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Happy Housewife wins 'Family' Car Quiz

Winner of the two-tone Hillman Minx de Luxe saloon in the picture above is Mrs. M. Bown whose answers to the questions in the Car Quiz by Family (Summer 1962) brought her victory. She looks delighted at the prospect of owning the Hillman, and so do her husband (on her right) and her two little girls. On the right of the group is Mr. J. D. Sainsbury, who made the presentation, and on the far left is the editor of Family, Mrs. Carole Findlater.

£20 Prize J.S. Journal offers a prize of £20 for the most interesting account of the most unusual holiday taken in 1962 by any member of the staff. Entries should be about 1,500/2,000 words in length and photographs would be a help though not essential. Your entry should be sent to The Editor J.S. Journal J. Sainsbury Ltd. Stamford House London S.E.1. Please note that the date of closing is now November 30th, 1962.

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Contents William Donald My Fight with My Lawn Minor Miracle Hire Purchase Top Level Treatment Two Views from the Roof Fireworks Finale Griffin Report J.S. Buyers No. 1 Guildford Pot Social and Sports Cricket Final Staff News A Quick Flip in the

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Wil l iam Donald

Focus on Suppliers Number 5 tells the story of William Donald who sends the firm its excellent Scotch beef. We rate it the best beef in the world.

William Donald, above, has been sending beef toJ.S. for over 30 years and has played a great part in the joint effort of building up its quality and popularity. He has two farms, Binghill near Aberdeen and Milton of Kemoay. This picture was taken in the spring at Binghill.

The fifth of our series, Focus on Suppliers, is about William Donald, the sender of Real Scotch beef, for which he and J.S. are noted.

When, way back in 1930, William Donald began sending Scotch beef to Sainsburys he was not the first to do so. Before him a Stonehaven butcher named Blacklaws had started in a small way to send beef from North Eastern Scotland to Blackfriars. He died suddenly and our then Chief Meat Buyer,

Mr. John Collis, packed his bags and travelled post­haste to Aberdeen to look over the cattle experts of the area with an eye to picking Blacklaws's successor as a Sainsburys sender.

Having tramped all round Aberdeen at the end of the day footsore, weary and somewhat despon­dent, he still had found no one in whom he felt he could put that degree of trust necessary between a fresh meat sender and the Company. As he pon-

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dered on his problem he was approached by a young slaughterman who had noted his wanderings around the Aberdeen Meat Market and slaughterhalls whilst working in one of the booths. It was William Donald and, as a result of that conversation, John Collis decided that this was the man he should invite to Blackfriars to discuss with Mr. John sending Scotch beef to J.S. Thus started an association which has stood the test of 30 years and which has steadily grown closer with each succeeding year.

The relationship has in many ways been a re­markable one. Firstly, we are virtually Mr. Donald's sole customer, and similarly he too is our sole supplier of Scotch beef, this in spite of the fact that the volume today is many times that of the thirties.

Except for the period of war-time controls, as is well known, we have sought to sell only two sorts of beef, the best of the home produced and the best of the imported - Scotch and Argentine respectively.

Even in Scotland we are strong believers in the importance of the environment in which the cattle have been reared, and many times could have saved ourselves as much as 3d. per lb. by being prepared to expand the area from which our cattle are drawn by as little as 100/120 miles. This we have always

refused to do, our decision being based upon the flavour which in our opinion can alone be produced by animals reared in North Eastern Scotland in an area centred on Aberdeen.

For this reason Mr. Donald has become by far the largest buyer of prime beef cattle from this most famous of all producing areas. During the last 32 years his influence has grown to such an extent that it is almost impossible to overrate the extent of his dominance.

How good a judge of cattle is he ? Two stories perhaps will suffice to answer.

A few years ago the Smithfield Show at Earls Court decided to institute a carcase competition in which the live animals would be on display on the Monday and put up for auction and buyers were thus able to use their judgment and select beasts which in their opinion would later gain prizes in the carcase competition held on a subsequent day in the week. Mr. Donald bought 13 beasts and only managed to collect in the process 12 prizes! The 13th which let him down was disqualified for a technical reason, when on slaughter the heifer involved was found to be carrying a 2 lb. calf- not even a Donald could see that! Small wonder it is said that when he looks

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On the left is Alex Martin, manager of the J.S. cattle raising farm at Inverquhomery, blowing on a blade of grass to call a herd of young beasts across the field towards the camera. The animals are inquisitive, friendly, attracted by any noise, but easily frightened away. This J.S. farm is typical of the larger farms in Aberdeenshire on which cattle are "finished off." Mostly arable land worked to produce foodstuffs for the beasts - turnips, grain, grass. Through the long Northern winters the cattle live quietly in their courts. The picture below shows some beasts which will soon go out to grass after a sheltered winter.

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at a bullock "he does not see a beast at all he just sees two sides of beef!" - a just tribute to his experience and judgment.

The other story concerns an experiment being carried out by a scientist at Cambridge in which J.S. were collaborating, one of the items being to observe the correlation between the weights of steers and heifers, their dressing out percentage and the degree of fatting. The boffins were amazed at the accuracy of Mr. Donald's judgment which in the experiments became clearly apparent.

Today William Donald, Junior, a graduate of Aberdeen University, works with his father and is regularly to be seen buying cattle both from the auction marts and from the farms. Neither father nor son ever attempt to persuade a farmer to trade with them privately as opposed to putting their cattle through the mart, but of their own accord many producers have chosen to do so - a striking tribute to their reputation.

The business is, in fact, essentially a family one. Louis Donald, grandfather of William, Junior, was himself an active helper in his son's business prior to the war. He came out of retirement to lend sup­port in the business, and his bearded figure was well known throughout North Eastern Scotland. In earlier days he was one of three men who held the world record for cattle slaughtering, whilst in 1933 he and his son were concerned in a dramatic "corner" which took place just before the Christmas of that year.

