WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1932.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY TRAGIC DEATH OF
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
We beg to announce to our many clients that we have removed to 18. D'Aguilar Street.
We have, also just re- ceived a new asort. ment of
SUMMER SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
18, D'Aguilar Street. Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HAREY FONG, Dentist,
lat foor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
MR. D. LEICH.
Believed to Have Fallen From Building.
Shanghai, May 13.
Early yesterday morning, a police watchman found the body well. of Mr. David · Leigh, a
known local business man, lying
appearance indicated
the Embankment House.
that he
THE
CHINA MAIL:
HARDSHIPS IMPOSED BY THE BUDGET
DEMAND FOR UNREMITTING SACRIFICE.
Funds to Safeguard Sterling.
The Budget year 1932-33 will be as grim as its
Boat.
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HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES
Butcher Meat.
Sirloin
Prime Cut
Corned
Roast
May 4, June, June,
Poultry.
Chicken Capons, Small Capons, Large Duck... Doves
Eggs, Hen (cooking).
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in a terribly mutilated condition unprecedented predecessor, says the Financial on North Soochow Road. The Times on April 20. The direct taxpayer's heroism is had fallen from a verandah of rewarded not by the laurels of victory and ease- ment, but by an order to return to the inferno and The body was lying partly on the pavement and partly on the repeat the performance. Of relief from particular Bullock's Brains road. Hongkew police attended forms of taxation there is none. immediately and in response to
by Income-tax, admitted
the Existing revenue sources would a telephone call Dr. R. D. Wall Chancellor of the Exchequer to have return: £344 millions short of the arrived but found that life was reached its limit of elasticity, re lower expenditure. If there is a extinct. It appeared that the
mains at 5s. In the 1. The con- way other than in the tariff, the neck had been broken..
sumer of beer, acknowledged to be city and the public will be intensely A preliminary inquest WAG LAU PAK-WAI, DENTIST, has re- moved his Hong Kong Office to held yesterday afternoon, by less capable of bearing the heavy interested to learn of it.
strain thrust upon him last Septem- GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Ped- der St. (New Bullding next to Hong Mr. C. H. Haines, H. M. Coroner, her than the authorities had hoped, Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488, who after identification, adjourn-must yet carry
ed the inquest, pending further diminished. investigations by the police.
TANG YUK, Dentist. Successors to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free,
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. Now Work & Repairs. Call Fing “L” Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
'53, 'Queen's Road Central.
SHOES.
According to the information!
New Taxes and Remissions. The 10 per cent. tariff is relied
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+
42
Tongue, fresh Tongue, corned Head
牛牛
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the burden un-upon to bring in £27,000,000, and Calves' Head & Feet
new duties to be specißed another Mutton Chop Industrial capital, looking for at 25,000,000. least a little aid to facilitate replace- The remaining adverse balance Is ment, funds by the release of reser-widened by the cost of concessions vation of profit from the full brunt to the home. beet and Colonial cane Pig's Chitlings
Brains of income-tax, finds its hope dis-sugar industries, and there are other the reimposition pelled in disillusion. At first sight adjustments; but the Budget must disappoint and de- of the tea duty of 4d. per pound, with a preference of 2d. to Empire production, plays a major part in
Fruits
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in official circles, deceased had not been in his residence 013 Yuen Ming Yuen Road since May 8. He had been seen, how- ever, on several occasions after- wards but no one could offer concrete evidence as to his where presa. abouts. As recently as. Wednes- day, at which time the police be-
It may bé doubted whether the balancing up finally and pointing to gan a search for him, he was al Chancellor's demand for unremit- a prospective surplus of £796,000,
The tea plantations in India and Pork Chop leged to have been seen but what ting sacrifice of these dimensions he did after that is unknown. could be voiced in any other coun- Ceylon are hard pressed. The ad- Considerable mystery sur-try of the world without arousing vantage now to be applied will turn the Empire tea curve upward again, rounds the tragic affair, - Ac- dangerous hostility.
But the call of "backs to the to the benefit of shareholders,, the Sheep's Head & Feet .. cording to the statement of the
British Industry- 11 watchman on duty he did not see wall" has never yet found the Bri-Exchequer and deceased enter the building. If tlah taxpayer wanting, and, know-the latter through the supply of he fell from the upper storeys ing the worst, he may be relied upon stores and equipment.
Sucking Pigs, to order; Exchange Stability. or was thrown off, or whether he for another display
most noteworthy Saet, Beef leaped of his own mind, is not quenchable valour which is almost Perhaps the known.
incomprehensible to all but his own feature of the Budget statement!
from the standpoint of the City is Veal kind.
