BUSINESS TOUR OF WORLD
MOTOR MAGNATE'S JOURNEY
MR. W. E. ROOTES VISITS HONG KONG
(By A Special Correspondent) Mr. W. E. Rootes, the well- known British motor manufactur- er and Chairman of Rootes Securi- ties Ltd., who, with his brother, İ
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BRITAIN AND MANDATES
Categorical Statement In Commons
NO TRANSFER BEING CONSIDERED
To-day's Complete Short Story
THE RIDDLE
By E. M. England and..
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M. E. Mackenzie
THE Border Fence stretches of an L. confuses them. Strict
THE Forter Tad miles aroma vigilance is kept, and the smallest least to west. To the north hole at once noted and repaired. London, To-day.
Queensland reaches far into the So Brer Rabbit has small chance The group of Conservative Members of Parliament, which tropics: to the south lie the or entering into the northern state has been formed with a view to rast plains of New South Wales here in the cast for Queenslanders -plains infested with rabbits, know how soon this rich scrub-j securing official Assurances thousands upon thousands of land could be over-run, how the! 3fr. R. C. Rootes, controls no fewer has largely been founded upon ob against the future transfer of the them, drifting up to the fence rabbit-colonies would multiply be- than 18 important manufacturing servation of overseas conditionsBritain, are understood to intend the west. using the driven rand control, if once
sand as a stile to cross into access. left The experience he has thus gained and distributing companies.
to take every opportunity of rais Queensland, or dying when the London on Thursday, January 16.) for a business tour of the world and the
have proved of interest and benefit the matter in the Commons. drought is on the land
thousands. crushed and has now arrived in Hong Kong not only to his Companies but also Yesterday a question was address-in
contacts he has made
League mandates held by Great
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and is staying at Repulse Bay Government and important City ed to the Prime Minister, who against the fence, making lad- fence, roamed a porcupine. made a statement in reply.
Hotel.
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dying Busily occupied near an ant-hill up on the Queensland side of the He cars for others to cross into the was a bundle of prickles from his and financial quarters.
Mr. Baldwin began by recalling northern state.
pointed. bill-like snout to his He makes his present world tour
But that is in the west. Not broad, triangular tail. believers in the necessity for the not by any means his first as the genesis of the mandates, and
no a hundred miles from the eastern His spines were sharp and principal executives of British Vice-President of the Society of pointed out that there were
from cream dustrial organisations
Motor Manufacturers, and Traders. Provisions, either in the Covenant coast, where the Great Dividing strong, shading
a deep up-to-date. first-hand knowledge of the governing body of the British or the Peace Treaty or the math Range crosses from one state to through umber tints to the actual conditions governing automobile industry: he is, in dates themselves. relating to the another, where there is no sand tobacco-brown, so that when he from one and where drought touches but stood he was a mottled mat of the many different markets of the
addition, a member of the Overseas transfer of a mandate
Power
another, to
and no lightly the heavily timbered shadow, dark as the loam in which world. With this object always in
Trade Development Council and
ever transfer had
been mountain-land, the wire fence he often burrowed. softly-lit both made
of such mind. they have
also of the Governing Board
He
the advised that threads its efficient way through the fern-fronds where Overstas
the British Council for Relations made.
before
such transfer scrub and forest, up and down shine filtered down through སློབ past years, but no previous trip with Other Countries.
slopes-60 well leares. be effected it would be steep mountain could has been so comprehensive
When he walked, his four stout ambitious as the one Mr. W. E.
He has served upon many other necessary that the consent at any cared for that not one rabbit may
legs moved sturdily, the feet fung a rate of the present mandatory escape into Queensland. Rootes is at present undertaking.
Governmental bodies; he
Here the primeval forests are upwards with every step, so that Among the many places he has already visited since leaving Lon. member of the Board of Trade Power and the Power to whom the
Advisory Committee. 1931-34. and territory was to be transferred, superb in beauty and size, the the grey-black rubber-like soles droll, don are Cairo, Jerusalem. Haifa, of various Board of Trade Depart- as well as the unanimous consent clean straight boles of the gum were exposed. His was Baghdad, Abadan. Basra. Karachi.
mental Committees. He was also of the League, should be secured. trees, the broad-girthed and lofty rather comical, gait.
