SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1937.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
A. D. C. CAST FOR "OUTWARD BOUND"
NIGEL WAYMOUTH AS TOM PRIOR
CYRIL CHAMPKIN AS SCRUBBY
MYRTLE BROWN AS
- ANN
The Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club presents "Out- ward Bound" on Wednesday next at the China Flect Thea- tre. Under the skilful pro- duction of the Rev. Cyril Brown, it promises to rank an one of the Club's greatest achievements. It is finely cast, including
old favourites of the local play- going public. The accompany- ing photographs reveal the principal members of the cust, the photographs being taken. by Kobza.
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CYRIL BROWN
ENGLAND IS RUNNING
THERE Was a
Short Of TREES
time when a aquirrel could travel from one side. of England to the other without ever having to put its feet on the ground.
There were branches, branches all the way. That Une was not so very lon
ngu.
The squirrel's journey would be very different now. If it wished to take the shortest cut say from Bristol to Southend, _it_would probably get very foutsore be-
foresighted Southend Pler.
Included in the Minerary would be a dangerous tit of pedestrianjam through the heart of London..
On almost any journey through Great Britain this squirrel of the old wood- Jands would have to cross great tracts of bare tilside and downland which once were covered with ank, beech, ash and
pine.
The trees should spread over them
again.
MAN.
of the tit munity-townsman, country- landowner or landless man-tah
EVERY member
help with the reafforestation of the land.
Take the young plantations, för exam- ple. We are rather too fond of them in the wrong sort of way.
We like to piesle within their boun daries. This means
that fences Аге broken down and gates left open. And so the rabbit gains admisslun.
Even comparatively small land-owners can plant trees and receive the Govern mient's naalstance.
For plantations of Avo acres and up- wards a sum of £2-14 per acre is granted, according to the type of tree piänted.
At present 0-0,000 acres are planted yearly In this way at a cost of, roughly, £18,000.
STRANGELY enough, as not tion, we have always been auspicious of forests. We like a tree, but dislike trees.
The carlical inhabitants of Britain were terrified of the damp oak woods, with their thick undergrowth of black- hawthorn, bramble, briar and thorn, Hazel.
The woodland and its inhabitants were the loes of man, his flocks and his agri- culture in general.
But these dangers of the woodland have
The rabbit is the devouring monster of the modern woodland. It has been known to wipe out a young plantation vanished long ago. in a night. Practically
of Eround which is planted with young trees has to be wired against ini pent
every
acre
The rabbit is the main reason why our older woods are so bare of young trees. The seedings stand no chance against it. So it destroys most of the natural regeneration of the woods.
Some people show a regrettable ten- dency to purloin young trees from the plantations-especially witen Christmas
the draws near.
Honeymoon coupica are curious but regular tree-pliterers. They like to take away a little tree and plant it at home as a memento of the great event. Such a planting 12
addition to no
the na
tion's timber wealik.
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The wanderer in Epping Forest is un- likely to be crushed to death by a feroct ous bear. No case has been recorded of -n-storisk-being-dragged-down_by_wol;:
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Our national indifference to foresta 18 danger nowadays. Death no longer ronms the forests, but death might some tay come to the whole country for lack of forests und the timber which they yleid.
Timber is one of the sinews of war. We ne dependent upon other countries and Scandinavia, Portugal, -France. Russia-for enormous quantities of Um- ber.
Timber is a bulky cargo. Food is a compact one. During the last war, when choice had to be made between import- ing food and imparting Umber, shipping could not be spared for the latter,
of another
thing would
IN the event happen again,
the
xame
War
At the present time our normal Im- ports of timber are 250,000,000 worth rach
year.
Last year we Imported £1,500,000 worth of pli props alone. They could all be produced in this country. Without pit props we are helpless in war.
During the last war halt a million acres of our best timber was cut out of a total of three million acres, And a lot of the Acreage which remains 1s i unecono
11. The war was not half-way through before the Government took fright. The Acland Committee was get up to deal with the matter.
Their
ine at- report recommended forestation of 1,700,000 астев over period at eighty years,
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Soon after the war the Forestry Com. mtation was set up by the Forestry Act, it was ond of those rare Act which are so vital to the country's existence that there was no word of dissent from any political party.
