Seaside Home For Sale

On The Central N.S.W. Coast

A LARGE Private Home, consisting of Two Houses, with Many Amenities, is for sale at Avoca Beach, on the beautiful Central Coast of NSW. It is 9 miles east of Gosford, and 65 road miles from Sydney GPO.

This establishment is built on Five Large Allotments (nearly 2 acres in area) on the western side of one of the arms of Avoca Lake, a few minutes from Avoca’s ocean beach, Post Office, Shops, etc.

The houses are surrounded by lawns and gardens, which slope down, in an easterly and northerly direction, ’ to the water’s edge. Much of the original bush, including a fine grove of turpentines, has been preserved.

On the remaining two blocks there are a garage, 24 x 12, made of cement blocks; and a large dam which at present irrigates the gardens and lawns of the whole establishment, through a 2i hp electric pump, extensive network of H in. and i in. pipes, and butterfly sprays.

The grounds (entered by a private drive) are well laid out with lawns, gardens and many fruit-trees. Climate is mild in winter (sheltered from cold westerlies, so that bananas and pineapples are grown success fully) and constantly gets the cool northeasterly breeze in summer.

This property is for private sale, as one unit, for £9,500; or it can be divided into 2 units—viz:—the 3-bedra nouse (built on 2 sections, and with 2 extra sections, garage, etc.), <£6,500; and the 2-bedroom house, built on section, for £3,500. (The two extra sections, on which are garage and dam, officially valued recently at £800)

Inspections may be arranged by contacting N. and M. HUNTER, Land and Estate Agents, Avoca Beach, N.Si (telephone Avoca Beach 52); or by Telephoning the Sydney Agent—Mr. Hughes, MA 1395.

A glimpse of the Lake, seen through th[?] trees from the terrace, at the front o[?] House No. 1.

House No. 1

On two blocks of land; One 11 timber house with 3 ft es white, with green tiled roof,, Econo - steel frame. Compri’s Lounge with modern firept built-in bookcases, picture wind with dining - annex leading three double bedrooms, one built-in wardrobe; sun-room; trance hall; green-tiled bath’r. with shower recess, toilet; 11 modern kitchen with s.s. sink plate electric elevated stove; bi in fitments; modern light fitt and Venetian blinds through some floor coverings; nume built-in cupboards, etc.; taste; decorated. In basement: Work; and laundry, tubs, wash machine, shower. Car-port. Ter and pergola in front of house, wide steps leading to gan cemented paths and yards, peak hot water, connected * kitchen, bathroom, laundry; a matic pump servicing house fl 5,000-gal. cement tank, and 1 gal. galvanised tank. Septic ta Telephone, with extension to seo house. An electrically-driven s bench for firewood. Optional i chase: Deep-freeze unit in kite!

House No. 2

A second house, complete, on one section: Timber, on timber frame, with Wunderlich metal-tile roof. Com prising sun-room, large lounge-dining room, stone fire place, built-in book-cases, picture windows; two large bedrooms, one with built-in wardrobe; modern bath room, with toilet; large kitchen equipped wih s.s sink; modern slow-combustion range, which supplies con tinuous hot water to bathroom, kitchen and laundry; back porch; many built-in cupboards; Venetian blinds and light fittings; side terrace and steps; stone terrace in front. Ce ment Paths. Laundry with tubs, etc., co pper an d shower in base ment. Also in basement, an area of approx. 30 ft. x 12 ft., with cement floor, lined and ceiled, louve windows. fireplace, suitable for con version to h ol iday flat. Three 1,000-gal. tanks supply house by gravity, with electric motor-pump as booster when required. Septic-tank. Jetty and dinghy.

r Westernisation. They could then ke it or leave it.

inning the

iper War

r EITH McCarthy often hits the L nail on the head, and his counter-attack on the growing per war in Administrative circles .s another well-aimed blow (PIM, ne, p. 138).

Fhere must, of necessity, always a huge over-burden of reports, ;urns (“Nil returns will be rend ;d.”), and please-explains so long there are bureaucratic blimps, ditors and statisticians all crying • their pound of paper.

Phe suggestion made by Mr. iCarthy in the Legco to employ >re Asian and native clerks is the vious solution, and gives practical stification for the education stem.

Phe soaring costs of administra n in P-NG are directly due to 3 employment of highly-paid per mel (together with their living juirements), to perform duties Dable of being carried out by non ropeans of average IQ.

Sere lies the means of cutting ;ts and handling the work, pro ling, of course, Public Service sociations and trade union in ences do not step in with insidi s agitations for European pay and iditions for non-Europeans.

