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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949.

BUSMEN TAKE A HOLIDAY IN BRITAIN'S BIGGEST CAR

SO TIRED

Last visitor one? Think 1' turn le.

The NIGHT and

the MUSIC

YOU'D NEVER KNOW THE ZOO AFTER DARK

LONDON.

10 most of us the Zoo

by day is a familiar sight. But what are. the Gardens like after dark? Few know, for the Zoo to- day close at "7 p.m.

by

CRAVEN HILL

A midnight stroll through the gorilla house, now accommodat ing the elephants Rajah, Ranco and Maneki, is full of interest Cone, temporarily (awing to and amusement, For, as a rule, staff difficulties

animals and lighting two of the

will restrictions) are the "late lying "Ist out," the third sights" co popular before the (Rajah) standing up-all, how war, when it was possible fer ever, fast asleep, and all visitors to co what the menagerie looked like up to

11 p.m.

snoring. Keepers say it is "a deep, rumbling sound ending with a fat, windy sigh or a shrill squeak like the grating of rusty 200- bralces."

Those visitors-usually logists in search of special knowledge-who from me to tio are riven offlelut per- mission to make a late tour of the place may have some ide But not even the privileged few see the whole of the story. For It is only after midnight-- when there is no one about bu tho, night watchmen-that the nimble, _no_longer___"visitor- conscious," become wholly themselves, and either steep or make merry,

Strong nerves?

VERY few people apart from

It

the stoff, have ever spent a whole night touring the Zoo, is 'a memorable experience to spond a night with some 4000- odd animals, drawn from all qufriers of the globe.

¡Although they Are not officially on duty, there are always six or seven young keepers sleeping at the lodge;

and there are two night-watch- men: Pat Daly, of Tufnell Park, and Fred Bray, a local nian, who are responsible for the safely, of the exhibits. They have something like 34 neres to patrol, and more than 00 houses 10, visit.

There will, too, be a night- stoker at the aquarium, keep- ing vigil over the menagerie's, 3000-odd Ba.

The Zoo after dark is an ectie spot, "It's no place for

TOP OF THE MORNING What's for breaklest, anyway?

NIGHT CLUB QUEEN

The Aardvark,

Bula and Zendy. pair of okapl in Europe, are the only quite different. In the wild ntate the okapi is mainly noc- lurnal, Buia, however, has beca

living so long at the Zoo (since 1837) that he has changed his habits and become diurnal. Every night he lies down in his stall sleeping soundly.

Zendy, on the other band, who arrived from the forests of the Belgian Congo only a month or two ago, spends the entice night roaming her pad- dock and munching leaves hung up for her by the keeper. By day, she is a little weary. Ometals hope Zendy, too, will change her ways, as she will then become a more satisfactory "show animal.”

A

Livellest building after dark the rodent house, tho menagerie's "night-club." For here no animal seems ever to

sleep at night. The two nardvarks (seen by daytime visitors as inert mounds of flesh not unlike farmyard pigs) are up und feeding: porcupines, drowsy by day, are scuttling hither and thither, violently rattling their, quills; and in the smaller cages bushbables and other nocturnal creatures, wake- ful and wide-eyed, hold high revelry. Even the lethargic kinkajou grows active.

No

Unofficials

To account of the Zoo's night life would be complete without reference to the unofleinl exhibits. They are the rats which, by day, lie up in their hidey-holes beneath the build-

mervy tolle" as one night-stoker |C.V.R. Thompson Reports

out it.

AND SO TO BED Flamingos go quicily

himself makes

JEL 25

THE largest car in Britain went to London one day recently. It was parked in Aldwych at tea-time irret hundreds of passers-by stopped passing by to admire it. The driver and his 10 passCHKEFK—— family party of Manchester bus drivers, pletured here had

one sight-seeing.

Kwabena seeks to be a

ATTHE

power in the land

by ALAN BROCKBANK

London.

In 1023, Taylor senlor' died, "Man-who-was- and the son returned to Acera born on Tuesday" to carry on the business. opened the door of By 1939, he had. made his Mayfair flat and, in per- enough money to retire modest- fect English, asked me to by. But, with the war, he was entor..

appointed auctioncer of enemy property on the Gold Coast. "Wo handled hundreds thousands of pounds' worth property belonging to the Ger- mans and Italians," he told me, "and at seven percent commis- slon we made a good profit.

I shook hands with N Kwabena Bonne III., Gold Coast chief, who has come to Britain to regain his health and to learn about politica,

You probably saw his ple- ture in the newspapers recently when he went to get a free pair of spectacles under the National Health Scheme: · And you may have laughed. But that is un- falt on the chief.

He tried out the scheme as a

of of

"We had по salary. The generous commission acted -ng- an incentive."*

In 1945. Theodore obtained social experiment. He pays the chieftainship by inheritance guineas to specialists to look on his mother's line and WAS after his eyes and his health, duly installed on the black

And he is over hero after much bigger game that a pair of glasses on British charity.

