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$600 nom. 29.10 bur.
"Novena 30Tu, 1925, Mr. G. W. Shipway, formerly of Shang-
$1,090 non. Hongkong Bank
Do London. ..2131 BO has and now a well-known resident of the Chartered Bank. famous garden City of Letchworth, has Mercantile Bank, A. &.3. addressed the following letter to Dime Adelaide Anderson, who used to be Chief P.&O. Ban Woman Factory Inspector in England, East Asia Bank and was invited to go to China in con- † Csaton Insurance..... nection with the movement to reform | China Underwriters industrial conditions. She was a member alou Insurance.
North China Insurance........ The 140 hom. of the Child Labour Commission in bu
949 buy. Tange Insurance .......... $35 buy...
Fire Insurance........ $150 nom.
| Shanghai -
of the Baxer Indemnity Advisory Com. Honire Insurance 8800
F. C. & M. Steambosta Indo-Chinas (ref) Hongkong Text
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1925
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DRAR MADAM, →As you are a member
mittee I am venturing to pat "before you a few suggestions. Perhaps you will allow me to introduce myself as the solitary fore 'gn witness who appeared be-
Day (Def), London...$70 nam." fore the Guild Labour Commission in
Do
Hongkong370 nona. Shanghai-when you were present. I Shell Transports. must admit that my evidenco given there | Star Ferrien was most woefully inadequats; but I Waterbokia. should explain that it never occurred to Oriental Navigations me that I should be the only foreigner China Sugara ..... offering to give evidence. I imagined Mahbar Bugars that detailed particulars would be far Beguata.. nished by people in Shanghai, where there are numerous "idealists far more com-angkats (combined). peteat, and more conversant with local conditions.
Kailan Mining Ad,
(single) Exploratio
Lowas
What I urge now, in connection with the remission of the Boxer Indemnity, is that something vivid and picturesque he fines
Caspians attempted, as an object lesson that HK.& K. Wharfs, would beneat the whole of China. MR.K. & W. Docks
suggestions are merely crude outlines. Hengka........... I have travelled on the Yangtze New Engineering. River several times-as far as Suifu, Shang Hotels (aid)........
Dock
which is 1,558 miles from, the mouth. Along this immense length there is not Hongkong Landa, a single bridge; all crossings have to be Hongkong Realtys (up.). in ferry boats. Ferries can often be or HK Teritorials
(p.)... ganised so as to be fairly satisfactory (as Humphreys Estate for instance the L.C.C. ferry at Wool Prince's Buildings. wich), but there are special conditions Rural Lands obtaining on the Yangtze, which rendero Cottoris
Orientals..... some lifterent method desirable.. At
Shanghai Cetions (old) Chungking (1,348 miles up) there is a
(new). primitive, but quite well-organised, sya Amasezants tem af ferry boats. This crossing, how Canton Icos ever, is often extremely dangerous, as the
Comenta (combined) river has most remarkable fluctuations;
Do. (old) and many lives are lost every year
Do. through boats being wrecked. Again, although the fluctuations at Hankow are
Do.
148 nom.
..83 nom.
nom,
194 bay. Tashibay,
дом.
.30 Day. 60%. nom..
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$194 bays 355 bay The 100 buy- 17 buy Tân thì bay.
$8.30
..15 sati.
$15 buy.
$16.nom.
$150 $7 wel.
70 38
Th: 10.60 nom Tis. 3.80 xon vis, 58 day.
Tis. 31 bay. ..$10 bay.
314
buy. ..$12j not.
.33 mom.“
China Buses. China Lights (combined). Albay,
Do.
(old)
Do (haw)...
$15.nom.
31° now.
not, so serious, the river is liable to be lashed into a most dangerous state by a strong north wind (the river here flows China Providents (comb.)....433 nom, in a northerly direction) and occasionally boats and launches from Wachang to Hankow cease running, I can speak from Constructions
...Do.
