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“MARCHANT'S WHISKY AND SODA PLEASE"

is the call of those whose good taste enables them to appreciate, and prefer, an old, well-matured whisky.

MARCHANT'S WHISKY

is supplied to the Ward-rooms and Messes of the Navy, Army and Air Force

throughout the world, and can now be obtained at the leading Clubs and Hotels in Hong Kong.

Buy a Bottle for the House.

Obtainable from the leading Stores or the

Sole Agents:

T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD.

6, Queen's Road Central.

香

Tel. 3517.

[A.P.B. 15)

RIGAUD PARIS "MAKY GARDEN”

Famous Dainty Perfumes.

USTAINABLE FROM WING ON & CO. THE SUN CO. SINCERE CO.

and allDrugs and ChemistStores

AGENTS: VICENTE ATIENZA & CO.

No. 54, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON

TEL. K. 155.

Horlicks keeps for years in all climates the aroma and flavour are always grateful to infants, Invalids or Aged. It never becomes rancid like many ordinary milk powders

owing to the Conserving effect of the

"glass bottle

aroma maltose-dextrins and the sealed

HORLICK'S

THE ORIGINAL

MALTED.MILK

and

Horlicks is particularly grateful to the Flavour Chinese sense of taste and smell To the ancients the odour of malt. was so acceptable that the above character for aroma or sweet taste was actually a pictogram of malted grain with the Water & Sweetness shewn Representative-Nr. H. HODGES, P.O. Box 8711, Shanghal

VISITORS TO CANTON.

Should Purchase

BOOK FOR THE GLOBE. TROTTERS FROM HONG KONG TO CANTON BY -THE PEARL RIVER

BY

CAPTAIN C. V. LLOYD.

With Illustrations, Maps and Flags

PRICE

$1.75

On Bala at: HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. OFFICE.

QUEEN'S

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

THE GAUCHO

COMING NEXT WEEK:

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 1928.

GUILD SYSTÉM UP. TO DATE..

COST OF LIVING AT HOME.

REVISING BRITAIN'S

APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM.

TO INCREASE STANDARD OF

WORKMANSHIP. ---

That is an interesting develop- ment in the British building indur try of a reversion back to the old guild, system that worked so well

Variations

The value of a sovereign, trans- lated into food for a family, has varied in an exceptional way. The SOVEREIGN NOW WORTH value in 1914 stood at 201, and in the second year-of-the-war had decrossed to 13: 6d in the large towas. The sovereign From then onward slipped and slipped. Its value at the beginning of 1917 was 30%, 5d., and its subsequent..course as under:

Purchasing power spent on 1000. Large towns. Small towns.

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d.

HOW PRICES HAVE SOARED. SINCE PRE-WAR. DAYS,

1. d. FOR 58,

1924 June.....19

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# 0

7 3

3

1% 2

Exactly how much it costs to live | in England 'at the present time compared, first, with the easier period before the war, and second, 1919 October... D with the years of high prices tol 1920 January... 8 4 in the Middle Ages One unloe-lowing the armistice, shown in 1921 January... 7 1 turto result of the industrial re- the year book of the great co- volution has been

operative sociofies. It gives most # steady de

interesting information coticerning terioration of the apprenticeship the position of working class and systein, and in some cases a falling, businem people in relation to the way of the standards of crafts purchasing power of money which Tranship. The inefficiency of the British plumber, whe mends one tap and creates two leaks, is pro- verbial.

is carned.

At the weekly budget calculations are made in terms of food. Thus the food hill to tu average family in which the father is a wage carner shows the following upward and downward scale during a period of

years

1904 1914

Weekly cost of food for A family,

Large towns. Small towns,

a. d.

d. 5. 22 & ...... ** a ...23 D

25.0

Several attempts since the war have been made to improve the position of apprentices. A Build- ing Trades Parliament was set up, but failed to survive: The Coun eils for various trades had appren ticeship under consideration, and Some aubsequently dissolved with- out much having been accephal016 October... 0 ed. But the stimulus given ro 1913 October...58 0 mins. One of the valuable con 1919 October...36" 9 tributions made by Mr. Joh 1921 January...70 3 Wheatley, when he was Socialist 1924 June 40 9 Minister of Health, which has not 192 January...43 rceived sufficient recognition, was.

1927 October...to. his action in bringing together re- presentatives of the building trades employers und nusry, both operatives, to co-operate in secur- Ing reeruits. His wheme may not working well in all parts of the country, but it is having results. The number of apprentices enroll- ed has increased from 8,204 on January 1st last year to 20,232 o last New Year's Day.

