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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1957.
JOHN CLARKES OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER SIDE GLANCES
CASEBOOK
Breaking Up
railway
stations
BUSHFIRE SCOURGE
AGAIN
From H. KING WOOD
Sydney, Dec. 24.
Thave
The grim prophecies being made by bushfire been rich this authorities over the last few weeks that the State week jn shy, tender, was a tinder box, came true last week when during touching reunions-parenta
boys and girls one searing hot day Sydney was ringed with fires
described as "the worst in living memory".
meeting
from boarding schools.
In a few blazing hours more than 14 homes, a The eyes of mothers mistchurch, 37 cars, trucks; motor cycles, and thousands of with unalloyed uffection,
ducks were destroyed by flames which fathers, pride and apprehension fowls and mingled as they tried to size up spread over a wide aren. the young hopefuls, their pro-
ress, their prospects,
father So anec had Alan' Rone w
his son, nited greet half with high hoper, and hal! with vague, disturbing fears
Alan's career at 。 famous He sailed public school enged.
io India to learn how to be a ten-planter.
THURST
WHAT went wrong out there
Wishes told. But Alan stayed only a week in India. Home again, he worked as a salesman through the war as a corporal in the RAF, then be- came an actor.
served
man.
Alan has the cut and currlage of an actor. He is u Ane, ulg, But he left handsome acting after a few years and first a salesinan-clerk became.
wine merchant, then
under-manager At «нота Some stage, too, he developed fearsome, cumpelling thirst for alcohol, and at another married
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a
woman 14 years older than himself.
TOO SERIOUS
ALAN'S next job was as whe
mess
the political technique and there is also little doubt that in a few will be a cabinet years there rank of a sort.
The Chief Secretary, Mr C. A. Kelly, placing a complete ban on the lighting of fires in the open until January 2, declared that all | muthorities considered that the the *faced the Stato
gravest fire 11AM danger in history. He has placed the the fire-lighting ban over holidays to prevent happy holl- day makers, not used to out-to cabind. Only one man in the
door
of campers,
NO EASY PATH
There is equally little doubt that he won't find any easy path
of Australian Federal
Minister
firea, setting the States has won an election and the ban will been dyen a cabinet seat the
present
for National Development, Senator Spooner, who is, of contrse, not only an outstanding statesman but also a business
out mar
of the ordinary.
As
far As independenta are Cerned, they are not a success in our political system. A num- ber of worthwhile
men have kicked the machine and become elected for blue ribbon sents but in nearly every case they have been taken into the party.
nlight. although
thousands at bit caravanners and picnickers who, for the last few days, have been pouring out of Sydney on holi- day roads.
Maybe it is dieult for people living in
cooler or less bushy living
to visualise the terrible Lunds specinele of a bushfire, NSW, indeed most of Australia, has Always faced the
danger, but it has become more grave recent years, fratly. continuous turned the Australian bush into secondly, pasture and lush because of our vast increases in | population it has been necessary
for people to get
zet further and further away from Inhabited areas and out into the timbered and bush country.
We'l PeDJONE
In
له
frey were
Chair
SHEAFFERS
ADMIRAL SNORKELPEN
By Galbraith DEFENCE COUNSEL'S
11.12 TAK Pag, LLA, PIN ON
ALLEGATION
IN MURDER TRIAL
Closing addresses to the Jury in the Ngau Tau Kok paper factory murder trial began before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg in the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Crown Counsel submitted that the accused in the case acted with malice aforethought and that it was the Crown's case that the Jury must find accused guilty of murder.
Counsel for the Defence alleged in his submission that the deceased died as a result of Improper treatment which he received in the Kowloon Hospital.
On trial is Leung Kuen, 18, | Mr Sherlock said, that Wong odd-job coolle, who is charged was no friend of the prisoner with the murder of a factory and that there was considerable enmity towards him. Defence worker, Ng Koon-kau Leung is alleged to have stabbed Ng in Counsel recalled the incident of the neck and back on August 1. the alleged stealing of a ring by
the Ng died from the neck wound, accused, the burning of which turned septic 12 days clothes and the hanging on a later.
wall of a letter, which he sub- mitted indicated there was
the certain hostility towards accused,
Both accused and deceased were employed in a paper fac- tory in Ngau Tau Kok.
