ECONOMIC UNITY OF THE EMPIRE.
opinion tariff preference was the He showed by most effective.
(Continued from Page 1.) given, that you offer to the Old figures that the preference accord- Country. It is on your part aed British countries had had great frank gesture and a recognition of influences in retaining the New your Imperial interests and your Zealand market for Empire goods. | anxiety to help, but I am sure on
the preference The value of
unmindful of the value Imperial connexion.
THE HONGKONG À TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY. ·OCTOBER 9, 1930.
SHARE MARKETS.
NEW YORK AND LONDON QUOTATIONS.
New York, Oett 6. Business done.--2,266,060, Call money,-2%. Annaconda Copper Armour "A" Crucible Steel
the other hand that you are not granted last year was £4,883,000 Del
no
and this year it was estimated it would be £5,621,000.
of the
Defence, trustee securities, the work of the Empire Marketing Board are all a contribution that we make towards helping you nation posacsses Probably greater potentialities than those contained within the British Compire. monwealth of nations. Surely it is not impossible to devise ways and means whereby this trade and these great potentialities can be used for the benefit of the people as a whole.
Canada's Offer. Canadian's Premier, Mr. R. B. definite Bennett, put forward a plan, founded on the broad prin- ciple of Empire protection, based on a common advantage and guid- ed in its application by a need to ensure the welfare of the home producer.
He would advocate the almost possible extension of tariff con- cessions either by a general ar- rangement or, where necessary, by individual agreements.
between two or more portions of the Em-
As to bulk purchasing and price stabilisation of goods he thought that to administer such a scheme it would be, necessary to obtain complete control over the goods affected. New Zealand's view was averse to an extension of State trading or of Government inter: ference in commercial matters fur- ther than was necessary for the welfare of the people,
Quid Pro Quo.
Until concrete proposals were brought forward he would suspend judgment. New Zealand entirely He offered the Mother Coun agreed that the policy of the try
and all other parts United Kingilom was one for the the Empire 11 proference in sole decision of her people and the Canadian market in
** Government. In the preference change for a like preference in New Zealand had consistently theirs, based upon an addition of given to ritish ronds, red ten per centum increase in the never looked for a quid pro que prevailing general tariffs, or upon from Britain, and she did not do the tariffs yet to be created. This so now, but if, after considera-
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de. N. Dupont Eastman Kodak General Elec. General Motors Goodrich (B.F.) Goodyear T. & R. Cont Of Int. & Tel. Kelvinator Kennecott Coop. Lambert Company Ligget-Meyers "B" Mack Trucks Mont. War & Co. Bank of America Fox Films
Curtiss-Wright, Auro. Hupp Motors Service Gities Nat. City Bank Intl. Harvester Packard Motors Paramount Motors Paramount F. P. L. Nor Pac, R.R. Radin
Ant.
Oil Shell Union
Company Std. on Oil Oil N. J. Std. Oil N.Y.
Texas
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rate could not be uniformly aption, some measure of preference
for
U.S.
Vacuum Of Co."
plied, but the basis of the proposal could be extended to Empire pro- was adequate protection of induce, it would be greatly appreU. S. Steel dustries existing, or to beeint by the people of New Zealand.
established. Thus
certain 3 flexibility in the preferential tariff
No Room for E.FT. must be ensured.
This proposed preference should not be considered a step towards "Empire Free Trade" which he believed neither desirable nor possible.
The South African Finance Min- ister, Mr. Havenga, said that Em. pire Free Trade had been pre-vers sented as a panaces for all ills, but South Africa could not afford and would not subscribe to such a
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London Market, ing for reciprocal tariff benefits.
South Africa would welcome an
If conceivable, the preferential rate should be lower for raw pro-policy. ducts or where the Empire supply does not meet the demand and higher where ten per cont. was Inadequate to give Empire goods an appreciable advantage over foreign countries.
No Delay,
such an agreement was reached Ch. 5 Reer, Gold
THE INDIAN AND THE SWEATER.
THEFT BY P.C. FROM CAR
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
YESTERDAY'S TRIAL INTER. CLUB GAME.
6
The
AT WANCHAI GAP.
