Summit
DRESS COLLARS
To wear a Sammit Dress Collar is to apppreciate to the fullest extent what a difference the Summit system of quarter sizes-four sizes to every inch- really does make in the counfort and appearance of one's collar. By wearing a Summit Dress Cellar that isu quarter size smaller than the collar wern by day a fit is ensured that is exactly comfortable and comfortably exact.
There is no gulf between the collar and neckband of the shirt,
To-day's rogue is for a dress collar with wide opening and fairly long square-cut points, a5· expressed in Summit Shape 28 (as illustrated) or Shapes 23, 26 and 27 are similar but of different dopths. Each is a correct abape for Dress wear.
EVERY REQUISITE FOR EVENING WEAR
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30th, 1927.
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OUR POOR DAY
Thursday, 1st
December.
ANNUAL
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FOOD PRICES IN HONG KONG.
"SLIPSHOD" METHODS OF HOUSE KEEPING
CRITICISED.
LIVELY DEBATE AT SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
A COMMITTEE TO GO INTO QUESTION OF
MARKET RENTS.
At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board a motion was carried appointing a committee of the Board to inquire into the question of the readjustment of rents of market stalla The . question was originally raised by Mr. J. P. Braga who has taken Dr. W. V. M. Koch's place on the Board while the latter has been out of the Colony. Dr. Koch has now returned and moved the resolution to appoint this committee, which stood, in Mr. Braga's
name.
--- A ̈keen "debate"followed on the whole question of food prices and Dr. Koch had some candid comments to make on the "slip- Ishod method of housekeeping prevalent in this Colony Prices" were high because people allowed the boy to do the catering and take a much squeeze as he liked.
Dr. S. W. Tso favoured better market facilities and Mr. "Wong Kwong Tin, while sceptical of the etectiveness of committees, said that prices should be fixed by law.
Mr. W. J. Carrie presided over the meeting. DR. KOCH ON REASONS FOR HIGH PRICES.
These are matters which I might suggest should be investigated and
a matter of fact a ring will always exist in a market so long as stall- holders have an exclusive right, of selling food stuff within a certain ared known ཉན་ the "Market Limit." Within that are market) stall-bolders possess A monopoly and they soon found that it was to their interest to unite together and maintain high prices, whether they be new-comer or hereditary hoid- ers. Under the presont market sys- tem it is quite conceivable that a ring of stall-holders does exist.
The system of allowing hereditary holding in mrkets I consider but fair and reasonable. For it is most inequitable, if not iniquitous, to take away & man's business and business goodwill immediately after his death and to sell it to the highest bidder without any com- pensation whatsoever, especially when he has established and car ried on such a business for a nun- ber of years.. If the Government were to insist upon carrying out the rule of revising market rents every 3 years those stall holders who cari- not pay a higher rental would in consequence have their licences for
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feited, and their stalls put up for ST. PETER'S YOUNG MEN'S THE HORTICUL-
public auction. There would be no lack of competitors for them "in view of the virtual monopoly. The Government coffers would reap the benefit of such competition but the public would have to pay, Better Market Facilities The Need. In my firm belief that the re-
Dr. Koch said: In introducing reported ca. Competition shouldvising of market'rents is secondary the resolution which stands in my be permitted, higher rents with name would like to state that it consequent higher prices are
I is the outcome of the short dis-required. The authorities are not .cussion on the subject of Market out to collect high revenues,
Rentals which took place at a re-
With these few words, Sir, I beg cent meeting of the Board when to subunit the resolution which Mr. Broga gave notice that he stands in my name for considera- I would submit it. As Mr. Braga'e tion, and. I hope for consent of the
tenure of membership terminated Board. on my return I willingly undertook at his request to introduce it. And here I may perhaps be allowed to
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CLUB.
THE MONTHLY CIRCULAR FOR DECEMBER.
INTERESTING NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
TURAL SOCIETY.
