1940-11-22 — Page 13

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 22, 1940.

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By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE PAGE

LIVING

IN

HE recent broadcast

Tfrom Sydney by Joan

Gillison on living condi tions in Australia was hardly designed as a guide, I think, for those visiting Australia. There were many false impressions.

To those of you who are off for the duration, my advice differs slightly to those spend- ing four to six months leave.

It is unlikely that any of you will settle in the coun- try, or even in the semi-rural districts outside the Metro- politan area-it is more like- ly that you will hug the benches in the summer with a possible revision of plans as the summer fades.

There are two kinds of beaches the ocean beach.with tumbling, rollicking surf, or the harbour beach with calm deep water nestling next the shore. There are in Sydney and every capital city in Australla, as in every city in the world, atratas of society and classes of residential dis- tricts. It is for you to decide in which you care to live, but you, can be sure the cost of living varies amazingly in each.

A RECENT letter from Sydney tells me that rents have gone up. co:n- Unfurnished flats that are fortable and fairly attractive are from £2 s. a week, with odd ones here and there for the spry secker at rather less. These flats, are in the South Harbour side of Sydney, a convenient and attractive district in which to live. These suburbs are fifteen or twenty minutes from the heart of, the city by 'bus or tram, less by taxi, which transport is cheap at 6d. a mile. Tram and bus services are continuous and are more used thun anything else.

You can expect to pay £3 3s. or so for a furnished flat of two bedrooms, living room, kitchenette and bathroom. This might include running hot water at no extra cost and will have a refrigerator and

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CONDITIONS AUSTRALIA

By Susan Clinton

ARS or electric stove, Bath rooms well always modern and equipped and mast blocks of flats in the better class districts have patent rubbish destroyers-you litt a lid set in the wall and away it Hoes never to be seen no more- an advantage to the woman doing her own household chores. Five shillings a week will comfortably cover lighting and gas, and you'll save a litle from that for frivolities over a period of months. For n mother and two children. I should pay £2 108. at least for the food bill for a week.

RENTS at ocean beaches vary. For comparison, these beaches are the Brightons of Sydney, cosmo- politan and fully populated during the summer months. They are flats' districts-cottages and houses are scarce being occupied by the term permanent residents. Short tenancy is more expensive than long term, owing to the inrush of country visitors to Sydney for the hols.

The holiday period is six to eight weeks, December and-Janu- ary, when the schools are closed for Christmas vacation.

Those of you who are going for the duration will be advised to take your flat or house in the win- ter at norinal rent, and you have it then for subsequent summers at the lower and reasonable cost.

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DOMESTIC help is not quite as dimcult as it has been made to sound. You can get a cook-general for 30s. a week, but 30s. is quite an outlay when you are keeping two homes going probably, yours there and your husband's here.

Why not do what I would do? Have a daily woman for one or one and half days a week. The gure of 1s. an hour is correct,

that experience taught me

will not come for less than a half a day at a time, and will forego that in favour of on offer from some one else of a full day.

One day a week at 10s. plus fares and lunch and morning and

Siren Song

Civilians are adopting the Service philosophy -"If your name isn't on it, it won't hit you.”

My soldier friends assure me

And the Navy says the same→→ "No bomb will slap

"Into your lap

"Unless it bears your name."

Now, Hitler does not know me,

So I figured with aplomb

The risk was slight

That he might write

My name upon a bomb..

The skies are wide and spacious"--

And the chance that he should note My hiding thus

Anonymous

Seemed laughably remote.

But now a doubt assails mó:

For this weakness I discern—

Suppose in spite

The blighters write:

“To whom this may concern!""'

SLB.W

afternoon cups of lea, will take care of your laundry. On this day it is usual. for them to do either bathroom or klichenette. An extra half day would take care of the "donkey "work" of the flat. This would be 10s, a weak, plus slight extras, and you do the light chores from day to day. This routine would hold no hardship for the average woman.

FOR the duration visitors, who are concerned with keeping their fabilities low, 1 can but advise what myself would do, I should pack up iny household linen, cul- lery, crockery, etc., and take them along with ine I should rent an unfurnished flat expecting, with careful exploration to get a good one for 37s. Bd. to £2 2s. a week, after having set myself into a which to boarding house from make my forsys,

I should furniture this flot with oddments pleked up from auction and bargain sales, the minimum re- quirements, and it is surprising how little you need to be comfort- able when you do what the Aus- tralians do, get out into the open air.

Naturally I should aim for a flat" with a good number of things built in, and these can certainly be had. If the war lasts another year or more you will have effected a save, and have articles with a re-sale value into the bargain.. The longer 'you stay' the greater the advantage —but no advantage unless you do It right away.

