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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
By Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews
Chartered Accountants.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1931.
GOLF.
UNITED SERVICES |OVAL MAY BECOME
A DOG TRACK,
WHO PAYS. MOST IN TAXES?
TWO-DAY MEETING AT FANLING.
Thursday's starting list for the United Services 'golf meeting at Fanling on Thursday and Friday has been issued for publication na follows:
SURREY CRICKET CLUB MAY PLAY RENT FREE.
PROFITS FOR HOUSING.
Greyhound racing, will be seen next summer at Kennington Oval if members of the Surrey County Cricket Club, tenants of the world famous ground, consent to the granting of a lease of the Oval to the Greyhound Racing Association by the Duchy of Cornwall,
Negotiations have been taking place between the Duchy of Corn- wall Candlords of the Oval) and the Greyhound Racing Association, The necessary consent of the members of the Surrey Cricket Club will be sought and if consent is given the club will not be re- quired to pay rent (£800 per an-
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THE FRENCHMAN
SAYS PARIS.
Who is the most heavily tuxed person in the world?
According to offeln antistics published in Paris It In the Frenchman.
The first lot of Agures deals with the total tax receipts (in mil liards of Franen) of the "bly five," and they are as follows: Germany 10.7 Italy Great Britain 84.6 U.S.A France
62.6
02.5
Great Britain looks a fairly good "winner on such figures, unt the population has to be taken into account, Germany has 64 mil- in prople, Great Britain 46, France 46, Italy 41 and the United States of America 120.
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Then we have to consider the national Income of each country, and we are provided with these figuren---In milliards of franes.
4:10 Italy Germany
172 U.S.A. Great Britain France
217 Even these figures scarcely sug gest that France is very heavily taxed, but she makes a better showing when the charge per in- habitant is worked out. though
H.28 Weeks and Dockney, 8.32 Callance and McBean. 8.36 Syer and Morgan. 8.40 Col. Lecky and Lothian. 8.44 Graham and Church. 8.48 Hyde and Black. 8.52 Grant and Moir. 8.56 Col. Bennet and Wallsce. 9.24 Brown and Robertson. 9.28 Cal. Skimmer and Fowkes, 9.32 Musson and Waring. 936 Cox and Hamilton, 9.40 Crockett and Boal. 9.44 Darling and Hughes. 9.48 Merriman and Watson. 9.52 Wales and Blackden. 9.56 Aylmer and Drayson.
Brigadier-General A. C. Critch- 10.00 Bowon and Stephenson,
ey, of the Greyhound Association, 10.04 MeRorie and Linton.
Lave an assurance at a luncheon 10.08 Jones and Maurice.
at the Dorchester Hotel that, in 10.12 Taylor and Grove.
the event of the eonsent of the 10.16 Barry and Higham.
club being given, "all you will see 10.20 Majendie and King.
of greyhound racing when you go 10.21 Dawkes and O'Reilly. 10.28 Col. Cousens and Benfield. to watch the cricket next May. 10.82 Lt. Cmdr. Goul and Hazel-June or July." will be a steel rail five-eights of an inch thick, flush with the 'ground, 7ft. from the out- I side border, and that the pitch will
The Final Test, Bur-j not be disturbed.
Sir Godfrey Thomas, private The figures are (in frunes):
638 Italy secretary to the Prince of Wales, Germany 10.18 Telley and Hardy,
Great Britain 1,840 U.S.A, was among those at the luncheon. 10.62 Tegan and Lumsden.
France
1,300 10.56 Col. Myles and Anderson,
Surrey C.C. to Decide.
The final test comes, necdrding to 11.00 Shimmer and Wright.
Recently the Secretary of the the French statisticians, when all Surrey County Cricket Club sent these figures are considered in the Competitors in cump Arc quested to start their matches be out notices of a special generalight of the percentage of Lax re- Core 9 a.m. Times for competitors meeting of members to be held in ceipts as against the national re
Then we get the following proceeding by road have been, the Great Halt, Winchester House. venue. arranged s0 as not to interfereld Bread-streel, to consider the figures;
15 Italy following resolution:
Germany Times with those going by train.
Great Britain 17,6 USA, for Friday can be booked under
France
20.0 competitors' OWB arrangements
Ergo, Prance is, per heari, the at the Clubhouse on Thursday.
moet heavily tuxed nation. The
24.212. Train from Kowloon will A hoth days.
[out.
10346 Gould and Oliver. 10,40 Hawkes and Martell. 14,14 Adusiral Kelly and
nett,
8.24
re-
"That the Surrey County Cricket Club, at the request of the Duchy of Cornwall, consent to the grant- ing by the Duchy the Grey- of a hound Racing Association lease of the Oval for the purposes of greyhound racing, subject to the term of a contract to be entered
CHARWOMAN'S 3,000 into between the parties."
POEMS.
SELECTION TO BE
PUBLISHED.
A volume of verse written by a London charwoman was published a few days ago in London.
"Unholy Music," in the title of the book, which contains 36 poems selected from 3,000 written ty Miss Lucy Watkin since 1934.
Miss Watkin is 68 years of age. and she lives in one room over a in Marylebone, and every arage day she goes out charing to earn her living.
