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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958.
H. KING WOOD REPORTS IN OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER Christmas In Sydney With The Temperature At 90 At Midnight
Sydney (By Airmail).
The Old Year ended with one of the best gifts possible for parched Sydney-a drizzily rain, too fine to do much for our depleted water supply but exactly as ordered for the near-dead gardens of suburbia.
Many Months
MOVE TO SAVE CHAMOIS FROM EXTINCTION
By HERBERT STERNBERG
Munich, Jan. 7. Bavarian state foresters are rounding up flocks of chamois in a mountain enclosure in the hope of finding a means of saving this mountain game animal from extinction in the German Alps.
American servicemen, many of particularly prized, because It
them keen shots, volunteered to has come from an old bucic
help
to build the twelve feet which must have blen especial- high fence round the enclosure.|ly difficult to truck and shoot.
For five weeks, they cleared
rocks, drilled holes, transported steel posts, and anchored them In rock to make the fence resistant to the pressure of snowdrifts.
Signs on The fence war sportsmen that this is a reserva- tion and that they must not shoot the chamois inside.
The Mange
Prosecutions
Numerous prosecutions have Rown that pozchors have often risked imprisonmcat merely to become the proud owners of a chamnis beard,
Anyone who
The Roaring Twenties
Ann Blyth and Paul Newman in a dramatic scene from The Helen Morgan Story,"
fame and subleuyent fall to
near tragedy.
The film begins with Misa
Morgan's attempts to reach the heights of show business star- dom as a torch singer.
The great loves of her
The year hasn't closed on | of 185A, NSW should be recelv-| sinted to "promote the export of exactly a happy note. There❘ing its first power from the | Coal.'
Mr Clark has a rough idea are few parts of the State which electric-hydra stations. have not been blasted by the One of the tough jobs alill to that all these jobs tould be done worst bushéres in memory: 1 be completed is the building af by the one board but, having has been the driest year for a' 00-mile high-tension lineally achieved this bewildering
Films about poschers are the West German equivalent of the nearly 70; wool prices are falling ncross the Great Dividing Range array of information, Mr Clark and the wool clip next year will] at its highest point. This line now proposes to ask some more
American "western."! Just as tumble downwards as we catch will have to stand severo awkward questions.
the sheriff eventually rounds up the legacy of the drought. blizzard conditions, snow and He is going to ask what
the bad men in the westeru,"!
THE Helen Morgan State veterinary But on the other side of the high winds. When completed it | members of all these boards and
surgeons the foresters always catch their
Story," which comes get in the way of
and other scientists are studying poncher. If not prepaid a booking fes picture, unemployment is at its will feed power Into the NSW so forth.
Forestry officials ascribe the to the Lee and Astor today: the captured lowest point for a conskierable electrical grid system of 80 conts is charged.
which allowances and expenses; the
chamois in the curc for time; the holiday rong tall is now extends across the State. cost of their cars and travelling hope of anding a
persistence of posting largely is another story rung out well down on last year and we
expenses; what clerical staff chamois mange, or aroplis, a to the fact that to hunt the of that period which is now maintained our habit of keeping
they have and their total wage disease which sprend to the chamois legally is a very
ex-known AB the "Roaring eastern Bavarian pensive business, The Davis Cup.
bill; how often these boards herds in the
Twenties." Alpa from Austria after World wants to shoot a chamols musi There is nothing deder or
meet; and, Anally a nasty one
War 11. Foresters say that this frst get a sheollag Hicence, for staler than Christinas by the Mr J. J. Clark is a Labour why the business of govern-
authorities days of the racketeer, the gun-bootleg racketeer, local the main reason why the i which time January comer along, but anember of the Federal Parliament is farmed out to so many
the it is worth recording even atment with a square, determined people who have so little res-
number of chamois in Bavaria | charge
む up to 200 West Marks man, the gangster chief of has fallen from 22,000 in 1930 to ¦ (ubout £17). In addition, he city, that American writers are this late stage that never before chin and to the Government-ponsibility to the people. Annual
were so many Christmas dinners the annoying habit of when take to long to produce that the
The answer to all this could 15.000 tariny
needs a certiftente proving that Anding a rich strike there for ng citizens, respe:lively
As stardom comes within 'her Besides left uncaten or uncooked as this
the mane, the shy has passed the hunter the asking.
happiness cvades also suffer from the rumination. year.
