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In the United Kingdom roughly Empire be developed as a single The manager of the Man Gang about £820,000,000 is spent for coonomic unit, with internal Free Hong, contractors, was before Mr. Trade as the ideni, and that the Whyte-Smith yesterday on a churgo government, interest, pensions, etc, Government Lo urged to open nego of not having a watchman at his and the total expenditure of the tiations with other Governments of magarine on the hillside at Argyle United States for the same objects the Empire with a view to the for- Street. On the defendant failing £719,000,000. The national debt mulation of a policy designed to te appear, the case was adjourned of the United States is about secure that the purchasing power for a week, but his Worship.remark- £3.300,000,000. These are some of of the Empire shall be directeded that if he failed a second time, Britain's handicaps Another is primarily to the full employment
arreşt that out of the cost of government of the inhabitants of the Empire" awasant would be issued for his there is paid for social service noThis is the plan proposed by Lord
Statistics, complied by the CAT less than £363,000,000, including BEAVERBROOK-Empire Free Trade pensions A further handicap is and would be an admirable solution ton. Reconstruction Department, the appallingly long list of unem- were it practical, which it is not. show that up to the present, 12,516 ployed. There was no unemploy Mr. SnowDEN, on behalf of the of highways have bean construct ment for the French. In addition Government, expressed disapproval ed in Kwangtung. There are 2,09% to their own population, they have of the scheme because it would in- in the 1st-class districts, 3,847 li tax on foodstuffs, and (in the 2nd-class diatrieta and 6,870 nearly 1,000,000 aliens in France, volve a who were assisting them in their would increase the cost of produc- in the 3rd-class districts. In some productive industries aliens who tion in every British industry. But of the last-mentioned districts, con- have been admitted to France under this would not be an insuperable struction of highways has not be- such terms that should anything difficulty if the workers received gun, but preparations are under happen to her industries likely to higher wages and manufacturers way: throw the French people into an obtained higher prices-from-their
According to a report from employment, the first thing they averses customers. The point which would do would be to send those is not fully appreciated is that Swatow, cleven revolvers and „4“ aliens back to the countries to which Canada, Australia, and India are large quantity of ammunition were they belonged. The United States rapidly becoming industrialised, found by the police last week. The of America is increasing her pro and therefore are becoming active police were searching passengers ductive capacity at a greater rate competitors of manufacturers in coming ashore from a Shanghai than her domestic population can England. That is the great dif steamer when they came across two absorb, and, in order to keep the ficulty in the way of Empire Free rattan baskets. These were opened industrial population fully employ- Trade-the Dominions are no longer as nobody claimed ownership. The ed, she is adjusting tariffs in every mera wheat-growing and cattle-rais- contraband was covered with food- direction, so that not a single thing ing countries, but are establishing stuffs and when these were removed, that can be manufactured and pro- their own industries and strongly the revolvera and 630 rounds of am- duced in the United States is allow urging the purchase of home-munition were brought to light. ed to enter if it would in any way | made goods True, they have a No arrest was made and the articles throw American citizens into un-preferential tarif for imports from were confiscated. employment. On last year's trad-Great Britain, but they have the
DIPAS. States a credit very natural ambition to become
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 7, 1930.
TRADE.
McDogDALL, representative of Aus
lively discussions in the Dominions
as to what constitutes a
expenses, but no money is avail- fair" able until the military situation throughout the country is settled, when, it is hoped, military expenses will be greatly curtailed-
The Sale of Arsenic.
