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House For
Zoos In
West
Prague, Sept. 20.
of
Wild animals from the east passing through Prague at the rate more than 100 a month, on their way to in the West.
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London, Sept. 20. Britain is taming the most | dangerous and unwanted radioactivo subalance in the world no successfully that it may shortly be turned into an atomie car battery, a London conference of scient. 2008ista was told yesterday.
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Tigers from Siberia, bears Russia's far eastern regions and owls from the North Pole arrive regularly.
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and brightly-plumed exolle kangaroos and deer exercising the binds from South America,
and grazing freely.
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visitors Similar traveliom" in the whore opposite direction Include hyenas, giraffes, bison, Scottish to electricity it will cut power cottle, Indian elephants, African zebras highland"
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"The vistas now opening are show-pieces is a great 70 feet
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The Prague Zoo acts co on
rocks
Lord Inside,
Citrino
Bald Zoocenter, whilch supplies all
The zoo, half-an-hour's tram scientists had so for succeeded Soviet zoog and circases with
minute and bus rido from the centre in
only Russians amimals. The
In producing Elly, is a favourite gularly exchange animals with of the Sunday
afternoon attraction forties of strontium in
form. But he worktable
said Western zoos, and Prague, u
development of Large-scale conveniently
situated in the Prague families.
It
800,000 storage technique made "grentor ha
more than heart, of Europe, has become a
visitors Jast year and over adhievements within the bounds "staging point" for exchange 183,000 people came to see the of probablilty."
14-day
Strontium, one of the dozens during animals
sports festival 4hla of waste products from atomic when Prague summer.
was piles, gives out lethal radiation crowded with visllors from for 30 years after its produg- abroad and all
parte of the tion and is usually dumped in
reaches country.
the deepest
is currently used oceans. It in small quantities for medical treatment and food sterilisa- tion United Press,
consignments.
By Train
Zoo
omcials said thai
hus developed
this traffic
pince World
War II and Increased since. Last year cach
year about 1,200 animals in transit passed through Prague. This year, there will be more, they
sold.
national
a
Too Good
"Sometimes
of
the
Cabinet
Meets
London, Sept. 20.
Australian Churches Criticise
Cus
ONTARIOL
+ SANADA JABIN-ISTRA
Two Canadian girls, and an old London taxi have been waiting in Vienna for a visa to Moscow. The girls, pictured here in Vienna, are 26-year-old Nurse Olga Romanchyk (left) and 21-year-old typist Enid Pagnini, Both are from Kirkland, Ontario. Olga, whose father belongs to the Ukraine, speaks The 20-year-old taxi has already some Russian. covered 5,000 miles through France, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia and Austria since it was sold to the girls by a London dealer-Daily Express Photo.
NEW BRITISH CARS
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London, Sept. 20. Gay looks, with an exotic range of two-tone colours, with cushion the higher prices of Britain's 1950 cars, the manufacturers hope.
Wider Grounds For Divorce
Melbourne, Sept. 20.
· Church, organisations are studying and criticising proposals by the Law Council of Australia for a uniform divorce law which would widen the grounds for dissolution of marriages in some States.
The Federal Government is expected to wait. for joint representations by all the States before it discusses the plan.
When the Law Council re-could attend any conferences on leased its "model" Bill for prisa uniformity and he thought that publication it said: "Because it could be brought about, but it wo believe the Bill constitutes a was essential for States to agree great and very necessary im on the grounds for divorce, provement of law, we hope that Canon R. M. Hudson, Chair- by giving publicity to lia pro man of the Church of England posals
public opinion will yot Marriage Guidance and Educa- persuade the Government to ro-tional Council said that the Ita decision πολ to church would protest strongly consider Introduce it"
mada against Australla being another Reno The Law Counell represents State bodies of solicitors
"The divorce rate would jump barristers throughout the Com-alarmingly if the Law Council's monwealth.
The model Bill move, to increase the grounds The
and
made public after the last con- for divorce is successful. vention is one drafted by a church supports a move to make special committee soyeral years the divorce law uniform, but it also wants divorco laws ugo.
tightened."
nolico "If
But
as
ho ba
The Grounds
The Catholle spokesman, the Rev. Dr Rumble. commented: divorce cannot be entirely It was brought to the of the Menzies Government in eliminated, at least the grounds 1952.
should be restricted as far un No public statement has been possible. We oppose the widen-
of the Ing of divorce grounds." made on the reaction
tho
The President of the Victoria The Rootes group, who make the Hillman. Humber Covernment to the Bill, but range of vehicles, today put on show their new models, hope expressed by the Law Methodist Conference, the Rey opinion Aloe Pederleit, said: "Wo think that publle Council would induce the Government divarce is already easy enough; Mechanically, there is "no change" almost all along the
its decision to easier to reconsider
divorce would creato line.
In terms of cash, all models are on the up and up, introduce the Blil Indicates a more evils than it would cure,"
Inck of enthusiasm for it.
an But,
individual, with increase ranging from £14 to £150,
there should too
State laws stand, the num- agreed Ag people are the to
animals," an
But in colour, the cars break vividly with Britain's ber of grounds for diverce in uniformity. "It is so easy now good öffelal told me. "One Sunday
conservative tradition.
Queensland is five, in Tasmania, for people to cross State bor-
Wales, South
"""ho added. ders' Most of the animals come by one of the elephants managed
The Humber Hillman group displayed over 25 ten: in New 22
Victoria,
and
New Guinca, The Anglican Archbishop of variations of colour and trim, April yellow, Tyrolean eleven, Northern Ter-Melbourne, train. They may spend days, to eat 10 kilograms (about
Dr Booth, quoted worlds
even or
months in pounds) of suger and 100 kilo-
twelve; InChurch of England polley as hundred- (nearly two Promia bofore going on to their grams
and defined by the Lambeth Prime Minister Sir Anthony green and pippin red garnish the chassis. Even the ritory and Papau,
Con- He was ill dosilnations. Many have come
weights) of bread.
