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LAND OF KIWIS
By Margaret Bradbury
In IL
THE
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnar
organised into unions, as nearly nil are.
Minimum Wages
Do you want to go to New passage, It is condition of The standard of living in the scheme, however, that ap- New Zealand is higher than In | Zenland?
The most highly nationalised plicants must undertake to re-niöst countries, and this is borne country in the British Empire main in employment in certain out by the fact that people live -New Zealand hnn now con- specified occupations for two longer in that contry than any. eluded negatiutions with the years after their arrival in the where else in the world. As is United Kingdom providing fur country.
frank and generally known, New Zealand an assisted immigration schemic factual pamphlet prepared by a great promoter of Labour which will open the dura of the Immigration Department of legislation. Anyone working, in The country to thousands of the New Zealand Government, the country more than 40 hours young men and
who details concerning Empire in a week is paid at overtime, rates BRITAIN TAKES wish to emigrate from postwar migration are given.
and all workern must rercive by Britain or the Colonien,
No Obstacles
law at least two weeks annual HER BEARINGS
full with other
pay. holiday m
Wages conjunction
Revealing that while the pre
and hours of work are fixed in From the end of the war down Brylish Dominions who are now
sent scheme of free and naslated industries and trades and mem- their immigration to December 15 last the shaping re-opening
passages applies only to young bership of trade unions la com- | un abrupt of the post-war world was con- quoitis, brought to
halt at the beginning of the single people certain occupa pulsory wherever workers a trolled at least in thenry-by a
tinn] categories, the book With war, New Zealand is expanding states
that: "E four-Power collaboration.
should be manufacturing industries
understood elearly
that no the final break-up of the Foreign her Alinisters Conference alt Decemy and is in need of people with obstacles are placed in the way initiative and the ability to
of men and women from Britain By an Act passed in 1945 her 15, that system cane virtual-
work The main problem far.
and other British countries who minimum adult wages cuvering ly to an end. Traces of still
are prepared to find their own ail types of employment were linger, stich as the foun-Power the Demirions in this res.
Way out to New Zeuland by fixed on the following weekly controls in Berlin and Vicunt, in shortage of shipping to Transport Dew Hellera, and But the Power which wrecked shortage of accommodation for paying their own passages, and basis: Mates receive not less finding they can accommoda- than 6.168.4 per week whil the main machinery--Russia them when they arrive,
tion when they arrive."
women receive not less than has not disguised her desire to The scheme which is now be
In view of these possibilities| 43.3,-d per week. As all end these minor machineries alsu.ng introdured provides for free
how made available to people in example of how far thesa wages In the meantime the four Powers nsanges for ex-servicemen the Empire, it will be of in- which are the lowest received collaborating: and the women of the U.K. Forets and terent to know something about by my worker-will go, to en pasanges to civi-1 the New Zealand of today and sure a good standard of living. question which any British For for assisted
Hans, who are expected to the standard of living enjoyed the following price
rates are eign Secretary 101st answer is:
10 towards the cost of their by the people in its towns and given. How does he propose to fill up
Butter custs 176d or $1.20 the resulting vacunun7
New Zealand is a little larger, per pound; cheese 1/ or 80 than Britain, and covers a total rents; sugar 4d or 25 cents, area of about 101,000 square ment from 54 (35 cents) miles 1 ls made up of two 13d ($1); potatoes 34 or 20 large islands and a number of cents; and rend 611⁄2d or 40 } smaller ones. A land of moun- j cenik, por two Jhand loof. tring, rivers, lakes, forests and Tailored suits east from sixteen rich pastureland, New Zealand guiness upwards or $250, wo-
frocka range bus in every year as much sunnen's shi as Spain. Its high main shillings or $52. Men's shoes tain ranges-the highest peak, cost from thirty to forty five)
to shillings, of $28 to $56, 1louge rents charged by landlords are no exorbitant,
are tot
Nobody can accuse Mr. Bevin
of trying to answer it hastily. 11 waited more than five weeks be foze surveying the whole prob lem in a public utterance. What he eventually did say last week to the House of Commons had a full scrutiny Jevidently passed
h the Cabinet. Endorsed in its wain outlines by Mr. Eden and Mr. Churchill on behalf of the Opposition, its policy must be regarded as in every sense nation. al.
gary
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail"}
"Sir-I beg to enquire by what right the proprietors or members of the Club House told possession the Marrison Library, to the exclusion of the public.
|tion.
on
farmlands.
