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Phosphorus Is Life
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THEY MADE HISTORY ON THE SEVEN SEAS
SPITHEAD REVIEW IN
MINIATURE
CAPE TOWN MODELLERS PAY
DRA
TRIBUTE TO PAST
LESS MEAT FOR GREEKS
Two results of the temporary
Greece, were ap- parent last month. One was general rise in all Greek Govern-
RAKE'S Golden Hind. Henry is well known as a builder of fast ment stacks, the other a decree
Hudson's Half Moon, clipper and graceful craft Chinese
Special Interest. Suffering from the effects of regulating Greece's diet.
ships. racing yachts, a In future no meat will be sold
modern battle-i Lysel poisoning, Kwok Lai-yee, a
war junk and a
Numbers of the models built by tator, residing at No. 162 Third on Wednesdays or Fridays: Thisj cruiser were among the strangely members of the club are of special assorted craft reviewed" in minia-South African interest. A model Street, was admitted to the Gov-actually accords with the rules of
Van Riebeeck's ship. the Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1936 enment Civil Hospital yesterday the Orthodox Church. The priture recently by Vice Admiral Fof
ary motive, however, is not reli- L Tottenham, Commander-in-Dromedaris. is under construction. Chief of the Africa Station, when The difficulty has been to obtain General Chiang King-wen. Com-gious but economic.
One Pro- | murder-in-Chief of Fukien
There has been a bad harvest in he was welcomed as their honorary an authentic picture of her. vince. having completed the con- An eminent biologist once ference with Marshal Chiang Kai-Greece, which, like so many Euro. president by members of the 31o- of the models of special interest was specially pean countries nowadays, lacks del Ship Builders and Ship Lovers to South Africa is that of the first to Club of Cape Town. The models Carnarvon Castle, namesake of the spoke of the benefits that might shek, to which he
were all built there.
modern motor vessel. the summoned, returned to Hong Kong foreign exchange with which to humanity if accrue
Castle. The old It was an imposing fleet. repre-
Carnarvon world's statesmen were not on Monday. Yesterday he called pay for imports.
in 1967, was one of politicians
In order to release foreign ex-sentative of a wide stretch of his-launched. but biologists. For the Hon Mr. R. H. Kotewali. Instead of setting men by the with whom he had an hour's con change for buying cereals, it has tory, but it was not by any means Donald Currie's East India trad- Iron-built and ship-rigged. day
been decided to restrict the i-a complete mobilisation of the ers. ears to kill one another he vsation, and later in the
and vessels of the club. Space did not she was a vessel of 1,200 tons, and port of cattle, sheep, pigs thought they might combine M. Kotewall returned the cali at
permit of such a big display. There sailed regularly from the Mersey against the foes of mankind and the Hotel Cecil.
goats for consumption.
This will not represent a great are in the club sufficient ships to for Calcutta at a time when sail- attack the neglected problems that threaten the future of our
hardship. Fish and vegetables make a Spithead review in minis-ling vessels usually waited for a At a meeting of the Urban species. Designs for eradicat Council' yesterday eight applica
This model, made by Mr. J. W. Plentiful supplies of that admir-larger scale is projected.· ing pests and pestilences, for tions were refused. These includ-will be the natural substitutes. ture, and a public exhibition on the full cargo before putted for a
Golden Hinds
Juritz. is so accurate in its detail adjusting population to availed two applications for eating!
in its proper available.
One of the most popular ships that photographed able resources, for regulating house licences, one for an offensive able fish, the red mullet, are
Mountain in the setting with Table which abound and among Cape modellers is the proportions of the types of trade licence and five for food fac- The usual monthly
much to the taste of the Golden Hind. Cape Town has a the background, it might well be ability necessary for the wel-try licences.
Those pre
As taken for a picture of the original fare of our species might returns were tabled
schemes for art were: The Chairman, Mr. R. Greeks are mackerel, sole, and a whole squadron of them. Drake's famous flagship.
the ship. place political
the
Old Luxury Ship Golden Hind sailed round seizing territory. markets, Todd, the Vice-Chairman, Hon. Species of turbot.
Mr. Juritz has also modelled the world. In 1681, off Deptford, she prestige and power. The reck-Dr. A. R. Wellington, CMG, and less consumption of certain of Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Dr. Li
was boarded by the great Queen Norbam Castle, a steamship of the the earth's resources by the Shu-fan, Mr. A. el Arculli, Dr. S.
OR LIME JUICE
Elizabeth who knighted Drake and days when auxiliary sails were On her homeward pas- whole human species presents N. Chau, Mr. W. N. T. Tam, Mr.
"One's looks can always be in-ordered that the good ship should carried. problems too remote; it is true, t.. Champkin, the secretary. for political imagination, but in c. J. Roe, asst. secretary. Mr. Improved by eating plenty of young be preserved as a monument "not sage from Cape Town in Febru-
cabbage-greens in the winter,"
Everyone only of its owner's glory, but of ary, 1988, her engines broke down clares a beauty expert. the long run is of far greater (Ping-tseung.
who has gazed for a new moments at that of the nation to which he be in Lst. 20: 14 deg. South, and she moment than the mere adjust- ment of boundaries or the A Dinner Dance will be held on a slug will realize the truth of this. longs." All that remains of her was put under sail making St. now is some of the planks, in the Helena nine days later. Her en- form of a ambitious proposals of would-the Open Roof of Repulse Bay Lido
chair presente by gines were tripled and she was be Caesars.. Whether men-weather permitting--and
Threepenny-bits for the Christmas Charles II to the University of generally improved. It was not enjoy the comparative liberty Repulse Bay Hotel in the event of
dinner should be boiled in salt and Oxford. A model exhibited, was until 1901 that she was taken off of the bourgeois State or live bad weather, to-day at 9 pm
water for twenty minutes," advises a made by the Rev. Hedley Parks. the ran and, as the Martinique.
the flew the French flag. She also made a model of cookery article. This, of course, is He their lives in complete subjec-
to Italian ship- far better than the old plan of trying
Mr. W. Colclough, whose model breakers. them with a slice of bacon and some model: it is only 24 inches long. ultimately sold
Seas
A working model of the Can- of the Severaigne of the aroused much admiration, has arder Samaria (16,000 tons), was
at
tion to a tranny they must The s.s. Chitral is expected bere have, if they are to survive at from Shanghai on Friday next at all, about à pound and a half a
of phosphorus in their physical
are
Other fish
Your Daily Smile!
pepper.
