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STREET SLEEPERS
Small as it may seen in relation total problem, the effort to the which has been made in Wan chai, with the competation of the government, by the Street Slerp s Shelter Society, to bring refici to some stores of suffering des titutes is deserving of the fullest public support. The opening 245 jat part of the Violet Peel Health Centre for this purparse is parti cularly granitving at this sCIMDIE which, trom the viewpoint of the i wretched street sleeper, is the
wurst period at the year.
at later, the scale of Suoner
operations will no the buriety's dont be extended when it will he entitled to look for a greate, mensare of official support than has always been accorded its ac-
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
By W.J. Passingham
In Britain, local government feriet Court. Both these local candidate must persnaje 10 constitutes the net of living to authorities have important reselectors to nominate him-and Kether 20 that the communal | ponsibilities in the maintenance eight moro to support his burdens are shouldered by those of public health, housing, main nomination, best fitted financially to bear water supply, and various other A County Council, therefore, them. If the age-old question services. In the case of miss dèmratle as any govern. should be asked. "Am 1 my Urban Tristrict Council there is ing body may be. it is nof brother's keeper" the answer, an feltonul responsibility for as democratic
us fr gould be
us for a Britain is concerned, tnanaging trade undertakings. simply because the people of is in the affirmative,
and where the population ex- the county show an amazinge Every British subject is, Infeceda 20,000--for elementary apathy fit local government greater or lesser extent, indebt.dareatiny, the administration elections, although the elections ed to his local government for of Shop Aets and Old Age Pon- of fundamental importaneo his welfare and existence. He alon Acts. may be rich, able to bear the cost of good health, of good
world.
in
Beenuse of local goverment efforts, the total death-rate and infant mortality rate throughout iritain have been halved with
fout generations. Thus child boin Didny has an expec uvities in the punt but the diftation of life 17 years liger Ta chuid born in than that ficulty since the war has bren
1850. that of every other kind of under- taking requiring house-man, the acute shortage of suitable accoin- inudation
Ta
Several Kinds
The Urban Council
f'un
County Councils
Before The Cradle
CARNIVAL
SALE!
SKIS
POLES
By Dick Turner
WINTER SPORTS
DOPT
COPA, 1947 BY MEA NERVICE, INC. T. ME RULL U7. 8. PAT, DEFA
F2-2.
"This little pamphlet goes with them-it tells how to convert them into a pair of splints!"
Australia's Colour Bar To Go ?
By Lachie McDonald
Sydney.
and other
Special planes have down 症 While official opinion still lacks number of Greeks all the way the traditional Australian polley from Athens
planes of keeping this great continent have lifte Europeans and White exclusively a white man's coun. Russian who could get only as
10 the individumi, since the work af {} County Council afferts everybody living within eduration, but still the ellizen
Its jurisdiction from the cradle fis indebted to the focal anthuri-
beg for heat, light, power, hy-Borough.
Then there is the Nom County to the grave. Yet there are
with gene tuled,
duties, almost cases where half the Councilors for the very onlieui with those of the nominated are elected unoppos pavements be walks upon, lett Urban District Connell. But nird, und abette only one elvekor clean and fresh for him after Borough Couned, incorporated in 18 takes the trouble to vote. the hear and burden of the day by Royal Charter, is controlled Although, from to time, cases by a lowa cornell consisting of of graft have been exposed in a Mayar, Aldemes and all their ugliness, it may justly eilters: whereas Urban and be said that on the whole, local Rural District Connells consisteralle, the unborn citizen comes Even before he reached the Britain stands only of Concillors with overment in
"under the care of the C'exterity as a shining example to the rest charman who holds similar Conet. fur such things a at the work of upright adminis. duties that of a Mayor in aure-natal clinjes, nurses an tration and widespread charity Borough. to those unable to hear none
health visitors, advice at a Each Bonngh is divided into sustance fibe difficulties of a workaday Wards,
ti ||s mother. Mid. mul electors In each wives and
nurses maternity Want "feet Councillors
duration
whore supplied by the Comfy Connell ** offler 1 heee usher most of his kind into the years. In turn, the Counellors world. and the saine authority "eleet the Aldermen, who hold may usher him out of it. Du office for six years. Each year, ing his carte, critical years s of conese, the Comet leets its health i
by supervised
thr own Mayor.
