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100 Years Ago

The Rose, the rat of the new postal steints, made me wal tip round the island on Tues- day the 31st ultim

The accom- modations of the little vessel ure wonderfully

extensive for her dize. Besides hundsome and very airy salon, meant exelu- sively for Europeans, there are 10 less thun Ave

private cable un dock. The

CHINA MAIL

OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

So Far It's Nothing More Than A Threat

GOVT AND PRICE-RAISING

MERCHANTS

Sydney, Aug. 3.

It is just a week ago that the Government

comfortabil rushed into print with the announcement that it accommodations for the Chinese would no longer tolerate the merchants who were low, and are most ingeni-jacking up prices and controls were to be clamped

ventilated. The engenes liyect

the on immediately.

are below,

usly

are

20

part

acting, 011

and work oscillating principle,

steadily that in the after of the bout une would hardly suppose she was under weigh The speed of the steamer is very satisfactory, but this trip cannot be taken us a la fur unfortunately the lever of the Reed-pump

the broke owing to

اور گی

Sydney beamed. This was the stuff to give the troops. But so far the only ones to cop it in the neck are the bakers who at least have been faced with a rise in the price of flour, yeast and many other in- gredients.

•

-Nothing so for has been done, "When we got married we knew about the barbor who cheerfully there was a LTA rule that wives ng defective. This put up the price of haircuts by could not be with their husbands

Island

4/3 und mude it Sixpence to dearer to

shear a human than shear a sheep, or the dozens of ines that have had a penny and twopence added to them by the grocer

a stoppage of nearly an hour, and subsequently her her speed was diminished. as the hand-pump could not feed the boller. With these drawbacks. the passage round the wccupied less than four hou. Bread, of course, has always

POLICY SYSTEM - PROBE

been a jolly old political foot- The Gazette of Saturday last ball, and while bringing down notles

the appointment of

the price of haircuts may not Commision "to enquire into the

many votes at the next police

and invites the action, & huifpenny system,"

off the public to give evidence either price of bread almost cortainly

As re- ig nat

will.

The most unbelievable point of all is that the State Govern- ment is toying with the thought justments to the basic wage. of re-introducing quarterly ad-

verbally In writing. marked elsewhere stated what police system is lo be inquired into, or whether it is intended to reform the pellee of Hongkong, or to prove that there are places (which we It is unbelievable because, doubt) where it is no better. It is also remarkable that the in-hough cost-of-living is hay- unaccom- now, there is some sort of vitations should be

wire

about

panied with the names of Com-atobility

the wiredness and adjustments to

versa.

It's mad because each couple of shillings rise in the basic wage adds something like a mil- llon a year to the transport bill and our

transport already is Josing more millions a year than man cares to think

and we knew that I would have to come back home while Lew went to America."

It is nearly ume people let up on this pair. Anyway, even ́i his present tour is a complete washout, he doesn't owe the LTA anything for he helped to fill its bulging treasury with his magnifiebat play in the 1954 Davis Cup.

the

National Service Trainees--

NICE SILARE-OUT The boys at the State Dock- yard, Newcastle,

seem to be doing quite nicely. The 1,000 of them will each receive about for £58 profit-sharing bonus last year's work. This is the largest payout since scheme was introduced four years ago.

Aggregate turnover since

established 13 Dockyard was Ulis hay-

years ago has been more than £1834-million and work in inissioners, a material point: the basic

wage euch quarter hand ensures considerable for any good end the inquiry would only

more start activity for many years, anco will Berve dependa upon prices chasing wages and vice whether or not it is to

to be con- ducter by offelals. If, as we have heard, the members Dre, the Colonial Secretary, the Chief Magistrate, and the Attorney General, without disparagement to these

in the war. ally. hese gentlemen Individually.

that wio

bellove of the community who members could probably tell most about the police, will volunteer to give evidence, either verbally or in writing, to a

to a secret Commis sion, whether composed of these or any other officials, who are to manage an enquiry into the conduct of officials, and

to be his

award. public neither knows on what end the Investigation is under- taken; but many of them be- Jieve

trust it is not so →→→ - WC that

is to white-wash a rotten establishment, and that volunteer witnesses who might try to pro-

another duce

result, would prob ably neither promote the public nor their private

comfort.

