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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 1925

XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS.

We beg to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Rates →

No. 1 HAMPER-$36.

1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial

1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port

Champagne.

1 PL. Blackberry Brandy. 1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brazdy.

Qa. King Gro, IV, or Perfection

2 Qts. 8. Julien Claret.

1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry R.3.

1 Qt. D.C.L. Uld Tom or Dry Gin. 1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 phial Pomeranzen Bitters.

No. 3 HAMPER-$26.

Whisky.

No. 2 HAMPER-$30."

1 Q. Guillemart Champagne.

1 Pt. D.0.3.

1 Pt. 0. F. Peppermint.

1 Q Burgorne's Burgundy,

1 Pt. D.O.M.

.2 Qts. Sup, R.O. Port.

2 Qu. King Geo. IV. or Paffection

Whisky.

1 Q. Martell's XXX Brandy.

2 Qta. Tawny Dry Part.

2 Qts. St. Julian Clare

1 Qt. D.C.L. Old Tom'or Dry Gin."

1 Qt. Vino da Püsto Sherry.

1 phial Pomemazan Bitters.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

Qts. King Geo, 1V. or Perfection

Whisky,

+

1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy. 1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry W.S.. 1 Qt. D.O.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Qts. Medoc Claret.

1 phia Pomeranzin Bittera.

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KUALA LEMPOR

A typien advertisement in a local

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SCOTTISH SPORT.

the.

Werd

CLOSE FIGHT IN RUGBY. SCOTLAND'S WIN AT CARDIFF.

[FROM GER OWN CONRISPONDENT.]

EDINBURGH, November 4th There were no surprise resulta in Scot tish Rugby, but Heriot's F.P. found it Wanted.--Tapping contractor with more ditiicult than was expected to over- twenty or fifty really good tuppers come Glasgow High School F.P. This Must have satisfactory credentials makes the coming struggle for

Championship more interesting. High yielding estate both. per er Heriot's really off-colour, and will they within seven miles of Kuala Lumpur be able to tackle Glasgow Academicals The advertiser wants a Chinese can successfully? At present the odds seem tractor, and the facts that the estate is to be in favour of the Western toum. high yielding and thas it is near Kuala This, the first visit of Heritt's to Glas- Lumpur are mentioned in order to attract gow, brought thea close to defent; it Chinese tappers who are usually pait was a close call. In the end they de according to the amount of latex they fented the High School by points to can produce per day. As every rabber 3. but the latter on the run of play ware planter knows the Chinese tapper spares rather unlucky to lose acting on the neither himself nor the tree in his efforts | aggressive as they did for fully three to produce the utmost amount of latex. I parts of the game. The ability of the

seize their It is to his advantage to do so, and he Edinburgh side to ennnot be blamed. But it is to be hoped chances and the failure of the High that the practice of surrendering high School to take their numerous opportu a hard rather than a yielding rubber trees to the mercy of nities were the shiof factors in the re Chinese contractors and Chinese tappersaul will not become general in Malaya, el brilliant game. Nobody, of course, ex- the future of Malayan plantations will pected the Edinburgh Academicals to stiff be worse than their immediate past and chuck Glasgow Academicals, but it must only the present will prove any thing said for them that they put up a

fight. Watsonians won their match" with like satisfactory.

R.H.S. not because they played wel: but because they were not so bad as their Wanderers and Stewart's opponents. on the Borders. Principal results:- both found it hard work to avoid defeat Edin. Academicals, 0: Glasgow Acade

micals, 35.

for

from

It is admitted that the labour force which is now available on the rubber plantations in Malaya is suficient to produce 85 per cent, of the standard production. When the price. of rubber waa low, all the estates re- duced their labour forces in order to cut down the cost of production, and a large number of labourers' returned to their homes in South India" with tales been practically of woe. They had

turned out of the estates on which they worked, and to the masses in the Indian villages, among whom these returned labourers moved, one practical demon- stration was worth hundreds of pro- paganda pamphlets. When the prion of rubber began to improve recruiting started again, but the damage which had been done could not be easily repaired. In other words, the coolies are not com- ing into Malaya half as rapily as they departed during the slump.

It was

few

Watsonians, 6; R.H.S. (F.P.), 0. Glasgow High School, Heriot's

(F.P.), 6.

Jelforest, ; Stewart's College, ș Gala, 3; Edin. Wanderers, 3. West of Scotland, 11: Edin. Institu

tion, 7.

Hawick, 0; Langholm, 6. Melrose, 9: Selkirk, 3. Hillhead High School, &:

Academicals. 4.

Kelvin.

Fettes College, 35 Glenalmond, 8. Edin. Univ., 11; Wanderers, 3. SCOTLAND ., WALES.

