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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING .::
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
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PURE MANILA ROPE
3 -STRAND
16 to 15"
SERDÜRFERENCE.
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"5" to 15" CIRCUMFERIMUL
4 STRAND
·3**ta 10" CIRCUMFER2450F.
Oil Drilling Cables of any time up to 8,000 feet in length, Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
OWING to the present high rate of EXCHANGE we are now offering our KODAKS and FILMS at very lowest possible prices. Inspection cordially invited.
A. TACK & CO.
20, Des Voeux Road, Ctl
CREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED,
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PORTLAND SEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs. net.
In Bags of 250 lbs. zet.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Manzgers, Hongkong, 18th August, 1916.
HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.
Mr. U. SUGA Mrs. A SUGA Mr. L. BONDA Mrs. S. HONDA
8 Queen's Road Central. Hongkong.
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IMPERIAL MIGRATION.
A MODERN NECESSITY.
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The close of the Paace cele brations compels us to consider the now burning questions of re- construction and the arrange- ments for safeguarding the peace of the Empire in the future, saya. & Daily Telegraph correspondent. Britain has been a synonym for unpreparedness. She was as un- prepared for peace when the armistice was signed as in 1914 she was unready for war. It there- foro behoves us to devote our- selves to the settlement of those outstanding questions which make for the happiness and content of the people.
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A thousand years ago the heptarchy became England in- stead of seven'tribes. Wales was added, and Scotland completed Great Britain. The inclusion of Ireland resulted in the United Kingdom. The British Empire was, however, yet unborn. The land was there, but not the people: The only Empire Shakespears knew was that of Rome, although he made some reference to the
Now we Indies.
have the potentialities of an Empire of Empires an area almost hundred times as great as that' of the British Isles: including most of the other islands of the world, besides vast continental areas in America, Africa, and Asia; with a people who can govern alien and coloured races, subdue the soil and endure hard- ships and climatic variations far better than any other race. At present, however, 75 per cent of the people are closely packed in the Homeland, and the Dom- inions and Colonies are destitute of population- and open to attack from or peaceful penetration other
to whom the races. wealth and fertility of our empty areas greatly appeal. The majority of those who left our shores in the past half-cen- tury went to other lands to live under foreign flags, and by their labour to enrich other nations and to make them great. Our surplus: capital followed them, for money always follows men- Thus we have helped to make the United States of America what they are, whilst Canada and Australasia as the both of the same area States, have had to be content each with a population similar to that of New York City.
If our outflow of people had been divert- ed to the British Dominions, the overseas armies would have been proportionately larger and the war would have lasted a shorter
time.
THE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME.
We must think Imperially of the future and our reconstruction. but as these depend on population, migration must be the keynote to our programme. As was pointed out in The Daily Telegraph on July 15 last the British Govern- ment have offered to pay the fares for all the demobilised men of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, their dependents, and ex-service wo- men who have served for six months and more in any of the various corps, such as the Waats, Wrafs, and Wrens, and widows of ex-service men, are equally eligible.
A Further Reduction
in Price of
ROYAL
ROYAL
Compare the work and then compare the prices. 10TM size 5140 14" 18"
150
160.
We guarantee satisfaction and will gladly send machines. on approval to responsible parties.
ALEX. ROSS & CO.,
Machinery Department, 4, Des Vœux Road Central, Telephone 2487.
been the case for at least the past
century.
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SEPTEMBER
THE MOTORING BOOM.
BUYERS FORCING UP PRIOTS
The coming of the summer holidays, disclosed to us in Eng land as was expected, the motor- ing boom, says a writer în an English paper. What was not so widely anticipated was the ex- tent of the development, lor weR were not prepared to see so many- cars long since discarded brought into use again. The return of these vehicles to active service gives us some measure of the boom. It has only just begun. It has opened at fever heat, and is likely to continue for some time, for big as has been the volume of motor traffic these holidays it will be bigger nart
year, and even greater in"1921, if] only because new production should by next year have got into its stride. -
But much as one desires to see the motor-car fulfilling its proper function and contributing towards a wider industrial and social life, there
are disquieting circum- stances about the present state of affairs. In so far as prices are concerned. the purchasing public have gone mad, and are paying what can only be termed panic prices. There was bound to be some reaction after the repressing effect of the war and because of the wider distribution of wealth, but these two factors do not account for the fact that buyers have lost their heads and are forcing up the market against. themselves. Big premiums are: being
to given-ap
£500 is said-for deliveries of new models, which at the earliest cannot be obtained before! August or September; second- hand cars are fetching figures: that would have bought asw and bigger and better cars in 1914: prices at the Government auction sales, where buying is a sheer speculation are being run up-to- a very high level. This is in striking contrast with the fact that commercial vehicles at these same sales are fetching no more than a reasonable figure.
