SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928.
denf.
THE DEAF.
TRIALS OF EARNING A LIVING.
A TRUE STORY.
GOVT.
"CONTROL"
CHINA MERCHANTS' S. N. CO.
NATIONALIST REORGANISATION.
Mortgages and Values, Outstanding mortgages held by banks against the property of the Company held by the National Shanghai Banking Corporation and current loans amount to Tls. 13,000,000. Against these liabili- ties, the assets of the Company are as follows:-
THE CHINA MAIL,
succeeded in forcing them out of cut down losses. Soldiers may the China Merchants, they would no longer use ships to take them still own the real estate company, from place to place without pay. with regard to which he knew no- ment. Four Nationalist soldiers thing. It was simply a medium have been placed on each ship of Chinese merchants to protect plying in Nationalist territory, themselves against Chinese offi- who are to inform their comrades cials. But when the real estate in arms to buy tickets. Military subsidiary became a source of tre-interference has somewhat abated If the story of how I have fought The story of the intricate re-mendous wealth as the real estate since the Government has taken against oncoming deafness, been lationship between big business increased in value, it brought into over the line. beaten by it and yet have partially and politics is undoubtedly best the Company further abuses.. conquered its ilmitation, helps even exemplified by the China Mer one fellow-sulferer, this will not chants' Steam Navigation Com- After pany which has now been taken have been written in vain. enjoying perfect hearing to the age over by the Ministry of Communi- of twenty, to become totally dest cations of the Nationalist Govern- Look another twenty years, and durment, writes George E. Spkolsky ing the latter period I went through in the "North China Daily News." all the trials known only to the During the wars of recent years, this company has been suffering after leaving seizures of ships by the military at home, but of all factions, labour troubles. Brussels damage to ships and loss of busi- to ness so that it had practically be- and
come impossible to operate even the lucrative Yangtsze runs. The losses to the Company have been considerable since the end of the Great War, during which some profils were carned. These losses have undoubtedly been due to old ships requiring an over-consump tion of coal, small carrying capa- city and low speed; to faulty management and to an unwilling- hess to reorganise the company on the basis of modern shipping methods. But when almost the whole fleet of the Company had been turned into war transports without payment of any nature, the loses became so great as to make further operations precari-
For some years school I remained eventually went to
to tench Bugish Jearn to speak French fluent ly. Ali's for me!
Though the former was comparatively easy I found the other an impossibility: for the incipient deafness, which 1 had hardly noticed amongst people speaking my own language, proved an insurmountable barrier when it came to understanding a language not my uvn. However, determin- ed to make the bist of a bart job, I stayed on the Contident some years. studying the written language`and customs of the people amongst whom I was living and visiting
specialists in between whiles to try and obtain a cure for my deafness, Possibly the various kinds of treat
ment I received somewhat retarded the complete loss of my hearing. bat that was all. The outbreak, of
the war found me in Germany, where, for a short time, 1 remained a prisoner, but eventually i reach-
en England safely.
War Work
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ous.
The Inevitable Polities.
and
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THE UNMARRIED.
WORLD-WIDE MOVÉ OF
PENALISATION.
There is thus an indirect basis for: the direct proposal which is now before Mr, Churchill. When the value of a 'wife or a child can be assessed by statute it would surely be a almplo matter to cal- culate the privilage of a mere (ánd single) man. The bachelor at pre- sent pays £10 or £15 for his free- All the world is beginning to tax dom from responsibilities. It seems bachelors. Will Great Britain fol-cheap. low sult?
BACHELOR TAX.
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The Cabinet. This intercating speculation is If legislators ever allowed their already being advanced in connec-personal feelings to influence their tion with Mr. Churchill's next legislative output, bachelors would There are 2,650,746 ba- find the present Cabinet cold and
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Compradore Rights. Another cause for leakage has been the compradore system, Under this system relatives and friends of directors were appoint Budget. City Bank and the Hong Kong unded as compradores on ships. The chelors of full age in England and unfriendly. They are a Cabinet of compradore rarely, if ever, tra- Wales alone, and they include a family men, among whom Lord Bal- velled with the ship: they rather host of famous men, from Lord four holds his isolated head in the sent assistants who had to make Balfour to the Archbishop of York, serene freedom alike of philosophy their money out of the trip. and from Mr. Justice McCardie to and bachelorhood. This pernicious system has been Sir Philip Sassoon.
