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THE CHINA · MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1959.
6 Women will go
wool-gathering
QOMEWHERE Australia
today
bre Bix
women whose han. dicraft could soon influence millions of Chinese.
Armed with £100,000 worth of Wool, they will set out to teach the Chinese how to knit, And their three- month trip could
boost Australia's
in China
wool cheque by making Bureau will see
· Chinese knitting conscious.
Вику
national
the Minister for secretary Trade (Mr Mc-
of the Australian Primary. Ewen) in tha Producers' Union, Mrs Irise hope Waight, sold today that Chinese trade oficials are "interested" In the trip, which the union is planning.
"And so they should be,” she added.
"There Bre woollen and textile sections within the Chinese trade departments, but I don't think any knitting is done in the country.
"Colton is generally used for their clothes: When the weather Ecls cold the Chinese pad their clothes with hunks of cotton waste to keep warm.
*
"Chinese children look like Rule beer barrels during winter when their mothers have to almost awathe them to keep them
In this waste packets of ammoned stampa. From 20, conta per packet upward An entirely new series. South China Morning Post Lid, Wyndham
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Special Announcemente and Classified Advertise- mente sa ununt.
of getting Commonwealth Anance for the trip.
"The ladies should provo wonderful bassadresses for Australia.
And
amTM
we're hoping the Government will give both 115 blessing and
Lote
of its moury Loward their journey.
the trip could be **But made without inanelal - the Common- sistance from wealth."
Throughout Australia hun- dreds of women are hoping they will be included in the
Mra Iriaz Waight hopes a women's mission will sell wool to China.
Another woman-a grand- Victoria-had mother from volunteered to go because the had never been overscus and
From HAROLD LENZNER
IN CANBERRA
warm.
"Woul is cheaper, warmer mud for more comfortable than colton and the Chinese handicrafts are so wonderful I doubt if they will have any trouble learning to kajt."
Lold me Mrs Weight
the seiceted six.
Grandmothers, she fell that the trip to China suggestion was made by a mothers, businesswomen and would be instructive for her member ot the unton's girls barely out of their teens
as well as the Chinese, Monaro branch, in southern Bave told Mrs Weight they're
Mrs Walcht said New South Wales"and ready to make the trip, manageress would probably should imagine that it WDS
accompany the women, the member's wife who pul the idea into his head,"
The union's Federal Wool Committee, which Im- medlutely approved We suggestion and referred it to the Australian Wool Bureau, which also thought it good.
Mrs Waight said, "We have asked the Bureau to provide £100,000 worth of knitting
wool for the trip.
"We are still owaiting the Bureau's reply."
that
"Will they be doing much knitting?" I asked.
"Well, the ladies will be Dversets for at least three months, and they'll be purling and plaining" most of the time.
I asked Mrs Walght how the six would be selected,
"I would say that a panel will be set up tu choose them," she said. "Each will have to have kaltting abWlty, personality, tact and ability Gs an ambassadress,
"I think these are
vid
д
think they will be too JOT chaperone," she said. "But I'm sure they will be well treated In China. "No date has yet been set for the trip, and applications when will be called for arrangements are finalised.'
TC- The union has also the eelved overseas response to minimum qualifications and is suggestion.
hundreds D Mrs Waight showed me a Australian women who have letter [mm the Acting all These qualities. The Director of Economics panel will have a really tough Macao, a Portuguese province job narrowing down the south of Hongkong, with applicants."
population of 230,000. "A widow from Victoria has offered to pay half her travelling expenses if she Is chosen to go.
there
are
"She said she has Uttle to do and thought the 1:1p
bo
Interesting
"They are going to need a iremendous amount of wool.
"During the next fort- would night
the union and
task."
the
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21
By Air
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand. 3 p.m.
Hawa USA., Canada, o pin.
Formoan, Korea, 8 pm.
By Surface
Macao, o p..
THURSDAY, JUNE 20
Laos, 8 man.
Japan,
By Air
China, Prople's Republic, 8.30 a.m. Thailand,
Pallippines. 1 pm.
kalayo, indonada, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India, Middle East, Airies, Great Britain, Europe, 1 p.m.
UBA.. 0 pm.
Malaya, Milanoda, 8 pm.
By BarfacS
China, People's Republic, a.m.'