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de-
constitution, some three pounds Members of the staff and com-
A German visitor states that Hit-tackled the complicated rigging of made by Mr. L. S. Soole, who is of calcium, nearly four ounces mittee of the Kowloon City Dis-
the ler's policies are causing divisions this old masterpiece of sail in a now engaged on a model of the of sulphur, half that amount of pensary witnessed yesterday sodium, one-twelfth that opening at the back of the dis-among the German public. Splitting manner whch shows that he has Empress of Britain HMS. Re
Herrs, so to speak.
had more than a passing acquaint-pulse which, though launched 20 amount of iron and so on. All pensary, of a recreation ground for
ance with sailing vessels. Captain years ago, is one of the largest these elements are sufficiently tennis and croquet. The large
Campbell's small waterline and most powerful ships in the plentiful on the earth except number of guests present included: The wedding present diffienity had Neil
Sir Edward phosphorus, which is steadily the Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie. The rescived itself into the usual silver models of square-rigged ships are Royal Navy, was once commanded
also examples of the fine effect by Vice-Admiral growing scarcer. Your biologist.on. Dr. A. E.. Wellington, C.M.G.. butter-dish.
"What shall put on the card?" which an experienced seaman can Evars, formerly Commander-in- statesman would foresee the Dr. E.-W. Kirk and Mrs. Kirk, she asked It's not as though we've get even when working to a very Chief of the Africa Station. The time when the stock of phos Dr. G. R. Nash, Dr. T. W. Ware known them very well": phorus on land was reduced
"Oh," he grunted, without looking Small scale. Captain F. Cauvin, model of this ship, built by the Dr. Ho Ko-tsun (Chairman), Mr. to such an amount that the Jowsen, Mr.
(Continued on Page 6) Lo Chang-wau, up from his paper, "put on it. For whose model racing yacht Altair Rev. Hedley Parks, is on the same
was also admired by the Admiral. human race would perish. Her. Li Yau-taun, Mr. Lo Yuet-cho, butter...or worse." " would foresee it and take stepsr. Heung Sing-chiu and Mr. to prevent the catastrophe. Wong Yiu-tang.
Not merely to man, but to
the
all living creatures, phosphorus Two passengers arrived in is an indispensable element. Colony yesterday aboard the Im But its scarcity would matter serial. Airways liner, the R.M.A. little if it could be conserved. Dorado. One of them was Mr. R Crops take it out of the soil E. Wyatt, an Imperial Airways en- rivers wash it out of the land gineer, who came here from Tou men dump it into the sea as raine where he has been supervis- constituent of sewage. In the ing the repairing of the Delphinus, sea there is a very little of which was damaged while landing that is not in the bodies of at Touraine in July. The other marine animals. Hence some passenger was Dr. C. T. Loo, who is recovered by the use of fish is attached to the Medical Corps as food and as manure, some by of the National Army at Nanking. the use of guano on the landDr. Los has been on a world tour to make good the deficiency and has just completed his trip caused by reaping the corps by flying here from London by Im- The use also of phosphate rock periai Airways
as fertiliser makes available for
plants and hence for animals
some of the capital supply.
But we are eating our capital flourished.
The
abnormal
It:
We may be left in the far taste on the part of cows for future with large tracts of the eating skeletons seemed to be earth's surface entirely de especially common in certain prived of phosphorus. Land districts. These were found to deficient in phosphorus, if not be the regions in which the soil dressed with phosphates, yields was poor in phosphorus. grass and crops with insufficient was a house that Jack built. of this valuable element. Grass The poor soil supported only and crops of low phosphorus vegetation poor in phosphorus. content will feed man and The cattle fed on the vegetation beast, but man and beast will of low phosphorus content. suffer from deficiency diseases. The consequent deficiency of This was the secret, discover-phosphorus in the animal's sys- led by the late Sir Arnold tem drove it to seek for bones
Theiler, of the cattle disease to eat, for bones contain phos-: known as lamsiekte. Cattle (phates. If it found bones con- died in great numbers. The taining the noxious microbe it local distribution of the disease was attacked by lamsiekte and farmers from which they died suggest usually died. The ed that it was infectious It were taught to dose their cattle was not infectious though it with bone meal, with the result was caused by a germ. The that the beasts' desire to feed germ did not multiply, as is the on old carcasses failed, and they wont of disease germs, in the were free from the danger of living body of the victim, but picking up the disease and no only in dead bodies; but the more died of lamsiekte, for in
disease victim of the
Tas spite of the deficient vegetation poisoned by the toxins of they got their complement of of the germ. How did the toxins phosphorus, in the form
This It wholesome bone meal. get into the living body? was discovered that the dishappy solution to an immediate eased--and usually deceased problem does not, however, beast had been eating dead answer the secular problem of bones in which the germ had the failing phosphorus supply.
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