Mount Cook. reaches tip
Lesson Of 1930's
10
Irun: 05
is deducted from
the
12-6
VEM ÄRA, U. 9. PAT, OFF.
"Mind if I borrow your cuspidor a minute, guv'nor? The
pedestrians are as thick as fleas today!".
SEGMENT OF
THE S'HAI SCENE
The
old
By A.M. GOUL
· Derisive Gesture
with stones,
on a
The sheets are
Trained Babies
Almost universally, the pro- fessional beggars seek to add
street hobbledun the curb Woman
tenss the
Let a suck of earn burst as it guide the cotton truck at a watching and waiting. half-trot as it pulled slowly away from the docks and head is tossed on to a truck; let a few ed into thr Bund away from dried peas roll to the ground; 12,349 feet--run almost the
the wharf.
let n sack of rice split ita con entire length of the country.
children As the truck turned into the tents. Women and More than half of New Zea Apart from New Zealand's
woman will dash in with pans. and thoroughfare, the old land's 1,700,000 people live in Social Security legislation which is gan tearing and jerking at brooms and sweep it up If Mr. Bevin's first task was to
the towns and more than a third provides an assured income reken places in the jute wrap there's enough to push into a why
collaboration had
in the four main centres. Apart cases of slekness, free medical
If only a few grains, they ping of the bales, and stuffed pon. ceard, and there he had no dif- "It is generally allowed that the
and hospital care are provided, her pockets with cotton as she pick up with their fingers, pop. ficulty in fixing the blame where founder of this valuable Library m the 96,000 Maoris, New
Zealanders are nearly ail of and at private Imspitals the it belongs. Mr. Gallacher, the intended that it should be open to
it moved alowly through the or their pockets. Communist, said later in the dethe public, and it was so formerly British ancestry, most of their basic fee (nine shillings or $7. jogged along with the truck asping the food into their mouths Another segment of the scene
Cha Late that "the rift between this and so long as the Morrison Su-grandparents and great-grand- 60c.)
She was having fun, Ais
professional beggar, the Soviet Union diety Sch of continued in opera-parents were English, Sentch, patient's bill and paid by the trawling, janging traffic. Country and
Irish or Welsh and their pecu State. Free medical attention
wide smile split her wrinkled sometimes a man, sometimes a began with Mr. Churchill's
"Now, however, 1 find, on re-pations are those of the people and hospital care or home nurs but that is visiting Hong Kong, that I am of most countries, farmers, car mg are provided for expectant face as she kept pace with the woman, kneeling from dawn to speech at Fulton:"
the pavement, head truck. When her packets filled dark on suite untrue. The fact is that ever refused admittance to it, and that penters, engineers, storekeepers, mothers.
with the fence, she began stuff- bowed. hands clasped, uttering Education Openings ing t into the busom of her never a word. since the war ended the Soviet the inhabitants generally are now schoolteachers Rĺ son,
The story of on has pursued a policy of im-deprived not caly of the liberty
Education in New Zealand is faded jacket. She on began their misfortune in totd as formerly perialist aggressium, quasi annex of receiving books
Until recent years, New Zen-free from kindergarten to uni. to bulge in pecullar distortion printed sheet weighted down
school with the fifched padding. ing Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, but even of consulting then
land's efforts were concentrated versity. Attendance at <X- Yugoslavia, Albania and Han the premises. I understand
The two guards squatting on paid for, and the stations as- through puppet Govern- cepti ns to this rule may be made building up her exports of is compulsory between the ages,
with the result of seven and 15. Tari produes.