Beasts from the Royal Farms were always keenly sought in early December by buyers from the principal London stores, and other traders who on advertising grounds were keen to be buyers of one of H.M. The King's beasts. These came under the hammer in John Duncan & Son's market in Aber­deen, and the first beast was knocked down to Mr. Donald at £62 - quite a good price in those days. The highest price reached was £160, and it

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gradually began to dawn on those around that they had not been able to buy the one or two beasts they each wanted. Naturally things heated up quite con­siderably. All too late, the other buyers discovered the Donalds had managed to buy every single one of the 18 beasts on sale and these were, of course, all subsequently sold through J.S. branches. The incident created quite a furore at the time.

Over very many years Mr. Donald's wife has been a tower of strength and of recent years his brother Lewis has also assisted him.

The family is very much a sporting one. Mr. Donald himself could well have been a professional footballer in his early days, whilst today he is a real power man on the golf course. His brother Lewis was a Powderhall sprinter, and young William's rugby career was interrupted by a succession of collar-bone injuries after he had gained the distinc­tion of a place in the North versus South Scottish rugby trial.

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Forres Market, held every Tuesday. The town is on the Moray Firth, Scotland's Riviera with a mild climate, always a bit ahead of the rest of the country. Local farmers bring their beasts as they are ready for sale every week and watch dourly as the auction goes on. The number of beasts on sale any week is around 50 but the quality is good. As they come into the sale ring they are weighed and the weight chalked up. The auctioneer here at Hamilton's Auction Mart is John F. James, once a farmer and now retired. He is well respected by the local farmers, a jovial, wisecracking man who introduces them with a good deal of personal banter as their beasts come into the ring. Selling is more leisurely here than in Aberdeen where several hundred beasts are sold each market day. It takes 40 or 50 seconds from the time the beast comes in, to the final bang of Mr. James's notebook which closes the bidding.

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Above is William Donald Junior {lighting his pipe), along with other buyers. He has just looked up at Mr. James to make a bid or perhaps merely to indicate that he's interested in this beast. It seems pretty interested in him. Once the bidding is closed the beast is led out by the stockman. On the right a typical Scottish cattleman who has spent his life on the farms and now works at the market. As the beast exits a stockman shears the buyer's mark on its haunch with a pair of scissors.

My Fight with my Lawn

In every British breast beats the (often frustrated) heart of a yeoman farmer. Read on for the story of J. L. Woods' contribution towards a greener and pleasanter Britain.

This spring I felt the time had come to do some­thing about our lawn. "Lawn" is really a somewhat optimistic description of the patch in the middle of cur garden. It had never been particularly special, and what with cricket matches while it was still wet, swings, a captive tennis outfit and a practice golf tee with one of those air balls, it had certainly a dejected air. Of course it was green in parts, and this was not so much due to grass as to clover, moss, pearlwort, bindweed, shepherd's purse, coltsfoot, dandelion and any other weed you'd care to mention plus a few that don't generally appear in the catalogue.

It wouldn't have been quite so bad if it had been flat; but, of course, this was hardly the case. The bumps we had found to be quite enlivening as far as the cricket was concerned and not too much of a hazard for clock golf. The mower, however, objected to them strongly and would cut the tops

off them in a flurry of dust and sparks, leaving yet another bare patch.

"Get rid of the weeds first, then you'll get your grass" was the advice of my neighbour. Very good advice, too, no doubt, but he had hardly grasped the size or complexity of the proposition.

"Selective weedkiller's the stuff, old boy. Just sprinkle it on; no trouble at all." I felt this to be the complete answer to a gleaming striped lawn in no time at all, and set to work with a hundredweight of pretty deadly looking powder. Reading the instruc­tions on the sack I realised to do the job properly it was necessary to mark the lawn off into squares. By the time I'd done this with a couple of hundred or so canes and several miles of string it was dark. I realised afterwards there was perhaps an easier way. However, the morning was fine, no sign of rain, dew on the ground . . . just the job, so with my 4 oz. measure marked on a jam-jar I proceeded to give it the works. With one short break for lunch this took me up till tea-time. The work was finished, 4 oz. to the square yard . . . perfect. Within twenty minutes we were in the middle of one of the biggest storms I ever remember. It simply bucketed down. The majority of my hundredweight of "you know what" was washed over the flower beds and about 300 yards down the road. In two or three days by the time the flood had subsided the flower borders looked pretty sick, the grass verges in the roadside were showing distinct signs of improvement, and my lawn was much as before.

"Why don't you try lawn sand ?" was my neigh­bour's next suggestion. By this time my fight with

my lawn was becoming a personal affair and I was feeling pretty determined to get the better of it . "I'll lend you my spreader if you like . . . save you a lot of time." This, I thought, is the answer. The lawn was just the right stage of dampness for the correct application of lawn sand. I quickly chased up a hundredweight of the stuff, and with the aid of my neighbour's machine distributed this, as I believed, quickly and evenly over the surface. The spreader is a little hopper gadget on two wheels -you just fill it and push it around. I used it like the lawn mower. I didn't realise, until a few days later, that some care should be taken to overlap the wheel base as it were. The sun blazed solidly for about a fortnight, after which time my lawn looked just like a carpet - regrettably, however, like a black-and-yellow striped affair, black where the lawn sand was, yellow stripes where I'd missed. "You ought to have watered that, old boy," my neighbour announced, so I nipped out and bought a hose. Before I'd got it home it was pouring again.

I felt the application of a little fresh seed on the bare strips would probably do the trick. The birds were all for it too. They used to stand around in a circle at a respectful distance while I spread it, then close in and clear it up as I moved on. I began to work on the principle that even the birds will get fed up with grass seed if they have enough of it, but they showed no sign of repletion for three weeks

or so. I think they brought a good many of their friends along to enjoy the fun.

By the end of a month I was tossing up whether to lay concrete, crazy paving or tarmac, but finally decided to start all over again with turves.

"Too far gone to do much about it now, old boy," said my adviser, "should returf it if I were you." Feeling that concrete or tarmac would be a symbol of defeatism, I ordered the turves. They were about a month arriving. Three days before they turned up the grass started growing - by the time they arrived we had the thickest, lushest, greenest growth of weed-free grass you could ever wish to see. "Takes time for that stuff to work, old boy," said Job next door. "What're you going to do with all them turves ?" Any offers ?

inor Miracle

Passers-by in Romford Road one Monday looked into our Forest

Gate branch, then but a few weeks old, and saw two young ladies doing

their shopping in a mini-car. This, as anyone can tell you, is no mean feat even on a Monday, and it is a

notion which we hope will not become popular among customers.

