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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-07-04, Page 7Wonders Of Great Barrier Reef The words "coral" and "coral Hands" have generally called up visions of romance and one can. remember how they not only' farmed the background of many stories of boyhood, but made at least one best-seller of recent tunes. To scientists of the last ihlmdred years they have, how- ever, been magnets of great at- tractive power and this attrac ' tion has not yet ceased. They have provided the most fascinat- ing problems for the marine biologist,.. Australia is a continent of the • srtostvaried scenery both coastal and inland, and one of its world- famous features is the region of the Great Barrier Reef, which is the greatest : coral growth of its kind. This area provides all the •beauty and also all, 'the scientific puzzles for which man can wish. To land on a reef of the Outer Farrier and make the visit a success one needs low spring tides, and a flat ocean surface. You will be lucky if you have both. Assuming you have the lucky daY, it is profitable to leave your launch in good hands, and to make across the reef to the outer edge at once. This is not the highest part of the. reef. There is usually a slight slope downward to the extreme edge and this strip, which may be a hundred and fifty feet or so wide, is often "scalloped," that is to say, cut in here and there by little valleys. The safest place (keeping a very watchful eye open for an unusual swell) to see things on the outer steep slope is prob- ably at the edge of one of these valleys. Here one may look clown, as it were ,into the abyss, as the startingly clear and blue water surges up and down, and tree some of the branched corals growing. (Professor Stephenson a the Zoology Department, Queensland University, who viewed this underwater scene with goggles, described it as "a marvellous sight — the most im- pressive of all `views' I have ever seen."). The boulder zone is quite in- teresting and becomes more so as one passes inwards, for the surface of thereef has depres- sions everywhere, and the boul- ders lying in them hide all sorts of quaint creatures — starfish, crabs, beche-de-mar, trochus and Drive Carefully other mollusc shells, which avoid the terrific surf which bat- ters the region near, and at the extreme outside. Gradually as one passes still farther inward (towards the launch one, has left behind) the water deepens, and here and there are bigger pools with sandy bottom. Very richgrowth of coral and soft coral will be seen here. Finally one has to wade deeply and the lagoon of our anchorage is reached. Our visit to the real barrier is over. One cannot conclude without saying that to get the appropriate thrill clown one's spinal column when seeing the above, one ought to have been previously near enough to the Outer Bar- rier on la day when the sea is not calm. This gives a greater, respect foal the lowly creatures whose . growth can withstand such battering of the ocean, and causes one to keep a weather eye whilst' inspecting what is usually hidden -by the restless sea. —From "Great Barrier Reef," by William J. Darkin, D.Sc. Didn't. Like His Own Company An urgent radio message from a ship sent New York agent John Rumsey rushing down to the docks to meet—just in time— his client Freddy Lonsdale. "What have you come over for?" gasped the agent. "I'm darned if I know,". re- plied Freddy. "I think I shall go back again!" And he did—by the. first boat. Freddy Lonsdale, whose come- dies were the London hits of • a generation ago, was one of the most restless of men. He • would decide, on an impulse, to cross America, then change his mind en route. Once he sailed from South- ampton intending to visit Holly- wood but left the boat at Cher- bourg and returned to London. All he said was that he had sud- denly changed his mind. "I was going to Hollywood to make money. I came home to find peace." Often he would cross to his native Jersey on a last-minute impulse, . intending to write there, engaging a luxurious cab- in for himself, a cabin for his chauffeur -valet, Ernest Day, and space for his car. And invariab- ly he would ask his friend. Regi- nald Biddle, a Southampton Docks official, and his wife to dine with him before sailing be cause he could :not bear tobe alone. Once when the Biddies could not do so he dined alone, went FIVE FATHOMS DEEP depth charge explosion Fleet hunter -killer escort timing caught the effect 300 -pound "ash can". Tons of water blow skyward from a at five fathoms just cistern of Pacific destroyer Philip. Split-second camera at sea level of the concussion of .the '.L t` `.rA <>sE:.4<:;: .?t^'.�'; f'F:`Y.+:'.ys,.:;>•�:`:.3:'rf+✓,�A,S{':i<•Y::?Fr�rrr.