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BRITAIN' MACHINE-TOOL OUTPUT. The output of machine-toola in Great Britain during 1919 was valued at £10,000,000,
CHEAP FUEL IN FRANCE
Owing to the Government's timely measures to provide com paratively cheap fuel for industriai purposes, the prices of pig ir and various steel products have [dropped 20 per cent.
GALICIAN OILFIELDS. Since Eastern Galicia has come under Polish rule foreign capital to develop the oilfields bas bean introduced to such an extent that almost the entire industry is in British, French, and Belgian hands.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930.
THE HABIT OF "SCROUNGING."
How the War Developed Pilfering.
WONDER GIRLS OF THE "GOLF LINKS."
180 Yard Drive, by a 14 Year-old.
The golf of these children is astonishing." remarked a well- known player at Stote Foges to
As a branch of crime burglary is old-fashioned and out of date, Is is comparatively dangerous, it is troublesome, it can only Daily Chronicle representa casionally be practised, and its tive, when the drst and second rewards (except in the higher de rounds of the Girls' Champion- partment of safe-treating) are ship were decided. usually not great. A simpler. Barbard Griffiths drove from easier, safər, fore constant and the sixth tee, and the ball ran more remunerative profession is beyond a bunker on the right. pilferage of goods in transit; and "I've sliced into the "bunker it we may judge by the ex- many a time," she added. »
This drive measured fully 180 perience of the past eighteen months it is now the favourite yards, and taking a brassie for pursuit of a considerable section her second shat, this 14-year-old of the population of the United girl put the ball within four yards Get a of the trole. George Dansan Kingdom and Europa, job connected with the carriage would have been passed to play of merchandise and you have an the hole as well.
HEREDITARY SKILL Golfing skill is hereditary they
CANADA'S BUMPER HARVEST.
It is reported from Toronto that Canada has never had a better year agriculturally. The almost unlimited scope for the exercise of your profession of pit- wheat yield is estimated at 289,000,000 bushels as compared forer: You can cares so with it six days a week; you run com- with 193,000,000 bushels last year.paritively little chance of being is at Sunningdale, has a golfing Barbara Griffiths, whose home TRADE AGREEMENT discovered; and, still less, of being father and two golfing sisters.
badly punished; and if you select
WITH RUSSIA.
Bay.
The London Stock Exchange your bales and cases with discre. The eldes Miss Molly Griffiths, has sent a letter to the Prime tion you can acquire a great deal reached the semi-final of the Wo- Minister protesting against the of very valuable stuff in a very and one day is sure to hold tha men's Championship this year, conclusion of a trade agreement abort time.
FORMISA'S COMMERCE.
There were 16 competitors. their ages ranging from 14 to 21.
Each couple had its gallery of admiring rotatives, and in many cases an elder acted as caddie.
BOY PRODIGY.
with Russia which does not Since the end of the war the title. There is a fourth daughter, provide for complete recognition profession has grown in numbers but she thinks that tennis is
much better fun than golf. of debts from Russia. Similar pro-fenormously; and it would pro- tests have also been made by bably be a correct statement that British bankers and Chambers of for one dishonest person in the Commerce.
carrying trade before 1914 there are ten or fifteen to-day. So far A valuable review of the com as the layman can discover the mercial and industrial develop-thieves are seldom detected, and ments in the island of Formosa as the goods are not inspected Miss Audres Craft, who was has been written by Mr. P. D. carefully until they arrive at their defending her title of girl cham- Butler, Acting British Consul z destination weeks or months after pian had her father to “ carry Tamsui, as an appendix to Mr. the pilferage has taken place, it for her, and liko the old Scottish
the guide. ! Hugh Horne's report on Japar, is practically impossible to trace caddie, who which we have already noticed. the crime back to the man whof philosopher and friend of the from ren 111,514,00 in 1914 to the other and examines the goods. to use and in the "line" to take | yen 318,000,000 in 1919 finds several pieces masing, senda in putting. remarkable achievement even a report home, gets his money when due allowance is made for from his underwriters and the the abnormal conditions prevail. incident is closed. jeg. There is an excess ofi THINGS STOLEN IN TRANSIT. [exports over imports, which is
only to be expected in an island have been accustomed to cover To marine underwriters who
Peter boxstes handicap of 31. which, though rich is natural this pilferage risk on the same and he confessed that be took to resources, still awaits industrial policy that insures shipwreck and golf "moderately seriously two development. The war
has fire the word pilferage has now years ago."
