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| PACIFIC ROUND-UP
AUSTRALIAN REVOLT AGAINST SOCIALISM
Australia's ghoat
bunters proposed by Mr. Chifley, there, the leniency of Chief Warden complete landslide Nomura, a believer in paternal
1
policies,"
•
TRAGEDY:
continued
have had a pleasantly active was week. Reputable residenta of against Labour, Inverell, a conservativo farm-' I was the first opportunity
the people ng and dairying township on
had had to paan
CHINESE nationalisation. | China's civil wars on The New England. plateau, New judgment South Wales, reported that In Canberra, Labour politicians without cease.. Indication of glost had "taken possession" of prepared for trouble.
the former Ally's plight was cne of their homes.
The new Victorian Premier. given by General MacArthur,
To the nociety for Physic Re- Mr. Hollway, able to command Allied Commander in Chief in earch in Sydney. they sent re-searly fifty of the House's 66 Japan, who told a visiting A- quest for investigation and as-scata, announced that he was erican that he was more con- LOTSHOTSASTUSS*******US sistance. The ghost, they anid, joining with the Premiers of cerned by the plight of China
DEATH
MCKELVIE → Emile, eldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs, J. McKelvie, Kowloon Dorks, passed away at Calcutta n 31st December, 1947, Beloved by all.
ໂຍ
THE SALARIES REPORT
While it would be too
Invereli...
By Arthur Morley
Federal
than by all the problems of de- Tilitarising, occupying and re- forming Japan.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
COPR. 1947 BY KEA BERVICE, ING, T., M. REG. V. EL PAT, OFF.
71-27
"And another thing, Sonator-until the prosent Investiga-- tions dio down, stop greeting mo with 'Oh, I see you're in the pink!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
was of young man wearing a darkish overcoat and dark rult a
Instead of a hat, he be a wears what appears to
LEAN AND HUNGRY: A cut-off sack on his head.
"He comes and goes without
algnificant development it Paci- asking your leave.
fie affairs, was highlighted this It is no use
when the supply-ship bringing weapons against him. South Australia and Western week, for you can see through him, Australia to fight banks nation-Reynella was taken off the Aus and he passes through doors alisation in the High Court-tralia-New Guinea run.
for two years if necessary.
Natives of New Guinea, the without opening them."
from Chifley deelded Aucther report came
thor der great Australian mandute, had
been Forbes.
dependent western #
town in pit what the election indicat-jong much.S.W. Here a resident followed in Victoria, he would push white planters and traders for and food; forgetting expect every individual in the a young girl along a dark the bank nationalisation bill work
House. their own farming and hunting. country road, taught up with through the Government service to wax en her but had the mortification of Cynles believe that he is rely When the Reynella failed to thusiastic over the Report of the seeing her vanish as soon as heng on swift destruction of the arrive, New Guinea immedinte- Salaries Commission, the general reached her side.
trading bank system, followed ty raw ahert of vegetables, su- effect is represented in the fact Possibly feeling that the by libera! Ioana by the Governgar, meat, butter, milk, pota- that the total of the increases apgirl's conduct was more sensiblement hank before election time. thes and tinned foods.
One observer in Port Mores- proved will cost the taxpayer ap than supernatural, the society's to win or buy popular support.
"The by reported:
natives proximately an additional Twelve experts decided to investigate
NEW DEMOCRACY: In Lave a lean and hungry look." Million Dollars annually, which!
[Tokyo, Japanese were de-
EXPANSION: can only mean (the awards being
MALAYAN monstrating determination tol retrospective to January 1, 1947)
SOCIALISM, OUT!: Biggest become democratic if it killed Despite unsettled political con- a substantial New Year windfall political development of the them. In Shikuoka prison, in-ditions, British capital again to a very large majority. Yet, veek-or
year-na the vestigation showed that war began pouring into Malayo. formidable as the total may seem, Australian public's clear and dens had organised ante on the Lever Brothers
of shoes and ene of the world's greatest bual- the issues raised in this remark- unequivocal revolt against so black market
With all high ranking players, the able, and important. document cialism, as dispensed by Prime furniture made by prisoners in ness enterprises (Capital £100
the gaol workshop.
