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DAY BY DAY IS PARLIAMENT
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decided to go on with the change, the authorities proceed to instal meters by interposing them on house, connexions from the rider mains in certain places, with the reault that it is no longer possible to bring the sections concerned into use on the rider main. prinel- ple, rider main connexions to un- metered houses having been re- moved. Well over two thousand houses have been disconnected in this way. It will thus be seen that the Government has, as we re- marked in opening, already parpolice. tially abolished the system. Yot In spite of this fact, and in spite
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President Hoover celebrates his 68th birthday to-day,
According to a report made to the police by Lo Kwok-cheung, of 25, Peking Road, his dog was run over by a bus in Nathan Road last night and had to be destroyed by the
UP TO ITS JOB?
Nago ago, thirty years ago, the staff of "Hansard"—with the the Inner Circle Railway verbatim oficial, report was born was driven by steam. It burrowed the unctuous fraud of speeches for The entire round London laborious, noisy, outside local effect. acrid, subject to sulphurous hats building would be compacted to in the dark and suffocated by its one-quartor size. There would be no miniature rifle range, no cheas ewn smoke.
Parliament, the Inner Circle of boards, and no club rooms. Those the nation, runs on similar lines. wanting to lap themselves in deep is Parliament up. to its job? armchairs could stay at home. Pray allence for its honoured lea-Thora would be a series of cubicles ders "The length of sittings is-nbsp- for the private consultations of lutely intolerable," declares the member and visitor, and a set of A victim of insomnia, Wong Lui, Prime Minister. "Procedure is larger apartments meant for the tonic u dose of medicine to induce ably have to be changed," an expect strawberries on the Torrace ared 25, of 124, Cheungshawan Rond, deadly slow, and will unquestion deputation. But callers would not sleep, but he apparently used nounces the Leader of the Opposi- (there would be no Torrace), nor much and was later removed to the tion. "Bogged in the awanip of its to waste the time of their repre- Kwong Walt Hospital suffering from own procedure," wails the Home sentative touring St. Stephen's. the effects.
Secretary, oinking with eyes fixed
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to the last on Free Trade. "The For the stimulation of members On the occasion of the Anniversary system is ill-informed," says the there would be one of the German Constitution Day, the Secretary for Scotland cautiously. gymnasium, and thirty minutes German Counsul will hold an official "Debates excite much less atten- there would be compulsory for reception at the German Club, 2, Con- tion," complains Sir Austen Cham-propagating the mens sana before p.m. The office of the German Cen-berlain. And the private member, debato started. Half the party sulate will be closed on that day. shuffling with the exhausted divi- divergencies would be exuded on sion queue to vote, as directed, on the parallel bars after a little
naught Road, 4th Floor, at 12 noon to
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also of the intimation that, had the matter been debated, the result would have been a foregone con- clusion, the Government comes forward with a motion ask- ing the Council SHIFT-
to express its views on the desirability of making VACUUM SPARK
the change! Which merely serves CONTROL AUTOMATIC STARTING FULL
to show how farcical the Crown Colony system of government can CUSHIONED POWER HYDRAULIC SHOCK become. We shall be much sur-
A fox terrier dog betonging to Mr. the Grey Seals (Prolongation of Greek rectification in the gymna ABSORBERS NON-RESON- prised if there is not a strong c. J. Waddell, of 63d, The Peaks, was Whiskers) Bill, is still more franks. sium, a little Roman virtno in the ANT BODY-
Kennedy Westminster arraigns itself. Unofficial protest at the Govern-yesterday removed to the
"Sweat and be saved." Town slaughter house for observation To begin the reorganisation of Having saved themselves the poli- ment's action on this matter when after it had bitten Ku Sing, a cook Parliament, the Houses of Parlia- ticians could swent to save the
Peak. the subject again
The ment ought to be pulled down. country. comes before employed at 530, The
victim was admitted to the Govern. The colossal Gothic wedding-cake The the Council.
authorities ment Civil Hospital for treatment. should be cut up in alices and must be plainly told that they
dropped in the dustbin. cannot "overlook" oficial promises and ignore the Unofficial viewpoint in the manner in which they have done in this case.