The purpose of this particular drive round the branch was to shoot

material for a film demonstrating the astonishing manoeuvrability of

the British mini-car. The film is to be shown at the Seattle Fair in

the state of Washington, U.S.A. On the whole it all went very well, even at the check-outs, though...

. . . there were points where they tactfully turned away the film cameras.

Getting it on the H.P. is a method of buying most of us have tried out; usually without any sort of hitch. We just pay the instalments then one day the goods are ours. How many of us took the trouble to count the extra cost or to find out our legal rights should a hitch occur? This article was prepared for J.S. Journal to explain in simple terms the nature of the contract we enter into when we sign a hire-purchase agreement, and what protection the law gives us if something does go wrong.

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Author of The Law for Consumers

Hire purchase is a compromise between two con­flicting interests. The buyer, on the one hand, wants to pay for goods by instalments, and yet to have the use of them while he is doing so. The shop, on the other hand, wants to make a sale, and yet to have some security against the buyer defaulting on the instalments. Hire purchase is the answer. Until the goods are completely paid for they do not belong to you - they are only on hire. Just as when you hire a taxi, the taxi does not belong to you, so when you have goods on hire purchase they do not belong to you. But this is a hire with a difference. As soon as you have had the goods on hire for a specified period, and paid the hiring charges for that period, you buy the goods at a nominal price. Then, and only then, do the goods become your property.

Many of the things available on hire purchase are mass produced consumer goods - television sets, washing machines, cars, and so on. You can buy the particular make of what you want almost anywhere. Furthermore, you can get it on hire purchase almost anywhere. There are business men competing for your custom, not only in the retail shopping world, but also in the hire purchase world. The competition can be very keen indeed. Hire purchase terms vary quite considerably, and it is not easy to compare one proposition with another. The way goods available

on hire purchase are advertised does not enable you to determine very easily which is the better bargain; more emphasis is inclined to be laid upon the size of the weekly payments than on the overall amount payable.

People are inclined to think that so long as they can afford to pay the amount due each week, it does not matter how long they have to go on paying it. But the only way of judging the better bargain is to work out which one has the cheaper hire purchase charges.

In most cases you will find that the cash price of the goods is displayed, as well as the amount of the instalments and the amount of the deposit. This cash price is, of course, the price you would pay if you had the cash there and then. This sum is the basis of your calculation. Now take the deposit, add it to the total of all the instalments, and add to that the price of the option to purchase. (This is usually 10s. or a £1; you'll find it in the agreement.) This gives what is called the total hire purchase price. Now deduct from the total hire purchase price the cash price and you are left with the amount of the hire purchase charges - the additional amount it is going to cost you to have the goods on hire purchase instead of paying cash. It is this figure that you should compare amongst the various shops offering

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the same product on hire purchase terms. In doing so you should make some allowance for the period of the hire purchase - the longer the period over which you are paying for the goods, the more you must expect to pay by way of hire purchase charges. If you are really keen, it is possible to work out the cost of taking the goods on hire purchase as a rate of interest per cent per annum, but not many people have the patience to do this.

Finding the cheapest bargain in terms of money is not the only factor, however. The legal effect of the hire purchase agreement is also important. It is quite possible for there to be substantial differences in the legal effect of different hire purchase agree­ments; all that small print in one shop's agreement may be quite different from the small print offered at another shop. The best way of assessing the most favourable bargain from this point of view is to take a solicitor's advice. This may be a bit far fetched when, say, you are buying something costing under £10, but it is well worth while, if, for example, you are getting a car on the hire purchase, or anything else involving an outlay on your part of several hundred pounds. You can get legal advice from a solicitor for £ 1 , or maybe less, under the official Legal Advice Scheme. You can obtain further details of this scheme from the local Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you don't get a solicitor's advice, what are the most important things to watch out for ? And how do you stand if things go wrong ?

Above or Below £ 3 0 0 The most vital thing to ascertain in advance is whether the total hire purchase price exceeds £300 or not. You remember that the "total hire purchase price" is the figure arrived at by adding together the deposit, the full amount of all the instalments and the final sum you have to pay to exercise your option of buying the goods. If that sum exceeds £300, you need to be a lot more wary than if it is £300 or less. The reason for this is that the law automatically gives you a measure of protection if the total hire purchase price is £300 or less. This is as a result of the Hire Purchase Acts, 1938 and 1954. If the total hire purchase price is over £300 (as it often is when buying a car on hire purchase), the law offers you no protection and it is up to you to make sure that the agreement is not unfair to you. It is in these cases that the advice of a solicitor is particularly desirable. But even where the Hire Purchase Acts do apply, you should make it your business to understand the agreement, as there is still a lot of room for differences on the legal side.

A hire purchase agreement should not be con­fused with a credit sale. The vital difference

between the two is that in a credit sale the goods become your property right from the start - there is no question of having the goods on hire at all. On the whole it is not so necessary to read the terms of the agreement (if there is one) in the case of a credit sale, because you are better off just because it is a credit sale. If the price under a credit sale is payable by five or more instalments, then the law treats it as if it were a hire purchase agreement, so far as possible, so that if the total price for a credit sale is £300 or less, and it is payable by at least five instalments, the buyer has the protection of the Hire Purchase Acts.

Before dealing with the way in which the law gives this protection, mention should be made of the other side in a hire purchase agreement. With whom is the agreement made ? In quite a lot of cases it is the proprietor of the shop where you selected the goods; the same firm makes the hire purchase agreement as keeps the shop where you "bought" the goods. This, on the whole, is an advantage, because it is easier to claim your money back in cases where the assistant made out that the goods would do something which they wouldn't, or that they were of better quality than they really were. In many cases, however, a hire purchase agreement is not made with the proprietor of the shop where they were selected. It is made with a hire purchase company, or finance company - that is to say a company whose main business is to provide goods on the HP. In these cases, the shop sells the goods to the hire purchase company, which in turn hires out the goods to you on the HP. If this is the case, your rights against the hire purchase company are not usually affected by anything said by the shop assistant about the quality of the goods; you are dealing with two separate businesses - the shop and the hire purchase company and it is wrong to think of them as being the same thing.

