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Port of Spain, Oct. 23. A Government-run railway, about 100 miles long, is Trinidad's biggest "white elephant.”
The main line, about 60 miles long, runs from here through San Fernando, the southern capital, to Siparia, near the south coast. There are two small branch lines.
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The annual loss on the rail, he wod for the construction of way is running at the rate of much-needed react.
Indian dollars (about £400,000),
what lo
about 2,000,000 British West Other people argue that the a serious deficit for such a small away is still useful for carry- molasses, ing cement, petrol, tsiand. It means in effect that heavy machinery, and other bulk to keep
ad-treight, generally ad-
Still others believe itted to be a dead-end tran- that the solution would be for Jort system
in operation each the Government to turn the woman And child in undertaking over to private Trinidad, with a population of enterprise. Advocates of this about 700,000, in debited with solution
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FOR SALE
threw dollars a year.
Two Million!
Taxpayers who have to
And
this sum expressed their views ecently in a letter to the Trinidad Guardian, written and published in the everyday fesnguage used by Creoles.
say
that the
until last year, ran an tr
bus service, also at a loss. This bus service was transferred to West Indian hands and it is now making money despite the fact that the fares have been reduced.
People say openly that in any case, the Government should rid self of this persistently Jasing enterprise.
Lose Fortune
"You mean dai dey aint got whole Guvern-
ayboy in de
"You mean to tell me, sah," the writer, Louis Carballo, said, "ut we de poh taxpayers in dis country will have to pay two #CRAP ZINC. Approx 1,500 is avali whole milion dollahe again just
for de fun of watching the trainment here wah know wah to do.
with bizness won ce cant pay.” Carballo wrote in another part of his letter,
able central district,
CL Chinus Mali.“
Chery W IM
!
Fun.
"Last veur Ah tink we lost tree sition dollars; dat is just de
YE OLDE MILL. A distinctive hand- made stationery, in boxes, 50 sheois Post vo notepaper 50 nvelopes. dy. If per box, Duxe ly, $16 per aunt it take to run de whole box train 8. C. M. Pouti
Civnada Government (Grenade is a nearby British West Indian island) Well, An nevih SCC moh,"
SOMETHING
ture packets
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE,
of amorted
Colice- stampa
From 20 cents per packet upwards.
An
entirely ден
Derica.
dey couldn't make de bus pay wah dey do? Well dey gee de concession to somebody else and Jook what heppenip today. You con hardly fine
room in de bus,
"Wen de Govahment find dat
Now de Poht-ab-Spain Corpom- The Luins
on the railway in Electricity Board fire dat &ulh];་་་ often aty and even the China Morning Post Ltd., Wyndhan mual report is always issued dey cant make money dey now The last avail-fferia de concesion to somebody behind schedule. able report is for 1052 and re-else.
Salisbury
Hongkong and Street. Hand, Kowloon.
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The
CITROEN
TRONG 519UGEY
ODENSE
40th Internatiorial
Motor Show opened last Woj.
nerday at Earls Court, London Trafalgar Square
Picture here shows a general view of the exhibition, Elgh- lighte at
the display Included France's sleek Citmen 2-litre saloon, Britain's 2.4-litre saloon.
twin twin
engint
design
overhead
of the
featur
samo
camshaft
basic company's
the ал Mark VII and XK140 models, and the Ford Estate Escort has which
an unusual rear door-twin panels which open to a horizontal, rather than the customary vertical, post-Express Photo,
Demonstration
UN FLAG
LETTER-WRITING Parisienne Is Last Of Old Guild
Paris, Oct. 23.
There is a great future for youth in the ancient profession of publle letter-writing, according to Paris' only surviving representative of the once flourishing Guild of letter-writers, Madame Georgette Faes.
Madame Faes, a young-looking, active great- grandmother who has been a public letter-writer for 37 years, practises her profession in a low- cellinged two-room flat above a bar near the Gare de L'Est.
Outside, a board proclaims in ve:tisements inserted in a news- Gothle print; "Public Lotter- paper brought 02 rcples to her. Writer," and a poster shows a client, a man, who is now happily woman In mediaeval dress married. dictating to a scribe in a street. Another poster says. "If you are in difculties with any kind of letter....come
the and sec public letter-writer."
Madame Facs has no standard formulae for her letters, "I try get to know the personality
it et my client and to express in the style of the letter," pho cxpining. ANY TYPE
"It is a real social study. In addition, have often Madame Facs does a flourish to act as advisor and friend in ng business in her comfortable the composition of letters." office-home. She has replaced
A great part of the public the old Implements of her trade, scribe's work nowadays consists goose-quills and sealing wax, by
writing official letters to tax and fountain-pen typewriter, and authorities, legal authorities and she makes her appointments by
behalf of tether oficials on But she can still householders
and small shop- out an ornately turn
keepers lost in the tangle of document for pre-modern red tape. These people purchment
company
TRAMPLED telephone.