THE BIG GAME

IS POLITICS

Kwabena Benno 117.

This is a black, white, and black red ground, bearing a circle, in which are the

moon. the stars, a parrol, a rock and n miniature Union Jack.

stool.

"The moon and the slara To his household of one legal watch over us," he explained, wife and 12 children he added the parrot is the wisest of birds, two other wives, as is the cus- the cock indicates that we are He awake before anybody else, and tom of Gold Const

the Union Joek signifies our could have had 30,

-protector." NII

Bonne is n collector of

chiefs,

Over hi crenellated white Sixty year old Kwabena antiques, and his £20,000 house mansion, standing in two acres. Bonne came here to raise in Accra, with its 52 rooms (18 files the Union Jack. And for money for his now Liberal-

and 12 servants, all to read, over the entrance Unionist party on the Gold bedrooms) Const, with which he hopes, in contains £4,000 worth of furni- to his home, in large letters, is his own words, "to smooth oui ture and antiques, West African politics" And no

The car WAS bull1 by Bournemouth garage proprietor, 35-year-old Charles Fallagaz, lle got the Ides while working in a factory in the war years: doubt in the process achieve decided he could double his taxi supreme political power in bookings with a car to

Beat country.

to

his

elakt passengers and the driver.

him 18 It took

months

No wonder that the Colonini build. Some weeks ago he Once is watching him closely appiled for a licence and was

Who is this questing man? Issued with dual hackney- On the Gold Coast they call late tour of cum-private one. The Fullogar him the "boycotting" be the grounds ench evening, armed Special is 21 ft. long. It has

cause he organised a boycott of with his "four ten."

which high And three seats on each of

process, and in Reven useful "bag" he gets, especially four adults can sit and han weeks brought them down. during August.

tine.

now are

Worst places just the north bank, peafowl' aviary, and, rather surprisingly, "Well," the seallons pond. Why that

oys Mr Cansdale, a tile sadly, "if people will inslat an chucking breadcrusts to these heating animals, what else can you expect?"

London Express Service)

been

buill round a 32-k.p., e60-

they

But he found that his family most and the stool were the valuable antiques in his posses- sion. They originated from Techiman in Ashanti centuries before.

tho naine Rolyat Casile-n whimsical backward twist to the family name.

WE CANNOT TEACH HIM MUCH

Ni Bonne has given up busi- · So accompanied by 200 of res, but he is finding politics

why ho his followers, he went to Techi- expensive. That man and obtained conßrmation trying to raise funds over here.

mado Ho wants to see how "Oyaktoher," which means head political parties do it..

the royal family. Ills his was certified to be the

chiefs. to of purumount

the

Afterwards he lotted up Says Mr Fallagar: "When

expenses sheet. It came

COD 14d., but he says he party of eight want to go for a

ilc let never claimed it. rip it usually means two cars

expensive 2.11

business. niy credit go to his party, special can seat nine in com- fort and three

more if

Ni Kwabena Bonne III-the don't worry

stands too much about NI

for chief, the comfort. That means I can re- Kwabena indicates that he was born on Tuesday (it is an in- herited "royal" birthday), and Sonne III, is a narne taken from his mother's family-was christened Jorn in Accra and Theodore Taylor in the Chris- Jun Church.

duce my charge."

-London Express 'Service)

Man of the moment

in a holiday isle

OCHO RIOS

MEDiavolow.

BOG

WALK

SPANISH ©TOWN,

OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA:

story:

Palestine.

JAMAICA

SKINGSTON

Miles

20,

and Through Spanish Town

to the romantically N Jamaica' today, where down

"tomorrow" is always bamboo trees nod by the side named Bog Walk, where the ings, but which, after dark, good enough for a job to of the road, over the Diavolo emerge to gather the harvest of be done, people are talking mountain and down again past crumbs which lie in and around of 1801b. of energy named Fern Valley, his trucks struggled the cagca, especially In the gutters beneath the cage-wires, Abraham Issa. This is his as far as Ocho Rios, meeting. und the litter baskets.

place of the eight rivers.

He was born here about 45 To keep these unwanted

DIVERTED ROAD visitors in check, Mr George years ago, the son of El'as Issa,

But Ocho Rios was only the Cansdale,

the superintendent, and his wife from Bethlehem in

centre from which Issa was to Older people can remember drag his light and power. The Elias when be peddled lex- trucks. with their material were the Kingston trip tiles and clothing from door to to make door, eventually achieving the every day and to case their task Inware of a donkey cart for hi Issa diverted a main road some HH half a mile and piped his Journeys.

water from three miles away. Then came the first war and Issa's dream palace

of glass Ellas prospered. His sons, Abo and concrete was

to be in and Joe, went off to Holycross three storeys, with

60 rooms, American way of business. conditioning and built-in ward-

They returned, rich in know. robes and baths. "They don't mean to be nasty ledge, to find their father a

Bebe. They are just 60

Issa claims that not one Jealous of our voluptuous girls, comparatively powerful man in item in his bills needed dollar and so burned up at being the Island, with

stores and a expenditure. These are the comments stuck with their fnlf the whole colony is.off at he made ín asking his hungry, and emaciated Eves.

renders to excuse criticisms "Let's forgive 'em. Looks Monkey chatterings are some-by British men that Bebe like we're going to bó Allies Then three years ago Abe, times heard, too, though

the Shopp, "Miss America," is

map, prodded sound rarely carries tar

PROMISE made by the stubby finger on it and said: me- || too plump¦—

A Prezident to Mrs Ferie Mesta, "There

Abe, dark-haired, quick

In the caves

TOISES are of the oddest kind-

must mournful choruses of the

The American Scene

NEW YORK, "I love the English. They wonderful ARL Wilson, America's showed me such a wolves (nearly always started E suucient column, il sense of humour that I'm their

harsht

bay.

barking of the sea-lions.

closed what the American Some of these animals sleep visitor thinks of British to in their caves, but there is al-

ways, one left outside to act as sentry, and at the slightest foot.

ance,

outsido

the grounds, What does some-

women.'

again."

OWN poor,

4

College in Boston to learn the cach with its own balcony, air

factory.

scanning a

►

'THERE'

1

This bait for tourist. was completed in the astonishing time of 10 months

·SHOPS 'CHAIN' '

Abraham Lost December, and Joseph, with father. Ellas, still the keeper of the pursa strings,

opened Tower Inlo.

tinde disturb the steep of people "Thote underfed, fence- Washington's top hostess, – ie who live near by in the harsh

rallish, tooth-pickleh English that she will soon be promoted yelling of the crested cranes and giren conriat gen cough to eat from Minister to Luxemburg tolling. had long thought that Now, to be sure that no dollars cariamas. whose volees in-

a bigger and bettor diplomatice show spot of his West slip through his angers Abo variably start up other inmates to grow fat, the poor things.

Indian Island, Montego Bay, Issa has bought the sumptuous derse never seem to go to The girls were lovely and post, possibly in Denmark.

was in need of a rival,

Myrtle Bank hotel in Kingston sleep; or if they do, take mero charming, but, my. weren't ƒARNING from the Speaker His. Encer alighted

members of the House spot, at Tower Isic, where the entanps. At the slightest sound they scrawny. Sometimes you to

on the and control of five of Kingston's

main shops. . thir gabble noisily.

would see one walking down a of Representatives: "It is A

So for Tower Inle has been first governor of Jamalca landed Lien-ho

the glant ponds, street arm-in-arm with a man, basic rule of House eliquatto

and you wouldn't

In 1809. know, that members should keep their

There was a mall an 80 percent American tourist #drops

curled

on the ground, up

perched atop the success. The other 20 percent her head tucked In to securely whether the guy was with girl hats off during a formal roll guest house carrying an umbrella. f; call”

silver sands and he was quick are island inhabitanta. What she looks ke Brent

still live in the to how out the owner,

The IssEs They are so nice, too, and black-and-white ball. Only

house Ellas

half a bought breakfast does the panda climb to the lofty: paga-top. parch Proju which, on most `days, sho blandly, surveys her visitors.

after

it is not their fault that red-UIERE WERE TWO Instances

gigantic task, Then came a blooded Englishmen Choose this week-end to prove that moving from Kingston all the century ago in South Camp American wives If they can. American whites still do not labou¬ and equipmant to dress Road, Bolk boys are married, find one who will tolerate liko to live next door to a "window" that would com- Abe has eight children.': them

poto with Montego Bay..

Negroes:

=(London: Express - Keroton)

His father, Williamson Taylor, who came from Freetown, Sierra Leone, became chief clerk in the Government offices, but left that for private enter prise.

He built up a general import- ing and exporting concern, and young Theodore opened offices in Mason-avenus, of Coleman- street, in London

in

He lived for Ave years Dulwich, and also visited France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

AUCTIONEER OF ENEMY PROPERTY

The Taylors got their name from a great-great-grandfather of Theodore, who was adopted by an Englishmen in Freetown,

of his descent and

of

was

British

stool

thrane

I left him with the feeling that the "Man-who-was-born-on-

In the absence of a college of Tuesday" has not much to learn elhor heralds, Nil Bonne himself de- from this country of

business or politics. He is vised a cont-of-arms to Oy na a pennant from the bonnet of his man full of ideas. £3,000 motor-car,

THE GAURDAY EVENING

-London Express Service)

Sonia Caples

"Here's another one that didn't go off. They don't make firecrackers the way they used to when I was a boy."

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