THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1958.
DOONE BEAL sends a holiday report on the island that
brings the Riviera touch to the tropics
Floating down the Rio on a
T
bamboo raft
HEY aro glad to see you Luxury hotels-some 20 the trimmings,
particularly in
Ocho Rios, which fa about four
houra" `dzivo, from Montego Bay,
retains some of the air of
at
an old bing village with it Hittle clutch of shops.
Ila hotele are particularis attractive. Nearly
have secluded terraces and gardens which reich down flights of shallow stone steps
tho beach.
to
Travelling along the coast further east, there is progres- sively mote village and Loca report ute; A sprinkling romantic old plantation houses as the road. winds, corniche fashion, from one lovely vista of hillside, palm and beach to the next, until one arrives the tranquil old fishing town of Port Antonio.
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This is less developed" as a resort, than either Montego Bay or Ocho Rios, and it is It is also one of the cheaper.
patta of the
most attractive Montego Bay
Good sailing
in Jamaica. While the of them, with more going up the matter of night life, you can
Island, still stay in the
£4 a day for airport officials com-stretch for a couple of area at around
TOOIT and breakfast plete their formalities with miles along the coast. Here, double n thunder of rubber stamps, the smell of suntan lotion summer rates. a welcoming rum punch is mingles with that of the flowers; the clink of ice in put in your hand.
cocktail shakers with the lapping of the sea.
A good way to start a For if ever good holiday. there was a holiday land that. lives up to its broc- hures, it is Jamaica.
It has the lot: Tropical sunshine... pain-fringed . golden sand... beaches sea that at a distance is & mixture of aquamarine, jade, and black opal in colour, but gl-clear when you stop into it... and some of the most luscious hotels in the world.
Worth it
of
Every luxury
Not far from this self-con- tained minlatura metropolis of luxury is the kind of native
by village which drowses the roadside as you motor along to Ocho Rius.
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A low-slung bridge spans Ho
TOTELS of this type offer broad, languid stream as it runs The Httle wooden beach out to sca. every luxury with
houses are built up on stilts, a bars, terrace bars, cocktail bars, couple of feet from the ground
with balconies and hedrooms
somewhere near overlooking the pea where you And always, are served a luscious tropical them, le the spiral of blue smoke breakfast conalling of melon, from the burning coconut chips pineapple, paw-paw, mandarins, curling into the air above and scenting it with that slightly and superb Jamaican coffee,
The restaurants have inter-
national cuisine, there is dancing every night, and cabaret under
the stars.
bitter tang.
Mixture
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THERE is less in the sense of
organised recreation but, to my mind, infinitely more to see, if what you have come to see is the island itself.
There is good salling and thing, and one can make the trip down Jamalco's Rio Grande bamboo raft which floats through languld glades of over- hanging trees.
on
Your raftsman will anchor swim in the fresh while you river water, or plenie on the bunks. Shooting the raplas luter en is exciting but not perilous: they haven't spilled a passenger yet-but a bathing ruit is, nevertheless, the most #propriate garment to wear.
the I reached this point on island as the light was begin- ning to fade. The villages that
the
round follow
const Kingston were marked only by the kerosene Bares which light bara as Frequently they are
up the shops. But through the beer, and mixture of dusk and moonlight well, selling rum, mineral waters. The men stand
I could see that this caster 10 to in the doorway talk, the stretch of coast was, just as 1 little had been told, one of the most women sit outside, over
beautiful of the lot. plies of fruit and vegetables.
What do the hotels charge for this?. Prices vary according to senson, but between mid- April and mid-December there which Is a 40 per cent drop. IT is the land also of the makes the charge for a double romantic Blue Mountains room with private bath and all food for two around £8 a day, (most aptly named), waterfalls that spill down But if you are prepared rocky staircases to the sea, go to one of the smaller, quict Some of the countryside is er hotels and sacrifice some of as rugged and grey stone walled as Scotland, though this is only a mile from the luxuriant tropical jungle of Fern Valley.
I must warn that this is not the cheapest of holi- daya. But it is one im- mensely worth saving for.
The island offers three main tourist centres: Port Antonio, on the north-east coast, Ocho Rios, in the middle of the north const, and Montego Bay, in the north-west
Since the war Montego Buy has become one of the most famous of all inter- national resorts. This is not the bay, surprising for three-quarters encircled by mountains, is one of the most beautiful in the world.
