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FINDLATER'S
NOTICES.
NOTICE.
HE Public is hereby informed That Mr. "ROBERT
JOHN
HALL is no longer connected with eur Company na from the 4th inst.
and that the Power of Attorney held by him is withdrawn.
T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD. Hong Kong, 4th October, 1926,
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NOTICE.
HONG KONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE:
THE INSTITUTE will re-open on MONDAY, October 4. Stu- dents joining Glasses held at Queen'a College will be enrolled, at the Education Department only; those joining Classes held at the Central British School, Kowloon, may be enrolled at that School
Entry forms may be obtained at the Education Department or the Central British School...
Hong Kong, 1st October, 1928..
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.. ANNUAL GENERAL T MEETING WE by Gel Bar Pavilion on FRIDAY, the 15th
OCTOBER, 1926 at 5.30 pm:
AND
NOTICES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE.
LIMITED;
NOTICD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
N
PAUPERISATION..
WHERE: SOCIALISM REIGNS.
la administered on behalf of the Treasury. by a apocią). Unemploy- ment Grants Committoe, over which Viscount, St. Davida presides. I'm the last Ave years this committee has authorised Stata loans to the extent of no less than 276,000,000. How much of this will evor be recovered is a matter of specula- tion. Doubtless at the time this
A USEFUL REPORT.
By Harold Cox.] " with respect to 27 Shares numbered the Ministry of Health contains plan was started there was a good
that Scrip Certifiente No. 4338 The Seventh Annual Report of 601 610, 3139/3143, 3800, 3818 & mase of information, a great deal deal to be said fer making some 4078/4982 in the above Offee, of which is of extreme importance special effort to deal with the pro- standing in the names of Messra. to the public. Whether the whole lem of the returned soldier, un- DAN ZAH CHRING and DAN ZAof the expenditure controlled by the able to find work for himself; but MING of Shanghai, has been LOST, new Ministry, which has taken the schemes of public work started and should the same not be pro-Board, brings. any equivalent reviding employment are seldom of place of the old Local Government primarily for the purpose of pro duced before the 19th October...
an economic character, and may
i
1028, a new Serip Certificate will turn to the country is a doubtful
Ofee.
affirmative.
be issued in favour of the sald query, which possibly even memnet even be of much public ser- Mesara. DAN ZAH CHING and'] bera of the Ministry themselves DAN ZAIMING, and no transaction would hesitate to answer in the vice. At any rate, it is algnificant that the local authorities are now. taking place under the old Scrip Certificate will be recognised by the Ministry is responsible is estimated schemes on which to expend public The expendituro for which the finding it increasingly difficult to discover new unemployment at over £19,000,000, though, need"] JARDINE, MATHESON &.
les to say, only a smalt portion CO., LTD.,
The Pauper Voto, General Agents.
of this represents the actual cost) of the Ministry Itaclf and its off dominating fact that if the money Meanwhile, there remains the Hong Kong. 5th October, 1925..
In many directions thear the taxpayer is taken from him work of the Ministry is, beyond to apend on achames of public re- question, of great value. Among lief, he has less to spend on buy.
ד' y
cials.
money.
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GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS. other things this Ministry super.
visos the sale of foodstuffs, anding the things that he wants, and LITS, LIMITED.
snore employ ! the report gives interesting parts thus on balance no (Incorporated under the Companies culars of some of the steps taken ment is created What is created
Ordinance of Hong Kong);
to prevent the contamination of by the wholesale system of doles food, and also to prevent dishonest now in operation is the spirit of TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN dealing, Sevoral cases are quoted pauperism. NT IS HEREBY trould have who before the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of have been prosecuted and heavily accept any form of relief, now SHAREHOLDERS of the Crandoned for selling milk adulterated agerly seek for it. The deteriora. or for selling mation of national character is in Hotel des Wasons Lf the Grand with war rel will be held at the then Registered Barine and calling it buster. The deed far worse consequence of this Ministry also deals with such mat.wholesale pauporisation than the Office of the Company, Exchangers as the pollution of rivers and loss of national wealth..
Credit Building (2nd', floor), Des Voeux
the disposal of, sewage, and the is due to the Miniatry of Health Road Contral Hong Kong. on
Report calls attention, somewhat for trying to check the evil, but no NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN SATURDAY, the 5th November, THAT ON FRIDAY THE 18th day 1926 at 12 o'clock NOON. for the ed for the preservation of co.. Parliament entirely reverses the
despondently
the serious progress can be made until perhaps, o lot OCTOBER 926, Immediately purpose of receiving a Statement of
after the holding of the GENERAL Accounts and the Report of the siderable tracts of land again policy of pauperisation which was MEETING, a drawing for the re-biectors for the year ended on the the modern spread of bulking ses on foot before the war, and has demption of One hundred (100) 30th June, 1926, confirming the ind over ever-widening circles ofIn particular, it is of the utmost)
development, often of a sprawling since been progressively developed.
Debentures will be held
The numbers of the Debentures drawn will be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette. and the local Newspapers, and holders of drawn Bebentures may. upon giving notice to the Treasurers
waiving the 6 months notice to
which they are entitled, apply onl the Bat OCTOBER, 1926 to the Troisurers. Messra. PERCY SMITH. SETH & FLEMING. for payment of the principal and interest to the 3131.OCTOBER, 1926.
By Order of the Committee. J. D. HUMPHREYS,
Hon Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st October 1926.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE FOURTH EXTRA RACE
MEETING will be held (wea
ther permitting) at Happy Valley
appointment of à Director, and re-
electing a Director and the Audi-rural land"
Idleness Subsidiseri,
tuta..
Hy Order of the Board, P. C. BARRY,
Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, 4th October, 1926.
NAVY LEAGUE-
NELSON
DAY CELEBRATION
importance that Pärliament should deal before the close of the pre But the most important fanetior sent year with the problem of the At present, in many of the Ministry of Health at the pauper vote. present time is, its supervision districts the persons in receipt of he expenditure inearred by local Poor Law relief are able by their Bourds of Guardians. In spite of voting power to dictate the policy We shall not the modern system of unemploy of the Guardians. nent insurance, which the country get really sourd system of local
until Administration
the local was promised would grently re- duen the cost of Poor Law relief, franchise is based on the old Bearts of Guardians are now English principle that taxation and spending immensely more than be representation must go together, so Core the war. At the end of March, that the ratepayers-whether in-. 1928, no fewer than 1,240,000 per-dividuals or companies-who pro- Jons, or zover 3 per cent of the ivide the money shall have power to total population. were in receipt of centrol the expenditure.. Poor Law relief. The Report shows that this immense maas of!
A GRAND CONCERT paperiam is to an appreciable ex-
will be held
&
on THURSDAY, 21st. October, at 9.80 p.m.
in
tent due to the policy, pursued by many of the popularly electedil Boards of Guardians,
For months past, as is fairly well known, the Ministry of Health heal been fighting with some of these)
on SATURDAY, ath Detober, 1926, Queen's Theatre bodies and trying to force them to
commencing al 3.15 p.m. The First Bell will be rung at 2.45 p.m.
The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1, for all persons including Ladies.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.
Members are advised that they
STAG'S HEAD BRAND must show their Badges to obtain
BRITISH
LAGER
admission to the Members' Enclo-
Sure,
Each member has the right to introduce 2 nuh-members to the
BEER Members Enclosure, tickets for
VERY LIGHT. $17.00 PER CASE OF 6 DOZEN PINTS,
Or $3 per dozen including duty delivered to your residence.
Sole Agentu GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Hongkong Bank Building. Tel, C. 290.
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whom can be obtained from Mesare, Linstead & Davis at $5, each up to FRIDAY, 5th October, 1926.
can
The charge for admission for Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2.-Each member obtain, upon application. to the Secretary, Badges for the admission of 2 Ladies free of charge.
Hong Kong, 26th Sept., 1926.
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cut dawn their scales of relief, or to administer relief more carefully. In the case of West Ham it has been necessary to supersede the Guardians completely and lo · ap- point a committee of officials to take their place. The explanation of. the scandalous extravagance now going on is that many of the Boards of Guardians have been cap Ttured by the Socialists, and are being deliberately used as an in- strument for paying out publie money to persons who prefer idle- ness to industry. In some cases the scale of relief to the non- worker is actually higher than the trade-union rates of pay in many local industries. This abuse of the Poor "Law tends to increase employment by putting a heavy burden upon our industries and so preventing their development.
