1957-04-18 — Page 8

A

CHINA MAIL

HONGKONG PUBLISHED DAILY, (AFTERNOONG)

Price, 20 cents per copy, Baturdays 30 dents,

Subscription: $0.00 per month. Postage: Chine and Made $2.00 Der month. UN.. Brillah Possessions and other countries $7.00 per month.

News cvetributions Always wol- come, should be addressed to se Editor, business communications and advertisiterste to the Secretary.

Telephone: 26411 (3 finas), KOWLOON OFFICK

Salisbury Moad.

Telephone: 14A,

Classified

は

Advertisements

20 WORDS $4.00 for 1 DAY PREPAID

ADDITIONAL INSERTIONS

$2.00 PER DAY

10 conta PER WORD OVER 20

Australia

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1957,

Still Ridhur

Back

On The Sheep & Ba

By H. KING WOOD

Sydney, Apr. 9. (By Air Mail)

Whatever may be said about the virtues or otherwise of. rospective State and Federal Governments there is not a shadow of doubt that the country in general, and NSW _in_particular, are enjoying greator prosperity now than at any time in history.

And this Isnt a time when for the last five years, at least, nil those people who should know have been warning of a Klump, a tightening of money, and the general threal that hard times are on the way.

There is no doubl, of course, that Australin is still happily riding on the sheep's back, but

that the fact

we ure

now

better, but any day now

some tion and the Broken Hill Water nuthority

matters Is Board started on these

a joint research expected to round A note of programme in December. 1955, fresh warning that we are on under the supervision of the

of the process, the verge of a new depression.

of Mansfield

Division

inventor W W.

A nation of spongers Organisation's

Chill | Industrial Chemistry.

These activities do not seem

Mr

the

of

The idea of the process is 19 to line up with a statement by spread a filmm of cetyl alcohol Mr Keith Brown, President of across the top of the reservoir having our second best wool the Victorian Chambers of and out at Broken H, In splie this of high wind velocities, n Births, Deaths, Marriages, selling mason ever is only part Commerce, who declared

做m were nalisfactory

has been Personal $5.00 per insertion

encouraged from earliest youth maintained not exceeding 25 words, 25

to be a nation of spongers, cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

if not propald a booking for of 60 cents is charged.

DEATHS

GILLANTIUNY AUGUSTO

April.

10th Thursday

1967 uneral travea Hongkong Puneral Parlour, Wanchai on day Jul

On the foul at Ju No Rowers by Special ro-

La

TUITION GIVEN

MODERN BALLROOM DANCE-

Suuple Method successfully laugnt, Beginners dalighted.

Wongaricio

WLGE

***

Telephons 70004).

10A- Gain stys:-'vny Road.

JAPANESE LESSONS By experienceul teacher with Univerally degree. Zany, eflective method. Very quick remuita. . Box Many successful pupils. 1. 528, HotKODE.

WANTED KNOWN

concode

DE

SPOTST PIMPLEST 'ESKAKEL' it hoals. Get tandy tube today: Two sizes available Arosa

diaperanties Leading

and

atozen.

DRESSMAKING CLASHES:-Learn cutting, sewing, drafting, tailoring. Complete leaning. Morning/after- noona/ovenings, Enroll to-day.

Loud. Wongnrichong

"Jeani

Happy Valley.

MUSICAL

FOUR- Series

FOR KANTEK presents wo theal the Living Lenigsinge

Frena Sparti italian, Germani, IU-Fi Temi records, limited editions Nine Symphocytes,

ofdon Bymphonic Haydn's meu's Harpsichord Works, Bach's Wall Tempered Clavichord

eta. Exe de 65. 750, Alexandrs livu), telephones 30186, 35037,

STAMPS

TAMP ALDUMS "Collection Builder** merles New stock Bona syllable. From South China Morning Post Lid. Wyndlisin Street and Salisbury Road, Kowloon

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held at the Board Room of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Alexandra House, 8th Floor, on Tuesday 30th April, 1957, at 5.30 p.m. to receive the Report of the Committee for the year ended 31x1 December, 1956, and approve the Accounts and to transact such other business as may be necessary accord. ing to the Constitution of the Society.

