1949-03-19 — Page 4

Rabbit Plague Is Serious

By GEORGE McCADDEN ....

CYDNEY, Australla.—A great "groy, pingue" of

rabbin in the vasi paddocks of Australia i ravaging important work suppikes of beef, wool and wheat.

The wild grey rabbit, Australia's old enemy. has in the past year multiplied bis Importanos into a national problem with international aspects.

Generally good crop conditions in recent years have been his delight,, Experts say that it wide- spread drought comes, the rabbit would get most of the surviving grass and herbage and Australia could lose millions of her 100,000,000 sheep In six months,

If not controlled, the rabbit invasion will affect Australia's capacity lo contribute food and wool to economale recovery programmes.

Localised droughts already have forced some mziem to move livestock to other arean, notably in Queensland,

But sports published overscaa that "millions" of head of livestock perished in the localised draughts could not be confirmed.

The war breached Australia's defences against rabbit. Local production of wire netting for tho Tabbit fences, Aral sine of defence, slumped when steel was diverted to armaments. Even before the war, much of Australia's countless thousands of miles of rabbit and dingo (wild dog) tences was inadequately maintained.

Sheep and cattle staliono, some as large na small European countries, never fully regained manpower lost to the war effort.

Australia currently produces an estimated one mile of wire netting for every 100 miles

nooded.

FUNDS LACKING Primo Minister Joseph 1. Chifley's administration

hay dipped into slim dollar funds to authoriso import from dollar areas of approximately $320,- 000 worth of wire netting for the quarter ending March 31. This is about 1,000 tons, suffle- ient for 700 to 1,000 miles. Also authorised aro 24,000 tons from Germany, Franco and Bel- gum. American fumigants like cyanogos

Jarvacida and French chloropicrin also will be Imported.

find

Pastoral experts say that is a drop in the bucket; that be-

by SPIKE HUGHES

the

FOBODY, except

happy few, learns to read only to read the The child who has grasped that the

tween 100,000 and 300,000 miles racing results.

of wire neiting is needed.

The

government

also

has

established a rabbit study see-cat has sat on the mat is a tion in its Council for Scientific potential reader of all that and Industrial Research unter direction of a British biologist, great literature can offer.

Francis Ratcliffe.

Serious long-range effects of the rabbit Invasion are feared beenuse

the pest invites erosion. Together with dry seasons and over-grazing, rabbits have help ed the gradual degeneration of hundreds of thousands of square miles of highly stocked rauge

Ordinary warfare Includes digging and ploughing out the rabbits, fumigating their rens, trapping, use of poison bait and dogs. the

war-

But fences are graziers ramparts in this never-ending war.

But the adult who has a bit

of an car for music and can recognise "Buttons and Bows"

THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949..

AMBULAN

POLICK

FILES

"It's father again-the poor man only called to ask him his opinion of the right size for a family."*

-known to thousands of listeners in the Forces for his wartime broad- casts on musical appre clufion, and author of "Nights at the Opera, Its object: To help you to get more enjoyment out of your radio, your gramophone, and visits to the concert hall.

Make

SIX TO

TRY OUT-

LET'S IMAGINE you're a mustent Deginner-but ready to buy something for your grainophene more interesting than just dance music. Suppose I had to make half a dozen recommenda Hons. Wellivio

Verdi prelude to "La Traviata," conducted by Toscanini... Chopin

Mozart

Scherzo in fat minor by Arthur Rubinstein. Overturo to "The Marriage of Figaro," conducted by Bruno Waller.... Johann Strauss Emperor Waltz, also conducted. by Brune Walter,.... Mendelssohn's violin concerto played by Bzigeti Toscanini

. Beethoven's 7th Symphony, conducted by

your two ears give

you more pleasure

is horrifed at tie thought that because you know that tune as was Hendel, but I've perhaps he might

use his bit

of an ear to listen to something a dance tune called "The Isie heard

else some time.

He has tried a

Beethoven

of May."

But listen to

"The Isle of symphony once, he will tell May" in its original form and from it like n you will shy you, and though he may not openly blame Beethoven for te- frightened horse; because that ing a highbrow, he is secretly tune is a theme from a string sure that it is entirely Beeth quartet, and n string quartet oven's fault that he cannot un- derstand f1.

