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5 p.m. 27th Aug.
0 pm, 27th Aug."
5 p.m. 28th Aug.
Osaka & Kobe
10 am, 20th Aug.
Sourabaya Yokohama
.celunk
Tientsin
Shanghai
Bangkok
Nagoya,
• Bail from
ARRIVALS FROM
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"UPER"
Tientsin
"BHENGKING"
.Keelung
"YOCHOW"
Sibu
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..Moji
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Kobe
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Crossword INSECTS ARE FRIEND AND FOE
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7 m, 25th Aug,
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27th Aug.
2nd Sept.
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8th Sept.
1 Equality
7 Withered
11 Eternity
10. What varnish
(Pl.)
is made
"ANSHUN"
13th Sept,
13 Year (ub.)
"CHANGSHA”
15th Sept.
13 Joined
ARRIVALS
FROM
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Australla, Neuru
(ab.)
Ocean Is
Dth Sept.
"CHANGSHA"
Kobe
12th Sept.
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Sydney & Melbourne
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
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"ASTYANAX"
Genoa, London,
&
Marseilles,
Rotterdam & Hamburg
25th Aug,
Dubiln
Liverpool
28th Aug.
"PERSEUS"
Liverpool
& Glasgow
6th Sept.
"AGAPENOR" "CALCHAS"
20th Sept
.Genoa,
8. "ASCANIUS"
G, "AGAPENOR”
S. "CALCHAS”
Dublin
& Liverpool
London,
Rotterdam & Hamburg
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Kotterdam
1st Oct
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28 Roof finial
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1 Fruit
DOWN
2 Circle part
3 Begin again
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Wild plum
7 Crafty
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14 Girl's nickname
14 Early American
13 Early
17 Father
18 Trold
18 Ireland
Salis
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Liverpool
Gong Kong
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24th Aug,
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do
31st Aug.
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do
10th Sept,
21 Donkey
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16th Aug,
17th Sept.
do
23rd Sept.
28 Jumbled type
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24 Mineral rock
By IDA SMITH
you
know that thore
D's beautiful little in-
sect in whose honour on- nual pageants have been held, and that there is a US$500 fine in Garden Grove, California, for kill- ing one?
The insect is the Monarch but- torily. Every October thousands of these colourful butterflies re- turn to Garden Grove for the
| winter, some coming from as far as the Canadian rockies. They call them the "flying carpet." The butterflies caterpillars of these are harmless. They live entirely milk weed. The but- on wild teriles themselves are such in- that teresting little creatures
of they have endeared themselves to all who are truly acquainted with them.
Strange as R seems, insects are among The most Important animals in the world, the most numerous, and among the oldest. They are older than the moun- tains, their origin dating back millions of years as determined by their fossils, C. H. Curran, American Museum of Natural
The Monarch butterfly, shown in the elching by Ida Smith, is one of the most beautiful and colourful of the insect world.
The firefly is an Iruect that glows. Thin sketch is five times ita natural size,
One
and go to It will probably be hundreds needlessly alarmed History, tells us that they are the of years before we will know great expense fighting a certain most unpredictable of
all crea tures
That no matter what more than half of the variety of specie, when nature has already
Insects and many
centuries begun its natural check. facts we discover about them
year a large number caterpillars endangered there is likely to be some inde- before we know their habits. pendent insect that will upset
when nature stepped in and provided an
equal number of big, black beetles to eat up the
the apple cart by doing some- thing entirely different.
0
S been because of its terhes exterpillars and moths,
of moth crops
Some We people killed the beetles, need to know which are "friend" beetles and which "foc."
of insects
and to deterinlue which are our friends and which our enemies. arc species Sometimes certain
For instance, some moth both. caterpillars eat crops, while as moths they pollinate them.
RUE insects are distinguished from bugs in that they always have three pairs of legs. They may have two wings or four They are the dominant specie of the invertebrate (1. e.having no
In Australia they Imported THE life histories of Insects are backbone) animals the same as clover but could not make it mon is the dominant specie of produco until they Imported there the vertebrate.
bumble bees to cross-pollinate it. There are
Willy Toad, School Teacher
-The Lessons He Taught Were Very Strange Indeed!-
By MAX TRELL
Hanid,
the
V NARF and Ashadow-children with tho turned-about names, were quita reaching the mid- surprised, on
to die of tho Pine Tree Grove, find their friend Willy Toad wearing a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, a white stuff collar, a black-sult, and pacing up and down with a big fat book.
"Good morning, Willy!" sald Hanid cheerily, wondering what Willy was up to. Knart likewise said: "Good morning!"
At the sound of these voices, Willy whirled around. Ho frowned. Then he took a large gold watch out of his pocket, peered at it for a second--and sald: "Humph, late for school again!"
"School?" said Knarf. "What school?"
Pointed to a Log
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"I'll ask the questions,”- suid- Willy, glancing at his book.
