LOCAL WIRELESS
SERVICES.
REVISED NOTIFICATION NOW ISSUED.
STORM WARNINGS.
The following amendments to Government Notification No. 322 of 1st June, 1928, to come into force on the 15th March, 1930, are pub lished for general information:
For Para. Page 2, substitute: "Continuous watch is kept by VPC on 600 metres and on 2099 metres C.W. at the following times:
G. M. T.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD ACCENT,
MR. WICKHAM STEED ON WRONG ENUNCIATION.
IRON AND STEEL. INQUIRY.
KRITISH VISITORS TO MONTREAL
SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1930.
GIRLS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE,
The Very Idea!
MISS MARGARET BONDFIELD'S
"The late Sir Charles Monro,” ADVICE.
writes a military correspondent of the Morning Post," "was ́a real Accurate speech and enuncía- Representatives of English iron "Everybody is important if they soldiers' General of the old- tion whether in the realm of dip and steel manufacturers attending are doing the job they are set to fashioned kind the soldier loves. lomacy or the world of commerce the public hearings before the do to the best of their ability,"
"Sir Charles first saw active ser- and industry, was declared to be Canadian Tariff Advisory Board said Margaret Bondfield, Minister vice on the North-West Frontior, greatly needed to-day in England in Montreal report interesting of Labour, when speaking on the and it was habit of his to stop and America by HI. Wickham facts concerning the Canadian, work of the civil service to 700 and speak to any men wearing the Steed, president of the Modern English and American viewpoints schoolgirls from pubile secondary ribbon of the medal given for that Language Association, in an ad- on the relative merits of foreign schools all round London, recent-campaign. One day, seeing an old dress entitled "The Importance of and domestic products and com-y, at the Civil Service Commis- soldier wearing it, the General Accent," before the members of petitive trade.
sion. They had been invited to said, 'Well, I see you, too, were on that organization assembled in
Certain Canadian firms, said to hear Sir Horace J. Wilson, Per-the Frontier. I wonder if you can annual session in London.
be mostly American-owned manent Secretary, Minister of remember me?' 'Yes, sir,' said the "Are the peoples of the world to branches of United States in Labour, but the girls did not dis-soldier, 'you were in the Blank be for ever condemned to confu-dustries, are seeking to obtain a guise the fact that it was Margaret shires, naming an Irish regiment sion of tongues?" asked Mr. Steed. reduction in the proportion of Bondfield who was the chief at "Will they never be able to agree British preference. Prime Minis traction, for they had never seen upon one medium for the inter-ter Mackenzie King's declaration woman Minister before, and one 0535-0545 change of their thoughts? It is in London, Ont., early in Decem-for two of their number had visions 0035-0645 hard to be certain, but for theber, of the Dominion Government's of being members of Parliament 1335-1345) present International jealousies reluctancy to assume retaliatory themselves. 2235-2245 are too strong to allow of the en- or provocative attitude while the They began to want to help her 2335-2345 thronement of any one living Congress of the United States was with "the Nation's housekeeping, Ship are requested to reply on language as universal."
debating its own tariff problem as she called the civil service. 2100 metres C.W.
He continued: "I am convinced had a modifying effect upon the She did not disguise the fact that that the matter of accent is the Canadian Tariff Board hearings, some of the jobs were "deadly essential
of although its chairman, W. H. dull," but they were, she insisted. modern languages. It has been Moore, frankly voiced "the general essential to the whole plan, and well said that when all conceivable feeling in Canada" is that Great she emphasized the importance of international arrangements have Britain should be given a prefer- the people doing them. been made for the preservation of ence over foreign countries. peace and the outlawry of war, the task of promoting good man than ever. ners will become more important
General Communication
Waye Routines
Under "Information broadcast by Observatory," for second part of Para, 1, substitute:-"A petition of the 0400 and 1200 messages will be made by VPS on
2913
metres C.W. at 0500
1300 respectively."
and
For the next paragraph suh- stitute: "The Weather Reports and Forecasts will also be broad- cast by ZBW On 355 metres telephony, at 0530 and 1300 G.M.T." For "A missing element is in- substitute:"A missing element
dicated by "z" "zz," or "2222"
is indicated by "x." "xxxx."
CURIOUS CONFLICT OF OPINION.
or
factor in the use
To Avoid Giving Offence.
tional litigation for international fisticuffs. It will be necessary to
Canadian importers, especially of mining compressors, pumps. chains, dairy and sawmill chinery, refrigerators. cleaners, sewing machines and other articles, opposed the applica-
vacuum
"In modern industrial craft the worker has to became a cog in the machine, but it is a very wonderful machine, and it enables the work- ing girl to have things which Queen Elizabeth never dreamed of
of which apparently the General was not fond.
***Blankshires be damned!” was the reply. I was in the Queen's, and don't you forget it!'
"It was little incidents like this which endeared him to his undefeat- ed, undefeatable men.""
