1957-03-09 — Page 13

What price

a

Briton

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.

Sydney.

THE Australian Govern-

ment has booked every available berth for emig- runts on the next fourteen liners to leave Britain for this country.

Do you know why" ' tell yuu: Meka athlist here have estimated that eve.y. Brin worker zeltling to this country Is worth to Aus... 20 201 average £11,000.

That is his lifetime value as a buruan production machine wikia. necen to Aurtesha's wealth Fuw m. te: fal

This gute wati recently conticulat-explains why Aus tralia, New Zealand, Canuda and the other young countries have been red will ecotinue to wel- come emigrants with open arms.

Australia

It isn't Just love of the

blue eyes,

accepted

The Bane My In Choukera 15 191

Is the son of hurmat productive malinen to the value

Aunchalin'e podeaur tumigrat PROREN so far

Lot..

44,000 m.in.

Rr. sing

thus, you

your lap shiting on one thing.

DOC'S LIFE

NATIONAL

SELPANTER

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

News From Britain WOMEN COMPETE

by LES ARMOUR

THE up and downs of newspapers anybody who sprend

British politics used to 2 terits

be

reliable ground sre-saw,

Torde

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white

Govern-

rhyth

17

bad it

The Audi Slate ments who make sure there wil be Jobs for the 14 slupkatls od magomis

How.

due to

leave Briti

I they don't work, they

Habilite.

not worth £11,600 var b

not worth twopence

nd in the nadle

period of sidustrial

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Bueyhe They'r

B.steis coming out now will

ori A

exp. 12 luni

With jus in almost every trude

except coal-mn.nang and building.

Other muning

KEWOR

URC

Industries

mushrooms.

N So

are sice industries and manu-

And facturbig generally. Comforting thing is that incdy of the industries making the biggest Aputis are Australuo

of English and Scottish panies.

bids

branches

COT

English Elect te Company. 199 example, announced this week in Quensland that they wer expanding by 700 percent,

big Blush tholor car compaînes are growing.

Are the British

emigrants really welcome mong Aus- tralians? There's certainly

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prejudice against British people. You can forget the old stories Australiana drliking wind out of

About "Pommies." That date a generation rge. The only dislike ve encountered Is due to the conduct of perhaps five per- cent of migrants who critici... everything they and.

They probably dk the same at home.

The trade unton movement here long ago cented to oppose immigration. The Australi Cenuell of Trades Unlons at ib. *ast meeting refused to accept a resolution asking for some reilue- tion in assisted migration. The Unica leaders know now

that emigrants are consumers as well as producers and therefore they create jobs for Australians.

£11,000

It's no Eldorado here.

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ANIMALS

IN COURT

Sentence Passed On Cows, Pigs, Rats and Insects

A

FIRE which destroyed a farmhouse recently was sentenced and pubilely burnt at believed to have been caused by a sparrow, without the stake-together with tho

malice aforethought, taking a cigarette-eno under ezgi the tiles as nest-building material.

A zow and har six piglets

10 appear Lavegny in

five-

The bird cannot be blamed for failing to appreciate bofore a court at

wero summone that the cigarette was still alight. If, however, the same 1457 on a charge of having thing had happened in certain parts of Europe in killed and en.on — a mcdineval times, it would have been the solemn duty of year-old child, The tow was the ccclesiastical courts publicly to declare the bird contemned to death by hang- ex-communicated and under notice to quit the district managed to ge, the pigless oft

ing, but

the defending lawyer forthwith,

with a caution, stressing their

Fantastic, admittedly-bul none the less true.

by.

Trevor Wiltshire

extrems youth End the fact that they

had па

undou bustly UMT influcneed by

Je bac CaaS-

IL Was the accepted order that the civil courts had jurisdiction over all domestic creatures, including farm animais, whlist the Church could call to trial, and procicC zentence on, all forms of

wild life from wolves and rats right end were therefore summened

and annoying

Researches by French anti- down the scale to insect pests in all seriousness to appear be- the records of ninety-two catea such as caterpillars, ants and fore the Ecclesiastical Court. houseflies.

the townspeople

when

quarles have

ph: of their mother.

brought to light

of animals being triol in tacir The defendants, described as courts between the years 1120 Rats Won Fame For Lawyer "dirty unimals

the last case being One of France's most eminet Hving in holes talled to ap to court on a charge of murderi

of grey colour and 1740,

that of a cow which we brought Jurists, M. Charsensee, won his pear, of course, laurels for his masterly defence moned. The prosecution de It was allege that the cow of the rats which plagued the manded sentence right away, had trampled on a boy asleep Diocese of Autun In the 16th but Chassenseo argued that all under an apple reo, A court century. The rats were accused the rats in the Dlocete were official duly went to the held, of appearing in great numbers Interested parties and they, too, read out the summons to the should be called Lo give row or the spot, and then evidence.

avrested the animal, It was led Bo the courtroom, tried, then The curate of every parth led out to be hanged publicly. was therefore commanded to issue a general sumino... 8. no rata u in an appearance.

