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COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "WAKE UP & DREAM”.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1947.

BY

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

man

Strube's

latest:

"The

Little

Man

returns

on

#

S the first ocean-going ship

about to slide down the slips at West Hartlepool, a tall, stringy

wearing a

and gown mortar-board flung himself out of a taxi shouting: "I protest, " Naturally, I protest, I protest." every head in the shipyard turned as if mounted swivel.

Brandishing a large atlas, open at page 30, he cried: "Switzerinod is an inland country, therefore it has no coastline. Therefore it can have no seaports from or to which this lesallian of the deep may sail. Therefore the ship ought never to Therefore have been constructed. Instead of being launched today it should be taken to pieces again and nut back into store That is cold logic, is it not?" He then fung Himself back into the taxi, which hooted derisively and drove off. One more standing inside

Tthe annual puncture mending Achampionships held at Hitchin, AT Heris, the jurs or lad'es challenge shield was won by 12-year-old Edie Brittle, who mended five back-tyre punctures In exnetly 14 minutes, doing all her own pumping up. It vas noticed that Miss Brittle bit her lower lip all the time, which may or may not have contributed to her success. Her father, Police Constable Bob Brittle, who has been end man in his station's tug-of-war team since 1912 and can prove it, com- mented: "Our Edic's a born puncture mender, not that I could ever see much in it myself."

Two other swans

1

THE two black swans recently seen on an Essex lake were at first thought to be members of the cast of

The Kentucky Minstrels," but was later proved that they actually had coloured blood in them. Their dying swan-song differs somewhat from

the

slightly ballet-conscious When song of the London bird.

they are about to dle one of them plays the banjo and the other sings "Mammy,"

Rolling home

S general secretary of the Na- tional Veteran Steam Roller Association, I have already sent in to the town clark of Margale out tentative offer of £3 35 for the 50. steam roller the council year-old wish dispose of. Rather callously, I think. We of the N.V.S.R.A. de. vote by far the best

of our part lives to finding confortable honies for steam rollers In their "oid nge,

there rather than zee

faithful old servants end their days in the scrap- fron yards. If YOU can find an odd corner in your heart for a tired-out veteran roller, please do get in touch with me.. I mean please do.

from holiday"

and

below:

10 years

ago

To

Strutte

remind

you:

HEY! I THOUGHT I LEFT YOU OUTSIDE!

ONLY TEN SUMMERS BACK: Don Bradman breaks his leg and is out of Test-England wins by an inaings and 570 Funs....Three pages of sports news in ono day's paper.... Captain Eyaton wins world landt speed record in his 4.000 h.p. racer Thunderbolt....A new plano for 20 cuinens....A three- piece sulle for 7 guineas....

曲

PAGE ONE NEWS: Britain has best harvest for six years- cheaper bread....£100,000 offered for the Blarney Stone to be loaned to America for a year-offer turned down....Britain tries out a smoke screen which might be used in time of WAP....War Minister Ilare-Heilsha watches first anti-aircraft trials....New 10 hp. cars on the market for . £175....And cigarettes at a shilling for 201

Those were HIS days!

THE CHANCES IN AFRICA

by.

THE trek to Africa is now at

Tits

Brigadier A. H. Head, M.P.

Many things happen- ed in that last full summer before the war... Mr Staples re- members that sum mer very, very well

by CLARE HARRIES

T 6.30 a little man

(his

hoight: 4ft. 10ins.) will

give his bowler hat a good

clean with the stiff brush he

It was during a beat wave, Mr staple went to the House of Com- mons, to No. 10, Downing-street, to Buckingham Palace, and to the City un the first day. From then in there was no stopping him. The Little Man went to townl

He went to a variety show at the Palladium and was pictured backstage with a bevy of clucrus- girls in spangled shorts ("They didn't half rib me about that when I got back to the local"). He met Berl Wheeler making a film at Pino- wood, and had tea with Jean Colin, He <auldn't the leading lady. understand how "The Mikado" cost inem £100,000 to do: his gice club produced it for £27, and everYKNE thoroughly enjoyed it.

keeps beside it on the hall table quen the Little Man started lo and leave 27, Solna-road. Winch-travel, and off he went to Glas- more Hill, N.21.

He's off to the local, the Green Dragon. "Hallo, Strube," his friends will say as he goes into the bar.

He isn't really Strube, of course, but he is Strube's Little Man come to life. His butcher brought him fame ten summers ago by telling a Daily Express reporter at the

Club about him.

Enfield

gow for the Exhibition. Ho had nover been out of England before. Dress- d up in a kit, apata and sporran, Cockuleckle Macduff, and renamed ne was photographes aving a reel complete with bowler and umbrella.