Mr M, Morley-John, Crown Mr Shurlock said that the Bow Leungon murder or homicide in these Counsel, is prosecuting. ✪ 1966 by NEA Barvine, ins,
Terence circumstances had become in Mr J. the course of ages somewhat Stolpes mo
modified He quoted a passage from, Halsbury's Laws of Eng-
11 lold Mr Matey-John
→ wound land, as follows:
in itself upon the is given which is not Jury that it was Crown to prove the case beyond mortal or dangerous, but from
treatment
"Just talk to him on any topic-juvenile delinquency, real estate, weight reducing, jelly recipes-anything that comes to your mind!".
John Sebastian's
Harmonica
Recital
A
Ja defended by Mir Shurlock, instructed by C. Wilman of Johnson, and Master,
the
be-
A
A big welcome goes from this cokima to the blegesi Jazz › name over to come to Hongkong. Goodman "arrives", to- Benny
morrow after a tour of the Far East that his reaprod: a royal award and public applause.
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comes with a group of musicians worthy of a Goodman line-up and, ho arrives at a time when the Colony needs a big name to brighten up the desert that is live entertainment,
The crowds that will turn up at the Empire theatro should, be noted by local promoters. Thero are, il reems, quite a lot of Individual acts propared ;
1.10. appear at night-clubs in town. These same would no doubt ac cept bookings for stage shows,
There are enough record fans. in the Colony of ensure a good house for any well established artist who has done anything at all on disc.
Benny Goodman is a blager name than most but then the prices are a little high. Others could be presented at lower prices and the public,would go.
THE YEAR PAST":
Looking back through the grooves to the beginning of 1950 one thing stands out to the cX- clusion of almost all other re-
cord topics. The record business
reasonable doubt, that wee, that | which improper death, the owes a great deal of its volumo
comes the cause person who gave
THE ALLEGATION "It will be my submission to you that on August 1 the wound in the neck, because we can back, was not dangerous to life.
submissio It is to be my
fur
time but
they must be sure of the pri-
thot wound to the emergence of rock and soner's guilt before they found him guilty.
will not be criminally respon-roll There have been fortunos Orown Counsel said that none sible for the death if it clearly made by the perpetrators of this new rhythm and they are all of the facts of the Crown case appears that death is caused by
too aware of the fact that their had been refuted by the De-improper treatment."
popularity will wone. Thus the fence.
He said that the
flood of diso and film. Jury must The harmonica is coming to be recognised more and
agree from the clrcumstantial more as an instrument worthy of serious consideration. evidence of the case that the It can no longer be dismissed as only fit for frivolous accused stabbed the deceased on
When a composer the morning of August 1. De-acre the two wounds in the occasions or so-called popular music.
ceased had two stab wounds in work Bo distinguished as Vaughan Williams writes
the back and one in the neck. SERIOUS CRITICISM especially for the harmonien, then it is time to concede that it is a musical instrument in its own right.
"There was evidence of how deceased was taken
to Kow- con Hospital and of the medi. cal treatment that he received," rald Crown Counsel, fence levelled very
serious criticism at the Hospital and at both Dr Lee and Dr Thomas,"
"It was agreed that it was the deceased unfortunate that
released from Hospital
he was, when was
but you must remember that he appeared to be in perfectly good health," he suidh.
"The De-
Ong case in mind is Sir Percy Spender, Australian Ambassador to USA, who beat an old war- horse in Sir Archibald Parkhill. Then there was a business man, Mr Cole, who was every- tually given the job of man on the Airline Commission, TINDER DRY
but normally independents have
rict Canberra steward in a liner. When
Practically no rain has fallen a brief
since the middle
of Australia's greatest One of he came home from the tong NSW
the year, with the result that politicians.
ans. J.T.
