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Buy a car in Hongkong? Not on your life!

By Sylvia Da Costa-Roque HAVE you got a car? I haven't—and I don't intend to have either, at least, not as long as I'm living in Hongkong,

Neason? I work in a flee full of car owners. Most of them) have, or are getting, urers

not because of the tortures <! newspaper production, but beply solely cause they own cama.

They are constantly worrying about 50-cent pleser. parking arters.

tickets.

policemen and parking

One good secretary has an alarm clock widch she sels to go aft every two hours remind her lo run out to her boxe' car to put 50 cents in the meter.

Once she jorgot to set the clock

.!

One member of the staff gol rid of his car to the first bidder a couple of weeks ago breguse he found his car wasn't only be- Ing hounded in town, but that parking meters were about to be) but up around his block of flats. He is now a much happier man and has joined my brigade of the Car-less Ones.

hio

Another mon is forced to park

car in the mid-levels be

cause he can never and a park

But of course, small consola- tion, parking meters don't up- to Hongkong. They are driving people mud through- Ast the world. I wonder who invented them?

Obviously sonneine why didn't

uwn a car.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1951.

JAGUAR

£10,900,000

ORDERS IN FIRST THREE DAYS

OF NEW YORK

SHOW

SRES

CENTAS

JAGUAR BRITAINS

CREATEST EXPORT CAR

"There goes one of your 'Holier than thou' brigade. Husband's on night shift at Jaguars.”

Mother-to-be chews up coal

A YOUNG house-

wife who was But only the best quality

ex-

pecting a baby develop-

ing plaze lower down. As heed such a craving for kitchen nuts or spent

ves mid-levels anyway,

I just can't understand why he

doesn't leave the car at home.

ENVY

A tady friend of mine in caus-

coal that she ate two dozen lumps a day in place of sweets.

She became such 1 2001- noisseur of coal that she would

matches are good enough

ing quite a lot of envy around chew only best quality kitchen developed a special craving, but

ruts, As an occasional, change usually spent normal,

from coal she chewed maleh-heads which consist mainly of charcoal.

the offices of a prominent busi- Bees firm in town. She parks her vat every day in front of the office-in an illegal area! She has so far had 13 parking tic- kets and hasn't had to pay up ance. She's pretty, which might have something is, do with it.

Her husband has only receiv-reported by Dr Non Taggart, a Modleat Research Council scientist

who questionerl

about their expectant women eating habits.

ed one: Ucket, and he had to pay $18.

There are also other things haunting ear-owners, such as an inerens in licence mul registra tion fees. The owners are be

inferiority com- ginning to get

900

was for something

The commonest craving was fur fruit.

Mony uddenly developed a destre for highly Bavoured foods, such as black

This extreme case of a food- fod during

Is streng preghency

puddings, pickles, and kippers, At the same time many de- aversions tu yeloped strong foods they norinally liked. In early pregnancy, tea and coffee often isted horrible.

As

*The woman crunched the

In coal

13 most satisfying Banner." Dr Taggart told A They feel that Government, meeting of dieticians perhaps, loesen't like them!

plexra.

Als getting slightly annoyed

themselves, are the car dealers Nothing stures a prospective car Luver more vasily than nine of parking meters. And in Hongkong the line is getting longer...and longer.,.and long-

er.

Soon there will be au many parking meters, there won't be enough" cars to AR them

I can never quite work park-

Sudden

for

The irresistible craving coal anal match-heads eume on uddly in the last six weeks of pregnancy and disappeared when the baby was born,

Doctors suspect that thals quirk of diet may be due to a temporary iron deficiency which the mother instinctively tries to

others cat soap, toothpaste, plaster, whitewash, and chalk.

ing meters out. Are they put up rectify. Some chew cool, but because Government is poor and it's a sure fire way of mak- ing money--or

they because really subscribe to the thought Two out of every three women

Dr Taggart at that to be kind you first have to questioned by

Aberdeen be cruel?

maternity hospital

nutry mothers know. women often put on so mu lat while "eating for two" that

in

great dimeulty they have slimming back to their origina! weight.

Dr Taggart found that the appetite ecm- big Increase in

the during occurs monly

any weeks when it would he least expected ... and then gradually subsides.

About half the wothen claim- ed that they had not noticed

any

increase in appetite. But

when closely questioned they admitted taking more and more sandwiches, biscuits, and other snacks between meals,

London Express Service).

Just Fancy That I

THE nerve-centre of Britain's research on space- satellites, which are soon to relay telephone conversations round the world, is paralysed—for lack of one ordinary telephone.

IN EIGHTEEN

MONTHS ONE

MAN'S NAME HAS BECOME AN INSULT IN AFRICA

Is it

time for Macleod

to quit?

ONE

NE of the most un- pleasant things in politics is when you hold diametrically opposed views to those for whom you have affection and respect.

nationalism

through Africa,

London Express device.

For many years now I have liked Mr Iain Macleod. He has a brain which, For more than three weeks the Royal Society's quick and clear

I think this was something Mr Was sweeping he can only blame himself, 32 new office in Regent's Park, specially set up to speed combined with a great zest for

And he im- his approach was always cur- Macleod had not bargained for. Britain's entry into space, has been unable to get a tel-, makes him a figure of great

charm, and interest,

thet mediately conceived

the lously one-sided,

I believe he thought he could Yel, regretfully, during the

month and phone in spite of repeated requests to the Post Office.