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Dispersal, receiving, and dis-
If the individual büyer alone, tributing centres throughout the Empire for these women should were concerned all this would not form the best method of practical matter much, bat the effect is thanksgiving for peace or memori-wider. Of course he will suffer, in als, of the dead. They would time. It is sound policy when carry on the ideals for which the buying to have regard to the price 2 car may be expected to fetch war was fought.
second-hand. At the best. de- IMPERIAL VITAL STATISTICS. preciation in a car is rapid, be- cause each succeeding year's When we regard the British models always show some mech- Empire as a whole, we realise the anical improvement, and fashion for such plays no inconsiderable part in Imperial necessity inigration. Overseas the survival the popularity of any given type. rate of births over deaths is higher Between the car of to-day and than at home, and people have a that of 1921 depreciation will be better prospect of healthy and more than normally rapid. be- happy lives. The homes being cause the forthcoming models better, slums and workhouses will carry all the improvements absent, and a fuller life assured. gamered from the concentrated the proportion of Al and C3 experience and practice of four persons is reversed in the years of war work. while two Dominions compared with London years hence prices all round will and other great industrial centres be lower. at home. The improvement will increase as more women migrate to help their fellow-women overseas, who are often hand-owing to scarcity of population icapped with much
Qverseas, the Dominions did not service,
much especially when they have the export, collectively, as
flour, fruit, * wool, care of a young family and possibe meat,
cotton, butter, and" other is one or two farm workers (who
primary products as we imported: all "live in overseas). The
The standards in Allied and distinction. The roigration of women is absence of class specially clamant at the present basements, and stairs will go far neutral countries have and will time. Before the war we had a to counterbalance the drawbacks improve, and thus lessen our surplus of about one and a third of leaving home. The war has opportunities of buying supplies million more women than men, given us a unique opportunity of from our former foreign sources, The devastation of 12,000 square and the war losses have brought seeing the potentialities of the such as the Argentine and Russia. the figure up to over two million development of the British race miles on the Western, front will excess females. Overseas, in One-third of the New Zealand 1914, the white males exceeded troops were British born, and the increase the call of the world for the females within the Empire proportion in the case of the food, which increase will be by three-quarters of a million, Canadians and Anstralians was, if greater than the check on con- against which must be placed the anything, still higher, in average sumption due to the war losses of other combatants... Indeed, the war losses of the Dominions of height and build they over 100,000 men, and 50,000 superior to similar units in the United Kingdom is the only nation of all the belligerents brides whom the Imperial troops home armies. As food, housing, which has actually increased its
back are taking
their and employment will play s population during the war by the "booty," thus to secure the great a part in reconstruction, peaceful happiness in the future migration is again an-perhaps excess of checks on migration for which they risked their lives the essential factor. It is need-over war losses. and their all in the wXT. Yet ed to increase our food supply these adjustments will leave over and so reduce prices. The migra-
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MIGRATION AND FINANCE.'"
PROHET VERS-CE
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
HEAD OFFICE & GARAGE-24 & 25 DES VIEUX RD. UXK, BRANCHES 137 PRAYA EAST & 26 NATHAN RD., KOWLOON.
SOLE AGENTS FOR~
CHANDLER,
"HUDSON,
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ELGIN MOTOR CARS
HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTOR CYCLES
AGENTS FOR STERLING TYRES
NEW CARS & TYRES IN STOCK
TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL. 482.
FOR HIRE.
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TOILET AND WASHING SOAP
Samples & Prices on Application to
FOOK LEE & CO,
Phone 1174.& 1950.
Sole Agents.
STAR GARAGE.
Tel No. 3017,
49. Des Vœux Road Central
HONGKONG..
New Cars on Hire & For Sale.
E. HING & CO.
SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND
HARDWARE MERCHANTS.
'PHONE NO. 116,
25, WING WOO ST.
CENTERAL
FRENCH LESSONS.
G. MOUSSION,"
15, Morrison Hill Road.
We the UNDERSIGNED being General Agents for THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE CO., LTD., are prepared to issue POLICIES against FIRE, MARINE, and MOTOR ACCIDENT risks at current rates.
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THE
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HONGKONG.
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IN HONGKONG.
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A SHIPMENT HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED OF
"HUILE VIERGE "
(VIRGIN OIL)
A FAMOUS BRAND WHICH WE WERE ONLY TOO ANXIOUS TO RECEIVE IN PAST YEARS, BUT WERE PREVENTED BY THE WAR.
WILLIAM G. JACK
tion of a million persons is Financially it is desirable that half a trillion excess males over- seas, which, added to the excess equivalent to building 200,000 our importe from the Dominions females here at home, aggregate houses. It removes the necessity should increase, and at the same over 2,500,000 compulsory cele for importing vast quantities of time those from foreign countries bates within the Empire, afood, as it takes the empty mouths should decline. Only thus can number greater than was cur to the source of food production. we pay our debts to America, ar total population when the It not only leaves all vacated jobs the Dominions reimburse us for Reformation abolished monasti ++ home for otherwise un-our loans to them Canada has cism, largely on account of its employed persons, but increases become a manufacturing nation, influence in sex segregation. At our home employment by and Australia and New Zealand for will soon become more industrial, the same time, these women who stimulating the demand have done their bit so well our exports. It reduces both and thus have factories available. deserve every help that can be the pressure on the labour market for adoptation to munition fac ringed under the Ports to my given them to make a fresh start and the consequent discontent. tories whenever any future wars however, the happy arise, and to manufacture their where they are most needed. When, whereas their continuance on the medium of approximatelyIm- own raw material for home con. labour merket here is a direct perial standards of employment sumption instead of sending it] menace to the employment of and living is reached, the desire out of their countries for treat- the partially disabled men to migrate declines accordingly, ment and then re-importing it... Their training has been for the The improvement in the standard. We thus stand to witness either most part just what is most of living af home during the war the birth of an Empire of Empires General needed in the Dominions; cook is probably equal to an increase or the end of the British pre-E Ing, nursing, land work, forestry of 10 per cent, în buz opulation. dominance in the Seven Seaso and housewifery are now better The people will not go back understood and known by the pre-wart, standard of food
womanhood than has
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