T. Lạng was rinund-trip to the East, he was
This was borne out by the revealed an amazing richnes band-slave to the bottle.
the heavy undergrowth has be-elected as an independent. He
harmonics recital given last his virtually, adlity and breath For ten days of total reckless.ome tinder dry.
was probably one of the most night by Mr John Sebastian at control were outstanding and A cigarette bult from Gable and cormelentious poll- be plunged around the
of the speeding West End, leaving behind him a start fumes roaring from tree He lasted only one term.
cur s sufficient to ticians ever to go to Canberra. Wah Yan College hall, Hong- the musical suitability kong, presented by Mr Harry works beyond question, trail of welese cheques,
The
Odell, who has already given treo. und during the
INTERESTING FUTURE. when he
had drunk only ca
this week
Hongkong audiences the oppor the flames
FORTUNATE REFUGEES huttle out of two catsen of whisky
tunity
hearing another pr
Naturally, as little musle has und gin he had bought" with rising 100 feet from the tops of
Most of the Hungarian refu- virtuoso on the harmonica, on a
yet been written expressly for Alan dud cheque
left the gum trees.
the harmonica, the repertoire Policemen taking a few hours gess who arrived in Sydney former occasion. He fled to a hospital West End
during the lost fortnight' have spell after dealing with record
it is quite in There is no doubt at all that is limited, and and asked them to treat Eim for
found jobs and private crowds were called now Chrisu lcoholism.
fires Servicemen accommodation. They have been Mr Sebastian is a sound musician order to experiment with all out to flight
types of music. The instrument
Mr Marley-John continued: were rushed from barracks to very fortunate, of course, for a of good taste, and an extremely
will doubtless devalo "You heard his discir
Dr Thomas, amount homes. Radio stations tremendous
of help accomplished" player instrument ene
He used a micro-100, but it is probably safe to say Fellow of the Royal College of broadcast messages to people at has been given to then by
who have phone, but it was very carefully that it will never be entirely Asking them
Hungarian settiers im- W
burgh say that every day the their jobs and been in this country for some
und and adapted, so that at satisfactory as a substitute for Surgeons of London and Edin- mediately leave
the orthodox wint or stringed medical profession must take no time was the volume un- time. help save their possessions.
instruments. For music such as
He urged calculated risks." Bad
the dangor to A spokesman for the Depart-naturally loud.
that contained in the second that members of the Jury, as Sydney, surrounded as it is by a ment of Labour and National
was divided half of Mr Sebastian's “pro- The programane
men of the world, to apply.com. Amount his head. huge given belt stretching from Service said the
into two distinct parts; the first gromme the harmonica has an
senso to such criticism. mon. the coast north 60 miles out to
consisted of clássical works interesting. future. Mr Lau He would say no more about
for tho Mok, the local harmonicist, will the matter because
so far originally composed Aute or violin
It was of the hospital that he At Bow Street was arrested he pleaded guilty to all the fraude. only wish I could overcome this craving," he said. "I know I can, if I'm given a chance "
Mr John Mummon, QC, magistrate. shook
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work
The Blue
of
clothing and other goods given to the recent arrivals has been colossal. He said that many of
who
arrived Hungarians the here in 1949 and who had been front to aid their fellow countrymen, are now the owners of most successful busi ness and ate andous to give the new arrivals every help.
"I'm very sorry for you," he saki, "but this is much too
Mountain and back zeriņus.
again to the coast on the south, Alan was sent to prison for
if not so great as that which He For anonilis
We away
faces formers and graziers in- with theil struk A man land.
to the fore They say a spark or whom a fumentis public school broken bottle at the right angle, Find moulded, whom numberless for the sun's rays can start a obscure public bars had undone, fire that could sweep through the
State destroying
hundreds of thousands of sheep, cattle and possibly millions in equipment, sheds and homes bafore
Radio Hongkong
HKT.
It burns out.
