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'CONCERNING

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PRESENTS'

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The China Mail completely that its history before 1914 can be ignored as interest- ing only to lawyers and his-

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1934. torians.

Contraband

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

EMBARRASSING FRIEND

THEY GUESS HOW LONG YOU WILL LIVE ROMANTIC CRAFT OF AN ACTUARY

A DIFFICULT PROFESSION

(By Basil Murray)

..

The Unionist Canvassing Corps has been at work for 11 years. It aims to assist constituencies in whatever way help may be requir ed. The chairman is Lady Cun- lynghame. The corps has no con- nection with the Conservative distinguished executive of a Instituts admitted women to

large insurance company en-membership in 1920-has passed Central Office, whose attitude to listed at the beginning of the war, his examinations, a number of dif wards it is one of neutrality.

"What is your profession?" he ferent courses are open to him. For The large majority of actuarial

on the Conservative Party man- agers.

was

its

There are occasions when the maintenance of this attitude has was asked. "An actuary." imposed a certain amount of strain the rest of his military career he students are already working in the

demand in. constant

for office of one of the large insurance them Ruccess amateur theatricals. He had been companies. To

means early. promotion and a free registered as an actor.

Few people seem to know what road to an executive position with an actuary really is. Lord Hail- their company.

Civil Service Actuaries. sham once said that he had heard

The corpa is a law unto and says what it plasses,

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STRAIGHT TALK

itself,

him defined as a cross between a In a great organisation like the Prudential Assurance some: 40

A clrcular from the corps will bookmaker and an undertaker. give the Central Office another

The firat English actuary was qualified actuaries are employed. jar.

an official of the Equitale, Society, The chief actuary of a large com- It is an appeal for help, in the founded in 1762, who kept the re-pany may earn £5,000 a year or form either of finance or work gister of risks which the Society even more, and the post is a re- There are references to apathy, had accepted and became in consecognised stepping-stone to that of fand this tribute to the Socialists:

quence expert at estimating the general manager.

which

be "One cannot but admire their in-

ought to If he is not already employed or premiums itiative, their power of organisa-charged to cover any new risk wants a change, he may find a job. in the Civil Service-there is a tion and the enthusiasm they have offered. aroused among their supporters.”

To-day an actuary' is a person Government Actuary's Depart There is also a warning that the whose business it is to estimate the ment, which advises on all the dif- Socialists are attainings defin probability of future events by aferent State insurance and pension ite object In gaining power

consideration of large numbers of schemes, and an actuary attached. through control in local govern-similar events which have occur to the Commissioners for the Na- ment."

tional Debt. In all there are 39. red in the past.

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FIREWORKS

The real atlig, however, this paragraph.

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In practice the profession is actuaries in the Government ser- largely occupied in collating statis-vice. He may find a post with, one

is in ties of the ages at which human of the larger friendly societies, beings die, and deducing from these though the scope here la limited; It is regrettable but none the the number of years during which or, lastly, he may set up in con- A consultant actuary may bo

less true that in a number of any person may expect to remain sulting practice on his own. constituencies there has been alive after a given age, Without far too great complacency among such prognostications the business called in to give advice to any many belonging to our party. of life insurance would be a matter commercial or financial company, Undoubtedly the spirit. of co-of pure guesswork. With them It to prepare pension. schemes, or to The traditional American view

operation and understanding is has become an almost exact science.jact as statutory adviser to a regis had always been that of a neu-

tered friendly society. lacking among our followers, į No Individual Prophecies tral; it was the most natural

Whichever path he chooses he and until we succeed in raising A good actuary is capable of pro- thing in the world that every-

such a spirit of enthusiasm, it phesying as to whether or not any will live with figures. The Pru will indeed be difficult to stem given event will take place provided dential alone has. nearly 30,000,000 Of all, senseless and mis-thing looked different. from the point of view of a belligerent;

the tide.

a sufficient number of comparable contracts of insurance, which have national chievous caused

for what was the use of a fleet

The Canvassing Corps is DOW

events have already occurred. He to be valued each year. quarrels the controversies about if you could not use it to defeat neutral contraband, conditional the enemy? The emergency led organising a sale. Among the arcan predict with reasonable certain-day thousands of new proposals and unconditional, effective and to a great looking up of the cases tiles which sympathisers are in- ty such things as crop movements have to be examined. Periodical- non-effective blockade, and simi- tried during the Civil War, and it vited to send are crackers.

was found that the law of block-

of

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cravat complacently in front of ||mirror.

