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26.

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UNEMPLOYMENT.

HOW LONDON WILL TACKLE IT.

SPECIAL TRAINING?

THE CHINA MAIL.

MALAY MAGIC.

THE SPELL OF PENANG ISLAND.

AN IMPRESSION.

the sea to where Kedah Peak on the distant mainland is wreathed in a fleck of still white cloud.

Peaceful Meditation.

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE,

C

Opening Daily Official Quotations 20th August, 1930.

STOCK

Buy-Sell-

Sales Nom Pis.

от

and

Banks. Hong Kong Bank.....$ Chartered Bank Mercantile Ek,, A&B.

C.

Insurances..

Canton Ins.

Union Ins

B

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If some of us had but the courage of our convictions we would long ago have cast western civilisation to the four winds of heaven and bought a wooden shuck such as I have described, a canoe, a fishing net, a red sarong and baju, and a cooking The report of the Public Ag

There is a quaint old time sleepy pot, and thus live out the rest of sistance Committee of the London sedateness about Penang, you feel it our days in peaceful meditation. County Council, which has been- as soon as you set foot on the jetty. A man cannot leave Penang-with- considering the arrangements for The rush and tumble-hot-headed--out-thinking-a-number of things,--Bank of Asia setting to work, training and in- ness of the southern settlement has and I am sure that of the odd thou- structing able-bodied men to whom vanished. Here the pretty sister sands of people who pasa every year relief other than institutional re- of a bullying forceful brother sits through the island many would like lief is afforded, will be presented contentedly in the window seat to renounce their way of life for the at the Council meeting.

while the world marches past re- wooden shack. Some there are who China Underwriters...$21- "Speaking generally", the Com-marking on her quiet and almost un-havo tried Europeans, Chinese, "miltee state," "we are of opinion spoiled, beauty,

Indians, but the venture never

China Fire Ins .......$400 that the destitute unemployed men

Modern commercial buildings seems to last for very long, only the 1, K.-Fire Ins.......$912} in good health with whom, the come uneasily to Penang, they arise smiling Malay knows the secret of Council has to deal are those from their surroundings and tower real and continued happiness, the Shipping. whose failure to obtain work is foolishly above their maturer fel happiness born of the red and gaudy Douglases...... not so much due to economic cir-lows, looking for all the world like sarong and baju, of the brown fish-H. K. Steamboats....$244 cumstances as to their own weak some overgrown schoolboy amongst ing net, of no worries, of dream. ness of character, mind, or phy-a committee of little old men. A land.

Jada-Chica (Pref.) ...$ aique. This is not to say that the men are insincere when they state

Shell Transports /» that they would rather work than

Union Waterboats ...$ live on poor relief, but, their wil- lingness to work needs to be rein- forced by discipline, encourage- ment, and training."

The first object, the report con- tinues, "is to combat, the de moralisation of months or even years of idleness, and to instil in- to those who have suffered this a greater readiness and fitness for any regular work avaliable. This object must be assisted by a tonic regime of open-air exercise and regular effort."

schoolboy, too, who has lost some particular treasure from his over- full pocket, the treasure of carefree babyhood belonging to all early days.

At night with a full moon falling over the faintly rustling vegetation Penang seems more placidly con- tented than ever and I faney as I However architecturally fine, lean over the taffrail of my depart. modern concrete buildings generaling ship and look at the receding ly spell typewriters and lfts, but lights of the town twinkling across in the files of some of Fenang's pre- the smooth waters, that I can pic 1900 offices you may still read long- ture the ghostlike phantom of a full hand letters telling of record crops rigged sailing ship slipping sedately of tapioca and bumper shipments of into port laden with the produce of nutmega, while on the rickety stairs the archipelago. And somehow that you may still hear the echoing clump vision seems to belong to the Penang of the owner, skipper's boots as he of to-day so much march off with

more thar the a bag of silver business like steamers which con" dollars to his sailing ship in the tinually throng her wharves. harbour.