Burm. Noon
Macao, 1 p.m.
Philippines, 1. pm
Malaya, Leylon, India, Pakistan, Aden, Egypt, Italy (P. India vià Marillas Mähe via BonaNY), I pu
Macao, Up.m.
PRIDAY, JUNE K
By Air Tholland, Burma, India, 9
am.
Indo-china, Laos, France, 10 am. Japan, Okinawa. Kores, 10 am.. Fortmonn. 1 pan.
U.S.A.. Canada, O'pan. Cambodia, @_p..
Ty Kurface
China, People's Republic, 9 a.m.
Malaya, Burma, India, 11 ■,m, Maena, 1 p.m.
Indonesia, 1 pm Philippines 2 p.m. Macso, d p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE я By Surface
China, People's Republic, 0 Km. Malaya, Durma, India, 11 am.
I p.m.
Toro, I p.m.
Pallippines Indo-Chino,
p.in.
Koren, 3 pim.
Macao, & p.m.
France,
China, People's Republic, # p.m.
BUNDAY, JUNE 29
By Surface
Macao, pm.
“MONDAY, JUNE J
By Surface
China, People's_Republic, 6 aan. Mallippines Fratice,
Belgium. Netherland, Germany Cyprus, urvela via Mardelles), 18
ain.
Cambodia, Noon.
Jamaica, Noon.
Maca, 1 pm.
kiscso, & pm.
"ORNÍRAL HOLMAY
TUESDAY, JULY 1
By 'Surface.
China. People's Republic, D D.M.
Malaya. 9 a.11.
Koren, 10 mm.
Macas, po
Maeso, pm.
Air Service Increased
on
•
BY
The direcair, Inse Lulz Freire Garcia, writes: "We think that knitting could be desirable In this province, We would need some help la paying for the wool and in disposing of the finished pro- ducts."!
• THE WAY
by Beachcomber
THE revelation that musiciors "Right. If I win, you get your The soldering
clarinets and bottle for Ica bob." "Four obocs and tying up fractured enough." violins with bits of twine shows
that new instruments are becom. An insult to her gravy. ing prohibitively expensive.
THERE has been
You
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
"Poor Sop"-You
Have An Ally!
Sir Re "Amah's Hours" in tonight's China Mau. I did not read H.G.R's original liter but "Internationalist” appears to be attacking the said H.GR. for not wishing to have bis/her canah's hours regularised. Also DA Internationalist refers H.GR. as a "poor nop" I assume H.G.R. to be Europeen,
to
Hos It occured to inter nationals that for every omah employed by a European there must be a hundred employed by Chinese people.
not It 13 necessarily the wealthy Chincas who employ omada. Practically Chinese every working cints family employ at least one amat at a wage very much less than that which Europeans pay. Chinese people also like to have dinner parties and mahjong parties that go un much later then 11 p.m.
to
If Government take action
regadarise these amnahs' hours Internationalist will and that his cheerful, industrious, painstaking,
and patient igniflod Chinese, friends will themselves be the first to rise up in protest. Having found my amahs to be pretty independent types I wouldn't be surprised If they protested at being told what to do by Government.
