263,250 19 o 485,941 II 5 20,000 00 Nil 571,290 14 11 £ 107,283,371 9 , I The values of Stock Exchange securities are deter | already established , provides for the equalisation of mined , under the Articles of Association of the the book values and the redemption values at the Company , by the Directors . Due allowance has been date of maturity . made for accrued interest , and the book value of We certify that in our belief the Assets set forth these securities as set forth in the Balance Sheet in the Balance Sheet ( having regard to the standards investigation as to the actual saleable value on 31st stated therein less the Investments stands considerably below cost price . A careful indicated ) are in the aggregate fully of the value December , 1917 , compared with the book value , taken into account , and make ample provision for reserve funds shows that the Investments reserve funds are much all the liabilities of the Company . No part of any more than sufficient to meet any depreciation of the fund has been applied directly or indirectly for any permanent securities . securities have purpose other than the class of business to which been valued on a basis which , with Sinking Funds it is applicable . JOHN BURN , Actuary . Terminable A. C. THOMPSON , General Manager . G. E. MAY , Secretary . w . THOS . C. DEWEY , Chairman . W. EDGAR HORNE , T. PUGH ( Directors ) . The United States have already set us splendid example in this respect . No sooner did America join the Allies than she set about considering how she could most immediately bring help to the cause for which she had abandoned her neutrality . She could not in- stantly throw an army into the field . But she In these days of " substitutes " it takes a could assist the Alliance with money and with lot to surprise any of us , but it must be ad- dowment Policies matured £ 3,404,833 ; paid on claims food . She instantly set to work to do both . mitted that the use of dogs ' hair in the place by death £ 5,799,605 , of which amount £ 1,507,625 was smallholders , and others who feed pigs shall as Lord Rhondda has decided that cottagers , The American Food Controller , Mr. Hoover . of sheeps ' wool is , to say the least , unexpected . in respect of deaths directly arising out of the war ; regards the first pig in any year be entitled to grasped the dimensions of the problem at once . Yet that is the latest camouflage , " and the invested in British Government securities £ 9,500,0bu He saw that America must reduce her con- combings of long - haired dogs are being col- use the whole of it , outside any rationing Order , The total sum paid by the Company in Claims now sumption of food if the Allies were to have all lected by the Waste Utilisation people with the for the consumption of their household or de- We report that , with the assistance of the Chartered , the Company's affairs according to the best of our amounts to £ 144,000,000 . Since the outbreak of war , pendents , and be allowed to extend the con- they needed to maintain their strength in object of using them to make " woollen " goods . Claims occurring through enemy action have been sumption of such food over a period of twelve foregoing accounts and have obtained all the infor- as shown by the books of the Company . Accountants as stated below , we have examined the information and the explanations given to us and carrying on the war . There was no actual The first experiment was made by the owner dearth of food in America at this time , though of a kennel of chow - chows , and resulted in 3,107,640 ; ( 3 ) Civilian , £ 77,027 ; total , £ 3,456,667 . No part paid to date as follows :-( 1 ) Navy , £ 272,000 ; ( 2 ) Army , months . prices had risen considerably . Mr. Hoover's " wool " of a beautifully fine texture which has With regards to any home - fed pigs beyond in our opinion such accounts are correct and the for any purpose other than the class of business to mation and explanations that we have required and of any fund has been applied directly or indirectly first step was to show his fellow - countrymen been made up into jerseys and vests . Invested Funds , of which over £ 27,000,000 are in the first pig killed in any year , the recom- that , in spite of the apparent abundance , they dog owners can let their bow - wows help to £ 100,000,000 . Other British Government Securities , now amount to over mendation of Lord Somerleyton Committee will foregoing Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so which it is applicable . had undertaken new obligations which would beat the Boche ! They are asked to save the allow them to consider merely their combings , which should be plentiful just now , national needs , apart from the more impera- tive needs of their . Allies . The response of Americans all over the United States was re- markable . Not only did . they realise that they had a duty to their Allies which must come be- fore all other considerations , but they set to work to fulfil it in a way which dannot be sufficiently admired . They accepted all kinds of food restrictions in a spirit which showed that they had entered the war against Prussia in no half - hearted spirit . They went short , not because there was a real dearth of food in the country , but because they knew that their Allies were in need . not and to send them to : - The Sheeps ' Wool Depot , 22 , Queen's Gate Gardens , London , S.W.7 . DON'T ENCOURAGE RATS AND MICE . Every nibble of a rat or a mouse is a men- ace to the Nation's food supply . The careless livestock - keeper who pays no attention to cleanliness