YESTERDAY'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
MORE MEMBERS NEEDED.
to the more important question of better facilities for marketing in not this Colony, for example, creating The monthly circular for Decem
The annual general meeting of the more small markets or better still ber of St. Peter's. Young Men's the granting of "more, licenced pre-
Hong Kong Horticultural Society mises for sale of food stuff which Club contains an interesting re-
was held yesterday evening in the would do away with the market view of past activities and also limit" and encourage competition. comments upon coming events, in-Board Room of Messrs. Jardine,
MR. WONG KWONG TIN
cluding a function in connection Matheson & Co., Ltd. Mr. H. B. L THINKS COMMITTEES with the pending departure of the Dowbiggin presided and there was
Vice-President of the Clab, the fair attendance of members,
Addressing the meeting Rev. E. Copley Hoyle
the Chairman said that the annual show held last year was quite. a' success
Dr. Koch then moved That a Committee of this Board be ap- pointed, composed of the President,
NOT HELPFUL.
Mr. Wong Kwong Tin saids With your permission 'I should wish to make a few observations on the
before the Board.
The circular, states that the first Annual Garden Fete of the
congratulate the Board en the fact and Dr. S. W. Tso, Mr. Wong motion which has just been put Club met with a good deal of as regards the quality of the ex
that it had the advantage of the assistance of auch an active and vigorous member SA Mr. Braga
STREET SALE OF ROSES proved himself.
IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL FOR THE POOR of HONG KONG
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Kwong Tin and Dr. S. C. He, to inquire into the question of the readjustment of rents of market stalls and report to the Board."
The Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman accouded.
DR. S. W. TSO ON MARKET
RINGS.
It is, however, with reference to the appointment of a Committee to consist of you yourself, my Chi nese colleagues and myself, that I cannot see my way to be in accord. It is not the personnel that I object to, for in truth, I can find (exclud ing myself) no better man to serve in such matters; but it is the
hibits, but stressed the point that the shows were very expensive to organise, the cost increasing every
success thanks to the mergy and work of a large number of helpers, The total proceeds amounted to above $2,100.00. The task of alloca- tion has been left to the Finance year. The funds of the Society had Committee:
been reduced almost to vanishing point and the membership declined The Club has once again to from 279 in 1923, 931 in 1934 to the
Removal Of Club House,
Now this resolution really ex- pressed a pious hope that meros may be found and measures sug- gested for bringing down the prices of commodities. I wish we could institute the way Italy deals with such matters-the, Government fixed. But I think that the scope of honour of serving on numerous old Club House, which was head- should be increased to more than
Dr. S. W. Tso said: I shall be necessity af forming a Committee remove, and Executive Committee low level of 137 in the current year.
pleased to serve on the Committee which the Board has just appoint
that I query. In my connection with the Board I have had the Committees and not
decided to rent No. 86. Eonham This building is annexed to the was necessary that membership Rund for the Club's headquarters If the Society was to carry on it
that they have been particularly ed. The entire house has been helpful. At best, a Committee can renovated and repainted. It is only advise, but cannot decide. It hoped, however, that in the future! is a luxury, not a necessity. Is it may be possible for the Club to gest that the head of the Sanitary rent a room in the heart of the city. cient to deal with the matter; and is first necessary to consolidate and he may if he wish refer more dif- establish ourselves before costly ficult cases to the Board.
venture can be attempted. Arising out of this question of rent adjustment there is an omin- problem to be faced. A natural consequence of our attempt to revise the rents would result in & corresponding attempt on the part of the stall-holders to raise their prices."
DUS
Annual Meeting. It is proposed to hold the Annual Meeting of the Club at the end of January.
200 as soon as possible.
The speaker paid a tribute to the
retiring secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, who is due to leave the
whose work during the past four. years has been of inestimable value to the Society. This was re- corded in the minutes..
Question Of Expenditure. Dance: And Whist Drives,
The meeting was then thrown The Entertainment Committee opened for discussion, and the ques- have arranged to hold a Dance ntion of curtailing the expenses Lane, Crawford's Restaurant on Tuesday, December 6th. The music involved in connection with the will be supplied by the Titania shows Melodians" and the charge will be said that as all exhibitors, were was raised. One member
will also be a Whist Drive at the sportsmen, it really mattered very 81.00, ladies by courtesy. There Cathedral Hall on December 16th. little to them whether the prizes.
Farawell To The Vice-President,
and
souvenir trophies were costly. He suggested that this item should be reduced.