share of the domestic demand when the prosperity of infant indus tries" is considered to be at stake
Mr. Tai Chi Tan, the president. balance on national merchandise self-supporting communities, and of the Canton Chung Shan: Univer- account of £150,000,000. The United that is what they intend to be so far sity (the highest Government educa- Kingdom for 1999 had a deficit on ne is possible. Mr. BALDWIN istion institution in Kwangtung) has merchandise-account of £300,000,000. hopeful of ranching some sort offenbarked on the construction of An interesting contribution to compromise, whereby it will be new premises for the University, for economic Imperial affairs is made "decided what Dominion industries which a sum af 82,000,000 is in- by the latest publication of the may "fairly" manufacture exclu- volved. It is understood that the MR. BALDWIN. AND EMPIRE Empire, Marketing Board: "Thesively for their markets, and what | Central Government in Nanking Growing Dependence of British lines of goods Britain should export will turn over a sum of 8160,000 Industry upon Empire Markets" to them. We can foreste some very monthly towards the construction This report is written by Mr. F. L tralia on the Board, who points out that while the volume of world trade is increasing, Great Britain's share fell from 13.9 per cent, in 1913 to-12.1 per cent. in 1925 and 11.4
In view of the tragic affair at per cent. in 1927. In a recent issue
the Royal Naval Yard, reported of the Board of Trade Journal it
elsewhere in this issue, it is interest- was stated that the British share of world exports in 1928 amounted
ing to know what regulations, are to approximately 11 per cent. The Oup case (Chinese) of small-enforced in the Colony regarding, fall in the quantum of British ex- pox was reported during the twenty-the sale of arsenic, which comes un pert trade to only 83 per cent. of four hours ending midnight Febru- 1913 level cannot readily be recon-ary 5. piled with the considerable increase in the total volume of world trade, Mr. MCDOUGALL comments, and he
FROM the cabled summary of the speech delivered by Mr. BALDWIN a a mass meeting of the Conser rative party it almost seems that the ex-Prime Minister is being slowly converted, to Lord BEAVER- spoox's plan of Imperial Free- trade. Mr. BALDWIN is more of business-man than a politician, and fully realises the difficulties of the situation, but his suggested plan for getting round the obstacles scema exceedingly naive. Britain and the Dominibas are to agree as to what the latter shall make for themselves, and what Britain chair
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der Schedule 1 of the Poison Act.. It cannot be sold to any person un- known to the seller, unless he is introduced by some person known to the seller. Upon any such enle
make or cause to be made an entry the seller must, before delivery, in a book kept for that purpose, revival in her export trade both Admitting a charge of resisting giving the date of sale, name and to sectire expansion in the near arrest, a Chinese woman was fined address of purchaser, name and quantity sold, and purpose for future and to provide a lasting 810 by the Kowloon Magistrate which it is stated by the purchaser basis of prosperity. The author yesterday. She was also fined to be required. To these entries the sums up the general trend of fortelling without a licence. seller must obtain the signatures of the purchaser and of the person, if British trade since the War in figures showing the increasing per- Mr Tipple of the Royal Air any, who introduced him. If the centage of British exports sent to Force, and Mr. J. M. Mackenzie of person be not known to the seller, Empire markets, Great Britain's Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong, there must be a witness to the sale," exports are mainly manufactured were each fined 85 by Mr. Whyte and the entry must be signed by goods, so that the importance to Smith yesterday for allowing their both purchaser and seller: Tho Great Britain of overseas markets dogs to be abroad without muzzlea
drug cannot be sold to any person. is largely relative to their capacity
To-day's radio programme in-under 16 years of age, nor may it be sold (with certain exceptions) un- to purchase manufactured goods.
Empire markets are more cludes a studio concert from 9 to less mixed with a certain proportion favourable to British trade than are 10.30 p.m., when several ladies and of soot or indigo. The purchaser's foreign, arkets. Great Britain's gentlemen will give vocal and occupation is also required to be share of the import trade of Empire instrumental solos. Details will be stated. cent, whereas in foreign countries pearing on page 8. countries averages about 36 per found in the full programme ap- the average percentage is 3.6."!
Mei Lan Fang, the Chinese noted adds that it can be shown that by stage star and female impersonater the development and encouragement arrived at San Francisco on the 4th of Empire markets, Great Britain instant (Tuesday). can with most certainty, bope for
The
Another of the Quadrille Club's most enjoyable dances was held on the 3rd instant in the Masonic Hall, company present included tinued until the small hours of the morning, the Kowloon party having arranged for their conveyance to the other side. The programme includ- ed Schottisches, Waltzes, Barn- dances, Quadrilles, Lancers, and d'Alberts, and the excellent and perfect condition of the floor tended. to make the evening pass in the most pleasant manner possible.-
about fifty couples. Dancing con-
export. It sounds wonderfully simply, but WO cannot picture Australian and Canadian indus- trial magnates being so magnani mous as to delay deliberately the further and natural development of the manufacturing enterprises they have already established behind their protective tariffa. Everyone interested in the welfare of the British Empire agrees that trade between its component parts should be promoted, but how this develop ment can be best effected is an issue on which there is much dis- Over these vast and agreement.
Another point brought out by The Band of the King's Own Looking Back 25 Years. widely-separated territories Great
this analysis of statistics is that Scottish Borderers (by kind per- Britain exercises a low kind of in the two decades preceding the mission of Major R. H. Crake, jurisdiction, but in times of crisis War Germany and the United D.S.O., and Officers) will accom- these honda tighten up immediately, States had begun to challenge the pay the organ in St. John's and the Empire stands as one solid supremacy held by Great Britain Cathedral at Evensong at 6 p.m.
since the industrial revolution in on Sunday, February 9. unit. It is in times of peace that the supply of manufactured goods
A message from Moscow reports difficulty arises in adjusting the to the world. As showing the in-
tensification of competition, Mr. the discovery of 28 large oil wells views of Great Britain and the over MeDOUGALL, says that in 1925, the in the Transcaucasian steppes. The sea dominions. During the last last year for which a census of pro- Soviet has handed them over for decade Imperial problems have reduction is available, the United working by a Russian petrol firm. States of America exported about 8 The chairman believes that the dis ceived increasing attention from all per cent. of her manufactured pro- cavery will revolutionise the world's political parties, particularly in ducts. "There is definite evidence petrol market. connection with schemes for combin- to show that America is determined ing the Empire into one economic to increase her export trade, and Italian fishermen found in their Hong Kong Daily Press, February.
