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"LOCAL COST OF BUILDING. ARE SUBSTITUTES FOR BRICKS
POSSIBLE?
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY
A DEAL IN BRICKS. COLAT STORY OF LARGE ORDER
BUT NO PAYMENT.
At the Central Magistrney yesterday. zerooon, before Mr. H. H. Butters, Wong Hing Tun, wie Wong Shek Chuen was charged on four counts of obtaining eresit by means of fraud.
He was first charged with an Decem
CANTON NEWS,
[VRİM. DPH, CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)
FLOUR STRIKE OF THE
MERCHANTS.
Theferring to the demands of the dour merchants of Canton, who have been suspending tradg for nearly a fort night|
JST, 1925.
DR. J. G. SCHURMAN. AMERICAN ATTITUDE TOWARD CHINA UNCHANGED- The For Bustern Beriew published the following appreciation of Dr. Jacob Gould Schirman, the C.S. Minister to. China, who has been appointed Ambas- sador to Germany :—
A pair of Telford al-steel houses were erected in one of the exhibition halls of the British Industries Fair which was held, recently, at Birmingham In view of the greatly increased cost of buildingber goth anlawfully incurring certain debts as a protest against additional taxu in Hongkong-one might almost say that or liabilities to the complainant, Poon tion, the Generalissimo of the Kuomia: his term as the American Minister to the east makes house building prohibitive except for the wealthy-it may be of in- terest to give some particulars of these all steel honses.
cheaper still to provide it in a Nock of Hats. That is why my blocks of Hats have been erected in the Colony in recent years.
Fong, No. 1, Wing:Kat Street, assistant
manager of the Yurt Shing Foong firm tang Army has decided to suspend
'defraud.
LABOUR UNIONS.
Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman served
mean
The Steve most difficult period for a Peking diplo of brick dealers, by obtaining credit to enfurement of the stamp duty on flour Chine daring what was undoubtedly the the amount of $1,967.50 with intent to sales for the time being.
dores Union the other day succeeded in matic. Everything has been going wrong Most people prefer to live in a detach
The second charge was of the sante stopping the arrival of a large consign with China during the past three years. ed house, although, speaking generally.character in respect of the Hank Shing ment of flour from Hongkong by refus it is cheaper to provide the same accom
Loong firm of brick dealers, and defening to unload, this stevedores having no just as everything always goes wrong co- with any sick man. The fact that a modation in a semi-detached house, and
dant was alleged to have obtained credit sympathy with those failing to to the amount of $1.452.77 un December operate with other merchants of the same man is sick, however, does not at all
1st, from the complainant Chan Kee, guilt in the attempt to oppose further
that he is dead. The capable master of the firm, by promising payment station. A certain Brm secretly trad within seven days, with intent to defrauded and reapel a huge profit, while others physician diagnoses the case after a In the third charge it was alleged that were fighting against the tax: "but it is while, discovering wherein lie the dangers defentant cntained credit by means of understood that a movement is on foot to the patient; what are his chances of ecovery. To Dr. Schurmus, apparent- fraud to the amount of $1,356, 13, frem, to eyepit the firm. Wing Shan. 3, Gilman Street, Assistant Manager of the Chung Hing Foong On
ty. China has never been without many Are firm of brick dealers, on January
Canton today has about 10, and chances of recovery. He has are the ard.
Hongkong registered labour unions, In the fourth chargo sgainst him he was Widow, a far, has only five. Nearly worst and leaves the country optimistic." alleged to have chained credit to the every union has ut office, and some have It is impossible to believe, in spite of amount of $1.1gs by means of fraud froth the whole time service of a clock in the enemies of China have to say Lai Yan, 7. Gresson Street, Wanchai, cbags of their premises and to look
correspondener. Walking along on the subject, that u mau of the train Manager of the Nam Loong firm of brick after dealers of the sum athiress, on January"; the streets either in Canton or Hong-ng and experience of Dr. Schurman, kong the days, one weldont misses the would be altogether wrong in his analysis 25th-
Mr. R. E. A. Webster represented the 'displas at Hags, viretrically. lighted
He bus travelled to four complainarts and Mr. R. Hay arches and the thundering of Chinese of the situation.
orchestra extending from second, third, every part of the country, to the most wood appeared for the defence.
