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THE CHINA' MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1936,
At Lennox-Boyd GUIDE
GUIDE FOR
FOR TAX-DODGERS
Not Too Old Forty, Say Danish Women
Copenhagen, Mar. 5,
The Danish Women's Association has gone into action to solve the problem of the "too old at 40" attitude of employers to women who want jobs.
First, they set to work to find out why women who wanted to return to jobs at which they had worked before marriage were no longer acceptable to employers.
SOCIAL DISTRESS
Three main arguments, they for a new course designed to t foxinch were pul forward by the middle-aged woman as shop prospective employers against | assistant. This will teach the engaging a middle-aged woman; women such things as how to 1. She usually lacks suf-stand ull day without getting felent training.
tired, how to help the customer
• 2. She is usunily pre-and not simply sell and how to nerupled with personal problems add up the bill smartly and
children efficiently. leath, divorce, her and money worries the home Births, Deaths, Marriages, are so much in her thoughts that Personal $5.00 per insertion trutkan in her work,
she lacks the necessary concen- The courses are organised ai ja minimum cost, far below what not exceeding 25 words, 25
3 Sh hus
no contact the women would have had to cents each additional word. | with modern working conditions. Pay to attend courses elsewhere.
ALTERNATE INSERTIONS
TOOK ACTION
At the same time, the Associa- tion feels that it has uchleved 10% EXTRA
Under the guidance of their three things:
ren, the Dustsh Women's Asso- juntion_sirested to take action to
arvet these three complainta.
In the spring of 1955, a course designed to ft 48 women to take
office work up Arranged.
if not prepaid a booking for re-chairman, Mrs Riin Koud- of 80 cents in charged.
BIRTH
COLMANS... Elny cher Mineriponky and Lotus at the Kowloon Hon, pitul. on the 31 March 1930,
My Boy and Gara
Alt west
STAMPS
It has helped to break down the prejudice uf employers against giving work to middle- nged women; it has brought new hope to an age group where there is much social distress und again was mental depression; and it
has The women's ever-turned into useful members of nge age was 49 and they were society women who would other- drawn from a wide variety of wise have been only a financial income groups.
iding upon 11.
They attended one al two l Three of the women whe
in typewriting attended the
¢ct1|:t;--itatur
tal book-keeping or typewriting example, Cnlloo
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NOTICE
Arst course, for had previously been
and machine accounting-lasting dependent upon publie assist.
attendance anec.-China Mall Special,
three months, with
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three times a week for periods of three to four hours at a time. The main aim was to provide short, intensive course which would give the women the "know how" to meet
youthful competition But perhaps more mportant was the task of ad- justing the women psychologi- rally to their new UFC,
ROUND WORLD FLIGHT
London, Mar. 5. The British Overseas Airways Corporation is intending to run a new round-the-world Night No date has as yet been decided on for the Inauguration of this new service, permission having to be obtained from several countries.
In this, The women partly helped themselves. "The very fact of attending the course and mixing with other women with 10 The
sort sime
of problems helped to restore the women's
in their abilities, Mrs Knudsen explained "Per- haps it was just this ycho- togleal significance of the course -that it existed at all—that was the first condition
WIE MISS M. C. LEWIN please call it The Passage Department uf Mackiunon, confklenes Mackenzie & Co. of Hong Kong Ltd., quickly possible.
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NO OBLIGATION Two social welfare workers, members of the Danish Women's Association,
were available te
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Counsellors. The women attend- inst the course wire anchor obligation to consult them, bul They re- most of them did so. celved advice on their money wurries, legal
und
housing matters and the completion of the many forms with which the citizens of the modern welfare state is expected to cope.
"But above all, in their per- sonal talks with the social wel- fare workers, the women goi lu see their own problems in a new light," Mrs Knudsen said.
The women on the course showed greater interest and aptitude than the organisers had i
all dared to hope. Today,
of them are successfully placed in jobs and have shown themselves to porsens o grester sense
responsibility than many younger Winion. Employers, who at Arst look one woman with hesitation and misgiving, have come back and asked for
more.
ENCOURAGED The first course was followed by anotheŢ
as successful Just last autumn and a third was under way at the end of January
Oy
their first
Encouraged venture, the Danish Women's Association is now making plans
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BAGGAGE:
Friday, 9th March, at 12.00 Noon for the 'UNITED KINGDOM, via-Singa- -poro, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Adon
and Port Said.
Passengers are requested to sond ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kow- loon Wharf Co.'s Godown at No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, By Noon on Thursday, 8th March.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception, of hand packages
carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only..
