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THE - HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMFER 16re, 1923.

B. PRODUCE OF MANILA.

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OF ON THE MARKET.

SOLE AGENTS

† THE CROWN COLONIES ARTIST'S tragic loss.

INCREASING DIPORTANCE TO

THE EMPIRE.

At the fired meeting of the Economic Con- ference on October 2nd. Mr. Ormsby-Gore ld In saying a few words on behalf of the Colonies and Protectorate. I would like to emphasise the fact that'in me doing s further new precedent is being set. This is the first occasion in the history of these Conferences that a special representative] has been separately detailed to present the views of those other Possessions of the British Crown, which together with Great Britain, the six self-governing Dominions and India make up the complete British Empire.

The Colonies Proleterates, and Mau- dated Territories in whose name 1 speak comprise an area of about two million square miles, and contain a population of over fifty millions. Of these approximate ly forty millions are of African race, With the exception of Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Palestine, Bermuda, and the Falkland Islands the whole of these per ritorie is in a belt round the globe wholly within the Tropies of Cancer and Capri.

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Our oldest and most historic colonial pos sessions, with the single exception of New- foundland, are in the West Indies Parallel with them lie the four important West African dependencies, of which ranks after India and Great Britain as third in population ull, the countries of the Empire.

J. PENNELL'S LIFE „COLLEC "TION OF PICTURES TOTALLY DESTROYED.

New York, Septetaber 20th, The loss of almost all his etchings and oil paintings except those in private collections and museum, has been announced by Mr. Joseph Peonell. Work that has axupied the famous American artist since 1900, ax correspondence with famous men of the well as his own and his wife's library, and

last contury, was destroyed by a flood is London storehouse, the basement of A where 30 cases of their belongings were placed by the Pennells in 1917.

In his statement Mr.

Pennel said: We lost our very lives in this tragedy. Every

ail. painting I mad in my life, thing laboured on From 1900 until 1917, had never shown because I was wait 1g to make a 10 strike or a finen on them were utterly ruined."

Much of the material was destined for the Congressional Library in Washington, M, Pennell's collection of cool books, and to be the finest in the world, was in the 30 destroyed casen,

formed an Advisory Committee Composed of some of the leading persons engaged in the trade of particular tropical Colonies or groups of colonies who can assist me during the Conference with expert knowledge of commercial condi-

is to endeavour to bring before, not only the représentatives of Great Britain, but also of the overacas delegations, the growing importance to the Empire as a whole of our great tropical Dependen- cien

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THE PHARMACY,

In East and Central Africa we have a continuous belt of territory from the Up per Nile to the Zambesi confided to our direction and development, containing a population of twelve million Eastward again we have the islands of Mauritius, the Seychelles, and Ceylon. Then the Malay Peninsula and Hoogköng. Eastward again Fiji and the groups of islands in the Southern Pacific.

To Great Britain and the self-governing Daninions that lie within the temperato zones this belt of tropical possessions is be coming of ever-increasing importance, both as the main and, most secure source of supply of essential raw materials and a steadily developing market for manufre tured goods and those other raw materials and foodstuffs, wuch as wheat, which are not produceable in the tropics,

TROPICAL RESOURCES.

If we could but increase the production for export of this fifty millions of people by one pound per head we should not only obtain fty millions more of materials that Great Britain and the Dominions alik require, but at the same time create an additional purchasing power of woods which we, in the temperate zones and in or factories, can provide

An Imperial Economic Conferee that merely concerns itself, with the "economic relations and encamerce of Great Britain on the one hand and the governing Dominions on the other would be leaving out of the picture considerations which will grow in importance as the present The comparatively re century advances, cent developments of mutual trade be tween Canada" and the West Indies, he tween, New Zealand and Canada with Fiji are but the first step of the realisation of the need for a more comprehensive Imperi- al vision of our mutual economic inter. dependence,

In Great Britain we are specially alive. to the need of becoming less dependent on the United States of America and its dependencies, for such essential tropical materials as cotton, sugar, and tobacco at a time when we have to make large annual payments to the United States on account of a debt-contracted on behalf of our common effort in the Great War. It is to the interest of the whole Empire that we should all co-operate in develop- ing the vast potential resources of our tropical possessions, huniane as well as merely material, and that we should not only direct production to the most needed channels, but also do what we can to use within our Empire the varied products of our Empire.

In this inst connection "I was informed only last week that hardly an ounce of the coprn of Samoa (now a ward of the Dominion of New Zealand) is shipped to British ports, practically the whole of this

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Given the application of capital and trained intelligence, we could produce those materials, such as cotton, sugar, Forean Exhange ou the Principal Cities of Bax and silk, of which there is either a the World bought and sold.

world shortage or which are at present

in the main produced outside our Empire. Better transport facilities both internal

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and external, better education, both of

the skilled direction whether in, produc-

of the actual untive producer, are urgent-

ly called for. There is a real demand:

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If we do not take the opportunity, others will step in and reap not possibly a quick profit in the first few years, but a certain profit and secure advantage in the long run. All that can be done by Governments to stimulate and direct, whether by preference or otherwise, the fuller use of Empire products in the Various Empire markets and Empire factories should receive our consideration, and if Governments give this lead, it is to be hoped that private enterprise will respond

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in some canes, separately to the delega. tions of particular Dominions, I have just (Continued on next column.)

O. OHAMPKIN. -

Manager

12, Des Voeur Road Centist, Hongkong.

STORE

TUSICAL

MUSIC

Telephone E711.

ERCHANDISE

All Purchasers: of“ Goods- પ્ર to $3 Value, in · Cash': will be given a FREE

TICKET to the Star Theatre.

OPENED

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Everything for the Musician.

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Devices to bring, under: the

NOTICE

of the Ladies of Hongkong that

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bas-arrived from Haris. with a consignment of the latest

PARIS CREATIONS

Winter Frooks..

including Race Frocks, Evening Frocks Lüd MADAME LAITE, who is well known in. Hongkong, has spent: Six Months in Paris devoting her time to a special study of the newest and most fashionable oreations as shown in the Paris salons, sad will in future be in charge of the Ladies' Dressmaking. Department at MADAME FLIRT'S

From To-day the Patrons of MADAME FLINT will be able to have any class of material made up under the supervision of MADAME LEMAITRE, thus placing the latest fashion ideas within reach of the most sensitive purse.."

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