HOW TRADE MAY BE REVIVED.
SHOULD THE BANKS RESUME ADVANCES?
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PUBLIC MONEY.
IMPROVING · KING'S.
PARK
A CHARITIES ORGANISATION.
Finance At a meeting of the Committee of the Legislative Coun--
PROPERTY THAT WAS UNGUARDED.
· TWO MEN DISCHARGED BY MAGISTRATE,
CHINESE MERCHANT'S VIEW.
A CAUTION TO OWNERS.
Concerning the possible revival
These things ought to be pro- of trade in the Colony, another cil, which is to be held to-morrow tected, otherwise you simply leave lotter has been addressed to the afternoon, votes amounting to an invitation to thieves," remark- Chinese Chamber of Commerce by $124.232.00 will come up for aped Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning a Chinese merchant, Mr. Lai Shau-proval, among them being one re- to the representative of the che, who claims that he has been ferring to King's Park improve in the Colony as a merchant for ments and one to the establishment more than thirty years. The let of a General Charities Organise ter, which appears in the verna- tion for the Colony, cular press, is as follows:
The causes of the trade depres- sloo in the Colony are many, and it is quite apparent that after the restoration of communications with Canton the position of busi-
King's Park Improvements, Under the heading of Public Works Extraordinary, the sum of $17,000 is asked for to defray the cost of public conveniences King's Park, Kowloon, and Gas. coigne Road sewer.
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It is explain-
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Netherlands Harbour Works, who appeared as complainant in a case in which Chinese was charged with stealing a number of Spanners from 1 matshed Quarry Bay,
WEDNESDAY," JULY
CANADA'S RISE.
GROWTH IN SIXTY YEARS.
JUBILEE OF PROSPERITY.
In view of the celebration by Canada this month of the diamond jubilee of her confederation, and the visit by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Premier, with the Prince of Wales and Prince George, in this connexion, it is interesting to review, from available statisties, the remarkable growth of the Do- minion during this period of sixty
in years.
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The man was first arrested for unlawful possession of the span nors, but later he brought the Police to the place where he had
stolen them.
was
ness in the Colony has remain ed the same as, if it is not worse than, during the crucial period In 1925. One thing is clear at ed that "as no sanitary conveni- It proved to be a matshed stand- the present moment and that is, ences exist at the recreation ing on reclaimed ground near the money is plentiful, the result be-grounds ou King's Park, Kowloon, Electric Company's workshop at ing that persons in the Colony the following are considered .es North Point. The place have no confidence in Investments, sentia! to meet the immediate absolutely unguarded, and quite a being content to put their money. needs, of the uses of these areae: quantity of iron odds and ends In the banks and obtain a return (a) an eight sent latrine and two and tools were lying on the of 4 per cent. per annum, or in Stall urinal; (b) a three stallground.. "some cases even lower interest, urinal. This work can be com- The loss of confidence in invest-pleted in 1927 and an amount of menty the Colony is probably due to the attitude of the for- eign banka in refusing to give what was desired on the mort guges, shares, or properties, which were offered them.
Prior to the general. strike in 1925, Chinese merchants could 75 per cent, of the value of their property or shares, which were put before the foreign banks as mortgages by paying them inter-
to
The representative stated $5,000 is accordingly requested. they intended remove As regards the Gascoigne Road things in a day or two. sewer, the original intention, was Mr. Lindsell discharged to charge this to head 31 sub-accused with a caution. head 67 page 80 of the 1927 Esti-
Coal Theft. mates, but, with a view to economy' it was decided to omit
that the
the
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The importance of Canadian whent has received wide recogni- tion; dairy products have a value year; the of G.$250,000,000 a newsprint industry leads, the world. Canada stands first in the production of asbestos, nickel and cobalt; third, in gold and silver, and her known coal reserves are excreted only by those of the
United States and China. The
27, 1927.
MENACE OF GUNMEN IN SINGAPORE.
COLONY "SUFFERING FROM INTOLERABLE EVILS"
TWO SECRET SOCIETIES.
In commenting on the fact that an informer was shot dead outside his own houso
by men who escaped, the Straits Times says that Singapore is at present suffering from two intolerable evils--the menace of gunmen and the fact that the whole of China- town is said to be in the grip of the two lending secret societies.
