THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916.
Hughes & Hough
AVOTIONEERS „TO. THE GOVERNMENT.
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PUBLIC
AUCTION.
THE Undersigned, have received in-
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
מטי
FRIDAY,
the math September, 1916, conquering at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeur Road, Corner of Ict House STREET, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, 40 Comprising :--
1 Purvian Carpet (practically now Sideboards, Dinner Wagon, Dining Tables and Chairi, Chestorfeld Sofia, Arn- chairs, &c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables,
· Dooble and Single Bramand Brass-mounted.
Bedsteads, Sc.-Miscellaneous Furniture,
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the lathing by Public Anation Sale, to be held on MUNDAY, the god day of Qetsber, 1916, at 3 pm at the Offics of the Public Works Department, by Order of Bis Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Kowloon, In the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one further tarm of 75 years.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
MILLIONS STERLING SAVED AND LOST.
IRMY AND NAVY SPENDING ELIMINED.
£24,400,000--FOR HUTS.
CONTRACTORS. ÄND THEIR COMMISSIONS.
WHAT WILL MAKE ME
EAT
to requisition the output of any factory. and to pay a fair price. This had the effoes of breaking in and preventing com "binations of manufacturers againas the Government. Sing that something in the complicated Lon of appetitain nature's fine warn- 2000 228,000,000-84VED
Amachinery of the system has gone wrong, In many cases the Government hase And that something is invariably tho takon, control of whole trader, och organ in their work by supplying them blood. Good blood theipe the rigestive jute and boot leather, and this a sam of with the strength they constantly need non liss than £3,000 DDE your bas bean If blood in impoverished and work
INTIMATIONS
AN OLD PROVERB
Wine and an old friend
are without price everywhere."
sayed on sandbags alone, and very large sheep organud hail to revolve plus atitis base HUNT'S PORTS AND SHERRIES
Food
Poor
economies have been effected in other and the first complaint thɔ̃y maks is to
(cease, to call' forki articles..
Dever.Comes alone. It is generally appetita accompanies by indigestion, headaches
taste in the month:
The Committed expressed the hope that
tion evolved by the large and specially throat and late.
What you require top
The jubileo report of the Committee the experience gained and the organissi costed t of Public Accounts, and last month a streng-honed fontos Departament of the gives a valuable insight into Army and war Offer will not be allowed to be kat Navy expenditure during the first year on the conclusion of peace. in of war,
asiana festurs being the huge sume spent on hota and stabling, which sto shown by a White Paper, also lestied Yesterday, to total: £24,500,000,-*-
In the first twelve months the expand fure under this head worked out at £30
3113
130
The
AUCTION.
1069
:
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, "(FIX ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED).
00
TUESDAY,
the 3rd October, 1818, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner, of Ice House Street, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND
BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
Li G
&c,
k
As Follows:-
several lots of Blackwood Ware, 2. Pianos, Several Carpets and Ruga, Upholstered
a few lota Porcelains, &c., Pantry, Bath | Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Room and Kitchen Utensils,
410-
A selection of Brass Jardinieres, Vases, Finger Bowl ets.
Full Paroculars from Catalogue.) Terms: Cash.
Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising
Public Accounts Committee's report deals mainly with the first year of war, and shows that of the two great sponding services in this period-the Admiralty and the War Oficá-the Admiralty continued in effect to have that Trensery control which in peace time is of such benefit to the public purse. This control was offreted by à species of liaison
AL in
committed by means of which speedy' could be arrived decistons emergencies which called for more rapid action than is possible in the ordinary routine.
'Apparently, for some reason, that is not |atstent, the organisation of the War: Office did not lend itself to such a joins con mitten with the Treasury, with the result. that large contracts for munitions and
buildings were transacted by the War
Offcn without Treasury sanction: the Army Council being empowered ta, fake! this course,
HUTS FOR THE" TROOPS.