What then is the protection given by the Hire Purchase Acts ? There are three important rights which the consumer has in cases where the Acts aPPly (i-e. where the total HP price is £300 or less). These are concerned with: (1) The quality of the goods, (2) how much you have to pay if the goods are returned, and (3) repossessing the goods without a court order. Let us deal with these in turn.

£ 3 0 0 or less - Quality If the goods are new they must be of reasonable quality. This means that they must do the job for which such goods are normally used; another way of expressing it is to say that the goods must not be defective so as to make them unsaleable. If the goods have some defect, so that no reasonable person, knowing of that defect, would buy the goods as new, then you can claim that the defect should be

put right. This sort of thing is often covered by the guarantee (or warranty). But your rights (if any) under the guarantee will usually lie against the manufacturer; your rights under the Hire Purchase Acts lie against the hire purchase company. (In what follows the expression "hire purchase company" will be used, but the same applies to cases where the shop itself provides the hire purchase facilities.) Your right to have goods free from defects is in addition to your guarantee, and is not hedged round with conditions in the way that guarantees often are. For example, as a rule you cannot claim under a guarantee if the defect only appears after the guarantee has expired, even though it was there -undetected - right from the start. But you can claim against the hire purchase company in respect of a defect at any time up to six years from when you entered into the agreement, provided that you can prove that the defect was there from the start. The hire purchase company is, however, entitled to provide in the agreement that it shall not be liable for defects which it could not reasonably be ex­pected to know about at the time of the agreement.

£ 3 0 0 or less - Terminat ion Where the total hire purchase price is not more than £300, the consumer can return the goods at any time. If he finds that he cannot afford to go right through with the HP, he has the right to notify the hire purchase company of this and to return the goods. But it is not as simple as that. The agreement invariably provides that, if this happens, the con­sumer has to pay up a specified sum of money so as to be allowed to return the goods. It is not just a case of returning the goods and paying no more. Where the Hire Purchase Acts apply, there is a restriction on how much this may be. The Acts provide that in these cases, on termination of the agreement, the consumer need not pay more than the amount required to bring the total that the consumer will have paid altogether up to exactly one-half of the total hire purchase price. It will be seen from this that the best plan (if you find that you cannot afford to go through with an HP agree­ment) is to go on paying the instalments until the time comes when you have paid half the total hire purchase price. There is no point in turning in the agreement before this, as you will have to pay the same amount anyway, so you may as well have the use of the goods in the meantime. Once you have paid half, you notify the hire purchase company that you do not want to go through with it and the goods can be sent back. Having paid half the total hire purchase price, you cannot be made to pay more, unless the goods have been damaged, de­stroyed or lost. If, of course, at the time you first decide you do not want to go through with the

agreement, you have already paid half of the total hire purchase price, you do not need to wait; you just notify the hire purchase company, the goods go back and you pay no more. All this is subject to one important qualification. In any event you must pay all instalments due up to the time you terminate the agreement. If, for example, you haven't paid half the total hire purchase price, but under the terms of the agreement you should by then have paid that much (there being some instalments in arrear), then on terminating the agreement you can be forced to pay all instalments due up to the time when you ended the agreement, even though this will bring the amount you have paid to more than half the total hire purchase price.

£ 3 0 0 or less - Repossession If you default on the agreement, so that instalments get into arrear, the hire purchase company, under the terms of the agreement, may itself terminate the agreement and take back the goods. The amount of money it may demand from you in this event is restricted in precisely the same way as the amount you have to pay if you yourself end the agreement, as just described. But there is a further rule in this case. This says that if you have already paid one third of the total hire purchase price, the hire pur­chase company must take you to court in order to get the goods back. It cannot just send its men along to your home and seize the goods. Letting a case go to court can be an advantage, although there may be snags. On the hearing of the case, the judge will enquire into your means to see what you can afford to pay. He may then order you to pay off the rest of the hire purchase debt by such instalments as you can reasonably afford, which may, of course, be far easier than under the original agreement. Whilst you keep up the payments under the court order, you may keep the goods. But one snag of going to court is that you are likely to be ordered to pay the court costs; although they may not be very much (it depends to some extent on the amount of the instalments in arrear), it is adding to your financial burdens at a time when you have quite enough on your plate already.

Over £ 3 0 0 If the total hire purchase price is more than £300, the Hire Purchase Acts do not apply, and the con­sumer is less well protected. Thus, there is nothing to stop the hire purchase company providing in the agreement that on termination (either by the con­sumer or by the hire purchase company) the consumer must pay any sum they like to mention. It could be two-thirds or even three-quarters of the total hire purchase price, whereas in cases covered

by the Acts, of course, the limit is one-half of this sum. It is particularly necessary to read through the agreement carefully, where you are paying overall more than £300, to see how much has to be paid if the agreement has to be brought to an end. Another thing to watch out for is a clause dealing with the quality of the goods. This may say that you acknow­ledge that you have not been given any representa­tion as to the quality of the goods, whereas you may have been told in glowing terms about the things the goods can be relied upon to do. The clause may say something about "all warranties and conditions as to quality, and fitness for purpose, are hereby excluded," which means that the hire purchase company does not vouch for the goods at all; thus you will have to go on paying for them, even if they turn out to be no good to you. Thousands of buyers of cars have come unstuck as a result of this sort of clause. On discovering that the car which has been acquired on the HP does not work properly (or at all), the consumer has to pay for the car to be put in order himself. Furthermore, he will have to go on paying the hire purchase instalments in the mean­time, regardless of the condition of the car. It is all very hard; it emphasises the importance of under­standing the risks you are taking, in signing a hire purchase agreement for more than £300. If the goods are new, you probably have some sort of guarantee, but that, too, should be carefully read and understood, for many of them are not what they seem, and sometimes take away more rights than they confer.

