Kipling
it's
THE CHINA, MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1959, ⠀⠀
THE OTHER EXHIBITION... BY JAK
said it first — and still
true
today
"Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?" "We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, Your beef, pork and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese.”
London..
MANY years have passed since Rudyard Kipling
wrote those lines, but the sentiment they ex- press is perhaps even truer now than ever before. Hourly, almost, the ships creep into our ports laden with foodstuffs for the larders of Britain. And more than 40 per cent of their cargoes have one thing in common-they have come from the lands of our Commonwealth and Empire.
At Tilbury lie freighters like the Glynafon, La Cordillera and Kumba bearing thousands of tons of palm kernels and ground nuts from West Africa which will be processed into margarine,
by HUGH RILEY
Greed nuts from Nigeria. Sugar from Mauritius Fill.
Cocoa from
done, so much to do." Others, Kike Thomas Brydone, could have had little comprehension and of the work he was starting.
Chana.
No other group of nations fr has such a noble comprehensive and vital econo. mie link
Thomas Brydone? He will not be found in the history books, the world Dut this Scut from Peeblesshire, who emigrated to New Zealand, the first shipment of butter and
was the man who arranged for
frozen lamb to be sent to Bri- taln in -1882.
ul
In London Docks the Durban Casila has brought ten, cloves, ercenuis and coffee from British shelves and in the refrigerators
of our homes, tre the wheat. New Zealand East Africo.
Belts
Chuada, the Jan (if indin, The plantations
New Zealand Rad Crebards of Un cattle stations of Austraila.
1on
Castle 101-
AL Southampton, the 27,000-
Capetown loaded the last of her 1500-1. cargo of food from South Africa, including pears, grapes, orange; and beef from both the Union and Hhodesia.
Jack
Captain Her skipper Troyner of Wesley-on-Sea, has been a sailor for 45 years, 41 of them spent on the Sout African run.
of
From that small beginning bas become ang our greatest suppliers of food. Last year our food Im- were worth ports, from there £120 million.
BETTER LIVING
These imparts do not con- suttute a one-sided traffe. In diced, by exporting to us, thesa lands are able to import from us--with the logleat betterment of their standard of living.
Britain's continued prosperity 1
The value of the fond we Big and small, each country in bound up, inextricably, with imported last year frumfi the plays its part... Enybe totalled nearly £700
million.
Food: tuffs and
the
raw
with and
Coffee from Kenya. Bananas from the West Indies and the Cameroon... Tea and splees from India, Pakis" Las, Ceylon, Rhodes and Nyasaland,
Cereals from Canada and South Africa.
a crials for foodstuffs, too.
In 1897 (the last your Eur which Ogures are Available) "Every trip," he said, "We Britain consurned 300,000 in belag from South Africa and margarine (compared
2,000 lors of 370,000 tons of bulter), Ith desia tip fo
beer, food. It cludes
eRES, more than 8 per cent of the Meat and bacon and pork, peaches, plums, rave materials for this mar- grapefruit, lemons and oranges marine caine from what might
In return, we take out there
De termed "our own" zources. such things un ches, typewriters, textilon and whisky,"
As much as 2,000 tons every Six Works---which adds up to more than 18,000 tons of fond Just that one ship Perif year.
COMMON BOND
In the three years to 1957 Bri- fan imported palm oil, ground 1.15. coprn, polin kernels,
av ya beans and cotton seed from Nazeria, Ceylon, New Guinen, Papua, Malaya and the British Pine Islands The avera value of X60 million a year.
Ther principal use of these And it means, too, that Jack materials was for the monuiRc- Troyner and his fellow emplubis ture of margarine, and these are. In their fashion, the logical Imports pult for more than two- successors to thes septen and Bfths of our exports and JU- swerchuul adventurers of nyes exports to the countries which pust who first opened the tradg supplied them. routoy between Britain and Empire — the Raleighs and Drake's, the Cabols and Caoks. Linked, by the enmumon bond
of the Commonwealth on the
Sone of the pioneers of the Empire realised, to some extent, the overwhelanding significance of their discoveries, Rhodes, for example, with his "Su tle
Wink
Australia.
FAX
'And what's YOUR gimmick ?^
wealths and Empire. The con- CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MOST FANTASTIC HOUSES I HAVE EVER SEEN-
the prosperity of the Common-
Unuance of trade between us is. not a privilege, but a necessity.
Again, as Kipling put it: "For the bread that you eat und the Utrcutta you nibble. The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve, They are brought to you daily
by ult us la Steamers-
hinders OUT caming you'll starvet"
from Cyprus.
drmed frull from And If" enyone
FACTS AND
FIGURES...
THE VALUE of our imparts from the Commonwealth for 1958 included: Meat (all forms) £712 m. Dairy products £75 m. Fish (all forms) £9, m. Cereals and cereal preparations £121 m. Fruit and vegetablos £102 m. Sugor and sugar preparations £65 m. Coffee, cocoa, ten, spicos £160 m. Feeding stuffs (animal), etc., £13 m. ★ From India came tea worth £74 million. Coylon's shipments of tea amounted to £37,500,000 and Pokiston's to more than £1,750,000,
Only a small proportion of imported wine-about a fifth came from the Commonwealth; more than a million quilons from South Africa, about 1,500,000 gallons from Australia and some from Cyprus,
-London Express Service).
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Come inside the Ritz
in the country.
