1920-02-14 — Page 2

C. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVETUR.

-Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG BOXING

ASSOCIATION.

PRESIDENT:-His Excellency Sir R. E

Stubbs, K.CMG, Governor. CHAIRMAN -His Honour Sir William

Roea Davies, K., Chief Justi.

THIRD TOURNAMES I. At "The Ring" Volunteer Heck quarters Parade Ground (adjoining | Lower Peak Tram Station Specially snstructed Matshed, capable of holding

TO-DAY

(SATURDAY), FEBRraer 14th, 1929),

at 9:15 P.M..

1-15 Korso CONTEST FOR THE MIDBEE

WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THES

Hostrong

COLDAY AND THE

DAILY PREMA" 17

Between Pte. J Masin R.M. 1. HMS Howkios,"

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2.-10 Rocso MrD WRT COSTEST.

Between "Peggy Besos., H.M.8. **Hawking" ex Middleweight Champion of the Mditerranean Station) Ad Sena Hewitt, E.M.S. "Aha.ity".

3-6 Forso CONTEST FOR THE AMATEUR LICHTWAT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY,

Betweet Youn: Maher, ex Driver, RGA, (Holler).

And Sert. Ward R.N.Y. (Challenger).

4-8 Roran MIDDLEY EITT CONTEST.

Between E. & A. sergeant, H.M.S. "Ambrose,"

And Seaner. Willoughby, H.M.S. *Hawking.

5-6 ROUND LIGHTWEIGHT CONTENT.

Between Ships Cook North. b.31.S. Cur isle.

And Corpor Cook, R.M.LE. HMS.Hawkins."

6-6 Rorvo LICHTWEE CONTEST.

Between Saman Webb, H.M.S. "Ansbrost,"

And Seaman Deconhart,, H.M.S "Hawkins."

Prices: Reservei, 85, (Ringside mised seats) and 33. (Ringside Ground euellats, )

Unreserved. 8.

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A WAY THEY HAVE IN

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You asked me what Commission I am on?" says Edmund Cander in the Daily Mail.. It is naturally a little confusing. I told you, I think, that I was "E. Commission- Rats.'"

on

That raised the point as to whether there was ever an A. Commission, and, if so, what has become of Com- missions B., C., and D.?

COMING END OF THE SHIPPING "BOOM."

SHORTSIOED LABOUR.

The

thrifty, hard-working people. large wages paid to colliers come mainly out of the pockets, directly or indirectly, of the working-classes, for coal enters into the production of al- - most everything required in working-

class homes, and affects the earning. capacity of the working-class man and his family.

[By ARC BALD HURD. When the war was in progress the Government spent many millions sterling in explaining what Germany,

Everyone knows, in general term, on the one hand, and we,

on the the huge price of coal needed for in- other, were fighting for, and the Ger- dustrial purposes, but not one person mans have since confessed that we in a hundred thousand is seized with did this work very much better than a correct conception of the important D. Commission is still sitting they did. Now that peace has come part which it plays in our foreign -you probably know them? There's we stand in need of a propagande trade. The coat situation is hamper- Principal McTaggart: of Auchinleck movement at home. Those persons ing the exporter owing to the high. University: General Mollusche was who work with their hands rather

cost of the goods he handles, and it Governor of the Seychelles Doctors than with their heads are missing the is keeping up ocean freights on all Weevil and Rodent, representing Opportunity of winning a grea: indas- he sends abroad, as well as on all Agriculture and Zoology: Lord Clam- trial victory. The President of the that is imported, with the result that ity, a most respectable figurehead. have the greatest opportunity in That movement of the prices of food. Board of Trade has declared that we the cost of living is still going up. Then, as representatives of the

Why don't we make it? clothes, and other things is not, of people, just to show it is all above-

history." beard you know, Rai Bahadur Siri The explanation is to be found in course, entirely attributable to the Ram, the deportee, and the Nawab failure of vision on the part of trade miner, but he has a good deal to do

union leaders, and lack of thought and with it. of Fatehpur Sikri.

