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AIR MAIL SERVICE IN INDIA

SILVER AND EASTERN

HO

ABSORPTION.

!T, 1923.

Messrs. Samuel Montagu and Co. call Attention to an article in the Capital of Calcatta, which states" "If conditions im- prove in Europe it would mean that Laxos, April oth European countries would be better The question of starting an Air Mail buyers of Chios prodies All that wa Service in India was raised in the course require is & sindilar improvement in the of a discussion following the reading of producing market, that is in China, but paper by Professor Geoffrey Clarke, before unfortunately it is feared that China the Indian Section of the Royal Societ

of being in such & disorganised state, any Arte, on postal and telegraph work in inprovenant at present in Europe might

Colonel Edwards, Deputy Director of Air de 133

Orient takings of Transport, Bid that the

the past Occident commercial silver established at

India had been with the G

new high record fur last year at 131 which seemed to lock to the Elone Guvern million ozs. The United States shipped Tont give it the lead. The bugbear of to Shanghai, Hongkong India and the

to English aviation, fox, was almost non-ex Malay Peninsula about 67) milion ezs, istent in India, which offered wonderful pawhile the United Kingdom shipped last sibilities for air transport and a remarkable year about 61 million ozs., and Camila saving of time. Bong Lay to Rangoon at pre- about two million ozs. The total of sent occupied from three to six days, but by 139 million fine ez, establishes

could be done ning

Private

high for all time, and is a enterprise has willing to undertake the markable achievement in siry of the service from Bombay to Calcutta, if the

supposed sutarution of the Far East Government of India would provide ground

und with silver after the India imports of organisation, which would cut about Rs. 1919-1919 under the Pittman Act, and the lakhs, whereas only 15 miles of railway could

China boom imports of 1920-1920. The built with amount. Even today: figures show that there is semingly with

mschines, the mails could be

no limit to the amount of silver that can carrial

be absorbed the 100 million population

by of the East. Takings of Occident silver, principally by Shanghai and Hongkong. were 121.264,000 fine ozs in the boom year of 1990 and 102,319,000 ps in & record was 1921: In prewar years established at 118,983,000 ozs. in 1919 down to 100.205.000 ozs. in 1913,*

theorie fts per ton per mile. This

would be much reduced na time went u

Lord Montagu of Beaulica, who presided, expressed a hope for the early establish ment of auch services, despite the short-lived Hontap Karachi experiment. He consider

ધો. i would bo desirable to establish an air service from Bumbay to Calcutta and other places He thought that the tinie had come for a faster service, in point of time between London and Bombay. He said that on the

took it now average

15 days at an average

speed of 13 miles an hour. This was low,

new

THE CHINESE MARKET. BUYERS AND PRESENT PRICES.

ILT DA

with the Atlantic service. General Sir William Brancker wrote that the brief Bombay Karachi experiment Writing on the China trade outlook, the had proved that a long distanen was re- Manchester Guardian Commercial says:- quired for an air route to pay, and before The Lancashire manufacturer or mer starting auch enterprises there must be much chant who depends for his livelihoo! ou publicity and alucation of the public. The trade with China is not, we fear, in very Government of India was obsessed with itselwerful mol these days. The causes of financial dishesities and failed to realise the the present breakdown in trade enormous effect on the prosperity of the country of extending aviation.

Professor Gi

Clarke, in reply, said that India offered an enormous field, undoubtedly, but at present, there was nervousness on both aides as to its being rather a speculative business. The Government of India was reluctant to subsidies or guarantee Comcotton goods and silk gads has warrowed panies, while the latter were reluctant to begin without such guarantees

ECHO OF A SLANDER" ACTION,

LONDON, April 9th. An echo of a General Election slander action is afforded by a letter of apology from Major Ward-Jackson, the unsuccessful con testant at Harrow, 10 the reelected

Mr. Oswald Member Wand-Jackson refers to certain

Mosley. Major charges he made as an outcome of a lettor in the New Cambridge magazine of No vember, 1970, and says that he finds that the allegations in the letter were erroneous He now knows that at the Cambridge

Debate, Indian students to lovely, for from inciting the great traditious of British rule in India and urged the necessity for its continuance, and progressive. de relopument on the lines of the Montagu

future

Report.

Major Ward-Jackson accordingly asked Mr. Mosley to withdraw the notion, and the matter is now regarded as ættled.

CENSUS RETURNS FOR GREAT BRITAIN.