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WATER PROBLEMS
Although the Legislative Coun- eil stands adjourned for the purpose of enabling the Unofficial members to decide their attitude on the abolition of the rider main system, it is perfectly plain that the Government intends having its It can, in fact, be said that the rider main system has already been partially demobilised, despite the fact that the Government gave a definite pledge that no steps would be taken in the malter until an opportunity had been given for
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We have now brought down the House, not only at Westminster. but also, it is hoped, in the sense of having gained universal ap- No man can think clearly or plause for the idea. The next step Hion. So, too, does the Nine Power pact. The treaties are not regis- work ably in such a national office is to take away from Parliament tered at Geneva. But the pact has na Great Britain possesses. Afifty per cent. of its work. been signed by fourteen nations spirited new member walks into The Assembly now is no pestered On the general question of the and it is likely to be the principal the labyrinth, and within a month with detail, ao deluged in triviali- basis for a settlement of the that monster Ennul, that Mino-ties, so oppressed, loaded down -rider-main-system-it-would-appear future status of Manchuria. In taur Lassitude is gunwing him and retarded under a dead-weight The dam v Pan that the Government's conception, the end the question of whether Why do the bristles fall out of our mixed bale of parochial and na- of its abolition in principle amounts or not Japan has slammed the new brooms? By reason of a sort tional problems that even an athle- "open door" may prove of more of mange in the atmosphere. tic group meeting in a place to a retention of the mains and vital concern to the signatory The Chamber is dark and poky, cleared for action would discover their use as subsidiary units--that nations than that of whether she and you
are Aware that the it difficult to progress. The bur- violated the League of Nations antimacassars have been whipped dens must be redistributed. is, if the method of fixing meters Covenant. The world may be more off the grean benches the moment "Divide and rule"-botter. to these mains is to be continued. } interested in preserving peace before walking in. The air, ad- In Edinburgh and St. David's Regarding universal meterage, it machinery, but the Powers are mitted through the floor, has been let two subsidiary Houses be set more interested in preserving cotton-wool filtered until it has up, to the enormous pride of the should be pointed out that the use trade opportunities. Japan con- become a triumphant pneumatic Scots and Welsh, who have de- of meters is of itself no guarantee tends that she has not broken the parallel to soda-water gone flat.manded a home of their own for Nine Power pact, that the "open The place was satanically designed years; and to the enormous relief that water will not be wasted. It door is still open and that she to compel the mumbling of primor- of the English, who have suffered might be if there were no free has seized no special advantages¦dial prejudices, not to enable menthe parish pump prolixity of their allowance and if each bouschold in Manchuria. Yet the published to throw out their minds. Also it Westminster neighbours far too and a meter. The Government reports are
the Japanese has a powerful Victorian aspect, long. have taken over railroads, public so that often one looks to find if No more dreary nights of philo- admits that it is unable to instal utilities and banks. And mani- the curate has dropped in for ten sophic sederunt while an inter- meters in each floor of tenement festly the entire structure of flie and is sitting in the Serjeant-at-minable Caledonian caucus keeps houses. Thus the only way in government gives her at least a Arms' chair in embroidered carpet the lights burning over the school
"sphere of influence" which no slippers.
curriculum in Dunfermline which consumption per household other nation enjoys in that region. And aurrounding the Chamber | Burghs. No more blather from the can be checked will be for the As a matter of fact, there is much there are flights of stairs, sudden Clyde. No
to be said for the Japanese view turnings, blind alleys, gloomy | spluttering over the low price of owner to instal separate meters to that their crowded islanda mast recesses, unexpected wigwams, Caerphilly cheese. What an en- determine the distribution of the have some guarantee of stable mysterious bolt-holes and corri- franchisement! They-the Scots supply. Then. we prasume, the economic intercourse with Man- dors ns long as a penny tram-fare, and the Welsh-would do this sort churia.. The "right to "live" in and batteries of Committee Rooms of thing more becomingly within landlord would attempt to make a hard to deny. Whether that right adorned by hideous Old Testament their own gallant and bonny bor- levy for excess consumption in, necessitates such control of Man-paintings, and-oh, how signifi-ders; and it would save time. It accordance with the facts said to churia as the Japanese militarists cant! not a single little room would be understood that the envisage is another question. And where a member can interview his Scots and Welsh pay for their new a debate on the subject in the be disclosed by the meter readings, still another is how far Japan's constituents, not one solitary spot Houses, and would not interfere Legislative Council. Moreover, it Such a method would involve end-"right to live" can be carried be for a politician to stand and catch with strictly English business. is obvious from the speech of the less squabbles, to say nothing of fore it infringes the similar rights the fresh wind of public opinion
The plan for an Economie Sub- Colonial Secretary last Thursday the opportunity it would place inf others. The United States and on his sedentary cheek.
