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FOOD TAXES.
1930.
The
de-
de-
question is a matter of "tacties rather than of principle. He re- calls the fate of his Party on two occasions in the past on which Imperial Preference, including
DAY BY DAY
„FURITY OF MIND IS NOBLER THAN taxation of foreign foodstuffs, INNOCENCE; IT IS THE DELICACY OF has been submitted to the country.REFLECTION, NOT THE COYNESS. OF IGNORANCE—Mary Wollstonecraft. Both times the Conservatives
the point that he was not pro- posing to tax food.
q
The Referendum plan, which Mr. Baldwin would seem to have reluctantly agreed to, was a most cumbersome method of getting over the difficulty. It involved, first of all, the return of the Con-ment. servatives to power, next a con-
"
VALENTINE WILLIAMS finds a
SOUTH COAST MYSTERY.
were routed at the polls. It is, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morris
I should have call- ters. To which one traveller, pier turnstile. therefore, quite natural that he turned to the Colony by the ..SEE England first, say the pos-fault an official who presided at the
President Jefferson from Manila.
the wiser for experience, makesed him a ticket-collector; but, out of should baulk ai once again
answer: "Gladly, if the railway the fullness of the 'daya experiences, `endeavouring to force the idea on
His Excellency the Governor is companies will let you!" Which I learned that there are pier officials, the electorate. Ilis opponents, to lay the foundation stone of the may or may not be an argument and Southern Railway officials, and also, are in the position of being La Salle College, Kowloon, at 5 from the particular to the general. officials of the Southampton and able to quote many past utter-p on Wednesday November 5th. But I am dimly aware of so many Isle of Wight Steam Packet Com- questions of working arrangements, pany (that's some of the title, at ances on his part against any Jovita Fuentes, the noted Fill-pier tolls, holiday time-tables, and any rate) and in n mystery hing- scheme which involves dearer pina prima donna, who is to sing other cognate matters cluttering up ing upon the nebulous dividing line at the Theatre Royal to-night, ar-the background of the great Bourne-between their respective zones of food for the people. As recently rived here from Manila by the s.s. mouth boat excursion mystery, that influence it behoves the writer to I find myself quite unable to deter-be rigorously accurate. At that 18 February last, he urged a free President Jefferson..
mine this point.
time, however, we were still sec- hand in safeguarding industries,
When a writer of mystery stories ing, my friend George and I as in The P. and O. s.3. Karmala is with power to retaliate on foreign due here from Singapore at 4. p.m. is on vacation he looks forward to a glass darkly, and to this hour the tariffs, but laid much stress on on Thursday, the s.s. Benalla from respite from clucs and the induc-functions and attributes of the of-- Singapore at 6 am. on Friday, and tive and deductive processes of the ficer whom we, in our slapdash way, the s.s. Mirzapore from Shanghai mind. Mr. Arnold Bennett de-addressed. remain unknown to me. Urbanely, but firmly, he referred clares that a novelist should never at 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
take a holiday; but I am reluctant us to the direct Southsea-Bourne- a" Bourne- A Chinese pleaded guilty before to believe that the transport au- mouth steamer. Of Mr. Batters at Kowloon this mor-thorities, with this obiter dictum mouth-bound steamer making a ning to the larceny of eight iron in mind, gratuitously presented me stage at Ryde he had no knowledgo. bolts and a piece of iron, the pro- with a problem more intricate than There was nothing in his manner perty of the Railway. He was any of my own devising. Stranded to suggest that we had stumbled sentenced to six week's imprison- and hopeless on the pier at South-unawares upon the fringes of a sen, it never occurred to me that, tremendous secret. When we in- fon the other side of the Solent's sisted that there was a boat via Sentence of one, month's impri,silver streak, all that was dark in Ryde, he did not contradict us, but Mr. the figuratively murky atmosphere intimated that the booking clerk sultation with the Dominions, and senment was imposed by
the Kowloon Magi-of the mainland would become clear, might come to our aid. We thank- then, if an agreement could be Butters at
stracy this morning on a Chinese wen as the crystal air of the Wight, ed him effusively-oh, that there were some social formula for re- reached embracing food taxation, who was charged on Saturday The Bournemouth Mystery Ship. calling, after the manner of can- the matter would be put before with having, attempted to steal a the country for decision. In other sweater from No. 5, Jordan-Road. words, he expected the Dominions to spend time and labour in draw ing up an economic treaty with Britain which might be summarily rejected by the voters! His latest idea is to formulate a general policy on Imperial Preference and take the nation's verdict at the next General Election. This is infnitely more sensible, but apparently the Press Barons not intend to give him any rest until he makes up his mind one way or the other on the food tax
issue.