un-
In addition, it checka. the move- meat of population to more hope: | ful regions across the sea. Last November an inter-departmental committer was appointed to can- sider the effect of achenies of social Insurance on migration. Its report was emphatic that unemployment insurance and the grant of outdoor relief to able-bodied persons dis tourages migration to a consider. able extent at precisely the ages when, other things being equal, it might be expected that the oppor": Ftunities of oversea life would provo moat attractive." It is algnificant that, even as compared with 1923-) 24, there was a heavy reduction in) juvenile migration in 1925,
men,
"
Lavish Expenditure.. The essential idea of the Poor Law, after its reform in 1834, wRS! that relief in the shape of money! should not be given to able-bodied but that they should" be offered work as an alternative, or at least as a test. But modern Boards of Guardians, dominated by Socialists, set the law. nt, deftanco.i end, without any real inquiry, hand out cash in practically unlimited quantities data
Non is it only Poor Law' expandi- ture which has to be taken into account, in connection with... un- employment. Close examination] would probably show that in good many districts the Labour Exchanges are unduly lavish with public money, preferring to in- crease the charge on the Ex- chequer rather than to create loenli Irritation by refusing uncovenant- ed benefits In addition, thern lef the large scheme started in 1920] for assisting local authorities to finance public works for the relief of the unemployed.
Thie" schemo
Secratory of the Navy: Wilbur was. highly plenaed us he left after an White Pine Camp, New York, for the interview with President Coolidge at
President had agreed to a new $5,000,000, dirigible for the navy larger than the ill-fated Shenandoah.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HỒNG
KONG FOR OCTOBER, 1928. ⠀
(Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East or Greenwich),
Data...
Sunrise, Sunset, a.m. p.m.
October
6.166.08
OUR CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This erose-word puzzle has been made by an sæpert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetio spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho)
15:
24
25
47
25
HORIZONTAL
1-Duli; heavy
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12-Unusual
13-Weaving-frame
15-Chirography +
34
„ŠTHE INTERNATIONAL SUNBIRATE.
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47-Happy
1
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64-Old Hores
18-Method of painting 01-Massage
with dots 20-Assistanös
21-Early Now
Englander
~23-Baa
24-8eparate entry: In
:
an Account 28-Mare sensible:
27-8courge
28-Prinalpis
30-Jaland: possession of
the U. S. 31-Tunon with their
.."words.
32~To migrate 34-Narrow aperture 35-Nowly admitted'
37-P
38-Shout 41-Devouren-
B-Hug
16-Religioua, saremony
-17-Colar.
18-8tale
19-Yours
22-Lifts
25-Dusarved
27-Bribe-takar
29-High male volos.
91-lay rain and anow
67-To roit «ặng, freely 83–Untanned: calfskin
60-Comfort
(60-Paste-
jat-Queerest
82-Pelta collectively:
VERTICAL
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Neptun
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-Fall In drops
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7-Pison of worship
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-Cut off 10-inculcate
11-Expecta
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(36-Rank; station.
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89-Clean by washingi 140-Account book
Mineral Bait
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33-Hair on a hores's-
neck 44-8kilful
'46-Alaskan' animat 48-Contanta of speed
| 45-Billow. |52–Foundation {3-Qulet period [86-Radioni (abbr)
158-Edible kernel."
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sirs, These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they În rura to still others. A letter, bolongs in each white space, wordą sta. ng at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new' cross-word puzzle.)
LAMBERT BROS.
A VOTIONKERS, ÁPERAMERS AND BURVEYORK,
Public Auctions
THE Undersigned have received
Auction
Tinstructions to sell by Public
ON
WEDNESDAY, the 6th Oct. 1926, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. A Large Quantity Of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:-
Tenk Hatstands, Tapestry Cover- ed. Couches and Armchairs, "Teak Bookcases, Teak Desks. Pictures. Engravings, Silver Cabinet, Revol ving Chairs, etc.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. BUD DASANAY QUIC FOOD FOLGS WALP TOARS AMB PONGH ORGADE KNOBBY H YALE I ■ORDS A OF MENT FUEL GE LASS" DUVAR “EVEL GOT ASA DOCE. JEWIL STOP AD KVOR DENT NE Y LOCS SAYS E SCNATE BIBLES ANGEL POP LEPOR GOAD WINGS SURD OWL RESCUED ACT
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A Quantity of CANTON BLACKWOOD WARE
AND
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On View from Tuesday, the 5th October, 1926."
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LAMMERT, EROS,
"Auctioneers.
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