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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1932..
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS HONG KONG STOCK
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY 2.B.W ON 355 METRES.
1 to 11,30 m. Stock quotationa 11.20 .m.--Chinese programme. 12.30 p.m.-European programmo of
Columbia and Regal records,
1 p.m.-Loen sime and weather!
report. 1.30 p.m.-Rugby Presewa, mail notice, ele. Relay of specch Trom the Rotary Club timp--Mr. C. W. Jeffries on "These Won- ther Prophets and Storm Warn- inxs."
p.m. (approx.).-Close down. top..--European programme.
15 o & p.m.-Reiny of Band of 1st
45
Batin. of S. W, Borderers, from the Military Hospital, by per- mission of the Offer Commund. ing.
top.-A programme of
Columbia recórda.
IG LO 0.36 .26. -
Operatio,
Orchestral Mignon-Selection (Thoma-Ngw Queen's Hall Light Orchestra.---9308. Song- La Boheme - They Call
Doris
Me Mimi" (Paccini). Song-- Madame Butterly-One
Pipe Day"Puccini). Vane (Soprano)—0852. Octette Maritana-Secnes That Are Brightest" (Wallnes, art. Sear).
Ocheile The Bohemian Girl
Then You'll Remember Me" Balfe, arr. Sear),--J.E. Squire Celeste Octette. -N107. Song" Faust'nigst the Pow (Gounod) Harold Wil iams and B.B.C. Chorus, Chorus -
་ ་
Enant Soldiers Chorus (Connod-The B. B.C. Clues-0143.
7 p.m.-Slock quotations, mail no-
bice, etc.
8.26 to 7.18 12, M.-
Variety.
Band Folly to be Wiso "--- Selection Percival Mackey and his Baud.-DX219. Humorous Sketch-" So I Says to Him" (A Bit O' Yorkshira
Humer).
Humorous Sketch The Ha niest Connie in Eancasheer." Sydney Howard-DB30 Banje Solo Toy Dance." Banjo Solo- La Vivandiere."--
Ernest Jones.--DB233. Yoon ChemThe Maid of the Mountains."-Columbja Light Opera Company, DX81. Vocal Duet With the Help of
the Moon.!!
Vocal Duct-"Lazy Day."'-Day-
ton and Johnalone.-DB501. 7.13 to 7.30 p.m. Semiramide
Overture
(Rossini). Milno Symphony Orchestra--0663/0604.
14.20 p.m.-Rughy mid-day Press!.20 to 8 p.m.-
DAMS,
11.00 p.m.-Close down.
All records in the love European programmes are supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.
Izsol
£2.75
From the Studio. Lawrence Bradley at the piaze
"Glorifying Jazz,' (Continued on previous column.)
Money and
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MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
"
A slightly better tous prevailed at yesterday morning's session, the Utilities section coming in for more enquiries."
Balos.
Union Insurances $445, Hong Kong Realties 812.
Buyers.
Canton Insurance $1,200. China Fire Insurances $600. Douglases $27.
K.K. and W. Dočka 918. Hong Kong Lands 8771. Hong Kong Realties 811.38. Hong Kong Trams 8. Star Forries 800.
Yaumati Farrios (Old) $33. China Lights (Old) $20.00 Hong Kong Electrics 97.50. Macao Electrics 824. Telephones (P.P.) 993. Canton Icaa 80. Dairy Farma .828. Sinceres 216). Constructions (Old) 85. Hong Kong Government Loans
24 per cent. premiuro,
Sallors.
South China Motors "B" 1 Providents (Old) 88.20. Eotels (Rights) 815. Hong Kong Lands 878.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
FREE PASSAGES
# TO CHINA.
F.M.S. MINING COOLIES.
THREE THOUSAND IN ONE WEEK.
BRITAIN'S
SEASIDE
ARMY.
(Continued from Pape 1.)
All this organisation of the con- cart party industry spells vist ohanges since the old days.
that
Kuala Lumpur, May 27-Aflı- The bench troupes and the nigger being in abeyance since last Novemminstrels and the "buskers" háva So have ber repatriation of unemployed nearly all disappeared. Chinese has begun again in the those pathetic, brave little ventures Federated Malay States.
too often found themselves Three thousand left Perak last stranded far from home, with the wock and over 700 have been manager missing," and not a re- patriated from Solängor during tarn fare among the deserted and the present month. When the nowa | betraged company. The agents in spread that Government was again London and the entertainment com- giving free tickets to "China, to mittees and haal proprietors of the men who could prove that they were pleasure towns manage the busi- between them. They have genuinely unemployed and unableness
frozen cut the fraude..
