GOVERNMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT.
ANOTHER WHITE PAPER EXPLAINS HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT.
BRITAIN'S POSITION COMPARED WITH
OTHER COUNTRIES.
·
The principal measures takeri by the Government to deal with un. employment are detailed in a White Paper issued on December 18. The value of achens under various programmics which have been op proved up to September 30 may be
summarised as follows:-
Devolopment (Loan Guar
antoes and Granta) Act,, 1029, part 1 Development (Loan Guar antees and Granta) Act, 1920, part 2 Colonial Development Act,
1829 .********
Rond Fund Miscellaneous
Total
29,147,230
46,760,003
}
Under the trunk read programme, (the total of which was raised in July last to £21,000,000) the schemes. approved mounted at September 30, 1930, to over £15,000,000, of diture of over £5,000,000 had been which schemes representing expon definitely approved for grant and the balance approved in princip. Thors were 33 schemes of widening and reconstruction and 12 import ant by-pass schemes.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1931.
NEW JUDGES IN
AUSTRALIA.
SAID TO BE POLITICAL 'APPOINTMENTS.
"POLITICAL SUICIDE."
THE MOST COSTLY COAT IN LONDON.
MR. MACDONALD AGAINST | £3,000 . GARMENT. AWAITS
*AN ELECTION.
He insisted that if there were an election in present circumstances the Socialists would lose, and he
remain in office utut employment urged that at all costs they must
improved.
Canberra,--Mr. Fenton, the Act- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the ing Prime Minister, announces that Prime Minister, is understood to the Cabinet has unanimously decid have told the Socialist Party inst ed to appoint to High Court Judge-month that a generl election would ships Dr. Herbert Yore Evatt, be "political suicide." KC., and Mr. Edward Aloysius McTiernan, member of the House of Representatives. No decision has ship which will be vacant when Sir heen taken about the Chief Justice
Genaralship, but Dr. Evait's namo lanne Istars assumes the Governor
le mentioned in this connection. It is understood that Mr. Soullia con- sented to the appointments, but Mr. Brennan, the Attorney-General, telegraphed from London advising that no action should be taken until
Under the five years' programme of £27,500,000 the schemes approved amounted on September 20, 1930, to nearly £25,000,000, of which schemes representing expenditure of nearly £0,000,000 had been, definitely ap- 3,375,000 proved for grant and the balance This is yet another Labour 40,000,000
approved in principle. Twenty Caucus victory. Logal circles o 3,340,323 schemes of widening and reconstruc gard the appointments with sur-
On the basis commonly accepted that £1,000,000 provides work for one your for 4,000 men, these schemes will provide work to the extent of more than 500,000 minn-yents, or over 130,000,000 days of work..
Mr. Scullin's return."
The Prime Minister is reported to have made theso declarations at a meeting of the Socialist M.P.s and peers held at the House of Com- mons to consider mainly the ques tion of electoral reform. He indic- ated that the Liberals had reasons of their own for not wanting an election.
A BUYER.
Is there a inin in Bagland (or Hong Kong) who suffera suficiently from the cold to spend £3,000 en á
winter overcont ?.
The most costly cost made, in London for the past fifty years, possibly the most expensive fur now on view in a London tailor's ovorcoat for a man ever' made, is window.
Three thousand pounds is the
it is up for sale, and a strip of price, and the sung for whom it was inade in now afraid to wear it, so
close-mesh notting. protects it against the likely violence of a anatch-and-grab thief
Tho collir is of sea-otter; the lining of Russian sable. The collar alone is worth nearly £1,000, and the two hundred skins of unblo are valued at £9,000.
Sea-otter is the rarest of furs there are not four pieces in the world-and it is a capital offence. to take it out of Russia without per mission of the Government.
"The animal from which that collar made,” said tha manager for the lives of two or three mon before it was captured. They are hunted by the Eskimos in little skin" boats, which are easily upset, and: one bite from an otter-they are extremely savage can be fatal.";
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tion, and thirty new sections of priso, especially as those appointed strong ples. by Sir Oswald Mosley of the shop, probably accounted Commencing from MONDAY, 12th January, 1931.
have comparative little experience.
It is rumoured that a third Judgeship is to be croated and that either Mr. Brennan or Senator Daly would be appointeni. Mr. Brennan's return is awaited.
A feature of the meeting was a for pamy unity, while Mr. Maxton attacked the alternative, vote plan.
: Executive's Decision An official report of the meeting states that Mr. Arthur Henderson Mr. McTiernan, who acted as informed the party that the nation- Attorney-General of New Southal executive passed the following Wales in 1923, utered the Federal After the Parliament in 1999. Eucharistic Congress in Sydney he was appointed one of the Pope's Privy Chamberlains.
resolution:
£133,020,248 road, of which seven are important ly-pass roads, are included. The anual programme schemes reprov- ed for grant under the present Government--i, sines August 30, 1920-aimounted on September 30; to £9,000,000. In addition grants had been made by the Unemploy ment Grants Committee in respect of expenditure, estimated at about 1,000,000 in connection with un- classified roads and bridges.
