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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1957.
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
Government Thinking
Of Giving Post Office
To Businessmen To Run
By H. KING WOOD
Sydney. (By Airmail).
The latest Government big-business that may pass to the administrative control of businessmen is the biggest of its kind in the Commonwealth-the Post Office.
The Postmaster-General, Mr Davidson, is said to be seriously considering letting the Post Office be run by a Commission and removing it completely from political control.
Normally this would be con-] the bush by lack of food and sidered to be just a passing water, whim of a very bright politieke but what seems to give it some chance of coming to reality is that the Treasurer, Mr Arthur Fadden, is sald to be whole- heartedly behind the idea.
The Secretary of the Maitland Pastures Protection Board, Mr G. Goxief, said that with dry condities and lack of rabbits, dingoes were becoming fierce and during and moving into settled arcos ---- something they The Liberal Government, over had not done for many years, the lust 12 yours, has shown a
Ho sald the Board had dis- Lendency to passtributed 1,000 dingo baily since Government undertakings over Christmas and 1,000 were on to businesMEN.
order. Tho
If not prepaid a booking fee decided of 60 conte is charged.
WANTED KNOWN
BPOTEY PIMPLES?
contenta ax i nesu
'EBKAMPIS
Commissions
the British Commonwealth. For Instance, the airport at Seattle has overy facility of a high-class hotel and a building that is more beautiful than one would expect an airport building to be. After leaving the cosiness of this and travelling for a short 35 minutes across the border and landing at Vancouver спе touches down again to an untidy, collection of not усту szruch amsoge thon
weatherboard shacks,
Overseas businessmen stare drought conditions rather unbelievingly whom told throughout the State are bring that Australian airports havo
settled areas in ing animals
no liquor facilities; that the best numbers which have not been you can do in the way of food ka sandwich and a cup of parts are coffee and that getting a taxi is
We Get a handy
have the Australien tube today! Two aires available Broadcasting Commission, the trean leading Dispensaries and Stores Airlines Commission, the Whal-seen for year.
MUSICAL
THERE IS NO BUSINESS ke Bbow Ein Wo have all the "iny of Broadway" auch an Show Boot, Street Scene, Kiss Me Kate, Souti Pactie, Peter Pan, Kismet, L'li Ab- | her, Dells are Hinging. Árchy and Melitabel, Fai Joey, Moet Happy Faller (complete with dialogue) and a beat of viner dikea, We are going all out in providing the latest popular and novely manbers for all to joy. Call at Dues & Co., 700 Alexandra House, Telephones "30100, 36051.
TUITION GIVEN
DRESSMAKING LESSONST cutting skratitud. wx. tailoring. · Completo training. Experienced, qualified Jady teacher. Interesting -- eny:-"Jens" 00, Wongnelling Fload, Happy Valley.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Sixty-Eighth Ordin-
Grozicas in many
Flocks of wild birds from the far west have travelled as far as Sydney's kes and lagoons now
Bad Habit
ing Commission and the Snowghting opinat hordes of kang-something of an achievement. Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (which has the same as which are devouring crops. powers 34 3 commission) all headed by buginasemen who, generally apalding, have no
Australian barmaids and prominent political affiliations.
should get out of the Jubit of calling their customers ago the Cover) –
shoot mate"
and "sport", sald a a Telecommunica-kangaroo has been declared in former Canberra Licensee, Mr tions Commission. to handle the Warialda, Tumworth and Alan Brack, this week.
Some years dont formed
on most
that their normal watering barmen
places have dried up.
An open
10 90X300X
of
improved. abuuld be hotel e-
Overseas Communications and this Armidale districts. has been
He had just returned from an conducted
Tho Secretary.
another businesslike lines.
Pastures Protection Board, Mr 16 months' study at hotel organdı. A. D. O'Donnell, said his Board Switzerland, Germany and Italy. sations to England, France, Tho present Postmaster-estimated that kangaroos num- General, Mr Davidson, who ber thousands along the Mac- He said services in Australian came into the portfolio after the Intyre River and graziers had hotels should be last election, wants the
schools Pusi asked for permalis to shoot up to Training Office run 19
establishod so that business which, 200. ho thiols,
For cannot be achieved
ployees could be trained us in while it is "just another Govern-
Europe. ment department",
agree with Mr Brack more, but if barmen get out of the habit in Australia of calling us "port" it is no longer going to be like home,
Both he and Sir Arthur Fedden pre said to be most im pressed by the comhiet of other commLusions which the Goven- mool has constituted from time to time.
