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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARŸ” 11, 1980.
THEY ARE GLAD THEY
QUIT BRITAIN
for settlement in from the bank, bought it,
and year ago are now scattered over is in the
We've had the flying pencake, whom I have been able to get in the flying saucer, and not comes At -touch-are-very-glad-they-came--tho-nymlf-ibe-cream cono
In a rather sordid suburb.combination of Sydney I was, suddenly Australla. Such units almost inam doing, a turnover of £100 a this vast country, All these with
evitably gravitate to the bly week," stopped by a boy selling cities, and at once-come-up papers. "Hullb!" he said.
1 recognised his brown, smiling tace. He was one of the two rots of a widow among the British emigrants on board the Asturias whom I had accompanied to Aus tralia, a year before.
The mother was a sensible, . Advertisements and Bushe practical woman, who told me she dad, a brother in Australia. And here was one of her boys selling newspapers. It looked as if this particular familly had gone down- hill; but I was wrong.
communications should dressed to the Company CHINA MAIL LTD.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
OBITUARY
*** Would' you, go back to Eng- against what is the main pro-
One man is dispatching clerk ally mbent we can expect blem of existence even for 'Aus-Ind?" trallans-to find living accom.
In a manufacturing business. His whole flying steak dinner. the wife works in a plasile, faclory, "Would I-Here) get in modation at any but high rents, cor and i take you to see the Their 13-year-old edn. Has grown
ns big as most British boys or In every British emigrant family."
10. family there should be a man to provide "the mala' income, About this there is no difculty. At the present moment the Sydney Well, there they were, in advertising house for which he had tramway service
10%; for 300 conductors at £11 28, a £2,400; rates ·2·13-
A fine home
By G. Ward Price
cost 24 in London.""
in a pala beau
for the
а
From a pubile-spirited point of view, Lam of coured endifunted The father told me that his that the transßert system: is now Back to normal. I fell this most wife got when he had been strongly about 8 am, yesterday only three weeks to his job when clanking, Frindal and Stay at home with her till she's Maricking steel roused me to the better," and the..manager of the prospect of a new day. This firm, and the newcomer's salary treat, I know, can be expected was paid till he returned to work regularly from now on.
This family of, three
chare
house with its owner, a widow.In ]
Few return
"Labour, Tory Hends Itit each Might of coutre, be one way of knocking, schit "Ito nien-
Shop advertists for sale "CUPS and sauter 18 various size and shapes with matching nipples/
Probably make a big appeal to In both | the baby-anial trade.
Easy money
a delightful situation.20 mligi from Melbourne, 10 yards from other" —Socia—re-they-from beinúf
the seashore with a shady gur in hp week. In Australia today every ¡Ufully furnished Tasmanian den. They have two bedrooms, a The family of the late Mr. J. T. hard up that his mother
and: n. kitchen, D'Almoda e Castro thank all paid £60 to buy the boy a plano-one who wants it-man or woman woods; electric heater
and relatives
friends
for.
bathroom: £126 refrigerator; small only because they havo Christmas. for accordion
Ascun gel-well-paid work.
an. electric washing-machine;" a bought a big refrigerator that their messages of condolence, for the paper-selling, he explain-
Now a grocer.
big wireless and floral tributes, attendance ated that if you can maite 15 bob a
record playing is it up
of Two other families were Achool also
set; an here of ground, behind, The funerat
donations week between the me for Masses and to charities. comes out and six o'clock-well,
it is much easier which he had bought for £200 professional men for whom op- Of course,
kitchen portunities arò, fewer, it was easy money, and all the if you have a little capital bend is running as other bays did it.
enses the move has been On hind you. Take the case of the garden.
unqualified sucèche. He took me to where they were family of a shoc-repairer who
"Have a sherry," said my host. [Ilving a farge, red-brick house used to have two stalls in Four bob a botile here; it would
Sarry if I dwell on it too much, In what is evidently a decayed South London market. He came
But being male I am still Ingrid NEUMANS-Rène, Jean, Vielor. part of the New South Wales out to Tasmania 12 months ago
One way He opened a cupboard with died in capital. It has been converted with his wife, a boy of 14, and a
a journalist of Bodytress that a woman should be old, who 37 years
her husband rows of bottles Sulgen on 18th January, will into a lodging-house, and for 25s. girl of 12.
