Chapter 409 Pamela’s Efficiency

The Humber River is located in the western part of British Newfoundland, originating from the Long Ridge Mountains and flowing southward through a series of waterfalls and through a number of lakes, with the mouth of the river being the second largest city of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, in the later generations.

However, at this time, Corner Brook does not exist, according to history until the 1950s Corner Brook will become a city, currently Corner Brook about three thousand people, the Humber River Basin is Newfoundland is not much of a logging area.

As a newly arrived administrator, Corner Brook was Allen Wilson’s destination, where he would visit to examine the Humber River basin and develop a logging plan to supply the continent for reconstruction.

In later times, because of conservation policies, forestry harvesting was generally only winter harvesting, and it is said that in earlier times, when forestry resources were abundant, there was a fall harvest. But like Newfoundland, which has almost no potential for logging, this would not be so troublesome, and Allen Wilson felt that year-round logging was reasonable.

The Humber River basin enters the sea southwest of Newfoundland, which has the advantage of being less prone to blizzards.

The northern part of Newfoundland, according to local sources, had reached the point where the snowfall season was characterized by very heavy snowfall, which was delaying forestry production.

Originally the development rate of Newfoundland is low, to highway no road, to railroad no railroad, if in the use of the river, this will add great difficulties.

Before leaving St. John’s, Alan Wilson did not forget to send a telegram to Pamela Mountbatten, who had arrived in Canberra.

There wasn’t really any particular reason for it, it was just a reference to the content of the executive order he had issued, that British Newfoundland had become a tax haven, and that he would be grateful to his fiancée if he could help spread the word.

Although Alan Wilson used British Newfoundland to pull the stomp on Australia, but have to admit, Australia’s is also an enviable place, as long as the population does not exceed a certain number, Australia does have the money of the deputy sheriff of the Pacific region, people say that Australia is a small size of the United States is not without reason.

But this premise is that Australia’s population absolutely can not be too much, the resource countries must be the point that the land is sparse, the population absolutely can not be overly inflated, so as to live a good life.

Australia’s land is ancient, with billions of years of rainfall and severe nutrient loss. The oldest rocks on earth are in the Murchison Ranges in western Australia and are four billion years old.

Australia’s poor soils and low productivity have had a serious economic impact on agriculture forestry and fisheries.

The low fertility of the land results in the need to invest in more mechanized tools to cultivate crops, rely on artificial fertilizers in order to cultivate, and still not be able to match the yields of other countries.

The poor nature of Australia’s soil is not easy to see at first glance. When the British first arrived in Australia, they looked at the vast forests and thought it was a rich land, so they cut down and overgrazed the land, then realized that the replanted trees and grasses were very slow-growing, and had to give up a large part of the land.

Nutrients in rivers and offshore come mainly from the soil carried by the water. But Australia has poor soil, not enough nutrients in the water, and fish stocks are very vulnerable to depletion. Australia has the world’s third-largest fishing industry, but it ranks in the bottom 50 in terms of output. Freshwater fisheries are even smaller.

Another serious problem is salinization. The wheatbelt soils of the south-west contain salt blown in from the Indian Ocean over millions of years. The inland basins used to contain freshwater lakes cut off from the sea; when the water evaporated, the salinity of the lakes increased, and when they dried up, the salt left behind was blown back to the east.

British Newfoundland’s fundamentals were beyond Australia’s if not for the discovery of large iron ore mines of the best quality in the world.

Ninety percent of Australia’s population was in a few cities on the eastern seaboard, Canberra being one of them, and Pamela Mountbatten was taking the propped up aristocratic ladies and developing her career in Australia while her fiancé went deep into the mountains.

“Thank you so much Uncle William.” Pamela Mountbatten thanked the older man in front of her good-naturedly.

William Joseph Slim, the current Governor-General of Australia, the nearly sixty year old soldier, the pinnacle of his life was commanding the Anglo-Indian Army Corps to meet the Japanese army in Imphal and winning the Battle of Imphal.

And it is well known that Pamela Mountbatten’s father, the current Governor-General of British India, Mountbatten, was the then Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, and the boss of the Australian Governor-General in front of him.

This is certainly very relevant, didn’t you see that the Portuguese government had just announced that it was going to honor General Mountbatten himself for his outstanding contribution to securing the subcontinent?

“Oh, Pamela, doesn’t your father worry when you carry these ladies around?” Admiral William Joseph Slim reminded with full of love, “You ladies of the family are making me feel a lot of pressure when you are traveling.”