"
The evidence is most conclusive
THE hut-itke shops zell
fascinating mixture of soap, candles, ten, bags, and the gally bandannas coloured shirts and that the Jamaicans love.
The holiday land that lives
up to its brochures.
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It would be a plty
to see Kingston not
the capital city strictly nol
It is
and
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resort, but it has a
harbour; fascinating ocean-going liners dock in the heart of the town.
There are plenty of "free" port shops (your purchase, tax and duty free, is sent direct to ship or airplane).
HOW TO SEE THE ISLAND: By car is much the best way. Every mile is beautiful
and different from the
EmpibiÉRI
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Inst. Self-drive care are on avaliable from £2 A
.. day; taxis
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T.U.C
"So it's clear that those bullies are out to give me a hard kick on the hoof with the seats of their pants!"
THREAT TO THE OLD HORSE
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THREE
WISE MEN
Three Wise ceptible, though emphatical the volume of their output sub- Men chosen by the ly not a catastrophic," stantially more in the 11 years between the wars. Secondly, Government last margin of unemployment of to last year than in the 20 years
this kind.
since the war the avengo of August to keep a watch
unemployed was only one-fifth But they make no es of the level of the inter-war Britain's economic charge position announce that timate of what they would years. This report admits: "The regard as an "ideal" level. of Dest-war years have been good
for Britain, years Fourt more unemployment unemployed. They merely economic success."
"surprise or accepted that it should be British West Indian Airways (an associate shock no one? of B.O.AC.) run a convenient half-hour flight between King- ston and Montego Bay, £3 5s, single, £5 17.
around 23 169, for a 12-hour drive.
retum,
man
made
women
shudder.
That's what they said of HENRY MOORE 20 years ago. Now the UNESCO. statuc commission means that ha is recognised as the world's greatest sculptor. EHIND a jumbled house in the quiet village of Perry Beren in Hertfordshire les a fold. It is the oddest, perhaps the most valuable, field in England.
For it belongs to Mr Henry Moore, the sculptor, and standing in the field are vast examples of his work.
Mr Moore, in a shaggy tweed coat, twill trousers and gigantic Wellington bosts, led me through the field.
But first we had sat in the Ilving room of the bundle of has three cottages which ho made into one house. Mr Moore had told me of the fuels and fortunes which have brought him from the Yorkshire miner's home in which he was born to where he is today-the world's
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And they hope that if any They say it is impossible that a free and flexible wage increases are granted economic system can work this year they will be "sub "without a per- stantially below" the average efficiently
of the last few years.
is stender, dark and youthful, though they have been married 20 years, And their only child, Mary, is a carefree pretty girl
of 11.
Higher price.
There are no signs of wealth. Yet Mr Moore can ask a higher price for his work than any other living sculptor.
"I know I wanted to be a Keulptor when I was 11.
"In the British Muscura I found Egyptian sculpture, Moyan sculpture, Negro carving all of which people merely considered curlos. I thought they were art.”
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POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Let us not forget, Lady: Littlehampton, that wis men are not members of the Government 1”
en-
Act will put the cost of living Index up "by more than two
Three But there has been one big per cent" Nor do the fallure. The failure to prevent Wise Mee rapport any formal limitation on dividends, be- lieving that most boarda of prices from rising.
There is almost an Olympian directors need no special
i11 the council's couragement to retalii profits fo of Britain's appraisal
present their own businesses. position. But while the factual basis of its examina- The Three Wise Men ara tton will be accepted by most, inclined to take an optimistio some of its conclusions will be view of the outcome of wage negotiations this year, though they admit that employers aro “likely to silzen their resist ance" to new claims,
Pensions
So no one can accuse Lord Cohan, a Lord of Appeal in challenged. Ordinary, Sir Dennis Robertson, the Cambridge economist, Sir Harold Howitt, Q chartered accountant, of "play- Ing up to the T.U.C., which Tor example, it claims that that the decline in the "In has never been well disposed State old-age, pensioners are teneity demand" for workers
towards them.
beiter off In terms of real
But the council also belloves
And now Mr Frank Cousins, money now than in 1948, be- will tend to moderate the in- sistence with which the unions. their most bitter crille, may be between price rises end pension will be modenate because of the
there is cause although
ing will press their claims. They expected to tell his colleagues, "I told you #0,"
Best-seller?
increases, the State through miotal pressure and for political threat of higher prices to jobs
and the standard of living, reasons does eventually catch up. The unlucky ones are The Three Wise Men recog those who depend on pensiona nise that "to. ochleve the from Arms. Once they have desired result without industrial ALL the same, this first report retired they have little hope of strife or unnecessary unemploy
of the Counell on Prices, subsequent adjustment. Productivity, and Incomes may
ment" trade union chlets "have
a significant part to play."
