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THE · CHINA "MAIL," FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1955.
"CANCER OF THE EARTH"
Australia Loses
Millions Of
Acres Of Land
Sydney, July 7.
Nawa contributions, always wel- Throughout the Australian state of New
come. should be addressed to the
Editor, business communications and South Wales an intensive Government Publicity
advertisements to the Secretary.
Telephone: 26611 (3 Lines).
KOWLOON OFFICE:
Salisbury Road,
Telephoon; 52838.
Classified Advertisements
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campaign is proclaiming the menace of soil
erosion,
"
"Cancer of the Earth" is one eye-shocking description which the State's, Department of Conservation splashed across
a whole
page advertisement in mass-circulation Sunday news- papers in the State. A telling picture showed how uncontrolled waters could scoop away the good earth leaving the deep, ugly scars of erosion gullies...
At Sydney's Royal Easter bidgee Rivers, where ·rgiafall is
mecca
of the Sus between 12 inchts and 18 inchos exhibit sezn
throughout the year. But States, Government irrigation fleers are advising forme un individual schemes.
Show.
mers, an thousands drove bome the message that oil water and timber
the tires basic natural resources on which Aus- tralian wealth rests and must be
efficiently. If not prepaid a booking fee conserved and used effeir of 50 cents is charged.
10% EXTRA
FOUND
KEY-CANE
in Lower Albert Road Apply Secretary, "S. C; Mi. Post."
WANTED KNOWN
TELEGENED TELEPHONES retur the week germicidal protection ali irrespective" of_number of persona us phaile. Ring 25615 for paru- i CHR. Approved by H.K. Telephone Co
FOR SALE
are
The State Govelion
Minister of
with is
facing
to a giant problem. Statistics show that the custern central divisions of New and South Wales, the State's richest arcas. have lost 1,000,000 acres of once-productive land.
“WATER-FARMING"
described one These officers method us "water-farming." The idea is to conserve by dams and carefully-planned drainage all the water which falis on a given This is stored and pumped back to the pastures in property.
dry weather.
In some areas, where farmers These have been "completely: and permanently lost through are fortunate enough to be able
solo tap artesian unchecked
reservoirs, the Uncontrolled,
oneers advise where érasion," the Department
to put down. bares and how to con- i struct works.
||
PITEOUS TALE
saus,
are
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Travellers in New South Wales can see many examples of the Government-sponsored conserva- tion work.
Along many of the main high- ways, properties have boen
The publicity campaign comes DR SCHOLL'S Foos Comfort Ser-
at a time when about one-third of New South Wales is slowly Vice, Telepnune House (Mezzanine) Hongkong provides the expert atteiku tion your feet deserve-by Londoa-recovering from the worst floods quinted Chiropodist
(in the country's history, which devastated large areas carlier
contoured with furrows With year.
The food damage running across the slope of the still
being assessed and reports
land to stop the rapid run-off still reveal a piteous tale of ruined farmland, ccad Flud cattle and sheep and quined nungkang
homes and businesses. ILLUSTRATED DIRECTIONS for This is the sert of language. zajustment of Hong Kong Standard which the Department's publi-
Da)
of ble at "S. C. M. Post."
GOOD BRAND PIANO EW, original 32.3800, Maw $2,300 or offer, also one Sox). Write Penn, P.O. Box 200
Com-
Life Jacket (tur" Shupping
50 Lens per cups Obtain-Cists use to describe the menace
www.
MUSICAL
erosion:
"Advanced soil erosion is a terrible, awesome thing. Right there. under your vera evos, land slowly dying. Maybe it is already dead.
LATEST LPS Rimsky's Opera Sadko, „MOUVEMEN de Hongrie, Chanter Violons, L'Ame Tzigane, Flamenco The birds and animals have Azuulogy. Guitar Sols etc. Special orders accepted for Spanish, French, gone. No trees. No Bio. Only German, Haninn, and laban ang dul
brown land: cracked,
Arc colam by D. kases, så, Des ravined, cancered; hills furrowed Voeux, Rd, Room 1. Zad foor, tele with eroded gullies have as of
an H-bomb..
phone 30168,
STAMPS
When you look at advanced erasion, you are looking at the shameful ruin of land which s Collected generations
of Australians Frula 20 cents per packet upwards and which, if it had been cared
SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE,
tor's Dakels of assorted
An entirely new bertes.
Bulder"
STANCE.
South for and protected, could have
China Morning Post Lid, Wynanam nourished generations * come." *IVET, Huakkang and Salisbery To meet this challenge. con- kuan, Kowloon
servation officers in 55 country
*. STAMP ALBUMS "Collection towns and cilics are giving free series. New stock now advice on erosion problems and available. St. From South China are ready to plan conservation Post Lidy Wyndham schemes for individual former...- Street Hongkong and Salzbury atoad, Kowlook.
The service will also make law interest advances available farmers to carry out this werke.
Morning
NOTICE
IS THE SUPREME COURT
OF HONG KONG PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN
THE GOODS
ASSISTANCE
LO
In six years, the conservation officers have assisted 4,000 pro- perties with a toral area
of nearly 6,000,000 acres.
