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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1958.

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WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL SCHOOL Sprawled Over A DESERT CACTUS? 200,000 Sq. Miles

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In Australia

Alice Springs.

SCHOOL which sprawls over 200,000 square miles in outback Australia reopened recently after the southern hemisphere's summer holidays.

These Fingers

Are Worth

£5,000

London.

THE highest-priced

1 in a school conducted by mens of a radio hook-up for children who live in remote homesteads in the outback.

"Live" classes are brought in this way to more than 50 boys and girls who live too far away to attend regular schools, The redio network gives them the services of a teacher, real classmates and a little of the classroom atmosphere which they otherwise miss, because they can talk to ecch alber over the air.

The children tecelve must of their education by LOTTES- pondence from

South the Australian Education Expart- ment, but the school-ou-the-air is an extra, end vital, part of their education.

Sola Tutor

The sole tutar of the school is Mrs Helen Suller, a 20-year- old wife of an Allee Springs

School High

teacher. She conducta lessons daily over a huge radio set in her emply classroom in the Alice Springs High School building.

Hundreds of miles away, her students

tuned in arc

with their books and paper in fron

Tangers in skifle must of them. Toy Buldansented

belong to Mare Sharratt, in a who plays the washboard in teacher. the

Chas. hit-producing McDevitt akiffle group.

Sharratt has just insured the Ongers that produce the group's "certain rhythm" for £5,000 with Lloyd's.

It was one of the strangest cavers Lloyd's have given.

Sharratt pounds his wire washboard with two thimble- covered fingers of ecch hand; Inevnte from has boosted his

classroom with their

Mrs Stiller starts the daily lesson with a hymn, after which roll call is taken, just to and out who is listening In.

She presses a button on the set and a crackle of static almost drowns a te which comes in eagerly.

"Nine DB, Double the little volee says.

voice

Soviet engineere have been carrying out artificial "earth. quakes using up to 9,000 tona of explosive in a single blast.. explosion Hero la uch

Tashkent In going off hoar Bovlat Uzbekistan. One thou- sand tons of TNT were gloded from chamber 130

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feet underground,

Bolontists and engineers wanted to find out just how much earth would be displaced test for much bigger and explosions for mining hydraulic works.

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The bang blow a crater 662 feet across-Express Photo.

Which Way Does. A Flag Blow On A Sailing Ship?

By HENRY MACLENNON

Rome.

Baker," WHICH way does a flag blow on a sailing ship?

It is followed by another.. "Nine XRH, X-Ray House".. £10 a week as a photographer and another "Nine BU, Baker to £35 as an entertainer.

Uncle...."

the thimbles.

Lloyd's, surprised to and the washboard given the status of a

board Double Baker,

anyone else?"

VAUNUA

There appears to be two schools of thought on the subject which creates quite a problem for the Italian Government,

wrong on several postage stamp issues and on the 70 million

THREE GIRLS IN LOVE ARE SEEKING DESERT ISLE

By STANLEY JARVIS

London.

THREE pretty girls who can sew and cook want to marry their sweethearts who can plough and work and settle down on a sun-swept, deserted island.

Any island will do-as long as there are palms and it is capable of being farmed by six youngsters who don't mind roughing it.

So, on behalf of the six would-be pioneers 21-year-old Ramona Nelson, a "Lincoln shop assistant, wrote to Lirui- Colonel A. Lovelace, the Ad- ministrator of Antigua, in Bri- tain's Leeword Inlands-

ATLANTIC OCEAN

RAMFICIA

LEEWARD PLEJES

us

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SCARIBBEAN SEA

"Can you please find nice small Island where can settle down after we are mar- ried and raise and support our tomilles?"

Ramona, who plans to marry 21-year-old Lawrence Goddard, a tractor driver, told me:-

"Lots of young people talk about wanting to gel away from

all, to live on a tropical, It Island, but they never do any thing about 11. Wo are deter- mined to make our dreams come true.

No dancing

"We would like to buy or rent any small, deserted island where we can set up a communal farm to keep us and our children.

"Wo know it will be hard going at first, but others have mado & success, EO vrhy shouldn't we? We are pooling our savings, so that we shall be able to start stocking the farm once we have settled down ca our little island."

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SOUTH AMERIC

TRINIDAD

Seventeen your old Xenia O'Connor, shop ossistant, on- paged to 20-year-old mechanie George Draper, said:

"This is no sudden impulse. The six of us have talked it over for months. We have no inter- est in dancing, cinema

or the frivolities of town

Dawn The third couple are Johnson, 18-year-old typist, and John Tallow 21 year old painter and decorator.

