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YOKOHAMA, THOUSANDS OF NEW STAMPS.

RAM QUEUE AT AN EXHIBITION.

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Many fathers are having cause to regret the many changes postugo stamps which have recently occurred in various parts of the world, says a London paper..

Stamp-collecting sous are trying hard to keep their collections up to date, and as there have been thousands of new

used" have been frequent. -

asistance to buy a corking set of un-

Mr. W. S. Lincoln, the stamp expert. of Holles Street, Oxford Street, W., said issues in the last twelve-month runs last month that the number of the now into thousands,

Recently, too, there have been the Lenin mourning stamps ta Rússia, the the French Olympic Canca stampa, Byron centenary stamps in Greece, and the beautiful stamps issued in the United States to celebrate the expedition of Walloon Huguenots.

L'rince

WILL REMAIN A FOREMOST TRADE PORT OF JAPAN. The Nippo Yusen Kaisha issued a statement at New York last month as to the possibilities of the construction of a harbour at Tokyo in view of the fear anong shippers that goods consigned, tö Yokohama will suffer from insuficient accommodation. The statement acknow.issues since the war, appeals for financial ledges that the greater, part of Yoko hama's wharves, quays, breakwaters and other harbour facilities were destroyed and are not expected to be re-established very soon, but it contends that the solid

All the water-marks of the Colonial work for the construction and repara

stamps are being changed, he added, tion of the port is progressing saccess" and from a stamp collector's point of fully and shows great promise for the view these are a new issue of stamps near future, ami expresses the belief that the only road" by which Yokohama can attain to reconstruction lies, in the revival of the trade which existed prior to the earthquak. It is pointed out that

There have also been the British the Government spent 2,500,000 in har

stamps and the bour construction immediately after the Empire. Exhibition earthquake and is going to spend Pasteur stamps in Erane. Monaco-his Y.,000,000 in addition for the seasonals recently issued a set of stamps bear-1 1923-21 to Frçonstruct the harbour on a mire munitions scale than befor the representation of the outside of the The vessels calling at the Marium presented to the State by the earthquake.

Monaca poft at present reach a number that has "At the philatelic estibition held not lern sera since the war, but the Jag recently in Brussels a special set of four Chronicir remarks that the NYK. fails 5 frane stamps not of the usual colour to note that this is mainly due to the and with an unusually large margin large amount of reconstruction material were on sale. So auxions were people to imported and cannot be considered a buy these stamps that at one time there normal development of trade.

was a queue of 2,000 to 3,000 people wait. ing to go in the exhibition. People gards accommodation for enrgo, the statement gives figures to show that as started waiting at 3 am." against 124.242 tsubo before the earth- 180.191 tsubo," qiike there are now although over half of this is referrable to open depots. which were less than half of the total accommodation before ther

Lord Kylsant, Presiding at fourteenth earthquake. As for lighters great pro- gress has been made in restoring those annual meeting of Elder, Dempster & burned and missing. Before the earth Co., Ltd., on June 12th. Teferring to this quake they numbered 2.859 with a total possibility of cotton-growing in West tonnage of 227,010. Now they number Africa, said that from an examination 2,181 with a tonnage of 174.720. As of the garea of cotton produced in gards the chances of the construction of America--which had for long been the a harbour at Tokyo to compete with that world's chief source of supply-it wILS at Yokohama: the stalernent points out manifest that the time was so far dis that the scheme, which is one of long tant when the proportion of 61 per cent. standing, has not made any material of the crop now tillard by the Ameri progress up to the preseft, porbably can mills would have still further in. awing to financial difficulties. It may creased, had to such an extent us might possibly be realised some day, since it is render it impossible for the Lancashire felt to be a necessity, but the plans do mills to obtain a sufficient supply of raw not provide for making it a port of call cotton. It faen of such serious even- for ocean-going liners but only for constuality the British people were fortunate in possessing large and suitable areas for ing vessels of about 5.000 tons. The con-

cotton growing within their own Empire. sensus of publie opinion is that the build- ing up of a big port in Tokyo is not only annecessary but an unbearable financial The conclusion burden on the nation. therefore is that Yokohama will remain as one of the foremost trade ports of Japan; a position which will be strength- ened by the construction of the promised canal, between. Yokohama and Tokyo, a

As re-

EMPIRE COTTON RESOURCES.

HE WHO DOES"

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project which the NY.K. thinks will be do 100 things. We live in an age of SPECIALISM. Our speciality accomplished sooner or later.

is Eye Examination and making Quality Classes.

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The "British South Africa Co., usully known as the Chartered Cu, has declared a dividend of 6. per share the first. since it was incorporated in 1880.

A distribution is rendered possible by the company's surrender of ita adminis trative responsibilities.

If we

Memories of the high hopes held out on the City in the early days of the com- pany, when Cecil Rhodes used to preside over enthusiastic annual gatherings of shareholders, make the announcement of so salt a dividend after the labours of a generation appear almost Indicrous. says one of the London City editors.

During the South Africans "boom" of 18 the £1. shares reached £8. assume that an unfortunate purchaser at that price has forgone, mys, à per cent, per annum half yearly on his money since then, each of his shares has cost him Las 159. up to date,less the recent 5 share return of capital, or £35 108. net.

On this sura he now receives Bd, a share for a period of eighteen months- an insignificant percentage. The shares are now quoted at 10s. 74d.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS & TRADE. PARENTS' DIFFICULTY IN FIND ING JOBS FOR THEIR SOYS.. Widespread interest has been created by the letter in, The Daily Mail from Mr. P. A. Best, managing director of Mexrs. James Shoolbred & Co. Ltd., appealing to parents with sons at public schools to consider the possibilities, of a business career for them in this country before deciding to send them to the Dominions.

Letters bave poured in to Mr. Best from parents and youths expressing a preference for a career in this country. Reading the letters gives, the impres |sion that maby parents are at their wits Lend to know where their sons can find employment. Hitherte managers of big West End businesses bave complained that parents were unwilling to let their sons go into trade." Judging by these letters, they are now eager for these epenings.

Insurance is overcrowded," they com plain. "No vacancies" is the reiterated reply to applications to the biggineer-

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England cannot afford to lose her public schoolboys, and the sooner she realises that fact the better it will be for all concerned," says one parent.

One or two young men write rather bitterly after their failure to scoure ap pointment and declare that there is no alternative but to leaving England to try,

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