At a Sydney suburban court during the heat wave East week offender first a young woman appeared before the magistrate.
trave He asked her "Will you the case heard in a closed or an open courly"
"Which ever's the cooler" she
This Christmas has been a record for goodwill, spending rowds and buying, but there are many who four that before the holidays are over NSW will have suffered one of the worst sold disasters in history.
6.30. Programme for Older Chlid ren premited by Elizabeth: 5.55, . Block Market Report; 4. Time Signal. Programruno Summary; 9.02, Portuguese Ilalf Hour: 0.30, V.O.A Ifit Farade; 6.59, Weather Report: 7, Time Bignal. The News: 7.09, Commentary or Stop Press Item: 7.10. Ato of Eli (13CTS).
HE JUST WON Written by Godfrey Harrison. Pro-
After ten days of indecision duced by Lealle Bridgment; 7.45, "Get Listening" Hector Chauvin Mr Leslie Bury now finds that at the Organ: Deginners Please he must give away his £7,500 a Compere: John Walince. Producer: year job for one with some Hilary Green: a enterament thing like £2,500. book, A magazina for most ogen, in
By D dishearteningly small muxle of a sort, which there is teresting people, various problems 1,000-odd majority he has won in sound, and all manner of trivia, the sent in Parliament for what for Time Signal. should have
Britain: D.15, AL
With in-
Орста
The News and Home News from zhbor seat of Wentworth, pre- **Martha" (Flotow) Act 1. Prin viously held by Sir Eric Harri- cipal with Orchestra and Chonis zon, no
now High Commissioner in of Radio televisions Italians, "Turin
Lauden. under the direction of Francesco
Houday" Symphony Orclinatra | Sented
of
The opening work was Sonata in F major by an early 18th century Halion composer, Vercini, one of 12 Sonatas for the violin This is a conven- Honal classical work, and Me Sebastian kept
strictly to the solo violin part, playing the melodie line only, with ottempt at decoration.”
-
MUSICAL PURIST
no
a
Orchestra at a
wast
2
irrelevant,
result
ho
the
Tho
Bill Haley and his Comets have been around for a long not until rock and roll did he scale the <izzy heights. ther that the deccased died as o Freddy Bell and his Bell Boys result of improper treatment were unheard of until rock, and which he received in the Kow- the Platters have come up the loon Hospital," said Mr Shur-same way.
The gales of records by these lock.
His Lordship asked whether and almilar artists have con- that wil
Defence Counsel's | stituted a great proportion of allegation Bir Shuridek said the local business and Ron" Mercury "Diamond" that that was his allegation: Silva, M that the deceased died as a TC-. sult of improper treatment at the Kowloon Hospital.
He then proceeded to reinte the circumstances on which ho sald he based his allegation.
Hearing is proceeding,
Fatal Accident: Driver Gets
2 Years
"Wing" man in town has
a lot of time for the new rhythm. His ability to put presa- inga on the market soon after
the
song has caught on in America has pleased the local fans no end.
Apart from rock arid roll nothing
much new has comme tip.
A few of the old favourites have Inded. Little is heard nowadays of
Mitchell, Hoscmary
Guy
Clooney, Vie Damone or Patti Page.
Doris Day his been busy on films but in hey "Que Sera" disc had ode of the biggest mite-of the year.
bis Elvis Presley has made mark and with Bil! Haley shores responsibility for the popularity of rock,
imprison-
"Alab
"dis-
fans in a alm and
it 'that
As a result of a fatal traffic which a Chinese bo playing Vaughn Williams' the case was concerned, all that accident a
tho woman was knocked down by a Rhapsody for harmonien and was
completely car and later died in hospital irrelevant, if the Jury Auture Sino-
were 23-year-old Chult Kwong, of
124,
No progress was made during Orchestral doubtersan which will give enthusiasts and evidence that the deceased dead Mau Tau Wel Font was see the year as far as getting Bri- artists into the local hit opportunity of
of poisoning from ment by Mr Morris parades and reports from
the houring the instrument its that wound.