Next port of call wan Blackpool, where he had a bit of a lurk" in Prest on Wakes week. He d autograph books, ate wheles, pad-

died in the sea, admired nmself in

the distorting mirrors, went up the Tower and down the Slippery Slide. Golf

"I'm having the time of my life," he said,

-Mr-William--Henry-Staple,........He went back to work the next for that is his name, was the day.

pince many bomb-damage repairs as he square moustache, the

could. A sixty-pound piece of con- nez, and the slightly bewildered eroe was se ug his rour made by a bomb, and. •he Anished his There are, however, drawbacks, expression which have

the I have already mentioned

character gnaw before going to see what had

housing shoringe

Strube's

cartoon

perfect replica. A dapper man During the war we didn't near Prices of many gooda are con- There is food in plenty, no tatlon-who always wore the high much of the Little Man. Ho car- with Peak,

overlanders trolled, and wages keep pace with ing, and able and hard workers collar, the bow tie, the little ried on with the rest. He did as crossing the desert in lorries, them to some extent,

should gain high wages unhampered ships packed with would-be Clothes

fairly expensive, by restrictions. pioneers, and planes full of young Ready-made men's sults cost £16. hopefuls seeking a new life.

tailor-made £22. shoes £1 108, to What will they find in the promis £2.

and cnn ed lands of South

well and Africa

There are no coupons. Southern Rhodesia? Let me tell

An average white couple of the remember the distress of a recently known and loved all over the happened.

artisan who had world. lower income group have one native arrived British servant who is paid about £3 a been living for a month in an hotel Each has a shortage of houses. month. Cool probably costs them at £23 a month. South Africa seems to be about about 20s. a month and electricity half a million short.

Houses cost between £2,500 and £3,500. Rents

£10 vary between and £20 a month,

you.

too high.

LUS.

the

Free treatment

The Government's

intention

Income tax is low.. An unmarried man earning £250 a year pays £2

a year.

As

in the Transvaal,

ان

ND recently I went to visit him. and has had to A He is 75 now give up his job,

He draws the old-a150 pension and is looking forward to the "cheap smokes." He does the family shop- ping and cooking:

The Express made much Mr Staple. For a week he was South Africa is a bad country to taken away from the building fail in and there is no social security arm he owned, and his face ap- peared larger than life-size on s we know it.

There are said to be some 300,000 scores of posters. poor whites, living on practically nothing, being unatted for skilled

"Never was much of an eater my- employmeni

rationing too high wage rates and ineligible to conversely

bad. 's not enough for a working withheld. compete with cheap, unskilled black which may develop if they are self, so I don't find

The many Indians on the cast man, though." He in worried about also demanding increased the condition of his tablecloths us coast,

at the white

man's

labour.

Some relief is given by employ- ment on State

building road

unrest the extent of

same-

Unemployment benefit, recently introduced, amounts to only about 20 percent of the wage normally These prices are for small, semi- earned if under £750 a year. detached houses in which the averago lower-paid white worker lives.

Wages

are not average skilled artisan getting about eventually to provide free hospital £40 a month. a shorthand typist treatment throughout South Africa, £23 to £30, and a junior woman but this has not yet been achieved. shop assistant (one of the lowest Education is free up to clemen-

tion. paid workers) about £17.

tary

school standard, but I believe schemes, but the presence of these rights, provide an added complica- the can't get any more.

Lastly, there is evident dissension lem.

among the white population itself, it is free up to High School standard poor whites is now a social prob- only in England, there is a shortage

South Africa has, and will con- the two parties being the tinue to have, considerable political what anti-British Nationalists and difficulties, mostly racial in origin the moro pro-British United Party and caused to a large extent by the who are at present in power. face

To sum up, the would-be emigrant very inevitable educational progress and

will find it difficult to travel there 1 earning capacity of different conditions. Vacancies are Increased

and once arrived hard to secure a fower, and aspirants would do best large black population.

house. to serve

ve food

Sapprenticeship, unless qualifications

Once in a house be will probably possessed.

experience from time to time revere The cost of living varies locally, backed up by knowledge of local

This results in a demand for home-sickness; and should he fall the following approximate conditions. figures give some indication:-

South Africa has a sunny, tem- increased political representation, he will receive little sympathy or which holds the album of pictures 6d. perate, and mainly healthy climate. and with such a large proportion assistance.

27- It suits both adults and children, of black men it is not easy to fore- 3/3 and the country is full of natural see where the concession of increas- hardworking men there are 1/2 beauty.

ed political rights might lead; or doubtedly great opportunities.

A man getting £500 a year, mar- ried with one dild, pays £3 09, 11d.; £1,000 a year. married with one child, pays £44 118. 11d; and £9,000 avear, no child, £1,559 odd.

Cost of living

but

21b. loaf of bread

ilb, of steale

50 cigarettes-

1 pint of beer

of teachers and accommodation.

There is no opening for unskilled

white labour..

Would-be farmers

NANCY Ground For Complaint

WHAT

AN AWFUL MOVIE

WORST

I'VE SEEN IN. MANY

YEARS.

Colour problem

DEMAND OH, WE

MY MONEY

DON'T DO

THAT

BACK

Two or three times a week he. this winter the his friends. And goes off to, the local for a chat with glee club la starting up again, so way down to Weeke's in Hanover- on Mondays he will be making bia street, and joining in the part songs. and lays.

And if you go to see him is we did, he'll tell you ail about that holiday of ten summers ago. and he'll bring downstairs the carefully browngiaper parcel wrapped up

of that spree: and he'll tell you

But for enterprising, skilled, and that ho still hates red finger nails.... un-which can be rather embarrassing

if you're wearing them.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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