под

the

any sane

about.

the call-up youths certainly do a Ane job for our Legacy-the organisation which looks after youngsters who lost their father A special parade last week passed over another £1,000 cheque, making six And It's out of the question

thousand raised by the lads in because the Federal Courts have four years. It all comes from scrubbed the adjustments, which pay day donations and would mean that people work-rate of pay doesn't amount to a Ing under Federal awards would not get any Increase whereas workmate, under # State

would

fortune,

WOOL CONFERENCE Australia's decision to

their

hold

Gstabilaboð 1945

MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1955. SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

By Galbraith Two Men Charged

gallwatt 7-8

7. RUB Port, Capt. 1944 by HEA Dervios, lo

"Well, Mr Schultz, what kind of excuse have you drummed up for the price of steak this year? - Are...... you going to pull that old drought on us again?”

Boys Winning Now They Grow

Degrees The

AB-Sea Way

London, Aug. 7.

Apples Without Pips

London, Aug. 7.

With Armed Robbery

Accused of having taken a wrist watch and a gold ring from a woman at the point of a knife, two men, Lee Hing and Woo Cheung-ying, stood trial for robbery at the Victoria District Court be- fore Judge J. Reynolds this morning.

Lee was further charged with stealing a wrist watch from an acquaintance by trick at the Golden City Theatre.

Insp. K Bodle prosecuted. jand then showled to PC Li to Evidence as to the larceny by [catch them. The constable ran trick was that the complainant, fafter the second accused who Yau Chung and his friend, bolted when he heard the shout,

went Szeto Chung,

to the but mailed to catch him. Cpl Li theatre at

at 7.15 p.m. on May 5 to arrested the first accused who buy tickets for the 9.30 p.m.

did not run

Away. PC Li performance.

met up with the woman who

Depression Moving Away From HK

The tropical depression was about 340 miles south- east of Hongkong and was moving away from the Colony at 8 am, today,

A warning wAI immed by the Royal Observatory, stating that the depression

centred - wllia milies of 19.8 degrees N.

120.0 degrees

at 20 moving northeast knots.

WRE

OmI

Ап Carlier warning stating the position of the depression at 3 am unid that the depression was intensifying.

Landlords

They mot the accused, Love, who was

known to

You, and to a shop to telephone his sta- 1wo other men.

tion; there they met the Corporal Leo told Yau that he could with the first

accused. got two

The woman immediately complimentary tickets for him and his friend. He then cognised the first accused as one asked

You to let him havo a of the two men, who had rob- bed her. The first accused took look at hig

had been robbed and took her Withdraw

and

wrist,

.ro.

Application

wrist watch peizing hold of You's took the watch off.

FOLLOW ME, HE SAID You asked for his watch be returned, but the first ac- cused, saying he could get tho complimentary tickets, asked the two friends to follow him. They waited for him while be went into a booking office. Later

he came out and told them that the man was not in hidden beside a cobbler's basket plicants, Mests So Yuck-wai and he could not get the tickets,

them to a rubbish dump where An exemption application In the respect of premises situated at ho said he had thrown

7, High Street, Victoria, watch and the ring but neither No.

was withdrawn at Supreme to could be found.

without prejudico In the meantime Det. Sgt Lal Court today, Man-yau

investigating

the to the bringing of a fresh appli- morning's

robbery arrested the cation. second accused on the roof top

"When Yau again asked for the

return of his watch, the first accused immediately handed it to another

in turn man who handed it to a third man. When the

VERS watch

eventually handed

back to the first accused,

More and more boya who Apples are growing with-han

he ran off with it. You then

The successful experiment is among several now being carried the county's out to safeguard production of cider,

aout pips at a research station cannot afford to go to university are going to sea in Somerset. instead to win their degrees while they earn.