At three, a bale at the head of the truck signed by the beads of the cr warin behalf of those who prefer a ments, organising actual
of request to that effect to the Sub-that it become the largest ex- child may enter a free kinder derided it had gone far enough. ganization to which they belong with which they Bhure porter of cheese, mutters and garten which is controlled by a One picked up a whip Tour and against Grever
Committee, nerves" against Turkey,
"But I wish to be informed, Mr.nl the world, one of the Free Kindergarten Association, foot long knotted rope attached their, collections. treating her es-Atlies and would Editor, how it has come to pass chief exporters of butter, and subsidised by the Government, a yard-long staff. He lashed
cut at the old woman, largest exporter of At five he may be enrolled at a be collaborators, Great Britain that the inhabitants of Victoria the third
The epression of the Stare primary school all of and America, enemies whom have all wid themselves to be wool.
which
A are co-educational, deprived of such a valuable right, 1930's however, showed the un- it has been her business thwart, insult, attack and injured by what authority the Trus fortunate effects of having all free dental service is provided economic eggs in one and also free milk daily and possible shurt ofte of this-a public property one's
luve handed it over to a private basket, and it become clear that apples in season. bady..
• 4. if New Zealand was to support. There are two forms of in A VISITOR." bigger population, it could become taxation in the country and waddled over to the curb, down, at full length, beside the
done only on the basis of ex- A
rate charge 011 all No sooner had she moved off printed sheet, never moving.
ill that salaries, wages It would appear to us that the pauding industry. Since
other than from the other alde of the They are trained from baby- exaggerating
tax. Social Security tax street dried two young girls hacd. They will become pro- understating, He is still very Trustees of the Morrison Society time the manufacturing indus: come anxious, as he always has been, School were only actuated by the tries have grown rapidly but is payable by everyone over 16 who began tearing at the bales fessional beggars when they
valuable there is little heavy" industry, years of age and is a charge of from their side us The truck grow up. to leave it as easy as possible for desire of having this
no iron or steel production, no 1/64 or $1.20, in the patind on moved on down the Bund.
Or there will be a group of the Soviet to change over from collection of Books deposited in a
place of safety, when they neccpt-industrialisation on the. British
The white-helmeted traffic refugees from the war hostility to co-operation. Heed of a proposition made to them
scale,
} ["Continued, at font of next Column) | police paid no attention. Their living in squalor, in coli, un- still nourishes, for instance, Aby the Members of the Hongkong
job was to direct trafle not to heated, unfurnished upper floors faint hope that Russian consent Club....The complaint, by his
And ne
of brick and concrete buildings. guard moving 'cotton. may be obtained for German cur own showing, is a very minor
son as the two younger "cotton Men. women, children, rency reform But it was satis-une, when he admits he can have
pickers" were driven off by the times as many as 200 of them factory that in reply
to Mr. full access to the Library by pre-
whip-wielding guarda, others piled together with their blan would move.
kets, their few clothes, their Eden he indicated the Govern- ferring a simple request to that Tect to the sub-committee of the
pans and braziers. It was ment's intention to go forward
not a new thing for pots and club.
waterfront. It's huddled on their palates stretch- Shanghai's at last in any event with that
on the canerete floor. fundamental and much overdue
been going on a long time, and ed ost part of any sane programme for are cared for and jealously watch-
will go on for a long time to Their life la a tally routine of waiting for their meals to be Germany.
ed over, the probubility is that at
merely getting a sent around by the city's Social Yet to expose Russia as the the closing of the Morrison So.
There are two extremely goed sea. wrecker of peace
lety School they would have
handful of ection now and then. Welfare Department. and recovery,
The city does the best it.can, this been consigned to the ravages of sets for being with your eques to
The women of the waterfront Though very
hundreds of necessary
damp, moths, and white ants, a slum contract which you expert
time East swallowed the bait a and their children long ago be but there juncture, is not in itself a posi- either in the vacant premises of
heal trick or two. First, the H
came experts in reaching and thousands more just like them.
into the city formation conveycil by your double doubled,
every five policy. Now that four-the School or in the godowns of
Use of such a double as a least | salenging whatever was avail. They pour give may cause the declarer to play the director in deadly in the hands fails Power collaboration
us, some Merchant induced to
hatud so as to nullify the value of the fine players, when the doublet
of able to give them an extra bite day.
Death, to the masses, is little what else can we take hold of them warehouse room,
practs with
to cat, or something they could yau hope to dawn Mt. Revin's answer to the ques
a hand whose value fepends on the him. the equally important lead. But this pair did not employ
Not a tragedy. A recent week-end of 114. Hut
trade or sell for food.
weather left ion was perhaps the most distinc-
second reason is found in the
double in that manner, so
corn, a single dried below-freezing West led
pen, or a soybean goes to waste, more than 200 dead, most of
them children.
in every way formal war.
