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was an unusual sequel, which are worthy of comment in the interests of the commercial community of this great port.

Mr. WELL concluded his formal

News and Views.

for many years, rose to say that in his opinion the Chairman's ob- servations about the export trade were not compatible with the facts ! That there have been complaints pand" claims, was not denied, but The body of a Chinese child was that there has been any systematic found last night concealed in a box or sustained resort to malpractices

cases

to meet markets was fatly denied in Caine Lane. The child had met So far from conditions last year being bad, Mr. Rocas declared that its death from small-por generally speaking there had been a marked improvement in the Cases of notifiable disense last quality, packing, and standards of week, other than small-pax (dealt goods shipped from Hong Kong with elsewhere) included 7 One firm which handles more than (3 fatal) of enteric, one of which 30 per cent of the total export of

was British, and 3 cases of diph wood-ail says that claims have been theria, all Chinese, rare-showing that shipments have been satisfactory. Another firm reports that the quality of wood- A week's remand was granted yes- oil shipped from this port has interday in the case in which six men proved to such an extent that Hong were charged, before Mr. T. 8. Kong is now a serious competitor Whyte Smith at the Kowloon for this business with Hankow. Magistracy with the murder of a Business in other export commodi- gardener at Eli Cottage, Old Kow- ties, according to Mr. na ROCHA, loon Tong. shows" evidence of similar improve- ment, and in regard to rico "my

The annual inspection of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade by HE the Governor, will take place an the Murray Paräde Ground on Tues- day, March 25th, at 8.15 p.m. -

Owing to the long spell of dry- weather, there is now less than one hundred days' supply of water in the Hong Kong reservoirs. Water

from a tank eroated in Western from Kowloon is being distributed

Street, and another is being put up in Southern Street. Two moge tanks will be erected shortly if eir- eumstances should make such relief.

necessary.

Communication with Mara.

Radio communication with Marsis. from Keelung, Formosa, on boarding that it is a one-sided affair. Pleading guilty to stowing away beginning to pick up, notwithstand- the sa. Tikini, an unemployed Thus far, Mars has stubbornly re- Japanese was sentenced to two fused to answer any of the tele- weeks hard labour by Mr. T. S. grama sent from the Earth. The Whyte Smith at the Kowloon latest message to go forward was

close connection with this trade bas not revealed any retrograde steg during 1999." The speaker declared the Chairman's strictures wero ca- tirely unmerited, and on behalf of the general body of exporters, no Magistracy. less than the Chinese dealers, Mr. Da Rocha protested against what

ramarks" from the Chair concern-

be described as the derogatory

there

Sub-Committee

before

is it that Mr. Da Rocha, who

the Royal Naval Hospital yester- The death took place suddenly in

year.

The

The case in which five men and woman were charged in connee tion with the armed robbery at No. 78, High Street, concluded before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon. Two of the men, the fourth and sixth defendants, were discharged at the close of evidence, the others bring committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions.

It is understood that H... the Duke of Gloucester will not stay

**Icy-Hot" Summer Weather.

addressed simply to the inhabit anta of Mare" and was sent by radiogram was an inquiry as to. an antique dealer of Belgrade. His ing the conditions alleged to exist day morning Mr. F. J. whether there was anyone on the iu the export business of the Connolly, master of the R.F.A. neighbouring planet who had anti- Colony.

Francol. About 45 years of age, ques to sell. At last reports he Now, there can be two points of the Francol from the Kharki lasting in his message at the Belgrade Mr. Connolly was transferred to was still awaiting a reply. Hand- of view on most questions, and

radio station, the enterprising there is nothing very remarkable

Jugoslavian business man was told in finding a difference of opinion

that it could not be accepted. between two individuals, A and B, Yesterday morning at 0.45 a.. After some discussion, however, tr as to whether there are more or the Fire Brigade were summoned the course

of which the govern- fewer complaints and claims arising to No. 259, Hollywood Road, but out, of export business to-day than on arriving it was found to be only ment director of posts and tele- were twelve months ago. a chimney fire. The Brigade were behalf, the radiogram was dis- graph intervened on the dealer's COMMERCIAL MORALITY IN What is extraordinary, however, is again summoned at 3.12 p.m. in the patched. The dealer later explain- to find open conflict of opinion afternoon to Wanchai at 154, Saied that he wanted to be the third between the Chairman of a Cham-Street. This call also turned out to Earth dweller

to communicate It is not often that the annual of a Sub-Committee of that Cham-

ber of Commerce and the Chairman be a due to a chimney.

with Mara; two residents of Eng- land recently having attempted meeting of the local Chamber of ber. Did Mr. WEALL approach the A Chinese stepped into a money similar communication. He said he