The stamp of municipality does Cost of Scheme, The Committee make various not sit heavily on Penang, good suggestions with regard to the roads there are and an efficient course of training at the residen-water supply; but, the taxis are old

take May be he is right and it was the tial colonies at Belmont, Hollesley and comfortable, the streets Bay, and Laindon. The cost of the curious and unexpected twists round gin, but the island somehow seems training for the remainder of the ramshackle shop houses, the red to distil a poppled drag that per- financial year is estimated, at topped glories of the flare of the meates the land and the people in £12,000. If, however,' more than forest are allowed to flourish on thet, hypnotising all comers 1,000 are trained, the estimate main roads while the harassed note Morpheus-like trance, would be proportionately increas- book and pencil-look of the police on ed.

point duty is absent.

*"As wo consider that every effort should be made to increase the number of trainees as quickly as may be practicable, we think that approval is desirable of an estimate of £20,000. The expendi- ture in the financial year 1931-32 and in each subsequent year we estimate at £40,000, in the hope that such progress will be made that it will next year be possible to deal with the cases of at least 2,000 men,"

Nature of The Training. The Committee recommend the use of both residential and non- residential centres, and that the training should include digging and other work on the land, utili- tarian services connected with Institutions, boot-repairing, car- pentering and brush-making, and in appropriate cases, stock, arable, and fruit farming.

Persons sent to non-residential training centres, it is added, should attend for a total weekly period of 32 hours.

She talked to him as she worked. She told him of her hopes for his future. She was deliberately blind to the truth-that he was a great, loutish, brainless, fellow.

"Isn't he splendid?" she murmur ed to her friends, and they smiled whilst the stared at them owlishly. Headdressed no remark to these friends of the family, his habitual expression was a scornful sacer due Aug. 25, Noon perhaps to the thinness and blood-

lessness of his lips.

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1 p.m.

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...1 p.m.

Letters 2.80 p.m. President Cleveland 4.80 p. AUGUST 27. Kwai Sang

..... 8.30a.m.

Ginyo Maru Empress of Canada Tai Yuan

Lettors Manila..

Swałow

WEDNESDAY,

Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco

and South American Ports

Manila

Amoy

Superscribed correspondence only.

10.80 a.m

8.30 p.m. 5 p.m.

Penang takes things easily, she is no idler but on the fretting hurry of the West she looks with con- tempt.

Shops Asleep. *

As my ship turns towards the open sea a voice comes bawling out from the saloon bar,.. “Doggone, I guess that gin aling I had at the hotel fair made me sleepy."

in a

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Kailan Mining Ad. s/- Langkat..... ..T.

414

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Loans

Raubs. Troach Mines...../.

Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c.

1445 1440

18

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May 6, 20

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July 1, 80

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June 19, 30

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'H. K. & K. Wharva.. * 1105 H. K. & W, Dock...$

... 89 China Providents ....$5 5,10 (5 Hangkews ..........Tk. 130 N. Engineerings ....Th. Shanghai Docks ...Tis. 119

Lands, Hotels &c. Buildings. H. K. & S. Hotels...$20 1.K. Lands C/R 5 X/R ...$ Rights ...$

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The smoking room where I am now writing is hot and stuffy, and I am now half asleep. Yes... ita Shanghai Land...Th. all the fault of that northern settlement, bless it.-G. C. N. In Singapore Free Press.

EXCHANGES

Some towns have a trick of chang- ing their expression in a few hun- dred yards, yet the drowsiness of Penang is

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS omni-present. The

On London---- native shops are asleep, slumbering Bank, wire under

1/3 % their stocks of fruit, of Bank, an demand... 1/8 % brass ware, of exotic flowers, of Bank, 4 months' sight. 1/4 basketa and of apices. The Jaga in Credits, 4

months' front of the hotel by the sen is dozing, bullock cart drivers dream stretched out on top of their loads of copra, and dogs bask happily on the road. A chicken when it wants to cross the road in Penang doesn't fly, I just walks sedately across. Further afield European bulit On New York--- bungalows with white-washed walls On demand and red tiled roofs slumber in peace | Credits, 60 under the coconut trees.

sight

sight Documentary, 4

months' sight

On Paris →→ On demand Credita, 4 months

sight

Humphreys .....

