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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tol Central 238.
AGENTS FOR
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY
2, Queen's Bulidings.
BRIGG'S BITUMINOUS ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.
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CARL LAEMMLE
PRESENTS
PRISCILLA DEAN
in Her latest, Greatest Screen Triumph
“WHITE
TIGER
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Many a Day
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WE SELL Sual Lors or
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WE ARE ALWAM PLEASED TO ATTENs for.
BILL TO DEAL WITH PROFITEERS.
ENDING RESTRICTION OF OUTPUT.
DRASTIC PROPOSALS,
The text of the Minister of Health's bill to prevent profiteering in, and to secure an adequate supply of building materials, WAS published in London recently.
17TH, 1924,
CHOICE OF A CAREER. LEADERSHIP IN INDUSTRY. “
Mr. F. B. Malim. Minister of Welling ton College, spoke recently before the members of the Parents' National Edu- eational Union, at Westminster School,
nThe Choice of a Career."
on
Viscountess Rhondda. whe presided, remarked that if every one was Trally in suitable career we could without fur- ther discoveries dr. increase of knowledge The bill gives the Board of Trade powald a hundred fold to the effectiveness of ee, when a complaint is made..to investi- the community. A cuntry which only gate prices, conditions of supply, costs.atwupted to educate adequately a small and profts at all stages, If they are fraction of its population, and attempt. found to be unreasonably high the Board to educate it more on aeront of the shall have power by order:
(a) To fix or regulate prices and to vary prices se fixed or regulated:
And
(b) To prohibit or restrict the im- position of conditions of supply, or tho charging, or seeking to charge, prices in excess of maximum prices fixed by
the order.
money in the parents packet than h cause of the capacity of the youth, was never going to succeed in gutting the right persons in the right places.
Mr. Malim said that parrats as a class Peared to be growing even more help, less than they were. They lived in water-tight compartments a bad no conception of how the rest of the world
anaged.
Any such order may be made so as to apply to any person whose business has
The problem to-day was a serious one. been the subject of investigation, and to any person who appears to the Board Forty years ago the bulk of the product to be a manibor of any such combination of the public schools wen: late the res Then with tim Whenever it appears to the Board that cognized professions.
Home and an order so ruade is in fftive to prevent changed regulations the tur excresive charges whies have been the Indian Civil Services skimmed the creaID, subject of the representation, the Board and shortly after came the boom in Spraking roughly," the may make an oriler extending the first-engineering.
mentioned order to all or any person's supply of lacsual boys did not exesed whose business is carried on in auy the demand. To-day, the pesition was speċified area, or so as to appy univerchanged. The public schools (so called) were over so full.. Their number waя sally. Any person who contravenes. or fails to comply with the provisions of increasing and the outpat greater. At any such order, shall be liable or sum- the same tinte we were, feeling the effect mary conviction to a fine not exceeding of the Education Act of 1902, the first out Matthew E100 or to imprisonment, for a terun not serious effort to carry exceeding three months, or to both such Arnold's advice to the nation, "Organize fine and imprisonincet.
our education."
TAKING OVER OF WORKS.
Few people not actively engaged in education realised the growth of the great modern day schools. There were
Another clause provides that if any person who supplies false information or neglects to produce a book or deen-33 boys secondary day schools in London wart for inspection shall be liable to a similar penalty.
ria
wish over 400 papits and 15 with ver 300, with a total of between 14,000 and Those schools constituted If the productinn er supply of mate- 15.000 boys.
is being unreasonably prevented, e tain educational highway, with the withheld or restricted by any person public schools as a parallel side road. educated boys was the Minister may by order require that The number of person to place at the disposal of the greater, and the pressure on available At the same time the Minister the whole or any part of his vacancies greater. stocks, or the whole or any part of the stream bail been diverted. It was putor- ious that the supply of ordianads was output of his business The Minister is
The Army could not get given power to take possession of the drying up. Jands and buildings in which the busi-enough candidates" for Sandhurst, and nesa is carried on and of the plant and Bartmouth was also short for the Navy. machinery used, or any part of the lands, The question of what to do with our buildings, plant, or machinery, and to Loys was therefore a broader question retain possession 14
as the than it used to be. It was desirable to long Minister considers it necessary, and to discover, if possible, what the contri- carry on the business, or 38 to make pro-bution of a boy to his generation was vision for the busiares being carried on,sely to be. Some boys had a definite
beat,
but the number was smali. under the direction of the Minister." "
Where a person convicted of an offence There were, however, cften indicationa is a company the chairman and overy that a boy had gins. If a boy had the managing director and every officer con- magical gift of personality called cerned in the management of the com-leadership" it was better he should pany shall be guilty of a like offence unless he proves that the act or default which constituted the offence took place without his knowledge.