Comparisons are odious, I know, t when this topic crops up, I am ninded of the system of non ropean employment adopted by 3 Germans when they were run

ning New Guinea. All routine clerical work in Government de partments and commercial houses was done by kranis imported, for the most part, from Amboina, in DEI and more efficient clerks it would have been difficult to find.

Sober, industrious, with the happy capacity for taking infinite pains.

While the Ambonese filled the lower income group of white collar workers (clerks, typists, tally-clerks, storemen, etc.), the Chinese com prised the artisan section of the

community, with the addition of a few Japanese boat-builders.

But then all that was before the days of pronounced class-conscious ness and Jack wasn’t so interested then in being better than his master.

At all events everyone seemed

Moresby Gofton Memorial Pool

Lae has a fine, new Olympic length, fresh-water swimming pool and it did not cost the ministration or the residents a penny. Moreover, anyone can go use it or sit in the shade der the trees at any time, and that costs nothing, either. The swimming pool is the gift the town of Mrs. Flora Stewart, owner of the Hotel Cecil, who had it constructed in memory her son, Moresby Gofton, who was killed in action in 1940. The pool, shown here, is a fluorite rendezvous of the town's youngsters—and their mamas and papas, too.

quite happy, both socially and economically.

Europeans were engaged almost exclusively as executives and super visors.

Stand On Their Own Feet It is a peculiar feature of these so-called long-range planning schemes that they invariably become top-heavy through the preponder ance of the top brass and tall poppies who take control and emasculate the practical good for which the plannings aim.

Just so with the South Pacific Commission, which opened up with a blare of trumpets, equalled only to the UNO. The SPC has done good by bringing together the varied people of the Pacific and allowing them an opportunity to exchange ideas, and so long as these representatives can hold the reins of procedure all may still be well.

But will the utterances of the conference receive full recognition by the Commission? That is the point. Some intricate, intriguing matter of international politics may queer their pitch. Let’s hope that this may not be so. It would be a pleasant change for such an in ternational—or inter-tribal, if you like —gathering to rise above political expediencies and confound

the theorists with practical sugges tions.

And in this respect I dips my lid to H. E. Maude for his utterances in regard to encouraging more self reliance amongst the native peoples

and less spoon-feeding by ove bounteous governments which ha, public funds with which to play.

This was reported in PIM, Ma p. 25, when Mr. Maude said: “Ti 1 much reliance on governme:

Guide House Named for Administrator's Wife

On June 2, Sir Beaumont Phillips opened the Rachel Cleland Guide House on the waterfr at Konedobu, a suburb of Port Moresby. The house is painted a gay blue and lined ins [?] with woven native material. — Photo by Papuan Prior

gencies would do more harm than ood.”

When will these Governments ealise that the native peoples are ot mendicants and possess a pride f their own equal to ours—if not arpassing it at times?

This mantle of benevolence which Government has adopted in P-NG ; liable to give the indigenes an Itogether wrong idea of the broad rinciples of economics and could repeat could) be an argument in wour of “cargo cult” dissemina ons.

Don’t let us forget that the period uring which the many native co peratives have been functioning so iccessfully has been a very prosper u s post-war period, favouring

•opical productions.

What is going to happen if a recession” sets in and Santa Claus nds himself scraping the bottom f the tin for funds to pay its long ne of retainers?

Island peoples must be taught to loulder their responsibilities as ell as bask in the benefits of Western civilisation.

!onsols of the

ast The modest coconut is being re liled in a Sydney chain store in .1 its natural beauty for a bob a me! A recent advertisement says; lust in from the Islands. Big! resh! Coconuts! They’ll be rushed ; 1/- each. Non-stop from tree ip to X’s. Guaranteed fresh and ill of milk.”

That’s service fpr you. And I ‘member when I bought them four »r a stick of tobacco from very illing sellers.

allots for

fissions

From an Old-Timer in TNG >mes a letter, dealing more in >rrow than in anger with the sctarian competition.

He writes: “I remember reading •tides by you well over 20 years jo in the PIM and Rdbaul Times )out the mission competition for iuls, and a pity something was not me about it then when we had ily a few societies jockeying for aces in the Souls’ Stakes.

“You can’t do anything with lose societies already established, t any rate I don’t think you can, it there are still large areas in NG itouched by the missions, so what >out the Administration getting acking and divide up the un uched areas into blocks, let those terested bal lo t for exclusive ission rights and then slap a few inditions on the permits, same as does for miners and recruiters, hey’re all registered companies, lyway.”