May
come round Onco
Moy haa
again. The mint shines with might
and main,
The bubbly brook runs swiftly
by.
Redocting pink clouds in the
Flowers spring forth in their
best,
For this we've the Good Lard
to bless.
Merry music fila the air, Posies spring up everywhere, Florey lambi ยก telu
prancing,
are
Little boya and girta
are
dancing.
Sing your "good-byer"
to
April rain,
For May has come again,
•
Honour certificate to Nenette Rocaria of 10 Cameron Road, top floor.
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SOUTH CHINA SUNDAY POST-HERÁLD, MAY 19, 1987.
* LISTENING IN ⋆
*
Radio HK's children's programmes
Today at 3.30 p.m., you can
Tuesday's programnic for the hear the first of two pro- younger children includes u grammes of music recorded re- new fenturo called Tuneful cently at the Hongkong Schools Trips". Each week you will be Musion Festival Prinowinners' taken on a different trip with Concerts Among the eins the help of noises and musle. you will hear in today's pro- The first trip Lakes you to the gramme are tho School band of 200, Anna will be with you Tal Tung Middle School, the again dipping into hos "Tres- Senlor Girls' Choir of St. sure Trove" and there will be a Stephen's College, the baritone story for you to listen to. Yuch Yan Kwong, violinist The highlight of Thursday's Daniel Wong and soprano prostranimo for the older chil- Dorothy Knowles.
dren will be the_flest round of Alleen Dekker's programme
the inter-schools'
knock-out of short cintsicai requenta on General Knowledge Quiz com- Monday
at 0.30 pm, includes petition, which you probably "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by read about n few weeks ago, Mozart, "Toreador et Andalouse" Listen at 9.30 p.m. to the first by Rubenstein and the Scherzo round. We continue also with from Concerlo Symphonique "Treasure Island" and Chinese by Litolff.
Corner presented by Anna,
MOOMIN'S WINTER FOLLIES
GOOD MORNING.
HR BRISK! HAVE YOU
SEEN MY NEW DRESS?
I PUT IT ON TO PLEASE YOU,
BECAUSE.... f. MY FEELINGS..YOU SEE.
LET'S GET ORGANISED.
PENGUALS POLA THERE CERTAINLY ARE
INO PENGUINS AND POLAR,
BEARS IN MY VALLEY, SIRIJ
HOW BIG THE FLAKES ARE TODAY.
Artist at work
My uncle broke his leg list week.
How did it happen?
He is a window pleaner and ho was working on the Neth floor when he stepped back to admire als work.
Keeping up witla
ap
matt
by James Woodward
ATTRANS
tainment purposes. Until very recently the development of true 3-D cine Alms has been hindered by the abwense of a precision 3-D camera.
British davni scientists have
Time for Ten-agers on Fri day at 5.30 pan, is presented by
One of the few international tion papers. Products from obvious usos for these revolu- Deborah Hurlbait. The pro-
now ргоссан will be tionary lamps will be on the A new device cammo includes "Career Spot" industries to remain virtually this and more interesting recordings
unchanged-in ita essential resistant to moisture, bacteria, world's railway tracks, it lo of events taking place in Hong-charactorlatica-by the march heat and climatic conditions.
expected that they will have developed a now device for kong at the moment.
of science, is at last listening Missiles at sea
various industrial uses. They to the aclcntiata. It has been
could be particularly useful measuring tidal currents at proved recently
The U.S. Navy is at present where relatively low intensity various depths in oceans, or in Great
attempting to aolya the many
river cstuaries. Tho in- Monday, Shart Classical Requests Britain that it is possible to problems involved in launching lights are needed in situations
track down fah shoals by guided missiles at sen.
strument ena where electric power is not For of tirborne echo
The week'■ programme:- Sunday, Children's Concert, presented by Alleen Dekker.
Tuesday, Time for the Younger Children." "Tuneful Trips', "Trea- nie Trove", and stories and gatres. children. General Knowledge Quiz, Thursday, Thno for the oldge Treasure Island", Chinem: Corner.
Friday, Time for Teenagers, Career Spot, and a feature.
By TOVE JANSSON
SORRY, MISS, BUT (YOUR DRESS IS NO GOOD FOR SKIING,
DISTRIBUTE THESE
Tove Jansson.
Į PAMPHLETS BY AIR!'
IMMEDIATELY?
(BOSS
Tove Jansd
PERHAPS IF YOUX 790 | MUST)
THAT'S HIS
GAY - WHY DO PUBLICITY FOR YOU LOVE MP,
THE WINTER
GAMES...
BUT HE DOESN'T
BRISK?
SEEM TO THINK ME
DO YOUR HAIR,
A SHE HISS.
DIFFERENTLY?
PERHAPS IF SUDDENLY I WAS
LOF SOMETHING,
ELSE
SCARED.
T WOULD
LEARN TO SKI
IF I WERE NOT SO TERRIBLY SCARED
STILL MORE
LEARN TO Ski!!
Võbe Fanádon!
