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MOLIN MOLINO

REGISTERED))

HERSHERRY

A FINE, PALE, FULL-FLAVOURED WINE. Produce of Spain.

SHIPPED BY

Williams,Humbert & Co., Jerez DE LA FRONTERA.

Agents -----

SPAIN

A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD.

Wines & Spirit Merchants.

Phone 28185

FOR SAFE FUR STORAGE

AT LOW RATES!

After the Winter, your furs de- serve a Summer vacation. Put them in (D.F's) frigid storage vaults for protection from moths, theft, and HUMIDITY !

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

KAIPING COAL

HOME,

FACTORY

AND

BUNKERS

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

POWER

HOUSE,

TUGS

LOCOS

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Head Office:-TIENTSIN.

Agents: DODWELL & CO., LTD., Hong Kong.

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20,

The China Mail

Ninety-Second Year of Publication . SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, Telephone 20022. London Office:

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and Jordan Rands. The former contributes nothing to road safe- ty. It may, indeed, be regarded by some road users as an en- make the couragement... maximum the minimum. Hong Kong's special problems would be better met by leaving to the discretion of drivers and making them

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. speed

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for answerable for any exceeding of publication should be addressed to the bounds of safety, which the Editor, and be accompanied by under certain conditions might Writer's Name and Address, be found in driving at 15 m.p.h. but The silent zone regulations, are |not necessarily for insertion

pre- frankly experimental and as a guarantee of good faith.

sumably when incorrigible driv- Subscription Rates.

ers on the horn, among whom taxi drivers are the worst offenders, have been educated, expensively or otherwise, the island zone will be extended to include residen- tial districts where its applica- Hong Kong, Thursday, May 20, 1987-tion is likely to be more bene-

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LOCAL MOTORING REGULATIONS

ficial than in the central area.

Hopes And Fears Hopes A

Nothing in the new regula Mr. Harold Butler's annual re- tions devised for the better con-port as director of the Inter- trol of motoring in the Colony, national Labour Office has be- nor in the amended scale of come an economic tractate of the licence fees, has come unherald- first importance. It presents a ed, which explains, in part, why broad survey of the economic their promulgation has been world, and, more fearlessly than allowed to pass without a wide-most League and official docu- spread cry of protest. As a rule, ments, points the morals. This the motorist, when his interests year Mr. Butler has to record the are affected, cannot be accused substantial progress of recovery, of failure to make his voice but a recovery which no one heard and it may, therefore, be feels sure représents stability or inferred that, the ground having equilibrium. There are... many been well prepared, the regula encouraging features - a gen- tions have been received eral increase in industrial pro- if not happily, at last duction, a much smaller increase ina spirit of resignation.in international trade, a rise in There is a disposition in some prices as the result not of arti quarters to comment on the fact ficial restriction on production that an increase in licence fees but of increased consumption, for private owners allied with a balanced Budgets, liquidation of withdrawal of parking privileges debts, demand for fresh capital go ill together, insofar as they and labour. Halting and tenta- mean, in many cases, restrictions tive steps have been taken to- upon the use of a more heavily wards freer trade; the recent taxed car. There is also feeling movements in the United States that if, as it seems, taxicabs are and in Europe are, as Mr. Butler to pay smaller fees than private says, the first pieces of flotsam owners, an anomoly, is created. showing that the tide has turn-

A more serious criticism chal-ed after ebbing for six years. lenges the basis of taxation, steadily towards autarky and pointing out that the family economic nationalism.” But over- driver, to whom a larger car is shadowing the cheerful sides are necessary, is being taxed some the menace of the growth of what onerously in relation to the armaments and the fear of war. gadabout youth who flashes Mr. Butler repeats his warning about in a decorative light sports of a year ago on the car of the M. G. type: It must economic character of arma- be obvious, however, that with ments and of the especial danger out the creation of an elastic in good times like these of the system, which would, as it

were, diversion of labour and capital afford special treatment to every to purposes of "unmitigated individual case, a system which waste.” And so long as the fear would be heartily condemned on of war is prevalent "the resump- all hands, no basis has yet been tion of international economic devised which could be regarded intercourse will be hampered in as more equitable in the long run a hundred ways by measures than the weight scale that has which find their justification in been adopted.

military necessity.

With the parking problem be- coming daily more acute, the

two-hour limit imposed in respect London Exhibitions of certain parking spaces—and erring on the generous side-

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"anti-

was inevitable. The answer to London is at present full of the owner-driver who complains exhibitions. The occasion of the that the restriction will either Coronation has been selected as compel him to leave his car at a suitable time for the display home or park at ten minutes' not only of wares but also of walk from his office is that the those articles of antiquity which hogging of the central district are of peculiar interest to visi- parking areas by all-day occu-tors from overseas. Ben Jorison piers has seriously Interfered is read in every English speaking with other motorists, equally de country but it is only England. manding consideration, who de- which possessed the original in- sire to leave their cars for half dictment, which was presented an hour or so while they do against him at the Middlesex necessary shopping.

Sessions in the year 1598 during The other principal provisions the reign of Queen Elizabeth for of the new regulations are those having killed his adversary at ä imposing a 30 m.p.h, speed limit duel. This document is being in built-up areas and silent zones exhibited at Middlesex Guildhall at night in the central district together with a number of other and Kowloon, south of Gascoigne (documents of historical interest.