Mr, Jan Tdriess, an Australian author has recently described the country, the dingo-hunters and the shorigines of the Anna Plains district in the far Northwest of Australia, from which district he has Felurned after a trip through the Northern territory. Which took him several months, Tu these vast open spaces, ¢ hard ttle crowd of men work as dingo shooters. The price of scalps aver~ ages £2 each, and these men can make a living at nothing else but shooting and poisoning dingoes, When out in the desert they camp at native wolls where the dingoes congregate, A whole host of dingoes gather at {these water holes, perhaps from miles around, A dingo poisoner there gets good haul by throwing bait round the well. As one well area Is polsoned or shot out, the dingo. hunter packs his camels, fills his water cans teens and rides across the desert to the next water.
In this district the natives ore a wonderful race of desert animals. Little, as sinewy as trained grey-founds, they can travel when hard pressed for 100 miles after drinking their last water." They are not such an advanced state as the coastal natives, They live mostly on roots, fof which there is a surprising vane: ty. These natives are probably the hardiest race inthe world. They can only go about in small bands, of two, three or four family. groups," Tu such a way a tribe is spilt up over wide area of country. When the north gels ils rainy season and the desert gots is tiny showers or thunderstorms, bringing the and the outside game, the roups band together to say day" to one another and tu hold a "corroboree, Sydney for an extensive programme Jot works to be launched next year part of the employment plans of the' State Government will en value Manchovkuo's population atthe end of 1094 numbered—30,870,000 representing an increase of 2,000,008 over the figure for the preceding Jan estimated expenditure of £3.000,- the Manchoukuo Statistical [000 a year for three years, and con sist largely of water and' sewerage Bureau reveals. The proportion of men to women was three to two, Mass Mysteria Among Factory Girls oyster ina. Melbourne An extraordinary outbreak of mass
factory last week when eighty girls Jeecame panic-stricken, The girls were working quietly when one be-wan to scream. Within a minute most of the other girls were fainting, screaming, erying, wringing thelt bands or running ' about in terror. One girl was admitted to hospital fand about twenty others received treatment from ambulance officers.
Work was stopped at the factory for three hours, but even at the end of that time some of the girls were junable to resume work. Eighty girls sat at sewing machines, making women's underwear. The drone of the machines rose above all other sounds. Completed garments and rolls of material of many colours, were scat-ered about the room. All the win dows of the factory were open, giving plenty of light and air, but the morning was unusually "hot and 'A dead rat had evidently died in 2 confined space above the ceiling near one corner of the factory and ts presence had become noticeable. The caretaker of the building came to remove it. He tied a piece material around his face, climbed ladder and commenced to remove a small section of the ceiling. As far '8s can be ascertained, none vt the feirls even saw the rai, though they were following the caretaker's movements with some interest, Suddenly there was a scream, the bewildered caretaker looked down and the girls ooking up saw his masked face.
Tie Municipality of Nanking is Jaunching 9 $6,000,000 project to construct the much needed drainage and sewage disposal system in the capital. This piece of construction, to be completed in three years, is under the direct supervision of Mr.
Sung, director of the Public Work Department. Mr. F. J. M. Alma, serves as chief engineer of the project, snag
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