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NATIONAL VIRILITY.
ELECTRICITY'S ADVANCE.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETINGS, That pessimistic view of the physical or mental condition of the people of En land was unnecemary and unfounded was the opinion, expressed by Dr.-F. Shrubsoll, addressing the anthropological Section of the British Association at Toronto on August 7th,
| HONGKONG" IMPORT TRADE.
The fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce contains the following notes on the markets: —
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods-We have ng sales of importance to report Chaos still continues in most consuming centres, whilst local Dealers report tight monetary conditions. Not- withstanding these adverse lacters a wel- come improvement in clearances of Sea- socable cargo can be recorded. Price for Mid Am. Cotton has declined consider- Dr. F. C. Shrubsall, in his presidential | ably, and at time of writing 14.55 was address to the Anthropological Section, last Liverpool rate received. Manchester Health and Physique through cloth prices are not commensurate with apoko on the Centuries. Ho referred to the the decline. alarming data to be found in the report of the Ministry of National Service on the findings of the Recruiting Boards in the last years of the war, and the grave disappointment that followed the dis- covery that only 30 per cent. of the men were Grade 1.; 23, Grade II.; 31. Grade III.; and 10. Grado IV, It had been pointed out that grading for military purposes must differ in many essentials from grading in respect to fitness for civi- Han life, and that the falling off of eff ciency with age was not a new phenomen on associated with urbanisation, nor was. there reason to think that a similar census in past centuries would have given any better results.
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More valuable data were contained in the records of some 260,000 youths whe attained the age of 18 in 1915; they show ed & proportion of 63 per cent, Grade 1. 30 per cent. Grades 1. and 111, and per cent. Grado IV. There was nothing in these and other figures. said Dr Shrubsall, to suggest that the British people had degenerated more than other nations.
Cotton Yarn-Business continues on a small scale owing to the Canton trouble. and dealers are only buying for their immediate requirements. Quotations are: No. 10 at 8923 to 8240, No. 19s at $930 to $243, No. 16s at $215 to $233, No. 20 at $230 to #943., Arrivals, 2.100 bales. Shipments, nil, Sales, 1,000 bales. Un- sold stock," 8,175 balis. Bargains 1,000 bales.
Woollens. The market remains un. changed, since last report.
Raw Cottons.There is no change to report.
Metals.-Market quiet, nothing doing Flour.-Stock: about 1,350,000 sack, Sundries-Market quiet..
Sugar-Market quiet..
Saltpetre-Stock: 11,000 bags. Very dall last report.
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GREAT HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME.
A £3,000,000 UUTLAY.
A Government-assisted proposal which will provide employment for thousands of men for five or six years-the Lochaber bydro electric scheme was inaugurated in July, says the Industrial Daily News, by the placing of the first contract. The largest of its kind ever attempted in Great Britain, the scheme is being assist- ed by a trades facilities guarantee of £2,000.000, and its completion will in volve an outlay of about £5,000,000. will transform what is now virgin forest land into an industrial area, covered with. large works for the production of aluminium and other metals. The water- sheds for over 300 square miles will he harnessed and the energy concentrated at Fort William, where equipment sufficient to generate 100,000 horse-power will be installed.
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Even the worst estimates of the pre- sent-day physique, when compared with such records as existed of the former in- habitants of the British Isles, afforded little evidence of s deterioration of stature in members of a particular racial type, but rather of a change in their relative proportion in the total popula- sion. In neolithic times, far as could be gleaned from skeletal remains, the average stature of adult males was about 63in, with a few taller individuals inter- spersed, who were perhaps of the ruling caste; the Saxons averaged about 66in. the Norwegians and Danes were a little taller. The stocks in each district re- mained in comparative isolation until the advent of roads and railways and the demand for labour in new areas, caused a greater degree of intermixture. Even now rural areas which had original ly a predominant Nordic occupationi con- tained--a taller and fairer population; in the cities the degree of intermixture had proceeded to such an extent that there was relatively little relation between stature and hair colour. Throughout the medieval period stature remained little hile the other will be large enough to affeoled so far as could be judged "From hold a single line of broad-gauge rails. clothes, implements, and armour, which Tenders for the tunnelling work are now would suit the larger number of the pre-being submitted. Immense, dams, spill- sent-day people, and would indeed be too ways, and intake works will be construct- small for the better built. In the eighed in solid concrete, damming the waters teenth century "there were many recruits of Lochs Treig and Laggan and the Rivers whose stature, was only about 63in.