There are, on the other hand, Five wharves and yards in replaced by the appointment of Weight is lent to the suggestion many prominent bachelors, on the Shanghai, at present valued business manager for each ship, by the increasing adoption of the fringes of the Cabinet and in public (valuation by Atkinson and whose accounts are subject to con- plan in other countries.
|life-prey ready to the hand of the Dallas) at Tle. 16,000,000.stant audit and who is required to
Prussia is the latest State to take clayer. Real Estate in Shanghai (same accompany his ship on each voy-
up the scheme. According to a An extrémely eligible bachelor is valuation) Tls. 6,000,000. age. It is too early to state with message from Berlin, Herr Arnold Sir Philip Sassoon, who, the Under stenmore valued between Tls. certainty whether this system will firtalefer, the Minister of Public Secretary for Air, the third baronet 4.000,000
6,000,000. bring about the improvements Welfare, has advocated the intro- of a wealthy house, and the pos- Wharves and real estates in the desired, but it is a step in the duction of the tax in order to meet sessor of many beautiful homea outports valued at Tls, 10,000,- right direction for it was impos- the deficit in the Budget. 000. This is a minimum apsible to check the old compradores Spain also contemplates imposing| proximation, as the final re- too closely without offending ports from official valuers have powerful directors and sharehold-the tax immediately. Protests have has courted his Hillhead (Glasgow) been made by British residents, but constituents with great assiduity in the mass, but never in the in- Another abuse arose in the dis- are likely to be dropped.
France has taxed bachelors ainee dividual. He has the laurels of tribution of managerships in
1920. Those over thirty years of many political offices to share with a companies and sub- branch sidiaries, which came to be dis-age pay a super income tax of 25 wife, and the proceeds of nearly a
per cent.
The number who pay dozen directorships for a wife (or DODWELL & CO. LTD. tributed as family sinecures.
falling her for Whitehall) to tax. reached 260,000 Inst year.
Italy began last year to tax Lord Haldane, who is ending a
sixty-five years of age. Although career by leading ten Socialists in bachelors between twenty-five and brilliant legal and administrative
bacho- the amount of the tax is small, the House of Lords, is also Signor Mussolini expects to secure for, but as he has not changed his £500,000 a year from the bachelors, mind for seventy one years, he must
not been received.
The Military Incubus,
There
crs.
U.S. Method.
s without a bride to run them,
Another is Sir Robert Horne, who
be impenitent and unlikely to jump into the net of matrimony in order to escape the share of a bachelors', tax.
Afluent Peers. Lord Hugh Cecil and Captain
Great Britain does not tax bache lora, although a large personal allowance is granted to married couples in assessing income tax. Amerien has a similar method of Sidney Herbert are two prominent obtaining increased taxation from bachelor members of Parliament. Captain Sidney Herbert in one of unmarried men.
In France even unmarried women the group of Ministers' private
Viscount Castlerosse, who is not escape an increase by marrying. They must have children as well. in Westminster, but is much in a bachelor' who Every couple who have been mar-Fleet-street, is ried more than two years and are vaunts of his freedom. The peersge still childless are taxed 10 per cent. at a glance also affords Lord. Re- veistoke, a director of the Bank of above the normal rate.
The French Government wish to England who lives in Carlton Large fami-House-terrace; the affluent Earl of encourage parentage. lies enjoy many privileges, and Feversham, who is quite young every year a prize is offered for the enough at the age of twenty-two largest family. This was won last to change his mind; Lord Valentia," year by the father of twenty-one the twelfth viscount, who is alac children.
the premier baronet of Ireland; and the young Duke of Norfolk who owns 50,000 acres.
