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PLEASANT AUSTRALIAN VALLEY Queen Juliana OVER EATING IS
MAY BECOME
NEW RUHR"
Melbourne, Feb. 28.
Situated on top of the greatest single deposit of brown coal in the world, a
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NOTICE
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
Ordinary Yearly General Meeting
Melbourne, is beginning to substantiate its boosters boasts that one day, it would become an Australian Ruhr.
Australians
borrowed a sloopy Uttle town of 3,000 German technique to bring people, about the second phase of the transformation.
The Duke of Edinburgh, only a few weeks ago, brought it to life when he opened the Lurgt brown coul gasification plant at Morwell,
in the centre of the
Latrobe Valley, for the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria.
When the Morwell plant is running to capacity, it will be producing every year:
1. 00,000 million cubic feet
of gua;
2. 20,000,000
aro
Today, 45,000 pioneers of the Industrial age
crowded into the town, spilling out Into a rash of cottages and hostels spread across the former pasture land surrounding the town.
Long lines of diesel-powered trains haul away huge loads of briquettes to the city, returning loaded with building materials, steel and goods for the valley.
Traditional
The Stato is housing the
traditional. workers In the of Australian
cottage
patterna
A
a quarter on
of un acre of ground, which the householders can turn Into garden, cultivate, to weeds, as they or turn over wish. rge numbers of single
Large men, many of them immigrants,
gallons
petrol;
3. 22,000,000 gallons
diese) and fuel oil; 4. 13,000,000 gallons
brown cool tar;
of
of
| me
in
5. 5,000,000 gallons of high
octang petrol;
0. 1,000,000 gallons of
dustrial solvents.
Tucked Away
the
are housed for the time being in barracks-like hostels.
Finn Party
Leaves
5 Meets Guides
theSelf-Government For
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands recently attended
section of the Putten Netherlands Girl Guides on the occasion of the gentenary of the birth of Lord Baden- Powell, founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide move-
Government meat. The Queen, dressed in
Helsinki, Feb. 28. The parliamentary group of Morwell is taking its rush of the Finnish Agrarian Party prosperity calmly,
although I decided tonight to quit the pre- land in the business area on its sent coalition made up of Social zare sales changes hands at
Democrats and Agrarians. £A500 (£400 sterling) a foot. of the shops have had
Finnish
the
And, according to statistics tucked away in government Ales,
well
in Ag brochures of many business concerns, this will only nibble at the edges of the deposit. The brown coal reserves pirendy Capresso bar or two have sprung Cabinet crisis. surveyed and proved
Manyum plate, gines and Me Fagerholm, would hand in his
Urlio
expected that was
Premier, Karl Augus! face-uft. A drive-in theatre, a resignation to President new pleture theatre and an
Kekkonen US a result of the wmount up.
guld waiform, is pictured here greeting a crippled stri ruido, who, like all the other ruldes at the otremony, re- ceived a cake from the royal guest-Express Photo,
MOLLET AT UN HEADQUARTERS
Trust Territories AUSTRALIA AGAINST TIME LIMIT
The
UNDERMINING
DANES' HEALTH
Copenhagen, Feb, 28.
Over-eating is steadily undermining the health and well-being of thousands of Dahes, according to Danish doctors.
smoorgang-
The average Dane's present usually begin_with zich diet, one food expert here bord, a Swedish national, dish recently declared, maires him featuring a varled collection of "rat toothless, round-rich hors d'oeuvres, which aro shouldered, flat-footed and con- eaten with bread and butter.
silpated. No one, he added, Then follow three or four hot
would
the Dane of courses, Beginning with shops,
TOCOCndant of the the
today at a
hardy Vikings.
