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THE
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PECULIAR CASE.
CHARGE OF "PLANTING SILVER TREE."
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
COREZZPONDENCE.
The Destiny of Man,
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.j
FISH FOR THE EAST.
AIMS OF AUSTRALIAN COMPANY,
The practice known as "pintting the silver tree," was mentioned be-
Mr. E. E, Forth, managing director fore Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon contribution on modern and old foodstuffs to the East, has made Sir, I found Father Byrne's lost Brisbane, who are large exporters in of J. C. Hutton Proprietary, Ltd.. Magistracy yesterday afternoon Greek education very Instructive available information concorning a when a man named Chul Ewing-and interesting. The old Grecks company to be formed in Queensland, kwong, described as a fortune-teller, apparently had some worth-white with a capital of £75.000, to develop was charged with obtaining $160 got in view-moral, Intellectual from the complainant, Chau Wah- and social progress-whereas an entirely new industry for exnort to the Enst. Whereas all efforts long these lines so far have been to Chinese and native populations, the enter for the European and wealthier: Intention in this instance is to con- centrate on the requirements of the the millions of nativas,
yan, by means of a trick on Decem- ber 2.
•
Mr. M. A. da Silva was for the prosecution, and Mr. F. C. E. Ren-
dail was for the defence.
Hilver tree."
was
com
upon
room
and
over-
To a representatives of the Courier
the Jav
education's only objective to-day appears to be the cramming in of ful competition in the struggle for Knowledge necessary for Success position and wealth. It drivca home the doctrine of the survival of the fittest right from Outlining the case for the pro-
Infant's secution, Mr. Silva said that for turns out a mob of hardened self-
examination one to have a proper perspective of centred individualists when, to my Mr. Forth said that the new company the case, one must have od mind it should be concentrating-Murray Inland Fisheries. Lid-will knowledge of Chinese credulity, and universal harmony.
the promotion of co-operation have, se a foundation to its activities, The trick which the defendant cm. The present economic cataclyam immenso shoals of which abound in the export to the East of sardines, ployed to obtain the $150
in the direct outcome of our present the raters of the Murray Jalands. popularly known as "planting the day, educational system. In its These shoals of fla's are so close in- nexiect of the only really worth shore as to obviate entirely the use At about 1.90 p.m. on November betterment of man's relationship to trawlers, &c., suitable nets and din-
while
life'n objectives the of expensive oquipment, such a 27, went on Mr. Silva, the
A fellow men and the universe nya being quite sufficient for gather plainant, who was the wife of the whole civilization has manager of the Yaumati Theatre. Inancial and economic spheres of poses. Mr. Forth added that negotia- enched itself in its inventive, ing supplies for the company's pur was walking along Jordan Rand operation and is now in imminent tlons had fan made with a leading with her sister when defendant langer of smashing itself to pieces firm in Java, who stopped them and asked her if she on the rocks of insensate materia- handle posthly from 200 to 500 tons are prepared to avanted to have her fortune told. ism.
of salted and sun-dried sardines. This She was finally persuaded to do pr
Our world, as it stands to-day, is method of curing is the least costly and taken to a house in Reclama teachings of the past and we who fish, that makes possible the company the creation of the thought and of all, and it is this factor, combined with the low cost of harvesting the tion Street where she was given are alive to-day all share in the landing its products on certain "charms” and asked to say responsibility for what it is to be-market at a price which will meet certain prayers. Several inter some in the future. Thought is the native purses. views followed between the com creation and education's only aim plainant and the defendant, after and object should be the propaga- which the latter asked for $160 ton of progressive concordant "If Australian manufacturera want promising to get her $6,000 or thought. $7,000 in return. He anid he would
to establish a market for any part!- We are not working along such calar line in the East, the only way the money in a jar which he lines. Our greatest mathematicians is to have specialists trained and sent would seat up, and in a few days, and scientists, the prodigies of our over there," said Mr. T. B. Hooper, he would open it and produce a few educational thousand dollara. She said she did monomaniacs-are, at this moment. rd at the quarterly meeting of the system-apotheosized an address on the possibilition for trade with the East, which he deliver- not have the money then, and asked deliberately concentracing upon the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce. Mr. him to wait until the first of the creation of a future to our universe Hooper, who returned recently from recently described na R conglo- a tour of the East, anld that going meration
of conscious formations round the big manufacturing centres At any rate, said Mr. Silva, she moving hither and thither with of Japan, he had learned the real reas continuously accelerating velocity. son why Japan was buying such largo haid over to him $100 on Decem- ber 2. This money was given her dimensions, a confused blur of In- manufacture that she was bringing commensurate shrinking
quantities of wool. Japan had got of to such a stage of perfection in her by her husband for house-keeping tense emotion and for doctors' bills. When she ess
and then nothing-wool from Australia, and exporting returned in a few days to collect
Inth to other parts of the world, thu the few thousand dollars, she found been striving to create
Christianity for 2,000 years has taking away markets that Britain that the jar was not in evidence. realism of perpetual harmony as whent wherever she could buy it at 14 future once held. Similarly, she obtained She accordingly asked for money back, but defendant re-indian of North America had and efficient labour was selling flour her the ultimate goal-even the Red the lowest prices, and with her cheap fused.
happy hunting grounds under con-where possible. Australia should be do Complainant then gave evidence trattion before civilization crushing that herself. The Japanese were of meeting the defendant in Lned him out of existence and all able to export hostery, sandaboen, and street and of having been given that this egotistical, bombastic are numerous other articles of good qual some "charma" to swallow on can promise is a wild confusion ofjity at extremely low prices, for her several occasions. She said she hectic emotion and agonising reac- labour was not only cheap, but highly handed over the $160 thinking that tion, a bloody arena of elimination she would get $6,000 or $7,000. and firm oblivion.
month.
Handed Over Money.
Cross-examining, Mr. Rendall We had a thousand times better said part of his defence was that Ket back to the stone-age or the the charge had been trumped up by aboriginal life of Central Africa the complainant, as the defendant with their feeble glimmerings of had stated in answer to the charge eventual harmony than carry on when he was taken to the Yaumati moment longer with our modern Police Station.
education and all its nordid, materialist misconceptions.
X.
The hearing was adjourned.
Traveller'a Advico.
to other parts of the
world
skilled. He found the same poverty in Indo-China, Cambodia, and Stam Java presented one of the beat naton- as obtained in any parts of the East. tal markets for Australian goods. It was most important for Australian traders to remember that conditions varied greatly in the East, and for that tenson he advocated the sending of specialists for a long period, so that they could learn the language, and get a knowledge of what was re- quired in the country.
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