Any businessenen taking over the Post Ofice would ind some ready-made headaches.
the first Ume in more than 50 years graziers are now buying fodder and paying up to £28 a ton for hay that normally sel at £5 a ton,
Megulong
Quiet, peaceful
Megalong Vailey up hi the Blue Mountains, 81 miles from Sydney, cane to. life one night last week when the first electric light that the
Valley was settled than 50
In 1955-50 the Department lost Valley had ever known wOS £425,000 as against a loss the turned on. ary Yearly Meeting of Share-previous year of £149,100 and Since the holders will be held at the the prospects of being three more
years ago the office of Wheelock Marden &quarters of a million in the red people living there have used Co., Ltd., 701 Edinburgh for this year aro considerable.
kertaine pressure lamps and House, Hongkong, on Friday, gures me not particularly fair
candles. 7th June, 1957, at 11.30 am. to the Department. for the purpose of receiving of Accounts
the Statement
It must be stated that these
Backlog
The wiring of the Valley began some 12 months ago when the Katoomba City Council fines- men started on the difficult job of taking the wirca 2,000 ft to the Valley.
and the Report of the Direc- For 10 years of the war and tors for the year ended 31st the immediate post-war period December, 1960,
They had to scale inauntala- and to nothing could be done by the transact the ordinary busi Post Office to keep abreast with sides and cliffs and more than buildings or scionilde advance-four miles of cable was used to neв of the Company.
merits in communications and bring progress to Megalong,
Tho when it was ready for business
Department of Civil again it found a huge backlog of Aviation has begun on on-the- work.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Friday, 24th May, 1957 until Friday, 7th June, 1957 both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors SHEWAN TOMES &
CO., LTD.
E. G. SMITH-WRIGHT Director
General Managers
Hongkong, 21st May, 1967.
SAILS:
spot survey to firid out what sort
Australian need at
Since 1960, particularly in of facilities some of the provincial cities of travellers the Commonwealth where popu- terminals. lation bod doubled, the PMG Department has been called upon
to Install costly equipment ` in new bulldings that have become
Air Facilities
Women employees
が
nir-
airport
We wouldn't
Chaplin Sees New Daughter
Charlie Chaplin introduces kis new daughter Jan-born at a obilo in Lauzmane-to Als daughters Eugene and Victoria. Jan is the sixth child of the 08-year-oki comedian's prenent marriago,
Express Photo,
London, Jure 3. Moscow Radio 'said today that the United States decision to join the Military Committee of the Bagdad Pact shows that from now on the boss of the pact is the US which has now Jained its committees."-❘
911 Reuter
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE
TO PRESENT
MAGIC SHOW FOR CHARITY
WORLD-FAMOUS MAGICIAN TO EXHIBIT UNIQUE POWERS AT PROCEEDS TO BE DONATED"
FERDINAND
SHIFF
the
dearer with each passing month, Department are baking travellers
due to the rises in cost of living und airport visitors to answer a Generally speaking, the service long list of questions which
given by the Post Office is good g and the proposed Commission is
from the
Deccosity for valot services to nower shops.
Intended only Lo str(amline The survey at Kingsford-Smith
administrations,
and have been
P&O
Aro
Airport, onc
of the busiest in
Fierce dingoes on the the world, is nearing completion. prowl within 05 miles of Sydney ready been completed at Mel- A preliminary survey has al- driven in from bourne which showed, strangely enough, that the majority of people travelling by air be- tween 8 am and 5 pum. were housewives, 50 per cent of the people travelling by air between These hours did so for pleasure, there was a big public drannad for dining and refreelanct fecilities at airport terminals and many people would also like to see cocktail lounges, chemists and hairdressers' shops of air- paris,
R.M.S. "CANTON"
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
The
facilities at present of Australian airports are practical- ly non-existent compared with those available to travellers in the United States.
In this regard, however, Aus-
Wednesday, 5th June, at 12.00 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM, via alia is perhaps no more back Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden; and Port Sofd.
Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown No. 2. GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Tuesday, 4th June.
ward than most other parts of
EXPLOSION RIPS UP TRACKS
Buenos Aires, June 3.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages
A powerful bomb belleved to carried by passengers themselves, AAL BAGGAGE must pass through terrorists ripped up 15 feet of bava boen planted by Perosis” the Wharf Co's Godown for loading railway trucks today Dear on board by ship's slings only. Chilavert Community exqua 25
miles north of hero.
EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.80 and 13.00 a.m. on 5th June, 1987.
Subject: to alteration with or without notice.
deep gosh in the railway box, The explosion, which left a caused considerable alarm among koeni inhabitania.
tho
Track
crew repaired damage swiatly and train so vice was Interrupted.
100
Franco-Presse
NANCY
TUB, AN UNDERWORLD BOGS---
'HAM--I'VE HEARD TONIGHT?
OF THIS MANDRAKE.
IVE LIKED MAGIC
· EVER SINCE I WAS,
A KIP. LET'S GO
WE OUGHT TO JOIN ---
IT'S PATRIOTIC
BE AN AIRPLANE SPOTTER
I'M TOO TIRED
JOHNNY HAZARD
CLOSE TRAT HATEN POOR, TREY, AND LET'S GETGOING BEFORE THAT RED COMMANDANT REALIZES HES
A VICTIM OF THE OLIZ ILS. ARMY.
