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TUESDAY,
APRIL 25, 1933.
ary to the World Economic Con-
ference. Indications aro CIN SEARCH OF THE
America is pressing for a bime- tallic standard and world infa- tion, the one kind of inflation which, by reason of its being: common to all countries, can be considered economically sound. An expansivo monetary policy in all countries simultanously
would lend to a higher level of
commodity valuce,
When Metaphor Meets Metaphor
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WONGNEICHONG SQUATTER
I. The Blue Pool and Road
The Very Idea!
THE ANZACS
By Edward B. Kelly. TITH a reckless disregard
Wfor the feelings and safety
By CHAS. VAN-LEO Recent reports of seemingly unending strife be- of the Anzacs, Mr. Edward Kel- ttween P.W.D. bailiffs and Squatters encroaching only, the famous War Correspond- Crown lands in Wongneichong Valley have revived in-ent, has been retained by the terest in a type of Island indigene in its truest form. Telegraph exclusively to report on the Company's annual dinner The original Squatter, however, is a very different per- at the Volunteer Headquarters son from the opportunist seeking a cheap abode who has received severe_official_censure lately. In these series of articles the writer tells of a quest which led to the discovery of a settlement of genuine Squatters and of its Oldest Inhabitant who, is a direct link with pre-Occupation days.
and
to-night.
one.
A- the
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It was started by an Australian a little under a year ago.
As Mr. Kelly does not 'an- ticipate that he will be in a fit The reputation of the Irish
condition to write his story after for committing "bulla" in the use
the function, special arrange- of figurative language vies with
ments, have been made for its that of the Scots as heroes for
publication beforehand. thrift stories. Ono such is the shattering exploit' imagined by In search of the Wongneichowkmoss-covered banks. Here a leafy
Ta-night (writes Mr. Kolly) wo an Irish member of the British Squatters the secker after one of bower opening between the gnarled
of ancient trees tempts attended the House of Commons of former Hongkong's oldest types in the trunks
course of a survey of rapidly with the coolness- of its shadó, Anzac Company years, Mr. Boyle Roche. Dur changing conditions on the Island There a woodcutter's trail diverts dinner. at the ing a stormy debate Mr. Roche is able to be fed nstray by a straying footsteps as it meanders Volunteer Head- suddenly smelled rat. But, duplication of the original article. amongst the luxuriant undergrowth quarters.. carried away with the exuber-Progress as expressed hy expan- and is soon lost to view along the mong
distinguí- ance of his own verbosity, assion of residential areas has trans-gently sloping hillside. Further other Mr. Winston Churchill would formed this once Sleepy Hollow In-up the Road, the Blue Pool is dis-shed guests were uninspiring pattern of covered, where the stream spreads Mr. Resch, Wool- say, he not only smelled it, "but to an saw it floating in the air and squares and rectangles, and the Rip itself effulgently out on issuing loomooloo Yank,
Sunburnt Van Winkle rudely roused from his from a rushy glen whose recesses the hoped to nip it in the bud." Anten years' sleep by the clang of are withheld from view and only Stockman, Dig acrobatic feat, indeed! But the hammer on rock has found it hard subtly suggested to the imagina-gor Bill, Stan screen Crone, Norman bull which is so much the delight to rediscover the fambiar land- tlon by interstices in a of connoisseurs as to have bo- marks by which in his early days of vegetation marvellous in its Lindsay, Billy Hughes, Red Ted, and luxuriance. But and other Australians too numer come a chestnut or classic, ac. he was guided to a true apprecia- diversity cording to the perceptions of tion of the full charms of a sylvan must we tell you more? The mani-ous and full to mention. It was a
countryside. Still more difficult fold delights of that walk will have great evening. one's funny bone (is that a bull would it be for him to find his con- to be seen to be fully appreciated. Several amateur Demosthenes or a metaphor?) hails from the temporaries of that race of ploncers Man has sought to capture here roso majestically to make speeches, Antipodes. An Australian one and squatters migrated from the abouts some of its glories after his but the barrage from the bar- day addresed his fellow-parlia- | mainland-the original inhabitants own abortive fashion, and in puny rackers on the 'ill was too flerce, mentarians at Canberra on a of the Island whose descendants are pots and rectangular plots they
However, we were able to ga-, point of order. His protest be-bred from the scanty Island soil greet the rambler from the way ther, in between the uproar, that' the history of the Anzac Company DAPTISTA.---Maria do Carmo Bap-gan: "Gentlemen, a member of and owing ritual allegiance to no side.
remoter ancestral village than the
in Hongkong was an interesting tista, aged 67. Died her this House has taken advantage one-time peaceful hamlet on this THE LEGEND. residence. No. 6. St. Joseph's of my absence to tweak my nose their permanent Island home.