Double Brass-mounted Bedatrach, Twin Bedsteads (Teakwood), Sideboards Dinner LIST OF CONTRACTORS WHO HAD Waggons Extension Dining Tables and
MOST OF THE WORK. Chairs, Tes and Occasional Tables, etc., eter, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet 1972 Sets, & Bath Room Utensils, Large Boll-top Desks and Writing Table, eta, a quantity of Electro Plated Wars,
4100
· HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneert. Hongkong, Bept. 23, 1910.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instrac-
tions to sail by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCKENED),
tto
SATURDAY,
the 30th September, 1918, 1,30-an, at their Sales Poóra, No, Á Des Vanix Road, Corner of Ice
-House Street-
A MISCELLANEOUS STOOK
Comprising
Gent's Shirts, Woollen Singlets, Fanta, Dressing Gowns, Bath Robes, a number
Bath and Face Towels, Hosiery, &c, die
of Pairs of Boots and Shoes, Toilet Soaps,
ม
اره
1. Large Wall Clock "London make," "Caille Portable Motors with Battery, atc., complete, 1 Piano in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, a quantity of Black- wood Furniture-Pictures. Engravings,
One New Gent's Bicycle, 2 Typewriters, selection of Brass Jardinières, Vases, Finger Bowls, etc.
|2
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) TERMS-Cash
HIGHER & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Blankets, Table Cloths, Counterpanes, Hongkong, Sept. 27, 1916.
A quantity of White Alpaca, a few Lots
"of Grass Cloths Rain, Coats, &e., Hokalk
and Suit Cases,
Also
A number of Suit Lengths, Blae Serge, Tweed, Vicuna, Flannell, &c., &c.
Teram-Chah.”
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Sept. 25, 1916,
∙1074
PUBLIC AUCTION. TEE Undersigned have received in- Tender the Lintuitisters of
Mesara, WITZKE & Co, to sell by Public Auction,
.0%
WEDNESDAY,
the 4th October, 1916, commencing. at 10.30 am on their premises, No.1 Ningpo Street, Taumati, VALUABLE FLANT, MACHINERY, TOOLS, &, including Cast Iron Scrap and Metals,
follows:— One Electric. Lighting. Set, consisting of Highspeed Vertical Steam Engine, &c, des complete with Mountings and Switchboard, Marine Multitabular Bojler
with
Mon Soiler complete with all
Feed Fump One- Horizontal Compound Non-Condensing Steam Engine with Tipe'
Connection Valves and Storage Tanks, Several Double Geared, Screw Cutting -- and Surfacing Lathes, Shears of varyin length, Falleys, & haping Haming Machine-com- plete with.. Machine complete with Shaft, Slotting Machine complete, L17-power and hand-driven Senewing Machine Shaft, Miscellaneous Assortment of Dies, Tor
PUBLIO ADOTION.
1062)
THE Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR 1000CNT OF THE CONCERNED),
од
"AN EARLY DATE
One occulting apparatus, complete. Circular wick lamp. Space burners.
A White Paper issued showing the Approximate cost of the hutting provided or being provided for troops (including hospital patients and horses) in the United Kingdom in 1914-16. gives a total of 224,500,000, the sums paid for the principal agents of the War Department being as follows >--
Tay a course of Dr. Williams Pink Fils.
tapat
mattera right
The good new strengthening blood The appointment of Financial Advisor which these pills croste înduits wa
exhauster and Local Auditor in the Field in France to the debilitated, and ex
digestive organa, and the benefit they had produced good, resulta,
receive from it is soon noticed, in the -FAT DAYS-FÒM 720-002.
FISKETEPADS andJs "permisulist" rétare of this
in the following phases of Army you rise in the morning
The Committes expresses its disapproval shared appetita." Then the digestion becomes normal, beadaches are abeant
the ind bright finance
and retire at night to sound refreshing (1)-Army Council in January, 1015.
Williams' Pink Pills have start
a 'quartar intimated that billating (which out of a Century's reputation and tear of £6,500,000 in the first winter of the thousands of cures behind them as, their war) would be reduced 21. 6d. per guaranteed They can be obtained every. householdar. For reduction was not where, and direct from the Dr. Williama effested till September: 1015.Thil, 1 bottle for $1.60 or 8 bottles for Medicine Co. 96 Saochuan Road, Shang- delay seems icerensable, and resulted 88 post free. ins quite unnecessary expenditure of money."
