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Temat Op 6.0
Shatin...Dep. 7.01
Taiporp., 7.15
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9.25/10.08)12.09 1,9
1.
Market Dep. 7.20
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Dinner Dance-8 to 12 p.m." Nightly. Tea
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ESTABLISHED 1857.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th,
SALARIES OF FRENCH OFFICIALS.
CABINET MINISTERS AT £640 A YEAR.
SHORTAGE OF CIVIL SERVICE APPLICANTS.
The legal stabilisation of the French franc, or rather the creation n new currency, has
a
SMOKELESS FUEL.
CAMPAIGN TO POPULARIZE. USE.
The annual conference of the Sinoke Abatement League was at Harrogate recently. opened Mr. W. Brownhill Smith presided in the absence of the president, Sir Napier Shaw.
Mr. W. W.. Fattig, general superintendent of the Manchester Parks and Cemeteries Department, city like Manchester said that in it was impura airfar more than wild and wet weath hat limited and hampered the puisie authori ties in making their parks beauty spots. The statement that human beings could not live on air was not equally true on ita application to plants which depended to a very large extent on the air for their sustenance- It had been dis- covered that if Manchester had the pure atmosphere of Harrogate, it would save on its washing bill £240,000 year.
made the question of official salaries an urgent one. Official anlaries in France before the war were much too low, and when the franc depreciated they were allowed to drop much below the
level. pre-war
This
year the salaries in the lower grades of the Civil Service have been brought up to that level and in a very few enses to a slightly higher one, but in the higher grades the salaries are still of an average only about three times as high as before the war in francs of the new currency, which means, of course that in reality they are 40 per cent, lower. A first-class clerk, to use the Eng- When the conference was resum- lish term, of 30 gets about £140 aed a report was presented by Mr. gear at the most, and the salaries Arnold Marsh, the secretary, stat of the permanent heads of departing that numbers of firms were ment do not exceed about £800 producing smokeless fuel on a com- Pensions, of course, are in the same mercial scale, and many technica! case, including war pensions, for difficulties previously encountered when the latter were fixed the had been overcome. The treatment value of the franc Wal much
of coal at low temperatures was higher than it is now.
Begistered as a Now paper at the General Post Often thei înited Kingdom.
1928.
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日玖廿月拾年八廿百九仟登英
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day...
(October 29th.)
Sales Crown Land: New Kowloon In and Lot No. 110 and Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2149, 3 p.m.
"At Home " Government House, Miss Maude Royden. 4 p.m.
Pianoforte Recital, City Hall, Harry Ore's pupils, 5.30 p.m.
Reception to Portuguese Minister to Peiping, Club Lusitano, 5.30 p.m.
Billiards League: Royal Artillery" . Dockyard. K.O.S.B. v. Warders, R.E. and R.C. Garrison Mess, C. and P.O. Club . Water Police. Queen's Theatre: Senorita." World Theatre: "Love's Greatest Mistake."
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Star Theatre: "Special Delivery," Ten Dancer: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 P.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel,
Principal Mails:-Inward:
Outward. Europe vid Victoria (President Jackim), 5 p.m.; Europe Siberin (President Jackion), 6 p.m.
A resolution was passed that the by-law formed by the Ministry of Health which brought the emit-6 p.m. tance of dense smoke "under the head of creating a nuisance was reasonable and should be adopted by all local authorities.
On
a sound basis and would be M. Poincaré gave last session a
come of great national importance half promise to bring all official and economically wuld have. im- salaries and pensions up to pre portant results on the industry. war rate in next year's Budget,
"According to Mr. frank Hodges, but he has now announced that heit for the 20,000,00 tons of coal has not sufficient funds. The total now consumed de estically was amount required would be about substituted a simili quantity of £32,000,000, and he can find only carbonized fuel, 29, 10,000 tons of about a fourth of that sum. The salaries of the higher grade civil coal would be required to be ex- tracted, and employment for 30,000 servants will be raised on.. an
miners would be provided. Large average to four-fifths of their pre-quantities of oil would also be pro- war rates and there will be some dured, the treatment of which increase ip pensions. Cabinet would create a new industry. Ministers, who at present have the ridiculous salary of £040 a year
with an allowance of £200 for a
car, are to be given £1,440 a year,
and their car allowance is to be
doubled. Before the war the salary.
It was stated that the presenta | tion of the report was to be the starting point of an exhaustive campaign to popularize smokeless fuck The Times.
A "DOG'S LIFE."
PHRASE.
of Cabinet Minister was £9.400 a year, and that was inadequate. M. Poincaré has proposed at pre- sent no increase in the salary of the President of the Republic, which is much lower than before NEW MEANING TO AN OLD the war (when it was £48,000) and quite insufficient, nor does he make uny proposal in regard to the Parliamentary salary: on the ground that it is a matter for the senators and deputies themselves, which puts them in an unpleasant situation. The pre-war salary of
"A dog's life" is a phrase that is coming to have less and lees of its original meaning.
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Tuesday, (October 30th.) Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.13 p.m.
Haude Royden: Meeting, City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
H.K. Football Association, Coun- cil Meeting, Scandal Point, 5.30 P.,
Hockey YMCA. 1st XI H.K.S.R.A. d XI., sp.m.