H. K. Realties ......$ Chinese Estates......$

Cotton Mills.

w

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Shanghai Cotton...Tis.

Zoong Sings...........TIS.

Public Utilities,

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Apr. T. 7 for your $14-$0

Dro. T.. for

Dec.centa for 1920........

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July 30, 20

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Aug. 8, 50

... (15

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July 81, 50

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May 7, 80

19.40

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Bop. 1, 80

87

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July 91, 80

4

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Mar. 17, 20

(Apr

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May 28, 20

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Aug. Sṛ. 30

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June 16,30

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May 19, 80

| Deo. #60 for 199

Mat. 12, 80

Dee.

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NO

iii

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China Light (old) ... 23.00 (29) (new)...

H. K. Electrics......317 Macao

......

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771

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part paid $100... China Buses.........Th. 18) S'pore Tractions(Ord.js/-

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1/4 9/16

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If you want to take a comprehen- On Bombay. sive viow of Penang and see her as- Wire a mother would, looking down on On demand her sleeping offspring, you should On Calcutta- continue your way to the outskirts Wire

894

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Industrials. China Sugars $

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of the town to the Crag rallway On demand where within twenty-five minutes you will be drawn 2,300 feet above the level of the sea for the modest sum of one dollar.

As the train goes up the 1 in 2 gradient half the island gradually unfolds itself at your feet, until from the top you can gaze your all out and beyond the nestling town to the mist-draped hills of the main land. Penang from here seems more asleep than ever, languidly basking in the blue haze of the afternoon sun, the only sign of He It came as a shock to her to find coming from the smoke stacks of the one day that he was ailing. Never-toylike steamera anchored in the theless, it aroused her energies, and harbour." she set herself to work for him with a will. But he began to lose ground. He became shrunken, emaciated. His eyes were now too large for his face; his 'mouth no longer spoke of A pale sun lit up his dying fea- arrogance, but sagged pitifully. tures. She admitted it at last. There was nothing more' that she could do. She watched him in dry eyed silence till his head Bagged forward on his chest. Then she spoke.,

"And that's all that's left of my beautiful snowman," she signed, and turned for consolation to her scooter.

DO YOU KNOW that by paying $130.00 down

and $23.00 per month for a limited period.

you can become the proud owner of a

THERE IS MISS PLACID OUR GREAT SOCIETY- LEADER. GO OVER ANOX TALK TO

HER?

On Manila- On demand ......

On Shanghai- On demand Dollar

On Yokohams— On demand Sovereigns (Bank":"

buying rate) Silver (per oz.) Bar Silver in Hong

Kong Copper Cash Copper Cents

Cements (com.) 171 172 17

(eld)....$ (new)......

H. K. Rope $10.60 10 United Asbestos......$

Stories, &r.

+

Dairy Farms b Watons

16-18/16

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Lane Crawfords

3% prem.

Rata of Native In-

terest

89% p.DT

To tourists and athers who travel straight from Europe making Chinese Sub: Coin. 29% dis- Pennng their first stop, in the Hong Kong Sub. Coln Par. tropics, the sandy palm-girt. north- ern sea shore of the island must

formed live up to the most vivid impressions "Pacific island" novels. No bowler from the reading of

hat or ferry-built suburban villa disturbs the easy tranquility of this scene. Gone is the bustle of Leadenhall Street, the stuffy tube station and the muddy rain bespat- tered roads of England. Instead, tiny wooden bungalows with leaf thatched roofa look wistfully across the golden sands and deep blue of

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Shanghai

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LONDON EXCHANGES

Rugby, Yesterday.

123.82 + 4.87%

34 26.04

12.08%

Vienna Prague Helsingfors

34.455 164 5/82

193 7/16

92.98

Madrid

45.25.

20.39

Lisbon

18.17.

Stockholm

18.125

Copenhagen

18.165

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4 29/82

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PAST WEEK.

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