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AUSTRALIAN CHARGES.
LORRY ACCIDENT.
NOBODY INJURED,
A large contractor's motor-lorry partly protruding through the wall on the side of Park -Road-just below the Sanitary Inspectors and other civil servants quarters at Breezy Point with two wheels dangling in the air was to be seen by those who passed yesterday afterdoon.
It appears that the lorry, carry ing a considerable load of building materials, was going up the rather steep gradient and in the course of changing gear, "control over the vehicle was lost so that the lorry began to slip backwards down the Incline.
Ultimately it bumped into the wall which shuts off a drop of some feet, and broke a hole in ft. Fortunately no-one was injured and the lorry was finally rescued from its precarious position,
FILM SCANDAL AUSTRIANS ARRESTED.,
THE CHINA MA
FORD CARS-
FACTORY FOR LONDON.
ARMS CASE.
SHIPS STEWARD UNDER CHARGE.
Lendón, July 11-Negotiations have been completed for the
CASE ON PAUL LECAT.” immediate erection of a big Ford
Before Mr. E. W Hamilton, motor-car factory at Dagenham, at the Kowloon Magistracy this The site is one of 307 acres, on the morning, Chung San, No. 1, Saloon north bank of the Thames, In Boy of sa. Paul Lecat appeared Essex, and it is regarded as ideally on remand for belog in posses suited to the purpose, especially sion of 34 rounds of ammunition “as the riverside frontage.will-give-and a dagger.on, August 17.
facilities for the export trade Detective Sergeant Simpson de which the Ford Company hope to posed that on August 17 on arrival develop from the United Kingdom of the vessel, be boarded the ship So far the British factory of the with a party of police and searched copcem has been at Trafford defendant's cabin and found 34 Park, in Manchester. It began rounds of ammunition and a dag- in 1911 with an annùsi sale of 1,485 | ger, of which defendant denied cars, and so rapid has been the ownership. He took defendant to growth that the output is now the police station.
40,000 cars a year for the home Defendant said that he had been market only, exclusive of the on the sis. Paul Lecat” for about production for such countries as three months and did not know of Belgium, Scandinavia, and Italy the ammonition being hidden The workers at Manchester number | there. about 3,300, and all but seven of this industrial army áre, British. Even the least skilled receive 38 an hour, and the pay roll and purchases with the Empire during the first six months of this year alone was £3,176,835.
Paris, July 14-A Bcandali The Fords on the roads of Great arising out of scenes enacted t
**Britain, it is stated, exceed 200,000. Versailles a day or two ago by a The Dagenham works will be able company of Austrian cinema to turn out up to three-quarters of artists led lust night to the arrest this number a year. No fewer
HOW
ately two-thirds of these reduc.count has been ruled, how
tions
in the hands of the authorities, they will be able to satisfy themselves of its character before it is allowed to leave the ever, that in future an official films are produced in the park or inspector will be present whenever château,and auch films will also have to pass the censorship.
It might have been put there by the parson who previously occupied the cabin.
Mr. Leo D'Almada" defended. The case was adjourned until 11.30 a.m. to-morrow.
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STREET NOISES.
BELLS NOT HORNS PERMISSIBLE.
CYCLISTS TO NOTE ~
Defendant stated that the horn was attached to the bicycle, when it arrived from America and he did not know that it was not allowed. He undertook to have it changed for a bell.
DOPE SMUGGLERS.
HEAVY FINES IMPOSED.
RED TRADE UNION..
'NATIONAL MINORITY
MOVEMENT.”