Eden, recovered from a touch, sombre colours have brighter names-Embassy black, for South Australia, fourteen:
In Western Australla seventeen. ference in 1048, affirming that long distances and their stay for a week afterwards,"
The model Bill proposed as a marriage "always entails a life- From Ume to time animals of influenza, today called the instance, rest hero gives them and helps
-the Federal law provides but first full-scale Cabinet meeting The display includes the first new car of 1956
thirteen long union and obligation." Ho them
to become acclimatised, escape from their homes
and most of them stray no further of the summer for tomorrow. Humber Hawk Estate car, which packs six passengers in grounds within the framework sald that he had appointed a Somo get vaccinations
The Cabinet was expected to than the zoo gardens and come
Baloon car comfort or three passengers while clearing of adultery, desertion, cruelty, committed to consider the whole
habitual drunkenness, assault by question of divorce laws. spend periods in quarantine,
back to feed. A pair of maras, consider proposals to cut the
seven-foot depth for luggage.
for The Soviet animals go
the
of the Victorian The President mainly
respondent, conviction of kangaroo from draft period from two years to Britain, Belgium, Patagonia, have broken
type 2005 in
crimes involving Imprisonment. Bar Council, Mr M. J. Ash- out 18 months, to save money. France. Germany, Holland,
kanasy, said that the Bar Coun and insanity. this year, four
but Another issue certain to come Hungary and Poland. Among four
Victoria's Attorney-General, cil was watching the zoo up is the case of the missing
Mr Rylah, said that there would position and would soon deter- camels from people living near the are white
Guy Burgess and
bo big advantages in uniform mine its policy. central Asia, Biberian (bex, snow have caught them and brought diplomats
buck.
Mail Donald China
MacLean, long-term bears,
Marriage National legislation. red-them polar
Soviet pies."--United Press,- Leopards,
Council's Queensland breastod fceso from
the Special.
the Rev. Rees Thomas, ・・ tundras, a rare bread of wild
the move for from central Asia, called
uniformity of grounds urged kulans, and antelopes from the
that the highest common de Astrakhan of
named stoppas
the nominator be taken, пот salgis,
lowest. The Federal Govern ment, he said, should go further than to introduce a law giving uniformity.
to
them
One salga was born in Prague while a consignment wis here in May and zoo ocials sald that they believed that It was the first known to have been bom in captivity.
FAEL-bound animals from Wastern zoos or dealers include and сред monkeys, giraffes parrots, and other exotic birds from Africa and Australia as well as South Amerien.
Officials said that as a result of the "tresit traffic", they were in touch with most zoos in Europe.
US Interested
"We have also heard from a zoo in Chicago, United States, which is interested in Siberiani Ugora and snow leopards," an official
said. The
in
Siberian tigers have the stone black and brown stripes as Bengal tigers neighbouring cages but are and their costs arc logos ellmate.
because they come from The official added that the
biggor
zoo had also
emilio about
made
of the
most famous of the Prague zoo's own collection of mare than 2,000 animals.
These include a herd of cloven Prze- walski horses, www
on almoot wild breed originating extinct in central Mongolia. There sre reported to be only 20 of these horses in the
the world. Smaller
tha
the averago horse, they have light brown coats, short, creat mancy and large heavy honds with thick, strong necks.
Officials said that some of the brood were brought to Europe early this century and Czecho slovakia got a pair after World War I.
At one time, the Progue herd increased to 10 but some were other animola axchanged for
from other ZOOG. One pair went to Whipenudo in Britain and another to Rotterdam, In Holland,
Dangerous
The stallions are considered dangerous and one here hay thu reputation of attacking overy one who approaches him. Once, ho injured a leg and had to be put to sleep with a bucketful of water doped with narcotica before a
surgoon veterinary could attend to
to him. vho 100, on
on the outskirts of Prague apacida across tres spidded slopes of 4 hill on the banks of the river Vltava which flows through the city. Its natural rock formations. for make ideal "playgrounds"
the
hoar's and nimble-footed moun- Lal goats. There are numerous
paddocks, MONTM
retting,
.times
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Ho advocated setting up # marriage commission on the Unes of Britain's. Thero should ba a thorough investigation, inta all aspects of marriage laws. Many important ones in over- scas countries. could well be in- corporated in Australian legisla tion, Mr Themas said.
Do
Apart from Victoria, no in- terest by State Governments in a move for uniformity has been pubilely stated.
The Federal Government, less than State Goverments, ja apparently disinclined to initiato logislation which, if realises could not win approval from all church interests
and
which would cater for only a relatively email
all section of the public. On two occasions, the Federal Parliament has passed Bills re- Inting to divorce but they were euterope of two World Wars and wond confined to simplification of the procedure in the where the domicile of the potitioner differed from that of the respondent.
Bridging Gap
ground
салса
The Law Council Bill aims at bridging. the gap between Queensland's five grounde and Western Australia's seventeen. Today
even where a broad. such os insanity or adultery is common to most States, there are variations und qualifications as between State laws. Insanity is a ground for dissolution in fivo Blates, but not in New South Wales, where the laws have not been "altered. this century.
Only
Western Australia re-
cognises duress or fraud
legol
caure for divorce. The current indications
that
the
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process of achieving uniform divorce laws here will
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