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Every

the course of the exchanges or thely the rates and benefits of all the"

standard policies have to be re- growth of the population.

ingly accurate forecaste of the concern. number of favourities, which would

Under him there will be hund- machines which can multiply two five- Moreover, he can make certain figure numbers with infallible ac

win during any month of the racing reds of girls operating

season.

definite generalisations which have curney in a few seconds, the

I do not know whether, any actu-viewed in the light of changed lar legal conundrumas, have been ade had not only been enforced

ary has ever been employed by a mortality statistics or movements the most longstanding and the hut considerably atretched to most disastrous. They are com- make the word "effective" suit General Lee once found Dr. Cutting, bookmaker, but I feel sure that if the current rates of interest; conditions, to say the army surgeon, who was a hand-he were he could produce surpris-All these jobs are the actuary's monly known to popular mis-modern chief-makers as the "Freedom of nothing of the new doctrine of some and dressy man, arranging his

"continuous voyage." the Seas;"a slogan which is

misleading upshot of it all was that all the "Cutting," said Lee, you must be itself absolutely The ignorant elector, when called Allles and Associated Powers the happiest man alive,"

"Because," replied Lee, "you Bro upon to defend the Freedom of acted on precisely the same "Why, general? une Seas" by the "spell-binders" principles. It would be possible in love with yourself, and you haven't

been proved correct through the privates in the army of which he of the last hundred years or so, to compile from American pre-a rival on the

generations. Women live longer is an officer. But though the ma-. would satisfy the British There was no doubt that she used METROPOLITAN LAND COMPANY, LTD.,gets the impression that he iscedents and practice a code which

engaged in a crusade to protect the right of his fellow citizens Admiralty or any other Power, lip-stick and cream and washes, and than men. Teetotallers in certain chines cannot fail and the girls For Keys to Premises apply to:

who happen to be merchants to and there is no good reason why bad tiated her hair. So much so that companies can insure. at reduced seldom make a mistake; it is on the ake did not know. what to think when rates. Some professions, such as qualified actuary himself that the No. 18, Bayview Mansions,

this should not be done to prove man said to her, "Do you know I that of har-tender or pablican, tend ultimate accuracy of the work de- Ground Floor

sell their goods abroad. Obvious-

the fact.

never look at your face but I discover to chorten life. Female pensioners pends. A mistake make by him ly that arouses his enthusiasm,

The second new feature of some new beauty.”

and annuitants have a three years may mean a loss of hundreds of and justifies the doubling and quardupling of the Naval votes. modern conditions is that the

Mrs. Brown "My husband always greater expectation of life than thousands of pounds to his firm. And he is paid well not to make The implication has always been materials useful for war have

But his prophecies, by their very mistake, that the great danger was from changed and continue to change sleeps through the sermon when women in general.

mornings." the English Fleet, and it would quickly that the old lists of drag him out to church on Sunday be impossible to estimate how contraband are out of date. The Mrs. Black-Ming steps through

only rule that can bring about a the sermon, too." much ill-feeling has been en-

in church." gendered, and how many pro victory is to find out what the Mrs. Brown"Why, I never see him Mrs. Black-"Well, I can't drag the jects of co-operation have been enemy wants and see that hei ruined by that sentiment. Con-does not get it. In the first two bed he's sleeping in all Sunday morn will die, but he can calculate with ferences have been held at the years of the War what Germanying to church. Hague and in London, and end-most needed. was cotton, and the less negotiations have been con-

