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their work people will be on the basis of co-partnership. An elaborate regiona!! town planning scheme has been prepared for the careful development of the new, coalfield area. Together with the utilisa tion of the coal supplies of East Kent, the company foresee the expansion of the war-time port of Richborough the con- struction of a super power station, and the exploitation of a large field of iron ore which runs out under the English, Channel from Dover."
WIRELESS UN TRAINS.
A new development which the Creat Western-Ballway are making this week will be watched with a considerable amount of interest, not only by wireless experts, but also by railway officials. The Company are installing on what is called the Cornish Riviers express, which leaves Paddington at 10.30 am every day for Plymouth, a special wireless equipment: Loud speakers will be provided in one of the dining cars, and the compartmentaÀ of a first-class coach will be fitte, with headphones for the use of each pastedger As this famous train makes the longest non-stop journey of any railway in the world, it may well be imagined that the innovation will meet with the apprecia- tion of the travelling public from London to Bristol and Plymouth. The Company recently bad a try-out of a similar instal lation on a special train from Bristol to Cardin with satisfactory results; but this is the first time that railway travellers are being given the opportunity to listenin as part of the ordinary amenities of the journey,
EMTORATION OF FARM LABOURERS,
We are constantly told that emigration ought to be encouraged because it is one of the ways by means of which the problem of unemployment here can be dealt with, But it seems that circumstances. alter cases The State assisted emigration of agricultural workers is strongly criticised by the National Farmers' Union, which represents the employers in all parts of the country. The N.F.U., declare that the scheme is a negation of the declared
TAX OF PURCHASES.
Mr. Churchill as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, cannot complain of lack of suggestions for new sources of taxation. He cannot yet make up his mind on the question of a tax on betting; and in the meantime we have Mr. Gordon Selfridge proposing a tax on shop purchases, or, as he says, "the indirect tax called the sales tax" The most remarkable thing about this proposal, I think, is that it should emanate from one of the greatest retailers, for the suggested tax means the levying of "one per cent.-not more upon every transaction at the time of purchase by the consumer."
Mr. Selfridge calls it a sales tax, which suggests that it would be paid by the vendor; but of course everyone must perceive that it must be in the end a purchasers tax, for the modern store- keeper works on too narrow a margin to add even a one per cent tax to his turnover without endeavouring to dis tribute the burden over the price of his goods. The yield of such a tax would no doubt be very large. It will be in- toreating to watch the fecal controversy which is bound to arise upon Mr. Gordon Selfridge's Sold saggestion.
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policy of the Government to maintain a supply of skilled farm workers in Great Britain. How thorough is the process of selection of the best type of labourer may be judged by the fact that after previous weeding out by the local offices the Caps dian Director of Emigration in Londonperty of the Trades Union Congrem for refused to accept 8,500 individuals during January.
Of course, the idea behind the scheme of State assisted emigration is to take men who want to go on the land from over-stocked occupations in the towns and train them. But I am informed that as regards the agricultural aide of the plan this is still at the stage of "engaging attention." Mr. Amery, the Minister for Dominion Affairs, recently admitted as mach in the House of Commons. Perhaps it is not altogether surprising that the farmers are disgruntled. They do not look kindly at their best workers being taken from them and seat across the seas leaving them with the very young and inexperienced, and the weaklings, and the aged.
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Easton Lodge, one of the stately homes of England," has now become the pro-
use as a Labour College. The house and 900 acres of park have been formally handed over to the representatives of the Congress as a gift in perpetuity by Frances Countess of Warwick, who for some. years has been one of the most pro-' minent supporters of the Labour Party. During the time the Labour Government was in office Lady Warwick made Enston Lodge available for the use of Ministers in the same way that Chequers is at the disposal of the Prime Minister. The mansion, surrounded by beautiful gar deas, lies deep in the heart of the Essex countryside, and for centuries was the home of the Maynards.
Lady Warwick has been an avowed Socialist for many years. She is a charming and beautiful woman; and no doubt many of your readers will recollecti when she was a reigning beauty in Lon
The restriction of London bus services where these compete with the trams don Society, in the inner circle of the recommended by the Traffic Advisory Committee, and the regulation will prob ably came into force at Easter. The in tention, of course, is to Lave the London tramway system from rain is the interests of the workers. The estimated loas on the L.C.C., tramways fast year was round about a quarter of a million, and it is generally admitted that the fierce bus competition is responsible for & good deal of it. The idea is to prohibit buses from running in large numbers on the tram routes.
7 As is pretty widely known the tram are under severe fascial handicaps as compared with the hames. In rand charges the London trams pay about £180,000 Á year, while there are something like 4,000 buses on the road as compared with 1,606
trams.
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late King Edward's intimate friends when he was Prince of Wales. After he came to the throne things were somehow changed; the Countess was not so mach in the public eye, and then her former friends were startled by her acceptance of Socialism. Hez. gift of her old home where her ancestors lived and where she. was born-it came to her on the death of her father, Lord Maynard, as heiress in her own right-is the climax of her long association with the Labour Party
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For months past the reported decision of the British Government to continua to accept responsibility for the good.
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Since the days of my youth, which is longer ago than I care to recall, I have been hearing about the development of the Kent coalfield. Now, at last, it would seem that the scheme has a fair chance of becoming a practical business preposi, tion.: Big financial plans by Messrs. Pear, for the policy, for which he is largely son & Dorman Long, Ltd, are annommend responsible, and be carried the mar auto The issue of £2,000,000 to the public, with the enemy camp so cleverly that "s Government guarantee under the Trade Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the ex-Labour Facilities Acts is expected next month Premier was compelled to act on the In addition the company already, com- - defensive.
mitted to this enterprise are to increase-The most striking speech in a debate their share capital from £300,000 to which was maintained at a high level of 22,050,000, though it is behered there is interest came from Commander Hilton no present ides of offering any of tn Young. He has first-hand knowledge of to the investing public The intention of this much-debated region. He asked. the company would therefore appear to M.P.'s to visualise Iraq as a land of vast be to employ, sooner or later, a total of possibilities, which has just emerged from £4,550,000 in their Kent venture seven or eight centuries of Turkish I understand that eventually there will misrule, and he pictured a broad stream be 10 or 18 pita,- and the most modern of trade between Europe and Asia, which types of housca are to be provided for the will flow acrpar Iraq with Bagdad as thousands of migers who will be employ its great centre. For the time being, at: ed there. There is a rumour that the any rate, the critics have been milenced." relationship between the employers and H.B
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