MRS. HANNAH OFFERED

£1,000 EQUIPMENT

Mrs. Janet Hannah may not have to sell her late husband's Victoria Cross after all. She has been offered equipment worth £1,000 for the hairdressing salon she wants to open by the owner of a hairdressing school in Worcester.

Mrs. Hannah, of Birstall, Leicester, said she would discuss the offer with her three daughters, Jennifer, aged 20, Josephine, aged 19, and Jaqueline, aged 17, before deciding whether to accept it

FORESTRY COMMISSION'S

NEW CHIEF

Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse is to be the new ]Director-General of the Forestry Commission from April 1. He has been Deputy Director-General for the past nine years.

Sir Henry sucoceds Sir Arthur Gosling. who has been Director-General since 1948 and is retiring after more than 40 years with the commission.

MIMSTER MEETS T.U.C.

DEPUTATION

Mr. Hare, Minister of Labour, received a deputation from the Trades Union Congress yesterday to discuss the future operation of provisions of the Factories Acts reliating to particulars of work and wages for pieceworkers in the textile and other industries.

The deputation, headed by Sir Alfred Roberts, stressed the continuing usefulness of these provisions. They also expressed the hope that no steps would be taken to repeal section 112 of the Factories Act. 1937, or to discontinue its eaforcement by specialist inspectors.