"Terra Firma" Implies that the average European house wife could, if necessary, do their household chores, and I agree, But can it be honestly suld that the averago middle
class Chinese housewife would be capable of doing her own wash- ing, Ironing, and coolding etc, if
found herself sho
without
zahr. My wife does, in fact, do her own cooking · so that our one amah can. If she chooses, start at 9 am, and finish at 6 p.m. What does she do after 5 pm. Not being a personal friend of miho I don't want her wander ing around the house for the Fist of the evening if she is not prepared to help in the kitchen. Myself not being rich enough to pay overtu rates she would
to either have
Ko out every evening or remain In her rooni. hadn't noticed that the amahs are particularly "under dog" or in need of a champion, In fact they have always seemed to me one of the more contented groups of the community. Certainly it has never struck me that they are smahs from cire necresity." After all we all find it a dire necessity to do stme sort of Job In life,
From H King Wo
Wood
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
Sydney, (By Airmail),
After an Indian Summer the like of which is hard to remember and which ̋threw despair into the hearts and bank balances of woollen manufacturers, hard cold gripped New South Wales over the weekend, disrupted Queen's Birthday holiday arrangements and brought tumbling from their hangers last year's overcoats,
of four
The Blue Mountalas area had than to watch Robert Gordon only to bo rapidly vetoed and the biggest snow fall for years; Menzies standing up 10 the thero is no reason to suppose there were good falls in inland barrage
well known that the reaction towns that recorded the last one
different thin tine. 20 and more years ago; ley road surfaces caused dozens of minor accidents; grey skies, slanting downpours of rain and a biting scutherly loft no doubt this talk of the winter's vanishing is so much nonsense,
It is a
politie pressman on TV on Sun- day night. They asked straight questions regarding high policy, they pounded him about housing. unemployment and immigration, bluted about pressure groups and nought his views about a global war,
But RGM has been revelling of stuff for most
popular and -Casy- played past-lime in this country in this sort to sit on the outskirts and years of a useful Ute; kept a ad- good poker face, answered every tirarldly criticise various ministrators, but in this case it question........and didn't state one is hard to work out why the solitary new fact, Rugby League Big Chlefs made When asked if he thought his
of Saturday's Test Government would the TV-ing
to financially elected, he gave the political against England Impossible.
correspondent a long look and said: ""My dear fellow, you A near-70,000 people packed should know by now that people of the don't eleet governments they well over kick them out."
every available inch
and pald ground
£100,000 for Uckets hought in ndvance.
It was a capacity crowd, yet the League Zamanded a net £2,000 from the TV people for telecasting. With
land
bo T-
Back home this week for talks lines, and holidays Sir Percy Spen PMG fees, stands and so forth, per, Australian Judge of the the TV companies would have International Court of Justice, been up for some £4,000.
Sir Percy, now a trim 00 and full briskness, is able to look back with considerable ratis faction to what those years have brought kim.
Seems that the League could have gained some worthwhile publicity for itself by keeping the fee reasonable and not lost one cash customer by doing so.
New
Zealand's
will be pay
The Australlan Agricultural Council-made up mainly of Federal and State Agricultural Ministers and various farmers and graziera' organisations have always opposed the importation of fur-bearing animals such as.
The main particularly, is a tireless and bloodthirsty hunter and an indiscriminate "killer of small animals and birds.
Members of the Sydney Fur Traders Association Bay. in reply, that Scandinaviatk experts are prepared to come to Australia to establish fur forme and that mink would be kept. under strict control,
The members said that they would take particular pains to see that mink did not escape- If only on the score of cost, for A breeding pair cost anything between £200 and 2500.
Last year Australian furriera
cost them used 20,000 mink pelts which each.
The
an overage of £10
But
Government's TC- even in the best regalated mink action has always been that farms accidents happen and It seems that Madam's fur coat is still going to cost a fair bit of folding money.
away
It is something more than 20 years ago that Barrister Perry Spender decided to have a cut it polites, falled to get rejection for the thea United Australia
State Premiers independent economic Party, so Tany
Archdale Parkhill, from the recent Loan Council to ageinat Sir ond the flight
Minister Minister for Defence and a man conference in Canberra sepreely Prime Australia of Walter Nash
whose seat was ng safe as a able to conceal their grins of had made bla headlines this week.
bank.
delight. Percy Sponder won. He re-
They had received far less mained an independent maybe than they demanded, it far, more than they expected.
Yours faithfully.
IL PENSEROSO. Robert Donat Sir,-In an articlo on the front page of your Saturday cellon you referred to the worries. "late" Robert Donat. His death must have licen very recent, And shock as we thought he was on the mend utter a long
lness. When
he did
dic, please?
MRS B. WHEELER. June 9, 1938, aged 63,-Ed. China Mail
TARGET
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45 words. good 32 words excellant. tomorrow.
YESTERDAY'S SULUTION** Rivada serdie oened venced second seleden slad
PATU
Bh food in
sind wind and sold DOLOMIADE H dele seriene sosed sented aoned weekeé dass dale prima, degeery, poni, dan pole pens gland Enend Lane indori kumand f food and fad lede vedal voda - Meedia eider,
thu
On Sunday night on TV four newspaper men grilled Australian PM. Mr Menzies, less than 12 months, was admli- about
Now Zealand tx to the UAP fold and became fa aliuation. In
this programme a Cabinet Minister in the next from the Federal Government Mr Menzies touched briefly on Government, eventually Minister election year being the reason the neod for a trade pact be for External Affairs and it was for the big-hearted attitude
an open secret that his cy tween
countries,
vero on the PM's Lodge. particularly with regur
There
two
tho
primary produce sold overseas.
of
The Commonwealth.