Exports Commerce provides such interesting drafting that part of his speech Road West, last night and snatched Martians could get into touch with changer's shop at No. 43, Queen's would be satisfied to wait until the material for comment as did yester. dealing with the export trade! $700 in bank notes from the counter. the Earth by wireless before receiv day's proceedings. The Chairman's Did the information obtained from The money changer; proprietor ng bis answer. Written in the that Sub-Committee confirm his own of the shop was sitting behind the Serbian language, the radiogram speech on such occasions is invari views as to the situation! If so, counter and immediately got up and contained 19 words. It cont, 2,100 ably of interest, since it is regarded how is it that the Exports Sub- gave chase. He soon caught the dinar or approximately $39. as an authoritative review of the Committee, was moved to protest thief and handed him over to the

police... commerce of the Colony for the publicly and emphatically against the Chairman's remarks" If condi- past year, and as a well-informed tions in the export trade are in

A wolf hound belonging to Mr. It is good news to be assured opinion as to trade prospects fact as Mr. WALL described them, F. M. Ellis, of No. 455, The Peak, that, during the humid and ener

Mr. DA ROCHA-s representative of has, according to a police report, vating summer months in Hong during the next twelve months, the Exports Sub-Committee should been sent to Kennedy Town for our we can have any sort of weather we fancy indoors. The Mr. WEALL's speech yesterday fol. be the first to support his Chair observation and destruction. lowed these traditional lines; it man instead of criticizing him. The animal is reported to have bitten health of Europeans in the tropics position is an extraordinary one, Dr. Aubrey about a fortnight ago may be adversely affected by many. was listened to and will be read-and seems capable of explanation and on Monday it bit Mr. J. Jack, different conditions, but the worst with the keen interest customarily only by an assumption which is no of Messrs Wm. C. Jack & Co. trials are those caused by high at- shown by business-men in such

less extraordinary that the Chair- The owner has asked for the dog mospheric humidity, and this was really the problem discussed by man of the Chamber of Commerce to be destroyed.

Professor Middleton Smith in his addresses. But there were some spoke as he did on the subject of

interesting lecture last week before export trade without Arat getting unusual features about the Chair into toach with his Sub-Committee

Shipbuilders. How are we to get the Institution of "Engineers and man's speech yesterday, and there which makes that side of the Cham-

rid of the excessive humidity in ber's activities its special province,

the atmosphere during the summer If this theory is correct-and no

months - The answer to this ques- other seems to micet the case then

tion at first sight is simple. The there must be a very sad lack of

Professor tells us there is only one co-ordination in the inner working of the Chamber of Commerce. No

way of doing it to condense the water vapour in the air, and to managing director of a public com

do this some form of cooling ap pany would address a meeting of

paratus must be used. The most | address with some emphatic refèr shareholders without first consult

obvious method is a refrigerating machine, but a plant large enough. saces to alleged abuses connected ing the heads of departments and obtaining facts" and opinions relat

to keep a house cool is expensive, with the export trade of Honging to the special activities immediat Mountain Lodge when he visits and costs quite a lot of money to Keng.

These observations were ately under their notice. Neglect Hong Kong next month, but will keep going. A rough estimate of to make such preliminary inquiries make his headquarters at Govern- £8,000, representing capital cost directed not only against Chinese inevitably would result in some ment House. There are six mem- and maintenance for a ordinary producers but also against foreign statement being made which, while bers of the Royal party, and it has house, is not a figure to encourage exporters. The allegations contain quite innocent of harmful intent, been arranged that two will stay many of us to try the scheme. For might do very serious mischief to with the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes at cooling a small room which could ed in the Chairman's observations the interests of the company. The Bank House, two with H.E. the be used as a sleeping-porch, how- were such as do not add to the action of Mr. Da Roca at yester- General Officer Commanding at ever, the cost would be very much prestige of this port on the score day's meeting may be compared to Headquarters House and two, in- less." CHRONICLE commercial morality. However, the head of a department protest cluding the Duke, at Government

if there are abuses and shady pracing against a statement made by House, tices in the conduct of trade, it is his managing director at a public