EMBARKATION: Passengers should embark between 9.80, and 11.00 a.m. on Friday, 9th March, 1956,
Subject to alteration with or without notice
The new route will pass over the United States, involved in ¦ the scheme, Singapore, and the Middle East.--France-Presse,
MANDRAKE THE
THIS ROAD WAS OPEN A FEW HOURS AGO, WE CAN SEE AHEAD. THERE'S NO CONSTRUCTION.
FERD'NAND
NANCY
US CAN RIDE OFF ROAD ON DESERT
TURN BACK
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TUESDAY, MARCH &
By Air
Philippines, á þ.e.
Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain &
Europe, 0 p.m.
Jagan, p.m.
Korea, &
Caneda, T.
By Surface North Domes, Rabaul 4 p.m.
Maco, & p.m.
Japon, U.S.A., C. & §. America. Noon
Macao. 1p.m.
Italy Finnce, 2 p.m. Burina, p.m.
Macao, p.sh.
THURSDAY, MARCH A By Air Japan, 8 0.1A. Pring Shanghai, Hankow, 10 am, Indo-China. France, 10 n.11. Thailand, Pakistan, Lebanon, Ger- |many, Great Brits, Noon.
Philippines. 1. p.m.
East. Pakistan. Middle
Africa, Great Britain and Europe, 6 p.m.
Thalland, Burma. Indth. 6 p. By Burface
China,
A. 117.
People's
Macao. 1 p.m. Philippines, B ̈ ̄p.m.
Republic.
10.30
P. East Africa, & S. Africa. 4 p.m. Beycholics, Br
Afries, (N. & B. Rhodesia,
Austrijo, Beira), 4 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 By Aur Locas.m. Fornosa. Okinawa, 10 a.m.
U.S.A.. 11 0.1. Thalland, Mainya. N. __Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Crylon, Noon
Majaya, Ceylon,
Borcals vin
Iridia,
Middle East. Great Britain
Aden,
Europe Reg. & Parcola, P.m. Letters & Pickets, a.m, 6/3,
Macao, D D.In.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
de
Jo
In conferonot with the Governor Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, and other senior British offi clals on the strife-torn island at Nicosia, 1 British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, Mr Lennox-Boyd arrived in Cyprus for talks with Arch- bishop Makarius, leader of the Enosia (Union with Grecce!
conferred movement,
Arat The with Sir John Harding. Colonial Sceretary can be БОСП In conversation with Commissioner Clemens and Police Superintendent Birch, left, white Sir John Harding chate to Colonel Kennings and Brigadier Baker. Express Photo.
AWARD FOR JAP FILM
Rome, Mar. 5. A Japances documentary film entitled "Swimming"
won the top prize, a cup offered by the Italian Government, at an inter- national sports documentaries By Burface Australia, New Zealand, 0 a.m,
festival which ended at Cortina Malays, Ceylon, India, Aden, Mia. Į d'Ampezzo tonight. dle East, Great Briloni & Europe,
The
was awarded to the Da.m.
China,
People's Republic,
Japanese flim for its "all round excellence, and particularly for Its presentation of new styles of swimming illustrated by Japan- the champlons."-Reuter.
Farmors. USA, Canada, 6 p.m. Thailand, Pakistan, Middle East, ¦ a.m. Africa and Europe, 0 p.m.
By surfac China People's Republic,
MAGICIAN
IF YOU'RE
ROAD OFFICIALS, SHOW US
YOUR AUTHORITY
SUBWAY
SANITATION DEPARTMENT 3--- WHY DIDN'T YOU PICK UP THAT OLD M'ATTRESS WE LEFT OUT FRONT ?
JOHNNY HAZARD
OF COURSE WE'VE GOT TO STOP THAT CAR {THIEF ........ RECOVER THE
PAPERS / I MAY SOUND BITTER BUT NOW W
10.30
THIS IS ALL THE
AUTHORITY WE NEED TURN BACK
--AND NO
BACK TALK!,
I'M SORRY --- WE
· HAVE A VERY KIND MAN ON
THAT ROUTE---
· PONT APOLOGIZE, MUSS HAVEN! YOUR PANIC IS JUSTIFIABLE, BUT I'M TRYING TR
· BRING THIS SITUATION - UNDER CONTROL! GOT.
*** AN IDEA -
Indonesia. Noon. Macao, 1 p.m. Thaliarul, p.m. Macao, é p.m.
10.30
cun
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
SORRY, I THINK YOU'RE BOTH FAKES. WE'RE GOING ON, ROADBLOCK-- OR "NO ROADBLOCKĄ
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
--HE DIDN'T HAVE THE HEART TO TAKE IT
~THAT MIGHT JUST, SAYE THE PAYI HOP IN..... HE'S GOT A LEAD ON US, BUT [I THINK I CAN SHORTEN THE OPUS
REAL FAST!
