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HONGKONG

ENGLAND

via

CANADA.

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS! VICTORIA, B.C.

CANADIAN

NATIONAL

RAILWAYS

Separate and

distinct from

C. P. Ry.

A new, quick and economical route togo Home by.

Bookings made via all' Steamship Lines from Hongkong, commecting with Daily trains from. Vancouver BC

Fares booklets and all particulars gladly sup «plied in application.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS

Queen's Buildings. 3, Chater Road.

Phone C. 2004.

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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION

LONDON, HAMBURG,

THE

ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Yin Singapore, Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

"FARIS MARU “

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban and Capetown..

"CHICAGO MARD"

BOMBAY Via Singapore and Colombo.

"BURMA MARU"

"BHUNKO MARU"

BANGKOK. SAIGON via SINGAPORE.

"BUSHO MARU

CALCUTTA Via Singapore & Rangoon,

"HAQUE MĀRŪ” (Valla at Penang)

Wednesday, 9th Apr:

Wednesday, 23rd Apr.

Friday, 4th Apr. Wednesday, 16th Apr. 7

Thursday, 1st May

Thursday, 17th Apr.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

BLOW TO TAX EVADERS,

SOMERSET HOUSÈ SURPRISE.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3RD, 1924

ENGLAND'S DRIEST TOWN. Į

Which is the uberest large town, in the United Kingdom The hour is claimed ? In amplification of a brief telegrams by Plymouth Mr. H. H. Sanders, the ww reproduced recently from an Indian Chief Constable, has prepared a return paper, we quote the following from a showing the procedings for drunkennes London paper revived by the last maitin 13 towns of more or less comparable This pits Plymouth in an exalted Somerset House has thrown a bombshell potius at the top of the table for uly among hundreds of people who, by residing 90 men and women were proceeded against I thas six months in England and then there for drunkennes last year, giving g going abroad bag and baggage, have evid

of 147 per shunsand of the est the demands of the income-tax collector,

Strand

Such people have thought they were within the law which provides exemption from taxation for persons not ordinarity resident here.

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many prosecu

as compared with 5,310 or 6 pr at Liverpool, shoe recant is the worst of all the great towns Portsmouth. and Dockyard pince, with emlitions close

approximating to those at Plymouth, This methed of tax evasion," a high had waris three times ellicit of the Inland Revenue Department tions for drunkenness per thousand of its said to a Pass representative, has population. Another point upon which Ply. come so widespread that we have been mouth is priding itself is that not a singl sollier, or marine-- forced to net, for hundreds of thousands Servier man-nilor,

drunkenness. was preceded against pounds have been last to the Exchequve,

EXEMPTION LIMITED.

INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

SAILINGS SUBIECT TO ALTERATION.

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"FOOKSANG"

"YUENSANG"

FAUSANG"

"HANGSANG"

STRAFTS & CALCUTTA MANILA SHANGHAI TM SWATOW BANGKOK Tia SWATOW TSINOTAU vs SWATOW &

SHANGHAI...

via SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI via SWATOW"

MANILA HAIPHONG HOINOW TSINGTAU SWATOW

SHANGHAI

BANGKOK HOIHOW. KORE is MOJT,

KOBE via SHANGHAI SANDAKAN

"WAISHING"

KUTSANG

5th Apr., 11.,

...Thursday. Saturday, Sunday,

3rd Apr., 3.10.

8th Apr., 7 a 13h

Tuesday, 8th Apr., Noen.

Wednesday, 9th Apr. 7am. Wednesday, 9th Apr., Jam.

"CHEONGSHING.Wednesday, 9th Apr., Noen.

"FOCSHING

LEESANG

"SUISANG

...Friday,

11th Apr., 7.XX Saturday, 19th Apr., 11 m ...Sunday, 13th Apr, 101...

"KWONGSANG" Wednesday, 16th Apr. 7 am.

"CHUNSANG'

"HOSANO

"LAISANG “

...Friday.

18th Apr.10.01.

Friday, 19th Apr., Noon.

Friday,

25th Apr. 7 MIL

"MAUSANG* ... Wednesday, 23rd Apr., 1 pm.

are attributed to the improvements in the of these evadel premise, the reduction in the CALCUTTA LINE-This Line now affords regalar sailings to Calcutta, Penang and

There is a whole culopy, ers in the south of France" he continued. *** In the first place, these people are under a misunderstanding. The residential quali feation of six months applies only to people coming to this country, from th Dominiony or a forviga eintry, and then only means that any incune they may derive from their country of origin is not taxable here if they stay low, than six month every penny they earn here is taxable.

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number of houses, and the picture theatre, which according to the Chief Cap-talılar, has proved to be the greatest enemy of the denking bar"

Singapore; returning from Cakatta steamers proceed via Straits and Bongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. All stesiners" bave excellant passenger accommodation, fitted with Wireless and curry a fully qualified Surgeon.