Mr. Bevin dealt with all this
but curiously, i jat some length
and often
never
Had these Books placed in the Club,
nol where
been they
flat
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
**THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
EITHER REASON
ENOUGH
which you
tre-
then a 5-Heart bid by him might sound weak and get doubled. When the opponents then tries to sacritics at 5-Spades, he showed his fit South' other suit with alam in the lower casking clubs, This
our
She laughed in his face, dnd-pathos to their story by a small ged the blew, grabbed another chill, bundled head to foot in who Bes face handful in a derisive gesture.rty blankets,
come.
It's not
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the
tive feature of his speech-ther a Zollverein or any other of mentous odds you are giving. If you the diamond J. one which revealed him as net those ambitious proposals which beat the contract, the double gives South won with the dummy's dia-
you only a few extra points, whereas mond K and immediately led only a patient negotiator but a too often stand in the way of out if you fail to, the double presents the elab J. No matter what East did now, Constructive statesman. His realising more modest but more declarer with many more. answer was-Europe, The six-practicable advances, We shall teen nations, who joined at Paris do
well to begin as
7 4.3
he was and the
thwarted, He played low J went through, dropping the 10. The felled the Q. the bearin
grain of
Waiting And
Watching
are
areas,
Same-
The story failed to rate page. one display in the city's news. papery,
It was not news to Shanghal.
As the bags of rice, or corn, Just another page in its history. were run until East used the club or other dried cereals or
vegetables are trundled off the Without East's double. South's best steamers
along the Bund, or
first round of clubs, so he could im packed piggy-back style by cool- ST. PAUL'S CANON mediately lead the ruit again, and is off the sampana lining the
5. 8 2 IL. K 7 G
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play would have been the A on the
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CA 9 9 7 6 5 South, North-South vul-
in answering Mr. Marshall's the Foreign Secretary sug": challenge can fruitfully be gested, by making good the s. K Q 10 brought into much closer co-ground that we already stand on operation. Divided they have that of co-operation under the 11.9 2 fallen; united they can stand Marshall Plan. Nothing is of D. J 10 7 again. Their populations, when more immediate importance than C. 10 combined, outnumber either that the Plan should not fail: Russia or the United States; and and what between Russia strain- if it be objected that they lacking every nerve to wreck it, in area or raw materials, the rejoin-order to crush us, and certain of der is that, save for Egypt and the more backward American nerable). Abyssinia, nearly the whole of the politicians trying to camp it giant continent of Africa is underscope, it is obvious that the their flags. Add their possessions greater our reliance on self-heir Pass in South-East Asia, and add the and mutual-aid within the con leading part that they have play-munity of European nations, thr ed in developing the Arab coun- better our prospect will be. That trics, and it will be seen that does not mean spurning. Ameri: their resources are immense, ifca's generosity, but heightening to actually with a partner who could Its usefulnesss and it is the very of hearts at the four level; it wa only they can be co-ordinated.
make that vulnerable "reverve" bid
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as a result he would have been set. I banks of Soochow Creek between
Tomorrow's Problem
North
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Szechuan Garden Bridge and road, women and children squat
DEAD
London, Feb. 4. Canon Sidney Arthur Alexan. der, Treasurer of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, since 1909, died today at the age of 82. gross income from all sources, Once described as the "cor Income tax is a separate tax norstone of St Paul's", the canon raised 4400,000 for its payable at graduated rates on the balance of income remain- preservation during his years ing after deductions for depen- of office.›... donts.
When Lord Langland, then The basic rate commencos at Archbishop of Canterbury, un. 2/6d or $2 in the pound: No veiled a portrait of Canon tax is paid on the Arst 4200| Alexander in recognition of his of income. On an income of work, he called him the man Dealer: Weat. North-South valner 600 per year, subject to the "who has dont more then any usual life insurance exemptions other to see that Wren's great thore truly in the hope that the op-able.)
and Social Security tax, the tax masterpiece was to be preserved
for ever."Router;"
In developing this argument thing that Mr. Truman and Mr Mr. Bevin prudently abstained Marshall and Senator Vanden ponents would be lured into going After the club iù lead, how can from talking about a Federation-berg, would like us to do. on; within, spada, sacrlice, 10 that! South play to make bis 6-Spadre?