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FM.S. PLANTERS IN THE SLUMP.

GOOD RUBBER USELESS AS SECURITY.

SEREMBAN MEETING ASKS FOR LAND BANK.

At the present time good banring, gubber is practically use less as security," declared a speaker at an overflowing meeting hod at Søremban to discuss the Malayan agriculturist's need of a new and specialized bank,

Rubber planters of five nationalities spoko of the assistance that must be given if proprietary planters and the younger estate companies, who are now losing an aferage of ten dollars an nere a year, are to survive' the slumps. ‚ ̈¦

The form of assistanos asked for by the meeting was a Malayan. Land Bank, and a resolution was passed urging Government to

point a committed to consider the subject...

ALL NATIONALITIES CONFER,

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20. What is believed, to be the first public meeting ever hold in Malaya tourge, the formation of a Land Bank was attended by over 160 peopic, mostly proprietary rubber planters, and including Europeans, Malays, Chinese, Indians and Japanese, at Seremban to-day,

3r. Chan Scag Leong, a leading Chinese ostate proprietor, presided and was supported by the other conveners of the meeting, all of whom were well-known figures in the various communities of Nogr Sembilan.

Long-term Loans,

Work In Japan.

Japanese community strongly sup Dr. Koivoi, on behalf of the ported the proposal before the meeting and referred to the võlu- able assistance which was being given by such banks to the agricul- tural industries of his own coun-

try,

The European voice was next heard, in the person of Mr. M. L. Phillips, who uttered a strong warning against fale conceptions of the nature of a land bank.

It must not be thought, he said, that a land bank backed to a cor tain extent by the Government was

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER – 8, ) 1931.

LORD MELCHETT'S DRAMA OF A WIFE'S UNEMPLOYMENT IN

AMERICA

£1,029,673.

FAMILY BEQUESTS.

The will of Lord Melchott, which

bas now been proved, shows that

POISON DEATH.

CONSTABLE-HUSBAND AND NEXT WINTER'S PROBLEM.

MAN HE THRASHED

"MEETING" "A" NATIONAL EMERGENCY,

London August 15.-A witness at

Detroit, August 13-Mr. Gifford

This is a national emergency,"

PATRONISING “

ENGLAND.

WHAT THE SOVIET WORKERS THINK

"SERVITUDE OF OUR

WAITRESSES,

mual ganisation of London and another was the number homeless peoples on the Embääk mont, in Trafalgar Squaro, and in the crypt of St. Martin's.

We liked, the London parks and the Underground railways vory much, and hopej to imitate them in Russian cities, but the traffic ega. trol wo thought, would be much more efficient with the use of fewer mon and more mechanical devidos.) Oxford-street is a very good begin- kening

The silence of the Soviet workers

he loft estate valued at £1,029,873 A CHARGE DISMISSED.

In addition to the bequests onl rendy published, Lord Melchett left £3,000 and his property on the shore

an inquest yesterday at Battersea Pinchot (Governor of Pennsyl who are visiting England has peon

Not At All Impressed. of the Lake of Galileo to his daugh,

on a police constable's wife, who vania), in a speech before the broken.

Some of the industrial works tor Viscountess Erleigh; £5,000

died from poisoning at Streatham, Detroit Unemployment Committee The leader of the party, Mr. we have seen we have liked, but in ench to his daughters, the Hoo Mary Angola Hordern and the Hon, was afterwards charged with in- to-day, declared that privato and Lenau, who is a member of the Russia many of them are on a much Board of the Central Council of larger scale, Many of the fuo Rosalind Jean Nora Buckland!} lawfully threatening to attempt to municipal charities could not cope Trade Unions, spoke up on behalf tories, too, did not impress us at

The witness

was with next winter a problem of un-of the party.

Best Fall, because they were not in any £4,500 each to his sons-in-law, Vis commit suicide.

Arthur Harston Aldous, who gave employment.

Some of his remarks may appear, way technically in advance of what equat Erleigh, Clifford W. Hordem.

to Englishmen to be faintly we have in Russia and John Buckland £5,000 to his an address at Victoria street, Pad-

patronising One thing that did impress us daughter-in-law, Gwendolen; and dington, Mr. McKenna, the South-for mod also nationalThe workers, he said, had toon very much was the difference be quamity. The nation must help to some things they liked, but many tween the standing of the employers **** others they did not like, mangand the workers, and also seeing most it."

These workers, rewarded for their | workers taking their meals in the He asked the Federal Government assiduity at work under the Five workshops

We have met with a great deal to supply the necessary relief to Years Plan by, this trip, have, it

may be recalled, "spent four days in of friendliness and courtesy in this teed the workless, and said despite England sleeping, thowever on the country, but we were truck by the the Treasury deficit, the Govern- steamer Ukraine at Hay's Wharf. very hostile and unfriendly at ment should raise the needed funds. Some of them haye catido excursions titude of some; shopkeepern, who to industrial towns, and one con displayed, notices anying No Rubs tingont visited the grave of Marxsian goods sold here. We did not ut, Highgate, where they placed, a pond any of our pocket-money at

those shops." NAME wroath, THE MINYA

£2,000, each to his grandchildren.

