. At the annual meeting pi the west-Lptnian Local ^ Savings Cbmmittee ,- held in the County Hall , Linlithgow , yesterday , afternoon , ^ itnyas stated in- the . report for ; the past year that although several associations show a decrease in the , sums' . collected compared wit

Ix the hope of securing" fresh herring , which were hi . urgent demand for the English market , vessels of the Giryan ringnet fleet oii Thursday night braved the 50 miles-an hour gale which was raging in the Kith of Clydebut were forced -to . run into Campbeltown Loch yesterday

A Post Office Sarings Bank book in the name of James Jackson Smith , Glenluce , Wigioimshlre , tras on the body , of a man which was found on the main Dumfries-Carlisle line of the L 3 LS- near Gretna Green , early yesterday . The man , who was in seaman ' s clothes and appeared

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Committee will open an OFFICE in the CITY CHAMBERS , ^ : EDINBURGH ( entrahce by CockBum Street ) , on MONDAY , 26 th f 5 SEPTEMBER , 1938 , at-10 a . m ., for , the purpose of enrolling'WOMEN . ; f VOLUNTEERS under ^ the Corporation Air Raid Precautions . Scheme . ; ; , Enrolme

Picture Calen-¦ dar fat 1959 yii \\ be published on October Is * -. - ,- : ¦ ' It contains 52 large photographs , re- 7 : produced from the Picture Page of . 1 'THr . • SCOTSMAN , ' ^ : illustrating 'Scottish . • < scenery ; acc 6 rdirig , v itof the-.-. l ' . appropriate season

-The Redar ' cedar ( Thuja phcata ) or Arbor "Vitas , the timber of which IS tO be used :-, extensively-in . the construction of wooden houses , is one of the most promising of the introduced timber trees in Scotland . It thrives particularly well in the moist , mild climate of

[ FROM OUR LONDON ^ DRAMATIC CRITIC ] 7 . :, •/• * .-: ¦ London , Friday Night Mr James Hilton ' s .: novel , 1 . " Goodbye Mr Chips , " has , been adaptedifor the " stage by Mr J Hilton 'himself and . 'Barbara Burnhami and was presented at the ShaftCSbliry Theatre : this evenin

' rV . Hassan Sabri Pasha . the Egyptian . War Minister ,- who , returned | p ' Egypt to-day , had- to ; -curtail t his . ... programme . 7 ' of engagements : cqnsiderably , owing to . internatipnal' developments . ' The principal object of . his . : visit . was'to discuss certa

It is announced that negotiations have almost been completed for the nurchase of property in . Edinbur ^ i by the SM . 1 . Company to provide a bus station . -The cost is said ; to be about £ 150 , 000 , and the site is bounded by St Andrew Square on the west , Clyde , Street on