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yellow-prey in Sydney's
saml- magnificent stone pills and the narbour suddenly comes into ful view.
BUNN. AU SI Theresa's Ha pital, Kowloon, on September 18, 1948, to Tin (nee Kennedy), wite of F.P. Burn, the gift of a son, Richard Gordon, Shanghai Spers please copy.
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The proprietors of hotels and bourding-houses will un- doubtedly breathe Jittle more easily this morning on reading the annoubegment that the Competent Author- ity for the fixing of hotel rater has been advised to take no action against man- agements for failure to com- ply during the lust 41 days with the controlled rates published on August 1. The letter despatched to them yesterday was ambiguous." It could have been read to | mean that the original Order was to be entirely ignored, for be regarded as ineffective ́until Nävember 1, 1948 ́ ́ It ̄ was also capable of inter- pretation as meaning that the August 1 Order was sus- pended as from September 10, and that the rates fixed by the Competent Authority on August 1 must be regard-
10.
THURSDAY)
NORTHERN
CORAL Cooktown Cairns 'SEA Townsville
ADHI 2015
TERRITORY QUEENSLAND
APRIL 272 Arkhampton
APRIL 214 BRISBANE
Коерала
DARWIN
wwindhem
Broome
Alice Springs
WESTERN
STRALIA
SOUTH AUSTRA
JUNE 4TH Kalgoorlie PERTH JONEE
NEW SOUTH WALLs
Newcastle
ADELAIDE
APRILSTH
Fremintie
SYDNEY.
APRIL 4
MELBOURNE
500
MAY 1. *** TASMANIA
MIOBART
OCEAN
MAY 91%
SOUTHERN
MAY 201 CANBERRA, UNE
ROYAL TOUR VISIT DATED ARE SHOWN ON THIS MAP
OPIUM IS NOT HARD TO GET
Singapore, September 9.
The foreign tourist who wonts to be able to tail the boys back home that he has sampled a little of this wicked city'a illicit dalights can, for the moderata expenditure of one dollar Straits cur- rency (about 50 U.S. conts) sompie a whiff of oplum in almost any one of Singaporo's thou- sand odd smoking dens. Under the low, possession of the drug, pipes, lamps and the
·connected. other paraphernalia
offence with smoking is punishable by Imprisonment, but tite law is ignored by the elty's myriads of smokers who estimated their own numbers' at 70,000.
Funnel Afire In River Ship
Over-heating
cRused
small fire in the funnel, of the river motor vessel Hud:
son off Green island yester. day, on h
her arrival here from Canton.
A fire float from Central
was sent out. Fire Station
died before its but the fre Arrival.
The 200-ton vessel, bring- Ing 150 tons of general cargo, including fire crackers, fea- ther wings canned goods is operating the Hong Kong. Canton run of the Tak Kee Company. She has
Assuming that every amoker'a daily consumption average $5. daily Singapore's
oplum b1: amounts to the staggering cum of $350,000 most of which goes into the capacious pockets of extor- smugglers, den-keepers,
men gymkhana, Hampstead Heath, the Australians are laughing at the tioners, protection" The Royal visitors' drive to B.1., and n Wild-West
show.fact that Melbourne has succeedt- į rávenue officer and police. Nothing Government House will be con- There will be special jumping ed in getting the visitors to see goes to the Government by way trived
Australian to
the Queen and sheep drafting exhibitions,
Rules football of tax. take
an
den consista of A typical After fortnight's touring in match. through Bydney's Gardens and
This New South Wales they will travel) Hyde Park.
in Melbourne's passion, tamall room containing four roomy Chinese crew of 48,
in bunks, each bunk accommodating | -- There will be roses in hundreds 100 miles by train to the tropical and is vehemently defended
North. of thousands,
down. because they are
The against "effeminate" | three artamenta
men lying Isald to be the Queen's favourlie
preparing the drug, Bovers, and annuals in delicate
South Australia, one blue word pink pastels, her favourite colours,
The Royal party will hardly have ume to fet their land-lega
A MONTH IN
NEW ZEALAND
The King and Queen and Princess Margaret will spend the whole of March touring
New Zealand.
On their first Sunday in the Istants, March 6. they will attend service in Wellington Cathedral. A fortnight intar they will be present at a Maori church service in the Moari village of Ohinemutu. Rotorua
A farewell -ceremony will take. place on Thursday, March
158 at Waitangi, where
under which New Zealand came into the Empire was signed. The visitors wil Icave for Australia in the Vanguard the same day.
At several places in New Zealand the Royal party will stay at hotels and at others at Government Houser.
ed as governing the period of 41 days until September Legally, there appears to be no doubt of the ac- before they leave next dny for:
Canberra, across rolling sheep- curacy of the latter construc- lands to the little. Capital tion. There has been, in between hills. Here the King will fact, an administrative blun- open Parliament and attend A der of the first order. The Stote ball and banquet.
