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FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929.

IN BANKRUPTCY

MR. J. DURAND AND MADAME FLINT

DISCHARGE APPLICATION

The following appears in the "Government Gazette":-

Notice of Adjourned Application for Discharge.

Re Joseph Louis Durand and Marie Flint, partners in the busi-

carried on ness formerly

under the styles or firm names of the Cafe Restaurant Parisien, Au Chic Parision, Madame Flint, the Beauty Parlour Parisiana and the Europe Asia Trading Company, at Pedder-street, and at No. 11, Ice House-street.

the ad- Notice is given that journed applications for discharge of the above-named debtors will be heard at the Supreme Court, on Thursday, June 6 at 10.30 am,

Notice of Intended Dividend Re Ka Lun Fook Kee, alias the Ka Lun firm, of No. 94, Jervois- street, piece goods merchants.

DUKE'S GOOD-BYE TO LABOUR CONDITIONS

JAPAN

DRENCHING RAIN

FOUR DESTROYERS ESCORT THE

"EMPRESS OF ASIA"

EX-SERVICE MEN AT LUNCH

Yokohama, Yesterday. In spite of drenching rain, large crowds of British and Japanese turned out to see off the Duke of Gloucester and his suite when they Bailed by the "Empress of Asia"

for Canada.

Among those present were Prince Chichibu, Baron Hayashi, and other dignitaries who journey- ed specially from Tokyo to see His Royal Highness off.

INDIAN COMMISSION TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS

HIS MAJESTY'S APPROVAL

London, Yesterday. The Viceroy of India on Janu- ary 28, at the opening of the Legia- lative Assembly, said that H.M. the King had approved of the es tablishment of a Royal Commission under Mr. Whitley to enquire into the condition of labour.

His Majesty has now approved that commission which is conati- tuted with the following terms of reference:

"To enquire into and report. on existing conditions of labour- in industrial undertaking and plantations in British India, on health, efficiency, and standard The sailing of the vessel was de of living of workers, and to

make recommendations". layed half an hour owing to stormy

Mr. Whitley, Chairman, is the weather, which prevented an ori- ginally planned escort of fifty ex-Speaker of the House of Com- planes, though four destroyers es mons. Other eleven members of

of the Commission corted the ship to the bead-

include Sir Tokyo Bay.

Alexander Murray, Mr. Rahimtoola and Sir Victor Sassoon.-British Wireless Service.

Before his departure the Duke of Gloucester lunched informally at

A first and final dividend is in-the Yokohama Club as the guest of tended to be declared in the mat-British ex-Service men of Tokyo' ter of the above-named debtor and Yokohama-Reuter. firm, adjudicated bankrupt February 2, 1929.

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Creditors who have not proved their debts by June 24, 1929, will be excluded.

PRINCE & MR. COOK

"CHATTING AWAY IN LIVELY STYLE"

"A MARVELLOUS THING"

The Prince of Wales and Mr. A. J. Cook stood chatting away in lively style before attending a function at the Mansion House, at which His Royal Highness per- sonally thanked the chief workers for the Coalfields Distress Fund.

Mr. Cook, in acknowledging the Prince's help said that his whole- hearted enthusiasm on the miners' behalf had brought the throne quite close to the populace.

Ho extolled his sympathetic qualities, and speaking, directly to the Prince across the table, said:

"You, Sir, have done a marvellous thing.

I was never as impressed

COLOUR PROBLEM

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NATIVES ON EQUAL FRAN- CHISE WITH WHITES

IN AFRICA

WEASEL'S STORE

44 MICE IN AN AIR-TIGHT MOULD

COLLECTION OF ACORNS

Naturalists in Germany have!

