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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1929.

INFLUENZA'S RAVAGES,

SERIOUS INROADS ON FUNDS |

OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

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"The recurring visitations of in- fuenza," added Mr. Taylor, "not only make serious inroads on the funda of societies such as curs, but they also undermine the general health of the community. The legney of pneumocis cars and kindred diseases following in the wake of influenza does not appear The toll influenza GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD., in statistics.

takes of life is altogether estimated."

A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION

SOLE AGENTS:

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, ICE HOUSE STREET.

Tel Central No. 135.

Hong Kong.

There are THREE REASONS WHY we have been entrusted with the installation of

RUBBER OUTLOOK.

BRIGHT PROSPECTS,

The situation in

mand will be unfettered arbiters of prices, undisturbed either by external control of any part of the industry, or by the after-effects of such control, At such a time the task of forcenating the march of future events acquires an 13-- usual significance, and prophecy may appropriately include longer period within the sweep of its vision than on many earlier

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pear to be without its elements of ANY LETTERS FOR

YOU?

UNCLAIMED CORRESPON- DENCE, ETC., AT THE G.P.Q.

risk. In due course the rubbar which has been sold will require to be repurchased, so that in effect London may be said to control a certain proportion of the contem- Porary American stock. Any un- expected accession of future de mand from the American factories could scarcely be satisfied without tending to raise London prices to an appreciable extent. Few Bri- tish rubber producers have entered into extensive forward contracts of recent weeks, their general feeling A General Post Office notification being that prices are more likely issued on Saturday, gives the to rise than to fall in the near following particulars with regard ical position of the market itself waiting at the Post Offer, and also future. While therefore the tech to unclaimed correspondence, etc.,

is strong, an appreciably larger unclaimed radio telegrams at the proportion than usual of manufao-Radio Telegraph Office:-

The Tyre Industry,

THE OFFICIAL LIST FOR SATURDAY,

Rohason, R. G. Reys (s.a. Marella), Miss A. Soal, L. M. Santos, Mrs. W. Stewart, Miss Schmidt, E. Singer, Miss M. B. "Shick, G. A. Stephenson, Mrs. A. D. Whiless. Mrs. H. Wilks, Oakley Warren, Wu Lien Teh.

Unpaid Correspondance,

Not for a long time past (ays the Rubber and Tea Quarterly Reference to the heavy calls on outlook for the rubber industry in has it been possible to review the friendly society funds by influen more hopeful terms than at the was made by Mr. E. R. Taylor, of present moment, Hall, High Chief Ranger of the which the trade finds itself to-day is without parallel since the war,' Ancient Order of Foresters, at the for the reason that at no other annual High Court of the Order at

time have conditions been nor mal." as the industry understands Weymouth.

the term. The period before 1929 Many courts of the order, he said, was 'abnormal owing to the severe depression which affected rubber, had 95 per cent." of their member-like every other commodity, after ship on the sickness funds in the the war, The six years from turers' future requirements will Poste Restante Correspondence.

require to be placed under condi- frat quarter of this year, at the November, 1923, to November, 1928,

tions to which the market may be A. D. Baker, S. W. Bacon, Jean A. Abonnel, C. Barreda, Miss M. witnessed the most extensive es time of the epidemic.

periment ever made in state con- expected to be unusually respon- Bouhaud, Mr. H. Bisbjerg, P. H. trol of the output of an indispenis aive.

Barton, W. J. Chapman, F. W. able raw material of modern civi- lization. Its abandonment last

Chapple E. R. Crafter (ss. Kami), The outlook, on a long view, is E. Carlson, Cheong Cherd (3.5. year left the industry with a stock

now recognized as being bound up Phys. Rev. D. Clench, Lt. B. of rubber of unknown, but formid- with the possibilities of further ex- Douglas (c/o D10), W. Gilbert able dimensions or its hands, and pansion in the world's motor trans- the story of the succeeding nine part industry. The latter is not Houghary (as Barrgrove), R (se. Sui Nam), G. A. Herbert, J. months has inevitably centred only by much the largest consumer Hartman, J. Johnson (s.. Duke of round the problem of disposing of of those stocks with the least possible disputable instrument of modern Research Academy), Ted. Lewis but has become an in- Clarence), C. C. L. Kuo (Nat. Past. damage to the market. This task civilization. Earlier estimates of! (Musician), Mrs E. L. Martin, C. accomplished, the market is in a pos- the possible field of expansion of Mather, H. Mattson, Mrs. H. tion to turn its attention to the