After farther discussion, the
is posted up in each grocery, but be clearly defined and understood
The subject before the Board is cher's and fruit shop, and if a cus- tomer is overcharged or gets faise the advisability of inadvisability of weights he complains to the police readjusting market rents by making and a heavy ane, or even imprison-hose stal-holders who are paying ment is inflicted if the charge" is a low rental pay the higher one Department alone would be suffi- The Club is but a year old and it Colony in the near future and proved:
their neighbouring stall-holders are If one takes the trouble to look now paying.
In the Red-book which was re- at the official marked list which is stated to be only a guide to prices,cently circulated I noticed that the rental there mentioned one must be struck by the fact that higher there is and has been a steady rise amounted to double or treble of year by year. Those who have that paid by previous holders when experience of housekeeping must their stalls were re-let. The reason realise this iact--if we go into the for this enormous increase should subject we must see that in addi-be carefully enquired into. tion to higher prices caused by Mr. Braga in his address to the
The markets are the only places higher rentals there are some con- Board at a previous meeting refer where meat may lawfully he sold tributory causes which assist this red again to the high prices of food and meat stalls have been known inflation. We have first the acar stutts in the Colony. This subject and on more than one occasion to city of produce, due to the polis Committee appointed in June 1990 That most of the increases in price was fully gone into by the Sub- have formed themselves into rings. disturbances in the areas of supply, and also the additional taxes im- of which the Head of the Sanitary may be directly traced to the posed before it reaches Hong Department, my colleague repre- efforts of these rings, there can be This with the well known senting the Chinese. Section of the little doubt. We would thus be Kong. economic law of supply and demand Community and myself were mem- pursuing a bad economic policy if On the 12th of December at 8.30 tends to put up the initial cost. bera. That Sub-Committee, though in seeking to augment the revenue P.. there will be a Social in the Everything Left To The Boy. Rossessing no power of controlling of the Colony we simply succeed Club House to which all members food prices, succeeded, neverthe- in raising the price of foodstuff in and their friends are cordially in- Another contributory cause is the less, to a certain extent in pre- the Colony. In my opinion the vited. The object of this Secial is Chairman' said that he could not lax and slipsbod method of house venting food prices from sorring up only solution lies in price control.
to give members of the Club and keeping prevalent in the Colony, to an extraordinary height during The time has come for legislation the Church an opportunity of announce the date when the next where everything is left to the boy. a most trying period of emergency, to provide for fair prices. It is my spending an evening with the Vice show will be held, but there will It is well known, or ought to be The only thing that the Committee suggestion that when we launch or who will be going home to England be a Committee Meeting called in
President, Rev. H. Copley Moyle, well known, that in most house could do was to interview, reason, scheme of rent adjustment we holds there is a system of squeeze and warn whole-sale and retail should ensure that it will not prove
at the end of the month. The deuf about a fortnight and members may (to use a significant word) that is dealers: to take a careful account à mere boomerang which will sit of gratitude which this Club owes to say the market coolie gets his of live-stocks imported; and, to ply recur to the disadvantage of to ite Vice-President is a very large squeeze from the market, the cook keep a sharp look-out on market the public, whose condition we are when the formation of the Club one. The support which he gave, takes a hand in the game, and then prices in their relation to the prices seeking to improve. comes the boy for his share. All paid for imported stocks. Beyond
I wish at the end of this dissocmed a hopeless one, is known these exactions have to be borne this the Sub-Committee could do cussion to give notice that I will only to the privileged few. by the householder, and naturally little. But I understood at that introduce at the next meeting a Christmas Services At St. adds to the cost. I remember the time that the Head of the Sanitary motion "that this Board recom- head of a house telling me once Department, before the appointment mends that the legislation be intro- that he allowed his boy $30 a of the Sul-Committes, had already duced to provide for the regulating month squeeze, but if this was rendered every assistance to the and control of food prices within exceeded there was a row! Fancy importers of live-stocks and to the the markets.". goodyear slipping in this fashion cultivators of land in the New Now nearly the same thing occurs Territories in facilitating transport in every household, and where the of their goods to the Colony and housekeeper does not keep a watch-local markets.
then decide this question.
Election Of Officials.. After the reports, and accounts had been passed, the following officials were elected to serve for the ensuing year--President: Mr. C.
Peter's. The Church will once again bold a Midnight Communion on Christ. H. Beavis Joint Secretaries; mins Eve (with special music, and Messrs. J. A. H. Plummer and An- anthems) commencing at 11.30 p.m. drew Tee; Treasurer: Mr. J. A. H..