Though irate letters, declaring
national vodka-like beverage and beer, the meal with coffee, Cognac
that the Vikings' fish diet pro-'occasionally cake duced a race of weak-chested,
and
ast year, caloryTM
The puntod in the newspapers with in-
frequency
And
sparsely built men poured into tables have the papers after this pronounce Danish ment, many Danes tacitly agree creasing that they could well learn a numerous slimming dlots have
filled the women's pages. day:
lesson from the Spartan eating habita of their ancestors,
Calory In-Take
One stout women may be advised to live entirely on milk diet, while the next port wine is advertised as the sole means rld of surplus fst. of goiting Today, the average dally One extreme suggestion was a calory in-take per inhabitant in diet of chocolate which, it Denmark is 3,800, which, after claimed, would Ireland with 3,485, is the main obstacle to highest figure in the world. In slimming-appetite.
England, for example, the
W38
remove
nil
the
rapid
start 100 Deciál diet books telling
with
average calory In-take is 3,230 Ceaseless Requesti calories per head per doy.
Doctors stress, however, that Ceaseless requests for a sound- so far as Danes are concerned, slimming formula eventually these figures, do not take into Induced the Copenhagen Houto- to start a account all the appetising little wives' Association "extras", such
bund as cream
correspondence course special and sweets, which fill the gaps in alimming. Under the stegan between meals in Denmark. "Become Slim and Healthy
Most Danish families
"pupils" are supplied the day with porridge followed with Canberra, Feb. 28.
by coffee and bread and butter, them how to restrict their Australian Government
to between
1,200 announced today that it would Lunch generally consists of the intake
traditional
Danish "amoere calories and 1,800 calories a day. not accept any target date to
brood"
Every ten days, a new ten-day (open sandwich), a rich United Nations, Feb, 28, provide self-government for Now | D French Premier Guy Mollet Guinea and Nauru island in the concoction of butter, mayonnaise food plan is sent out to those
slice of meat
toking the course and they so which Ünited Na-Pacific today visited the
it administers sauce, salad and
encouraged to write to the headquarters in The Agrarians decided to quit
New under United Nations trustee or fish, washed down
Danish beer,
Association about any problems the Government after Premier York
ship.
Supper brings hot meat of which they may have. But there is no evident desire Fagerholm decided in principle Accompanied by the French
No guarantee is given that Christian to live riotously. Most of the to reduce subsidies an
Minister, datry Foreign
The announcement said the fish dishes served with the rich including
Mollet immigrants,
many products, thus saving some four Pineau,
Immediately United Nations General Assem-sauces for which Danish cooks the course will have the desired are famous. All fried foods are effect. But It costs only 85 from the Ruhr itself, who are milliard marks
The called on Prince Wan Waithe-bly's decision against setting a
Danish done in butter or margarine.
Crowns (slightly less a year.
Thailand President time limit for self-government yakon of still laying the foundations for this
than £2), sa many thlok t move was to be made in an at-
of the UN General Assembly.—in the trust territories new Ruhr, have set a pattern of
of tempt
to halt the mounting in-
worth trying mindedness. Industriousness and
Franco-PreSIOL serious-flation of the Finnish
vigorously supported by the en- economy Many of them
tire Cabinet. supported The Agrarian Party, One hundred are saving to help support by the farmers, refused to go
families 'In Europe, or
bring
ond the proposal, to Austraila, exten- them
or for along with
a
of the price suggested that stake in the future.
Both the immigrants and the margarine be increased, while
two weeks but old residents are well aware of the price of milk would remain
region's potentialities at its present level. France China Mail Special.
10 more than 20,000 million tona, or enough fuel potentially to meet the requirements of the present population of Australia for 1,000 years.
