Housewives Work On The Track
`Housewives and platela/ing might teem to have something in common-but not the plalalaying which occupies three young mothers of the Bagworth area of Leicestershire. The irio-Mrs Edna Hughes, Mrs Dorothy Tom'inson, and Mrs Edm Plokering work for British Hallways and are responsible for eight miles of track around Bagworth. They shun overalls nad trousers preferring a drew or skirts for the day's work. And whilo they admit plate- laying's a tough job, none of them is willing to change. Their ganger, Mr Tom Harris, praises the trio as a 'good crowd' and says his small gang docs jobs that semoilmes take ten men. The girls have only one regret the job is tough on the hands-Reuter Photo,
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1953.
OXFORD ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKING FOR AN EQUATORIAL SHANGRI-LA
By ROBIN HUTCHEON *
Tall, dark 30-year-old Rodney Needham stepped off the ship at Singapore last week to begin the second leg of his strange journey-in search of a Shangri-la set in a green and steamy rain forest on an island near the Equator,
He seeks a society which probably for thousands of years has remained blissfully ignorant of the strange ways of civilisation, a society untouched by even the first predatory fingers of this other world: traders, .
missionaries and census officials.
"Societies such as these are rare nowadays and it is important to us to find out as much as we can about them before their culture comes under outside in- fluences and is lost," said Needhani, an Oxford anthropologist, as we sat in deck chairs watching the fading lights of Colombo.
He intends to take steamer to told Needham, yer they acknow-¡ fell sick, asking the good spirits Lombok, an island cast of Java, įledged a number of centuries-old to drive away the spirit of and from there providing the customs passed down from sickness. They burled their Indonesian Government will father to son through the years. dead in graves lined with bark. allow himho will set off by There was no crime, no theft.. plane or trading schooner for no pasault and no lying in their the nearby island of Flores.
socleties,
Ho will take an aluminium sulicase of clothes and drugs and
The Penan moved about in groups of thirty or forty, in |search of wild sago, their staple dict. They settled wherever night overtook them in the
TRADE and COMMERCE SECTION
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THE SAVOY SAGA Bank Of England US COTTON
Samuel Sells Out
At Height
Of The Market
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT}
London, Dec. 12.
The Savoy saga came to à dramatic and un- expected end last weekend when Mr Harold Samuel, whose Land Securities Investment Trust has been bidding for control of the hotel group, announced he was selling out his 45 per cent in- terest to the Company's directors. The price paid for his holding of ordinary and preference shares was about £1,346,000.
This brought to an end tho Thron months tussle for control of the group which has had the; London Stock Exchange and the British public in a state of high exeltement.
On Wednesday, Savoy direc- tors, headed by Mr Hugh Wont- ner, turned down an offer from Mr Samuel to sell his thares to them: at G2/d. Their counter offer of 40/-was rejected" by Mr Samuel,
The next day Mr Samuel put
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET
in a bid for the directors shares (From Our Correspondent)
63/8d. This too was rejected.
Thon uddenly towards the
close of business on Friday Business done on the Stock came the news that the Savoy Exchange this morning amount- directors with "their friends and cd to $307,958.40. Noon quota- sociates" had bought out Mr ions and the morning's transac- Samuel's holding at a price of one:
62/8d each for ordinary shares | SHARES BUYERS BELLERS SALES and 31/- for preference shares.
* | BANKE Mr Samuel's profit on the deal is reported to be in the region of
£100,000-subļeat to tax.
FLUCTUATED WILDLY The price of Savoy shores fluctuated wildly while these manoeuvres were going on. They went as low as 14/- on Monday when Mr Wontner announced
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The next day there were two further developments. It became known that the Bank of Eng- land had asked insurance com- panies not to buy property if I mppeared to help negotiation of the
"of a purely transaction live nature." And it was that Mr Samuel had, lo asked the Board of Trade enquire into certain aspects of the Savoy's affairs-particular- ly directors plan for the Berkeley, That
day Savoy arts dropped 5/-. From the coast, he will move "I could understand why forest, built shelters of saplings They fluctuated between
through
theft-because which they lived in for periods 30/6d and 54/0d on Wednesday the tropical undergrowth and rain forests, they shared everything and of
Ing
abundance in the shadows of dead and still were complete egalitarians. This in day-to-two-weeks-accord---hut-rebounded to 59/-on COTTONS
of the Thursday when Mr Samuel the smoking volcanoes, past the was possibly also the reason for the
sugo, Thy hunted wild pigs and
made his offer to buy out blue, green and yellow volcanic gaw anything approaching us and shared everything with the
absence of crime. I never monkeys. with poison
sellers began directors. Later, Lakes. And the primitive Boult-anger,
to appear and the price dropped yes, but
necom- family down to the smallest people who live in the moun
back to 55/9d. panied by
nothing Lainous interior.