motor transport have gone by the Mihai, R. Menasche, W. M. Mason, possibilities of a period during board, and it is admitted that the Odeon China Co., Ltd., L. Rowan under-which the laws of supply and de-limits of the field of possible fuis Kilnsea). Dean Ruth, Mrs. R. ture development, in the world M. Rutter, Joseph Roby, K. H. generalty, are not yet in sight. We do not propose to repeat the figures of motor vehicle registrations in the United States and other coun- tries which have been discussed in carlier issues of this journal. It is not without interest, however, to mention a number of facts bearing on the matter which are not wide ly known. Although the United L. M. Arnelen (H.K. Hotel), L. States, for example, is spending R. Archer (H.E. Hotel), Ed. P... to-day over £300,000,000 each year Kiott, Miss Annie Lee, H. M. Say- on her highways, over 80 per cent.der (H.K. Hotel). R. B. Sylvia, of her rural roads still lack any Mra E. de Villarerdi. form of surfacing a proportion Registered Articles. which affords a significant com. Mons. Abonnel, H. Cers. A. mentary on the average life of Dumas, National Industry Co., American tyres and the likelihood Mr. Nudanoff, Frank Palka, Jr., that saturation point will recede G. A. Stephenson, Charles Wong. ther as road improvement makes fur-

headway. A

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TELEGRAMS. American authority has estimated that the average annual expendi- Address, ture for his purpose, during the Thunder next fifteen years, is likely to be 2590... £800,000,000. In Europe the deve- Li Yok Loong the rate of not less than Coat Co. lopment of motor transport is in Wang Lai Cheong stanced by the fact that some 3,300 Takjgen, regular motor coach services are in 3123 operation in England and Wales | 4350 alone, linking up more than 18,000 Vick towns, villages and hamlets. Youthhoofd Numerons municipalities, inclad- Kouthhood ing Liverpool, Glasgow, Doncaster Routhhood Riding of Yorkshire, are substitut- and a number of towns in the West Lee Quong You, Water ing a certain routes motor buses for electric tramway services, "and ia Paris a similar tendency is af work.

numerous reasons, and steel tyres on many heavy road pheumatic tyres are replacing solid

while reasons will be given in a vehicles, and the proposed new mo- later paragraph for the belief that tor regulations in Great Britain London possesses certain powers of

will be calculated to accelerate this control over part of the American tendency. In America, again, the of new cars is steadi- ly increasing. Whereas less than a million cats were scrapped in 1023, the total was 2,387,000 in 1927, and is estimated at 2,750,000 last beer feared year,

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St. Stephen's Hostel

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Mountain Lodge

Pallonjes House, Canton

Stubb's Road Garage

CLUBS

Hongkong Club

Hongkong Cricket Club Hongkong Jockey Club U. 8. Recreation Club Royal H.K. Golf Club

OTHER BUILDINGS

Police Station, Sham Shui Po.

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Victoria Hospital Matilda Hospital Alice Memorial Hospital New Tung Wah Hospital Nursing Home, Canton

Oriental Hotel, Canton Aigburth Hall

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occasions.

Congested Stocks Distributed The industry has cause for con- gratulation in the fact that the excessive stocks of rubber in the East, which had accumulated in the last months of Restriction, have been distributed without causing any violent upset to prices or even the threat of auch a contingency For all practical purposes it may be assumed from now onwards that stocks of rubber in the East, both on the estates and in the hands of dealers, are of normal proportions Stocks in the consuming centres of the West, on the other hand, are of decidedly less than normal pro- portions, the process of increase in both London and New York having been checked within the last few weeks, at a point which left the New York stocks, at the end of June last, at a figure representing just over two months' requirements, and those of London at less than half the level which some authori Lies have postulated as affording an adequate safety margin under modern conditions. There is cause for believing, further, that only a small proportion of the London stock represents "free"

rubber,

stock.

at

For

turnover

Without dwelling unduly on such evidence as these figures afford, it may be stated with some confidence that rubber consumption, however it may fluctuate from month to month, is likely to be maintained

Rubber Markets in the Past

Quarter.

Street

From. Haiphong.

Hankowe

Haiphong

Yunanfu

Hanoi.

...... Hanoi

HARROW "STRAW "'" ATTACKED,

OLD BOY AS CRITIC.