do
Tang
fatal
The mystery of the Bournemouth called Presenations at Court, such excursion boat must start at the over-hasty manifestations of grati- The next general meeting of the beginning, as all well-constructed tude! The booking office was shut,
should. Our friend
Henry and the Ghost Ship. University Arts Association is mysteries
Check the second. We held; a advertised to take place on Thurs-Henry, who lives at Ventnor, had day, October 16 at 8.30 p.m. in the said to George and ime: "On Fri
there's a boat going. from council of war which resulted in Union Assembly Room of the day
Prof. L. Ferster, Southsea to Bournemouth, calling our proceeding to a neighbouring University.
at up Henry A., will lecture on "The Claim at Ryde en route. Let's all go over hotel and ringing of Practical Work upon the School to Bournemouth and call on Bobby Ventnor. Henry, came the
in his nursing-home. He'd love to message back, had already left for Curriculum."
sce us; besides, it'll give us a nice Ryde. We had a vision of him car blow. You take the boat at South-being whirled through the placid Tso Kam-chung, a motor cleaner of the Blue Taxicab Com-sca and I'll come on board at Ryde." island landscape at 12% miles an
George drove us over to Southsea hour headed for the ghost ship. The Baldwin-Beaverbrook tassie
pany, Nathan Road, pleaded guilty
Frantically we fluttered through We made an early start, ain his car. at Kowloon this morning to
as to the the stacks of railway leaflets piled apparently still continues,
charge of stealing a motor car tyre as we were uncertain
Southsea-Bourne- Conservative ex-Premier has
from the Company. He was sen-hour at which the boat left South-up neatly at the porter's desk. Our
What are time-tables on a direct stenraer clared that, guided by the views
tenced to six weeks' imprisonment. sea.
On, licensed motor car holiday, anyway? Nevertheless, Imouth seemed to grin at us from expressed by the Dominions
driver, was charged with having had gone to the trouble, the pre-every one; of the phantom excur- received the tyre. Mr. J. M.vious day, of purchasing locally a sion no sign. A railway guide in- Tegates to the Imperial Confer
newspaper which formed us that the only train which Remedios appeared for him and Portsmouth ence, his Party will formulate its
tendered a plea of not guilty, makes a practice of publishing Henry could have caught would arrangements, and him at Ryde Plerhead at .42. out own proposals for carrying
Maternal Mortality-
The case was fixed for Wednesday, steamer and train
without, however, being able to The next ferry that would bring the principle of Imperial Prefer-
The attempt, promised by the Two incidents of persons having come across any trace of the South-us neross the water in time to meet excursion him left Southsea at 9.10. Hotfoot ence and will submit them to the people at the next election. This Minister of Health, to solve the been scalded were reported to the sea-Ryde-Bournemouth does not satisfy Lord Beaver-problem of maternal mortality by police from Kowloon over the week boat. Towards the hour of 9 a.m., we aped across the common. Heary: the provision of a National Mater-end in both cases the victims being full of hope, George and I descend-was a man of method: Henry made. remove to the Kwong Wah Hospied Trom his car at the Clarence no mistake about trains and boats. brook, who wants an assurance
uity Service will rouse the strong tal for treatment, although the in-Pier at Southsea and proceeded to Friends might forsake us, but we that the proposals will include a support of public opinion. It is juries were
not serious. Accord-sean the notices of the day's sail-put implicit faith in Henry. And backed our belief to the tune of duty on foreign foodstuffs. It is in the avoidability of the deaths,ing to a report from Mongkok, ing
about a florin cath for return tickets from Southsea to Ryde, worthy of note, in passing, that the vast majority, rather than in Chinese domestic servant employed That the at 10, Victory Avenue, Homuntin,
First check. There was no men- Lord Beaverbrook appears to be their large number
The Irland of Enlightenment.. was taken to the Kwong eloquently silent on the wholesale tragedy lies, and it is about time Hospital sufering from burns totion of our boat. There was an ex-