By order of the Executive Committee, H. MAITLAND,

Secretary,

to

Hong Kong. 18th April, 1957.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

"MARON"

Damaged onto er tha or

·be·surveyed by Mesera, Goddarti & Douglas at Holt's Wharf from 10 am, on April 23, 1957, and consignees are requested to have their represente Elves present during the survey.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Agonts Hongkong, April 17, 1967.

TO ADVERTISERS

SUNDAY POST-HERALD Space for commercial advertising should be booked not later than noon on Wednesdays. For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL,' 48 hours before date of publication.

Special

Announcemente „and `Clamified Advertive.

thérite de usual.

of the story,

weck that

Australians

He told the annual conference

of the Association Chambers of Commerce of Australia that the unless this was arrested nation would demy.

werks

While Government controls, embargoes, and restrictions have And much to do with this, nature niso has played a mighty of part. A virtual wiping out the rabbit pest by myxomatosis has been worth untold millions to the country and certainly

He condemned "the weaken- | world, reflected in the huge voluine of wool going from the Bateing of our moral Abre by the

ever-widening sphere of 40 called Governmerit ald."

Strangely enough this rather gone sweeping statement almost unchallenged.

Tooma

We have just inished a trip through southern NSW without alghting one rabbit, and where various graziers and landowners say that present-day youngsters on the farm look upon the sight | of a rabbit as the highlight of their month.

Trade Surplus

has

Australians of two AIFF hud been somewhat renowned as "scroungers" which is vastly different from "spongers".

trade impossibility.

for the Josl 14

A spokesman for CSIRO sald that the successful this week application of the Mansheld Process to large areas of water would be of tremendous value not only to Austrnila but to the

"For the whole of Australia the value of these savings would amount to hundreds of millions of pounds, a figure that would be multiplied many times throughout

world," he added.

the

Australia's UN

How

Australia

14

came.

MODERN-DAY⋅ KNIGHT

Knights of old rode to the Joust on a charger; 1957's Mr Kenneth Quicke, In a shining sult of armour, rides to the Electrical Engineers Exhibition at Earls Court, London, on a modern motor scooler (wlib "L" plates; and a modern miss on the pillion, Mr Quicke was acting as a flying trade mark for a paint manufacturing firm-Reuterphoto.

Former Envoy Opposes

Trade Relaxation

rapidly A scrounger was one who becoming a home of all nations was able to bring to light all is revealed in figures showing sorts of desirable pieces of whore assisted migrants This me last year we were equipment,

comforts and food from in the last 11 years, baltiing with our overseas trade at a time and place when the

The British totul includes balance. After Dine months bringing to light of such things 22,464 assisted Maltese migrants trading in the present financial was considered

general

who represent 3.7 per cent of year we have a visible

Washington, Apr. 17. Tho the total assisted Intake.

Mr Hurley affirmed that his thon 4200

President of more

Eisenhower 285,173: figures are:-British A sponger of course is quite Polish 64,803;

Mr Patrick J. Hurley, former visit to have and exporis

personal and that was purely 48,309; Untied Dutch

States Ambassador exceeded

£200.1 the opposite. Imports by

German 34,414; Italian 27,072; China during the Frankin the talk he had with the chief million compared with a reverse

executive did not bear at all on Yugoslav 23,099; Latvian Roosevelt administration. told balance of £77.3 million in the

19,422; Greek 18,288; Hungarian the press today, after visiting Red China. same period last year.

In that

12,295;

10,564; | President Elsenhower, pt

ques- nine months we have exported

Lithuanin 9,909; Czechslovakian White House, that he is against tion, he said he was opposed to goods valued at £739.1 million

Austrinn 0,035; Other letting Communist China "to any relaxation of the restrictions which seems a reasonable Sgure

9,221;

30,828; Total shoot its way into

trade the United concerning nationalities

with fort what

minor

tinental China-France-Presse, 603,382. agricultural country not so long ago.

was

A

It was estimated recently that OVITRAS companies are in the course of Investing in this eruntry £240 million; in Sydney this work a company announced that is prepared to erect four at a cost new elly skyscrapers

of £4,500,000-this to be added to the buildings now in pro-

some

£25 valued at Tra million,

Incurable optimist

It

an was onnounced In American Journal recently that

an in citizen is the average

He believes curable optimist. he has a chance of winning the front prize in any lottery but that he has not the slightest chance of being involved in a road accident,

That fits the average fairly aptly parti- Australian cularly in the loftory field."

