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Able Seamen H. A. Francis & H. G. Prior
of
H.M.S. "SUFFOLK."
British Seamon Laid to Rest--International Tribute to Victims of Sholling at Shanghai.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ROAD SAFETY LIGHT.
NEW DEVICE FOR ́
CAR LAMPS.
In anticipation of fortheügilug Ministry of Transport regulations for safer motor driving at night many big British transport com- panies are teating lamp devices to eliminate dazzle,
the
FRIDAY, MARCH 4. 1932,
RAILWAYS' LOSS.
RESULT OF ROAD COMPETITION."
INCOME TAX PAID BEFORE RATES.
LONDON BOROUGH'S 1,500- SUMMONSES.
The General Managers of the our British railway companles had Many people have paid their in
Interview with the Minister of come, tax,. It la fefred, and left the ransport in response to his invita-okter. demands for the payment tion that they should
of rates unheeded. express their views on the final report of The general impresalon, at least the Royal Commission on Trans-in London, in that the number o port.
aefaulters and tardy payors of
transport
An official of another borough The railway companies estimate said that people who feel it a that they have lost net revenue patriotic duity to pay their income owing to road competition at the tax promptly regard rates rate of
£10,000.000
lischt, Certainly per annum. Orifferent
there this total it is Estimated that had been no rush at the £10,000,000 in attributable to pas-collector's office. senger traffic and £0,000,000 to The position may become goods traffle.
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rata-
wer-
One is a London invention call. They took the opportunity of rates is distinctly on the upgrade. ed by its designer the "Ritedip," placing before the Minister cer-One borough is reported to have which supplies the needs of dritain representations regarding the issued 1,500 summonses for Ron. vers better than any Instrument relationship between rall and rond payment of rates. yet submitted to the Ministry.
The bean can be placed where
driver most requires it. By means of a simple switch- controlled mechanism at the rear of the reflector the beam from the offalde (right-hand) lamp can be turned, by a a subsidiary reflector either to the left or right, without the power of the beam being les- If the diversion of traffic to the councils are not allowed to run up Hened. It can be moved to
any roads proceeds further-ant pre-lehts-they have to live from hand perition from ten o'clock (left ; sent experience points in that directo mouth. Many ratepayers, with hand), to two o'clock (right-hand). [Hon-it will be impossible (the Insurance and an increased in- companies mate) at their present come tax to pay. And it extremely level of charges to earn an adequate hard to meet the rates at present.” return
on their capital or to raise development. fresh capital for necessary works
In Fog.
The left-hand throw of the beum can be either well ahead or, in for just ahead.
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Railway progrees would be stop-
The right movement is extreme ly useful for taking right-handed and railway efficiency would turns. The near-side lamp
inevitably suffer. mains light, directed straight country would be expecial sufferera The heavy industries of the ahead, while the off-side lamp since to them rail transport is shows up the rond curve.
Parentinl
The mechanicnl control switem is fixed to the steering
voluian,
German Action.
he said. "because borough
Cost of Highways.
The Royal Commission on Trans. mort stated that the total annual at of the highways in Great Bri- tain is £60,000,000, towards which fie motorista finds £20,000,000 and | the ratepayers £40,000,000.
The General Managers urged und, when pushed down, turns the
A similar situation it is added) | that the ratepayer, as such, off-side lamp reflector and beam las prisen in United States and hould be relleved of the whole of left and downwards, the near-side |
in Germany. In Germany it was this payment, and that the whole transport, and in the United States of the roads. at has forced an increase of freight rates,
COMING SHORTLY TO THE QUEEN'S amp being automatically switched to sovore restriction of motor oat should be borne by the users
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off when the off-side reflector b gins its left turning mavement.
This mechanism can be fitted cheaply to any type of lamp.
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THE £10.000 LABOUR EXCHANGE.
DOLE-DISTRIBUTING STATIONį
MAGNIFICENCE.
A new Labour Exchange, which Is claimed to be the best designed and most handsomely equipped in the country, and which took over a year to build at a cost of about £10,000, was opened at Paimors Green recently.
At the present time the privata. gar and light motor vellele pay an In England such a policy of nduly high proportion. and the increasing rates must mean an in- benvy vehicle pays too little. chenge of rail charges on coal, 1 They took the opportunity of agriculture, and the heavy indus-submitting that the law regulating tries:
road transport as it stands should
So far as it Bes within their be enforced bath as regards goods power the railways have done, and) and passenger trame. This 18 ans doing, their almost to meet notoriously not the case to-day us the situation. They have reducel regards the speed limits, hours of harges and improved despatch. doty, and weight limits laid down and at the same time they have cut in the Road Trathe Act, 1930, or down substantially their overhead in the regulations made by the and labour costs. Further reme- Minister. dies must be sought in Governmen- tal action.
Bridges.
The General Managers urged They also reminded the Minister that it is in the first place essential of the view which they had already that the Government should take expressed that the railway com
the necessary steps to adjust the panies should be relleved of the The building stands in its own balance fairly between the rall cost of maintenance of the road grounds with apacious land in and the road transport industries. surfaces of bridgen carrying high- front to be laid out as gardens. The General Managers submitted ways over railways. The floors are covered with a thick to the Minister that the balance is In conclusion they informed the Iluo-carpet and there arc mean strongly weighted against the rail- Minister that in approaching the rooms and a kitchen for the staff ways at present. The railways are whole question they had avoided of 40, and waiting rooms. bound by a complex ayatem of any suggestion of penalising the Palmers Green people are legal regulation, while the road, road transport industry for the dubious about, this latest embel-haulage industry is entirely uniet-limited, or exclusive benefit of the lishment of their district. They tered in this respect.
railway industry.
think It will tead to bring awarms. The General Managers submit- The general managers confined of unemployed into their midst that the whole cost of main-themselves to recommending equn- There are about 5,000 unemployed taining, policing, and signalling the lity of treatment, so that there un the booka,
roads, and the whole capital expen-may be natural selection of the
It would appear from the dia- diture incurred in building or im- more economic form of transport turbance caused by Communists proving roads to meet the require in the circumstances of each case al the opening of the Exchangements of motor traine, should fall rather than that one form of trans that the local residents' fears are upon the users of the roads in pro- port should receive public aid at justified.
I portion to Deir use.
the expense of the other."
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TWENTY
ARRESTS: KOUTE- POFF MYSTERY RECALLED.
Berlin, Jan, 20. Twenty Russian and Greek Com munista and the Captain of the The British Broadcasting Corjship in which they arrived at the peration is preparing a number of Rumanian port of Constanza, are talks on "Changes in Family Life," reported by the Nachtausgabe to and hopes, with the aid of listen-have been arrested by the Ru eta, to discover the extent to which|manian police. ages at marriage, occupations, family expenditure, arrangements states, is "a particularly beautiful Among the prisoners, the paper and other factors have changed during the last two generations.
Russian woman known only AD the lady in beige," who is suspec- Secrets..
ted of being an agent of the Ogpu. Among the.
asked of questions the husband and wife are!....
The Rumanian polles are Whether either has been married ported to have, ascertained that before and if so, what caused the she was living secretly in Paris 18 months ago: that feat" the ending of the first marriage?
Whether they first met at (a) teriously disappeared. The glady. time when General Koutepon mys home of husband parents; (b) in belge," it is reported, lived in home of wife's parents; (c) house an obscure Hotel
of friends; (d) in a place of en-
tertainment(e) at a chool for
university; (f) on a holiday, etat
Whether their parents are living what this ta exp together or separately
Whether the husbandsuvel 56
The Family
can be: