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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1958.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The

Elyscos Is To Got A Face

World

„Scientists “Hunt" Humpback Whales With Small Darts.

Hunter Told: 'Don't Shoot'

From Paris:

Tho Famous Champs From Wellington:

Liit.

•

Painting Is One Of The Best Pain Killers.

From Halifax: An Old Mon Say; From Calgary: Bird Lovers' Bid To Save

CRANES THREATENED WITH

Cranes From The Hunt- ors' Bullets.

EXTINCTION NO PEACE FOR HUMPBACK

Calgary.

Hunters in the southern areas of Saskatchewan, western Manitoba and east-;

ern

Alberta have been asked to keep a sharp eye out for whooping cranes.

"If it's a large and white bird, slon't shoot,"

Aubojo i Some

tou

..

of Canadto asks. be a whooping crane The innund migration of the crna, Canada's rarest birth, bes at.eady started from the North-

Territories

north- Wil W.2.CTI S-aka.chewan 10 Wire wini haven along the Texus coast of the Gulf of Mexico,

RK

About 25 of the biran that are only a step from exiliction are expected to be winging south on the 2,600-mile mitoton route, The lust of the strugglers won: 1 erive at ther desunation unt.1 | Late in November.

Critical

Period

The society says this migru. tion purs is the critical one fas

the whoop ng crane, This is the ume

trigger-happy when

people among the runs of the prairies wild-towi hunters fr away it anything that lies.

The whooping ne stan Four for Last, and Bus a wing apon of more than seven feet.

is

This year, for the fist time, its endel breeding grounds were ere found in the remote widernena

apenda it where Breas

BUNMCTS,

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Since 1939 about 60 CTUJIES have been taken into the safety of the Amuinsus National Wild- life Refuge in Texas. In the same period 30 birds were lost, mostly to careless hunters.

Last autumn,

recordi birds made the light from the No.thwest Territories to Texas, but not a single newborn crat muceceded in completing the trip. The Ave birds born thus summer may suffer the fate, the society, anys, hunters know what shooting-United Press.

samo unless they'.e

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

On Our New Storoo Scroon

CHARLES K. FELDMAN

the seven year itch

CINEMASCOPE

COLO DE LEVER

MARILYN MONROE

TOM EWELL

« my wonder al d3E SLIP OF B

Ratković by 20ve Contury-Tw

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. MARTIN & LEWIS

In

"THE STOOGE"

WHALES THIS SUMMER

Wellington.

their breeding From

grounds off Samoa, the Cook Island, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, 50-ton hump- back

whales

Are now making their annual trek south to the Antarctic.

Although the whaling season

ін

over, the 3,000-odd

mile journey down south. will not be entirely peace- They ful for the whales, will be subjected to one /

moal intensive the scientifle hunts their species has ever under- gone.

of

Men of several nationalities, armed with strengthened shot guns and 10-inch long marker darts, hope this season to mark up to 450) humpback whales.

The planning has been largely done by Mr W. 11. 1. Dawbin, zoologist at Victorin University College, Wellington, and well-known as a research scientist on humpback whales, and the cost of

SIDE GLANCES

and darts in the guns being defrayed by the Grant Com- Research mittee of the University of New Zealand.

intervals in Travelling t

the . Just four years through the islands and to whaling stations, Mr Dawbin has prepared his teams. Armed with fast launches and the special] shot guns, they will fire!

Into the of the whales. Each dart is individually num- bered. Each carries on its shaft these words, "Re- ward for return to Dis-

the steel darts Heshy bucks younger

covery.

London."

Admiralty,

One Return.. So Far

As each dart is fired, 2017 made and for- entry is

warded to Mr Dawbin In Wellington. Later this year full reports of all markings will come in.

The record to date is held by Tory Channel whaling station, Marlborough

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"This sorority needs an investigating committee-30me of the blind dates this semester have boon awful squaros!”

Sounds, Now Zealand,! where the Perano Bro- thers' harpooners have so far marked more than 60

whales. Although Mr Dawbin hopes and widely.. for many scattered reports of the findings of his darls, there has been so far only one return. This was from whale washed ashore on the north-east coast of; the North Island three months after it was murk- ed while passing through Cook Strait.

ho most important part of the work is the mark- ing going on in the islands group," said Mr Dawbin. This is the first time that any type of whale has been marked in their tropical breeding grounds in Buch number of localities.

£1

the Perabos Strait.

in Cook

Where Grass Grows A Foot A Day

Vancouver, B.C.

The administrator of one of the world's most primi- tive and largest territories is trying to sell the wonders of his land to North American tourists.

Ho la Mr F. J. 8. WIEC, administrator of Australia's wild and rugged Northern Territory where the grass grows a foot a day to a holght of 15 feet during the wet season,

Mr Wish old his territory la Ja great and lonely one and the Burface of development there bas orily been scratched.