Spean, Treig, and Spoy GROWING TALLER.
Records of children of Lancashire ope rative and labouring classes, taken in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, when compared with similar figures at the present day showed little change until the last few years. Since the initiation of the school medical service it had be-
come evident that a gradual improvement was in progress. In London elementary schools there had been a gain of a full half-inch in stature since 1904, while in the public schools average gains of an
The driving of aqueducts for twenty miles through the solid rock of Ben Nevia will involve, tunnelling on a scale not yet attempted in this country. Of these tunnels, one will be 18ft. in diameter,
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The German textile firm of Rudolph Karstadt, A.G., Hamburg, which recently purchased a complete cotton-spinning plant of 21,128 ring spindles for £25,935 (or 21 Ed. per spindle) in England, has
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inch or more were recorded. The changes just declared a dividend of 100 per cent.OUTH
The cost of equipping a ring-spindle mill
in weight were even more general and significant. It was noteworthy that the in Lancashire today is much more than that. The concern has been building tex- average weight of the crews in the Oxtile factories at various places is Ger. ford and Cambridge boat race, who were always chosen from the pick of the under-many, including Wandsbeck, Wilhelm- shaven, and Bocholt, with the object of graduates, had increased nearly a stone making themselves independent ef for in the last sixty years.
eign manufactures, particularly yarns, Summarising the whole survey. Dr.The mill at Bocholt has been modernised Shrubsall said the Great War showed the with the secondhand machinery purchased | possession of powers of resistance to phy in England. Referring to this purchase. sical adversity that had never been equall the recently published report of the com ed, and under a test applied to a pro-pany states that the real estate has been portion of the nation never before ap-expanded, and, it continues, they have proached, while the versatility of inven- further developed, and, it continues, they tive powers was demonstrated everywhere have further developed their important So far as the children were concerned, factory undertaking at Bocholt. This ex- education was more general and the lad- tension, it is stated, will make the com der wider, and more used than st any pany independent of foreign yarna, and period in our bistory. The general they have the idea of exportation. They health of the nation was better and the have, therefore, acquired the spindles for exception of life longer than ever be a third of their value through a favour- fore. There were no grounds for thinkable opportunity in England. ing the physical conditions of any class were worse than that of corresponding classes at previous epochs, even among those persons and classes on whom the adverse conditions of life associated with arbanisation and industrialism had press. ed hardest and had been least opposed. The real increase.of the unfit was much
ONE RUPEE NOTES.
NO FURTHER ISSUES TO" BE MADE.
less than had been assumed fromá priori The following communiqué was issued arguments. Reproductive selection which by the Controller of Currency at Calcutta had a Lealency to increase the apparently on August 26th:-In replying to a ques Teas valuable stocks was opposed by a tion by Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas in lethal selection which had not been the Legislative Assembly on February abolished, while emigration from the 11th, 1924, the Hon. Finance Member eugenio standpoint, though a real dis announced that the Government of India advantage to England, had been
ain pursuance of the decision to discon- source of strength to the Empire of As-tinue the issue of the one, rupee currency sociated Nations.
"DUCKING" THE PRINCE. INCIDENT AT BOYS' CAMP.
note had decided to place no further orders for these notes after the termina-. tion of their existing contract. The de liveries of notes in compliance with the last indent were completed some time ago, and the stocks in India are now approach- ing exhaustion. No issues of those notes will be made from the currency offices After tea at the Duke of York's camp and treasuries when the existing stocks of public school and industrial boys at are exhausted, which will be on varying New Romney on August 7th, there was dates from now, up to about a month. general bathing parade, and here again The one rupee notes will, of course, con- their Royal Highnesses mixed with de- tinue to be universal currency notes and lightful comaraderie in the frolics of the legal tender so long as they remain in boys, a party of whom carried the Prince circulation.
of Wales into the water and ducked him. The Princen also shared in the distributiou of biscuits which took place during the drying process. At night their Royal Highnesses attended a jolly sing-song in the camp marquee.
Their Royal Highnesses were given a great send-off when they left at a quarter past nine for Ashford, where they joined Gaeir special train for Victoris.
WEMBLEY CHARGES TO BE REDUCED.
In order that the total attendance dur- ing the remaining period may reach a million persons weekly, the authorities of Wembley Exhibition decided to reduce the admission charge to the Exhibition to
shilling from September 1st.
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