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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9TH, 1925
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THE FEAST OF ST. ANDREW.
HOW TO INCREASE TRADE. SIR P. CUNLIFFE LISTER'S ADVICE. Sir Philip Cunlife-Lister, President of members of the
Union OF HIS FIRST KILT. Society on December 2ad in the Great Hall of the college. Professor 'F. J. C.. Hearnshaw was in the chair.
MALT EXTRACT PRINCE HENRY AND THE SCOTS. the Board of Trade, addressed the
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After pointing out the vital impor- tance of increasing both our and our höne traile, which were inter dependent, overseas trade paying for. the raw materials necessary for our in- dustries, Sir Philip said the cotton trade Was now definitely better. That, in x few months, would result in a
power in increased purchasing shire,
which, in its turn, would react
were bett the whole of our tra le throughout the country. But, though things to-day there was a very long way still
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EDINBURGH, December 3rd. St. Andrew's Day marks the opening of the winter festivities in the North leading up to the roaring rites" of Hogmanay and culmiating in the New Year celebrations. The memory of our patron sains, however, is rot prominent ly honoured we leave that duty to our Brothers and sisters who are furth of Sectland," Our principal, and what my be called our only official recognition of the Day is the service of the Order of to go. The goal at which we hail to aim the Thistle, held by command of the King was twofold. We had to secure and re
the greatest possible share in the Thistle Chapel. St. Giles Cathe cult of the existing markets of the dral. Edinburgh. We have to travel "over the hills and far away and over the wide seas-before we got the full favoured tang of Scottish senti- ment on the great feast of the 30th November. We taste it stronger in Lon don or even in Dublin than we can in Edinburgh and Ginsgow. But is is in distant lards that we bed the most cheery diners taking their chairs anper turbed by anxieties arising out of the possible future of the huggis, with who have been putting a damper on their & CO., LTD., vernacular all the year round now den rouricg to resurrect what remains of the accent of their old hone ST. GEORGE'S BUILDINGS, ICE HotsSE STREET,
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Then, it was recessary that there should be mutual understanding between. employers and employed to establish too, for the vetrnerships in industry. That was .work research. study of vital. in industry should be undertaken at home, and there should be more applica tion of science to Industry. try by negotiations and treaties to
of trade,
and we should try in every break down the barrier that stood in the Way of way to reduce the cost of production. The principal celebration in London He did not mean by that that he wanted On the contrary, he wages. to reduce was that of the Royal Scottish Corpora thought if we reduced costs and had a tion, where H.R.H. Prince Henry pre sisi. It is neilless to say that the apfull output we would sell more. with the purtenances, and etceteras of the dinter. result that there would be a higher wags from the songs and bagpipe selections to and a more efficient industry. the presence of boys and girls from the Caleilanian Schools and the ushering of the haggis with the ancient rites which 8 anate the Sassenach and embarrass the waiters, were all thoroughly in ne- cordance with Scottish tradition. Several good sprches were delivered, the best of all being that of the Royal Chairman, It abounded in happy touches; one of them was, I realise that while yon can always tell a Sect, you can very geldin tell him much.'
To do all this we should consider three things. First, it was an insane policy to put artificial restrictions upon outpu That lowered wages and the standard of living, Secondly, it was vital that we should reduce rates and taxes.
was the cost of living. third factor That problem was extremely difficult, and if anyone wanted to rush into sud-
remedies wi den
without knowledge would do more harm than good. If ne Ther he recalled that practical step could be taken to reduce the "charity dated from the time when the cost of living it would be invaluable many Scots, followed their monarch, to industry, and that was why the Government had set up a Commission to James the Sixth, (o Englard. It
might seem a strange thing to say, but 80 info the cost of Endl.
not all these were sucessful in the quest
of the golden spoils." A charity known.
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as the Scots box was therefore started there was the beginning of a boom. Es- for the benefit of the less fortunate, and perts consisted of rubber. sugar. tea, from such a small beginning arose the coffee, and other commodities, including presert Royal Scottish Corporation.
tobacco, and a strong development was taking place in oil palms.
One of the amusing interludes in the
The resessel is a geared turbine proceedings was supplied by Lord Dane- dir, when he told the company how he saw steamer, the Polydorus, and is 423ft, in Prince Henry in a kilt for the first time. length, st. gin. in breadth, 32ft. 9iu. He could not give the precise date, but be in depth, and of about 5.200 vor's gross. recalled the occasion on Deeside when
he saw a wee Egure coming along, with A PORT SUNLIGHT IN THE "HEBRIDES.
the cold
A well-known London Highlander, Mr. unaccustomed knees exposed to the coun Lachia Campbell, who has been on a and invigorating air of that tryside halfway between Abergeldie and tour of the Hebrides has come back im- Balmoral and afterwards he saw the pressed with the transformation of the small figure with a bonnet on its head township of Ubbe, or Leverburgh, in standing at the window of a shoppie South Harris, from a small fishing ham. where, amongst other queer thing were let into a centre of thriving industry; sold "black balls "--that is, a well kaown large Scottish sweetmeat. No one enjoyed Lord Dunedit's reminiscence more then Prince Heary.