UK indiente that the trenge is Kowloon Court this morning, most effective.
evidence was that the deceased The defendant was
towards imitation of the Mr Sebastian received a great died
of sepsis, which
was qualified from holding a driver's American stars. welcome and ovation from the polson, from that wound (in the lcence for two years.. audience, and responded with neck),
Mario Medical
on sald that on cald.
The prosecution two encores His accompanist evidence of both Dr Lee and the night of November 12, last
was that infection Mr. Glen Clugston, who Dr Thomas throughout supported the soloist entered the wound at the time ear, defendant was driving a Road Nathan in private car He followed with a Sonata by with skill, musicianship and of the stabbing
from south to north, Mr Morley-John said that Dr At the Junction of Argyle. Bach for unaccompanied dute, sympathy, and was in no small
responsible for
́an Thomas had stated that li no Street, ho disobeyed the traffic consisting of four danco-Uke measure movements in the manner of enjoyable and Interesting concreatment had been given at all, light and knocked down a 54-
decensed would have died many
for year-old woman, Lau Chat, who of Bach's Suites. This cert.-X.X. was simply treated; Mr
the same reason, that was, sepsis was in the pedestrian crossing. Two hundred and seventeen again entries have been received from Sebastian
was thrown on The woman from the wound." ** 15, fortunately,
1.to the bonnet of the. car and all parts of the world in a com- | musiest purist and has a proper petition for a design for a
carrica to a distance of 60 feet a NSW respect for the music State Opera House.
32 countries Concerto from and of the 217 entries received recently re-discovered Flute Australian architects have sub- Concerto which was given Its mitted 61. Fity three designs Arst New York performance by
from. Britain, 49 from Mr Sebastian two years ago European countries and 23 from he allowed almselt for the first the United States.
time some more Borld passages, First prize for the successful particularly in the cadenzas architect will be £5,000, 2nd which he has composed himself
EAGER RESPONSE
have come
灿
the of
NO DENIAL
Prison Terms Referring to the statement by bolows the fell on to the street.
Designs masters. In the Boccherini
which followed For Rioters
for: Har-
1.8
Liza was seen by his reports are did not do him
much pod. Now the news is that a new tenor is on his way. Oresta is the man's name and he hails from Malta. He is not besch by a weight problem and, he has an engaging personality what I have heard of his voice he can give Lanza compétition on his own (ground and it may te this fact will; give Marlo pause for thought.
bored.
From
which they remem
"Ding Dong-Rock Around the Clock Heartbreak Hotel":
"I Want You," I Need You, I Love You"-""The Great Pre- in On The Corner The tender My Prayer-Stand
the accused in answer to the
THE TOP FOR TEENS charge, Mr Morley-John and She received severe injuries that newhore in that statement and was detained in hospital
where she
Without claiming that theso › died 'n dew days later. did the accused deny the charge.
Defendant who pleaded guilty, are the ten tunes most purchased Twenty-eight people involved
o submitted that
stated that he did not disobey by "pop" fans during the year, the October 13 rioting at the
the Jury found that yee Wo Tal Weaving factory in acetused, sidbbed the deceased the ally knocked down the mentioned when I asked some
the
traffic signal but uninten Tung Tau Village were sent to and that as a result of the stab
teen-agers .woman. prison by Mr Justice T. J. Gould wound and the
in that poisoning
He said he had a family of at the Criminal. Sessions, this wound the deceased died, then
five and asked the magistrate Molinari Pradelli: 10.05, "Cineruma ¦ Young Les Bury, who repre £2,000 and the 3rd 21,000. for the work.
morning.
thenocused
of Was guilty Australia and
[:0] homicide. South cond. by Jack Brimielin: 10.30. | Adrica on the Board of Directora House Committee, Mr HavillaDd, 1 gramme opened · with Vaughan nylotions, for crimes including:
on to impose a fine instead of a The Chairman of the Operai The second half of the pro Eighteen of them had preous He said that
prison sentence,, dist - Angel-Pavement, (DBCTS). By J.
