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BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL

HEALTH.

A PATIENT WHO DECLINES" TO DIE.

tion.

BY HARTLEY WITHERS,]

WEATHER KEPORT

Jute 17th at 1831-Pressure has increasi lightly at the majority of reporting stations. A slight deren is cold at Shangha

The typhoon wear the Pratas appears to have filles The typhoon N, e Formoen is either ling up or moving shawly methwani.

Manila warding:-1. Typhon N.W. of Naha

Mut

hanart moving 8.W. Reed. 164, 144,

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours.ending at 18 hours, July 17th, ed isch. Total vinos January 1st, 6.7 inches, against an average

inches.

The forcast for the 21 hours ending st 19 -hour, July 15th is as follows:

DISTRICT

A recent announcement to the effects warning-2. Typhoon W. of Balin- that the Government intends shortly, to set on foot an inquiry into the cause of our present trade depression will be gen erally welcomed as step in the right direct

It is true that inquages of this kind

lust air are apt to produce little but and, in the menntune waste a good dent of the valuable time of the distin guished and important gentlewer whe Conduct them: but in this case, the very curious and Luusual conditions, under which trade is at present enrried on ali ver the world, seem to make it worth while to have an official inquiry into the conservial health of the country, which has been the pioneer in cominereo and also in industrial prodution.

In view of all that has been said in the past half century about the certain doen is really rather of British industry astonishing to Gnd that there is still any trade left to be depressed and inquired about. Mr. Jagh Chamberlain's obser ithstries in the vations about dying, course of his great Tarifi Reforms cam Galen in the early years of the century have been quoted often as to have be

almost

it appears proverb. But from a quotation lately given in a letter ti the Tes that in thes, of last orn-

mori

21.

Suttha

tury Lordulph Churchill was even

and positive in his predi coneering the fations of British try, mach of which was, in his view, already dead.

Nevertheless, though there 19. satisfaction in seeing how many futral sermons have been reached in the past over a patient who at least can beast that it has outlived many of its mourners, we have no right to assume that warn ings about Britain's trade position ar necessarily unfounded today. All things come lo an end, and some day those will

hat us that be right who tell us the

set forever on Britain's trade supremacy. And those of us who are still most ce fident that there is life in the old couin-

tey yet anot get away from the u

nor-

employment Egures, which remain appell. it be to show ing, however easy MA that they are steadily improving, au that a considerable part of them is mal. In the face of this figure all evid

that howt ences that we see which seem to in spite of immense difficulties Britain is getting on a good deal better than might have been expected, might be regarded with some suspicion. Moreover, it is from the ranks of the industrialists them. selves that the most serious and weighty pronouncement now come concerning the outlook for our trade.

Lard Weir, in n letter published in the Times of April 24th headed Handi- caps of Industry."

Forura (hannel

FORECAST

Varialk winks.

moderate.

Hongkong to Gap Rock E. winds, meleraici

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fair to showery,

Senth coast of Chida between

Blangkong and Lamooks/

South coast of China between

Hoogkong and Finan

BONGKONG METEOROLOGIJAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, July 17th

Bansmeter Temperatare Hamidity

Previous On Deh On Pate

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-Wind Direction... Fore Weather..... Rain Hightest open-air Temperature on 15th Lowest open-air Tewigature an 17th

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Auchow, W River Korg mooд W. River

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Linkonghow. N River Shiuchow, Biver Jan shui, N. kiver ballung, E

River

Highest

recorded.

WL.

32 July 1

1924

Fest Fent

+*73 G

E.es +75.4-2.45

+14.3 -0.8

Feez

+140+1.43

+13.3+18.5

+35.81

+53 +5.7

+27 36 -6.01

+1.4 -0.8

+1.8 +3.3

** Rising. Erzisest-in-Chiel

Fo the 14th inst. try told us that "the gravity of our national and social posi- tion can be best apprecinted by compar

ing

in terms of man-hour effort the country's wealth producing

effort to-day

with its performance in 1913. Asstining HONGKONG SHARE MARKET

the

Our average

efficiency, he continued, formance today is approximately in per cent poorer than in 1913, and we have about 12 million additional mouths

Consequently, to fred. standard of living has fallen with conse quent dissatisfaction to many, and this has resulted in our unstable, industrial atriosphere and in a measure, our pre- sent political situation. Lord Weir went on as he said, to indicate certain ele. ments in the situation which any Guvern- ment whatever its label, may he expe ted to offer clear guidance, to the com-

munity First of these was t

the new rela- vity of remricultural wage

rates at a

n

level, the great

skilled industries of cotton, wood, coal, steel, engineering and shipbuilding, all more or less dependent on exports, with fin- wages below a decent standard, and ally the Sheltered or domestic trades and services engaged in distribution.

public utilities with very transport and substantially higher wages, In America reman- in wide temporary disparity eration inficted ruin.. on agriculture, which appear to be merely a temporary matter in such a self contained ecuntry But here Lord Weir fears that it is quite possible that the evil results may be per

"We

he writes. *be manent.

may actually in the process of mining the. very industries which pay for our food." He adds, that he is not cavilling at the high rates in the sheltered trades. bat is concerned as to the effects cof maintain ing to-day's new relativity. Ha shows who two years agu that the miner,

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and thus preserved mining employment TEL No. 209. now feels that he has been let down. because there has been no reduction in the cost of living which would have im proved his purchasing power. the other hand he sees"some trudes with wage rates rising

The posi cally with the cost of living trun of the employer is, in was equally incomfortable and

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If they

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they refuse the demand, there is a strike, and they are called "reactionare in the sheltered trades it is easiest to take a narrow view, grant the demand, and pass it on to the consumer.

Land Weir can certainly claim that he proved op

to the hilt the need for & thorough Investigation of the influence of the new wage disparity on the cost of living figure and on the condition of the sport, trades. From this inves tigation alone, he thinks can there be evoked the practical recognition by e ployers and trade unions alike, that bur- deas must be shared. If that recognition can be secured, we shall have gone a very long way towards opening the way to a great revival of British trade; especially if at the anmn time it is possible to institut fuller information concerning production, the lack of which makes ene a little optical concerning estimates of man hour effort and the like.

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