What price
a
Briton
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.
Sydney.
THE Australian Govern-
ment has booked every available berth for emig- runts on the next fourteen liners to leave Britain for this country.
Do you know why" ' tell yuu: Meka athlist here have estimated that eve.y. Brin worker zeltling to this country Is worth to Aus... 20 201 average £11,000.
That is his lifetime value as a buruan production machine wikia. necen to Aurtesha's wealth Fuw m. te: fal
This gute wati recently conticulat-explains why Aus tralia, New Zealand, Canuda and the other young countries have been red will ecotinue to wel- come emigrants with open arms.
Australia
It isn't Just love of the
blue eyes,
accepted
The Bane My In Choukera 15 191
Is the son of hurmat productive malinen to the value
Aunchalin'e podeaur tumigrat PROREN so far
Lot..
44,000 m.in.
Rr. sing
thus, you
your lap shiting on one thing.
DOC'S LIFE
NATIONAL
SELPANTER
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
News From Britain WOMEN COMPETE
by LES ARMOUR
THE up and downs of newspapers anybody who sprend
British politics used to 2 terits
be
reliable ground sre-saw,
Torde
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white
Govern-
rhyth
17
bad it
The Audi Slate ments who make sure there wil be Jobs for the 14 slupkatls od magomis
How.
due to
leave Briti
I they don't work, they
Habilite.
not worth £11,600 var b
not worth twopence
nd in the nadle
period of sidustrial
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Bueyhe They'r
B.steis coming out now will
ori A
exp. 12 luni
With jus in almost every trude
except coal-mn.nang and building.
Other muning
KEWOR
URC
Industries
mushrooms.
N So
are sice industries and manu-
And facturbig generally. Comforting thing is that incdy of the industries making the biggest Aputis are Australuo
of English and Scottish panies.
bids
branches
COT
English Elect te Company. 199 example, announced this week in Quensland that they wer expanding by 700 percent,
big Blush tholor car compaînes are growing.
Are the British
emigrants really welcome mong Aus- tralians? There's certainly
11
prejudice against British people. You can forget the old stories Australiana drliking wind out of
About "Pommies." That date a generation rge. The only dislike ve encountered Is due to the conduct of perhaps five per- cent of migrants who critici... everything they and.
They probably dk the same at home.
The trade unton movement here long ago cented to oppose immigration. The Australi Cenuell of Trades Unlons at ib. *ast meeting refused to accept a resolution asking for some reilue- tion in assisted migration. The Unica leaders know now
that emigrants are consumers as well as producers and therefore they create jobs for Australians.
£11,000
It's no Eldorado here.
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ANIMALS
IN COURT
Sentence Passed On Cows, Pigs, Rats and Insects
A
FIRE which destroyed a farmhouse recently was sentenced and pubilely burnt at believed to have been caused by a sparrow, without the stake-together with tho
malice aforethought, taking a cigarette-eno under ezgi the tiles as nest-building material.
A zow and har six piglets
10 appear Lavegny in
five-
The bird cannot be blamed for failing to appreciate bofore a court at
wero summone that the cigarette was still alight. If, however, the same 1457 on a charge of having thing had happened in certain parts of Europe in killed and en.on — a mcdineval times, it would have been the solemn duty of year-old child, The tow was the ccclesiastical courts publicly to declare the bird contemned to death by hang- ex-communicated and under notice to quit the district managed to ge, the pigless oft
ing, but
the defending lawyer forthwith,
with a caution, stressing their
Fantastic, admittedly-bul none the less true.
by.
Trevor Wiltshire
extrems youth End the fact that they
had па
undou bustly UMT influcneed by
Je bac CaaS-
IL Was the accepted order that the civil courts had jurisdiction over all domestic creatures, including farm animais, whlist the Church could call to trial, and procicC zentence on, all forms of
wild life from wolves and rats right end were therefore summened
and annoying
Researches by French anti- down the scale to insect pests in all seriousness to appear be- the records of ninety-two catea such as caterpillars, ants and fore the Ecclesiastical Court. houseflies.
the townspeople
when
quarles have
ph: of their mother.
brought to light
of animals being triol in tacir The defendants, described as courts between the years 1120 Rats Won Fame For Lawyer "dirty unimals
the last case being One of France's most eminet Hving in holes talled to ap to court on a charge of murderi
of grey colour and 1740,
that of a cow which we brought Jurists, M. Charsensee, won his pear, of course, laurels for his masterly defence moned. The prosecution de It was allege that the cow of the rats which plagued the manded sentence right away, had trampled on a boy asleep Diocese of Autun In the 16th but Chassenseo argued that all under an apple reo, A court century. The rats were accused the rats in the Dlocete were official duly went to the held, of appearing in great numbers Interested parties and they, too, read out the summons to the should be called Lo give row or the spot, and then evidence.
avrested the animal, It was led Bo the courtroom, tried, then The curate of every parth led out to be hanged publicly. was therefore commanded to issue a general sumino... 8. no rata u in an appearance.
