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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 5

To resuscitate tho apprenticeship system (he English Ruskin Society, of Birmingham,'hn? formulated a new scheme of apprenticeship, which the Birmingham Education Commitfc. - ' has promised lo consider. Tho scheme niins at lite establishment, preferably by the Education Committee, of an apprenticeship board, which would keep in touch with employers willing to take apprentices and would nlso maintain a register of boys suitable for apprenticeship. Three beneficed clergymen in Peterborough diocese are still in parishes where they were half a century ago. They are ine' Hnv. R. C. Collins, vicar of Easton rCefton: the Rev. ?. JI. Stop/ord, rector of Titehmar.-h; ami Hie Rev. E. Thorpe, rector of Burton Overy. Passengers orossinj; by (lifl BoulogneTVilkestono route haw muro than doublnd in number in nine years, last J'car's total being Ki(!.s(i(i, flßain.4 L'lB,.?M in iflO: , . Last year's traffic was also an increase of 11,2'Jl over tho record established in 1010. There was n sprrinl sprvirn at (li<! Clinpcl Boy.il. Si. .Inmcs's, London, nn (he fpast of lipii'liany, ivlmn in necordflnoe nith nn nlrt custom, Uio King's offoring of gold, frankincense, and myrrh ■was roMited.