WITH MEN

IN THE RUSSIAN PRODUCTION

TEAM of British pro-

A TEAM of gineers.

to

CHALLENGE

would get hooted, who visited Russia to study engineering education there. Who would believe the one have returned highly in.. W on the

Against Russla's annual out- all the miners who went on pressed with what they saw.

Only the very best are allow woni tu',

pu: of 65,000 skilled engineers rd to take up teaching and they So thats me LOWA ant ale terause they didn't ke

Britalo is producing only 5,000, are pal higher Szera 1 went

Lainties than rantees tea way th

Sixty-five thousand SON

en On a population radio, Russia's could be carne) in industry. The come down.

The rue In that .gineering diplomas certain comfort edin!tedly, was complented by awarded in Russia last year:

wer is three times the British rate. Director of

technical IL The

utterly

he fact that the woman

The British team found that insitute gets

£3,500 a up to prishetable ever happened.

tradit the ten gut sacked for and the British team of pro- course, of which two years is huge cocrprise, even with the the Russians give a five-year year, while the director of a Now

it Seriza of naughty incisting on making the fessors and engineers say devoted by seem to havy laken it

speciniired $1 got in a report presented in Lon- British

work, bonus for geting his produc apo themwelve, to cash about

engineering promp ly decomplicated because don that the quality of the have two years practical ex-

students tion target, is pali on'y £3,000," erd to end and upart the

The report says that in Russia badence

graduates is very good. perience in Industry at the end girls are na keen to become ea- They were hard at work a

of their degree courtes.

gineers ns boys, with whom pon, le of weeks ago in North

they compete on level terms. Low 091

Tori

The outstanding impact mado "We believe that many of our L'own with a buy but The

on the Brill:h tein was the girls Newmaris orly went up a little

are polotfally just stature of the teaching staffs, capable in engin.ering as boys, The Scat Tek

"The students regard him al- bul are not attracted to i. to thei dismay that a Miss

most as national heroes," sald Partly by custom and a feeling Lastle Greene was going up with

Mr Brasher, "and from what we

Inherited from the past, and them, 100.

respect." raw they were deserving of that partly through ignorance of the

opportunties,

Ten 1315

wrek nt Lury, the To-v Vele

Wedin 's- the 12,8 percent. But the Socialist

vnte rure by less than two per- rent. The other 10 percent of the voles went to a Mr Michael Wadrs.

A few hour later, newdly the same thing happened in Wales al Carmarthen. There Liberia but Tory-hacke 1 Candi Cote www.l Th Socialist cnikfate were slugging it out But it was the Toot and nail.

Nationalist Unged the balance.

the aged them to come back to werk #nd the herself Leinated.)

A

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was

"We cannot be ecmplacent about the The in- about the Caves

numbers of cur Garden

truck divers and young engineers," Lays Pro- porters who Bre on

leader of the strikesor E. Giften won't lesan, in his official report. DUN Rem

the truck

Ant

Kenneth Brasher, Mr drivers don't like? Odd, but secretary of the Institution of true, that one; and it looks, as Eles lent Engines in Britain

written, Is

though

a member of the leam, told me London and much of Southern that once the Russians have England is going to be without caught up the leeway in their standards of Ilving, great

of celebrated numbers highly skilled affair of the man who rang the technologists will be freed to

the

fruit and vegetables.

Then there is the

05

bell which called the workers to compete in the world's markets.

15 01 meeting in

company time ni Briggs and go; sacked. A cour!

looking of inquiry is in' that one end a strike was averted at the last moment by

state's throwing all the

Co-

"They will be really worth- while adversaries and, if we co not do butter, will see us out," be warned,

candidate clliation machinery into high country gold

ger

If all the three upsetters had

Each of these odd sirikes hus belonged to

party, the been

characterised polite at analysts would know attempt to take

by an over some But all three the

of just what to do

functions of management, hot by long to ona party.

Empire Loyalls Briggs shop stewards, apparent. wanted 10 decide when and

On wa Che le independent and unea "Welsh Nationalist,"

The implication is that a very large number of people are just fed up with both the Tories and The Sovintists, The Libert is who su! m

Lo formal existence

as a party, do 1101 Kem lo be very much more loved,

The dissatised

for

The miners wanted to

10

run

the

Mr Brasher (who, incidentally, is father of Britain's

medallist at the Olympics) thinks

thai, with Russian produciton for the home market at the prezent rate, the neway will have been cleared off in five to ten years.

what purposes the pro-

Indeed, P.G. Shute, perhaps Cuction line should be stopped. the country's greatest mosquito deride expert, reported this week that how the canteen tea was to be the species Culex pipiens has made. The truck drivers wanted already come out of hibernation to

¿velde who should be

and is feasting happily on good foreman.

English nesh.

