THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.
TIN AND RUBBER EL DORADO OF EAST Golden Dreams Come True In Singapore, World's Richest City.
THE QUEEN
MARY WILL
BE FASTER
Experts
Do Big
Debate Problem:
Ships
Pay?
Southampton, Jan. 10.
WHILE experts were debating the question, DO BIG
SHIPS PAY? the 80,774-ton liner, the Queen Mary, which has made maritime history in the last seven months, put in at Southampton to-day for her annual overhaul. It will take six weeks.
One thousand two hundred men and women who have spent the greater part of their lives at sea, and who played their part in the Queen Mary's Atlantic blue riband voy-. age, came ashore for a rest.
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Britain's wonder ship goes into the King George V. graving dock to-morrow morning. Her engines will undergo a thorough overhaul, alterations will be made to her tourist and third-class passenger accommodation, the problem of vibration will be tackled by the erection of stanchions to "stiffen" the ship. Storm rails will be put up to:
GREATER SPEED
the ventilation → eliminate injury to passengers in bad | Improvements in weather, and drastic alterations will and healing of the Queen Mary are
which are be made in the engineers' quarters other matters and in the "glory hole" (the home tackled, and it is expected that the of the liner's 900 stewards).
ship will be fitted with new pro- Over the verandah grill, which is pellers, which should enable her to sun deck, special quarters for keep up an average speed of mort the the engineers will be built (during than thirty knots next season. During speed the past seven months the junior the past season her average engineers have occupied passenger has fluctuated between twenty-five accommodation because their own and twenty-nine knots.
In her fourteen round voyuges she was found unsuitable).
carried
41,000 passengers. But And for the firsttime lu bis- she has had no luck with the tary, stewards will have rooms weather. Terrific gales have slowed with running hot and cold water, her down and caused accidents to The effect of these changes will passengers and dumuge to property, be to give more accommodation to or she has had engine trouble. third und tourist class passengers. Long before the passengers went
on
THEY PAY MEN
FORTUNES FOR
DOING NOTHING
(By A CORRESPONDENT)
Singaporo, Jan, 10. THERE are many men here who have been paid sums running into five figures not to work! They are the fortunate owners of unworked tin- lands in British Malaya..
Trade Goes Up And Up
When the tin restriction scheme, came in operation they applied for licences to produce under the quota agreement. These, entitling the owner to produce a given every year,
Up quantity of the metal
THE gross trade of
Malaya for the ten months ended October was £93,144,700, com- pared with £89,006,300 for the corresponding period of 1935.
Imports were £41,652,400, against Exports £40,430,900. were £51,492,300, com- pared with £48,575,400.
There was a favour- able trade balance of £9,839,900, compared with £8,144,500. MARRIED TWICE TO MAKE SURE
Hollywood, Jan. 10.
are transferable. So when they had them theso fortunate fellows sold them at £1 to £3 per plcul of tin to mines already working whose output had been reduced.
After that they came down to Singapore to enjoy the proceeds
and the sunshine.
SEA BIRTH: SEA BURIAL
MID-OCE
Plymouth, Dec, 28.
-OCEAN drama revealed when Elder Dempster liner Abosso reached Plymouth to- day.
10 am-on West Coast of Africa, SOB from German steamer Panther. "Doclor want- ed. Woman about to become mother."
2 p.m.-Abosso sights Panther, Sends doctor and nurse aboard in lifeboat.
2.20 p.m. The passenger, an Englishwoman, ΛΕΓΑ. A. M. Harries, safe in Abosso's hospi- fal.
4.30.-Baby born.
MidnightBaby dies, buried
at sea.
Mrs. Harrles, completely re- covered, was later landed at Freetown,
TOO MANY
BOOKS
SO THE PROFESSOR IS RÉBUILDING HIS HOUSE
What does a university professor do with his books when he retires?
The answer, according to Profes
"If you want to find El Dorado, stay right here," said a rubbar planter to me in the Singapore Club. The 6,000 civilian "whites" who Inhabit the 220 square miles which is Singapore, with 8,000 more in British Malaya generally,sor Ernest Scott, of Melbourne Unl- are being swept along on a golden versity, who retires from the Chair of History at the end this month. Is: Enlarge his house and rebuilt! around them. He has started to
wave.
.
means
Every Inercase of one farthing a pound in the price of rubber, at the rate of production authorised under the restriction scheme (450.000 tons for 1036) another £1,116,000 for the rubber estates and 8ingapore. To-day British Malaya is producing less rubber than in 1932 and getting millions more for it. In those four years the price per pound has risen from 1d. to more than Od.
HOLLYWOOD is starting a raised by nearly 15 per cent. If that
vogne
for "double
mar-
ringes."