Comil The County Commeil will probably supervise education from the age of twol to 19 years for every such Joyaj) Most important authority in authority must now provide British beat government is the nursery schnels for children_hes County CulBel), and ranking tween two and five years where There are several kinds of equally with it, The County the parents apply for this per the se of the Sheet focal
government, anel they forough Connell, A County vice. If the child is really Sleepers Shelter Society, this differ widely both in size and Cannell not only has duties in elever, he can gain a County try, public uneasiness over the far as Singapore by ship. problem. is unze than ordinarily scope of authority. For this regard to bridges, ronds, eduen-Council scholarship which en Chifley Government's unrelenting But main stremni of 'migrants tremhtevne since, to the very reason the whole syster. is tion. Junary, public health, take him to a university.
handful of is from the United Kingdom, and decision to deport for example.] agriculture,
Maluyan scamen settled pture of its work, purely at a complicated. 1.
here Australiu hopes to keep it this and The modern child in Britain since registration
the war suggests
many way. Britona fur outnumbered all sharitable Maxi huinanitarian you happen to live in a County Ihensing, the police force and is largely what his County Australluns are developing a con- other people in the 30,000 who Character, it looks for fairly large Borough which is quite se, other important matters, but it Commelt can make of him, since retence on the subject.
hive come in 1947. the first full as be adapted contained and independent-the also holds considerable powers it supplies sustenance as well Premises which
Public protest meetings against year of large-scale planned im- main roads in your district will of supervistati #23) suthority as tor use by street deeper be kept in repair by the County overa
sending the Malayans home have finigration. Parish, District
been well attended, and a Aur- Arthur Colwell, Minister for great cost, and for which there
blogamei), and the: secondary | Borougla Councils. County
prising number of citizens have Immigration, expecta 50,000 ar Н staung preference
ronds by your Borough er Dis- Councils were created
written 10 newspapers Binting rivals in 1948, Annual target is 1888. gaymeat of ant
that Australia
longer 79,000, but shortage of shipping [trict Council.
can no and there are Bow 62 of them- When the
hard-and-fast colour delaying its achievement. stick lo It all begins with the Parish
Mr. Calwell says Australia is as reduced to such straits in pro Conheit, which administers local
number of the accenting "a fair cross-section of siding accommodation for men charities, maintains R water
Malayans, all of whom served the British people," and princity hers of its police force that part supply within the parish, is ress
with British ships during the is going to workers who can help
have war,
married the old Victori: Gaol have u Dongible for footpaths not part countries,
Australian the Australian building industry Tokyo, Feb. 2. be brough into service as Chi the public, highway, mony Most County Councils enver
girls who lack the cash to go house those coming after them. The Prime Minister, Mr. Tetstt with their husbands has roused Because Australia did not wish to the public library, the areas of the ancient coun-Katayama, told a conference of more sympathy than any theore embarrass the British Govern- rese quarters, the handicaps that mainan
public wasi: houses, recreation ties, such as Yorkshire, Suf Socialist Cabinet Ministers yes- lica) test case. face the enthusiasts of the Strest grounds, village grevas, and so folk, Sussex and Lincolnshire,terday that he was "determin- Churchmen have been particu- Strepris Shelter Society must be
on. Then comes the District and may be sub-divided amonged to have the Cabinet resignarly Heathing about A Govern selt evident
Connell, which in the enuntry is two or three County Councils. Three
bloc in the event of the ment edict that breaks up homes Prel Centre at ealed the Barad District Coun-But each County Council is a falling to agree on policies the have likened the repatriation or in the Violet
parties and marriages. Many people Wanchai, facilities have been cil, and to tan the Urban Dis democratic body, composed of newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun
der provided for roughly 150 persons.
to the Kremlin polley that County Councillors elected by reported today. at which bed-spaces," a hundred
the inhabitants of the county,
1. Katoyama said recent political prevents Russian girls from joln ronditions indiente that the time is ing their British husbands. have been reserved for women
But through all the fuss Can; It solves nothing, in one sense,
ject, man cop Woman, un their "After the general resigna vuter's register of the county. but it is an excellent start, and
lian of the prevent Cabinet, mir party Miss Ruby Alowing, the Chief Linspiration behind the effort, has cathed the Community's thanks and congratulations.
non
Government itself
rear
Canada And Hong Kong
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail")
.
Japanese
including the London Counsel, Cabinet
wonithiest local authority in the world, with a Budget larger than that of Rome Continental
To Quit?
en
Governmental
Lur
Fact that
meat. Jarge numbers of specialists had not been sought; Britain needed them herself.