on racks. "Yoit He is established as a columnist able to divorco be intered at Happy Valley a week the inother has a
leading newspaper. The because she's decided to start a Colonial Cemetery on Satur-room where she and her two boys I had called at their home be can have quite a cellar for five on
other is an advertising agent, dynasty by anciher man. duy, 11th February at 6 pm. of 18 and 12 live and sleep, to fore they sailed, and have been pounds," he said,
"How do you get on with the who brought with him a wife and No Bowers by request. gether with the use of a kitchen to see where they now live in
three children; a fourth having |
No Myrtle, our cofilbporary and bathroom on the same floor. Tasmania. The difference is a local people?" I asked.
"Well, it's no use pretending een added since they arrived. Her brother had to use some in- tween shabby little house
He joined on Australian
"Glasgow bailee," they liked me starting in business for 12 months, and
Arm may refer to fluence to get it for her at that one of the long rows of dingy
now cesting but they haven't so far, called it London suburb and a
bug here. They said they'd get me spacious. price
up with a
business the "Royal Navee" partrict H brick-bullt bungalow out. Now they see they can't, of their own. The family live in She herself is carning £10 a detached, week, with two meals a day, as it corrugatest Iron roof in they're growing
We're Tasmaniana, they
open country outside
except for the Put-put. This pairer bntive,
type. He set out pete? able to let his market stalls for 'em? with the advanage that he wast
BANGKOK
RICE
AGREEMENT
in
more friendly charm, and
kay,
News has just come from cook in a hospital. The bays get surroundings of rolling parkland..why should you come and com-iumculty of getting domestic help
now
their schooling free; she draws a grant of 10%. # week for the younger one and, under the new Governmnet, will get 58. or 10s a week for his elder brother.
New accent
Sho had Just cooked the
British youngsters had pleked
diph.
the Australian accent. The
Estrange
woman with small
In a com-
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WETO
"British scientists have a far easier time "Do you know what I say to when they were in London.
than officially reported Wedhentay "You're
night ready with plans for putting not Tasmaniaris,'
Isn't frizzy deal in
There has. Intely been a good from engines in the nation's ships
the Australlon papers and powder plants. aren't blick: you about disappointed British emi-
Always a mysterious lot; tie are going back, scientis generally because they dan and nowhere to live. It's the women
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£10 a week, which is £12 10s. say. Your hair in Australian money, so, that he your faces had an income on which to start haven't, any rings in your noses; want his new career. He also had a the only rings you used to wear runts who £2,000 insurance on his life. were round the ankles.'
I found him by scring his a grocer's shop. In I me on went, and there ho was, in al; white coat behind the counter.
왔다
Scattered
The problem in
local men.
By
"WINDRUSH”
army medical
Colombo. remedy against: Com- munism economie action -
Malaya
•
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"Yale professor says Kremlin hard to crush."
More Bitter fult. The answer
alemon:
Pretty poor slow, I think, that nobody's given any thought to the unfortunate taxi drivers, who for six weeks have been the ught-after the
Bangkok that Britain will buy over 400,000 tons of Siamese rice at about £40 a ton during the ensuing year, under a new price is agreement. The about the same as that paid last year. There have been
who weaken first, os prule Pindia is now the world's many complaints about children's supper: a juicier pale
These get moro..publicity than fourth greatest maritime nation quality in the past, especially of lamb cutlets for each of them
the satisfied settlers in the same in terms of tonnage, registered, in Singapore. Both parties to than you would get nowadays in
This discreet allusion. to the way as crime is news, while By the way, does anyone know any London restaurant. They had "But I thought the agreement have
you were a historical fact that the worst convirtue lan' a wireless set playing during their shoe-repairer," I sald.
