CABLE NEWS TIDE TABLE.

Otaki Mail, 7 November 1923, Page 4

CABLE NEWS

TIDE TABLE.

“WHERE’S VOUR NERVE?” MRS HOLMAN REBUKES BRITISH YOUTH. LONDON, October 17. Mis Ada Holmau, wife of Mr W. A. Holman, K.C., of Sydney, writing in tlie London Daily Mail, asks : “Have .your people lost, their nerve?” and describes her amazement at seeing a Trafalgar square orator foam at the mouth at the suggestion of migration to Australia. He proposed instead endless fantastic experiments for the cure of unemployment., and spoke-of Australia as if it were a leper colony. “This attitude would be amusing,” says Mrs Holman, “if it were not tragic. Surely the ancient pioneer spirit, can be revived. Why won't the youth, of England accept Australia as their rightful heritage? It belongs to them by reason of ihe pluck and enterprise of their forbears who cleared ft- • pathway and matte the rough places smooth. •d remember my grandmother's stories of life in tents, when they lacked nurses, doctors, amusements, !: non and leisure, but never complained. “Nowadays, despite railways. leisure, comforts, and living, conditions, superior to those prevailing in England, the unemployed young man won’t take the risk of incurring hardships, which do not exist. To men who can’t or won’t, work, Australia sUjo, ‘Stay a+ home!”’

FIGURES TO BE SUM. BREAD AND WATER DIET. LONDON, Oct. 12, The new sheath frocks require the utmost slimness of figure to be shown to uhe fullest advantage. Some women iliave taken to semi-starva-tion in order to make their figures slender. They are eliminating sweets and richly-cooked foods from their diet, Parisian women, it is reported, are apparently living on bread and water, and hostesses say that it is very easy to cater for women’s luncheons now-a-days. The-question is whether men will be equally enthusiastic at the prospect of such simple meals. DOLLS AT DANCES. PARIS CRAZE REACHES LONDON. LONDON, Oct. 2i. The latest Parisian craze of carrying dolls has spread to London ballrooms. While dancing at an hotel a woman dressed in white carried a llaxtn-haired doll of considerable size, which was garbed in black velvet and veiled like a widow.

Another dancer, wearing u. black costume, displayed an ugly dolj, reputed to be a copy of an African god, dressed by way of contrast in flamecoioured material. While dancing she carried the doll in the crook oi her felt arm. CHRORIC DIRT. AMERICA'S CLEARING HOUSE. MELBOURNE, Oct. 16. The report on Ellis Island by the British Ambassador at Washington Sir Auckland. Gedues) lias been received by the Home arid Territories Department. An officer of the department described it as the roughest thing he had ever read.- The conditions of buildings, the mixing of immigrants of ail nationalities, classes, and degrees of cleanliness, and the prison-like control of the station, all Caine in lor criticism by Sir Auckland Geddes. “I noticed in many corners,” he say, “impacted greasy dirt which hmi been there for many days, if nut weeks or months.” _As a result of the presence of chronic Uirt the buildings are pervaded by a fiat,, stale smell. “This is quite distinct from the pungent- odour of unwashed humanity, and both are to be met at Ellis Island. “Alter leaving the island it took rne 36 hours to get rid of the aroma which flavoured everything I ate o< drank.” The immigrants sleep in the tintiered bunks encaged to prevent thelis, and even more unpleasant outrages, some of the blankets are used by more than one immigrant between sterilisation. Good tveii-ccoKed "iood is served iiLh’ne cleanest room in the buildings, when -the meals begin it is impossible, however, lor any staff o keep-"h clean, owing to what may; ■Tc incorrectly described as the table manners ol guests, who, incidentally, use the fl*or as a universal slop ! bowl, and refuse can. An essential problem is, in fact, the differing standards of personal cleanliness of the immigrants, who range from highly educated and well nurtured. now" fallen into straitened circumstances, t,o utterly brutalised. Detention on Ellis Island must be a hateful experience for all of any sensibility. For ntedical inspection men have to strip in crowds, piling their clothes higgledy-piggledy, and doctors do not change or wash, their rubber gloves between examinations. Ellis Island is regarded as too small, the buildings being dilapidate ?d. Sanitary arrangements are unsuitable, and the grounds insufacient o prevent nauseating contact between. immigrants. The .Ambassador reported in com- j dirnentary terms of the efficiency of < lie staff,'but made recommendations’ or the improvement of the station, | ind official architects are now con- j idering the qiiestion. j,

'PHASES OF THE MOON, I f 2TOVEMBEE. !

HIGH WATER AT 1 OTAEX j NOVEMBER. A.M. P.M. 7th, 7.49 8.5 8th. S.41 . 8.49 ! 9th, 9.25 9.33 10th, 10,1010,19 11th. 10.57 11.9 12th. 11.45 12.0 . 13th, 12.15 12.25 14th. 1.2 1.18 13th, 1.59 2.18 16th. 3.9 3.33 17 th, 4.29 5.1 . , 18th. 5.47 6.2 19th, 6.42 6.53 20th, 7.26 .-7.34 21st, 8.2 8.6 22nd, 8.31 8.35 23 rd, 8.59 9.5 24th, 9.28 9.36 25th. 9.50 10.10 26th, 10.35 10.46 , 27th. 3142 11.25 28th, 11.54 12.15 29th, 12.15 12.30 - 30th, 1.1 1.19 '

Last Qutr. Sad, S.19 a.m. Xc-w LIooa 9 th, 2.5 ~ a.m. First Qutr. loth, 9.11 a.m. Tull Mooa 24th, 0.2S a.m-