millions, factories in 46 coun- double of a slam contract is consider could hardly be less controversial. Minister J. B. Chifley.
tries), announced it in building ed a lead-director when made by the The chief beneficiaries are those
It guarded against the diamonds, a four million dollars factory partner of the opening leader.
commands the partner to upen some squeeze would work. With that posi- who have been most severely hit
at Kuala Lumpur,
thing different from what would be dun marked as cxisting, he decided to by highly inflated post-war cbst
re- When prisoners
The company will also buy is natural lend if the double had stake all on an effort to compel Esst of living standards, and who
volted and threatened to ex- 4,000 acre palm-oil plantation not been made. Usually that means to protect the spades. This he did, were grossly underpaid even
pose the wardens, prison chiefs Soap, margarine and edible oils the suit bid by the player who be after taking the club lead in his ow
organised prior to the outbreak of hostili
courteously
their will be produced by "highly comes the dummy, and the first suit hand, by leading the spade Q. West [hid by him in case he had called obligingly covered, and Sauth did ties. None can complain at an
as escape, signing a paper promis- mechanised processes."
two. When such a double had been likewise with the A, creating a situa- upscaling of their basic pay to a
ing to forget the whole matter.
NAMES: Two new barber's made and the opener violates the tinn in which fast could be squeezed The prison kitchen provided level which while better enabling
if be them with rice cakes to last signs appeared Sydney's convention by not offering the re between diamonds and spade them to maintain living standards
this week: "KINGS-quested suit, the declarer should ask had the honours in the first of those them for 60 miles of their ea- streets
in-suits and the in the latter. KURA-himself why is awer con KRANIUM nore in keeping with their status
FORD'S cape journey.
fluence his crucial plays in the hand.
bis aqueeze can still not be criticised as over-
Commented "Mainichi," one TOR." For the rest, it is suf generous.
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the
In the state of Victoria, the Conservative Upper House forced resignation of the La bour Government by refusing to pass a supply bill. In the ensuing general state fought entirely on the issue of nationalisation
of
election,
banka
100 Years Ago
The Captain
(From the files of the "China Mail") British-brig
Connew,
"Gallant," arrived
this
and
is little prospect of a notable re-morning, having the Chief duction in living costs in the next Second Mates In confinement,
But, to demonstrate their de mocracy, the wardena gave each prisoner a share of the illegal profits.
and
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
LEAD AFTER SLAM and Unilever,
on
DEATH.
of Japan's largest newspapera: COME AND HAVE A CLOSE "The whole thing arises from SHAVE."
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five years, and still less of a re-charged with stealing to the ex- In recent years the list of polies"
in Britain haston becomes public property, turn to pre-war levels in purchas- tent of several Thousand Rupees. new patentees
can proveable.) The Captain applied for assist shown an increasing proportion unless the inventor ing power.
ance to Captain Gedney of the of continental names. Techni-that he has been prevented from Though to prejudiced eyes in United States ship"Plymouth,"
men exploiting his patent fully dur clans, chemists, business certain departments, the Report lying at Macao, who promptly and specialists in every conceiving these 16 years.
economics to have overlooked sent a Lieutenant and a party of
able form of
who
Royal Seal may appear
men on board, to see the vessel the
Áя soon as a patent is grant- special considerations to
safe into Hong Kong. We believe have been driven out of Central which they believed themselves to the subject will be investigated and Western Europe by Worlded, the printed Letters Patent,
then concealed
1
10
lion.
nor
BY EGON LARSEN
Inventions,
18
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(Dealer North, North-South vulner-
After North bids 1-Heart, South
what,
should
South
North
the
crabs?" The "edible
to be
be entitled, it must, in the main, by the proper authorities here. War II and political persecu- the "specification", renches the Against that bidding, the lead call-
tion, have settled in Britain and Patent Office Library, and the ed for by the double was a spade, able.) commend itself as a noteworthy
On the 13th instant, the Officer) are now assisting the export inventor is given a document but West led the club 7. Why? That's achievement, broad-visioned in commanding the detachment
"Curiosity Shelf" cided it was because West had the 2-Spaden, North 3-Spades and South approach, and of historical signi Ceylon Rifles at Salwan received drive of the land of their adop-bearing the royal seal.. In the what South wanted to know. He de 2-Diamonds, North 2-Hearts,
the+Diamonds, ficance Inasmuch it calls for a information that a man who had)
A visit to one of the most in-les the original patent granted spade K, and be predicated complete break with old traditions deserted from the Regiment two teresting libraries. in the world, to Edison, the American Inyen. rest, of his play on that assumption. Ibid? in the Government's salary struc-years back was
in a house at Salwan.
