A Wise Precaution
In The Hot Weather.
Health risks are increased during hot weather, owing to the greater possibi- lity of food becoming tainted, with consequent intestinal trouble,
BLUE
Mercantile shipping under the
British flag is being steadily lever-
To ensure continued good health ed out of its there is nothing more effective than a dose of Pinkettes, taken occasionally in when needed.
established position
the Far East. The decline,
though slow, tends to be progres-
Pinkettes are tiny, all-vegetable, laxative pills, which act as gently-as-sive, because as the shipping lines nature; they dispel constipation by lose custom their finances weaken. cleansing the food tract, help to
establish daily regularity, and keep the Consequently, they cannot afford digestive and eliminative system in to replace, their old ships with up- good order. Pinkettes banish bilious-
ness, relieve piles, clear the skin, to-the-minute tonnage, and so they brighten the eyes, sweeten the breath. They are laxative perfection for men fall back in competitive efficiency. and women. From all chemists.
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PRINCE OF WALES
Quality
VAT 69
tells!
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Bring Your PRINTING Problems to Us
A striking example of the process is to be seen on the route between Australia and Japan. Before 1895 the British line had a monopoly, but then came along a Japanese competitor, and later two more, In 1933 a conference of the four lines was formed, with the main purpose of preventing cut-throat competi- tion. A recent agreement provides that the lines shall pay into a pool 50 per cent of their receipts from the wool trade and 60 per cent. of those from their southward gen- Feral trade. Of this pool the Bri- tish company's share is shown to be only 222 per cent.
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ENSIGN
THE CHINA MAIL,
OR
Britain in the last few days has been engaged in the greatest air war manoeuvres 1,300 machines engaged. Here are seen the lesser lights of the ground defence at work.
But where Japan is concerned the process has now gone further than simply a more equitable shar- ing of traffic between the old hand
and the newcomer. On some ship-
An even more striking example is provided by the Bombay-Japan conference. The initial agreement. of 1888 gave the British line 65 per cent, of the eastward traffic. After the world war, though the Italian and Austrian participants had been eliminated, the pressure of the two Japanese lines had reduced the Bri- tish allotment to 33 1/3 per cent. Since then still another Japanese line has had to be admitted to the ping routes Japan herself is mov- quota of permitted sailings, largely ing towards a position of even at the expense of the British P. & stronger monopoly than the British O., and a fourth is now being spon- lines ever possessed in the heyday sored by its colleagues on the con-
dition that the P. & O., not they, of their power. When such Japan-
make room for it.
HEALTHY DECLINE
ese monopolies are eventually fas- tened down upon the primary pro- ducers, shippers, and merchants To some extent a decline of Bri-
whom the route serve, they are tish shipping from the commaŋd-
the day when they ing position which it once held in likely to rue the Indian Ocean and Pacific failed to give their support to Ja- waters was only to be expected,
pan's competitors. and even welcomed as healthy. The rise of Oriental nations, first Japan and then China and India, in industrial power and national
old monopolies and blems.
By H. V. Hodson.
That is to gay,
overbid their co
ing produce for
dercut them 'in
other end of th
These are the close organisation of they themselves, Japanese industry; the unorganis- party obtain the ed loyalty to each other of mer- chants, manufacturers and ship- high shipping owners; and the backing of a vig- the produce. orous unitary government with a mind of its own about the future of Japanese shipping.
"TENTACLES EVERYWHERE”
In addition to
combines there *
organizati
trade
A very large part of Japan's made themselves overseas trade is handled by three affairs. Of the great combines known as Zaibatsu. These huge family businesses have tant is the Rens their tentacles everywhere. They own banks, mines, factories, ship- spinners' associa yards, docks, shipping and many
Apart from other ancillary concerns. They The corrosive. competition of Ja- control practically all the large moreover, inde pan is enforced by three powerful scale enterprise of Japan. Natur-
ally they carry their own products firms bring the factors, quite apart from the strict- or their own raw materials in their tism to bear on' shake
ly financial elements of low stan- own ships if they cap. And they ings, and do not new pro- dard of living, depreciated cur- can make up on the roundabouts "ship Japanese.
rency and shipbuilding subsidies. what they lose on the swings. further aided
The Newspaper Enterprise Limited consciousness, was to
China Mail Bldg.~8a, Wyndhâu St.
EAT AT
Fimmy's
Kitchen
Bringing Up Father
LORD WORTHNOTTEN'S SON ARRIVED UNEXPECTEDLY TODAY HIS FATHER CALLED UP AND SAID HE IS BRINGING. HIS
SON OVER
FINE-1 HOPE
DAUGHTER LIKES HIMSE UNDERSTAND THE IS A
FINE CHAP-
NORA-YOU MUST STAY IN- LORD WORTHNOTTEN'S
SON IS COMING TO VISIT US-
YES- HE IS A FINE MAN- ANY GIRLM WOULD BE PROUD TO BE SEEN
ITH HIM-
I'M SORRY-BUT OF AGE-I'LL CH MY OWN FRIEN BESIDES-1 HAV ENGAGEMENT
HAIRDRESSER
INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING
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