Tastes have changed too.
The concert party nowadays is a very
to pay their own passages, there was an immediate response from the Inbouring class, and last Monday nearly a thousand applicants pass" refined" affair. Its programme tends mere and more to become a "revuer" with elaborate scenery: and the musical comedy favourite is much sought after He or she can commnud. £20, 933, or even 230 a week.
d through the Chinese Protector ate in Kuala Lumpur in one after
than three noon. qf whom more hundred were granted repatriation yickets.
The Chinese miners think that a reduction of their laur forces will be inevitable during the next quota period, whether the produe- tion allowance is thirty-three per cent, as originally proposed by the Inernational Committee, or 25 per
Sometimes the municipality or the loent proprietor pays the concert party and gives a guarantee: some times the payment and, the gun antes are made by the party man- ager to the local authority, who ever that may be and sometimes ing basis
It was a most dull day through-cent, na proposed by the authors of out, and in a few instances prees the London scheme of restriction, the arrangement is on a profit-shur- gave ground.
Jalas.
Hotels (Rights) $1.10/1.15. Hong Kong Trams $2.80.
Buyers.
Wallace Harpers $13
LABOUR RIOTS IN
ARGENTINE
STRIKE ON SUGAR
PLANTATIONS
(THRATION NYUTER'S AGENCY.]
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BUZNOS AIRES, June 12.. THOUSANDS of labourers on the sugar plintations in Santa Fe and Tucuman Provinces in Argen vina have declared a general strike Three were killed and sight rured in a clash between the police and sugar factory workers in the
Tucuman District.
Markets
A.O.FC. Average of Shanghat Stocks
:032
10.23
27.30
27.1
23,73
ex,
21.30
20.5€
26.73
225
-26.179)
18.75:
[23.73)
*
13.30
REPLI SENTATIVE
STOCKS
(23.231
14.73)
75.00
124,50
Lezz
[1400
23.79
13 5.50
2100
201
22.00
225
$71.36
"MARKET COMMENT ON A.0:FC. CHART. SHANGHAI, June 7.
or 31 per cent. as proposed by the Chinese themselves.
Accordingly we have not seen to last of reputation and severni thousand more of the coolie class may be expected to return to their own country, during the next two months.
Chinese Estate Labourers.
1. rôjoiced, to hear it, while sparing a righ, nevertheless, for the mere robust days of the old *sit round" parties, where the jokes may have been a bit broad hat made the laughter muscles ripple.
I muld have sat for hours in Mr. Frank Eden's office listening to his tales of how he began as lad singing to the music of a Portable harmonium and a 5ddle. seen the whole thing He the through. The artists he sends ont pow no longer call the theatrical "Ma" and sup, off stout landlady and fried fish.
I was humanely glad of that. though it was the diet of romance as onde I knew it.
The public will have youth," M. Eden told me--" youth, ver satility and vitality. I supply hun- dreds of dancing girls, aged be tween 15 and 17, height. between
The applicants, who are present- ing themselves at the Protectorates de not look, in most cases, under nourished, and a few are actually in employment, but the latter are weeded out unless it is clear that they are not receiving a living - wage. So far only five estate com
panies, employing a total of 920 Chinese coolies, have notified the F.M.S. authorities that they are closing down, but among the men applying for repatriation in Kuala umpur are a number who have lost their employment on estates, or small holdings in Pahang and Negri Sembilan, or have found that such employment is incapable
latter remark, of course, only ap
providing a living wage. The plies to small holdings where the bagi dug " coolie is paid on the system.
The decrease in the Chinese Fabour force employed on rubber estates during the last three years
And two of the most popular; has been astonishingly small and is in no way comparable with the concert party comedians to-day are decrease on the mines,. The follow-replicas of Dan Lene and Herbart ing are Statistics for 2wo "Campbell, which isn't surprising in
the former case, for he is Dan's i youngest son, Bruie, though I have the advantage of Ernie in that he i never heard his father sing nor saw
States:-
1920
1930
1921
Selangor Pahang
6.513
9,173
5,817
2,816
6.842
3,625
3,17
1932 (March) 6,144 Negri Sembilan is the principa: State in which Chinese estate labour is employed, and there were stilt 18,513 Chinese labourers on estates
ft. 3in. and 5ft 4in. They can on an average about £31 week."
