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High food value.

Due regard to food values is essential to health and consequent contentment.

A delicious custard made with good, sweet milk and the delicately flavoured

Brown & Polson's Custard Powder

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Made in Scotland, of the best ingredients only, by Brown & Polson, Ltd., the firm with over 65 years' reputation for excellence. Packed in tins, each containing 1-lb. oct.-

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16TH,

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA.

SALES

(Once in FOUR YEARS).

SMOKERS' REQUISITES

CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND TOBACCOS B.A.T'S GOODS

444

...15 PER Cast.

10

PRICES MODERATE.

(On the bases of Price-lists of July, 1922).

*

THREE WEEKS ONLY

(From 1st August' to 21st August).

STRICTLY CASH

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

38, Queen's Road, Central.

REMOVAL NOTICE.

HAVE REMOVED TO

No. 16, Des Vœux Rd., C., (Between Our Former Premises and Blue Bird's)

On display New Stock of

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THE DEMAND FOR HOUSES IN GREAT BRITAIN.

FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE

LONDON HOSPITALS......

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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-]

LONDON, Aly 13th.

housing the PEOPLE.

The correspondence columns of the daily papers bear witness to the extent of the anxiety felt by people who are at present protested by legislation in the tenancy of their houses, and are unable to find other accommodation should they be required tö leave or if their rents are unduly mised on the expiration of the Rent Restriction Act. This Act will'szpiro next June unless it is further extended. A strong demand ia being made for extension of the protection which is given to tenants, who are com- pletely in the dark as to the intentions of the Government. To every effort to obtain some definite" assurance the Government spokesmen in the House of Commous have mada evasive replies; and now, in order to

The men are also to be found among the bargain-hunters, for in these days all the great stores run extensive cutfitting depart inenta for them, and I heard of one place where the business was so good that the doogs had to be closed against further customers again, and again

There are many people who do not believo in bargains at the drapers' or elsewhere; bat I think the prices on such occasions are u fairly safe indication of the market values and general tendency of business. The Summer Sales this year afford evidenco that we are getting back again to something near the pre-war level of costs and com petition as between one place of business

and artheri

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At the present time one of the most strenuous campaigns that has so far been waged in the cause of philanthropy is pro- ceeding on behalt of the London Hospitals. For a long time the management of every Hospital in the Metropolis has been at a loss to know how to carry on. Last year the deficit amounted to £200,000.. Evidently something had to be done to ease the financial strain, as otherwise the use- MANILA - LINE—A weekly servico la maintained with Manfis by vessels with good

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device of the Coalition is ragorted to Committee has been appointed to consider the subject:

THE SHORTAGE

OF HOUSES.

There were hopes that by now, four years after the war, the speculative builder

BORNEO

made for public support Posters are to be seen all over London asking for help; and an ingenious, money-box is used for collecting Sushioned like a pair of scales, with a weight at one end representing debt, and a money-box at the other. The vary TIENTSIN cleverness of the contrivance tempts the

LINE

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afters Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan bý vwo 6,000 tome STANSERTE HIM. HINSANG and a.a. MAUSANG" bath stommen

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it is true that some houses are going they are not to be had by tenants even at high rentals; they are invariably for sale at a long price. The general opinion is

events of the effort was a ball at the Albert Hall under the personal presidency of Princess Mary, the dancers being in costume.

that the Government made a bad muddle | EMIGRATION.

