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A diet of live frogs is the daily
CONVERTING COCHIN INTO A PORT
A ROMANCE OF INDIAN
ENGINEERING
MOST IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
STILL FORESEEN
the
most
ROMANCE of engineering the complicated task of convert- tries, including the United States.jcontinued a series of talks, was A Australia, Italy, France and Hol-unable to be present, and an an-
a first-class will says a Press Notefing Cochin into issued by the Government of port. land, and in many cases ocean nouncer read his talk for him.
Critical Position liners have been specially charHe introduced it by saying that India Bureau of Public Informa
tion, reach its final chapter At the time" of Mr. Bristow's tered to bring the parties and to the journey down the Thames
when an arrival a critical position had serve as foating hotels during the would be continued from Bride within a few weeks course of the Congress.
north to Worcester. The talk the official pronouncement will pro-arisen, the sea eating away a A meeting was recently held in described the course of the Severnote Cochin to the status of a part of the peninsula protecting the Cochin harbour at such a Hong Kong in connection with the from Shrewsbury to just below major port of India.
This will lead to the last and rate that there was danger of proposed pilgrimage, and a com-Ironbridge. Putting Coal On Anmittee was formed under the He finished by saying, Thot least important of the re-a break through, which might Icent developments the carry-hare ruined the chances of patronage of HE Bishop Valtorta. ended the journey from Bridgnorthing of the railway from the carrying through an efficient Economic Basis
The organisation was entrusted to to Worcester.”
mainland by a mile-long bridge scheme. the Catholic Truth Society of Hong The classic B.B.C. lapaus linguae to the reclaimed island where By approving the central Kong and the Committee is re- came in 1929 from the announcer modern wharves are to be built. task and he spent
This was Mr. Bristow's first seiling scheme for coal recently, presentative of all the Gatholic who was describing the Vesuvius |
many days the House of Commons enabled bodies and organisations in the eruption.
The story behind this de-in June and July, 1920, wading the Government to redeem a Colony.
He discovered by The activity of the volcano in-velopment is one of remarkable in the sea.
interest For 80 years the the movement of sand over his promise to the coal industry. Arrangements Discussed
creased. Mount Vesuvius emitting question of converting Cochin legs and feet that there was no and at the same time opened a The proposed travel arrange-streams of lager which ran in the into a deep-sea port has beenjerosion in the proper sense and door of hope for miners and ments were fully discussed, and a direction of Pompeii."
considered from time to time-that a frontal defence of stones coal-owners alike. When in public announcement on the subject January last there was serious will be made soon.
A strong case was put by the was From indica- BELIEVE IT OR NOT
practicable trouble in the coal trade it be-tions received., it is believed that a
Local Chamber of Commerce afremedy. Stone groynes parallel 1880 and, as a result, a report with the shore were put down, came plain that unless a higher large number will travel not mere price could be obtained for coal from Hong Kong but also from regimen of Mr. William Green, of that the cost involved would be had stopped and arrangements was prepared which showed and in a few months erosion there could not be got from the various parts of South China. Market Harborough, 90-year-old beyond the financial capacity of could go ahead for experiments industry either an adequate All correspondence relating to ex-soldier.
He has been eating the port, at that time at any for cutting 2 wage for the miner or a reason the Pilgrimage is being dealt with them for 70 years. "A native In-
deep channel rate. able return for capital. A
through the sand bar. by the Hon. Sec. of the Pilgrim-dian doctor advised me to do so
The Great Problem
Proposals for the purchase of main factor in producing peace age Committee. C/o C.T.S. of Houg when I was serving in the Army was the assurance given by the Rong, P.O. Box 1649, Hong Kong- there," he says. *He told
The great problem at Cochinja special dredger and the cut- lowners that they would so re-
that while I kept to that advice has been to dig a three-mile ting of a long channel were purt organise selling arrangements that there could not be under-
no disease would affect me." Mr. channel through a wide bar of jup and examined by an expert Green boasts that his prophecy has sand out at sea which effective-committee in London. cutting of prices by any section
been fulfilled. He still busies him-ly blocks the entrance to the great difficulty was that it was of the mines. The scheme dis-
self with odd jobs, does his own port for any but vessels of shal-unsafe for a dredger to work cussed in the House in June was
shopping-and catches his own low draft. Years ago, when outside during the period from the outcome of that promise.
dredges were more primitive. June to September, so that it |frogs-
the excavation and maintenance was essential that most of the of this channel would have been channel should be excavated in This involved ex- much too expensive. The sand one season. was described as too hard to traordinary difficulties. Even- dredge, while mud would fill up tually a special dredger was named in the original plan satisfied Eiver this spring, was the summer
its owner's friend in the habit of talking to him-the channel during rough wea-built in 1925 and was Lord Willingdon ther for dredging was only the
- the the large consumers of coal, cabin that floated to who feared that they might be city bome in Williamsport, Petna self when he was alcze**
Witness: "To tell the truth, your possible three or four months of Marquess of Willingdon then held to
once miners The cabin was originally located honor, I never was with him when the year.
