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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1932.
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THE SPIRIT OF
ADVENTURE."
MEMORIAL TROPHY TO
SIR H. SEGRAVE,
BRITISH TRADE
IN CARS.
"FOREIGN" FACTORIES
AND TARIFFS.
During lust February 2,133 cars Shortly after the death of Sir, of a value of £279,791 were export- Henry Segrave while in the mat ofed from the United Kingdom. The breaking the world's water speed recard, a group of his friends and admirers instituted . Trophy in his memory, to be awarded annually to the British subject who shouid. a complish the most putstanding de- monstration of the possibilities of transport by land, air, or water.
figures for February, 1981, wore 1,483 cus valued, at £234,41). Im- ports of private cars during last February number 68, valued at £12,704. The figures for February, 1931, were 140 cars valued at £37,944, and for February, 1930, 1079 cars of a value of £197,343. and the rise in exports is praise- The drop in imports is remarkable, warthy.
The idea behind the Trophy was The forthcoming Ottawa Confer- ence may well have vital offects to show how the display of cour-
upen the British export. trade. It age, initiative and skill-the Spirit is well known that US. manufac of Adventure itself can autist pro. tarers erect factories in Caanda to 'gress in mechanical development, tariff-22 per cent, instead of 33 1/3 obtain the Imperial Preferential
but while the Trophy has been tak-which is afforded to cars one- ing shape in the sculptor's studio quarter of which are of Canadian material or Inbour. In New Zea- there has been evolving an Imagina tion of Empire focussed upon the realm of communication, and giving to the original idea of the Trophy
and Imperial preference is 10 per cont., as against 40 per cent., but the Imperialistic content must be
30 por conti
It is being urged that 75 per a far wider appeal than the applicant. should be the product of Im- cation, to ang branch of movement.
perial material or labour, and this would adversely affect American Public opinion in Great Britain, manufacturers operating from Australia, and New Zealand, by
Canada. These American fre tories are obviously of great value securing the return of National
to Canada itself, and the problems Governments, has "reflected an Im- to be presented to the statesmen at Ottawa will not prove by any means perial sentiment aimed at cement- ing the ties of Empire into a closer trade, though young in years, has. easy to solve. The English export
policy of fiscal reciprocity, In view proved itself to be virila and pro- of the Imperial Conference at mising: it enanot be lightly sacri- ficed or disregarded. The motor Ottawa, with the hopes of closer trade of the United States' gives inter-Empire trade, and realising employment to 2,000,000 people." how greatly the future of the British. There is no reason why the English Empira is dependent on the deve-motor trade should not double its i
employment, figures if only it re- lopment of rapid communcation,ceives a little assistance from the whether of people and goods, or of Government. thought and ideas, there has. ap. propriately, recently been published
a booklet under the title The Spirit of "Adventure,” which, in the words of the Authors, 19 in- spired by the faracteristics of Imagination, Initiative, and Cour age which, in the life and death of Sir Henry Segrave, and in the deeds, of many other pioneers of speed, have corabined to create new
conceptions of distance in the pers
pective of time."
Tho Trophy depicteal on the cover of the booklet-tra copy of which accompanice this Balletin-and cpmmemorates the life of a great Irishman, The first and second awards have
made to Australians (to Air-Commodore C. E. Kingsford Smith, M.C.. A.F.C., und to
·Squadron-Leader H. J. L. Hinkler A.FC., D.S.M.). "Thus," states the booklet, the Imperial signi ficance of the Trophy has been! em- phasised with singular felicity. Who knows what feñts of imagina- tion, initiative, and courage Đã the part of citizens from all quarters of the Empire may not in future years be inscribed upon the scroll of the Begrave Trophy, or what tha cumulative effects may prove in bridging the only gap-that of distance--which yet divided the units of the British Commonwealth of Nations? "
The completion of the Trophy and the presentation of the first re- plicas coincide with the opening of
period fraught with infinite dif ficulties but pregnant with wonder. ful opportunities for the extension of Imperial Economy Unity, and" opening out n striking vision of an ultimate plationship of a far closer
nature
BRITISH CAR "EXPORTS.
FIGURES FOR MARCH 1932.
Imports of motor cars into the United Kingdom during March, 1932, numbered 70 care of a value of £16,074, ne against 185 ሮቢ፣ valued at 231,582 in March, 131," Exports during last March num bered 2,200, valued at £957,114. The figures for March, 1931, were 1,382 care of a value of £215,157.
The figures for February, were provided similar pleasant reading. What other trades have extensively increased their exporta as compar- ed with last year? There in every reason to suppose that, with a little Assistance from the Government, the motor trade would enormously incréase its employment Agures, That the industry is determined to add to its export figur ÍA AD phasised by the early decision to take a prominent part in the, British Industrial Exhibition, at Copenhagen in September.
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