"To what extent the two evils are related is not the point. Both have to be rooted out. We are not greatly concerned either with the merits or demerits of public flogging, though inclined to the view that Its salutary effects are likely to outweigh any harmful influence on the spectators. What is needed is to make these crimes so difficult that there will be few if any criminals to punish. *
Law-abiding
country stands sixth among the
It is a disturbing thought that great nations in total value of both imports and exports, and is excell anyone who happened to be along ed only by New Zealand in per Friday might have been a victim New Bridge Road at 3.30 last capita foreign trade. Three great of that shooting. transcontinental railways and
people like to think that if they shipping Bines, which sail all seas.
chanced to see an affair of the transport her produce.
kind they would do something to At no time in Canadian history try to stop the miscreant. Yet has the record of achievement anyone who had tried to assist been more convincing and at no would not have had a chance in time in the past have the auguries
a hundred of doing anything; but of the future been more favour-would probably have also been
ble than in 1927, the Sixtieth An-
easily obtain a return of about works including the public eon-up and charged with the larceny niversary of Canadian Confedera-compunction. The logical conclu-
est of 7 or 8 per cent.
High Interest on Second Mortgages.
It is very unfair to state that values of property and shares in the Colony had a sharp set-back when the strike in 1925 broke out, therefore in such an unsettled condition as now it would not be advisable for the banks to advance
Was
certain Another man was then brought the same locality. venlence in King's Park and the of ecal from necessary. gower in connexion Police evidence showed that about therewith. The Miscellaneous a hundredweight of coal was heap- Drainage Works vote was reduced ed near the matshed, apparently from $100,000 to 70,000 and the abandoned, and the defendant whole of this has been allocated stole the coal from this heap. to other drainage works. It is
Remarking that the case now considered necessary to pro- ceed with the erection of the pub-exnotly similar to the previous one lie conveniences and consequently Mr. Lindsell discharged the man, the sewer in Gascoigne Road must adding if the coal and other pro- be provided for at an estimatedperty was left unguarded he would cost of $12,000. With a view to expect such thefts to happen. economy an amended scheme for the layout of the Kowloon Hos- "money on mortgages except those-pital ground has been prepared]
of the safest kind, for there may be another drop in the value of property in the Colony if there should be unforeseen changes in the politient situation of China. In almost all cases, the foreign banks in the Colony who suffer od losses on their mortgages in 1925, and who could not get their money back, were those that ad- vanced money on second "mort- gages, because of the high inter-
Cement Too.
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A third man charged with steal and approved. The amended ling sixteen pounds of cement from scheme is estimated to cost $30,000 the same" Company was not out of the $50,000 provided for the fortunate. He was sentenced to under Head 31 three months' hard labour, because original scheme
the theft took place sub-head 52 page 80 of the 1927 in his case Estimates and the above expendi-near a godown where there were ture can be met from the saving two walchmen employed. thus effected. The above is to be met from savings."
Wireless for Volunteers. The sum of $1,100 is asked for
The man pleaded not guilty to the charge, although he had six previous convictions, against him, On hearing his sentence, he still
tion.
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'The Past.
.
shot down without the slightest
nion is that law-abiding people, particularly those whose duties take them into the Chinese quarter It is wise to pause long enough of the town, should go about to seture perspective of past ac armed, as used to be done in complishment before attempting frontier communities years ago. to summarize the present. Sixty Anyone who tried to tackle a gun- Weapon would years ago, Canada had a popula-man without a tion of three million; foreign merely be courting disaster. trade amounted to C.$132,000,000: the annual value of mineral pro-
duction as late as 1886 umounted
to only G.$10,000,000, and during the first ten years of Canada's life as a nation the whent crop 'did not exceed 25,000.000 bushels, At that time, annual imperts of wheat and flour exceeded exports by nearly 9,000,000 bushels.
To-day, Canadian foreign trade is twenty times as large as at the time of Confederation, manufac tured products twenty times as valuable; the wheat crop sixteen to twenty times as large, and the ratie of increase in other agricul- tural products even greater. Min-
G.$225,000,000 and foreign trade amounts to more than G.$2,800,- 000,000 a year. Many of the older people now living throughout the country have vivid remembrances connected with their share in this rapid growth. In the West, the settlers' hardships in new terri- tory now bear fruit in such items as the G.$600,000,000 grain crop of 1926, or perhaps a better figare would be the total value of the field crops
which amounted to more than G.$1,100,000,000 in that year.