Here is the legend: Terrace. Funeral will
pabelind my back. I hope that Here, there, everywhere there is monument 5.30 p.m. to-morrow,
TSIN LAN YUEN. (Wednesday). (Shanghai papers the next time he abuses me bea gradual transformation,
Has Always on Hand Fresh- He brought some friends along please copy).
hind my back like a coward he where the builder's handiwork of
and Beautiful Flowers of all Cöl-
to the first parade, and the follow- will do it to my face like a man, cement and concrete is taking
Dura & Vegetables for Sale or
ing Friday their friends brought Hiro. and not go skulking to the shape there has gravitated a new
friends, and the Friday after their thicket to sail a gentleman type of Squatter-the builder's
hand-attracted from up-country by A Chinese homestead reached, friends friends brought friends, who is not present to defend him- the prospect of a better wage. He adjoining one of these gardens, and the result was that there were more than 60 of the original fri- self." That may, of course, be builds his rude shack or lean-to at quickened the interest by the pos-mo apocryphal. But then, so are the nearest convenient spot in total sibility of its holding the Oldert enda friends friends" friends' fri many of the best thrift stories, disregard of priority of Crown or Inhabitant. Here were discovered-well, divide by Friday and the
rights. The pigs and its composite features: low answer's Robinson Crusoe. yet they lose nothing in the private
fowls he keeps are but a side-line. wooden hut; a lean-to serving as a As we were saying—— telling because of it.
His woman ia also but an inveter-cookhouse; and on the other side. During the evening, under the nte seeker of fuel wood on. un a storeroom where women were cloak of good-comradeship, she is not otherwise engaged in rice and paddy. A black chow Through the offices of many of our carting about that odorous and un-(most vicious of the species) bark- Australian friends we were able The proposal in England that determined Bomething labelledied at the Stranger's approach. A to purchase, at a remarkably low monetary policy and the attitude twenty-four records should be "pig-wash" in tho vernacular. hen leading an expectant brood. [cost, one (1) harbour bridge, one which should be adopted by made of British dialects has re-Opportunist and commercialist, he scrached to very little purpose (1) plot of land in Hyde Park,
the threshold. Great Britain. One of the most ceived the approval of all who is not to be trusted as of the true across
A pig three (8) gold bricks, and interesting is in the form of a are genuinely interested in the type of Wongneichong squatter, grubbed freely and nolaily in a mud alligator farm in Queensland.
He is just an ubiquitous product of bath behind the kitchen. The We would have also purchased the memorandum addressed by the welfare of the most widely spo- this building ago to be cachewed, shell note of the cicade and the Mandated Territories, only Wo Federation of Britian Industries ken language that the world has and beat left to the care of the softer call of the rock pigeon, were ran out of funds. to the Chancellor of the Exche-ever known. The need for such Public Works overseer.
in the air. The Rambler was in a The Australian national game is is played quer. The Federation arges records. is apparent. The Scot-.
peaceful Chinese countryside on this "wo-up". The game against Britain's return to the tish dialect, or rather the Scol-
NATURE'S
carly summer afternoon. An ideal with two double-headed pennies, spot to commune with Nature. which, after the bets are laid, are gold standard and suggests that tish accent. remains as ubiquit- immediate efforts should be dir-ous as ever among Prime Minis- But not all of the Valley has But the Oldest Inhabitant was tossed into the nir. If the coins ected to building up a British ters, Archbishops of Canterbury fallen under the builder's devasta-not to be found.
tion. Tucked away under one es- currency system based primarily and heads of departments. on the Empire and secondarily But nearly all other British dia which the Seeker after the Island's carpment is a most delightful walk on such other countries as desire lects and accents are rapidly oldest knopen inhabit this day REPOSITORY to come into a system related to disappearing. Certain accents took to bring him to the end of his sterling, with a view to forming and dialects, such, for example, quest. It bears the enchanting What'a in a name. There is a the nucleus of a world financial as the Scottish, retain their old name of Blue Pool Road, and the good deal when it is the title of award or the consequences, we give system. It has never regarded repute. But the great majority promise held out to the City new book or publication, just as this war cry to the Anzacs for the depression as a purely mone-of them do not. It is significant dweiler almost at his doorstep was there is something in the name of their dinner to-night for what it.
is worth. to be fulfilled beyond his fondest a newly met person. Somehow one tary problem, but considers that that those scholars and resear-dreams.