SHANGHAI LINE

The

And

vis Shanghai.

kre

pozituately every three days between Canton and sometimes calling at Sratow. Through tickets can and through Bill of Lading are issued to all Northera LINE-A weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger sccommodation, sailings from both ports every Saturday, HAIPHONG LINE:-Salling approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at

Hoihow toth way. BORNEO

Hy 4,382 votes to 1,6 members of the Law Society have rüjected the propoval MANILA that solicitors should have audience in all courts co-equal with barristern.

"GLEN LINE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES." FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND

STRAITS

Most of the evaders are persons in 199 eipt of fixed incomes who before the war could live quite comfortably their money and pay their taxation without trouble. Now, with increased taxation and the decreased purchasing power of the pound, they find it difficult to maintain their former mode of living. They have got over the problem of evading Incore fax in the way described. A man withEE Motor Vessel £3.000 a year would save nearly £700.

HELP FROM THE BANKS.

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*

"GLENS FANE"

having arrived from the above ports, ConsigneBA We have had to get at them at the of cargo by ber are hereby informed that all source of their income, and we have air-goods are being landed at their risk into the cularised every hank in Great Britain and hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns Northern Ireland telling them that why of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and ther a man lives abroad six and a half Godown Co., months of the year or not his income must') wharves Ltd., Bentes: najor from the!

MAY be obtained.

be taxed. The banks will make the nece sary deductions from all dividends receives by them on behalf of such client. If tho clients think they are wrongly assessed they canonicate with us

Directly the true meaning of the ex-

Goods not cleared by the 5th April, 1994, at Noony will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages

where they are to be left in the Godowns, be examined in the presence of Consignees by Mess. Goddard & Douglas April

AM Claims against

on. 4th

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER via Shanghai and "ption has been brought to the notion of Bristeamer including hose for cargo short

Japan Ports.

BORNEO MARU”

"ANNAN MARD*.

"ALABAMA MARU”

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ני

REVENUE DODGERS.

they were in the wrong.

13th 15th

Sunday, 13th Apr.

Beginning of May.

NEW YORK via Japan Ports, San Francisco and Panama.

JAPAN POETS-Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Yokkaichi and Nagoya,

"HAVANA MARU"

"ALPS MARU.

ALABAMA MARU” .....

"ANDES MARU*

KEELUNG via Swarow & AMOY.

KADO MARU"

"AMAKUSA MARU”

TAKAO TIR SWATOW. & AMDY.

-KOTSU MARU”. -

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

3rd Apr. 19th Apr. 15th Apr.

Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday,

Sunday,

6th Ape, 11am Sunday, 13th Aŷr, ilam.

Thursday, 10th Apr.

Telephons Nos. 4C88, 4089, 4000.

For further particulars please apply to--

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. E. SHIMA, Mauger.

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY,

(ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION CO. ON BATAVIA)

HE STEAMSHIP

THE

"VAN CLOON "

will be despatched to

SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN-DÉLI DIRECT;

on 10th April, 1924.

1st Class Fare to Singapore-$100.

This vessel offers excellent saloon accommodation.

All lower berths.

English cuisine.

Doctor carried.

Wireless telegraph.

3. Christopher Bick writing on this subject to the Daily Mail saya —

The Inland Revenue Department has declared war upon the people who deriva their income from, this country and evade payment of taxation by residing for less than six months of every year in England Means have been found of making these

evaders pay

But there are ather-and smaller-offen- ders who are harder to deal with.

delivered must be presented on the special form, prodare of arrival, otherwise they will and must also be submitted

within 80

not be recognized.

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No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in any case whatever, i

Bill of Lading will be countersigned

JARDINE MATHESON & Čo, Lip,

Agenta. Hongkong. 29th March, 1924.

LINE-Fortnightly sailing to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 ton steamer, L. HINSANG" and .. MAUSANG," both steamers Cargo taken on having excellent passenger accommodation. through Bill of Lading for Kadat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu

TIENTSIN LINEA regular service is run from March to November between Hong

kong

g and Tientsin, occasionally calling at Weihaiwei and Chefoo. BANGKOK LINE-A weekly sadrice is provided between Hougkong and Bangkok via Swatow by five steamers fitted with ap to-date passenger accom- modation.

CALCUTTA

LINE

SS. FOOKSANG" will be despatched on or aboüt Thursday, 3rd April, 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG

& CALCUTTA.

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, PORT

SWETTENHAM and. DUTCH EAST INDIES.

For Freight or Famage apply trum

JARDINE. MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

GENERAL MANAGERS.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCRAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

TELEPHONE NO. CENTRAL 215.