Mr. Harwood applied for an adjourns or fourth storeyed porches in the evening. ment of the case, staging that as he bad indicating a celebration by soms labour northern part of Manchuria, to Yun- only just been instructed, he knew nothing unions, Another sign of organized Chinese nat, to Szechuan, to interior citirs and trading centres: he passed about the rirenmstances of the case. He labor these days, not confined to strikes torega did not even know what the charges or political agitation parades is the through Lincheng just after the outrage Ffuneral procession, in which dend bro-
B gested that the evidence of the complain- always reembered. The possible in- tzeko; he has been through wars and Mr. Welter formally objected and aug ther of good standing in a union is and when the captives were still on Pao- ants goight he taken and cross-examina, furres of Cantonese labour may be changes of government; he has seen his judged by the scores of political pan own country at the height of popularity; phlets, blanks for filling in subscribers
It will probably, come as a surprise te suur readers to learn that a single allate house can be halls in Baglard Jor an inclusive east of $470. This is a touse complete, alt ready for occupation, It includes the internal fittings needed and decorations and paint work. It does not include the cost of the ground, nor, al cours»,' the cost of furniture.
THE ACCOMMODATION.
see what the purebaser Now let us gets for his money!! Tappearance the hour gives on the impression of being built of stone slabs. 1 is finished en the outside with a ulder paint non which has a natural gloss. 1. 15 parlour
type, each hon ts a living room which is tift. m. long and 14ft. in wide. It is only aft in high. Many living rooms of buses in this Cluny are more than 1 feet high, although it is noticeable that some of the newer offices
are tot so lofty as those built twenty or
were
thirty years ago. Nor are the private houses so spacious as they were,
Figures convey very little, la it is easy to make bares and obtain a rough ideation reserved.
ments You can then make a comparison.. In the all el-hour there is door which separates the living room from the stairense and the street der Behind the siaby
abuirs ATTILKO
appearance
His Worship decided to take the evi
by the Yue Ou fr
is not
China,
The
of the dimensions of, your own apart sence in chief and allow eruss examination to tow, publications started in all parts he has witnessed the growth of an anti- of China. subscription books of charit- foreign movemains. Yet, he is an opti- at a later hearing of the mush" "
Evidence was taken in respect of the able institutions always seen од
themist. Therein, perhaps lies the impor- fourth charge in connection with the Nam desks of union clerks or reading room fance of the man
The nascholared easi Loong Arm. The complainant stated that 1001 may ster cycles or
pa December 18th a man named Li Hing tables, Canton and Hongkong workers On the grourak Boor there is the living Chorean to the shop and asked whether attach auch importance to their union ly grow discouraged, for to them each room, the scullery pantry and a bath he had any bricks. Witness told him he embership cards and badges, and there aitustion is something absolutely new, day when local newspapers do something never heard of, never dreamed room. The sellery is ut, sin by sft had none, whereupon the man told him not contain notice of loss of some of, before. To a man of Dr. Schurban's sin. w... hot and cold water sun and to inform him at 51, Connacht Read these precious documents and warning, scholarship, it is all more or less an old story. He has set is all happen the usual strings. The pantry has wonder Centrai, when he received a fresh supply shelves. The bath romm has a brass pipe.osition to amply brifke; and he
of bricks. C Tamary sal, his firm were against misuse of same.
May Day in Canton this year will be elsewhere, in the upclens world, in the for the hot water supply, running along the fill length and at a ruszenient height (witness) went to, 71, Connaught Road a big day. Some 500 delegates repre- England of the Wars of the Roses, in senting Chinese labour all over China the Florence of lachiavelli, in the Holy for use as rail for airing towels a linen. Central, where he saw T. Hing Chor and will hold the Second National Confer Loman Empire of the Reformation. He In the th-roam the wooden for the defendant. This house was recupied ene here, and the newly organized knows that nations go through their covered with tiled linoleum.
it was agreed be Upstairs there are threw heroin,tween them that he should supply 60.000 Farmers League of the Kuomintang, said periods of fever and depression. Tue rooms are (u) 14ft, 25. by toft, din. bricks at a price of $1.12. The goods to have more than 50 organizations and strong survive, but national strength lies delivered on January 4th to a junk 200,000 members in 2 of the 5 districts not in bombast and braggadocio, "but in quite a cosy apartment: 06) 14ft. in. by Sf. Sin., and (2) 10ft, sin. by sft. toin. Wing at Yaliati. The terms regarding in Kwangtung, which will hold its first natural resources, man-power, the energy A lose panel in the ceiling allows acres pays were that the money should be convention at the same time, will join and probity of the people. These China
within a perind of seve in the gigantic May Tay Parade, which has. «
days. forthcoming to storage space in the ruol
SERIOUS PROBLEMS. The structure itself is entireis of steel. This time having expired and the money will be the Erat formal combination of
Dr. Schurman bas had to face some The walls are made of pressel ateri plates not having her paid, witness called at the two honoured occupations in social
pay-
very
serious problems in China. The i thick.
