WILD MEN
BORNEO RETALIATES AGAINST AUST. TARIFFS. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Borneo has been affected by Australia's increased tariffs, but the repercussion has affected Australia herself, for Borneo does not now import meat and wheat. So said Professor L. T. Ride, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Physiology at Hongkong University; just before sailing by the Kamo Maru after a holiday trip to Sydney. Conditions in Hongkong and Borneo, he declared, were very bad. The dollar was worth only 10 id. "Yyhen a Chinese labourer develops a'pain in his 'tummy'," went on Dr. Ride, "he makes a bee-line for a Chinese doctor and consumes large quantities of powdered tiger bones, dried roots, and othe substances of doubtful origin. When he breaks a ! leg or requires some other radical j operation, however, he puts all his faith in Western methods." The main purpose of the faculty was to spread the latest medical methods throughout China.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 16, 11 September 1931, Page 4
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