and system will always be troubled with rats and mice . He must alter his waya by preventing waste instead of encouraging it , if we are to win the war . The Ludlow District has again had a record year , and has paid many thousands of pounds in claims and sickness benefits . Copies of the Company's annual balance sheet , prospectuses and full informa- tion may be obtained from : -W . H. Parsons , 41 , Gravel Hill , Ludlow ; J. Hyde , High Street , Cleobury as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of probably be acted upon , but no actual decision as to this and other points recommended by that Committee has yet been reached . REGISTER FOR BACON . Mortimer ; A. P. Handley , 102 , Bargates , Leominster ; EVERY CUSTOMER TO CHOOSE HIS OWN properly vouched . We have also examined the Deeds RETAILER . Butchers ' meat can now only be bought from PHILIP SECRETAN , W. H. NICHOLLS ( Auditors ) . We have examined the Cash transactions ( receipts and Securities , Certificates , & c . , representing the and payments ) affecting the accounts of the Assets Assets and Investments set out in the above account , and Investments for the year ended December 31st , and we certify that they were in possession and 1917 , and we find the same in good order and safe custody as on December 31st , 1917 . 19th February , 1918 . DELOITTE , PLENDER , GRIFFITHS & Co. , Chartered Accountants . Assistant Superintendent : A. P. HANDLEY , 102 , Bargates , Leominster . District Superintendent : W. II . PARSONS , 41 , Gravel Hill , Ludlow . LEOMINSTER PROPERTY SALES . FOOD FOR THE HOLIDAYS . F. Allen , 35 , Lower Broad Street , Ludlow ; E. Price , Cliff Villas , Ludford , Ludlow ; W. A. Dunning , 1 , Station Drive , Ludlow ; E. Coslett , Ribbesford Ter- race , Leominster ; F. Pearce , Kimbolton , Leominster ; the retailer with whom the customer is regis- W. Evans , Waterloo , Ledgmoor , Weobley ; C. Howells , tered . Within the next month the customer Shobdon , Herefordshire ; J. B. Davis , 44 , High Street , will have to choose a retailer for bacon also . Kington ; G. Hopkins , Broad Street , Presteign ; A. In districts where the meat card has a second H. Cross , 11 , Bridge Street , Knighton ; E. Broome , counterfoil this will be used in registering for That thought was enough for the patriotic Rats are fond of a romp , but they come out Buffalo Lane , Clun ; F. Price , Blenheim , Craven bacon . Where , as in the London and Home American , as it should be enough for the pat- of their holes to feed rather than to play ; Arms ; W. Griffiths , Newton Street , Craven Arms ; Counties , the meat card has only a single riotic Briton to - day . We have an opportunity they greedily devour grain and meals , and what of accepting the national rationing scheme T. Millward , Rock , Bewdley ; J. Goode , Vicarage Road , counterfoil , the retailers will be supplied with they do not eat they spoil . War must be Ditton Priors ; Mrs. Rawlings , Temperance Hotel , " Bacon Registration Forms , " to be used by the same spirit in which the Americans ac- waged on the rat , and if he cannot be exter- Tenbury ; Miss Bowen , High Street , Cleobury Morti- their customers in lieu of the second counter - the Royal Oak Hotel , Leominster , on Friday cepted their food restrictions , at a time when minated he must not be allowed to raid your mer ; Mrs. Beddoe , Alpine Villa , Highley ; T. A. foil . Retailers must carefully preserve all last . their country need not otherwise have gone cornbins . short of food . The man who grumbles at the Nothing must be done to encourage the rod - Morris , Berrington Road , Tenbury ; A. T. Bowen , counterfoils and registration forms lodged with Mr. R. H. George offered for sale the free - tional supplies of food to be sent to holiday advent of rationing will be showing that he ent . Do not leave food about uncovered , par- does not yet realise what the war means , or From May 5 it will only be possible to buy hold residence at 145 , Bargates , known as West - resorts for the Easter holidays . It will not be bacon or ham from the retailer with whom the property was withdrawn . Mr. H. Easton was Bidding reached £ 425 , when the possible to send a supply of fresh butcher's meat sufficient for all the requirements of a card has been registered . Till then bacon the vendor's solicitor . heavy influx of visitors into any locality , and may be bought with coupons from any retailer retailers must therefore supply the requirements who is able to supply it . Registration forms of their registered customers before meeting will be in the hands of retailers about the those of visitors . ונן ticularly in the store - house . Cover all bins meal . Tenbury Road , Clec Hill . NO RAILWAY JOY RIDES . The whole question of railway travel is still , we are informed , under consideration . The them . middle of the week . FARMS TAKEN FROM FARMERS . A mass meeting of Worcestershire farmers what is meant by an Alliance of free peoples . when not in use , and each afternoon thoroughly The majority of British people are not likely sweep out the store - place so that not a grain to show any such churlish spirit , but many do of corn or a particle of meal is left anywhere not yet realise to what extent the whole food for Messrs . Rat and Mouse . problem has become one which makes it neces- Dust all lids of bins and shelves and do sary for all the Allies to take an equal burden . everything possible to disappoint rats and mice America , France , Italy and Britain are shar- when they explore your sheds in search of a ing each other's dangers on the