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Mixed Feelings Over Trade Pact With Japan
Sydney, (By Airmail).
AUSTRALIAN manufacturers are far from happy over the signing of the trade agree- ment this week between Australia and Japan, but quite a number of big importers are making no secret of the fact that they see vastly improved balance sheets ahead with the entry into this country on a large scale of Japanese goods,
It is reported thai quite by packs of beagle lounda, or number "f forters have hinted, exhausted, into the era.
ready benten hegth and
Bungers in the area are molc-
the destruction.
ede inrge-scale Japanese pur
theres and are only waiting in a special effort to stop the formal perinlsion to hip goods to Australia.
It is estimated that morg
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On The New Airport No Economic for Altun, aing in 10 songs about you
Scheme Is Right On Schedule
by Gordon Hung
shifting on a big scale" is what some
Mengineers call the Kai Tak Airport Development
and they are not far wrong when one considera that up to date 10 million cubic yards of 'muck' have been moved from one place to another in two years. After nearly two years, work on Hongkong's new airport is on schedule and it is expected to be opened to internation traffic by the end of August, next year -the scheduled time.
lip to the present 80 per cent of the reclanmtion has been completed and the new runway stretches right out into Kowloon Bay just about 200 yurds short of its proposed length of 7,740 feet. When fuished the runway will be just short of Channel Rock.
THE VASTNESS
ISITING this $100 million scheme last week, I Wax
Oflicer-stopped the car and got out to see the pro- gress on the seawat). Trudging through soft sand and then the hard decomposed granite we came to the breakwater of the new runway.
Overhead a Pan American World Airways DC-GB passed as the pilot made a practice run over the new runway from Lyemun Pass, Île flew his plane the whole length of the runway and then banked sharply to the left over Kowloon City, flying over the north-western approach to the new airfield.
Sixty per cent of the seawall, which will be 16,800 feet long, has now been completed using mostly granile from the Kun Tong Quarry. The granite is trans- ported over by lighter and placed by floating cranes.
TAR TOPPING
Crisis, Says Chancellor
London, July 15,
500 kangaroos are run- A spokesman Austration
In sanctuary 100 manufacturers, Mr R. W. c.
miles from Sydney and they Anderson, said that in spite of are said to be the only "grey Assurances by the Government flyers" left on the NSW coast- about protecting Australianine.
enterprise, good quality, cheap
Japanere goods en the market According to the rangers the could do nothing but all local roos are being shot just for sport they are not being skinned and none of their meat
industries.
Mr Peter Thorneycroft, The Secretary of the Textile in being taken. Chancellor of the Ex-Workers' Union, Mr R. H. chequer, denied in a tele- Erskine, warned that the agree vision programme tonight that there was an economic crisis in Britain.
The Chancellor sald: Ex- porls are rising, production in going up, there is a Jurge volume of investment and a good outlook for a trade surplus with the rest of the world.
This is a very satisfactory and strong position, except for this question of inflation."
Asked how the rise in prices could be halted,
Mr Thorney- croft Raid: "We must stop tak ing more out of the than we are putting in."
economy
"Last year, C900 million more lind gone into wages while pro
ittelfon hardly rose at all.
that
"What we want to pehieve is production and wages go up together," the Chancellor com
rather awed by the vastness of the whole project. A KRIVING at the end of the runway, I could see the mented.
Driving along a very solid looking dirt track-purt of the new runway—i passed small hills of earth on either side while in front the top of a bucket dredger could be seen in the distance.
Meanwhile trucks of all types-tip-up trucks, sand trucks, granite trucks-sped past at 36 miles an hour both ways. Speed, speed and more speed seemed to be the motto of these drivers as they sped to the edge of the runway, deposited their loads, and sped back to the hills for another.
An American engineer, who visited the Colony some time ugo, said that Hongkong und-Los Angeles had one Thing in common --- moving mountains. What were once hill behind the former Hongkong and Shanghai Bank flats at the end of College Road, have now be cone practically flat. The giant yellow coloured excavators and bulldozero have made short work of the hills clawing out the reddish decomposed granite. which is deposited in the reclamation.