Shipping The Key
With shipping the key to all Australia's immigration plans. Canberra is considering building in Australin special 1,000-passen:
and, broadly, any British sub- I approaching for his Cabinet to retire.herra has stood firmly to its decj- er migrant ships. An Australian
sion that
committee in London is investi- gating an alternative proposal to
or one who has Eved in the will become the Oppositions and wi aro not wanted in Australin. build in Britain 20 500-passenger
even British Asiatics
However, Australia is gelling cainty for 12 months before shall endeavour, to strengilten Diku the election
a steady trickle of Anglo-Indians takes place may position in the hope of forming
British. Amerlenn, and Austra f who see
un future in the new lian airline operators have offer put up ns a candidate. The single Socialist Cabiner in the
India. Many Anglo-Burmans, ed Canberra special migrant ser- whole business of candidature re."
fearing racial discrimination for a County Council is simple statement-the first of its kind ever dent. have also applied for entry service could carry 10,000 ml-
The Yomiuri Shimbun said this
vices from the United Kingdom. when Burma becomes indepen There is no deposit for can made by Mr.
Katayama-indicate permits. didates to pay, as in the care thin the Cabinet is now confronted A number of Australian girls says, it would be expansive and of a Parliamentary election, and with a situation from which it sees who married Javanese soldiers difficult to organise. the main formulity is that the|no escape.-Reuter,
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
Ten DC4 aircraft in regular
rants a year, but, as Mr Calwell
during the war are returning dis
Third main source of new Aus- illusioned and husbandiesa but traliana
la the United States, with coffee-coloured children,
where 10,000 applications have been made by young Americans who would like to live in Austro-
Not For Long
races
to
when
were
A letter from Berlin contato an Canadian dissatisfaction with
acenum of a new musket with which the handling of the campaigo several carps of the Prussian Army which terminated in the. Fall of are already provided. This weapon Lan Ron broadly hinted at is called the "Zund-Nadel" gun and
It is obvious that Australia. Again shipping in the main ramiot maintain for many years Lobstacle, and sa far only 200 in Mr. Mackenzie King's plain differs from the ordinary minsket in that the charge is introduced at the
its proad pro-war boast that the Americans have arrived. reluctance to publish his exchange beach, and the explosion takes place.
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
Australia will never forget how population of this country is more of letters with Colonel George by the touch of a needle which is
Anglo-Saxon than even the Unit-helpless he felt in early 1942 ed Kingdom,
Japanese armles Drew, will occasion no surprise, † forced into the centre of the cartridge
THE ODDS SILENCE of Pittsburgh's most une rubber Not that there is necessarily sub- as soon as the trigger is pofled.
Immediato concern today is swarming south. In a post-war players, who recognized the freakish-get more white people Into Ausworld of shortages, she knows stance in all the criticisms levell-
YOU Eighteen shots, it is stated, can he
ness of the distribution and the like trolin, and already Europeans of her greatest shortago still is ed: merely that it was not esser discharged in a single minute fram
population. Forgetting all about the way your hand of optional playing plans for inany
Rro streaming tial to be in Canada in 1942 to one of these gons, and the range of double may help the declarer to play the declarer.
through nigrant offlees at each The sprawling continent awaits further development, and unlesa Even without a double fram him. | port. realise that the heavy sacrifices fire extends in 80 yards, or more
the hand, there is nevertheless plenty |than chudde the limits of the best of reason to refrain from doubling made by the Canadians in Hong military rifles.
South
home. the contract Pulled
Tasmanin has received 280 Australian does it herself, the
Kung might lead to recriming-
ja stam contract unless you are ab The diamond lead allered South Polish soldiers who are working fear is that hungry, crowded Asia solutely positive you can set it. The be posibile courses. One necessita: together on a giant hydro-electric in time will over low southward tions.
and, in The invincible pedantry and amour adds against you are usually enought as even division of hearts and scheme
UB4 their off-time, through the Dutch East Indies. That's why the emphasis every Had the Japanese given the propre of our armourers and inspect impose silence. Just figure it out, clubs with West holding the club K. learning English and studying where in Australia is on migra
ion Australian customa, division and The other required only Colony a longer respite from at-tors of arms in England, their dis Suppose be is not vulnerable
A further 500 Polish soldiers tion. And that's also the reason tack, the story might have been realisti opt inventions na uf von set him a trick. The double in of hearts are all in die wew. will reach Tasmania by the end why Austraila will resist entry
English growth, and their slowness creases your
store from 50 to 100three and the club notably different from that relate to avail themselves of new mudels gain of only 50. But if he makes That is what he sought.
of April and another 200 will go of Asiatics as long as she possibly ed in the Maltby Despatches, and until they become no longer new will it, the double of
on to construction jobs at Darwin în can; it wouldn't have needed a South ruffed the diamond Q major suit all
the
May also from those parts of the nar- undoubtedly exercise the usual inslan gives him an extra 180 points the first trick, led
Yery strong Afth column of ro club Q
to have dis- rative that were omitted.