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I expect it is all for the best. But some compromise is being mad by moderaty with the pre- war entertainment.
Jazz is going out, they say, and with it the mairdlin American eroon that for a time obliterated the honest English song-singing.
him act.
And now Summer has its cue. The omens are favourable for a bumper year by the coasts of love "good com and laughter. The
penious A waiting in the wings.
in that State in March last. There Tell the conductar and ring the
is talk in planting circles of a con- curtain up!
siderable changeover from Tamil
to Chinese labour, in order to avoid the expenses connected with a Tamil forer, "but how far this talk is be- ing translated into action is xo- other matter. A board of directors naturally views with misgivings a Proposal to replace a settled labour. force of Tamils with a force of Chinese 'who will probably leave the estate as soon as the price of tin rises.
A Kuala Lumpur Round-Up.
A useful round-up of unemployed coolies was made in Kuala Lumpur a few days ago and 260 men who have been hanging about the sown, unable to obtain work and hvis where they could, were shipped on to China, to their great relier.
'STUDEBAKER ELECTRO.
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GREATER EFFICIENCY: LONGER LIFE.
As a general rule. few motorists concern themselves with mechanical details of design and costruction. Yet every owner should be interested in the pistons introduced by Stude- baker, in its-new Dictator Eight and Studebaker Six module. They are chst iron electroplated with "snit metal This construction not only contributes to engine efficiency, but naves in engine maintenance and materially prolongs the life of the
car.
Beenuse of this protective layer, the new piston allows of a fit two one-thousandths of an inch (.002) closer than before, resulting in clearance of less than haft that
The Wai Chau Wai Kwan Associa tion, which has been duing sata admirable work in relieving, dis tress, is stil giving two meals to anyone who asks for them, and the "bread-line" has increased during the last month from 640 to 050, formerly required with tho old type including Tamils and Malays. Let it over he remembered to the credit of the Hakka community of Kuala Lumpur that during the alump their charity was not confined to
piston (0013 of an inch as against 0c3s of an inch). The tremendous advantage of tighter" piston which will not score, even under unusually severe conditions, is
obvious.
That there was a real need for Before giving their final approval the recommencement of repatria to this new piston, Studebaker en- tion is shown by the decrease of gingers subjected it to the most
ter, has been completed, but during, 30.40. Ewas had buyers at 14:46 members of their own race! Market, sentiment during the past the past few days it has seemed naj and sellers at 14.55.
1. week remained quiet with prices in- if this selling were growing loan. Day-to-day market sentiment un- clined to sag. It is a well known general and more individualized.doubtedly will continue to be in-2,603 in the total force employed rigid laboratory, proving ground fact that general uncertainty breeds. During the rest of the weak the fluenced by the improvement of market uneasiness as rapidly as any market was very dull with very money market conditions, and con- little business presing, Shanghaistructive political developments other factor. Improvement in stock Lands were steady with buyers at here and abroad. It is, however, prices on Friday reflected relief 5. Cathay Lands wore hold at somewhat too early to expect that from special welling. rather 11.60 Shanghai Cotton had buyers buying on a substantial scale will than injection of fresh
at 74. Trams B, were dono at take place. velopments which would in- france-more courage on the buy ing side. Of course, there is no way of tolling whether or not the tendy liquidation, much of which has seemed to ho of a forced charno-
de-
High for 1031-32. Low: for 1031-32
June 1, 1002-20.70 - Sept. 19, 1901.00 May 5, 1932- 20.75 June 7, 1832 20.85
". On
obvious that this surplus is better open For the first 50 hours, it
ning of this your. Quite apart hours, a Studebaker motor, equip on F.M.8. mines since the begin- and rond tests. For 400 consecutive from the further reduction in labour ped with the new electro-plated forces which is impending it in pistop, was operated with wide
throttle
dynamo- meter. out of the country. The total num- ber of coles employed on mines in was run at 000 engine revolutions April was just under 50,000, and per minite under conditions simu- it is no secret that the abandon-lating travelling up a 10 per cent. inent of the scheme for twa prade in top gear. At fifty hour months holiday, so far na the intervals thereafter the engine re- Chinese mincs are concerned, has volutions were increased until they
roached 3,500 per minute. caused relief in police circles
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