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Gaps In Man-Power

THE LIVESTOCK TOBACCO AUCTIONS SITUATION IN

INDUSTRY

Bill Discussed In Commons

DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE

London. To-day. The financial resolution, which is a prelude to the Government's Livestock Industry Bill, which will be one of the first measures to be considered by Parliament after the Christmas recess, was discussed in the House of Commons last even- ins

IN AFRICA

NEW SALES METHODS

INTRODUCED

INNOVATION PROVES HIGHLY

SUCCESSFUL

SULYUAN

First Hand Information For Colony

HELP FOR REFUGEES

Dr. D. W. Edwards, Regional Secretary of the YMCA in North China, who was in. Hong Kong yesterday, is the first

inform first-hand to bring ation on war conditions in Sui- With a party of yuan Province,

four other YMCA workers. Dr. UGUST 25, 1936, saw the close and marks these particulars on a Edwards had made a visit to that of the selling season for ticket. The second man has du-war-torn Province to ascertain the the 1986 Southern Rhodesis to-plicate sheets on which he bacco crop.

The purpose of the Bill is de- scribed as to provide for the de velopment and better organisation This seemingly prosaic state-

notes these figures.

Stage Set:

also form of assistance that could be

usefully extended to refugees.

Speaking at a luncheon at the of industry and connected inčus-

St. Francis Hotel yesterday, Dr. ment causes one to wonder why

that Sofyan stated The bale is then removed with Edwards tries, for paying a subsidy to the the subject bears mention at all

interested a visitor producers of fat cattle. for regu- lating the imports of livestock and util it is learnt that for the first the ticket attached and placed would have

All from Hong Kong. The Inner Mon- meat, and for the holding of mar-time in the history of Africa the a line on the auction floor. kets and slaughtering of livestock annual tobacco crop has been sold bales are treated in this way and golians, who inhabit it, mostly. The resolution imposes, as from by auction-a worthy system im- placed end to end on the floor in were well-set and, from having Next Spring, after a twelve-

three feet between the lines, and almost from birth, were experts Conth of intensive Territorial to-day, an import duty of three Fed from the United States of long lines with a space of about accustomed themselves to riding

on citizen farthings per pound

chilled America. recruiting. Britain's

In spite of the fact that this is are then opened up and the to- in the saddle.

bacen displayed. The stage is His observations during the re- army will, it is hoped, have meat, of two-thirds of a penny on

40,000 recruits, other beef and veal, and 20 per the first time such a completely then set for the sale to commence. rent visit led him to believe that gained some

valorem ad

boned new method of handling the sale Compared, with the 23.000 men cent.

edible boneless and

of-of such a commodity as tobaccoj

The buyers line up on one side the rebels recruited for the Territorials in and

excluding sweetbreads has been tried, the results of the) of the first row of tobacco and the Chinese Government forces were 1935-6, the estimated new in-fals, take

and canned goods Empire pro- sales are ample proof of the sue-auctioneer, the up-set-price man led by non-Chinese officers' sup of man-power gives

A duty of cess of the venture-a venture, and the ticket marker on the Ported by certain renegades, but with Wong Ying, son of a former grounds for some satisfaction, ducts are exempted.

imposed on one might say, which was viewed other. The up-set-price man is

General in the Chinese Army, of- but this satisfaction is qualified 20 per cent is also by the fact which Lord Strath-canned goods and of 10 per cent with grave misgiving by many in- tobacco expert and is able to tell at a glance the quality of the to-

Movement Not Spontaneous Originally, the rebels did not of Lords last month that not derived from beef, or veal, 40,000 but 86,000 men are re-certain other classes. Mr. W. S. method of disposal, is the effect price he then calls as a starting number more than 2,000, but their an bid and the buyers may then com strength is being added to from quired this recruiting year to Morrison, Financial Secretary to of legislation established in

the Treasury, described the re-attempt to guard against the ever-menco bidding from this price day to day by Manchukuoan bring the Territorial Army up ito establishment. The restora.į solution as the outcome of long present risk of production in ex-a greater or lesser one as they reinforcements

On

cona emphasised in the House extracts and essences wholly terested in the industry.

and Coupled with the actual newbacco and the price value. This

tion of privileges, financial and and difficult negotiations with the cess of demand resulting in that the flooded market and stagnation.

duses were expected to raise over |£3,000,000 per anu-British

wireless Service.

RESOLUTIONS CARRIED London: The House of

Drastic Changes

most

In the first place it was found

Amazing Rapidity

By this procedure bale after bale is sold with amazing rapidity

בטאת

HOW

fighting

ficially directing the fighting

OWD.

the

were

to that extent adeem fit.

where to continue to speak of the Immediately a bale is sold the autonomous movement as being jotherwise, which had been "cut"Argentine, and stated

ticket marker notes the pur- spontaneous was ridiculous.. (during the period of stringency. is to be followed by the grant

chaser. the price paid and the A gratifying detail, said Dr. This legislation, being a of certain further amenities -

grade mark called by the buyer on Edwards for all Chinese is the Com-important and integral part of the the ticket attached to the bale. By knowledge that the Provincial among them the free provision of a walking-out uniform. But

mons carried, by 205 votes to 123 industry, bears mention in full as grade mark is meant the mark troops were being strongly backed the buyer wishes to be by Central Government troops, the remarkable change the and 213 to 123 respectively, the natural prelude to the descrip- which irate of recruiting

shown on the bale for his own re-the strength of whose second line already two resolutions imposing a duty tion of auction sales.

