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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

OCTOBER 15.

1988.

SCIENCE AT WORK IN PANTRY

Fish Can Keep 2 Years, But Apples Gas Themselves

Tackling problems for the modern housewife, Britain's Food Investigation Board has found that fish can be kept palatable for two years; that apples under- going gas storage are liable to suffocate; and that meat is best from an animal killed while it is "quietly resting". unaware of its fate.

The experiment with fish was the most interesting. It proved that a highly perishable article can be converted by a new process into a relatively imperishable one.

At present, Ice will keep fish fresh on deep-sea trawlers for from 10 to 12 days. Beyond this period, even with the most care- ful handling, tos is powerless.

A new method has been work- ed out of freezing flah in brine at a temperature of 4 degrees Fahr., and of storing. them at] the same temperature, or, better still, at a temperature of -22 degrees Fahr.

APPLES "BREATHE"

MAGISTRATES WALK DOWN LOVERS' LANE

Windsor.

Three Wundhor magistrates-— one woman and two men-walk- ed down Lovers"-lane, Windsor, recently to determine whether the rond should be closed.

People living in newly-built houses in the line complain thai the couples waken their babies. The magistrate were met by a depolation.

One member, Mrs. Giles, told them: "Y grandmother, 100+ ther and myself all found romance In Lovers'-tane. Are my dren to be denied it?"

chil.

The objectors will make official protest at Windsor Quar- ler Sessions.

Whitehall To Keep Tree Which Shaded Nell

Then whlie

elr Bsh retain

Aix original freshness for at least

months, and lemon soles have been kept in a highly palatable condition) for two years,

In the gas storage of apples, it is

Gwynn

Captain Ugo V. d'Annunzio, son of the Italian poet, questioned

by police at Farmingdalk, L. I., after his runaway plane crashed inta

a car, critically injuring Mrs. Susie H. Jones. He was held on an Ossault charge,

Juvenile Courts "Wickedest "Farce, Says J.P.

Declaring "the business of juvenile courts is the The Nell Gwynn mulberry tree behind Whitehall-gardens is wickedest farce I know," Councillor Paul Griffiths, pre- stated, carbon dioxide gus is provid- to be preserved when the vast new block of Government offices in siding magistrate at Wednesbury (Staffs), recently ed by the fruit itself, as it is alive built. and breathes, and it too much of this gas is present the fruit is suf-

The tree is in the gardens behind Nos. 1 to 6, which formerly added: "I try to help in these cases, but I don't want to focated and rapidly dies.

the Combe here.” housed the Ministries of Transport and Labour and mittee of Imperial Defence.

The present practice of resting animals for at least 24 hours before slaughter is essential,

Struggling on the slaughterhouse floor must be avoided.

The ideal method of slaughter ing." the report states, "would appear to be the electrical stunning of the quietly-resting animal, us avoiding all excitement and any struggling."

MODERN METHODS

The Board was set the task of anding if stored food is as nourish- ing as fresh, and what were the best methods of preserving. Its answers 1037 are given in the report for (48., H.M. Stationery Office).

It states that in the present state!

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EMPIRE NEWS

STRIKE SENTENCES IN MAURITIUS

Port Louls. Following the recent arrest of 300

Before the court were two ten-year-old boys accused It was there long before the present of indecently assaulting a girl of 11. buildings, and is likely to be there

Detective-Sergeant Lockley said that on August 16 the girl, Jeng pfter their demolition.

with two others, was crossing waste land known as "The Jungle."

Five boys chased the girls, but two got away.

In a carly days the tree stood in the gardens of Whitehall Palace. The bench on which the King is said to have sat with Nell Gwynn is sun there to-day.

At that time the river had

not been confined within its present nar- rower limits and the free stood al- mort on the bank.