Anthropologists know Uttle of frowns and a clap of the hands these societies on Flores. There in the direction
Ane or two fascinating mentor,"
a typewriter and notebooks.
inland
are
to
legenda recorded in the libraries of Dulch universities; but nothing more.
koly.
NO CRIME
there was no
tha
"The Penan
of
more than
the for-
sparrow and sardine.
arrows
[10
announce-
PLUNGED SHARPLY Each individual could have as
Friday's opening found Savoy shares back to 61/3d. many as twenty names during They tumbled to 83/-, rotaver-
lifetime. They
renamed cd themselves after the death of a.
10 577- then plunged sharp- relative,
By lo 50/90 on the after the birth of a
ment that Mr Samuel had sold out. The fun wps over.
Other
remained markets quiet while the Savoy held the slight- stoge. Gill-edged wore
of semi-darkness
ly down on the week despite he success of the Now Zealand Issue and the. industrial market had to contend with the news
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Never cven punished their children, and be Needham believes there are/lieve me the children could be child, and after sickness, no headhunters and that poison little devils," Needham said.
He found these people were MUSCULAR PEOPLE darls or hosule speara are un not curious about anything that
did Ho
not concern their own lives,
Those strongly-built, muscular intends to make his home with them for 18 months to two deduced, was airply because it green world
their own welfare. This, he people and their strange damp, years, live with them, eat their took all their time and energy were all Rodney Needham know food, learn their language, their Inws, beliefs and customs, dress to get enough food to live. Ho for a year and a quarter.
asked them like them-in fact, become one of the stars. The reply was an many of the world's
what they thought articles on the Penan surprised of labour unrest, not only In Business is spending a record apathetic "nothing."
anthropologists, some of whom among railway and bus work-$27,827,000,000 Improving its Industrials plant equipment this year, the They were not even surprised had previously denied their ero. As a result, at his arrival and work.
existence.
drifted to slightly lower levels Government estimated today, in quiet conditions.--
The Commerce Department But the Savoy Incident
and the Securities and Exchange Interesting
repercussions
cise Commission said all industries, where, English Sewing Coiton
except mining, now expoct to that they sperid more in the final quarter possible offer and consequent covere fluctuations
of them.
MEDICINES
young ex-
directers
wero
trades but also
Announced
had
rumours of by pesistent of this year than they anticipat-
and | ed throë months ago.
In the price of the Company's
Though spending moro
than
His drugs and medicines are "But don't imagine them to for their septic wounds, their
dull be a grim-faced,
crowd. In the dark unknown corners
this malaria and their dysentery as Thay laughed like mad when I of the earth, much as his. Ho known from his first field project in Bon tripped over a log and sprained Gurkha officer lends a life de- two years ago that this is in my ankle, and they went into dicated to the study of primitive hysterics when I sang societies, in them he finds a fascination so complete as to He remembers how Clementine," portant. the son of
his
for a chieftain of one
desires ople they rarely sang and I heard satisfy all tribe
scholarship well as his boy- music in the 15 months developed
hood whims: travel, adventure splinter and was with them and I think from a four-inch
ong fellow dancing and exploration. how as the youth sertamed with saw only. pain ho wrenched the splinter during my whole stay," said free, cleaned the wound with Needham.
know this life existed. "From boiling water
dressed it and
usually had the Army I went to Oxford and The Perian mars He remembers, only one wife with penicillin.
but there was there
I met a. troup of
Running against this trond of the complete sexual freedom before anthropologists who told Log, the gratitude chieftain when within two days marriage. Body hairs and dark of their work and I found this
his Sewing shares jumped 6/6d. to oro commercial companies and public utilities, which plan to the boy began to walk in, rkins were however regarded study had everything I wanted,"
increase their rate of so-called In the remoteness of a rain as signs of immorality and the Needham told me.
"capital" Investment in the toreat
but in Borneo he found his men and women shaved all first Shangri-la. It was a green, thor head and mubic hair. "My damp world
by Needham dla inhabited
not
hnd
been
and thousands
and Was
growing a
urdinary rock. Though they expected, most are sponding found no evidenco to support at n lower rate than in the and these rumours, they thought it third quarter of the year Five years ago, he did not
prudent to forecast a risc in will spend at 'lower rate in 20% and u the dividend from 12% to the first quarter of next year.
free 100% scrip Irsue. On this
feld research discover This
the university, sponsored by
sunbathing Oxford--and my wife-to-record beard the information I have gathered
nomade, wild pigs, monkeys, that ho
e until a Penan found one day After every project I go back to
snakes, coches
now
Engilah
"
Ceylon's Finance first quarter of next your.