"Dear Doc,-I don't go to church. The first time I went they threw water on me; the second time they tied me to a woman for life."Woman Hater.
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Clerk at Southend-Do you plead guilty or not guilty? Elderly Man-Only ignorance; I don't know what you classify that as.
It will not be enough to stop tion of Canadian manufacturers possessing! In my particular fighting or to substitute interna-for increased duties on these items, corner I am in peculiar touch with claiming they must have free ac- the lives of the people, but if you cuss to world markets when mak-take this bigger view, it makes your share, even in what. seems ing purchases. Canadian manu. facturers complained, that they routine work, important."
The woman who takes her re- a man. not compete with United could
avoid giving offence, to respect the feelings of other peoples, to cul- tivate understanding of their in-
to behave, in short, as
assemblage
part
.
ham why was put into long
it
Man at Marylebone-I am a per- manent causal docker. I am a casual worker under a permanent system, if you know what I mean.
Woman, explaining at Totten- a boy did not attend school-He trousers, and then thought he was For Para. 2, Page 3, substitute: terests, susceptibilities and stand-States firms operating branches creation in change of work, who
Bow County Court Witness-She --"Slor warnings are
broad-points, east by VPS on 600 metres
in Canada, for such branches were frequently works 18 hours a day, went by on her motor-cycle like a by ZBW on 355 metres telephony, society and not an
and though the nations were decent merely assembling plants" and turned to the girls' games for a flash of lightning. I just had time on receipt and at the two sub-of uncouth louts.
the duty on parts was suficiently simile to drive home her point. to notice that she was slightly Requent hours. They are ako "Fortunately, wireless is coming
How to enable American firms to She reminded them that those who cross-eyed.
Solicitor at Bow County Court broadcast as above at every hour to our aid in disseminating know bring in their surplus production. have their place in a remote corner
Machinery constitutes a large of the field are just as necessar-How do you remember that it when the typhoon is definitely ledge of right pronunciation and threatening Hongkong.
of Canada's imports from to the game as those in the front was August 8 that this dog bit your good accent in English, as well as In the second line of Para. 3. i French and
Great Britain and representatives so long as they enter into the spirit daughter? Woman--Because other modern of British machinery firms are of the game and play for their was the anniversary of my wed- Page 3, for "2000 metre
tongues. This raising of the gen-information to the board on the side.
ding day. wave, substitute:"2013 metre wave."
ral standard will refine our cost of production and details The Permanent Secretary told
In the company of medicos the methods of speech without weaken- of their business. It was shown the girls that it was the machine other evening (says a writer) the ing them or making them finicky that imported machinery produced through which the central Govern following tale was told. A Scots We may not vet, nor is it desirable per cent. of the gold refined in ment worked. It was a very old farmer was suffering from rheuma- TALK-FILMS ON TRIAL. that we should, a universal Recent Ontario and Quebec provinces. machine, for there were records tism, and his doctor, after doing
or type of enunciation, but we
Discussion of the estoma duty which showed that the Egyptians his best with wint proved a rather may reach a point which will
on steel chains raised several in-had a very efficient civil service. justify any assumption that the teresting points. Certain types, He showed
obstinate case, advised the patient the girls the wide purpose of language is to convey upon which higher duties are im-variety of work to be found with to consult a specialist in a neigh- intelligible sounds."
bouring town. This the farmer Without some mastery of local the ground that "where life and them that much of it was neces
posed, are handweldes, and. on in the civil service, but warned did. accents and meanin Mr. Steed property are at stake" the British sarily routine work, and could not spa treatment, preferably at Har- The specialist advised a course of said, the life of a vagrant Eneliah-hand-welded chain is superior to be called "thrifting" Many of rogate. The farmer asked what man in the United Staes might be the machine-welded Canadian pro-them wanted to become political that meant, and the specialist told difficult. Irishmen and Scotsmen duct, a firm of importers asked secretaries, but they realized that him it would involve a railway fared better. Their accents did that the British preference be there were not enough jobs to go journey, staying at an hotel for not fall upor American cars with "free" instead of 16 per cent, as round; and one girl is going into perhaps a month, and a course of a suggestion of "remote superio-at present. A Canadian chain wholesale dressmaking instead. baths and waters under the super- rity."
company opposed, and submitted Studying "Political Accents."
Sir Horace was very definite vision of a Harrogate doctor. that workers who made hand-weld- with regard to the advantage of "If the English and Americaned chain in Britain were paid about university training for the civil farmer asked, and he was told it What would the cost be, the people are to understand each $15 per week wares, while workers service, for he said it was best to might run him into 40. He paid other." declared Mr. Steed, "they in Canadian factories receive $50 start in one of the higher grades. the specialist his fee of two guineds, will need very carefully to study to $60 a week.
