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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 19, 1939.
Family Grants To Raise Birth Rate
FAMILY allowances, supplementary to wages, as a means of stemming the prospective decline in Britain's population were urged by Viscount Samuel in the House of Lords recently.
A standard wage should be paid both to men and women, with family allowances in respect to the respon- sibilities laid upon them, he said. The nation should be- come population-minded.
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The whole matter, especially the question of family allow ances, should be regarded as proper for investigation by a Royal' Commission, because it was necessary at this stage to give guidance to the nation on a matter which deeply affected its future strength and welfare.
The trulli was not that Britain was overpopulated but that its population was badly distributed. The decline by one-half, as was the forecast by sume, or anything approaching It, from a national standpoint would apell disaster.
Lord Snell said he did not view the prospect of a fall in the total of the population as likely to be a calamity. The real problem of population was qualitative rather than quantitative.
"It is Darwinlan ruther then Malthusian," he said. He reminded the House that the lost war took about 1,000,000 potential fathers. War took the most vital of the popu- Iation.
SOCIAL BARRIERS
He suggested that one of the re- medies would be the removal of barriers, such as they were, to mar- riages and the production of children.
their homen or killed
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The remedies he suggested were farther knowledge, to allay the fear about maternity, and family allow-
ancex.
Lord Stamp, In a malden speech. suggested n Royal Commission on the subject.
The Archbishop of York supported the principle of family allowances.
Lord Templemore, replying for the Government, said there was con- siderable fear in many quarters that family allowances might result in the standard of the lowering of wages. He could hold out no hope of a Royal Commission,
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Architects' Art In The Garden
MR. DAVID BOV'ES-LYON, brother of the Queen, who has himself made grass grow in a wilderness by the sweat of his
elsewhere, Certain social barriers it as an experiment was sen-garden are not enough, he said; we must also build.
should also be removed.
Reasonable men feared to have A CHEMIST'S assistant who brow, recently opened the first exhibition of the work of garden children who might be bombed in was said to have acquired architects.
The preservation and protection of English landscape and The greater distribution of wealth is giving rise to a new Lord Dawson of Penn and the ment at Chester Assizes recent-architecture-civic centres, flats, swimming pools, holiday camps quality of the people born became a ly on charges of procuring mutter of first-rate Importance.
"We must therefore, construct for morphia, false pretences and
tenced to 16 months' imprison-
forgery.
Counsel said that there were 003 cases, to be taken into consideration, consisting of 301 charges of obtaining drugs. 301 charges of false pretences and the same number of forgery is charges.
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Alness," he anld. "This country has failed to reproduce itself since 1925, and 100 women to-day produce only 70 future mothers, as against 150 in 1880. When a country gris ageing people there is not enough vigour and adventure, Already there more accommodation in schools than
Accused was Eugene the children care 811. In 1951 there Harold (20), of Conway Street, Bir- will be only 6,000,000 children under kenhead, and according to the prose- 15, as against 12,000,000 in 1921. cution his method was to forge "These figures are alarming and National Health Insurance prescrip- there is no getting away from them. tion forms in the name of a doctor.
In all, he obtained 7,912 morphia There may be a change for the bet ter, but the graphs do not paint that tablets,
Tankara' Chief Inspector
ontd why."
Harold had previous convictions for obtaining drugs.
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Contruction was increasing in all classes. It had grown into our social fabric because of the changes in our people,
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Pensions For Air the architect and the gardener.
Raid Victims
A SCHEME for paying
To this end the Institute of Land- scape Architects is for the first time working in close association with the Royal Institute of British Architects. Its scope includes designs for the smallest town gardens as well as for national, planning.
LINKING UP PARKS
pensions in respect of civilians killed or disabled in air raids has been pre- pared by the Government,
The designer of the exhibition, In the event of war, there will be Christopher Tunnard, a distinguished special department of the Minis-young landscape architect, was not try of Pensions to handle such cases, present, as he has just been offered Ali claims will be dealt with im- the chair of. Landscape Architecture mediately evidence of death or injury at Harvard University. But the re- sult of his work, a carefully planned is avaliable.
and clear layout of civic and private gardens in plans and photographs, was enjoyed by a big attendance,
Medical boards will be appointed to assess the degree of disablement which civilians may suffer in enemy air rulds
Rates at which pensions will be paid have been fixed as follows:
Man completely disabled, £2 per week.
This rate will be paid in cases where the wage-carner has lost both legs or has received some equally serious injury making it impossible for him to follow any ordinary em- ployment.
PAYMENTS TO WIDOWS Wives and children—A completely disabled man, in addition to his £2 per week, will receive 10s for his wife, 75. Od for his first child, and es. for each additional child.
If he has a wife and three children he will get £ 103. 8d.
If the medical board certificate shows that he is only 50 per cent, disabled, the pension will be on half this seale, and pro rata for other degrees of disablement.
Besides plans and photographs of gardens for town and country houses, the exhibitio nincluded also à demon- stration of how gardens can link up with civic life.
There are plans of London with suggestions for linkup up existing 11 belts; parks to make evntinuous gr photographs of roads made eautiful by juctielous tree planting; plans for making ARP. trenches in public squares into things of beauty; and plans and photograps of the garden in civic life from colleries to garden cities-
20s. dd. a week if they are over 40 and have children.
If they are under 40 and without children, they will be regarded as having better opportunities for em- ployment or remarriage, and pen- sions will be £1 a week. For their children they will receive 106. for the fist, 78. d. for the second, and 6s.
Widows-Women whose husbands are killed by the enemy will receive for others.
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50,000 Miles In 5 Years
S modestly as though returning from a brief run in the Channel, the yacht Drine, only 32 feet long, sailed into Portsmouth Harbour recently on completing a five-year cruise of 50,000 miles.
When Mr. Macpherson left the Owned by Mr. A. G. II, Mac-į pherson, commodore of Porta-yacht to return to England by liner,'
two mouth Sailing Club, she left Mr. Leng was joined by
ashore at Portsmouth in September, 1934. Journalists. One went
Mr. Manpherson's only com-Bermuda, and the other, Mr. J. V. panion was Mr. William Leng, Ramsden, voyaged on to Portsmouth. also a member of the club, who went as skipper.
Mr. Leng returned as 'owner, the yacht having been given to him at Durban when Mr. Macpherson, by doctor's orders, had to abandon his life at aca.
Once during the cruise, Mr. Mac pherson fell overboard, clung to the Maxwell Stewart's Ballroom Oreli.boom, and was rescued by Mr. Leng
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