IN pre-war days, forestry, to
Intents and purposes, was in the hands of private landowners throughout the country.
True, there were the Crown woods of the New Forest, Forest of Dean, Alice Holt (Hants), and a few others, but their total
yield would do little Lowards satisfying the country's needs.
The 62,000 acreage of the New Forest sounds imposing. but out of that total 10.000 acres can never be planted with trees on account of immemorial comen rights.
So the Forestry Commission set about dequiring land for planting. Up to the present they have bought neatly 1,000,- Geo acres.
But A lot of that land in useless to them. You cannot, for instance, acquire the aldes of a mountain and refuse 10 purchase the unplantable top.
The Government plan to work up to an annual planting of 30,000 acres. This cails for an annual supply of 80,000,000 young trees,
THAT scale of planling should be increased. At frast another 10,000 acres should be afforested each year.
The Forestry Commission should be helped more by the people. The private owners of woodlands should be made aware of their responsibilities.
The a haphazard methods of plant- ing, feeling and forestry must go.
And the man who owns na woodland should be made more aware of his rea- ponsibilities. He may not own a pine free, but he does possess a match. The greatest danger to the forest is fire.
of
The present aim of the Government is to produce the minimum quantity limber needed to make the nailon's home supplies sale for a two years' war.
But who would dare to prophesy the duration of a wart
Bruce
Blunt
A Lay Sermon
By Hugh Redwood
WE any of a man that he was
Wcut out for his job" and
thereby rate him above the aver age. But the same remark is true of us all.
for
our
You and Unto good works, liave been cut which God hath out before ordained. jobs, like keys EPHESIANS, 1, 10. and for a. like reason; we have doors to open, doors fore-ordained by God. Some of 113 wish we were not so ordinary, forgetting that keys of a common pattern can at times be uncommonly useful. And some of us wish ourselves just like others, blind to the fact that our opportunities lie in our very differences.
God made the doors, God fashioned the lacks and God cut the keys. To know ourselves llis workmanship should keep us both content and humble. I may be brass (with a Yale degree), but shall not look down on my
clumey
and possibly rusty neighbour if I remember his uses and am re- minded that, on a cold night, the key of the coal-collar may be vastly more useful than that of the garage. Nothing matiors savo that, when needed, the kay shall be in Ita Owner's hand.
PHYLLIS HENDERSON AS
MAUD MATHER AS MRS. MIDGET
GERALD NIGEL AS HENDY
MRS. CLIVEDEN-DANKS
TEST ANSWERS
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JOHN ABBOTT AS
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Conspiracy to Steal
SOLUTION
He dared not
Stell his
Wonder why they've hired
that new man? There's no work for him unless they get rid of somebody....
MRS. CLARKSON HAD BEEN
NOTICING HOW
HER HUSBAND WOKE TIRED
EVERY MORNING ** IT WORRIED HER. SHE DECIDED TO SEE A DOCTOR
wife
THINKS:
IT'S BOUND TO
BE ME THEY SACK! I'VE BEEN
SO NRED LATELY
AT THE DOCTOR
You see, doctor,
my husband even wakes tired
REV. W. DUKE
On Mr. Clarkson! I want you to meet Mr. Francis. He'll be working with you in this department
That shows where the trouble is. You see, breathing and heart actions bum up energy even while we sleep. Unless he replaces: energy during sleep, of course he wakes tired- Night Starved, in fact, Put your husband on to Horlicks
TWO MONTHS LATER Congratulations! Mr. Clarkson
we're making you head of our new department. Your work has bean splendid lately
Darling Lowe it
all to you!
~1-JUST-CANT AFFORD TO LOSE MY JOB-I'm still paying for the house and
furniture/
and so Horlicks every night,
Does your husband uake tired 7
WAKING TIRED reduces a man's
brain-power and efficiency, he can't do his best work — it makes him feel un- certain Remember a cupful of Horlicks last thing at night ensures the right kind of sleep gives a man vitality and energy
all day.
HORLICKS guards against Night Starvation