Minister
**
Total spending for plant and equipment in the first three 'months of next year is ow of biting insects, a world in
London, Dee: 13. extimatewi at a rate' oqual to which the Hight of the sun later, out of respect for their and to study all exdning in- Bir Ollver Goonclilleke, | $28,000,000,000 for the full ≥12 rarely
ponotratod,
bellets and customs, he regularly formation on some other society. Ceylon's. Finance Minister, are months The rate in the curs The nomads were a yellow, shaved his legs as well as his that interests me.
rived in London by air tonight rent final quarter of 1983 19 mofigoloid.
who people
"Why do I study anthro- from Paris for talke with Brish $28,300,000,000. They rate.... In bilet sarongs and G-strings.
pology? Because 1 want
to learn Treasury officials on a British July-August-September: period They were the Penah, a come
what people there are in the|| Joan to munistio nociety who had no They believed in the existence world, how they live, where Bermanent shelters or house of one creator-spirit who made they live and how they see the who rew now chops
wore
face and chest.・・
CREATOR SPIRIT
Press
existed by trading the resin that punished avil and rewarded all is no more purpose than that?
aist:"who] the world and all mankind, who world in which they live, theron in her financial was $28,800,000,000, United
show in the forest with nearby
tribes.
Only three or four times a
A good actions.
The Penan believed thai son
couls
to the home of this
World
Mthis wedle he will. By Washington to "ans the Bank for a lon £7,000,000 45 sterling for 'second stage”-of hia
Afterwards
Morning allend a the
year would they emerge from creator-spirit after death. In Robin Hutcheon arrives in|| hydro-elegirle schemo, the allanco of their forests to some trees, rocks and streams Hongkong tomorrow to join the barter for cloth, cooking uten there were spirits and they be stag of the South China Morn pile, maiches and atvel: speat-loved in demons and ghosts
The Pecan ⠀ hath Jio Among tho STOUPS
were
Pont Ligh
He was previously with the}} Sydmy {} hd kur tell mediums who called on certain London office of "Sydne}|{talks beginning{in-Nomi falanthay - spirits when one of their number Morning Herald;}
January:18:46-Rauta
the Exchange Rates
Not A Brick
Dropped
Statement
London, Dec. 13.
The Bank of England state- ment for the week ended Dec, 9, reads as follows:
ACREAGE
Washington, Dec. 13. Calton-belt law makerg today praised Secretary of Agricul- fure Ezra T. Bonson's- request
Note in circulation 1.4 1,807,072,715 for a 3,000,000 acres Increase |31,019,700 in 1954 cotton allotments, and 345320,230 predicted Congress might go 343.066,614 even further,
Pubilo deportis
of
Privato depósite ....
Government securities
Other securities an
Record production bricka in Britain is helping the housing drive,
During October the out put of bricka wna G&G million. This is 33 million. higher than the mmo month last year, and 0.000,000 more than the average
output monthly before the war...
achievement of the imado WRS known at the Building Exhibition at Olympla.
Mr Timperley, secretary of the National Federation of Clay Industries, says that tie belok outpui før the year is confidently ex- exceed 7,200,- pected to 000,000.
Receipts
Hank ralta
21.263,949
Senator John C. Sienais said 20,791,440 Benson's recommendation yes-
terday
-United Press. .
BANK OF FRANCE..
Paris, Dec. 13. The Bank of France statement for week ended Dec. 3, reads as follows:
Total gold holding To other currencies Bigist balanco abroad Advance to Stabix.
Fund
BI discounted
Franco & abroad.. Note in circulation Current Accounts
dupostle
was very timely," how- over he said Congress would
probably consider It "minimum when it acts to in crease allotments next month." Senator D. Johnston said ho was glad to see Benson is going that far. But he thought Benson's recommendation was about 1,000,000 1,500,000 acros short.. Franc
Mr Benson said he 'will ́ask 201,201,591,428
1427270,067 Congress to increase tho 17.733,004,69910,448 agre allotment
to
17,-
now
to
10,100,000,000 scheduled under form law
about: 21,000,000 seres, Ho zaid 027,004,750,254 that much of an increase would 2,718,002,070,400 cushion the impact on the cot- ton belt economy 124,148,048,142
of the pro- spective cutbnek.-United Press.
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