"Whoomera, whoomera, balalook, It seems that driven into fools that the name should give an present difficulties are due to the chers who are most voluble in one of her inst retreats, Nature has indication of the character of the boomerang, fact that financial policy, especi-their praise of them rarely or consoled herself for a loss of space publication or person and when it ally since the war, has become never use them in ordinary con by crowding into what has re-succeeds in so doing, the divorced from commercial and versation. The fact is that mained to her of a once. beautiful lingers easily in the mind. industrial policy, with grave de dialect, so picturesque and Valley, all her numerous artifices "The Repository" has this dis- trimont to the latter. The mem-poetical, is one of the things that for the ensnarement of the rambler tinction. It is largely a personal orandum goes on to show that most divide the British nation. from the hot and dusty streets of affair, standing miles apart from
A the City.
running stream the usual type of "terature" world gold standard as it oper-With the nationalization of a gurgles over a rocky. bed between (Continued on Page 0.) ated before the war was, in nearly standard English, the day. fact, predominantly a sterling of class divisions is drawing to standard, and the efforts which, a close.
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933.
A
aome
British Monetary Policy Disappearing Dialects already deforested hillside when sifting out the daily measure of remarkable transactions were made.
Numerous pronouncements have been made of late on the
at great cost to ourselves, we
made to reinstate it after the Making Friends Through
war were foredoomed to failure. The menarandum urges that the primary objectives of the new monetary policy should bom
Films
of
The film of Mr. Noel Coward'a (a) To raise the level of ster- | “Cavalcade,' produced by an ling prices to a figure at which American company in Holly. production can be carried on with wood, has been almost unanim- reasonable profit. (b) Toously acclaimed in England as promote thereafter stability in the best film of British interest the price structure and balanced so far made. One enthusiastic production within the sterling British film exhibitor declared area. (c) The conscious dir- that it would do more for the ection of the flow of savings into reputation of Great Britain than now investments calculated to paying the war debt instalment. secure the maximum of advanta-Continuing this strain of amiable ge for industry. (d) The dir-hyperbole, it might be remarked ection of that part of the na- that the film will do more for tional savings available for ex- America's reputation in Great ternal investment to countries Britain than cancelling the war within the sterling area,
1.c.debt instalment. This, countries of complementary course, would be an extravagant trade. Every effort should be exaggeration, but an exaggera- made to bring about a common tion, nevertheless, of a Empire financial and industrial The production of "Cavalcado"- policy, leaving the question of a with an English cast on Ameri- possible universal monetary plan can soil-opens up fascinating to be settled later. The desir vistas of reflection: What ability of a common aim and long step toward the assuring of policy within the Empire is un-permanent peace would be taken. questioned, but whether
If every country's patriotic films should necessarily precede or be were made by another land. If built up concurrently
every nation, as America has more general effort at economic done in this single instance, reconstruction depends, we think
were to begin to trumpet abroad upon the world situation, and the honour and glory of allen especially upon the Mac Donald-peoples, wars would be rendered Roosevelt discussions prelimin-
moro remote.
with
this
fact.
..
LAST RETREAT.
"What's the uso of my hunting around for expensive-looking bargaine, if you're going to tell people what we paid for overy- thing 7"
пате
come down tails first, the Pommy wins, and if they come down heads first, the Australians win.
·
ANZAC WAR CRY Free, and without thought of re-
Crocodile, kookaburan, wombat, rangatang,
Wee-o, wy-o, terramungamine, Quandong, billabong, guadablucy Platypus, emu, wallaby, 'roo, Ibis, brolgs, white cockatoo, Murrumburrah, Cowra, Coo lamon, Banco,
pine,
Boggabri, Narromine, Nevertire, Yanco.
Whoopce, Coo-ec, ha-ha-he. Anzace! Anzacs].
YAH YAH! YAH!"
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ACCOUNT RENDERED
Number of "chain prayers" sent me
last week
Number of "chain-prayers"
up
TOO BAD
torn 6
"It is hoped that a decision will be possible this year on a type of light machine-pun to take the place of the Lesain Gun,"
-ARMY ESTIMATES.
The brutal and licentious soldtory of an earlier day-especially those of us old romantics who love and remember the boss on the feed-. arm-actuating-stud-will contemp- late this rather gloomily, we Imagino.
In those days, the Lewis waa of- ten a temperamental gun, full of sudden davllries and mullshness and stoppages and sulks, as tough as a Peak rider to hounds. Tam-. ing her was a man's job, egad, and we were looking forward to it again, in due course. Who knows what fadaises the Army Council are devising in her place?
Something decadent, no doubt, In laoquored abromium stool and Lalique, Aring in two colours, old rose and powder-blue. And if you place your handkerchief against the exhaust_you get a spray of Coly Reve d' Amour, for nothing.