otthand whether there are any įvicts of all used to be sent to The Immigration Departmentshipping companies in Panama? agreed that the purchasers meal, and the two sunburn!,
"So I am. I do my repairs in Tasmania is on Indication that estimate these frustrated retur will get more stringent sturdy sons were squealing with another place and In my garage one British settler at lebat hasing travellers at not more than guaranices of quality than in laughter at a comie turn while at the week-ends. Had to get not lost His Cockney gift of two or three per cent of the or-1
they ate. 1949. Reuter quotes trade What struck me
the machinery out from London, repartee,
rivals. Most other ventures show at once, as though. But this shop was going experts as saying that if these with the boys of other emigrant cheap,
The hundreds of British emi-ot least a similar proportion of I borrowed £2,000 grants with whom I landed a failure. guarantees are fully honour-families I visited later, was the ed, there would be in effect speed with which these typical an average reduction of two pounds sterling a ton on the thongs go first, and they. 1949 price level.
First the scarcity, then the they say, with the accent on tie streases: "Teieu quire{ high price, of rice has been day, and they make for "style General Sir John Harding, Communists have hardly yet be- pore on the day when the Dutch Cobr #fillest
(and afgs" at Breakfast. responsible more than any pose it is a defensive
I sulle
Commander in Chief of Far gun their operations, in Malaya: transferred power. But it would citizens sitting late in colouring. other single factor for the for they told me that the other Eastern Land Forces, hash bandits seem to be chiefly be very surprising if there are ranks, they may well ponder the not contacts in future between vanished days of reblo fares great rise in the cost of living boys are always ready to jeer at been speaking. frankly in
Malay leaders and the fdonesiah before their selfish Tramways in the Far East. At one time them as "Pommies.""
Singapore. He says that the The Malayan problem was eer-Government. A lane
'comrades sold them down the the position was desperate in-
tainly discussed at the Colombo children is about the weakest army could do with more Conference. Both Australia and deed, for half the Burmese
The majority of Malays are of river by returning to work. men. He states that is get- India are vitally interested in Sumatran origin, I Malaya vete fields had gone out of culiva-
ting all the material, which what happens in Malaya. But it federated with Indonesia, it would tion, and Siam's communica-every ton bought at the it needs from the War Of must have recognized that the be one way — though, a dangers. No doubt the types who spent tions were in a very bad way, official rate.
ous and probably disastrous one-the occupation period in Macao The work of rehabilitation ac-
of solving the, communal prob- were interested to read yesterday. Rice at a figure seven times. Armoured plate and scout cars are about to arrive complished in the first two above the pre-war"price" re-
lem. The Chinese community that American POW's are being.. ¡from England in larger
be swamped. years after the war has sel- presents a formidable pro- quantity. He is reassuring
Kiven US$1..for every day they were in camp. blem. Nor can much relief about the dom been fully appreciated.
There is still for too little be expected till production service. rice, it costs far too much, and has risen in ratio to the in-
are appearing about; tho' Maybe these, plɔkes buying there are far more people creased population. Even Nevertheless the General is hardly applies to Malaya. future of its University. In some forged Filipino: viss merely got whose staple food it is than now the problem of supply is not optimistic He does not see there were a decade ago. beset with danger, apart from sight. He thinks that it will go
The problem -Malay is pure European countries with divided tired after the third week of File end of the campaign-in
populations the students played queueing up at the local offled bo At Bullica. The tragedy of the a firdat part it overcoming dit get a legitimate one. D'you ever... situation is that, given peace, ferences
erences it hoped that Malaya before the rice problem is ceased to be an exporter nwtirely cut off from the civilian
"ok. "the" most prosperous parts of get
• idea of: Ma»|-- solved, but the proposed ex-ing to the disorders there, and population.
the Oriental world. I
needs no layan nationality. When the gen tensive cultivation of paddy in Burma, after a miracle of re- His remarks have caused an enormous
investment of era, clecubi I over Malaya' will ..new East Africa-with the ulti-covery, is a question-mark xiety in London. They are dif-
What m
much of the probably be very much under dat London was a population os, Ania starych ho mate aim of making the Com- which acutely troubles every ing told 18 months ago At that cause of the poverty of the land,
ferent from monwealth self-sufficient in body concerned with rice sup-time there were regular, assurant is deplorable that the rich re rice is one promising plan on ply
ces that the corner was turned. squreds of Malaya. should be the right lines and with the Still, there was an over-all All that was needed was two or thrown' away because of political right ideas.