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. The al trade has increased committed it. The merchant at links, gave her advics in the clubs
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mast One of the
interested spectators was Peter Pharazyn, the nine-year-old brother of Ruth Pharazyn, who was beaten by Christina Clarke..
augmented and accelerated the become a kind of nightmare word: MISS LEITCH REFEREES. prosperity rather than created it. the more cautions of them aro One of the referees was Miss The island is naturally bighly already refusing to accept the Cecil Leitch, the women's cham- productive, and the effect of the risk on any ordinary merchan pion.
warm
past few years has been dise and if the evil spreads in Miss Leitch shepherded these. increase the demand for and in future as rapidly as in the child players with value of the products. The
was She, too, past the time must come when no sympathy. agutegate capitalisation of the underwriter, however venture wonderful child player, and one new companies, most of which
she to take it remembers the some, will consent
sensation
A
have been established within the except at prohibitive premiums. created by appearing in the past two years, is gen 150,000,000. Even to-day, if you were a championship, at St. Andrews In addition, the well-known Bank merchant shipping boots to Paria with her hair down her back. of Taiwan, Ltd.. increased its for some reasou. boots to Paris: eapital in October, 1919, from are a peculiarly seductive bait
yen 39.600,000 to gen 60.000.000. for the pilferer- sou would, un-explanation: for the men in the and the Niitaka Sugar Manufaces you could offer your under-
non than they were before thei
turing Co., Ltd.. increas-dtswriter some good reason why he carrying trades are better paid It is probable that of difficulty to get from anybody/War. Slow carriage, delays in
teapital from yeh 5,600,000 to yen should oblige you find it a matter
10,000,000. :be total
capitalisation during the past two years in
250,000,000.
New
transit, and great accbmulations a policy including pilferage.
ar the docks increase the thief's Why boots should be stolen so Formosa is not far short of real much more frequently than other 19Pportunities and make his work!
casier; but unless we believe merchandise is not quite clear: that man remains honest only but in the long list of articles for want of opportunity to be Messrs. Chabrieres, Moral & commonly stolen boots-if the criminal, they do not explain the Co. report under date of Sept. 16 phrase may be pardoned-stand
SILE MARKET.
numbers of the thieres
as follows: In August,, manu-head and shoulters above all reat apparent increase in the facturers in Lyons resumed others. If one were making a
Probably the true explanation purchases on a small scale list of the merchandise that the is the change of men's ontlook prompted by reduction of stocks thief loves best in the order of his brought about by the war and of raws, and receipt of some preference it would probably bel
army life, and by the easy habit orders. The position remains something like this, I booter scrounging that bundreds of sound; looms are active, and the whisky; 3, cigarettes; 4, clothes;;
men brought out of the army with cautious policy of importers has 5, pipes and fancy goods. prevented the accumulation of
This is not a complete list of them. Men who had long facortis of honesty in positions of trust ang large stocks; as a matter of the things that are commonly before the war have been caught fact, ready silk, in many descrip- stolen in transit. There are tions, is difficult to fnd. Prices hundreds of other things, and put in barefaced pilfering since they came back to civil life; and have advanced by a small fraction. most unlikely things like cotton The improved demand, however, piece-goods, woollen yarns, bits it is clear that most of them no looger regard it as morally wrong has not developed into anything of machinery, sparking plus to help themselves to any desir like an active market, European etc. that are being pilfered every able goods put under their charge. trade being unable to bear the day, but the most popular things, that great moral tonic, and burden of the present production to steal are articles of common
the army, that great school of of silk without the Bupport use that appeal direct to the discipline and self-effacement. ai the United States. As essential needs of man-food, have managed to wash out io America normally absorbs more drink, clothing and tobacco.
the dividing line between honesty and theft.
than two-thirds of the total silk If the thefts were committed their minds production, its protected absten- by men in desperate need of Until this dividing line can be tion has a positively distressing boots and trousers and shirts 000 marked out afresh, the crime of effect on most producing centres, would feel a certain sympathy
pilferage is certain to spread for and especially in the East. Japan, with the criminals as most of us it is highly infectious, and nothing after having exported last season. might take to stealing if the
95 per cent. of its silk to the alternative were cold and hunger is less likely than that the
authorities will check it by in- | United States, is the first victim But thefts are on too large a
creased vigilance or greater of the American crisis: present scale for the thier to be his police activity. It is only by the prices in fen are only about 10 own consumer. No man can
to 15 per cent. higher than those himself smoke £50 worth of strongest pressure of public opin-
EFFICIENCY OF AMERICAN FLEETS.
ion among the transport workers of June, 1914. Japanese reelers cigarettes, stolen between Lonion that the evil can be remedied: are said to have taken steps to and their destination on the Con, reduce their production and thus tinent, or wear £550 worth of and for the sake of their good name the workers should see to prevent the already important clothes, which were stolen in one it that the remedy is applied. stock in Yokohama from assuming swoop between England and aureasonable proportions. China South America. There must be suffers from the high price of a large and pretty well organiser silver; at present rates Shanghai traffic in this stolen merchandise, reelers lose about 15 per cent. and where it finally gets to when on the
price they paid for it does go into consumption no- Mr. Daniels, Secretary of the | cocoons; in fact, taal prices are body outside the police and U. S., Navy, has writtento lower to-day than they were in probably not the police them- Admiral Hugh Rodman and to 1914. Canton reelers, also faced selves—can say.
Admiral Wilson, the respective by serious losses, have partially Why is it that four years of commanders of the Atlantic and closed down their filatures-so-war-should produce this axtra-Pacific Fleets of the United that it is doubtful whether the ordinary and deplorable outburst States, commending them on the fifth crop, which had at first of a particular kind of crime? marked progress in efficiency been estimated at 10,000 balas, High prices, probably, have made by both fests as shown by |will finally give this amount for something to do with it, but they the analysis of the gunnery and
exporte
are not in themselves a sufficient the engineering performances.
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