of the housing problem. Immediately I am informed that the Government after the war the Ministry of Health set authorities hers are very busily. employed out with a great flourish of trumpets to in mapping out schemes for emigration build those homes for heroes" that the in conjunction with the Overseas Govern Prime Minister promised among other meuts, so as to put into practice the pro- things at the last clection; but there was visions of the Empire Settlement Act. no attempt to deal with the matter But it is at best a slow process. In the on a business-like basis, with the inevit-

nature of things, the British authorities able result that while many, millions were

cannot proceed alone, because although spent on bousing schemes up and down the taxpayer in this country will have to the country comparatively few houses were foot, heavy bills in connection with erected. Moreover, the houses that were these schemes the fullest co-operation put up cannot be let at rentals the working of the Dominions is absolutely neces- classes are able to pay, as the prime costs sury. Meanwhile it is to be noted were outrageously heavy, and therefore, the that the following figures showing tha position is that rents are fixed at a level position as regards emigration have which is hot enough to provide the sum been made available. During last year necessary to repay instalments of principal there went from these shores to Canada and interest orleans, the difference be 67,907 persons, Australia 27,751, New Zea- tween this rental and the tree economic land 11,513, and to the Union of South rent being made up out of the rates. Africa 12,908. With nearly a couple of Having created this state of things the millions of unemployed here it might at first Ministry on the plea of national economy sight be thought surprising that the figures suddenly dropped the housing campaign, are not larger, but the fact is that the and those local authorities who launched Overseas Governments are careful to out on comprehensive building schemes discourage indiscriminate emigration from with the promise of unlimited credit and here. They only want people with some support out of national funde are left to capital or at lease a definite prospect of make the best of a bad job,~;:

supporting themselves on arrival, for, owing to world trade depression, unemploy Britain ment erista abroad as well as in drat

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE »^

NOTE ABOUT BOOKS

The only hope of meeting the shortage is now the private builder, and it is good to know that the rings in the building trade controlling the prices of materials are being broken up. Prices are ia consequence tumbling down. To illustrate what is hap- pening I may state that in May last year doa-parlour house with three bedrooms cost £697; in November the cost had sink to £577, and in May this year the cost was down to £384. The cost of a house with a parlour and three bedrooms fell from £830 in May, 1921, to £400 this Summer. The cannot sell. One reason given for the. movement, therefore, is in the right direc-alcofocas of the reading public is, of course, tion towards the provision of houses.

MES, LLOYD GEOEGE,

Dame Margaret Lloyd George, wife of the Prime Minister, is now coming to the front in public in a way that she has not hitherto done. As the Prime Minister is so fully occupied he has had to forego many engagements, and it has occurred to the party managers that his wife can make a good substitute. Accordingly, Mrs. Lloyd George is being conducted round" the country in the interests of the Coalition. This month she is due to appear at demon- strations at Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter as well as a number of other places in the West of England, the arrangements being in the hands of special Committees. Mrs. Lloyd George is a pleasant, homely, lady with no particular desire for the limelight,

I hear that the booksellers and publishers are having a rather bad time at present, and the prospects of a good season with the new books that are available have not materialised. With the notable exceptions of the books of a few well-known authors like Arnold Bennett and H. G.. Wells there is not much business doing. Book sellers are loaded up with stocks, they

the shortage of money; but I am assured that more than this, Sammer Time is res which is afforded by the arbitrary arrange- ponsible. The extra hour of daylight ment of the clocks is devoted to sport and recreation in the evenings, and is, it is said, a serious handicap, to the book- selling trade.-H.B.

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especially as she makes no pretence to be 67, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL, regarded us a maker of speeches; but people like to see her in the absence of her distinguished husband.

THE PRIME MINISTER'S HOME,

Mention of Mrs. Lloyd George suggests a reference to a curious little ceremony which took place at Wandsworth when (£) granite tablet was unveiled at Glenstone Lodge, 179, Trinity Road, commemorating the fact that Mr. Lloyd George lived there from 1900 to 1904 The tablet was un veiled by Mrs. Lloyd George, and after- wards there was a reception by the Mayor at the Town Hail. In a glowing tribute which he paid to the Prime Minister, the Mayor said:"To-day in the eyes of the world he eclipsed all living men of our common race and stock. There had been nothing like his life's story in the history of mankind." With all due respect to the Prime Minister and the Mayor of Wandsworth I think this is putting it rather high.

THE BARGLIN-HUNTERA.

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