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| DUTCH EAST INDIES TRADE

SIR WALTER TOWNLEY AND BRITISH OPPORTUNITIES.

Ther is a genuine fear among golfers who There was a large attendance of are members of crowded courses are there. members at London Chamber of Com-any that are not?-that the new lost ball merce on November 2nd to hear an rule just passed by the Royal and Ancient address by Sir Walter Tawnley,

Club will result in terrible confusion and K.C.M.G., Governor of the British roster congestion. The new rule provide Chamber of Commerce for the Nother match play the penalty for to see how the marker can improve very

gave him exceptional opportunities of gain- | there we attempt at search e

the

THE BATHING BEACHES.

[The Government hag decided that our Bathing Beschos muset po-Vide the local,

Stagnation continues in practically all | Press.)" sections of the trade, the demand being only for retail quantities and, therefore, The under dog is town and out; quite insufficient to influence prices up it seems he's had his day. wards as a whole, although a low specul No more he'll care if all the trams chops of auction goods show substantial Are labelled "Causeway Bay." advices owing to competitive buying for No more he'll journey to North Point The small quantities offered. It is difficult When tortured with the heat.

Het bare to use a pail when he lands East Indies, who dealt with the ball shall not be loss of hole, but stroke much until the native banking institutions Desires to wash his feet

and distance. In other words, a player | open their offers a little more generously opportunities for British trade in these who wishes to continue his game may go to their clients than they are doing at Kennedy Town will know him not. regions. Mr. Stanley Machin. J.P. Pre- back to the sput from which he drove the present, and it is unfortunately improb. He's finished bathing now sident of the London Chamber of Com- ball and play another unde an adequate able that they will extend credits to any Unless he hires a motor-launch

11, for instance, he had driver merce, who occupied the chair, in intro-into a wild, inhospitable spot he may, if extent until after China New Year. By cutting out his chow."

not till then can they becermain of the ducing Sir Walter Townley referred to be wo chouses, presume that the ball standing of any particular dealer; the No more, 'tis said, our khaki leds

without his long experience as a diplomatist, which is lost

Reven

banks appear to have money enough to Will bathe beneath the moạn, smallest

But golfers nowadays who are in finance a normal trade but extreme cau But Tommy doesn't care a euss- ing intimate knowledge of his subject.

the course and lat them remain there with as it is in banking circles all the world The knuts who took the fappers down

position to hit new ball lightly off tion is the keynote of their present policy, He's going to Kowloos. Sir Walter, in the course of his address,

an air of lofty naconcern and much disdain over at the present time." aid: The Netherlands Indies market. What conceivably will happen will be that "Naturally the reported looting and burn. both import and export, is wide and varied on heathery courses where the roughing at Ichang about which exact parti- and offers such a rich field for mercan in knee deep, players will make a diligent culars are still wanting, has only had tile enterprise that foreign competition to search under the statutory time limit, and the effect of adding to the general derse secure the lion's share of it is bound to then go back to play another. Now, where of insecurity and uneasiness in native be met keen. With Germany out of the couples are almost treading an uns an- financial circles. runn for the moment, the United King, other's heels, and there is much waiting on dom, the U.S.A.; and Japan are the chief or the return to the spot from WILL struck cannot fail to competitors. The chief articles of im- produce congestion and ita natural concomi port are textiles, boots, shoes, machinery Proc of all sorts, building materials, glassware / tants-irritation and delay. In such circum was a month ago, with practically no ad- Will earn a living where they played

the course is bound to be “held-up,” pottery, hats, matches, fancy goods, not to our spot but in many, and insteadvance in rael prices on the other side to metais, drugs, artificial maneres, (000 of a round occupying two hours and a compensate importers for the difference. stuffs including tinned food and mik, quarter it may easily run into three hours.

Telegrams from Manchester during the past few days indicate that makers there mineral waters, etc. The value of the

are willing to entertain offers at substan- solt goods imported in 1918 was about

tial reductions, but the prices named by £12,000,000, about equal in cost to the figures of 1913, though considerably

them, when converted into taels at current smaller in volume. Manchester claims to

three tels ger piece for Greys higher than rates of exchange, are two and a half to have exported textiles to the value of £5,779,887. Sperial openings exist for

current local values, with deliveries well THE PRODUCTION AND the impormation of locomotives of all sorts. The question arises: Who are you to les into late spring arrival here. machinery, both agricultural and indus- through, and when do play your second appears, therefore, to be still no danger trial, hardware and motor cars, whilst the ball? This is a conundrum which cha bals- of the marker being undermined by the demand for glassware and pottery is very be solved in actual practice. Mr. John Low, arrival of cheap goods for a considerable keen. This trade is likely to go to our the Chairman of the Rules of Golf Commit- time to come... commercial rivals. Americans and Ger- tee is of opinion that the difficulty is pro-

which

stances

“Á. PROBLEM.