Joint Educational Council. Much more care is being given to the education of these apprentices The plastering industry, for exam ple, have set up a joint council of enrplayers and employed to draw comprehensive scheme of up n training and education. Only few weeks ago tire Plasterers Council paid for the maintenance a London of teachers in plaster ing, who attended the first national conference on the subject ever held in this country, and the Company of Plasterers took a personal in terest in the innovation.

DEMAND FOR HOCK AND CHAMPAGNE.

BRANDY POPULAR.

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1923 January...11 7 1927 January11 10 1897 June 12 3 1997 October... 124

......12 0

197 12 6

An average amount of 8s. 4d, per week was spent on groceries by a year of 1820, according to the re working-class family during the cords given in the book.

The amount was made up of commodi- ties purchased at the following average price per pound:

Bacon .................... 12.83d. Butter and margarine 19.31d. Cheese

10. 3d. Flour

..... ïd. ***... 8.14d. ....... 1.98d,

Lard n Oatmea!

Sugwar

...... 3.12d.

90.38d.. Before the war, in 1911, all these commodities would have cost. Ga.. and during the highest price period : of 1991 their cost was slightly more than 14s. ld.

41 6

50 0 54 0 69 9 40 3

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THE FANTASTIC LONDON THAT MUST

COME.

[By LT. COL. J. T. C. “MOORE-BRABAZON, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, 1921-25.)

W..

London is confronted with the momentous problem of providing for the traffic congestion of the future; and it cannot indefinitely be postponed. In 1927 there were, on the average, 300,000 vehicles

tracks laid above the railway lines a far as the termani, where there would be parking places under, the control of the railway companies, it would at lenat ease some of the congestion. The fleets of cannibases

population

within the London area. This which would be needed to supply

ear there will probably be up- London's growing wards of a million If vehicles would find a ready entrance into continue to increase at the present the metropolis. The squadrons of rate, this latter figure will be six-wheel oniks 13,90s which will doubled in the next 10 or 20 years serve the rush-hour traffe of to- would have convenient In Great Britain we have rough-morrow

it?

XCATS.

corners,

If the consumption of wine is a measure of prosperity, then the country is doing well, says a Homes

we

A

ly one motor vehicle, for every 28, highways between Central London! persons, America has one for and the suburba“ Their enlightened action was fol

The obstacles in the way of lay. lowed by the National Council for every 3 persons, and still the motor

boom continues unchecked. Ining roads over the tops of London's the plumbing industry, who, to America there, 20 40 motors per buildings are very great, but per gether with representatives of the mile of road (19sreekehing dust-haps not insurmountable. By law Worabipful Company of Plumbers, entertained last week a number of tracks). In Great Britain there a man owns the space vertically are only 1 per mile. In the above his property. It would be apprentices in London and took a personal interest in their welfare very near future our own traffic impossible, as the law stands, to proportionate in-Budid a road over a man's house and career. Just as under the old will show a guild system

apprentices were crease. How are we to deal with without paying him for the privi

lege. There would also be serious given personal attention, so under Imagine the day when there are difficulties about noise, and the ex this new syetem practical steps are 9,000,000 vehicles normally in the clusion of light, and from the con being taken so that the plumbers, London area. If it entered Lonstructional point of view there plasterers, carpenters, and other craftsmen may learn their joi don to-day such a mass of trans would be the problem of finding thoroughly. The ideal, of course, part would form an almost solid room for the gigantic supports on is that any lad with brains and block in our busier streets. Lon-which the overhead roads would grit may work his way up from don's population has increased by rest.

about per cent, in the last 25 being an apprentice to becoming a

High-level roads running at By the

time freeman of the company of his imagining it will have increased selve most effectively the hideous are right angles to surface roada would ca.ft.

by, say, another 2,000,000, Hun- problem of street intersections. It dreds of thousands urS people is hard to see how any method but MORE WINE THAN EVER will be thronging the pavements a difference in rond Level cap solve

DRUNK.

and crossing the roads on foot. it. Removing the tramway lines The congestion, particularly at and making circuses will palliate rush hours, will be beyoud any the evils, but so long as we have thing ever witnessed- The feeble two large volumes of traffic crOSS- palliatives to which we are resorting at the same level we are bound IDX to-day rounding street to have congestion, if not chaos.

widening bottle-necks, Overbend roads, then, possibly diverting traffic-will be as futile may come. Our grandchildren as attempts to block the Mississippi may ge great concrete tracks floods with a garden trowel.

towering above the chimney-pots of But what are we to do? Where Oxford-street and Piccadilly. Huge this vast mass of vehicles to go six-wheel omnibuses and electine cara may speed across the horizon," paper.