SAIGON RICE MARKET. The Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extreme Orient, of Saigon report under date July 2nd, say:
Our market has been quiet during the last fortnight and only a few transte tions in broken rice Nos. 1 and 2 have A few sales been reported on Europe. have been effected with Manila by Chinese rice mills which were sufficient to firm up ruling prices. The total amount of rice exported from January ty to June 16th, 1924, is 674,957 tons against 701,050 in 1922.
We quote today white Saigon rite No. 2 sifted Japan quality, Hongkong $6.50 per pical fo.b. Saigon for July August shipment
Messey, Wm. G. Hak & Co., Ltd., of Saigon, in their circular dated July 1st,
By:
A fair demand for brokers Nos. 1 and mixed from France and Java has been the feature of the last fortnight. The available stocks were quickly sold, und
exercise it in guiding and leading the workaren engaged in an industry tha that he should be immersed in figures in an accountant's office.
A CAUSE OF DISCONTENT. The absence of "ability to inspire Was the instead of to drive which essence of leadership, was at least a con- tributing cause of the friction and dis content which embittered the industrial world to-day. That was the kind of work which might profitably be sought by the hoy who had shown he could head." There was much more scope for that gift in industry than in querer.
To a pioneer, to go out and help to ear the forest and grow corn in Canada or wool in Australia" where there was none before, was really worth doing.
A patent was right in considering the chance of making a decent livelihood. The bother was that as things were the rewards were not proportionate to the services rendered. Our social arrange- book- menta. paid large incomes to makers, ground landlords, stockbrokers, and cinema actresses, and generally very small ones to the clergy, agricultural labourers, professors at universities, and
poets.
Parents should not stress the note of
as there are no more contracts for rice It was a paralysing motto for a boy's life. He would choose the op- No. 1 to be executed, and no demand at posite extreme and say. Live dange all the price for the brokens quickly rously few great things had ever been advanced and exceeded the buyers rate done by the man not prepared to take a8, at about the same time, exchange of risks. This was the time when our best
Altogether France strongly advanced.
of war.
about 18,000 tons have been sold, out of and strongest should be volunteering for which only 2,800 tons went to Java, the the hardest jobs. We had no more right remainder going to France. For rice the to hold boys back if they were wanted market has been alsolutely dull, there overseas in times of peace than in times being no demand whatever and we have not heard, of any transactions effected: Toe market closes steady and very firm with an upward tendeney for brokens mixel.
Paddy is still scarce, and prices are very fria. Some people "are thinking that a fall will perhaps occur, arguing that fair weather continuing. work in the fields will Bave to be soon largely undertaken everywhere, thus pushing countrymen to find the necessary funds. We do not share this opinion; but we iocline to think that if the, demand for brokens continue, the price of rice will decline in the same proportion.
CINEMA" FOTES.
QUEENS. THEATRE. Priscilla Dean, famous in the cinema. world for her wonderful acting in The Flame of Life," plays the role of a. beautiful queen of the underworld--not the sordid underworld of modern fiction, but rather, the highest' strata, of inter national thieves, in a Universal picture- styled White Tiger" which opened at the Queen's Theatre last night and will be shown at all performances at that theatre till Saturday night.; "As Sylvia) Donovan, the heroine. Miss Dean gives very touching portrayal characterised by sympathetic treatment and excellent acting: Wallace Berry who will be re meinbered by Hongkong cinema audiences for his biatrionic abilities shown in "The Four Horsemen", and "Robin Hood "takes an important part in "White Tiger. Others in the capable cast aro Matt Moore and Raymond Griffith
William Arnott Led
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