Just imagine what will happen in the case of a lost ball. Some couples will have gone will be pressing on while you are in the act ahead during the period of search, others of dropping another ball, and, what is quite natarai, will very likely demand to go on

and can some

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The swimming art to teach Are pretty sick because the "hends". Have pinched the blinking beach,

Father of six "—and " Mother," 100- No doubt will feel the strain The position as regards goods to arrive When umpteen" dirty little kids

They have to bath again. has been aggravated by the hurther

lapse in exchange during the past week. But, after all, perhaps those kids, The rate is now fold. below what it When they've to manhood grown

There

And then I'm sure they'll own.

That though we made a mighty fuss and put up a great.fight " "Tit only fair to now admir The Liovernment was right."

G.D.

CONSUMPTION OF RICE.

IMPERIAL INSTITUTE REPORT.

mans are especially keen in the locome-bably exaggerang a player who has driven JAPAN AND GREAT BRITAIN. question of increasing the supplies of rice

tive and motor sections, and one is re- be met by minded of the present King's exhortation to British traders on his return from Ang tralia,Wake up, England!!

.to

BARON BAYASHI ON CLOSER, RELATIONS.

into unknown regions to play a "provisional" ball. He points out that in America, where there is a

deal of play under stroke rules, the difficulty does not seem to have: WHAT THE CHAMBER HAS DONE. resulted, and

the British play in

The Japanese Ambasador. Baron G. The object of the Chamber is to bring Open Championship appears pro- Hayashi, was the guest of the Council of this rich market to the more direct atten- seeds quickly and a conveniently the Japan Society at & dinner given in ཟླས . in the Amateur. Championship. tion of British trade, and to do all that it is incontrovertible that for years London at the end of October. it an to show those who may be desirous there has been a desire for a common penalty

Mr. Marcus B. Huish, chairman of the to avail themselves of this more or less for lost ball, unplayable ball, and ball out of society, presided, and, in welcoming the unexplored opening how the market can bounds. Which it the more criminal, the ball new Amniganador on his return to Great be reached in the most satisfactory man that has been driven miles out of bounds, or member of the Council, after a cocaider

Britain, said it was the first time that a ner. It is our special aim to encourage one that has skipped a yard or an off the able absence, had come back in the highest the export of British goods, but the great fairway and cannot be found! Surely the value of the expor trade from the islands boomerang shot out of bounds: Yes the player position in the Diplomalio Service. must not be overlooked, since they are in this case was permitted to drive another, Proposed the health of his Excellency, the

while he could cynically

Pately watch with

new president of the Japan Society amazingly rich with such products as coal, sugar, rubber, tobacco, coffee, tes, tin, pressed gloe the feverish antics of his poor The Japanese Ambassador, in respond. spices, copri, kapok. gums, quinice and opponent searching for his ball in the roughing (this being his first pronouncement as cinchota bark, teakwood and mineral oils. There was no sense of justice in such widely Ambasador), referred to the fact that it different penalites It was tantamount to was a quarter of a century since he bad to dispose of. The war has shown us the immense value of many of these protetting off the brutal, callous murderer, with bee in England as Consul and as a mild cantion not to do it again, and sentene member of the Council of that Society. ducts. What can the Chamber deal Weing the incautious motorist whose rear light He preferred the fog of London to the sun- are often asked this question. The plain--had gone out to

for life. The shine of Rome. He hoped that during his

He

la dealing with the problem of food sup- plies. in the United Kingdom during the war, much attention was paid to the-

from British countries. In this conneo- tion the reports on the rice trade of India in relation to the rice resources of the world recently published by Mr. John | Murray (6%, net) as the third volume of the reporta of the Imperial Institute Indian Trade Enquiry are a mins of valu.

