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AUSTRALI: NEWSLETTER
Sydney (By Airmail).
Stickler For Punctuality On His Brigantine
THE YANKEE IS
ON ITS LAST
LONG TRIP
By Haig Nicholson
Cape Town, Mar. 18.
OMMANDER Irving Johnson, American skip- per of the brigantine Yankee, is a stickler for punctuality.
Ho plons his round-the-world Instead of keeping a scrap- trips so that he arrives back book to remind her of visits to
in his home port of Gloucester, faraway plates, Mrs Johnson Massachusetts, cxactly eighteen has
made a afitch-by-stitch
SHADOW hangs over the boom city of Broken Hill—a shadow that gets darker and darker as each fortnight months to the minute ofter record of her travels,
the pay envelopes get lighter and lighter.
|
For more years than most, no new jobs will be open to people enre to remember Broken married Women untit every Hhas been a inse unto it- man Iooking for work is em- self on the far edge of Western ployed. That order wili. be NSW. It looks upon Adelníde us obeyed to the letter by every Et
employer, for in Broken Hil there is an employee-employer arrangement that could be mode for the world.
home town" broadly ac ceply the laws of South Aus tralia and NSW with which agree; ignores those it dotsn't. When o'clock hotel closing in NSW was rigidly observed, you could get a drink in most of the town's 50-odd pubs for -the ordering, and legal two- up was the local fame,
BROKEN HILL
Qantas has issued a state- ment saying that safety, not Royal Umetables, are its prime consideration and nothing could be more right
Nonetheless, Qantas has a right to be hopping mad. What would naturally have been won derful publicity for the has turned out to be something to be "never mentioned again" as soon as possible.
Line
Qantas really is an airline of Not since just
wool market because we have yet after World War as there been a strikey and timetable record recond to none, which has made the No town has ever been so at Broken Hill; the Arbitration up all the more unfortunate.
The stump in
US, falling of unemployment and the bad metal prices, OUT small pool drift
wool prieds is causing considerable frowns in the ligh pinces of industry, agriculture and particularly in Canberra,
strictly-and KD fairly-con- Court has over listed a dis trolled by trade unions. But as pute there: the bosses and Broken Hill was crime-free as a set together and swest crime gves, authorities wisely reasonableness prevails.... let the west have its fling.
LEAD BONUS
Now £30,000 a fortnight has yone out of the pay envelopes in the past year; if the mines work day a fortnight 198s, as the owners want, then another £25,000 will go out of the pockels of this bustling city of
33.000.
the idea
Don't get
that Broken Hill is going smush, it's simply a little slocker, lead bonus. down more ปากก 50 per cent is all £9.5.0 but
The
things aren't quite what they used to be. They're silli good but people are getting worried
about that shadow,
setting out,
The Yankee, which left hert
lo cross recently
the South Atlantic, is on the last leg of its seventh voyage round the world.
same name.
In the past 25 years, he has covered
MOTC thun 330,000 countless ports and islands. miles under sail and visited
On one wall of the Johnson's- cabin is a large tapestry map of the world which I took het three round-the-world, voyages to complete.
Gay Colours
She will call at St Helena and. Ascension Island before going to the West Indies whence he will head for Gloucester, Carried out in gay colours on arriving on May 4, at exactly a sen blue background, the pan, a year and a half ofter | tapestry "shows the conlincnte aling froin there,
and major islands of the globe. This is the brigantine's last The equator is worked in black long voyage,
wool, fund
of the the voyages Commander Johnson is sell-Yankee stand out clearly in ing the Yanker and building a bright yellow. The flora and new kelch which will beat the fauna of each country arc stitched In contrasting colours.
But
Mrs Johnson has other tacks of perform as well;
On each trip, it is her job to buy provisions for the ship's complement, Ynnkee Jurgó quantities of American Unned foods but in each port! "The Yankee is our home,! visited, fresh foot is taken on he said here, "My wife and
boord. have lived in her with out is no luxury cruise for the happens that the world passes other wonten members children for years. It just so skipper's wife, or the four of the by our front door."
crew. Mechanical and engineer- Commander Johnson's pro- ing work apart, they help out grammes 15 to spend eighteen with most of the shipboard months sailing round the world chores. tand, lecturing, showing and writing,
Our Home
Greatest concern is with the wool market because we have yet to feel the effects of the recent duction by thousands of baler, droughts. This not only cut pro-
but trade authorities
shy that the drought-grown wool will be Young Wat Buscombe came of extremely poor quality gen- out of New Guinea the other erally and whatever the closing
The price for wool this season. It is and then eighteen months day with a ball share in biggest native labour recruiting bound to take a further tumble agency in the territory, a large when the new selling begins in block of res in the new August. Wewak: Hotel:
scrap a war metal business, a half share in the Highlands Coffce Planta- ation, considerable folding money in his pocket, cash in the bank, and announced that there were still several fortunes to be mude in the Island.
The lead bonus has mide Broken TGI vne of the must wealthy cilles in the world f its size.
Workers on what is known as "the line of lode"--not only miners themselves-tet d shift for every £ a ten rise in lend price and likewise lose 6d for every fati.
