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Civil Servants Who Do Not Earn Their Salariés.

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There is more than a suspicion in the minds of nine out of every ten subjects of the Eing that the grean army of Civil Servants fail by bwoy millions of pounds

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to car fairly tho. Fast en paid by the THE BEST EN LENSES, taxpayers for their maintenance. It is a suspicion, which every revelation dug out of the morass of red tape las proved to be well founded::

One of the most notable commentaries on the history of the present Government, which came into office with load promises of sconcmy all-round and the nation's business to be rus on business lines," is that it has allowed the cost of the Civil Service to increase almost by one-third, When Mr Lloyd George introduces the baloted Budget of 1911 within the pest few days the main burden of his speech

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ho is compelled to extract from the tar- He will point proudly to payers' pockets. the excursions into Socialism which he and his colleagues are plansed to call Social. Reforma," and dechre that if such measures are to be obtained the nation must pay.

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But there are those, even inside the Civil Service itself, who believe that. If only business methods were introduced into Government departments, many of the million which nor hays, to be obtained by the mathods of the spendthrift who lives on his capital would inmediately become available

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An ex-painter named Williams, nos per-Company, forming as a tight-rope walker under the style of the The Great Houndiny bad à torable experience on June 14, during the

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296051 Hongkong, August 5, 1910.

Under the present haphazard system, in poguess of a big carnival at Niagara falls. which red-tape rogaiations play so im The day was being observed as a civic holi-HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK- portatit a part and human nature and day by the twin cities of Niagara Falls, haman industry count for nothing, the national salary list steadily irrersaces yeux by year, and, so far as the ordinary observer can judge, without any increase in ef ficienty. Lock, for instance, at the record of the past four years of Radical govern

and Williams had arranged to furnish & thrilling termination to the afternoon's merrymaking by executing & slide for life across the gorge from the American to the Canadian shore, hanging by his teeth from the sloping wire which he had had suspend Civil Servico estimates in last

ybar of Vaionist Government 28,614,291ed between the cliffs. Through a miscal

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colation, however, to stopped short in the middle of his side, and. was only rescued after half an hour of agony, shared by the

wils who were watching him. At half past five Williams made ready for the daring feet. Hot was to slide rapidly

under Radical Government... 42,685,446 Here we have a total increase of just over £14,000,000 in the cost of the service. Much of this is, of course, accounted for by the introduction of old-age périsiona and other even more lexurious forms of social roform, but, briwern £3,000,000 - and | £4,000,000 at least can only be accounted for by what Mr Lloyd George would no across the gorge, waving the Stars and doubt describe as the normal path in Stripes in ons tard and the lag of Canada expenditure.

"WHERE THE MONET GOES.

ING CORPORATION.

ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITY BALL Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th day of August, 1910, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the.. Court of Directors together with a Starne ment of Accounts to 30th June, 1910, de The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MON- DAY, the 8th August to SATURDAY the 20th August, 1910, (both days in- clusive), during which period no, transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB Acting Chief Manager. Hongrong, August 3, 159,

COMPANY, LÍMITED.

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in the other, and amid the acclamations of 100,000 people he ayung himself outwards HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK The extraordinary fact is that not a single one of the important Government depart-over the abyss. But be bad neglected ments can show a decrease in expenditure. to provide suficiently against the risk of There has been so easing any wlière. Heragging due to the weight of his body, and is a list of them -

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1905-6. 1010-11. his progress, after becoming gradually more

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERTAS

TEK ORDINARY HALF THABLY

MERTING GỂ SHAREHOLDERS

pany; Queen's Buildings, Connuaght:Rond; } will be held in the Town (fice of the Co-

12 on MONDAY, the 2nd August, at o'clock Boots for the purpose of receiving the Teport of the Directors and the Bhite-

Board of Education. 12,652,048 14,084,677 rapid as he neared the catro came suddenly Foreign Office...

85,103 APK

67,582 to au end almost immediately above the 53,920 68,300 swirling current from the power tunnel,

From the upper steel bridge couplement of Accounts to the 30th June, 1910.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the pay be CLOSED from the 8th to the bend August, both days inducive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

WM, JOLLY,

Secretary.

