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WIDER ROADS
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-By Thomas Dunbabin-
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"-"South Australia, third oldest Stato in the Australian Commonwealth, will celo- brate its Contenary next year with pomp and pageantry equalled only by London's Jubilee celebrations last year."
TAD the winds beer different on December 4 and 5, 1642, and again early in 1644, wo might be reading such a para- graph, but in Dutch, în our newspapers.. On the strength of a north-west gale in 1642 and on the caprice of south-east windu in 1644 hung the destinies of Australia.
In 1642 Abel Tasman formally took possession of Tasmania. carpenter, Pieter Jacobzoon, swam Ashore on December 3 and hoisted the Dutch flag on the shores of the
"eleen bechtien," now called Prince of Wales, or Watsons Bay, on the south-east coast of Tasmania, Leaving his anchorage, Tasman ran northward along the const. His course would have brought him to Bues Straits, and then to the enst coast of Australia,"
NOTES OF THE DAY
CO-ORDINATION OF DEFENCE
The strengthening of the British Defence Services led to a demand from some quarters for a Minister of Defence who would co-ordinate the work and the 'development of the Army, the Navy, and the Royal
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A strong north-west wind drove him off the coast. On December G ho took his departure from the "high round mountain" of St. Patrick's Dome and stood to the eastward, to discover New Zealand and to return to Batavia by way
of Tonga and the north coast of New Gülnen.
Again, early in 1644, Tasman was at the western end of Torren Straits, with ordera to seek a passage to The Pacife. Having found it, ho, Was to take possession of the east coast.
Plans were in hand for a settle ment here, which would have link- ed up with the Dutch plans for a settlement in Chile and for trans. Pacific traite.
Owing probably to adverse winds, Tasman did not find A passage through Torres Strails to sailed westward, put the Gulf of Carpen- toris fully on the map for the first time, and charted with fair accur. acy a great extent of the Austra- Ban coast.
A
ile hnd missed chance which never came again,
"They
have done nothing of advantage," wrote the Council of India, bitterly, In describing the voyage. The Council was still inclined to a voyage to Ohile, but nothing came of the plan for occupying Australia.
Those were the days of the Eng- lish Civil War. Then came Crom- well and the sen wars with Eng land, which gave Holland enough tu do nearer home. In the face of the growing naval power of England and of France, the might of brave little Holland declined relatively, if not absolutely.
development, of wider roads in Hongkong during re- cent years invests with more than passing interest the dis- closure made some little time back by the Minister of Trans port, at Home, that the future will most likely witness the carrying out of a project in which thoroughfares 140 feet in width will be brought into being Air Force. The object in various parts of the country. Government was not to bring the three forces under one head, in It is foreshadowed
ed a dream, the sense of making them subject roads will have dual carriage-to one control. What was wanted ways, as they are termed,
was a co-ordinating centre, which separated by ample central re- would, still leave the responsible servations, besides cycle tracks, heads of the services freedom of margins, and spaces for trees initiative and liberty of action, and and shrubs. Nothing definite recently the Prime Minister has been announced regarding announced that a Minister would the specific provisions for be appointed for the Co-ordination pedestrians, but inasmuch as of Defence, the Prime Minister Mr. Hore-Belisha has shown himself retaining the Chairman- himself a strong supporter of ship of the Committee of Imperial the-movement for pedestrians' Defence.
