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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1929.
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
FRIGIDAIRE
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR
DAY BY DAY
THE AVERAGE WOMAN HAS MUCH BETTER TASTE THAN THE AVERAGE MAN. Sir W. B. Richmond...
Captain E. K. Boddam-Whetham, D.S.O., R.N., has assumed command of H.M.9. Tarantula and has taken over the duties of Senior Naval Officer, West River, from to-day."
to a satisfactory condition, its or ganisation must first be radically overhauled. A reorganised and financially healthy Industry might possibly succeed by cutting costs vigorously and comprehensively, on the one hand, and by spending capital freely, on the other hand, on improved machinery such as the automatic loom, In recapturing a large part of the trade that has been lost. But it seems idle to hope for any such results from the present organisation of the in- dustry, no matter how much wages gra reduced. That is a view which has been freely expressed by In- telligent observers, and it ac-1}^«- counts for the fact that the em- ployers have had "a bad Press."
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Colony's Problema.
[To The Editor of Hongkong "Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
Eighteen householders in the Barking and Dagenham districts were summoned at Stratford, E., recently by the South Essex Water- works Company for wasting water.
Mr. A. Gay, for the company, said that advertisements had been put in the local newspapers pro- hibiting the use of water for gar dening, but these people had used water for that purpose."
Mr. Bailey, the chairman, sald that everyone did not read the local newspapera and ordered each defendant to pay 4s. costs.
SirThe point made by "Astraen" in his letter two days ago is a sound one, that instead of pay ing so many higher salaries to all Its employees, the Government would be better advised to take Amongst the passengers who ar-ateps to reduce the cost of lying and rived here by the P. and 0.8.8. thereby boneft all and not only one Moren from Shanghaf to-day were section of the community. I be Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Nightingale, lieve it is true that higher wages in Miss D. S. Smith, Mr. R. A. Jaffray, evitably, are followed by increased
ad Miss M. M. Jaffray.
expenditure leading to higher prices, in which case, if the Govern- ment carry out the recommendations of the recent Salaries Commission, they will be doing an ill turn to the rest of the population who have bot
I only spent la. 8d. on beer in amolumenta advanced,
regarded as drunk--A defehdant I do not suggest that if one comat Kingston-on-Thames. mercial firm saw fit to pay higher I shall never be able to get on salaries, there would be much effect
At the July meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute Masonic Lodge, No. 3,556, Mr. J. Owen Hughes (Japan) were among the overseas dead against the dumployers, as-visitors to whom a welcome was ex
"How many, servants do you keep?"
"Oh, about one out of twenty "
For example, the Times has been (Hongkong) and Mr. Lamon Sweet been fortunate enough to have their three hours, so I could hardly be
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET 9rting with the utmost emphasts tended
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS
ESTABLISHED 1841..
New Pianos
FOR
HIRE
from
$12.00
per month.
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
F1:0JR43
Chater Road.
Fashionable
SOLID SILVER
MADE IN EVERY SIZE,
SHAPE, AND PATTERN,
From $12.50
CIGARETTE CASES
“GIFTS THAT LAST.”
SOLID GOLD
IN A VARIETY OF DESIGNS FOR LADIES
AND - GENTLEMEN,
From $120.00
FRESH STOCKS HAVE JUST ARRIVED:
INCLUDING ALL THE LATEST DESIGNS BY THE LEADING CRAFTSMEN.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Silver Department..
...4569.
STORAGE CAPACITY.
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT, THE WORLD.
DOOWELL & Co., Ltd.
HONG
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KONG & S. CHINA
The
that reorganisation is the primary need of the industry, and that it
Government passengers leaving is futile to press for wage reduc-for-Home to-morrow on the 8.5. tions until such a reorganisation Morea include Mr. E. H. Dyer (Prison Dept.), Mr. F. E.. Ewart has been effected. For the sake Education Dept.), Mr. and Mrs. of this great industry, 'in whick L. P. Lane and child (Police) and bustness concerns in the Far East Mr. C. P. Rozeskwy (Police) are so keenly interested, it is hoped that the Government enquiry will soon be undertaken and some de- Anite outcome result therefrom.
