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is no doubt that the out- put of tho existing plant could be considerably increased If a sumelent demand were forth- coming, but demand, in turn, is largely dependent upon cost of production, and in this respecti the volume of output per worker is an Important factor. The con
DAY BY DAY.
HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT 30 CON- STITUTED THAT THEY CAN LIVE WITHOUT EXPANSION. - Margaret Fuller Onsoli.
Pothick.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
TRAMS V. BUSES.
The Very Idea!
Mr. Baldwin's task of filling To The Editor of Hongkong
possible vacancies in his Cabinet
·Telegraph.). Major. A. M. Thompson, Mr.
has revived the suggestion. that J. P. Ryan and Capt, G. R. T. Denn Sir-It must be aggravating should be admitted to this august the time is coming when woman arrived yesterday on the sand distressing to many bona fide circle. For the first time in the clusion to be reached from tho
Shinyo Müru.
Investors in the 'Hongkong Tram- history of England women will be Consue of Production returns is
ways, Ltd. to notice the daily un-in a majority of the electora at Yesterday's return of notifiablo warranted decline in the Com the next election, and, in these. that in view of the scientific dis-diseases shows one Chinese case of pany's shares which has been circumstances, it is assumed that coveries and the great advance in small-pox and one American case going on now for the past fow the party which wins the election. of typhoid, the latter being im-weeks. And for what reason? will feel itself obliged to include. ported.
It is obvious that certain aharo-at least one woman in the Cabinet holders, particularly among the Both left by the Empress of Canada for run amok at the sight of the new position of having in their ranks Amongst the passengers who Chinese In a stato of panic, have Labour parties are now in the the Conservative and Manila were Mr. G. Benson, Mr. buses operating on the island, women M.P.'s: who have served R. A. Camidge and Mr. II. IL and, for fear of a calamity, have apprenticeships. In departmental started unloading as fast as they administrations and Front Bench It was ascertained this morning sight are buying.
can, while those of greater foro- responsibility. The Duchess of that no news has yet been received Do these panicky people realise of the Board of Education, is a Atholl, Parliamentary Secretary. Woodlark, which left Wenchow pany have 650,000 shares, and that mont, but is not a member of the of -the s.s. Causum, ex-H.M.S. that the Hongkong Tramway Com-member of the present Govern for this port on Thursday Inst. n drop in the market quotation of Cabinet. Miss Margaret Bond- rived at Singapore on Wednesday means a depreciation in value of in England, held a post in tile The transport Someraetshire ar-commenced to operato last month, receive a Ministerial appointment $4.50 per share since the buses field, who was the first woman to fram Hongkong. On the same day $2,925,000 7 H.M.S. Kent, the flagship, arrived
Labour Administration of 1924, Does it not occur to you, Sir, as but had no Cabinet rank. 'nt Mitsugi from Kagoshima on the monstrous to suppose for continuation of her Japanese tour, moment that the value of the Com-
phny in question, with its pro- A beadlo at a Fife Church was asked by a visitor which minister SURATİOho Hiked best, the late or the About Hong Kong
present.
knowledge in recent years, there Is still considerable room for thei further development and improve ment of industrial methods and for an increase in the output per worker. It le only by such an in- crease that a further permañout improvement' in the standard of living can be expected, and an in- arcase of this kind is dependent not only upon the efforts of all the operative employees, but also and probably to a greater extent, upon the administrative and direc- Line clamenta.
Financial experts, analysing the census, say there would certainly The forthcoming wedding is an- seem to be no reason
nounced. of Mr. J. Muir, customs for com-
officer of the Chinese Maritimo placency. It has been authorita-Customs, York Building, to Miss C. tively estimated that, compared T. Smith, No. 61, Ferry Road, Loit, with the pre-war period, the de- board the s.s. Kalyan.
Scotland, travelling to Hongkong on cline in the annual real savings in Kreat Britain amounts, in present
One day after leaving Manila, n Pilipino was found on board the 5.8, Greys Harbour without n ticket, and, following the usual custom, he, was handed over the ship in port. On his pleading to the local police on the arrival of guilty to a charge of stowing away, Mr. B. I. Wynne-Jones at the Kow loon Magistracy this morning sen- tenced the defendant to one month's
This morning's Harbour Office reports gave 17 arrivals and the samo number of departures, with British holding top place. Tón again low, the British individual nage was fair, but freights were
fnward 1gures being all below 1,000 tons, with a total under both headings of approximately 9,000 tons. High figures under both headings were registered by the one Dutch arrival, with Swedish next best, inward. At 9 n.m. there were 65 vessels in port, of which 20 were British.
Do you know that
"A local lawyer was appoint- ed Attorney General in 1862, this being Dr. W. T. Bridges, after whom Bridges Street was named?
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"Ah think Ah like the late and," "said the beadle, "for in his sor mon he would say, 'In conclusion," and he did conclude; but the ane wo hae the noo saya. And lastly," And he does last”
(Every year the men of Amarica
spending more
and more on beautifying themselves.)