The property of the Company then must be valued somewhere in the neighbourhood of Tis 40,000,000 against which there are mortgages and loans of only Tls. 18,000,000, Although it is Of the old Board of Directors, admitted that there is a lack of only one has re-registered his
capital and working there must be replacements which orders of the Nationalist Govern that shares in accordance with the will involve the expenditure of ment and he has been given office Marquis Li One of the major problems several millions, the Company is in the new regime. always facing this Company has still solvent in spite of the bad Wei-hui, who represents the in- been its relationship to politics. years it has experienced. The terests of the descendants of the The Company was organised in problem facing the new manage Viceroy Li Hung-chang, has be 1874 to trade between ports not ment is to turn the Company into come the Co-Managing Director open to foreign commerce, but it a profitable enterprise, to reduce of the Company. The managing Then the question age as to how was hoped that it would ultimate the over-head losses, to end a Director is Mr. T. C. Chao and the 1, a very deaf person by now, couhi ly take the place of the foreign system of paying dividends with- Secretary is Mr. S. A. Chow. Mr. help my country. As a nurse vessels trading along the coast out profits and to minimise leak- Chao stated that although the ships ply in Northern waters, the should have been worse than use and up the rivers of China. It ages in the operation of ships.' less, and, obviously. I could not was given governmental support.
Peking Government has rat inter- drive an ambulanten or take a man's in the form of a shipping sub-
The management of the Com-fered with them since the Com- place in sobie zimike way as so sidy, more than one-third of the pany has been reorganised into pany has come under the Nation-over the age of thirty years are secretaries he serves the Prime In Northern charged 25 per cent, extra for being Minister among whom Mr. many of my countrywomen were tribute rice sent to Peking being the following departments: Gen-alist Government. doing. All that send left for me carried by its vessels. Chinese eral Office, Marine, Accounting, waters, however, the five-barred single. But people canot altogether Churchill coud secure revenus. was to learn to cook properly and merchants subscribed liberally to Treasury, Godowns and Business. flag is flown. Although some of help feed the nation at this critical its shares, particularly the Can- There are separate organisations the shareholders have steadily op. hour. And soon I signed on as n tonese merchants in Hong Kong. to look after the Property and posed the present system, it is not believed that their opposition will probationer cook in a large hos-For many years the dominating Insurance Departments. pital, where, for a year, I was to individual in this company was used to be a subsidiary company prevent the Ministry of Com- have a practical training in alt Sheng Kung-pho who, as the called the Franco-Chinoise Steam- munications of the Nationalist branches of rookery and give my original promoter and the largest ship. Company which has been Government from proceeding with services in return for board, log-individual shareholder, was in ab- abolished and its one ship has the reorganisation, particularly if
There is an- ing, and uniform. At my initial in solute control. After the death,ot been taken over.
there is any indication that ex- terview with the matron of the hos-Sheng Kung-pato, dissension arose other subsidiary which operates nerts will be employed to make pital I well reniomber her saying among the shareholders, which launch lines between ports not the Company profitable.
Mr. Fu available to the larger ships. to me, as probably she had said to has been continuous. many, probationers before: The Sino-en, then became the domin. This steam launch subsidiary most valuable asset in working ant factor. In these circum-owns 22 steam launches, which do stances, every principal office was a fairly good business. There is held as a result of a compromise. also a subsidiary dock company,
The principal cause for leaksze The suggestion had often been made that the Government has been the use of ships by the should take over the China Mer-military, who have never pild chants, but until the recent action anything either as fares or for by the Nationalist Government, upkeep. They have, besides, done the Company has always been considerable damage to the ships, able to find some way of keeping which will involve the Company the Government out of the Com- in a huge repair bill. pany. But it seemed at all times management is accordingly nego- For eight years after the com- necessary for the officials of the tiating with the General Head- pletion my training I held cater- Company to hold the goodwill of quarters of the Nationalist Army ing posts in hospitals, canteens, the rulers along the Yangtsze, to get them to agree not to use schools, and so on, usually manug who might seize their ships, use the Company's ships without pay- ing a large ath, as well as doing them for transport without payment. In this connection, a re-rest, I presume?" much practical work. And, even ment and in many ways molest form has already been instituted though I felt it was only a matter them. It was this necessity for which it is hoped will do much to arrest." of slightly retarding the complete playing politics, which often in- loss of my hearing, I still volved the Company in the neces- visiting specialists and trying sity of providing sinecures for 'cures. All the medical men I con various friends and relatives of Bulted did their best for me, often great men, which really broke it refusing ♫
fee or taking a very down. The present unfortunate small one when they found their position of the Company, then, is attempts to help were of little avail. not a matter of a few months or When my hearing entirely went even a few years. There has been and I could no longer do work that a steady decay over a long period, entalled the management of a staff which was brought to a crisis by the recent wars in the Yangtze Valley.
