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A Singleton age is often a very valuable card, but at times it in n detriment rather than a holp. The following hand was played re- cently in a duplicate match, and clubs North's singleton nca of proved a stumbling-block to many playera.
The Bidding.
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Most of the South players open- ed with one club, although some preferred to bid no trump to show a very strong hand with all four
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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 cane West opened the jack of spades and declarer won in his own hand, but from this point the play differed consider- nbly.
THURSDAY..
NOVEMBER 10, 1932.'
RADIO TALK ON AUSTRALIA
PROFESSOR BROWN "ON THE AIR"
RECENT TOUR
Professor Walter Brown, of the Hongkong Univeralty, recently toured Australia and paid parts- cular attention to the western half. Last night through the microphone of ZBW he gave his Impressions of the country,
"Before dealing with Western Australls
in particular," sald Prof. Brown, "I should like to make a few general romarks about i
Australis as a whole.
Australia la a large pince! almost exactly equal in area to the United States of America. It is described sometimes as 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 hero in Hongkong, It has the added interest of being the nearest large region occupied
of almost exclusively by people British origin, and therefore also exhibiting most of the famillar features of our own particular brand of western civilisation.
Beyond doubt, the most impor- tant part of Australia is eastern margin, capecially the south-east. There, the earliest European settlements were munde, 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 Wool are unaware of the gold,
Di Krain and timber industries Eastern Australia.
But western Australia la relu- tively an unknown region, not One declarer boldly led out the merely to the people outside Aus- nce and queen of diamonds, hop.tralia, but even to the inhabitanta ing that suit would be evenly of the Eastern Australian states divided and that the ace of clubs themselves. This marked separa would serve as an entry to bring ton is due to the fact that the great middle portion of Aus in the rest of the suit in dummy.
He was defeated two tricks, betralia is very largely desert, in- except in odd corners, of white cause West shifted to a heart and noorting
nny Bettled the opponents were able to make population, and until the construc two diamonds, three hearts and the
tion of the transcontinental rail- king of clubs,
way, forming almost a complete and barrier between the eastern western extremities.
Another declarer led a small club to the ace and attempted to re-enter his own hand by finesaing the queen of diamonds. When the Anesse loat, West led a heart and the declarer was again defeated. One of the few players to play the hand correctly was Mrs. Anne Rosenfeld.
Rainless Areas. Australia has some very attrac- tive fentures, but it also suffers badly from several incurable dis- abilities. It lies across those de- grees of latitude which, all over After winning the firet 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 80 The lone ace In dummy really post-degrees North ar South latitude. of the If the whofe vast Island could be poned the establishment sult for one round, and she was dragged 10 degrees further south desperately afraid of a heart shift its climate would benefit enor
mously. before the cluba could be set up.
Then the Australian coast is Accordingly, she led the king of singularly uniform develd of large spades and discarded the trouble-gulfà br 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 be
facilitated. Finally, some
top cards in the other three suits. great mountain ranges, had they The result was that Mrs. Rosen-existed in the interior, would have feld lost only one club, one heart, had a very beneficial effect on the and one diamond, fulfilling her climate. three no trump contract, with an overtrick.
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$39,000 REALIZED FOR BONHAM ROAD LOT
A valuable leasehold property now known as No. 77, Bonham Road, was Bold by Mr. L. E. Lammert, by order of the Court, at his auction rooms yesterday. The purchaser of the pro- perty, Mr. Chan Kui, bought it for $30,000. Bidding started at $37,000 and rose by blus of $500.
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Western Australia, in particu lar, is a vast region of almost 1,000,000 square miles-almost equal in area to the United King- dom, Scandinavia, Germany, France and Italy combined. It has no very important inlets, not aingle first-class natural harbour, no navigablo rivera 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 population of only some 450,000, and nearly all of that is concentrated in the small but greatly favoured region in the extreme south-west.
It may be of interest to men- piece ar parcel of Victoria, Hongkong, and registered tion, in passing, that I had the in the Land Once a Subsection 7 of pleasure of meeting Mr. "Texas" Section of Inland Lot No. 769, to Grean, M.H.R. for all West Aus gether with all meseuages or teno- monts, crections and buildings thero-tralia except the south-western on, now known as No. 77, Bonham corner surrounding Perth. He claima to have the largest political Road
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