The Latrobe Valley largely given over to tranquilly prosperous pastoral pursen lies on top of this coal, a seam 800 feet thick. miles cast of the coalfield, at Nowa Nown, there sive deposit of iron ore, once thought too low grade to be
exploitable commercially now being inspected with the their eyes of more modern techniques, deposits of limestone in neighbourhood,
The
an
There are also exlenalve
the
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Cor-
catalyst which was able poration will be held at the to fuse these elements together Head Office of the Corpora Into the steel and concrete fact tion, 1, Queen's Road Central of a new Ruhr hos been Hong Kong, on Friday, the developed by white-coated men of selence. A team of 15th day of March, 1957, at Melbourne University research Noon for the purpose of re-workers, directed by Professor ceiving and considering the H.K. Worner, has found a way reports of the Directors and to make high-grade metallurgi- of the Auditors and the Proft Valley's brown coal.
cal coke from
the
Latrobe and Loss Account and Balance
Implications of this are Sheet for the year ended 31st almost limitless for the valley. December, 1956, and for the election of Directors and the appointment of Auditora,
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from Friday, the 1st day of March to Friday, the 16th day March, 1957, (both days
during
of
inclusive)
which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong,
11th January, 1057.
NOTICE
If the laboratory techniques can be repeated in the small experimental plant now
being built near the Lurgi retorts at Morwell, the already big in- dustrial prospects of the valley will be immensely increased.
Geological Accident
Every great industrial nation at today has been founded on the geological accident of the close proximity of coking coal and fron ore. Today, it seems only a matter of time before talk of
of "another Ruhr" may be justified.
Only three decades ago, the valley was given over colely to pasture and timber, Then the State Electricity Commission of Victoria made a bold industrial
A
and bullt Amoke- ching, giant power station at Yallourn, near Morwell,
This proved that electricity could be generated cheaply on the brown coal fold and corried to Melbourne, as the Lurg
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, 1 being carried today. It also
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proved that briquettes, manu- factured economically from the brown coal, could compete excellent anthracite coal from other parts of Australia.
ThirtyEighth Ordinary with the Yearly General Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly General Moeting of the Shareholders of the Bank will be held at the Head Office of the Bank, 10, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 9th day of March, 1957, at 2.30 p.m., for the purpose of
Then the valley slumbered for two decades apart from the humming power station and, the giant machinery in the open cut brown coal mine. When World War II ended, Morwell, called by some the Australian Essen of the future, was
receiving and considering the Queensland
Reports of the Directors and of the Auditors and the Pros fit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet for the yed? ended, ä1st December, 1956, and for the election of Direc tors and the appointment of Auditors.
Importing Petrol
а
10
Brisbane, Feb, 20. Queensland will form Medial publle company
handle. petrol Imports from The Register of Shares of Formosa, an official statement the Bank will be closed from said today.
The Government is sponsoring
Saturday, 2nd March, 1907, to these Imports in a bid to break Saturday, 9th March, 1957 the ban imposed by eight major (both days inclusive) during oil companies, who will not send which period no transfer of standard-grade Diel to queens
land until they, obtates a half- shares can be registered.
penny per gallon price increnee. De Mr Raymond* Gaylor, By Order of the Board,
Ambrioda, ou Broker who has.. ***KAN TONG PO,
assisted in the negotiations here, kom: Chief Manager, aki the first shipment of petro
from Furmow0,500,000 gallons Hong Kong 11th Feb., 1957, would arrive in Queensland
дл
Potentialities
Presse.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
IT'S ONLY
--MIST! NOTHING INSIDE!
FERDINAND
NANCY
NOTHING AT ALL!
JUST WHAT I THOUGHT!
FOR THIS, I WAS AWAKENED BEFORE DAWN!
NANCY--- IT'S NOT NICE. TO SHAKE
A MOP OUT THE WINDOW--
JOHNNY HAZARD
ELEKTER IN THE LIN, SECURITY GUARD'S ŐE
BUT CERTAINLY, CAPTAIN,
Z PERSONALLY VRUGTE FOR THE INNOCENCE OF MEGARE HAZARD AND HUNTERİ THER ACTIONS FRUSTRATED A FIABOLICAL
PLOT
THE DUST MAY LAND
ON SOMEONE
QBY THE OHOLY TRIŐ ITO ASSASSINATE ME AND
VENT ANE
THER
OM PRESENTING MY PUNTRAE CASE BEFORE [THE SECURITY COUNCILË
ons
European
WTS
Paris, Feb, 28.