The first trial game of the season was played at the Club ground in When accused by Mr. J. W. Happy Valley yesterday afternoon, King, of the British Chemical In- resulting in a win for the players in 377
dustries, (China), Ltd., of stealing Club Colours against those in other 684 a sweater, from a car left on the colours by 23 points to three. 78% roadside, at Wanchai Gap, an teams turned as already announced. 11 Indian constable, P. C. No. D.717.
save that G.E.R. Divett could not was said to have thrown himself play for the Club Colours, and was 635 on his knees in an attitudo des- went inside the
replaced by G. A. Plummer, who .20%
three-quarter cribed as one of asking for merev.put II. V. Koop on the left wing: and 13%
The incident was related at the J. R. Riddell of the Colours, who was Central Magistracy yesterday replaced by J. A. Beaumont in the afternoon, when the Indian was pack. 198 charged before Mr. Lindsell, with 60% the theft of the garment. He pleaded not guilty, through Mr. 18% F. C. E. Rendall,
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38
Mr. King said that at 7 p.m., oa .30% October 2, he was in Wanchal Gap .9% in a car with a friend. They left the vehicle at the junction of .87
Mount Cameron Road and walked towards Black's Link
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Returning about 20 minutes
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The Club players were soon in scoring fettie, and a mix-up near the Colours' line, a quick pass out to the left, and another pass, sent Burch over. The kick was not successful. but Koop got over again soon after- wards, and turned up
an Amazing turn of speed ta repeat the effort aff after only about five minutes. Gold- in the right direction with a place man converted, and was one more kick from a try scored by Plummer: who took a reverse
the
posts.
The Colours were much more in the picture in the second half, and play was more or less confined to midfield, with neither side getting right away to score, until Plummer cut through nicely to hurl himself over the line near the touch-line. The Club
players kept up a fuck! deal of pressure after this, and several seruma and line-outs near Colours' line ended in the ball being passed back to Goldman, who dropped a nice goal.
tho
40% later, he found that a white and ran over near ts from Keop sweater, which he had left on the sides at half-time, Turner changing Several changes were made in the floor of the car, had vanished. with King, Suttill with Cox, and West Noticing an Indian constable with another forward. walking
The game along. away
Mount was then much more even, and play 63% Cameron Road, he had the idea of was cleverer, though the Colours 13214 going after him and enlisting his were unfortunate
P to lose J. 10% aid in the capacity of a policeman. Whitham, the Cambridge full-back, "I ran along, three quarters of with a damaged knee: Buttress went 515 the way, to catch up with him."
to back in place of Whitham, and dis continued Mr. King. "As I round. his part in good fashion. ed the bend he was 30 yards ahead of me. I saw a white gbiect sail- ing into the bushes on the inner 551side of the road. On seeing it. I 60% stopped. and shouted to the .38% Indian constable. He stopped and I caught up with him.
"I asked him what that white 153 thing was that
went into the 70% bushes, and told him to fetch it 21% He hesitated, but on the second 1234 time of my asking him, he com- plied, went into the bushes and took this sweater out." 1354 1-10% Having recovered his property, .66% witness said he shouted to his friend; and while walking back te the car, was followed by the Indian, who put himself into a cringing.attitude, joined his hands together, and muttering some thing which witness could not understand. The Indian climbedd into the car with him, and on the way to the sub-station at Maga- zine Gap, clasped witness' ankles 2108-1/2 and had to be torn away..
£17-1/8 Replying to the Magistrate, Mr. £26 King said he saw no other persons on the road at the time of the theft
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London Oct. 8.
it should be for a sufficiently Loan 1913 (Ldn. Issue)....£ 64. lengthy period to give confidence. K. & S. Bkg, Corp. and to ensure stability.
Other Views.
(Ldn. Register) Charted, Bk, of I. A. & C. Mere. Dk. of 1 "A" Sh. Indo-China S. N. C. Cum. 8%
Pref. Indo-China Def. Ord. Gula Kalumpong Rub. A. T. Ord. (Regd.) Shell (Regd.)
He saw no reason why by creat- ing an additional preference on
Sir Richard Squires, the Prime goods carried on Imperial ocean transport between Empire ports Minister of Newfoundland, said should not be profitably that Newfoundland's desire was *used. If this change in for the development of such ex-B.
inter-imperial economic relation- tensive inter-Imperial tradé as he- *ship wus to be made, there tween the Dominions, Colonies and Should be no delay. He suggested protectoratus and the Home Land that technical Committees, be set as may be possible having regard up in each country of the Empire to the economic conditions of each to complete an inquiry into the of the countries affected. effect upon their domestic situa- The Irish Free State Minister tion of the proposal. These should for External Affairs, Mr. McGilli-
9. S. N. C. (Der.) Jap. 54 Stg. Ln. 1907 Jap, 6: Stag. In 1921 Shui-Nanking Rway, Ch. Eng. & Mining Co. Consols
_Ch.
Rubber Trust Ltd.
