The bulletin

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NX 252
Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 76 No. 3936 (20 Jul 1955)
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Contents

The Bulletin 1
Advertising 1
THE WONDERFUL CLOCK AT WELLS PLAY-ACTS THE PASSING HOURS 1
Advertising 1
The Red Page FISH STORIES 2
Advertising 2
Dufy and Memlinc 2
Reviewed Briefly 2
Advertising 2 , 3
The Bulletin 4
WORLD STRIKE-WAVE 4
Local-government Under Cahill 4
No title 5
PLAIN ENGLISH A Common Aim? 6 , 7
POLITICAL POINTS 7
Society “AND IT'S PRINTED WITH WIMBLE'S INKS” 8 , 9
BERT, TOO 8
RELIABILITY TRIAL 9
PERSONAL ITEMS 10
No title 11
ABORIGINALITIES 12 , 13
CHUPATTY CHANT 12
THE KNOCKER 13
Advertising 13
FINANCIAL DIARY 14
Advertising 14
Londan Airmail 15
Advertising 15
The WILDCAT COLUMN 16 , 17
Advertising 16 , 17
Women's Letters MELBOURNE 18
SYDNEY 18
SUNDRY SHOWS TALKIES THEATRE MUSIC ART Artbursts 19
Advertising 19
Stage and Music 19
Talkies 19
Advertising 19
The Joker 20 , 21 , 22 , 23
FEAR GOD 20
REBUKE TO A DYING ANT ON A TABLE-TOP 21
Advertising 21 , 22 , 23
FOUR-CYCLE SACA 24 , 30
ALL HALLOWS EVE 24
Advertising 24
Snowy Scheme Dynamos and Dams Rearranging the Rivers 25 , 27 , 30
SPORTING NOTIONS 26
Advertising 26
One to Test the Toughest Commando Way 27
UNCABLED ADDITIONS" "AUTOMATION" 28
Advertising 28
Cyprus 28
Advertising 29 , 30
SERVICE DEPARTMENT 31
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 31
Advertising 31
THE MAN ON THE LAND “DON'T WORRY. I'M SENDING IT TO GRAZCOS.” STOCK WATERS 32 , 33
Advertising 32
REPORT FROM CROHAMHURST (10/7/’55) 32
Advertising 32
KNOW AT A GLANCE 33
Advertising 33
THE OTHER FELLOW'S MIND 34 , 35
“THE BULLETIN” CROSSWORD No. 339 35
Advertising 36

Text

The Bulletin  

STRIKE-WAVE WORLD PATTERN  

“The Bulletin,” Vol. 76 —No. 3936  

Wednesday, July 20, 1955  

Price 9d.  

Registered at the General Post Offiee, Sydney, N.S.W- Australia, tor transmission by Post as Newspaper  

THE WONDERFUL CLOCK  

AT WELLS  

PLAY-ACTS THE PASSING HOURS  

AMONG the many outstanding  

features of Wells Cathedral in  

Somerset is the famous clock in the  

north transept which is special  

attraction for visitors from many parts  

of the world who visit the cathedra!  

every year.  

The clock is six hundred years -old,  

and was invented by Peter Lightfoot,  

monk of Glastonbury (c, 1335). In  

addition to telling the time it records  

the phases of the moon and the position  

of the planets, and at first sight it looks  

like man’s first attempt at making an  

automatic calculating machine. The  

original works, still in working order,  

can be seen in the Science Museum in  

London. The dial is mass of lines  

and numbers and is six and half feet  

in diameter. It consists of large outer  

circle which is divided into the twenty-  

four hours of the day, and around  

which moves star; the minutes are  

indicated in smaller inner circle.  

The quarters are struck by seated  

figure in the costume of the time of  

Charles I, which sits high up on the  

west wall to the left of the clock dial.  

This figure is known locally as Jack  

Blandiver* and he heelkicks two bells.  

Simultaneously outside the cathedral  

two figures in 15th-century armour and  

known as “Quarter Jacks” strike two  

bells with their halberds. The hours  

are sounded by bell in the central  

tower, while inside the cathedral, on  

the platform above the clock-dial, four  

mounted knights revolve in tourna-  

ment. Two come out of the cave on  

the right and two from the left, and at  

each revolution one is knocked back on  

his horse by the sword of his adversary.  

The tournament spins round to  

standstill until Jack Blandiver starts  

the whole mechanism in motion again  

an hour later.  

No. 255: the Homeland Series by The House of Seppelt.  

 

 

 

SOLERO  

SWEET OR DRY  

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