were
rights and safety, it is naturally. There was much speculation in assumed that their needs wil! Parliament and in the press as to also be taken into due account, who would be chosen for the post, We notice that it has been and a number of well-known names claimed in some quarters that
mentioned, but, among all the national road-widening cam-
the names suggested, that of Sir Thomas Inskip, who had previous- paigh undertaken in recent | ly held office as Solicitor-General years has not resulted in the and Attorney-General, and whose increase of safety expected, name had always been associated and, indeed, that wide roads with the Law,
was not included. are liable to engender a false His appointment. came LA Bur- sense of security, especially to prise to Parliament and public, but motorists. There may be some-ja little reflection soon led to 'a thing in this argument, but, on general feeling that Mr. Baldwin the other hand, it
bahad
made a good choice. Sir stretched to somewhat absurd Thomas Inskip has had wide ad- ministrative experience. He is is to be conceded points. It that some of the safest roads dustrious, receptive of new ideas, energetic, level-headed, patient, in- are those which look most dan-and capable of justly balancing and gerous; they compel the driver deciding upon conflicting claime or the pedestrian to exercise from various quarters. Ilia new special caution, the necessity office will call for great "drive." for which is obvious to all. and equally great last in helping Evidence on this point could be to co-ordinate the Services and thus cited here in Hongkong, where develop, a National Defence Force most of the roads are far more which will work us one harmonious
whole. tortuous than they are at Home. Considering the frequency of
can
blind corners on local roads, it are much safer than narrower is really surprising that more streets flanked by verandah- accidents do not happen at these posts from behind which pedes- points. The explanation istrians are always liable to dash probably to be found in the ten-out into the main road. But dency, which becomes ingrained just as the increase in motor in course of time, to take special traffic has hecessitated bigger · pains when approaching such and better roads, so the time corners. On the general ques- must come when special provi- tion of wider roads, it is doubtsion will have to be made. for ful whether here in Hongkong various types of traffic. The they have conduced to a larger idea of separate tracks for percentage of accidents; indeed, cyclists is, therefore, a step in the wide road will probably the right direction, and, coupled, be found to have had the where possible, with two-way opposite effect. There canthoroughfares for motorists, it certainly be no
for should be a factor in providing doubting the point that a greater measure of safety for spacious, open--thoroughfares those who go on foot,
room
And as it came to pass that the vision et a Dutch Australia remain- The Dutch are our nearest neighbours, and hold a great tropical empire in the East Indies and New Guinea.
They missed the chance of but- tressing this with n Dutch contin- ent in the south. What they might have done in Australia we can see, as in a glass darkly in the his. tory of the Boers in South Africa.
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A sense of what might have been is to be found sometimes in British writers.
"From the neighbouring island of Timor it is but a step to the north. ern part of New Holland; and it would be well to bear in mind that they (the Dutch would havo a Ju tifiable plea in planting an estab 'lishment on any part of the north- ern const of the latter, in our own example of taking possession of the eastern coast and the Island of Van Diemen, the original discovery of which by the Dutch is not to be disputed."
So wrote Sir John Barrow, Secre- tary to the British Admiralty, on July 22, 1824, in n private letter to Under-Secretary Horton. pid he have in mind, apart from the dis-. covery of Van Diemen's Land (Tas- mania) by the Dutch in 1642, the statement of Alexander Dalrymple, that the Dutch "long before Cap tain Cook are reported by Nicholas Struyck to have surveyed the cast- urn coast of New Holland" 7
It is certain, he goes on to argue, that occupancy is a stronger title than priority of discovery, Jita view that both New South Wales and Taxmania belonged to the Dutch by right of discovery, but to the British by occupancy.
His letter recalls the statement published in a newspaper of Octo. ber 30, 1786. This runs:---
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"An opposition to the intended settlement at Botany Bay has been Intely started from a quarter from which it was little expected. The Dutch have always sovereignty of it by right of din
claimed the
covory, right which has been greatly respected by the different Powers of Europe. We are credibly informed that his Excellency the Baron de Leyder, the Dutch Ambas- sadar, has received orders to remon strate with our Mimistors, in the name of the States-General, against our regular planting of a territory. which, they assert, belongs to on- other country."
The time had gone by when auch a protest could be effective. Let us look back, however, and we will see that over ♫ ceritury before the Dutch came within a hair's breadth of occupying Australia.
Seventy-one years before Cook's visit to the east coast England sent out that dark, brooding, brainy, ex- buccaneer, William Dampier, le ex- plore New Holland, which he had already visited in 1688 as one of a pirate crow. It was the first time that England showed any official in-
THE THEY are a tough, stubborn, and prolife stock, and in Australia they might have founded a great empire. Even today Dutch people In Java sometimes send their chil.terest-in-Australia.-
dren to school in Australia.
A Dutch Australia, nearer to the Netherlands Indies than we are to India, would have acted as a home and recruiting centre for the Dutch in the Indias. Each of them could have drawn strength from the other.
And to-day publicists in Austra lin might have been urging that boys ought to be taught English ing trade with the foreigners of the more freely, and talking of develop Briti Empire.