THE PRESIDENT'S CAUTION. On Christmas Day there will be
St. John Ambulance.
Aubrey.
Provisional Programme.
Holy Communion at 8.00 a.m. and Plummer; Committee: Messrs. T The President (n. W. J. Carrie) Choral Eucharist and Sermon at A. H. Plummer, L Gibbs, P. 8. said he did not propose to say any-11.00a.m. Full particulars of Cassidy, C. E. H. Beavis, A. Mur. ful eye on the housekeeping, ex- I do not wish the public to be thing at all at present as he was | Yule-tide services will be found in penses naturally go up, and there led into thinking that the new new to the work of the Sanitary the Church Mouthy Leaflet. It is doch, R. A. Dastur, J. E. Joseph, is an outcry about bigh prices. It Committee is going into that ques- Board, and would like the opportu- hoped that many members of the E. L. Sim, G. M. Shaw, Mr. and is really a case of your wits pitted tion again. The system reaking a against the servants wits, and this report of the amount of imported Committee. He would like to say these services, and that all Cano
nity to go into the matter with the Club will be present at one of Mrs. M. M. Murray and Mrs. goes on until from sheer exhaustion live-stocks and the retail and mar- with regard to what the speaker municants will Communicate on and the love of a peaceful life you ket prices on meat is, at my had said, that there was no sug-Christmas Day... give in. The worst offenders in this suggestion, being maintained; and gestion of putting up rents gener- respect are bachelors in messes, the reports are now being circul-ally. If one stall had been held who, as a rule leave the catering ated once a month for the informa since 1913 for B10 rental a month, would be glad to receive names bi The Divisional Superintendent and everything to the No. 1 bay, tion of members of the Board. The and another atall of the rame class and are completely at his mercy question of market rent a but onc | had been put up for tender in 1974 ay one desirous of joining the Incidentally this adds enormously of the many points bearing on the and let for 800 a month rental, the to the difficulties of the servant subject of market prices. It seems stallholder paying $10 a month reat question.
to me quite impossible for a sub- would not sell his meat any cheaper However, we see now that the Committee of the Board to deal than the other stallholder paying inge question of the reduction of the with so complicated and important the higher rent He would, how prices of commodities is not the question as the food prices of simple matter one is apt to think the Colony which depends so much
over, prefer to say nothing further it is. Several factors have to be
on the subject at present," reckoned with, but perhaps chief on the solution of many knotty
"RESOLUTION CARRIED, of them is the matter of Rental of over which the Board has no con- The motion "That a Committee problems, economic or otherwise, Market Stalls.
of this Board be appointed, com. posed of the President, and Dr.
It has become a tradition that stallholders enjoy a monopoly, that the heriditary transmission of stalls
trol.
•
Hereditary Holdings Defended..
I should like also to take this 8. W. Tro, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin is tacitly agreed to by the authori- opportunity of removing an impres and Dr. S. C. Ho, to inquire into ties, and that free tendering is sion created by Mr. Braga's ad- the question of the re-adjustment rigorously suppressed by existing dress: that is, that the hereditary of rents of market stalls and report rentees, and that competition is holding of market stalls is respon- to the Board" was put to the
sible for the market ring." A meeting and carried.
suppressed.
above.
Bub-Committee Meetings. The following sub-committee meet- will be held in December; Dec. 7th-Library sub-committee,
8.30 p.m. th-Entertainment,
p.m.
8.30
13th-Indoor Sports, 8.30
p.m.
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,, 14th-Debating, 8.30 p.m. "22nd.-Refreshment, 8.30 p.. 27th-Executive Committee,
8.30 p.m. The Finance Committee meets"
every Tuesday at 6 p.m...
(Continued on next Oolumn.),
The provisional programme ar- ranged for December is as under :--- Dec. 5th-Debate in the Club House at 8.30 p.m. (probable).
h. Opening Dance at Lane, Crawford'a Re- staurant, 8.30 p.m. 12th-Social and Community
Singing, B.30 p.m. 18th.-Whist Drive at Cathe
dral Hall, 8.45 p.. 19th-Debate in the Club
House at 8.30 p.m. on That Young Men and Womer to-day are less serious than they were 25 years ago.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.