however, shows this recent de tor, in 1875, for his multiple ture, and sets out lucidly the path Measures were taken to sur-velopment to be neither new telegraph. It is almost a yard Since it is not required that but that spirit must have moved in to prove the the man who registered a parent which is in future to be followed. round the house, and the door
aquare, and the wax seal affix-model be sent All salaries are to be expressed in being bolted, the occupants re-
ed to it welghs some three practicability of an idea, no in 1936 for a device to catch
trickling down rife was
In its own limits are act to the inventor's the fluid pounds and is kept Hong Kong currency. The old fusing admission,
Bred
through the lock, Unfor-
in box. Nowadays an inven imagination. Has any acrobat hands and knuckles while cat- distinctions between officers on a tunately, two men inside were
tor has to be content with a less ever walked upside down with ing sterling basis and those on a dol wounded by the shot. They have
on shoca iron-soled voluminous and pompous docu- his
a gramophone record" (1003) is lar basis are to be eliminated. since been removed to the Gay-
magnetised metal ceilling? At also a culinary invention, and ment.
a patent has been not unrelated to another idea of The scope for advancement of the rnment Hospital and are doing
The well.
deserter. however,
This library justifiably claims any rate so widened escaped. 'locally-engaged' is
exceptional. This
the to be the
best pubile technical granted for this invention. The making digestive pills from has been women's hair. Two of the in- that professional and technical The next day Lieut. Layard, library of the British Patent referenct library in the world. manufacture of gold qualifications are to be the sole stationed at Stanley observed a Office in London, a vast hall During World War II many erornalized under various forms ventors certainly hoped 35,
clue to the man's hiding place on stacked with
among others, by proposals to immortalised by a monument to criterion of progress.
the brain-waves, American experts who had come Extensive nhill, very cleverly surrounded
dacoverica, bright to
sen-water or "the man who made the Anti- Britain with the United distil gold from
Snoring Apparatus", and to his 300.- re-grading proposed will amount,it and captured him. The deser 250-in its ideal form, to re-organisater appears from his statements ideas and Inanitles of Ave een States Army inspected the ar- from corn.
Warlike developments of an colleague, the man who patent- ed the Anti-Panic Machine"--- tion of the administrative system, the pirate and murderer Chula-not only in Britain, but every-volumes included in this library, from corn. to have been an active agent of turies. The history of patents rangement
·400.-
and a stream-lining which cannot 200.-be otherwise than beneficial. Par-pau, tad gave information of the where-began in 1449, when and declared that there was no carlier period inspired one in brain-wave which looks no less
accom- Henry VI invited a Flemish in- library in haunts of many of his
their country which ventor with an idea of a plough far-fetched to us than the ma- aschine invented in 1904, for the ventor to come to England and could compare with it. They with small rifle, barrels
aud 350.-ticularly is this true of the pro- pilces and agents.
recording of Several of them bave
their been manufacture his coloured win-spent many of posal to amalgamate the clerical
telsure handles, so that if the farmer "reception taken into custody; and we arc dow-glass, which the 120-and accounting branches into a informed that Mr. May with
king hours studying the collections was attacked while ploughing, waves produced by the brain The royal Rifles 300-single General Clerical Service, party of Police and
was admired.
patent of documents from the French, he only needed to swing the ar- while thinking."