Their dusire

Usually,

Culex hibernates business has not been made until the end of April but this voters have articulate and it is no part of year

life in England was so found no formal champion. Bu any official programme. Indeed, good that he just they r angry enough to adopt the trade unions are afraid of restrain himself. whatever el:mpion presents

If it ever became a sensible hima: If, Anything th will programme I would radically NATIONAL SAVINGS shake the established machines alter-Indeed abolish -union- will do.

management relations as they Another hopeful sign It way,

are known now. And the trade from Wakefield where officials development.

union lenders and things com- in the County Hall are ant ver- fortable as they are.

ing, like true Englishmen of old, the call of their government to come to the nation's rescue.

In 18 that people

this is an ugly For it idlenes quite a lot of the democratic apparatus as it is now operated The open question is just: unsathfactory. They are fired How far can they be pushed?

cf being presented with two alternatives

they like.

Rents

neither of which HAPPY? Meanwhile the outlook is tar more fun all round

STRANGER THAN

are high, It's hard to get credi!

to buy a home. And the big draw- back is that it's a long way from Bellam and homesickness is troublesome thing. But the weather is glorious, wages high, education is free and as in all young countries the

Rre

mental climate is optimistic. Faith in the future is unbound-

ed

One person in every six in

Canberra today is a post-war

migrant. And only

cent

four

per-

of migrants who reach

couldn't

comes

The call. just now, is for economy In all walks of our life.

So in Wakefield, they're Well, something likes it hero cutting all their pencils in half. anyhow.

More pencils, I scems, pre People

quitting lost in the County Hall than mosquitoes are

dramatic out and savings are expected to ensue.

If It didn't appear in bold, England---but black type in sober, responsible are staying.

may

be

the

wern

"A" Reactor-a year ahead

here ever go home to live ngeln. T British power stations will be in operation one year damage by lea.

THE most powerful atomic reactor built for use in the complete structure

The value of £11,000 per head

from

on each migraat is calculated| ahend of schedule. The reactor-a fast "breeder" design- Tho reactor, which will ed to generate 60 million watts in a uranium core the size "breed" more fuel for future of a dustbin-is being built at Dounreay, Scotland. It, reactors than it consumes, will was expected to operate in 1950. Now scientists estimate teod 16 million walls direct into

thus-

The averrge Worker in Aus- traila produces goods and services valued at £5,000 more than he consumes in a lifetime. The average ative-born worker costs the community £0,000 to maintain and educate up to working age, but in the case of a Britich migrant this cost is borne by Britain,

carcer.

it can work by the spring of 1958,

Much of the credit for thus threatened to freeze the con- achievement will go to engineers crele pressure sholl of the, now and construction exports con- roactor-shaped like cricket ball trolling a labour force of 2,000 with a diameter of 150 feet- Hit Dounrony.

they heated the cement as it mixed with... - special

tho national grid, Heat is extracted by liquid sodium in- Blend of gas.

Real purpose But its real purpose is to give scientista experience of using a "steam reactor

which- has highly economic properties.

So the Australian Government accepts the £11,000 as his total When Muiden high winds pokery.” worth if he arrives here reason-threatened lifts by two 200ft. ably young in his working cranes, they revised the build Dissoc. naval 'hangars, Word Aecond experimental reactor Ing programmo so that all used to assemble paris... of the at ·Dounrezynowe named major afting: operationg had reactor normally undertaken: Demeter=whielt. Nu will "test been completed before winter "in the open.

materials • to be „kaed 'in',: con- "ARTHUR MORLEY | Det In

sbructing and fuelling future And ^acroesia, of wire and commercial power ... sigfločia“, is This month 'when ́ ́frost' kemian were erected protect, already, well, advanced.

HIGH PAY

AZIZAZAZAZ

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At Oviedo, Spain, in the your 1540.

clothes moth was brought before 4 full court Contempt of court? Certainly muly and golem..ly charged nol, arguol the young lawyer with destroying Π valuable Some were ice old and viners

tapestry. The moth too young to make the journey. pronounced guilty ami ordered The "real" of his clients, he ex-

to be decapiated, and the whole plained, were willing to attend, moth tribe oicneed to banish- but were afraid to come out of ment from the kingdom.

because of "evlily dispose cats belonging to und plaintiffs." The case was there- upon adjourned, sine dict

their holes

Cock That Laid An Egg

miscarriage of justice, for it ja It was, of course, a grave

the larvae, not the moth, which does the mischier.

Fleas, beetles, cats, dogs and even chickens have been brought One of the strangest of all to court in days gone by. In mediaeval trials took place at Britain, taimal triata have Basle,

Switzerland, in 1474, seldom, ft ever been held, when a cockerel was accused of Ins,ead, the law of Deodand the diabolical crime of laying operated down to Victorian

Now a cock's ezt in times. on eggl the hands of wizards and witches, it seems, is a thousand times more evilly potent than

an atom bomb.

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This law directed that if by inarima.e animal, or even on chattel such

a farin cart, for example-caused the For the "crime" of delivering, death of a human being, such or making available, such animal or cha.tel was forfeit to

object Satanle

the luclears the Lord of The Manor, or to Was hastily tried, the Crown, fer plous ures.

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