Opus numbers

is Chamber Music.

So you see what the trouble really is. It is partly prejudice and partly reluctance on your part to exploit even your most limited ability to enjoy and lis- ten to music.

EAT THROUGH TREES H. Hamblin reporled that rabbits have enten through eight- inch citrus Trees near his property in the state of Vic- teria. G. Gilbey, a stock agent at Boggabri, NSW, said:

"In myne parts of his dis- trict. rabbits are just a grey,mes a little grandly (and often First there is that question moving mass."

Farmers and graziers slaugh- ter as many as 4,000 rabbits in a one-day drive, using atteks and dogs after driving the pests into an enclosure. Professional rabbiters are earn ing up to $180 a week, trap- ping us many as 1,500 rabbits at a time in water hole enclo- sures.

WHAT is the trouble? What

is it about what is some-

wrongly) called "serious" music of prejudice. You are quite con- that upsets you?

vinced in spite of "The Isle of May," that

don't like you "serious" music. You don't un- derstand what the composers are trying to get at, nor why they take so-long-about it-

You admit you like music: you listen to the dance bands on the air quite a lot, but you can't get on at all with all that stuff Labelled Opus This and Opus That.

never

to characters. In a symphony you complaining that the composer tells you the there is no tune in Arne's "Rule, story, of a tune or theme, and Britannia," or Handel's Largo.

by "leveloping" it and taking But that's a different matter,

another, of course; they're well known it from one key to and old friends-in other makes you interested In what words. "classics." It requires is golk to happen to it next. no effort on your part to ap- Preciate them.

It is not that you are actually Which metins, of course, that lazy about music: It is just that when you listen to a symphony you feel that unless unfamiliar the first thing to do is to listen music makes immediate sense for the tune and keep your ear then it is not worth persever- ing with.

on it.

Do you feel that way about reading? No, because once you It may take a bit of follow- have learned the meaning of ing; it may

be heard in the words you take the trouble ta

use your ability to read in order high register of the orchestra, to see what writers have to say. or deep down in the double basses: you may lose track of it and Twelve Notes altogether for a moment,

when you have at last caught up with it the tune may have been cut down to a mere sug-

MUSIC, even though it is e

different medium, ls_not really all that much different. Restion of its original self or They use harmonies that There are only 12

to notes expanded

more-than-life- sound strange and ugly, es- in

scale, and

although size. pecially the moderns, and there the possible permutations How many rabbits are there Well, ignore the opus num doesn't seem to be anything mid combinations of these in Australia? I usked a top ex-bers; they're merely a conveni- like what you yourself call 12 notes make winning football But like the principal figure pert. He estimated at least

ent way of cataloguing a com- tune. And once having made up pools look like a certainty, the in a novel it is that theme you one billion.

poser's output in chronological your mil that the classies good composer will put them

must bear in mind the whole) order. After all, it hasu't have no lunes to ofter, you de- together in the simplest way as

lime. worried you for years now to cide to give them no chance a means of expressing what he know that you've been devoted at all.

has to say.

Variously from six to 12 rabbits cat as much herbage as a sheep. Sixty cat ns, much

cow and tirink nore

water.

to a tune from Tchaikovsky's No tunes?, Dr Aroe was a

Opus 11, has it? Of course not; "classical" composer, and

In a novel the author tells you a story; he introduces you

Harley Street HYPNOTIST

talks about

AN hypnotism really notist.

CA

cures

his

In ve half-hour ses-

By

CHARLES WINTOUR

remarkable power of

cure drunkenness? sions he was eured,

Many readers have asked

The

Just as in some novels the hero may meet the heroine, so in a symphony you will and the counterpart of boy-meets- girl.

What is called the "second subject" is usually n second tune providing a strong contrast to the Arst: and, you must watch what happens to her, too.