of six actors, and actresses at than 500 vehicles, in other words, Mulhouse just as they were about will be leaving the factory on to crows the frontier. Their Bimac working day, and, this will has been seized, and they are to be method of "mass production.. be done by the familiar. Ford detained in custody pending the Not only at Detroit,
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the but in Central Magistracy this morning, conclusion of an inquiry which is Manchester, standardisation has Wan Chun, was summoned for being carried out by the Ministry been carried to a very fine art, and having a horn instead of a bell on of Arts. The affair came to public one of the most marvellous evi- his bicycle at Des Voeux Road notice through complaints of dences of it is seen in the assembly Central yesterday, (contrary to inhabitants of Versailles that shop. Here the inere skeleton of a Government Notification No. 377 of foreign film artistes in been car is placed on a moving tractor, June, 1924) was fined $1. allowed to use well-known places and within twenty-five minutes it in the historic park of Versailles ne emerges at the other end of the a setting for the most licentious building a completely finished scenes, and report was quickly article, gangs of men having added spread that German propaganda different parts during its passage. Agents were preparing films which This method, will be adopted at would be exhibited abroad with the Dagenham: Employment will be object of convoying a slanderous found for 10,000 people, all at a impression of French manners and high rate of wages, and one of the momlity. At the Colonnade du reasons why this site was chosen Roi, for instance, a scene had was its proximity to the great been photographed in which labour resources of the East-end of women figured in costumes so light London, as to be indecent, while another The plan to be adopted in the
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at Iseene represented an open-air constraction of the factory will be
the Central Magistracy this orgie, of drinking and dancing mainly that of single-storey which, according to the report, buildings, and the machinery will having in his possession five tacls moming Lo Wan, charged with would be shown later as an exam- be of the most modern type, in of prepared oplum, not being ple of the way in which Parisians cluding many novel safety Government oplum, at Connaught were conducting themselves while appliances. The land is now only Road Central, yesterday was fined the Germans were starving. a waste, part of it having been $500 or four raonths' hard labour. The producer of the film, Otte reclaimed from the river, but Lau Wo, for the-same-offencer Kreissler, had obtained official por- already it is conveniently served at the Star Ferry Pier was mission to operate in Versailles, by adiacent railways and road-sentenced to nine months hard but it was understood that the ways. Moreover, it is intended to labour default of paying a fine scones were wanted for a film build docks and wharfage, and as of $1,500. A previous conviction version of a French novel. The the site adjolds a navigable part of had been recorded on August 18 Director of Fine Arts has expressed the Thames, the concern will be in for a similar offence when accused the opinion that the protests have a position, to maintain a big and was fined $50. been based on ሲከ exaggerated speedy export trade with the Continent. The enterprise is being account of the scenes which were undertaken by the British Ford photographed; but, as the film is Company; which is independent of but connected with the Ameri- this year this company has adopt- can parent organisation, and only ed an entirely now model of car suitable to the tastes and condi- TO INCLUDE ASIATIC WORKERS, tions of the United Kingdom. It exactly twenty-one years since Mr. is of interest to note that it is Henry Ford began his great bust
Reuter's Service.)
***** LONDON; August 24′′** pess he has now 175,000 workers A conference, under the auspices directly in his employ or that of of the Red Trade Union Interna
ten-millionth car was turned out committees of the Trade Unions the subsidiary companies through- tionale, attended by 200 British out the world-and last month the delegates from the unemployment at Detroit. Action by the Commonwealth
etc, decided to create an organisa- Government during the present session of Parliament will, it is
Mr. H. S. Jenkins, the chairman tion to be called the "National hoped, have the effect of inducing
sulting from reduction of rates scheme at a luncheon given by the organising the minority movement,
The fear of increased traffic re-the details of the new London
of the British company, announced Minority Movement.". the Pacific Cable Board and the Commonwealth terminal rate), and causing congestion on the Pacific directors at the Hotel. Metropole within the various industries as In order to pursue the work of Eastern Extension Company to the second column shows the loss cable is still advanced as a reason Emphasising the desire that the against the present Trade Union reduce the cable rates between if a propongon is allocated to the why no reduction should take development should be regarded leaders, one speaker declared: to Australia and the United connecting a dministrations. Kingdom, at all events DI
place until the Pacific cable as British in every respect, and that be a successful international move ordinary and Press
Loss if P.C.B. Loss if P.C.B. system is completely duplicated. as far as possible only British labour ment against Capital, it must messages.
bears bears The annual reports of the Pacific.
There is, however, already and material were-to-be used, the include Asiatic workers--even Cable Board and the Common-
all. propor- sufficient margin for prompt chairman said that the abolition of Chinese. wealth Postmaster Generai for the
transmission via the Pacific of the McKenna duties would not now Full rate.
..£59,855 £40,551 any probable increase of traffic, make it a commercial proposition to year 1922-23 afford additional
ustification for immediate re: Deferred Press rate
Press rate.....
6486 3,388 In any case the Eastern Company build Ford cars in this country, duction.
