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WEDNESDAY, PER, 26, 1931.
THE PRICE FACTOR IN PIECE GOODS.
In one sense, it is furtunule that
British the
Ecomunic Mission should be in Hougkong at the pre- sent moment, for the publication;
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931.
the Chinese buyer is willing to accept the Japanese article in pro ference to the more expensive Bri- tish Hines. Freight, of course, is also another factor which must not be fest sight of.
DAY BY DAY
A FOOL ALWAYS FINDS ONE STILL MORE FOOLISH TO ADMIRE HIM.- Baitcast.
THE ROMANCE OF THE TYPEWRITER.
By L. J. C.
commar-poscs.
Regrettable though the facts are, after all, they only serve, to em,
The P. and O. s.s. Malwa, from phasise a tendency which has long Shanghai, in due here at 5 am, on been apparent bu the matter of Friday. |British competition with plece goods.
The 1. and C. Company nonounce
No machine has exerted approva too slow for practical pur- manufactured in the Orient. In that the Jawalpindi, advertised to deed, the severity of that competi-arrive here at nom to urrow, wil Keater influence spon
Visibility of writing was a covet. arrive two hours earlier at 10 aancial, professional and social life tion is the reinan d'etre of the visit
than the typewriter. The printed goal fairly early in typewriter An- ing press with its movable types history. For instance there was of the British Economic Mission to The members of the Royal
tediluvian Order of Buffaloes (China) was epochal. The production of the Bar-lock, invented by Charked the Far East. Great hopes were announce a 'regalia dance to be held hooke and periodicals within the Spire. This gave full visibility. centred some twn years or so ng Thursday, March 6 at 8 p.m.
at the Garrison Lecture fall.
on ability of everyonkind from the proper height, and the operator procnre provided the machine wan at the on the formation, under the ans- pices of the Bank of England, of a vast combine of British Interests [ which had placed at its command the best brains in the business and huge financial resources to rationalise, ECONOMISC and experiment.. happily, however, the general world trzule depression has intervened and
them liberated
Lo the
to
the
slavery of ignorance and the sat erect, otherwise the upright Wong Say, 11 bontwoman. has re-
And the semi-circular nest of type thrall of superstition.
Dars ported to the police that while her
come interfered with the vision. In the versel was anchored in the Yaumati ypewriter, which did no
until enturies machine known as the Williams, typhoon shelter at 2 am. yesterday, upon the scene her ninther, Lo Sze, agel Bi years, after the art of printing had been which was sold extensively in t
Kiven ret of the stern and was drowned.
liberated world,
nineties, the paper came over th the drudgery millions from
of top of the platen, leav
leaving A concert of instrumental ramusie is handwriting, cratexd a new writing line and the next above it Un-to be given at the Helena May In-cupation, for men and women and rolly visible. The Brooks machine
siftute on Thursday, May 5th. at 5.30 did away with many of the and the
same visibility.. The pm. Those taking part will be Melent, slow und labourious pr-Oliver, invented in the early nine- Harry Ord, Mr. F. Gonzales, Mr. &cesses of accounting and menities partially visible type
N. Wurst, M. 1.. Szente and Kir.
folding letters and documents. writer. It is now being Botelho.
The typewriter has become in factured in England. The Frank- of the in had a curved keyboard but the
Taun Lam, a coolier of No. 9, West truth the little brother Street, Shaukiwan, was aufmitted to printing press" and the clicking same full visibility as the Bat
tiveram RL Civil Hospital yester of the keys is heard in every land. Lock. There have
been other During the last twenty Ave makes of semi-visible
an-such as the Fitch and the Han
has without doubt been a factor in
of the hampering the operations combine. The position, so far as the South China market is concern- ed, is perhaps graver than had been imagined. It may even raise the question as to whether, after taking the Jabotır enska and freight into ac- count, Britain can hope to compete
with Japan. This is an issue up which the Economic Missinn will no
doubt concentrate, to say nothing of the many other aspects of the prot Jem reveiving attention, We have at least this assurance, that the personnel of the Mission is such that the whole field is beine explored by meu competent to give considered views on issues of the highest in- portates to fiengkong and British Interests in general.
Balf-naked,
government for India,
real
2.
11 Arrested by
nine tuels,
honey.
fint $1,000
it
entrance.
hawkers who appeared before him
DUTIES.
writer.
