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HONG KONG-CANTON THE BUDGET STORM

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THE COMING LINK.

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LACE DUTY TO END ON

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Nottingham is the storm centro of the Budget.

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A safeguarding duty, on foreign lace of 33 1-3 per cent. was impos of five years, and therefore expices ed on July 1, 1893, for a period

this summer.

In reference to the report appenr- ing in our last issue, stating that the contract for a telephonë service between Hong Kong and Canton is Mr. Snowden's pronouncement about to be signed, the following chat the Safeguarding duties due extract from 4, speech made a few to expire this year would be allow. weeks ago by the Chairman of theed to lapse at the end of their pre- Hong Kong Telephone Company. sent term, means that" the Jare Ltd., is of interest:-

| rrade, «the staple industry of Not- Shareholders will be interested tingham, will be menaced by un- to learn that very definite progress restricted foreign imports in ten has been made in the negotiations | weeks' time. for the establishment of a Trunk Telephone Service between Hong Kong and Canton, and, subject to Government approval of the pro- ject, it is possible that the Trunk Service will be inaugurated in ap proximately one year from date. If the work is carried out in the nauer contemplated by your Com- pany, it should result in 24 lines, operating on a no-delay basis, being available for telephone calls be- tween the two cities. These lines will be carried in a special under- ground cable, and consequently there should be no interruption to the service even during the worst weather conditions

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The committee of inquiry, which considered the application of the in favour of the duty on the ground industry for protection, declared

that the lace trade was "suffering from the increase of foreign tariffa and from foreign competition de- pendent on depreciated currencies and low wages."

The need for the duty was re- cognised even within the Socialist. Party.

In a debate in the House of Com mons on June 11, 1925, Mr. Hay day, Socialist M.P. for West Not- tingham, supported the proposal to safeguard lace.

"I happen to be," he said, "the only resident member for Notting- ham, and it is because of the fact and the industrial side I that on the manufacturing side brought into direct contract with the problem, that I am able come to a very definite decision.

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A service operating on these lines should prove an inestimable boon to merchants in Hong Kong and Canton, who "would then be able to get into direct and immedi- ate communication with each other for the transaction of business. In

Protective Duty. the trunk cable referred to, it is the

"After, the long period of unem ployment which the operatives in intention of your Company to make this once thriving industry have provision for the installation of been called upon to go through, no lines to Swatow at a later date, as amount of economic talk to them can in any way remove the fear your Company feels that with the which they have of hunger and rapid strides now being made in the depression" in "consequence of long- field of long-distance telephony, it drawn-out nemployment, and if will only be a question of time beit be possible to help those suffer- ers without injuring neighbours, foce telephone service between or anybody else, then it is our duty Hong Kong and all important cities to give them help. in China, and eventually beyond, will become an accomplished fact."

LOCAL RADIO PLAY.

COMING A.D.C.-Z. B. W. PRODUCTION,

With the co-operation of the A.D.C., Z.B.W. will märk'a new departure in its activities, on Wed. nesday next when a one-act play. The Wedding Will Not Take Place," will be broadcast from the Studio.

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of the suffering can be relieved "I believe that in this case much

without adversely affecting any-'} body else.

The immense value of the new protective duty was soon apparent. Before the duty was imposed there were 3.377 unemployed in the lace industry, or 17.3 per cent, of its total labour force. In 1927, less than two years after the im

luty, this number position of the had fallen to 1,809, and, the per- centage to 9.7 per cent.

At the end of four years the in- erease in employment in the indus- try was 33 per cent, in wages 40 per cent., and in output 1 per

cent.

By the end of 1920 there had been an increase of 182 per cent. in the The play, which is by Alfred sales in the home roarket. Sutro, is being performed by mem-city Thousands of families, whose Nottingham to-day is a stricken bers of the Hong Kong Amateur Dramatic Company, who are now busy rehearsing in between the normal Z. B. W. transmissions.

Interest in the production is the more keen in view of the fact that this is the first play to be broadcast from the local Studio, although it is hoped to prove the fore-runner to other and more adventurous" pro- ductions.

Miss Gomes, soprano, will also appear in the evening's programme on this date.

OLD MOORE IS CHEERFUL!

HAPPIER LIFE TO BEGIN IN. 1931.

livelihood depends on the continu- ance of prosperous times in the lace trade, are faced with unem- ployment and misery.

Recently 13,000 employees and workpeople in the lace factories signed a petition to the Prime Minister begging him to retain the tarifi.

The employers are of one mind with the operatives in their con- viction that removal of the duty spells ruing to all.

r. Snowden's Budget will practically destroy the lace indus try in Nottingham,"

," said Sir Ernest Jardine, one of the most prominent manufacturera.

It will be impossible for the factories to remain open when the safeguarding duties are removed in July."

He added that the troubles of the trade had already been aggravated What does 1931 hold in store? by the recent increase in the Ameri Let the prophetic voice of Old gan tariff on imports of British Moore speak through the pages would be to food the home market lace, and the result of the Budget Foulsham's Almanack, as it has. done every year since 1697...

Old Moore is optimistic. He starts off in a foreword with a clarion cry, "Britons!" get ready and prepare for the new and hap-try. pier state of life which begins.in 1931."

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"There are "black" days, however, in Old Moore's Calendar. On Jan uary & be predicts' the death of an important member of the Ministry.. February is a "black" month for „India, and the old seer prophesies outbreaks of violence and lawless ness in Calcutta. .

Theatre Warning,

with French lace which could be produced in factories where wages an overhead costs were only 60 per cent. of those ruling in this coun-

QUEEN OF HUSBAND HUNTERS.

"Finding husbands and getting married are the easiest things in the world."

This is the opinion of Mrs. Laverne Mae Robinson, of Omaha, Nebraska, and she is able to sub- Theatregoers should know of Oldstantiate, her statement. Мт. Moore's warning about March 20, Robinson, although not yet thirty a day which he has set apart for a has already been married and disaster in a London theatre "which divorced five times-a record, it is will exact a heavy toll among the believed, for Nebraska... younger generation."

March, in fact, despite the fore word, seems to be full of mishaps, accidents, and disasters.

Mrs. Robinson has never once: asked for alimony when divorcing & husband.

Many people have asked me why. A famous political Minister will I am so unpractical" she says, but ording of the answer is simple even if it Alborg in Jude which is had fassade Whobananhado month for our own Royal Family. enough of one husband I have only

Old Moore has fixed the fall of one object to be rid of him. I do the Government for the middle of October, and the return of a new National Party. Foreign and Em- pire trade will be one of the main issues before the electorate.

not want him, and I do not want; his money, but so long as he is my husband I expect him to support me. When the affair is ended it is caded-and that's that,"

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