Mr Thornycroft Was also asked in the interview about the price of ill-edged stocks, now Inwer than for 35 ycom.
dredger scooping up the mud from beneath the sea. wall, which was then taken on lighters and dumped in the Kun Tong reclamation or Junk Bay. Meanwhile out in Hunghom Bay, another dredger_was Sand scooping up sand for fill for the new runway. is also got from Joss House Bay and Thing I Island. One of the main troubles of the scheme is the type of sand found here. It is just the type for fill but the
"In the long term I am very large grains result in a lot of wear and tear on theccofident indeed." Reuter.. dredgers and pumps.
The new runway will be topped with tar on crushed granite to make it flexible to allow for some settlement, which there is bound to be after some years. The present runway is the rigid type of concrete. new airfield will be unique. It is believed that this runway is the only one of its kind to be ever con- structed in this particular way. Apart from its con-
The
I commenter; "I am not worried about gilt-edged. The price may be low. It will rise.” "Look at the long term, not the short term,
Aswan High
ment
could cause unemploy- ment in the Textile industries.
Не
The amount of
Hornet's Nest
sold his industry Ind
who Mr_C. A. Q. Sindell, already a large number of un- was President of the Taxation Association ins employed and with the entry of Department's Japanese goods there would NSW certainly stirred up
nest when he sug certainly be no improvement in hornet's the position,
gested that taxpayers should claim fares to and from work
In additional as a taxable rebate
Vila imports into Australia from year's return. Japan weder the new Agree-
First of all his ment has only been quoted al
several milliens" whereas the according to Mr Sindel), asked Government hopes to export 10 for-and got his resignation Japan many millions of pounds for making this plan public. of commodities other than wool. Secondly, the Taxation Com- missioner received a deputation from the Association In Can- berra and belween them thrash- Pdi out a formula for taxpayers jin follow.
New Governor
Lichtengst - General E. W. Woodward, GOC, Eastern Com- mand, the new NSW Governor, will take over his new job August 1, as the only Vice- Regal representative in tralia without a knighthood.
On
This is
that
Association,
do
Laxpayers not claim a rebate for fares in their tax return but Instead cnclose a letter saying that they | dostre faves, totaling so muli, Aus to be considered as
rebate, Taxation authorities have 13673 There are suggestions that he promised that they will will be lenighted between now
these applications in a test cast and when takes over
to the High Court and i lo from Association
wins the Trixation Sir John Northcoll, bui as he lo
Deparkent will make rebates the nomince of a Labour Gove to people who make a calm by crnment this is far from likely. letter.
'; Sir John Northcott Labotir appointment--became
→ also
Claiming fares on the income- Governor in 1948 and was not tax form itself will, apparently, knighted until
the Birthday Bum up the works of assicST- Honours of 1950, and then on choques to taxpayers.
ments and delay, the return of the recommendation of a Liberal
Dam Offerederal Government.
The
L
All this eccse generally very satisfactory but without know. Cairo, July 15.
Sir William McKell, a formering the full story is very Egyptian weekly Governor-General (again a hard to see why Mr Sindell political review Rose Alabour appointment) took over should have been sucked for struction, another thing unique is that Hongkong's Yussef reported today that his Vice-Regal post in 1947 but his part in the scheme of things. airfield will be at right angles to the shore. Usually
was not knighted until 1051-- One would havo supposeti airfields built by the shore are parallel to the shore. a consortium of German again by the Liberal Federal that his job as Taxpayers. As-
Government. The hills are expected to be completely levelled by Christ. Once the new airfield is open, Hongkong will have night companies had presented a
sociation President Wee mas and by then 2.4 million cubic yards of decomposed
needle the Taxation authorities and day flying with planes able to do instrument (and-blueprint to the Egyptian It is said that Lieutenant-and in this pateicular instance granite will have gone into the new airfield. The ings through Lyemun Pass-something they can't do
Government for reducing General Woodward has mellow he seems to have done it Bank flats will be pulled down and the area will be
the costs of the projected over the years but
the commonly well. writer's muthory of him emme one vast playing field.