IN MUD
London, Oct. 23,
sentation to retiring
written
directors and other such formal are literate. Madame Faes says, not know how to but they do
official about writing an
go
occasions.
All personal letters are hand-letter.
Extreme nationalists caused written.
Madame Fucs can
Diplomat Arrives contral Trafalgar Square here feeble scrawl of an old man, as
Was
here
Mr
this
today.
LEGAL ADVISER
6 minor disturbance during a produce lotters in the firm hand- United Nations Day ceremony in writing of a young man or the
Madame Faes has a mountain circumstances require.
She says that the traditional of reference books to help her Disembarking
task of with this kind of correspondencv. Demonstrating in front of public letter-writer's morning from the French liner youth groups forming up for
love writing
letters has fallen She also refers to a legal adviser. Cambodge over the year's "I only de Raliway Depart-
Alfred
procession, two young Nation-fl and changed with the times.
Other tasks include writing about 3,000,000 ment we fine dat dey have a
Most people can write now, Fougner, newly appointed First alists took down a blue and Indian dollars right to hole on even if dey lose Africa, Great Britain, Europe, B p.m. Secretary the Norwegian white United Nailons flag, which and young people are too shy to speeches for weddings and school speech days, copying students* for Tokyo, who will Embessy In
holsted by have their feelings expressed fly to
to his past with his wife Defence Minister Selwyn Lloyd them. But I write many letters theses and drawing up appeals. to the President of the Republic and three children shortly,
They trampled the flag in mud, for married
amnesties for people in Mr Fougner was a Vice-
from want their handwriting to be refur but wero prevented Consul of the Norwegion making off with it.
cognised. I also compose flowery prison.
maturer Consulate in Shanghai from
courting letters for
sho said. Clienta also sometimes ask her
ed- matrimonial
Ja little fortune every year.
"So let we decide now. Sell de railway and save money. is true, Trinidad, making a little rasey now, but not for dat we must trow away so much if_11,"
that Just short of It stated 4,000,000 passengers were carried and that there was a decline in fire amount of freight handled. The reduced traffic was sald to People reading Mr Carballo's be due to the "Intensive com- ruch-discussed letter wero in- petition
from road traffic clined to say in Creole "Is right." (particularly taxis which swarm | (“That's right")-China Mail Notice is heroby given that over the island) and in some Special.
to the very poor
monsure
Interim Dividend of Two Dollers and fifty cents per share on the Company's Lasued Capital has standard of equipment.” declared payable on the 24th Octo- Dor, 1968, Free of tax.
Motion is also given that the Share Regator of the Company will be cloned from Saturday, the 15th Octo ber, 1965 to Exturday the 22nd October, 1935, both dươm inclusive,
Dividend Warrants will be issued at the Registered Once of the Com pany. Noa 144-140 Des Voeux Road, Cantri lat door, Hong Kong, on and after the 26th October, 1958.
By Order of the Board, LAU CRAN KWOK. Managing Director,
Hong Kong. 31st September, 1966.
Hong Kong Birds
Herklota, G. A. C. 1953. Hong Kong Birds, Pp. vil+233, 11 pla., 8 in colour, numerous black- and-white drawings in teal. Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., HK$35.00.
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a most welcome handbook for omitbolo gists resident or station ed in Hong Kong. All the hitherto recorded species arc included; plumages are clearly and concisely described, and a short account is ilyen
of feld character, voice, habita,
etc.
The illustus,
otcept for three plates
ali
of photographs, are by Cdr. A, M. Hughen,
and include four attrac
tive plates of the hoods
of 42 species and many
beat
Tho
writer of this
Laughing Stock
It is not only the rolling stock, however, but the whole ad- ministration of the railway that is the laughing stock of the island.
Newspapers have re- ported from time to time the purchase of railway spare parts valued at £20,000 for which there
trequent was no uso,
making thefts, and detectives efforts to trace pages missing from ledgers and a shartago in funds.
Almost nu the passenger ralling stock is over-age. The coaches pre made of wood and none is equipped with brakes. But the tares are probably lower than on any other railway in the world.
