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MACHINERY.
JAPAN AS A LIKELY MARKET.
PRAPS PRAPS NOT!
Some folk are trying to make
some consideration In this regard. Another scheme in respect of which the Government is shortly to issue a statement is that of the provision of a vehicular ferry. At Japan's electrical industry has one time It was understood that made remarkable progress in this was to be a Government con, recent years, due to the develop- iment of her water-power re- cern, something in the nature of sources. This has led to a great compensation for there being 'no increase in the demand for elec-capital out of the Budget. cross-harbour bridge. But, from trical machinery of all kinds,
"I can't imagine why Smith latest indications, the intention is especially for dynamos and elec- to leave it to private enterprise. tric motors. A large variety of should be so angry with his son.
electrical machinery is made The boy acted on instructions." Another statement is to be made locally, but the quality does not "In what way?"
"His father advised him to go shortly, the Colonial Secretary equal that of imported goods, intimated, regarding the Govern- which are often also lower in out and find an opening, and the price. The rapid development next thing the youngster did was ment Civil Hospital. Considerable of Japan's shipbuilding industry to write and tell his father he was criticism, it will be remembered, has also created a large demand in a hole." attended the first disclosure that for machinery for ships, and al- though that industry is not very intended re
"Why do you the Government
prosperous in Japan just now gloves when cutting hair?" asked building the Hospital on its shipping companies are planning the customer. present site. It was contended, the construction of better, larger, "For the purpose," replied the by correspondents in the local and faster vessels to meet for- barber, "of Keeping our cele- Press that the present site is eign competition, particularly on brated hair restorer from causing
hair to grow on my hands.”
He sold a bottle.
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the Pacific. unsuitable in that it is in the
Railways in Japan are run by heart of China town and. that the Government, which buys the: patients are subjected to noises required materials from approv-
She-1 can only be a also a ed makers. There are attendant on such a neighbour-number of private railways
He-Don't say it! It won't do. hood. The Government's inten- (about 160, with an open mileage I have five sisters already, and, tions in regard to the Hospital of 2,400,000), which also provide to tell the truth, they are not fa- market for construction yourably disposed towards you. wil be awaited with considerable a interest. No mention was made materials, especially raile. It is They think & match with you
not likely that the Government would be the mistake of my life.
"Oh, indeed! I'll show the to the rebuilding of Queen's will build new lines in the near College the new site for which it future, as there are sufficient to cats! We'll be married just as was one time considered would be meet present needs. The passen-soon as I can get ready."
ger service is most efficient, but that portion of Morrison Hill the freight service is expensive "All men," said the lady who which is to be left undemolished and not so satisfactory. This has kept a boarding-house "all men, and it is to be presumed that this resulted in the motor-car rapidly dearie, is brutes."
becoming populat, and manufae- Her friend nodded her grey scheme has also been temporarily turers of automobiles, lorries, and head wisely. She had been mar- abandoned,
accessories will find in Japan an ried twice. excellent market for their pro- "Yes," she agreed. "No one knows that better than me, an' With the Government decision ducts.
Japan's paper-making industry though me second ain't no saint, ment has in hand. These include to bring school fees to a more is well organised, and all kinds I'll say this for 'im-he's better'n the Shing Mun scheme which will economic level there will be gen of paper are manufactured. For me first. He's in jail so much provide Kowloon with enough eral satisfaction. It is the Gov-eign machinery is used in most of that I 'ave practically all I earn
crament's duty to provide educa- the paper and pulp mills, and for me own use!"
while such machinery is also tion for the children of those made locally, it does not comparo
A prominent official of the tele- residing in the Colony and it must with foreign. Japan ships con- phone company was rudely arous be said that no expense has been siderable quantities of paper to ed from his slumbers by the ring- China, and is increasing her cxing of the telephone. After this connection that H.E. the Gov. spared in this matter. Such ports in other Far-Eastern mar-bruising his knee on a chair he.
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the schemes which the Govern-1
water in the driest of seasong, no matter how greatly the peninsula may develop in the coming years. It may be remembered in
ernor, in referring to the Govern-
"Hello!" he growled. "Are you an official of the tele- phone company?" asked the voice.
