Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 19, 1939.
Library, Supreme Court
TRAFFIC PLAN: MAZE OR BOON? EMPIRE
Birmingham System Advantages
BIRMINGHAM.
BIRMINGHAM'S traffic system-a maze to bewilder
every driver who first has to tackle it, a tangle of “No-entry" and "One-way street" signs, in which motor- ists get lost or find themselves forced to travel away from the points they want to reach---
That is the gist of what was going to be written about Birmingham's traffic, but after two days of close observa- tion und inquiry something different has, to be written.
Only strangers complain of the system to-day, and Birming- ham's drivers have little to say against it. They know it works and that it works well.
There were storms of protest when it was first introduced but Birmingham hul a terrifle problem which grew up with the enor
area of narrow mously rapid growth of the population in an streets hemmed in by factories.
Without the present schemes the situation by noiy would have been Impossible.
CIRCULAR FLOW
for the laner Under the scheme
Important every part praciteally thoroughfare has been made a one- way street, the traffle flows in circles but with remarkable continuity, and jains are few and far between.
Councillor Martineau (Chairman of Birmingham Corporation Trac Can- trol Committee) answered all que
ticms.
"Our system is very successful," he said, "but please don't think that we have no regard to strangers.
"We are doing our best for the stringer who merely wants to paka; through with ring roads around the town so that they need not come into the centre.
"These roads are signposted and have specint marking on the lamp-
follow.
A
£1,000 Party For
'Miss France'
SLIM French girl of 18 was
the guest of honour recently at a luxury party at the exclu sive Hurlingham Club, Fulham, S.W.
She Is Mlle. Luctle Fagalde, daughter of General Alfred Fagalde, Fond to give her an evening of which
romantic typist dreams, every
of the wealthy American friend fandly, Mrs. R. W. van Rensselaer, spent nearly £1,000.
a
The ballroom. which is usually altered only for the club's annual Eton and Itarrow Ball Inter in the grason, was specially extended on to! the lawn.
CHAMPAGNE FOR 500
posts which make them easy to Mrs. van Renssther, who is oft
ini tall ensured that even 10. and floodlightbyg schemes.
"Our traffic system has enabled lower
traffic to keep on the move, whereas with yellow as the predominating previously there was constant con-colour, was perfect. Kestion.
OTHER VIEWS
Here are sume other opinions: Mr. C. S. Dunbar
Transport Service):
(Red Arrow
Though she drinks very little her- seit, she provided hundreds of battles of champagne for her 500 quests, and there was a dinner, and,; later, dancing to Jack Harris's band.
we rarely get
"On the whole, the scheme assist transport. Have noticed no harmful our services. Now effects. Our men talte no longer on more than five or six minutes." their deliveries."
Messrs. Cadbury Brothers Lil., Mr. Power (Midians Red Omulbus. Bournville:
"On the whole the scheme is good.
Allee Gibson, platlaum-haired parachutress, who hopes to make a new Jump record of 30,000 feet at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohto. Present record of 26,575 feet is held by Nicolai Yevdo kimov of Ruskin.
He Smuggled Diamonds In A Glass Eye
MR
[R. GODFREY TAYLOR, a twenty-four-year-old London glass-eye maker, has discovered a strange story behind a remarkable order which he received from South Africa.
He was asked to send out several artificial eyes, specially modelled with a hole behind each pupil. Now he has been told that the glass eyes were used to smuggle diamonds out of a mine.
Mr. Taylor said:- "Recently the man who
NEWS
FIGHTER PLANES FOR AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY.
Brig. G. A. Street, Minister of Defenga, announced recently that the Commonwealth had ordered a num- ́ber of fighter planes from Britain. He refused to state either the num, ber, vethe type, but sold the Jumachines would-be superior to any fighters at present in use in any part of tlie Empire.
It is believed that there will be al first line squadron of 12 machines with a reserve of at least six.
Ald for Wheat - Growers,~~~~The Premiers Conference is considering various plans to assist wheat growers! whose production costs far exceed present prices. It is believed the Conference will ultimately scclc an acceptable agreement with the Inter- national Wheat Committee before nt- tempting internal subsidies.
