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6, 1930.

DEMOLITION DAYS S. AFRICA'S RIGHT 50 YEARS A HUMAN

IN LONDON.

·A LAST LOOK AT THE HOTEL CECIL.

-WHERE THE' DEBRIS. GOES...

TO SECEDE.

·GENERAL HERTZOG ON THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

- PREFERENCE POLICY.

These are great days for the de-

General Hertzog, in the course of molition firms. While so much of an interview on board the Arundel the roat of London is away on holi-Castle at Madeira last month sala day the house-breakers are having that while the main purpose of his a real busman's beano," north, visit to England was to attend the south, oast, and west.

Imperial Conference, he had left Work has started on the Hotel South Africa carly in order to be Cocil, and already the place is a

present at the Assembly of the ruin. Acrom the street the Adel- League of Nations at Geneva. phi Theatre is fast disappearing,

Discussing the work of the com. Lever House, on the Embankment,ing Imperial Conference, General and Lancaster-place, by Waterloo Hertzng regarded as paramount Bridge, are in the throes. In the the recognition by the Conference heart of Mayfair the old home of of the independence of South Afri- Sir John Bland-Sutton, the phy-en

"Under no conditions," he sician, with its ornate Hall of said, "can I admit any uncertainty is disintegrating into on that point, and when the report Darius, “junk." Huggine's old brewery in of the last conference granting in- Sobo, and stables in Marchant depedent status to the Dominion street, which were originally a

come up for confirmation it will chapel, are doomed.

be made clear that the right of Something like 2,000,000 tons of South Africa to' secede is to be London architecture, it is estimat-maintained and that our indepen- ed, is at present under the house-dence is not interfered with. breaker's hammer; probably 20,000 men are busy smashing things to

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of these demolition jobs have to be undertaken against time. so favorish is the march of the new over the debris of the old.

Working Against Time.

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Mr. Jimmy Prior, of Sutton, has for fifty years earned a living as a human frework, and has been "let off" with a bang amid a shower of ATAMI — fairy fire at least 2,000 times.

Hotel rates for Bingle rooms (without bath), including meals.

Y 12.00 up in sitios and some popalar resorta.

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He is seventy-two years of age, and still enjoys his role as part of a great set-pieco,

Every one who has seen a fire. work-display will remember the set- "living fire- picco in which the work impersonating Blondin, the tight-ropo walker, crosses the KARULZAWA—' Niagara Falls,

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to fireworks for about seventy They have been setting Blondin years, and Mr. Prior is the oldest living exponent of the art of walk- ing through showers of fireworks.

There are about fifty other acro- bats doing a similar performance at Brework displays in all parts of

the country..

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Agility Wanted.

Mr. Prior has to be agile, because when you are thirty feet or so above the ground, walking through show- ers of golden rain, accidents may happen.

I soon got used to it. When I be- gan I wore painter's overalls, but now I wear an asbestos

suit."

Co-operation With Britain,

Once Mr. Prior slipped off the "Subject to their national inde narrow plank on which he makes)

his fiery way, and on another occa pendence being recognised I

"I was a bit scared at first," sure the people of South Afriension he walked off the end of it!

but will be prepared cordially and in said Mr. Prior to a reporter, creasingly to co-operate with Great Britain and the other Dominions. South Africa regards the declara- What happens to all this materi-tion of the 1020 Imperial Confor- al, which looks

comporsting, ence as its Magna Charta, dispel and elegant, while the carpets reling all doubte as to its free rela- main on the floor, and yet so de- tion with other countries. We have

solate and tawdry a few hours

no reason to believe that Great after the housebreaker gets to Britain or her people have any work Well, take the Hotel Cecil. wish or intention to go back on On the face of it there would seem that undertaking, and it will bo to be sufficient here in the matter our duty to see that nothing is of decorative panels, and doors and taken away from what we then ro-

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ceilings and pillars to furnish a arillion aman homes at bargain prices. Actually, the vast major ity of it, ones the detachable light and other fittings have been die mantled and sold by auction, is nothing but "junk." The house

reuker simply hasn't the time to fiddle about salving this oddment and that, either from considerations of economy or sentiment. He has to make a clean and safe sweep of the lot, and in record time in most cases. It is the mattock that

ceived."