But the NSW State Govern- ment has announced that the
are some cynics who light-fisted" handout has ben
why he was
Later Mr Menzies walked to say that this la the other side of the studio and given a knighthood and banish-
Insufficient, to resiane wore on
the camera showet him and Mr G to Washington as Australian the Eastern Suburbs rallways. Nash sitting together.
Ambassador, where for. ninet
1
That hole in the ground under
hoa beca Said Mr B G. Menzies years he did an outstanding job. Sydney has now cost something
Now comes the Internailonke £50 million.
40 stopping and starting for "Walter, I think your politics Court post, 0 nine-year are atrocious, but we are very
ДЕ appointment
tax-free years, and has been likened to The construction of the Pyramida old friends and I assure you £9,000 a year. that we are out to help you in
Bir Perey all thinks politics and the Great Wall of China.
A recent Leader of the Op- every way.".`.
Are the most exciting chore,
the pre- position claimed that sent rate of progress it will be completed in 2939.
Sald Hir Nash "While cannot in any way admire your politics, I can admire the way you do things and I value the friendship between countries."
our
two
There is a feeling, however, in that the fransport position
becoming so Another effort is being made Sydney is now
So democracies continue to to get vernment approval chcotle that necessity will cause of mink for the work to begin later in the for the inport Lexist.
And while on the subject of breeding purposes,
year and this time it will go on this democracies, it would be harder
question until completed Periodically
the Government years.
to and any truer concept of it comes before
CHINA MAIL
In the poorer orchestras you
a fracas at ollen see two, men to a violin 1 Marine House, the establish- bow. They pass the bow deftly ment of Mrs Florence McGurgle, to each other ki a kind of relay A mournful guest swept his race. The bursting of a trom plate nside at lunch, crying, "Do boog in o band contest was
call this gravy?" "And said to have been caused by what, pray,
call it?" do you three musicians playing it in riposted the regal MeGurgle unison. And in Shefeld there from her seat at the head of the was such a gap in the harp, groaning board. "I call it liquid strings that a lady harpist got mud," said the guest. her head stuck and
"No HOOVER Gre-brigade released her, using doubt," replied the incensed the boy's read in railings chatelaine, you have had more technique, the whole harp dis- experience of that article than integrated. When the conductor we have.". An awkward illence
unifi topped his lectern, ble baton, fell,
a nervou Indy I made of reinforced liquorice, remarked, peering at the
broke in two.
darkening window: "It looks like rain. "And it tastes like 11," added the lachrymose victim of Mrs McGurgle's maitre-chef des cuisines (de Marine House).
Tek, tek
TULA
TULANKS
0
when the
10 microphone 4s he slipped his tea..
large
concealed behind
|signed photograph of a bookle All hands to the helmi
in the matron's room. the fol-
|lowing scrup of conversation be-
tween her and a history master THE victory of the Gevern- is now in possession of the ment in granting e rite of governors: "Sill coughing, Tom? pay refused by itself, by tho What about a rather subtle Tramport Commission and by From July 8 JAL will 15-Pichon-Longueville? Or the Tribuna), has encourtged grease 114 services belweer pretty Cos d'Estournel?" "No, the suggestion that the appoint- Hongkong and Tokyo to five | Bess, I rather think Burgundy, ment of Joint Deliberative per week in order to cope with Any of that Richebourg lofti" Committee, to add 2 Courth the incressing traffic. The "Here you are. A quid to you- refusal next time, would make additional fight will be routed of a tie for the 210. What do the whole thing “even more India pakistan Mid- via Okinawa snaking two peryau fancy?" "Copper'a Nark swamous than it has hithbylo
for the 1.15. Dead cork" been," to awole a apcktastaan.
Guam, HawaIL USA, 1pm.
- Philippines, “Austenita.
NEw
Len-
land, an
Formos, e pas.
Kant Atpion
Britain Great
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العالمية
week calling at that port.
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