247 handles about two-thirds of both inasmuch as they could make them 655 With the view of
full-rate Press traffic between and import thera more cheaply morning, a Chinese fish monger, Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at aninimising the loss of revenue to Total........£66,996 £44,186, Australia and the United Klug-from-their-plant in America. Ho Miu, charged with theft of the Kowloon Magistracy this the Pacific Cable Board and to the Commonwealth in respect
dom, and no suggestion Nevertheless, this had not deterred of the terminal charge, It THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. has been made that the company, them, from proceeding with the three colla of Manila rope and has been suggested that im
For the year 1941-22, £123,562, made available in recent years, hope that they would be able to in-
additional routes development and it was their Ombilia on August 16 was sen= three wire runners from S. S. mediate reductions should be con- representing pronts made by the fined to the full ordinary rate and board, after owing for all would be unable to handle any crease their business with the tenced to two months' hard labour. Press and deferred Press rates statutory and other regular pay Cable Board's fears of congestion the horse-power tax, an Impost alsted the police to recover, the reasonable increase. If the Pacific Continent. He also referred to in view of defendant having as- between Australasia and the ments was allocated to reserve were actually realised, it may be which he described as upjust and axiloles. From a junk at Ho Hang. United Kingdom. The full rate fund and repayment of capital has not been reduced at all, and and £169,063 was similarly applied presumed that the Eastern Com- inequitable, and one which was to whose owner they had been the Press fate only once (by a fn1922-23. Even if the pany would not refuse business calculated to deter a large pum sold by a man not in custody, the small amount) since the inception board bears the hole of the Diversion, already taken place if, ber of potapital purchasers. It Magistrate said he had decided to of the Facific Cable, so that these anticipated loss, without any con- through breakdown or any other may be explained that, on the basis deal with the case lentently. classes of traffic deserve the tribution by the connecting ad- cause, congestion exists. ↳
The Pacific Cable-Board is not Ford car is £23. though it is held of the RAC rating, the tax on a Kreatest consideration. The ministrations, this would still be present and proposed new rates considerably less than half the justified in complaining of conges that, technically, this ought not to
not taking the be more than 15 or 16. ADepart profits earned In 1922-23, and if it, and then. Present rate Proposed new carries only. Its proper proportion If it has difficulties, its duty recently considered the entire necessary steps to overcome it mental Committee which bas per word,rate per word, it would, be less than one-fourth of to perfect its organization, question of motor taxation has those profits. No financial obstacle as any progressive business reponed adversely on this therefore, stands in the way of firm rate reductions on the three classes it can cope with the work to be Ford management hold that the would do, $0 that particular objection, though the of traffic above suggested: An extension of the reductions to performed. The feared congestion present position, is an anomalous It is suggested that the Comtrame between Australasin and would be, at the worst, temporary one, and on it may depend the monwealth caminal charge Canada would not materially only The Board is pledged to extent to which they can carry. should be reduced from 5d. Increase the total.
provide an alternative route from through their plans at Dagenham. to Id. on full rate messages,
The limitation of the reductions Sur to Bamfield either by ord from Id to 4d on Press, and in the first instance to full, Press, doplicating the existing sco- from 2d. to 4d on deferred and deferred Press rates between wreless. Either scheme would tions of the cable or by Press, The Pacific Cable Board Australasia and the United and the connecting administra Kingdom would also make the immediately remove any possibl tions would presumably share, in problent comparatively imple
The Sydney correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph " recently wrote as follows
are as follows:
vs. d. Fall ordinary 3.0 2 0 Press 0.722104 Deferred Press 0.42 0.2.
An analysis of the Pacific Cable Board's finances shows clearly that the board-can well afford the probable loss, even if it is not lessened by additional revenue from increased traffic. The follow- ing table shows the loss that would be sustained by the board on the basis of the 1922-23 figures. The first column shows the loss if the board bears the whole of the re- duction (apart, of course, from the
the existing proportions, the reduce from
tion of 8d in the full rate mesa, polst
agos, add 24d. in the deferred
Prosa. In the #ggregate the Pacific
ible Boards proportion on the
revet bank would be appeadm-Teal-22. The
tion.
would involve a loss, on the basis of the 1922-23 traffic figures, of £61,660, less than one-third of the total.
with the
-congestion. Moreover, the Commonwealth dog introduction of direct
wislens communication between the United Kingdom and Australia would undoubtedly relieve the cablertions of some portion atleast of their traficked
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