If, when the new buildings are of knowledge it is impossible to say striking dockers. 200 of those who under construction, the tree should categorically whether or not stored are at liberty here have offered to foods are nutritious as fresh return to work unconditionally. The prove an obstacle to scaffolders, 11 move it tem- inen. have been striking for higher may be necessary to foods.

porarily. In that case It will be "The available evidence suggests," wages and a shorter working weck.

the continues the report, "that modern

Work at the docks, which is being kept alive and replanted near methods of storing foods cause little depreciation in their nutritive value, largely carried on by volunteers plane trees behind Dlaraell's suite in

IDA fact, it may be said that food from the sugar estates, is proceeding No. 2. Whitthall-gardens.

of good initial quality that has been satisfactorily. Ships are being load- stored by the best modern methods ed and the congestion of sugar stocks

MIRRORS, PICTURES Disraell's suite is to be sold by Almost complete quiet prevails auction next week. There is little still technically fresh, is in reality throughout the island. There have, left, for the furniture

however, been two unimportant cases of Incendiarism in the cineЛleida.

is likely to be superior in many at the docks is being overcome. respects to similar food that, though

stale.**

Snoring Disturbs

Prisoners

was removed

for years ago to make way Aling cabinets and modern desks.

Two fine mirrors, some pictures on

Nineteen workers from up-country estates, who have been charged with the panels and some elegant gilded illegal striking, have been sentenced to nine months hard Isbour, Three mouldings are all that remain. In of them will serve an additional 12 the rest of the house the mouldings months for assaulting the police. have already been removed from doors and wall and will soon be em- Australia

bellishing new surfaces in Sumerset House.

Boston. State prison officials are seeking way to provide unbroken slumber for resticas inmates who complain that their sleep is disturbed by their colleagues'' snoring. After an in- spection tour, the warden sald the complaints are justified. A plan to segregate snorers from light-sleepera|· is being considered.

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LARGE-SCALE TUNA

FISHING

The Office of Works will in, time find a use for nearly all of them. Melbourne. Housebreakers are rapidly destroy- With the departure from Mel-ing the house at the end of the row. bourne of a specially built 35-ton Soon the others will take their turn. nuxiliary ketch the first attempt to commercialise tuna fishing in Aus- tralian waters has begun.

tuna--in

to

the

union does not acknowledge the The ketch is fitted with an 0-ton colour bar as applying to Indians.

New Cabinet Afinister-Mr. A. P, refrigerator, which will ensure that

waters it is J. Fourie, whose relnclusion in the European known as lunny-will be delivered South African Cabinet led fresh on the Melbourne market, resignation of Mr. Hofmeyr, Minister where ready sale is assured.

of Education and Minister of Mines, and Mr. Sturrock, Minister without fisheries research expedition portfolio, was sworn in as Minister has already proved the existence of jof Commerce and Industries.— Reu- large schools of the Ash off the ter, southern coasts of Australia. If the cruise is successful, a tuna fishing flect will be established with head-Smuts, wife of Gen. Smuts, the quarters here.

Minister of Justice, is chairman of a committee which has been formed to Aircrafi Sirike Enda-The strike have a portrait of the Prime Minis- of engineers at the Commonwealth ter, Gen. Hertzog, painted for the Alecraft Corporation's works at nation. Prof. Edward Roworth has Fishermen's Bend-near here has been asked to undertake the com- been settled.-Reuter.

mission.

Jamaica

South Africa

ALIEN'S OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Cape Town.

Portrait of Gen. Hertzog-Mrs.

SHIPOWNERS' THREAT

Kingston. It is reported that the principal shipping companies operating vessels The Witwatersrand Supreme Court to and from Jamaica ports have has ruled that a Stateless allen muy | reached an agreement to omit take the oath of allegiance to the Jamales

the next King. The court grunted the ap-months unless the continued frivol.

Lous strikes of dock Inbourers cease, plication of Mr. George Lowen, German advocate, born in Germany, who arrived in South Africa in 1933, to be admitted as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Bouth Africa.

Mr. Lowen stated that he intended fo reside permanently in the Union, to swear allegiance to King George VI., his heirs and successors, and to become naturalised as n Union na-

calls for

three

These strikes, which occur almost every day, delay shipping and in- volve the companies in great lom,

Burina

220 RIOT DEATHS

Rangoon,

tional and as a British subject ns The riot casualties for the whole soon ns-legally possible.

The one who was caught was stripped, her feet and hands were tied, and she was beaten with a stick.

"I am satisfied," the omeer sald, "that the girl was in the power of these boys for at least an hour and

a half."

The girl was still receiving medical treatment, he added.

Superintendent J. H. Hall, opply ing for a remand, sald: "I am bound to point out that this is 15 very serious case.