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ducted with such a complete

nature, never concern individuals,

He is always dealing with groups of "OLD LAG" CAUGHT

LOITERING when a particular person of thirty people or events. He cannot say

İgreat accuracy the average age which will be reached by a thou

American Government insisted FOUR WEDDINGS and men of thirty f

on cotton being passed as non- contraband, even to the threat of

absence of result in arranging war. Walter Page, the Ambas

any agreed code of search and

sador in London, protested in confiscation, that students of the

vain; had his advice been follow- to the subject long ago, came, conclusion that the reason layed it would have been unneces sary for the Expeditionary not in any special difficulty of Force to cross the Atlantic at all; the subject matter, but in the

for the war could not have been

ANNOUNCED

Civil Servant's Bride Due By Fulda

Four forthcoming marriages are existence of interests opposed to carried on beyond 1916. It announced as follows:

settlement that were strong would have clearly been cheaper Private Leslie Wood of the Lin- anbagh to outweigh the powerful for President Wilson to have im-colnshire Regiment, Shamshuipo, motives of national advantage. posed an embargo two years and Zena Jex of No. 181 Kowloon

Naval War la fortunately only before.

City Road

Kept Looking Into Pockets

In the early days of the craft Convicted on five previous occa anyone could be an actuary who sions for larcency, Ho Ping, a possessed a knowledge of elemen-well-known thief, appeared before tary mathematica. To-day the pro- Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Cen- this morning, fession is as difficult of entry and tral Magistracy

as closely regulated as those of the charged with loitering in Con- barrister, the solicitor or the char-naught Road with intent to steal. tered accountant The Institute of He was sentenced to three months Actuaries was formed in 1848 and hand labour.

Detective-Inspector J. Murphy stated that defendant. was under At the time of its foundation it police supervision. He was

received a Royal Charter in 1834.

Four Examinations

ar-

had 180 members. This year, in-rested by a detective who was an exceptional and condition, and The third new feature is that Reidar Johannessen, Steam-ship cluding students and probationers, watching him and saw him look during the ordinary conditions what has enfeebled the League agent of No. 8 Luna Buildings, it has 2084, Only 460 of these are into the pockets of various people of peace no agency has been so of Nations in imposing "Econo- Kowloon, and Irls Primrose Hay full-fledged fellows of the Institute. In the street. When searched

his pockets, active in securing the Freedom mic Sanctions" is not the with- Edie of the Repulse Bay Hotel: To become an actuary you have to razor blade was found in one of the Seas for commerce, by the drawal of the United States Henry Black Jarvie Brown, pass four examinations, only one of suppression of piracy and mis-alone, but that combined with of the Shaukiwan Police Station, which can be taken in any one year. cellaneous police work, as the the Government's attitude to and Florence Carolyn Wiltshire, Most, candidates start working for STOLE SHOES WHEN

the first soon after they matriculate British Navy. The principles of blockade.. No Power can be ex- of No. 151 the Peak. Erglish law, founded by Lord pected to incur the chance of a Walter Morris Thomson, Civil at 16, and many také eight years to Stowell a century ago have been major war except in self-defence, Servant of Bisney Villas, Pokfulam complete the course... extended and adapted and found Should control in this matter and Katherine May Horsburgh, The percentage of successful can acceptable by other seafaring be vested in the President, it will now en route to the Colony on the didates in these examinations shows peoples, and the proportion of certainly be a further large ex-8.8. Fulda maritime commerce affected by tension of his authority; but it

the law of blockade must be so will make possible a move out of

how difficult they are. In May

HUNGRY

Woman Hawker Victimised

small as hardly to be expressible the ruf in which the question COCKTAIL PARTY AT K.C.C. examination, and in none of the Kwai, charged with the theft of In a decimal figure without a long has stuck ever since the absurd k row of noughts. Moreover even war of 1812.

in time of war it has been to those goods alone which were of direct use to the enemy that confiscation has

The entry of the

Into the Great

the conditions of the

One case of case of meningiti the Colony

go ended December

other papers did

this year less than 20 per cent. of Do you eat shoes?" anked Mr the entrants, passed Part 1 of the EL. Wynne-Jones, when

paiz leather slippers from entr woman. hawker in Possession-

leaded that he bad fon nothing to eat, At the Central Ma

gistrac his morning

were valued at 70

A Cocktail Party will be held at exceed 50 per cent.

the Kowloon Cricket Club next And as actuaries list

adlately, afters

diphtheria" and one

were

24 hours

сад

on such subjects

data by Orthop

the same of Least Squ festive music will stand just whe

Once sman for: woma ature of the party

to pape

the one month's