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No. 21,198 號八拾九百登千安萬或第

日七月伍年丙

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1818, 1926. EXP

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

'WEEK DAYS

(6,40 |· 9,15 | 10,30 11.40 19.00

Tripo

|8.50-924) 10,29)

op 7,02 2.36 10.51

Talpo Market

Fanling Shoangshui

Haumeand

Dep. 718 0.49 || 11,04

Dep. 721 0.33 11.08

Shamchas

Shaungshai

Tanling Taipo Market

Tripo Ebatin

Yenmati...

A.M.

Noor

12.09

18.41

19.34

12.38

7.33 10.03 11.18

12.48

Dep 7,36 10.07 11,22

12.59

A77.43 10,18 1729 12.20 1939

9.14 5.28 3.51

...Dep. 721 8.05 10.88 11,40

P.M.

1.56

PM

8,00

417 818 6.08

...Dep

'738] 8,12] 10,45 | TX47

3,07

424.6.20

6.15

8.18 10.49 11,51

8.11 423624

6.19

Dep. 1.43

8.26 10.59 12.04

8.21 493 5,34

Dop 7,46

8.25 442

129 6.33

Dep. 7.58

8.38 456 6.51 6,48

Dap. 8.13

2.07 3.58

3,50 5,08 6,03 6,58 7.06 5.16 611

Kowloon,... Art. 8,30

STATIONS,

80111,04 12,07

8.45 11.17 1991 8.55 11.29 19.33 9.03111,37 19.41

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH,

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WEEK DAYS,

Fanting

Dep, 7.45 11,80 200 603 Bhatazkak...Arr. 8.40 12.25 3.15 7.20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

IX. I.X.

STATIONN

AX.

F.K.

Fanling... Dep. 7.45 11.30 8.20 6.25

Shatankok...Art, 940 12,95 415 7.90

STASTOJI,

WEEK DAYS.

AM. IM I3. Shatankok...Dep. 180 10.15 1.05 8.00 FaalingArt. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.55

STATIONS.

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

AM AM PM PM. Shataukok...Dep. 6.30 10,15 8,05 5,15 Fanling Art. 7:25. 1110 500 6,10 Farther information may be obtained at the HazzWay Orfiona, Kowloon, or from! Meure. Txon, Coox & 80 Ls,, Honexone, or from The American Expria UGM. TANT, HONGKONG,

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CANADA AND AVIATION.

NEARLY, NINE. THOUSAND. MILES MAPPED. IN ALBERTA, One of the outstanding features ol aerial photography is its wide peld of application as an aid in the development of the natural resources of the country, says a repart by the Topographical Survey Department of the Interior for In the Province of Alberta Canada. during the past year, using only one air-

The plane, over 8,000 square miles of territory wore successfully photographed. work was carried out from the High River Mr Churchill' has made it clear in air base by the Topographical Sur y in his speeches that he expecta a 5 per cento-operation with the Royal Canadian Air tax a yield £8,000,000, He bases his Force and consisted principally in obtais- figure on returns made to him to the ing vertical overlapping photographs trom

an elevation of slightly over two miles. affect that the turnover of legal besting is at least £170,000,000.

AN AMERICAN VIEW.

000 ON RETURN OF £170,000,000, Writing recently in the Christiān Science Ionitor of Boston, Mr. Frank

Options expressed to The Weekly Plachy, jr., commented upon the present condition and immediate figures of British Dispatch show that importeus and re- trade. He observed that the visitor to sing of bookmakers are con- the industrial centres of Great Britain vinced that the betting tax will become who goes without preconceived ideas and law and that they are making arrange with an open mind on the question of ments to, co-operate with the officials in

is it collection. whether or not Britain is done" is apt to find bimself embarrassed by the amount of evidence that the country is neither gone nor going but, on the con trary, is merely beginning the develop ment of its tremendous domestic and foreign resources. It is true there are aruall number of writers and speakers who declare that everything is going to the dogs, but the great rank and file of the people, whether workers or em ployees, ara soberly confident that the country is on a definitely upward trend. It seems to the present writer that this

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The major portion of the work done By knocking off £50,000,000 for bets Fas in connection with land classification, forest investigation and mapping surveys laid off and for avasions, the taxable in the district between Edmonton and amount is £120,000,000 which would Athabaska covered by the Victoria sheet yield the figure named by the Chancellor of the Section Map of Canada, and that Mr. Churchill stated in his Budget covered by the Fort Assiniboine sheet to speech that £250,000 is now being gather the west. The previous season's experi is a conclusion with which any fairminded in from the incomes of bookmakers, ments showed that, with the photographs and a certain amount has been collected available, the mapping work was so faci ed observer must agree.

