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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947.
Nine months ago the stock exchanges of the world were in a fever," CARNIVAL over the sensational discovery of gold at Odendaalsrust in the Orange Free State. Little has been heard since. CYRIL WATLING tells here the story of this little settlement which may one day rival
Johannesburg. Meantime only ɑ-
Shabby Boom Town Covers Fabulous Gold
DONG, 1967 WV RIA SERVICE, INC, T
By Dick Turnar
1-15
"You're asking me why Caesar should beware the Ides of March? Good land! Haven't you ever heard of income tax evasion?"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
WHICH OCCURS
FIRST?
more-than-necessary jump as a
Little Odendaalsrust. Iying; ing, fifty natives, will soon be-| mistakes made In the early above the world's richest reef gin a shuttle service between days of Johannesburg and Mr. & Mrs. R. "Y: FROST of gold, in the shabbiest of all the Zambesi basin and the Un- other boom cities. The plans
boom towns.
lon's goldfelds,
Include hospitals, schools apd Nine months after the dra- Of the dozon large-scale parks, all within a mile of the matic strike that made it glit-mines in which gold in payable market square. ter in the headlines, it still quantities has been found, only A satellite township, callod looks like a cluster of tin shan- one, miles out of Odendaalsrust. Welkom, is aled blueprinted. ties on a windswept desort. has begun to drive down its. This is to be built by one of
Squat iron-roofed bulldings initial incline shaft.
the wealthy mining compaüles- The Government's latest state the untidily along the dirt-track The scene here is almost as a non-proílt enterprise.
Every ment on re-housing takes us no roads. It has no railway sta- comic: Pumps and drills puff
penny recalved for Broad
clank, ceneralisation | tion, no electric light, no run- and
bare-shouldered) plots and business.stands is to further. never produced a house or part ning water.
workmen awent in the hot be put back into the ground in 350,- of a house, and it is houses that I went there hoping for visi- winds from the Kalahari, and the form of amenities and sor 180.- are needed aot plausible explana-ble evidence of how a modern around the perimeter wild cata vices like schools, playing fields 300.-
tions of why they cannot be hand. Klondike begins grooming it- alt on their haunches and stare and welfare and medical cen- No-one who has given reasonable self for the metropolitan future surprisedly at the nolay inva- tres. Native workers will have 35,-
| hospitals, canteens and cinemas. and reasoning attention to the pro may one day bring.
which the Free State goldfields | slon.
So far it is the farmers and of their own. blem expects the performance of
There was little new to see the landowners-not the gold- Taking the worst viow, and miracles, or will quarrel with the beyond a church hall converted sockers-whose fortunes have nasuming that the new roof is proposition that a quick solution is into an estate agency, a garage boomed. Many of them have not payable, gold will still have no more likely here than it is in which дл ex-Serviceman is made, and lost, vast fortunes. Invigorated the Free State to a other parts of the world. What building, and a few city alickors Consider the case of Hendrik degree that will have perman- Hoent benefita, With their new the community does look for, mingling with, the bearded far- Weber, a former mayor.
the farmers-always however, is, a sign that a start is mera who stand in the shade of owned a plot next to one be wealth
verandaho and solemnly discuss longing to a cartage contrac-prudent investors have already intended. In the absence of a
the crops and the drought. tor. One day the contractor's bought machinery and harvest- quick solution, it expects Govern-
Nothing hinted at the fabul- motor lorry was burned out. Ing equipment. ment steadily to persevere, by
ous wealth which experts say Weber wanted the remnants of: Mechanisation has increased direct action and by encouragement lies beneath the soil.
the lorry for spare parts. So output one reason why the to private builders, in piecemeal It was hard to connect this he swapped his plot, then worth Free State had a record wheat contributions towards the final desolate settlement with the only a few pounds, for the crop this season and enabled solution. Supply difficulties may fever that awept through the derelict truck."
| bread rationing to be abandon- prohibit the undertaking of large- world's stock exchanges on that A year later the boom came ed in the Union. scale, housing schemes; then It April day last year when dril- and the contractor sold Weber's us produce our houses one by one lers found a core of gold with original site for 7000.