232,854 99,925 98,696 .... 174,629 120,605 24,560 73,335

447

Board of Trade...

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Board of Agricultaze

Public Record Ulice

Office of Works

449,090 of hundred foot away the watchern

106,403 could plainly see tho expression of

924,078

185.710 agonised fear which passed over his 9,095 countenance as he realised his terrible 106,810

Supposing, now, a body of public-spirited predicament, and in response to his frantic business men could be induced to give time signals of assistance, made with the flags to the sittings of a Royal Commission

which would sift the working of every one he was carrying, encouraging menges of these offices to the bottom. Supposing were shouted to him through a megaphone. the duties and their performance of every while long ropes were fetched and other one of the thousands of clerks were made

the sabject of keep naprejudiced inquiry, preparations made for rescue. what an upheaval would be caused through" out the service !

An admirable illustration of what can be done in this way is afforded in connection with the governmental printing business which four years go came under the review

Williams elutabed the rope grimly, and

the crowds waited in silence. At length firemen on the bridge cleverly shot a rope

cross the cable, where it was made fast at

of a special Parliamentary Committee.... one end by Williams. It was sufficiently The result of that Cothmittee's rocom-long for its other end to dangle close to mendations was that a Sessional Committee

was appointed, and its work has been of the river, and down, what seemed from the immenso valce. An official estimate of the shore the frailest of thread, he lowered him result of its labours is that it has saved

the nation at least £35,000 a year.

OFFICIAL, DOM.

well. The famous little steamer Maid of the

Mist, which makes journeys to the foot of

If this can be done in connection with the falls, was now being brought up by a

Hongkong, August 2, 1910.

Dom:

KEATING'S

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CA perdy Vaggiabia

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Wwwelment mit Thenkastaða. 'Kosting'a Waum Tablets boršah n moit agreeable method of administering the only cutain remady fix Intestinal dr "Thứand Wormia, Türfelly salo, mad”

and éspecially adapted fir children-

To be abtained of af Draculis, the

ons department of the national business smart sommander, and it was not long SARAWAK GOVERNMENT

why cannot it be done with others? There

are no delusions on the matter among the before the reps, with Williams still s'good Civil Servants themselves. There are way up, was seized on board. The danger, wany man among them who fully realize however, was not by any means past. To that they are practically obtaining money keep the Maid of the Mist atallenary in under fumo protesORS.

Were it posible," said one of them to such a current required almost phenomenal me the other day, "I should be prepared

to show that the "cost of working the skill, and once the little steamer was particular department with which I am swept rapidly towards the Canadisa bank connected could be halvedy Much of the

so called work we do is purely wasted agging the rope with hor in a manner effort, which, with a system based on any that made everyone grup. Captain Carter, thing but red tape, would be impossible.

COLLIERIES,

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Nine, men out of every ton in the nevertheless, managed to bring her ruas either of the above porta always on hadd." Government office realise the absurdity of again, and at length, amid tumultuces the petty regulations with which we are cheering Williams, thoroughly orhaunted bound, but we dare not move in the matter. and shaker nearly assaless, dropped on, to The Civil Service clerk who shows any initiative or sny desire for reform becomes her deck: smaricod man, and he might as well get out of the service at once.

The captain of the Maid of the Mist is

The path to promotion and success is expected to receive a medal for saving the along the line of strictly minding your own performer's life.

business. The man who closes himself up

in a water-tight compartment and tikerno hood of anything but his particular tasks, and does those of the methods hallowed by

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all the oldest traditions of the Circumlocu tion Office, is the man on whom superiors look with favost and to whom promotion Hero in a nutshell is the view of things faken by the service, and it is evident that, such a spirit prevailing reform from the inside is a hopeless, impossibility. It can only come from the outaids, and even then only trom a body of men who will roughshod over the plausibilities of tape. bound offtaisdom and insist on the whole antiquated mechanism being exposed to their viewH80in the Daily Express.

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