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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY · 23,· · 1956.
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Woomera, May 22.
As strange supersonic missiles howl into the sky at this joint British-Australian rocket range, a group of quiet, slow- moving men tend slow-growing plants which may one day transform great areas of so-called Australian desert and other tree-less countries,
The men who are employed by the Australian Government department which built the range
facilities Are experi- menting with plant growth in the
semi-desert
300 Country miles northwest of Adelalde
which the
the range is sited.
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The Israel bush, thriving Woomera, is believed to have a higher nutrition value for sheep than the local salt bush, Mr Martin explained,
But in spite of the unpro- mising fodder, locally produced sheep yield some of the anest Merino fleeces and have
some
Their garden, about a quar- ter of a mile from the village of the heaviest carcases among which
houses the scientists, their kind in Australia, Selen- servicemen und other range tists, Mr Martin explained, be- workora is referred to even by lleve
this that
because the childen here as the Arbore Woomera
il lacks no im- lum, a name not out of place portant trace elements, in the selentine atmosphere of
Agronomials in countries from Woomera,
which plants, particularly fodder are imported to be Woomera, are awali-
CHOICEST SHEEP
own
In the Arboretum, amfit the ing results with interest, hep- red sail and grey-green saltbushing to learn thereby what de-
their of the range country is one of ficiencies in
soils | the
smoothest could be made up to produce greenest and inwna anyone could wish to better stock. seo. It is formed by South
Thus, Australia's first dry station African couch, grown specialty country plant research at Woomera to test its auftabili- may not
in that area.
For
cf
miles
only transform the face of the many hundreds 01 La at the contre square miles of dry country in barth also help other stone-covered tableland 60 Australia, In diameter. Most Austra-countries. Hans call it desert, but nearby ORNAMENTAL TREES Mount Eba Station, from
which the ent
031
trees
to
lensed Mr Martin is interested also help the land which
the village in ornamental stands shears about 30,000 cr break the menutony of the tree-
choicest
Marinos plains, He is proud of his some of the
pencil pines. each year.
1 Mediterranean sheep in Australia
Scattered at one to every 20 plant which looks as though It the sames straight out of a trim acres, they browse among
tuffed saltbush which formal garden, and several Blue subsists in the reddish clay and very successful.
Nite wäitles, which he said are loam soil, watered by an annual Lainfal of some four to Ave inches.
sparac
"Although the horizon presents deadly monotony, the Land itself is gently rolling. like
with sch
several miles swell between the crest and trough of the waves, and with not tree to be acon,
of Erticularly
of the English
The planners of the range soon realised that trees must be considered one of the amenities for of the the workers, and that an station scheme must be incor- porated into the general deve- LTD.lopment of the place. From this
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SEEDS SECURED
The Department of Works appointed a full-time arbori- culturist to produce trees and grosses suitable to the Woomera
Bret
Nurseries were established al Port Agusta, the nearest town, 130 miles to the southeast and at Woomera itself, and contact was established with authorl- ties in most of the dry areas of the world, including the Sudan, South Africa ari Arizona.
Seeds were secured from over the world and extensive
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to see which plants are sulled to Woomera.
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being the
In the meantime, a vigorous tree-planting campaign in the village area itself ed to the planting of more than 34,000. There are more to follow.
The main
species planted arc eucalyptus, Australian native
which
al- ready found its way to America, That the Articles of
Africa and Mediterranean coun- Association contained In
tries, acacias and peppers, the printed document sub- The growth of many of these mitted to the Meeting, and
phenomenal, for the purpose of identifi- according to the Woomera nur- sery supervisor, Mr E F. Mar- cation subscribed by the tim
tin, who is watching the pro Chairman thereof, bo adopted as the Articles of Association of the Society in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, all existing Articles thereof. By Order of the Board,
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#ress of what he called an Israe!! bush, a spiky-looking grey bush from the Holy Land.
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The manager_____u_Mount Eba station has laken a lead from the laboratory and has planted and lawns ornamental shrubs round the
station homestead. carefully following Mr Martin's advice.-China Mail Special.
Field Of Thunder'
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En THE most vital town
the Commonwealth is being built in the middle of a desert! I will be populated by scientists and stomle workers and their familles
For work: la
now
going Aus- abend in the South tralian wasteland on ito
periapent new,
testing atomic The Bite la known as Maralingsan
Australian
British
ground
aborigine word meaning
"field of thunder."
Britain's atomic texts of two yours ago took place at Woomerao sotilement on the edge of the desOTË, and within vist DTO- of B0,000 hibited square miles.
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Ottawa, May 22, The United States wa [said today to be relenting its refusal to negotiate 'n pink salmon catch-sharing and conservation treaty with Canada.
Mr James Sinclair, Fisheries Minister, told reporters that he believed the importation of and the en- deep-sea scines couragement of Canadian west
coast nshermen to go all-out to build
up their share of the had produced the change of heart.
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In the 'past the Americans have been taking about 70 cent of pink salman, which run heavily every other year.
TALKING TERMS
Skyscraper
Hotel Condemned
Prague, May 22. The architecture of a new "skyscraper" hotel here has been condemned for too much" artificial decoration in a wave of criticism of over-ornate building similar to that which recently swept the Soviet Union.
The hotel, bullt for Cacho- ated, in pddition to the hotel, slovak army men and their the design for a building to familles, has a 10-storey central house a new central army club centre, a new tower, rising in ters from two and recreation wings and surmounted by a school at the Bohemian spa town
architoo green ornamental globe and of Carishad, and the spire with a rod star on its 280 tural replanning of a south Bohemian town, Ceske Budo- jovice.
