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AGENTS,
1814 ESTABLES 1914
YEARS,
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Export and Import Agents
For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote your interests? We shall be pleased to enter into correspond- ence with a view to arranging Serms to mutual advantage.
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AND CO.
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The Election Speeches.
SOAP TOO DEAR.
Reasonable Profits Exceeded. To judge from the state of feel- In the opinion of the Bub ing on the Position benches Committee appointed by the while the Prime Minister, was en Standing Committen › Trusts to gaged in explaining away his Inquire into the soup ma ju motur. election speeches on the search. | ing industry In this country, the ing of Germany's pockets and the price of the best household soap fate of the Kaiser, Mr. Bottomley's in this country should not be more amendment on that subjact might|than 816d. per pound.
have been carried by acclamation "Lever Bro, explained their but for one flaw-It specifically large profits," proceeds the report, demanded an early dissolution, "by the necessity of fixing their writes the Parliamintary corrs-selling prices on the basis of aporident of the Manchestr replacement cost rather than the Guardian.
actual cost of materials used. They stated that uniers this were lone they would, in a tigas ob rising prices, be flooded out with orders, which they could not meet. This policy, thepudi d, would be continued when prloës were falling.
Clearly this went beyond the goueral desire. Even Colonel John Ward, who had indignantly interrupted Mr. Lloyd Georgo to remind him that if Germany had won the war aho would have looted England from and to end, confessed that lie was opposed to. "In the present case, however, a dissolution. On the other hand, the policy of basing só Jing prices Mr. Tom Shaw, speaking for the on replacement cost was "kban. Labour party, manfully protested doned as 'do as the pilaes di the willingness of himself and raw material began to fall." . The his friends to face the musio.Committee recognise that the "We want to get you before price has not been raised to 'the the country so that you may highest possible limit, but it: “le have to tell your heng-the-Kaiser now definitely higher than it story over again," be frankly would be if there were real com- warned the Government. "We petition of price between the soap- should tell just the same story as makere, and over an average of before," came the impenitent [years has been higher than is retort. "God help you if you necessary to provide ressonable dó," rejoined Mr. Shaw with profits." explosive fervour.
Lord Leverhulme, interviewed
We know nothing," com- in regard to the report, said that
SHIPBUILDERS.
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DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
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CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT. ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET" RADIUS
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS, HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN,
plained Colonel Lowther (who with reference to the statement PRINCE LINE LIMITED, W. S. BAILE
that the best household soaps
the amendment), are treated as idiote." Not only should be 8lgd. & pound, "That so, but Colonel Lowther, it can only be founded upon newe- appeared, had been, treated paper reports of market prices; it. individually by the Govern- | cannot be founded upon the ment as "a congenital idiot," supplies of raw material in the because two years ago he had hands of soap makers in the suggested that Germany should | United Kingdom.”
S. S. "MOORISH PRINCE"
be made to pay an indemnity of) He added that the price of fourteen or fifteen thousand soap was lowered on January 1 millions sterling, even if it took to 10d., and it had been decided her forty years to find the money. to lower the price to 9d. on for 12 FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS. Yet now, if the newspapers were, February 14. Both these reduc. correctly informed (for Parliations dated back three weeks, ment had not yet been told), a (because, in order that reduced demand had been made for au prices should reach the consumer indemnity of thirteen and a half promptly, all British soap makers thousand millions, spread over a made a rebate to their customers period, strange to say, of forty-on stocks delivered within the two years.
precoding three weeks.
Soap
To NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.) and EUROPE, sailing from
Hongkong on or about 14th April. ACCOMMODATION
As for the figure of thirteen makers, were lowering prices as and a half thousand millions soon as possible, but it must be quoted by Colonel Lowther, Mr.remembered that market quota- George, to the surpise of members, tions might come by telegram, referred to its use as an instance but raw material had to come by of the confusion of mind prevail. steamer, ing on the subject, By the "The price of soap is not fixed process of reducing the deferred by one firm or a combination of payments for the final ten or firms, but by all the United fifteen years to their present Kingdom. valne he came to the conclusion that the true amount could ba U. S. THIRD ASSISTANT SECRET- only about £800,000,000. "You mean £8,000,000,000," somebody suggested, but the Prime Minister adhered to his own relatively modest figure, and appeared to be confirmed in his calculation by Mr. Bottomley's remark (faintly reminiscent of an earlier publicist) that any schoolboy could have
told him that.
THE POWDER AND THE JAM.
ARY OF STATE.
Mr. Robert Woods Bliss has been appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State, in succession to Mr. Merle Smith. Mr. Bliss was for many years Counsellor at the American Embassy in Paris and afterwards Chief of Division of Western European Affairs in the Department of Stat.
For rates, etc, apply to:-
SHIPPING NEWS.
FURNESS (FAR EAST) LIMITED, St., George's Building.
THE SLUMP AT HOME.
