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Secession And Unity
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MORE PİCASSO PRICES
The extravagant prices asked and given for pictures by Picasso, which have roused interest recently, are jjustified in a tete tale of an Ameri-;
can collector.
A young woman friend of his bought a Picasso in 1999 for 9,000 dollars. She told her father, who j asked contemptuously why the blazes if she wanted to invest her money, she did not put it in a sure-
HERCULANEUM: THE BURIED CITY
AFTER CENTURIES OF
OBLIVION
BRINGING THE PAST TO LIGHT
(By Sir Percival Phillips)
MIVE labourers were digging into stead of looking down on familiar a terraced slope above the Bay garden plots and alleys tumbling
fire speculation like United States of Naples. Their pick-ztes, wield-pell-mell to the sea Steel
Herculaneum has
ed with unusual care, slipped eas- The occupants of these doomed At that time United States Steely into the soft grey soil. After buildings have no illusions as to stood at 250. Three years later she half a dozen blows they would their future. sold her Picasso for 14,000 dollars stop and emmine a winding cre- merely paused in the march back United States Steel stood at 30.
soon as to sunlight. As
other vice in the hillhide
Out of it projected a column homes can be found for them the (twisted in a curious way, and the rearguard of Resina's dwindling
of a stone wall faked population will take fight in turn, - ishoulder
and a relentless archaeologist, who alcares nothing for any modern.
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REMODELLING THE CITY TEMPLE
The City Temple, now to be
(brought up to date to meet the with hardened ash.
needs of the centripetal movement --As I watched them from
The
of population which Dr. Norwood, higher level a foreman joined the thing this side of the Middle Ages, its minister, foresees, is the sac-group. went on his knees, and be will resume his assault on the hill.
Meanwhile, the area adjoining" cessor of a more ancient Congrega gan picking out small fragments tional building in the City, the of painted stucca. A piece of the uncovered portion of Hercu Poultry Chapel"
cloth was brought to him and on laneum is under excavation, It seats some 2.500 people it he laid the debris with the hill is being cut into a series of When the site was purchased about thoughtful air of a man who was gigantic steps with exploratory Each trenches sunk at regular intervals, 60 years ago for £25,000 much con-solving a fig-saw puzzle. troversy was aroused by the action piece was placed just so, and its and house by house another street from the sea wall is recorded in a note runaing up of the City Corporation.
position was
finding its way into the open air.
You can see the result of the In this painstaking way another o evince its interest in so great bit of Herculaneum - the seaside digging in the houses already freed la movement," it resolved to present
villa of soze wealthy Romanis from lava. Walls have been
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In view of the fact that £56,000 in all was to be spent, and
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a pulpit "to be for ever held as the being brought back into the sun-built out of hundreds of fragments tored fully or in part, and where commemorative gift of the Corpora shine after more than 18 centuries with their original designs tion of London.”. minorities within the Common-
portions are missing the pattern wealth should be the concern of £500, and will presumably be rel The pulpit, of white marble, costi
A Dead City
has been traced to completion by Beyond the steep bank still en-the Curator's staff. The colours are. the Federal not of the Imperial rained in the new interior. Parliament
closing all of it but the broken up as oright and pleasing as whe Whatever the tech- nical position, this argument is notably famous pastors in
The City Temple has had two per floor and so far beneath that they were blanketed by the erup one that will meet with general Parker and Dr. R. J. Campbell.
Dr. they seem to be huddled in a vast tion — warm reds and yellows approval in Australia, along
pit, are roofess buildings, arcaded worked into harmonious designs, The Western Australian strug with
inner courts...the skeletons of and little panels in which are fan- sympathetic consi- İgle for secession has been trans-deration of the prima facie
shops, and two roughly paved ciful figures of men and birds and ported from the goldfields of Kal-
streets rising from water gates. fishes. of the West. case
It is. goorlie to the King's robing-room perhaps partly true, for in- "It isn't wrong." says a writer, "for comprising the outer quarter of Such sculpture as has been re- at the House of Lords, but the stance that the Federal tariff man to take a girl out and not spend the pleasure resort which was bur-covered in the larger villas is of ardour of the secessionists re-benefts the secondary industries dificult.