The main methods used, combination
of changed land use
Florence Duxon otherwise and
late of No. 1 Yuen Po Street
of Alice and reduction of run-off of rain. Known as Alice Florence Tester by pasture furrowing and larger 2up door Kowicon in the Carthworks where neessary, has Colony of Hong Kong Married brought stability to the soil of Woman deceased.
· NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Secting 55 of the Probate and Administration Ordinance Chapter 10 made an Order Jimiting the ime for creditors and others to send in their Clatro against the above estate to the 4th day of August 1968.
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All creditors, and others are des cordingly hereby required, to send their claims to the undersigned on
before that date,
Dated the 7th day of July, 1065.
A el ARCULLI.
Solleitor for the Administrator of Hap Estate of the above named deceased with the WALL andexed
Boani 125, Prince's Building, lent Konf
TO ADVERTISERS
for
these millions of acres which will continue to improve in" produc- tivity.
Another allied work in Nev South Wales is the irrigation of rich lands in areas where ruin- all is either reanty er changy. One of the biggest irrigation reas is the Riverina, between the Murray and the Murrum
EX-CONVICTS ARRESTED
Las Vegas, July 7. Two ex-convicts wanted on armed robbery charges in the Mid-West were arrested here today carrying almost $90,000 in cash in their pockets.
Police said the New York cu- thorities were immediately con- SUNDAY POST-HERALD acted to determine if
the Врисе
commercial money, most of it in serial advertising should sequence, came from the recent booked not later than robbery of the Chase National noon on Wednesdays. Bank in Queens,
For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA "MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication.
Special Announcements
The two men arrested were Identified as Raymond Philip Wilson, 33, and Frank James Ellsworth, 30.
They were seized in a street after police were tipped that. the men were attempting to and Classified Advertise. "unload" $100 bills in gambling
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-FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE E
"VIETNAM” "CAMBODGE”
"DONAI" “MEINAM”.
salling July 17th
sailing Aug. 13th
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE:
sailing Aug. 17th sailing Sept. 21st
water in rain,
have been built to hold the water In many gullies, earth cams
saved.
Portable
11.
Or river fals, glistening silver gation sprays are now a com- mon sight
dry seasons. pumps on the rivers force water at high pressure through giant spray
guns to hoot the life-giving spray over teres of pastures.-China Mail Special
A picture taken at the very top of the Big Ben Clock Tower at Westminster show- ing Mr J. W. Worricker (left), the Ministry of Works (Bis- toric Buildings Section) Archi- tect, and Mr 1. E. Payne, Senior Clerk to Ministry of Works, Houses of Parliament, having a close upsch Bad the.
which adorns the point. The famous clock-lower
has
bees rounded in miles of tabular affoldi
for thorough and restoration
$5033
sur-
of the stonework, and Press- men were permitted to go up
to
ON TOP OF BIG BEN
Couple Refuses To Give Up Child
Boston, July 7.
New Approach To
Germans
East
Berlin, July 7.
The East German Communist party has warned its men in the field that they must secure more work for the same pay as the industrial' workers.
The emphasis is to be on "enlightenment" and the "ideological approach" rather than the "hammer-blow technique," which yields stubborn resistance and helped to cause the uprising in June 1953.
Since the need for higher in-į improved working techniques, '- dustrial productivity has never better machines and, other im been greater Western Allprovements.
officials here believe that the Since efficiency pay starts from cautious approach is due to fear the norm laid down for each of the popular mæd.
process,
natural the workers' Interest is to keep the perms low and quality for the rewards paid "overtufilment of the norm" a rising
on a
The Blumens for
Relugees fram, as well as public utterances ls, East Ger- many have given a picture of restisseness and grumbling arcong the people under the strain of
constant Communist raised threats ***omuunter-rnLagires” agains: West German rearma |ment.
MILITARY SERVICE
Fear of
that the workers will benefit from 23 a whole higher norme, by renter pro- dustiem, mare goods in the shops and higher real pay."
Newer Weg admits that this compulsory military service has increased the number argument has not yet been at
cepted by the workers and de- | of youthful refugees. Fear of an
that this is the basis on clares impending build-up of strategic which enlightenment groups reserves has started widespread st
must tackle them. | hoarding, and a temporary food "It is the task of the party shortage in some items quite and trade union organisations to
in fact has sent envince the insignificant,
workers of the housewives on Fanic buying need for technically justified it dechres. This dis- prussingcourages State officials from in- German tred higher norms against economy made it imperative for the
will expressed
of the Committee of the work
workers. Communist party at Its 21st **NG
norms can be proper mosting last December to issue established without the active
A Jewish couple who refused to surrender a Catholic-born foster child to her natural mothers, were cited for contempt of court today.
The citation was issued in the Norfolk Probate the top.-Central Press Court at Dedham against Mr and Mrs Melvin Ellis, who have raised four-year-old Hildy McCoy since she was 10 days old.
Photo...