4th H.K. Troop Boy Scouts, Whist Drive, Scandal Point, 8.30
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Queen's Theatre: "The Thirteenth Hour.
the Canary."
World Theatre: "The Cat and
Star Theatre: "The Fall of Babylon.
Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Dances: King Edward Hotel, 8 p.m.; St. Francis Hotel, B
p.m.
Principal Mails:-Out war'da, Europe via Siberia (Tenyo Maṛu). 10.30 ..; Europë vit Marseilles |-·(Patrocher), 330 p.m.
Wednesday. (October 31st.)
Cambridgeshire, Newmarket. The Trevesas Trophy Race, 4 p.m. Annual General Meeting, K.B. S. The Home Office has now extend-F.P.A., Central British School."8.30 ed its care beyond the citizen to his dumb companion-if it happens to
p.m.
24th Annual General Meeting, R.H.K. Yacht Club, 8.45 p.m. Hallowe'en Dinner and concert, a H.K.V.D.C. Scottish Company,
p.m.
Maud Royder, public address; City Hall. 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Thirteenth Hour."
World Theatre: "The Cat and the Canary."
a senator or a deputy was £600 a be lost or strayed. An order has year, and the present salary is gone forth that the accommodation 1360. This is not nearly enough, for dogs brought into police especially for a provincial member stations must be of a certain stan- of Parliament obliged to abandon dard, so that in some districts there his calling and fire in Faria. has been a sudden ordering of Moreover, the hours of the Cham-kennels. ber, which often sits in the morn- Sir William Joyason-Hicks pro- ing, make it difficult for a deputy mised the Chairman of the National to do his Parliamentary work pro- Canine Defence League, Sir Robert "perly if he has any other occupa Gower, in the House of Commons
tion.
recently, that the Inspectors of Constabulary should give the mat ter their attention. Now, before signing the certificates of efficiency on which depends the Treasury 6 p.m. grant towards police maintenance, these oficials must assure themselves of the comfort of the stray dog,
Effect On The Civil Service.. As regards the Government ser- vices the situation is serious. It is becoming more and more difficult to find suitable recruits, and I was told by the head of a Government departinent the other day, that among the men that now enter the Civil Service there is hardly one it to be put in any responsible position. Besides, the best men leave it as soon as "they find any
Star Theatre: "The Fall of Babylon."
Tes Daner: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 P.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel,
Thursday. (November 1st.)
Golf: Entries close for champion-
Reilly."
Star Theatre: "Honour Bound." Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.
Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4 p.s.
#
Friday.
The London police station is al- ready" a good home. There is a ship, Jasper Clark Cap: Gover kennel, with clean straw, biscuits, ner's Shield, and G.M, Young Cup. and usually more scraps from the
Hockey Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI. . mess than the four-footed visitor other opening. Within the last can eat. But certain Watch Com-Kai Tak R.A.F.. 5 p.m.
Y.M.C.A. Ladies Night. year or two several of the leading mittees in the provinces have been
Queen's Theatre: "Knock out officinis in the Finance Ministry niggardly, and the lost dog has not have accepted appointments in been provided with ebelter and
World Theatre: "We're in "the banking of other financial con- reasonable quarters.
It is to еств. and there is 2
similar remedy the defects in a few such Navy Now." leakage in other departments. The places that the Home Office instruc- Post Office employees are so distions have been issued. contented that they do only just as nuch work as is absolutely neces sary with a very bad grace, and
No Sympathy From The Public,' many of them devote their chief. attention to outside occupations Unfortunately the French public
(November 2nd.) that they have undertaken to make has little sympathy with Govern- both ends meet. The teaching pro- ment officials, and does not realise Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.
Christian Fellowship Meeting, fession, at any rate so far as how disastrous will be the conse
"At Home," Helenn May In- higher education is concerned, is quences to France if the present very short of recruits, and a large underpayment continues. There is stitute, Address by Maude Rayden, number of the students of the Ecole general opinion that there are 5.30 p.m. Normale Supérieure refuse to en-
Police Branch, H.K.W.L. and fonctionnaires," which ter it when they have finished their is perfectly true, but the reason is M.C.L., Dance: City Hall, 5.15 p.m. course and take up other occupa that there are too many functions. P
Queen's Theatre: "Koock out tions. The judiciary, which in The whole system, needs overhaul- France is a separate profesion, is ing with the view of getting rid Reilly"
World Theatre: "We're in the in the same case, and there are not of the useless formalities that waste enough candidates to fill the the time of officials and the public, Navy Now." vacancies. Some Government de- and not only in the Government Star Theatre: "Honour Bound." partments, in default of regular service. One has to sign several
Tea Dances H.E. Hotel, 4.30 civil servants, fall back on un-copies of a contract to get the tele- p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. qualified auxiliaries," who are phone or the electric light. France Dinner Dance: Bt. Francis Hotel, paid miserable salaries of about would have a more efficient ad-1.8 p.m.
too many
23 or £4 a month and, naturally, ministration if she had half the Principal Mails:-Inward: Lon- are quite incompetent. (Continued at foot of next column) number of officials and paid them don vi Straits, parcel mail (Kash.
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