A curious creature, this; a cross, Bombay. Ahmedabad. Jamnagar.
a member of the Delegation
He said he hoped that made it tallow woods a joy to the eye.
Mainly, however, the fence is one might almost
between Say, Agra. Delhi.
of the Calcutta. Madras.
British Week in Finland, 1933 clear that, the question
Haid through rain-forests, 27 animal and bird-for on his pret- Colombo. Penang. Batavia and
and of the United Kingdom Trade transfer of a mandate was one
Figs ty. pointed face, with its bright to He is expected Sourabaya.
to be echtem-scrubs, as they are called. which, if it were Mission to Poland, 1934. 02 about reach Hong Kong on
Mr. W. E. Rootes has studied plated, would require most care-row here, so old and spreading. black eyes, he had a slender black April 28 and will spend a day or closely, and is intensely interested ful consideration and would be with such great buttressed roots bill like a bird's, and originally that a mansion could be built on he had been hatched from a black, two here before continuing his
of intra-subject to procedure of a very the development in.
the ground that they occupy. roughlooking egg no larger than a journey by way of Shanghai. Pei-imperial and international trade elaborate nature. It was not a
Black-jack, cudgerce. crows-hazel-nat ping. Tientsin, Kobe, Tokyo, Yoke relations, and it is his ambition matter which could in any circum
But that
little was quite hama. Honolulu. Los Angeles,
to foster a spirit of commercial stances be subject to any sudden ash, kurrajong and thousands of
other trees lift their proud heada while ago now. His mother had Grand Canyon, Chicago, Detroit.
goodwill which will be advanta-
or any hasty decision.
high above the loamy soil, their placed the egg in a pouch below; Toronto, Montreal and New York.
genus to each country concerned.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY Overseas Conditions
His primary object in making With regard to the policy of the branches hang with orchids and her heart where it lay safe and HONG KONG Mr. Rootes, who is accompanied his present tour of the world is British Government, he would re staghorns, with vises that bear br his eighteen-year-old 203 to become even better acquainted heat once more in the most cate-sweet perfumed bells of Geoffrey, will bring his
with conditions as they exist to gorical terms that they had not and mauve festooned between the tour" to an end with a voyaiday: to gain the most intimate considered and were not consider-trunks and boughs
Under its shining green home from New York
possible knowledge of affairs of ing the transfer of any mandated Queen Mary, which is scheduled to interest to British commerce, and territory to any other Power. Mr. the ground below is cool and shad- reach Southampton Οι Monday,
in particular to the British auto-Baldwin added that he thought aed. Shy lyrebirds scratch among of the apprehension the fern, strong-legged scrub tur July 13.
mobile industry, which holds a
Sreat deal Mr. Rootes, whose commercial and industrial concerns have made Position of ever-growing import" which the members claimed exist-/keys build their egg-mounds out warm. Should an enemy approach, | recent ance in intra-imperial and intered on the subject must be due to the thick brown leaf-mould, and she curled up into a hall of dan- remarkable progress
the belief that the Government nebes and robins make music in gerous-looking spines, her pouch
the shadow. The whip-bird utters well covered, her years, is a whole-hearted believer!
Booklet issued
eyes blinking) Duck had already been considering such his resounding crack, and the cat from a fringe of tortoiseshell in the future of British Industry.!
The development of the Com-
a possibility, notwithstanding the
their unhallowed coloured prickles.
Eggs, Hen (cook- On this extensive trip It will be mer-Karries Group as one of the denials which had been given, and birds set up
ing) squalling.
The egg hatched into a candle- his endeavour to make as
large and rapidly growing pro-
some Rabbits come up from the creeks coloured creature that resembled a Eggs, Hen (Fresh) as possible of those personal con-! ducers is steadily proceeding, with that the House might at
in the valleys, nibbling the grass, large grub, with points on one side Fowl, Hainaz tacts which are eo valuable in ex-1
That apprehension was up-
might scampering through the fern, bar that would later develop into panding the nation's export trade, the result that both at home and stage be faced with a decision.
overseas its products are making
founded. The members He makes his tour 35 Vice-
Geese Safe in its pouch, thelittle President of the Society of Motor reat strides in public favour.
had no intention whatever of rais-New South Wales side.
