THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1988.
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Two pictures showing New York's World Fair as it appears to- day and as an artist envisages the U.8.$150,000,000 Exposition will look when it opens on April 30th, 1939. It is anticipated that the fair will exert a profound influence on American architecture. The exhibition organisers say they are building, the World of Tomorrow. This photo peers some time ahead in New York.
THIRD TIME-UNLUCKY
Stanley Bleasedale, Trowbridge, Wilts, painter and decorator, does not believe in "the third time
lucky,"
Early in October he had a cycling accident, but by good luck was un- hurt. A week later he slipped from
some scaffolding and by a miracle
was unhurt.
But cycling this month near Tet-
bury, Gloucestershire, he came in collision with a motor-cycle and was taken unconscious to hospital.
Those young women probably felt like splicing the mainbrace after this kind of
exertion.
WED RECORD-BREAKER
Miss Sally Mitchell le Fevre, of Washington, U.S., wed Squadron Leader F. R. O. Swain, former hold- er of the world's altitude record,
on November 5. They met last Au-
gust when Squadron-Leader Swain visited Washington, with other Bri- tish airmen, on a tour of American
aircraft factories,
LOST ACRES
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More than a million acres have
gone out of cultivation in Manitoba in fifteen years, according to a re-. port on Canadian soil conditions by Professor J. H. Ellis, of the Uni- versity of Manitoba. In 1921, he re- ports, the province had 9,022,738 acres under the plough. By 1936 there were only 7,789,920 acres.
LIBERTY PLEASED THE DUKE
"One liberty in the Sailors' Hog. pital pleased me particularly--the freedom within reason with which the men were allowed to smoke." That remark-typical of the obser- vation of the Duke of Kent-was made by him at the Seamen's Hos- pital Society dinner at London's Mansion House.
FOUGHT FIRE 14 HOURS
FIFTEEN CENTS A DAY FOR H.K. WOMEN WORKERS
Labour conditions in Hong Kong suffered a definite deterioration during the latter half of 1937 (the D.M.S. report reveals) owing to the tens of thousands of refugees from the areas affect- ed by the Sino-Japanese incidents, many of whom were practically destitute and sought to throw themselves into the labour market.
Even in normal times labour is somewhat too easily obtainable from the inexhaustible reservoir in China.
This large surplus of labour was £335,000,000, a drop of about offset to a small extent by the $10,000,000 compared with the same establishing of factories by com- period of 1987.-
mercial interests who were no Exports amounted to £321,433,000 longer able to function in the (January-September) this year and tain and other places in China. In of the last year. troubled zones of Shanghai, Tien- £349,583,000 in the first nine months
addition, a number of small work- Figures for the Austrian "pro- shops came into existence to sup- vince" are not given.
This photo shows an aerial view of the New York's World Fair
as it appears to-day showing the Perisphere and Trylon at the Theme Centre of the Fair and buildings already erected.
ply uniforms and other equipment FACTORY GIRLS ESCAPE BLAZE... for the armies in China.
For the most part labourers are paid on a piece-work basis.
Wages vary widely, female workers in electric torch bat- tery factories may earn as low a rate as fifteen cents per day, the normál rates for male and female labourers being from sixty to seventy-five cents for the former and forty to sixty cents for the latter per day. Hours of work vary in the dif-
Factory girls climbed a 6ft. wall to safety when fire broke out at metal works in Cheshire-street. As- ton, Birmingham, One girl was a deaf mute. The wall of one nearby house bulged inwardly with the heat.
ferent trades and occupations but PRESENTED FROM
are usually about nine hours with overtime up to another four hours. The whole fire-fighting forces of South Shields and the River Tyne Apart from Government activities were occupied over fourteen hours the bulk of the labour is employed in subduing a blaze at Wardle's Saw in house-building, ship-building and Mills South Shields. The flames, engineering, transport, market gar- dening, fishing, domestic and quasi- fanned by a steady wind shot to a
municipal service, and in factories hundred feet. Damage-£20,000.
and workshops.
MILK BOTTLE SAVES A LIFE
GERMANY'S FOREIGN TRADE
trade has A bottle of milk left on the door- Germany's foreign stop revealed a tragedy and saved shown a downward tendency since a life at:Halifax. The roundaman, last spring, according to reports finding the door open, entered and issued in Berlin. found Albert Lumb, sixty-three, As far as the old Reich is con- dead on the floor and his wife Clara cerned, there were, during the first unconscious. Now she is in hospital, nine months of this year, imports of
COURT-THE FINANCIER
John McMahon, poorly dressed, having no fixed abode, was charg- ed at Tower Bridge Police Court with being drunk. In the charge sheet he was described as a “fin- ancier."
"For a financier," said theò ma- gistrate "your worldly goods seem a little meagre
two pennies, a safety razor and a box of matchen. I suppose you are only temporarily, short, so pay 10s. As you are a financier you are certain to be able to Town to that amount.22