with others is tact." And I rather surprised her when I said: "Yes,
but how difficult to he tactful when deuf." I repeat this to show the general attitude of the world to wards deficient bearing, for this matron was a sympathetic woman who knew my handicap but, like the majority of persons, she did not realise the disabilities of the deaf f a workaday world.
Was
things seemed rather black, until I thought of trying journalism, ́A typewriter was given me, and I set i A Valuable National Properly.
The Nationalist Government, to work writing articles, chiefly about food; of which I now had a through the managing director it fairly extensive knowledge. At has appointed for the China first many MSS. were returned, but Merchants, Mr. T. C. Chao, insists eventually my articles began to be that it has not taken the line over, accepted, and 1 gradually worket but is merely engaged in re- pa satisfactory connection as a organising a valuable national free-lance journalist. Now I have property which has become dere- It asserts that the large liet. plenty of work to do, and this makes
shareholders, who have controlled for happiness.
Though the wonderful electrical the Company for years, have per- hearing aids produced during the mitted the property to be mis- last few years are of little reat use managed and that in the interests
to me, and trying to learn lip of the small individual sharehold reading proved too great a strainers and of China, it is assuming responsibility for placing the
No
for my eyes, with a powerful speak company on a sound basis so that ing tube I am able to talk to one it can continue business. person at a time, and in this way shareholders ought to lose by this gain any information necessary for
process, although teraporarily my work. Like all those cut
some shareholders are unable to from general, conversation, I have
serve as Directors of the Com-
off
rather too much time for thinking pany, positions to which they be-
my own thoughts, but I try not to lieve themselves to be entitled. dwell on my handicap.-"Manches- ter Guardian" Oor.
£450,000 IN FEES.
Berlin, Feb. 9. Authors and artists received $450,000 in fees from the Reich Broadcasting Company in the past year.
In this connection, it is interest- ing to note that shares have been Issued to the amount of Tis. 8,400,000, which is the present. book capital of the Company. In addition to this, there are shares to the amount of Mex. $5,400,000 which have been issued in the Accumulation Surplus Profits Company, which is a subsidiary of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company. The sub- sidiary provides almost a drama- When Yuan Shih-kai
A great short-wave sending station is to be erected for trans- mitting around the world.
Listeners-in in Berlin now num-tic tale. ber more than 12 out of every 100 threatened to take over the China inhabitants, this being officially Merchants, the directors conceiv claimed as comparing with eighted the idea of investing their out of every 100 in London and surplus in real estate. and organ-
for
The new
In reply. to a specific question, Mr. Chao stated that foreigners would continue to be employed by the Company.
Teacher: "So we have a White Sea, a Red Sea, a Black Ses, and Yellow Sen. Murphy, show then, on
Murphy: "I can't, sir, I'm colour-
the map."
blind.""
Depositor: "Is the cashier in?" Bank Manager: "No; he's gone away."
How Bachelora Escape.
:
There are three bachelors among
A grudging admission of the mar. ried mon's right to a little finan cial freedom is already made by senior judges. They are Lord Whitehall. He receives an allow-Blanesburgh and Mr. Justice ance from income tax payment Sankey, both in their sixties, and which might in a full year pay for Mr. Justice McCardle, who single His cigarettes.
as he is, dilates with wisdom
on
One archbishop-the Archbishop of York-and nine bishops, includ- ing the Bishop of London, are un- married.