the League Assembly have told A crypt scented with the smells Parliament may be borrowed in- that the Government had long the hands Of unscrupulous Japan that they will not recognise of dinner cooking on a mid-Vic-tact from Mr. Churchill, who alone since decided on the abolition of houseowners for indulging in any treaty or situation brought torian range.
among maturer politicians is Raze It, therefore. Liberate the visited by courageous and fresh the system and its substitution by "squeeze" at the expense of his about by anything except peaceful
measures, That probably means victims from their environment.
ideas. universal meterage, no
matter tenants. That point aside, we see they will be called into consulta. Convert the Inner Circle of Gov- In these unhappy days politics. what the Unofficial viewpoint no call for the general adoption of tion before any Sino-Japanese ernment from the era of steam are based continuously on a sub- might have been. These may ap-a system which smacks of selling have taken merely negative action, headquarters where men can stay which in its abstruser aspects settlement is reached. So far they Provide, instead of a warren, stratum of economics-a subject pear rather sweeping statements, water ou a commercial basis and That is useful for the present. alert; give them a place in which bores or frightens the average but they are borne out by the facts which, in any case, would permit But if they deny Japan's demand to subjugate and straighten the House of Commons member. Very disclosed by Mr. Hallifax.
people to waste as much as they for a stable and responsible goy- ponderous writings of a muscle-good (says Mr. Churchfii), con-
ernment under her control in Man-bound Constitution. Let un look back at what has like provided they were willing to churia, they have some obligation
stitute a body with special gifts The new Chamber would be for meeting industrial and econo- happened during
government is spacious, austere and light. There mic perplexities, and let it be free the past few pay for it. It should be the Govern- to see that such
maintained by China.
would be no accommodation for from party exigencies and the years. In consequence of mont's business to provide a direct
clamour of mob opinion. periodical hints of the Govern supply to all houses, and to be ment's attitude, an assurance was content with the levying of a water given by Sir Cecil Clementi in rate. 1929 that the system would not be abolished without an opportunity being given for a public discussion
Manchuria's Future. on the subject, but we have it on Chinese claims of "Volunteer" the word of the Colonial Secretary successes in Manchuria have yet to that "even then, however, the con- be tested. Nevertheless, the con- clusion was Toregone." So we stant guerilia campaign is plainly eventually reach a stage at which damaging to all Japan's schemes "The Government in 1932 definitely serious faults in the type of high- and she is beginning to realise the
accepted the principle of the
pressure salesmanship which abolition of rider mains and the knocks at a neighbour's door with substitution of universal meter- goods in one hand and a gun in age."
Precisely when and by the other. It seems unlikely, how. whom this decision was made is ever, that there will be any early not disclosed: the only explana- or complete reversal of recent policy. The Manchurian pro- tion we have is that Sir Cecil Cle-
apparently still holda Kramme mentl's promise was "overlooked,"
popular support, now that the that "the Government was at fault army has committed the nation to in this matter," and that "an vigorous methods. For this very apology from the Government in reason, the Powers have got to called for." The public, however, decide what they are going to do is hardly likely to accept these about Manchuria. Is the rest of statements as a reasonable expla-the world going to recognise the new puppet atate of Manchukuo nation of the developments. It is, and concedo Japan the special In fact, difficult to see how such privileges involved, or is it going a definite change of policy, involv-to insist on a rigid observance of ing the scrapping of a systom the Nine Power pact and bar any which had been in operation for Infringement upen China's terri over a quarter of a century, could torial and administrative inte- grity? Tokyo's treatlof with Peking and Nanking under which were obtained in
have been made without sombone remembering the promise made by
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He suggests 120 members, forty communers, twenty, Peers, and sixty business men, Trade Union advisers and experts. The com- position would reflect the strength of parties in the House, but mem- bership of the Sub-Parliament- which would be named by the party leaders--would last for three years Irrespective of elec- tions. All Bills affecting industry would, after second reading, go down to the economists, and re- turn with the marks of their re- vising hand, to be endorsed or not as the Executivo and the superior Houso willed,
We have arrived now at an As- sembly working in rational sur- roundings, freed of the petty caren of two contiguous nations and absolved from the complicated donkey work of economic legisla- tion. As Mr. Asquith liked to ob- serve: "We are getting on.' But everybody will perceive that fur- ther alterations are imperative.
WATER LEVELS.
WEST NORTH AND BAST RIVERS
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