The drastic changes effected

of defence. running through Ping achieved has not been depenlof three farthings on every pound

ference.

Tei-chien, had yet to be felt by dent simply or, indeed, mainly of foreign meat and 10 to 20 per can be appreciated by a descrip-

the enemy. Granted that the si- restored bounties

tion of the present system of self- (upon

and cent. on foreign canned meat. allowances.

Capt. D: Euan Wallace, in re-ing by auction.

tuation would not be further

What has sent up the figures plying for the Government after

Dr. Edwards believed the Sui- for Territorial recruiting more the debate, said that if they had more expedient to cease referring

complicated by open military in-

than anything else is a change tried to insist on

a higher duty.to growers by name and in place an average selling rate of 450 tervention on a much larger scale.

to 500 bales an hour is not uncom-

yanese, under their very able lead- in public opinion. The Terri-there probably would not have to resort to numbers, every grow-

er. General Foo Chok-yu, torials friends and employers been any agreement with the er then being allotted a register-

The duplicate sheets, one term-fully capable of holding their have realised that a force on Argentine. He reminded the ed number.

consign-led a buyers' sheet and the other A grower sending in which now rests the sole res-House that the Dominions had ponsibility for the coastal and free entry and added that the duty ment of tobacco to the auction 3 sellers' sheet, partially complet

FORTHCOMING WEDDING anti-aircraft defences of Bri-was high enough to give

the warehouse marks all his bales withed by the man in the scale room, called tain, in case of war, is not Dominions adequate preference this number. These bales are then are banded to two clerks,

passed through the scale room, calculating clerks, who proceed The forthcoming wedding is merely a hobby for the mill-but not high enough to be a

the tobacco is sold announced of Mr. Serge Pe- tary-minded but a

duty to serious burden on the consumer. one at a time, where they are up the lines

weighed. In the scale room are and note on their sheets the fur trovich Maklezoff, professor of the performance of which every-Beuter

two men making the requisite en-ther particulars on the bale tie Music, and Miss Lidia Aleksan- encouragement should be given.

the kets, namely, the buyer, the price drovaa Savadakais, both of No. tries. The first man notes But it remains a matter of:

(Continued on Page 6.) 128. Carnarvon Road, Kowloom. number on the bale and its weight|| regret that many public au- thorities under Socialist cont trol still continue, despite the consent given by the Socialist party to the principle of re- Berlin, To-day.--Those persoUS armament, to obstruct the least who are still in possession of for- provocative of all methods of eign currencies and who have fail- rearming the filling of gapsed to declare same, as required by in the citizen army. Mean- the new German currency law. while the small regular army will be given another chance of professional soldiers which comply with the regulations and is maintained is faced by an de-escape punishment if they offer ficiency in numbers which is the foreign currencies in question growing and not declining. to the Reischsbank before January Full warning has been given 31, 1937. The German Govern- that the voluntary system of ment made a recommendation to enlistment for the regular army the Commissioner for the Four- is in grave danger. Army ser-Year Plan, Premier Goering, who vice can be made far more passed, an amnesty law to attractive; the granting of the effect yesterday. blue walking-out uniforms free Service.

to men in the ranks, as promis- ed recently by Mr. Duff Cooper, instead of simply allowing units to purchase them, is a sign that more attention is being given to the economic position

FOREIGN CURRENCY LAWS IN GERMANY

to

this

Trans-Ocean.

NO YUGOSLAV LOAN FROM FRANCE

Belgrade, To-day. It is official-

of serving men. But it is atly denied here that Yugoslavia in- least equally important to contends to raise a loan of 1,000,000 vince the man in the ranks francs in France for the purpose that he will gain a reasonable of armament, as has been "gener- economic footing when he really asserted in the foreign press turns to civilian life...

in connection with the trade agreement just concluded between France and Yugoslavia - Trang- Ocean Service.

OBITUARY

Old China Hand Passes

The C.N.AC. plane. Kwangtung farrived from Shanghai yesterday: A China. hand of twenty years afternoon carrying three passen- experience in the person of Mr.gers: Miss Sylvia Pechick and Mias Harry Burns passed away at the A Friedrick from Shanghai, and Kowloon Hospital yesterday after-Mr. Lin Thain from Swatow. The noon after five weeks illness GNAC plane Fukien which left The late Mr. Burns was Chief here yesterday for Shanghai car- Engineer of the Steamship Shun ried three passengers for Shanghai Chih, belonging to the Wo Fat They were Mesars. Stanley Lee, sing Company. He hailed from Klang Yung and J. A. Mitchell. Melbourne," where, he has many re-

latives, but for the last 20 years of the finest engineers on the he has been engaged on coastal Coast

Ishipping in the Far East Aged During the War Mr. Burns ser- 146 years, he was numarried, but ved in the Royal Navy and saw had a large circle of friends in service at Port Said. On one this Colony by reason of his so- occasion his ship was torpedoed ciation with the Kowloon Bowling end he boasted the distinction of |Green Chub and the Kowloon Hoot being the last person to leave it. |ball Club, ~ Among his friends he The funeral will pass the 'monu-

had the peputation at -being, ona zentat 5 pm this

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