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Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 19, 1931.

"Buy British."

Charity, it is said, begins at home. So also does trade. In these days of crises for the Em- pire, it is the bounden duty, whenever and wherever possible, for the members of the Empire to assist one another and so as- sist the Empire to ride out the storms of financial troubles; economic depression, and trade competition. And that assistance should be rendered, even at a sacrifice to ourselves. How many

There is a fresh deter- mination among 18 this Winter to lessen our unem- ployment to bring back work to those thousands of homes that are seeking and waiting for it, and to restore the fortunes of our own countryside. In town and country alike, an immense amount of individual happi- ness and well-being depends upon our answer to the chal- lenge thus put to us,

to help the British producer by letting him know exactly what the public. demands and how his products can be im- proved to moet those needs.

Finally, those who control- expenditure, from the direc tor in his board-room, with large contracts to place, to the woman inying out her housekeeping money, must be inquisitive about the sourcea of what they buy.

Here at last, in the home und at the counter, is the opportunity for every wo- man, in a simple way and in her own way, to help her country in its hour of need. I appeal to every woman who la listening to me to take that opportunity and to do our country that service.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931.

PUREE DE POIS

By

BESOMORO.

AN IDEAL CRUET.

In time to came the Mahatma may have many monuments, anya a London gossip writer. One of the rst appears in the window of a china shop in, the Avenue de 'Opera in Paris where a new kind of salt-collar is shown under the bill "Le sel de Gandhi." The de- sign is of a figure of Gandhi squat-

Each guide-book now being issued is accompanied by a bag containing. seeds of trees, and instructions ad- vising walkore to plant the seeds and cover them with branches as a protection against predatory birds

and the rays of the sun.

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FREE DRINKS STOP RUN

ON BANK. How

the proprietor of a cafe stopped one of the many minor runs on Swiss banks which have.

The first choice should be forting in the position which many photographers and all cartoonists homo products. Tha second choice should be for the products have made familiar to the British occurred since the fall in sterling.

public, and the Mahatma's bald began is described of the Empire overseas.

head has been rather irreverently papera of Geneva. is the rule which I ask you to punctured to make a sprinkler for leading Zurich banks was besieged

That

follow in great purchases and in small ones.

It is a rule which implies no lack of friendship towards any foreign nation

the salt.

No doubt a characteristic French mile at Britain's discomfiture in India has this new fashion in salt

by the news* One of the

by depositors clamouring to with draw their money. When the cafo proprietor arrived he telephoned for a large cask of beer, which he

on it. The Empire Marketing Board cellars. If historians made the ap- placed at the door of the bank,

we should with the notice chalked would, I know, be the first to propriate researches

probably find that "the de Boston" "Free drinks for those who have recognise that such a response was all the rage in Paris after the not yet gone, mad." Immediately derives its ultimate force from outbreak of the American War of the excitement died down, and after something much deeper than

It Independence. One feels, however quaffing a glass of beer most of the any campaign of their's. springs from the patriotic deter- that these little political allusions depositors walked quietly away.. mination of men and women of for the dinner table have not yet

MILLIONAIRE. all parties that our country shall been used to their fullest ad- GLASS MOTORCAR for

Churchill's popper" vantage. win through out of its present difficulties to prosperity, and would go to make the ideal cruet from their belief that, in order with "Gandhi's salt.” to win through, we must develop PLANT YOUR OWN FORESTS.

to the uttermost the resources. of our own country and of the Empire outside it.

Here again there is need for team work between all the peoples of the British Common- wealth. I wish that I could be speaking to-night through that new Empire broadcasting station which the B.B.C. have decided to Inaugurate.

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A glass motorcar is being built. for Colonel Green, the millionaire son of the late Hetty Green, once known as America's richest woman. Walkers on the Riviers are now The glass roof will enable the asked to assist the authorities to colonel, an aviation enthusiast, to replant the forests which have watch airplanes fly overhead as he been devastated by forest fires.is motoring along the highways,

News in Brief.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. David. William Tratman, C.M.G. to be

His Excellency the Governor has

It is hereby notified that at the Principal Assistant Colonial Secre But if my voice to-night should expiration of three months from the tary and Clerk of Councils, with reach any of those whose homes date hereof The Kowloon Tong and effect December 14, 1931.

the Empire beyond the Now Territories Development Com- are in seas; I would ask them to re-pany, Limited, will, unless cause le

tlon by Second Lieutenant Lealle double their efforts to do for us shown to the contrary, be struck been pleased to accept the resignt- what we to-day are doing for off the register and the company Ross, of his Commission in the Hong. them, and to look to the United will be dissolved. Kindom, or some other country

of the Empire, when they can-

The offices of the Supreme Court not supply their needs from will be open daily from 10 á.m. to their own resources.

1 p.m. during the Christmas vaca- To them I would pass on the tion, except on public and general holidays, when the offices will be message which the Empire: Market entirely closed, and

on Saturdays,

Defence Corps, Kong Volunteer with effect from December 3, 1931.. wwwwww

To-day's Thought.

More of us double-cross ourselves

Nor is it an individual question only. The skill and craftsmanship of our people and we cannot afford as a are a great national asset,. nation to allow them to rust. and tarnish through lack of ing Board has to-day displayed when they will be open from 10a.m. use and consequent lack of throughout this land. "The British to noon, subject, however, to the than are double-crossed by others. He also said he backed the Empire, at home and beyond the provisions of section b Jout to make purchases-purchases appeal for several reasons and inscas, offer you the resources of a Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordin-|

of necessity or otherwise-es several. capacities, also

as one quarter of the world. Buy British, ance, 1898, as far as it relates to pecially at this

season of gift-who realised how greatly the and so employ British labour by mas vacation will commence giving, first consider the pur prosperity of the Empire over land and by sea.” chase of British made goods?scas, and their ability to buy Few, very few. And yet that from the United Kingdom de

of us to-day, when we wander

enterprise.

