SCOUT AND
CUB NOTES
AND NEWS
France Honours The Chief Scout
AUSTRALIAN
SCOUT'S TWO-MILE
WEEKLY TOLL OF
THE ROAD
Traffic Department Statistics
In the Colony of Hong Kong including the Island, Kowloon and the New Territories during the week-ending at 8 am, on Satur- day, the 10th inst, there were
SWIM FOR HELP altogether 43 traffic accidents, as the result of which 15 persons were injured.
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Boy Scouts throughout the En- pire were among the first to offer their expression of loyalty to His fajesty King George VI who, as the Duke of York, showed much practical interest in the Boy Scout Movement and had on ceveral oc- .casions attended many 80out functions in Scout uniform. He was, when Duke of York Prest- dent of the Boy Scouts of London. and President of the Boy Scouts of Yorkshire.
In 1927 the King and Queen. when Duke and Duchess of York, departing from Malta, had an in- teresting experience. While bath- ing of Lord Mountbatten's yacht at St. Julian's Bay it was found the craft could not depart because
Or the persons injured, 10 were pedestrians, who were either walk- ing or running across the road and were struck by vehicles.
One bus passenger and 2 tram- car passengers were injured whilst alighting from a moving motor bus and moving tramers respec- tively. One cyclist was injured as the result of a collision between two vehicles. One cyclist was in- Jured through falling from his bicycle whilst in motion.
Of the 43 accidents. 19 Were collisiona between -vehicles; 19 were collisions between vehicles and pedestrians; and 5 accidents were due to other causes.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.
Mrs. G. F. Rees, Cdr. J. B. Nowill and Mrs. Nowill photographed enjoying a rest between events at the Kwanti races on Sunday.
WAVE OF PROSPERITY
Revival Shared By All
The great wave of prosperity experienced in this country in the past year has brought in its train a substantial rise in commodity prices. This was inevitable. indeed. It was essential if the revival was to be equally shared by all classes of the community.
"
Here is the record of the year so far as it affected some of the
Type of Vohioles. No, of Accidents. | principal primary products: " Private Motor Car
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the anchor had fouled some Motor Lorry marine cables. After many fruit-Publle Motor Car less attempts had been made to Motor Bus -clear it, two Maltese Scouts, who
9
5
Wheat (100 mb.)
4
Malas (480 lb.)
Tramcar
4
Sugar (cwt.)
3
Copper (ton)
Tin (ton)
Wool (lb.)
Cotton (lb.)
Rubber (lb.)
were nearby, dived into the sea. Bicycle
and after repeated attempts they succeeded in releasing the yacht. Afterwards they were invited on board and were presented with an autographed note expressing the thanks of the Duke and Duchess for their help.
CHIEF SCOUT HONOURED
4.
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HANDY FILTER
Linseed Oil (ton)
£35 +£143
Price at
Year End.
Price a Year Ago.
Rise in Price.
9/21
24/-
6/5
· 16/
+2/81
+81-
5/61
5/3 +32d.
£ 491
£233).
£2171
3614
$14.
7.10d.
+6,43d.
10.5/162.
61d
£301
+15) +bja.
+0.674.
+3.13/16d,
€291 10s.
While the rise has thus teen £500 will not be unusual, the general and substantial, its efect amount varying according to the should not be exaggerated. Prices | standard of the firm. In many
he Chief Scout and Chile Used By Mt. Everest are still some way below the levels cases salaries "have been raised
Guide,
Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, at- Londed the 25th ariniversary cele- brations of Scouting in, France. They were received at the Elysee, Paris, by the President of France who invested the Chief Scout with the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion d'Honneur, the highest French decoration,
The same evening the Presiden attended A great gathering of Scouts at the Barbonne, at which the Chief Scout spoke. Prior to this there was a gala dinner at which the British Ambassador, Bir George Clerk, was present,
Lord
Baden-Powell was also
present at a great rally in Paris the next day when he reviewed some 20,000 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides from all over France,
A GALLANT DEED
Expedition
Explorers, missionaries, moun- tain climbers, and travellers in unmapped territories need fear no more the risks of poisoned or unclean water.
It is possible now to carry a light and handy filter by which water can be pumped from any stream and delivered clean and safe.
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new at
reached ten years ago. This is and stats largely increased, with" shown by the "Economist”: com- the result that there is no unem- modity price index which, based on | ployment officially recorded in the 1927 average of 103, was, at Stack Exchange circles. the end of November, only 103.
Another feature of the year has
naturally tends to increase manu- circulation.
The rise in commodity prices | been the fhcrease in the money in
It reached facturing costs and might become embarrassing if it went too far. Up to the present, however, the upward movement has been a to the good. To some extent recently It has been due to speculation, mit This type of filter, which will be this was corrected by pront-taking. exhibited at the 1937 British In-Industrialists have been increasing dustries. Fair in February, was their outputs, with the result that carried by the Mount Everest Ex- overhead charges have been spread Pedition, and has been largely over a larger volume of goods. supplied to army and medical offi- They have found no difficulty in cers in South and West Africa.
passing on the increased margin of costs to the consumer while the consumer has enjoyed so substan- an increase in purchasing
Mal
But for the great stamina and FISHING BY KITE Dower that he has not felt the ad-
gallantry of Rover Sea Scout „Douglas Patrick, aged 19, of the Gladstone Rover Crew, Brisbane, Australia three of his comrades and himself would have perished when their boat, a whale-boat built for seaworthiness, met with a rough sea in the harbour. Un- fortunately, one of the party. J. H. Grimths, aged 20, was drown-
ed.