They are studying in their time aboard Britain's apare merchant and fishing ships.

They study under a Univer- sity of London scheme instituted two

years ago which includes merchant ships as examination centres for subjects which do not need practical examina-near Bristol. tions

Not Dodgers

he

went to report to the Police while his friend went to the film show. On June 22 claimed his watch at Bayview Police Station. According

evidence to the

was

carly on the morning of June A team of

22 a woman, experts, led by

Chu Man, Professor T Wallace, director of walking near the Ntvy Foot- Bay Fruit, the National

ball Ground in Causeway and Cider Institute research station ia

when the two pocused beld hor carrying them out at the station's headquarters at Long Ashton,

with

The experiments are The men

find a ship better conducted in association a university only Bristol University,

not because they can earn while Professor Wallace has dia-

than

because there

closed that

ways had

up.

of

Mr Patrick Yu, instructed by house in Gloucester Road. Mr Wong Wai-pat of Messrs Company, apu

IN COBBLER'S BASKET

The second accused took him Deacons and to locate the knife which wus

on a staircase landing in Leck- hert Road,

Later the first accused also took the Sergeant to his lodg- ings and produced two pawn Chung's watch was redeemed, tickets, with one of which Yau

The trial is proceeding.

Schmidt

Contacts Wife

By Phone

peared on behalf of the ap-

and Lo-Yip-man, landlords of the property in dispute.

Mesers Wong Sul, Ho Chik- ting and Lie Sul-cheong, opponents who had fled respon zive applications were repre- cented by Mr A. S. C. Comber of Messrs Hastings and Com- pany,

Mr J. H. G. Way, Chairman of the Tenancy Tribunal Panel with Mr Chan Hàu-loung and Mr A. S, Abbott, gåve per- mission for the case to be with- drawn.

First Indian

Aircraft

TOOK GOLD RING

Tokyo, Aug. 8. While the second accused,

Airmen Daniel Schmidt, Woo, pointed a knife at her being

day "Enoch the first accused, Lee, took her the modern

New Delhi, Aug. 7. The first plore ever built in wrist watch and gold ring. Arden", discussed via trans-

will tako part in the They escaped, but later in the Pacific telephone today his India

International Air Show to be morning, while Cpl Ll Hon was tangled marital affaire with

held in Djakoria on August 18 patrolling Tunglowan Road he men walking in front of him, the belief that he was killed to the Indonesian

after the show, It was disclosed- in action.

here today. He followed them until he saw a constable, PC Li Fu-shu,

The show

answerable only to offelals. The rise-none of which would help | Wool Textile Research Con- they learn, bstractions at found on the station of removing received information about two his wife, who remarried in and will be presented by India

It

CAR RACKET

how

been

men

*

aro far fower.

COUBES,

and

been

from apple truitlots used in the tests. Growth sub- stances were substituted and the fruitiets continued to grow and swell to maturity.

The station Is also using radio-active isotopes in research into insecticides, sald Professor Wallace.

S. Korea

Demonstrations Continue

uld get a few shillings the world's Arst International

towards Industrial

ference has created tremendous peace. All people are hoping it the interest overseas and the tiles sea than ashore. moment is that, bad as prices und honours of those attending

An

official of the Seafarers the plps

the two accused. Goverment will be from all parts reads much the Education Service, which ad- are, the content to leave them be rather some us a doctors' plente. than meddle with wages.

ministers the scheme, says: "It Tho conference ig being is surprising how

many, boys arranged by the

Australian from good homes are studying recognised Wool Bureau and will be staged in the fo'c'sle these days. They round thes parts fer a con in Melbourne and Sydney from are not Army dodgers but can siderable time that as far 31 August 22 till September 9, GOOD LOOKING FELLOW

not afford to go to universities dealers many

concerned It will be borne in mind that

and are willing to work hard and study at the same time, nobody-nt icant nobody beyond the second-hand car business is

There is someone who can

Bug-killer spraye sometimes the official pale can be, com- Just a racket,

Not Illiterate State In the

racing Quarter

pay-the Sessions make

contaminate the fruit and nectar. pelled to give evidenca before

The Australian "They study by correspon By introducing the isotopes as Court this week Judge Curlewis Government. this

tribunal; though, secret

controls dence

taking such tracers into Insecticides It has nald it was wicked that inex- Jockey Club, which were it an open court, or

could races at Randwick and Warwick mubjects as law, mathematics, been possible to photograph the There perienced young popularly constituled.

economies, geography lock of testimony handling

and Isotopes inside the plants start get-rich-quick businesses, Farm, paid out £583,350 during would be

large sums of other the racing season which ended languages. These do not need a so trace their activity-London perhaps more than Government

examination

which people's money and keep no at the end of July. This was practical

Express Service: would like to have.

on 20

20 days racing through the would be impossible on

on a ship. records. the disjunctive particle or, be-

year.

are thousands

of don't know how these cause we believe that tho In-

During the year swabs were salles studying at Ben GOWN- furnish incomp

tax vestigation of certain iniquities people

taken from 1802 horses racing days. People who think sailors and abuses must be conducted returns if they do," he added.

have Literate

outdated secretly in

Ho made this criticism when metropolitan tracks, and in are In order to be success-

second-hand car dealers se was a positive report Ideas. The average sailor today two

la far better educated than the pleaded Kulity

having

average person ashore, Many defrauded people of large suns

maflors take degrees as a hobby.' of money.

Sydney City Council 10-London Express Service. He let pre

on a bond, spend off

£90,000 to basic in a of the Commission, sent the other to gaol,

Hittle reflected Olympic glory. of theso dealers are The Council will spend that Many but on the day.axed for its first sitting,

of experts in dressing up an engine sum preparing an athletic field the appointment Assistant - Superintendent of that has seen its best days with Policy, vacant by Mr Caldwell's a mixture of disinfectants, lysol, resimation, was

on water arkt kerosene so that even after the Melbourne Games,

wou

We

use

ful; but in such cases while witnesses should be effectually, not nominally, protected, the result should be made public.

We do not know that it first fruits

the

conferred on

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to

mado.

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como

to

Post-Olympic meetings Competitors from just about Mr Grandpre, who, except that the most smelliest old engine all countries, including Russia, 110 is a good looking fellow, and looks sweet and, with a little have promised 10 an allen, with a pretty exten- tinkering, rune beautifully-for Sydney to compete in a tweed sive Government connection, about a fortnight, then....

meeting which already is called does not posses any

Of course, there are Peculiar

Bome the Bite Olymples." qualifications for the offles; cer- | mighty fine car dealers who go tainly not superior to inspector out of their way to do a good Jarman, and other Inspectore Job, but many of them are just who have been starved out. get-rich-quick murchants, Such an appointment, while on TOUGH ON THE HOADS

enquiry Into the poller system"

Two of the people most fed is going on, shows pretty plainly up with mankind of the moment that at alt events the "aystem"

must surely.

Davla Cup in Hongkong Is not to be replayer Lew Hoad and new wife formed.

Jenny.

For the last week or so we have been fed all sorts of stories

be

Manchester-London Express Derailed

Bumper

Crop

and

After two days of trying, the young airman finally managed to get through a telephone call anniversary to his wife. She was reached dependence. at Nevada City, Ca

California.

