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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 1924
JAPAN'S LUXURY TARIFF. LUXURIES OR NECESSITIES:
The International Committee; in Kobe which has been discussing Japan's new
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-via Singapore, tariff on luxuries has addressed the fol
Colombo, Sues and Port Said.
"LONDON MARU"
lowing memorial to the Japanese Minis ter of Finance:-
BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-via Salgon, Singapore, To H.E. Yuko Hamaguchi,
Colombo, Durban and Capetown.
CHICAGO MARUŠ
BOMBAY vin Singapore and Colombo,
"ALES MARU”
"CELEBE MARU”
"HONOLULU MARU”
BANGKOK is SAIGON.
"BOSHO MARU”
CALOUTTA “TIS" Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
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Monday.
24th Nov
Tuesday,
4th Nov
Thursday,
Monday,
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Minister of Finance.
SI-I am instructed by the Kobe, In- ternational Committee to bring the fol lowing considerations under your Excel- lency's notice, with the hope that they will be laid before the Committee which is now engaged in rovising the Imperial Customs Tariff.
Without in any way wishing to ques tion the advisability of the Luxury Tarifl Act or its economic bearing upon the country, the Kobe International Commit-
VICTORIA, SHATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVHE via Shanghai and tee would respectfully suggest that the
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Monday, 7th Oct. Thursday, 10th Oct. Bunday and Nor Monday, 10th Nov.
Sunday, 26th Oct., 11 sim Thursday, 6th Nov, 11 am,
Thursday 4th Nov.
Sunday, 16th Oct.
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tariff as it stands at present is inhabi tory not only on qualities of goods which may rightly be considered as luxuries but also on qualities of goods which are of common use among both the rich and the poor in all countries and must therefore, be considered as necessities.
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To give an example, it may be stated that while fine qualities of black tea, made from the best selected leaf and sold at the highest prices, ean rightly be con sidered as luxuries, the ordinary black tea in bousehold use in Europe, America,
The digestive organs are to the body what the Australia and over a large part of Asia engines are to an seroplane the source of its has now come to be regarded as a neces-power: When an aeroplane comes to grief, it sity, any Customs duty to which it may is probably due to engine trouble. When grief be subjected being for purposes of re- comes to you in the form of ilk health, your venue and not for the purpose of regulat-digestive organs your engines, so to speak
the ing the import Indeed,
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probably What
is, the canad? Perhaps you have in which it is held as a means of raising
caten something that doesn't agree with revenue is evidence of its widespread use.
The International Committee would Mont of us do that at times. Ferhaps you have therefore respectfully suggest that iu in bolted your food. There is great temptation posing the Luxury duty on all black tea to do that now days Perhaps worry is the
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as the tariff makes no distinction as to quality but includes all qualities together under heading.
upsets the digestion, and what excitements we have been through! many of us have!
.
Not only have thousands upon thousands of with success, but for äfty years
But whatever the cause-aat, after all, it may be only a httk change in the weather-the The same objection, the Committee obvious thing to do is to right the wrong to would suggest, applies to many of the restore the ulgestive organs to natural working other articles listed in the Luxury Tariff. arder
All that in so obvious' that it again. such as vegetables, fruits and nuts; needs no arguing. It is equally obvious to all cocoa (a popular article of diet for child-thinking people that what has proved of value rer), jams, cheese (eaten all over the ja untold thousands of other cases, should be world by the poorest classes), scap, etc. most likely to be of use to yon; and no other a digestive In all these cases the Luxury Tariff in remedy half so well spoken of as cludes under one heading, irrespective of tonic and stomach out liver invigurator quality, articles which are in everyday Mother beigel's Syrup. use in all countries and which cannot therefore be considered us luxuries. The people used Luxury Tariff Act, being directed against ita value has been proved up to the hilt in every luxurious living, should not, the Ceim-quarter of the British Empire. Nor is it *The herbal mittee feels, affect those who are merely access difficult to understand. living the life of the majority of people extracts of which the byrup is made not directly upon the stomach, liver, and bowels, toning and in all countries,
strungthening them, so that they can digestive duty naturally, and without strain.