The latest volume of Lotters this man must have Bavarian, Russlan and Italian rangement round, rout the at- which will permit much more engaged on Saturday and Sunday lasued to
of Science, which tacker and go on ploughing Patent fetches us back from the rapid promotion of outstanding in making the necessary enquiries been the first in the world, al-Academies officers, and further break down at a village on the eastern ex- the latter of protection given by and have not been collected so round corners, too, is not a joke tion. Inventors are more sober at the places Indicated, altuated though many expects thing that dare back to the 17th century, calmly! The gun which shoots realms of flourishing Imagloa the barriers of race and nation-tremity of the Island.
Edward III to a Flemish weaver completely la any other place. but a patent; k has gently cur and more practical today. A
now coal-loading machine, ality. The Commission's resis
in 1881 to enable him to settle A particular speciality of the ved bore.
More modern ideas patented method of growing more beans, tance to various suggestions for
in England, takes chronological library is the collections dealing
wood-chopper, an specialist clerical officers in, for ment was among the most di-precedence. In any case, the with the early days of steam within the last 50 years Include a portable
machine instance, the Post Office, and the cult of the problems facing the ready acception of continental shipping (before 1846) and of an armchair in which you gone electric accounting Police Department, will also be Commission: and that it was vital-experta in an old-established airship navigation (before 1860) rate electric current for a read which uses logarithms. These
British tradition. widely approved, if only for the ly essential to avoid any sugges-
as well as he lives of all the ing lamp simply by sitting in are the kind of things invented today-things we reason that the effect would be, tion of discrimination. The "Statute Of Monopolies" great investors-original draw-the chair; a muff which pro- la Britain more often, to keep a first-class figures finally approved appear The great interest in now pro-ings, elchings, autographs, notes, vides a miner with fresh air; need in these sober and practi man back than to assist him to to be a reasonable compromise cesses and invention shown by documents, and newspaper cut the use of volcanic heat to warm cal times.
ard popular rotinga, attain promotion in accordance between too much and too little, authorities
Curious Ideas with his experience and qualifica- and it is, in any case, a matter presentatives of England since
olden times led to the Institution) Since the opening of this tions.
which finally can be tested only of modern patent protection car brary soon after the institution the line of curious modes of
Londen, Jan. 2. Points of criticism will arise, by time. Altogether, the Bloss lier than in any other country, of the British Patent Office in transport there is the carriage London greeted the New Year we feel sure, from application of Commission has done an excellent In 1023. Parliament compelled 1852 watch simplified and de- driven by "the passenger rock with a wild brawl at the annual Aria ball at which the recommendations of the Re-job of work, completing an ex- James I to recognize themocratised the procedure of the ing his body (patented 1004) Cholser port to individual offers rather haustive study in an astonishingly "Statute of Monopolies, the royal granting of patente con- and the "aleship propelled by several young woman revellers the skin SLE were stripped to than from the Commission's gen-short time, and so satisfactorily substance of which still considerably, this great hall with rained birds an idea, by the thousands of balloons Tained eral response to the task entrust that long as the Secretary of stitutes the essential basis of the many thousands of legallyway, which Baron Munchhau down in the stately Albert Hall ed to it. It may, for instance, be State has been sitting upon the contemporary Britlah legal-pro- protected ideas perpetuated in aen-bad already thought of Inst the strcke of midnight-United
El Dorado of objected that the scale of expat-Report, he has failed to break] tection. According to it the in- it, has been the riation pay proposed will prove down its key recommendations at ventor has the sole right of ex- everyone who thinks of an inven-
London, Jan. 2. insuficient co attract the right any vital point. The Colony has plotation of his idea for 16 on great or small. But most Anti-Snoring Apparatus yours (formerly, 14 years); of them will have to admit that The Inventor of the judicial
Rutland, which has the small- type of officer for technical and had, maybe, to wait overlong for after this period has « elapsed every invention, oirwady has reference book which, on open- professional appointments which in publication, but, it is then the
Harpolloswoman, bringing the classkal example of the beta rowered there, the bril-ing, reveal no paragraph or est police fores in Britain, is to cannot locally be filled. But it more welcomes a New Year social de diminta in many other beat together. verdicts, but a bottle of whisky county a complement to Bhe-Ben- must be agreed that this asetur .gift.§.
time of the "Beirut of Mono
inued at,[89) of went Columa) Instead, must have a student; t
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