Progress of Economy. the plan to set up a definite ex- The general course of revenue and change stabilisation fund. For that expenditure last year, its pleasant Purpose Mr. Chamberlain proposes and unpleasant surprises, have been to borrow up to $150,000,000. disclosed already. Mr. Chamberlain. He does not say he will do so all Barbel rightly took credit to the Govern-at once, or bind himself as to the Bream ment
of £34 form of the loan. The need of such Canton Fresh Water ***
a fund is self evident. The tide of millions.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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Black or Brown Shoes from $6.03. Binck or Brown Boots from $8.00.. Children's Boots er Shoes from $2.00.
Best, styles, most complate - stock of all síses. Repairing a speciality.
WONG SIU WOON
21, Pottinger St.
Phone 31474
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But surely the lesson taught by liquid capital, as the Chancellor Carp the experience of years which showed, has set strongly toward this Catfish Codfish culminated in the suspension of gold country. payments and by the taxation im That, in the absence of a balanc-Crabs posts for the current year, is that ing influence, might cause sterling Cattle Fish Budget totals of the present magni, to soar and reduce our trade advan-Dab tude are totally inconsistent with tage, only for dislocation to follow Dace the economical use of the national upon any subsequent, marked out Dog Fish
Mr. Eela, Conger income. That was implicit in the ward movement of funds. admission that income reductions in Chamberlain's conclusion that we combination with taxes piled on should be equipped with means to taxes had forced many people to avold violent and perilous fluctua- Frogs
tions in the currency by possession Garoupa sacrifice capital.
of adequate reserves of gold and Gudgeon Still, substantial progress in this foreign exchange is sound. very desirable direction is indicated
The existence of a large fund of Halibut by the estimate that this year there the kind, in active use, is a safe-Labrus will be a saving of $79 millions, or guard against our general Budget Loach £9 millions more than was reckoned situation being thrown out. of Lobsters last September, on the Supply Ser-balance and a warning to specula- Mackerel vices. We are still left to face un tors that the resources are available Monk Fish expenditure of £766 millions.
to prevent injury to sterling and Mullet
It is important, in considering our trading interests.
Herrings
Oysters
the outlook for the current year, to It is quite fair to regard stable Parrot Fish bear in mind that receipts from sterling as an asset to be preserved Ferch Alliez and Germany on the one and to treat the operation aske hand, and payments to the United capital charge. But it does not place States, on the other, have been left follow that loss will occur. The Pomfret, White out of account. In the event of the fund will be used with discretion Pomfret, Black Lausanne Conference failing to both to buy and sell the media of Prawns yield an extension of the morator-exchange. fum a very delicate situation will have to be handled:
The question whether the Euro- pean nations concerned will pay us, and whether we, in turn, will remit across the Atlantic, if they do not is one, which may yet fall to be resolved in supplementary financial proposals later in the year.
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HELENE COSTELLO. Roach
Salmon
Shark
Blato
Shrimps Snappe Solés:
Seeks a Divorce.
New York. Miss Helene Costello, a mem- ber of the famous film family, announced on her arrival in New York from Europe that she is seeking, a divorce from her hus. Turtles, small" band, Mr. Lowell Sherman, of
Way Down East" fame.
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The grounds on which she will FILM STARS UNDER sue were not stated by Misa Costello. She refused to discuss them.
Revenue Forecast. Behind the Chancellor's estimates of revenue lles expectation of a slow but continuous recovery of the value lof trade. On that account he looks for an increase of £6 millions from stamp duties and $11 millions extra from estate duties. These forecasts
OF the She denied reports that Mr. optimistic side, the former in view Sherman had entered a suit for of the slenderness of the evidence divorce on the complaint that of trade and financial recovery to she had called him "a fat old date, while the latter must be con-
# man. British United Press. [ditioned. "largely by the course of
security values affected to some ex wood last December that Mr.
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Ann, Harding, one of the “great{ ladies" of the screen, favours a ranching week-end. She likes to go walking or fishing with friends on a ranch midway be tween the plains and the moun- tains.
Constance Bennett seeks a change from the beauty parlour Hollywood film stars are culti sea. She makes frequent trips by taking her week-ends by the
tent by the same considerations. Sherman was seeking to divorce vating "Back-to-Nature" week to the quieter beach colonies,
Mr. Chamberlain is in as good a Miss Costello.
ends. This is the reaction from and enjoys swimming and sun- position as anybody to casalate the Miss Costello was once engag the glare of studio lights and bathing since it is on that period that ed to Douglas Fairbanks, Junr,,
Richard Dix has a ranch of his income-tax and surtax will be levied, but the match was broken off, the boudoir drama, writes the own which he uses as a weak. his anticipation of declines of about Then she married. Mr. John film critic of the Evening Stan-end haunt. Ricardo Cortes, 10 per cent. In Income-tax and 14 Regan, a football player, as the dard
despite his name, favours cent.in surtaxy, need not be
English week-end, and spends his Helen Twelvetrees has started time golfing.
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