A temperature of more wanting some unpleasant
What happened was, night rasp, true formation
it until Government could well be out champla sticking to
Invasion of than 100 degrees did little lo he gets it.
it is accom- ever-increasing of office before
British sportsmen normally club entertainers had no choice her,
of tourists in the Alps, Funiculars get the lleence relatively easily, except to work for
This is a very good film big time enice women into furnace-like
It is many months ago since plished.
and ski lifts take thousands of because the forestry authorities
that lawless period of Amer]:pos- Anklichens and as the thermometer he asked the Prime Minister, in
history, and yet it supplied at remained around the 00's until the House,
tourists on to slopes and peaks recent the qualifications they
Ko much colour But Americans
the same time not long ago accessible only to need at home. after midnight, few had the in-
skilled mountaineers. As
that countless novels and las elination or energy to est.
have to take a course before
are beginning to dow, Tecalling result, the chamots have retired applying for the licence. into the steep northern slopes
ite Jazz Age. of the mountains where they
There was And less fodder and are in
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Record Term
The NSW Premier, Mr Cahill,
SÜMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Callae- || lind
ed
A Christmas present of
JK-
What is the number of
their дре
Moo-Wooing
is
precipices,
the
Allocate
Once you have the hunting Shooting the chamols has al- Brence you are sill far from
You must
existing boards and cum-
Pulice mittees that are in existence
Prosecutor, Sergeant under parliamentary 4- Emmett, unhappily, announced thority?
In Paddington (Sydney) Court What are these bodies and this week that in this mechant-greater perii of falling over Wh what
various cul age even
14 wooing funellons?
mechanical. Not without some misgivings, He was commenting on the case of a young electrician who tied to his car a device which moo-ad.
A detective tok the court Bond! Beach
twice n bell
tom packets of assorted stamps. December 24 when he establish- From 20 coula per packet upward. An entirety new serite. South China Morning Post Lid.. Wyndham Burrel Hongkong end Balistry FORD. NOW JODEL.
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record as Labour Premier Mr Menzies promised to dig up but indicated
of NSW. He has been Premler | the information,
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the Inaugural General Meet ing of the Members of the Hong Kong Branch of The Royal Naval Association will be held in the Volunteer Centre, Queen's Road, Hong Kong at 6 p.m. on Friday, 10th January, 1958.
All Members are requested and those interested whether serving or ex-Service
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To ADVERTISERS
for five years, eight months and that it would take some time to 23 days, beating the recon heldļ do so.
by (now) Sir William McKell. Mr Clark, who is too old u that twice 012
SL
Record terin for NSW paritamentary hand to expect promenade he heard a cow's
who had some moo and
Premier is held by Sir Bertram | miracles-a
Stevens who hended a non-idea of the work involved in the ringing. Ho round an okt- lalaur Government for more question he asked-walted and fashioned
car horn and than seven years.
waited Every now and then, bell wired up under the bonnet The vast fit-saw puzzle of the to keep the subject on the boll. of a car. He added that many £35 million Snowy River he gave the PM a prod nt ques- cars of young men now had Scheme is bit by bit being fitted { tion thne, into place, and by the winter servants, detailed to And the in- to
One of the public horas and similar attachments attruct girls on the pro- formation, protested: "Mr Clork, renade. you've given us a hell of a job,' Mr Ronald Masters, the electrician who wooed with a moo, may And it a little cheaper In future to stick to the old- fashioned method because his mechanlent attempt cost him a fiver.
PARAMOUNT GETS NEW PRESIDENT
Split Up
BIL AL Iew
Tu days age, answer in all its stark nakedness reached Mr Clark In very bulky envelope.
It revented that the most in- portant business of the nation
Lax-
Gardeners
Since
Water
the Sydney
banned und
n forust
ways been difelt and danger-shooting a chamels,
because it involves perilous also find someone to "allocate" climbs. But the animals re- a chamols to you. This may be treat into the northern slopes the private owner of has added to the dangers, and
or the local administrator of a trophies have become corres-
state forest. Whoever It pondingly more valuable.
It costs about 100 West Marks (about £0.10).
