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THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1981.

The hermit's secret: Family pays

him to keep out

£12 A WEEK FROM

HIS RICH BROTHERS

London, Feb. 8.

A lonely Englishman whose prosence on a remote island has puzzled the local folk revealed his secret recently. Ho is the 1961 version of the old-time "remittance man"-his rich brothers allow him £12 a wook on condition that he stays away from the family.

So former Army major Donald Robinson, aged 53, is living a hermit's life on the little island of Coll in the Hebrides.

away,

Four hundred and sty mile: and in Bedford. tre Cambridgeshire,ht: brothers One in live in wealthy homes. Mr David Robinson, chief of a TV rental firm and a racehorse owner,

'UNWANTED'

Another brother, Desmond, is a solicitor, and a sister, Mrs Betty Kinightly, is n barrister. oilers of the family are with the firm founded by their Robinson's father Herbert Motors, of Cambridge.

Seid Donald Robinson os ba perfed potatoes in a coltage: "My brothers never want to see me again. 1 came here to for- get the past,"

Twice-inurried Robinson, and wandered Highland tracks for months before arriving at Coll with 3d. in his pocket.

Behind him were two divorce decrees,

Court cases for drunkeness and breach of the peace. And also a lust fortune.

"I had to sell my shares in the family Arm for £1,500 to educate my son, who is now a Merchant Navy oflicer," he said. i "1 reckon those shares would be worth £50,000 today."

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'SETTLED NOW The family's "keep order followed years of revolv ing fartune for Donald.

"I was never a crook, how- ever," he said.

"I had been come tu this

drink

I'd never have beautiful island."

He

only added: "T sherry now.

"And at last I am completely settird. I feel like Long Jehn Silver with just enough pieces of eight to keep nu going."

company Then the one-time director who since his decline has tried a variety of jobs--"ave was as Newmarket stable lad; but I think that emb: rrassed my brother future.

David"-spoke of the

"I want to forget the past! and live a new life," he said. "I'll never leave this island,"

He has signed on as a const- part, has contract to paint the village ball, and works at the lobster pels. He also says he

write Intends

that biography"The years the locust has colen."

Added Robinson: "It is cer- tain to cause a family row."

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His brothers had nothing to say, and a mechanic employed by the family firm, said: "No- body seems to mention Donald round here."--London Express Service.

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Mute testimony

TURISTS

Australian newsletter by EMH

Sydney's great public schools are filled

The

up to 1973

Sydney, (By Airmail).

filled already

to

great public schools in Sydney, capacity, have long waiting lists of new pupils for as far as 1973. Many of these children were enrolled at

the birth, and whore they are

sons or daughters of former pupils, they are in some schools given priority. Both the King's School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School are full, the former until 1973 for first year students, and the latter reports "No vacancies for some years."

Sydney Grammar School has This will save long overland Brown, will approach Captain 3 view to no room for first year pupils enitle drives during which the Livingstone with until 1972, and Newington Col- animals lose condition in vary allowing the race to continue Da lege until 1907.

ing degrees of heat and cold, it has done for many years. Mr The longest waiting lists are ond because of lack of water. at schools which cater for both boarder and day pupils,

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Brown pointed out that if the The flying cattle freighters, starting point were moved out- bulit on the Hovercraft principle ride the Heads it would kill the Interest in would be capable of flying at normous specialer

and would create 100 miles per hour, and already the race,

for the Now South Wales school scores of enquiries have reached additional hazards

children are saving about London from Australia. Such a starting boats, and could endan-

car fer spectator craft. £5/10/ per head and last scheme would possibly be

ried out with the preliminary This race each Boxing Day year 330,832 children design work in Britain, and creates tenendous interest both deposited nearly £2 mil production work in Sydney, as on land and sea, and besides the len in schools savings companies in England which are hundreds of small craft on the

to Hovercraft

watch the start, building

have harbour banks.

Austraila. This hundreds of factories in

spectators watch School bank balances have in- could lead to big possibilities, from vantage points on the cronsed by £1 million in the and Sydney workers may ond shore, extending from Roze Bay past four years and some day be travelling from Manly right out to Watson's Bay. children in their early teens to the Circular Quay under have as much as £200 in their almllar conditions, These bank accounts.

Hovercraft would be capable of The Rev. Howard Guiness, The Department of Education carrying 600 passengers and first Introduced banking to would travel at the rate of 100 schools in 1887 and today the miles per hour. But

system operates in 3,080 schools Uroughout the Slate, the A.C.T. and Norfolk Island.

No man would run his best friend down. this dog is mute testimony to what can befall a care. less driver. The picture was taken in England and perhaps not many realise that a similar law operates in Hongkong too.

Y. THE WAY.

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Children have many reasong for being thrifty,

and

when Interviewed recently, one boy admitted he was saving up buy a car, another hoped to have A dairy farm in the distant future, and still another wanted a good education so that he could become a veterinary sur- geon, while one thirteen-year- old was "saving up to buy Dr Rhubarb anys: Give your something good for Mum, such house." The children aro younger son a pistol which will as a

has taugh not to hoard, but to save fire vegetables into your band's mouth. They go nicely up for something which will be worth while in their future Hie. with ment

-Lendon Express Servlon).

by Beachcomber

T WAS touched by the story |

of a man who abandoned the idea of taking his pet ferret to Greece because he was told it would not like the food.

There is also the possibility that hotel proprietors

might

refuse to accommodate what is, CROSSWORD

after all, only a kind of polecat, as Pliny the Elder, who perished Vesuvius. in an eruption of No

pointed out. Its taste for bread'

to Its and milk is no gulde nature, which is rapacious. The owner of this ferret, says the report, as arranged for a man to come in every day to keep it Will for an hour." company the ferrer-sitter read to it, sing to 1. or play sume simple game with it?

YESTERDAYS SOLUTION: Even evil Jevel tevin live liven love loveless LOVELINESS Rovellie alive oven ovine seven sloven enivel solve vell velle Vessel te vein veinir ventre vile vileness viliose vine vial volte vole.

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An unusual job for a girl is accomplished by 16-year- old Sandra Hayes, a Lancashire lass, but who' is now living in Adelaide with her parents.

She Is Australia's only woman technician engaged in television antenna Installation, and so for her record climb is 482 feet in a 60 mile per hour wind,

Her work includes lecturing herself, men much older than and

during an eleven weeks course she covered 12,000 miles, 6,000 of them in the far north of

South Australia. She climbs great heights in all weathers in-

stalling antennas with the help

of her crew, and is the only woman in the world to hold the Frequency Modulation mission Certificate,

Trans-

Sandra Is an attractive 5ft. 4s blonde and as she couldn't take to a dull office routine after leaving school, she accepted a job climbing towers in the fringe areas of the State for the purpose of erecting T.V. antennas, and now she's at the top in a man's world.

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In the near future "Hover- craft" may be used in the Inland of Australia for the purpose of conveying herds of cattle to the const.

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