GAMBL
COME ON---IT'S
YOUR DUTY
FRENCH CONVOYS
ATTACKED
Tunis, June 3. A French soldier was killed and Deveral oth cra were wounded, one of them seriously, in two separato attacks today on Frinch convoys at El Hamma Gabes Palm Grove between and Kebili in South Tunisia,
All the wounded were air lifted to Gabes, some 30 miles distant, official French sources paid-France-Presse,
THE BOYS ARE PO AS I GAY, COMING TONIGHT! | GET TICKETS. TO PLAN THE BANK JOB--
OKAY--- BUT
YOU HAVE TO DO IT
MY WAY
|
Notices
The InterS tion of DONLINE kdawn: bulow are those the kn registered correspondence posted G.F.0. Blongkong. The inters posting kimse simwhats which, In general, azo variier than the (3.2.0, the call be macetased by enquiry så the local sizes. INTRO – LAED poating Cimas for registered sciicies are generally 999 NUKY verlie tha the times shown below. Particulars regard- ing parçel malla can be sacen tained by enquiry at any post amce.
TUESDAY, JUNE 4
"Misjaya, Indiaahatan Czorlam. Middle EastAfrion, ares De
Choada, & p.m. HAWKA, UABLA, 8 D..
By Furtaon Malays Carl A
[ ini, di Kropa, Rap.
Crest Ziri:
Ford, & Packets, 9 am, 5/6/57.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE A By Alr Los B.[}}) . Xbaland, Malays, Indonesia, tra. N. Zealand. D ..
KNESSET APPROVES POLICY
Jerusalem, June 3. The Iaraoli Knesset (Parliament) by a' voto of 59 to 8 with 39 abstentiona today approved a foreign policy statement by Pre- micr
David Ben Gurion after a six-hour debate.
Earlier the Parliament, by a vote of 100 to 5, had rejected a Commist no cónfidenes motion based on Ben-Gurion's defense of fernell association with US President Elsenhower's "Middle East Doctrine.”
"Association
with
the
-OR
called Elsenhower Doctrine" the Premier declared, “serves to strengthen Immoel's security by defining the country's position in the world in relation to the Arab and Asian nations and Soviet Russia. It letsens our Alisolation,
Formbes, Okinawa, 10 m.in. Phikopters North Borneo, Noon. Hewall, USA, Canada, 6 p.m. Koren, P..
"By SITAS China People's nepublic, 7 s.12%, Mahora, Carla, Aden, Gesar Jule tača, a Duraze, 9 a.in.
bowo, 1 pri
Koren, 2 p.m.
North Borneo, ↑ P.13.
Mo, 0 p.m.
- THURSDAY, JUNE €
Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, Kun- king. Hôhow...
Japan, 9 a.m.
Thetand, Pakistan, Labanon, Ger-
Great Brism, 10 4.m. Philippines, 1 p.m.
Indo-China, Townov, a_p.m. Pakistan, Mindla Eat Africa, Great Britain & Europe, à pm,
USA, A p.m.
By BurfacH
China, People's Republic, 7 .m. Australia, New Zealand, 11 a.m. Philippines, Noon
ZENONO, 1 p.
Mileys, Burma, 1 p.m.
Macao, a p.m.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7
Bánky Burface
Chism People's Republic, 7 s.m Japan. 11.
Macao, 1 p.m.
MAMAJA, Burma, Iostia, 1 p.za. Paletan, Bamak. 3 p.m. Macao, p.m.
BATURDAY, JUNE 1
By Surfaco China, People's Republic, 7 .m Formos, i am. 2SBORO, 1 D.
Indonesia, 3 p.m. Thailand, 4 pm.
Malera, P. Eat Africa & 8, Adrion Brazil (Argentine, Porcela direct), 5 pan.
Japan, Caneda, .. China, People's Republie. ◊ plus, Macao, p.m.
SUNDAY, JUNE
By Surface Macso. 1 p.ro.
By Les Falk and Phil Dayla
WE'VE GOT A MILLION-DOLLAR JOB TO SET UP AND HE WASTES TIMEY
TUB NEVER WASTES TIME. PO
АЗ НЕ
SAYS.
He asserted Israel could not be noutral in its menial attitude toward the internal regimes of other countries bocause **in
| totalitarian states the Jews are
their
deprived of
rights as men novel AS Jown, United Progs
Resignation
Accepted By King
Tokyo, June 4. The King of Laos has necupt-
of ed the
the resignation
Prince Souvanna Cabinet of Phouma, Radio Peking reported today.
Prince Phouma tendered his resignation last Thursday after the National Assembly voted down his motion for continued negotiations for the integration of the Communist Pathet Lao fighting units.
The broadcast said the Crown Prince, neting for the King, who is indisposed, Was comTM- tacting the leaders of Parla- ment and various political Parties for the formation of a Daw Chhinet.-United Press,
There's More than Magic
about CADBURY'S
TOMORROWI MAGIOT
They're
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By Emuls Bushmiliar
STOP SQUAWKING
IM DOING
ALL THE WORK
DANIEL BUSHMILLER AKT
By Frank Hobbins
BUT HOW WOULD THE AMERIKANSKI, PESIEN AN ATONIG PLANE WHOSE ENGINE COULD BE CHANGED INTO A BOVARE
Wonderful
CUTEX
LIPSTICK
AND
NAIL POLISH They always harmonise
ROWNTREES
SEE THE FULL
GREAM MILK THAT
MAKES MOWIETRZEZ
CHOBLATE SO
MILK
...this situation calls for a
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