Admiral Slim and Mountbatten were on very good terms, due to a friendship built up during the war.

Slim himself got along poorly with his superiors, and in the Southeast Asian theater, Admiral Lees, his immediate superior, was so displeased with Slim that he suggested to Mountbatten that Slim stay behind to clear out the remaining Japanese resistance in Burma while General Christison took command of the proposed offensive against Malaya, which would mean removing Slim from his position as Group Commander.

Mountbatten himself was most adept at long sleeves, and London had sent him for this reason, so unwilling to offend either of his men, he played a little trick by agreeing to Leith’s proposal, but letting Leith step in and answer directly to Slim.

In this way the conflict between Slim and Leith always broke out and Slim protested to London.

By this time, due to the overwhelming victory in Burma, Slim had finally gained recognition and built up his personal reputation in London, and Lees, deeply displeased with Mountbatten’s mellow attitude, openly blamed Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, who then wrote a letter requesting that the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, remove Lees from his post.

In this way the dispute between Slim and his immediate superior was interfered with by the biggest top boss, Mountbatten, resulting in this dispute Slim became the victor.

To triumph as a subordinate over one’s then top boss is a difficult thing to do in the tradition of any country. It can be said that if not for General Mountbatten’s mediation in the first place, Admiral Slim would never have had a good time.

With such a layer of relationship, Pamela Mountbatten’s request for help was naturally a matter of course.

“I can’t figure out you young people, a group of noble ladies have to set up some kind of exploration company.”

Admiral Slim smiled bitterly and shook his head, “Pamela, let me remind you in the name of a friend of your father, Australia’s land is very barren and many experts have said that it does not possess any mineral resources. Your trip to Australia to set up an exploration company will most likely be fruitless.”

“Uncle William, we have to believe that miracles exist in the world. The fact that Australia is poor in mineral resources is what makes it even more important for us to help Australia, and if a miracle occurs, it may also establish a closer relationship between Britain and Australia. My fiancé says that once Australia has been independent for a long time, the closeness with Britain may fade, and there is no stronger relationship than one bound by interests.”

Pamela Mountbatten replied politely, “We girls, too, want to contribute to the Empire.”

Can explore out minerals, in Pamela Mountbatten’s view is not very important, the key is her fiancé so commanded, Allen Wilson in British India to make a lot of money, and then a penny does not stay all handed over to Pamela Mountbatten’s hands, this is not an ordinary man can do out.

Now just hope that his fiancée to help such a small favor, she is unable to refuse, who let this man too much love themselves.

“Your fiancé, it’s Allen who just became the Administrator of Newfoundland, right, let’s meet if we have the chance.” Admiral Slim didn’t mention the term Governor General, who was to be proposed by the Cabinet and appointed by His Majesty.

And in fact Alan Wilson had not been appointed by His Majesty, Admiral Slim thought, and Pamela Mountbatten’s fiancé, must have been duped by the wily old head of the civil service. But what was done was pretty much the same; what the Governor could do, the Chief Executive could do just as well.

Just as the two men were chatting, an officer pushed his way in and saluted at Admiral Slim, “Governor, it’s a telegram from Newfoundland.”

“Let me see!” Admiral Slim directly got up and picked up the telegram, then a playful smile appeared on his face, “Pamela, it’s actually for you, your fiancé has led an expedition into the mountains for an expedition, you can see the rest for yourself.”

Telegram in which Alan Wilson mentioned his hard-working imperial civil servant life, at the same time to the far away in Australia, do not know dry did not do the right thing fiancée greetings, and then mentioned his own signed Newfoundland executive order, naturally, also includes the executive order of the tax haven, but there is in the eyes of Pamela Mountbatten the most important, the part involving the inheritance tax!

Seeing the part mentioning inheritance tax, Pamela Mountbatten was instantly nonplussed and was ready to gather her sisters together to talk about the implications of this for the aristocracy.

“He still does!” Pamela Mountbatten couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, “Took the expedition into the mountains, and I don’t know if it’s suitable for the local environment, and now I can’t even get in touch with it, it’s really a headache.”

Pamela Mountbatten also wanted to tell Allen Wilson that she, with the help of the Governor General of Australia, had gotten the go-ahead from the Australian government to conduct mineral exploration throughout Australia.

She hadn’t even sent a telegram yet, but she got one first, and it brought the good news of the inheritance tax, knowing that the aristocracy was at a loss for the high inheritance tax, and her own fiancé had made an opening out of it.

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