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·RË "SUI TAI?”
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
Today
ptember
Opening Ceremony
Hong Kong Canton Trunk Telephona Sar vice by His Excellency, the Govor nor, Exchange Building, 11.30 1 Rotary Club Tiffin, Lane, Craw ford Restaurant, 1 p.m. Speaker: Mr. T. M Hazelrigg on
Chlid Welfare, In Hong Kong." | Queen's Theatre :
Out,"
Stepping
World Theatre: "Hang Ngun (Chinese film).
Star Theatra, So This Is College."
Central Theatre:" Free Love,"
DEMOCRACY FACEB WITH SHIPWRECK?,
THE HARD ROCK OF FINANCE
HOW IS ANOTHER £100 MILLIONS TO BE RAISED?
每月玖年意預
an" old saving amongst bulk of it by increased direct taxes ethical philosophera that the differon property, and a small portion culty is not to know what we oug of it perhaps by the re-imposition to do, but to make us do it, writes of the tos and sugar duties, and AAB. in the Evening Standard. some slightest Cerease of the duties
What is true in ethics is equally on coffee, coros and' fruit, true in politics. Everybody who thinks, talks, or reads about poli,
What guides me to this opinion ↑ The fact that democracy based on
King's Theatro "Charlie Chantics knows that the States, the universal suffrage is what it
"Carries On."
people and their rulers ought to namely, government by masses of economi. Though were most uninformed and animegjostiva élec Prince's Theatre: "Song of Ken-grateful to Sir George May's Com tors, the majority of whom pay an tucky."
mittee for their courageons and ex- Ldirect taxon, and whose contribu- Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.
European Mail-Inward: Europe vin Siberia (General Metzinger) Outwardy Europe via San Fran- cisco (Pres. Pierce) 12.30 p. Europe vin Suez (Ged, Metzinger) 9.50 p.m. Europe vic Siberia (Porthos) 2 p.m.
Tidos: High at 10.63 and 11.57; Low at 4.30 and 6.15.
Wednesday.
haustive report, we hardly needed. tions to indirect taxation (37 per
(September 2.)
Queen's Theatre: Stepping Out."
World Theatro: "Hang Ngun" (Chinese film).
So This Is
Star Theatre:
llege," B King's Theatre Charlie Chan Carries On."
Central Theatre Free Love." Prince's Theatra: "Song of Ken- tucky.".
Tea Dance at Lane Crawford's Restaurant Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel..
European Mail: Outward: Europa vi Siberia (Chichibu Maru) 8.30a.m.; Europe, via Suor (Hector) 12.30 p.m.
Tides: High at 12.13 and 11.55; Low at 5.52 and 549,
Love,"
Thursday.
(September 3.y Queen Theatre:","-Men. Call It Star Theatre: The 13th Chair Central Theatre Up Pops The
Song of Ken
King's Theatre Derelict." Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotela
Tides-High at 12.30 and 12.99: Low at 8.43 and 0.00..
Devil,"
From HONG KONG 9 A.M.
From MACAO 4.00 PM SPECIAL SALOON FARES.
Prince's Theatre: tucky."
WEEK DAYS;--Slägle: $3.00. Return: $1.00.
SUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS.—Single: $3.50; Beturn: $4.00, Nor-Al Steamboat Company's Bosmere are otted with Wirsloes.
its luminous pages to state the con- cent of our tax revenue) are less olusion that unless, drastic reduc- thân might be supposed from their: tions are made immediately in the numbers. national expenditure, democracy Of the 28,500,000 electors, official will suffer "shipwreck on the hard sguros tell us that 2,500,000 pay. rock of finance. No party denies direct taxes, income tax and sur- that, except a small gang of Left tax, death and stamp duties Wing politicians, where opinions the residue of 26,000,000 more than are expressed in the Minority Re half are females. port signed by Messrs. Litham and Pugh. The old difficulty remains: how are we to make the House of Commons take the necessary steps steps to carry out the cuts in éxpend ture, and how are we to mko electors agree to accept them i
910m
females
Our Faminine Eulera, There are 9,000,000 than males, but some of them, not many, are includ in the direct taxpayers Let us say that of the indirect taxpayers. 14,000,000 © are
women
Since the abolition of tho New Taxes Inevitable. Pag
tea duty far the largest part of My opinion, for what it is worth, the customs and excise duties aro is that we shall be fucky if wo get levied on tobacco, hoer, spirits, and a quarter of the Committee's re-wine. The great majority-I should commendations carried out by legis say 90 per cent of females neither lative and adminstrative reforms drink alcohol ner smoke tobacco, Half of the recommendations will for the women who spoil their skins probably be what are called agreed by cometics and their stomachs by
that is, accepted by the two front | cocktailk
cocktails are really a negligible benches, on behalf of the Labour quantity, and chiefly in the class Socialist and Conservativa Parties (of direct taxpayers On a few Of that half the half will be lost articles of finery and luxury, silk on the floor of the House, in wrang and artificial silk, and lace, our ling, and in concessions to this and feminine rulera, or their fathers and that section, to Maxtonites, to
Con-
husbanda, de contribute. something servative Protectionists, to tho
to the revenue. But it boils down Educationists, to the Mother's. to this: that the majority of our Milkites, marshalled by the well-now electors pay no direct taxes organised feminista. So that of the and a very small amount in indirect 28 millions odd promised us by the taxes. Committee, probably a saving of between 2 and 30 millions will emerge. "The gap of some 100 millions necessary so balapos the Budget will have to be found by taxation, the
And these are the voters whom reduce
dolos, to cut down the salaries of school teachers; to stop the exten sion of maternity benefits, to reduce (Continued on Page L)
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