It may sound tiresome, or im- practical, because you are up in _the_alt_and_ennnot_feel_that you want to setile in--but I have done this before and have proved it to my satisfaction.

The main thing is to take your bits and pieces from here not for getting your pots and pans--these are the things that cost money when you are setting up a house.

should . I

not advise taking furniture with you, the freight is very high. However, I believe. you may still, as when last I went un leave. talte in household effects up to £100 duty free provided you to be resident in the country for six months or more. Regula- 1lons change in war-time, so make inquiries about these points.

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TO both types of visitors 1 say take all your summer and winter clothes. Leave nothing behind that is wearable. There are vagaries in the climate especially in sum- mer which proves this advice is Bound,

A warm summer's morning enn be as chilly as a duchess's dismissal by mid-day with a great deal less warning, so keep your cardigans and pull-avers ever near your hand.

ONE final word of advice to the home-hunter. Go to the the suburb In house-agents in which you plan to dwell. Thero. are plenty of them and *competition is keen and they have far inore on their book

than you will find in the agencies in the heart of the city. Don't tell the

agent all and about where you came from what not it all sounds like mil- Tons and thousands to. Film

e and your rent may be assessed accord ingly tell him nothing, until you have placed a deposit on the flat, then you may relax and be Queen of the Eastern Seas; if that's how your impulses go..

HAVING in mind, then our standards out here to which we have become vory, used, altered. conditions of wor-time; and the fact that a oertuta, ambimi toli sightseeing is bound to be done fika sutely marzim for two adulte or mother, and two unlidren sur

three months at least. Up to

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the prope

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MONK!

HONK!

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

·Unilad Fostere Fradiossa, Ias.

"If I don't catch them with a flower on the way in, I catch. them with an aspirin on the way out!"

Midget Europe States In War

The Sovereign Republic of the San Marino, with an area of 32 square miles and a po pulation of 14,000, recently de- clared war on England. A slightly comical flavour is added to this gesture because San Marino forgat, until very recently, to conclude peace with Germany. While Europe in general enjoyed a respite of almost 21 years between San Marino major wara. technically jumped from one state of belligerence into an- other.

San Marino's experience, in- cidentally, shows that, even the smallest of Europe's mid- get States, most of them quaint survivals of the age of small States which live large- ly on tourists and postage stamps, are affected by the present

European conflict. San Marino itself is located near Rimini, in one of Italy's eastern coastal Provinces,

Under French Control

A still, tinler midget state which has certainly felt the repercussions of the war is Monaco, with its international-.. ly famous resort of Monta Carlo: The writer paid a visit to Monaco, with its eight square miles of territory and 20,000 inhabitants, early last spring, when France was liv- ing in the illusion of a war without fighting. Monaco had Just proved to the whole world that it was a sovereign: State it had signed a treaty of extradition with the United Stateniis

MANDY Surrounded on every side territory however,

complete. control for not allowed to without the per of the French consul Tof French ter luding the border, f: Mentone, ⠀ lles bo-

tween Monaco and the Italian frontier and a treaty between Franco and Monaco gave France very sweeping rights of military intervention in the event of an emergency.

An Important Spot

The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg is rather outside the class of mid- get States. About, 300,000 people live in its 999 square miles of ter- ritory and it is a substantial pro- ducer, of steel. But, like the smaller principalities, it has always been completely demilitarised and has consequently been a constant- BOUICE of worry to the French General Staff.

When Relchsfuhrer. Hiller launched his drive against the West, Luxemburg was invaded along with the Netherlands and Belgium. The French promptly moved into Luxemburg themselves,. but the Germans were there frat, + with more men, and, what was with more important, wit tnoro acroplanes and tanks. On the very eve of the invasion I I was looking. across the France-Luxemburg bar- der at a little town where a small river

marked the boundary” be- tween the two states. The com- plete calm on both sides of the stream must have contrasted atrik- ingly with the thunders of the Blitzkrieg a few days later..

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Two other midget States, Licch- tenstein, with. 12,000 inhabitants and an area of 88 square miles, and: Andorra, with 175 · square miles and some 7,000 inhabitants, have not yet been and are probably hoping that their larger neighbours will not take too much notice of

them.

Bata Named In U.S. Fifth Column Drive

The name of Bata, the famous Czech sboe manufacturers, is linked with the alleged Nazi Fifth Column drive in the United Blates by the

Port "New York Prays that the U.S.

The newspaper Department of Justice is Investigat ing the Immigration data of 850 Czech instructors at the big Bata plant in Balcamp, Maryland. W

Jan Bata, head of the concern, escriped from Czechoslovakia', whon: me Germans occupied the country and went to America.

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