The slump in shipping at Home is so bad that there is no more available mooring room on the Tyne.
:
CANTONESE SEAMEN'S UNION,
Seamen employed on steamers, junks and other vessels in the vicinity of Cantoo have organized a union, in co-operation with the railway workers.
TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION WITH THE SHORE. Telephone conversations be tween a ship in the Atlantic and Catalina Island off the coast of California have been successfully accomplished through a com- bination of wire and wireless across the United States.
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CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIONTE
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHAS
From EUROPE and STRAITE THE Company's Steamship
"KAMO MARU?:
Optional Goods will be car it
on unless instructions are g
The shooting by members of the Merchant Marine at the THE VON TIRPITZ HANDED OVER. February competition of the The surendered German liner Shanghai Ministure Rifle and Von Tirpitz arrived at Imming Revolver Club was excellent. having arrived from the ham Dock recently, and will re- The Mercantile Marine Cham- porte, Consignees of Cargo main there until, it is decided pionship Competition, which is, bereby informed that their Good what is to be done with her. open to officers of all ships visit are being landed and placed PURCHASE OF KOBE DOCKYARDS, ing Shanghai, commenced on their risk in the Hongkong and year's indemnity." In any case, It is reported that the Kobe February land will continue till Kowloon Wharf and Gölm All the same, a little more light he added, ignoring the ironical Seikosho has decided to purchase January 31, 1922. This competition Company's Godowns at Kowloon on the calculations of the twin chears of the Labour members, the Toba and Hapima Dockyards affords an excellent opportunity where each consignment will experts would probably have been there was no intention on bis from the Teikoku Kisen Kaisha. for officers visiting Shanghai to sorted out mark by mark and welcomed by less gifted statis part of going to Germany, with The purchase price will, it is pro- spend some useful and interest-livery can be obtained as 100 ticians, especially when Mr.proposals that he know to hdicted, be about Y5,000,000. L'ord George, went on to inform impracticable and which could
ing hours at target practice. The as the Goods are landed, “ bis critics
that they had only raise false hopes in this
EX-GERMAN ORUISERS AB
range je open daily for practice. altogether unders' ated
MERCHANTMEN. the country.
K.K.K. POLICY. amount eo far paid by Germany.
The former German cruisers So far the tone of the speech Geflon and Victoria Louise have sidized ships are becoming idle, At a time when many unsub- Already she had delivered to had been as little to the taste bean renamed Adolf Summerfeld one after another, considerable April, 1921, will be subje the Allies material to the value of the Goverment's supporters and Flors Summerfeld respec-interest attaches to the policy of to rent.
Goods not cleared by the of some hundreds of millions as so much medicinal powder, tively, fitted with Diesel engines, the sterling-an estimate declared to Towards the close come a spoonful cargo holds and small passenger which has sixty vessels, totalling left in the Godowns for
Kokusai Kisen Kaisha, I be based not on Germany's of jam, eagerly and gratefully accommodation, and are to run 600,000 tons, for oceau service. ation by the Consignee's d
Damaged packages mus figures but on our own,
swallowed, in the shape of warn- To press for the impossible, the ing to Germany that she must
There are indications that the Co.'s representatives, at Prime Minister went on to argue make a greater effort to meet her
NAVIGATION OF THE RHINE. company has decided to with-pointed hour on Tuesday amid the deepening gloom of his obligations, muat tax herself the Allies and Holland have re-operating overseas and to lay sented within ten days of
It is officially announced that draw a portion of the ships how Friday. All claims must i supporters would be to risk sufficiently, and finally must getting nothing. Wouldn't realise that it was no use coming sched a concrete agreement with them up. The Baifuk Maru steamer's arrival hora, Germany have taken every bit into court with ragged clothes reference to the Articles in the of 9,081 tons, and the Sydney which date they canno of private wealth in this merely in the hope of making a Peace Treaty concerning the Maru, of 6,369 tone, both of cognized. No claims will l country if she had won? good case on her judgment sum interjected Colonel Ward. "And mous,
if she had," retorted Mr. In the end Mr. Bottomley's Lloyd George, "I doubt if it amendment was rejected by 181 would have been equal to one votes to 40..
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
B00-400.00
NOW W-WE CAN'T
AW-YOU JUST WAIT
AN SEE.
GET OUR BOATS
BACK
FETCH IT JUMBO.
That Was A Clever Stunt
as merchantmen.
to the contrary before Noon, day.
navigation of the Rhine, and which are now in Kobe, are the mitted after the goods, hav Bill embodying the terms of this first to be tied up. The Asah the Gedowns. agreement is being drafted for learns that the company bas|INDEN presentation to the Dutch Parlia- come to decision to withdraw NIPPON YUSEN KAIS ment.
nineteen of its ocean liners,
BY BLOSSER,
SEE!
Agents. Hongkong, 30th March, 1921.
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