Scotland mado i satisfactory start in her international series of games by de feating Wales at Cardiff by three clear CRY FOR TAPPERS.

goals. A week previously Ireland and of rubber England initiated the season's inter- Many coolios turned out estates, found employment in Federated national fixtures at Belfast, when a goal Malay States overnment departments, less draw resulted from the meeting, so that Scotland goes forward with a clear auch as the Railway and the Public,ead in the International Championship. Works Departinent, domestic service, "and as gardeners or water carriers. Now The playing of international games in the fore part of the season is an innova that rubber is booming the people ar sion which it was hoped would make it scurrying back to the estates and are ep- tirely dislocating the communal life of easier for clubs to release their players for international needs, a matter of con- the country. Tappers, tappers, and more siderable difficulty later on when fixtures tappers is the cry everywhere; even

were, apt to become congested. The in- ecolies who hid never before handled anovation, it is to be feared, failed of its tapping knife are joining the great main, purpose, for at Belfast Ireland was exodus from the towns to the estates,

weakened through the withdrawal of Ta 1989. Soon after restriction of chosen players, and Wales was similarly exports was established by law, a mild affected at Cardiff, Wales was further un- sensation was caused by the statement fortunate against Scotland in having their made by a well-known planter and visi mainstay and captain, Keenor, injured: ing agent for the Rubber Shareholders in the opening minutes of the game, and Association to the effect that, owing to being thus compelled to play practically the slump and the consequent neglect of throughout short of a player. These cir catates, over 500,000 acres were utterly curastaners considerably discounted the ruined The Federated Malay State Scottish, victory, and made the game Government, through its agricultural ex- little of a test of the merits of the vic perts, tonk great pains to relate this torious side. It was not until is minutes Statement and directly contradicted it so far as the reage was concerned. One of the agriculture. officers maintain ed that not evet: 30,000 acres had been affected at that time. In spite, however, of the restriction of exports, for mare than two years, the slump has been if anything accentuated, and no one will be bold enough to say that many large areas of rubber have not been utterly neglected during that period.

from the close that the Scots opened the scoring, and it may be said that until then honours lay with the Welshmen in holding out in their handicapped state. Scotland's failure to score earlier was due to faulty tactics and poor finishing. assoCIATION LEAGUE.

"

In releasing two of their best repre- sentatives for the International, Air.] drieonians were badly bit, and it was satisfactory in the circumstances that th The owners of rubber estates, small Lanarkshire club won their match with the Partick Thistle. In their game with and large, have been waiting for restriction scheine to justify itself, and Celtic, Dundee folded, the eleven that the a very small number indeed, have had previous week unexpectedly defeated faith enough to put their housey order Rangers, and against a Cellic cleven. in anticipation of the higher prices weakened through the absence of two of which are now being obtained for the their men engaged at Cardiff, mainged product. The is quite plain to anyone to secure a division of the points in a who goes about the country and ent see the feverish activity displayed every where in burning high allang jungles, in removing noxious weeds, in turning over the soil and in. digging drains. Even the very old rubber trees, which have been serving as shade trees-in some parts of Kuala Lumpur, are not apared in the attempt to produce na impossible percentage.

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goalless draw. Dundee did not play sol well, against Rangers, and in attack suffered by comparison with Celtic. Mirren made good their position at the top of the League by defeating Heart of Midlothian, and bid fair to hold that position in the immediate future. Mother. well for the second successiva week par. ticipated in a drawn game, and as consequence are two points behind the leaders. A drawn game of 9 each was

It appears to be certain that in, say, also the outcome of the meeting of

Bay next, very few estates will be in a position to produce 100 per cent.. infis

Dundee United and Morton, the latter opening the scoring aut again taking by some miracle the country is flooded the lead, but ultimately having to accept with Indian labour, the European staff

division of the points. Hangers suffer-

art doubled, and the demand for rubbered their sixth reverse, and are now seven continues...

RUBBER FAMINE IN 1930.

The question most eagerly canvassed at the present moment is what will hap pen when the May-July; 1926, quarter arrives should the price, remain in the, neighbourhood of the present quotations. It is presumed that while retaining the Stevenson, scheme and the law, operating it on the Statuto book, the law will be allowed to fall in abeyance, to be revived whenever the price falls below the pivotal price indicated in the scheme.

points behind the leaders. Principal re- sults:

Hibernians, 3; Falkirk, 1.

St Mirren, 2; Heart of Midlothian, 1. Aberdeen, 3; Kilmarnock, & Clydebank, 4; Cowdenbeath, 3, Celtic, 0: Dundee, d. Dundee United, 2; Morton, 2. Hamilton Academicals,

Park,

1: Queen's

Partick Thistle, 2: Airdrieonians, 3. Raith Rovers, 1; Rangers, 0. St. Johnstone, 2; Motherwell, 2.

the nervousness, of the rubber mar. kot due to fears that anything may happen between the end of one day and the beginning of another.

Oxe two of the wise men of the local rubber world, whose counsel is unques improved the financial position of many tioningly accepted by planters and companies and incidentally, of many athers in these parts, believe that there shareholders, the Stevenson scheme and will be a rubber famine somewhere in that is connected with it appear to 1930, and they urge the planting of hang over their heads like the sword of confident with rubber. If they are Dales It is not a healthy situation, so of the future there does not appear to be much harm in allowing the rubber market to adjust itself and the natural laws of supply and der and to operate. The atmosphere of the rub ber world would then be lean artificial and the market would be so hardened as to be able to withstand the so-called "machinations" of the buyers and manufacturers At present, although the high prices that are being obtained have (Continned as foot of neat O'nkáss.)

So far as Malaya is concerned the small boom which has been going on for the last few months hae revived trade a very great extent, Kenerally to Simultaneously living costs are going gr and housing problems are beginning to become acute. Erisk businoea is being' done in all estato requisites.

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