Cheaper to Default ! As a result of a case that was decided in the House of Lords, the highest appeal court in the land, early this year, it now seems to be the law that a person who has goods on hire purchase, who decides he cannot afford to go on, is better off if, instead of notifying the hire purchase company that he wishes to terminate the agreement, he defaults under it, refusing to pay more, and writes saying he must break the terms of the agreement. The curious logic of the case is this. A person who is in breach of contract must pay damages; these damages consist of the amount by which the innocent party is out of pocket as a result. Sometimes contracts provide specifically in so many words for the amount of damages that must be paid if there is a breach of contract. The law does not permit this sum to be excessive, so as to put either party under a terrible threat to perform his contract. For example, if in commissioning the writing of this article, the editor had made it a term of the arrangement that if the manuscript was not delivered by a certain date the writer would pay damages of £500, then that sum, being extortionate, would not, according to law,

be payable. The amount recoverable would be limited to such sum as the editor could show he was actually out of pocket as a result of late delivery. Provision for the payment of excessive damages is called a penalty. What has all this to do with hire purchase ? The answer is this. Hire purchase agreements usually provide, as we have already seen, that if the consumer defaults he must pay, in addition to all arrears of instalments, a further sum so as to bring what he has paid altogether up to half, or two-thirds, or even three-quarters of the total hire purchase price, depending on the circum­stances. Now that is an example of what has just been described - it is a clause whereby a sum of money is to be paid on the breach of a contract, and accordingly if it is excessive - if, in fact, it represents more than the amount which the hire purchase company is out of pocket, then it is a penalty, and the company can only recover the true amount of its loss. But on the other hand, the hire purchase agreement also provides that the con­sumer may himself opt out of the agreement; if he does this, there is no question of a breach of con­tract. Quite the reverse, in fact, for in this case the consumer is performing the contract. He is exercis­ing a right which he is given by the agreement. No question of a penalty here. But, of course, in practice the situations are almost identical. In one the consumer says: "I am going to break this agreement, as I cannot afford to go on," in which case he need only pay the amount the hire purchase company is out of pocket. In the other, the con­sumer says: "I exercise my right of returning the goods as provided in the agreement," in which case he is bound to pay the amount provided in the agreement, even though, as often happens, the hire purchase company is, as a result, much better off than it would have been had the consumer gone through with the agreement to the end. The motto which emerges from this complicated situation is this. If you cannot afford to go through with the HP, break the agreement, do not opt out. Do not say: "I opt out of the agreement" - say instead: "I am going to default under the agreement." It could turn out cheaper for you.

A final thought on the subject of hire purchase. Do you really need to use it ? Hire purchase is a comparatively expensive way of (in effect) borrowing money. The rate of interest is higher than when borrowing from a bank. Another dis­advantage of the hire purchase system is that the hire purchase charges are not deductible for Income Tax, unlike bank interest. If you have some readily accessible savings, such as money in the Post Office, it is cheaper to cash those savings, use the money to buy the goods for cash, and replace the savings bit by bit over a period. But who has the strength of will to do that ?

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Top Level Treatment

Bringing in new equipment to our Factory becomes a problem when boxes are too big for our lifts.

Solution is to hoist them up to 4th floor windows using an eighty foot crane with a twenty foot

fly jib on a Saturday when traffic is at a low ebb. Picture on the right was taken in Paris Gardens as

one box goes in. In the top left picture Messrs. H. Green and G. Gibb of Factory Engineering Dept.

watch as the boxes are unloaded. Lower picture shows how small clearances were for this operation.

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:ture at the foot of these pages. It was taken from our factory roof to show the new properties we had taken ken in June this year and gives some idea of the changes that have affected the skyline nford House and in the left foreground Wakefield House and theJ.S. Training Centre. St. Paul's is now blocks of offices appear on the City skyline and on the right St. Christopher's House i the middle is still selling rum but it's Lamb's instead of Lemon Hart.

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When the City of London Festival ended it did so with a bang.

It would be a good idea, thought the organisers of the City of London Festival, to wind up the week's festivities with Handel's Music for the Royal Fire­works. So, on July 20th, the band of the Welsh Guards took to the river in a barge. They ended their musical performance at 11.25 p.m. when there was a loud explosion followed by a beautiful burst of light 500 feet up in the air.

The fireworks in this display were fired from the firm's car park which lies between the river's edge and Upper Ground, and organisation had begun several days previously. The programme planners of the Festival had long before got permission from the Port of London Authority and the River Police and

had then approached Brock's who contracted to pro­vide fireworks and rocketeers. Costs of a display like this govern its length and the variety of pieces that are used. Insurance must be taken out and fire pre­cautions laid on. In this case, Mr. Tasker, of J.S. Maintenance Department, and Mr. Preston, the firm's Fire Prevention Officer, were the worried men.

By Wednesday, July 18th3 the end of our car park was sealed off and Brock's men moved in to set up their equipment. Man in charge was Mr. A. R. Thaxter, who for years has been organis­ing shows like this for Brock's in many parts of the world. He had just got back from the Middle East and was due to leave for Uganda when the London

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The flower of fire on the opposite page is known, among firework men, by the unromantic name of a bag. It explodes not very high up nor as noisily as some others. It is, however, one of the very beautiful inventions of the designers of fireworks. Below, is Mr. A. R. Thaxter, of Brock's, planning the order of his salvos. He does it year in year out all over the world. Bottom, Brock men attach leads to the Roman candles standing in homely dustbins. The complexity of the wiring is obvious from the picture on the right. There are bags in every chest!

display was completed. His first job on Thames-side was to decide where to deploy his artillery, for he had to fire 400 Roman candles, 120 mines, 210 shells, 50 more, even bigger, shells and a special series of six shells that explode, once, twice, three times and so on. Besides these there were the opening and closing explosive salvos. He put all his mortars in the car park, and the mines and Roman candles on the end of the pier. The area was covered in a foot deep layer of sand and into this 210 heavy card­board tubes were sunk.

Nearby, ten metal tubes were set up for the open­ing and closing salvos and six 8-inch metal tubes for the biggest shells. Into each cardboard tube its

shell was placed and then fuses were connected so that they would fire in rows; either five 5i-inch shells or ten 4J-inch.

