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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21; 1937.
NATIONAL CURRENCY FOR KWANGTUNG
CANTON NOTE RATIO FINALLY FIXED
Canton, To-day.
It is stated that the Ministry of Finance will to-day announce a fixed ratio between Canton and Na- tional Currencies.
The ratio will be $1.44 Canton to $1.00 National, and Goy- Kwangtung branches of the ernment Banks are to accept all notes of the Kwangtung Provincial Bank and the Canton Municipal Bank at this fixed ratio. As Canton notes are collected, they will be cancelled im- mediately.-Our Own Correspondent.
Bitten On Nose
was
While Mr. P. Frederikson was visiting Mr. Glover of No. 40
he Humphreys Avenue, bitten on the nose by his host's dog. He was treated at the Kowloon Hospital and the dog sent to Mautaukok for observa- tion.
Vicar's
Threat To Parishioners
After what he describes as a "boy- MR. SUN FO COMING SOUTH
cott" of his Coronation Day services,
of Canton, Yesterday. the Rev. James Hutton, vicar Following upon the arrival of Grasby, near Brigg,
Lincolnshire, Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman of the has threatened to take legal action National Economic Council, in unless parishioners agree that cer- Canton, it is reliably reported that Įtain land belongs to the Church. Mr. Sun Fo, President of the Since Mr. Hutton came to the Legislative Yuan, is also coming parish five years ago, he has had differences of opinion with the pari- shioners.
south.
Mr. Sun Fo will go to Kuling to interview the Generalissimo be- On Coronation Day the first two fore he comes down. His mission of his three arranged services were will be to investigate Hainan
attended only by his wife. Island's resources with Mr. Soong.
He had offered the villagers the Canton merchants are disap-
use of his church in the afternoon pointed at the failure of Mr. T. V.
but for a combined service,
in- Soong to reply definitely regard-stead they held the service outside ing the ratio between Canton cur-the local Y.M.C.A. hut. A tree was rency and National Currency, as planted there by a methodist, Mr. well as regarding when the Cen- George Clark..
tral Government will return the loans to them.
to
"The planting of this tree and has the disregard of my services brought the whole dispute to 2 head," said Mr. Hutton.
It will be recalled that Canton merchants loaned large sums the Government when Generalis-
"I intend to make them remove simo Chiang Kai-shek took his ex- the tree and the hut unless they pedition to the North ten years will agree that I am the owner of
ago.--Our Own Correspondent.
OLD BAILEY NESTS
Bird In The Scale Of Justice
on
the land on which the tree and the hut stand.
"Documents relating to land own- Jed by the parish church were lost
in a fire.
"Long Controversy”
"I have had long controversies with some of the villagers over the ownership of land from which part of the living is derived.”
other
ar-
"The living was originally sup- Once again the pigeons at the Old posed to be worth about £300 a year, Bailey are building nests the but land has been used by window-ledges of the cells.
people, and the living when I Descendants of the birds which rived was worth only about £108 a made their homes in old Newgate year.
"Some of my predecessors were Prison, pulled down in 1902, these gaol birds have found how to make fortunate enough to enjoy private their nests secure on steeply slop-incomes. ing ledges. They are all very much
"Then I found that bell ringers
at home, one even venturing to build and other church officials were be-
scales a nest in the
which the ing paid for their services. figure of Justice holds high above
Land In Dispute the building,
"I could not keep this up,
and
There is no end to the queer so a controversy began, but I have places birds choose for their nests. now been able to establish my title We have heard of .a Yarmouth to most of the land under dispute, sparrow going all the way to Ham-for the documents burned were not burg to look after its little ones the actual deeds, but only copies.
in born in a nest on a ship's mast, and "The original documents are of a thrush which made a nest un; the possession of the Ecclesiastical
der a ship's bowsprit. Birds Commissioners,
often
rear
their families "Actually the only land now un- under moving railway ' car-der dispute is the land on which the riages, and robins love an old can Y.M.C.A. hut stands.
or kettle. A crow at Grange- "The villagers say this: land was mouth built its home in the crow's-given to them by the late Lord nest of a tramp steamer, surely the Tennyson...
ideal' place. for such a bird; and a "Unless they will agree that this pair of Surrey starlings made them÷fand belongs to the Church I shall selves a home in the pocket of a take legal action to establish my scarecrow's jacket, as if to show us title, and have the tree and hut re- how useless; scarecrows, are entrà, Imoved."