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The Hermit With A Passion For Pearls

Sydney,

A few weeks ago a deeply tanned figure stood on a makeshift jetty on tiny Packe Island off Australia's northernmost tip and hailed a pass- ing launch.

Clutching a bundle which held the results of two years'

lonely work, he headed back to civilisation.

When he ached Sydney he has provide the best conditions produced a handful of glistening, for pearl growing. milk-white halt pearl-the first worthwhite results cf a cam-

palgo pleased seven years ago. Greek-ptin Denis George, a prewar medical student, had the hinself a modern Robinson Crusor to malisty a burning am- bition to grow cultured pearls.

Now that he is half way to his gual, he is more than ever determined to carry on. Olive complexiones sturdily NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES bullt ir George is 43, and sull

single.

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"I can't find any girl will ing to share these dreams and this Efe of ming," he said.

He seemed to have no re- grets. He implied that deve tion to his self-imposed mission left him with flo interes in trivialdies.

A Challenge

Mr George began his mis- slon three

alter Years

110 migrated to Australia 10 years ago.

He felt that lu a new country, beginning a new life he should try to develop something.

When experts told him pearl culturing couldn't be done by

Mr Denis Centr shoes the croushaped cluster of rufties parts he produced front an ajster mu un ieinnd off north Queensland.

Hitch-hiked

Each year he took als holidays on Thursday Island to experl- munt.

It was Bre years before he considered habad learul enough, and saved enough, to try the real thing.

He made his way to Thursday to Island, then "hitch-hiked" Pecke (the island he had already out for his work). 15 picked

south-west of Thursday Miles Island.

Aller dipping they becam "dopey," relaxed and opened slightly to enable him using dentist-like instruments he had

made and perfceted himself--to work in mother-of-pearl nuclei shaped like email marbles.

After ho bud beeted the oysters, he suspended them in wite cages over the end of the jetty.

Given the right conditious, half pearls blistered over the nucleus. It took about a year to produce a salable pearl.

"Half" pearls are distinct from "gr. pearls. Although both graft and hair pearls are forrned from exactly the same substance, Haft pearls are spherical it

hage and more difficult to pro-

Packe, near Prince of Wales Island, was uninhabited Crown duce.

and lud, had some vegetation an old galvanised fren hut on

Mr George had little equlp- mens when the launch he had "thumbed" dropped him.

Accident

Japon is world leader in the production of graft pearls.

He set himself to live а Mr George said he had so far hermit's existence, dependent been unsuccessfut in his efforis de produce graft pearls, but was "working on it."

on passing ships and visita from Thursday Island friends for supplies and contact with the outside world.

One of these friends helped him build from man-groves crude jelly from which he could

dive with his

formation

An accidental had, however, produced from single oyster a cluster of five pearls in the shape of a cross.

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This has encouraged him to Jung make plans

aqua

down

among a full-scale the big Gold grower.

STARS FROM ROYAL FILM "UNWIND

GUINNESS in the corridor,

„SELLERS 44 the drums. ..

Morning after the big night before

FEW hours earlier they were tense and tingling with nerves 118 they were formally presented to the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret at the royal film per- formance,

Now the ordeal is over. They Join other celebrites of the enter tainment world at a party thrown by Ronald Neame and John Bryan, who made the

The royal Alın, 11orce's Mouth.

It takes some time to shake off the solemnity of the eyeng. At fret

A Purple

Roof

Upsets The Earl

THE house that Mr

Edward

Chapman wants to build has straw- coloured walls and a purple roof.

to launch himself as land, Leicestershire (population He wants to build it in Swith- commercial "pearl-100), where all the houses have granite walls and blue-black

Lp und Black He feels he can do this on state roofs.

which is thon Packe Island,

Lip oysters.

Crab Island,

When the

air In ป

Squa

Jarger

He has applic to the Thurs- lung tiny Island Harbour Master for fan out be lease of portion of Crab Island, "fusi dived." 28 miles south-west of Thursday often

risk Island.

ing his lio

Meanwhile, he by back in a In the strong factory jcb in Sydney while ho currents waits for approval of his island sweeping lease and sounds mut markels for aroun the his coining venture.

island.

"Once

when

I

WUS

skin-

diving. with-

out the lung,

the

current

pulled me away from the end of the Jetty," he re- called,

"I tried to swim against 11, bu! this was impossible. I thought I'd had it

one man working en his own he felt that here was a challenge.

While he worked as a truck

"Luckily, it dumped me on a driver.

storeman and fitter reif around the other side of the

gathered fetand." money, be

could! Mr George worked

to save

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the terature he And on the pearling industry. He studied at night and in his spare time, sought the advice of the Fisheries and Occanegraphy Division of the C.S.1.R.O.

In between ines he was,ed to learn English and beste a naturalised Australian.

New Governor May Be French Canadian

Toronto.

The Queen will be consulted about the appointment of a new Governor-General when she visits Canada in June.

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"Anything more 'hideou cŝunot imagine," said the 40- year-old Barl of Lante borough. "THAT house may be all right in the South of France but definitely not in SWITHLAND."

The earl (motto: Liberty en- Bre), who lives in 62-roomed Swithland Hall was protesting at a Ministry of Housing inquiry at Barrow-on-Soar against the plans for Mr Chapman's purple roofed house,

Famous

Mr Chapman, 72-year-old bullder, of Holm Farm, Groby,

they are as stift as the shirt-

fronts and flared dresses.

Then he literally throws himself version of Franido and into his Johnnie.

Peter Pinch, prompted by his fancee, actress Yolande Turner, tells but parepeatable) story about a one of his funny stories a suitablo

drunken actor:

The crowd is calling for Juliette Greco, who hides that haunting face further under that unkempt mor of hole and refuses to trudge,

Aleo Cinianeza comes to our table and

saves ao Awkward moment by plending. To obliss, sho tells a joke,

And to show that be too can

Champagne arrives. magnums. B flows... and star of the occasion takes the

In do a turn the newly knighted

Bows

...sparkles,

begin to sparkle, too.

And when comedian

They alage himself.

*Tho

actor whose whimsical Max sanoa of the dignity la often

By proves takes charge, the party anderstood givas a bonuli-, really warms up.

There are 20 stars, thousands of pounds worth of talent. So without warning he recruits un Impromptu cabaret. He calls put the famous names in turn, They protest. But one by one they do a party piece ..

Peter Sellers takes over drums,

the

Terry-Thomas embarks on a

fully timed demonstration of a railway passenger testering along the corridor while the train is clearly NOT standing at the station

Ho imitates the rhythm of the wheels, suddenly, louder. It's a visual joie, and you may miss the point, but it gets phe of the big laughs of the night,"

wonder- For everyone is in

mood. It's a wonderful

shaggy donkey story, and is soon ful as helpless with laughter as his porty, audienes.

And It's only 3 am.

£20,400

Win

In 2 Hours

London. Alan Kay, who was too poor as a boy to buy a 1⁄2d. toffee, recently broke the bank at a Nice casino, and won £20,490 in two hours,

Kay, 40-year-old business- "In one bet I slaked £8,000- man, Rves with his wife Rose on a single card, and it turned end their three children in 20 up nine--the best in baccarat. 12-rcoined house at Salford.

Kay was on a quiet business trip to Amsterdam last week when he decided to fly to Nice

"for a rest,"

"But I just couldn't resist golag to the Cacino," he said

It was 10 p.m. when Kay left was appealing against a refusal his room at Nice's plushiest by Leloestershire County Coun-hotel-the Negresco.

A few

cil to grant him permission to minutes later he walked on to build the £3,300 three-bed- the crowded floor at the Casino. 100med house for ellent.

.

the

Suit Swap

The council suggested

in Swithland 100% should be

The "International Sel" was slates, last quarried about 100 there, chattering, jewelled, mil- Mr Vincent Massey, first-years ago, or grey slates.

lionairesses, men yearning to nether-ct-pear nuclei to pro- due to retire in September after with Canadian to hold the post, is

The car sald; "There are net fortunes, the somebodies and duce "blister" pearls.

plenty of Swithland n reign of seven years.

slates nobodies in black ile or white.

Many

They are distinguished

Among them walked confident people about, have been proposed u his have a good value.

Alan Kay, once so poor that ho successor, including the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and

"People hereabouts salvage and his brother, with only one used to swap them Australian Trime Minister

them when an old barn or suit each, Menzies.

some such becomes derelict," to make people think they each

had two.

Ie used an old rainwater tank filled with sep water, and a quantity of menthol, to "angestellse" and seed the oysters.

He sprinkled the menthol over

His studies showed that the the water and dipped the oysters islands of Cape York could per- in It

BY

•

THE. WAY •

by Beachcomber

A FIVE-FURLONG stretch of fruitias, or by taking a

motorway between Silving number of names, beginning In ton and Rosset-on-Wyle, planned a low voice. and gradually eight years ago and opened using the pitch until the three weeks ago, will have to be elimax arrives with, say, Clarke. closed. Craters, precipices, E. N. This second method is abysses, and hillocks of diri have more effective and creates more Ippeared.

surpense than suddenly thunder.

famous and

But now it is believed that the

Mr James Chapman, a part- hot favourite is French Cand- ner in his father's building firm, dion Major-General Georges said: "Swithland slates would Phillas Vanier, 71 this year," a

put another £250 on the cost." who lawyer-soldier-statesman waa ambassador in Paris until The indings of the inquiry

will be madû known later. 1053.

“It was a night I won't for- get," be said. “I had. £100 sterling when I went to the Casino. But I couldn't do

noi even

anything wrong, when I took chances...

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Nine Coups

to

"I had nine coups on the run. The eroupler kopt sweeping chips my way. They began pile up, and the syndicate began to look worried. It was all over in less than two hours.

I left tha £70,400 in the Casino safe for the night,” he zmiled.

HERE THOUGHB

FOR TODAS

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