money on her.” But it's very, very ied in lava and cinders in the great great merit. Some of the marble.** mains unquenched, even in the of the east at the expense of the
eruption of A.D. 79.
statuettes and groups were found rather dampening atmosphere of pastoral and agricultural indus
Successful Speech
They represent the patient effort shattered in the debris, but have ancient and formal procedure.tries of Western Australia "We now
hear from Mr. Jones, of many years. It will take many been made almost whole again by Professor Morgan, spokesman for The Navigation Act is a
the last speaker on the programme." years more to disiater the remain- the same skilful hands. Western Australia's
said the weary toastmaster. case. con point, as is also the increasing
der of the dead city. The task is
Tender Relics tended that the petition which centralisation of the Federal Gov-banquet table made
·Jones arose 23 those around the ja stupendous one, involving the had been addressed to the King ernment at Canberra, over 2,000 at applauding
a weak attemy destruction of a living town which rescue of fragile, objects from Even more remarkable is the
the House of Lords, and the miles away from Perth It is "I'm bored from listening so much," took root above it, and is now fight-swift dissolution; beds, staircases. House of Commons, was proper to alleged that the representation in he began, "and I'm too tired to doing stubbornly against the advance and screens of carbonised wood He received, and consequently to Parliament is inadequate. that to know what I would have said if Te
my stuff. Any man who would like of the salvage corps.
found in aita and preserved ander be debated, by the Imperial Parthe special grants which have beer first on
From the old water-line - now glass. Where projecting beams of the list can read the liament with view to redress of been given to the States by the speech; it's here, all typewritten some hundreds of yards inland timber remain unprotected, their grievances. The petition, it will Commonwealth are only
tem. Thanks
where graceful overhanging bal-surface fakes off at the slightest be remembered, was drawn
upperary, and in any case, quite)
deadening conies once looked towards touch. The extrication of such after the Western Australian re-insufficient, whilst the Financial applause.
the the sea.
ground rises tender relies required inexhausti- ferendum in April, 1933, had Agreement of 1927 allowed. the "What is
to the best way to serve steeply the high-street ofble patience. shown a strong majority for Federal power to impose its will tripe?" asks a lady reader. Many peo-Resina, the successor to Heren-)
Walk through the ghostly streets secession, the voting being 138, upon the States. Western Aus-ple and it profitable, to dish it up an laneam. The lower fringe of that at midday, and if you have a lively 653 votes in favour, and 70.706 tralia, fighting for principle as novels
anfortunate town has been shear-imagination some dim picture of rotes against The proposal for well as for the removal of finan-
ed away for a distance about equal the last day of life in Herculaneum la convention to alter the Federal cial disabilities, believes that!
mind. Here is 3 (Constitution was defeated by legislation has changed the ori-guest's luggage to the bedroom
The page boy had just carried the to that from Piccadilly-circus to will come to
Leicester-square, and. covering an little shop with the morning's stock 119.031 votes to 88.275. With ginal intention of the framers of "Now, my boy,"
# said
manarea perhaps half as wide. In of freshly baked loaves and an or the referendum approval behind the Constitution
"what's your name?"
this narrow space lies the recover-derly array of vegetables and fish, it, the petition for the secession
|– “John Smith, sir,” replied the boy,
OR The best solution of the disbut they call me Billiard Cue heed portion of Herculaneum, the all recognisable their metal of Western Australia from the abilities problem is the recogni-cause I work much better with a tip." greater part of it retrieved during platters, although barnt and black- Commonwealth was therefore tion by the larger States of the drawn UF în unmitigated merits of the case of the smaller terms which claimed that States
But it is unbelievable
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Jones sat down · amid
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES The public are hereby reminded
|the last six years.
ened Hard by is a wine-seller's, There are half a dozen Roman with rows of reserve jars tilted illas generously spaced between against the inner wall, a counter the people of the western State that there is no "other way out
high walls, rows of narrow-fronted by the door bearing smaller jars, Isuffered very great, grave, besides the drastic one of seces serious, and intolerable disabili- sion, which might easily prove an
shops like those found in the and on the upper floor, where the poorer districts of Naples to-day, owner lived over his shop, the me ties as a result, both directly and example of the cure being worse that Empire Day, Friday is 2 an hotel, public baths, wine cel-tal frame of a bed standing where indirectly, of their inclusion as a than the disease. It is the spirit public holiday and that all educa- lars, and then blankness.
it was engulfed by the deluge of State of the Commonwealth that counts, and here the newtond establishments, public offices.