(2)—A large number of unsuitable horses were bought in the Irish com. mand, and inferior animals expplied instead of those sctantly bought. Total JORN, 110,000. Committes reminded however, it was race against time, in which' the Remount Committee appears to have been eminently auccess
ful."
(S)-Army Council declines to reccn.. sider till after the war the system by which retired officers rejoining have. in addition to their retired pay, the pay and allowances of their rank; cokt to the nation £700,000 a year. Neither Civi servants nor naval officers enjoy sach a concession.
(4)-Imperfect medical examinationa
were
numerous during the rush of recruiting at 2s. 6d. per reenit for civilian doctors so employed. Now, the
result that, under the necessity in which the military authorities found themselves of avoiding the delay which would other wise Enve buon caused, is was decided after considerable controversy to pay him. pho, commission stipulated on all work additional to that originally undertaken. free of charge,
The total expenditure for which this contractor. became responsible is stated to have been £3,750,000, of which about" £400,000 apparently was the amount con- earned in the original undertaking. The adoption of this course necessarily involved similar treatment for the other firms employed.
ADMIRALTY ACCOUNTS.
fee is still 2. d., but the maximum OTED 250,000 OFFICERS AND MEN
IN FIRST YEAR OF WAR. parmant for the 'M.D. a day."
(5)-Naither the War Office nor high commanders haro giran snough encouragement to the elimination waste in Army rations, and the saving of pablic money thereby...
Taking the Committee's report on the accounts of the Senior Service, and son- sidering that the Committee's function is essentially criticism and the remedying Committee Wilso comments of delects, one is impressed rather by the unfavourably upon the use by the Army, absence of serious errors than the few despite the objections of the Admiralty comparatively unimportant ones to which on the score of expense of nine vessels attention is drawn.
The
for the internment of energy aliena ata Total cost of £160,000. The last ship was given
Expendi-up in June, 2015.
ture.
Commission.
Sir J. Jackson, Ltd. 150,700 3,826,000 *Macdonald, m. "G1557,
Ltd........
-31,900 - 1,733,000. Morricks, Crane and
Co.........
25,100 882,000 Perry and Co. (Bow),
Ltd.
Ballottr, Beatty, Ltd. Harper Bros. Ltd... W. Nicholson and
CONTRICTOR'S. DEIL.
HOW HE GOT ORDERS FOR
£3,750,000 FOR HUTTING..
Considerable attention, is given by the 19,800 1,462,000 Committee to the cost of hurting. When 36,700 719,000 Lord Kitchener, on August 7th, 1914, 62,400 1,662,000 called for an additional 100,000 men for
the Army, it was found that extra accom $51,000 oodatach would have to be provided at
(1) II 18,900 J. Norton Griffitha **
Ltd.
12,700
once or about 20,000 or 30,000 men. 358,000 Typical designs for huts were immediately drawn and work was begun, but the second 100,000 men began to comp, în... 538,000, and soon after that the third. The first estimate was für about £15 per man, which included not only the sccommods. tion for the men, but also officers' quarters, office accommodation, cook- hopses, recreation rooms, dining rooms, baths, and so forth.
G. Trollope and Song and Colls and Sons. Led
1,000) The total commissions paid accounted lo £403,900 on 213,081,000.
The first cur agents receive for part of their work a percentage in respect of
The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR establishment charges only, at rates vary
ing from 11 to 25 per cent. For the rest of their work they receive 17 per cent. to cuser establishment charges and & per Sant for commission. The next five Cylinders and wicks
agents receive for all their work 11 per Incandescent Petrol Lamps, and cent. for establishment charges, and 4 sppartenances eng
And
percent-for-commission,
The Royal Engineers were responsible the extent of
A quantity of goar pertaining to slau for contracts Mooring Buoys,
A number of Locomotive wheels and Axles Y!