able information. The Indian Trade: Enquiry was conducted by Special Com mittees appointed by the Committee for India" of the Imperial Institute, af the India, to investigate the possibility of instance of the Secretary of State for increasing the trade of the United King dom and other parts of the Empire în In the present Indian raw materials. volume the results of the enquiries made

est and most straightforward answer is out-of-bouncment med alicer terms of office not only the Government of maries of information comprise sum

or puller A the case may be-was

meur Japan and Great Britain, but also the permitted to continue his game, while people of these two nations, would the other, whose ball just trickled into the be brought more closely together.. rough and defied diligent search had per

hole force to quit the

** THE ORIGINAL WI. ANDREW'S BULE, .^

THE PRINCE OF WALES. A MARRIAGE OF TRUE HAPPINESS

by the Special Committee on Food-grains with regard to the Indian rice industry are embodied in a report on the Trade Indian Rice, to which are appended two further reports or the Prodaction and Lees of Rice and the Ufiliation Burmese rice and its by-products, respec- tively. These latter reports

at the contained in the narrative of what it has

Imperial Institute. for the Commities.

In the main report reference is made to done in a life of about six months of active

the two branches of the world's rice traða existence. We have established a monthly

vit., the far Eastern branch, requiring *. review which is full of the latest infor

cheap rice for feeding the native popula mation of interest to traders kept up to

tion and the Western branch requiring. date by the close relationship we have

large qualities of a medium quality rico- established with the competent authorities

In 1912 the St. Andrew's Committee

product. The sources of supply of these and smaller quantities of a high quality on the spot. We have given letters of in- troduction to these same authorities to opened the way for clubs to adopt the

The Times of Rath Det publishes the markets are referred to, and sections are representatives of our members. We have lost hole penalty for a ball driven out

of bounds, but experience has clearly shown following

devoted to the following subject: the published interesting pamphlets of pro- that the players prefer to have the op- The keenest public

world's trade in rice; the rice trade of centres round interest posed colonial taxation and the finances of the N.E.I. We are in close touch Portonity of continuing the same the Prince of Wales; and though there India with the British Empire and with fortiori, the man who has lost his ball on the is the strongest desire to respect his

the Continent; importa, exports and home with the leading commercial officials in course should hare the same chance privacy the public watch him with almost consumption of rice in European countries Java, who have proved their appreciation of

out the hole. Modern parental anxiety. Everywhere fervent playing

and the United States; the comparative of our efforts to improve trade relations golfers may not be vitally concerned wishes for his health and prosperity are set of bandling, willing, and transporting between the United Kingdom and theth historical matters, but it is into the staple of conversation. I would be rica in the Called Kingdom and on the Archipelago by supplying us with much resting to point out that the new rule co strange if the topic of his marriage were Continent. The industrial uses of rice are most valuable information, which would incides with the original St. Andrew's canon that very often, on the lipe and hear to the also dealt with and series of statistical not in the ordinary course be given to of 1754, which reads: "You are to go back hearts of his countrymen and country tables form an appendix to the report

In 1918 India (chiefly Burms), Siam Lod. individual inquirers. This has enabled us to the spot where you struck last, drop women Hex, and the mari Indo-Chins together contributed 04 per

another ball and allow your adversary age of the Prince Wales is inevitably -to supply certain of our members with in-.

a stroke for the misfortune. With matter of deep public concern. We desire cent. of THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE formation which would have been other the exception of alight variation to speak of it with proper maticence the amount of the Indian exports roughly

the world's exported surplug rice (including paddy, ...

unbusked rice), | wise unobtainable. As 8000 29 our 1982 when the penalty was altered believe to be the real anxiety of the counter gang those from Indo-China sad Biam ...

the wording the code. remmiast in forve pressing within these Hnances permit we shall establish our own agent in Java, with a suitable staff to to the loss of the hola. To preserve out that he should make a wise choice. The combined. The total Indian export- enable him to keep us almost daily Informity in Great Britain, and the United war, in this as in most other things, leat to the total requirements of the Bri has,(2,450,000 tons) is approximately equiva

·formed of commercial developments. He States it is to be hoped that all golf clubs we believe, wrong rak elsewhere the Empire from the three chief exporting

Wrought great change will work hand in hand with the repre- will exact the same penalty for a ball able Ompire would, we are convinced, be countries. From the point of view of

public sentative of the Department of Overseas driven cat of bounds Tons of stroke

strongly

averse from the thought that self-supporting Empire therefore is would Blairfield, Deal; and other well-known clubs William Clark, by honouring us with his presence to-day has given us the most exset the full punishment, while the majority of Prince of Wales to make a marriage of sole source of supply of rice to the Empire.

