1947-12-20 — Page 13

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A tres, a little girl, and Ded-saying "Merry Christmas" this year and

how it

In years sitead.

There's Dad bringing home the

All is at mus Past through

the years You know

nhend? Both indoors and out, good. Christmn's

for weeks snapshots await the taking for such ahead you carefully slip home a story. with packages, hide them in bureau drawers or on closet tree--and generally having to saw shelves...you pick out a tree...aff a few inches of it so it will fit from the attic you dig out the in the room. Mother returning from lights and tinsel und Silver and shopping

with boxes and gold balls with which to trim bags. Or hanging a holly wreath,

guy with red, on the door. it.

There's the unsuppressed ex- citement of the children.

lation

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SÄTURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947.

B

In a corner of the Empire

Their only shortage

a few nails

being a second letter from MRS JEAN F. KING, of Bartica, Essequibo River, British Guiana, South America, who left Dunoon, Scotland, with her family in search of a home in the New World.

RITISH GUIANA is It cost us each £00 second class Britain in a French waiting for the old breed to travel from

liner. If you intend Iving here of pioneer who "mudo"

you may be asked to deposit £50 the Britain we all love.

cach-to be refunded later.

He would find a way to over-

Building has been

searcity of nails.

problem,

come the obstacles that have not through lack of timber but kept this country from taking its rightful place as one of the foremost Colonies.

The interior is almost entire ly undeveloped. It holds great wealth, gold, diamonds, ores of various kinda and valuable timber.

We overcame the housing shortage by having two Indians bulld 113 n bush hul on five neres of ground which we eased from the Govern- ment for a few dollurs yearly.

Hut in 5 days

The hut cost us £6 and took Ave!

dayn to bulld. The roof is

But capital is needed because thatched with palm leaves, the floor is of wooth, and three walls and a at present there is no means

half are of inced palm leaves. of getting at the resources of the country except by river and air transport.

No roads

We sleep in large woven Indian hammocks (the neme of comfort) almost in the open without nets, for there are no nosquitoes.

We go to bed In the moonlight There are no roads or raliways into on the night life of the bus sites the interior, only a rough bush into movement. The fireflies dart track over which heavy lorries 80, from bush to bush, the birds Coll and we live alontalde this track.

each other น monkeys chortle in the trees not far off.

The Interior Is a pleasant pince to live in because it has not yet been organized, and that case can only be appreciated if you are without pre judtee of colour, class or creed, because the European population is

sinolt..

the

The nights are cool enough for a couple of blankets, but we And very hot in the middle of the day.

Like many others, we hope to build a house on our five acres and row our own fruit and vegetables,

a house ennnot be built with- out nalls.

Waiting for us

with new toys. ing presents, the children playing bush track for days, and on the way British Guiana could supply Britain

many die of thirst and exhaustion.

Indoors, there are pictures of the stations where I am told English ve- but

Many miles Inland are large cattle children wrapping gifts.. hanging gelables flourish and life is delight up their stockings...or Dad trim-fal ming the tree, their curiosity concerning every Christmas morning of the tree - And more pictures]

When the cattle are ready for parcel which they see.. and, self and the family around it open-market, they are driven along finally, Christmas Eve, the mo-

with all the wood she needs for ment when they hang their

pieces of or are killed by Jaguars 08 they every purpose, and some There are pictures al Mother wander into the bush.

furniture which I have Весп made stockings from the mantel. roosting turkey. And outiloors,

from local wood are exquisite. as Bubny tries new cycle. There'à And then, Christmas morn- even, if you want to round out your ing, this happiest of holidays story, a final shot some time before Twelfth Night of the tree coming reaches a crescendo of shouts down. of "Merry Christmas," of laughing children, of music and mirth.

Ihit, look

to be

around you-whether you shoot outdoors or in with flash bulb or flood light or time exposure, YOUR Christines is waiting So why not, this Christmas, keep pictured, to say "Merry Chrisiming picture record of holiday hupp through years to ness, a photographic story which makes Christmas Present of Christ-

come.

John van Guilder.

Cheap labour

There is such a variety of colour-

is suggested that It plant for it, from pink to purple and many freezing the carcases should be shades of cream merging into brown. erected far inlaud, then the carenses could taken out by air transport.

and British That may give you an idea of some has to contend with. of the difficulties that Brilish Guiana

Britain needs wood

Guina needs nails.

Britain has a wealthy colony wait- for ever. Labour is cheap and in some parts g, but it will not wait

active in- plentiful There are no prospects at If she does not take an present for the worker

a terest very quickly she will find job or capital.

British Gulana has slipped away.

without

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

'CAY THANK YOU TO AR MEENEY!?*

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THERE'S A

THEY BOTH AGREED IT WOULDN'T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT SQUE KIND OF TREE.

RIGHT WAY AND A WRONG WAY TO DO EVERYTHING.

TUS IS DONE RIGHT: IT COULD GOTO THE FIJI · ISLAIDS WITHOUT

•COMING APART

THOSE LAST-MINUTE GIFTS...THEY'LL DAN- SACK EVERYTHING BUT THE BANK 10 FIND A PRESENT.,

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