Aswan high dam from Brigadier i/e Administration at 4E350 million to EE200 Morotai (The Australian Army's million (from about £341 island headquarters) towards the closing years of the war is million
of a very tall man with a rather the new Issue of the Sydney tremendous bark as well as telephone directory is now get- | fairly dreadful bite notan|ting ready for the pices rand unusuri combination with one again the P.MG. Depart- soldiers from Duntroon,
(ment has managed to keep their best Eer between one set
Half-way up the runway we —- J. J. Gandy, resident engineer, and F. R. J. Lillywhile, Air Truffle Control
TUESDAY, JULY 15
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
ΠΟΥ.
With 2,000 people working on the development each day
and speed the motto of many, it would not be sur prising if the project was finished ahead of schedule.
Formoen, Okinawa, 10 a. Philippines, North Borneo, Nooit. Hawa, USA, Coisda, 6 p.m. Korea, 6 P
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The report said the consortium Included a number of affiliated THURSDAY, JULY 18
Bellish and French Arms, I By Alr
said engineers of the consortium Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, Kun- hnd already visited the site. ming, ilolhos, 7 a.m.
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by Japan, it am
Egypt would be in instalments.
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What's On Tonight
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Rodan": A Japanese horror picture relying for its thrills on trick shots with the camera.
KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Littlest Outlaw": The friendship between a small Mexican boy and a stolen horse is the theme. Andres Velasquez is the boy, with Pedro Armandariz and Joseph Calleia.
METROPOLE and STAR: "Mr Cory": Gambler Tony Curtis is attracted by cards and women and lucky with both. With Martha Hyer, Kathryn Grant, Charles Bickford.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The Spirit of St Louls": James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh traces the career of the flyer from five dollar air trips to the non-stop New York to Paris flight in
1927. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Three Men In A Boat": Jerome K. Jerome's hilarious book comes to life again with Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson and Jimmy ("Take It From Here") Edwards as the three men.
HEAD-ON CRASH
Rio de Jaberio, July 10,
interior town of Terezinha Tão Brazilian news Agency Northeastern Brazil, Azaprems, reported today that 30 persons wäre ; - killog: and 20
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The new Governor also has of.covers. two distinctions: He is the first
last For the mon of NSW birth to become years there have been Governor of the State and he that the Sydney telephone book
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Wings, M, NZ, and the pink alver-
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Fox Menace
Thinner paper and
smaller
type, have been used to out down the size of the directory, but the new issue wil be futter and for heavier than the 3ib, 14oz. 1050 edition.
Graziers in the North-West of Preparing the 560,000 coptes NSW are asking lentisis
will take more than 1,000 ton ind a way to destroy foxes in of speclully milled American the same way that they have paper, and it will contain some destroyed rabbits with myxoma-430,000 entrice. itosis.
in
Approximately 40,000 entries will be included that wera", not Foxes are reported to be in the last edition. rouming the countryside many parts of the State in hun- dreds and graziers fear they will destroy many lambs in the corning season.
No Mystery
A number of overens Two men eliot 150 foxes in a scientists are to visit 'Australia weekend on their property, near to find out how the Asistrálian Narrabri in Northem NSW. aborigines withstand the severo winter with very little or no In the FIMB district the clothing. Melherson brothers shot 300 in
deep
People from "The Centro" a few weeks, while Mr F. OʻNdl, say that there is no a grazier of Wee Wan and his mystery about this. sister shot. 47. foxes minutes in one night-aided
a spotlight from la ear.
Two Bob A Head
The lab 40 origines keep-warm, by chang by one, two or three dogs
The practice in do well estab- Lished in Central Australia tha the phrase "a four-dog night”
is accepted as meaning one That in intersely cold.
The scientists will plao die
thod na vos light huge
The Narrabri Pastures From tection Bourd, is paying "2/- for every scalp, but scalping foxes area on a patch faza spre Je, so diffleutu and may that then dig a hole and - Bury before going to “bad” Every few people (ave bothering
******** | themselĪVOS, ARD about them.
hour
to the neck in the wirin solid, a
The other alde of the wild The expedition of "Belénitate life picture is that karigaroda | into the interior hor Boon
Both drivers were killed. Then the Bouth Coast of NEW se orgaalsed by the dok others injured in the head-on doad and injured were taken to every weekend by city itloofers, Canada, Norway, Mad: Almerienas #being slaughtered in dopens | University and scientiate" from collision of a bus and a truck.
Tile agency, sald, the acclient the city of Paranaíba ---United | Many act being shot and Universities
the Press.
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