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The Post Office authorities have the centre of London.

The point arose during the negotiations with tha Postal Workers Union for the reclassifica- tion of office for purposes of pay...

AUSTRALIA'S LINKS OF EMPIRE

MORE CONTACTS WITH MOTHER COUNTRY

KING'S SON AND WINNERS.

OF AIR RACE

(By A. Wallis Myers)

AUSTRALIA, more buoyant than

London is divided by the Post Office into Inner and Outer London, the latter excluding offices outalde a 12-mile radius of Charing Cross,"

Many offices are just on or outside the boundary line, and it was necess-

I was told by the Director of ary to obtain an exact definition of other countries because it has Posts and Telegraphs at Melbourne the centre of the 12-mile radius. as breasted the wares of economic up- that his department had enjoyed a London conditions are officially upheaval and discovered them to be record-breaking year. During the last six months there had been 14,000 posed not to extend outside" that transitory, is in high heart, limit.

The Commonwealth is nearly the new telephone subscribers, as com The difference of a few feet might same size as the United States-and įpared with 4,000 over the corres decide whether or not a staff should virtually just as self-contained-ponding period of 1993. The Christe have an increase of pay.

without having suffered its violent mas trunk-line calls throughout Aus- reactions and disillusions. Proal-tralia showed an increase of 7,000 dent Roosevelt, in reconstruction, over the peak year of 1929. has to shape his policy for a popu- All the pleasure place, where the The union put forward the popularation of 123,000,000, and the stock money is circulated, report increas view that the centre of the 12-mile is inextricably mixed.

ing business. In spite of abnormal radius is the monument in Charing] Mr. Lyona and his colleagues at weather this summer and the Cross Station yard, nj

Canberra are catering for less than water that flooded parts of Koor. The Post Office did not agree. The 7,000,000 inhabitants. and 97 per yong, Victoria, rose 80 feet

~~ Life centre was King Charles's statue, cent, of this number are of British in the open has waxed. A tropical they contended..

stock. A race that has its roots storm swept over Randwick race- disputed. clearly defined can. Ike, a plant, bé course at Sydney on a big day; the

Inquire the easier cultivated."

totalisator took in over $41,000, or

HOTLY DISPUTED:

The point was hotly Authorities were consulted. les were prolonged.

But the Post Office prevailed. King Charles won.

All the big cities of Australia-nearly £4,000 more than last year, and they have two that absorb al-One could see on the beaches that most a third of the whole popula-surfoplanes rectangular coloured tion-are soa-girt. Many In air-cushions used as floats that can America are hundreds of miles from be hired at 6d. for half an hour or the coast, and do not enjoy the 20, for half a day-were doing a First Salesman: “Em" from New calmer philosophy which oceans Im-roaring trade. York and I manufacture Persian rugs.pose. Both countries have govern- Australians' Optimism

Your Daily Smile!

for Where do you come from and what is rival your specialty?"

Second Salesman: Re-York, too. I make genuine antiques,

mittee squabbles.. and anarchy in the contests of clubs with rival rulings.. gulations which may vary Hong Kong, Monday, April 22, 1935.cording to locality are hardly

Irules at all.

...!

“Declarer's Partner”

Takes A Hand

At last the "forgotten man"";

TOKYO'S HARBOUR

IMPROVED

Years Ago

&C

*

ments that outwardly represent Witnessing half, Sydney sun-bath "I'm from New federated democracy, yet inwardly ing at the week-end—and one popu- are engaged perpetually in recon-lar beach alone will receive 50,000 *

of independent States. ciling the rival hopes and prejudices day I recollected a similar sight at one of the vast pools near Berlin, re-

* "

A young naval student was being put through the paces by an old sea captain.

what would you do if a sudden storm sprang up on the starboard1"

"Throw out an anchor, Sir." "What

would you do if another storm sprang up aft?” -

"Throw out another anchor,Sir."

Britain's Best Ambassadors fecting that these waters had done But whereas the average Ameri-more for the physical well-being of can may only admit in the privacy Germany's youth than all the radio of his own heart that his laws and drill prescribed by Hitler. Nature Institutions are founded on the Bri- has brought its great tonic to the tish model, the average Australian doors of the Australian citizen, and "And if another terrifie storm would be angry if the origin of the the result is to be seen in his opti

of the Bridge-table, Dummy, has Work Which Began 30 sprang up forward, what would you connection were even questioned. milatie bature-a nation that can

received his franchise. The voice

which might not be raised be-

OF FIRST UNIT ... ·

Tokyo.

