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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1954.
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By Galbraith Chinese
New
Underwater Explorers'
Club Assumes
Importance
Sydney.
The Australian Underwater Explorers' Club is having fun investigating the mysteries of this nation's million square miles of wealth- laden undersea territory. This expert organisation of scientists, doctors, businessmen and engineers, originally formed for recreation, is now grow- ing into an important link in Australia's development.
Their work is swiftly turning public attention to the peacetime value of trained underwater experts and their vast wartime potential. The Now South Wales Police may form a rescue group with the club's assistance, and the Royal Australian Navy is discussing its capabilities.
Fighting Nature's Destructive Elements
Winnipeg.
Canadian scientists are continuing to make sensational gains against the destructive elements of nature, according to Manitoba's Agriculture Minister, Ron Robertson, but help is needed from one of the commonest elements of all-the weather.
Robertson said that "reasonable balanced" weather on the Prairies this year would result in Manitoba farmers pocketing an extra $62,900,000, all because of new scientific developments.
The Agriculture Minister heaped high praise on scientists, government laboratories,
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perimental farrus, research or ganisations and departments of agriculture for the recent great strides in anti-ped research.
Robertson
said that New! variety of wheat, especially the rusl-resist Selkirk Variety. will acicl six bushels
Evirag
the 10
17
Canadian yield. For Manitoba's six-and-
a-half-millon
acres of whent lond, that means an adile 1
Venue this year of
$42,900,000.
Robertson warned,
more lan
however. strain of that a vicious nuw wheat rust-known as 15-B-3-- has made its appearance on the i Prairies ... and Selkirk wheat resistant to this latest 17 not scourge the grain-grower.
answer is still in hxratory," Robwrlson wadd. "But we all hope that selentisis have at least wou The race against one of the rust threats -- The 15-N-3,"
SEED DISTRIBUTED
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125,000 bushels of Selkirk wheat seed, only developer last year, been distributed to farmers in Manitoba and eastern Saskat- the two areas hardest
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comes to millions of Canadians, fall harders across the country, and make agriculture an even mare vital part of the Canadian evonomy-United Press.
British Cooking Not So Bad
London.
People used to frighten lovely Jean Gilbert with stories about British cook- ing.
veget-
sy
krvn their abits.
she was klei. "They sles roast beef with a "They pour a gluely substance which they called custard ever stewed fruit."
They fry bread in bacon fat for breakfast,"
Their coffee makes wonder- fut polish for brown shoce."
official Miss Gilbert,
taster for the Diner's Club, wondered whether she could get Insurance un her palate and digestion be fore coming here.
Bt today she said she had to Jadmit was mostly untrue.
There is a lot of bad cooking in Britain, but on the average ne more than you might find in the United States or anywhere elso Miss Gilbert has exercised lier talented taste buds,
WONDERFUL MEALS
Two enthusiastic spear-fisher- men Denust Roderick C McNeill, 35, and manufecturer Don Linklater, 33, formed the club at Sydney in October, 1952, with the intention of new ad- ventures and "good time."
Then as membership increased, their experience widened, and equipment improved, scientists became interested and the scope of the club assumed great pro portions.
It immediately became ta serious research under water, ossvined a military value as the nucleus for instructors for "frogmen" if over the need arose, and proved without
hout peer in certain resUL operations, out- and recovery
ald to the scientific
in speed and efficiency hodox diving.
The whole secret of the club's
capabilities i the Porpolse underwater breathing apparatus an Australian version of the
allows aqua-lung-which
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to move freely under- water without the hampering necessities of air and lift lines of orthodox diving.
Designed to provide a regular supply of nir to a diver's lungs while underwater, the Propulse is basically a cylinder contain- ing 2,000 pounds of compressed oir, This air is composed of ap- proximately 70 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen.
UNHAMPERED
With a Porpoise apparatus strapped to his back, it's easy for a man to move unliampered along the ocean floor 100 feet or World more below the surface. record for free swimming "skin" This was diving is 390 tent. established by Frenchman Michael Fargues who perished at this depth
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"Who's been chewing on my hockey stick?"
Lifts That Are
Both Weird
And Wonderful
Toronto.
A “Lift with a brain" untouched by human hands, made its debut here and braved new frontiers in the little-known intriguing history of vertical transportation.
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The radical departure bump into brought to light the the prosale ft most people world's scattered collection elevator esoterica.
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Version Of Hamlet
Hollywood. Hollywood today boasts a hamlet who recites "alas, poor Yorlek" in a Chinese accent while gazing at a tin can instead of a skull.
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