Government control-which "Yes, but you haven't told me independence on the part of the work is a form of rationalisation has made about A. Commission' yet. What ing classes zenerally, How many of matters much worse than otherwise the men on the railways who struck they would be, because it is very started A. Commission '?"

"Oh, it's really quite simple. You in September had any conception of costly, and in order to placate the remember three years ago, to satisfy the character of the dispute? Many home consumer shipping is being the popular outcry, Government ap- admitted their ignorance, but pleaded forced to pay two or three times the pointed a Commission to inquire into that if they did not blindly obey the economic price for bunkers. the failure of the Agricultural Depart-tions they would lose their employ been furnished of the ruinous ex- orders received from their organisa- thousand-and-one illustrations have ment to deal with the plague of rats. Well, that was A. Commission, ment, and their wives and children pense of control of coal, shipping. the beginning of it all. A. Commis would be left to starve so they and other things, and yet there are It is much the same with the still men who have the courage to didn't help much. The nu struck, sance increased to such an extent that questions of coal and shipping, and 2 suggest that coal and shipping should a session of the Commission was number of leaders are found crying be nationalised.

sion

broken up by an invasion of rats. The floor was so thick with them that the members had to stand up on their

"Nationalise coal,, ships, and every- thing.

COAL AND SHIPS."

A

THE APPROACHING "SLUMP.” The argument in favour of the chairs. Soon afterwards another The ignorance which exists with nationalisation of shipping would not into the first Commission's failure to stitures a grave national peril, be- President of the Board of Trade, Commission was appointed to inquire reference to coal and shipping con- have been regarded as worthy of a moment's consideration by any former inquire into the Agricultural Depart cause coal supplies 75 per cent. of

Liberal or Conservative. For how ment's failure to exterminate rats, our exports, judged by weight, and That was B. Commission, I think shipping, using vast quantities of coal are you to nationalise an industry "And where do C., and D. as bunker, is the life-time of all our than half the ocean-borne trade of the which before the war carried, more,

Commissions come in?"

industries. You may meet people world? The goods are not carried at B, Commission recommended every day who express sympathy with freights which British shipowners fx. poison, you remember, and a number the hard lot of the miner, as though but at freights which are subject to of villagers picked it up and ate it he were the badly-paid victim of scra world-wide competition. Sometimes. and died. There was another outery, compulsory form of service which The Commission on that was C., drives him into the bowels of the earth they are high and at other times they are low. In the former case the I think; or was it D.'? No, D. in search of a living. He is, on the British shipowner as well as the-for- was to inquire into the failure of contrary, a man who has chosen this eign shipowner benefits; but when particular 'calling because he likes it,

C. to”

"rister.

But you are E., you say? who works very short hours, and who they fall the shipowner carries on his Where does E.' come in?"

carns a very high wage. The down trade at a loss as long as his resources

lest. Why, that takes us back to B. trodden collier, who is represented a

Let it be admitted that even the Ewas to inquire into the failure being exploited by "the capitalist,"

British shipowner is doing well just of B. to inquire into the failure of can, in favourable working condition sow, although nothing like as well as A. to inquire into the failure of the make a larger income than the Ever his rivals, and that if shipping were Agricultural Department to cope with age doctor, solicitor, architect, or bar

nationalised the profits would go into the plague of rats."

The chairman of the Ebbow And what about the rats?? Vale Company, speaking with know the national exchequer! That pre- "Oh, they are the very devil. ledge, stated the other day that the supposes that civil servants could ex- hibit those extraordinary organising The crops are destroyed,"

average earnings at one of their col abilities, varied in character, which Heries worked out at £800 a year" are exhibited conspicuously by the depreciation of the currency, colliery men who run British shice. The shipowners harvest, however, never shareiroiders, as a whole, are recely lasts very long, and there is evidence ing one hall their pre-war profit and it is coming to an end. Ive the colliery shareholders, in the

And what are the Agricultural Department doing?" in

Oh, I don't think there is any Agricultural Department left. They

Are all on Commissions. You s59, is so difficult to get experts But I hear there are going to be some magnificent reports.

On the other hand, in spite of the

majority or cases, as in almost all facts point in that direction companies, are comparatively poor,

(Continued on Huge 63

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