Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 24, 1939.
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PROFITS ON A.R.P. SHELTERS
General George C. Marshall, left, discusses ut San Juan plans for new, gigantle air base on island of Puerto Rico. General Delos C. Emmons, right. Army wants to make the island n "Gibraltar."
A Tell-Tale Meter
For Radio Sets
London.
DETAILS of a new gadget for radio sets which show the time, date and duration every time the set is switched on, and the name of the station tuned in, have been brought from America by Mr. R. J. E. Silvey, chief of the B.B.C.'s Listener Research.
The device was studied by Mr. B.B.C. have only recently taken up Silvey during his Investigation listener research on on extensive of American listener research scale. methods. "It could probably be used here, but there is at the moment no intention of doing 80,"
n B.B.C. official said,
AMERICA'S LEAD
Ord To Public At
Excessive Prices
PROFITEERING by manufacturers of steel bomb
shelters was alleged in Parliament recently by Mr. R. R. Stokes, Labour M.P. for Ipswich.
Mr. Stokes is managing director of the engineering firm of Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., and an offer by him to make shells on a'no profit, no less" basis was rejected by the Government in 1937.`
Sir John Anderson (Lord Privy Seal), replying to Mr. Stokes | said that he was not aware that the cost price of the stan- dard unit shelter, exclusive of distribution charges but Including profit, should not exceed £5.
£300,000 Man
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Sir John said that all production costs of these shelters were subject to investigation by the Import Duties Advisory Commitee, and he was satis- fed that the estimated average price previous question on May is was reasonable,
Now Worth £6 (7) which he gave in reply to
LIABILITIES of £72,909 and
That price liicluded, of course, 8, of fabrication. substantial item representing the cost The number of
assets of £6 were disclosed when Mr. Simon Soskin, a con pany director. of Sackville-standard units ordered was 1,400,000.- street, W., applied for his dis- charge at the London Bank- ruptcy Court recently.
Mr. J. M. Clarke, the Assistant Official Receiver, salft that Mr. Soskin came to England from Russia in 1921. Ele was worth £300,000 in 1928 and bought 000,000 American dollars which he invested in German and Czech bonds in the name of his wife
COULD NOT PAY
He gave her half of the investment or about £100,000. Mr. Soskin sub- sequently recovered £100,000 in respect of the transaction.
His failure
was attributed to fosses in connection with Boskin Productions Li and Amalgamated Studios Lid and his Inability to make required payments to plete a scheme for the building and equipment of film studios.
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The discharge was granted subject to a suspension, of 241⁄2 years.
"Telephone Interviews, personal- meter and questionnaire forms all Interviews, fan mail, the tell-tale are used for taking random samples,"
he says.
Death Sails On Last Voyage
..
Melbourne, Australia When the steamship Edina, reput ed to be the oldest passenger ship "One Investigator has found that in the world, was making its finol if the questionnaire form is made to trip.. Septimus Dandy, who for 20 MF. Silvey found American look too attractive fewer people fill years has been its quartermaster. methods of discovering the likes and 1 z. The reason seems to be that stepped to the bridge to bid dialikes of listeners more advanced if it is attractive, people think it is captain farewell, collapsed and died than those in this country, where the just un advertising circular."
in a few minutes.
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Mr. Stokes inquired if Sir John estimated that the cost of these steel was aware that competent people shelters should not exceed C and that if the order which the Minister implied had been placed by his Department was adhered to at this price it meant that some manufac- turers had cleared off with something over £2,000,000 on this order,
Sir John: It is not a case of "some manufacturers," because
arrange- ments have been made with the Federation, which represents the industry as a whole.
RETAILED AT £10 EACH Mr. Stokes also asked the Lord' Privy Seal whether he was aware that manufacturers of the Home Office type of steel shelter, the total weight of which was approximately 8001b, were retailing them to the public at £10 each, and, as the cost including delivery and a margin of profit should not exceed £7, what was the Minister doing to control, the price of these shelters to the public.
Sir John Anderson: If Mr. Stokes has in mind steel shelters of the stan- dard Home Omec design, manufac turers are under agreement not to sell this type to the general public.
Mr. Stokes: Manufacturers are in these prices, when competent people fact quoting the general public at are satisfied that this kind of material should not cost more than 218 a ton delivered.
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officers of the Metropolitan
Force may now marry without first obtaining the permission of the Commissioner, Sir Philip Game, t was announced recently.
the
The decision follows
recent announcement that married men up to the age of 27 are not barred as recruits to the Force.
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A limitemporarily.
number of constables 1C- tiring on pension after their full normal service will be offered re- engagement.
The new regulations are part of the scheme to increase the personnel of the service which in recent months- has been below strength.
Men Proved Camera Shy
San Francisco. Photographs of 200,000 taken at the Golden Gate Inter- people national exposition reveals that men are camera-shy and women just love 1. All of the shots at women showed them smiling happily, while nearly all the men had a look of distress on their faces.
COULD NOT LIFT ARMS, ABOVE HEAD Suffered Agonies with Rheumatism
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