Dr. Bridges had been in there Colony for a year when bo was inade Attorney General, afterwards becoming Acting Justlee
and later Acting Colonial Secretary. He was in Hongkong for only Len years--a very stormy period, during which he came in for much censura and diegrace because of his personal quar-· rels, especially with a Mr. Anstey,
He was forced because opinion.
to resign
of strong publie
Bring me my rouge, my lipstick,
My bag of vanities,
My powder-puff, my face-cream And what besides there is That's needed for a make-up
To hide the marks of age, 'Gainst which a flight, with all
my might,
I am resolved to wage.
No, I am not a flapper
Who deems that thirty's old; And I am not a matron
With worries manifold. I'm just a man of sixty,
money values, to about £150/200 millions, and it is admitted that DURRAN-HUNTER-At the Peak the improved standard of living, Church, Hongkong on Wed-which is undoubtedly general, has nesday, 21st November, by the been secured not solely by in- Rev. Horace Johnston, John Durran, M.B. Ch. B to cruased production per head, but also, in part, at the expense of a reduction in the same sums avail- | hard labour. able each year for investment pur; poses, this being, to a large ex Lent, a reflection of the increased disposition to spend on the part of all classes of the community. In view, however, of the degree to which the prosperity of the coun- try depends upon an adequate supply of capital, it is most de sirable that every effort should be made to promote habits of thrift among both rich and poor alike, and that further improve-
It is only necessary to watch
Man at Tottenham: While I how the trams are still being was unconscious I heard someono ments in the standard of living|
patronised, to realize that the bus send for the polico... should, un far as possible, rest
competition has really made very upon an increased output per, head;
Wife nt Willesden: My husband little material difference. But has got dangerously drunk every and not be achieved by means of
perhaps it would be expecting too week-end for ten years. much from the average share- further inroads into. the already! Two fishing bout mistresses, holder to wake up to this fact. kilion magistrates for a mainten A wife, appealing to the Ennis- reduced total of the annual say-charged at the Marino Court this
The only great sufferers, in my ance order, asked why she would inge.
morning with using drags and opinion, are the enormous number not live in the house with hor grapplings to lift objects from the of ricksha coolfes operating along husband, replied: It is not a harbour bed without permission, Queen's Road whose livelihood is house. It is only a birdcage. unsuccessfully tried to explain to now undoubtedly seriously jeopar-
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, Nov. 22. 1928.
BRITISH INDUSTRY.
There are some interesting and valuable facts in regard to British industry revealed in the Third Census of Production in Great
and
Rumaning Affairs.
"ALL SORTS OF FISH."
DRAGS SUITABLE FOR WHALE-CATCHING!
i.
Perly, efficiency and great earning power, has deproclated by this the new buses? fabulous amount simply due to
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It will be interesting to hear the
the subject of this letter--|
OBSERVER. Hongkong, Now 22nd, 1928,
CAUGHT PAWNING
CLOCK.
CHINESE THIEF SENT TO PRISON.
Whom Fashion's stern decreo Compels to ape, in ion, and
shape,
The youth of thirty-three.
Golf is what letter-carrying,
ing would be if those three tasks had to be performed on the same hot afternoon in short pants and coloured socks by gouty-looking gentlemen who required a different implement for every mood.- New York Sun.
7.
Magistrate "I am afraid I can only advise you not to quarrel so much in future. Thoro: 18 no evidence to show that your wife assaulted you."
Plaintiff "But yes, air; she pulled a large ploce of my mouse'
Magistrate "Well, I will bind tacho out."
her over to keep the peace."
Plaintiff "But you can't
Comdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.Ó., R.N., dised. Many will soon be thrown Woman charged at Tottenhami Britain, recently issued by the apitre of the Balkans for several for the catching of shrimps and other employment, while others sorry I had a large one.
The news from Rumanin, the that the gear, used was employed out of work and be forced to seek with drunkenness: I am very Board of Trade. The year cover-years past, makes pleasant read-prawns.