On the pier 15 dustbins were filled with Roman candles and about 20 tea chests with mines, or "bags". These too were all connected by fuses and the leads carefully arranged, at a safe distance, in the order of firing. The lids were placed on the bins and the tea chests and silver foil over the mortars, not only to keep out rain but also to prevent sparks setting off anything during the display.

The fireworks themselves are very different from the "light the blue paper and stand clear" variety. The "shells" are made of papier mache and look

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Intent observers, top left, are Mr. I. Tasker, of J.S. Maintenance Department, and Mr. K. Preston, J.S. Fire Prevention Officer. They're looking across an emplacement of mortars {below). The big ones are 5i inches, the small ones 4\ inches. They are heavy cardboard tubes with foil tied over them to keep out rain and sparks. All coverings are blown off in firing. The shells seen above are similar but bigger than those

fired from these tubes. They are made of papier mdche with a propellent charge in the tapered container. Brock man is fixing the fuse which will detonate the shell {an 8-inch) 800 feet up in the air. Opposite, the first Roman candles go off and Mr. Thaxter begins to feel a bit relaxed.

like turnips. The bottom part contains an explosive charge which sets up the compression in the tube to fire it into the air. Inside the shell are the explosives and chemicals which burst to create shapes of fire and colour. The mines are similar in shape but, being made of paper, are called "bags". They explode a few feet up and make all manner of fan­tastic patterns. Only the Roman candles stir nostalgic memories though even they are enormous.

Friday afternoon saw everything ready except for some last-moment operations. About eight o'clock things began to happen again. The 8-inch shells were unloaded, the fuses prepared, and the shells

carefully arranged in the order in which they were to be fired. The batteries used to fire the fuses are 12-volt ones like you find in any car, and are placed in position at this stage of the display. Firing is done by bringing the fuse leads into contact with the terminals. At ten o'clock a fire engine arrived and unrolled hoses in readiness to deal with any mishap.

At 10.30 the music began and tension rose. Two sailors arrived to keep in touch with the musicians' barge by signal lamp. At 11 o'clock Mr. Thaxter made his final check that all was well and then took up his position amongst the mortars. At 11.18 p.m. a signal flashed across the Thames. A sailor shouted

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Firing 8-inch shells. Man on right holds lighted taper while others load. Shells are arranged in order in tea chests on left. Mr. Thaxter shouts "Eights" fuses are lit, shells go up 800 feet and explode. Noise is shattering above and on the ground. Below: After the fireworks the fire. Much excitement while jetty burned. Local firemen, standing by, never gave it a chance.

"Five Minutes." At 11.23 another signal "Stand­by!" At 11.25 a third signal "O.K. now!" First shells were shot high into the air and for the next 20 minutes all was confusion of deafening explo­sions, blinding flashes and wonderful bursts of flame and in the middle of it all Mr. Thaxter, huddled over his programme, shouting calmly "Candles - four and a halves - five and a halves - eights - bags . . ."

and as he shouted two terminals were touched or a fuse was lit until suddenly there was silence, dark­ness, the smell of smoke, charred paper and the harsh tang of burnt cordite.

The show had run its course, our eardrums were aching, the fire brigade was putting out a small patch of fire in the pier timbers and the City of London Festival was over.

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Griffin Report

Unfortunately, in the last issue, it was not possible to report on tennis owing to lack of space. It was pleasing to state that this season, not only has the very high standard been maintained, but in the Griffin Championships we have seen some well-established players beaten by new members. Our league team still have a 100 per cent winning record at the time of writing, but regretfully some of the matches have been awarded to us by default.

The third Golf Meeting of the Year, to be held on the Hill Barn Course, Worthing, on Sunday, September 23rd, will take the form of the annual Branches v. Depot match, and we look forward to the usual enjoyable day.

Cricket has continued to flourish, and certainly as far as the Sunday Club XI is concerned it has been one of the most exciting seasons for many years. We have had a most enthusiastic team and the strongest batting side for a long time. The standard of the Saturday teams has been steadily improving, and there are signs of their returning to their former glory. Mid-week cricket has been confined to one team, " G " Section, but they can look back on the season with satisfaction. The Area Competition has been successfully brought to a conclusion, with Mr. Dyer's and Mr. Knight's areas contesting the Final (see page 32).

The small band of keen bowlers have kept going with the occasional matches and competitions, but they would always welcome new players.

We shall have gone to press before Finals Day at Dulwich on Sunday, September 2nd, but a full report will be appearing in the next issue.

Our thoughts are now turning to winter sports, but branch football is still in an uncertain state. We do know that " A " Section will be playing in a local Sunday League at Dagenham and " H " Section will be competing in the Croydon Wednesday League. We shall be entering a representative team in the Thursday Section of the Beckenham Hospital Cup, and our own Mid-week Cup Competition will also be held.

After a slow start last year our Saturday teams finished strongly, and we do hope this augurs well for the season now upon us. We shall again be entering four teams in the West End League, with additional sides being formed if there are enough players.

A full programme of Saturday matches for the

netball team has been made, and once again new players will be welcome.

Badminton, on Mondays and Wednesdays, and table tennis on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will be functioning as usual in the Blackfriars Canteen throughout the winter. League and friendly matches have been arranged and members are invited to come along to the Club Nights.

LES POTTER.

Redfin's Good Season Since the glorious 16th of June when the coarse fishing season opened, Redfin Angling Club has been doing really well on their mile stretch of the River Beult at Linton, near Maidstone. Every weekend twenty to thirty fishermen with families are there.

J.S. Buyers Four of our grocery buyers open this new series which will introduce J.S. people from the departments which buy the many products we sell.

Mr. S. T. Eastwood buys bread and cakes. He is looking at a map of the Cowley area to locate likely bakers there who would be able to supply the new branch with three or four batches of fresh bread daily. Mr. Eastwood joined J.S. in 1930 as an egg boy at 3 Hove. He worked at all our Hove branches, became a

Q.M.S. in the army and after his return came to Blackfriars on the panel of training staff. He joined the Buying Office in 1947, became biscuit buyer and buyer for a small but growing cake trade. Today he is kept busy buying breads and many kinds of cake, inspecting bakeries to ensure that they are up to J.S. standards and looking for novel lines. Golfing and gardening fill up spare moments.