�.•.rY;:haiS•y+,,:`.�;:.:H �iO, '�..:�„1::: i;:v+�'s��:%�":�� ,�,�`,,+:S�bi"•e;.'•:•rd):..t:. ,�. "'Robert <Y^ �':ii:3Y.�'�s:+:i�tw''"��"rf. ...,•,vet; r.•w-."�'.... `�' ' :..m...........':'yY�Cw...:<f•:.K �3.iw...:�... vrtn'% rc+ hQ ..^��' 9n .rk• BEEFCAKE —Malayan muscle m�ist Robert Teo, right, has the bulge on Ronald Low.' Teo won a, muscles contest in connec- tion with a jungle. movie prorrmt'on stunt in Singapore. to his cabin, and Day started to unpack. Then, shortly, before the boat sailed, he suddenly told Day to re -pack, had his car disem- barked, and drove back to Lon -don. One dinner in his own com- pany had sent him tearing back home through the night. His daughter, Mrs. Frances Donaldson, who writes intimate- ly of this perplexing personality in "Freddy Lonsdale", says that once he asked her to go with him from London to Liverpool and back by train in one day to see the Grand National. As she was then living in the country she stayed the previous night at Claridge's to be ready for the early start. They were walking down the' platform in the morning to find their booked seats when he suddenly stopped and asked: "Do you want to see this race?" "No," she replied. "Nor do I," he said. "We'll go back to Claridge's and have a decent breakfast" And that was. that. He had a caustic wit Accost in the' Garrick Club by a 'Se- ger who asked, "Aren't you Fred dy Lonsdale?" he swiftly replied; "No. Not tonight." One New Year's Eve actor Seymour Hicks begged him to make- up a quarrel he'd previ- ously had with a man, saying: "Go over and wish him a happy New Year." Freddy crossed the room and said to his enemy: "I wish you a happy new year , but only one." Asked once if he liked New York, he turned to observe some workmen glorying in the infer- nal racket of their pneumatic drills. "I would," he said, "if ` they'd finish it." Mrs. Donaldson gives a vivid account not only of her unusual ' father of the theatre world he conquered. In Los Angeles, after scram- bling in and out of a blazing apartment house helping two':= mothers and their eleven child- ren to safety, Earl Livingston re- fused one mother's request that he dash back in once more for her TV set. Tales Of Early Sporting Days In the days when the Pelican Club was the main haunt of rize-fighting enthusiasts in t'Britain, members imported from ;Paris a master of the French style of fist -and -foot boxing to gL:ve a demonstration. Jim Donahue, a Birmingham - ,Irish fighter chosen to match ,him, had to be warned of what Ito expect. So John Fleming, the Pelican Club's boxing manager, ', `told him in the changing room: "Better guard the point well, Jim, because he'll try to kick you in the mouth — that's French." °Is it, begobs!" said Jim. °Then Oi'll bite him in the back- soide --- that's Birmingham!" • ;;The contest ended with a vie- itQry for Jim. 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We have Special Egg Breeds, Dual Purpose; Breeds, Broiler Breeds. .Also Turkey Poults, Older Pullets. Catalogue ex- plaining all, FERGUS E CHICK HATCHERIESONLTD. Although he believed that money could buy everything, he was strangely gullible when his attendant bruisers assured him •that his punch excelled theirs, and begged him not to hit them too hard when they sparred with him. "You're not an ordinary man, Squire," they protested. "Think what yer did to old. 'Arry!" This referred to an impromptu contest held in the course of a drunken party at his John Street house, when he was said to have knocked his "pro" op- ponent unconscious, and was later told that unfortunate man died. To be blackmailed for keep- ing the incident out of court made him so proud an,' '-appy. Deghy says, that he remained blissfully unaware of the decep- tion, even when "old 'Arry" re- emerged from isolation and went back on his payroll! The Pelican's founders were William Goldberg, known as the 'Shifter" and "Swears" Wells, but after a time it was decided that Swears should buy the Shifter out for £ 500. Swears invited him to dine at a restaurant, where he duly ap- peared with a lady friend on his arm, and the money , was handed over in X.5 notes. Horrified at the idea of his going on his usual nightly rounde with all that money in his pocket, the girl said, "Let me take care of it for you, Wil- lie dear," and persuaded him to place half of it in her safe keening, Then she went home, and he and Swears spent the rest of the ew'-'•- 4 in true Pelican style. • Not until they were at break- fast at Swears' place did Swears refer again to her. Charming. very charming indeed. What might be her name? "Dunno," said the Shifter, "never seen her before." He never saw her again, either! 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