improvement last year in the three months for mopping up, conflict. One cannot very well hail food situation in the Far East, and all would be well." the new agreement within spite of poor crops in China When the new Parliament enthusiasm, since, £40 a ton and adverse political events meets there will probably be de- marida for a re-examination of is a stiff price to pay compared in Burma and Indonesia: Rice the entire strategy of the Mala- has drawn fresh attention to the with the 26 to £7 paid before production was still a little be- yati operations. One view is that now problem it has also caused the war. But it might have low the previous year, but the compaign is being conducted new wave of speculation about long-term problems in Malaya. been worse, for Siam and production of several other with the wrong force. Catching Burma tried to get together on food crops was larger. More the bandits is not a task for the For the past few years it has been munal problem there was deve- demands for a higher price. food, too, was available from army, or for airplanes cruising card in London that the com
over the jungle. It is a task for A few months ago there was outside the area. But the ann police force, patiently carrylit loping on lines alarmingly similar 0 minor diplomatic crisis nual report of the U.S. De out a plan of setting the elvillon to the former problem between Hindus and Moslems in India or when the Government at partment of Agriculture says population to hunt out, and de-between Jews and Arabs
nounce the bandits who are liv-Palestine, In both Palestine and Bangkok asked for an increase the prospects are "gloomy" ing parasitically upon it and ter India the upshot was violence of 12 per cent, which would for China to meet a huge food rorising it.
and bloodshed: onla have raised the price to the deficit, despite the efforts of this seems to have bech in Sir scale. How can the trend in British Government by an the new regime to increase John Harding's mind. th my Malayn be stopped? extra £6 a ton-equal to tile production dod to economise opinion" he said, "the decisive cast out full-price paid a dozen years through austerity and anti answer to the problem of internal ago." "And" Bangkok would famine campaigns. Man-security in Malaya lies in omising news of the mtelings of
hands of the people." probably have got away with churia is better off, but it is
For all these reasons there is a new, burst of interest in Britain abolit the future of Malaya.” Ar- ticles
There is a long way to ga yet the price Indo-Chinahuson until the bandits can be-en-Mallya would naturally be one to get to Mallkr
New speculation
While the present bad news
fenced
dreadful
est autumn there was the pro-
the Communities Liaison Coth- mited which is to bring together
was felt
and European But it in In
tri Londoff that there could not be
it but for the known fact that feared most of its surplus will the great difficulty the Siamese Government häd go to Russia, instead of to just bought 350,000 tons with North China and other food there would be one great dif- Ido much optimism about its work udle effected, some out any increase of price to defcit. areas in Chind. At ficuity in transferring responsib{- the farmers or millers. The best Burma may be unable to its from the any an eleged agreement between Cof
and reorganised police." Informa- Malays over increased price demanded export more than 950,000 tion from Malayis not very lon, and the admimton of Malays would have meant sheer short tons this year, or about plentiful in London; But it is to a more proportionate share in gain of 28 per cent to the 370,000 ton less than in 1949, known that this police in Malaya the economic life of the country. Siamese Government Surely in all plans for econo-are not a very contented or
The demand was later re-mle betterment, in South-East ed, body who ditor brought in What has happened th 180 last from Palestina, do hot mom 15 few months to this Commiteer pudiated by the Siamese Asia and the Far East, in-have mixed well with the regular and why is the Indian commu Prime Minister, and now, a creased rice production ought emcers of the Malayan forcenity playing so little part?" There satisfactory new agreement to take first place, for it is so se 18 Mile never in London
Malaya pin of great importanco Je35. has been reached The basic in the cost of living. to the sterling area because of fire it is expected here that before Siames Governmelist wilt Much has beer done tolentible rubber export to America The very long there will be repereu
tion in Malaya from the comini.
jpoly and WAN
Lequivalent
on the open
,000 bandits have rated such a of Indonesia. 14: les drueshm and alovure whEY WILLE ZRODNI If they there, wanvilttio excitados
The : Chinowe i little interest, IINT
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