The denouement was rapid and rejection of his Empire Free that definite steps were taken to her hand and face caused by boiling cursion to Bournemouth, it is true,
remove this blot from the health fat whilst she was working in the leaving at 9.55 a.m., but it did not surprising. The Isle of Wight Trade plan by the Dominion
work of Britain. The proposals of kitchen. In the second instance, call at Ryde. Henry would he wait-knew all about the phantom excur Premiers, whilst the Rothermers the Government
a twelve-year-old apprentice of the ing for us at Ryde, however, and a sion. Ryde Pierhead fairly flam- are based upon
What seemed at Kwan Yik glass works of Tai Yuen man who has the patience to take ed, with posters. organs, who have been attempting the report of a Departmental Com-Street, was scalded by upsetting a train journey in the Isle of Wight first glance to be the spit of the to dragoon the Conservatives into mittec, made up entirely of medical some boiling water over his right is deserving of the most exceptional handbills over which at Southsta
considered leg
consideration. We decided to con- endorsement of this policy, can damen and women, who
no better than switch over to the both the technical and administra. milder form of the same idea tive aspects of the question, and who based their finding on the first contained in Imperial Proference. 2,000 answers to a questionnaire This food tax issue, which Lord sent out to Medical Officers of Reaverbrook once again raises, Health throughout the country. has long been the bone of conten- The principal specific recommen- tion between the Empire Free mendations refer to the education Traders and Mr. Baldwin. of the medical student, to an im- Practically all Conservatives be-proved medical practice, to the
supervision of pregnancy and to lieve in Protection plus food taxes, the co-ordination of maternity ser- but some of them, including the vices. On the final point, appre- im- ex-Premier, believe that if they eiation is expressed at the advocate food taxes they will be mense progress already made in defeated in the next election. As the way of the establishment of a compromise hetween those who clinics, the provision of maternity homes and benefits and the work dared and those who feared, Lord done under the Midwives Act, but Beaverbrook suggested last March for satisfactory handling of the that a Referendum on food taxes, problem it is essential that all after the Conservatives secured these service should be welded into The office, should be advocated. Mr. a comprehensive scheme.
National Maternity Service pro- Baldwin agreed, and, for a time,
perly developed would make avail- everybody seemed happy. Very able to the poorest person, if neces- soon, however, Lord Beaverbrooksary, all the facilities which have began to complain that the Realmost eliminated maternal mor- It is ferendum idea was being used, tality among the well-to-do.
that the same not as a spearhead for food important to note taxes, but as a shield against food avoidable causes which frequently lead to death among mothers, en- taxes." He then demanded that tail in an unknown number of the Referendum should be drop- other cases the subsequent invali- ped. Ever since, Mr. Baldwin and dity of the mother, a relatively. the Empire Free Traders have large number of still-births, and a been more or less at variance. high infant death-rate under one. The split has never been healed; month. It is abundantly clear that u serious indictment, has been the food tax issue remains large-made which the Government was ly unsettled so far as the Coalnost bound to act upon. servative Party is officially con- cerned. Mr. Baldwin's position
A fine of $3,000 was imposed on is undoubtedly rendered all the
a shopkeeper, before Mr. Lindeell
Central weaker by the enthusiasm of at the
Police
Court many of his own followers for the this morning, when the man was charged with being in possession enemy cause. Hia timidity is also of 30 taels of prepared opium,
to deliver to a
a factor contributing to the post-which he stated had been given to tion in which he now finds him him by a friend'
wharf.
self; With him, this, food tax-
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Wah
Check One! Check Twp!!
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Miss Mars (1930) and Miss Earth (1930) meet.