The Beard
So much happened in those
NEW FILMS
ANTHONY FULLER
are portrayed by Paul Newman and Richard Carlson
Muddux. g Larry
playing notorious
and Russot Wade, one of New York's lend-
ni
a Helen Morgan. She began in the chorus Colisimo's in Chiengo during A1 the twenties. Furthermore, Copone was the bouncer there. but the history of that king of
has
been gangsters
already told.
ail I recommend this film to that increasing number who are beginning to become intrigued by this fascinating period, and to know what made it roar When ht Install the legal
along to inevitable destruction. hurdies have been overcome and
What is more fascinating is tho the chamois shot, the huntsman Trophies consist of the thin, is only entitled to the head and racketeers, for they owned all rise it gave to the mobsters who ment and the joints during the prohibition ruled every aspect of American dark horns which grow upwards) the. "beard.". The
mobsters life. from the animal's forehead and skin go to the state authoriting period. The bootleg
cornered everything in the co- "The Helen Morgan Story" is bent down again at the tips. The meat is regarded as a de-
to tertainment work as an outlet one of the most powerful and the chamois "beard," tuftency and is therefore often
come out of that crazy me, as of dark brown or black hair, served to prominent visitors by for their illegal booze.
Di "The Helen Morgan Story" the, designated the Goddess which grows on the backs of the Bavarian State Government.
has Ann Blyth in the title role, the Jazz Age, moved ngainst adult bucks during the maling White chamois, which have a season only.
silvery skin instead of the normal and shows her meteoric rise to its glowing lights, light brown. are very rare. Bavarians regard them as un-
It is a matter of personal pride to a Bavarian to decorate his hat with "Gansbari," or lucky, possibly because of the chamois beard, North Germans stuffed white chamois which is irreverently refer to it as a displayed "shaving brush."
Salzburg,
at in
Sit
This
INTERNATIONAL
a museum Austria. Old folk in the Bavarianimal is said to have been shot the Archduke Francis mountains will tell you that in by
of the some Alpine villages girls usedFerdinand, nephew
of Joseph unless the suitor could show a
reject marriage proposals Emperor Francis
Austria, before he himself was chamois beard from an animal killed at Sarajevo In 1014 by the which he himself had shot. If shots which unleashed World
War 1.-China Mall Special, the beard has silvery hairs it is
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For the 8OUTH CHINA for the post. "His execudve puzzled about the coal situation.
Mr James E. Perking has at present being done by 257
heen named President of main boards and committees. Board imposed garden-watering Paramount International That, of course, is not the full restrictions a month ago-hose
story: Many of these bourds are completely Films, Inc., it WAS an-
are split into į gardens enn be watered only nounced last month in and committees
boards smaller
sub-, from caus-a new race of gar- and New York by George committees.
For instance, the deners have developed in the Weltner, Vice-President Valuation Board (which values garden suburbs. in charge of world sales properties disputed by
They are officially known as gardeners" hardy for Paramount Pictures Payers) has 14 other boards "midnight
scattered around the States; The race who set alurms for 1 or 2 Corporation. The
ap Tradesmen's Rights Regulation | a.m. and go out and give their pointment
effective Act as six committees and parched lawns and shrubs a
these from January 1, 1958.
are split into 38 sub-good old soaking with the pro- BUNDAY POST-HERALD Space for commarotal
Mr Weltner declared that Mr committees so that the number bfted hose.
of boards under some sort of The
Board people Water advertising
should bo Perkins experience of more booked
uns into well frown on this sort of thing and not Inter than than Dirty ycurs in
name probably every noon on Wednesdays.
now they are using night-flying phase of foreign distribution over the thousand mark. had made him the ideal choice
Mr Clark has been a little squats in Indio cars which are said to be armed with detectors administrative
Firstly, there is the Joint Coal at can pick up the ticking of ability."
which has the job of the water meter. stated Mr Weltner, "oupled Bourd
The Board has also announced bafere date of publication. with his inspiring teadership, "enturing the adequate produc-
have been demonstrated time on of coal in NSW and to that more than 600 people are Special
He is a dedi-ensure that cont resources are slated to appear before courts and time again.
coal for illegally using water. eated man loyal and sincere, conserved, used, ond the and devoted to Param QUIN !....”