"We suggest again" says the journal, "that besides taking steps to close the doors of the Colony to undesirable immigrants, more should be done in the way of Isolating certain districts a making house to house searches for arms. If the police have not sufficient men to do this effective-
ly, and it is obvious that they
have not, it seems reasonable that the help of the military might be done to such requested, as was effect during the disturbances last March. There are several hun- dreds of men garrisoning Singa- pore who would be highly efficient in such work, and it seems, a pity
est. It was very seldom that the by the Volunteer Defence Corps, maintained his plen of innocence; ing products now have a value or that their services should be wast-]
foreign banks suffered in the case of an ordinary mortgage transac- tion, when the interest was 7 or 8 per cent, and when only about 70 per cent. of the value of the property was allowed on a first mortgage.
Of all the Chinese merchanta who purchased property or who put their mortgages before the foreign banks, before 1925, when the trade in the Colony was in its normal condition, only about 20 per cent.. of them were specula- tors, while at the present time it can be said that the number of speculators has decreased almost to nil.
to pay for four steel telescopic arguing that on previous occasions masts for wireless telegraphy. It when he had stolen anything he is explained that the "Wiraless bad always admitted his guilt, and Masts, etc, were provided for the if he were guilty he would admit W/T training of the Engineer his guilt in the present case Company, Hongkong Volunteer De-falso. fence Corps. In the 1926 Esti- mates page 101 $400 was voted and Supplementary Vote Item 78. $1,300 Laken, The Crown Agents accounts however did not reach Hongkong until February, 1927. No provision for these accounts were made in 1927 Estimates as it was asumed that they would be. naid in 1926 and no funds are
MISSING BACON AND ONIONS.
GUARD-ROOM BREAKFAST.
DISAPPEARS.
available on 1927 votes., A sum A man and two women, employed of $1,111 is necessary and a sup-to work in connexion with the re-
quésted. It is a revole."..
The statement concludes by saying that the Chinese Chamber plementary vote of this sum is reconstruction of a lavatory in Mur-
should request the British Cham- | ber to form a joint committee, elected from among their mem- bers, to advise the foreign banks to accept mortgages in the usual manner, as before the general strike in 1925, decreasing the in- terest to 7 per cent, per annum as a decrease in interest will be a great step toward the reviving of trade in Hongkong.
HONGKONG.
Stationery.
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ray Barracks, were charged before Mr. R E. Lindsell to-day with stealing bread, fried bacon and onions from a guard house yester day morning. The food was in- tended for breakfast for four of
The sum of $100 is to be voted to the Volunteer Defence Corps on account of books, stationery, etc. The explanation is that "the the guards. amount voted under this sub-head
if 1927 Estimates is $1,000. This Evidence was given by one of
sury
sum is insufficient to meet neces- the Corporals and a Sergeant of expenditure in connexion the guard. Actually no-one was with Training books, Impression seen stealing the food, but a papers and stencil, etc., which search made by the Sergeant later AMBULANCE WORK IN contains the charge of $400 for resulted in the location of the food: the books, etc., ordered from Home in a daused matshed inside the in November, 1926, but for which barrack compound. the Crown Agents accounts only The Corporal Baw one of the reached this office in March, 1927.
women come out of the "matahed, No provision was made for above although it was raining at the item of expenditure in 1927 Esti- time, and stated that apparently mites, as it was assumed that they this was the woman who hid the would appear in 1926 accounts, breakfast, which had been stolen. and no, funds are available in 1927 His Worship fined this woman votes. A supplementary which is in the nature of a revote labour. The
vote $5, or in default seven days' hard other woman and
PROMPT AID AT RECENT MISHAPS.
of $400 is accordingly requested."the man were discharged.
A Small Vote.
