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GREAT BRITAIN'S COAL PROBLEM.
A CHANCE FOR RECONSTRUCTION.
FIGURES THAT DO NOT MAKE FOR OPTIMISM,
HIGHER EXPORTS MEAN MORE LOSS.
4.32 5.48 7.44 - The coal-mining industry in Great 4.30 9.00 7.36 604 613 6.09 Britain at the moment is in a state of very eritical balance. It wiH 5.08.17 8.18 depend almost certainly on deci 5.18 6.97 8.53sions arrived at and action taken within the next two. three months, whether the necessary re constructive measures are applied
9.07 9.45 10.15.10.52 1.02 3.07-3.35 8.34 6.256.8837 a.A.7.41 8.45 0.13 9.51 10.2110.58 1.08 3.18 305 8.31 3.30 6.39 6.38 8.33
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this month and the first week is November shows a persistent con- tinuance of the decline-despite the increase in exports noted above. While in the five weeks of 1927 the output, was 24,354,000 tons; it only reached 93,580.000 this year, a drop of 965,000 tons. This suggests in- creased depression in the home market at a time when the colliery owners are trying to obtain from it a greater revenue to compensate for the heavy export losses,
80,000 Fawer Miners.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-dar
(December 20th.)
Tennis: Ladies Singles Cham- pionship L.R.C, 3.30 (Mrs. Totten- ham and Miss Lo) s
Kowloon British School, Juniors, Prize giving, 10.30 uu
Hockey: Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI. *. Recreio, King's Park, 5 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Fazil," World Theatre: The Magic Fame," 8.16 and 8.20 p.m.; Chiness. Picture "Nemesis," 230 and 7.15 pa
Star Theatre: The Flame of Yukon."
Tea Dances: H.E. Hotsi-and- Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel,
8 p.m.
in time to avert worse disasters and lead gradually to restoration or whether a promising tide will be missed. In these circumstances leaders in the industry who take A wide view of the position are
The average loss per ton on total watching internal movements and tendencies with anxiety and per in the December quarter of 1995: putput in all coalfields was 15, Ojd. plexity There is great danger that the substantial help to be aid. in the March quarter of this the June quar derived after the end of this year year; and is. 5d. from the accelerated derating may tor.
European Mail-Inward: Europe Little, if any, improvement can be expected when the Septem-rid Siberia (Empress of Asia). once again divert attention from ber quarter results are worked out, essential efforts for reorganisation.
but even if the operating loss were If this happens the relief will be no more effective than was the sub-halved it would still be serious. There is certainly no, encourage- sidy in 1995.
ment to complacent optimism in the On the other hand, conditions outpat figures just given, especially will be created by the saving in when it is noted that the number production and transport costs, in of workers on the colliery books on which an energetia co-operative November 3rd was 390,000, as com reconstruction campaign could be pared with 981,100 a year previous- planned and carried through with | ¡y. less difficulty than at any time in the past five years.
Friday.
(December 21st.). Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 h.m..
Land Sale (Nos. 36-63, Chatham Road, Kowloon) Messrs. Lammert Bros. 3 p.m.
Peak School, Prize giving, 6.13
Hong Kong Philharmonic Society "Tom Jones, Theatre Royal, 9 p.m.
No steps to cope with, this posi tion have been taken, apart from This situation may be better the formation of the district mar understood if the present economicketing associations two or three
Queen's Theatre: "Fazil." conditions, the operation of the un- amalgamations of mines, and the World Theatro: "The Magic related district marketing schemes. institution of leisurely conversa Flame," 5.15, and 9.90 p.m.; Chinese and the movement to co-ordinate tions on the question of linking up Picture. "Nemesis," 2.30 and 7.15 | them are briefly examined,"
the district schemes. Even from.. The Increase In Exports.
these movements Durham and A feeling of qualified optirisa effect of the operation of the Northumberland remain aloof: The has been paturally aroused by the thres district-schomes has certainly increase of half a milkon tons in been to intensify internal competivid Sues (Kalyan). the export trade for October, tion to some extent, and the resort compared with last year, and the realisation of a slightly higher pretensive measures of re-equip to output restriction without com-
average price per ton.
The price
duction costs and losses."
Aro HOW
Star Theatre, "The Flame ol Yukon."
European Mail-Inward Europe-
Saturday. "(December 22nd.)
Fanling Hunt: Steeple Chase, J
p..
R.H.K. Yacht Club, Sixth Chame pionship Race
Ľ.
Football:-First Division: South
rice ment concentration of production of much export coal, however, is
at full time in the most suitable till considerably below the costs of mines has tended to increase pro- production, and therefore the net efect of the larger trade is to in- crease the aggregate loss, which
Defects have appeared in all the must either be borne by the colliery schemes, and remedies
Cricket: Firet Division: Univer companies or made up from home being considered. In South Wales sity v. I.R.C., C.S.0.0. v. Kowloon, market prices.