The visitors will have their own. Government had every in-
set
By-
ARTHUR MORLEY
on
codes such as Rugger and Soccer, smokers smoke triangular fashion, 46
"STAND UP
urdulgence.
ene
The tour of which follows will be interrupted smoking and one resting between
So plentiful are supplies of amuggled oplum
for a visit north-cast to Bröken I, the fantastic mining town
in the flat desert of New South Wales,
The King and Queen will see! real desolation on the next stage of the Journey between Adelaidej and Perth.
They will cross hundreds
FOR OUR RIGHTS"
Washington, September 0. President Truman today pro- clamied America's determina-
up for
that dan keepers are ever on the look out for new victims and youths and girls are sometimes offered free smokes In
In order to make them become addicte. Like the test olgar, a American ut
boy's first ok af oplum may not:
"stand motition
Our single smoke of After a procession and recep-emply miles on the plain, where
effects but be- rights in Berlin. result in it tion in Brisbane they will go there is no sign of life.
The President cluimed that the On the
inner taking two smokes con- of this western edge along the Queensland coart
experlan Russians were indulging in "a1- secutively unusually through canefielde, banana and lost land they will stop oriedly
ced extreme anuses and some. temipteri duress but insisted that times.ratoning. pineapple plantations, and the at Kalgoorlie, the famous gold-
"we are not negotiating uniler goldfield of Charters Towers. raining town which in still very
Owners of dens do not them- duress,' There will he a two-day pri- much like the Wild West.
Me, Tuman began his press The Golden Mile is as active selves operate them, but employ vate visit to the Burrier Reef, just
Berlin crisis off the
Townsville, as ever, and its gold is assisting for that purpose a young man or conference on the evast ut
There is le attempt at by giving his unquntifled backing Queensland,
the British Government to secure cealment and prices are post-to the Secretary of Sinte, Mr. The weather should be glorious American exchange. then, so there will be plenty of Perth, capital of Western Aus-ed in cryptic and in Chinese char George Marshall's, assertion yes..
wall-United tereny that the current develop- upportunities for swimming and tralia, and home of the celebrated acters,
In henta
the German capital sunbathing. Turtles can be seen black swans, is journey's end,
should be "frmly realsted." swimming above the reef, with
We are still standing up for right...tropical fish.
in Berlin," the Pre- our rights sident said in a lim Voice. "We are doing everything we can by negotiation.
Golden Mile
On May 1 the Royal party leaves the tropics and steams southward to the edge of the Southern Polar ocean at Hobart, Tasmania.
The next long journey is across the stormy Busa Strait to Mej bourne.
:
Large Percentage
Press
on the
FATHER ACCUSED OF WHIPPING YOUNG
MAN
Ashford, September 9.
ping he gave to his daughter's lover, " Possess Savings
London, September 9. Savings of some kind are pus-
per
Caro
ccav
"We will not negotiate under duress: We are not negotiating under duress and we will con- tinue negotiating, always hoping that we can get pence."
here
Four-Power Talks
were che
Mr. Truman's Brm alatement A wealthy City Councillor and company director,
apparently reflected the United Mr. "Haraco Isaac Care, was committed for States Government's determino- four- trial at Ashford, Kent, today after ton magis-tion to keep the current
power talks in Berlin and Moscow trates had heard the story of an alleged whipping
Earlier today, press reports
had speculated on the possi The Kent Assize Court will hear the case on Novem- bility of an early collapse of these
ber 18.
negotiations. The fact that the Caro's counsel had said that Curn, it was alleged, then pro-Military Governors in Berlin had tention of suspending the site in the comfortable country
house Yarrulumla, the official sested by 15 per cent of the his client would elect to go for duced à horse whip from original order, but failed to residence
the reported little progress and that of the Governor-adult population of England, and trial if the magistrates found a brown paper parcel and, the no further meetings
said to follow established legal pro-General, Mr. McKell. There is not Wales, ducording to a survey
rase, A riding Prosecutor said, "opened a most duled in Moscow were cedure for its modification, mough room there for all the conducted for the National prima facie
violent and legally unjustifiable support this fear.
Mr. Truman's reiteration that and ignored the fact that the Royal perly and carpenters are Savings Committee by Social Sur, whip with leather thong was assault on Coates for approxi-
produced in court.
mately three minutes, at the end the Western Allies were not now powers to make or modify rushing ahead with the construe-veys Limited.
tion of a new cottage in the
The prosecuting counsel, The survey was based on 2,000
Mr. of which lime Caró withdrew. negotiating under duress follow- had been invested in an in-
ed a similar statement made by grounds.
said that Kenneth Interviews among people of all K Round, dividual-hence the flap.
24-year-old fdrmer Back in Sydney after four days, ages, incomes and occupations in Coates, a
In his evidence to the Mr. Marshall yesterday. Royal Air Force ofcer, allegedi It is, of course, impossible the King and Queen will go to 67 localities.
court said that he was intimate The interpretation placed on grievous
that the Com.. inflicted
tham hera WAN with Mics Caro on several oc- The report issued today stales that to quarrel with the Govern-Randwick racecourse, high temple
munist-led
In of Austration sport, They will that 17
demonstrations cent of the adults bodily harm on him on June 11. carlone. He added: "I did not ment's directive to the Con- also open the Royal Easter show, agreed the main reason for the
Caro was, the father of a girl
seduce her.