For the transport of freight, more and more traders Gre abandoning the railway in favour of iho door-to-door [service provided by road
transport,
Many people on the Island think that the railway should be scrapped and one suggestion is that the idle trois could then
Protestants
Anniversary
In Paris
Paris, Oct. 23, Paris Protestants today cele-
useful drawings in the braied the 400th anniversary of the founding of the first "Re- Church in the French
review benefited
would
have
this book freatly from formed"
capital.
station-
The occasion was marked by.
in two Ho special services
Pro-
ed in Hong Kong some
ur- of Churches and Evangelical
years ago. Even now, testant churches in Paris this on referring to it, some moning and this evening, 40 unfamiliar species ganised by the Consistory on which notes were Paris Reformed made at the time have the Consistory of almost all proved easily Lutherm Chumolies. idanudable, -D, W, S.! The first Protestant church {Extrast from "The Ibis" omelet was founded in Paris in 1556 on the initiative of a visiting
organ of the British Ornithologists Protestant whose wife was ex- Unien, British Museum).
pecting 11 baby, which couple did not wish to have bapised as a Catholic.--Franice-
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY WEAPON
HYPNOTISM--A LOST ART
IN OUR TIME! BUT
I RECALL
READING
ABOUT IT.
FERDINAND
NANCY
200
NOW PLEASE BE SEATED. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE
POLICE CHIEF'S FACE WHEN I TELL HIM
ABOUT YOU.
HAW HAW --- THAT CAMEL SURE LOOKS SILLY WITH
THOSE BUMPS
JOHNNY HAZARD
WHO WOULD TAKE YOUR WORD, KOLN AGAINST THAT
OF THE NEW CHIEF OF SECURITY
POLICE F
of
had
been Just
men
who do
not
ID47 to 1840. His last post A tiny group of extremists clients, bafore his present appointment spent half an hour singing was that of First Secretary of Nationalist songs and chanting to compose the_Norwegian, Embassy in Empire slogans before quietly vertisements, or to answer them, of her matrimonial ad- Paris.
dispersing-France-Press.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
STAND STILL. AND DO NOT TURN YOUR HEAD, HYPNOTIST!
DROP THE WEAPONS!
BZZ
*AHI OBSERVE«««UNDOUBTEDLY THE MURDER WEAPON THAT KILLEDI |BX-CHIEF BRESLAUS TAKE THEM
BOTH INTO CUSTOPY?,
Bzz
ill
IT'S TIME YOU SHOWED UP!
ANOTHER WARDEN!
THEY ALWAYS TRAVEL IN PAIRS.
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
REALIZING THEIR UNTENABLE SITUATION, JOHNNY
PLUNGES THE ROOM INTO BARKNESS
OR NAGY
Ono
TALK,
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
| AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
If we were
any fresher we'd still be on the vine!
Libby's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
The most pathetic of Madame. Faer' visitors are cranks. "Hardly. a week passes without someone with a persecution complex asking me to write a letter to the President or the Pope," she says. "Thero are as many men as women. Most of them think they что being followed by would-be murderers.
"It is very sad. Of course, I cannot turn them away. I try to calm them down a bit and it- I cannot dissuade them, got them to approve a letter a9 sensible as possible in the circumstanES. After all, I do not want to take their money for nothing. After that, it is up to them whether they post the letter or not."
NO FIXED FEES
Madame Facs has no fixed- fees for the letters she writes. An ordinary short letter costs about 150 francs (about 39). Letters which involve research and legal inquiry cost more, de- pending on the amount of work involved.
The Faes letter-writing house was founded by Marius Faes in 1827, in a little booth against the walls of St Lazare prison.
Madamo Facs went into the business in 1918. She moved to. For present quarters in 1938, when the prison, was demolished,
The first public letter-writerg were monks, often the only literate members of a mediaeval
As education be community. came more widespread the task. was taken over by laymen who, formed
a Guild in 1570. .By 1778, the profession was over- crowded. Almost every strect in. Paris had letter-writers' stalls. But the introduction of universal: education ruined them.
NOW ALONE
Now, Madama Facs Is alone, But, she maintains that thero is a great future in the pro- fersion.
"A young man who really gots to work and studies all the legal pngles and details of official row huirements in taxation, divorce End so on could build up a very profitable business," she declares, and adds. "I do not think my four-year-old great-grandson will follow. In my footsteps. My children did not. But, thoro in a great future In it."--China - Mail Special.
ON VACATION
Mr Allard Merens, the Netherlands Minister to · ther Philippines, ...and Mrs. Merons" arrived here in the French linte Cambodge from Manila to spend a vacation here.
WOMAN ROBBED
Two mes approached Chinese woman and robbed her of a'wslet witóḥ 'at the junbiion) of Tale Nan Street and Yon Chali. Bterst shortly before. 11-
toddy, Thơ
escaped,
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