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and prophesies that in ten years the fo- pulation in the district will be over 20,000. He asserts that work has heen created for men and women which was undreamt of a few years ago. He says that Lord Leverhulme's scheme of build- The event of most importance noted ing houses and factories, extending the in the annual report of the Councit of harbour accommodation, and generally the St. Andrew Society relates to the re-inaugurating another kind of Port-Sun- ception by afiliated sceletics beyond seas light is still fa its infancy, but it is a of the circular dispatched to them the significant beginning of the systematic previous autumn. In this they were in. development of.industry in the Hebrides. vited to express their views on the sub-Twenty trawlers are working from Lever. ject of an enlargement of the scope of burgh, and the catches are taken by fast the Society in Edinburgh, mainly in the steamers to the Southern markets, Sur. direction of a club or hostel which would plus catches are turned over to the kip- constitute the Society's headquarters. pering and other stations, and at the and would serve as a meeting place, and whaling factory mary thousand, barrels perhaps eventually as a residence, for of oil are manufactured. Mr. Lachlan consequent Scots from abroad when visiting the Campbell declares, incidentally that such homeland. Favourable replies had been material prosperity, with received from the St. Andrew's Societies diminution of emigration, is the only of. Hongkong, Kenya Colony, Cape hope of preventing the Gaelic language Penang, dying out in the North-West of Scot- Town, Hankow, Singapore,
Perak in the land. Java, and Valparaiso. Federated Malay States, was in complete GOLF AND SCOTTISH DEMOCRACY, sympathy with the scheme, which receiv Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in pleading! ed its first impulse from that Society lately for a greater democratisation of It was recognised, or all hands, that no golf and emphasising the expensiveness steps could be taken until the financial position of the Society, as a whole, had to which the game has now attained, was been strengthened, and it was proposed obviously thinking for once in terms en- of the Border golf is still the game of by more than one of the overseas societirely English, for, bappily, on this side ties that a good beginning could be made the masses. And it is well that it is so, by substituting for the affiliation fee of for obviously its contribution to the phy £1 1., a levy of 2. Cd. for every mem. sical well being of the community inuat ber in each affiliated society, to Le taken bir greatly in excess of that made by Credit, Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. out of the general fund of such society. The prospects of the scheme had Been Sports in which thirty, or twenty-two mach helped by the Fact that the Earl of or just two men take part and thousands Cassillis, a tenior vice-president of there merely lookers-on and critics, Bow Society, who, with the Countess of 15xpensive golf is in England we in Scot Cangillis, made a tour round the world land can hardly realise. Though there in the end of 1023 and, the beginning of are up and down the country artisan clubs attached to some excellent courses 1924, was able personally to commend it Cantelupe at Forest Bow is a notable to a number of the Scottish overseas
example-where the working man can societies which he visited.
play the game, and there are clubs, mem- bership of which does not involve a great financial strain, where Scotland scores Speaking at the launch of a new Holt as the democratic home of the game is liner from Mesard. Scott's yard on the in the universality of cheap golf ivory- Clyde, Sir Walter Towaley, K.C.M.G. where the fine municipal courses Chairman of the British Chamber of Glasgow, Edinburgh, North Berwick, Commerce for the Netherlands East Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Carnoustic, Indies made some important statements and the facilities generally wherever as to the present British trade and its galf is one of the local industries" of probable future. There was, he said, town whereby the local people can play Population in the Netherlands East for an annual subscription of probably Indies of something like 50 millions, and half a sovereign very lawful day of the the demand for European goods increased year. England has rotting to compare every day; making very great openings, with the golfing, fringes of Ayrshire, which this country had been slow to un- East Lothian, Fife, and Forfar. Yet derstand. The British Chamber of Com- with all our advantages what do we make merce was pretty well established there of them Until this year certainly we They had sound men on the spot, gehe- had a wonderful international_record, rous and good backing at home, and but since Robert Maxwell won his second were able to get advice from those who Championship in 1999 there have beer were best able to give it. It was true ten played, and we have produced only that taxation had been badly levied, and one home-bred champion. True, it is was unequal, but he thought that would one of our leading exports, but we have be improved listadas a great expert enough good golfers in the country to trade from the islands, and at present have stood between us and such a dark (Continued on next Column). record of almost consistent failure.
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