Gold et Loan, 1896
be ready within six months. He, gan, pointed out that that country Ch. Gold i'r Loan, 1895 therefore, proposed that an teono-look cighly per cent. of its imports Ch. Gold 44% Loan 1908 mic conference meet again in Otta-
from the Commonwealth to which Ch. Gold & Loan, 1912
Tientsin wa as the guests of Canada early
Pukow R'way, 5 Bonds next year to discuss the final re-
Canadian Pacific ports-
Mr. Scullin's Views.
it sent ninety four per cent. of its exports. The Irish Free State sincerely desired an extension of this trade although the develop. ment of inter-Imperial trade in The Australian Premier, Mr. volved problems too delicate and Scullin, pointed out that nearly complex for solution by farty five million pounds worth political formulae.
of foreign manufactured goods The Indian Delegate. Sir
This
£20-21 .182-1/2
were each year imported into Aus-Geoffrey Corbett, said that India structure reminds me of the circles tralia, which he would like to see was ready to consider favourably shared by the Empire industries all schemes designed to encourage matter for those engaged in the the development of trade with all countries of the British tain to determine and he thought Cunimonwealth. She was not pre- the methods of consultation should red to depart from her present
How that could be done was
industries of Austrailia and Bri-
other
Own
The Colours then seemed to have found more or less the measure of the Club, and put in a series of attacks that
kept the latter twenty-five for some minutes. Finally,
in their Fer to score a Ferguson swerved past several players a good try, though the kick was taken too loosely and sent wide The Colours did most of the attack- ing for the remainder of the game, though the Club forwards get the bail down the field once or twice,
Services Ground.
It would seem very necessary that the Services should be able to provide their own Rugger ground if the nun- ber of games likely to be played this season is as anticipated. There has Valley been a ground on Happy nominally allotted for rugger, but there are no facilities for keeping the surface sufficiently damp for games to be played there with any degree safety. The only solution seems to the Soo- kanpoo ground
for rugger, or Some arrangement to be made to accept the louz of
ch. Although some other pitch. the polo ground at Causeway Bay would be ideal, the improbability of being able to erect any type of stand would be a bar to its use. However, it might be possible, if those in charge of polo would be good enough to land to be put up on the other side of the the ground, for some sort of stand road.
be for the Services to adapt
for
At all events, with the number of Services sides desiring to play dur- ing the season, and with the promise of much really good-class rugger from the South Wales Borderers, coming here next month, it seems really up
are
at
or
£3
Replying to Mr. Rendall, wit- .11/3 102/ness said he did not actually see 84/41% the Indian constable throw the 44 sweater away. He saw it only at 501 the point when it was falling into £101-1/2 the bushes, as he came round the
bend. .56-3/4
Mr. Rendall: You say that he adopted a cringing attitude. Do 23/A
you think that might be caused .299 by your shouting at him and his 100-3/4 thinking that you were accusing Ghim of the theft of the sweater? .£39-1/2 Mr. King: I don't think so; he would not have acted in that way. linelt on the Ground. Mr. Clibborn, a friend of Mr. King, who was with him that THIS TERRIBLE WORLD. evening, said he saw the Indian to the Services to take the matter
kneeling on the ground. "Immediately in hand. mere ".. (Continued from Page 6.)
gathered from that attitude that
Next Monday's Match. he was asking for mercy. He kept season between the Club and H.M.S. All who attended the games last
knelt on the ground." repelling mathematical hold of Mr. King's knees, as he Cornwall should not miss the game on rolling on circles by means of which
Monday. I am told that there the movements, of the planets were in charge of Gough Hill station, Cornwall side that beat the American Sub-Inspector Stewart Logan, only likely to be two changes in the explained by the Ptolematic Theory testified that the accused, who Marines in Shanghai. The Cornwall based on the idea that the Earth was attached to the Magazine Gap is booked to leave the Colony on the
sub-station, was out on duty, Singapore long enough for two 15th. of this month, but stops was the centre of the cosmos.
When, however, a great scientist the time on No. 9 Beat, which ex-three games to be played there. be evolved between their indus-policy of discriminating protec-arrives who does for phyics what tenda between Wanchai and trialists with a view to makingtion, which seemed to full the Copernicus did for the early de- Magazine Gaps and includes such allocations. of the supply of
conditions of rationalised produc-criptive astronomy, or Newton for Mount Cameron Road. The man
and Australia's requirements as should tion. India, therefore, was unable the mechanics of the Solar System, had been two years
nine benefit both parties.
to commit herself to any generalwe shall probably be able to dis- months in the Force. scheme of tariff preference within pense with most of this ugly mathe- Going into the witness box, the
inatical apparatus. the Empire, but must reserve free scaffolding can be pulled down when across Mr. King's car, he saw a Just as the accused said that when he came tion to deal with each case as it arose.--British Wireless.