In

traction of the stomach when- ever she took food. For 20 years she had been unable to eat solld

the eighteenth century food and had lived on slops.

composers wrote their musical Surgical treatment had failed, "novela" in such a way that She was hypnotised and told everybody seemed to be talking that she could swallow solid at once.

food without difficulty,

After the treatment she went

There would be three or four

time.

this question since the

hypnotic suggestion, the doc Only a minority of people can straight to a teashop and lind the publication of A Harley for explained, had been known be put into a deep tranen; this biggest len she had eaten for 20 different tunes going on at the Street specialist's article on for centuries. It was the ex- state is not necessary for hyp-years.

same ime In what is known na hypnotic treatment (H.K. planation behind many exploits notic suggestion to take effect.

by Indian fakirs and yogi, and 1 asked the doctor to explain The doctor claimed, too, that "counterpoint:" but I would Telegraph, Feb. 19). I have faith-healers.

what kind of suggestion he hypnotism, while not a cure-all leave the eighteenth century if been to Harley Street to see To prove it, the doctor stated makes to people who seek a cure by any means, was good for any I were you until you have the doctor and judge for that he would hypnotise himself for drunkenness. The treatment mildly nervous state. It could learned to follow one tune at

and annesthetise his hand from varies, he told

mc, with the cure some headaches, and bad myself.

pain. Then he took out n blunt reason why the patient drinks. habits such as excessive smok- pin and shoved it through, the Some drink because they ing. It could cure byaterlent His consulting rooin was in skin with some difficulty. semi-darkness. A solitary desk

don't like their wives; others depression and obsessional neu-What is taste? lamp threw a strong light on the

As he did so, without a drink because they don't like rosen Hypnotic treatment had doctor's face. He had large, tremor, he remarked that if the their jobs. The exact treatment also heen successful in relieving

nalhma. luminous eyes and a deep per pin wasn't so blunt he would be varles, with each individual. suasive voice. He kulded me able to push it through quicker. When the patient is hyp- into a chair with the light be- Then he showed me his band noticed the doctor will normally hind me.

with the pin sticking out on begin by pointing out why either side under a vein.

people drink to excess-owing He showed me same letters Hypnotism. explained the lo anxiety or nervous tension. which bore witness to the sue- doctor, nifeels the imagination, Then he will stress the evil cess of hypnotic treatment. not the will. If he had willed effects of nicohol on the nervous

A doctor wrote him about a himself to stick the pin through system, and talk about all the which is outside his true char-the most of Mrs D who, "being headstrong, his hand he would not have things which and not very intelligent, went to been able to resist flinching.

the bar at the station on her way

back from her last visit to you

may

Ro

AN hypnotism be used for

evil ends?

The doctor gave an emphatic "No." A patient cannot be made

there is no question that

Victor

AND you can follow one tune a time. You do it 'every time you. listen to

Gibbons, Silvester, or Carroll Geraldo or Edmundo Ros.

stranger to

You're not

to do anything under hypnosis musle; you're just not making neter; he cannot be made to act to listen to a dance tune...to your ability owing to excessive drinking against his moral principles.

against his own interests or which .nothing very much lost Job, mental and physical deterforation, the loss of friends. What were my conclusions happens, and using that ability to listen to (often) very much and bought a glass of stout, not WHAT in fact is hypnotism? ture of what will happen if the and stepped out into the light thing does happen.

Next he gives a very rosy ple- as I left the darkened room shorter tunes to which some- because she wanted a drink, but It is the inducement of a to see whether she could drink state where the hypnotist is in patient gives up drinking. again? it It tasted so horrible that she direct touch with the subcon- he will regain the love and can effect eures in faste

Everyone will look up to him:

Naturally, the question of scious mind of his subject.

comes into all. this. At least 90 percent of ordinary admiration of his wife; he will not disorders, including ex-I would never expect anybody cessiva drinking. Secondly, to like all kinds of music any people can be hypnotised, the And his work easier.

hypnotism may be of assistance more than I would expect them doctor claimed.

When the patient comes out of in dealing with more One in five can be talked Into his trance these suggestions act cases and

serious to like all kinds of food and the habit of drinking too much a light singo of hypnosis at the powerfully upon him.

