Notes and Items

see a section with a lewis gun entrenched about half a mile from my house, in my mind's eye I conjured up hordes of fierce-looking bandits all armed with fearsome knives. Another minor incident was when someone threw a bomb at the Japanese Embassy only a hundred yards down the road from where I lived.

The Chinese, like the Americans, like a good show when they do anything. At night, for instance, everywhere is just a blaze of light, all the big stores and buildings being festooned with coloured lights and Neon signs of varying sizes and hues. The streets are thronged with shoppers, and theatre-goers in evening dress. In the winter there is skating from the middle of December till the end of February, this is continuous as the ice never melts, at times it is over a foot in thickness. All the lakes in the parks are skated on, and as the country is cut up by innumerable small creeks, it is possible to spend the day skating for miles into the surrounding countryside. In the summer the swimming-baths are always thronged as any other form of exercise is extremely hot work. G. W. Vero, Form VI.

In response to the Government's " Grow-more " campaign a School Allotment has been started. The object of this is not to supply either of the boarding houses with an endless store of vegetables, an impossible task, but merely to supplement the present quantities which have to be obtained from outside.

The site chosen for the plot is down near the shooting range and will cover an area of about 300 square yards when it is completed. The plot is to consist of three sections so as to provide a rotation of crops. So far, one section is finished and is now sown with various varieties of early potatoes.

The original digging was heavy going, as the land had previously been uncultivated grassland. Up to the present the enthusiasm for this valuable work has come from the Rise, but next term it it hoped that there will be many more keen gardeners who are not afraid of a bit of hard work.

In spite of the War the Five Million Club continues its good work. Already many children evacuated to the country have been supplied with sports equipment. Next term we hope to increase our number of members.

A further subscription has been voluntarily added to the School list on the suggestion of the Head of the School. 50