THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1937.
Government Food Inquiry
Housewives To Be Paid
Paid For Filling Up Forms
CHECK
OFFICIAL
ON RISING
COST OF LIVING
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By II. W. SEAMAN
HIRTY THOUSAND British housewives are about to receive 30,000 half-crowns for fil- ling up a form,
Mr. Ernest Brown, the Minister of Labour, is going to ask them some exceedingly personal ques- tions of a sort never asked before.
It is part of a nation-wide inquiry into the rising cost of living.
The so-called "cost-of-living index," on which many of the Government's calculations are based, is notoriously out of date. It is compiled from market prices and reports of other Govern- ment Departments.
To get at the truth about how the people of Britain live the Minister of Labour is going to the people themselves. The half- crowns are for their trouble.
He will ask them how much they and their families spend on eating, drinking, smoking, rent, amusements, lighting, heat- ing, and other necessary things.
As free citizens, they will be entitled to tell him to mind his own business, but he hopes they will not, for the information he
is after will bring good to everybody.
NO COMPULSION, NO PRYING
No such widespread inquiry has ever before been under- taken. It establishes a new and personal relationship, between the Government and the people.
Sunday, October 17, begins the first of the series of test weeks. One out of every 30,000 British housewives, in town and
country, will be asked to explain just how she handled the family budget in that week.
There will be no compulsion about it, and no prying. The Labour Ministry, like the Health Ministry and the War Office is calling for volunteers.
Only housewives with less than £ a week to handle will be asked to co-operate.
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The inquiry will be carried out through the employment exchanges with the assistance of local advisory committees. Vol- untary helpers have been re-l cruited from women's guikts, co-operative socletics, trade unions, and other bodies.
DEARER FOOD
There will be olier test weeks next January, April, and July, in order that the cost of living at all seasons of the year may be studied.
Half--crown will be given¦ for each form in each of the four weeks.
M. P.s
To
Stop
Baby Farms
PARLIAMENT is to pro-
mote legislation early in the new
session to end the scandal of baby-farm- ing.
Dr. Wellington Koo. Cainese Ambassador to France, one of the most brilliant younger statesmen, speaking before the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva, when he protested what he termed Japan's polley-of aggression. His later resolution condemning Japanese bombing was, neopted by 62
nations. The Aga Khan, upper right, s presiding.
"Flying Doctor
Found After Ordeal In Desert
Lost In Scorching Northern Territory
EXI
FXHAUSTED after seven days
of
to exposure
scorching heat, with his meagre stock of, food almost finished, at the mercy of clouds of stinging in- sects, Chile Fenton, Australia's (amous Dying doctor, has "been rescued in Australia's, Northern Territory.
A
STOCKBROKER'S TRAGIC END
Read "Death In The Glass"
London, Oct. 5. but temperamental young man, who FORMER New York Society one day would have inherited his beauty hurried from Ireland father's Scottish estates,
home Chilsca last night to her where husband-Old
letter is waiting from her Etonian and Oxford graduale-who was found in a bed- room at a house in Tile street yes. terday morning with a bullet wound through his heart.
Mr.
The letter is one of seven. Patrick St. John Stirilog, 30-year- old stockbroker, wrote in West End
Lieutenant W. L, Hely, searching clubs on the last evening of his life.
the desert arça north of Eust
LAST GOOD-BYE
Mrs. Stirling was on holiday in
Tanumbrini, મી cattle stpilon to Ireland. A fortnight ago she had which Dr. Fenton was flying to ans- wer an urgent call for medical ald when he disappeared, found him beside his undumaged plane.
Dr. Fenton was taken to Newcastle
Waters and is recovering.
said good-bye to her fit. husband when he left her with friends at Delgany, County.
Wicklow. She wrote to him almost
every day, and a few minutes before Mr. Stirling dled he read her last mes- sage as he paced his library..
Leaving the room, with its book- shelves packed with crime novels- one novel, "Death in the Glass," was later found opened on the table-he went up to a spare room in the morning. He carly hours of the took with him a sporting gun which had been at a gunsmith's until last Saturday
Liculeront Hely gave a vild ne- count of how the doctor had fought for fe in an isolated region which can normally be, reached only by horse or car along a desert track.
"We sighted smoke signals north- cast of Tanumbrini and in a clear-i "PERFECT LOVE MATCH" ing in woody country beside a water- Maddocks, last night sisted that the His valet and buller, Mr. John The many recent reports of hole we saw
a white plane," he Everybody who keeps house babies found abandoned have said.
tragedy has ended a "two years". perfect love match," knows that the cost of living emphasised the need for imme WEAK FROM EXPOSURE has risen sharply in the last diate action.
"It was fenton's We signalled to few months.'
Thus one of the provisions of him and dropped a message, and he the proposed Bill will be the signalled that we could land. Butter has gone up 4d. to 5. registration of all adoptions. "After notifying Darwin of our) a pound since May, tea 2d.,
position we pulled in beside his un- Between 2,000 and 3,000 children) bacon 3d., sugar d., lard 1d.. biscuits 20 jam., and there year. The number
are legally adopted in Britain every damaged machine.
UNWANTED CHILDREN
and cold water and after an hour's rent set out for Newcastle,
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"At 8 o'clock this morning I open- ed the door of the spare bedroom. There was a black patch near the ceiling where part of the wall had been shot away... Mr. Stirling lay on the carpet, the gun by his side.
"A REAL CHAP” •
"He was a figo gentleman-a real chap. He was absorbed in his City work, I have never worked in n of unoMeisli "He was obviously wenk from happier home." has been an increase of at least adoptions is unknown--but it is very long expoare, but we gave him food
high, and Is increasing.
Son of Lieut. Col. J. A. Stirling, 20 per cent. in the cost of im-¡
of Kippenduvie and Kippenгoza, Perthshire,
Lodge, and Pembroke ported beef.
Richmond Park, Mr. Patricis Stirling "He told us that he lit a fire to had written his farewell letters at There will be no Interference withi The official index figure shows
his clubs, the Guards and Brooks's. boun-Ade adoption societies. By attract attention. that food prices have advanced these every adoption is legalised
When working in Wall-street he nine points in the last year.
"He had been blown north and met Miss Eugenia Morris, the daugh- (and no monetary consideration is}
Involved.
failed to and his bearings.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Noy Morris, of Park-avenue, "
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"It was at the requent of the As- sociation that the Homo Offcc agreed to setting up the Commission that inquired into the question of baby-farming,”, nho nald. --
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The great need for legislation is) proved. Many of the cruel" aban- donment cases have Been traced to baby-farming."
"He landed near a water hole his petrol exhausted. He injured his nose trying to shoot duck with a Vercy pistol. Later he found a row bogged near a water- hole and after stunning it with a log of wood out its throat with a pocket knife.
He married her in New without waiting to announce a for- mal engagement.
He was a member of the firm of nnd Mesars. Williamson, Fawcett Stirling, Old Jewry, E. C..
A pariner in the firm. said lasti night: "It is a very painful abocic to Mr. Stirling's partners. As far as "Most of the beast, however, was we know his private affairs are in under mud and he got itito meat."order. So far as the firm is con
Dr. Fenlon passed through Singa-cerned his aftalts are certainly in pore last year on his way from Dar- order." win to Swatow, where his elderly Il-health is believed to be at the mother lay seriously it..
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