will undoubtedly resort to un- Man at Linslade; Buckingham- ed, 1924, has long since passed, ing indeed. Alter years of doubt. The accused were Kwok Ping scrupulous means of livelihood in shiro: My daughters make me use but as the statistics are compared
uncertainty, the situation and Chan Hi, who pleaded not robbing or committing nets of this "unseen" language, with the figures given in the first clarifleation, and Europe will view the prosecution gave evidence that being forced into poverty; not to seems well on the way towards guilty, but the officer conducting violence against the law through census, of 1907, they are calcula- the downfall of M. Titulesco with the boats were in the Naval An-mention the fact that the prosence has opening for high-grade man Large and prominent cemetery ted to afford some general indica- complacency. The expulsion chorage with drage down, when he of so many buses on our streets of executive ability. Permanent tion of the trond of industrini optants at a critical juncture in arrested them. The gear employed trians and smaller vehicles along Ad, in the Chicago Tribune,
order against the Transylvanian put off in the Dockyard launch and adds further congestion to pedes- and very attractive proposition. development. In view of the pourparlers with Hungary was was produced in Court. complaints of the Inck of adequate the fatal mistake of the Rumanian
narrow and already highly Asked what sort of fish they congested ronds. patriot, and the feeling aroused in intended to catch with the drag, atatistics in the pant, it is en- the country by the introduction of the accused replied "All sorts of opinions of some of your renders ditch-digging, and carpet-beat couraging to note that the Board such Ill-judged legislation, has Ash." of Trade is now taking stops to encouraged the new leader of the t Iti Worship, examining the Yours, etc.,
Government, M. Maniu, to take exhibit, expressed his opinion compile a regular official index of bold and decisive steps in the other that it might be suitable for production, covering all import-direction. M. Maniu in the thief catching whales. ant branches of industrial activi- of the Peasant Party and M. ty, and for this purpose 1924 is Titulesco's keenest antagonist. alternative, was inflicted, an order A fine of $15, with the uaus) to be taken as the base year. A
Nearly half the Ministers in the being given for the confiscation of far more satisfactory comparison and the wisdom of, M. Maniu's return of the gear by Kwok Ping| new Cabinet are Transylvanians, the drugs. An appeal for the can be made in Tuture with this policy is clearly shown in the rapid was turned down. particular yeur
restoration of confidence. as the starting office for only ten days, M. Maniu was charged with carrying 15 In Ho Yee, master of a cargo boat, point, and the future Ogurce has already quieted the populace.pasaengers, and pleading guilty, should be even more flluminating The comprehensive programme of stated that he had been asked by
reforms outlined some days ago, shop people to take the passengers on a Chinese by Mr. B. I. Wynne- than those now issued.
A smart sentence was imposed Looking at the net output of the from the unpopular measures of he knew he was committing an this morning, on pleading guilty has dispelled the confusion arising off to a ship. He admitted that Jones, at the Kowloon Magistracy country for 1907 and 1924, we find the Titulesco Cabinet; the Press offence. A fine of $16, at the rate to a charge of larceny, of a long that, air; she's thrown it away." that the respective totals Were
censorship and the imposition of of $1 per head for those carried, coat, a clock and a pair of M £657.1 millions and £1,374.6 mil-a more normal aspect in prepara
martial law, and Rumania wears was inflicted,
snectacles from No. 45, Apliu Hons. It is suggested that the tion for the general election which
Street, Shamshulpo." average advance in the prices of producta between the two years may now look with some degree of such proofs of statesmanship, we cited was in the neighbourhood of confidence for an early settlement 100 per cent, and on this basis of the dispute with Hungary, which, thanks to the obstructionist the Increase in volume would be methods of the former Fromler, about 19 per cent. As the number has defied solution for many years, of persons engaged in production M. Maniu, in fact, has promised to look after some tugs and to deal with the minorities ques- lighters in Shanghai went on Increased during the period by tion "in a manner beitting its im board the Empress of Canada ho 13.8 per cent, it would appear portance" and it may be assumed fore her departure from the that only a comparatively trifling that the days of discrimination, Northern port and was slow in pawn ticket for the long coat, Shanghal
The defendant later produced a Buenos Aires · and, therefore, of Hunvarian re leaving the ship, with the result advance In output per head to in-sentment, are over. We are sorry that the Canada lad left the wharf which the woman 'then, redeemed. Yokohama: dicated. It has to be remember- we cannot say, the same with any before he realised his plight.
The woman Informed the Court New York ed, however, that in 1907, Bri- cortainty regarding M. Maniute His story was accepted by the the door of her cubicle while no-
that the defendant pushed open Geneva future difficulties.
Alon taina industrial resources.
In order to local police to whom he was given one was about and walked off with were carry through his designs, elec in charge on the arrival of the the articles.
Stockholm more fully employed and outputtoral pacts have been concluded ship, and when ho appeared before
Oplo Prague 'On the production of tho de more nearly represented capacity with three other parties, which Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones, at the fendan't criminal record it was Athens Madrid than In 1924, when, owing, to the "common danger," occasioning the he was committed to the House of victed on alx previous occasions Bombay usually means that when the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, discovered that he had been con Rip.. world-wide trading depression, coalition," has been removed, Dentention pending the departure for larceny, receiving, and unlaw- Hongkong much of our plant was idle
former clashes of opinion begin of the Empress of France next ful possession, since 1925, or only partially occupied. There while we wish M, Maniu well. Bhanghal
Bilver (spot) to re-assert themselves. Mean-week, when he will be sent back to
His Worship passed sentence of Bilver (forward)
· six months' hard labour; CUM
takes place next month. with STAYED ABOARD
LONG.
The defendant was arrested in
· EXCHANGE RATES. TOO the net of pawning the clock, and, Milan" being taken to the Police Station, the anectacles were found on him. While being questioned
Paris by the police, a married woman, Amsterdam
Brussels residing at No. 46, Apllu Street, Berlin reported that she had lost the Copenhagen articles enumerated in the charge. Vienna She was shown the clock and Helsingfors spectacles, which she at once Liabon recognised.
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