Vergers.

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the criminal ocasions.

of the

The Christ-

Ten Years Ago.

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24th instant and terminates January 1, 1932, (both days in- clusive),

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Personal Pars.

I like vergers. They are kindly It is notified in the Gazette that and far from gloomy men, and Mr. John Daniel Lloyd resumed duty ofton fer more dignified and

48 Superintendent of Imports and ecclesiastical in appearance than Experts on December 14, 1931. the clergy of the cathedrals in which they work.

ought to be the Britisher's first ended upon their finding in the? From Other Pens. thought and consideration. We United Kingdom markets for were delighted to come across their own produce. person, the other day, who in-

Continung, His Royal High- sisted upon purchasing Britishness said: goods, and all the trade-talk of the salesman, who offered him "just as good" and even "better!! lines but cheaper" of the manu- factures of others, did not turn him from his purpose. He took from one shop what he could get of British made goods, then went elsewhere to complete his. purchases of British made goods. We know, for we followed him: That is an example we must fol

But when I back this ap peal, I am not thinking of it merely as a form of words to be posted on hoardings and bandled across the coun- ter. We must never let the words become a mere parrot cry.

"Buying British" implies "Selling British," and those two phrases together imply a long process of team work,

tail shop through all the channels of transport and .distribution to the farms where British produce is grown and the factories where British goods are manufactured.

low to day, whenever and wher-stretching back from the re- over possible. May that Bri tisher's shadow never grow less!!

In the cables, the other way, we read what the Prince of Wales-the Empire's. Best Pub licist-und to say on the subject of Travel, with especial reference to travel in Britain. Permit us now to place before you what the Prince of Wales had to say. · on· the subject of "Buying British" when he inaugurated the Empire Marketing Board's campaign in favour of "Buying British from the Empire at Home and Over Bens." The appeal of the Board has always been to buy, when- ever reasonably possible, first the produce of our own country, and next the produca of the Empire countries beyond the seas. The Prince declared that the critical events of this Autumn had given that appeal a new weight and a new urgency.

He said:

It is now recognised that as a nation we have been lately buying from abroad more than we are able to pay for by our exports, and that we should concentrate In the first place on buying at home more of what we need-on using to the full what our own farms and our own manufacturing plants can provide

If "Buying British" is to be made a reality, there must be good honest team work all along the line and on all sides. The manufacturer must produce goods of sound quality at a reasonable price. The agricultural producer must do likewise, grading-his produce and studying the public taste.

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Manufacturers and farmers alike must enlist the scien....... tific research worker in their sarvice; they must learn to market their products on more modern lines, and they must see to it that the pub lic are told what they have to sell,

Distributors must be ac tive to seek out new sources of British supply, both here and abroad in the Empire. The British Industries Fair next February will give them a splendid opportunity of reviewing what the Em pire has to offer them. Distributors,

too confident, can do

ат miuch

Mr. J. B. Macdonald, C.A., and When I saw 400 of them in St Mr. A. H. Harboard, CA, have Paul's recently I was impressed by teen Gazetted as Auditors, under the fact that at least 50 per cent the Companies' Ordinance, 1911.. of them had the outward appear- ance of bishops.

The King's Exequatur empower Vergers have, however, a ten-ing Mr. Joku Risley Putnam to act dency to over-emphasise matters of as a Consul for the United States of historic and architectural im-America in Hong Kong has received portance, Whereby hangs the His Majesty's signature. (possibly apocryphal) story of the

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[From the "Chins Mall" of December 19, 1921.1

To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%.

Large crowds gathered in the streets this afternoon to watch the funeral of the late Sir Boshan Wei- Yuk, C.M.G., pass by,

A detachment of district watch- mon headed the cortege and behind them were coolies carrying a large number of floral wreaths. The de- ceased's four sons followed the: hearse as chief mourners and his with other daughters together female relatives further down the long procession: Amongst those in the long string of vechicles were noticed the Hon. Mr. Claud and Bird, the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak,

Tung. Sir Robert Ho Pozzoni, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Mr. Ho Fook and many other prominent citizens, both European and Chinese..

verger who, years ago, was show. The forthcoming marriage is an- ing a party of sightseers round nounced of Stewart Hope, of 2, Mrs. Severn, the Hon. Mr. W. H.. Westminster Abbey. One of them Saiwan Terrace, Quarry Bay, and dropped on his knees. The verger Evelyn Constance Shanley, nurs. tapped him on the shoulder reproving sister of the Government Civil ingly."

Hospital.

"But may I not have a moment for private devotion?" asked the visitor.

"No, sir, we can't 'ave that sort of thing," was the reply, "or people would be floppin' down all over the place."Evening Standard.

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Dean Inge's Race.

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There is something very touch. ing In Dean Inge's preface, to his volume of articles in which he ex- plains why he has given up this sort of writing.

He is engaged, he says, on a new work on the philosophy of religion, and "at seventy-one it in a race against time if a man hopes to make a further contribution to thought." I am sure that readers of the "Evening Standard," while regretting that he gives up, to philosophy what they are sure was meant for them, will wish him the best of luck...

For my part, I thought when 1 last saw,

him that he looked a very tough and hearty seventy-one, and

my money is on the Dean and not on Time

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