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CRITICISMS OF LORD HAWKE.
Players who Write. Outspoken comments on the present M.C.C. tour in Australia were made by Lord Hawke at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
Umpiring in England last sea-
son, he said, was anything but good. He quoted an official of!
Jelaas umpiring, it must be
Irómedied at once.
CRICKETER-WRITERS,
SHIPPING OUTLOOK,
Moller & Co. and the
Arbitration Award.
In view of a report being cur-! rent that Measrs. Moller and Co. were desirous of not observing the recent Arbitration terms we to-day took the opportunity of calling upon Mr. H. W. Lucas, the local Manager of the Company, to ascertain the position.
Mr. Lucas stated:-" When the Arbitration award was given, freight rates werd ever 60 much higher, but now they have dropped very low. They have never been lower. They are lower to-day than they were before the War. Not only are freight rates lower, but bunker coal is higher, part bills are higher- as well. By port bills I mean officers' and engineers' pay. It is like this. Before the War, these mon were getting fair rates of wages. Freights wore higher then than they are to-day and bunker coal was cheaper by twenty-five por cent. It stands to reason, therefore, that owners. cannot keep their ships running when they are getting lower freights from their vessels, and have to pay more for bunker coal and the high rates of wages; ruling under the Arbitration. It is in view of this that we have had to lay up two of our steamers, the Lindsay Moller and the Nancy Moller. The Lindsay Moller is laid up in Hongkong and the Nancy Moller at Shang- hai. There is so much Japanese tonnage offoring at rates lower, than European owners afford to
thoir vessels. Japanese owners are not con- fronted with the high port bills that European owners have to Japanes officera and pay engineers are naturally not. membors of the China Coast Officers' Guild nor of the Marino Engineers' Guild. It is principally owing to the Japanese and Norwegian competi- tion that we have had to lay
two up
of our abips. GA there was not sufficient induce- ment to send them to sea. Sup- pose you get a time-charter for a vessel at $4 a ton, or $8,000 a month for a vessol of 2,000 tons. By the time you have paid your port bills, insurance and stores, you will find that you are running| your ship at a loss. It leaves you no margin for depreciation or interest on capital. With freight rates so bad and conditions so rotten in the shipping trade, it stands to reason that the Arbitration award cannot stand, Running ships at present moans running them at a loss."
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"You do not, I presume, con- Harding, William Not Warren. sider the present rates of pay fair?" enquired the interviewer.
'They are certainly not fair," replied Mr. Lucas. He continued: "They are absurd. If a company was making pots of money it would not mind paying the present scale of wages, but if it is losing money you cannot expect it to pay on this scale."
Are you the only 'outside owner complaining?
Power to drive a king from his throne and a sparse shock of straw-and-gray hair that hasn't been trimmed in five weeks.
They wish to bold. They go to their banks and they ask the bankers to loan them money on their cotton until the market rises and they well. The banks haven't enough money. They can loan the money if the federal reserve bank with buy the nates from them. If the federal reserve bank refuses to buy, or "raises the re-discount rate," the bank can't loan, the cotton the growera can't hold and cotton goes cheaper.
Power to ruin a million farmers or bankrupt a million merchants, and a cheap broadcloth coat that puckers at the seams, writes Mr. "The federal
reserve bank doesn't care whether prices rise R. Simouton.
William P.G. Harding, gover-or fall," Harding told me, "it nor-general of the United States simply cares to keep its reserve "I do not know what the other Federal Reserve Board, hus within the legal limit. However, outside'owners are going to do. greater power than any ruler of if we loaned money to the cotton I expect that the Shipowners the earth. Nero could "off with people we'd have to loan the Association will have a meeting their heads" to a hundred Chris- wheat people and the barley very shortly, and it is quite poss-tians with a wave of his hand. ible they will come to an arrange- He ate his food from golden plates ment as to what should be done. and his roast suckling pigs had It is impossible to carry on as at diamonds in their eyes. present. It means either losing money or laying up ships,"
JAPAN'S FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The Position Regarding Siberia,
Harding can say three words and around the world and into the farthest country panic could follow. Thousands to Noro's hundreds might die. Harding has no diamond crested suckling pigs and I think his scarf pin is agate.
people and soon we'd have four
or five billion dollars loaned. So we won't help any agricultural industry which holde its products for price raises. We will help them move cropa to the market and that's all."
What does this uncrowned king of the world look like ?
He looks like a banker and bo
is a banker. His spectacles are rimmed with light celluloid and
As governor-general of the are hooked to his ears. His face super-bank of the world, Harding is lined deep about the mouth. is perhaps the world's greater in- He has a slight stoop yet an easy, Addressing the Budget Comi- mittee of the House of Peors the divididual power to-day. America cautious sort of walk and car- Minister of the Navy stated that is the world's banker. Her banks ringe. I don't think be much are financing the nations of the cares whether he wears socks the present naval building pro-earth. Harding and his advisers that match bis tie, though I think
gramme would be completed in But, he said, the umpire's 1927. A large proportion of the control the fate of American mostly they do, because black decision was final. It was a vessels would be built in private banks and hence the fate of every appears his favourite tone.
nation dependent upon them. grave matter when first-class yards, dispite the fact that con- Ancient rulers waved a jeweled cricketers lingered at the wicket, struction in the Government scepire and perhaps a massacre
at an irrevocable decision.
THE MORNING
not cricket, and not good for the ditions in the territory contiguous rates," and every man and wo-
and child on earth is if at bed-time you take a couple
man
essential of civilzation.
The
of Pinkettes when troubled with
ache or biliousness. Pinkettes
or publicly showed dissatisfaction garde was 15 per cent, cheaper. followed. Harding lifts his voice YOU'LL FEEL BETTER IN Count Uchida, the Foreign Minis- to say, "raise the re-discount This was not sporting, it was ter stated that the disturbed con- spirit of the game.
to Korea would make it imposs-affected. He attached much value to the ible for the Japanese to evacute
For example, cotton is an constipation, liver, sick head- 25 years standing, who said he written tuition of experienced Siberia in the near future. The
had never even so many had players on cricket, but no man prevention of trouble from Kore- United States is a heavy cotton set as gently as nature, are decisions given in first-class was capable of writing in an un-an malcontents, and also the producer. Cotton growers to-day laxativo perfection because they biassed way about a match in protection of Japanese interests, have millions of bales unsold in create no habit, and neither gripe It gave the impression, said which he played.
would necessitate the continued "I hope that when the side
their warehouses. They must nor purge. They aid digestion, Lord Hawke, that umpires could
occupation of Vladivostok. The all the cotton or go broke. The increase appetite. not always have carried out that chosen for England next sum- Minister added that the foreign cotton market is low. If they Of chemists everywhere at 60 principle of the game that the mor, it will be made a condition recognition of the Chite Govern cell now they must take a little batsman should have the benefit that neither amateur nor pro-ment would seriously affect
fessional shall write an article on Japan, but such action was not?profit and every cotton buyer cents the vial, or post free
cricket in one season.”
of the doubt.
This was a grave matter, which the match for which he has the contemplated at present.
will buy cotton cheaper. If they on receipt of price from the hold their cotton every buyer Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 46, must be considered carefully. If honour to be selected," said the
Subsequently the Anglo-
Szechuen Road, Shanghai, there was incompetency in first-epsaker.
Japanese alliance was discussed. must buy dearly.
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