The residuo of the property is to be hold in trust to pay his wife one-half of the income (not to ex- ceed £20,000 a year) and thres

sixtha of the remainder to his son

Western polics magistrate, disfuian, ed the charge

A remarkable story was told at the inquest on Bars. Ivy Kathisen Cracknell (36) who was found dead on Monday at her home in Ketter

and anesth each to his daughtering-street, Streatham. Death, it

SCOTTISH GOLFER'S

NOVELTY.

COURSE THAT SAVES SPACE,

TIME AND ENERGY.

London, Aug. 30.-It has taken a Scotaman to invent a really oconn mie golf course that requiries only over which nine holes can be play. a few hundred yards of ground

ed. He lives at a station up-coun-

was stated, was due to cyanide of potassium poisoning, de

Dr. Edwin Smith, the Coroner, reminded the jury that the survivor

with murder, and that a person of a micide pact was chargeable

who supplied poison to a person" contemplating suicide Wan also liable to, a capital ofiargo...

whether, there was a feature of that They would have to consider

kind in this case.

"Gaye Him a Hiding," P.c. James William Cracknell said that, during.........n separation from

Nothing Pawnable,"

. Pinchot approved President Hoover's efforts to alleviate the German financial situation," which

international loans. was largely a question of protecting

Why not," he said, "a little care for our own people, who are unable to get loans oven from the

nothing pawnable pawnbroker because they possess

He warned his audience that hunger produced revolutionary sentiments, and it was impossible to blame the workers, for becoming

|Źxpected Tips|

The work done by English girla in factorius came in for its share. did not see girls doing skilled work, of criticism, because the Russiana

while, in their opinion, the averago wage of the British worker did not allow him a decent living.

will bar long remembered among A visit to a London restaurant

them. They were astonished to And that the waiters and waitrises, who appeared to be in a position of servitude. seemed to expect While they have been here the tips, (Mr. Lonau did not reveal Russians have read what Mr. Ber whether they got their tips Innard Shaw had to my about Russin, Russin, it appears, in the "com and are very pleased with it. munal restaurants the waiters and waitresses are in a position of com plate equality,

Here are the words of Mr. Lenau g

"One of the things which did im

The impression Mr. Shaw lis got is quite correct, and he has succeeded in getting the right view of conditions in Russia," said Mr. Lenau. I only wish we could go and visit, him, but there is not

Mr. K. Arumugam, a prominent magio kodai, where one walked in at all costs ho, would keep up his wife, which ended in April, she indignant when they were hungry press us was the efficiency of the time."?

clock golf course, which has but one green, with nine tees facing from different directions.

a benevolent institution, a sort of try in Australia and decided that Indian planter, said the purpose ten thousand dollars and walked golf. So he constructed a kind of ono door and asked for five or of the meating was to consider out of another door with the cash ways and means to form a land | The land bank would be run on bank, or mortgage bank, or agri- strict, rigid business lines, the on oultural bank, or whatever one that the bank would look upon great advantage to planters being

might call it, which would assist, good bearing rubber дв good

would charge for such amounts reasonable rates of interest.

The trouble of having to make

Mrs. Aldous at Victoria-street, Paddington Green.

lived at the house of & Mr. and

home about 3.20 p.m., rather earlier On Sunday, August 6, he arrived

and knew that wheat was being the Middle West or account of dumped or burned in some areas

glutted storage and record low prices. He concluded, that private

the people of this country with security for a limited amount, and from green' to teè he has easily sur difficulty with the lock and his wife utmost to cope with the situation.

long walks from tee to green and than he was expected. He had charity must continue to do its

long-term lotins at moderate rates of interest for agricultural and other purposes.

Practically Useless.".

mounted, for he marks all his balls with numbers from one to nine and rubber was practically useless as this manner, he also adds to the At the present time good hearing plays from each tre in turn. In security, and what most planters fun of the game by introducing un wanted was some small financial sent difficulties, and to get this help to tide them over their pro- element of competition.

assistance at reasonable rates.'

"This country is comparatively young as far as its agricultural and other enterprises are concerned, he proceeded, "and hitherto the financing of these enterprises has "been mainly in the hands of In It was felt that the Government, dividual and profesnaná! money as the largest shareholders in the Jendors (at very high rates of in-help the industry over its present rubber industry, should back and terest) who in turn had to borrow difficulties, by using every effort to from the local exchange banks on help and support the formation of their own accurities. As the re-

a land bank,

turn from agricultural enterprises, particularly rubbor, was so high in the past, the people who borrow ed did not mind paying euth high interest, as they in turn derived benefits to some extent.