Thus you aroid pais after eating, datulence, heartburn, acuity of the stomach, bilousness and constipation. For your own sake, try Mother Seg's Syrup after your new me sel
For year 1 nover knew what it really well," says Mr. Thomas J. Marsden.
The Committee begs to submit here- with a list of goods coming under the Luxury Tariff which, it would respectful y suggest, should he subject to revision in the direction of confining the Luxury duty to the more expensive qualities while admitting the qualities in common use under the duties laid down in the Statutory Tariff.
their
meal.
most everything I ate disagreed with the stomach, and caused auch intense suffering and
comfort that 1 came to dread the arrival of the meal hours, and often I felt quite sick at the mere signs or smell of food.
Perasded to try Mother Seigel's Syrup.:
The headaches ceased, the digestion im
In laying these considerations before your Excellency the International Com mitter may point out that it now repre- sents the largest foreign community in
I am pleased to say that it acted admirably on Japan, and that the incidence of the Luxury Tariff, in the cases cited in theme from the very beginning. list, bears very hardly upen this foreign community, which suddenly finds itself proved, and I was not nearly no inclined to confronted with a heavy tax upon com- biliousness or to looking on the black side of
things. 1
heartily, starp soundly, Legad modities which it has been accustomed to regard as daily necessities and which aus work which had been so trying and irksome are so regarded in all other civilised to me was got through with ease. countries.
Trusting that your Excellency will lay these considerations before the Committer for the Revision of the Imperial Customs Tariff, I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
T. SATCHELL Hon. Sec. Kobe International Committe. Kobe, September 17th, 1924.
Enclosure.
NECESSITIES CLASSED AS LUXURIES. 31. Vegetables, traits and cuts.
32 Tea."
28. Cocoa
46. Jams, fruit-jellies and the like. 51. Cheese..
117. Soap.
2 Tooth powders, tooth washes, etc.
395. Carpets and carpeting (wool).
32. Tablecloths (of Bax).
31 Trimmings.
$35, Air Cushions."
38. Bed quilts and cushions.
45. Shirts,, troate, collars and caffs,
347, Gloves.
349. Shawls, comforters and mufflert.
330. Neckties
351. Trouser-suspenders of braces. -35%. Belts.
35.1 Hats, 2-D of Straw, etc.
355 Boots, shoes, etc."
356. Shoelaces.
598. Standing clocka..
636. Photographic alms.
PLUCKY BRITISH AIRMEN BACK IN LONDON.
NOT A SOUL TO MEET THEM.
When Squadron-Leader MacLaren and his companions, who had to give up a world fight through a forced landing in the North Paafie near Kamchatka after flying about, 12,500 miles, reached Euston Station shortly after 7.30 on the
of soul to welcome them.
19th there was not September These men who had risked their lives in a thousand ways in a thousand differ- eat places during their gallant attempt to circle the globe by aeroplane received a splendid send-off at Southampton a few months ago, but their return secmed not to stir any one of those officials and friends, who had fêted them on that occasion.
They came from Liverpool just like ordinary travellers despite the fact that their return had been mentioned in all the newspapers on the previous day.
Earlier in the day Mrs. MacLaren had travelled to Liverpool to meet her bus band.
(Continued 'en, next Column.)
"Altogether I took not more than six bottles Mother Saigel's Syrup, and it completely restored me to good hesith, and made me feel that it is good to be alive ugnin."--Adri.""
"The fog beat us," Mr. MacLaren told A Daily Mail reporter. If we could have completed another 300 miles we should have been in comparative safety. "I do not think it is practicable to fly ronad the world in one machine," be addled. It should be done in different machines and in stages, and amphibians are the only types suitable. Fog is the great handicap
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