We can rule out the Utopian Massive steel towers with electric Inquiries inade by a Daily Er remedy (suggested in some quar. Efts may rise into the sky. press representative, showed that more wine ja being drunk now thaus) of driving new roads through second and swifter moving London

the heart of Landon to forus a con- may rise 100ft, from the ground... ever before, and that champagne venient network. Even widening The alternative" to going above particularly holda its head bigh in London's principal streets, would ground is to turnal below it. popular favour.

In one case, at any rate, tunnels There is a great and increasing drain the Road Fund many times

are inevitable This is in East demand for good wine" said the over. It is estimated that it would

cost £33,000,000 to double the width London. Means of crossing the manager of a West London hotel of Oxford-street from the Mausion Thames are at present so inade. Apart from champagne, which House to Marble Arch. To carry quato that a great deal of the maintains premier place, the ten- out a general scheme of doubling trafic to and from the docks and dency is for more still wines to be the width of the principai streets factories is obliged to come west drunk, especially burgundy and of London would cost go east. Owing to the size of the 535 to pass over the river in order to Burgundy is & great much as another European favourite, and the vintages mostly, Compared with this figure of boats on the Thames, a bridge be in demand are Pommard 1916 and £33,000,000, it has been calculated low the Fool of London requires 1920. Claret is fairly popular, and that £12,000,000 would cover the 150 feet of head-room above the the 1817 vintage is regarded as the cost of constructing an overhead Trinity high-water mark. To the road at the back of the minor cast of London, therefore, tunnels Liqueurs.

streets north of Oxford-street. are the obvious means of crossing." With regard to liqueurs, And here seems to be a ray of light.But when considering a systema brandy-which must be at least in the darknem. If the conditions of underground roads below: Cea- forty years old-is easily first in are, well-nigh impossible of solutral London we are faced once public estimation. Canrtreuse used tion on the ground, why not make again with the difficulty of ex- to be favourite, but old brandy is use of another dimension?

pense. It is estimated that the displacing it.

Overhead roads and tracks are cost of extending · the G.N," and not a new idea. Many of London's City Underground Railway would of good wines now than, say, ten suburban railways are raised over be more than a million pounds 1

New York. has milk. Wide underground roada | 2 years ago. That is because people long stretches. go to the Continent more than they built high-level tracks for electric would cost at least three times. as did, and learn all about the best cars. High-level roads have been much. wines, and are thus capable of suggested in London as approaches using their own discretion when to high-level bridges over the ordering in an English restaurant. Thames. Yet, as far as I know, no "There is a falling off in the suggestion has been made to build consumption of whisky in some overhead roads on a grand scale.. quarters, but owing to the increase There is one obvious position for in the number of afternoon cock high-level roads above the exist tail parties in private houses it is ing ruburban railway Encz Here questionable whether the total are sites.nlready cleared and free quantity of spirite consumed has from the host of difficulties which been lessened.

would have to be overcome in lay The best recipes for cocktails ing roads over the tops of houses still come from America, in spite-motor-velrioles could be driven of the Prohibition Laws.”

from outside London along broad

hock.

best.

..

I think there are more judges

Many people have a rooted ob jaction to traveling underground, but there is much to be said for going to ground Boads could be made

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"Queen

BERLIN'S MANNIQUEEN." among the advantages she is likely

to secure The German of Beauty," chosen, after the American custon, for various other qualities, should not be confused with the managqueen,

".is This year's manniqueen fair and stately, with, it is stated, BERLIN, December 18th.

"excellent legs for the require- The new word. Manniqueen ". arents of smart clothes." "It is a runners-up has been coined to designate the curious fact that the young lady who carries off the an-

during the first three years of this Qual prize awarded in Berlin to context are nearly all Russo-Ger-

smartest absolutely straight and the

mannequin. Not mans from the Baltic provinces, traffic control, would be simple, beauty, but the way clothes are though every effort is made to find worn is the criterion. The year's a pure-bred German girl for the There would be no pedestrians

" is given a motor position. crossing and therefore very Ettle

manniqueen' eat complete with chauffeur, ap- Germany's efforts to capture a danger of accidents So

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