In his opening D. Priestley Dramatised by Howard of the World Bank, must have said that the Committee WILK
theft and drug offences and of the case he defined murder ART: Pal "The Big Drive" the folt forretning like a champ on highly gratified at the response, willems Romance
as where a person of sound BIG AIRLINER peat of inst Sunday broaden boxer who, atead of having on He added that the volume and monica and Plano. From the My Justice Gould sal it was memory and discretiónis unlaw
many of them were deportes. 20.09, Weather Report: Time easy KO against en amatour
Wayward Wind" "Que Ser Goodnight Musle; 11.30, Close Dowd, opponent, finds himself rather quality of the material avaliablo ganning of this, one was' con his' chaty, to pass on them a fully kiffed another."with male Bignal. Radio News Red; 11.3,
ARRIVES aforethought and death followed
and, surprisingly, "Getting #lo Know You' merellessly battered before get provided ample assurance that vinced that the harmonies is
winning design will happiest when being "itgeis. | salutary" sentonco›which; would i within a your way H. "Ay" he was it. Ong' of the largest commercial! REDIFFUSION
be varied according to the pre-
final word rather than when attempting to
about the Am really outstanding. Having won the rather difficult / something
in as the flute or the violin, The Or, absence of a criminal | kulity of murtler... He, submitted airliners, in the world today,thod, hay hnd most effect on mina that he the Jury were sallefted record.
od that the Rocused, stabbed the the Lockheed Super-G Cons record say "The King and I 3Dm Variety Calls the Tune a pre-election, fight for Went-e
ahweh
desions imitate another Instr
ently which
the works which followed Bartok's Six me, including an ex deccased and that he had the stellation arrived here this was full of lunce that had been proving flight from dia a few years ago. After the "My Fair Ladylle 2.30, Novatume; 4, the back and told he had National Art Gallery, will hold a / Rumanian Folk Dances the police consiables were given | intention either to cause death morning.on A' |
Air India Bombay Bying
Intor Ave
years. Ten others li- or to cause grievous bodily national coloure
Aim hock been shown in the 430, Vocally ·
"L'Après-midi d'un Faucet and cluding any retoned from harm to 116 chceased, then the Hand of Agre" wil
Colony Sille for the suggested Opera
two songs, camo slipping Corner Propomed by Auntie battle grimly with a number
back to the local hitparades, Pamela; 5,30, Teen Time Presentest by Bolly Souza) 9, Tropicana; 23 of sousoned independent op House is on the waterfront Gershwing "American to Paris, mol on the day of the riot and accused was guilty of murder.
a one-ormed man,
In: hinnal address to the in the Colony for three days Getting to Know - YouT tenced to four and a Birthday Mailbag: 6.30, Songs of the ponents who at one stage looked near Circular Quay and no an- tmphasised this.
Jury, Mr Bhurtosk sild that he before returning to Indias one of them, The One yours Mockwer: Time Bignal and the political candidate, Bury Wis is likely to begin. Pandey 1.40, The House of Poter like getting the decision. As a nouncement fire been made as
Listening to the thin, clean ho remaining 12 accused, in one in that factory actually saw During the half bore a courtesy ghat We Deresin News1:200 Weather Report. At nothing out of the
was to when the work of building it rather piercing, never soft tono cluding a woman were son- the pelsonar stab doccared on the fight will be given around the book and roll tinat
of the harmonica in the earlier tenced to three such a half years. morting of August 1. The Colony for travel agents and still hope de works, one could not help A total of 88 accused were evidence, adduced by the Crown
wn Prese representatives.
· Comarilerji war, circumstantial, evidence or thinking, that, walifuku the indicted for rioting in this
·Technical Directo randoring
ould have | Beventoonip-of- them
Office In-Bombay nother/seventeen sounded
ting a points decision,
Romantic Cycles - Belections from worth he was then einpped on
to Canberra
Romances of the World--Mary Ann
-Time Rendezvous: smooth PRssage
February
be
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Kainos Super Wide Shows 749 opponents," on
Connie Boswell; 8,15,- Capliol, SnoW.
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to
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