Schmidt made the call at 10.15

Government

will mark the 10th of Indonesia's in-

The plane, an all-metal mono-

trainier,

am, but he later refused to dis-plane

known as the

cuss details of his conversation HT-2 was built entirely in India with his wife. He has made it from Indian materials except the clear he will not discuss the notor.-France-Presse. affair with outsiders until "I

have decent

settle

vately,

opportunity

a

to

a personal problem pri- Schmidt,

whose whic married lumberjack after the airman's

B-29 was shot down over North

Rice the presence of neutral truce cans

Tokyo, Aug. 8. Reports coming in from

Thursday.

home

Radio Hongkong

7.30, Announcer's Choice presented

the

Seoul, Aug, 8.

H.K.T

Time Signal and p.m. South Korea's nationwide Korea, took the call at an Air mass demonstrations against base. He and ten other Ameri-Ann (Butia): 830, Australian Programme Sumunaty: 0.03, Child- hospital at Tachikawa sir

ren's Half Hour presented by Bally are undergoing medical Trade Catalogus, The Fortnightly observers entered the second examinations there after being event on Rhythm: 7.16, Box 200

Hoview of Australian Industry; 0,45, day today as thousands of released from Communist Chine Bert Gillett at the Organ (08); wounded veterans at five other airmen made one by Hugh Sullivan (Studio): 759

Nine ports of entry in South or two calls

last night Weather Report; 6. Time Signal and

News" (Landon Relay): 8.00, - Korea "camped" near and then celebrated their return

Commentary) (London Relay) or

Announcements; with ballet, drinks and Dixieland | Special inspection team billets.

836, L'Orchestre de la Societe des Con- ceris du Conservatoire de Paris: Colonel John Knox Arnold,

1.30. Edmundo gos, and his "Orch-

can Muse (BBCTS); 9, Timo Signal. Off the Beaten Track presented by Timothy Birch. (Studia); 950. Aslan Club. “ለ Dying or Expanding Universe?" Speaker: Fred Hoyle Recorded London Relay); 10, "International .... Calare!" presented by Denise Brabant (Studio); 10,30, Spartak v. Asociation Football, Wolverhampton Wanderers (Records ed London Relar); 10,3%, Weather Radio Rapart; 11, Time Bignal. Newe heel (London Relay); 11.09. (loodnight Musley God Save The

|

REDIFFUSION

An Eighth Army spokesman music. | rice' farmers throughout the I said today no violence was re- teader of the 11 men, was the estra, A Programme of Lath Ameri-

ported during last night from

not to place a'call country indicated that this any of the five ports of entry only mun year's rice crop would reach and the situation remained un home.

changed.

"I guess he didn't want any London, Aug. 7, an all-time high, a Ministry killed and some 30 passengers today.

A locomotive engineer was of Agriculture source sald "some Korean civilians

The spokesman confirmed that more emotional shock," said a were Bource, injured yesterday at Pusan when Schmidt first attempted to call were injured today when the

a mob attempted to crash down his wife early Saturday, but Brat six cars of the Manchester- The long hot spell during HOLDEN'S PROFIT

not find her. a barbed wire fence guarding operators could London express went off the July was said to have been the

the the neutral Inspection team bil-She attempted to reach him late contributing factor, dar There has been considerable rails south of Derby.

Jets in Puzman.

Saturday but again contact was eye-lifting and muttering over Two of the injured passengers bumper crops which, according

His second attempt The Eighth Amy spokesman not made, the published record profit of were reported to be in a serious to the Ministry of Agriculture dures were pof- come on Sunday United Press, Queen; 1120, Clow Down,

and Kyodo news agency (one- £9,899 004 by General Motors- condition. Holden's Ltd.

pulled cast, would The deralled | cars

348,311,600 inflicted" and this, by implica top bushels

tions was a donial of the over- the previous work was a Company "paying its The

smashing down telephone les bordering

tecord American shareholder a 280 per the track-France-Presse.

340,572,100 night Korean police reports that

p.m. crop of

Children's Corner ---- the: Korean · WICTO bushels for. 1933....

injured by

conducted by Auntía. Valy "0.30, Mone: cent dividend, which seems

when

they

day requests --, presented by: Betty: The estimated стор

928, Biknday malibagELDÉSORMES reasonable return indood, while

would, bayonet wounde surpass by 49,000,000 bushels clashed with American guards. Australian shareholders get

Musique Ferrollen má picedented by 6 per cent. miserable

CAUSEWAY BLOCKED

Jeannette Puy: 1; Personality busirela.