some sky-piercing fane is finished? | sweater inside with of the sleeves hanging over the side. Meanwhile we now understand There were quite a number of Besides the delegates and their the main outlines of the universe in coolies working a short distance be the Malaya Command, the Welch
In Singapore. Their
eir opponents will staffs, Sir Manuelai Mehta, Prime which man-curiously enough, a way and he sounded the horn Regiment, and a Singapore side, Minister of Bikaner, Rajputana, midway term, in material com- three times but received no res- The cruizer's second XV will_play: and Sir Robert Borden, former plexity between the star and the ponse.. He waited for about half the following-Island's 1st XV, Rogal Premier of Canada, and now ntom-enjoys for a time his "pleasan hour and then, taking the Artillery and Welch Regt. 2nd XV. Canada's official representative to Ing anxious being." At long last sweater, started to walk towards-R.E.K. Tariff preference is, in the Aus-Geneva, attended to-day's plenury all matter will have melted into the Magazine Gap Police Station. Aralian Government's view, the session of the Imperial Con- radiation, and in the universal Witness denied that he had been most satisfactory form of help but ference, which discussed Imperial cool twilight the cosmos as we know on Mount Cameron Road, or that they would co-operate in any economies.
it will have ceased to exist.
be threw the sweater into the practical plan which might be Mr. McGilligan in the course of Life as we know it is confined bushes. When. Mr. King first jointly approved.
his speech, said that if negotia. to a tiny heap of cosmical ashes, of spoke to him he was carrying the As an example of the value of tions for trade agreements were atoms which are permanent at any sweater in his right hand. He the Australian markets to British Initiated certain members of the rate under terrestrial conditions, did not go into the bushes at all manufactures, Mr. Scullin suid that Commonwealth, such is South and there can have been compara- Witness also denied that he went while Argentina and Denmark Africa, New Zealand and India, tively few near collisions in the an his knees when being spoken contained twice as many people would doubtless realise that while Galaxy (or in the island univer- to by the European. as Australia and had a joint im the Irish Free State accorded their spiral of matter out of the Sun and tion and passed a sentence of six
BEA") of the kind which drew a Mr. Lindsell recorded a convic port trade almost twice as great exports the full benefit of its pre- led to the formation of a series of weeks' hard labour. The defen- P. Madar, D. Mahammed A. M. Kum yet fifty six million pounds worth ferential duties, they accorded no planets. of British exports went to Aus- privileges whatever to the
dant's record, extending over a tralia as compared with forty one ducts of the Irish Free State that the only form of conscious life described as being quite good.
We must not assume, however, period of nearly three years, was million pounds worth to those two Reuter
in the universe is that which exists
His Government would help to bring the suggested allocations in
to effect,
"If British industry will co- operate in the development of our industries, we will do everything in our power to help you secure the lion's share of our trade" said Mr. Sculli.
Any Practical Plan.
countries.
import
Nevertheless, Britain imported
one hundred and thirty million
London. Oct. 8.
pro-
on our Earth, or conceivably, in
one
arld Mare or under the silvery The return of the number of pounds from Argentina and Den- We are informed that Captaincloudcanopies of Venus. Mankind, cases of notifiable diseases which mark as against fifty four million Robert Dollar's itinerary has been bowever, may hope for a life of have been notified as having oc- pounds from Australia. Mr. Seul-changed somewhat, Captain 2,000 million years, provided no erred in the Colony during the lin suggested that a Committee be Dollar and Mrs. Robert Dollar, great star rushes into the Solar week ended October 4 shows the formed to which he would submit accompanied by Mr. O. G. Steen, System and causes a colossal con- following: four cases of diphtherin, detalled proposals for a policy of General Manager of the Dollar Bagration such as may be seen as accompanied by ono death, ten economic,co-operation.
Steamship Lines, Shanghai, willa Nova or New Star.
cases (two imported) of typhoid arrive Hongkong on the President This period is a mere moment in fever, accompanied by three deaths. *Preference Effective. Fillmore, Saturday, October 18th comparison with the ages of the and one death from cerebro-spinal
and will leave for Manila on Sun-youngest stars, but it gives us a fever. There
were also three Mr. Forbes, New Zealand, deal day morning, October 19th. The chance of achieving something, deaths from influenza. During the adopted the creused interey party will stop over in Hongkong perhaps even our physical security, 24 hours ended at midnight on increase inter-Im-for one week on their return if the mind of man makes good use Tuesday one non-Chinese case of perial trade,
his voyage in November.
of it1-Morning Post.
diphtheria was reported.
to
said in
H.M.S. Cornwall's Fixtures. The Cornwall's XV. will play their last game of Rugby in China when they meet the Hongkong Club on Monday afternoon. Needless to say a taken into consideration that the navy good game is expected, but it must be men have had no training since their last game in Japan in April.
Thel
ther fixtures will be played
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