Asked for his views in regard to the economic aspect of the Confer ence, the South African Prime Minister said that here again the freedom of South Africa must be the first consideration to him and

his colleagues and no gottlerbent of economic difficulties could be ac- copted which left any room doubt on this point.

for

"I hold," General Hertzog said, "that the cconomic intereste" of a country must always be secondary if the nation's freedom is at stake. That being granted, obviously in the depressed condition of world eupy a considerable portion of the When one looked into the mortaliabours of the Conference. The absence of market is felt in South remains of the unfortunato Hotel Africa as in other parts of the Cecil, one of the first things one British Commonwealth, and special saw was the base of the roof fag-attention will require to bo given staff, 15 inches in diameter, 22 feet ditions within the British Com to the improvement of trade con-

long lying in a heap of debris on monwealth to the mutual advant- the floor of the Blenheim Room age of ite membera. with its bright greta pillars. And gilt capitale and mouldings. There was a gaping rent in the ceiling, That bugo timber had just been dropped headlong from the roof, through five consecutive ceilings, after everybody had been warned to, keep clear. It made a noise liko Rn earthquake the sort of noise which gladdons the heart of a de molition man, for it ineavs the

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Preference.

"I understand that the present British, Gowrnment wishes to dis Dominion product. The policy of eard the principle of proference on the Union Government, however, is to give tariff preference to some of Britain's manufactures provided Great Britain, extends a similar preference to South African pro- ducts The Union Government a Mr. J. Taylor, the manager of the Greenham demolition firm which prepared to enter into an agree- ment over a definite period provid- has let 200 men loose on the Cecil.cl the industries of South Africa stated that the time limit for the at present in their infancy can get job was seventeen weeks, and they ahead and develop, If the Bri- would have to take on another 100tish Government does decide to men and work days, nights, and drop the principle of preference it, Sundays in order to clear the site will undoubtedly be necessary to in the time.

: make considerable changes in the Lead, Brick, and Stoke, tariff policy of South Africa, and presumably also the other Domin- The most valuable material in

ins will find a similarṛncessity. the place tous," he said, "is thò "South Africa replies that the fead. We shall probably get 150 best market for her produce to-day tons out of it, and it will fetch in Great Britain, andit is the pa- about £18 10s. a ton: Next in imlicy of my Government to develop portance is the iron and steel, One" that market ne well ne other mar or two of the bigger girders may ket, of the world, and to find new to some small council to help outlets for export trade wherever. build a bridge or two over possible.": stream; the

will bo ext. into five-foot lengths and rent

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poes, but they're not worth tho

to the blast furnace for molting whoever bought that," he went down. All the brick and stone. will be broken up for readen, pointing to an imposing mar- making. If only you had timeble fireplao "took a chance with to pick them up and load them it If he can't get it away soon up soparately and clean them, it will go west with the rest. It these good old seasoned bricks may be that he will never call for might be used for building purit Squads of men were smashing trouble on a rush job, like this, away at the main foyer in order Some of the doors and panels way to make a clear road for the lor find their way into the cheaper sorties through a bole in the floor of of bungalow. But practically all the lounge we saw the stone curb the rest is junk."

of the original carriageway. He indicated some fine walnut corridor littered with rubbish an panelling on what was the covered nounced To Richelieu and Mc- terraco overlooking the river. "I dicis "To Pompadour," "Ban- this II come away easily, well and qucting Halls" But they were good, be anid. "if not, it'll have hobnailed boots which tramped the to go with the rest. Nothing corridor now. i could be done, he added, with the Beautiful painted STICKER KAQ Panci in the drawing and smoking rooms, Continued at foot of next column),

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The manager and his foreman za V

the fabric to safeguard their mon against any danger of collapso,

He disappeared into a shed in the yard of the fireworks firm where he is employed, and returned clad in asbestos from hend to foot. In his hand he held a long wand, the famous Blondin balancing pole, and he placed a curious-looking wooden figure, remarkably human in sil houette, against his body..

This figure is set with hundreds of white Innces, and when some one sets him alight. Mr. Prior rains sparks for three minuets while to walks across the plank, and returna

with a chair and a wheelbarrow.

Mr. Prior performed before Queen Victoria, King Edward VII., and the ex-Kaiser. Queen Victoria and often drove to the Crystal especially was fond of Greworks, Palace to see the display.

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