How soon are the three young couples prepared to face life on a deserted Island?

"It won't take long after we are fixed up with the right spot. Then we shall get married and start as soon as possible," said Ramona,

FILMS

»

(Continued from Pago 2.)

now

and a

HE Pride and the "acquaintance with history, will THE

Passion,

tell you that the British officers ot this period combined the If a flag blows in the diree-, newly coined 300 lire "scudo" showing at the Hoover and blomable dandyism and all its But the scraping and thump- "I

with a remarkable ing has given him bruised. X-Ray House and Baker Uncle," ton of the bow of a big calling pieces that are about ready for Liberty, is one of these spec- affectations

facular filma-most suitable toughness of character chafed and cut flagers, despilo Mrs Siller breaks Iri, "Is there ship then the government has it circulation.

The trouble started recently

to modern camera and high sense of duty.

Frank Sinatra looks after the when a group of old seamen at Genoa wrote to a newspaper screen techniques. Released part of Miguel, the Epuslah about the "Scudo" and declared through United Artists, I guerilla leader. As fonatical that the speed of big sailing think they make no secret leader who recognises no ethic, ships was never more than the of the fact that it la de- but the necessity of liberating Binotre comes tils home town, wind which pushes them along and that the ships flag few signed capture auch along with another great per-

which with the wind and was only audiences

placed formence to add to those be has down slightly held

by

since the time he the "War and Peace" in Hong- given

snatched ap epic from velocity.

kong's choice of second best "From Here to Eternity.

Sophia Loren brings to the

performance

musical instrument, were

weeks

Ave before they issued the spocial policy to cover "ORG whom manual dexterity

of paramount

of

his hands importance."

£12 For a

10%

Д year premium Sharralt now values his little Angers at £375 each.

CRUISING DOWN THE

RIVER AT SCHOOL

MORE

London.

Hositant

Paintly through the static comes the hesilent voice of a small girl, followed by another child.

"I could just pick you up eight Nan Dog and eight Victor Billler. Roger," mya "Anyone else?"

And so it güçs on as the young teacher strains to mater as many pupils as her ears can pick up

Finally, Mrs "That semu 20 morning. Now, is news or are there tions?"

Suller

#ky#:

An eight-year-old boy, 240 miles to the south, wants help

hoon.

A

Someone Dropped Clanger In The Belfry

London.

WITH THE WIND

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THE thing about bell-direct on the breeze and in the central theme, whereas, War

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that

film of the year 1957.

Personally, I consider it o On one side of the "scudo"

of these wild more portrays one there are three Spanish galleons better film in that it is

romanila waun devoted to the It is linked to oach with a long flag flying coherent,

-couse of liberty. Throwing in and Penco" stomed to wander

her bat with the guorillas, sho of the stern- of the

!! over the place until you

becomes at once an inspiration ships. According to the Genoa

and also the cause of dissension ringing is that you scamen these flags should be wondered what it was about.

In this dim, there is no doubt. between Cary Grant and Frank must not yet ring "ding" blowing towards the bow-with

The motivating

Sinatra. factor of the to be the wind. if it ought

ruch Obviously,

clover |dim is a huge gun abandoned by The seamen admit, however, the Spanish, military during the characterisation go to the bo all this "dong".

that saling ship dogs are never Peningals War, and the time making of en exceptionally there any And I was because of flying exactly to bow because a around tho year 1810, satisfying alm, Grant, the dandy any quei- | "ding" wotead of a "dong" that of the direction of the wind and historically just before the turn Naval officer in the best British

a world record attempt falled at the ship.

at the tide, but to the Spaniards, tradition, who throws in his lot Loughborough. Leicestershire, There arc several postage the situation seemed bopalaa. in tho cause of duty with a lest week,

lendor and a stamp issues depicting one ut Of course, by now you will savage guerilla than 4,000 with a rum.

Eight young men with strong the sailing ships of Christopher have recognised the plot; it is wild beautiful girl dedicated to name, good heads for Ogures, Columbus and the dags are all taken from C. B. Forester's best the cause of troodom.

brave colourful tale about headmasters have

against the wind. Inselling novel, "The Gun." Slowly, Mr Sullior explains and a fondness for the music of nying

bells had got up before dawn to addition thero la a galleon on a First I will deal with the film those restless devoted". ́paople been told that floating us to him.

| make tho attempt.

packet of cigarettes put out by de spectacle. It has every- thrown up by the mighty, events

Slate-owned classrooms are to be run

Their object: "Clam" over, Mra Suller sits

To ring the the

tobacco thing is is made os big as it can against which their lives were maximum number of changes company with the flag flying be, and as colourful as possible, led, makes a film which is going this spring on canals back in her chair.