It now seems certain that the been greatly interested by a com- to the "Frankfurter munication South African elections will be fought on the native question, and Zeitung" which describes the winter those who had hoped that the store of a weasel; discovered when African-German Treaty might serve a large poplar was being sliced up No fewer than 44 the purpose of eliminating the in a saw-mill native controversy from party poli- mice had been carefully stocked one tics are to be disappointed, writes above the other, in an ordered pile, a special correspondent to the with sand and mould between them,

Morning Post."

to form an airtight mound. These

The South African native ques-mice were in as fresh condition as tion in its broadest sense is un-if they had just been caught. Two doubtedly the greatest problem magpies had been placed on top of which has ever faced any white them, and a large collection of man. The main issue is very acorns filled the hollowed-out cavity! much clouded by outside factors, by to the entrance, which was just party politics, especially vote-catch-large enough for the weasel to slip ing before a general election, by in- inside. In the she poplar was an- dustrial and vested interests; by other store,

whose owner was a

the different national origin of the squirrel. It is suggested that sa77- various white and semi-white in- mills are the best spots for the habitants, and by the fact that study of those small rodents whose South Africa is a British Dominion activities are considered more harm- as by your speech on Christmas largely populated by Dutch colon-ful than good. night. I was with two Communistista.

friends when your Trance was an- nounced to speak on behalf of the Miners' Fund.

Native Population

All these factors lead to very dif-

super Royal Commission divorced ferent suggestions for settling the from all political and party ques "They undoubtedly scoffed, but fundamental question, which is that tions to consider this many-aided they listened, and when you finish-in a white man's country the native ed, with tears in their eyes they put population outnumbers the white.

But he himself holds a brief for their hands in their pockets and man by 7 to 1 and is demanding its equal native franchise in the belief gave what money was on them to full citizen rights. the Fund."

THE WAIST

It

In

that a more civilised and educated

General Hertzog, the present Prime Minister, hopes to ward off native will some day become a the menace and secure a white grateful and loyal citizen of the South Africa (mostly Dutch) by the British Empire, taking his place alongside the white man with equal- political expedient of curtailing and ity. This waist problem, 80 in-limiting the tive franchise. sistent in its desire for change this the Labour Party joins him and and movement, affects the mode could further tighten up the colour considerably.

not at all bar which excludce the native from It does not mean merely certain forms of skilled labour in easy. the placing of a simple waistband which the native is learning to com- or sash, though it may suggest a pete with the white man.

Seams and in-

Franchise Question more normal line. sertions are shaped and worked General Smuts, who heads the into slight curves to mark the South African Party, declares that

Hips must ultra-feminine treud.

a man can never be dispossessed be defined, and the amount of without alienating him; and in the fabric must be ingeniously con- Cape the native is already on an cealed until it springs out into a equal franchise footing with the white. General Smuts advocates a circular hem.

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There is, however, another and

from question

an entirely growing party which views the different angle - that of the ethnologist. These

people be- lieve

the only Bolution is the complete segregation of the native, that is the division of South Africa into native and European reserves, each developing its own centralised white man's govern- industries and civilisation under a

ment.

The Kaffir They maintain that no fusion or close co-operation between the European and the Negro is possible. The great Indo-European family or races, and even the Mongol civilisa tions, will eventually, and to a great extent do now, work together on a basis of equality, but none can fure. with the negroid races. They are

entirely apart, human beings of a different.calibre.

Some day they may develop their own culture, but hitherto they have steadfastly refused civilisation,

and, as far as is known, bever. evolved one of their own. The na tive Kaffir fills his place, bis wants are small; he is the happiest and often the most reliable creature! alive. The Europeanised Kafir, with few exceptions, gains nothing and loses everything when set to compete with the white man en level terms.AR

This segregation policy has c ready gone beyond the realms of theory, and, in fact, has always existed in many parts of South Africa. But to make it practical politics for the whole country would mean the total reorganisa- tion of many industries and the em- ployment of whites, as manual labour is still looked upon in South Africa as native work and deroga tory to the European.

A STIRRING ROMANCE OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRANCE!

WARNER BROS, present

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WHEN A

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He who had showered her with love now showered her with gold-in a passionate rage!

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