".

"Times have changed and we have to change with them. The days of easy money has gone for good and the agriculture of this country cannot go ahead unless there are permanent institutions to Assist the agriculturists with cheap and easy loans.

Assistance of Government, "For the past year or so the question of the formation of a bank such as the one we are proposing to form has been engaging the at tention of many men, both Euro pann and Amatic, who have the interest of this country at their hearts. The Planters Association of Malaya, the Malayan Estate Owners' Association and the Gon eral Purposes Committee have

"They were engaged in a bitter struggle and were badly in want of some of the sinews of war. In

the past the rubber industry had been a major factor in the great development and prosperity of this country, and it was not un- reasonable that now thay should approach Government for assi

stance on a business hanis to help them to weather the storm. (An

plause.);

Future of Malaya,

ns" to

Mr. D. Farquharaon, the chair- man of the Negri Sembilan Plan- ters Association, reiterated Mr.

warning: Phillips'

the sontially commercial nature of aland bank; and said that although he had alraedy ex pressed his views on the subject of land bank in a memorandiun (published in the Sfraice Times few words in support of the meet recently) he would like to say a

"All Forms of Enterprise. Mr. Farquharson also stressed the fact that a land bank would not be intended only for large ustates but would help every form of agricultural enterprise, whether sand acres or whether the crop. the area was one acre or one thou

was rubber, tea, coffee, rice or any thing else. He also spoke of the wanted to, sco a land bank going urgency of the need, and said they

let him in. Her face was flushed and her lips teemad to twitch.

"I anid: There is something wrong here. She said: Don't be silly. Don't be a fool.

Labour's Attitute.

The Executive Council of the American. Federation of Labour is giving attention to the problem, of unemployment which, it declares, I went into the bedroom und

is inorensing to an astonishing looking under the bed saw a man

degree," while the owners and man- man [stated by the Coroner, to beagers of industry stand impotent Aldous] partially dressed. I ask- ed him what he was doing under the bed. He said Your wife Buggested it. My wife said: "I -didn't.-Jim, I- didn't"-I then set about him and gave him a hiding.. and refused to move. Be Thy in the corner like a rat

"I made him put on his clothes and then slung him out of the house, I asked.my wife for an explanation and she said she could not give any."

Tanid This in the end of it. Either you leave the house AV two o'clock to-morrow, or I do.!?! By the morning post be received

and helpless." The Council urged: ...: (1). The adoption of a five-day week, both in private and Gov. ernment employment."

... (2)" A" six-hour day if neces- sary, and work arourity" wher ever possible........

(3) Maintenance of the stan- dard rate of pay,

wird (4) Inauguration and mainten ance of Federal, State, and muni cipal construction programmes, "minns red tape."

(5) Formulation of plans to stabilise industry, and the use thereof.

ས.

(0) The calling of a conference

sentatives of industry and Labour,

of solicitors, threatening hira with between the President and repre a summons for his brutal assault" unless he apologised.

his view such a bank would help at the soonest possible moment. In a letter from Aldous, care of a firm. act only those who were engaged in rubber cultivation but the Gov ernment as well.

to

agricultural

The following resolutions" were.

· Wife's "Parish Eim." then moved by the chairman, se

destroyed it so that I could not conded by Tuan Sheikh Ahmad, sister to take her away, Crackneli

"I said I would ask my wife's tako it. I told her it didn't make any difference as I had spilled' and unanimously passed

stated. I went to report the 'it, and had some more in another That this meeting is unanimatter to the station." mously in favour of asking the

bottle. I Have always' carried it He did not have a violent scene Malayan Governments to promote with his wife before he went

since May 11, the night I was the formation of a land bank for While I was making my report,

turned out of home. I carried it the purpose of rendering assistance the station sergeant called me into Aldous stated that he got the

in case I was destitute." where necessary official appointment of a repre- Mrs. Farr, her sister, had found The Coroner: Why did you enterprises in this country by the his office and told me that my wife poison" To take myself in case of

Was dead."

emergency." His Excellency the Governur," question of the formation of such was a newspaper on which there taken from me. It was known that sentativa committee to go into the her lying on the bed. On the bed divide it into two In case one was Mr. Farquharson continued, has a bank as soon as possible, publicly declared on more than

That the Chief Secretary to the one occasion lately that he has F.M.S. Government be asked to confidence in the future prosper receive deputation from this parity must be intimately bound ity of Malaya, and as this pros-meeting

Tho support given to the resclu

up with the rubber industry I think tion represented 30,000 acres of Government is entitled to take, rubber, and should take, a long view such

taken up this question very serias has been taken by the home and SIR C CLEMENTI'S OPINION. ously and various sub-committees Ceylon governments and help in

have been formed to go into the

watter thoroughly as regarda facts and figures for the need of such

the formation of a land bank.