Lesbos, April 10th. The census returns for the countica are gradually nearing completion, and show the remarkable fact that, whereas accord- ing to the rocent general census, in the whole of England and Wales women are in a majority el 9.5 per cent, they are in a minority in many places,

notably in the counties of Durham, Lincolnshire, Mon- mouth, Brecknock and Chamorgan, and that in only seven out of 81 county broughs, do males exceed females.

The proportion of males to females, how ever, is much higher in urban and rural districts, and the Assistant Registrar- General is of opinion that the reason for the excess of males in any district is purely economic, or due to such mattera as the presezen of a military station or a large boys' school, while males generally predominate in mining districts and purely agricultural areas.

PROPOSED TAX ON BETTING.

LONDON, April 11th. Among the taxation proposals which Mr. Stanley Baldwin is considering, and which he is reported to favour, is a tax on betting.

The Customs Department of the

Treasury has been enquiring into the question during the past few weeks, such a tax being regurd

kindred to the Entertainment Tax which the Customs Department administers.

The

hepartment is not dealing with the

of the tax, but merely with it is practical, and the methods of Their application and the possible yield. report as to yield is believed to be favourable.

In the nsvipapers, the tax is calculated to

between $10,000,000 and £20,000,000. Filention of policy remains, and must be decided by the Cabinet, Already, formidable opposition if

growing that apart from the mis

it will, result in the

this

on

the blistered. licensed book-

chief of establishment of

THE REMINGTON PORTABLE

TYPEWRITER

For Father, Mother and Child

patent as they are essentially temporary SMALL-STURDY-STRONG-HANDY-EFFICIENT-DEPENDABLE

The high price of American cotton, effected in the price of piece gods, has brought about a wide divergence between the Chinese dealer's ideas of what cotton gods should cos: and the price which ho is asked to pay. The margin between

in favour of the latter. Also the Chinose to the bayer has hardly been educated general rise in the cost of production, which is a legacy of the war. High ex change obscured this element during the post-war boom, and all through the Bubsequent decline in the exchange it was neutralised by the constant stream of goods slaughtered" at 10 to 90 per entit. below the cost of replacement.

At the same time, the. Japanese have to some extent been able to rapture the

cotton

at

limited market for the cheaper goods, at prices with which Lancashire cannot present compete. However,

pricre should eventually decline and the exchange. should grow steadier, But what of the most disturbing factor of all—the incessant civil war, banditry, and lawlesshes, How can trade be possible when few merchants

re-

dealers dare bold stocks The trader may well ask whether a right to calf. determination carries with it n right to

war. China Tage an interminable quires to put her house in order, and na ective first step might well be the organising of the same public sentiment that must exist there in favour of an appeal for advice and assistance to the League of Nations.

CHINESE EGGS.

The latest Parliamentary reports show that on March 20th, Sir Sanders in- formed Mt. Hope Simpson (Taunton) that the numbers of great hundreds of eggs imported into the United Kingdom from China. were:-In 1813, 5,500: in 1921, 468,000; and in 1922, 1.057.000.

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HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

CLOBING QUOTATIONS.

APRIL 30th, 1923. Hongkong and Shanghai

Banks

1,330

24 A

Union Insurances... Steamboats

"Star" Ferries....... China Sugars

Langkate (Combined) Whampoa Docks ....... Shanghai Docks. Hongkong Hotels ......... Orientale

Cements..... Hongkong Hopes China Providents

Hongkong Electrica

China Lights

Hongkong Trams ...

$.431. sa.

54 K.

217 B.

TIL. 321 ».

..173 n

Tls. 104 b.

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Tla. 10 60.

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PLATE GLASS WINDOW. "Looking through my Toric lenses is has enabling as like looking through a fine plate gloss

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window," said an American lady, in the course of her remarks while in a tramcar

vocate the tax retort that it is illogical that the State should draw a huge revenue by taxing alcohol and should refrain from taxing bettings, which is no more injurious, the other day. She said just the right It is understood that the recommends thing. It cost a bit more to build a tions of affciale also include an valorem

Stamp Duty of 10 per cent on stakes, the plate glass window and it cost a bit more to make a pair of Toric lenses than the bookmaker being responsible for payment.

The problem of street book-making, ordinary flat kind. Torics are more then which is at presant illegal, has not considered by the officials, but it is point worth the small difference in cost to you ed out that if street bookmakers are not In the added comfort you derive from licensed their trade will become doubly their use. Torio lenson of any prescrip. illegal, because they will be defrauding

been

the revenue It is argued, on the one tion are manufactured by The Hongkong hand, that licensing will facilitate street and Optical Co., mocessors to Clark & Co, public house betting, and encourage illicit

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