HONGKONG DAILY
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COMMONWEALTH STILL TO GO ON WITH PLANS FOR INDUSTRY
After Commonwealth 'proposals bad been turned down by growers representatives, the interstate conference on wheat stabi- Esation ended in a deadlock recently.
Regardless of the growers' attitude, however, the Commonwealth Gorctament will implement its proposals as early as possible. This was made clear by the chairman, the retiring Minister for Com- merce (B. Cameron),
FINANCE & GENERAL
Finance and Commerce
BIG TAXATION Costly Scientific Work
INCREASE
£144,397,334 PAID
Growers do not agree with Mr.! LAST YEAR After they left the conference. growers' representatives said they Dunstan's contention that there
Australians paid £144.397,334 in would make fresh overtures to the should be no restriction of sowing. Commonwealth and Stata dirent new Commonwealth Government. They agree with the Common and indirect taxation during the wealth that if there is no restric-
past financial year, according to tion and a guaranteed price there figures released recently, by the would be a huge increase in wheat Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. production.
Wilson).
Mr. Cameron said that the Frime Minister (Mr. Menzies), who submitted the plan to conference personally, was de- termined that it would be car- ried out,
On this point Mr. Cameron em- phasised that it was essential for
Behind Car Safety
Changes in the engine and bodywork of motor cars to in- crease their safety have been so frequent in past years that the... motoring public has come to accept them with little thought to the years of research and cost behind each improvement
The introduction of safety glass was regarded by "several motoring authorities as one of the five great advances made In motor chr development, lessening the danger of Injuries to passengers in car collisions
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But in the past six years chem- Another feature of 1941 cars wilt. ists and engineers of five large be an oil-bath air cleaner to keep The figures reveal that Qt nverseas companies have spent dirt from power units, instead of
Biz collections more than £2,000,000, to find a the dll? Ulters and
cleaners the
taxation
338,671, or £7/15/11 a head.
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improve engine par
Although he might not be a budgetary reasons that the Commonwealth Minister at the time, Mr. Cameron monwealth should know to what were £90,018,663, or £12/17/4 a better safety glass which has just used for many years, says said, he would give full backing extent it was committing itself in head. and State collections 254-been made available to the motor Dunlop-Perdrian bulletin
Industry
The all-bath cleaner has been. to the Commonwealth proposals guaranteeing a price.
The president of the Wheat- Commonwealth taxation collec The new glass shows greater found to when they came before the House
were £15.979,000 greater resistance to penetration at allformance -Ɛand) to exclude "dirt growers Federation (Mr. P. H. tions of Representatives...
and temperatures and wilt not de- riltered through air cleaners even Cullen) said growers agreed that than for the previous year, marginal areas would have to be State Pollections 3.880.000 re-teriorate or discolour from long under normal conditions.
exposure to sunlight or moisture. dealt with. They hoped Premiers ter
TYRE PROTECTION ESSENTIAL. The materials examined by the would look after the Interests of
WAR EFFORT
chemists and engineers during With the possibility of a number displaced "farmers when the mai
Commonwealth ter came before the Loan Council,
collections for their research were subjected to jot owners storing ears because of "PRICE INADEQUATE" the current financial year will be avere texts in laboratories and petrol rationing or other reasons, Mr. Cullen added: “We cannot considerably higher than for last under actual driving · conditions advice by a service garage, as to because of the increasing before the final product was re-the most important things to agree with the price set out in the year,
leased.
watch should be of general in- ed that any stabilisation scheme Commonwealth's proposals. A price costs of Australia's war effort
terest should be self-supporting and of 3/5 at ports is equal to about must include curtailment of sow- 2/9 at country sidings-and this ings.
Main points of the proposals are: A guaranteed price of 3/6 a bushel at ports for bagged wheat for A maximum of 140,000,000 bushels and drastic curtailment of areas to be put under crop.
CURTAILMENT NEED
Mr. Cameron emphasised that the Commonwealth was determin.
were
for
The Treasurer (Mr. Spender) has already announced an increase
when
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NEW OIL BATH CIKANER
to
cope
tyres
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1940 -PAGE
SAY
Gordon's
...and know what you're drinking/
GORDONS
DRY GIN
DISTILLERY LONDON
NO COLOURING MATTER
NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS
Partial Rice Rationing
Chungking
In
Beginning this month, the National Food Control Bureau will sell rice to the poor people, dependents of soldiers, students and government employees In Chungking.
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It is hoped that following the introduction of a partial rationing system for the first time in the capital, the rice mar- ket here will return to normal.
Unless a car is placed on blocks for only 140.000.000 bushels.
of £20,000,000 in taxation," and In a demonstration recently
to take its weight if the tyren State Premiers at the
"The price is inadequate comi-
further increases are expected to 9-ounce steel ball dropped from a lose pressur the tyres may not satisfied bridge the margin between cost ference, too,
be approved
Partament height of 84 feet falled to plerce perish. with the Commonwealth's propost-and price. Handling charges pro- meets on November 20
a pane of the new safety glass.