A vigorous attack on the Har- row School straw hat is made in The Harrovian, the School magasi-

De

The writer of the article is Mr. R. C. Ramsay, an Old Hartavian and father of A. R. Ramsay, a. member of this 'year's Cricket Ele-- ven. The present queer-shaped straw hat was adopted for week- day wear instead of the "topper" about sixty years ago. Mr. Ram- say writes:-

"I have been out of touch with Harrow for some years, and pos sibly the subject of The Har row Straw has been discussed unknown to me; in this event I offer my apologies. Is there any single argument in favour of the ridiculous headgear have never, beard one, nor can I think of one.

"Could anyone imagine a hat. less suitable for withstanding either the English climate or the onslaughts of the even more boisterous English schoolboy? I sincerely hope that someone-or better still some body of

men such as the Phil,'-possessed of the requisite energy, takes the matter up and secures its aboli- tion. I may energy, because I fancy that energy, and probably a certain amount of doggedness also, will be required to achieve

success

"Possibly it may be looked upon as a sort of old tradition, and defended as such. It is not an old tradition. It was not the School headgear sixty years ago, and sixty years is a very short space compared with the age of the School. Let us get rid of the beastly thing before it does be come an old tradition."

The Harrow straw, poisisses" a wide brim, and is very shallow. It is so shallow that it cannot possiv bly fit the bead, and is kept in its place by elastic. The Cricket. Eleven wear speckled straws, and monitors have the badge of the crossed arrow, but all alike are of the same curious shape,

Suncheong. MARRIAGE LAW ANOMALY.

Canton.

Canton."

Soerabaja.

Soerabaja.

Soerabaja.

Eatonia Sask.

recognized that the bogey of in- visible stocks had largely disap- peared. Consumption, both in America and elsewhere, was being maintained at a level which sur passed all expectations formed in the earlier months of the year; and. while it was recognized that Ameri- ca's stocks of unsold motor tyres were steadily "accumulating, the rate of increase was less than had

A Firmer Tone,

HUSBAND TO PAY WIFE

AFTER REMARRIAGE.

I think it might well be a mat~ ter in which the Legislature might properly intervene, but the mere fact of remarriage in no way com- pela the court to make an altera- fact. of remarriage in no way com- ples the court alteration of the

to make

factin maintenance

an

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order against husband," said Mr. Bertrand. Watson.

the magistrate, ELF North London Police Court in dis- missing the application of Joseph. Francis Mekota, a waiter, employ. ed at the Sportsman's Restaurant, Old Compton-street, Scho, for the discharge of a maintenance order on the ground of his wife's remar- riage

Order. Reduced.

Mr. J. F. Hosken, for the hus band, said that a maintenance or- der for £1 week was mude.. against him on December 98, 1025. There, was one child of the marri age, born in 1910, and now nine- teen years of age. The order was reduced to be, a week on March 5, 1029.

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The wife had divorced her hus-- band and fiad married an engi neer employed at Woolwich Arsca- al. The husband had, also marri- ed again..

Mr. Watson said that the posi- tion was that if at any time the busband could prove that in con- sequence of remarriage the wife's position had improved to a consi derable extent an extent more than sufficient to outweigh the in crease in the husband's earnings

he could bring the matter before. the court again.

There was at present, no evidenco. on which the court could legally make an order to reduce the pay ment.

That the industry has been freed from the incubus of unduly heavy stocks despite the heavy increase in

in some quarter. current production which is the na-

The growth of London's rub- tural corollary of nine months,

ber stocks, which had bean "free" working, is due, of course,

ane of of the outstanding fea to the remarkable growth of de

tures of the February-April quar mand, which during the last few

ter, had been definitely checked, the months has outstripped all pro-

returns showing upward or down- phecy. The increase in the the first half of this year, as com-

of tons each week, without regis ward fluctuations of some hundreds pared with the corresponding on an upward curve for a consi-

tering any decided upward trend. derable time to come. period of 1028, was no less than

It was known, moreover, that these 164,367 tons, During the same

atocks were mainly in strong hands, period, however, the consumption

being held against factory con. of crude rubber in the United

tracts and speculative engage. The past three months have been ments-in other words that very States of America has increased by 66,974 tons," that of the United noteworthy in the rubber market, little "free" rabber was avail Kingdom by 0,234 tons, and the im- partly for the final distribution of able in London, at a time when the legacy of heavy Eastern stocks New York stocks were also show. ports of seven other countries (for live months) by 40,903 tons.