The interior is lined with the Yue On Brm on January 11th for
By request of the Federation of
break-down of govertimentat "authority, asbestos-cement sheets which are reverent. He could not find the defendant with especially prepared distemper. The and kept on going there until January Canton Labour. May Day has been pro the relations between China and Russia, internal
is sail to the quite goth, when he found that the signboard claimed by the Civil Governor a legal the imposition of illegal taxes were only a few of the many questions requiring delightful
tung Province the distribution of The " non-parlour" type of house gives nat produced an order in respect of the the first in the Republic of China to re- the future of the United States in Chips. Bloor area of about 80 square feet, but goods.
The defendant was unrested of Aprit cognise the interest of the working class He had to undo much of the work of a large model, giving an additional room,
Canton gave some of bis predecessors who used the a parlour downstairs, and large bedroom 16th of the 8.8. Nai Toi which came from to the fullest extent.
of Navas
labour prominence four years ago, when American Legation in Peking as a cen upstairs has an aggregate flourspace
After this evidence, His Worship ad-three special sents at the Municipaltre of anti-Japanese and at times anti- 950 square feet. This parlour type house TOREK Taddition to the So there joured the case for further hearing Council were assigned to Labour, putting British propaganda in China. He had them in this respect; on a par with the to establish sincere friendly relations the cost of the land, the drainage work: Monday afternoon.
merchants, while only one seat was re- with all foreigners in China and at the gas, water and eiretric supply, services, the preparation of the ground and the We should like verandahs round three served for each of the legal, teaching, same time maintain the prestige of the medical. and engineering professions. United States. He has been a difficult cost of the concrete platform which forms side of the house: les us add another Newspapers of Canton and Hongkong, task but one to which Dr. Schurman the foundation,
* for verandahs; and $9,600 for ser- THE LOCAL PROBLEM.
viats quarters steel) and kitchen. Tas carly as 1920, commenced to issue was equal and which he carried through
of $1.900. (..
special editions on May Day, and the with unvaried success. We then reach r Assuming that these houses are aps
Lunediately t mes to our minds 5rst National Conference of Labour, proved by the Ministry of Health in Eireal
of China, was in 1921 and the second; Britain, and supposing that they becure the vital question: How does that com
We 1985, will also be, held in Canton.
The most unfriendly criticism of Dr. Schurman came from a small but virulent fairly popular, are they likely to prove pare with the usual "loral figures."
SOCIAL WELFARE.
group of Americans who opposed his po suitable to Hongkong? If so, our entran saswer at once that it is very much. abipyards should be able to use their cheaper.
To build a house in brick in the modern "The general welfare of Cantonese icy with regard to the future of China. experience and resourceN, They should. 8, videntally. make a pufit out of these in this Colony of the dimensions werkers is not neglected. The Mechanics They did not reason as to whether it quoted above, including all the above Union of South China with head office was a personal policy with Dr. Schur- work.
items except land, on the Conduit Road at Honum, Canton City has a $100,000 man or whether it emanated from the Most of us are used to living in an out "he from 8:15,000 to $40,000. In Building, in which reading room. even- State Department: They were not con- all steel house during the few weeks of au cepan voyage. Thiring those weeks weinding the cost of land, it would pru-ing study classes, and social parlours cerned with the possibility that the po- 7 house. Even the coolies have their licy might have been the result of an man le to use an incredibly stall heaty, be $10,000, at least.
If these figures are fairly reasonalde. missions for educational and religious understanding between the American at the government and other governments in-
The fact remain it would appear that the all-steel house activities in comfortable quart is worth unsideration.
eastern suburb, and the sampai people brested in China. We ran imagine that the local archi-have school and Gospel borts at Fail and that after the Washington Conference, teets would not regard anything of the Poontong within the Cantos Harbour Japan declared a change of policy which But the asbestos lining should keep on here would be no obvious reason for department stores of- Canton "and Hong. proch, parts of which were published in taculard" type with any real affection. Limits. The employees of the principal was unally enunciated in Shidebara's a recent issue of the Far Eastern Review. ie verandahs. Also there would be the charging the usual professional fees for kong have hall-holidays on Sunday, and
in a few enses, social service secretaries It is interesting that Dr. Schurman's servants quarter-presuably all-steel. sign ric. Nor would they have reason
Whether the local Building Authority to include fees for working out the hills from the Y.M.C.A. bold divine services, rangest, pronouncements on extraterri
for the contractors. would grant permission for the erection
early Sunday mornings or late in the toriality and China's future, aynchronis
of the firm had been removed: Complain holiday in Canton, thus giving a keen understanding of China and of
is
Toom, and often we share it with a stranger. We are, however, glad eping to get back to normal living conditions.
It would seem that the all-steel houses must prove themselves the very hot,
some of the heat. There would have to
on
ar
UNFRIENDLY CRITICISM
of generally known that an attempt evenings at the inritation of the fokis, ed with similar statements in Tokyo. In
It is
¡themselves..
THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY. Cantones workmen are asking for an employer to grant the demand is the
it is bettered that mortar bricks, made of eight-hour working day. The first large
cement and sand, have been used, but
of such a house on the Peak is a mattes to build more or less standard houses has of doubt. Possibly it might be suggest-
At Kowloon, in connection ed that Taipe or Fanling should be tried been made first of all. There seems no reason. how with the scheme with which the Hon. Mr. be constructed so as to withstand the
vee, why the all-steel houses should not Montague Ede's name has been associated. huge wind pressures of a'typhoon.
Assuming that the house could be built, what would the five-room parlour type" cost, erected it. let us say, the For such a house, the land would cost, let us suppose 84,000 arui the preparation of the site 82.000. Assuming $2,000 for the concrete platform, and other extras, we have a total of $8,000 exclusive of the cost of the house. It would probably cost much for labour for erecting the quite as house in Hongkong as in England. There is the freight, etc. The all-steel house"
Conduit Road level.
would probably cost $7,000 in Hongkong as against £500 in England. (We must employ an authorised, architect and his fees are included).
Thus, according to the above figures, which are merely very rough guesses and not accurate estimates, the cost of the
however, that the cost of the all-steel
a word, the United States and Japan have both adopted B policy of bolpful- ness to China, of giving China every possible opportunity to end an umbrago- ous condition, and there can be little doubt "but that Great Britain joins in
The criticism, then of such a policy. Ur Schurman for his so-led pro- Chinese speeches is specious and poorly thought out
The suggestion that his speeches were scholarly but ill-timed is much verbose piffe. The speeches were well-timed; they were well-planned, Silk industry statistics show that in They clearly abowed to the Chinese peo to conie down or go up is a question 1920 70,000 reeling girls in the flatures ple that their fature rests, not with concerning which only Chinese contrae of Suntak were paid wages ranging Comrade Karakhan, but in the Great from 15 to 50 cents a day, while wages Powers, the United States, Japan and tors can give ay real information.
Great Britain, whose interests in China THE TOMB OF SUN YAT SEN. require a healthy, peaceful China, whose The Kuomintang desires to order the bone for China ultimately is the same
as the hope of the Chinese people."
HOST OF FRIENDS:
if Egures showing the cost of the houses Canton Hankow Railroad (Kwangtung have been published they have not been Section) All Cantonese employers would greatly commented upon. It is believed, be glad if all their employees will house would be about the same as the actually work for eight hours a day. houses erected through the initiative of WAGES IN THE SILK INDUSTRY. Mr. Montague Ede.
Whether local building costs are likely
Steel houses might cause them to ponder now run from 10 cents to $1.20
An experiment has been made at Fan- fing, hut it is difficult to obtain particu- Jars of the house. It is, apparently, ac
all wood house, built of materials sent Canton authoritica to ram 1500,000 for from Canada. Rumour places the cost at the coming final entombment of the late about $600. It would be of great in Dr. Sun Yat Sen at Golden Purple Hill, terest to have exact figures of costs und Nanking. dimensions.
just
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Dr. Schurman leaves behind him in China a host of friends and admirera He is a worthy successor of such a man as Rockhil). His prevence put a all-steel house in Hongkong, containing kong is excessively high. Land in the
In general the cost of building in Hong: TROOPS IN EAST HWANGTUNG.
Nearest figures to hand show that period. to Appointments to Peking of two good-sized rooms downstairs, to gether with scullery, pantry and a bath-central part of Victoria is very costly. the pro-Kuomintang Army in Eastern men of questionable competence. Toom, and also three fair seized bedrooms In all parts of the Colony it is expensive Kwangtung now has more than 30,000 successor, Mr. MacMurray is a trained to build, even if the land is fairly cheap. troops scattered over ten districta. The diplomat, experienced in the China upstairs, would be $15,000.
It is apparently a delusion to think that in force is at Soonghat, with some service, who for several years past has COMPARATIVE COSTS.
cheaper labour means cheaper cost of 8,000 strong. The anti-Bolshevista still handled Far Eastern affairs in the State building. It is true that houses are dear havesome 12,000 men distributed along Department and who has been an im in Great Britain, but there are few, if the Kwangtung-Kiangsi-Fakien borders, portant factor in the organization of any places in the "home" country, and the inrgest fare consisting of 2,000, the Washington. Conference and who will where it costs ns much to build a small is at Yungling with Colonel Tse Man therefore in Peking assist in making, re-
Įalizeble its aima. residence as in Hongkong.
Ping in command.
We should like the keight of the rooms to be at least 11ft, which would increase the cost of the house ($7,000) to $9,400, und make the total cost about $17.440.
(Continued on nezk Dolumn).
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