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(Ep.)
personal experience of these terrifying Dairy c
Hongketrics Misano
(old) (now)... $9:15 sel.
dangers, beth at Chungking and Hankower A
In both of these places a bridge would be practicable from an engineering stend HK. Developments point; but there is absolutely no prospect HK. Ropes (combined of money being provided. What I sug
Do. (ald) gest is that a transporter be erected
Do. (now) these two places-not so much to assist Hongkong Tramways these two localities, as to furnish speci- Lane Crawforda.. mens of what could easily be copied at Mackintoshs. innumerable other places where there are Peak Trams (old) important crossings over rivers. By a DB transporter I mean & species of car sus-Sinceres pended from a cable or other support, Tria whereby the crossing can be made irres pective of the state of the river. Al Watsons (old). transporter need cost only a small frie tion of a bridge, and would be of im merse benefit to all classes. The cross ing should be absolutely free to passen- gers, with only a small charge for goods. At Chungking there is a very large daily cross river transit of rice and coal.:
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$18 bay, 19 sel
310 num.
$55 bay.
$40 not 30 ota. buy.
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313ł nom. .38% nom $26 buy. $12 bay. $ com.
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(new) {
39 nom $11 sel. 35 sel
$20 mg.
316 sel.
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60.bur
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bay-buyers; sel-sellers; cales:
-mom-tominai,
SHANGHAI, MARKETS.
-My second suggestion is that a model Garden City should be formed. returned from China direct to Letchworth in their weekly report on the Shang- Garden City, and having lived here over
year now, I can only marvel that the hai market Messrs. Ilbert & Co, state:
Our local market continues dull with desirability of founding other garden poor clearances. The northern markets
cities is not more stressed. Whenever
visit London I feel shocked at the gar. are still closed but some shipments are denless state of so many of my fellow.reported for Szechuan and a few whites; tions in every Chinese city are infinitely vanced about T1. 0.7% both for near azid countrymen; while, of course, the condi. have been placed for the Yangteze ports. On the local exchange prices have ad more squalid and revolting in every way forward owing to the continued improve The essential features about Garden Cities to be emphasised are: tree-lined ment in demand for garn due to a slightly The Japanese Toads, laid out both wisely and artis better "political outlook. tically, with grass swards; no houses have been active buyers of cotton on the still allowed of inartistic design, or without exchange. Interior markets are both front and back gardens. Factories asking higher rates than obtainable in arrivals have to be on the side of the town away from Shanghai consequently
been smaali. Nevertheless with low maid- the prevailing wind, so that the fumes diing American offering at Tls. 37.15 ex will be blown away. I fear it will
whart Shanghai for shipment January, impracticable to build, for Chinese ar tisans, houses of the size they, are in present prices asked for the Chinese England; but the most modern sanitary staple appear high. Market frm
To-day'a quotations. 85 follows:- appliances should be provided, and electric light. Very great persistency Shensi Tis. 38.75 to Tis, 37.00, Shanghai and tact would be required in prevent-M.G. Tia. 38.60, Tungchow Tis. 38.50, ing any reversion to the anesthetic and Ningpo Tis 25.09.
Yarn About 10,200 bales are reported unhygienic conditions in which most Chinese live. But by a policy of booked for shipment to the interior, eliminating the obstinately anti-social, prices on the exchange hating advanced and encouraging the progressive-minded, one to two taels, the rate for average I believe the scheme could be a success. 16's for December on the 19th inst. being What is wanted is a self-contained unit, Tis ;180.40. not s garden suburb attached to na—
other town.
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CHARGES AGAINST MANILA BANKERS.
CASE AGAINST WILLIAM H. ANDERSON DISMISSED.
The following is taken from the Manila Times of the 2nd inst.:-
Holding that the facts alleged in the complaint of the rhilippine National Back against its former directors, do not constitute a cause of action, Judge Anacleto Diaz of the local court of first instance yesterday dismissed the case with special reference to one of the de fendants, William E. "Anderson.,
The bank recited in its complaint that as a result of the defendant's flagrant abuse of their popers and indirect violation of the plaintiff's charter, the bank lost a great sum of money in a transaction entered into by defendants with Vicente Madrigal & Company. appeared that the defendants made advances of various sums of money in the total sum of P.1,257,11,35 to the Vicente Madrigal and Company for the purpose of purchasing and acling of hemp for the account of the bank.
It
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"FUTURE OF LONDON UNIVERSITY.
PERMANENT HOME IN SOUTH
KENSINGTON?".
- MUSEUMS AT WEMBLEY.
