To the Editor of the Banbury Guardian

Sir – Will you be so kind as to include in the next issue of your paper the following report of the work of the Banbury depot of the National Egg Collection:-

Eggs received – Chipping Warden 431; Wardington 420; Farnborough 288; Chacombe 243; Kings Sutton 211; Banbury 210; Cropredy 209; Warmington 200; Mollington 191; Fenny Compton 173; Bourton 147; Bloxham 127; Claydon 127; Marston 122; AVON DASSETT 117; Overthorpe 110; Warkworth 89; Milton 87; Bodicote 87; Boddington 79; Thorpe Mandeville 44; Middleton Cheney 33; Culworth 21; Arlescote 14; anonymous 34.

The Military Hospital at Bristol, as well as that at Oxford, now receives supplied from Banbury.

Yours faithfully

H LOVEDAY, Overthorpe, Banbury

Banbury Guardian May 1915

The Board of Education have issued a circular to local education authorities asking for a return of the number of children excused from school attendance for purposes of agricultural employment in respect of the period February 1^st to April 30^th. The return is not to include any children who entered employment before February 1^st, or any who are properly exempt from school attendance under by-laws formed under the Robson Act.

The numbers exempt under the Robson Act are to be filed in a separate return. The Robson Act is a measure passed in 1899, the general purpose of which was to raise the age at which children were allowed to go to work half-time, from eleven to twelve years of age. It provided, however, for by-laws whereby children in rural areas over eleven years of age could be totally exempt from school attendance for six months of the year for agricultural employment provided they attended school regularly for the remaining six months.

Banbury Guardian May 1915

Below are the outstanding points in Mr Lloyd George’s War Budget speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday:

No change in existing taxation. Income tax, super-tax, tea and sugar duties as laid down last November.

New beer, spirit, and wine duties likely to be abandoned.

Sinking Fund to be suspended during the war.

Present daily cost of the war just short of £2,000,000.

New taxation probably in the autumn, including a tax on war profits.

National expenditure for 1915-16, if war ends September 1915, £790,458,000.

National expenditure for 1915-16, if war ends March 1916, £1,136,000,000.

The past financial year shows a “steady increase in the consumption of whisky” since last November.

Of the extra tobacco revenue last year £1,000,000 is attributed to the smoking by soldiers in camp, and by the gifts of tobacco to the men of our Army in France.

£3,000,000 of the increase over the estimate of receipts since last November from the spirit duty is due to forestalling.

Banbury Guardian May 1915

The late Mrs Jessie Stanley Puckle, of Pittern Hill, Kineton, who was well-known with the Warwickshire Hounds, daughter of the late Colonel Stanley Arnold, C.B., of Barton House, and wife of Mr Pelham Carey Puckle, left £660.

Banbury Guardian May 1915

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT of the Highly Important Sale of FREEHOLD PROPERTIES

Comprising the House and Premises, Large Coal Wharf, Commodious Warehouses, Offices and Cottage, with 43 acres of land at Fenny Compton Wharf: Five Cottages in Fenny Compton Village: Stone Wharf and the Depot with Stabling Warehouse and Offices at Kineton, also the Goodwill of the Old Established Business, which will be sold at Auction by John Margetts & Sons, at the Red Lion Hotel, Banbury on Thursday May 27^th 1915 at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, subject to such conditions as will be then be read.

Solicitors – Messrs Stockton, Sons, and Fortescue, Banbury.

Auctioneers’ Offices – 12, High Street, Warwick.

Banbury Guardian May 1915