In 1867
world
WILN
wil
machines
Kuide
two
the
| day suffering fram stab wounds in the
the pewriter has and chest. They are alleged to years, have been inflicted by Tsuen Ha, of dergone its greatest developments, mond. Finally We have the
iu same dress, who hav bren becoming essential husiness Daugherty machine, a true front
and professional, offices and arrested.
ex-stroke
visible writing type- tending its use pita senouls and writer with
type Jewelry valued at $151 was stolen hones,
le the printing point, and into No. 20, Eastern Street, at 1.30 by rubbers who forced an
As far back as 1714 we learn of the Wagner machine, subse
a man named quently the Underwood, in which Young yesterday, Au
Kue-an Invention by hun, has told the police that four Mill, in England, but it was never the mechanism was advanced to- inen entered the house, bound and exploited. Over a century interwards the ideal achieved in ma- gagged her, and her nirge and amah, the typographer of William Aus- dere typewriters. It is interesting and ransacked the
after tin Burt of Detroit produced good to note that in 1892, 1893 and 1994 threatening them with a knife. work, letters written upon it if Franz. X. Wagner and his son, in
1830 being still extant. Unfor- the shop of the Typewriter Inspec Chinese revetunately the original model was tion Company, built the first four vlicer ass leaving a river destroyed in the Patents Office models of the machine Inter known stemmer hst night with 12 tuels of fire in 1836, but duplicates have us the Underwood. opium in his possession, a Chinese been made by the grandson of the The outstanding event in Nie
L×| fined $2,000 with the alternative of
is in development of the industry dur- months Imprisonment, by Mr. Seho. inventor. One of these
(presumablying the last twenty five years wis field in the Central Polier Court 1. Museum in London
lay.
river the South Kensington) and the the coming of the Portable type- The Cook of another
five other in Washington. The Typewriter. The earliest form of port. Steamer months in gaol for the possession of grapher was never built on a com- Able machine
L folding mercial scale, expital being neces-machine with three rows of keys
inventor sary, and the
having and The Churchill Mystery,
a double shift. It was first In extreating the bail of $10 of a other interests.
known as the Rone Typewriter, Mr. Winston Churchill's Chinese who was arrested in Prince
After this came quite a number then as the Standard Folding, and of the Colony's trade statisties for description of Gandhi is, to say
Edward Rond for riding a bicycle of inventions, Progin of Marsell later became familiar ILA the a munner dangerous to the public,{
And Coronu. The the past year will provide it with the least, a viviḍ example o his Mr. Hamilton.
first the Kowloon tes, Littledale of England,
portable Eddy, machine to achieve wide use and plenty of material demonstrating teen sense of colour in the paint the tricycle busimas still going Marchesi, Hughes, Jones, Thomas great popularity was the Blickens-
Magistracy this morning, asked if Leavitt, Beach Foucauld, how British plece gooils are being↑ing of word-pi tures.
None of whom ever derfor, recently But it doesn?" Sub-Inspector Chester Woods and others,
revived by Re- ousted here by
as marketed
but mington-Rand Inc. the products of him no credit. It is sheer waste replied that it was just as bad
their inventions.
In the Rem- his Worship replying that each contributed something to the Blick. Japan. The figures now released of brilliant oratorival gifts to ever,
The Remington Typewriter Com- show that whereas Japlu's share damage the Mahatma by invective dangers riding by trick cyclists had invention of the practical type-
to be stopped.
pany made the first portable top-hatted and] of the trade was equal to, if not in)
Christopher Latham machine with the four bank key- monocled, Gandhi is capable of Noticing that a great majority of Scholes and associates built the board. This was a great achieve- excess of, that of the boom year | swaying more men to action. in picaded not guilty to their respective first model of the typewriter whichment and its lead has since boen 1924, Britain's figure has fallen by one direction or another, by a
sur-followed by other manufacturers, charges, Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon later became commercially
cessful. In 1873 this machine was The straight-thrust principle of no less a sum than two and a half more lifting of the finger than his Magistrury this morning asked who it
was that the defendants were trying offered on the market by the Re- the type bar has been applied to a millions sterling. Expressed in detractor could in a thousand
it on the new Sergeant or the newmingtons, and was followed from noiseless typewriter, which has terms of percentage, the position years by his darting Longue. Magistrate. Sergeant Danbrowsky, year to year by other models show since been perfected and put on is made even clearer. Whereas Until such men as Mr. Churchill who is temporarily in charge of the ing many refinements, but it is in the market a the Remington-
Kowinon hawkers, replied that it was teresting to note that the original Noiseless. We have also recent realise that vital Britain in 1924 recorded 55.59 per we suppose, will restrain them, exclaimed his Worship.
fart. nothing the new Magistrate. "Oh! I wonder keyboard of the first Remington ly witnessed the invention of
model has been adopted by all electric driven typewriters of the crat, of the total imports of colton from similarly idle attacks.
