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SHOWING
TO-DAY KING S
At 2.30, 5.10,
7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
Will YOU Condemn Her?
GLADYS GEORGE
Madame
дист истр
ALSO “GLIMPSES OF JAVA AND CEYLON” CARTOON AND COMEDY All in Technicolour
NEXT CHANGE United Artists.
4- SHOWS
S.DAILY
2.20-$15
"THE HURRICANE"
with
Dorothy Lamour -- Jon Hall — Mary Astor
ORIENTAL
EXTRA SPECIAL
TO-DAY
FLEXING
ROAD
WANCHAS
TO-MORROW
ANOTHER BIG DOUBLE SHOW! EXTRAORDINARY COMEDY ACROBATIC DANCERS APPEAR ON THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES.
KYRA-ROBY-HARRY
SENSATIONAL SUPER SCREEN PRODUCTION ! The screen tears down the curtain hiding secrets the mountains have guarded for centuries, mysterious communities of child brides, lash jaw and witcheraft.
FRL SAT.
THE STORY THE WORLD WANTS TO KNOW !
Drama Thunders From The Hou-
tain Toos!
JOSEPHINE
TONINSON
GEO. BRENT
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE
ST
GIZ MIZSEE - MOKA BARRIE BOBERT BARRAT
Directed by Michael Curtiz • ́A First National Picture
“MARRIED BEFORE BREAKFAST”
ROBERT YOUNG FLORENCE RICE
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 13, 1938.
GOVERNMENT SERVANTS'
RENTS INQUIRY REPORT
Our unanimous.conclusion is that having regard to the origin of the present system of rent allowances and housing assistance, to the fact that existing salaries were fixed in the light of that system and to the usual practice in other parts of the Colonial Empire, the basis of rentals could not be altered without concomitant revision of salaries. Any attempt to vary rentals without adjusting salaries would be equivalent to a salary cut and would result in anomalies as between officers at present entitled to free quarters and officers not eligible for such free quarters but liable to pay rent. We recommend therefore that no change be made in the rentals at present charged.
This represents the finding of the, - Committee composed of the Hon. Mr. Sydney Caine. Sir Henry Pol lock, Mr. W. J. Carrie, Mr. J. K Bousfield and Mr. D. Kelvin-Stark.
PRAGUE BANS
(Secretary) which was appointed MAY DAY
to consider expenditure incurred in housing Government servants and i to make recommendations regarding the percentages which should be paid by various grades as rent for the use of Government quarters. The Committee's Report was laid on the table at Legislative Council this afternoon.
HISTORY OF SYSTEM
CELEBRATIONS
Prague, To-day.
Czecho-Slovak Ministers are not taking a holiday at Easter but will remain in Prague, owing to the present situation in the country. It is clear from the history of the matter the Report points out,
The Government has banned that rent allowances were original demonstrations on May 1, which ly introduced deliberately in order is the Nazi festival as well as to supplement salaries, that the pro-Labour Day. vision of actual Government quar-1 The Sudeten Germans have ap- ters came later and that it was al-pealed to the Czecho-Slovakian ways intended that the rents Premier to relax the censorship im- paid for such quarters should posed on their newspapers,
and be less than 201 officer would complain that censorship is against have to pay to 21 outside the constitutional freedom of the Handlord. Government houses and press. flats were not erected or purchased: in large numbers until some years after the initiation of the scheme
The Premier, after studying the of rent allowances and Government request, declared that their grie quarters have never been available vances were justified and ordered for more than a small proportion of the censorship to be relaxed. seriur officers.
The Ministers have asked news-
PREMIER ASSENTS
When the general review of -sa-papers supporting their different daries by the Gollan Commission Parties to cease to attack other took place in 1929 the scheme of newspapers, in order to create 1 housing assistance and rent allow peaceful atmosphere for the auces was accepted and endorsed gotiations with the Sudeten Ger- and was taken as part of the basis mans-Reuter: on which salaries were then fixed
AFRICAN SCALE
which
GALA DAY IN CHUNG KING
Chungking, To-day.
e-
A further revision of certain sa- laries has recently been made, pri- marily in order to bring into har- mony with salaries in other Co- lonies the emoluments attached. to posts forming a part of the Unified
A gala appearance is presented Colonial Services which have re
by streets and building beflagged cently been established in the Co-
and all shops bearing red posters similar to those displayed at Chi- lonial Empire generally. We are immediately concerned only with the
nese New Year and bearing inscrip- effect of these new scales as regards the leaders of national resistance," tions "Follow Chiang and Wang, payment for quarters, but it may in celebration of the army's vic- be noted that these scales,
tory in annihilating the Japanese apply only to new appointments and forces at Taierchwang. promotions, are in general some-i The occasion was a dual celebra- what lower than existing scales and tion of the election of General in particular provide lower pension Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. able emoluments so that, some ulti-Ching-wei as Chief Executive and Wang mate economy may be ex-Deputy Chief Executive, respective- pected from their introduc-ly, of the Kuomintang, and the Chi- tion. The feature which prin- nese army's successes in the north Several European residents were
cipally concerns us is that under Last night a torchlight pr to-day summoned before Mr. R.
the new scales officers will be resion wound its way through t
the Edwards at the Central Magistracy quired either to pay a full economic city, to the noise of bursting crac- for allowing their dogs on the rent for quarters up to a maximum kers. Beater. beach and road, at Repulse Bay, of 15% or will be entitled to whol during the past month. Captainly free quarters as part of their Wong King hun, a stable boy, White, of the Royal Scots, was emoluments.
O MATINEES: 20c-30c ● EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY at 12.30, 230, 5.15
PRICES: 35
£7.20 & 9.30pm.
45 cts--55 ets.
lay
Pomp
DOG CASES
was admitted to the Kowloon Hos-
fined $15 on each of two charges of In our opinion the present syspital suffering from injuries sus- allowing his dogs abroad without a tem substantially carries out the tained when he fell of a horse at muzzle, Mr. J. T. Lock of No. 521, intentions in mind when the original the Kowloon Riding School. The Peak, and Mr. J. B. Morper system of rent allowances and as
were fined $20 each and Mr. M. Wsisted quarters was devised. The Chan Kam, a coolie, was admit- Clay of No. 6, Bungalow, Repulse rentals of 6% at present charged ted to the Kwong Wah Hospital Bay, was fined $15 on similar sum-may be regarded as approximating with injuries to both arms and Tomorrow: “CAPTAIN BLOOD” [monses. In all cases the dogs had to 50% of the economic rental bas-llegs, received when he fell into the
been innoculated against-rabies.
dry dock at the Kowloon Docks.
ed on