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Not before time it is announced that combined action to be taken behalf of the Home Office and the Ministry of Munitions connection with the employment of women. With the release of men, single and married, under Lord Derby's scheme, and the enlistment that is prooecding in acco

O/„ IN THE £ INTEREST FOR 12 MONTHS. Lend filO £l,OOO tout written promise to repay. sureties, fees, no rmpriries. Any distance Professional men. tradesmen, working men, etc., ooconrmodated daily. Show yon can repay, that is sufficient. Letters attended imanediatelv. Write or ca

REPORTS OF BIG SALES TO AMERICA. (From Expert Correspondent.) The present condition of the British wool market is one wliich gives scope for considerable comment, though in some respects there is not much to say immediately relative to the home trade. Dealers Bradford have been

AN OUTLINE OF NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMMES. " The Light Blues " at the Royal. The new musical comedy, "The Light Blues." with its pretty setting at Cambridge, and its novelties in the art of entertaining, will be the attraction the, Royal. Miss Dorothy Ward, old favourite with Newcast

STATEMENT AT NEWCASTLE TRIBUNAL. Men of 35 are -urgently required for the Army, and, according Colonel Wallace, who presided at the Newcastle Military Tribunal yesterday afternoon, considerably older men may have to be called upon to serve. This hint was made case in which a sin

hen it became known in Alnwick Yesterday that Major J. Wightman Douglas, R.E., whom the honour of D.S.O. and the Order of the Serbian hite Eagle were conferred, was to arrive at his home at Alnwick, it was resolved to extend to nim public welcome. A special meeting of the Alnwic

"Why, a book for young man." "Well, but what, kind of a young man? r ' "Oh, he's tall and has light hmi, and always wears a blue necktie."

The Financial Secretary Infirmary ledges the following rece.ved during the week ending December :—Odin-try Ilouseto-lioiise Collection, £5 10s. —Baptist Grange Road, Jarrow. 6d; West P.M. 13»; Tursdale 8»: St. Paul's Church, JaiTOw (Mayor's -Sunday). £5 lis: Sleefcburn Wee'cyan