A letter forgotten in the records of the East India Office for 300 years shows that Thomas Bright and other shipwrecked English marinera spent nine days on an island off the coast of Western Australia in 1622. This, however, was but an isolated scclient.
But Afty years before the second voyage of Dampier, the Dutch had a good rough knowledge of the Australian coast from Cape York weat about to the head of the Great
SIDE GLANCES By George
Abel Tasman takus a late sigh? of the Tasmanian Courses north west wind blows hims of his course -ons that would have brought Mas to the east coast of Australia-mies, what results one can only imagine.
Australian Bight. They had din- covered Tasmania, New Zealand, the Fijis. the Friendly Islands, and other groups to the eastward, and hach
sailed right round Australia, though at long range.
Let us look at the ideas of the men who controlled Dutch policy in the South Sean 55 years before Dampier again visited the country of whose people he had written earlier:
"The Hodnadods of Monomotapa. though 11 wealth are gentlemen to these."
nasty people, yet for
The plans then laid down ought to have led to a Dutch accupation of
the east coast of Australia. They were made in the light of Tan- man's grent voyage of 1642-1643.
Meeting in the Custle of Batavia on Wednesday, January 29, 1844, the Council of India (Governor-General Argonie Van Diemen, Cornelis -Man der Lijn, Joan Mactsuicjker, Justus Schouten, and Salomon Sweerts), laid lown instructions for a voyage of discovery to the Southland by Captain Abel Jansz Tasman, and the pilot-major, Frans Jacobz Viss- cher. They were to follow the coast of New Guinea, and to seek diligent- ly to learn whother New Guinea уда neparated from the known Southland.
"It this is so (as is feasible), you should sali so far to the south-east the now van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and from there to the islands of St. Peter and St. Fran els (at the head of the Bight)."
Later in the instructions this significant passage:->
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"And in order that in future the fruits of the pains and expense Inid aut in this discovery may not per- haps bo taken away from us by some other European nation, you shall everywhere fake possession of the lands and islands visited by you, which-have-none-or-barbarous-in- habitants in the name and on be half of the incorporated Netherlands Company, with some of the custom- ary tokens, such as the sowing of fruits, or the planting of trees, the putting up of a stone, or a wooden pillar, or in some other way; in the sanre now lands you shall set up the arms of the company, with let tern cut out in wood, or carved in stone, showing in what year and nt what date you have sailed to these lands and taken possession of them as aforcauld, with a declara- tion, on purpose, that it may re- main visible, that at the first oppor- tunity people will be sont thither from here, in order to assure us the
Clark possession with permanent colonies."
"Surely SOMETHING must have gone on at the office today, You people don't just sit there without saying a word to
each other
Tasman was specifically instruct- ed to examine the "bight" of Torres Straits, to see whother. there was an entrance to the Pacific Ocean.
Why he failed to find the strait and pass through it, and then run down the coast to Botany Bay, and on to Tasmanli, we shall know, unless the lost logs of the voyage turn up somewhere.
never
If Tasman had been able to carry out his instructions, the Stadrand of Lutjegast might be proparing to erect a replica of Tasman's cottage on the shores of Kruidkunde Baal.
The Staatsraad of Nicuw Zuld Friesland would be meeting in the city of Nieuw Amsterdam beside the .inlet of Janszoon's Haven. The Stants lotterij might or might not be a burning question..
It is hard to say what would be the strength of the Scheidenheld' movement in Westen Nieuw Holland and Van Diemen's Land.. And If there was to be any Royal visit to pur Eddgenootschap, on account of the Honderdjaar-vforing, the visitor would be the Princess Juliane.
To and fro across the Tasman Zee to the Dutch Island of Nieuw Zocland would ply the vessINE of the Eendracht Stoomboob Mant- schappij.
And on both sides of the Tasman Zee men might be discussing how far the Government of Holland, in the interests of its own farmers, was likely to adopt a polley of Bepaling towards the meat, butter, cheese, and other products of Nieuw Holland and of Nieuw Zeeland,
All these things acom incredibly impossible to us to-day. The things that are actually happening, might seem just as impossible but for a couple af..shifts. In the wind- near-
ly three hundred years ago.