CO., LTD.

AND

The owner who has one or two dogs is CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION honest enough, but you may rest assured that three feences often suffice for tour

dog, and that where the number is EatONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

"RHESUS"

so is the evasion. After all, the country constable, merely by passing the gate of a ere bereby notified that the Cargo will be brican

hardly be expected to know the discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where exact number of dogs kept there.

it will be at Consignees risk and abject The tax 04 men servant is fifteen bo terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery the employer does ax from Godown on sud he landed, unless notics

and after 31st March.

shilling any ease, tions. pay on a fait inbourer, or even on a gar deuer why does only rough outside work and is paid labourer's wages.

but there arè, very many exṛmp.

But many an employer ses an outdoor man for occasional indoor service or for

cargo will

given prior to Steamer's arrival. All broken, chaled, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will De examined

1-of-1774 and Fridays

driving a car. He is safe so long as the between the hour period

servant spends only the smaller moiety of h employed time in services of this kind, but if the limit is exceeded he at once he comes liable to the tax.

Then there is the question of the trades man's pony trap or car, which if it is to pay the lower duty must be used for busi less purposes only, and bear its owner's name painted upon it. This is an gruct- ment which is frequently broken, and msu- ally with impunity.

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But the Excise duty which is most com- monly evaded is certainly that which is demanded for armorial bearings. There seems to be a general idea that this duty is not payah unless the crest is exhibited on the buttons of servant's livery or Eluted on & cur or estrriage, but this is In connection with the Royal Packet Nav. Co.'s (K:P.M.) services very far from the letter the law. to all destinations in the Netherlands East Indies.

la actual fact, any person wearing or using armorial bearings, even at an vrhas meat, is able to pay the yearly guineo, And the rather cruel part of it in that it does not matter, in

in the eye of the law, whether

are yours OY SOM f you po into a pawnbroker's oli seal with 3 CreS

cut it and place this in your cabinet upon on it readers von liable to the tax. I It has actually been held that the wearing of a signet ring bearing a fun rampuzt rendered the wearer liable to thy sluty.

For Freight and Passage, apply to

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LYN,

Telephone Central No. 1574.

Y.

Agents.

YORK BUILDING, Charze KoLD.

K:

K.

Yamashita Steamship & Mining Co., Ltd.

Blasmship Owners, Shipping & Marine Insurance Broker. Coalmine Owners, General Goal Merchant

BEGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE

BETWEEN

KEELUNG, HONGKONG, GANTON & HAIPHONG,

For CANTON

Batting from HONGKONG.

For HAIPHONG vis Holhow & Pakhol

"For KEELUNG via gwatow & Amoy

For Further particulam, please spały tow

·Branch UfficO A

No. 47, Boulam Strand, Work,

Tel: Central Ao, 158.

8. KITARAI ASDET.. Top Floor, King's Building. Tel, Central No. 140,

1 body chin the

shop and buy a

Since there are few of us who do not own some article showing armorial bear ings of one kind or another, it follows that this particuins duty is more widely evaded than any other.

DINOSAUR EGG. SOLD IN NEW YORK FOR £1,050.

The market price of eggs ten million Tears old was established recently in New York when Mr. Austen Colgate purchased. one for £1,050 The egg was laid by a dinosaur in the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia, one of twenty-five gathered last July by Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, of tho Natur al History Museum.

It is to be deposited in the Colgate Muse. um at Hamilton, New York State. Mr. Andrews announced that all but £10,000 sterling of the £50,000 required for s fourth expedition to the Gobi Desert is now provided. The expedition will start next June to search for the missing link It will be equipped with wireless that important discriveries can be communica ted from the heart of the desert to the world.

A cable from New York in January said that £1,050, the price new obtained, was the reserve price, and that Lord Rothe. child was understood to bo bidding for 'an egg for the British Museum. "

within the free storage

sm, and Noop,

No claims will be admisted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goodi remaining andehvered after, the 7th April, will be subject to rent

All Cisims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the

1st April, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 31st March, 1974.

(672

GLEN

AND SHIRE

JOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.

U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.

Vesel

OUTWARDS.

Due Hongkong

... 4th May

*GLENGARBY" ‘GLENAMOY" *GLENAPF"

CARMARTHENSHIRE

17th Apr.

.. 18th May 29th May.

HOMEWARDS.

Vessel. Leaves Hong. Discharge

* GLENOGLE”

2nd Apr." Genus, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg.

Movements are subject to change without notice.

For Freight or further Particulary, please apply to-

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, THE GLEN LINE, LTD. AGENTS. Telephones: Central No. 215 sub-ex 29, and Central 3596.

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Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager;

R. M. DYER E. 80, MLN.A., Kowloor Dock, Horozor