"The two boys before the court

Medical Reports

for Divorce

Cases

re-

are the eldest of the five and I think STATUTORY documents,

ports and certificate relating to a patient should be furnished

one or both should be sent to a remond home.

"I shall submit evidence later that by medical authorities to a If the boys had had proper parental bona-fida applicant wishing to would not have got tako divorce proceedings on the control, they

ground of insanity. mixed up in such a case,”

Remanding the boys, the chairman sold the magistrates had decided that both should go to a remand home..

MOTHER COLLAPSES

Hearing the decision, the mother of one boy collapsed and fell on the floor. The boy burst into tears and cried: "Mother, I want my mother." The Chairman: You should have thought of that when you were do- Ing this beastly trick,

This decision, announced recently by Sir Laurence Brock, chairman of the Board of Control, is in accord- ance with the opinion expressed in a recent case by the President of the Divorce Court (Sir Boyd Merri- man).

"A week or so ago," Sir Laurence stated, "I signed the formal authori sation which is required under the Omcial Secrets Act, sanctioning the disclosure of documents this

Councillor Griffiths asked if he waÏ'an entirely distinct problem, he

might make some observations.

The Clerk said it would be better not to do so at present, as it was only un application for remand.

Mr. Grimths: All I want to say is that I think it would be well if the papers were sent to the Home Secre- tary and ho were asiced how he would deal with the ease.

said, was the position of the doo for who was asked by a would-be divorce applicant about the pos sibilities of a patient's recovery. In his opinion, this question was dealt with by a decision in the House of Lords in 1903, the effect of which was that it was in the Interests of justice that the

parties and

should have

of what

"I think this Juvenile court busi-some indication ness is the wickedest force 1 know. the evidence would be. They held No one who has a respectable family that certain information given by a could express himself as to the doctor to his patient's husband was, proper way to deal with such a case. therefore, privileged.

"I have no time for juvenile courts. There is nothing at all to

justify the way such cases are

treated.

He thought 'ik nefther wise nor necessary, however, for a doctor to supply a medical certificate or a writton report, but he did think that he would be entitled to reply to any questions put to him by the pet-

"We are bound down by law, and even in the most abominable cases toner or the petitioner's solicitor it is obvious these boys are only very young-the only thing we can do is to send them away at the ratepayers' expense of £40 a year.

regarding the question of whether the patient was curable or not.

This was obviously in the interests of justice; otherwise the petitioner's

"As a representative of the rate-case would be even more of a gamble payers, I am against sending a boy than litigation normally was. away at such cost until he is 18.

"That is any view of the matter, but we can do nothing more."

Speed Driver At Fair

GIRL OUT ALL NIGHT AT 1414

San Francisco. Captain George E. T. Eyston, whe The stepfather of a 14-year-old Morden (Surrey) girl said in Wim-recently established a new world bledon Juvenile Court that he and record of 345 miles an hour with his his wife were unable to control her. Juggernaut, "The Thunderbolt," has She had a violent temper, he said, jagreed to exhibit the car at the and on a Tuesday night ahe stayed Golden Gate International exhibition next year. The racer will be sure out all night with a boy.

The girl was sent to a remand rounded with all its cups, flags and home for a week.

plaques symbolic of its conquest.

SHE THOUGHT SHE

WAS A POISONER

Dr. Beatrice Fanny Board, aged fifty-eight, unmarried, of East

of Burma, Including Rangoon, be- Pennard, Somerset, a medical missionary with a splendid record.

The Society of Advocates opposed | tween July 26 und Sept. 9 are

the application on the ground that officially given as 220 killed and 820 fall prey, through Bl-health, to the delusion that she had poisoned the oath of allegiance was appro-injured.

people, and was so wicked that she bught to die.

The

Thesa Ogures comprise 103 killed

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At an inquest hold recently at Wells, Somerset, where she had. Representative Council of Pretoria 55 killed and 108 injured by the been in a mental hospital for two years, a nursa described how she University has decided to withdraw armed forces, in itangoon 89 per-clipped a sheet in a Window frame, find a pillow-slip round her neck, its financial support from the Na-sons were killed and $18 injured.

Aww Pet Bong's Trading Co. Ltd- tional Union of South African So far 1.862 people have been sent knotted it to the shost while standing on a stool, and then jumped

Students, the largest student organi- for trial in the provinces and 448, in off the stool. The verdict was "Death by strangulation self:4

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