Blocking is much simpler than more than 9d. a
When the glass is cracked under the owner's checking the tion. The Victorian Premier (Mr. hably will be
Total taxation paid by Austra-
the Dunstan reiterated his opposition bushel-2d. a bushel above normal
plastić Mans a head has increased pro-impact
interlayer
The ruling provides for each China amounts to some 750,000,000 to crop restriction and said he marketing cost"
pressure is maintained or moving adult two penis and each child piculs whereas yearly consumption Mr. Cullen said that although Eressively from £4/14/4 in 1914 stretches through a distance of each week to ensure that normal claim thought the growers'
100,000,000 --picuis, several inches without breaking.
below. Ave one picul per month, totalled some the 140.000.000 bushels maximum to £20/12/10 bast financial year.
the car occasionalty. 3/10 a bushel fo.b, reasonable.
and the authorities planned to leaving a balance of 50,000,000 Mr. Cameron explained that the appeared reasonable. farmers were
The battery should be checked import 234,000 Bleuls monthly from piculs per year. Burplus rice of acreage under wheat in the Com-.t prepared to accept it unti
with evaporation and the 21 neighbouring rice-produc- the previous two years, 100,000,000 ing districts for Chungking's half picuis, should be ample for local The owner should watch that million people:
consumption up to the end of this the correct water level in
Assistant Director Shen Chung- year, without touching the last maintained. Every two months'han of the National Agricultural harvest, which in turn will be Research Institute opined that the more than sufficient to last until the battery should he
skyroketing price of "local rice is next fall.. sent to, a garage to be charg
only an Abnormal phenomenon, Since the last harvest, according caused by manipulation...
to Mr. Shen, Kunming's rice has According to statistics collected dropped from over $100 to $60 per by the institute. Mr. Shen said, picul. Sikang rice is sold at $40. rice production in 15 interior proper picul, while Changsha's price vinces in the past three years has is at present as low as $15 per been quite steady Although the picul
monwealth would be reduced by they had obtained the correct sta- HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS general deterioration
increasing a farmer's living area tistical position
When the conference broke up to provide for stock-raising and
ad- wheat-husbandry rather than the growers' representatives, in
dition to protesting against the latter alone.
Under Commonwealth proposals Commonwealth's proposals, eriti: farmers would contribute to the cised the way the conference had been called and questioned the .140.000.000 bushels maximum
an acreage basis. The proposals, if sincerity of the Federal Govern- implemented. world retain Inment to entrusting the conference operarium for the duration of the to Mr. Cameron, who had admitted war, when they would be reviewed. he was about to lose his portfolio
"TREASURE TROVE"
on
Demand For Empire Wines
because European wines were The old feudal procedure ma
shut out of the British market case of "Treasure Trove" came into force recently when workmen, by the war, demand for Empire. carrying out repairs to a cottage wines had increased, and
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there in the small village of Freefolk, was a great opportunity of extend. In Hampshire. unearthed two Jarsing the sales of Australian wines full of gold colns. When emptied in the United Kingdom with the and counted these were found to probability of a permanent expan- total 358 sovereigns and 254 half-stor of "exports after the war.
This was the unanimous opinion
$4.80 them sovereigns. The dates
of representatives of the industry | $18.30 ranged between 1821 and 1876.
The cottage is on Lord Portal's at a Joint conference of the Aus- Board and the Laverstoké estate, noteworthy for tralian Wine
Council of Australia the fact that paper for Bank of Viticultural England notes has been made, recently.
Attention wa directed to the here for many years. As no re-! cord of the owners of the cottage large quantities of wine being at that time could be found, the thipped from South Africa to the coroner was Informed.
United Kingdom in a period when
disadvan-
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He, according to the Coroner's It was difficult to get shipping 831 Act of 1887 decided to hold an in- space for Australian wine. quest. This was to inquire into This may be to the "the circumstances of the nnding, take of“ Austráliá in the post-war. as well as now, because- who the finders were, and who was, period.
suspected thereof." He found that trade connexions were being ex- the colna were "treasure trove tended by the South Africans, it and the Treasury was duly in was stated. formed.
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According to the law only gold
The conference considered „ways and means of increasing the sales
and silver can be treasure trove, of wine in Australia. Renresen- and it must be found in a place tatious will again be made to the
of evident concealment. The old various Governments. for a libera- feudal law gave the Sovereign lisation of licensing jaws as affect- power of disposal,
Nowadays the finder is always
- generously treated and in this case
the two anders will probably get's
substantial share of their And:
When the Sutton Hoo Burial
ing wine
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
The strength of the market con-
ship was found about a year ago tinues with the demand unsatis in Suffolk, its board of valuab ned, the principal turnover being old plate and jewellery was de-in Banks at $1275 and Providents clared "treasure trove" and was at $400 to $5, awarded to the owner of the land where it was discovered. She in turn presented it all to the British Museum.
BIG STADIUM FOR CHUNGKING
CHUNGKING, Dec. 1 (Central) The newly established Ministry, of Social Welfare is planning to con- struct a big stadium in Chung- king at $1,000,000.
The stadium will-have an athle tic ground, a gymnasium, a swim- ming pool and other facilities, Dealgns are being made by Mr. Huang, Shao-lang, well-known architect here & committee to supervise the construction work will shortly be formed with local prominent architects and leaders of physical education as members.
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last crop in Szechwan suffered A rice has registered n general. should also be fully slightly, but its 70 per cent, har-drop in orice all over the country, covered with an oʻl, sheet or some vest was more than made up by there should not be such cheno- ather material to keep nut dust bumper harvests In Yunnan, menal high price in the capital'. wmch contains particles often Kweichow.
and other. It is noteworthy, that rice sold.
Hunan.
nolisned
su*- provinces.
by local government agents at a ANNUAL PRÓDUCTION reduced price of $60 per picu! was Annual rice production in Free harvested two or three years ago.
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