"Yes. What can I do for you?” "Tell me," said the voice, "how
schemes as the building of King's kets; considerable expansion may reached the 'phone... ment's decision to abandon for College, Bonham Road, have en-be thus expected in her require the present, at any rate the tailed considerable outlay and as ments for paper-making ma-
chinery.
The flour mills in the country scheme to bring a pipe line across fees have in the past been ex- the harbour and construct a re-
tremely small in comparison with are equipped with the most servoir in the neighbourhood of the excellence of the tuition given, modern machinery, mostly for-
It is only fair to those who, direct- eign; but the oil-milling industry it feels to get out of bed at two the Botanical Gardens, referred to
is not so completely modernised.o'clock to answer a wrong num- ly or indirectly, contribute to the There are about forty oil mills ber." Kowloon as the future centre of
Colony's treasury to bring then with modern machinery, but the greatest development. An-
Are hundreds using
Two Frenchmen had a serious other scheme which is to benefit to a more economic level. Regard- there
hand-power mills and general-quarrel, and after pouring abuse ing the future of the Colony in ly operating in a primitive way on each other, decided that the by the loan is that for completing the matter of finances and de- There is scope for high-grade only way out was to fight a duel. constructing thereon a civil and velopment generally, there are hydraulic presses. for such pur-. But after thinking things over the best possible reasons for op- peanuts, cotton and other oil tested that they might both be poses as crushing soya beans, one of them objected. He pro- military aerodrome to link up
timism. The figures quoted by seeds, of which Japan imports killed. with the proposed British acrial
the Kai Tack reclamation and
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service to Australia and the Far/His Excellency show that the practically, all her requirements. Finally they agreed to toss for Colony has emerged from various from Manchuria and Shantung. it, the loser to go behind a tree East. Work on the dredging of
Japan's population is steadily and shoot himself. So they tossed disturbances even stronger than increasing, and this, combined a coin in the air, and the loser de shoals in the harbour and using
when the cataclysm began. With with the limited area avail-parted, pistol in hand. MACASKILL.-At the French the silt to complete the reclama-
for cultivation, con- His Excellency we agree that the able
There was a loud report, and Hospital on the 2nd instant, attion has already been commenced.
stitutes a difficult problem the winner of the toss rushed to 1 p.m. Christina Spence, the
Colony is a marvellous exempli-
for the Government to solve the tree. dearly beloved wife of K R
fication of the results which can The authorities recognise the Kong Macaskill, Hong
"Great Christopher" gasped Co., Ltd. Whampoa Dock
be achieved when Britons and importance of modern methods his erstwhile enemy. "I've miss→ ́- Funeral will pass the Monu- As to other schemes which the Chinese collaborate in the de-in agriculture being adopted by ed myself.” ment at 5 pm. to-day.
Colonial Secretary indicated velopment of a country. would have to be held in abeyance, collaboration has done wonders primitive implements for farm- A tourist from America doing the development of the Colony's for the Far East in years gone by bathing beaches perhaps more and the indications are that the nearly than any other affects the future holds even better things in Colony's immediate interests. It store. seems a pity that the hopes of so many to whom bathing is the
Hong Kong Saturday, Sept. 3, 1927.
A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
Recent piracies and the action
THAT SNAKE.
the farming class, who still use, Such for the most part, extremely
ing, and are doing their utmost Ireland was admiring a flock of to educate the farmers in the use geese tended by a villager. of agricultural machinery by dis- He inquired the price they tributing literature on the sub-would fetch in the market, and on ject, and by importing machinery being told remarked that it was for experimental and demonstra far too low.
"If I had those birds in Amer- tion purposes; financial assist- ance is even granted to enable ica," he sneered, "I could easily farmers to buy modern agricul- get three times that amount for tural machinery. As the food them."
