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Cotton and China.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931.
functory manner.". The large TRINITY COLLEGE OF
com-
MUSIC.
Results of Practical·
Examinations.
WAR DEBTS PROPOSAL.
..
number of smaller houses and re presentatives which remain peting for a reduced volume of trade enables Chinese dealers, to
(Continued from Paga 1.) play one house against another.
$11,000,000. This is a serious There is no intelligent survey of
sacrifice for taxpayera of this the market. There is no one in HONOURS NUMEROUS. country, upon whom such heavy China devoting his whole time,
calls have already been made, The following are. energy, and intelligence to the (supplied by the local Secretary) we are taking in co-operat'on the results bat we hope that the step which sale of Lancashire goods. The of the Local Practical Examina with the United States will be merchant firms are not concern-tions held in Hong Kong on June more than justified by the help 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, and 24. Whero it will give in reviving confidence ed with pushing Lancashire not otherwise stated the examina and prosperity." goods as such. Piece-goods tions are for pianoforte. The ex take their chance with any other aminar was Dr. Alfred Mistowski, item
The total of marks re- : of what is called their F.T.C.L. "muck and truck" business, whe-uired for a Pass Certificate is 65 per cent, and for a Certificate of ther it in Czech-Slovak rifles or Honour 80 per cent.
American chewing gum. More-
over, the merchant firms are en-
HIGHER LOCAL.
sconced in the Treaty Ports, and
Honours.
Baldom send representatives into Marie Alves
the interior, where the whole ma
Pass.
|chinery of distribution is in the Lily Agnes Shearer
hands of Chinese dealers.
SENIOR.
Honours.
Gertrude McNeillie
News in Brief.
The lowest open, air temperature Isabel Pestonji yesterday was 75 degrees. The Hung Hing-lo (Violin)
humidity was 76 at 10a.m. and '70 at 4 p.m.
The Han. Mr. John Scott, C.M.G. Colonial Secretary. Straits Settle- ments, and Mrs. Scott arrived høre to-day by the s.s.” “Antenor.
Pass.
Purcza d'Eca Beatrice Rose Cullen May Chan Margaret Grace Strickland
INTERMEDIATE.
Honours.
Pass+
A notice posted at the Harbour Amparo Karadag Office states that
no examinations Maria Albers
Agnes Laing for certificates of competency for Dora Eilis masters, mates and engineers will be held during the week ending Joan Smith
Florence Tong July 4.
Amparo Faulo trade controlled and led by huge
Lulumai Luk The Nederlandsch Indische Han-Almena Lafhovetsky interlocking commercial com-delabank. N.V. has received a tele-Winifred Smith binations, at once importers, Tam from its Head Office at Avelina Gosano (Violin) producers, exporters, carriers,clared a dividend of 3 per cent. for
Amsterdam that the Bank has de-Kathleen Mackay and bankers, which are organis- the year 1930. ing "production and distribution "..
...
Lau Hi-siu, master of a fishing
Lorna Tollan
JUNIOR.
Honours.
Mickiko Okamoto
on lines of unity and resolute junk, has notified the Police to the John Weng direction which must be a tre-effect that at about 10.30 p.m. on Helen Leong mendous asset to a country aspir- June 23, while sailing off the Vivian Jordan (Violin) ing to a leading position in world Ninepins a sudden strong squall Paulin Li.... trade."
caused his craft to capsize. The Maurice Rupert Leong Junk was washed on to the rocks, Rose Perry... but nobody was injured.
CHINESE POTTERY.
Plate of Sung Dynasty Sold for $790.
Robert Provan (Violin)
To Ming-yin
Sanae Ohta
Edwina Louise, Rogers (Violin) Sui Yin-lee Raymonde Blackmore San Chan-au
San Lin-luk
Fass.
It is true that, the Japanese manufacturer has considerable advantages as regards
wages pald and hours worked. Yet to the low money wage must be added the welfare work of the
Sek Cheung-lam companies which usually in-
Chung Yue-lai cludes free housing, heating,
The opening session of the two
Roy Kurman (Violin) Carmon lighting, cheap meals, library days suic of the late Mr. William Chung Ol-lal
Maria Alonco and school courses, playing fields, Cleverley Alexander's collection of Laura Ping medical attendance, compensa porcelain brought a total of nearly Beatrice Pestonji
Chinese pottery, stoneware and Annie Nissen tion for injuries; and various £11,000 at Messrs. Sotheby's, Lon Sam
Samuel Brown bonuses. In the larger mills don.