In connexion with the house col lapse at 349, Queen's Road West, on Monday, thirty members of the Y. M. C. A., Kowloon and Mongkok divisions of the St. John Ambulance Brigade were promptly in attend- ance, and rendered first aid to four patients, namely Ip Shu, aged 7 years, suffering from shock: Lee. A request for $21 for the Kow- Tak, aged 21, with an injury to loon-Canton Railway is explained face, leg and spine; Lau Kau, aged as follows:-"This additional sum 31, with injury, to fingers of right of $21 is required to meet the hand; and Leo Kam, aged 24, with write of of the book value of injury to face and right hand, unserviceable atores reported at The four patients were removed to the Annual Stocktaking, 1927. the Government Civil Hospital for The above is to be met from sav. further attention and examination. ings under Other Charges."
Sergt. "Ng Hon-sang, of the Mongkok ambulance division, fur- ther reports the case of a male, aged 84 years, name unknown of the water boat dock at Lalchi- On account of the construction whom he found slek and helpless in kok, the Public Works Depart Pak Chee Lane, Gage Street. The
Water Bout Dock.
ment asks for
LOCAL JOURNALIST WEDS.
MR. HARRY COOPER AND MISS FRANCES SHERMAN,
Foreign Trade.
ed.
But probably nothing could be done in this direction without
declaring martial law and un- ravelling whole quantities of red tape. Failing this, then,, why not swear in Europeans as special con- stables, in addition, it may be, to their duties as Volunteers? We are sure there are two or three hundred men in Singapore who would be glad to give, their help: There are various questions on which the public would like Gov- ernment answers.
They include: Is the search of the baggage of incoming passengers properly car- ried out? Is there a proper liai- son between the Police and the Chinese Protectorate? Is the Pro- tectcrate regarded" seriously by the Chinese? Is the treatment of informere such as to encourage these men in their hazardous
When the comparison is made betweep the foreign trade of Cana- da during the last three years and the status of that trade in some of the earlier years mentioned above, the growing importance of Canada's share in world trade be-work?" comes evident In the twelve months ending April 30, 1925, total value of imports and
amounted to 1,865 million dollars, HOW MUCH DO YOU gold, in the corresponding period
of 1925-26 to 2,251 million dollars gold, and in 1926-27 to almost 2,300 million dollars gold.
KNOW?
Canada is the most important TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS. export market of the United States, taking 17% of the total exports of
The following general know- that country; and the United ledge paper has been taken from States, in turn, is the largest mar-the Daily Express. ket for Canadian goods, taking 28% of the total. exports of Canada.
Great Britain is second only to the United States in imports from and exports to Canada, During the last twelve months, Canadian imports from Great Britain had a value of G.$164,000,000, and ex- ports amounted to G.5447,000,000. It may be noted that the excess of exports to Great Britain is Blightly larger than the excess of imports from the United States.
Eastern Connexión. Possibly the most striking new element in Canada's commerce ia the increasing volume of exporta to the Orient. In the fiscal year His friends in the journalistic of 1921, Canada sold G.$410,000 profession will congratulate Mr.worth of goods to China and Harry Cooper on his joining the G.$387,000 to Japan; in 1926, the Frazers Sherman, of Tientsin, the G.$24,473.000, and the growth of Benedicks, his bride being Miss exports to Chinn amounted to only daughter of Captain W. G. trade with Japan during the last ense was reported to the Central explained that the "cost of the
$10,000, it being Sherman, of the Taku Bar Works. fow years has been even more re- Pollec Station and the patient was work has been increased owing to morning before Lt. Colonel F
The wedding took place this markable. subsequently removed to the Tung the need for protective work re- Eaves, D. 3. O., at the Registry of prevailing in the Orient are con -When the disturbed conditions Wah Hospital.
the Budget for Marriages,
aidered, it is not surprising that Sergt. Ng was early in attend-ferred to when ance on a Chinese named Pun Kai, 1927 was introduced. As the pro-
Mr. Cooper was formerly on the there has been a marked falling who is supposed to have jumped tective work proceeded it was de- from one of the upper floors at the elded in order to give greater pro- Daily Press, and later with the Sun off during the last twelve months, very satisfactory Fire Brigade Station on Monday, tection that it would be destrable Life Assurance. Company, after but in spite of financial troubles at the time of the typhoon, and who to increase the rubble backing towards spending about three years in volume of trade has been main- austained multiple Injuries from the East Wall by forming the journalism in Shanghal and Tien-
tained. tein, returning to Hongkong re- which he died.
cently and joining the China Mail, (Continued on Page 11.)
(Continued on Page 11.)
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