Berlin were regarded as a de- There was willing petent Authority to take no a
finite attempt to break the four- combination of county fair, fall in the level of National f 20, a Alm actress known as
co-operation." Round
but Henderson. Mr.
He told the court that Caro power discussions,
the action, however disappoint-
savings is the cost of living. An- Jackie
in April this year before the whipping told him to
United States refused to be ing this may appear to hotel
other 14 per cent mentioned in- said that
་་
association watch out for your face."
swayed from its earlier course residents, especially those by her agricultural produc- adequade income while only four Coates formed
Coates added: "He lashed out who directed attention to the ers have risen steadily, but sentiment-Reuter.
by them. per cent mention Government with the girl and later she be-
with the whip and hit my back, In
Paris,
a. French Foreign came pregnant Government's breezy manner so have the prices paid for
The prosecutor summarised arms, legs and my face." Ho Ofice spokesman said tonight of ignoring its own Gazette. all imported goods.
the evidence that would be given. also said that Caro produced anthut a number of divergent points Only
He said that on July 11 Caro automatic pistol after the whip-existed in the reports of the three Any other course would have recently the selling prices
kold that he wanted to talk
ping and said: "If you had been Western Military Governors on created a troublesome mess for dairy produce have been "BLUE" TELEGRAMS Codies. They went by car to a awkward or unpleasant, it would their negotiations in Berlin. which would
taken increased by nearly
limeworks, of which Caro was have have
been the WOTED for London und Washington were cooler heads to handle than third, whereas the new ex-Wellington, New Zealand,
BANNED IN NZ
Managing Director. There, you, because I had brought this being contacted. he added. Caro produced from the car to deal with you."Reuter. Reuter. the Colony appears to pos change rate will lower them
September E. brown paper parcel and a pair sess. Beyond question, it again by only one-fifth. After darnestly considering of glover. When Coates obeyed was the full intention of New Zealand's view in de- whether risque telegrams should his order to take off his coat and Government that the Order ciding upon this step was ministers here have decided-no tighting attitudo.
be read at wedding breakfasts shoes Caro raised his hands in a issued by the Competent that it could now afford to Therefore the National Coun- Authority to take effect on do something to redress the dll of Churches will be naked for
Would Not Fight . August I should be suspend- balance between the
Mr. Round, continuing, sald con- concerted action to request the ed until such time as the sumer and the primary pro- Post Office to Lin "blue" tela that Costea declined to Oght in' Report of the Committee sot ducer; "we must bring costs decent."-United Press.
grams "bordering, on the inspite of a rain of blows from up to re-examine the que down," Mr. W. Nash said. A tion of hotel rates had re- major part of her produce ported. That is the imporis sold to Britain on a long- tant thing, Late in the day, term Bulk contract-under
one-
Japan
'Cato..
מון
Union
Electric Threatens Black-Out
In-
Tokyo, September 9.
to
a vital omission has been dis which, it may be noted, Bri- covered, and It becomes tain will continue to pay the necessary to rectify. The same prices as before, since method chosen is ordinary the contracts are in Sterling. commonsense.. If there is A big upward revaluation of something wrong, it lies in currency is always risky, but the revelation that an cle it may well be, within New Leaders of the All-Japan Electrical Workers Union mentary principle could be Zealand's capacity to carry so easily overlooked. Gov-it off without
today threatened a black-out strike as semi- ill-effects. ernment comes out of the The change will help con
government power generation and distribution episode with an exceedingly 'sumers at home, and abroad
companies management refused to meet their red face.
the achievement of parity!
wage domande. between
The Union. In 1946 threatened. the
They alreads have sent Dominionstructions to workers in Kanto, a nationwide black-out but re pounds and Sterling is in it-de east, Central Honshu, includ sorted only to periodic stoppage N.Z. Pourd
self geriérally desired. Ing Tokyo and Yokohama areas. of power due to inability to l
pend power to Allled lustolla- Neither New Zealand har to prepare for blackout tactics. Core London reports show that Australia has ever been quite government suggestion for media- The union leaders rejected, a
Electrical workers are at pre- the decision of New Zealand reconciled to the idea of their ton by the Central Labour merit gotting, a nonthly basic pay Mr. Kanju Kato, of 7,000 yeh-about US$20 under to put the New Zealand pound standing at a discount Minister
warned. severa punluitant the new army conversion rate pound on par again with against the pound Sterling, might be in store. for them. In | United. Press. pound Sterling came as a when fundamentally the res plow of the reported Allled complete surprise to London: pective pounds should mean Headquarther. Labour Souton There had been no hint that one and the same thing Aceomaticsdations (us to
tricki, workers should not strike: anything was in the wind. cordingly, it would take Bor the time batrie - perçoi New Zealand has found hor- great deal to induce New | further negollationis. self with a. substantial | Zealand to: rotrade the step
No Funds favourable balance of trade, which she took, and equally Union leader, skid ting, macZN- in spite of large imports of It may take a good deal to drement fast March: agreed on
riding scate revision of capital equipment Prinos prerant, has example from a baled to, try die put ou obtainable in local currency sprosding"
dontion has 115 Akoda.
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