Hongkong Telegraph. kindly to
The cruisers Cambrian, Captain R. H. O. Lane-Poole, O.B.E., and Concord, Captain A. J. Robertson, M.V.O., laft Devonport and Ports- mouth respectively on Aug. 10. to convey reliefs to the Eighth Des- troyer Flotilla on the China Station.
Civil Service Salaries. The taxpaper, it is becoming Increasingly evident, is not taking the proposal that another million dollars or so of the sum annually devated, to the public service shall disappear in the form of personal emoluments to Government servants. Already THE COTTON PROBLEM. strongly critical comments have tory progress.
ed
FRIDAY SEPT. 13, 1929.
industry.
appeared in our correspondence columns, and if the impatience exhibited in some instances is a trifle premature, it is not difficult to understand.
News has been received in the Colony that Mr. A. W. Roberts, who for many years was in charge of the Sports Department of Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., has opened a Sports Depot at East- bourne, England, where his, new business is making most satisfac-
Passengers arriving on the Mantua yesterday included Mr. A. É. Bon- son, Pay-Com. Hautor, Mr. and Mrs G. A Jack, Mr. D. Marshall, Com Rivett Carano Mr. and Mrs. Oswick, Mr. J. R. Roberts West, Mr. J. Wilson, Capt Ramany; Dr. R H Dastur and Boddam Whetham, Capt. B.
Sq. Leader C. Boumphrey,
on the community, but for the Gov-In future unless I depart from this world. A defendant's letter at Tottenham. Ha
THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT
Many Sporting Pictures
2 To-Morrow.
Sporting pictures will pre- dominate in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supple ment.
In particular, there will be many illustrations of the big sports mest organised by the Chinese Athletic Association. “ These will include group of of- ficials, the opening parade, track events, high jump and hurdles, as well as twelve of the competitors in the tennis "tournament.
The week-end baseball matches, as well as the bowls games Kowloon Bowling Green. Club* v. Kowloon Dock, and Craigengower v. Talkoo; will also be illustrated.
̧· A group taken at the wedding of Mr. J♫ L. Mi da Rocha and Miss Rosaline: Maria · Xavier will also appear
und
ernment to do so would be bound, I think, to have far-reaching results by raising the cost of living to the detriment of many.
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Af Home, the Government have done, much to reduce the high cost of living, so that surely it is not too much to expect the Government powers, to do the same, here, with their almost autocratic
Two seamen charged with drum- kenness at Marlborough-street We came ashore and backed two horses, winning £14.99. We were celebrating it, but had £9 stolen from us.
!
Sho can drink, smoke, and swear like a man, and yet she can be d indy.-A landlady describing "her lodger at Shoreditch County Court,
Mr. Campion, the Marylebone magistrate; No man ought to have": a temper at 72. My temper has gone and I am not 60 yet..
"
(It is calculated that it would take 1:100 years to play all the Tem corda yet made one after another). If all the records that are made Were swiftly in succession played, The whole procession, it appears, Would take eleven hundred years. I wonder, should a man begin, What order he would take them in! Handel, or Hylton!"Hear my
Prayer,"
"Dixie," the "Ave" "I Don't Care,** "Blue Skies," "Blue Moon," "Blue' Room," "Blue Weather?--
I'd like to hear them all together, Just for one minute and no more, A single cacophonie roar! Just human hopes and human
sighs Of mortal "Love that never dies,” Oh human tears and human laugh.
ter,
1
And as swift silence followed after The soft relief to outraged ears Would be the "music of the
spheres"
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Mr. JH. Thomas,
The modern clergyman repre- sents the Victorian tailor's idea of a Man of God. The Rev. Percy Dearmer,
If men were as much men as lizards are lizards, they'd be worth
After all, I "can resist every=" looking at Mr. D. H. Lawrence.