Other programmes include 175 land-drainage schemes, 459 whemes of field drainage, 133 schemes for the Dr. Evatt resigned from the New supply of water to agricultural South Wales Parliament in 1927, holdings, and an acolerated pro-and has since appeared in conduced by the Government should gramme of trunk telephone conspicuous constitutional and arbitra. struction by the General Post tion cases, including the present Office at an estimated cost of Euit respecting the Legislative £1,500,000, in addition to the main constraction programme of a capital annual cost of about £10,500,000.
Causes of Unemployment. The White Paper states that since the summer of 1920, the character of the unemployment pro- blem has been transformed by tho -onset of a world trade depression of quite exceptional severity Apart from the slump of 1930-1921 there is no recorded case in modern economie history of so violent and rapid a collaps in the prices of primary commodities as has occur red during the past twelve months: and the significance the present collaps is altogether more serious than that of 1090-1991, which repre-
PAN-PACIFIC TRADE CONFERENCE.
"That the national executivo committee, having received an as Labour Party's programme of elec- NEXT SESSION IN HONOLULU surance that the points in the
toral reform are to be included in say reform Bill, agrees to the sug gostion that any auch Bill intro- contain a proposal of a system of alternative voting at parliamentary elections."
"Mr. Henderson," it is added, "made a statement outlining the Government's proposals for an elec. loral reform Bill containing the ing provisions for a alternative voting.
Twice Daily at 7 and 9.30 p.m..
Admission →→ Dress Circle: 81.00 Back Stall: 70 cents; Front Stall 50 cents.
THE HEIGHT OF HUMBUG.
IN OCTOBER,
Tokyo, January 4-The Pan- Pacific Trade Association, the head. quarters of which are established in Seattle, is going to hold its an- mual meeting at Honolulu for three THE CHIEF SCOUT ACCUSED days beginning October 1 next and
OF MILITARISM! an invitation thereto has recently been delivered to the Industrial Office through the American Consul in Kobe.
sented a reaction from abnormally Comparisons With Other Countries junior he appeared in the Irish party's programme but also includ. Bureau of the Osaka Municipal |
Council. He had been engaged to represent Mr. Theodore in the Mungana civil action to be heard in Brisbane next month. When a
chyeys case in 1923, and also in the case of Tom Walsh against Jacob Johnson in respect of the secretary- ship of the Seamen's Union.
profitable price to which costs of production had not been adjusted." The ting in netion of the familiar "vicious vireles of Ken. eral trade depression had resulted in the initial depresion in the primary coinmodity markets being communicated throughout the entire economic field, and the process has been aggravated by various com- plivating factors arising from the depression, the depreciation in the exchange values of the currencies of certain countries, financial failure, and stock exchange losses,
general atmosphere of uncertaintynee of any previous depression. Agin, and the absent Ministers, Mr.
With regard to the broad results of the various monaurea described, it is claimed that "a programme af cergency works of public utility ins bem sit on foot which compares favourably with that which the Gov- rnment of any other country has been able to frame to mitigate the unemployment resulting from the depression of trade. Despite the severity of the trade depression the well being of the population hasbeen maintained in a degree which com- parts favourably with the experi- and appretwasion which is inimica! variety of steps have been taken to to business enterprise.)
improve technient equipment, to in There developments had been increase the eficiency of British busi- ternational in scope and lay out- organisation, and to put Bri- side Europe.
The growth of tariff barriers for competing in world markets; 1ish industry in n stronger position throughout the world had added to and this policy is being actively con the difficulties of British export tinued. 'trade as a whole, and thess difficul- tios were further increased by the fact that Great Britain was the only one of the belligerent countries in the late war which had restored its currency from a depreciated level to its pre-war parity with gold. As the result of such difficul- ties important industries had lost ground in export markets and the Joss had never been fully made good by compensating developments in other tradea "
How the Money is Spont.
"The need for readjusting the balance of British econoanie life to altered post-war conditions has been recognised by the introduction of measures designed to restore agri- culture to a more prosperous con- dition.".
While returns showed that the manufacturing production for the United Kingdom for the third quarter of 1030 showed a decrease of 0.9 per cent. compared with the third quarter of 1929, Germany showed a decrease of 20.4 per cent. un a comparison of the same two
decrease of 23.5 per cent. during with June to August, 1929
system of
It was moved that the resolu
tion of the national executive be endorsed, and a lengthy discussion ensued which was concluded speech from the Prime Minister."
MURDERED WHILE AT
WORK
NO COMPENSATION FROM EMPLOYERS.
The conference has in view the
exchange of opinions on Pacifle trade in seeking an understanding among the traders of the countries
concerned,
Sydney. The New South Wales Labour Council bas
protested
against the proposed visit of Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Stout, to Australin on the ground that the mission will encourage militarism.
When the News Chronicle told Lord Baden-Powell of the protest, he said laughingly:
militarism.
"They obviously don't know much about the Scout movement, or they would never have accused us of No doubt they think that because I have the misfortuno. to have been a general, anything to which I am attached must be essentially military
"I have to hurry back from Aua- tralia to meet the heads of tho Scouts of all nations in Switzerland in the spring. There will be 2,500 of them all boys. Docs auch inter- nationalism szem military?"