The busle wage in Broken is £14.12.8 a week, but in 1952 because of the mighty Jead bonus, the Inwest paid adult labourer drew £24 week. Um average mincr was getting
contract miners were pocketing more than £50.
Everyone had a car, most bad abome; fortunes were wen and lost
£33
and
He was packing his bugs ready for the third round the world trip.
THE QUAY
admit
Wool selling brokers that the position could have been much worse hur Japa1~ esc buyers not kept the market on the move.
With the overhead railway, He stopped in New Guine
the elevated highway and sky. after being demobbed from the scrapers rising around the fure- army and spent the first two stores, Sydney's one ilme dying years in Ce crocodile indus- Quay area is taking on a now or lease of life and within a few try. In two years he shot
be the booming hought from natiyrs 2.000 enes. years could At the same time, with gold-commercial centre of the elly.
at witle орен two-up miner Wally Allen, he bullt up schools; hotels were crowded the Island's biggest labour and miners alred special trains cruiting business which now
carre the partners £1,000 month
QANTAS
£
to take their families for weekend at Adelaide beaches in the way that most people would hire a row boat for a plenic,
Boats, too, were waxing (at on the high price of lead "and were building sports grounds, swimming pools providing the hard way to do it today, he amenities for the workers says, and which set them back more than
£:00,000.
Crocodiles and natives are
He
advises coffee, sees a huge coffee Industry in the highlands in the next few But Fince 1952 the price of years and plans to increase his lead has been falling and the stake after his world trip, sixpences have been going out
It is reported that the great-
Australian
of the envelopes in a steady eat shake-up in stream until today Broken Haviation history is taking place actually has a pool of unem Inside the new glass and mar- ployment.
ble cily skyscraper of Qantas Airlines following the break- down, the continuous delay, of the Queen Mother's flight home in a Gantar Super-Constella- ton
The all-powerful Barrier In dustrial Council-the Unlons has swung into action.
The order has gone out that no strangers are to get jobs
Work has now started on the £1,500,000 overseas shipping terminal which Maritime Ser-
vices Board officials clum will be the showplace of Sydney.
The terminal is being built to accommodate the new 40,000- tonners of the F & O und Orient Lines now being built and which should be on the England- Australla service by 1980,
When that and the proposed completed- Opera House are which will include the remodel. ling of the other side of the Quay-ue arca could become
qulle attractive, in spite of the brick wall of railway that runs across its middle.
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carries
ms, School-Teacher
Yankee is manned by a crew
of 24, Five of them are women, "We all stand regular wat- including Mrs Johnson. Some ches, help with the sail-making are students, doing the trip as and washing down of the part of their education,
decka," said Miss Judy Huggins, "Would you ever give
this who halls From Maplewood, life up?" Commander Johnson New Jersey. was asked.
"No sir," he replied, "Would you if you were in the same boat?"
Miss Huggins shares a cabin with Miss Elaine Forgic, a New York school-teacher. In the adjoining cabin, live the ship's
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS; "X ... The Unknown." Dean
Jagger in some science-fiction.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer."
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Peyton Place." Lana Turner and Hope Lange in a strong small town drama.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Pride And The
Passion."
and Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra Sophia Loren in a technicolour drama.
ALHAMBRA: "D-Day The Sixth Of June."
CAPITOL: "The Three Sisters." A Chinese pic-
ture.
RITZ: "Only The Valiant Gregory Peck.
MAJESTIC:
"Last Of The Badmen." Montgomery in a western.
George
ORIENTAL: "Les Girls." Gene Kelly in a musical.
Audio And Visual
Enterta
RADIO HONGKONG
ment
THE YANKEE UNDER FULL SAIL
medical officer, DT Alice of rexi fabric for native axCE Strahan, who· Is 23-year-old and carved alligators. and Miss Margaret Riley of Soon, the Yankee will
be Middleburg, Connection.
handed over to her new owners, Fastened to the walls of the but salling days of the Kirls' cabin are many souvenirs- { sea-loving family Johnson are five-foot shirlds and war by no means over.. weapons, carved wooden musks, ! With
smaller Yankee, spears and afrows.
they hope to explore the water- In New Guinea, The girl ways of Europe. -Chin Malt traded white shirts and lengths Special.
the
Rain, Made To Order By Australians
By ARTHUR QUARTERMAIN
Melbourne, Mar. 18.
Australian scientists, after years of rain- making research, believe that they are now on the threshold of a spectacular
succoss.
Doctor
two
Irving
clouds This was foreshadowed re- Seeding of suitable cently in New South Wales by with solid carbon dioxide, or was tried in the scientists of the Commonwealth "dry lee" Scientiae and Industrial thirties by a Dutchman, namedi Research Organisation after Verart, but his conclusions were
described as what they
"the Indeanite, and he worked large- most successful rain-making day y "by hunch", we have had."