battlefield . Tar all food receptacles half - way up talk of ticket rations soon after Easter has no They are also sharing each other's burdens at and have everything about the place clean and solid foundation . It is believed that the first home . This , perhaps , is the thought that neat . Your livestock will benefit ; every visi- step to reduce the number of travellers will be should dominate all others on the eve of a tor will admire your establishment , and - most the curtailment of the train services . The on Monday , at Worcester , sent a telegram to national scheme of rationing which Lord important of all - the nation will stamp you as position with which the railway companies are the Prime Minister expressing concern at the Rhondda is introducing . patriotic to the core ! faced at the moment is that there are more large number of disturbances of farmers through persons travelling now than before the war . sales of farms , and appealing to him to em- The fifty per cent . increase in the price of power War Agricultural Committees to veto The Speakers ' Section of the Ministry of Food FEEDING CATTLE WITH GRAIN . tickets has had no effect at all - an authority notices to men who are carrying out his request devoties itself to the task of making the coun- The question of feeding animals , cattle , pigs , said on Monday . " With staffs and stocks de to produce more food . try understand the causes of the present food game and poultry with grain is one which de- pleted , something must be done to restrict The chief speaker , Mr. F. M. Nunneley , shortage so that all may co - operate in meet- mands serious attention . It does not seem to travelling to the workers . Joy riding must be President of the Farmers ' Union National ing it with knowledge and goodwill . Practical be fully realised that to feed any of the above made as difficult on the lines as it is on the Executive , said farmers , on whom so much de- advice in making the best possible use of such on wheat , wheaten flour , rice , rye , rye flour , roads . We hope that the restriction of the pended , could not be expected to do their best foods as are obtainable is given to any organ- baley , barley flour , large butter beans , blue and services will secure this end without the need to produce more food whilst in a state of un isation or institution which applies for it , and green peas , manioc , split peas , coloured hari- for immediate rationing . certainty as to tenure . EXPLAINING THE FOOD SHORTAGE . A WARNING . A number of lots of property were offered at gate Villa . Messrs . Edwards , Russell and Baldwin then offered a number of important lots as follows : No. 17 , Drapers Lane , dwelling house and shop , occupied by Mr. White . Withdrawn at £ 550 . VISITORS TO TAKE THEIR RATIONS . The Ministry of Food ( as previously an- nounced ) is making arrangements for addi- It is desirable that persons visiting holiday resorts should take with them their supplies of The adjoining premises , 19 and 21 , Drapers rationed food , and , failing that , committees Lane , shop , house , and outbuildings , occupied have the power to prevent the local retailers by Mr. Hill . No offer . from supplying rationed articles on the produc- Piece of garden ground in Pinsley Road . tion of food cards registered elsewhere . Sold for £ 75 to Mr. T. Neild . These cards should , however , whenever pos A similar piece of ground containing build - sible , be presented through the retailers by ings was withdrawn at £ 100 . Mr. T. H. registered customers who give assurance that Matthews was the solicitor concerned . the owners of the cards are temporarily resi- A small orchard at Barons Cross , near Portaa dent at the registered customer's house . In all Warden , was withdrawn at £ 90 . Mr. C. E. cases coupons must be detached or the spaces cancelled . A. Moore was the vendor's solicitor . A freehold cottagé and 33 acres of land known as Rowley Field , Kimbolton , realised £ 210 , the purchaser being Mrs. W. E. Dodds , Spring Vale , Chepstow . Mr. H. Gosling was the ven- dor's solicitor . Printed and Published for the Proprietor by A. T. SOUTHALL , at his Offices , 27 , Drapery Lane , Leominster , of the late Mrs. Hund On TUESDAY , the useful HOUSEHO Effects . Removed for the con CORN EXCE Fully described in the AUCTIONEERS , Le Tenbury . Sale at II VALUABLE FREE BOROUGH OF EDWARDS , RUSSI received instruct Yates , to Sell by Aucti Leominster , on FRIDAY , AP at 4 o'clock in the af FIVE EXCELLENT ING HOUSES , being ETNAM STREET , erected , with slate roo 2 living rooms upon g upstairs ( No. 64 has al The Property has a Side of Etnam Street of 112 feet . The Property is in Smith , Messrs . Vale , the Owner , at the esti Landlord paying rates There is an excellen and access from each with 2 furnaces , ano coalhouses . The Town Water an Out - going Land Ta NOTE . - There is a ri the house No. 64 , ov from Etnam Street to the West side thereo For further particu LLOYD & SON , Solicit AUCTIONEERS , Leomins bury . By Messrs . E. H E. Hamm Auctioneers , Value and Insura Conduct all classes o VALUATIONS FOR P and BOOK DEBTS Q Attention , Prompt Set ESTABLIS Offices : -Highbury STAUNTON CO EXCELLENT GRAS BY AU M ESSRS . E. HAM structed to Off Auction , at the New I SATURDAY , A at 3.30 o'clock in the af of very useful GRASS high road near Pembr The Grazing of the 2nd February , 1919 . watered and have amp GEORGE POWELL , of show the lots , and fur had of the AUCTIONEER CHEESE- " Prospects of cheese summer industry are ex cultural Gazette . " the higher grade cheeses for some years . |