13 THIS THE WAY TO THE WINTER GAMES?
incans
mensuro con-
this purpose an experimental available. They would also be tinuously the speed and flow vessel has been command useful where frequent ser- of tides with an accuracy of The ship is almost completely vicing and battery replace depths at which such devices knot. Previously the inconvenient. The
loaded with
of new kinda
own Fleet Ballistic
ment is
Founders. This could easily revolutioning the fishing in- dustry, quite apart from helping to find mines and wrecks. For many years the more progressive fishing it dustries in various countries have used ceho-sounding gear on their ships, but each vessel has had to be independently equipped. One airborne "sh finder could lead a whole exactly where a ship is located fashion news these days. A strument uBCH
of group shoals,
Fish-spotting from the air
trawlera to the
in
super-sensitive navigational only servicing these wonder could operate were rafted by equipment. The U.S. Naval lamps are likely to need is the fact that the mechanical authority expects to have its routine cleaning of the outer couplings used in the carilor Milastic surfaces of their lenses during devicca could not eaally be
their
mado sufficiently water-tight 12-year period of
to withstand the bigh oporation.
preasures oncountered at great depths. Suede 18 very much in the Since this new British In-
1 magnetic company has made a swltching system to transmit
with a 1,500-mile rango in the near futuro.
The biggest headacho for Unique suede Navy scientists is to determine
on the earth's surface. This U.S.
and
Positioning is very important timely announcement of its the record of the movement will not, of course, remove the range of 1,500 miles. new auedo which is both of the flow-measuring pro-
Even under ident launching water need for echo-sounders
repellent
oil peller to the meter unit-and conditions, it is known that resistant, Thest shilpa, but it would
properties ns no mechanical couplinge- con- un intermediate missilo is un- siderably reduce the wastage likely to hit closer than a dry-cleaning
are retained oven after normal it can be used efficiently at in trawlers steaming time. quarter of a mile from the been applied. The new suede though the device has been processes have practically any depth. Al- This is how the new system ball's eye. If determination can also "breathe"-this helps developed works: Flying 20 feet
principally for above the aen the helicopter of the target's direction and to keep it soft and make it under-water warfare, it may the ship's position are alightly more suitable for dry-clenging, eventually be available for lets down a bomb-shaped con- off, the error can be disastrous. The treatment which is the civilian industrial use. tainer which is towed belowy larger. What makes the secret behind this new suede
the surface at the end of a
through a transducer in the
"bomb" echoes are received
Д
acreen
con-
cable. From signals emitted problem particularly difficult takes place during the wet Finding the sweetness
of the skins, board ship is that the processing
A new aystem for auto- following their tanning, and matically measuring the sugar unching platform is tinually moving.
substitutes for the usual content of industrial materials Atomic lamps
processes followed. Men's and is likely to be in operation in women's garments will Roo Great Britain shortly. It is Lights that burn for 12 be on salo made from sueda intended for use in controlling years may suon he in use which is more in keeping with the manufacture of foods of railways systems in Europe modern needs and present-
back on
in the hellcopter's cabin. From these it da possible to read off the level of the ocean bed and the presence of any intervening objecta, including the shoals. and the United States. Early any conditions of every-day various kinds and of phar-
From a number of readings the size of the shoal and the direction in which it is moving could be determined.
models of these lamps, claim life. the scientists, can burn for more than 600 weeks without
maceutical productions. The operation of this system New 3-D camera depends on the control by refuelling. The lamps' opera- Britain is now producing a photo-electric sensing devico In the future it may be tion depends on the use of A novel cine-camera which which automatically records possible for fishing fleets radioactive gas which is en- takes operating from Britain to be closed in a special chamber. films. The
to the resource scientists.
true three-dimensional the effect of the liquid boing camera tages n examined on the polarisation
told just where the best The radioncivity which the single strip of a new type of of the light passed through It. catches are to be had, thanka gas emita is converted into self-polarising film which to The system hзa no moving of British Visible light of the desired likely to be the sensation of parts and has been designed
witheland
and shocks colour by means of a specially the camera world. Develop to coated lense, the coatings of ment of this camera wilt make vibrations without its effl- which light up when they are possible the widespread cheap cloney being affected in any by the radioactive and simple use of three way. At the same time tho struck particles given off by the gas. dimensional Alms for both mensuring unit is very sensi-
Although one of the most industrial, scientific and enter- tive.
Newest 'paper"
18
An American company expected to start commercial production, within the next 12 months, of & new kind of paper made from synthetic libres. The product is likely
to vary from standard paper Portrait of Dickens
and will not be intended to compete with this in the ordinary market. Tho "paper" is so called because it will be produced 011 paper-making machinery, but is in fact at non-woven bonded paper-like material.
The "paper" will be designed to be competitive with speciality pajers and with woven textile fabrics in certain fielda where paper has come into competition with them. Some of the applica.... tions in the future ure likely to be in the fields of map and chart paper,
backing for coated fabrica and in filtra-}
DONALD DUCK
Honour certificate to Eliza- beth Leung of 92 Kennedy Road, 1st floor,
QUIZ-TIME-
1. What la o condor and where does it come from?
2. Do you know the difference between a barnstormer and a barnevolder?
3. How fast does a racehorse run?
4. Where would
St Elmo's fire?
you light a
5. When a cow gets up, which
legs does she uso frat?
. What do the inals P. S. mean?
7. What bad-mannered mammal swallows all Its food whole?
8. What sort of person used to be called a 'tar1?
Answers on pare 16,
Co-operation!
Honour certificate to Evelyn Chan of Bonham Road, ground floor.
By WALT DISNEY
HELP!
*MR BRISK! {LOOK AT ME!
“I CAN DO (ANYTHING
ON SKIS!
GAINING
ON HIM.
Tove Jansson.
NOW, A SHARP ITURN TO SHAKE/
HIM OFF
(WHY I'VE LEARNT
TO SKE!
ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,
MISS, BUT WHAT INTEREST
ME ARE COMPETITION RESULTS-
-FRACTIONS OF SECONDS!!
Tove Jansson!
133
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