The Three Wise Men hope that their views on passing on the benefits of increased pro-
do its blagest job through Then there is the matter of Mr Moore set to work.
stimulating argument. This two- dividends. This
report að-
Much of this conciliatory and shilling report may become 2 mits that some wage earners complimentary nod towards the In 1933 an art critic wrote:
best-seller.
find the payment of dividends a TUC.'s mise of responsibility people, "Sensitive
especially
source of irritation, but it points Is Kkely to be marred, however, For the Three Wisc Men, out that even before tax, divi- by one little phrase in this res women, must shudder in face of these monstrosities."
whose position is so uniquely dends have less than doubled in port. Now he led me across the field independent that their report is money terms since 1938, while towards the new studio which submitted not to any Govern- wages and salaries have in
ment department but directly to creased nearly fourfold. he has bulit at the far end.
background of the Brillsh public, do not Against the
д clear sky, healinto eriileiso the Minis- In terms of the goods and duction in lower prices and on looked at the sculpture. Saters who appointed them. services they will buy, present the undesirability of a ww.ges waged are well above the pro- scramble "should be continuous- natural do they seem now, that one is surprised that they could Lord Cohen and his two cole war lovel while dividenda are ly present in the minds of those have aroused such anger. leagues qualify their approval well below.
On the wall hung a scribbled of the measures Mr Thorney- list: Rake lawn, Get wire.croft took to curb credit last But one of the most contro- and the like, in negotiations Think of place to put wire.". September with their regret versial comments of the Three about wages."
Finally we came to a small that these moves were not made Wise Men la that in highly edition of the reclining figure two years earlier. which Henry Moore is dolag for the forecourt of UNESCO's building.
Macmillan
mechanised Industries production rises fastest,
where
Wegos
ROTOG
who are called upon to take any part, by conciliation, arbitration
THE
Sensitive
THE Three Wise Men, could not have made a greater mistake li they want, the co
to operation of the unions.
It was a job Mr Butler should should not be nilowed to rise in have done when be was Chan- full proportion. The finished statue will be the cellor in September 1055, or largest thing Moore has over Mr
might bove They explain that done. It will be about 18ft. tackled it when he went to the the advantage should go long, 8ft, broad and 8ft. high. Treasury four months later. meet depreciation charge of and will weigh more than 10
new machinery, some to towar For the words I have quoted It will be carved from Two your carller the buoy prices, and obnormal wage in- will be pounced on by the best-known sculptor and to the tons.
blocks of Travertine ancy of foreign demand was so three
creases will only lead to unions as an attempt to inter= commision from UNESCO for thre
fere with the independence of the huge plece of statuary which marble and Bio on a table of the great that it would have speedily demands from other workers.
"I will work on absorbed redundancies of goods
of arbitrators, he is doing for their now head- same stone.
Lord Cohon and his collenguatg it in Italy until 1 am within at home. quartets in Paris,
about an inch of the dual Agure.
are against Introducing price And there is nothing, except controle; “partly because they the fear of unemployment, DER His living room is simple. The This means chipping away about
would involve an expensiva ad- which the unions foel marg furnishings are plain. Al over 20 tons,
ministrative machino parily sonstiively. because they would encourago a
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the room are small pieces of "Then it will be put in place sculpture and carving, mixed and I will finish it in a sort of with his daughter's Teddy bears, hat built round it balloons, and a bowl of nuts. But it is not only the magni-
This allting room reflects the tudo of the task which
portant to Moore. tenor of Mr Moore's ways. Hie This commlesion means that is a family life. In this hape Moore is recognised hazard house he lives with his world's greatert, sculptar pe Ruadan-born wife, Truse. Glam by linn karttaan kan
Good years PRITAIN won two Aghts after the war, Its factories unised
black market.
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Nor do they favour subeldíos, -Including the continuance Producertifolly low renta
Council on Prices, the fivity and Incomes
(H.M. Stationery Offlor,
Inadentally, they do not think the effoot of the new Heat
Trevor Evans