"Cajole or coerce your father into and said he would think it over. each others' political accents-- With regard to a proposal for sending you to Oxford or Cam- When he got home the Scot saw that is to say. the connotations and increasing the duty by 10 per cent.bridge," he said, "because you are his on doctor again. "Well, the traditional implications
en "green steel bands," the raw going to try for an administrative what did the specialist say?" the words and phrases which may seem material from which saws identical, no less than the varieties made, and which at present is un-need first-class honours, and then him.
post in the civil service. You will latter asked, and the farmer told of pronouncement."
taxed, representatives of Canadiar. Mr. Steed said he wondered branches of three United States) some special preparation, but try whether Stanley Baldwin would sawmakers objected, claiming that for it all you can.The salary for have been quite so successful in the creation of a British prefer women principals is £770 to £950." the United States as Ramsay Mac-ence would place their firms under He reminded the girls that there Donald was, had the British elec distinct
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disadvantage.
was nothing to prevent any one of They torate decided to retain the ser-had invested capital in Canada in them from becoming Permanent vices of the former Prime Minister good faith and a duty on raw Secretary to the Minister of La- last May. "Mr. Baldwin," he said,material would change their whole hour. But if they entered the "peak excellent English, with a basis of operations.
civil service they must give up clear enunciation, but in his tone
A Canadian manufacturer of hope of being the Minister, for there is a trace of the Harrow pasteurizers complained that im- they must not take an active part voice' or 'Harrow accent, which ports from the United States of in politics, might have raised latent resent that class of dairy machinery were ment in American breasts. But increasing
Some exceedingly frank observa- toins upon the present position, as regards talkfilms are to be found in "The Kinematograph Year Book for 1930." just issued.
Under the heading "Year Two of
the Revolution" the editor Mr. S. G. Rayment, points out some inent. gruity in the popular verdicts us to the talk-film
"Not once, nor twice," he writer "but in a great number of tests carried out by anxious exhibitors in different parts of Landou and the provinces, the public have bee given n vate an causidered question of their preference-silent or talkie Without exception they have expressed a firm allegiance to the older form of "Rereen entertain ment,
On the other hand he notes that the position taken up by the patron when agked for his opinion is absolutely different from that shown in a pretical fashion at the box-office. In spite of an avowed preference for the silent, it in the sound film that has taken bir money in every case where direct sonpeti tion between them has existed."
Mr. Rayment puts this down in
to conservatismo
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the one hand and curiosity on the other. "There has already arrived. he nates, “n decline in the appeal
of a mediocre talk-film. Only the best 'talkies' will survive now."'
On the whole he considers that the future of the cinema will
in
a mixed programme which should "paint a
oftenly for quite a fair nutþ
The fact remains" he adds. that very few are available and judging by the wurk of the studios, there will be a ginnter shortage.
MR. PEPYS IN HONG- KONG.
This day to the Club at eleven for my morning draft. And while there, do hear that the A.D.C, arc
are,
rapidly, while the He suggested a duty when Mr. MacDonald spoke of the United States Congress threaten- vent,
of 20 per
on American pasteurizers,
| wurrld's yarrning" for peace, and ed to impose a prohibitive duty but was willing to let British ma-
of his desire that the two peoples in milk and creat from Camat, chinery come in free. should stand together as "brrethrren'
in promoting it. American hearts warmed toward him."
The psychological advantages of a good accent were incalculable. Not least among them was the self- to those who co.idence it gave possessed it, and in trade, as in some forms of human intercourse, self-confidence was half the battle. No Englishman who had laboured to learn a foreign language well was likely to display the "take-it- or-leave-it" arrogance shown in the past, declared Mr. Steed, by too
many representatives of English business abroad.
once more minded to produce my GIBRALTÁK CUT OFF.
TRAIN SERVICE STOPPED THROUGH LANDSLIDE.
play "And so to Bed," which do please me mightily us it is as goode a play as ever I saw, and moreover the A.D.C. have played nothing well nigh come a year. There, comes friend Povy to dis- course with me over our sherrys sack, who do tell me, to my great content, that Mr. Hannibal is to play my name part. Which me- thinks he will do very prettily, Thence to the Office, but Lord! the state of trade be so sad as never wng, so that a man must labour ceaselessly for little gain At night, home and do speak of the play to my wife how that I am minded for us to go. But she The Gibraltar Post Office is des-
doth' tell me she must procure a new gowne, as all that she now have are rage. Whereat I am greatly troubled, and God knows how it shall be, for my estate hath never been worse,
And so to bed.
Gibraltar, Feb. 3. Gibraltar is cut off from railway communication with the outside) world as the result of an extensive fandslide which occurred to-day near the station of Jimena de la. Frontera on the line ap to Ronda, eighteen miles from Gibraltar.
The landslide i due to the in- cessant rains. It is expected that some ten days will elapse before communication can be restored..
patching the mails for England. and the Continent via Marseilles by P. arid O. vessela....... –
A special train conveying 200 American tourists from Gibraltar to Granada was compelled to re turn to Gibraltar.
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