The Irishman was both scorn- and population problem is bound ultimately to overcome the con- he snorted indignantly, "if I had
ful and annoyed. "Bejabbers," servatism of the Japanese far-the lakes of Killarney in the mer and compel him to use
of H.M. Navy in destroying only means of recreation in the CORRESPONDENCE. fifty pirates' houses in the summer should have been raised region of Bias Bay has rather only to be dashed to the ground. overshadowed the introduction It is obvious from the figures into the Legislative Council of the given that economy is essential, To the Editor of the "China' Mail."] Budget for the coming year and but there has been no great Sir, With reference to the anake mechanical equipment, the de- right place I could get a sovereign killed at Repulse Bay by Messrs. the review by H.E. the Governor change in the Colony's finances Pilgrim and Andrews, it would be mand for modern agricultural a dhrop for them." of the financial conditions obtain-since the appointment of a Bath- interesting to know if this snake machinery is most likely to in-
In a London fog the safety-first was wearing a straw hat. If so, crease. A few notes of what is ing in the Colony during the lasting Beaches Committee and it would probably be the same one suitable for Japan's require motorist felt that the only certain thirty years. One of the contri- their recommendations as to the which a friend of the writer saw ments may be of service to ex-method of keeping on the right butory factors in this is doubtless development of various beaches. Pedder Street last Saturday porters here. Tractors should road was to follow the tram track.
night.
Yours, etc., INTERESTED INQUIRER. Hong Kong, Sept. 2.
EXPLOSION, KILLS 11.
be adapted to soft land and steep He did so successfully for a slopes; they must be able to turn long time, but suddenly found in a very small space, and he himself in the middle of a traffic suitable for paraffin if desired. block of bewildering complexity. Subsoilere, disc harrows, ploughs There were stationary trams all | (2 to 6 furrows), stump pullers, round him. Land small internal-combustion At last, after a long wait," he engines of 1 to 6 h.p. are in jumped out of his car to investi- demand. The latter should pre-gate. He was in the tram depot! at least 11 people were killed inferably have a wide horse-power an explosion at a fireworks factory range, so that engines can be which was completely destroyed. used for a variety of purposes, won't believe it, but a strange Mise Sharp: "Perhaps you Beuter's American Service.
such as operating centrifugal
Buenos Aires, Yesterday,
the lack of anything approaching If conditions did not permit of the sensational in the Government expenditure of the amount it was proposals and the mass of seem-known would be required, it was ingly small details which it is rather tantalising to raise hopes necessary to introduce in dealing which cannot be fulfilled. The with so many departments. The improvement of the waterfront fact that the Colony is in a sound at Kowloon to be more in keeping financial position has, however, with the important part played been noted with general satisfac by the penineula in the Colony's tion and there can be no grounds affairs is a scheme which can well for criticism as to the holding up be held in abeyance although it is
pumps for irrigating rice fields, man tried to kiss me once." for grinding, dairy work, haul- have been a strange man if ho Mias Snap: Really. Well, he'd of various schemes having regard one which justifies immediate at- to the fact that, owing to the pro- tention when the financial condi- A Home paper states that, threshing rice, tea manutried to kiss you twice."
MPs who are interested in facture, lumbering, flour milling, longed condition of disturbance in tion of the Colony permits the economy estimate that the, Chan- etc... It is advisable that spare the neighbouring province of expenditure. There is no reason, cellor a promised savings on cur parts should be sold together Terence had been married a Kwangtung, revenue has faller however, why the scheme for im- about $4,500,000, if they are to pay and operation should be on the his garden, when his wife came rent expenditure must amount to with every machine of any size, week, and had been working in off and, whatever the conditions proving the traffic system at the the costs of the Shanghai. Defence simplest principles, as the Japan out and said: Terence, my boy, in the coming year, is bound to Kowloon end of the ferry should in 1927-28.
ese have no great aptitude for come in to tea; toast and five have its reflection in next year's not be proceeded with It has
managing machinery.
En Notice is given that, owing to gineering."
eggs." finances..
hitherto been held by the Govern Chinese naval and military opera
BRANDON M Terence dropped his spade in astonishment and ran into the ment to be bound up with the tons, such lights as the
PAIN IN THE STOMACH kitchen. Light, Whangpoo Entrarica. Leading In order to safeguard the question of the improvements to Light, Lismore Buoy Woosung agreeable to be troubled with pains in kidding me!" he said.
It is most annoying as well as dis."Sure, Bridget, you're only Colony's reserves from further Kowloon Point, but now that this Spit Buoy, and Quarantine Buoy the stomach, and there is no need of depletion, a loan is to be railed scheme is postponed, Kowloon are able to be extinguished with it. for one dose of Chamberlain a Collet's not you, it's the neigh
out notice. Mariners are warned and Diarrhoea, Remedy will, allay the bours I'm kidding,” locally for the most essentia of residents are surely entitled to accordingly.
prin. Bold everywhere.j
Bridget.
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