Lust week the NSW State Lottery Office paid out a near record of £220,580 in prizes. It drew nine lotteries; seven with

The Australian Aluminium Company Pty. Ltd. has nounced that it propuses to enlarge Its factory ut the mammoth lottery which has

first prize of £6,000 each and ha-about 1,000 other prizes ranging from £2,000 down to £B; ono

(1

cost

of more

Д

Sydney suburb of Granville at first prize of £30,000 and well 24 over 1,000 other prizes; and a than million--this obviously to offset special foltery with a first priza and a string of the news that an American and of £12,000 British aluminium Arin

will minors.

open a £20 million plant here. This was the first time that The savings bank balances of nine government lotteries have all Australians are at record been drawn in one week this

unemployment is year blthough levels and

it has bcon practically non-existent,

equalled on two other occasions,

Lottery sales for the first! nine months of the financial ал Increase of year showed

£830,000 compared with the same period last year, indical. ing that there are still a few characters around who are still looking for a few easy shillings.

All in all, the present is very rosy and the future looks even

COMPLAINT

то

BY

ISRAEL

BURNS

United Nations, Apr. 17.

Knew Marconi

For 20 years Mr Georgo Blake of

done Sydney hus research work at Sydney University and for

those

لام

Maj-Gen. E. L. M. Burns, commander of the United Na. years has borne all the expense Hons Emergency Force, has himself, complained to Israel about two

Two years ago he achieved border crossings by Israeli the rare distinction of being soldiers and requested the re- awarded a Bachelor of Science turn of cattle stoica from the Gaza strip, it was announced tonight.

degree without sitting for the usual examination. This week his 20 years of research Wan General Burns Bent a letter crowned by the award of the to the Israeli authorities, citing degree of Master of Science, border incidents occurring on March 16 and April 1.

He

won't tell his age

but admits he knew personally Marconi and Sir Oliver Lodge,

Israel last week, in a letter to and before he came to Sydney the Security Council, said there in 1938 he worked with radio had been 18 border Incidents and X-rays in

***years.

the

England for 32

Involving infiltrators from the Egyptian-held Gaza strip sinco

He was March 18. General April 7 informed the Egyptian transmit the first volca administration Gaza that London by radio.

in

Burns on

Arab civilians on two occasions attempted to cross the line and said he hoped effective action would be taken to prevent a re- currence.

since UNEF

first man to

CTOSS

Tremendous value

Australia's back-room organis. ation-CSIRO-his now COMME that

with the Israeli government, over

should

A UN announcement said that forward with a process

toolt positions of greatly reduces water evapore- the Egyptian side of the Gaza tion from dams and reservoirs strip demarcation line, General which

prove Burne had registered three other complaints of violations tremendous value to the world", Out at hot, dry Broken Hill

the

wecke past 14 On March 20 he complained evaporation from the city's main of some 14 incursions by Israeli water supply reservoir has been planes over the Gaza strip reduced by 37 per cent, On April 1, he protested against that time more than 200 million the crossing of the line by an gallons of water equivalent to Israell patrol. On April 12, he six week summer consumption told Israel one of its patrols had in Broken Hill has been saved fred across the line against a at an estimated cost of ld, por number of Arabs in a sector thousand gallons, occupied by a Bwedish UNE The Commonwealth Scientifle' battalion-United Proms,

Industria). Research · Organian-

In

Ukrainian

Nations".

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOU MEAN-~ WE'RE FIVE HUNDRED CENTURIES

IN THE FUTURE?

YES. IT'S THE FUTURE TO YOU. IT'S OUR!

PRESENTI

FERDINAND

NANCY

NANCY---

YOUR

PIGGY BANK

IS ALWAYS

IN THE WAY-..

JOHNNY HAZARD

WE DO NOT WISH TO HARM YOUR BROTHER, THE

THAT'S WHY WE AVOID YOU, EARTH HAS BEEN GERM-FREE, FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.COLD GERMS FROM YOUR TIME WOULD KILLUS.

PUT IT WHERE IT BELONGS

O.K.S

KYOU CAN'T DO THATÉ I-I MEAN, HE'S SAFE IN THE STATES«Y-YOU MAJOR ALLEN, BUT IF YOU COULDN'T TOUCH HỪA, PO NOT WRITE TO HUA AS I POULD YOU # OH-H, YOU |AGK ~ I`SHALL ORDER NIA / HAVE TIME 100 CONFUSEDİ

to

the

In answer to another

THAT'S WHY WE OUTLAWED TIME TRAVEL AGES AGO. TOO DANGEROUS.