manufacturers throughout the standard type, one being the Re- ptree goods into Hongkong and Meanwhile. 11 matter
mington and the other the Wood- Japan was represented by 33.05) interest is the motive behind Mr.|LIQUOR AND TOBACCO
Because of his fame as a 8c-stock. There are also one or two cessful inventor, even in the late lesser known Continental machines per cent., last year the position Churchill's crusade against self-
sixties and early seventies, it was which are electrically operated. ilis pist Was SO far reversed that Japan
no more than matural that the ad- Two electric machines. record would scarcely suggest Mr.
rice of Thomas A. Edison should Cahill and the Ennis, were claimed 66.47 per crpt. and Bri-
Churbilt
a fighter in lost
It tain had to be content with 13.41
he sought by other inventors. TAMISES, What is to be his politi- |
in related that. Christopher Lathamnounced in 1904, but they did not develop into a commercial success. per cent.
These are depressing en future? Is there a clue in his;
Scholes brought to Mr. Edison the The Blickensderder Electric alan figures, but it is well that they speech, when he says he would be Legislative Council, the Colonial which would write, but the align
At to-morrow's meeting of the wooden model of the typewriter, failed for the same reason in 1904. The typewriter industry has should be given publicity in order] unable to Harve under
empowering the Government to Edison made one or two of the and materials, with the result that policy he was not reassured? 18 assess the duties on liquor and machines of metal and succeeded the machines of to-day are better in getting the letters to line up made, run more smoothly, and are It needs only a cursory exami-his Indian policy a means to a tobacco on a gold basis.
The third reading of the Bill to He was not enthusiastic over the more durable than those of and, an excuse for a break with nation of the statistics to show Mr. Baldwin, prmitting him to amend the law relating to estate idea of the typewriter, however, older day. that so far as the price factor is transfer his political, allegiance
bolieving that the machine would
concorned. Japan has been able in once again? Limelight brought partieally every' department to by flamboyant attacks on the Indin undersell Britain. Price for policy of all three political parties. price, un quantity, there is hardly woulit offer no compensation to any comparison possible. This is Mr. Churchill for loss of office or particularly noticeable in the light
potential office, and the remark- abir similarity of viewpoint cotton section and in printed between the ex-Chancellor and the materials. In this latter clasa, we Daily Mail leads one to speculate observe that whereas Japanese on the possibility of a Churchill-] cretonnes work out at about 20 or Rothermere alliance. Much more 30 cents a yard, the British figure startling things have occurred in is about a dollar. Other
British politics than this. There parisons could easily be made to Mr. Churchill's incentive, and we is a good dent of mystery about
show how Japan is able to secure should not be surprised to find the orders by reason of this marked solution in an announcement of disparity in prices. At one time, his leadership of the Empire it was argued that Japan was cap. | Crusaders, turing the trade because she spe- | cialised in. the cheaper counts which could always.compete with the greatly superior quality of the higher-priced British products. Iti has long since become evident, however, that Japan's trade has We are informed that Vice- not by any means been wholly Admiral Sir W. A. H. Kolly, 'K.C.B., built up on shoddy material. In-C.M.G., M.V.O., who is to relieve. deed, there has in Jatter years
Admira) Sir A. K. Waistell, KC.B, na Commander-in-Chief, China, is been a marked improvement in the due to arrive in the Rawalpindi quality of the Japanese offerings, to-morrow. with, at the same time, no corres- Vice-Admiral Retly will hoiat ponding increase in price. In the Saturday.
19
any
GOLD BASIS AUTHORITY TO BE SOUGHT.
that the seriousher if the post-administration about whose Inding/Secretary will move a resolutionment of the letters was poor. M. kept in touch with new methods.
tion may be realised.
2001-
circumstances, with the currency)
+
NEW ADMIRAL.
CHINA STATION C.-L.-C. DUE TO-MORROW.
hia flag in H.M.S. Suffolk on
Admrul Waistell leaves Hong-
situation in China as it now la,kong for England in the 8.8. there neodl be little surprise that 'Malwa on Saturday.
duty will also be taken.
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"Can't we talk this thing over, say until to-morrow?"
Kon
In a brief outline it is imposs- ible to trace the history of all those machines which have their day. There are no fewer thun eighty typewriters of different manufacture, which can no longar he purchased.
It is appropriate to pay a tribute of respect to these earlier produe- tions of the typewriting machine art which In their day add so much towards making the writing machine an essential instrument of commercial life. They paved. the way, Although the modern machine is amazing, they are built on the foundation laid by their pdecessor, which worthily per- formed the work demanded of them in their time.
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