"Confidence in the future of

agriculture is extential for the success of a land bank, and as far

a bank. This bank cannot come as rubber is concerned the past few

ONLY ONE POSSIBLE RE-

MEDY FOR RUBBEN.”.

into being without the assistance confidence in one respect; that menti at recent Legislative

months have given us increasing. His Excellency, Sir Cecil C16 || of the Government, an

nment, and the Gov-estaten in Malaya can compete as council meeting said:

<rnment will not look upon any regards cost with states in any proposal with any seriousness part of the world (Applause.) unless it is satisfied that there is Serious Matter

"ʼn real and genuine, demand from "The advantage of co-operative the people of the country for such

"a bank,b

holders and small estates have

The rubber situation, in Malaya

unlabelled bottle. was a lumpy powder and an empty | I had that cyanide in my possca- sion, and it was threatened that it

frs. Cracknell's handwriting

The coroner then read a letter in would be taken from me.

Dated

said:

Who threstoned it ?-I think the Sunday," 4.30 p.m.," itpolice at Paddington.

How would the police know By Dear Jim, I am sorry all this | Mrs. Patrick." has happened, and I hope you. She was known'as Mrs, Aldous !— will find Aldous, and punish him Yes. ⠀

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as he deserves. Mine is not, the | Aldous 'said that his Wife wak fo first home he has broken up. He Cornwall. They had not been" to- gave me this stuff to take if any-gether for 17 years. The house. nt thing happened that he should be Paddington was Mr. Patrick's, found here with me, so now you and he had been ejected as an can have him for murder, undesirable lodger."

"Borry to cause you all this out as you cannot find a soft trouble, but this in the best way corner in your heart to forgive me and make a fresh start Best

Detective Inspector Percy Worth" aw Aldous in a room attached to said that at 9.45 .m. yesterday he the court.

“I said to. Aldous,” continued

is certainly a tragic one, hut what

of luck, ':Always yours“ Ivy," the inspector," the coroner will be=" we suffer from is the fact that more

Then there were four crosses, quire you to give evidenca. respect. rubber is produced in the world te day than the world is prepared prasumably kises, said the coron- ing the death of Mrs. Cracknell.” manufacturing and list by main to purchase. Now it an attempt to poor old mum and dad and give dead until I got here morning.

er, and Break the news gently lo said, I did not-know she was I understand that similar banks never been so obvious as they are mancy to rubber estates, and if a Aldous, a tall man, with dark took it from me.

were made by Government to lend them my love

know what she took-ryanida » Sho Ara Already operating vary suc now. In the past selling their loan for that purpose were success hair and black moustache, and essfully and usefully in England produer at a substantial difference fully fonts, the only effect would wearing pince-ner, then, gave er for an adjournment for about three Detectivo-Inspector Worth asked. and Scotland. I also understand undor London standard was not be to produce still more rubber dance He said he was a commor weeks, The coroner gecordingly that similar banks, already exist in a great hardship and did not than is produced in Malays to cial traveller representing a dis adjourned the proceedings until the Netherlands East Indies, 1 trouble small holders or small day. We should defeat our own infectant firm, en commission. The Wednesday, September know a similar bank has han estates unduly, but now that the object, which must be somehow or agreed that he was the man found. started in Ceylon in the early, part price is round about eight or nine other to equate the production of in the house by Cracknell no reason why we cannot have and, the difference, if eld to small rubber in the world with the de. He admitted that the bottle of When Aldous appeared later tut df this year. There is, therefore, dollars a nicul London standard

mand for rubber by the consumersoyanide of potassium was his, but the police-court he denied saying bank in this country if we only kedais, is between 70 conts to 81. of rubber

he did not, he said, supply, Mrs. He wished he had taken the pois show to the Government in or 8 to 16 per cent. it as a serious

There in in my opinion, Cracknell with the poison. If he had wished, he added, he had unequivocal terms how much are mattor. Co-operative manufactur

only one possible remedy for feel the necessity for, it. (Aping and selling would, oneble the rubber situation and he took it away from me kait ample opportunity to take iko

without my knowledge to sAVE-DIE-

|:. He was not down nud sutras Indi umugam urged clders, rubber to be, so 10. A consumption of rubber in the world,

from having. Finally, Mr.

bad often

moment. IRENE MOLNAR brea

took it out of Dimissing the charge the magis that similar meetings should be price equivalent to that of Lon "Itinươn those lines that a solu-

my pocket.

said she had trate said the police would retain convened in all, the principal towns don standard.

wana wa mada fortifid tinh ban be sought; and I fear on of, Malaya,

Cougarh: "(Vontunudd onenext Golumn)sted no otheri.

(Continued on next (aluma) the cyanide.

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