Another most interesting feature. better that these unpleasant mat meeting. He is in a position to The case against a Chinese who ters be.. brought to light and know, as Chairman of the Exports is being summoned by his wife for cuasion of atmospheric conditions

of the lecture was the dig remedies frankly discussed, rather

Sub Committee, whether the stan- alleged persistent cruelty, desertion best for human efficiency. À num- than pretend such malpractices do dard of commercial morality among and neglect to provide for her, ber of tests have been made to de- not exist. There no man better those handling the export trade of was again brought before Mr. T termine the Directory and Chronicle qualified to speak publicly on euch

temperature this Colony iss low as it fix. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon humidity of the air which makes. a subject than he who holds the alleged to be. He declares that so Magistracy yesterday afternoon people feel most comfortable. office of Chairman of the Chamber far from conditions becoming worse, His Worship intimated that he had America many theatres and cinema- of Commerce. In that position a they are actually improving, and on been informed that an amicable halls are supplied with pure air man may be assumed to have at behalf of exporters generally be settlement might be brought about at just the degree of heat and his command all the authentic in protests against the "unmerited between the husband and wife humidity considered most desirable. formation it. is possible to secure

strictures passed upon them. Mr. Hin Shing Lo for the prosecu It may be that similar: arrange- regarding the volume and character CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO of the trade of the port, and the Rock's intervention yesterday, the the defence both agreed to an ad Hong Kong, but it is much more consequence of Mr. Da tion, and Mr., F. X. Remedios for ments will be made some day in CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS manner in which the business is question raised in the Chairman's journment until 2.15 p.m. on likely that the first attempts to ob- SETTLEMENTS, MALAY done. Therefore, when the Chair-speech is to be gone into by the Wednesday, March 20th.

Lain manufactured weather in the STATES, NETHERLANDS An, at the annual meeting of the Committee which seems a strange

Colony will be made in the local Chamber of Commerce, declares in reversal of customary procedure, Brighton to Brightons.

hospitals and large business-offices. INDIA, BORNEO, THE his formal address that dishonest but at least should result in the The Brighton Corporation is The community should be grateful practices in the export trade have facts being arrived at. It is to be making efforts to arrange for a to Professor Middleton Smith for caased some concern during the hoped that the result of this in-broadcast programme of a some his clear exposition of what is pos- and firms abroad doing busivatigati clay, and we hope it will Brighton, England, to the sixteen the equipment for the new Govern past year, business-men in Hongvestigation will be made know what novel kind being sent out from nible. It is now obvious that in ness with merchants established "in result in clearing the reputation of Brightons in the United States.ment Civil Hospital apparatus for this port quite naturally assume Hong Kong marchants of any wrong The Brighton Corporation have ap-cooling air must be included. In that conditions here must be ex impression which may have been proached the B.B.C., and also two dealing with serious cases of sick-- ceedingly bad. Members of the Chamber were told yesterday that Chamber of Commerce to promote the United States have been ap sideration.

It is the object of the of the broadcasting undertakings in ness expense is a secondary con- It is essential that not only have these deplorable trade, to facilitate business, to proached in the matter, and it is during the summer months those practices led to serious complaints remove difficulties, and to settle not expected that much difficulty who are in hospital should be made. from consuming centres, but there differences. The Chamber can deal will be found in carrying out the as comfortable as possible. The has been actual loss of trade as a

with any of its members who may scheme. The programme will be fact that considerable additional Both Days inclusive, during which FOR SALE MORRIA-CALzx, 2 Argurnames in strict alphabet, with corresponding loss of be tempted to stray from the brondenst from the high-power expense will be incurred to provide alphabe-prestige to the port. I would straight narrow path. Dis-station of the B.B.C., picked up by the "right" 'atmosphere need not tical order so that any name issue a very strong warning," said

can be taken one of the American stations, and deter the Government. Aa nota. ciplinary action 30 M.P.G. Owner driven : 8,000 MIS). can be found instantaneously, Mr. WEALL, not only to Chinese against such offenders--and should then relayed to the other Brigh brick has been yet laid, it should Excellent Condition. What Offer?

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dards are maintained at a level abroad that improper practices bably be other schemes of signalling Memorial Hospital in such a man- that will do credit to Hong Kong were of common occurrence among from the old towns on this side of aer that the necessary apparatus and South China.”

business-men in the Colony, and the Atlantic to their namesakes on can be installed and used in the In seconding the motion to adopt were allowed to go unchecked. the other. Brighton is showing en most economical manner. As for the report and accounts, Mr. J. A. Once the idea gets abroad that the terprise in more material ways. It the application of the system to PLUMMER added a few words, de standard of commercial morality in is now busy with a scheine to pro- offices and houses, we hope the ex- ploring the "short sighted policy a community is not jealously main duce the most luxurious bathing periments which have been made in on the part of export merchants tained at the high level looked for pools in Europe, at an estimated the University will be continued, generally So far, so good--but in Western countries, it is most cost of £150,000 deputation, so that we may have additional ten an astonishing thing happen dificult to remove that impression, consisting of the town clerks, the date as to the cost of manufactur ed. Mr. JM. DA ROCHA, & well- In the interests of all business-men berough surveyor, and an alderman ed weather, and the practicability. known business-man who has been in Hong Kong, therefore, swift and are soon to pay a visit to Southport of making its enjoyment more engaged, in commerce in this port effective action is necessary. to inspect the bathing pool there, general.

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