Pigeons, Canton Sometimes they fall Manufacturers and Traders, the here is a manufacturing organisa-
porcupine, grew until it was the
Exikow themaize of a tennis-ball, white governing body of the Britishion with control resting in the the question themselves, and
but they seldom break through the opaque on the back, with an abdo- Turkeys, Cock motor industry. Particularly use hands of people who were trained in the event of any question aris. Dits that are set to trap ful to the motor industry in Great in the hard experience of the ing regarding the future status
Lence.
!men slightly wrinkled like fine: The wire fence, sunk well white kid. Britain will be his reports on cor- selling and servicing sides. They jof mandated territories, would not ditions in the overseas markets. now and realise what the public commit themselves to any settle derground, turning in in the shape
Its bill was soft and white, and Pheasant for in addition to being possessed (and therefore the motor trade) ment of the problem at issue
two slant folds in the rubbery bead Quil”. of a sound knowledge of interna wants, namely, trouble-free motor without giving the fullest oppor
FRUITS tional affairs he is a shrewd and ing. exceptional value, right sales tunity for discussion in the Com-candidates for the Premiership marked the undeveloped eyes. Legs Partridge
in evidence. appeal and understanding of pro-mons-British Wireless Service. will be MM. Paul-Boncour, Dala and feet and claws, all white, were
dier and Herriot, whose reported Among the well-known motor blems goverzing the motor industry
Only the merest trace of colour] Lemons, China... manufacturing companies control outside as well as inside the fac-ELECTIONS IN FRANCE retirement from politics is
appeared on the thighs and lower Bananas (bride's)
Carambola longer mentioned. led by the Rootes brothers are Talbot, Sun-
The success of the Communists Part of the back, where minute Cro Humber, Hillman,
The firm has recently issued a
black spots beneath the surface Apples (California). (Continued from Page 11 resulted in an all-round slump on indicated the first beginnings of Lemons, American beam,
and booklet entitled "Building on ́a Commer, Karrier,
Bank of France Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, the Sure Foundation" which traces The "Intransigeant," in a lead- the Bourse.
spines..
Lichees, Dried ... last three named being manufacfrom its earliest stages the historying article, calls on all adherents shares particularly dropped 645
Oranges (Canton) Oranges (Sweet) turers of commercial vehicles for
of that most uncommon thing in of the Centre and Right Wing to points.-Reuter.
Pears (Canton) WALL STREET REACTION
Oranges (American) each Dominating Figure
"combine." It shows a picture vote solidly against the Marxist!
Persimmons, Large
Walnuts Primele, Siam
Grapes
reliable observer.
In
many
national trade.
roof,
To-morrow's play will be "The Old Psychology," by Nora Mitchell
The reason is not far to seek, forrest assured that the Government/Towing against the netting, on the limbs bill and tail.
tory gates.
into the
no:
2nd
In time the spines grew and the little creature was completely
transport of goods and passengers.the motoring world. a successful go to the polls next Sunday and New York: Losses touching covered, till he was merely a re- Mr. William Edward Bootee is which tella its own story 213 totyranny and overthrow the re- $6,000,000 were recorded on Wall plica of his mother. When his
Great Britian. With his brother,
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THE CORNWALL lick up the tiny creatures. Indeed
LEAVES Hearty Send-Off This Morning
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Chairman and head of the Rootes what can be achieved by virile publican regime.
Intran-Street, following a heavy selling spines became firm enough he left
The bearish the pouch and walked behind her. Group of Companies, which con management, co-ordinated
in drive yesterday. that effort sigenat" emphasises
She led him through, the scrub stitutes one of the most important and the elimination of competition Paris, seven National Republicans complexion of the market is attri among the three biggest motor between units comprised in the and one Communist were elected, buted chiefly to the Left trend of and taught him to curl up when manufacturing organizations in group.
but not a single Eadical-Socialist; the French elections, together he was afraid, and to scratch Beetroot Mr. Reginad Claud Rootes, he is more dealers will be not
It is safe to say that more and and in the Paris suburbs, one Na- with doubts in connection with and burrow so rapidly that he
Brinjais, Green only tional Republican and four Com-the impending company tax bill in seemed literally to sink out of Beetroot
sight into the ground.