"Fine, fine," said Willy. "I hope you've got all that written "This school" replied Willy. down. It's very important to "Sit down!" he said sharply, know all these things about pointing to a mossy log right in Bats, It's very important to imow front of where Knurt and Hanid things about all the other crea- were standing. Knarf and Hanid, tures, too. smiling, sat down,
"Are you the school teacher, Willy?" said Hanid.
"Certainly. And I hope you've studied your lesson," he said.
"Why, wo didn't even know there was a lesson, Willy," Knart said.
"What's the lesson about?” asked Hanid,
"For instance," he said, glanc- ing down in his book again, "Bies Ami- eyca That's very have portant. And here's something Beca can't sneeze. about Bocs. Put that down."
Kharf and Hanid kept writing as fast as Willy kept talking.
"And here," said Willy, "s Willy frowned several times more. He glanced in his book. At something very important about length he said: "The lesson is birds. Birds sing songs without ubout Bats. I'll ask the questions. words. Got it?" Now what do Bats eat?"
Knart and Honid both stared nt Willy, not answering any-
Willy, the school teacher, told moro Knart and Hanld several important things such as--Ele- thing.
"Hmm, just as I thought. You Phants wear yellow-pants, and haven't studied your lessons at sheep like to sleep, and pigs cat all. Very well, I'll have to tell Aga, and fish go squish, and you myself. And write down clover grows all over, and a exactly what I say because I daisy is lazy, and smalls have no tails, and-last of all-girls have don't want you to forget it.”
Knart and Hanid took out curis, and boys make noise.
Then Willy said: "School's and notebooks, alsmissed!" "Well, WBly," said Knarf, "what
their pencils
do Bats eat?"
"Gnats!" said Willy.
Bat's Eat Gnafs
"
Knarf and Haald wrote down: "Bate cat Gnats."
"What do Bats wear?" said Willy, "Come now, what's the. answer?"
Knarf and Hanid didn't know that, elther, so Willy mid: "Bats wear Hata, I'm surprized at both of you. Boe if you can answer this one: When Bats got their feet muddy, what do they wipe their foot ont
and Han Knarf and "Mats!” cried 14. They were beginning to un- derstand what kind of answers Willy expected to his questions.
"Correct!" said Willy, smiling for the first time. "And when a Bat cats too much, what does he vet?"
Knart and Iton- "Fail".
"And when two Bate talk, what do they do?".
They chat?"
"And whom do Bata hata?" "They hate cataly
most
interesting
are
because
so many varieties. insects that live on those that live in There are insects There are scavenger
In America there would be no the land and alfalfa nor
many species of the water. If it were not for bees. that fly. flowers Farmers Invite bee keepers to insects, musical insects (crickets, summer their bees their etc.), colour insects, insects that
and there is
kind farms. While the bees gather glow, nectar from the alfalfa blossoms called nightmare insects because for honey they carry
of their grotesque shapes. Forest pollen O
insecte know only the forest and from one flower to another.
оп
In some western states of Americs they are now trying to find an insect which will destroy the salt codars that are choking the river lands.
O know which is friend and which foe and whether or not
то
to destroy it, we inust know the
will die away from it, while plain insects can find no food in the forest.
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Some Insects care for their young, others lay their eggs and nover see them again. The tiny carwig is one of the rare species that broods its eggs and young.
Insects belong to the Arthopod
insect's life history, conditions family, which means jointed favourable and unfavourable to legs. it, what its enemies
aro, the diseases to which it is subject, In the creeping world, like in and the effects of weather our own world, there are good in- changes upon it. This is a wide habitants and there are outlaws. Held for rosearch for young There are times at peace and acientists.
times of terror. There is ugilness WC jack and drabness, but there is also
are unbelievable beauty.
Sometimes because special knowledge wo
ZOO'S WHO
"THE SLENDER BARRACUDA FISH IS ALMOST AS
DANGEROUS ASA SHARK TO BATHERS. IT HAS LONG, KNIFE-LIKE TEETH, AND ITS
BODY IS SOMETIMES
SIX FEET LONG...
(IMATS ARE INTELLIGENT
MANY TRICKS
And Keart and Hanld and AND CAN EASILY BE TAUGHT AGIRAFFES TONGUE IS Willy all laughed)
Rupert's Summer Adventure~29
has
Rupert in horifact at what he The Imp said that all his work would be spoiled, and le has bech" be most of **Every thing is burned up," Bayund the hedge be spies triom Blackebied and bending over it, the gure of Tigerly, the coojarse
daughter. "I say, something dreadful has happened." ha cala as he runs to her. To his aus prias she does not", segtu ata upeat.
Yes, me sve black genas, me come look," she qays pladidiy, 1/Me/pink Black twigs Fachaps
dreadful, perhaps not dreadful... All wily intensiing.
ABOUT 18 INCHES LONG...»
RUPERT and the
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