Maude Braga these benefits are equivalent to
The most attractive pieces. were Marlon Gardinen
George Kelley forty per cent, of the nominal of the Sung Dynasty and included Alice Mogra...
a Kuan Chun plate, with raised and Dorothy Henderson (Violin)
Daisy Woo
PREPARATORY.,
Honours.
Hong Kong, Thursday, June 25, 1931. wages. In only nine per cent, of everted rim, the whole auffused Eva Tam
the mills do they work on a two-with brilliant purple splashes on a Margery To shift system with an eight and a blue ground, 734in. diameter. This half hour working day.
brought $790 (Yamanaka).. The
Chun Yao stem cup, covered with a Rachel Rego same buyer also gave £730 for a brilliant purple-red glaze on the Florence Kwan exterior with purple splashes on a Frances Chan Hannah Lane 8%in. high. A Chun Yao bowl of Clothilde Andrade
But added to these advantages The report of the cotton sec- tion of the British Economic the Mission found a better or Mission that was sent to the Farganisation, equal technical and Eaat last winter, copies of which manual skill, and greater flexi-sky-blue ground, 4 in. diameter, Maria Leitao may now be obtained, is a docu- bility than in Lancashire. Not octafoil shape, 354in. diameter. Margarida Maria Botelho
"
Stella Lee
PASS.
ment that should be read by only has the worker enabled pro-17in, high, fetched £600; a Tzu Kiyoho Kurokawa
elongated oviform
vare Stanley To every one. Interested in the duction cost to be low, but the Cho question of unemployment at capitalist has been willing to 114 in. high, £480; and a Kuan Marion Vincent Chun latus-hud water-pot, covered Man Lai-wong'. Home and the prospects of Bri- take enormous risks to expand with a lavender-blue
opalescent Dora Chow tish trade in the East. The de- abroad, and thinks large losses glaze, 3in. high, £400
Call Janet Fraser
Kazuyo Hirose cline and possible complete col of capital a price worth paying Bluett).
Hataue Kaneda Colonel Rex Benson paid £370 for Babe Koh (Violin) lapse of
the the once-prosperous for
establishment of cotton. trade of Lancashire with Japanese export trade. While it shape with a small foot. A Kuan Charity Yu Singco (Violin)'
a Chun Yao bowl, of deep conical Elizabeth Rosseau
Adeline Xavier China one of the gravest facis certain that wages and the Chun bowl made £350 (Sparks); o tors in the present serious econo standard of living in Japan will Chun Yao bubble bowl, £240 Wing Yuen-cloy
(Bluett); a Pai Ting bowl, £340; Winnie Yu mic condition of the country. tend to rise, and that the Trade Ting Yao dish of saucer shape, £290, Makoto Hiraoka
The seriousness and extent of Union movement will expand, it (both. Sparks); and a bottle shaped kikuko Yamanchi
Elleen Prigent the change the Mission demon would be useless to rely on these Kuan Chun vase. £220 (Bluett). Mary Braga (Violin)
Among the Ming Dynasty pieces Agnes Chan strates by a few figures. In factors to equalise Japanese as a Tz'u Chou wine jar, which Elizabeth Charles 1030 Great Britain's exports of costs of production with those of sold for £200. (Loo); and a porce- Tin Tau-kwok Mabel Hensley cotton? goods to China had Lancashire." For the Chinese lain bowl of squat shape, hearing Brian Baldwin fallen to 12 per cent of what market, is, at the moment, first Chia Ching mark and period, £240 Alice Chan
(Yvanaka),
Margaret Everest they were in 1913. In spite of and foremost a price market. The
Jessie Wong bek Henrique Rosario ten years of civil war and in spite distressed condition of the A powerful new addition to the Daphne Weir of a protective tariff, China's country, and its impoverished dredging fleet, used for deepening Charles Morrison (Violin)
Charlotte Banger import trade in cotton goods has purchasing power has laid the operations on the St. Lawrence ship Helens. Ribelto (Violin), not decreased in volume. In whole emphasis on cheapness. channel, is the Midland, launched Joy Booker 1918 Great Britain's share of it That radical changes in methods vickers, Maisonneuve. The Midland; Margaret MacFayden
at the shipyards of Canadian Doris Fenton. was 60 per cent. and Japan's 16 of production must be made in bullt for the Canadian Dredging Wat Koi-ching
Wal- Man-ching- per cent. In 1920' Great Bri- Lancashire to enable her to offer Co. is of the dipper type and Wing Lau Choy tain's was 29 per cent, an
per cent., and her goods at competitive prices equipped with two buckets, capable Carmen Bilva (Violin) Japan's was 66 per cent. And is the united opinion of the Mis-heavy material or tar cubic yards of FIRST STEPS.