Red the dominating figure of no fewer looking towards the Rootes Groep muniste, but no Radical-Socialist Congress.-Reuter.
Like her, he was very fond of
Cabbage, Chine the 18 companies, which between of Companies, but will be anxious Although it is not safe to make (Earlier message on Page 10)
white ants, and when hungry would
Caniinower (Large) them directly employ more than
to share in their prestige and any prophecies, one must be pre-
burrow into their tall mounds and
(Madium) 10.000 persons. They include dis-
pared to see about 40 Communists. proft.
(Small) tributing and financing units to
120 Socialists and 150- Radicals
ants of all kinds were his staple deal efficiently with the products
lelected Of 150 Radicals
diet, but any insects which he Celery, Chinese of the Manufacturing. Division of
large number will not approve of
could catch were acceptable.“ the Group, which comprises the
The Commander-in-Chief of the the programme of the "People's
Eventually he grew into a fine Tollowing front-rank conceTTES:----
German Army has given orders Front."-Trans-Ocean Service.
young specimen, larger than his Automobile Manufacturers: Hum
SLUMP ON BOURSE
mother, and took to wandering of Coptimbers ber Ltd.; Hillman Motor Car Co. Ltd. that there shall be two fish davrin
Paris- A Government more Sunbeam Motor Co. Ltd, Clement the week in the armed forces. The
by himself, independent of her, Garlic R.M.S. Cornwall left the Colony Talbot Ltd:
reason given is the present and Left-wing than M. Satraut's, with
jand quite contented with his own Truck and Trolley Bus Manuine expected heavy landings which the participation of the Socialists at 11 am to-day, bound for
company. economic grounds" and the support of the Commun-Portsmouth. She was flying 300 "on national
One day, as he walked through must all be used for purposes of ista, is most commonly anticipated feet of paying-off pennant, indi- the scrub in search of ants, he Lettuce
as a result of the elections. The cating that by the time she
reaches her destination she would came to a bare patch of have completed a commission ofpon which the sunlight shone Onions, Bombay
strongly. Cautiously withdraw- (21⁄2 years:
ing into the shadows, he moved his The Cornwall was given a very head from side to side, surveying hearty send-off by the crews of the strip of cleared land and, be Mr. Wills, of Gas-road, Milton lodger. The lodger, emptying it, the small ships in port and by yond it, a wire netting fence.
He was aware of a noise a little Regis, Kent, was cleaning out her was surprised to see a bag fall many workers in the Naval Dock-
out. She handed the bag to Mrs. yard who gathered on the West way down the mountain side, so kitchen the other day when she wills and it was found to contain Arm of the Dock. As the steam-he curled up into a ball and rolled found a tin of rice which had been 580 in notes.
ed out of port the band on board under a tangle of undergrowth. An enthusiast on British ability in the house for about 18 months. The house was left to Mrs. Wills the cruiser played appropriate waiting
A man walked up the cleared Water Lily Boot to produce, goods suitable for he had handled the tin many by the late Mr. William Weeks, music, while the men on board
responded to the cheers of their path with an axe over his shoulder, Spinach world markets Mr. W. E. Rootes times before but had never need whom Mrs. Wills nursed.
The money will be divided friends with traditional enthu whisting softly to himself. He Tomatoes "has travelled, extensively and the any of the rice.
(Continued On Page 11) sucess of the Rootes Companies She gave the tin to a woman among the beneficiaries of his wiil siasm.
turers: Commer Cars Ltd.. Karrier Motors Ltd, Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles Ltd
than 40 nourishment. Although little more years of age, Mr. W. E. Rootes: has achieved a leading position in the industrial world. With his! dynamic personality and remark- able business capacity he has been successful in developing the old established firms of Rootes Ltd. into the largest concern of its kind in Great Britain.
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