If there were a particularly, where output restric H.X.C.Q. v. Chinese R.C. Second reasonable prospect that an inter- tion by quota has been avoided so Division: University. I.R.C., national agreement on export mar- far, it is proposed to adopt this c.8.0.C. v. Police R.C., E.K.C.C. kets and prices could be. negotiated principle, to cut down production Kowloon, Craigengower in the near future the policy of to 70 per cent, and to form a fund R.A.S.C. (F).
owners for JOBA increasing the export market at a to compensate loss might be justified by the larger international quota which could be demanded on the basis of actual
The Policy Of Drift. The danger referred to at the sales. Unfortunately, there is no Euch prospect. The differences beginning of this article lies in among the owners even on the tendency to believe that little more much simpler question of national than this can be done, and that the co-ordination which must precede financial and other difficulties et- International discussions-constitute tendant on drastic technical recon such a difficulty that rapid pro-struction and rationalisation of the gress connot be hoped for. There whole industry are so great as to fore, if the export tonnage improve be insurmountable at present, ment is maintained it will become an increasingly important question how long the beavier loss it entails can be carried.
tion.
specifically caused by this restricChina Chinese Athletic, Club *: Small Units, Kowloon . K.O.S.B.. Recreio. Second Division: Univer Police. Navy, Royal Artillery . ity v. South China "A" K.0.8.B.
Eastern, Navy v. Queen's, Royal Artillery ."Kowloon, South China 'B", St. Joseph's, Recreio r. Chinese Athletic, R.A.F. v. Small Units.
H.K. Philharmonic Society "Tom Jones," Theatre Royal, 9 p.m. Queen's Theatre: " Fazil." World Theatre: **The Magic Flame," 5.15 and 9.30 p.m.; Chinese Picture. Nemesis," 230 and 7:15
The inclination in some quarters, therefore, is to rely on the rating relief to wipe out the present losses on production, to provide the com- pensation fund for restriction from such higher prices as can be got in p the home market following the duction of supplies, and to drift on again in the renewed hope that some time something or other will happen to improve the general conditions in the industry..
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-Decreased Output. The perplexity induced by this consideration is not lessened when we turn to the home market and analyse the total output figures of the industry in relation to it. The outstanding fact to be noted is that during the quarter ending Septem-
The hopeful feature to set against bor last the tonnage of saleable this is the realisation by an in- coal raised was 55,341,000, aa com- fluential section of the owners and pared with 61,260,000 in the same managers that much more vigorous period of 1927, which was a very action is necessary. The persistent bad year. This reduction of nearly effort to improve and co-ordinate six million tons is attributed mainly the district schemes in spite of (Hector), p.m.; Europe i to the output restriction by quota apathy or definite obstruction: the Biberia (Fingchow), 6 p.m.
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Sunday. (December 23rd.)
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ly to the efforts of this far-seeing " After such low summer produc section. The fateful question is tion à definite recovery in October whether they can carry the whole' might reasonably have been ex-industry with them in time. NO TEETOTAL GENIUSES? pected, but in fact the output for London Observer.
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Home paper. SUIT.
whem Mr. Smith went through a Franz Schubert wrote all his 100+ marriage at St. George's, Hanover mortal works with a glass of beer DECREE FOR MRS. ALPHONSO Square, Register Office, in October at his elbow-and if your correspon- dant, Mr. Wakeling, and his fellow 1910, was still alive.
Alphonso Smith was the central moral legislators, had had their figure of what was known as the way, the world would have been
Stella Maris" shooting sensation robbed of Schubert's music.
SMITH-
Mrs. Rosina Ivy Smith was in the London Divorce Court granted, a decree of pullity on the ground of eighteen months ago. He was This apples, I believe, to all that at the time she was married sequitted on a subsequent charge creative artiste of the first rank. to Alphonse Francis Austin Smith of murder, but was sentenced to Menke Shakespeare, Dante,
Beethoven, twelve months' imprisonment for Moliere,
Schubert, he had a wife living. ...
Mrs. Smith's address was given being in possession of forearma, Bach, Raphael, Cellini, Rembrandt as Rue Busset, Paris. The case He sustained a tragic bereave- were not only not feetotalere, but was not contested.
ment in March this year, when one rather far from it... She founded her petition on the of his three children, four years of aflegation that at the time of the age, was burned to death in a fire ceremony of marriage at Lambeth-at-High-Trees Nursery School,-near Régister" Office on" Muz 'Sird, 1825, Horley,
The same applies to Pitt, Fox,. Disraeli, and even Mr. Gladstone. single Can prohibitionists cite teetotal genius!
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