WITH MEN
IN THE RUSSIAN PRODUCTION
TEAM of British pro-
A TEAM of gineers.
to
CHALLENGE
would get hooted, who visited Russia to study engineering education there. Who would believe the one have returned highly in.. W on the
Against Russla's annual out- all the miners who went on pressed with what they saw.
Only the very best are allow woni tu',
pu: of 65,000 skilled engineers rd to take up teaching and they So thats me LOWA ant ale terause they didn't ke
Britalo is producing only 5,000, are pal higher Szera 1 went
Lainties than rantees tea way th
Sixty-five thousand SON
en On a population radio, Russia's could be carne) in industry. The come down.
The rue In that .gineering diplomas certain comfort edin!tedly, was complented by awarded in Russia last year:
wer is three times the British rate. Director of
technical IL The
utterly
he fact that the woman
The British team found that insitute gets
£3,500 a up to prishetable ever happened.
tradit the ten gut sacked for and the British team of pro- course, of which two years is huge cocrprise, even with the the Russians give a five-year year, while the director of a Now
it Seriza of naughty incisting on making the fessors and engineers say devoted by seem to havy laken it
speciniired $1 got in a report presented in Lon- British
work, bonus for geting his produc apo themwelve, to cash about
engineering promp ly decomplicated because don that the quality of the have two years practical ex-
students tion target, is pali on'y £3,000," erd to end and upart the
The report says that in Russia badence
graduates is very good. perience in Industry at the end girls are na keen to become ea- They were hard at work a
of their degree courtes.
gineers ns boys, with whom pon, le of weeks ago in North
they compete on level terms. Low 091
Tori
The outstanding impact mado "We believe that many of our L'own with a buy but The
on the Brill:h tein was the girls Newmaris orly went up a little
are polotfally just stature of the teaching staffs, capable in engin.ering as boys, The Scat Tek
"The students regard him al- bul are not attracted to i. to thei dismay that a Miss
most as national heroes," sald Partly by custom and a feeling Lastle Greene was going up with
Mr Brasher, "and from what we
Inherited from the past, and them, 100.
respect." raw they were deserving of that partly through ignorance of the
opportunties,
Ten 1315
wrek nt Lury, the To-v Vele
Wedin 's- the 12,8 percent. But the Socialist
vnte rure by less than two per- rent. The other 10 percent of the voles went to a Mr Michael Wadrs.
A few hour later, newdly the same thing happened in Wales al Carmarthen. There Liberia but Tory-hacke 1 Candi Cote www.l Th Socialist cnikfate were slugging it out But it was the Toot and nail.
Nationalist Unged the balance.
the aged them to come back to werk #nd the herself Leinated.)
A
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was
"We cannot be ecmplacent about the The in- about the Caves
numbers of cur Garden
truck divers and young engineers," Lays Pro- porters who Bre on
leader of the strikesor E. Giften won't lesan, in his official report. DUN Rem
the truck
Ant
Kenneth Brasher, Mr drivers don't like? Odd, but secretary of the Institution of true, that one; and it looks, as Eles lent Engines in Britain
written, Is
though
a member of the leam, told me London and much of Southern that once the Russians have England is going to be without caught up the leeway in their standards of Ilving, great
of celebrated numbers highly skilled affair of the man who rang the technologists will be freed to
the
fruit and vegetables.
Then there is the
05
bell which called the workers to compete in the world's markets.
15 01 meeting in
company time ni Briggs and go; sacked. A cour!
looking of inquiry is in' that one end a strike was averted at the last moment by
state's throwing all the
Co-
"They will be really worth- while adversaries and, if we co not do butter, will see us out," be warned,
candidate clliation machinery into high country gold
ger
If all the three upsetters had
Each of these odd sirikes hus belonged to
party, the been
characterised polite at analysts would know attempt to take
by an over some But all three the
of just what to do
functions of management, hot by long to ona party.
Empire Loyalls Briggs shop stewards, apparent. wanted 10 decide when and
On wa Che le independent and unea "Welsh Nationalist,"
The implication is that a very large number of people are just fed up with both the Tories and The Sovintists, The Libert is who su! m
Lo formal existence
as a party, do 1101 Kem lo be very much more loved,
The dissatised
for
The miners wanted to
10
run
the
Mr Brasher (who, incidentally, is father of Britain's
medallist at the Olympics) thinks
thai, with Russian produciton for the home market at the prezent rate, the neway will have been cleared off in five to ten years.
what purposes the pro-
Indeed, P.G. Shute, perhaps Cuction line should be stopped. the country's greatest mosquito deride expert, reported this week that how the canteen tea was to be the species Culex pipiens has made. The truck drivers wanted already come out of hibernation to
¿velde who should be
and is feasting happily on good foreman.
English nesh.