The spokesman and the 1,000-

Mr J. Moore, Senior Poilco parade - Eddie Cantor: 7.10, Piano echoes - played by Georga Foyer: Rice is still a controlled item yard record breaking, proft, was an rest of it.

causeway leading 10 Superintendent, was the driver 750, Murle by Rothaturing the

of

an MG from the way days and sugges Inobon's Wolmi island, place of

OLE which was Allen Roth orchester and ohorus:. S. It's quite obvious that Lew nounced the company threw a Hoad is out of form. He is party for the press and spoke

Relay); 409, Weather report, an= by Korean to make li a free Htem, But was still blocked nowly married and he's missing of lavish expansion plans. Some

Causeway Bay Road last night, nouncements and Interlude: 8.15. there has been strong objection demonstrators. Jenny. So what? He is not the straightforward questioning by the Rhbelux Palatinate: Tokyo, Aug, 8.

journed from the Police Polka parade: 8.30, Crime does not it was loarnod "We am sending supplies to Traffle Department this morning Evening concert Symphony No.

pay starring John Lodatį, Typhoon Hope was down-first player in are sport to lose the boys anally brought the

from the poorer people to free-

MDAR Calbourne, in minor, Op.Drum 10. graded to a tropical storm to form and maybe it's not so un- newer No, there would be

ing rice because they fear the the neutral tom by bost, the natural that he should be mim no reduction in price of the

price will then become pro spokesman said.

ADCI, Hongkong,

with Mr Blesk: Hour:"10.1%' Meuric) and moon- bilive. But with advance no Jonny

Demonstrations Holden, but the company would

Inchon

Moore: In the car when the urig gawa sinni, malodi picto 50. Melbourne, Mrs Hoad did

to turn out :moré,

pora of a buno TOO blake Punky Trogi

segu Kimaan - and accident occurred.TAKA

750 Wolverhampton. any punches. She pro-

market prices www reports. Kanghing appeared likely to girls were injured in the do

rice people that

already are

„COLFOG) Oma Damage talic i. saboteur was at work: becaud to be lower than the official ‚† continue until a farned reply. ** accident and -wers indrafited to d thold sie war, upet to rend

about Low, He's grumpy, sulk- A couple of days before this Madinan Arsonist year's crop of 297,899,500 Typhoon Becomes ing rude, impatient and all the

A Storm

day but still, packed enough punch to threaten Tokyo with 40-mph winds.

Air Force weather planes not pull an located the storm at 9 a.m. 280 testod

Zweibruceken, Aug. 7. Otto Palm; 27-year-old fire- | 72

Police

Officers In Car Accident

man who started seven 'fires in ons have come up in the plat Inglon fryspection temi billet. { involved in a traffic accident In Time signal, and the news (London ·

because he liked to ride on the new fire engine, was sent to a asylum by a court here today.

The damage resulting from

was about 400,000 Marks (about £33,500 sterling).

belloved at first

the

a come the Brmous profi Police

miles south of Tokyo, moving prying into our private livodes" pear" £10-millido '

profiteering

ort

He received from either the com

the Labour to fires were all near American Inancial Ministry sources miskey Hunt of the Kaised Queen Mary Hospital,

Pollée are investigating northeast at 13 miles por hour.

Cam believed that rics end be taken. NatioOM, GORETROCI to the governe that reports that her husband was Leader, Doc Evette. And you military establishments. predicted

bet next years balsomuniste retorted that Wert Cher of the controlled excly patentaceratum wblas de sheet will be, even better for man security officials started) pad in of the They'really store she then a lone, queue writing for the free to frath Communi

China Mair very far from tears. Holdone.

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