of handling eight cubic yards of Andre Pestonji the considered opinion of the sion.The Mission has also faced light material in a single operation! Mission was that, in spite of the the other cause of Lancashire's It Is said to be the largent craft of problem future expansion of debacle in China. It states what type now in Canadian waters, China's trade, the position of every observer has known, that Anima Lancashira will tend to become the present system of marketing and worse unless it is faced und British plece-goo
In China has Helen Banger
Thelma Koosache: flinchingly.
collaps The
the Margaret Sing
Daris Taylor. port of the Mission's morale of the
importing willem Wi any firma
oken:
Litlan
John
Chi Hasi
Jeannette
Pass
79
Kayoko Suzuki
Paula Hollands Eva Richarda
Alice Lopes WO Laura? Laitao" Eleskò Saita
Zola Kojinova Allee Choy (Vio Joyce Bhaw
Peggy, Ma
7 Margaret CH Fang Bg-tong Elela Lane
Henry W
Klity)
Maris
Rhexen
Hako
Nable Gesture.
Following Mr. Snowden's state- ment, Mr. Baldwin, on behalf of the Conservatives, said that he would content himself with saying that the Gov.. ernment had taken a course fully consistent.
with
the dignity and reputation of our 87 country.
Mr. Lloyd George said that he 70 was very glad the Government
had
this given
complete, courageous and unequivocal an- swer to the very noble gesture of the United States:
85
Replying to Sir Austin Cham
80 berlain, the Chancellor said that 80 he would make a statement later as to how the budgetary position 78 in this country would be affected 78 by the Government's policy, 17 British Wireless Service.
Early-Cable.
New York, Yesterday."
The United States Government has informed France that her con- 81ditions to an acceptance of Mr. 80 Hoover's proposal will not be re- garded favourably at Washington, according to the Paria correspon 72dent of the Associated Press-Reu- 76 ter's American Service. 75 +
78
74
Paris, Yesterday.
The Ministerial Council has de- 72cided that the reply to Mr. Hoover's 71 proposal will not be published until the Premier, M. Laval, makes a statement in the Chamber on June 26-Reuter.",
British Comment.
Rugby, Yesterday: The Times, In a leading article
81 setting forth the reasons for the 81 French hesitations, says they do- 81 sire
sympathetic, consideration,
and it is sincerely to be hoped that neither diplomatic nor public 80 discussion may be allowed to im 80 peril what the Dominions Secre
tory, Mr. J. H. Thomas, called yes- 78terday the "first real step towards 177 world recovery."
17
The Daily Telegraph, which thinks it inconceivable that the opportunity extended by Washing 70 ton should be allowed to pass, asks, "If Germany, denied for years the relief which Mr. Hobvar 73 Propozes, should exercise hår 72 right under the Young Plan to de 71 clare a moratorium of conditional reparation payments, what would be France's position? If France then, fulfilled her obligations un 05 der' the plan, and had at the same time to continue those payments to Washington, and London, which it is now proposed to postpone; how much would be left of the uncon- 90ditional annuity from Germany1 90 Very little, say the experts. Little: indeed to justify endangering the
91
-86 Buccess of Mr. Hoover's promise of *85 rescue."
34
The Manchester Guardian ex- presses a bellef that if Mr. Hoover' had ignored the Information 81 which convinced him. Germany. 81 was on the verge of a 'collapse,
-80 Germany would have declared a
80
moratorium, perhaps within a
80 week, and France would have been
80 in a worse position than if she ac- capted the Hoover proposal. By could, like accepting, France
80
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78 other countries, look forward to 78a lesa hazardous future.
7 The general tone of the London
77
77
stock markets opened easier this
76 morning, in consequence of doubts
70 as regards the French reply to the
76
Hoover proposal.-British Wireless Bervice.
75..
Rome, Yesterday. Signor Mussolini has telegraph-
ed to the Ambassador at Washing- ton to convey the Italian accept ance of the Hoover plan. Reuter.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mai!" of
·June 25, 1921.}·
To-day's dollar is worth 2/7.
A report having been current in the town for the past week. that the King Edward Hotel has been sold for a large sum to a rich Manila 85 Syndicate, China Mall reporter 85 this morning Interviewed Mr Job 88 Witchell, manager of the hotel. Mr. 83 Witchell was unable to either.com.
firm or contradict the report. He had also heard the rumour, but bad not received, any oficial notice, Ho thought it highly improbable as the building had
added. Mr. might have been
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