being Governor of Bombay. With the and owners were in agreement, about a mile from city on Lycom- he was alone."
development of
Bad Luck As Mr. Crookshank said, the g Creek The high water of
dredges 30 years ago, the out- There was bad luck with this discussion took place in
March 18 tore the cabin from its
look for Cochin brightened. As vessel at first, for owing to fog atmosphere of peace..
foundation, carried it down into
a result of the work done by lit ran aground during the out- Avowedly the
town, where, it was deposited in of purpose
modern dredgers, the position ward journey through the Red the front yard of its owner, L. J.!
at Cochin was thoroughly re-Sea. In October, 1926, when it strictly controlled marketing
Bilodeau, at No. 1,240, Vine
examined in 1914, when an en- was first taken out to sea from must be to raise the price of
gineer reported, that a scheme the port, the sea became excep- coal. Unless that can be done Avenue, Williamsport.
of dredging was possible to fionally rough, damaging the the miner cannot obtain a bet-
keep a channel through the pipe line through which sandy bar open. Accordingly, in material dredged was sucked. April, 1920. Mr. R. C. Bristow This was mended and work arrived in India and set about} [Continued On Page 10)
Both mine owners and miners supported the giving to the Central
Council of authority
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Homing Cabin
NE of the freaks of the record
over the several district selling foot of the Susquehanna İschemes. Modifications made)
ransom
ав
Your Daily Smile!
DHI
The Whole Truth Judge (to witness): "Was YOU
The Reason Judge: "And"why do you think I should be lenient with you?"
Defendant: "It's my lawyer'a rat
Hm-m!
"Why does a woman say she's been
ter wage. During the troubles No Sleep In Bed For shopping when she hasn't bought a
16 Years
i
at the beginning of the year the) general public showed itself wholly desirous of raising the standard of living of the coal-A Detroit in the vicinity of
N interesting character workers. Verbal sympathy is Delray, is a man by the name of not enough; there must be Julius Habrey, a musician by pro- willingness to pay more. the same time there must be for 16 years.
Atlfession, who has not slept in a bed safeguards against exploita wife left him, and this incident 16 years ago, Lis tion These are provided under has given him most peculiar char- the scheme by giving the con-acteristics, one of which is to keep sumers representation on the district selling boards, whose violin which is his constant com- wandering around, playing the chairmen will be independent of the coal industry. The Central Panion. People are ever willing to provide him with food, clothing! Council becomes a body with and shelter, but he refuses to sleep mandatory powers that can
prevent one district cutting the a bed. In good
weather, he
or
prices of another, and can in-
may be found sleeping on church fluence the terms of sale in the steps, in building entrances districts themselves. In short, against lampposts and in bad it has the final responsibility weather, he sleeps in a chair or
with his head
for fixing prices and preventing table. undercutting in any form, and Habrey's that over the whole area in which coal is produced. No
on a beer garden The vibrant strings of violin are familiar sounds to members of the Delray colony, for he loves to play the
better plan has been suggested folk tunes of his native Hungary. for securing the three ends of an adequate wage, reasonable profits, and prices that will have regard to the consumer's capacity to pay.
...
OFFICERS PELTED WITH CLAY
Children Make Street "Lido"
Of the minor objections made to the scheme it can be said that most of them, if they prove anything but imaginary, can be overcome by modifica Children playing in a trench tions after experience of a firm which had been dug for the re control of marketing. This placement of a 4in water main at will begin on Saturday next. Fonthill-road, Finsbury Park, dis- When it has been established connected the main last month. the Government can proceed to Thousands of gallons of water ran the unification of royalties, to waste The trench was filled which it has promised, and to and hundreds of children paddled the fostering of those, amal-in the water.S01EPORT gamations of collieries by Water Board, workmen who
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which the coal-trade is deeply the main were pelted by the chil engaged. The onus of re-dren with lumps of clay.[1]» organising itself has been thrown upon the coal industry, suffered the most. Under Gov- and the process has already ezerent encouragement, and gone so far as to encourage the with the assistance of a tarif, belief that it can be carried iron and steel have been through with a minimum of triumphantly reorganised. Coal Government – interference. In cannot be helperl in quite the ||the trade depression--fruch same way, but the plans nOW
which Britain is now emerging devised bold pro
that it the heavy Industries that were may be once mar the backbone of
erity ed on an economic basis.
thing?”
"Why does a man say he's been ishing when he hasn't caught any thing
SUMMER.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
CABIN-Owne
WAS CAUGHT IN THE
HABRE
LIBILÓDEAL), of WILLIAMSPORT, PAI
OD AND THE HIGH WATER CARRIED IT ONE MILE INTO TOWN
AND SET IF DOWN IN HIS OWN FRONT YARD.
BED IN 16 YEARS
SOLVED ACKER TO GO TO BE
SWATHINES
HYS.
"CAN BEND
-FORWARD-
MOTH HIS BANDS. LOCKED BEHIND "HIM"-AND TES
KNEES STRAIGHT
AND PICKUP
A HANDKERCHEF
The