Australian External Affairs Negotiations for extending the European Payment Union, clear- Minister, Richard Casey, said ing-house for
trade, Australian objection to fixing will start in Paris in the first dates had "Tothing to do with of March, It was the principle of self-government earned here today,China Mall for the trust people."-France-
Presse. Special.
MEANING OF THIS HOAX?/
NOW WHAT'S THE
COW.GIRL, CAR
DISAPPEARING INTO
A FOG! YOU'RE
FIRED YOU
BLITHERIN
KN Wine A LITTLE DUST WON'T HURT
ANYONE
WE DON'T USUALS! GIVE MESALS TO PEOPLE BROOTING 119 ĐÙIL COUNCIL.
CHARTERS, BIT
IN YOUR
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
BUT WE DID SEE IT--ALL OF IT--
WE DID-- BOTH OF US-
CONTINUED-
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
BAWW
MY SNOW- MAN GOT
DIRTY
"WHEN I RETURN [TO MY COUNTRY E
WILL RECOMMEND
By Frank Robbins
OUR HIMPRÉST CITATION (AWARDED TO YOU?
• WHATIFYOU HAVE * DONE TOGAY win
YOU CAN REPAY US BEST,SIA, BY FINISHING WHAT YOU BEGAN IN ' THE SECURITY COUNCILİ:
BESIDES, I'VE BEEN AWARDED ENOUGH | DECORATIONS FOR
STODAY L
'Nightcap"
in some families, a further
of
the
organisers say that response to dato It has been
as a "nightcap."
been "very
encouraging" round of smotrebroed is served running for a year now-
it Hundreds Danish businessmen find.
Danes have MOTO almcult than their followed it and queries have in most other come in from as far afield as colleagues
to keep B
trim Iceland and the Faroe Islands, countries waistline. Omcint lunches While the majority of the
would-b
"ailmmers"
are also women, there
fote***!
(There's More than Magic in
CADBURY'S
It is Perfection
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CUTEX
THE WORLD'S MOST
POPULAR
NAIL POLISH
ROWNTREES
A TEA TIME TREAT
this ilfuktion
calls for a
San Miguel
Food experts here da not
bellen reformation
however, that any can be achieved in the eating habits of adult Danes. Instead, they pin their hopes on the children, who
Bro lectures on food at school. These are organised by the State Household Council and based on a pamphlet outlining "The Six Pillars of Eating."
now receiving speciat
Illustrated
These pillars ofé: fruit, gree vegetables
and salads, milk,
bread, butter ̈mid meat or fish, School children are told that
their daily diet should include something from each of thead
The groups.
lectures Mustrated by charts showing the daily calory in-take of two small boys-Per, who, with "norman" Danish diet, manages to include three or four of the basic pillars of eating, and Poul, who by care fully planning his diet is able to include all al
The children are reported to.
"serious, take
ever sichtlic, interest in their food"! But following these lectures,
their teachers admit that tơ get them to eat fewer sweets and buns remains difficult, China Mati Special.
Manual Workers Wages Reach New Peak
London, Feb. 28.
The average weekly earn- Finge of British mamini workers of all ages and both sexes has reached the peak figure of 200 shillings and ninepende, according to Ministry of Labour, surley, published today, s
The survey dovers the Vinst pay weak to weldse, the in- "cluded the wagás bá. Bévén thit-: Ben manual workers to 13 Eri« fain's manufáeindas, Indus les and sonis. non-manufacturing
enterprisespe
The average weekly wage of oll the workers covered, in- eluded......... bonuses dild), overtime : and was three shillings, on [one-and-half? per cont Than the
verage the April.
The average wages shown by
the Blurvey for the Varlour -claseca of workers werds) (Men) (21 and over), 236, shillings w week; women (18 and over) -128 - shillings aid two pence: youths boys
and
102
81 hilings
and four, price; girls 81
ond four pencernaan lan
Men worked, an avio
A5: 40.5 hour"α! WORK; Women 41.8;)
youtha (and; boys 44.9, anzi girl