All are under contract to work sident Japaneso fluence over giving this powerful plus 50 for making his double con- the K and A, discarded the spade
certain organised Australia's ernail po weapon even
evel a chance of trial in tract, a teal extra dividend of 210.
on the diamond A, ruffed the dia on specified jobs for a
pulation in 1042 and opened the The real tragedy of Canadian
England.
4 with the heart 1, scured period. Te other words, you are betting 230
First batch of 843 Ulaplaced consiline to Japanese Invaders. participation in the Battle for It is scarcely to point out the ad- to 5th, or almost 51 to 3, that go three top hearts to discard a chilt. Hong Kong had nothing to dvantages that these weapons, carry will beat him,
the persons from Europe arrived at the club 10, discarded to apade with the us to which these gal-jeg 800 yards with perfect accuracy,
5 on the diamond 5, which are young unmarried Balts, 729 The have over muskets, of which the
Wext wron lant
with the K, and so as tred the last four tricks with the whole episode revolves round the range does not exceed 130, and that very uncertain, Another great att
spade A, diamond 10 and 9 and club fact that they arrived here in the vantage of the Zund-Nade" is that S. KJ 10 the blow struck, were inadequate case and without
troops
put. were
can load with effort
4
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ly trained for this or any other An English soldier is a very awk-C. K kind of warfare, and gallantly ward fellow to deal with when the as they fought, were at all times enemics' balls are whistling like hail
mąst
C. 98-74
at a hopeless disadvantage in any around his ears; it requires a heavy operation requiring knowledge of shower to disturb his noble
fastness Busi
glorious self the terrain.
session; but just put our lads, with (Dealer North, Neither side vul Mr. Mackenzie King's resis their stout hearts, cool heads, and nerable). tance to publication of the Drew steady fingers out of all but extra-North
1 D correspondence is, therefore, nt ordinary chances of being hit, and; difficult to understand,
a diamond font.
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being men.
Australia has promised to take 12,000 displaced Europeana д year, and Canberra la prepared to boost the intake to 20,000 a year if "suitablo" persons Bro available.
49 Dead In
Irap Riots
Baghdad, Feb. 1. When the Balta have boon a Ten persons died this week- month at a reception and training end from injuries received in centre-It is an old Army train last Tucaday's violent da- ing camp in Inland of Victoria-monstrations against the pro they will go to jobs awaiting them posed British-Iraqi treaty of in different Blater,
alliance.
Teaching Plans The deaths brought to 49 the
were
Twenty teachers will instruct] number of fatalities in Bagh- them in English, civics, hygiene dad. A score or more aud sanitation, reading and writ-reported, to have been killed in
Canberra la directly res
Ing.
tell them to fre.
Heares, iben, have merey on the An investigation into the fall souls of opponents!
ponsible for these newcomers and 10 other Iraqi cities. Why, they of Hong Kong, no matter from would sweep everything before them
alma to make them "good Aun»] Funeral processions all are "That is bidding them high, wide
tralian citizens."
being held in Baghdad for some which source the demand might before half their sixty rounds were and handsome by Norb, who had (Dealer: Bouth, Best-West vulner-
Many Europears, already soit- of the victims. Theatres and come, would serve no more ful to the peaceful witlourless Locidentally, richly justified West If East and stuck in a spade bid own steam
arpended; and if the work in beta- plenty of confidener In his partner able),
ing here have come under their other places of
- entertain- after having boon quiry into the collagee in Malaye, better Lady Mediak send foot be and his soundness all by nereald South play for Hearts ured, who made themselves the dude in-memors of the dead... which has already, been refused. quoted" ́an a_dollutural authorised (doubling. He was Roll Andert, one againe the heart 10 lvnd?
ponsible for those, migrEKËS, 2
Associated Press............
ful purpose, thn “a similar fti“ he dese-the sooner it be done 20€ jalan showed his confidence in South and Weat had supported. It, how | nominated by friends and red meat have put #mama for three
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