All the Rovers were experienced hands at boating and sailing, and had been out for an afternoon trip. It was on their return journey when the accident occur- red. They had just run up one roller and
commenced to run down when a cross sex swung the stern to leeward and she broach- ed sideways.down the trough and the water poured over the gunwale and "alled her. They tried to straighten her, but she would not answer and struck to leeward. She did not capelze. but her nose wont down and the stern came up.
SWAM FOR TWO HOURS Some of the lads hung to the stem and the others to the mast, which was still upright. Patrick saved the oars and tied them to the mast, and they hung on for about half an hour or more think- Ing the lighthouse people might have seen the accident. They de- 'cided their one chance was to get help and 'Patrick decided to swim to Gatcombe Head, some two miles away, telling the others to hang to the boat. He aucceeded in reaching the Head after two hours, and soon a pilot launch went out to rescue the boys.
After Patrick bad left the boys in the bont they became uneasy as the boat, was drifting out to
How The Tunny Is Caught
ditional burden.
LARGER PROFITS This is evidenced in many ways In the first place industrialists in host of manufacturing trades have made larger profits, the average of earnings of trading Fishing by kie is a sport which companies being estimated as 15 is rapidly increasing in popularity. (per cent higher than 1935,, and in tunny fishing, sites are spe-
more than double the average re- cially useful. A small buoy is at- turn at the depth of the depres- tached to the kite which runs out slon In 1931 and 1832. in the wind and drags the bait Owners of investments to whom along the top of the water for 300 these higher profits have meant OF 400 yards. When the tuny larger dividends have also bene- biles, he pulls the hook off thefted by capital appreciation. The kite line and is then dragged in. "Bankers' Magazine" record of 365 Kites, which will be exhibited at representative securities had risen the 1037 British Industries. Fair, in value by December 18 by
useful for
to less ambitious £370,884,000 sportsmen. When the wind is off here, a sherman on the pier or deadland can send up a kite and have the bait carried hundreds of yards seawards. He thus enjoys deep sea fishing from the land.
are
£7,394,653,000 compared with a year previously. Iron and steel shares included in the selection rose by 41.1 per cent.. British railway Ordinary shares by 37.2 per cent, and rubber shares by 57.8 per cent.
These figures are a reflection of "Kite Photographer" '
the great activity on the Stock Balloons and aeroplanes are Exchange. For stockbrokers and sometimes unnecessarily cumber-dealers it has been a record year, some and expensive for the taking and the bonuses to staffs, some to of aerial photographs of archaeo-be paid immediately, some at the logical excavations. Aerial pictures close of the Stock Exchange year, of excavations in Baghdad recent- in March, will be on a lavish scale. ly taken on a small hand camera
Payments ranging from £100 to attached to a kite were very suc- cessful.
Bubmarines can receive wireicas messages, but the cannot send them out, so a kite is sent up and the message transmitted, from, ap- paratus attached to it.
too in shooting.
Kites are used
for keeping birds down, as targets for anti-aircraft gunnery practice, and for many forms of advertising.
ses, and they decided to swim for should be suitable camping. ar the shore, Grimths took a section rangements mads for unattached
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record in Christmas week, £474.115,561 in notes issued by the Bank of England. Not only is the amount larger, but it has been turned over more quickly. It is estimated that at least half of the national income, or about £2,500,- 000,000 a year is spent over shop counters, and the Board of Trade index of retail trade has risen in the year by over 6 per cent
BETTER WAGES
The working classes have parti- cipated very largely in the enjoy ment of the nation's recovered
prosperity, Weekly wages have in
creased by: over £400,000 a week, or a total of £21,000,000 in the year, nearly 4,000,000 workpeople receiving increases Insured per- sons in employment have risen to 11,129,000, ar 583,000 more than a year ago. The number of unem- ployed has decreased from 1,918,562 The total is still to 1,028.719. formidable, but it is satisfactory to note that it is being eaten into.
Other figures Indicating the real and solid progress made in this remarkable year may be briefly stated as follows:--
Railway traffic receipts have Increased by £5,056,000,-.
Electricity generated reached over 2,000,000,000 kw.h. the monthly average fridax number being 234.2, compared with 100 in 1929.
Houses built
the year batalled 389,386, or 10,000 more than in 1935.
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The year, has ended on a high note, and the cutlook is promising. Industrial activity is steadily ex- tending., even into the depressed areas, order books are full, and the dimculty is to turn out all the goods required in reasonable, time. There, indeed, seems every prospects that 1937 will carry on the good work of 1938.