Incidentally, most people are distributed to the best advant- IN TOKYO
honestly obeying the restrictions the Is Then there
Coat but all are grumbling that next Industry Board, whose job is to year there will be not a reduc- In 1025 as branch manager la examine aspects of the coal ilen in their water Tokyo, Japan. Successively, he industry," and then there is the indeed, with rising values, most named Shanghal branch Coal Export Committee which is of them are likely to be higher. manager, opening the company's
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ROXY & BROADWAY:
"Guilty?" John Justin, Barbara Lange in a suspense thriller, KING'S & PRINCESS: "Swamp Women." "Tillie's
Punctured Romance," with Charlie Chaplin. A double feature.
LEE & ASTOR: "The Helen Morgan Story." Ann Blyth and Paul Newman in the Roaring Twenties".
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Hamlet."
Olivier.
Laurence
STAR: "Doctor In The House." Donald Sinden and
Kay Kendall in a British comedy. METROPOLE: "Magic Bow." Stewart Granger. HOOVER & LIBERTY: “Les Girls.” A sparkling show that lets In the New Year with a bang. Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg.
Howard Duff in a
RITZ: "The Broken Star."
Western.
CAPITOL: "Operation Mad Ball." Jack Lemmon
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TRADE CENTRE IN TOKYO
Tokyo, Jan. 7.
A MAMMOTH international trading centre, to be built in Tokyo Harbour, will, it is hoped here, become one of "the greatest. permanent industrial shop windows in Asia and the Far East."
Japanese officials and business | another pavilion for light men sponsoring the project hope industrial goods.
and tha
to start work on the founda- The project is to be incor- tions early in 1958. It will take porated under the joint sponsor- four years to complete, at a ship of the Tokyo Metropolitan
the total cost of approximately 4,500 Government,
Japanese million yen tabout £4,500,000). Federation of Economic Organi- Under present plans, a wide antions,
Japanesu Manufacturers' range of goods, from textile and Machinery agricultural machinery to Federation. cameras, lighters and nylon The capital of the company, Yen socks, with be displayed to at-xed at 2,000 million tract foreign buyers, especially (about £2,000,000) will be sup- thoce from Southeast Asia and piled half by the Tokyo Metro- the Middle and Near East, The rolls and half by private emphasis will be
Investment on heavy businessmen. The machinery.
nf the former will be mostly land,
Displaying
:
According to Mr Hasol, tho central building will contain the In addition to bringing in the offices of Government agencies customers, the centre is intend- and trading Ls, ng well 85 ed to demonstrate the economic show rooms, so that Japanese achlevements of Japan by dis- exporters. and foreign buyers playing facta and figures about will be able to complete, export all her industries and their pro- formnilles on the spot after ducts.
successful business negotiations, This will also be the Tokyo There will be a comfortable ele for the annual Japan hotel for visitors. International Trade Fair, held
Two Piers In alternate years here and at Osaka.
The centre will be close tu Mr Tomitaro Hosol, Executive two plens, where ships, of the Director of the Tokyo Inter- 10,000-ton class can dock... national Trade Fair Commis-
Tokyo Harbour, itself has been elon, who acts as the spokesman mainly built since World War II sald that the centre would be and has been taking more and completed in two stages.
more of Japan's foreign trade pavillons for heavy industrial from Yokohama and Kobe, The, displays with a total floor space of 24,000 square yards, should be completed by April 1050.
Reclaimed
The
entire area of the now, Trading Centre will be planted out with. trees, lawns, and flower-boda.
The advantage of the new centre will, it la considered hero, be
buky to enable These will be built in on area businessmen, from all over the Zesland, Ceylon, India, Paklałam, Africa, Great Britain & urope, of about 20 acres reclaimed world, to Inspect Japaneso, gudds. NOOD
from the son at the casterri Up | at Trot hand beo Troungm of the Harumi pier; 16: machines in operation, conduct The second stage will involve business. deals," and complete" the reclamation of about 24,5 exchange and trade förminillian more hores in the harbour. An ❘ without loss of time.. Business... eight-fibor, central -- building | men, bere believe that It” will with a floor spaço of: 40,005 greatly nakat: Japan'); all-out. Fradrian (P. India, Parcela via square yards will be erected on drive to jucreure Karachi. A pu
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