Mr Sinclair told Canadian feet high tip. fishermen that next year
all
Maroon and white designs and
Left Floundering
restrictions would ba lifted,gures are painted on its brown providing they would fish seven outer walls and white, relief days a week and grab as much | sculptures of workers decorate In future, architectural prob of the catch as possible.
the roof over the entrance porch. Jems y Czechoslovakia are to bo Apparently this changed the American attitude, Mr Sinclair
ADELAIDE
raid
fall - out
the o reaching populated parts of castern Australia
A new supply road, 75 miles long, will connoot the new town of Maralings with the single-track rail- the way that rane noroes
straightest desert the
In the railway
world. Apart from Watson siding, the nearest settlement of any size is 250 miles away —at Tarcola,
Leaks Appeal
Former
Paris, May 22, French officials,
and
Defence Roger Turpine
Sunday at the conclusion of the "leaks" trial.
The Czechoslovake Communist tackled by a state committee for This Rude Prave, building set up recently.. Party newspaper, Washington State had called recently described the building committee also has the task of "technical economic for treaty negotiations and Mr as an example of how Czecho solving
com- questions" and drawing up a long archiicots Sinclair's deputy, Mr George alovalc
term plani for building. Clark, was now
on the Pacific mitted "eccentricities et form
possible allem" similar to those criticised coast, talking ovor
terms with Canadian in the Soviet Union. treaty fishermen prior to negotiations.
"Wo welcome the American call," said Mr Sinclair, "but it won't change our attitude. We won't slacken our efforts until the treaty is actually signed." Neuter.
Indian College Girl Dancers
had
Extravagance
ha The
been Industry criticised for not building quick- ly enough, lagging behind plan, backward methods and Insum- etent Industrialisation.”
The Soviet Government and Communist
One officially recommended last Party
year condemned architectural extra-remedy is to have standardised vagance, dismissed and demoted plans and specifications, so that Ja number of leading architects blueprints may be circulated
seriai enabling
pro- for wasteful lavishness in design widely and began a campaign in favour duction of cute type of building of simpler, utilitarian forms into be carried out on various con-
struction jobs. building.
According to observers here, The hotel in Prague, begun focal Press reports indicate that two years ago and now nearing the Soviet condemnatio of Singapore, May 22.
h$3 completion,
long been wastefully elaborate architecture Sixteen attractive Indian col-criticised in private by some has
lett many Czechoslovak lego girls, dressed in colourful architects and laymen as ugly architects floundering to find now. out of place among saris, arrived here today aboard and the Britlah liner Canton
of the many to spires and domes
Gothic, baroque give
a series of exhibitions on famous Indian dances
rococo buildings of the Czecho the slovak capital. The girls.
the bearings.
arid
When there architects began
Ministry
"socialist" building after World Labrusse
Rene
students at
War II, they correctly decided that the old "Individualist" stylu College of Home today appealed against the sen Lady Irwin tences imposed on them last | Science in New Delhi, are on a It has also been the butt of of capitalist architecture was tour of Southern Asia. They theatre jokes. But it is only "out," according to an article in
direct criticisms the recently that wlll
Czechoslovak Communiat also visit Japan.
have appeared in print. In Singapore, they will per-
Party's monthly theoretical Indian
folk dances, de- Rude Prave declared that al-magazine, Nova Mysl nonstrate Indian wedding cere- though there was not no much
But the result was, the articio monies and hold a fashion show superficial decoration in recent
they building in Czechoslovalcia as in said, that
produced featuring the latest in saris.
there were series of "mechanically repeated" The girls were chaperoned by the Soviet Union,
types of buildings and Samson nevertheless a number of similar ugly Miss their leader,
of 00 cxaggerated Reuter.
errors. Among there have been houses
|"utilitarianism.”
Labrusse was sentenced by a Paris military court to six years and Turpino to four years for passing French military secrets to unauthorised persons during the Indo-China war.---France- Presso,
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It added that the architects changed their ideas when they: compared their own work with the richness of forms generous and wide conceptions of Soviet architecture in the inter mediate postwar years.
Their reaction, however, was to accept muperficially the Soviet and the exaggerated and over- | valued artistic adornments which went with it, without seeing the | real, correct substance of Soviet
architecture.
Now, following the Soviet criticisms, the architects
wavering between the extremos of over-simplicity and economy, and excessive ornamentation, the writer explained.
some
Observers here most that this acems to support a fairly com»« mon complaint among Prague people that many new flats here are drab and cheerless, often stlated for ecoman
TESSONS of floor, parquets and
even bathrooms.
On
the othe
other hand, thèma people say, new public buildings
aro unnecessarily grandiose and lavishly decorated.
Deviations
Rude Fravo says thas böckuse" the Soviet eoriticians cure just when they thought they wezo on the right, good to socalists. region. Image Cachoslovalc architects are fucking new pro- jecte with copatderable uncer tainty.
Some say that the criticism levelled against Soviet serbitec- ture does not
Czecho
alovakia because no such "devia tion have taken place her
Phew bollover quite rarely the pewspaper sald that this is beginning of a moviena prewar trends bx architecture.
Some are taking advga fram of The altustign to spread distruct tmont orchitects of the ood
features of Soviet and Crosho- sibi v architecture, it addeck,
Pravo blamed
kects for
the
automatic, adop
sion of Soviet architectural | formal. "Although these did not appeal to them, thay did not havo, the courage to oppose them because they were unable
to eubelarskiater: their own vitsem
scientifically, the newspaper declared,
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