Their dusire
Usually,
Culex hibernates business has not been made until the end of April but this voters have articulate and it is no part of year
life in England was so found no formal champion. Bu any official programme. Indeed, good that he just they r angry enough to adopt the trade unions are afraid of restrain himself. whatever el:mpion presents
If it ever became a sensible hima: If, Anything th will programme I would radically NATIONAL SAVINGS shake the established machines alter-Indeed abolish -union- will do.
management relations as they Another hopeful sign It way,
are known now. And the trade from Wakefield where officials development.
union lenders and things com- in the County Hall are ant ver- fortable as they are.
ing, like true Englishmen of old, the call of their government to come to the nation's rescue.
In 18 that people
this is an ugly For it idlenes quite a lot of the democratic apparatus as it is now operated The open question is just: unsathfactory. They are fired How far can they be pushed?
cf being presented with two alternatives
they like.
Rents
neither of which HAPPY? Meanwhile the outlook is tar more fun all round
STRANGER THAN
are high, It's hard to get credi!
to buy a home. And the big draw- back is that it's a long way from Bellam and homesickness is troublesome thing. But the weather is glorious, wages high, education is free and as in all young countries the
Rre
mental climate is optimistic. Faith in the future is unbound-
ed
One person in every six in
Canberra today is a post-war
migrant. And only
cent
four
per-
of migrants who reach
couldn't
comes
The call. just now, is for economy In all walks of our life.
So in Wakefield, they're Well, something likes it hero cutting all their pencils in half. anyhow.
More pencils, I scems, pre People
quitting lost in the County Hall than mosquitoes are
dramatic out and savings are expected to ensue.
If It didn't appear in bold, England---but black type in sober, responsible are staying.
may
be
the
wern
"A" Reactor-a year ahead
here ever go home to live ngeln. T British power stations will be in operation one year damage by lea.
THE most powerful atomic reactor built for use in the complete structure
The value of £11,000 per head
from
on each migraat is calculated| ahend of schedule. The reactor-a fast "breeder" design- Tho reactor, which will ed to generate 60 million watts in a uranium core the size "breed" more fuel for future of a dustbin-is being built at Dounreay, Scotland. It, reactors than it consumes, will was expected to operate in 1950. Now scientists estimate teod 16 million walls direct into
thus-
The averrge Worker in Aus- traila produces goods and services valued at £5,000 more than he consumes in a lifetime. The average ative-born worker costs the community £0,000 to maintain and educate up to working age, but in the case of a Britich migrant this cost is borne by Britain,
carcer.
it can work by the spring of 1958,
Much of the credit for thus threatened to freeze the con- achievement will go to engineers crele pressure sholl of the, now and construction exports con- roactor-shaped like cricket ball trolling a labour force of 2,000 with a diameter of 150 feet- Hit Dounrony.
they heated the cement as it mixed with... - special
tho national grid, Heat is extracted by liquid sodium in- Blend of gas.
Real purpose But its real purpose is to give scientista experience of using a "steam reactor
which- has highly economic properties.
So the Australian Government accepts the £11,000 as his total When Muiden high winds pokery.” worth if he arrives here reason-threatened lifts by two 200ft. ably young in his working cranes, they revised the build Dissoc. naval 'hangars, Word Aecond experimental reactor Ing programmo so that all used to assemble paris... of the at ·Dounrezynowe named major afting: operationg had reactor normally undertaken: Demeter=whielt. Nu will "test been completed before winter "in the open.
materials • to be „kaed 'in',: con- "ARTHUR MORLEY | Det In
sbructing and fuelling future And ^acroesia, of wire and commercial power ... sigfločia“, is This month 'when ́ ́frost' kemian were erected protect, already, well, advanced.
HIGH PAY
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At Oviedo, Spain, in the your 1540.
clothes moth was brought before 4 full court Contempt of court? Certainly muly and golem..ly charged nol, arguol the young lawyer with destroying Π valuable Some were ice old and viners
tapestry. The moth too young to make the journey. pronounced guilty ami ordered The "real" of his clients, he ex-
to be decapiated, and the whole plained, were willing to attend, moth tribe oicneed to banish- but were afraid to come out of ment from the kingdom.
because of "evlily dispose cats belonging to und plaintiffs." The case was there- upon adjourned, sine dict
their holes
Cock That Laid An Egg
miscarriage of justice, for it ja It was, of course, a grave
the larvae, not the moth, which does the mischier.
Fleas, beetles, cats, dogs and even chickens have been brought One of the strangest of all to court in days gone by. In mediaeval trials took place at Britain, taimal triata have Basle,
Switzerland, in 1474, seldom, ft ever been held, when a cockerel was accused of Ins,ead, the law of Deodand the diabolical crime of laying operated down to Victorian
Now a cock's ezt in times. on eggl the hands of wizards and witches, it seems, is a thousand times more evilly potent than
an atom bomb.
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This law directed that if by inarima.e animal, or even on chattel such
a farin cart, for example-caused the For the "crime" of delivering, death of a human being, such or making available, such animal or cha.tel was forfeit to
object Satanle
the luclears the Lord of The Manor, or to Was hastily tried, the Crown, fer plous ures.
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