In 1846, however, On the day 13 question, selcntists, towering cumulus clouds uver Langmuir, who was later to win
Blue Moustnins, a Nobel Prize, the inland
and Doctor where the Arst authentic, Charles Schaefer, working in artificial rainstorman Australia the laboratories of the General
In 1947, were was produced
Electric Company of America "seeded" with sliver Jodide from found that minute water an Avro-Anson aircraft, and 20 particles in artificial "clouds" man-made storms, each about built up on even more minute ten miles across, brought steady particles of matter from outer the parched space, and could be congulated Werragamba Jum catchment into raindrops or snowflakes by
ice dispersing dry
crystalo among them.
Other American researchers by obtained promising resulta
with sodiuta
rain over
Area.
Discoveries
1150x! by
П
Little has 80 far been seeding clouds revealed sbou! the varled lodide' crystals omitted as smoke 1echniques
these from burners attached to the scientists, whose discoveries wingtips of aircraft. may one day help to transform Australian scientists addod the face of one of the world's few new Ideas, and following
carefully defined driest continents.
lines, ROON Discovery of ал economic made valuable discoveries of mcons of increasing natural their own.
Working under Dr rainfall and of producing it of
E. Q. the right time and place could Bowen, chief of the radiophysics boneft Australia more than division of the Research most countries. For two-thirds Organisation, Australian scion- of this sprawling, 3,000,000-tists soon put Australia in the rain-making square mile land mass receive forefront less than 20 Inches of rain a research. According Lo year, and the other third relies Bowen, hundreds of experiments on only variable, falls.
have shown that "dry los", Official estimates reveal thut, when distributed in clouds with given an adequate water supply, below-freezing temperatures at between 149,000,000 acres and their head, can produce
uf
Du
from
400,000,000 aeres would be 20 to 75 points of rain after a ezpable of intensivo develop-quarter of an hour, and lasting ment", while a further 700,000,- | for up to an hour, 000 acres would be sultable for
grazing,
Ice Crystals
Australia fo thus clearly
He said that radar had been capable of dramatic increases in
used to help to detect the pre- production. In the 18 years sence of ice crystals in cloudio following the outbreaks of World which will eventually produce Wor II alone, the net value of natural rein, so that other more
and the News; 7.00. Weather Fore primary production has inerete suitable clouds can be cast: 7.10. Ahli-Mosquito Week-A ed from £185,000,000 to: hiore for accurate results. falk by an Urban Services Toalh Oncer: 7,18, Shep Fields Show: than £1,000 million. 7.30
Mantovani Memories: 7.45. Hilly May and Orchestra; 8, Pornos- ality Parade Grace Moore;
8.10.
Suitable
sooded
Up to 300 pounds of dry ico has to be used on a single cloud, depending on its Thickness, altitude, and other gain-making
Apart from desert areas, most properties, he added. Silver
5.30, Evening Serenade: 0. Time Bigal. Lucky Dip: · 0.20, Westher Report; 7, Time Signal The News: 7.10, Commentary: 7.13, ADU-Mon- quito Week-A talk by An Urina Servicer Heath Offer: 130. Inter- hide: 730, Time for Jazz with Robla 2001 In Popular Mule presented by Day: &, First Hearing; 8.30, Shochu Nick Kendall; 9.30, Diamond Musto Revue. Introduced by Tim Brinton; Shuw 9. Life With The Lyons paria of Australia often have lodide ja used in znali Tung Burns. The News and Horse loode): 9.30. ThirtyMinute cumulus cloud conditions suit-quantities only, a low Ballons ziews from Britam; 2.15, Wednesday Thamirez, "Tom" Right Porsoum/110, Thesis. "Who Has Been the Wind Men Behind the Melodyatory, and able for producing artificial rain. (or ounces) being injected like by W. O. Mitchell (RCTs), 30.13 Songs of Waltor Donaldson; 10.50. Experts believe that marginal dry ice, dropped on a flare, or Cavalcade tichard One Night Stand; 11. Date Willi ogricultural areas in southern released in the form of smoke Compower Addiail: 1040, Mazie trom Latin Dreamland: 11.80 Prelude To Mid- and America: 10.30, Weather Report; 11, night! 18 Midnight, God Save The which receive about 20 Inches burners,
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REDIFFUSION
TELEVISION
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ground
Beoding"
year, could In the "water flourish with a guaranteed rain-method, large water droplets
p.m. Children's Hour Cartoons fall. They also believe that are seeded at the base of 9.15. Uncle David Presents The
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3 pan., Wednesday Concert: Munde Story of Twitlyno Mouse: 5.30 spectacular results could bas moist cloud with regular up- Magio Tube" 3rd and 4th Horn Close Dewa. 7.80, 27, Copper whic By Maxalt Overture to the "The Adventures_of Kit Carini | obtained in the tropleat, north, draughis of air, onlarging triggered droplets in the cloud and catie- artificially Contatos played by Dennis Drain, Masture: 7. Newsreal: 0 Alfred earlier and „Rymphony No.
Hebook Prosonia "Our Cook'a
monsoonal rains coulding precipitation, Korfa For Two: 3.30, £Tramurs" (A Report of the Pros lengthen the growing season. Mr R. G. Casay, the Minister Biriety Instrumental; D, Children's gimtume First Televised on Aug. 24, Rain-making rituals have had for External Affairs, who is also
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