NEW ZEALAND
́ ́WORKERS' ́ PROTÈST
MEETING
AUCKLAND, Some 2,500 carpenters and allied workers held a stop-work meeting at the town hall here to protest against certain features of awards by the Arbitration Court,
Resolutions stressed the need for the introduction of a Holidays with Pay Bill, commented on the serious toas of wages through wet weather, and endorsed the proposal that the Government take over the entire control of the building of State houses. The men later. relurned o work.
London Banks' Help.—Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, said recently that the Buzika In London had been very helpful to Mr. Nash, the New Zealand Finance Minister, during his visit. In a cable Mr. Nash had told: him thut no conditions had been laid down either by the Government, or by the City.
Appeal to Ex-Service Min.-Vis- count Galway, the Governor-General, opening the New Zealand Returned Sokliers' Conference recently, urged ex-Service men to help recruiting. "The skies are dark in Europe.". he sald, "and all hoped that another call. to service will not have to be made. But we must do everything possible! to enhance the strength of our de- fences and put our house in order."!
How Big, California?
Sacrumento. Cal.
What's the population of Cali fornia? That vexing problem has barn sked so many times that the Callfornia Taxpayers Association decided to check up on school en- had birth
and what-
Company) very strongly in favour of but it might be a good idea if the War Fear 'Neurosis'dered the glass eyes arrived in rolments make as close an estimate
the scheme. Before its introductionį huses were restricted through the we had delays up to 20 minutes Inj centre of the city.
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this country and came to me for an artificial eye without a hole in 1 for the beginning of 19390.
as possible. The answer-6,100,000 Then he explained.
"He said he had been working where every one was searched for In a diamond mine for some years
muggled diamonds before he left.
THE crisis of last September is still costing this country thousands of pounds each week -in sickness benefits to patients suffering from "crisis neurosis." War fears, started with the September crisis and continuedHe-told-me-he-had-now”mtide since, have caused serious ner- enough money to retire."
vous disturbances, and these in turn have produced a crop of (cases of digestive troubles.
"No one, however, ever thought of asking him to remove his glass, кус Hence the holes to hide thei damonds in.
GUARDED SECRETS
This is only one of the strange) stories which Mr. Taylor can tell, He Reduced vitality due to worry has is the fifth generation of Taylors in also made people susceptible to com-this uncommon trude, and his great- plaints of many kinds which, in their grandfather made artificial eyes to erdinary state of health, they would the order of the Duke of Wellington. have been able to ward off.
Women have been particularly severe sufferers from ailments originating in "crisis neurosis." Mothers with familles form the biggest group of sufferers.
Svine of the approved societies will each have well over £100,000 to pay out in sickness benefit this year.
Mr. Godfrey Tayler works with his mother, who closely guards the secrets of many famous people whose friends do not know they have glass eyes.
West End Cinemas Ex
She once was visited by 1wo high priests from à Far Eastern temple who wanted eyes for their idal.
Her husband, Mr. Gustay Taylor, ance made a glass eye for a lion.
Mrs. Taylor showed the Sunday representative rows upon rows of cases containing 20,000 'glass be moved by the eye sceket muscles and the pupla wil even dilate in a
Show Seat Plans ces all of them lifelike. They can
"Priced scaling plan on view in natural manner. vestibule"--this was the notice dis-1 played recently in many West End! cinemas.
Following the L.C.C. Entertain- ments Committee order that the Lei- cester-square Cinema rhould close for two days West End cinema managers are drawing attention to their public seating plan.
Pasadena City Of Autos
Pasadena, Cul, Latest statistics indicate this city' [probably has more automublies In
It was alleged against the Leicester-proportion to its population than any square Cinema that people were in- other elty of the United Stues. There duced to buy Os, seats when seats al are 38,200 curs, or almost one for 3 Bd, were available.
There is no appeal from the En-average is, about one for every 10 every two people. The national tertainments Commitice decision.
1 persons.
"Rose Of Tralee" Shuns Fame
PLYMOUTH,
THE ROSE OF TRALEE"the girl who posed for the paint- ing that caused a sensation at the Royal Academy in 1932- is in England for the first time.
The girl, Sheila Galvin, now 24, has only once before left her native village of Tralee in County Kerry. Still more remarkable, she has never seen the picture that made her famous.
People in all parts of the world treasure miniatures of the painting, the work of the Irish artist, Leo Whelan, but for seven years Shella has shunned fame and hundreds of offers of mur- ringe.
Wholan met Shella at a village, dance in Tralee and took her to Dublin for a three-months' altting
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