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BRITISH SHIPPING
OUTLOOK
NOTES OF THE DAY
TIGHT-ROPE WALKING
We remember seeing a Jovel- headed gentlensa on tho vaude- villo stage perform a remarkablo feat of concentration. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, “I will how write on this blackboard up- aldo-down, and backwards para graphs which I read from left to right in this nowspaper, at the same time adding in my head the totals of these columns of figuros which my assistant is writing down beside mo, and at the end of each phrase which I read from the paper I will tell any questioner, the capital city of any state in the United States Union which he likes to mention." He did it. And there was not |
trick
any
An-
BANKERS MUSTN'T
MARRY
FROM THE EDINBURGH.
"EVENING DISPATCH"
Before taking a junior banker i discontent, not only with his own into their offices the Scottish banks position but with the whole social make it a stipulation of his en- fabric, when he sees men years gagement that he shall not become younger than himself marrying, a member of the ancient order and being allowed to marry, on of Benedicts until his salary has what thoy draw from the "dole," or at the offices of the Public As reached a stated minimum amount.
The bankers, on the other hand,sistance Department. complain that not only are their Many of these youths have never salaries absurdly low in the first done a day's work in, their lives. instance, but that the rate of pro-Yet lightheartedly they take upon gress to the standard which opens themselves the burden and respon- the doorway to the altar is such a sibilities of a wife and family, and couldn't keep up with a walking no one says them nay: while the funeral,
young banker has to get along as best he can, possibly in "digs."-
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servance of an
nerves con-
BULLS AND INNERS
From the Office Butts
According to ahoading in a contemporary, donkey's skin is used for medicinal purposes. Just the thing for l'assitude!
For all the notico, taken 'by the
other
young Lothario and the "lovely" on the Repulse Bay bus the night, there might as well bo no such thing as an arma embargo,
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The latest cocktail de flavoured with carnation. After you've had. one, you feel in the pink!"
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And then there was the local.
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The latest summer drink: Is known as a "silver-fiont. Presum- nbly, hard to keep down,
to it. It would Even the most self-confident waiting for the dawning of the day educated fah-wong who asked his bo better to compare M. Pierre young bankman, doesn't expect to when, rheumatism and the In-master why there was so much in Laval, the French Prime Minister, start half way up the tree. Hermities of middle-ago permitting, the papers about abbazianias! to this exceptional gentleman than is prepared to commence his pro-he will march with tottering foot- to a tight-rope walker, though that fesalonal climb from terra firma, steps to the altar to take his place
and hopes that by diligence, beside his silver-haired brido. is the much-worn simile generally adaptability, and perseverance he employed for diplomats who place will, in course of time, reach the It isn't always the big worries themselves in M. Laval's pre-particular branch on which he has of life that play most havoc with carious position. He has
set his ambitions, be that branch none's nerves, and sot on edge the tellership, an, agency, or even some organs which those nounced that it will be his policy thing still higher. But, while he trol. The dally pinpricks, feeble
At a moonlight bathing party, the to offend neither Great Britain nor recognises that his rate of pro-in themselves, but powerful in their other night, a certain lady was Italy and that at the same time he gress must be slow, he fails to ace cumulative effect, do more to bring terribly surprised and disappoint will respect and defend the League why, in many instances, the last about
Ill-health and inefficiencyed when she found that the arm the sudden, overwhelming of Nations principles. If, as it few grains should be trickling than
belonged to her husband. scems, Great Britain is going to thirties before a man has reached
through the sandgrass of his blow, employ all her influence to uphold the minimum salary at which the the League's authority in the bank permits him to greet a friend matter of the Italo-Abyssinian dis.with, "Meet the wife!" pube, and if Italy is going to endeavour to sidestep the respon- sibilities incurred when she joined into a bank, but he will not remain the Geneva nasembly, France is there, even long enough to get going to have to tread a path of shine on the seat of his pants, un. atriet neutrality in order to avoid less he is prepared to tackle the business seriously, and to qualify either of these for a permanent position by pass- powers. Yet, if she attempts to ing. the examinationa of the force submissloa by Italy to the Bankers' Intitute. League Council she will un- It must indeed be disheartening doubtedly find her conduct tormed when, at the end of all his months offensive by Rome. M. Laval may of swotting, he contemplates the know the tricks of diplomatic number of years which must still tight-rope walking, but we doubt clapse till the hand which grasps if he yet knows the formule which his in congratulation will be throw allows a statesnian figuratively to Ing confetti at wards" at the same time anawering "write up-side-down and back- questions and adding up columns of figures. The French polley in the present European crisis ap. pears to be untenable.