LUTON HOO, in Bed-
fordshire, is one of the most extraordinary houses in England.
Not for its treasures, which are wonderful, nor for its architecture, which is not, but because it is the supreme surviving example of Edwardian taste -- rich. Frenchifled, and smacking strongly of royalty.
That royal flavour is es- sential. Victoria's reign was so long that even its most unroyal fentures can be truly termed Victorian.
Edward's, on the other hand, was so short that the word Edwardian describes only things tinged in the same way with his persona- lity.
Real Edwardianism start- od long before his succes- alon, when UN Prince of Wales, he first gathered
SIR HAROLD WERNIER has added to his father's collection.
round him those orchi Despite death duties, despite
duceous friends whom his mother detested, but whom
we, in a bleaker age, find super-tax, some of the most inexhaustibly fascinating.
valuable art collections in
Sir Julius Wernher was
one of these. A mining vazes and Uny jewelled bell- engineer who had amassed pushes.
ja colossal fortune from
Luton Hop has all these in South African diamonds, he abundance. Where It differs found Luton Hoga Vic from the mass of Edwardian tarian mansion in an 18th- collections is that Sir Julius had century shell, the palace remarkably like the Ritz, but for, far grander. No coincidence
THE resembiance is not
coincidental; the saine were respon-
Brilain are still in private hands. This is No. 3.in a re- port on the Proud Possessors.
By DAVID CARRITT
genuine passion for carly
Brl
particularly Christ Tuking love of tus religious ustineret Ivorles. Luton Hoo is Mother by Durer's contemporary
MAlbrecht Áldorfer....... fantastically rich in there.
This is an intensely moving Ranging from o 10th-century altarpiece to late French Gathle picture, strongly expressive in its angular draughtsmanship Madonnas,
collection 14
and strange phosphorescent unequalled by any in England eutside the British Muscar and colour-barmanles. the Victoria and Alberi.
Pictures interested him less. Slace. he had little time for
Humorous
contractors sible for both.
Like most of King Ed wandering round the galleries THERE is nothing by Altdorfer In the National Gallery or and auction-rooms, he would ward's financier friends
often conduct his purchases elsewhere in England. Sir Felix Cassel, the from the breakfast t Hothschilds and the Beitssearetly the best way of secur- Wernher was cosmopolitan ing masterpieces. by background and educa tion, and like theirs, his European taste was more than English.
The Victorian art collec- tion belonged to the Vic- torinn home.
NEVE
Glittering
JKVERTHELESS, he acquirest
three which would take n place of honour in any museum.
Anyone who admires this great master must make the journey to Luton Hoo.
The third great pleture is smal Madonno and Child by The 15th-century Flemish paint er Hans Memline.
Saner his death in 1812 the collection has increased without His ts character. altering.... widow, who became LadyLud---
rw, formed the fines: existing collection of 10th-century Eng ligh procelain, much of which is now on view at Luton Hoo
His son, Sir Harold, has add- ed 18th-century furniture and a tew Old Masters. while his daughter-in-law, Lady Zla daughter of the Grand
Duko added
Michael of Rusala, has ense upon case of jewelled objects by Queen Alexandra's favourite craftsman, Carl Peter Faberge.
Nothing could be more Ed- wardian than these fantastic
who irinkets. Faberge,
WA3 court Jeweller to the last of the Czars, supplied the ontiro fashionable work!
with luxurious trifles,
Human, even humorous, in its interpretation of the Infant He even managed to make
The first is a painting of S Christ, this would soon become such a democratie fact as 1 Michael which he bought the a Invourite in any public fluenza acceptable by encrust- Ing thermometers with · dia- The Edwardian collection, work of an unknown Flemish gallery.
monds. however, could only be dis mastor for £700 in Berlin. tinguished from its foreign, Eventually an expert who counterparts by an excess remembered seeing before in of Romneys and a portrait as the work of a Spanish
u chapel near Valencia identi of the owner's wife by palater Bartolome Ve-mejo. Sargent.
After the Royal family's, Lady Zia's colleellon · in the Onest in England.
Sir Julius's other pictures run true to the Edwardian formula.
Outstanding in each category are a sombre Tillon portrait, a Rubens skeich' of a hunt, fino Like the vanished world Wernher works by Melsu and de Kooch, which it evokes, the A precious gilltering vision of and Reynold's dashing portrali Collection may. strike the Otherwise the ingredients the Archangel, his sword raisect of Lady Price, were much the same anywhere: to strike the demon on his feet, Renalarence bronzea, jewellery his damask cloak guttering be- God portraits;
in the wind, it is 17th-century · hind ́hím Dutch pictures with a sprink- certainty the finest 15th-
18th-century French art in all Spain.
luxurious aspects; pretty
Why nothing French?
purlion visitor az aumpluous.
Intolerably
But to anyone who finds My Bir Julius did buy one ex Fale Lady more appealing than
ling of Rubens and Van Dyck; century Spanish pieture ouleid quisite French picture Watteau's the suffragettes, I recommend The Viola da Gamba, Ho R visit. It is more instruqtive, bequeathed It to the National
more amusing, and, morý in- Gallery, where it remains the
credible than any Edwardian courtier.
the memoirs of
-(London Express Marples), J
giris by Reynolds, Gainsborough Bir Julius's second great pure only Watteau in the entire col- and Romney; enormous china chase was a large "painting of lection.
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