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The schemes under the Develop periods, and the United States for trapping motor-bandits in a ployed as a drug store man, by the Hong Kong Daily Pren.
city, gas, sewage, land reclamation June to August, 1930, compared by Sir Hugh Turnbull, Commishit on the head with an iron bar | CHITRAL ; At present to the Occupation
"To-day," the White Papir con cludes, "the view is steadily gain- ing ground that Great Britain,
By means of an ingenious tele- phone system it will shortly be pas-
ment Act include railways, docks and harbours, water supply, electri- and drainage, sea defence works, parks, recreation grounds, and
nany local improvementa.
Of the total of £9,375,000 for olonial development schemes it is despite her special difficulties, issible to draw a police cordon around estimated that £4,300,000 will be spent in Great Britain. Further achomes for Palostine and East Africa have been inaugurated at an'
stimated cost of £4,820,000.
UNDERGRADUATE, FINED.
PICCADILLY CIRCUS SCENE
AT MIDNIGHT.
weathering the world depression better upon the whole than many of her principal rivals and is likely to emerge from it in a stronger lative position than before"
ESPIONAGE SCARE IN
FRANCE.
A
DEFENCE PLAN IN ROOM OF
ITALIAN FASCIST.
POSITION VACANT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MERICAN, CHEMICAL sioner of Police for the City of by a fellow workman, James Me of the NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMER
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the City of London area, elesing all trafic entrances and exits to motor-bandits, within one minute of information being received.
The ground of the appeal was that the county court judge was Sir Hugh told a reporter that it wrong in holding that the death of will first be necessary to equip the Robert Holden was caused by an telephones in 52 ambulance call-accident arising out of his employ- boxes in the City area with an auto-ment within the meaning of the matio light signal.
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925. The appeal was allowed, with
Automatic Warning.
"These call-boxes will be connect ed with a now switchboard at head- quarters in Old Jewry," he said, Ronald Demuth, aged 20, of
and a single plug will automatical- Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and
ly flash an intermittent red light Anthony Jackson," aged 20, of Earl-
Paris, December 11-A plan of in each call-box, waming officers on street,
Cambridge, both under the entrenched anti-aircraft camp duty at these points to ring up head. graduates were charged at Bow-Toulon and the key to a secret quarters for instructions. street Police Court with being wireless code were found in the The police officer will use these drunk and disorderly near Pic rooms occupied by Victor Dao, a telephones to inform headquarters cadilly-circus just after midnight. young Italian, who was arrested at of a bandit raid, and within a few
The police said that after being Hyeres, on the Riviera, removed from a restaurant, both
men tried to return. They con- tinued to argue with the door keeper after the police had asked them to move on.
Both men denied that they were drunk or that they were ejected from the restaurant.
Demuth said that he were merely inquiring about someone inside. As
a proof that he was sober, he, man-
"Correspondence" providing that Dao was also a militant with Fascist organisations in Italy, has also been discovered.
costs.
SEQUEL TO ALL "QUIET."
CUTTING OF PASSAGE DEMANDED.
Brussels, January 2.-Belgian's i greatest daily paper Le Soir has decided to postpone or cancel the seconds the emergency plug will publication in French of Erich'
Maria Remarque's now novel "The warn all the key police posts, perimental stage at present, but, it tion of "All Quiet on the Western "The whole scheme is in an ex-Way Black," which is a continua
will be put into operation without Front on the ground that it con-
tains a scene describing the shoot
The correspondence is said to delay." make it plain that detailed infor
The plan was prepared by Siring of a German by a Belgian mation was required on the recent Hugh Turnbull before he left Lon-civilian. In giving this reason the defence works arranged by the don to visit the United States two paper expresses the hope that no French military and naval authori- months ago. ties on the south coast..
Dao, who is aged twenty-eight
tioned that only half an hour earlier and is married, was arrested as the
N
he had carried a companion, a rosult of a revolver duel between When Albert Southwell, a 54-year- dead weight," down a flight of Fascists and anti-Fascists outside old dealer, was sentenced at the staire at the Princes Theatre and the Hyères town hall....
Old Bailey by Judge Gregory to
an
Jackson said that he follored De-↑ local "Fascio," or "Fatest Club, seven years, preventive · detention muth to Vino-stroct police station on the following day, but found for houss-breaking and ́es 10 soo what he could do for him. nothing of a suspicious nature. Fol-habitual criminal, he shouted: "I
Demuth was fined 10%; and order-lowing this. Victor Dao, his second wish your lordship a Happy. Christ ed to pay the doctor's foo, and the in command, was interrogated, and mas, and that, when you are eating ense against Jackson was dismissed it was then that the plan was dia your Christmas dinner it will choke on payment of the doctor's fee, covered.
you."
Belgiaa publisher will undertake to issue the story unless the author consents to eliminate the passage referred to
fans to arrive at this wedding of Lady Mary Lindsay at St. Mar garet's, Westminster, was a woman who announced with pride to her neighbours that she had not missed a wedding at this church during the whole of this year.
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