thing except temptation" is not so very far off the essential prayer, e nos induce in tentationem — Mr. G. K. Chesterton,
We have never got anything out
An elderly Chinese woman who Home papers now coming to
was charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte hand devote a good deal of atten-
Smith, at the Kowloon Magistraey It should, how-this morning, with removing earth tion to the Lancashire cotton
ever, be pointed out, in fairness from the hillaide in Kowloon City dispute, which, happily, has been
Road was cautioned by his Wor to the Unofficial. Members of the ship, who warned the defendant settled for the time being so far. Legislative Council; that no oppor- that she was not allowed to remove as wages are concerned. It will tunity has been afforded of earth from Crown land. be recalled that the Arbitration expressing opinions regarding the Court presided over by Mr. Justice, recommendations of the Civil Ser- Rigby Swift approved of a reduc-vice Salaries Commission and that, tion in the pay of the operatives, even in Hongkong, it is impossible but only to half the extent de to think that the Government will venture to act upon the views of
The energetic employer burat manded by the employers. The
the Commissioners without
into his office and made his clerks, President of the Court intimated, previously having set a day, aside
all stir about by saying: "Come - however, that wages were not the for a full-dress debate of the
along now, wake up. Here, it is Monday morning, to-morrow's- only factor, doubtless having in whole subject, including perhaps
I would strongly urge our Un Tuesday, the next day's Wednes mind the necessity of reorganisa, the rising coat of Government.
official Members, therefore, to Im- day-half the week gone, and no tion of the whole industry, but One" of the most striking features
press upon the Government the es- work done yet. said the wage reduction
An unusual story is unfolded insential need for investigating means was of "the general discussion of the the film "The Villa, by the, Sen, of reducing prices before embark There are a large number of
dissatisfaction which is now showing at the Worlding upon a measure which, though justified by the necessity for some Report is the immediate relief for a hard-press-expressed by certain sections of Theatre. It deals with the un- possibly ameliorating the lot of people who construe work as all- the Government staff, despite the scrupulous methods of a Con- same, may do untold harm to many ing a barrow and then emptying Eventually, the
fact that no-one in Governmenttinental millionaire, who in his people in the Colony-Yours etc." whole position of the cotton indus- employ has anything to gain by marital relations is somewhat of a try is to be enquired into by the rejection of the scheme. Briefly, wife, from a perilous altuation, Landru. To save the millionaire's Government, and we may then objection appears to be taken to Lieut. Fremier, commander of the
Sir,In a letter a few days ago, expect important proposals to re the tendency of the Commissioners French destroyer "Cavalier," Is
a choice between "Zeltgist" asked whether it is right ault
to protect the present dollar earn forced to make That the employers had a case ings of the higher salaried officials duty and love, but in serving the for the Marine Magistrate to sit for some reduction in wages canto a far greater extent than is then he eventually recovers the also on the Legislative Council, but other, and there is a happy reunion, so far I have not seen any answer to hardly be disputed, for trade has case of the lesser, officials, and with the death of the millionaire. the question, the
further, it is felt that the cadets As a British production, it is I have always understood that the been very bad and the financial have been given far greater con- above the average. Certain big fundamental basis of the British position of the industry notorious sideration than, in the early scenes are graphically photographed, Judicial System Is that it is entire y desperate." One of the sources stages at least, is their due of b Rifian camp on the Moroccan and if this is so, it is surely wrong as for instance the bombardment ly apart from anything political of trouble, so far as wages are There seems to be ground for the coast and the sinking of the for any stipendary magistrate to be of a revolution. Mr. Herbert concerned, has been that although complaint. An unpassed Cadet's millionaire's yacht. Some beautiful on the Council responsible for the Smith the rates of pay have been close starting salary will, if the recom-scenes are also attained, of extreme Colony's laws. on 90 per cent. above the pre-war mendations are accepted, be £460,natural beauty. level, short-time has reduced the while en completing his Chinese examinations he will get £525. In actual earnings to a relatively low other words, he will train for two figure, Recent developments, years approximately at the however, have bred in the minds expense of the Government, and of the operatives, and not in their get but a fraction less than a fully minds, alone, a new scepticism as qualified Civil Engineer, who has to the expediency, under prevail- had to devote years of training in