He is relieved of tax on 290 of breach of promise cases and wo- his income in respect of his wife, men's dress. a aum which may save on an aver- 'nge £10 a year. One child is rated at the equivalent of tax on £36, but the second and any other children- on the principle that three heads do not need three times as much ex- Bank Manager: "N-o; to avold | penditure as one-qualify for a're-
bate of only £27.
Depositor: "Ah! Gone for a
The Launch of "The Duchess of Bedford".
No. 1 Laring the ship after a thoroughfaspection.
the presence of a monster crowd
gow shipyards of John Brown and Co. the Duchess of Bedford 21,500 gross tons was launched re- cently by Mrs. Bianley Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister. The vessel is one of the four "Duchess" class of steamers under construction for the Canadian Pacific Railway Transatlantia route,
I which thronged the great Clas-
At the launching of the new ship speeches were made by the Prima Minister, Lord Aberconway, Chair
No. 2-Premier Baldwin and his wife khasi No, J-The Duchess shortly after taking the water,
pean General Manager of the
C. F. Ry Captain J. Gulles Manager
of the C. P. 8.8, and Sir Thomas Bell, Managing Director of the Clydebank Yard.
Premier Baldwin recalled, his recent visit to, Canada and spoke of this country's wonderful: possibili ties for a marvellous future. I am quite confident," he said, "that whatever vision and imagination can do for the Empire at large will be done by the Canadian Pacific Railway."
Bottle of chrispagna"
burtón.
touching the button, which was to suspended, Mrs., Baldwin, before. be the means of the vessel being released, said: "Iname you! Duchess of Bedford May, God protect and prosper you. May be preserve and bliss all those that gỹ forth with you into the known and unknown.
And then, to the accompaniment, of tremendous cheering from the larga wathering of spectators, the missniva structure began to move c from the petka, and gathering im petos za Abazwants took the water
WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in Reservoirs on March 1, 1928;- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL
Tytam
1927
1928 14 9B 11' 10"B Tytam Byewash...25 2"B
2B 26 8 Tytam Intermediate 20. 4B 27′ 11′′B Tytam Tuk
25′10′′B 8' 6" Wong Nei Chung..19' 1"B:20 4"B Pokfulum
..20 4B 20' 7"E Nota: B. denotes "Below. Overflow": A denotes "Above Overflow.""]
Storage in millions and reimals
Tytam.
of gallone.
Tytam Byewash....
Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk .......
1027
1928
27121
291.70
99.52
.29 72,87
965.00 650.02
Wong Nei Chung, ...... 10.55
Pokfulum
.0:62 23.80 23.25
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Total 1.270.08 1.047.75 China's Shipping, Edu- Consumption of water in the City and Hill District' in 'raillions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of February.
Consumption
1027 1928
191.86, 204.54
Estimated population. 409,340 419.600 Consumption per head
10.7
16.8
per day ...............** Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis. tricts during February with the exeep- tion of the district west of Garden-road where an intermittent supply was given from Brd to 28th February, 1927, Intermittent supply in all Rider Main Districte during February, 1929.
KOWLOON WATER, WORKS
LEVEL
1000-1627- 1928 Kowloon Reservoir 15' 7" 8′ 10′′B Shek Lai Pui Reser-
voir
10' 2B 2′ 4′′B Reception Reservoir 3' 4"B 0 8"B Btorage in millions and decimals of gallons:
1927 1928- Kowloon Reservoir. 210.5 .246.78 Shek Lai Pai Reservoir. 03:14 106.08 Reception Reservoir 24.55 81.39.
Total..
297.74 50485 Consumption of water in Kowloon In millions and decimals of gadope dur Ing the month of February
1927: 1028
· 64.94 **** 84.59 Consumption Estimated population: 168,980 · 104.020 | Consumption, per head joj
10.6.
paz dayakanan Fall Bannly in all districts/during, February 1927 and 1028,
The Government - Anaiyatta roports show that the quality of the water-l
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