Farther particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.. Terasa sunken
HUGHES & HOOGEL,
Auctioneers
Hongkong. Ang đột bi
CHINA MAIL.”
PUBLICATIONS
DTAINABLE the
tical Double Geared Drilling Machine complete, One Double Pilar Geared Verácal Drilling Machine (equivalent kong to two machines) by Appleyard & Co, Halifax, England, desinfe
A
Wendham Street: Honz
Of
* HISTORY OF UNION CHURCH 27.
Fly One Douae Column Steamy Harimer
complete with all connections, Ous Belt-
driver Draught Blower for Blacksmith HONGKONG'S MUSICAL~~
Shop complete with cunpoctions-Coo Ore Washing Tank with agitating Car Shafting,"
HISZURY
NOTES ON
IND:
£7,871,000.
ARMY EXPENDITURE.
TREASURY GIVES LP CONTROL
́OF CONTRACTS.
When the numbers increnaed so rapidly lower standard of construction was at first adopted, and the estimate was lowered to about £10 per man, which meant that the huts would be more helters from the weather, and had no linings, and that thers would be neither room Dor ofdcera Bot recreation sergeants' messes.
But the cold and wet of the winter. brought the consequent discomfort Velore the public, and these things had to be provided, of course at a considerable addition to the cost. Nevertheless, the first lot of buts did not exceed the original estimate of 415 per man, though extra cost was in some cases incurred by the contractors where they had to replace 'defective work.
It is true that certain evidence is reserved from publication till after the war at the request of the Board of Adouralty (as in the cost of the War Office" also), but, in sum, the general". impression is given that there has been Adde Wiste or pružio money so far as the Admiralty as concerned.“
In 1014-15 the toful of officers and seamen voted was 250,000, but the actual member bortus exceeded that. The net deficit was £51,751,684.
Negres is expressed -
(1)That a number of workmen enter. ing, naval establishments as temporary hired labourers after the outbreak of war ware afterwards allowed to enlist and roceived, the difference between. their civil and military pay, though, in some cases they had been in Govem- ment employment under a month; don. trary to Treasury requistions.
*****IL, 630.
(2), (2) That conditions of grant of disability pensions for naval reservists | | 43 ara still unsettled, an "early decision. baing nooded
(b) Reservists have often been in- valided after short periods of active service in circumstances which point to ineffective medical examination during the preasure of mobilisation. BLA (3) That no system of estimating the
cost of matériels : formatinitions and other supplies, in order to break down Fings of contractors, seems to have been adopted before the war, and that the system is only slowly being introduced
In connection with the last count: the Committee points out that by creating system of actual costing, coupled with the powers of requisitioning, the Ministry of Munitions has effected substantial reduction in pricas, from those paid in the early stages of the war, despite the increased coat of labour and material
Hitherto, however, the Admiralty sys-
The Army defcit in 1914-15 amounted to £311,887,000 reports the Public In July, 1916, huling socommodation Accounts Commitee, and in this coupes had been provided in about 267 camps for tem has been to invite tenders and to tion the War Office proposes that India 250 000 men and 150,000 horses at an determine the reascuableness of the prices should contribute further to the cont of the ware
expenditure of
something like] and the opinions of professional officers. £18,000,000, which is about £20 par man. Thus the Admiralty had no data sa tố thể If is shown that the Treasury parted hat is was foressen at the beginning that actual cost price of shells and gansk
with ita ocnizúl over Army contracts only the probable rise of prices would be at Though quite recently trders have bean
reluctance, and urged the need of feb 20
securing, the ment, economical termin at The
I was soon found necessary to alter in rious ways-the-normal-procedure is tion to contracte in regard to the extension of the stand" "of supply, the occasional abandonment of the system of competitiva länder, and the emplo
of expert agents for the purchase of
upplies and bores.
On the on
The peace
system was “modified as being too alow
what
selected":
ceat,
placed subject to the adjustment of pace quired into
Theater on when the frme hare castiffed the Camps are put in cost and submitted that books sé skilled
and were accountants, Adiniralty prices still abber Los sites no such reduction as this achieved by eneral Stad the Ministry of Manition
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