Inover had a better example say one thing one last month,

found only solution was for the white I have

man quickly. to accept black of this than the other day another the next, could deal myzett becoming more and

rule, trusting that the Africans' when I spoke a moderate behind Sir Roy Welensky's back, estranged, for it has seemed to me that he has been inexperience would make them bleck member of the Rhodesian and get away with it all, because fall back upon the white settlers Federal Parliament. His buni he was carrying out the Prime following remorselesaly a polley and administrators for guidance resa has been destroyed and he Minister's policy. which could not succeed,

"ONE EYE FOR SIX MILLION EYES? BROTHERS, KILL NO MORE...!**

Londen Bairns Carven.

more

That he has sincerely believed in it, and that the means that he has employed have in his own eyes been justined by the ends he had in mind. I do not doubt. Yet in a year and e half his name has become, in Africa, synonymous with in- ¡sults.

Unfettered

To understand why this has. happened let us look at Mr Macleod.

and

вспотель ledge in run- ning the country,

Studied in black and white, this is a very peality argu- ment,

There 1 # only one thing that he did not take

-by- LORD LAMBTON

Tory MP for Borwick-upon-Tweed

to

has

been culated, threatened by terrorists, yet he remains A calm su porter of orderly ady-

ance.

Ho miscal-

And now that there is this crisis of confidence, X can only ask sadly whether Mr Macleod is serving a helpful purposa by remaining in his position. Whatever happens, his pre- He had been sence appears to be a prelude

to some sort of trouble. in this couD-

If Sir Roy gets his way, then try a month. the black Northern Rhodeslans I asked him will feel that they have been how he had

And if Sir Roy does betrayed, got on with not get his way-or a lot of his Mr Macleod.

mandate.

new

Alternatives:

To begin with, I do not think he is a politician with any part sideration, and that was the He shrugged his shoulders and way he wil seck a

human aspect of the problem told me that the Colonial Scaret- cular attachment to any party,

Indeed, the story is told the strength of white feeling ary had declined to see hun. that to have an immediate that when, during the war,

was advised to go Into African majority was to risk politics, he replied: "Into chaos. which party?”

anything moderates."

the

This cannot be concealed by The any blurring of details. alternatives facing Mr Macleod will produce difficulties which hin presence at the Colonial are Office magnity,

a

"Any terrorist can see him,” he said, "but he won't have

do to

with I believe it was Mr Macleod's Ho belongs to that group of ignorance of this feeling that

into our

Such tactless behaviour present Left-Wing Tories who are hard has got us

his tactics were this may well frustrate his

liberal hopes, for nowy we

a stalemate in the faced with

stim- of it, while It

ly dlasimilar in their outlook to trouble, for auch members

Labour unskilful. of the Party as Me Roy Jenkins and

For the Inst 16 years he has led a limited political life in the small world of political thought, and is perimps somewhat out of touch with the ordinary person. Thus he brings to politics all the zeals and bellofs of w

Instead of following

If he were to go, not nocea. sarily out of the Cabinet, but

of his whispered assurances to, the black African.

I

Mr Guitahell. In short, ho is line of his predecessors, instead Kenya and a financial

and working pede out

to some other position, his In no way fettered for good or of connaing in

and Thodesia the Prime Minister, ale successor would not be sad- for had by Conservative tradi- with the white population tons.

making them by trust do more Roy Welensky, has so lost trust died by the hatred of the white than they wanted to, he seemed in him that apparently be will African, or by the dead weight purposely to ignore them and to negotiate only over his boad,

There is a crisis of con- treat them to a duplay of bad

fidence. I must be frank. I manners and double-talk.

think this has been considerably nagravated by the quain map- port Mr Macleod has roctival front Mr Macmillan, who was

I was there jast

not

| Shmizish divorced from the ebb

One-sided

-East

nut

would suggest that Mr Macleod should be gucoraðað, perhaps for only a short time, by Lord Boyd, who, when at the Cotontal Offer, wen in so extraordinary WHY Chow great respect of both black ̄and while Airlosha.

and flow of ordinary life, and But Intially all sected to go widely quoted throughout to him, there isaanilefactory well. The Kenyn

Confentice Africa when

Hin year as saying that the Colonial intellectual anawer td every. was hailed no a triumphs.

policy

His great talents seen wasted thing

release of Bands as a piece of Secretary's

His con- necessarily his, and that the in Chuinness, and I can think of So when Mr Macmillan asked enlightened wlachows. Entres

no other personality who could African Colonial Sordiary was. despite

Colonial tacts with the wilder his

Indispensable.

bring to the comling Luraka con- inexperience, to take over the ne the pattern of the new age.

Burdo "Wits auch words as tiren to stivational talka," the bespovj Colonial Office, he approached it But undertreath the

apportioin to tie which might redeém, a fast do. he was bullamy up artist hin- go on, the

Chension Express #ergice),

as an intellectual problem.

It appeared to him that melt a feeling of personal an- Macleod in the 4thodosies and in teriorating altuation, | great wave of repressible tagonian and distrust, for this Kenya grew and blossoined....