TIME TRAVEL? OH! -THEN(GULP) HOW DID WE

GET HEREY

RAPIDS DISAPPEAR AS A PHASE ENDS ON ST LAWRENCE PROJECT

Ottawa, Apr. 17.

An old-timer returni ig to the famous Long. Sault rapide of the St Lawrence river on the morning of April 1, 1957, might have thought. himself the victim of a delusion, or of a gigantic April Fool's day prank.

Over the week-end, the flow stream was choked off by the of the mighty St Lawrence river | coffer dam. had been diverted,

am part of

According to eye-witness up- the seaway

and power pro- count, diversion of the great gramme, and the Long Sault

river, which provides the flow rapid, a famous tourist attrac- of Niagara Falls, was an extric Lion,

had disappeared with dramatic suddenness. The main chunnol quickly dried up, re-

sight.

One spectator summed it up vealing the huge boulders which na follows: "The suddaones had caused the turbulence of the | with which the wafor WIN waters for centurica.

choked off trum its normal passage and diverted through another channel startled even the most blase 'sidewalk super- intendents." - China Ma Special,

SCALE MODEL

The water to permit completion of the second stage of the 2,000 feet long concreto power dam de signed to produce 1,000,000 kilowatts of power.

is being diverted

Board Of Control

To Check

Disarmament

London, Apr. 17. Mr Harold Stassen, President Elsenhower's advisor

Everything had been thought out beforehand. The whole pro- jeol had been studied on a ecole model, and even the fish loft stranded by the operation were taken care of, But, because of the turbulence of Long Sault, far fewer fish WETO involved here than in some adjacent scellane of the projeck At nearby Barnhart Island for example, armament question, today sug- 11,000 fish were taken out with seines and pond nets and all the nation gume fish, such as base

and check pickered (wall-eyed pike in the

armament measures. United States) were placed in tanks before being dumped in nearby sections the river.

water

THE PLUG

of

gested

diis.

14-

the creation of a Board of Control to on international dis-

Bug-

Mr Stassen made the gestion at today's meeting of The five-nation United Natlens subcommilice on disarmameni, which is meeting hero.

The operation has been

Later the United States ac- tricky one, involving the bulid-cepted Russ's offer for a par ing of a temporary coffer dam tial "open above Long Sault rapide into which 210,000 WES

(nearly 400,000 ton) of rock

other after material and

yards cuble

skies" disarmament plan in Europe on condition the Russians agree to widen the area MB | under Inspection. France- WOTO

poured. Meanwhile a long ex- Presse and United Press. cavation wIES mado through Long Sault Island to the south channel of the new coUTEN

of

New Delhi, Apr. 17. India's now

39-member

the St Lawrence river.

A "plug" 1,100 foot long Council of Ministers were con-blocking this new channel had sworn in by President Rajendra

to be removed whữĩo the main Prosed tonight-Router.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis “

THIS NAUGHTY BOY MADE A TIME-TRAVEL TOY--AND BROUGHT. YOU HERE.

TOY--!

By MIK

"Therez More than Maaic"

about CADBURY'S..

HONG KONG Favourite Chocolates,

CUTEX

LIPSTICK

AND

NAIL POLISH

They always

harmonise

By Ernie Bushmiller

DAIRY BOX

MUD PACK

I'M MERELY TRYING TO CLARIFY YOUR POSITION, AKY DEARI THERE IS NOTHING CONFUSING, A SIMPLE LETTER SAVES BOTH YOUR LIVES. OTHERWISE I WILL GIVE

**YOU FIVE MINUTES TO DECIDE

BUSHMIL

OF COURSE WE HAVE NO WAY TO HAJM HER BROTHER, IVANOVICHI

By Frank Robbins

AHH! AND THEN HER BROTHER.KNOWING THAT SHE AS HOSTAGE. {BUT SHE DOES NOT KNOW | WILL DO OUR BİODING) THAT, AND HER DOUBT „Á MASTER STROKE. WILL BETRAY HERLAND | TOVARICH "TCHEVANINĮ

THEN

with the

wonderful centres

this situation

calls for i

San Miguel