"Throw over another anchor.""

m

**

Identity

psychologically-may have results of

The King's wọn and two British

what they had achieved, brought the heart of the Empire so much nearér | Manager (to neglected diner): "Can its outer frame that the beat could DEFAULTING DEBTOR'S INSULT: you identify the walter who started almost be heard. There are "Aying serving you, sir?"

Washington. Diner (indleating place): "Well-doctora" in 'Australia who, in aero- we've got his thumb-prints!"

planes fitted with wireless, answer A Bill has been filed here to pro calls in the bush and back country, hibit the acceptance by American: saving many lives by an angelic ad citizens of foreign gifts and foreign vent. The best "flying doctora" that decorations. It was introduced by,' Britaia has sent to the Common Mr. Harold Knutson, and the sug wealth in the last decade have been gested legislation is causing much the Duke of Gloucester and Messrs. Scott and Black,

airmen, each without quite realising Means Of Fraudulent

Propaganda

THE BRITISH ARMY DONKEY

Only One Left On Strength

AN OX ALSO RETAINED

Bridge Over The Oceans

controversy.

that were ever, de-

That brings me, the fleeting obwin back prosperity out of depres "Hold on," said the captain, "where server in Australia, to two eventssion. yond a plaintive "No spades CITY CELEBRATES COMPLETION

are you getting all your anchors which, because of their contiguity partner?"-for even the, more

"From the same place as you're and the time when they took place pointed "No trumps, partner?"

getting your storma. Sir."

-the moment was exactly right U.S.A. MOVE TO STOP was never legally permissible

No Duplication of Effort' profound significance on the future FOREIGN HONOURS. may now speak forth tren- Tokyo was en fete recently as the Marathon Banner (coming In an of the Commonwealth.. chantly on an opponent's "irre- Harbour Festival, marking the com- Timekeeper: "I didn't have to. You jeasy ́last): "Did you take my time?" gularities." The new and sim- plation of the first unit of a Y.33,-took it yourself," plified Laws of Contract Bridge 000,000 port improvement project. [recently published raise his got under way.

status, even by name. from the A ceremony, held at the mouth of impotence of "Dummy" to the the Sumida River, opened the dignity and duty of "Declarer's festival. Partner." No longer shall the

The first part of the Improvement lynx eye which detects an op-work, begun 30 years ago, includes ponent in a revoke he suffused the Shibaura quay, water gateway with the agonised expression of to the Greater Tokyo, the Hinode unspoken entreaty to a partner pler, and the Takeshiba pier,. who has not noticed. In "reply-] The Shibaura quay is 1,000 metres ing to

a player's proper ques-long and can accommodate. at one tions of fact or law, when re-time seven freighters, each displac- quested," Declarer's Partner may ing about 7,000 tons, while ten ves-

Friends, of the Bill say that honest: be exercising rights which pre-sela of 3,000 tons each can lie along-

American decorations are good, viously rested with Dummy, but side each of the two other. wharves.

Some time has now elapsed sincéjenough for the American citizen,. his new rank must surely entitle Four additional plers, being built

those envoys departed; "the' after-and there is more real honour in him to a loquacity during the by reclaiming the foreshore, are

math of their mission is still every being decorated by one's own na- If rewards for meritorious service where visible. The Duke of Glou-tion than in wearing all the for playing of the hand such as to rapidly nearing completion. These were awarded British Army don-ceater came out to Australia Imown feign baubles day he can exercise only in will accommodate vessels displacing keys, the solitary animal which in only as the son of a revered King vised to confer distinction upon post mortems.

these swiftly-moving days retains He left, behind an indelible picture the otherwise undistinguished.” The Portland Club "and its

Its place on the establishment would of bonhomie, understanding and kindred bodies show their good-

"Keep those baubles out of our surely find its way into the austere tact. heartedness not merely to that

"country" is the slogan. It is declar pages of the London Gazette.” shifting fourth of the world's