conflict.
with
Influence
wife..
may
pushi
n
lad
himself and his
out of their young blood when, by Are the banks getting the best their insistence on the rigid oblands states that eagles have played A report from the Scottish High-
up-to-a-point-havoc with lambs this season. It reasonable rule, they cause dia is somewhat of a coincidence that satisfaction and discontent among in Hongkong, Double Eagles have fully for years, and subject them although we understand that some those who have served them faith-proved a similar source of loas, to the refined torture of being held of our lambs have shot a few at up at the gates of a dream-land (sixty-days) sighti which they long to, but dare not.
enter?
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Auntie Caustic:-We cannot say But. from medical point of whether the latest feminine bath- view, its influence on the younging attire, should be pronounced bankman himself is not the only "Banned Anna*** or most serious, aspect of the fiat of the bank authorities. What of its effect on his ultimate wife, and possible children?
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A reader aska; "What's tho worst that can happen to this Colony?" My dear fellow, don't be a pessimist; it's happened already.
thrill of watching the sun rise. It Few Hongkong people know the simply doesn't dawn on them!
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The British Government's
The anti-maternal-mortality und scrap-and-build shipping scheme
infant wolfare crusades, of which has so far not been taken up to
so much has been heard during It may be asked, and at first sight recent years, may oo far have the extent that was hoped when
there seems ample justification for failed to accomplish what they it was initiated. Recently, the
the question, what have outsiders set out to do, but they have been President of the Board of Trade
to do with the arrangement banks the means of establishing the fact announced that provisional ap--
may make as regards the con- that the first confinement is the ditions of employment of their one attended with most risk to the proval had been given for the
staffs If young bankers have a mother, and that the older the construction of seven tramp
grievance against their employers patient the greater the risk, be- A naturalist says Polar bears steamers and one cargo liner,
let the two of them fight it outcomes. The health of the mother have the best winter coats. And. While France Is, endeavouring among themselves,
Is reflected in that of the child, and by this time the moths no doubt totalling 89,450 tons gross, and to be everybody's friend, and try- ing her best to avoid offending
But is the subject which is should the health of the former havo ours. Hnvolving loana amounting to anybody, Italy seems to be going engaging the attention of the Scot-be impaired as the result of what she has come through, not only tish Bankers' Association OBC
over
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£670,000. Whilst eeven out of her way to aggravate Eng-affecting banks and banks alone? may the child start life with a {tramp steamers and one cargo demonstrations in Rome are signi- May there not be more in it than possible handicap, but It is likely recently thrown during a race at
And, in
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The latest definition of a woman of movement of their silding scale is someone who reaches for a chair of salaries they could bring so
when answering the telephone, much happiness into the lives, and so greatly relieve the minds, of
ᄆ those on whose efficiency and en- thusiasm the reputation and pros- perity of the banks depend?
land. Yesterday's reports of the
No fewer than six jockeys were liner do not represent a volume ficant. They show, first, that the catches the casual eye?
to have to suffer all the disadvan- Home. They're off! of new work that is calculated prolonged newspaper campaign
tages of having been reared by a' As the son of a banker, and with C3 Instead of an Al mother. to have much effect on the against Britain has borne fruit. a son of my own in the banking Those who pay the piper are languishing shipbuilding indus Apparently it la the sort of fruit profession, I have a more personal lentiled to call the tune, and the good-typlat, but is a bit clock- As the talpan remarked, "She's the authorities" desired a very interest in try, it is a beginning, and there bitter feeling against Britain. average man-in-the-street. But it in mrking whatever stipulations
bankmen than the banks are quite within their rights eyed." are expectations that if some of Britain, stands in Italy's path, a is not as the son or the sire of a they think fit as a condition of the obstacles involved in the path which leads to new prosperi- banker but as a medical man that employment.