There are many similar working men who descended can depend upon which of two selected the heart J. When he Galvanised iron an assay of 28,037 Inch-dwt- or two by two.
one stories. Another building plot from the great old Boer fami- events occurs before the other. did he made the contract a cinch piping may be virtually impossible staggering strike when
thinks of mines of the Rand was sold at 9 am, for £8500; lics, are servants of the soil. Usually that means which of for the declarer. The Q to obtain in appreciable consign- with 100 per cent. payability at 10 a.m. it was resold for Gold has not turned
their two suite in led first. In the that, a club was led to the A ments; then let us find a suitable with only 800 dwts.
£10,000. Two hours later it heads, nor has it changed their case of a No Trump contract, and a small spade brought back a substitute for galvanised iron pip-
changed hands for the third ways of livelihood.
If the declarer's only stopper in from dummy. South came In suit la removed with the K and then returned ing. It may be five or more years
Odendaalsrust's growth is re-time at 15,000.
One of them is tall blue-eyed a particular before the essential materials be- tarded by the paralysis of post- Ten years ago a farm labour- Mr. P. P. van den Heever, who early in the play, he can not the Q of his partner's gin to come forward in quantity war controla and shortages. er exchanged A weed-covered sufficient to
make large-scale Fewer than half-a-dozen per- reef for a suit of clothes. To-sold his 600-morgen farm to a afford loss of a trick in some darjously-bid diamond suit. It
mining group for £71,000. planning a physical possibility; mits for new buildings have day that reef is worth £6000. When Senator Conroy, Minis-ts lower cards. On the other used his A, scored the spade Q. that does not require that we wait been granted since the
The only local licensed hotel, ter of Lands, met Van den He-hand, if he can set up that sult led to the club K, ran the rest great
which five years ago was worth ever at the Odendaalsrust hotel, of his own while he still has the of the spades and finish with five years before we lay the first Geduld discovery.
Drilling operations along the 5000, has fetched offers from he asked what he was going to stopper of the adverse one, he club tricks-having had foundation stone. The weakness
reef are similarly hampered. the big Johannesburg Byn- do with bis fortune. "I'm go- may be okeh. The same princip- of discarding the hei of the Government case lies in the So scarce is machinery that one dicates up to 450,000-offers ing to buy other farms in the al applies also to prematuro re- which he did not need, phrase: "In view of the grievous company has bought three Bri- that have not been taken. Free State for myself and my moval of a ro-entry as to remov- housing conditions in which atish submarines and is now dis Prices Keep Up boys," answered Van den Hoal of a stopper. large part of the community has mantling the engines for use as
over. "I want my sons to have
S. 0 3 2 at present to exist, Government mining plant.
the best start in life.”
H. J 10 4. would, in the last resort, consider Shortage of unskilled labour
Odendaalsrust is not a
mo-i-
.D. K J.8 5 2
C. G 2 ftself becoming a landlord on a is another problem. The Rand
dera: El Dorado where the larger scale."
pavements are lined with gold. 8. Q 10 The key words mines need another hundred
S. A 8 7 the The reef is there, it is true, H. A Q 7 Buyers remember that are "in the last resort," for thousand natives and the Free
N 4 State will absorb thousands whole 'area of the Witwators- and its richness is proven. But D. A 6 Government well knows that no
W EH. 95 Much of this labour rand gold deposits, valued at it more.
lies thousands of foot inducement whatever has been comes from Northern Rhodesia, 410,000,000,000, could have beneath the surface.
C. Q J 9 B
n. 9 4 3 73 held out to private enterprise to Nyasaland and Mozambique, been bought seventy years ago Plentiful material and la- embark on the construction of and to speed up recruitment a for 1000.
bour, abundant skill and energy, new residential property, and that fleet of flying boats, each carry- nothing will be done valess Government is prepared (a) to become a large-scale landlord ar (b) to subsidise.
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high card strength shower.
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Even the fabulous cities of backed by millions of capital America have never experienced and topped off with good luck a raise in land values such as may one day maka Odendaals- Odendaalsrust's. The 300 pre-rust a great, prosperous city. boom residents, mostly poor How long that will take nonorable.) people, form-probably-the-rich-one can tell. est little non-urban community
in the Empire today.
It does not matter to therm
that at least five years will pass bofore the town has light and transport services,
water.
An Open
and probably ten years before; Letter
(Dealer: East. East-West vul
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never been anything but bitterly disappointing; and its failure in housing rehabilitation has stemmed from that fact mainly. It was (From the file of the China apparent a year ago that a policy For some days past a couple of involving Government interven-soldiers in the uniform of Portu- tion on the scale required to gat have been perambulating the the new mines are in produc- produce résults would receive no streets in company with the tion.
police. On enquiry wo learn that If, by then, the price of gold encouragement in high places; and they are in search of some now 120/- an ounce is still C. Colson KCB CBE, DPH: North's 1-Diamond and a one. If everybody
To Vico-Admiral Sir Henry St. correct his remissness on his vulnerable.) that the patient work of the desorters from the Portugese pro-high enough to cover working KHP Medical Director-General second turn by making a bid over who should open the bidding on. Building Advisory Committee vinelal corps stationed at Macao! was entirely wasted. On thei
costs, and the great expecta- the Royal Navy. point of subsidy, or rather one of new Governor the honour the possible forms of subsidy, the dignity of our country world have reef materialise, the goldfields Kong's most serious health pro
been duly supported and that may change South Africa's cen- blem, which may not concern you provision of building land en Hongkong, forming a portion of tre of economic gravity from directly, but I am sure will be of special terms, the policy pursued the Empire of Great Britain, the Transvaal to the Orange great interest to you becauso I has been precisely the reverse of would have offered an asylum to Free State, and transform the believe you can render the the obvious. Instead of "giving the refugee, whether flees arid veld into a thriving metro-neessary help that no ono bino
from
can for Ita solation,
We were in hopes that under tions centred on the new basal Sir, I beg your kind permie-which was both a free bid over this deal?
ho
and
sion to present to you
Kong
Hong
1s
away" land to prospective home-or slavery, military servitude, politan area.
political oppression. The
Now cities and industries will The last available Tuberculosis builders, upset prices have been set Englishmen have long made it provide homes and employment death rate for Hong at the level of the wholly artificial their boast that their country is for tens of thousands, British round 400 per 100,000 popule boom in market values, sometimes Europe that the slave who lands immigranta
a sanctuary for the people
tion
as compared to around 40 in may find this United Kingdom, It has been four and five times over the on British soll is free that the prairie province the real Mec-estimated that there are in Hong accepted values of 1941. To generous laws of their country ca of their dreams. question how Government squares shield all those who claim their this opportunistic exploitation of protection........ the gambles going on in this
Kong now around, 60,000 active No Mistakes
Tuberculosis sufferers. Yet there Odendaalsrust is determined is not a single sanatorium hore, With Portugal, England has not to repeat the town-planning British Colonies in the Far East, nay, in fact nono in all tha
highly speculative field, with its felons. It will not be denied that no treaty for the rendition ef professed desire to peg rents (and this insignificant. Crown Colony therefore property values) in reforms a portion of the Empire.
lation to 1941, would be un-and that hera British law and Ex-Cabinet
necessarily to digress from the
| main ... issue;” we. are interested
British Institutions exist (or
to oxist). In all their 'am-
and integrity..