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1911 the £170,000,000 estimate is any where near the mark, all I can say is the quarter of a million tax paid a very poor amount," he said It represents about pas-eighth per cent. less tangible but equally important, the turnover. Either there is a lot credit and finance, by which the entirosion, or bookmakers are fortunate

The party, without the use of the photo. enterprise gets into activity. There can

graphs, in previous years, was able to be no doubt that the world is steadily

examire and map on the, average 600,000 Bs far as the collection of the tax acres each season. With the aid of the Horexoxo HoTEL); cchieving stability, and that consumptive demands beget more consumptive de-concerned. I do not think it will photographs this party completed 1,178,000 mands, so that the ball of commerce, grows ateadily larger when it rolls the Proro pory difficult. True, there will be acres, or an increase of-06 per cent. Not right way, as it seems to be doing at is pistacies, but there will be overcome after only were the results more complete ansi Zew months working. Firms of stand-more detailed, but the photographs aro We recently been calculated in Get for ser many that it would take 10 years for that be accurate and truthful if they wish to vice to the geologist, forester and others country to refill the store shelves of be. immune from the heavy penalties interested in the development of the dia Russia if the Russians can get their own which will follow the discovery of false trict. affairs straightened out How busy returns."- Britain's workshops would be in filling the requirements of her own and hor overseas customers in a genuinely peace- ful world it would require a strong brush to paint.

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'MUCH EVASION.”

On the other hand a chartered account ant who has dealt with the income-tax returns of many bookmakers for a num- ber of years declared that there will be an enormous amount of evasion among the rank and file of legitimate book makera.

Another operation of considerable im- portance was the photographing of the Baskatchewan River Valley and adjacent": country from west of Edmonton upstream to its junction with the Olearwater River. These photographs were required for the purpose of studying and correlat ing the coal seams of the district and making other geological investigations. The great assistance rendered, to tho geologist by these photographs has been reported by Dr. Allan of the University of Alberta, under whose direction- the investigations wore carried out?

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The traveller through Britain's indus trial sections finds it hard to account for the table that the British are stubbornly opposed to progress, merely because it means change. On the contrary, it is im As it is," he said. "I am convinced possible not to be impressed with the that a large number of bookmakers do fact that they are up and coming. Any not pay their share of income tax. I can thing that affects the British textile in- tell, from, the legitimate returns I make

The other work done in this Province dustry affects the Empire itself. When for clients, that the average bookmaker artificial silk appeared on the industrial makes his business pay bandsomely consistod principally of photographing the The pur horizon the British were quick to aco ita That being so, I think Mr. Churchill's Buffalo Park at Wainwright.. possibilities, not only by itself but com- figure of a quarter of a million tax col- podo was to obtain at small expense and bined with cotton and wool. They were acted is a very meagre contribution from without expenditure of time a map of the KING EDWARD

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park for administrative purposes. certainly not caught asleep that time..

Unless the penalties for evasion are The success of these operations carried Their genius in textiles has been aided by two often overlooked factors, the re-made very severe mere sovers than they out in conjunction with the ground in markably favourable, influence of the present I believe that a certain Lancashire climate and the skill acquir-proportion of bookmakers will deliberate vestigations gives promise of great assist- anco to geologists, examiners, foresters ly dodge the tax. If their returns aro and others connected with the develop- od by generations of Lanenshire workers. This textile manufacturing ability ex-questioned they can easily say, Thero ment of the resources in enabling them to tenda to textile machinery, in which Bri-are my books, check them.

concentrate their energies on the investi "I can assure you that the task of gations in hand, having at the same time tain lends the world.

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a detailed and comprehensive view of the Another evidence of improvement is checking such accounts as

makors keep would be long and whole area under consideration. The the electrification plan soon to go into

tiresome."

elimination, of the mapping, leaving only operation. Britain has no water power,

the interpretation and study, should but it is a compact country with good and cheap coal" resources. By uniting

greatly expedite the investigations, says the supply of current, concentrating on production to Germany, Japan and other the report. the efficient plants and generating the countries. A good, fair price for an current at the pithead, economies will be article whose quality can not be question achieved that will give British manu-ed seems the logical policy for Great facturers power on a cost basis compar Britain and it is being followed, able with any country:

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A result which constitutes a record in aviation was achieved in connection with the above work. The officers of the air force wore successful in photographing, The British Industrial Fair, hold the entire district in parallel strips ninety jointly at London and Birmingham miles long with very few gaps and no British financial genine in overseas during the last two weeks of February waste overlapping. This was done over investments, insurance, foreign exchange in this year! much larger and in every territory a large portion of which is in and shipping require no more than a re-way more creditable than any of its pre- forest reserves hitherto unmapped. ference, and the manner in which foreign decessors, and is an impressive answer to any lack of originality, borrowers are now seeking the London both as market again shows that other nations quality or beauty in British industrial have lost none of their respect for the products, financial abilities of the Britisher. The fact that British insurance companies are able to acquire larger premium in had to pay the inevitable, economic price coines from their United States than from their home business is an interesting sidelight on that branch of finance.

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But when you talk to British mann the Minute states, and of this sum The reputation for quality which British goods have held for generations, facturers, exporters and business men in £140,000 will have been received under and which has been increased by the general, you get an indefinablo feeling the existing arrangements by the end commercial trend of the past five years that under the resources and the experi- of the present financial year. The Colony in Great Britain, is an asset. which will once acquired in two centuries of world has now offered, in addition to paying not be lost. British industry in nearly trade. they are counting something deeper the whole of certain outstanding advances overy line is going in more and more still, something in which they have from the Exchequer, to pay over the for the quality product, leaving mass the utmost confidence their own straight whole of the outstanding balance of

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