Before acopting the ad- ministrator's job four years ago, Mr Wise

Premier of

Westen Australia,

"The $23,020 square miles of Australia's Northern Territory JK n hunter's and tourist'a

"In the French possessions, paradise. he said during a visit

the French Institute of ƒ here. Oceanin ia whales from their re- search vessel, the Tongan Government la working with its fisheries ship and In the New Hebrides a private firm. Cook Bro- thers, are working from their trading vessels.

marking Huge Buffalo Herds

Finding Answers

"Very little is known about

the humpback whale in the Pacific and indeed about any whale," said Mr Dawblin.

"We do not even know if separate groups return each summer to the same breeding ground. We don't know to what part of the ocean they go or where they return.'

"This winter and spring

many different people in It was to find the answer to The Islands have done, without payment, a great deal of important work i aimilar to that done by

"Huge herda of wild busaio wim in the rivers and creeks room the interior, crocodiles and great flocks of ducks and wlid goose crowd the coastat lakes and lagoons.

RINGS

you will always treasure

ENGAGEMENT rings WEDDING rings

ETERNITY rings SIGNET rings

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"Professional shooters market about 8,000 buffalo skins When you need most to be right year, but you could take 20,000 and not leave numbers."

Mr Wise mild that "In the "The Wet' As rainy season-or

como

a mark on the it is helpful to have a guiding hand. That is where our experts In our reputation, as we call it the grass grows jewellers of repute, is always at foot a day to 10 or 18 feet high your disposal in the important You can iterally see it grow." You

Mr Wise sald nomadic tribes of matter of choosing a ring. aborigines, still the world's most primitive race, roam the in. tertor of the Northern Territory and mounted native troopers criminals acrosy have tracked try on horseback. hundreds of miles of wild coun-

Mr Win, who is an à round. the-world trip, will visit the United States, south-eastern

south-west Africa, Mozambique Tanganyika to stud/ development problems similar to those of the Northern Terri

and

these and other questions (tory-United Prices, that the marking was being carried out, he said. -China Mail Special.

An Old Man Paints To Forget His Pain

Halifax, Nova Scotia. Harry Ironside, a 73-year-old veteran of the Boer War, believes painting as a hobby is one of the best pain-killers.

cars,"

Face Lift For Famous Paris Boulevard

Paris.

The Champs Elysees is having its face lifted.

The broad, tree-lined avenue,

once

known all over the world for its elegence, is in for a series refurbishings which will take years off its age, experts say, and confirm its claim to being the White-haired and emaciated, he was at a small upcountry most beautiful boulevard in the Ironside speake with painful railway station as a coal train

world. ก. "Somebody experience. He is slowly dying drew

who of cancer of the stomach. Doc- looked like a negro climbed out The thousands of picturesque

--bui dim-gas lights fors say he is too tall to on one of the coal

he likened to "a river of diamonds survive an operation.

said. "But be turned out to be on the neck of a lovely woman" Winston Churchill. He had will be supplemented by 2,000 hopped aboard the train during electric globes, capable of giving his escape from the Boers.” out rage, blue or white lights Mr Ironside wont to war according to the desires of the Owen Scottish Borderers

Ho

"The was in the lil-fated landing at moved but will be in the future Gallipoli In 1916. "Those an ornamental addition to the Turks were terrible," he recol- lights whose job it will be to fected, "I'm glad they're how Illuminate. allled to us. They make ter. Workers rific soldiers."

"I've been painting as hobby for quite a few years," he said in an interview at his home where he is now bedrid- den.

"But since they found I again in 1914, with the King's city 10s lights will not be re-

had cancer 18 months ago I've really concentrated on

"I do it now to occupy my mind. And it works, I forget pain once I get engrossed in the painting," he said.

Met Churchill Mr Ironsido Edinburgh, Scotland. He was

South Africa with

wad

born in

Not For Sale

are already engaged in turning the Champs Elysees

sum station into the mast

world.

one of its kind in the

moderelt Mor

He came to Canada in 1931, his father clul cagiver, whs but although the country was

In the depths of the depresalon have a huge mezzanine over 140 the Boer War broke out. The

he sal always Scotsman

ho joined an young

found work feet long in which the leading During

the last war he was in English zcgiment and zaw action in several

the Veterans Guard at Kit-torce of the Champs Elyse skirmishes

Ale|will xxpose their wares, with the Boers,

obener, Ontario, and later re-

along the platforms will And sald blo

cruited mechanics for the naval be other display cases, each of most vivid memory of that war was when dockyard. He married 18 years which will be fashioned on the

ago and he and his wife now painting of an

an old master. live on their pensions and take| At the Hond Polat du Champs a few boarders.

Elysees where

delight

Ho

Looks like cream...tastes like cream

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arnation

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"I don't sell any paintings," ornate flower dealgia and

Mr Ironside said. “Everybody the eyes of the summer tourist, should have a hobby, and this two city houses once owned by one in a rout painkiller as it the Duke de Morny, half brother takes so much concentration." to Napoleon III, are being com-

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