solely in the establishment of the point that Government not only The New York
papers, by the
Minister
and the United Kingdom is the birth place of Sir Robert Philips, one of tho world's greatest Tuberculosis
Its famous terel Manila has Quezon Instituto, tho Dutch ́bavo "a" Sanatorium in Brastagi (Sumatra), to which go Tuberculosis. sufferers
from
Malays and the
the Stralis Now I understand that tha
Crier Of
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London, June 19, A champion town crier cried "Oyez” today, asked for a pair of "large white or cream silkt stock- ings” and modestly proclaimed that he would not be afraid to enter the corn-husking cham- pionship of Iowa if the knew more details. * J. S. L. Morris' interest in corn husking was sec- ondary, Primarily, he was concerned with the stockings he needed to complete the "love- ly old regalia" he had enlarged to defend his title. In a letter to "The Times," Morris wall- ed his woe:
"Alas, I find I cannot obtain Navy has given up the use of the a largo pair of white or cream Naval Hospital In Wanchal, and, silk stockings which is proper this can be suitably
The
the small man to build one for themselves and their readers, that ỉ đión payablb to former mem- 4 Tuberculosiġ Sanatorium "d to to my regalia.””
championship of lows if any reader could supply me with soms détails and should not be afraid to cater name. If that' were pozaible," Morris conclud-, ed irrelevantly,
Oyez
Unlted Fross.
has failed to build houses for the United States packet, Liver Income community, but goes out of its pool, speculating upon the general
London, June 19. way to make it too expensive for and credits in Europe, flatter disorganisation of Governments
Although the maximum pen
himself. None of this is due to In consequence "there must be bers of Parliament has been location of this hospital may not He naked readers or some official failure to pases the rush of all European capital into raised from 150 to 250 year-appear to be suitable for a Bana-manufacturer to lend him a acuteness of the need; or to be the Union for investment in ly, according to the report of torium from a European point of
of pair. American loans, stocks and haros The Belcet Committee published view, but under local conditions it fully aware of the grave discon of every description, because in today, it is not likely that it is most ideal, because the Chinese Town crier championships tent of hotel-herded families with the Republie, alone are to be will help Mr. J. R. Clyass, the patients and their relatives do not are held annually, Morris ex- their conditions. Awareners found those conditions of secur former Secialist Cabinet Minis to be separated too far apart plained, at a place designated makes failure the more reprehensi
ity and order which must be
to them accessability to each in the Of ble. Complications are many: wanting
forter, whe protested that he receives other, easy and cheep transportators Winners Con- that is generally accepted and cons, and property... Latto petion of any sort from tations to of first importance. It testants from England and may also be argued that the Wales each receive a copy of people; and papers of the the State no-oite exportageverything to be United State not deceiro them" tipulated that no, ax-member to cape with the nest, but it can / unɑ wook before the contest: 12/ ment of dij lomatic relations.
The Belect Committen has Naxa Hospital ill be too amall a specially composed test ploed produced in ofid day, 1 Hut move the sovur ties they lender will be assisted, to bring his in- be made us a great starts4usually is written by some local) tween Burma and the United facts add more figures, ‹ a little chea more frankd=defork di pollen, vet the man but the less prized, come beyond 4825 yearly Mr. The people of Kong as learned man and to based on States have been started, THOMAS COWAN & CO. (CHINA) more play moves Droich pages this is of lobsen rond bags, talis salon out of
debt. If you In the case of, a tio, another require a short time. One of the surorers local history, fiction or scenery, expected that the working
out of technical problema:
to be satisfied that: Government #Jgn capital, mady 5%%m÷daft will flon kolig understood; to: kav* aideration to the matter and -1{ this lawhere"="real good town diplomatto représent
And luvestment of 43:*Sweekd Kathar alle low in British Thur big com income appraal- ment will do boj very much trier cau acord" Morris palda Radioon, and f [shington woul
mately 8 work is above the energy of filmbartaments should like some Jararma, be accorded the Fark of "Amba-
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