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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10; 1932.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
A Singleton açe is often a very valuable card, but at times it is a detriment rather than a help. The following hand was played ro- cently in a duplicate match, and North's singleton ace of clubs proved a stumbling-block to many players.
The Bidding.
Most of the South players open- ed with one club, although some preferred to bid no trump to show a very strong and with all four suits stopped. In either case North bid and re-bid diamonds, bo-
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cause of the freakish distribution of his hand. A few pairs reached a five diamond contract, which was defeated one trick, but most of them played it at three no trump with South the declarer.
The Play.
In every case West opened the jack of spades and declarer won in his own hand, but from this point the play differod consider- ably.
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RADIO TALK ON AUSTRALIA
PROFESSOR BROWN "ON THE AIR"
RECENT TOUR
Professor Walter Brown, of the Hongkong University, recently cular attention to the western toured Australia and paid part!-
half. Last night through
the microphone of ZBW he gave his impressions of the country.
"Before dealing with Wostorn Prof. Brown, "I should like to Australia in particular," said make a few general.remarks about Australia as a whole.
Australia la a large place-- almost exactly equal in area to the United States of America. It Is described sometimes ns the largest island in the world and sometimes as the smallest continent.
It presents a great variety of in- terests, geographical, geological, biological and human. And to
British people here in Hongkong. It has the added interest of being the nearest large, region occupied almost exclusively by people of British origin, and therefore, also exhibiting most of the fumillar features of our own particular brand of western civilisation.
Beyond doubt, the most impor- tant part of Australia is
astern margin, especially the south-east. There, the earliest European settlements were made. and there to-day we find the den- sest-population and the most ma- ture development. The names of the chief eastern cities-Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide are familiar to all. And few people are unaware of the gold, wool grain and timber Industries of Eastern Australia.
But western Australia is relu- tively an unknown region, not One declarer boldly led out the merely to the people outside Aus- ace and queen of diamonds, hop-tralia, but even to the inhabitants ing that suit. would be evenly of the Eastern Australian sintes divided and that the ace of clubs themselves. This marked sepura- would serve as an entry to bring tion is due to the fact that the in the rest of the sult in dummy.
great middle portion of Aus- tralia is very largely deacrt, in- capable, except in odd corners, of population, and until the construc- supporting any settled white tion of the transcontinental rail- way, forming almost a complete barrier bolween-the castern and western extremities.
He was defeated two trieks, be- cause West shifted to a heart and the opponents were able to make two diamonds, three hearts and the king of clubs.
Another declarer led a small club to the ace and attempted to re-enter his own hand by finessing the queen of diamonds. When the finesse lost, .West led a heart and
Rainless. Areas. Australia has some very attrac
the declarer was again defented.tive features, but it also suffers
One of the few players to play the hand correctly was Mrs. Anne Rosenfeld.
badly from several incurable dis abilities. It lies across those de- grees of Jatitude which, all over After winning, the first spade the globe, tend to be rainless, trick she realized that the clubs Most of the world's deserts include must be established immediately. the regions between 20 and 30 The lone ace In dummy really post-If the whole vast faland could bo degrees North or South latitude. poned the catabilshment of the suit for one round, and she was its climate would benefit enor- dragged 10 degrees further south desperately afraid of a heart shift before the elubs could be set up.
mously.
Accordingly, she led the king ofaingularly uniform devoid of large Then the Australian coast is spades and discarded the trouble-gulfs by which rain-bearing winds some ace of clubs on it. It was might reach the interior and also, then a very simple matter to by which communications might, establish the clubs while holding top cards in the other three auita. The result was that Mrs. Rosen- feld lost only one club, one heart, and one diamond, fulfilling her three no trump contract with an overtrick..
PROPERTY SALE.
$39,000 REALIZED FOR BONHAM ROAD LOT
A valuable leasehold property now known as No. 77, Bonham Road, was nold by Mr. L. E. Lammiert, by order of the Court, at his auction rooms yesterday. The purchaser of the pro- perty, Mr. Chun Kul, bought it for $30,000. Bidding started at $37,000 and rose by bidz of $500.
The property consists of all that piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoria, Hongkong, and registered in the Land Office as Subsection 7 of Section C of Inland Lot No. 753, to gether with all messuages or teno. ments, erections and buildings there. on, now known na No. 77, Bonham
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great mountain ranges, had they be facilitated. Finally, some existed in the interior, would have had a very boneficial effect on the climate.
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Western Australia, in particu- lar, is a vast region of almost 1,000,000 squarò miles-almost equal in area to the United King- dom, Scandinavia, Germany, France and Italy combined. It has no very important inlets, not 0 single first-class natural harbour, no navigable rivers and, except in the south-west corner, a deficient and unreliable rainfall. It is per- haps no wonder that more than a century after European settlement began, this enormous territory has to lay a populations of only some 450,000, and nearly all of that is concontrated in the small but greatly favoured region in the extrema south-west.
It may be of interest to men- tion, in passing, that I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. "Texas" fireen, M.II.R. for all West Aus- tralla except the south-western corner surrounding Perth. He claims to have the largest political
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Perth, the capital, has over 200,000 inlinbitants or nearly half the State's total. In the Mother Country itself, so highly cen- tralised and urbanised, the nb- normally large city of Greater London represents only some 17 or 18 per cent, of the total popula- tion. And it is surely quito' as- tonishing to find this excessive urbanisation in a "new" land where one would rather expect to find the country dominating the town and rural Industries pre- dominating over civic.
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