Born at Leighton, near
Welsh-
pool. Montgomeryshire, she at
In a cirentar lufter accompany- jing the notices Mr. H. D. G. Leve- son Gower, President of the Club, sald:
"The Duchy us asked the clubs to consent to this course in order to undertake an extensive building programme in the Kennington neighbourhood, and has informed them that all money received from the Greyhound Racing Association will be devoted to this purpose.
"The improvement of existing houses and the building of new ones cannot fail to be beneficial to the club. Moreover, the work wil give employment to a large, num- ber of men for months to come.
Great Britain is still abend,
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Then there is the questión of rates. Without repeating all the figures et total receipts, papi lation, national Incon and amount per Inhabitant. The statisclans give the percentage of receipts a against the nation! inconie, nad we arrive at these figures; Germany 20.4 Italy Great Britain 22.7 USA. | France
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statisticinus oat, there is one thing that come earns people in Great Britain and in France these days. That is the Income-tax.
If you are a single man in Eng- land with an incume of 2250 you 1x3 £12 10. nlculated at 124 fra franes to the 5), while in France you would pay the equivalent of £15 24. If you are married and have that income, you would
pay £6 5. here the in England, while over amount is equal to £11 10.
Take the case of the happy pos- sessor of an incope of £1,000. In England he pays, if he is single,
The Duchy's Offer. "The Duchy offer in return for consent by the Surroy County lended the village school until the | Cricket Club: age of 15, when the family took a To allow the club the use of the | small alop at Welshpool. Lucy Oval rest frer to long as the Grey-153 2s. 6d.. while the French in was fond of reelting at concerts, | hound, Racing Association are ten- and had an opportunity of theatri-ants of the Duchy.
come-tax collector would call on Draw up the lease to the Grey-arried, then he has to pay £140 him for the equivalent of £176, 12s. ral training.
Her father was willing but berhound Racing Association in such
12. Gd. in England and £157 2s, in mother was not. She told her a manner that greyhound racing France. parents that she would either go will not affect cricket at the Oval. on the stage or become a mission- and she joined the Salvation Army.
She went to London thinking that her ambition would be rentlsed, but she was obliged to go into domestic work. Since the she has earned her living as a war s
ury,
carol she never gained a
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thorough knowledge of grammar and spelling, but that has not deterred her from giving play to the thoughta which come to her as she scrubs floors,
Here is part of a poem (spelling and punctuation as in the ori- ginal), which is not included Іп the book:
You can brag of the Bacholor
Girla
And the freadom they allways
enjoy
It's quite good enough for me the Love God ordained In the shape of the right sort to
Boy.
pleture a nice little Homiet Where we Love and Live as we
please Menyens aweet Brozes come thro window and door
Indemnify the club in respect of any possible extra present or future expenditure incurred by the club by reason of the ground being or having been used for greyhound racing.
Do all in its power to protect the interests of the club.
Consider favourably now any request for a ne lense to the club on the amended terma.
Refer to an Independent arbitra- tor any question of doubt or difculty hetween the parties.
New Standa,
CONVICTED BY A SPEEDOMETER.
SOLICTOR'S OBJECTION
OVERRULED.
ex-
An interesting point under the Road Traffic Act was raised before the Bournemouth magistrates when William George Brixcy, haulage contractor, of Parkstone, Dorset, was summoned for The Greyhound Racing Associo-ceeding the 30-mile an hour speed tion will erect new stands and limit with a pneumatic-tyred lorry. make all alterations necessary nt Police-constable Bryan said that their own expense: the Duchy he followed Brixey's lorry for will insist that any new buildings mile and half on his motor-cycle and alterations shall be in accord-und the speed as registered by his ance with the requirements of the speedometer was 35 to 40 Surrey County Cricket Club,'
an hour.
generous
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miles
The Committee (the circular
Mr. W. D'Angibatt (defendant) mkis) ananimously recommend that submitted that the section of the consent be granted, especially Act under which the prosecution having regard to the
was brought provided that a per- treatment which the Surrey County on could not be convicted on the Cricket Club have always received opinion of one witness only and from the Prince of Wales, and that the reading of a speedometer bearing in mind the very small was not aufilcient.
At Evening tide sitting at oase, amount of ront now paid to the The book is to be published by Duchy for the valuable property 32r. Desmond Harmsworth, at the Oval.
a nephew of the late Lord North- Mr. H. D. G. Leveson Gower,
The Bench decided that the case must proceed.
Brixcy estd that he knew the
police officer was following him. and his speedometer never · ex-
cliffe, who has founded a pablish-speaking at the luncheon, made ceeded 28 miles an hour. ing house.
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
C.B.A. TEAM AGAINST ILK.
BANK.
The following fifteen has been selected to represent the Central British Association in a rugby match against the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at King's Park on Wednesday, K.O. at 5
p.m. Skinner, Whitley,
Burnet!,
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it clear that the Surrey County Cricket Club were
George Allen, motor mechanic, to have no eald that Brixey's speedometer was share of the profits. "If the club tosted on a level mile that morning agrees It is only because we con-
and sent to the request of the Duchy of miles fast.
at miles an hour was two Cornwall for something that our landlord (the Prince of Wales) man stating that it was a ques-
Brixey
was fined £2, the Chair- and his forbears have done for the tion of the reliability of two club."
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