T, 1905. unit. These matters have been it is important to realize that annete the decomposed bodies of two UR TAXI SERVICE in KOWLOON forced upon the notice of the British additional export of 1 per cent. of airmen, who are believed to be Looking Back 50 Years.
has been Established for the Fast people because Great Britain, of all the United States production of victims of the Imperial AirwaysThe following is a translation of a Two Years and From Now on We wish countries, is struggling to secure as manufactures would represent a total liner City of Rome which founded Chinese petition just presented to Our Customers with Aaltogether inadequate share of the value of approximately £70,000,000 off Spezia on October 26, but the the local Government praying that world's business. The promised and a larger sum than the whole British Consul is unable to give a the Japanese silver yen may be
in made legally current this BETTER RATE by Issuing TICKET looked-for trade revival has not value of British exports to South definite opinion. FORMS EXCH LOOK f Tickets come, there are million end & America. This small percentage in
Colong We, the undersigned half men and women out of work, crease would represent a very large This afternoon at five o'clock, a bankers, merchants and traders, ze, Coats FIVE DOLLARS. and contains and many first-clad craftsmen are share of the increase in the ability presentation is to be made to Mr.sidents in Hong Kong, having lived TEN 10 CERT-TORETA, FIVE 20 compelled to accept a wage lower of the rest of the world to absorb W. J. Stokes on resigning his posi- in this Colony for years, and know GEST-TICKETS, and TEN 40 CIT than that received by an unskilled manufactured goods." He adds tion as Secretary of the Hong Konging the circumstances, and also be-- Ticars. These Ticket Books can be man who cleans the street, or does that among the four leading indus branch of the Marine Engineersing largely interested in ita com- some other simple job in a non-com- trial nations France has recorded Guild of China. The presentation mercial development, humbly beg to obtained from Our Office at the Competitive industry which is not sub-a rate of progress in exports second will be made at the offices of the petition His Excellency the Gover
NATHAN
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nor, praying that His Excellency STREETS, YAUMATI.
competition. Nobody attempts to petition is becoming intensified in
will be pleased to use his influence No fewer than 408 cases of small- to make the Japanese silver yen nobody can defend such a dians all directions, and Great Britain Books will be Ready for Sale at the trous state of affairs, nur so far can finds it difficult to maintain her pex are being treated in the London legally current in Hong Kong. It anybody submit a plan for remedy-share of the world market. It is area, a larger number that at any is now established beyond doubt ing the situation which meets with essential, therefore, that Great time since the 1801 outbreak. It is that the Japanese silver yen is a general approval, byt
Britain should develop her trade such a mild type that sufferers in coin of at least equal purity and In 1922 Britain's debt
was with Empire countries where she the early stages are apt to mistake weight with the Mexican dollar. £704,000,000 to day it stands at enjoys some shelter from competithe malady for influenzo, and neg The legislation of the Japancre £7,021,600,000-a teri-fold increase tion in markets which absorb from lect precautions, thus spreading the silver, yen in Hong Kong would give In 1913 the national debt of France 60 per cent, co 80 per cent. of her disease.
great facilities, in various ways, for the conduct of business transactions in sterling, translated at the rate exports of these classes of goods. By of francs at that day, wap £1,334,000,000. In 1999 as far as figures can be obtained, the national dobb of France was £0,855,000,000. In Germany the national debt in 1013 was £233,000,000; to-day it is £138,000,000. Germany does not in- clude in her national debt repara tions liability, but even if we capitalize that item the.. total national indebtedness of Germany thus enable Great Britain to regain. We are informed that HE the would then be still only £0,456,000,000, a stronger competitive position in Officer Administering the Govern on the other hand, contribute in the against that of the United Kingdom foreign markets..
ment has consented to perform the most important degree to the com of £7,621,000,000. The national Last week the House of Commons official opening ceremony of the mercial interests and conveniences" annual income in the United King- debated a "resolution which was in- main buildings and additional hos of Hong Kong, and the development dom is about £4,164,000,000. The tended to offer a solution of the tel of St. Stephen's College at of its trade." The petition, we are national income of the United difficulty. It was quite simply Stanley. Peninsula on Tuesday, told, bears the chops of over two Chinese hongs Hong States, whose returns had been phrased: That in the opinion of March 25, at 3 p.m. and not on hundred made up to 1928 was £18,590,000,000, this House it is desirable that the March 4, as previously announced | Kong Daily Press, February 7, 1880.
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