The Archive · 1924

Country Walk Costs

GIRL 65 — Innocently Used a Closed Footpath

know T was doing any wrong, Winnie Farrow (26), Verulam:

ence, Walthamstot, who was fined £5 at Epping Police Court for walking along a public footpath which had been closed by the Mi try of Agriculture in consequence of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in an adjoining field.

The chairman, posting the penalty, said it ras u very serious offence.

The country' stamp out the disease, and one way in which it was spread was by people walking near the infected arow and to another part. Miss Farrow said he only earned 15s, a week, of which she had to pay 10s. for Tou ings, She was allowed a month to pay.

Her companion was fined simi-Tar amount by the Bench the previous week. isis, was captain of the flagship of the—East the German cruiser Koniesborg—which knocked to bits the old cruiser asks i Zautzibar Harbeu bottled her up in the Rufict ast African cost. sponsible for the subsequent Konigsberg. operations which destroyed the

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