£475,884 ESTATE FROM | NEW ARCHDEACON OF
TOBACCO
Clergyman's
's £43,533.
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WESTMINSTER
The Rev. F. Lewis Donaldson, Canon of Westminister and
Mr. Samuel Percy Davies, or Treasurer of the Abbey, has been Elverwood, Curzon Park, Chester, appointed Archdeacon of West- of W. T. Davies and Bons, tobacco minister in place of Archdeacon manufacturers, and former director of the Imperial Tobacco Storr, who has succeeded the late Co., left £475,884, net personality Sub-Dean. Canon Carnegie, £466,497. Estate Duty of £160,-
Canon Donaldson has been Canon of Westminster since 1924, Bir John Hunter, of Kirkles- road, Glasgow, for many years and was the first Socialist, mem
of the floor board, but afterwards Scouts at all future World Jam-680 has been paid. threw it away; he was very tired borees; and (2) that there should and the other twe held him up to be ATI independent Scouters' rest, and then went on again. Jamboree arranged. Grifiths told the two boys he was A Scouters Jambores will no Chairman of the engineering Arm der of the Westminister Chapter. all right, but shortly afterwards doubt, receive the fullest support of Sir William Arrol and Co., Ltd. Twenty-six years ago he led an disappeared and they could not of Boy Scouts bodies all over the builders of the Tower Bridge, the
world for such a gathering of men Forth Bridge, and the Tay Bridge, unemployed hunger of all nationalities would be most left personal estate in Great 1913 headed conducive towards world Peace. Britain, £198,128
And him again,
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and in
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dergy to the Prime Minister on the question of votes for women.
At the next meeting of the In- | This is yet another step towards]: Hév. Canon Warren Hastiner ternational Committee, Lord | the solid linking of 'international{ Rector of Orton Longuevile Hampton will undertake to put ties and the Armer establishment Rectory, Peterborough, left £43, He was one of the first members forward two points, (1) that there of World-Wide Brotherhood.
633, net personalty £40.496,
of the Christian Social Union,
EARLY MORNING
· BLAZE
Chinese Burned
To Death
The charred remains of Wong Tai, 35, an employee of the Tat You rättan manufactuTEOS, YOU found after the fire, which" broke. out at 128, Bonham Strand East in the early hours of yesterday morning, had subsided.
No cause has been, glvén so far as to the origin of the Mans but considerable damage was done by the flames before the outbreak was subdned.
The inmates of the premises were awakened by the blowing of police whistles and the odour of burning wood, and all but the unfortunate Wong escaped being burned to death.
Insurance amounting to at least $9,500 is stated to cover the build- ing, but the amount of damage done has not yet been ascertained.
PUBLIC MEDICAL
SERVICE
EFFECT ON PRIVATE PRACTICE
The recent schemes for punic medical services for patients' out- side the scope of the National Health Insurance will receive a big impetus when an extension of the London Public Medical Service comes into operation with an in- come limit of £550 per annum. This means that anyone with an annual income up to this sum can enter into a contract whereby on payment in advance of the appro- priate premium the subscriber is entitled. Immediately after the first payment is inade, to all those services which are rendered in the ordinary way by the familly 40c- tor, and in exactly the same way.
This includes attendance at the doctor's surgery or at home as re- medicines It quired, and usual does not Include
those things which are "extras" in general prac~! tice, such as attendance at, con- finements, operations requiring a general anaesthetic, expensive drugs and dressings, appliances. special examinations (such as by X-rays), or the administration of a general anaesthetic.
Anyone wishing to join the scheme 'must apply to his usual doctor, who may be a member of the service or may desire to be come a member if he finds his patients wish to become, subscri- ber. The premiums payable per annum by intending subscribers Vary from £1 108 with ; one : in family to
£5 109, with five more
Arrange- In 'family, ments have been made for the reimbursement of doctors who do not Join the service, and it Is arranged that a sub- scriber can change his doctor at any time and transfer to any other doétor willing to accept him.
EXTENSION OF SERVICES This scheme is an extension of the existing public medical ser- vices, which in recent years in London and elsewhere have grown. at an amazing rate. There are al- ready over nifty schemes in the country as a whole, with over four. hundred thousand subscribers. The British Medical Association has approved of doctors who belong to this Association taking part in the scheme, provided that the local divisions of the BMA haye not voted against such extensions in their arelo,
Commenting upon the proposed new extension "Tile Langet," in a leading article, states: "The in- come limit of £550 proposed in!” the London extension scheme will. it is safe to say, swallow Up MOSE private practices. Great changes in the whole conduct of private
practice must necessarily follow, and it may be that eventually what is now to begin as a volun- tary system may become the basis 107 a more official extension of the existing National Health Insur-
Ance.
JANUARY THE
FIRST WORRY
AT ANY RATE!
The three grLatest worries of man to-day, in order of importance
art.
1. Money;
2. The quest for a philosophy of life:
3. Concern for mental and physical healthy s.
This is the opinion of Professor Percival Symonds, of Teachers' College, Columbia University,
Ho thinks that money is by far the greatest problem which adults have to face,"
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