The great air race racord had the fed that such decorations are bestow "Perhaps the next best thing is to paychological effect of a sign from ed by the foreigner out of no very bridge-players, who ате tem-

ihave general report of the British Army at once a blessing and a protent

a "mentish" in the annual Heaven on Australian youth. It was friendly feeling for the United!. porarily inactive during any hand. They favour the perman-

States. The strangers' distinctions', Jently humbler elements in eard

Last year's statistics showed two The "old country's": vigour and are claimed to be, a means of fraus life by providing, a shorter,

donkeys on the ration strength.

jenterprise are vindicated in the dulent propaganda, which should be more lucid, and better arranged

Both were doing duty overacas gigantic structure, designed by Bri-fought rather than welcomed. ane at the "Rock" (on laundry fatitish brains and made of British Table of the Laws. Moreover,

What may be an honour to the by lowering the bonus

rue) and the other in Mauritius steel, that spans Sydney Harbour-citizen they affirm, is an insult to the for Grand Slam and reducing the

(attached for duty and discipline to a monument that has the same effect nation when it comes from a default, penalties for under-tricks, the

the sanitary section). The donkey of majesty, now visible, now hidden Ing debtor. superlative players are given a

at.Mauritius has since been replaced to the city pedestrian, as the Ard diminished lead in points over at the Abbey of Mount St. Bernard change is not apparent..

The Clatercian monks, established by an ox. The reason for the de Triomphe in Paris. But the those of us who may be called in Charnwood Forest in Leicester- One possible explanation is that it to complete; boya came to manhood Sydney, bridge took nearly a decade. players only on a comparative shire are to celebrate the centenary has been found necessary to retain in its progress. basis -- In contrast to men' and this year of the revival of their 800 a cadre of one donkey and one ox in women who have never learnt year-old order in England by build-order to allow for expansion in time building of the machines that were Nobody in Australfa w the Contract at all. A leas amiable ing a great Abbey Church. Plans of war. sign of democratic leaning for a stately building, drawn by Mr.

to unite Britain and Australid, parent which the Portland Club and its Frank Bradford,

During the Great War we found and child, in the miraculous perici fellows display is their new rul-clesiastical architect, have been ap- donkeys and, 14,639 oxen.

a prominent ec employment for more than 8,000 of three days. Here was a bridge, ing on "card-showing conven- proved, and already, the monks have in spite of the demand for mobility nay's gigantle edifice, that spanned

To-day, thousands of times longer than Syd-M tions in bidding. It is good that begun digging the foundation and and the claims made for the petrol continents and oceans annihilating conventions of this kind should dressing some of the stone that will machine, there is one survivor of distance and giving reality to be made the subject of an op-be used in the new edifice. ponent's inquiry, and that eccen-

each to represent the large army of dreams, trica who bid, say, "six spades:"

As the building proceeds the animals which bore the heat and

8,000 tons and over.

MONKS BUILD OWN ABBEY CHURCH Cistercian Order In England

TO COMMEMORATE EIGHT CENTENARY

Drawing Nearer To The Capital

followed by "seven no-trumpa, monks will work under a clerk of burden of those anxiour years, The Engilah visitor ands Austra- should be made to explain that works, but most of the manual la 1914-18. this is, their own peculiar way Abbot of Mount St. Bernard, Dom camels were on the strength. these new contracts. The pubik pulss bour they will do themselves. The In 1917, no fewer than $1,048 Ila heartened and reanimated", by of signalling the holding of eight clubs to the 10. But the Malachy Brasil, stated that for 90 Their services were divided between has quickened in every direction. If suggestion that certain types of years the present Abbey Church has Egypt, Mesopotamia and Aden. the Commonwealth an come nearer bidding convention (or all of remained Incomplete, "a bare nave

There is not a single survivor of to the Empire's capital by miracles [them) may be prohibited in any without tower, chance, or transepts the "ship of the desert" in the Bri- of science, it follows that Intercom- given association, tournament or This structure will be incorporated tiah Army to-day The armoured- munication within the Common- club offers a fine field for: com-

in the new building.

car has replaced them wealth must quicken in sympathy

"Mary, how could you look through the keyhole when my daughter is in the drawing room with Mr. Wright?".

"I just wanted to see if I had to. knock, ma'am.”