WA
By Frank Robbing
|A SHORT FLIGHT LATER 199
MIGHT BE THE
CAR LICENSE
No. N-£17
' THAT'S IT, SHAPI LICENSE CRECKS WITH THE OWNERSHIP PAPER! NOW... HOW DO WE STOP,
·HIM?.
Revenue Inspector
Publishes Tricks Of Trade
Paris, Mar. 5.
A senior French tax inspector has caused consternation at the Ministry of | Finance, where he works, by publishing a complete guide to tax-dodging, giving details of all the tricks.
It is entitled: "Garde A Vous, Fise!" ("Tax Inspectors, beware!") or alterna- tively, "Vade-Mecum Du Petit Fraudeur" ("A Manual For the Small-Time Tax- Dodger").
Just as the recent French film |
For, called before a regional "Du Rina Chez Les Hommes" taxation committer to explam an ("Spells Trouble") showed the error in his book-keeping, dis- public, and potential burglars in covered by the tax inspector the front row of the stalls, the who examined his books, M. smartest way to crack a safe, so Durand gives a stumbling ac- "Gardo a Vous, Fise" reveals to count of his finances. Finally, he tax-payers 30 ways of "cooking blurts out: "All I can say is that (falsifying) the books."
VICTIM OF SYSTEM
I am an Honest man,"
The effect of this remark on the jury is disastrous. M. Durand is ordered to pay 830,000 francs (about £550 sterling) In taxes
trippling sum for him.
In the inner sanctuaries of the Ministry of Finance, the book is being criticised for revealing M. The secreta both of the
cvader and of the tax inspector. the
Its
Stung by the harsh sentence, Durand then considers tux cheating the tax authoriiles. And author, who holds 11 author, 45-year-old Rene Imaginary dialogue with him Macart, said: "My book has throughout the book, tells him
consternation Inside the how to do it. Ministry, which is divded into
caused
I
two camps those who say opened my mouth too much and those who declare that my critlelsms ore Jualified."
Methods vary greatly.
OBSTRUCTION
The
theme
of the book revolves round the perplexities The "friendly approach",
modest companied with an Invitation to of Francols Durand, a restaurant keeper who is just dino at your table, always paya about to make his business pay good dividends,
ig M. Durand after scraping and saving for advised. Ave years.
Or there is the methodical ob-
at black- to been known
M. Durand is scrupulously struction of the tax inspector's honest and incapable defraud- work. Gentle threats ing, the State. But he is the mail victim of his country's taxation succeed. systern.
EVEN
MAGICIANS
cant Carlsberg
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TRY
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this' situation
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have
The factory owner points out that his workshops would have lo clore, and men be dismissed, If he were taxed too stringent" ly. The tax inspector would then, naturally, be responsible for more men being put out of work,
Eve also uses her wites in the "cheat-the-taxes" game.
One woman told the inspector, when to arrived for his annual visit, that her husband Was dangerously II The slightest question, let alone a shock, might kill him, she declared.
The Inspector left without questioning the doubifut në- counts of the business, only to discover later that the man was
In perfect health,
OUTDATED
The most macabro trick was played by the wife of a sewage- collector. She took the inspector upstairs to the room where · the [accounts were kept,
The inspector never passed the threshold for inside Was the dead body of an old woman, lying on a candle-lit entafalque. my mother," the house-
It's
wife explained, "I'll open the window so that you can work in the comor of the room.” The In-
spector fled, but or colleague, returning later, wreaked his revenge as he assessed the firm's tax.
M. Macart says that some of tho
⚫taxation department's methods date from 1880. Tax-
lion on income was established in France 38 years ago, he đỡ- clares, and today we have the reign of transactions without bilis, of false expense accounts, ot bogur companies, of dis simulation raised to the level of an institution.”
One wealthy man, walted on by 25 servants, owner of a Paris mansion and a country, chateau, a world-famous picture gallery, and three luxurious' care, only doclárod the "mme” income is an office typist. "Examples of this
are Legion. Men, who are con- sidored honourable in their circle of society ite brazenly and sometimes "elupikity" the author says.
MINIMISE PROFITS
In a clapfer, eniifida. 480 Mathods of Defrauding The Treasury", M. Macart shows how a dever accountant can reduce bla reoolpla on paper, exaggerate the number of his purchases, gнā so`minimies, his prent.
He goes through the whole | gamut of tax-dodging, docjara.. |tion of falta – bönk frainctionis, Camouflage of profils as loasa, and, the old trick of making but kisainplete reštaurané bille" on - the carbon copy, me: China PicMEN