Then there was the Aberdonian scheme can be removed, the rate tally, which Rome has not trod titude of tank authorities regard ty and progress; a path, Inciden- I view with uneasiness' the at-
Bat are they acting wisely in who, the first time he used free of progress may be speeded up for some centuries. This is the ing the marriage of the younger
thoir own interests in exposing air at the garage, blow out all four the the public seems to hold. members of their staffs,
younger members of their tyroa somewhat. There has recently view
staffs to these domestic risks, and been some criticism by owners timism, Italians are in the frame merely one of bank polley. It goes quences attendant thereon, when their high-spirited op The point at issue is not to all anxiety and possible conse- and builders that a national in- of mind to attempt to brush such much deeper than that. It involves by a slight adjustment of the rate dustry like the shipping trade resistance out of the way. Were matters of grave social, economic, should be heavily hit by the true that Britain was actively and medical importance.
resisting Italy's ambitions, her Government's tariff policy, natural desire to expand, one whilst an industry like that of could understand the Italian feel-
He must indeed be an optimist sugar beet is granted a wholly ing. But that the Italian public who imagines that the young disproportionate subsidy when and deliberately, there can be
has been misled in this direction, bankman harbours no feelings of compared with the measure of little doubt. And that they should help offered to shipping. The err lo such an extent na to believe Chairman of Cammell Laird and swerve Great Britain from her that violent demonstrations can Co. voiced these complaints policy shows the absurdity of when he stated that the Govern- | their” delusion, Britain is used to ment policy had been a disastr the Continent's misapprehension with respect to her international one for the shipping politics, is everi toughened to business, since it meant loss of criticism. Perhaps she is immune. freights homeward and outward, In any event no-one expects re- which is all the more felt be action. But when the Italian temper turns to outbursts against cause conditions in international Japan, wo
anticipate a spirited trade have been greatly rejoinder. Japan's susceptibi- worsened by the spate of tarifflities are somewhat tender and at the moment national feeling is restrictions, quotas, etc., on the as strong in Tokyo as it is in part of nearly every country in Rome. Here's tinder.
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the world. It was added by
this speaker that there is no-sub- dmcult from the fact that keen sidy at all for the shipbuilding competition has to be faced from industry, although in effect the strongly subsidised foreign lines. offer of a ten million sterling The British Government, how loan to shipowners who will over, is not disposed to grant build new vessels in a ratio of actual subsidies on a large scale, one ton for every two tons holding the view that the indus- scrapped is really also intended try must play its part and must to beneft shipbuilder. A well- undertake measures of reorgan- known abipping journal, comisation considered necessary to menting on the subject, státos place it on a sound basis. In the that the efficacy of this scrap long run, this may be a wise and-build plan is considerably course, but it is somewhat reduced by the conditions which anomalous that other industries [accompany the loan, with the which do not serve national and result that the shipbuilder is Imperial needs to the extent that actually anding little benefit shipping does should have been from the scheme. The position, able to secure direct assistance so far as British shipping is con by way of subsidies from the. cerned, is rendered all the more Government.
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The chief danger in walking into a fortune is that you're liable to run through it quickly.
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A local resident thinke his young
son is a budding genius, whereas actual fact he's a blooming nuisance.
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Then there was the case of the Peakito who gave a party for the special purpose of not asking her dearest chemy,
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A business man thinks many Hongkong. Hft-boys are reckless. at their work. In other words, a bit too quick in the up-take.
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Heading in a contemporary:
"Davis Cuppers". No doubt ston-
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Another heading:-"Will Rogers. Goos Aloft". But only temporally speaking.
The Week's Silver Report: At
the close of business to-day, silver", showed a brighter appearance due to an overbearing tendency to polish off surplus stocks. Tho outlook for near delivery appeare obscure, but it is anticipated that unless India holds back, a forward rise may occur unless the prediété ad decline crestes a falls in the, other direction. Blocks mo lun influence the Hongkong, mark having fallen into disuse for the past twenty. Syskre ion humani tariant around)."%