Conan Doyle Reburied
Sir
Minstead London, July 7. - "Doyle, Arthur Conan. creator of Sherlock Holmes, was reburied on Thursday in Britain's New Forest-n andent hunting Fround that was the scene of his story, the White Company.
Lady Cenain Doyle, the writer's second witej was re- huried also in a churchyard in the wooded region in south west Hampshire named in 1979 and convicted to a hunting preserve by William I
Both bodies were exhumed last week fram a grave At Crowborough, the family home.
-Associated Press.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE ELEVATOR 'WENT DOWN/ ALEENA,DIO
YOU--
I DON'T KNOW.
I'LL SEE
ABOUT IT.
ITMUST
BE GURN.
FERDINAND
NANCY
GRRRRRR
JOHNNY HAZARD
WHAT'S THE MÄTTER WITH. THOSE IDIOTS?? WHY DON'T THEY [GET OUT BEFORE THEY'RE BLOWN-
TO KINGDOM COME?!, OH MY POOR SHARI.
THE CLIFF OPENED AN ELEVATOR -- INSIDE.
LET'S GO IN, NARDA. I HOPE 'ALEENA ISN'T WATCHING. SHE'LL | KNOW I'M COMING-
EGRRRRRR
(UNSEEN, SKARI SNEAKS UP ON
THE GENERAL'S CAR 101.3.
Hildy's mother! Mrs Marjorie peared in Supreme Court here McCoy Doherty, now wants her yesterday to contest the validity back so she can be placed in a of an arrest order issued for Catholic foster home.
them.. He claimed his clients were threatened with arrest for contempt without a hearing on contempt charges.
Mrs Deherty's attorney, Johr McCauliffe, obtained the, con tempt citation from the Register of Probate, Anna Hirsch. The gilies, now in hiding with Hildy somewhere in the State, were ordered to appear and answer the charge on July 18,
Nevertheless, the needs of the
the Central
East
noms"
treducing
an urgent call for greater pro-co-operation of our workers. ductivity.
Only when they recognise that
Central Comed
by
How that aim to be achieved their own interests depend on a without further deteriorating the rise in productivity on the basis in their tempor of the people has now of progressive norms been explained in Neuer Weg. own workshop, at their own the work bench, will it be possible periodical
for the to win them to full collabora guidance of its regional officials.tion.
difficult subject
of working Raymond Wilkins, after obtaining norms, which ax the number of
Court Justice, mains the raising
The Supreme
Be
most
TC-
THE SOLUTION
"That means that the solution.
that the
an informal promise the arrests items to be produced or handled of the norms problem must rest would not be carried out at this in a given time. Arbitrarily in the first place with the time, postponed a hearing on the raised norms were the spark political-ideological work of the arrest order to July 20, two days which set off the riots in June party and trade union
organist- tians in the workshops." after the Ellises are scheduled 1953.
THE AIM to answer today's contempt
Neuer Weg says The aim of the Central Com- norm adjudicators must be care- mittee is to replace the present ful
start work in departments machines and im- norms by what they call "techni- where now cally justified working norms," proved techniques have obvious- adjusted to take into account|ly made the old norms obsolete. If the workers themselves have introduced small improvements resulting
work the
LATEST MANOEUVRE
The contempt order was the latest in
citation. a series of legal manoenvres in the battle over Hildy's custody. James Zisman, an attorney representing the Ellises, ap-
-BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT YOU. SHE CAN WATCH THROUGH THAT OPENING.! HOPE, SHE'S TAKING A NAP.
NANCY---
MAKE THE
DOG STOP GROWLING
GRRRR
SHARI / DARLING, YOU'VE COME BACK
TO ME!
..50
001!
Ellis said he was "prepared to 59 to gach rather than give up
the child-United Press.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
GRRRRRR
IT'S NOT.
*THE
DOG
By Frank Robbins
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS.
AND REFRIGERATORS
TASMAWAY
זאן
*THE JIM THAT MADE TASMANLI FINGER WI
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
in faster
norms should not be raised
at least a
year. Newly too, should be for about a
imposad
be guaranteed
year and must not further increased except 16. substantial technical or organi- sational improvements are made. The worker must be told he need not lose a penny upon the introduction of new norms be- cruise the labour law provides | a special fund for making up Ms average pay during the transl tion period from old norms to
new.
"During this time, the worker ¡ has a chance to get used to the new system, to improve his own work and thus eventually to re- tum. to his old standard of norm overfulfilment and resulting eficiency pay," Neuer Weg says.
TOUCHES THE HEART This paragraph touches the heart of the matter,
the
individual
name worker's weekly vage packet. The "transitional pay up to his old average is intended to take the sting out of the "more work for the same pay? order.
After
that, he will have to comfort himself with the prog- nosis of the Central Commitee last December "that the workers" wages will eventually
Even after the norms are
if they are qualified properly and the necessary technical and organisational Improvements are made."
The trouble seems to be that the East German werkers lack faith in "technical and organisa- tional improvements" as the zale means of emabling them to overtull raised norms and thus to keep their present wages.- China Mail Special
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