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In the course of an address to share." holders of the National Bank of Commerce in New York recently the President (Mr VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY" James S. Alexander) said::-
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To be sold by Order of the Mortgages PUBLIO AUOMION,
The present situation cannot continue indefinitely. Unless conditions change so that the farmers, a majority of the manufacturers and the railroads are en- abled to make reasonable profite, ourtailed production and unemployment will fol low and costly readjustments will indvit ably result. The situation calls for a concentration of offort on increased Is- bear productivity directly, and indirectly through the substitution of machinery The 19TH Bay of Feb. 1929, ni 3 o'mmoor i. '
IN ONE LOT
PO
MONDAY,
Massen, LAMMERT BROTHERS. As Trem Orries, "DUDDELL STAMÈT,
for man-power. The limit in this direc tion has by no means been reached. The extent to which labour-saving machinery
relation of the cost of man-power to ma Property
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consists of First ALL. chine-power. If conditions arise in the THAT piece or parcel of ground dtuata United States whereby is costs as much at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and in the Land Office as SEOMON to hire a man to push a wheelbarrow a registered
with it does to hire a man to lay bricks, the A of INLAND LOT No. 2168 together answer will be tha substitution of the messages erections or buildings theroon
No 1
Ring Street and mechanical appliance for the wheelbar now known 14
ation A of Inland Lot of the said Section
The proposal of the British Government to agree in principle to hand over the Ea-ia developed depends primarily on the lanco of the Bater Indemnity to be used to further the education of young Chinese meets with only partial notice in the Press here. Most of the papers do not refer to the subject at all. Perhaps that is due in some measure to the circum stance that it has been under discussion lost in interest. In some quarters the the labour problem in this country is the belief is cherished that ultimately, as a question of curtailed output. Apparent consequence of foregoing payment of the ly labour fails to recognize the esential money as an indemnity, there will be a difference between combinations among notable gain to British industry. When workmen to raise wages and combina China understands more than at present tions to curtail physical output by work about British history, customs, and modes ing rules and by opposition to improved of thought, closer relations will, it is machinery. To put the fact simply, if said, be promoted and cemented.
three men are required by union rules to tend a machine which two could operate, On the other hand, some good observers the two in fact support a third in idlaneas. hasard the opinion that as China be If a backlayer who could lay a thousand comes better versed to the ways of the bricks a day lays but three hundred, he Western world she may send towards "in himself and his fellow-workers are the dustrialism," and thus there is opened prime sufferers. They pay the penalty in up the question whether, eventually that high rents. It is the duty of that part would be a good thing either for China of the community now penalized by high or for ourselves. There is the possibility labour costs, including a large proportion that in time China may (some say she of the wage earners of the country, farm- will) transform herself into a great maduers, manufacturers, and the general facturing nation, and produce what she public. to omit no effort to develop a now imports. If that were to happen in compelling public opinion in regard to the case of piece-goods, for instance, to this problem. mention only one branch of trade, what would Lancashire have to say!”
from time to time for so long that it has row. The most unfortunate foature of Secondly ALL THAT of land at rear
2168
being a scavenging lane. All of which pre- misas are held for the residue of the term of 75 years from the 15th day of May, 1916, created by the Crown Lease thereof together with the valuable machinery now situate în or upon the said premises and at No. 1 Gordon Street.
Particulars and Conditions of sale may be- obtained from
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Mears. HASTINGS & HASTINGS,
Bolsitors,
& Des Voeux Road Central
Me and
Mesars, LAMBERT BROTHERS
Auctioneers,
BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTOR.
PUBLIC AUCTION of the GOLLOWING VALUABLE and DESIB-
PROPERTY,
The rapid industrial expansion of the United States has been based on immigra Inland Lot No. 1779 and the mesetage known sa. tion. The war crystallized the national consciousness and a hostile sentiment de-
But of course, this is looking a long way ahead, and I need not pursue the argument. You will know how much at-veloped toward the admission into the tention it deserves, and the true valus country of immigrante who might fail to that should be placed upon it. It is accept American standards and ideala. sufficient for me to place apani record the It is nevertheless becoming increasingly fact that, while the remission of the clear that the restrictions on immigration Boxer indemnity is generally hailed as a which are now in effect require modifica wide and statesman-like stroke of policy, tion if we are to have a supply of com- there are those who urge that the utmost mon labour adequate for the development care ought to be exercised in the sponding of the country's industries and business. of the money educationally. To what and The problem is that of selection. Immi should young China be educated? Ob grants who may not immediately speak viously this is an important point in the English language are not necessarily the interests both of China and Great hostile to the ideas and ideals of the [Britain now and in the years to come. United States. The desirable immigrant
A SIBHOP'S WARNING.
is be who, regardless of race or language, bas within him the spirit of individualism in which the country was founded and upon whch its future depends;
The Bishop of Exeter writes to the Times on the subject of the Boxer indane nity, his letter being accorded the place of honour on the editorial page. "China" saya the Bishop, “is entering on that dif- ficult period of industrial history, when difference--life is simpler and less expen- the machine and factory take the place aive in society than it was before the of manual work. It is a common place war. with our social reformers to bewall tho mistakes made during our industrial THE BESTOWAL OF HONOURS. volution in the Nineteenth Century, Do not let us repeat them. If the education we promote in China is purely utilitarian merely glorified technical colleges the result will be to destroy the old. Evu fue date without replacing them by anything higher."