The Sunilay Times anderstandaŸihat the proposal to transfer the Imperial Institute and the imperial War Museum to the buildings at Wembley, which are to be dismantled, and to provide a home for the University in South Kensington, is receiving considerable support in Government quarters. The advantages
from the point of view of economising the taxpayers' mocy are obvious, and it is expected, therefore, that the Treasury will not be unsympathetic to them during the course of the past few representations that have been made to Jaya,
There is, however, a difference, of
London for the headquarters of the opinion as to which is the best site in
he was President of the Board of University Mr. E. A L. Fisher, when Education, was strongly in favour of the Bloomsbury site. Others urge weighty reasons in favour of concentrating" "on the one site University buildings, Leach-
Judge Diaz, in dismissing the case, bold that the bank has neither allegeding, and administration. specifically the prevision violated nor has it shown also in what consisted the flagrant abuse of power
When the University - of, London "was " reconstituted in 1869, it was persuaded toave Burlington Gardens and baik- ings Specially erected on the assurance that the officers were to be housed per- manently in Boath Kensington, free of rent, rates, taxes, and repairs, and
mining or foundry avocations, the 3. In the beginning of 1906 I hail to healthiness and unattractiveness of this make choice between two ways of being counteracted by ample time for using my technical qualifications at agricultural work. helping a Christian mission in Shantung 4.The former three suggestions refer with their buikling work, or a British to object-lessons to be actually carried company to develop coal and iron mining out, not merely discussed. My fourth is There is no provision in the Corpora near Chungking in Szechwan. 1. chose the latter, as I considered industrial quite different; it is that lectureships tion Laws or in the charter of the bank should be established ou Co-operation, itself which expressly prohibits the development as vitally important. The and its history in England and elsewhere transaction made by the defendants, success of the company was hindered by I feel that Co-operation as practised in And it was shown that the transaction with a promise of expanding accom the opposition and obstruction of the the British Isles would benefit China made by the defendants was within the modation on the spot, proportioned to Chinese, and it was, I believe, eventually immensely, especially in training the well-founded principle that corporations, the new and expensive duties about. to bought out by the Chinese Government, Chinese to work together for mutual in the absence of express restrictions, be imposed". and the whole scheme abandoned. This bencft. I expect your colleagues on the have the implied faculty of doing all In considering the whole problem, it was unwise of the Chinese, as the com: Advisory Committee will be surprised at acts necessary for the attainment of the should not be forgotten that there are pauy could have been of great service to this suggestion, us the
educated" purposes for which they were created, influential members of the Senate who western China, as affording an object classes in England dieplay amazing ig declared Judge Diaz. These acts are wish to see King's College removed to. lesson in mining procedure, in contrast norances of the: Co-operative movement. interchangeably used as incidental or site south of the Thames mem with the absurdly primitive methods uni- I think, however, that all serious students implied powers. All corporations, by versal in that part of China
of Englian économic development recog-
12
rundum of 1920, published on the
would become the chief contre for South London, working in connection school, in association with, the hospitals
on that side of the water. In other
somewhat along these same lines, but been in England-both in alleviating powers of doing all acts necessary toward urged that on such a site King's College I suggest that an attempt be made nise what a great factor this movement ecessity, have the implied or incidental authority of ven members of the Senate,
reaching the ends for which they were much more definitely altruistic with the the conditions of the people, and as an created, unicas such acts are expressly with, and perhaps organising, a medien welfare of the workers considered as antidote to the pessimism and despair prohibited by their charters or by law, paramount; for a certain area to be that breeds anti-socul and revolutionary concluded Judge Diaz. managed by the Boxer Indemnity Com-hatred. In both these respects Chine mittee with the very latest apparatus and would benefit greatly by adopting the conveniences, both for the profitable principles and practice of Co-operation. working of the mine, and the comfort of I trust you will give these suggestions the workers Perhaps the Garden City your consideration, and bring them be suggested above could be worked in con- fore your colleagues on the. Boxer In junction with this mining scheme the demnity Advisory Committee Yours workers spending say four hours at their faithfully,
(Continued on next column)
G. W. SHIPWAY.
The attorneys for the other defendants, words, it is urged that King's College. Venancio Concepcion, Vicente Madrigal, should be to South London what Univer- Ramon J. Fernandez and Milton Psity Caligi to North London At Springer, did not join Ben B. Ohaick, present South London is without in reaf the attorney for Mr. Anderson in haking University matre South London really the court for the dismissal of the easy includes not only inrge portions of Lon Judge Diaz dismissed the complaint is don proper. but a huge suburban an regards Mr. Anderson only.
thickly populated tract of country."