Jeft over from the Restrictioning signs of a decline. In framing estimates for the future, period, and partly for a fluctuat however, it is of great interest to ing but on the whole more fav note that against a total of world's ourable level of values than had shipments of rubber of 73,547 tons

Been anticipated. The quarter

The stage having been set for in- in April, 0,348 tons in May and

opened in an atmosphere of gloom, creared activity, the quiet condi- 61.872 tone in June of this year

the market being oppressed by the tions of June were succeeded by (when the influence of the post-

large totals of rubber shipments an appreciably firmer tone early Restriction stocks on the tola! from the East, the stagnation of in July. The signal was given by figures was rapidly declining), the

speculative dealings on many of the Malavan export figures for consumption, or the retained im- London and New York, and by the ing that the producing side of the the stack and produce markets in June, which were regarded as show- parts, of the nine consuming coun-shadow of the British General Elec-industry had re-established itself trics mentioned were averaging tions. Early in May, however, it on an even keel after disposing of something like 71,000 tons a month. The consumption figures of the

became evident that the markets its "Restriction" stocks, and that United States have, of course,

were oversold, and a buying move- the current output was at least shown a falling off in the last two ment rapidly developed, carrying fully balanced by the contemporary months from the record level of Prices from Bid. at the beginning rate of consumption. During the 49,233 tons in May last-a decrease

of the month, to 11d. on May 15 second week of July, spot prices which is partly seasonal and partly The movement was essentially at one time touched 1120, though reflects the growth of the stock of speculative in its origin, a number once again the movement rapidly unsold tyres in

of large interests having been im- exhausted its momentum," and Whether

that country. pressed by the very high level quotations fell back to 101d. by ΟΥ not the American

maintained by American rubber July 18. In the succeeding week manufacturers decide on a tyre price reduction, it is evident that became too hot to last, the whole siderable buying of October-Decem- consumption, The pace quickly a noteworthy feature was the con- setual consumption of tyres it be incident, indeed, being premature. ber rubber in London, on Siaga- ing maintained at higher level than at any time in the past, which By the end of May speculative, ac pore account, for shipment from the is sufficient to absorb such quan- tivity had subsided, leaving the East to New York. An appreci tities of new rubber during the re-price of rubber at 10gd.-about 3d able disparity existed between Lan-

A report from Javs states that. mainder of this year as will en higher than at the beginning of don and New York prices, due Mr. Aroldi, champion trick cyc aurea total American consumption the month.

largely to the general unwilling-list with Isako's circus, was stab- for 1020 in excess of the estimate By the middle of June prices had ese of America, in earlier weeks, made in these columns some months settled at around 103d. per lb. and London of the future of rubber pri to adopt an identical view with conditions showed signs of the ad- vent of another of the periode of the quarter ended on a arm somewhat dull and uninspiring note, with rubber at 11d. (as com

pared with old. three months ear- In these circumstances, it is not, "stability }

with which past exlier) together with an improved altogether easy to understand the perience

had familiarized the

statistical position, and a general

Later in the evening, when. role which America has recently market. New York, had unloaded belief that the outlook for the in- Arnoldi had just entered the ring, played, on occasion, in the Lon- heavily after the upward move dustry as a whole was more en- the Malay went straight up to him don market. We refer to the sel- ment in May, but although Lon- ling on this side for American se

don bore the brunt of a good deal raging than for some months and commenced to slash him to.

past. count of some thousands of tons of this tendency, little forced li- became known that Malayan ex in front of the horror-stricken On August 2, however, it death with a large curved knife, of forward. rubber (chiefy October-ditions, on the whole, were re tons, or about 3,000 tons in excess

quidation was experienced. Con- ports during July totalled 40,454 audience, December) ngainst purchases of 0.1.F. shipments to New York. In cognized as intrinsically sound. of previous estimates, and this not view of the decidedly moderate pro- Although Eastern shipments re- unnaturally caused some portions of America's present mained on a large scale, it was tainty as to the immediate course uncer- stocks, this policy would not ap. (Continued at fool of next column). of prices,

ago,

American Forward Belling.

CIRCUS PERFORMER STACBED.

SLASHED TO DEATH IN THE

},

"RING.

bed to death in front of the audi- primanded one of the Malay boys ence It appears that Arnoldi re- attached to the circus, and on re- ceiving an insolent reply struck. him on the Ince;

The attack was so instantaneous. that before anyone had time to in- dical aid. He died an hour after- terfere, Arnoldi was beyond all me... wards