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No 2 MAY ROAD, Situate thereon TO BE SOLD :: Subject to & Reserva Price
on
TUESDAY
the 18th day of FIAT, 1023, at 3 r... by LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers,
at their Sales Roam, Daddell Street, Particulars and Conditions of Sale can ba obtained from
Mears, DEACON, HAMSTON & SHENTON,
No. 1, Das Vaux Road Central
or from
N Mesars. LAMMERT BROTHERS
The Auctioneers, Hongkong, 1st February, 1923. [315
DAIRY
FARM NEWS.
We have still a few Special
Press opinion is greatly divided over. the report of the Royal Commission on Honours which has been-issued this week. The Commission propose that a small committee of the Privy Council should assist the Prime Minister by scrutinising and reporting upon the honours-list be Farm Fed Turkeys weighing Accordingly the Bishop goes on plead, intends submitting to the King. This, it as something really vital, not only to the is considered, should prove to be an ef well-being of Chino but also to that of fective way of ending the abuses that from the whole industrial world, that the time to time have but only occasionally, education we support shall teach employ-be it observed been disclosed an possible ors to care for the well-being of the work-
They
er as well as teach them to be efficient in under the old system. But some critics the manufacture of goods and the ao think that this is not enough. cumulation of wealth. His argument is argue that a public statement should be that if this is not done the competition of made by the Patronage Secretary that no the whites with yellow labour, working payment or expectation of payment to in economical but insanitary conditions any Party or political fund is in any way must lower the standard of living of the sociated with the bestowal of an honour white man. "Let us advance at once the upon any individua). › material prosperity of China and encour- ago her spiritual uplift, but do not let us on any account neglect the second, and interet, ourselves only in the first, That way a world disaster lies." SOCIAL CHANGES.
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This is not, however, a practical pro position. If the line was drawn so tightly that a good subscription to one's political organization would act as a bar to so honour which was being presented, for public services, or for some other reasons quite distinct from politics, an impossible A journalistic friend who makes it his position would be created. Besides, why business in life to record the doings of should not a man be made the recipient Society tells me of some definite tendencies of an honour even though he may have which might be recorded in any attempt beeg guilty of the laudable offence of to cast a glance backwards over the events supporting his Party1 Without such
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of the past year. There has been s die help the Party funds would go hunt 67 QUEEN'S ROAD position to return to habits that had to On the whole, the report of the Com bo abandoned in the stress of war-time, mission seems to meet the case very fairly and this applies to most habita except and effectively. The mere existence of that of extravagance. It does not now an advisory committen will have the effect cost as much as it used to do to live, and of checking abuses; and for the rest is move, and have your being in exalted may be left to the natural desire bi e circles. There is no hesitation on a British Prime Minister to do nothing MISS TOKA INOKUCHI body's part in saying frankly that they that will discredit either his Soversigo cannot afford certain things. Only such or himself. people as war prosteers vouture upon ostentation, and that is regarded as the CHEAPER LIVING. hallmark of vulgarity,
The reduction in passenger-goods rates In numerous ways the refinements of on the railways which came into force life are returning The control of on New Year's Day is the best news that mothers over daughters is being resumed: we have had for a long time. For lower the personal, freedom willingly conceded rates for "perishables "mean lower. to a girl in khaki is not what it has charges on commodities in daily use on the been, and, on the whole, this again breakfast and dinner tables. By the new making for the restoration of family life rates there is a reduction of from two- at its old level. Dress in London is more pence to threepence in the shilling off the careful The women have lengthened their charges for the carriage of most food- frocks; nobody dreams of dancing at a stuffe, and this must inevitably result in good ball without gloves; the little bringing down the cost of living. The politenesses that were apt to be overlook-cost of conveyance of practically all ne- ed are malated upon...
cesssrive of a perishable nature consumed In the matter of entertaining, the old in any household has now been reduced familica who bare boen so severely hit by to 50 per cent over pre-war rates, high taxation are confining their hos The high-railway-rates have been pus pitality largely among themselves at forward as an unanswerable argument! their own houses. It is all done on by retail tradesmen for keeping up thefr very quiet scale. Generally, there is less charges for foodstuffs. The rates were, entertaining in hotels and fashionable therefore, in the nature of a jax on the restuarants; and, in any case, It is not whole community, and it is certainly BOOTS, SHOES & SLIPPERS. good form to put on costly wines or worthy of note that a substantial de
FOR LADIES, GENTS. & CHILDREN Equours at luncheca or dinner. In short, create has been made. It means a cut în the true English gentlefolk are getting the cost of living, which is a wolecane back to pro-war habita, bus with this New Year's gift to every household la
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