In relieving pain drink. But cerinin foods and generally.

drink are necessary for 20 years, and had even first attempt. In this stage they

to avoid Hypnotiem can also euro But whether hypnotism will starvation, and that "bit of an resorted to, mellylated spirits, kept in the drowsy, twilight other nervous complaints. The help any particular individual car for musle" After trying many sorts of feeling which immediately pre- doctor quoted the

needs feeding Case of a depends on the individual--and up a little with something "trentment he turned to the hyp- ceden sleep.

woman who autorad h con- the hypnotist.

could not finish it.

"Now she says that she knows she is cured,"

A doctor's wife also wrote to The doctor had been in

hlm.

bolid

INTELLIGENCE TEST

Lobster Creek

by T. O. HARE

ve fishermen operate at Lobster Creek. Their names are. Charlle Crabb, Harry Hake, Davy Dabb, Tom Turbot and Sam Sale,

We can regard them 130 Sam's wile. Dalsy, was tell Ing me as one big happy family. Each of the five has named his boat after the wife of one of the others; and, of course, no two boots have the same name,

Tom's boat, Annie, is named after Harry's wile. Harry's own boat

the Ellen, Sam's boot is the Martha, while Davy owns the Jone.

Ellen is the wife of the owner of the boat which is named after Charlie's wife,

Can you now deduce who is Martha's husband?

Solution-PAGE 13

When the Irish become aliens on Easter Monday

by

ERIC BENNETT

Wthe Irish Guards

THAT will happen to

Easter Monday?

on

Elre will have ceased exist.

to

And none of the provisions According to the highest Act for citizens

made by the British Nationality of Eire will legal opinion, they will be apply to the citizens of the reduced to the status of new State known as the Re- foreign mercenaries,

public of Ireland. and All those citizens will more than 1,000,000 Irish foreigners. Mr Atlee atated in mon and women in Britain the Houso of Commons last will become foreigners when Kingdom Government will not November that "The United Eirc's Republic of Ireland Act becomes law.

1

Under the British Nationality Act which came into force this year certain classes of Eireann citizens con

bo

regard

Eire in the calo gory of

foreign countries or foreigners," Elro citizens in the category of

not

But Mr Attice does becom British administer the statute laws, subjects by giving notice to the It will be open for anyone Home Secretary of their claim to go to the courts and object to "remain" British subjects. to an Irial Citizen holding on Others. can claim British office restricted to British sub-

jects. citizenship by registration,

But few Irishmen know the procedure, and an official of the ERJEANT Sullivan also holds Stationary Office admitted he did not know. which were the Brith subject lose Irish that anyone rekistering as a appropriate forms to Issue,

Because certnin

nationality by doing so. offices and

Hundreds of thousands privileges

of are restricted by Irishmen will refuse to become statute law to British subjects, British

because any Irish citizen who has not breaking tles with their home- registered before April 18 will land. not lawfully be able to bo

A Member of Parliament, A member of a county. borough, or any other coun- cil,

A judge or King's Coun- sel, or to hold any office under the Crown.

*

citizena

of

When I inquired about the Appropriate forma at the Stationery

Office in Oxford street I was referred to the wholesale department in Stomi- ford Street, S.E.1.

There an offelal knew no- thing of them, and referred me to the Home Offee.

The Home Ofce told me that

CIVIL servants and policemen there were no forms, and that

to ap-

will be affected.

Elreann citizens had Eireann recruits will not be ply in writing to the Home able to Join British regiments Secretory under Section Two or take the oath of allegiance. of the British Nationality Act. and no Irishman In Britain wili But it is Section Six of the be able for military service. Act which deals with citizen-

the famous

himself

Serjeant A. M. Sullivan, K.C., ship by registration-and there

lawyer, who is is a form.

Irishman, has It is in the First Schedula pointed out that:-

British Nationality Re- An entirely

situation gulations, 1948. will be created on April 18. The

new

of

tho

And one famous K.C. sum- Republic of Ireland, which will med up the situation by saying: on that day come into existence, "Whatever you call the Irish will be a brand new State after April 18 they will bo just as if a new island, already foreigners and have no more inhabited, had rizon in the right in Britain than Bulgar- Atlantic Ocean.

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