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1000-Year-Old Who Will Wield The

Oven Found Crammed With Food!

-BY

Maxwell Wickham

Wellington, New Zealand.

Four schoolboys foraging in a paddock at

Redcliffs, about seven

L

miles from

Major

Power?

HE first thing to get straight about Britain and If YOU are under 40 this could be

the Commonwealth in 1999 is that Britain will

THE

your

life

not be the most important white member of it, it is the story of the end of the century, of either in population or industrial power.

Our population is set to stay at around the 50,000,000 1999, as seen not by dreamers but by men

mark. It may even decline.

Consider what will have happened in Canada.

As in a position to weigh the facts and make a

Mr George Drew, High Commissioner in England for

Canada, put it to me: "Canada will probably be the most responsible forecast. Here, presented by powerful country in the Commonwealth by 1999."

There is a population theref

Look

Australia. The popu- Woodrow Wyatt, is Part Three of a look just 17,000,000 now. It has lation now is just on 10.000.00

one up by more than 5,000,000, Sy 1999, it will be 45,000,000, if into tomorrow... a picture with all the

since the war. The rate of in- vet more.

st

As Dr L. R. Shepherd ancient crease in human beings in an

Christchurch, uncovered "oven crammed with food. Apparently, those who were cooking fled from some unknown horror without having time to eat.

Investigation suggests that the oven was used last about Bu

A.D. (Alter Christ), or 300-400 years before the main body of the Maori people came to New Zealand.

Canada is the world's highest. Harwell says: "By the turn of fascination of the crystal ball plus the

the century cheap power will

In 40 years' time. the popula- have enabled the population of

ton of Cancan will be 70,000,000 nearly 50 per cent larger than

Australia to settle inland."

At the moment. Australians authority of expert knowledge.

By WOODROW WYATT

ours. Economically, Canada's live only on the coastal fringes progress will have kept pace vrith her population. Her oil produc- wells, her aluminium tion, her minerals will have been developed as the basis of a huge industrial output.

at

ather

to say nothing of the Commonwealth countries.

In recent years any tendency the towards disintegration in Commonwealth has bec causce by the feeling that it could not natch the giants of the USA. and U.S.SR.

The stones were left to heat, then water would be thrown on, sending up clouds of steam, Food was then placed on the

of their vast country. The un- enjoying roughly the same stan- stones, more water thrown on,

She will have plenty of money exploited desert wastes inside, 60 dards in food as we have today. and the whole oven was covered

Dr

Hughes, Rraster in and we shall be times the size of England, will

the with Bax mats, Afier which the to spend

Wright- Under the supervision of a fnod was left for several hours supplying many of her imports.. be flourishing by 1999. Thermo- Bacteriology

torycast to nuclear power will have deßect- Fleming Institute, uncovered and Today, ease of transport across veteran

being archaeologist, Mr Sel- before

the United States' frontier directs ed rivers, will have irrigated me that in 40 years' time count- Canadian buying towards the the land. U.S.A. By 1999 vast cargo shipa, skimming the surface of the sca a 200 miles an hour, will make the delivery goods across the Atlantic as quick as road trans-

from Detroit to Quebec port and cheaper.

eaten.

wyn Hovell, the boys have care fully uncovered a cross section

Archaeologists are also turn of the oven for archaeological examination, revealing the bones ing their attention as present to of a hump-backed whale, of another part of the South Island, birds the Waitaki Gorge. Here many (glant extinct peculiar to New Zealand). of clues to New Zealand's early dogs, and the remains of count- history will disappear in a few years' time when the huge man- less shellfish.

nade lake of the big Benmere scheme comes byro-electricity

mons

About 9 feet square,, the oven

into being. it will be formed by of a gorge which flat flooding most

is not of the usual Polynesian design. Instead of the bottom normal to

Redcliff's

bottom.

these,

Barren soil

the it rich in sites sheltering strange comes alive

over has a rounded rock drawings dating back to

the time of the Maa Hunters.

Mr Hovell believes that

the

oven was specially built to cook the whale on unusual food fer Mos Hunters, as the pre-Maori settlers of New Zealand known.

k

He thinks that the food was being cooked when some sudden disaster overtook the neighbour- hood, causing the Moa Hunters to flee.

This is the Arst time that whole has been found in a Mao Hunters' oven.

Britain will share in Cardian prosperity, even though she outstripped by Canuda.

It is not even certain that we shall retain second place among Warned well in advance that the white members of the the flooding will take place, the Commonwealth. National Historic Places Trust is rock working on recording the

ex- drawings, excavating and ploring further siles for more traces of these carly Inhabitants, Dr Roger Duif. an archaeologist, and Mr W. Ambrose and Mr F. Davis, have been working in the gorge for some months now.for the Trust.

Soon it will be realised that Common- less billions of bacteria and it is, in fact, the fung! will have been put to work wealth that is capable of faster Not only will thermo-nuclear turning waste materials into the expension than any other or power be used. The Australian basis for foodstuffs which can ganisation. That will bind all Counell of Scientific and Indus- be used both for humen beings its members more strongly to it. But will not Canada and Aus- The food problem for India traila and the other trial Research has already made and animals. progress with increasing the reinfall in certain areas by will have been mastered, he wealth countries drift testing the clouds chemically. thinks, if the Increase in popu- particularly as

has put copper into the soil latton can be held. und made lush crops grow in places where previously there was no blade of grass.

will also be dramatic There

The popula- changes in Indla. tion is still going up and hus By now touched 375 million. 1999, the increase will have been halted-at perhaps, around 430 million, Indians, though powerful industrially, wiil De

• BY. THE - WAY

·

by Beachcomber

not

A bond with no weaklings

Д

or

Common-

away,

they become

stronger than Britain?