M r . C . A . P r a t t buys some of the proprietary grocery lines. Coffee, jellies, pastes, but most of all he buys confectionery. Not only the many proprietary sweets but the increasing number of J.S. "own name" lines. He joined the firm at the extraordinarily early age of 13 on December 27th, 1942 {he was 14 two weeks later). He worked first of all in the Post Depart­ment, then in Retail Sales under Mr. Atkins and then went into the Sales Office. It was in 1957 when he went into Grocery Buying and took on sweet buying, a job he enjoys. He says it has a tendency to make you fat, but he seems pretty cheerful about that.

Mr. B. M. M a t t h e w s who joined J. S.inl 960, buys Eastcheap lines. That is, pulses, cereals, dried fruit, sugar, spices, almonds, walnuts, glaci cherries and all sorts of non-proprietary lines called Eastcheap after the City of London Street where this trade has gone on for centuries. In fact before Mr. Matthews joined us he was with a firm whose records went back to 1666. They couldn't go any

further because that was the year of the Great Fire of London. Romance about many of these products belongs mostly to a past when fortunes were being made in the Spice Islands. Nobody makes a fortune any longer. Mixed spice for instance has six ingredients which come from India, China, Zanzibar, Morocco and the West Indies. We manage to sell it shipped, milled and prettily packed at 3%d. an ounce.

Mr. F.W.A. Moss, left, is looking at glasses of squash to compare colour. His main lines are pickles, sauces, vinegars and soft drinks and some proprietary lines. Mr. Moss joinedJ. S. in 1935 at Blackfriars and was at first in the 'Sales to Branches' office. By 1939 he was in Personnel Department and after the war he came back to the Sales office. In 1952 he joined the buying office and began to learn the ins and outs of the pickles and sauce trades. These trades are full of their own peculiarities and a buyer must build onto his experience by constant practice. New techniques are developing as modern industrial chemistry begins to play a part in production and a buyer has to keep up with the latest methods in use. When Mr. Moss isn't buying he spends his spare time maintaining his car.

Guildford Pot At Guildford, where our branch is going through extensive changes, the builders have had to dig deep. Local archaeologists have kept a close eye on the excavation searching for relics of the past. Most complete piece uncovered in the operations was this 13th-century ewer, a beautiful example of the pottery of the period and the district. It stands just over 12 inches high and is a delicate biscuit colour.

DEAR SIR,

I thought you might like to hear about my nephew who is age ten.

Ever since he was a baby he has eaten Lib 2 of Sainsbury Sausages every week, for Sun lunch its always the same sausages & onions, must be Sainsbury, you try & give him any-one elses, he knows directly, if his mother takes him out to tea, she takes the sausages with her, in your shop at St. Albans the assistants all know him, on Sat mornings in he goes regular as clockwork, "two pounds of sausages, over rather than under" he came to lunch to me last Sun. I of course had done "Sainsbury's sausages & onions" if you had seen his face, you would have thought I had given him gold, I might add the other thing he has at meal times is Dairy-Lea cheeses, if I had ever read of any-one doing this I would never believe it, but to me, its so funny to see him, I felt I had to write & tell you, incidently I have never seen a more healthy looking boy or a child with such lovely skin, his never seen a Dr. for about seven years, I dont know whether its your sausages or not. C. R. DESMOND (Mrs.).

We are breaking an editorial rule for once and publishing an anonymous letter. DEAR SIR OR MADAM,

When I left your employment some time ago I found the following items among my belongings, there was also another knife which I have mislaid, one white china vase which is broken, one old sheet used for covering mattress, and some old aprons used as ironing sheets. As those things are no use to you and I can still use them I am enclosing 10s. P.O. as my conscience pricks every time I see them. Will you please acknowledge these in your next issue of Magazine. If you are at a loss to know what to do with P.O. please give it to some

I children's benefit. I wish to remain anon.

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"R" are Winners The first time

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Night out for Curing Cellar S ta f f Cheerful J. S. people above are dining at the White Bear after a visit to "The Sound of Music." Top picture, Mr. and Mrs. C. Bush, Mr. and Mrs. F. Grew, Mr. and Mrs. A. Duffy and Mr. and Mrs. A. Cassar. Lower picture, Miss C. Mitchell, Mr. W. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. J. Blair, Mr. L. Hodges, Miss M. Orchard and Mr. and Mrs. W. Quinn.

Bristol on a day off Bristol section of the S.S.A. organised a trip to Weymouth on Sunday, July 1st. Looks as if it was a lively day out for this active section.

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A t H a v e r h i l l H u n g r y P e o p l e Five-year-old Stephen Bettrey, whose father works at Haverhill, tucks into the grub at the Section Barbecue last June. Top right are: Mr. C. Turner, Mr. D. Pillar and Mr. J. Robbie making with the cookery. Below them more hungry people.

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Area Cricket Final 1962 This season's Area Cricket Final took place at Dulwich on August 12th, when Mr. Dyer's XI played Mr. Knight's XI. The match opened with Mr. Knight's Area XI batting, and after a poor start they picked up to close their innings at 74 runs. Mr. Dyer'sXI went in and won a decisive victory for the Area with 76 runs for three wickets.

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The cup was presented to the winning team's captain, Mr. J. Tobin,

by Mr. J. Clay, Chairman of the Sainsbury Staff Association.

Mr. D y e r ' s A r e a XI. Standing 1. to r. Messrs. F. Holley, K. Harris, K. Whitlow P. Goodwin, J. Taylor, W. Eddie. Kneeling ; Messrs. J. Coxhill, R. Harrison, J. Tobin, L. Gibbons, L. Jones. Mr. K n i g h t ' s A r e a XI. Standing I. to r. Messrs. B. Smith, L.Jones, B. Mansfield (scorer), D. Mapp, L. Barker. Kneeling ; Messrs. B. Gill, D. Mohan, E. Cole, L. Mansfield, G. Sparkly.

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Obituary

Mr. S. H. Shipsides

Mr. S. H. Shipsides, a great tradesman Mr. S. H. S h i p s i d e s , one of the firm's six first Area Superintendents appointed in 1944, died on July 28th at the age of 71, in Edgware Hospital.