VistaVizion- to pack out the Liberty and There are two daily sessions on eight bells which meant the same way for the past 20-In short, it is a and rivers round Lon-20 minutes in the

man would have to years.

Technicolour producilon.

Hoover. morning that each

A post office official sald the Produced and directed by don.

and half an hour in the after- pull his cope 40,920 times

Bing-dong they went at it at

flag blows on a sailing ship the aim was shot in Spain to TF you want to see what 4.16 sm in a specially-silenced controversy over which way a stanley Kramer, every Dit i tower at John Taylor's bell came up. In 1051 with the 23 provide the colourful authentic I the great days of the Ure postage stamp issue com-background necesser to such Alm cartoon were like, that HALF-WAY

the Bari-Levant | an_opic. momorating

which is when a cartoon could It depicts a Ding....dong.........no chance Trado to break off for food. Speciel galleon with the flag flying the crowd the fans Into the cinema scoop. the town, you had shelves were fitted behind each wrong way,

are all there. The sheer physical better go and see “Gulliver's gony of pulling this huge Travel" on show at the man. They grabbed tiny sand- wiches

cennon, volles, purons, the rugized and

tablets glucaro

Peninsula is Star and Metropole. whenever poom?ble.

But experiments prior to the terrain at the

some fantasti · Readers' of

been Swift's Ding....dong. All was goitz 1952 Bari fair comincmorative portrayed in

ahota, which take the immortal, work will be familiar with a sailing ship camor

| audience right into the picture. with the ingidents which covers territory in the Northern well eight hours later, at mid-issue also

The bombardment scenes must, all brought out by the aim Territory and West and South day. They reckoned there were on it proved that the flag flying

the other way put everything ramber among the most realistic especially the

capture of Australia. Her nearest pupil is another 12 hours to go.

At two o'clock they were past out of perspective. 100 miles away.

As a matter of fact it makes and terrifying over brought to thay Boo which Guilter strings districts the half-way mark with 20.600

A cinema”, audience, gad the together like so many toy ships. such as Eva Downs, 400 miles peals. Ding, dong, ding, dong the sailing ship look as if it is qualities of the proud guerillas and be them

And then suddenly, DING to the north in the Territory, DING. Someone had forgotten to the wind. So the Bag on Napoleon are atawn against Wils there are many spring wakin going in the opposite direction who refused to surrender le Lillipul "And noodles to me. Private boat owners are being Embello, About 200 miler pressed

which do not origiante-welth talco up inland south, and Mt Donis, across the DONG and

caused consternation in the the ship of the 1852 stamp background.

lasue was made very small but the stars are so well known. Then Cl cruising

desert in Western Austentia..

to the

stem of that it is unnecessary to say You usat take the children. it There has been a big jump in The school service is provided! The bells stopped, men mored blowing

When I would be an awful shame if you Eemand for £0-a-year conces

much about them. which enable owESTA 10 Cruise through the Flying Doctor Set each other for signs of guilt the ship.

vice Radio, and the children But it made no difference the The past offer officials said mention their names, it must be don't for I know no better Everest they would have liked to have an obvious to you as it is to me. manner of introducing children. through 1,700 miles of waters

rarely miss a session.

rooord attempt, "the

made some experiments with a that it represents onn of the to the really good books, than At the end of the school year, foi beliringing." was abandoned. ways.

Sold Sir Reginald (whọ hoa

What did the eight men dof selling ship just to get a better bar bits of casting Hollywood by this funny walubernating method of showing them on the travelled 3,000 miles as his 5417.a. gestopolher at "classic"

climbed down the ball idea of how for actually does to achieved for a long time.

Cary Grant takon over the STRANKARS burge Kingfisher): "I am keen to to arranged and as many of the They

Di jpg Captali". "Anthony band who children as possible gether, in tower; hed cup of tea and y, but there was difficulty in owell the happy

baileiogers Anding one big enough--United val off-to follow that ancst of pursuits Alice Springs to most face-kwent

Press

Even | meeting | faco-China Mail Special. cruising in small, bonta"

Fifty-cent converted narrow boots have been fitted with loudspeakers so that pupils can hear their teacher's commentary, They will be available for two-hourly school trips

every weekday from April 1111 October.

ENCOURAGE

Sir Reginald Kerr, general manager of British Waterways, said the other day: "It is part of our drive to encourage the now intarest la inland water- Wa30.

to

The ages of the "pupils of the air" range from Avo to 10 years, and they are taught to grade five.

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