Gail Patrick and Robert Cobb, married at Tijuana, Mexico, last week, will be married again at a Hollywood church service to-morrowed and Brian Donlevy and Marjorie Lane, to wed at Ensenada, the Mexl- can coastal resort, will return Hollywood for a second ceremony on New Year's Eve.
to
do so.
He already has 15,000 books at home, and he has to transfer an- other 3,000 from his study at the University says statral News. He has bought them in many different parts of the world.
DISEASE-BEARING DUST PERIL
DOCTOR'S WARNING
AND MORE TO COME Morcover, on November 11
the "quota" for British Malaya was
figure stands, next year's wealth from a scale which rubber is going to be on a would satisfy even a Rockefeller.
The danger of disease-bearing dust Similarly, every increase of £1 a mixing with the smoke particles in ton in the price of tin means £75,540 city air was discussed recently by Dr. year for Malaya, Since tin restric-J, S. Owens, Superintendent of Obe tion cume the world price has rocket-servations on Atmospherle Pollution
from £100 7s, dd, a ton to around
in the Department of Scientific and £240 this year
Industrial Research, in a lecture to Copra, to
pra, too, the third important the Institution of Mechanical En- export, is "up" by nearly 300 per Įgineers in London. cent. in four years.
Nothing like this was known even The object is to make sure of the
the palmtest of the "good old validity of the Mexican marriage
days." Those golden cargoes which ceremony in the United States, and
leave the Clapham Junction of the is believed that the precaution will
East every day have made it the be widely adopted, since there are
richest city in the world. several cases of Mexican marriages
Public expenditure on the Straits which are said to have taken place Settlements (of which Singapore is: before the completion of Californian
the most important part) is down by divorce processes. Similarly, Culi-25 per cent. since 1931; revenue is faroian marriages have taken place buoyant; the colony has no between people whose previous debt of its own. Mexican marriages had not yet been legally set aside.
`SHOPKEEPER'S £100,000-
external trade of British Malaya as a whole per head equals that of the United Kingdom-this I a country where there are only 14,000 civilian Europeans.
ashore from the Queen Mary to-day workmen went aboard, spent hours fixing up scaffolding and stripping parts of the engine room.
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Last week a Chinese shopkeeper in Malaya wrote a cheque for 850,000 Straits dollars (£100,000) to pay for some Investments. As he was known to have been earn- Ingaixty dollara (about 20) = month four years ago, the firm re ceiving the cheque asked the bank whether the security was good. "Perfectly good," was the answer. "He could write a cheque for three times that sum without worrying us." Nor is this an isolated instance,
In 1931, in the clubs which are a feature of life in British Malaya, were playing poker with 18. To-day the lowest value of "chip" is 259. Often it is the equivalent of
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Chinese owning small tin-minics worked by the family-the equivalent of tenant-farmers in Britain are enjoying incomes estimated to aver- age £2,500 a month.
"It seems probable that the in- difference to the presence in the air of harmful dust has been caused." he said, "by its invisibility under ordinary circumstances, and its fai- fure to affect any other sense, such as that of smcil.'
The was also the fact that in the cilles the air was so heavily laden with smoke particles that the addi- tion of more dangerous disease-bear- ing particles would not be apparent. *In cinemas, for example, the beam from the projector often looked almost solid with floating impurity, and anyone observing this would naturally conclude that an addition or removal of a little dust would make no difference.
"This is where the danger lies," he said, "and It appears to take years for the fact to become recognised.
"The country is full of tubercular people, and their habits are not al- ways very cleanly; their clothes are probably full of infected dust. Is it any wonder when they come into a theatre or concert hall, flapping their clothes about, the the air is filed
with a dangerous form of dust?”
AN EPIDEMIC OF LIVER
DISORDER
By Dr. Quignon of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris
long will all this last? As
Just now I am kept very busy by long as rubber trees produce rubber and the valleys of Malaya harbour an epidemic of "liver" disorders-a an ounce of precious tin-ore,
great many people feeling "out of As long as the Union Jack flying | sorts," bilious, depressed and unable over Government House at Singapore to enjoy their food. Undoubtedly guarantees law, order and wise the best remedy for an upset liver is government in the interests of the provided by certain thirty races which make up the polyglot population of this Paradise.
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It was demonstrated to the Miami ing Jiverish and out of sorts, and to police, authorities recently and they those who are suffering from Rheu-- It is stated, were satisfied by his malism, Lumbago, Kidney trouble claim.
He chose the police department for and High Blood Pressure, I can' with the tests because they use a large recommend Alicia Saltrates' number of batteries and the annual confidence and I udvise them to start cost to the city is considerablo,
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polleb that batteries Bill capable of giving a dim light could be recharged to double their original strength and one fully exhausted could be restored to original strength. Mr. Skinner would not divulge publicly the detalls of his method.
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