Mr. Shipsides joined the firm in 1908 just before his 17th birthday. He was appointed manager at the age of 26 at 17 Forest Gate, and later managed branches in Wood Green, Paddington and Cricklewood. In 1929 he became a District Supervisor under Mr. S. E. Smith; and in 1944 became Area Superintendent, a post he held till his retirement in 1951.

Mr. A. C. Leach, who knew him well, writes:— Mr. Shipsides will be remembered as a great trades­

man, whose presence was enough to command respect. A strong character with abundant personality and charm, he dealt easily with his responsibilities, and many of us have cause to be grateful for the example he set us.

He was one of the finest "shop dressers" of his time, and his attention to detail was an education. I well remember raising an objection to "diagram windows" and was firmly put in my place, being told that there were several ways of dressing even a "diagram window" and then shown how.

Staff News Movements and Promotions

Managers

R. GUINEY

L. D . SALTER

H. HOLBROOK

T. FLETCHER

from Upminster to Forest Gate from Forest Gate to 40/44 Walthamstow from Tottenham to Chingford fromChingford to Tottenham

Promoted to Manager H. M. C O L L I N S from Spare to

Upminster K. G. EVANS from Spare to

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D . STEWART

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Promoted to Assistant M a n a g e r F . COWEY Hampstead H. w. F R A N K L I N Stanmore D. L. LOBB Welwyn Garden City R. J. LOWE Maidstone c . ROOSE Basildon J. T O L M I E Richmond c. v. WARD Greenford G. j . WOODMAN Welwyn Garden City

Mr. K. G. Evans

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TAYLOR WILLIAMS

WOOLMORE BENNETT

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Forty Years' Service Congratulations to the following members of the staff who have completed forty years' service with the firm.

Senior Leading Butcher, Chelmsford Head Butcher, Oxted Manager on Spare List Head Butcher, Victoria Head Butcher, Chelmsford Head Butcher, 50 Goodmayes Manager, Folkestone Manager, Colindale

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Retirements We send our best wishes to the following colleagues who have just retired.

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Miss F. E. M a i l i n g , who was originally engaged as Despatch Saleswoman in August 1926. She later trans­ferred to the office and in 1939 was promoted to the position of First Clerk at Sydenham. She carried out these duties until her retirement on August 1st, 1962.

Our best wishes to M i s s J . G a r d n e r and M r . R. T o m k i n s o n , both of St. Albans Branch, who were married at St. Leonard's Church, Sandrige, on June 23rd. Mr. Tomkinson was formerly at our Coventry Branch.

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Mr. Duncan Symons

Mr. Duncan Symons, who is a grandson of the founder of the firm, retired on July 27th. He first joined J.S. on October 24th, 1923. He worked with our Stores Buy­ing Department through most of his career. Mr. Symons will be remembered as one of the Griffin Athletic Club's Chair­men, and also as one of its enthusiastic sportsmen. He became Club Chairman in 1924 following the retirement of Mr. G. Hoare. He had been chosen Captain of the Griffin Cricket XI in 1924, and was a very active worker for the Club. He presented the Symons Cup Table Tennis in the Winter Season of 1928-29. is still being played for, and it is of interest that one of the cup winners, Johnny Leach, later became World Singles Champion. Under Mr. Symons' chair­manship, which lasted until 1937, the Club expanded steadily with the growth of the firm. He was a person for whom all who worked with him developed a warm and friendly respect. His many friends and colleagues in both the business and the sporting sides of the firm's life will join with us in wishing him a very happy retirement.

Obituaries We regret to record the death of the following colleagues and send our deepest sympathy to all relatives. Miss L. C. A l l en , who retired from the position of Resident Housekeeper at Amersham in December 1946 died on June 26th, 1962. She began her career with J.S. at Surbiton where she was engaged in 1932, and after a period here and on the coast moved to Amersham in 1939.

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Miss M. G l e a v e , was engaged in 1956 as a House­keeper at 87 Ealing, transferring subsequently to Winchmore Hill. It was while she was employed at this branch that she died on July 15th, 1962. Miss R. Mi les , who was a Packer/Weigher at our branch at 24 George Street, Croydon. She joined the Firm in November 1961 and she died on June 23rd, 1962. Mrs. E. R o w b o t h a m , who was engaged as a Part Time Supplywoman at Stoke Newington in 1951. She continued to work at this branch until ill health, which compelled her retirement at the end of June, caused her death on July 28th, 1962. H. I. S p r o a t , a pensioner who had retired in 1946 after completing nearly 48 years' service died on June 30th, 1962, aged 80. During his time with us he had been employed in the Warehouse at Blackfriars as a Grader in the Poultry Department.

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It is 1908 in the picture on the left, and the place is 296, Holloway Road. The pheasants were 4s. 9d. a brace, the turkeys 9d. a pound, the fowls sold at 3s. 6d. each and Bordeaux pigeons went for a bob a time. Gammons sold at 7hd. a pound, and for 9d. you could have a pound of cheese. Pity we can't stop the machine. Up above, the year is 1928 and three J.S. people at Watford Branch are preparing to face the public in a Shopping Week parade. Down below we're back in 1924 with R. Section. In the charabanc is the football team and its supporters that set out to play Enfield. On the right the team. Bowler hat on left covers Mr. Biddlecombe, who was section secretary.

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floor show lucky ticket prizes two tina motor scooters to be won

eric galloway and his orchestra

licensed bars buffet tickets 12s 6d and 17s 6d

watch your notice boards and the SSA news for further information

Two views from the Roof In August, 1955, J. S. Journal published the picture at the foot of these pages. It was taken from our factory roof to show the new properties we had taken over about that time. The upper picture was taken in June this year and gives some idea of the changes that have affected the skyline in Blackfriars and the City. On the left is Stamford House and in the left foreground Wakefield House and theJ.S. Training Centre. St. Paul's is now partly obscured by United Africa House. New blocks of offices appear on the City skyline and on the right St. Christopher's House has gone up in Southwark Street. The poster in the middle is still selling rum but it's Lamb's instead of Lemon Hart.

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