The following extracts are from ing conditions, of, meeting bad his profession before the Govern- the Hongkong Telegraph for the trade conditions by wage reduc-ment would consider his appoint week ended September 12th, 1908: ment. Within four years, and tions. In this connexion, one without greater responsibility, the The rate of the dollar on de writer has pointed out that wages cadet's stalary is $100 in excess of mand was 18. 9.15/16d. form only a comparatively small the engineers. Then again, the proportion of the cost of producing Commissioners recommend two Mr. W. H. Donald, a Hongkong cotton cloth. The cut suggested additional Class I cadets on the journalist, was awarded the Order by the employers could not, there- ground that the number of cadets of the Rising Sun (6th Class) by the fore, make any very considerable has lacreased since 1913 when the Japanese Government for services Class I cadets were limited to live. as a war correspondent in the difference to the selling price of we are told there is no desire to Russo-Japanese War. cloth, drastic though the reduction
make service with the Hongkong might be from the operatives Government more attractive, but it standpoint. Even оп the seems obvious that this will be the employers original demands, it effect, has been calculated that the dif ference would only be from two or
The wedding took place on July three per cent, according to the 24 át Holy Trinity, Beckenham, by variety of the cloth. It has there the Rev. Hugh Wood, Vicar of Whit- fore been queried whether the wage church, Aylesbury, the local Vicar deductions can serve to set the cot Charles Layard Edwards, of the Ta, for patrol work on the West (Rev. W. A. Knight) assisting, of The Chinese patrol cruiser, Klang
Baain HM. Ship Tamar and ton industry again upon its feet, to Hongkong and Shanghai Banking River, was Jaunched at Kowloon Tarantula. bring back the lost markets, and to | Corporation, Hongkong, youngest enable full-time working to be son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Ed Dock, Mrs. Stokes, wife of Rear North Arm--H.M. Ships Ster-
wards of Twickenham, and grand Admiral Stokes, performing the ling and Sandwich, restored.
son of the late Gen. Clement A christening ceremony. In Dock-H.M. Ships Seraph,
Serapis and L.10. There is without a doubts Edwards, C.B., and Helen, widow of
W. L. M. Hill, and youngest daugh The Chinese Government decided N. 7 Budy Cornflower, widesprend conviction that
Foreign Men of War-French ted of Mr. and Mrs, Geo, D. Beggs that Nanning-be-the-capital of before the industry can be restored | of 9 Cator Road, Sydenham, Kwangsl, in place of Kweilin.
G/B. Angus.
21 YEARS AGO..
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE **TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The Hon. Mr. Wel Yuk was in- vested with the C.M.G. decoration at. Government House.
•
The yearly report of the Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd, showed a credit balance of $78,462... A dividend of five per cent. was recommended.
It is the Permament Civil Ser It is an interesting point upon vice that is the real conservative which, Sir, I think many of your force in our politica-Mr. readers would appreciate hearing Kingsley Griffith, M.P. your opinion. If it is wrong, the Government ought to rectify it in- stantly and not ponder.-Yours, etc.
ATHENE.
WATER LEVELS.
FOR WEST, NORTH AND.
EAST RIVERS,BAR
The following table, compiled by the Board of Conservancy Works of Kwangtung, shows the water levels in English feet on the West, North and East Rivera on the dates named:
Sept. 11 Sept. 12
Shiphing Tsingyuen Shamshir Sheklung
12.7 .12.6
5.8
5.2
6.9
6.6
2.8
2.5
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following warships are in port:
WHO WAS?
BECKY SHARP.
Becky Sharp was a famous little lady, whose acquaintance is to be made in Thackeray's ...:"Vanity Fair.” "**
Although attractive and. vivacious, Becky, it is to be. feared, was utterly without conscience, or normal principle of any kind.” She was a past- master in the art of coaxing money out of men, and was the. cause of the ruin of full many a trademan who had been cajoled into trusting her, no less than of the ruin of men. of wealth and position.
An adroit wangler, Becky so contrived matters that she was presented at Court, and mixed with the highest society, entering into all kinds of in- trigues and leaving dienster in her wake wherever she went.
In the end she lapsed into☺: apparent respectablilty, but: for all that, her son refused to have anything to do with her-perhaps the one real re- gret in Becky life.
Becky is now one of the im- mortals of fiction, but if you meet her like in real life— beware!