smaller

clubs only require the player to policy. For him, within the comparatively. Among the recommendations mado signal proof of the official interest taken toe distances. It is supopaprehensible that or narrow limits that his position must im- the Commities are suggestions for modi in the Chamber's welfare. Our agent man who has made a wild shot out of bounds pose y will also maintain and even improve the should be let off more cheaply the line, it is our way to believe, mesas marriage of vier noce milling industry of India. upon him, the British people weald fications in the handings of rica exports wish a marriage of true happiness, and this, in the official Indian Trade Beturns, with very cordial relations we have had the opponent whose drive, a yard

development of the good fortune to establish with the Colonial has bear trapped in a deep sad yawning inclination. It follows naturally that the important rice milling trade authorities. He will further receive cavern from which it is a matter of grave hope for him is that his wife may be one of Since the report was made alterations en and distribute our members' carlogues doubt whether be will be able to recover his own race; for, though there have been the lines suggested bare, been

made and assist to the utmost of his power any in his next shq

fortunate exceptions, it is certainly true that the Indian Trade. Returns, Certain agents they may send out

marriages of policy with Frincesses of foreign changes in the

headings of the rics exports birth always primary in

Returns of the United dition for happinets arther than to give also suggested the Coisinitos dan smake expression to this national with for the recommendations for the regulation of Frince we shall not go adding only that we foreign interests in the Indian rics tradit. doubt whether there is now the need that and the reconsideration of port charges. there may have been before the war to limit and railway rates which at present con the choice of the Prince to the circle of the stitute severe handicap on the British Blood-Royal"

rice trade in competition with the Con- tinent.

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TRADE - EXHISITIONS. ~ str **Our second hope is to be able to estab needed to bring home to British manu

fish ourselves in more central quarters, facturers and merchants knowledge of the where we shall be able to provide a room vast resources of the rich Netherlands where British and Dutch affiliated mein Indian market before the supremacy in bors can meer and where all pertinent it was snapped up by others. No one trade literature will be available. Thirdly, has any axo to grind and no one makes we hope to establish exhibitions once or any money out of it. Indeed, its chief twice a year, at which Netherlands Indizo promoters and subséquent supporters ste exports will be shown side by side with Bris which are already long established samples of what our trade rivals, Euro-) In the cerchipelago, but who are large pean, American, and Asiatic, send to the minded enought to see that there is room islands. Feara -of Dutch hostility have for all to share in its huge potentialities been expressed. HE. the Netherlands and who have realised the value of com Minister has honoured us with his pre-operation.

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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

ADMINISTRATION ORDILA BY JAKOTCOL La Qu BIRD D.§.0,"ADMINISTRATIVE

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Friday, 10th December, 1920.

Drill and Musketry Parades for the Infan

try Battalion will recommenco, on- Monday, 13th December at 5.30 pm at Headquarters

A survey of conditions in the United Atates issued by the Irving National Bank sence here this afternoon. No further Jonkheer van Swinderen, the Nether- has this to say o on the subject of immigra answer is necessary. The Americans are lands Minister in London, in proposing a tion making strong running in the NE.I. by vote of thanks to Sir Walter, aid he in inanigration, despite very means of the cinema and other forms of coud assure them they would always find steerage rate, there has propaganda. That this is greatly appre- the Netherlands Government moet ready increase recently, Ellis Taland' capacity at ciated by the Colonial authorities is provod to help in promoting British Commerce present is overtazed. During tho bacal by the fact that the U.S.A, is one of the with their Colonies in the East Indies year ended June 30th, 1920, according to First countries to which the Netherlands Sir Wau Chark, K.C.S.I., who seconds latter from the Governmen bureau, there Indies Administration has turned in-puted, referred to the close co-operation that were 330,509 who entered this country, hat ting in execution the new scheme for existed between the Department of Over migrated, leaving total addition to our

during the same period 290,273 people, Part making the products of the archipelago seas Trade and the Chamber of Commerce population of only 10,390. Since the date better known in the world. To our sitame in developing British trade abroad. He mentioned there has been an average be it said, the UK. has not been so believed that their commercial prestige erense, in both movements. Te July 66,103 honoured, and again I say Wake up." was higher in the world now than ever and in August 57,874 immigrants arrived In conclusion, I would remind you that before. (Applause,) the Chamber was created because it was felt that some auch organisation was sorely

Amongst thost present at the meeting was Sir W. N. Duniate, British Consul

and in the same months 32,935 and 36,932 departed. The total immigration for the calendar year, through to August" "alat le

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