No. As Sir Eric Harrison, High Commissioner In England for Australia, rays: "The alti- tude towards Britain will never change. There ha 94 per cent of the population originating from Britain and they are still as strongly pro-British as ever."

In 1800 it will take less than an hour to get to Australia. In 1990 there will be no When you can hop as quickly weaklings in the Commonwealth. as that from one Commonwealth The rise in riches and power, country to another the inter- represented by the tremendova change of ideas and commerce expansion in Canada and Aus will be as Influential and effec- trilla will be Immeasurably tive as that between London and greater than, say, anything that Birmingham today.

the power can be produced by the

In 40 years' tiine exer- tions of myriads of backward of British traditional political Chinese.

institutions

of and wisdom, Brith culture, of all the hun- The Commonwealth, 13 furee, will

Unn dreds of years that have gone to be stronger the United States

build up our complex democra- THE Ministry of Labour's man of the committee which either A report of their prozreza. T The boys, Barry Eames, Paul

experta have discovered has been considering this trick, Russia. Sollit, Denis Williams and John recently fabled in Parliament, that the reason for the contlou said to Mrs Watt (of Stoke, The populations of America Richardson, all members of the stales that most of the area

Solicitors): "The|nuything like the rate of Conada Redcliffe Junior Archaeological should have been systematicallying rise in the cost of living is Walt, Watt, Stoke Walt. Stcke and Russia will not increase at

that too little money is chasing and Wall,

would only making routine investigated in the six years be

and Australia--the two too much coal. probes on a 40-acre properly fore The hydro-scheme is Charlie Svet said yesterday at retallvate" the always inseris tries where the greatest poten-

an "," an a "V" before when they discovered the oven. scheduled for completion.

old | tial for the technologiesi Bumpferd, "If other commodi-

making velution exists. They had been looking for traces of ash in the sand and were Some of the rock drawings ties continue to rise in price, in airport joke)—"by

On the contrary, Russia and not expecting to make a find of have already been recorded by order to keep paen Avith coal and counterfeit counterfelt, counter-

Infra-red cheese and butter, vast stock- feit money, be that as it may." the United States are likely to with photographing this kind,

light and tracing on to cello- piles of fuel and food will be What! No bate' cars in phane paper, The infra-red accumulated cgainst a possible photography highlights

the shortage. The fewer people abic shades in the drawings, many

Soclely, were

to follow.

counterfeiters

coun-

TC-

stabilise ni a level not much higher than will be the com- brine? bined populations of Britain. reminder Canada and Australia by 1000,

A POLITICIAN'S to afford to buy things, the more The oven is net, however, the of which are faint and difficult money will be saved, and, final- A that we have to importa ly, when nobody can afford to great deal of food comes at the first find on the properly. Less

buy anything, the cost of living very moment when a big shop than 20 fort from the oven site, A number of the known sites will at last go down." Orthodox has admitted a shortage of such traces of a greenstone workshop have been recorded, and several economists are considering this necessities as ants sincared with were found in

chocolate. Many smart hostesses B fowlhouse, additional sites have been dis- novel idea.

bro bstituting, At cocktail Chipa of greenstone showed covered.

Pay no attention to this

Engikh anta for the where the early peoples had

THE keeper at 3 200 who puriles, made their weapons and tools. The drawings are abstract, de- |

claims that he understands Japanese variety. One remark- beldam has Indonesian corative or highly stylised, and they under- bla

They are boiled in quince-judce

Cooking

tie society, will still have chotigil pull to make the members of the Commonwealth Took to- warde Britain muidance and

Jeadership.

NEXT WEEK:

Where will the Monarchy be?

ROUND-UP

the stone-ago dificult to interpret when faint elephants, and that to table beetles flown in for her parties. LIVE IN A CASTLE

biscuit.

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Association, They are ex-members of Vanbrugh Castle School at Greenwich. But by Sir John Vanbrugh at Maze Hill, Green- wich, in 1717, the castle now host's boys whose fathers were

overs was simple, and the fore- They are usually in red or black to control them, like an expert and served on Uny squares of GROUP of former castie dwellers are to form an Old Boys' runner of modern pressure colouring and some are scratch-rloginaster, at a clars. Who cooking. Earth was scooped mit ed on to the rock surface. Their could reaist saying that he was on the oven aile, a stake driven subjects include human forms,

born with a aliver elephant in I only want to help luto the centre and kindling and tattoo motifs, rats, fish and birds, his mouth? Not 7, for one, oven TV tea and buns served by killed while serving with the Royal Air Force. For the past 20 heavier wood stacked round it.

to fill the years it has been run by the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. Fifty By careful excavation and re-though it given one a Judicrousounds talt

theatres at malinger, I have a boys, whose ages range from seven to 17, live there. They aro The stake was then removed cording. It is hoped to date the picture of a puzzled midwife,

A aplendid Iden, Place large taught at the castle until they are 11; then they go to local grammar Far from it their pur- And a name dropped in to set drawings, discover

making televialon exteen it the kindling wood alight. When pose

scheme for.

theor secondary schools during the day and return to the castle, in and significance, associate quiE the blaze got under way, and them with a particular, culture counterfeit counterfeit andiickiin, so that the audience the evening. The future reunions of old pupils should be musicni smoking wood-likely to faint the and discover the nature of each money, in order to trap ocunter can watch television instead of occasions, because Vanbrugh Castle how provides the ebar for the on R.A.F. church--the rebuilt at Clement: Danes in the Strand, food was removed and stones shelter and how much it was felters, sana abandoned yesterday, bothering about, what goes

Bir Charlen Heckstone, chair» on the stage.

were piled on top.

tused.

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