Main Streets And Footways flava, and a marble table which has And in urging the necessity of Primate of Australia recently and Government departments will secession Sir Hal Colebatch de said finely in a Brisbane address: not be open for ordinary business
The two main streets, with their never been moved from its original clared that it must come, "It is absurd that there is no on that day.
polished stones and cramped foot-position. Western Australia must find
ways, come to a standstill against (Continued on Page 11) reciprocity among the States K- "some other 'way 'out" of its we are Federal in spirit as well
Further water restrictions, are the raw face of a cliff, on which is troubles-whatever that enigma-as" for there must be more give to be imposed in all districts in Derched the surviving edge of OIL PIPE LINE IN THE DESERT itic phrase may mean South and take." No doubt one of the Kowloon as from Wednesday.j
Glance 90ft up; and you Australia also has hinted at main causes of secession talk by There will be only six hours sup
will see crazy tenements poised on It is stated that nearly 250.000 secession, and its Premier (Mr.New State" groups in Newply daily from 6 am
the very....... britik. Their balconies tons of oil were sent across the Butler) has championed a "hack iSouth Wales as well as by smaller and from 420 pm to 7.30 pm.
hang sheer above half-excavated desert to the Mediterranean by to the Braddon clause" move States in the Commonwealth is
houses of an incredible age, in- the newly constructed pipe-line daring February, although the
to 9 By.
Resina.
ment to secure greater financial the fact that a depression makes Six trespassers were killed on forced upon him by two Revenue line is not yet working at full aid from the Commonwealth for for division. When times are the Kowloon-Canton Railway Officers. He was fined $15, in de-pressure the States. Tasmania as well hard, pennies are watched, and two passengers met their deaths (fault one month's hard labour. has shown itself restive in regard financial burdens grow unwonted by falling from trains during
to its relations with the Federally irksome. Differences which 1934.
power.
jlay concealed in better days be
For the theft of three fountain
Magistracy this morning.
The present debate is not one come explicit and even dispropor, Views, and criticisms on Volm-pens from a shop in Des Voeux Road on the merits of the Western tionate. There is an intensifica teering are invited by H. E. Major-
yesterday, Wong Wo was fined $25, for in default three weeks gaol, by Australian case, but purely an tion of the old opposition of cen-General Borrett at the Garrison Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central inquiry as to whether its peti-tripetal and centrifugal forces in Lecture Hall to-day at 5.30 pm 1 tion can be received by the Im- matters political. Yet, whilst perial Parliament And Mr. bad times make for new demands A meeting of the St. Andrew's Wilfrid Greene, KC speaking for self-government on the part Church Council will be held to-day for the Commonwealth, points of sections of the community, at 6 pm. fout pertinently that, whilst the economic necessity and the in Imperial Parliament was compe- evitable trend of the age make The St. Andrew's Club are old Itent to receive the petition it for unification. In economics and ing a social evening to-day at 9 pm
was not proper for it to deal with politics unity gives strength. In f
ja matter which was essentially religion and education, as Dr. Le
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Sung Sek Tung was, this morning sentenced to six months" : hard labour by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the
for the theft of a fountain pen Central Folice Court this morning
from. * Chan Chin in Connaught Road yesterday.
Jan internal one in Australia. Re-Fann points out, there is need Drive will be held to day at 9 pm The RMS. Empress of Japan
ception of the petition world for more unity-State rights and timean debate and perhaps legis-State jealousies must be subor
left Shanghaf "this" morning for Chan King, unemployed, who Kobe and Yokohama, while the
CHINA EMPORIUM LTD. perial Parliament in the Imdinated to the common good of was charged before Mr. Macfadars Empress of Asia left
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destroying the all They must come together? without the not split apart. The future is ould be un-not with secession, but with
rights of units
on Saturday with being in Shanghai this morning and is ex ssion of dutiable, tobacco, at
pected here at about 10 am the Connaught Road
Wednesday morning wharves, declared that it had been
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