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AIR MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

THE LAST LINK FROM

SINGAPORE

The England-Australia air mail may be established fact by the end! of the year.

This hope, it is understood, is being held at the moment in au thoritative Australian circles.

I talked, writes 2 Straits Time reporter, with an important visitor to Singapore, from the Commonwealth on the subject, and was informed that 411 announce ant is expected shortly concern. ing negotiations which are in pro- Australian gress

Weat between Airways, QN.T.A.S. (Queensland Northern Territory Air Service)

and Air Commodore Bir Kings. ford Smith's organisation, Aus- tralian National Airways Ltd.

If these negotiations are ratified the British Empire will soon learn that these three large interests in and pooling their material and financial resources to operate the

far as Singapore. With the set- tlement of these latest plans for dealing with the mail from here onwards, the difficulties which hare attended the efforts of both the Imperial and Commonwealth Gov. ernments to bring about a regular service for some time past will have been removed,

It is anticipated that the cost of operating the Singapore-Mel- bourne soction will be borna by, the three civil aviation interests con cerned without further assistance from the Imperial or Common- wealth Governments. They are al ready in receipt of subsidica from

the Commonwealth Government,

Probably a surcharge of id, per 1,000 miles will be levied on ordin ary letters. This means that the surcharge payable between Eng and aud Australia would be in the neighbourhood of one shilling, and between London and Singapore, about 8d.

'It can now be revealed that the| K.L.M., which has been running a

most successful, air mail service be

Itween Holland and Java for near-i ly two years, made a generous offer to the Commonwealth and Im

inst auction of the route, between perial Governments in connection Singapore and Melbourne, provi- sion for which, up to now, has not been made.

with this last link in the service..

Its proposal was that it should Recently, it will be remembered carry letters from England over Imperial Airways announced its, the stage on a poundage basis, intention of operating the route as (Continued on next Valuma)

THE

CHILDREN'S

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1932.

WAR MEMORIAL OF CANADA

ON VIEW IN LONDON

THIS MONTH

London, Sept. 8-The Canadian National War memorial is now be ing erected, partly in temporary material, in Hyde Park, on the site that the Wellington War Memorial Carillon occupied tem- porarily before its departure to New Zealand.

The Canadian memorial, will be on view in Hyde Park from about the beginning of next month tili

MONEY & MARKETS.

¿Cuntinued from I^uge 4.)

BOMBAY COTTON TRADE CHAOS

INDIAN COTTON EXCHANGE

APPROVES GOVT, BILL ··

Bombay. The principles of the Bombay Cotton Contracts Bill, in- tended to be introduced at the ensuing session of the Legislativo Council, were approved of at a the end of December. It will then meeting of the Indian Cotton Ex be taken down and the bronze change, Bombay, held under the figures chipped to Ottawa, the presidentship of ME. W T. Halad. permanent home of the memorial. Various amendments to the clausen The arch and pedestal will be built were, however, suggested at the in Canada of native granite, from meeting. working drawing' prepared in Mr. Sydney March's studio at Farn borough, Kent The arch and po destal that, Londoners are to arg

will be replicas, built of thin boarding and plaster mouldings

on a tubular steel framework.

without receiving any subsidy

whatever.

On patriotic grounds, however, I am informed, both the English and Australia Authorities were aux da to maintain an all-British (or, as it is known in Australia, "all- Red") service.

CORNER

In the course of his speech, Mr. Halai said he adhered to the view he had expressed years ago that if any legislation for the preservation of free trading in cotton was basen- tist legislation should be under. taken by the Government of India and not by the Government of

Bombay as the cotton trade was of an all-India' nature. On the ques- tion whether the trade was or not in a state of chaos requiring inter feronce from Government he gave the answer in the affirmative, He was, howwer,«not in agreement with several of the clauses of the present Bill He thought. 'that Government ought to have clearly. specified the reasons which led to the absence of free trading in the cotton market.

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OUR CONTINUED STORY

BILLY BUNNY.

BY UNCLE JACK

lights hanging from the bough of a

fir-tres, a luge hornet, sitting on a THE toadstool, playing a cornet. In my surprise I stepped back a pace, and felt a sharp sting in my back. I jumped round, and found I'd bumped into a hedgehog.

"I beg your pardin," Hed-

Then suddenly the scene chang-gehog murmured. "I'm Miss Hed- ed. It was very bright moonlight, gehog, Shall we walts to the

a huge web hung from a tree in music?"

front of me, and hanging from the I said "With pleasure," and we web, by a single silver thread was started.

The hornet

saw us, and

STAMP COLLECTOR

an enormous spider. I fairly shook played more furiously on his cor- with fright when I saw that the net Funny music it was a hum NOTES FROM EVERYWHERE spider was swinging to and fro ming, buzzing noise that seemed to like a pendulum, making a buzzing circle round our heads as we danc noise, and gradually getting near- er to me.

I tried to squel when it seized me, hat I wouldn't. It wrapped me up in the silver thread as though I were a fly, rolling me round and round so quickly that I seemed to buzz and hum like a top.

ed.

I felt ready to drop hug Miss Hedgehog kept whirling mo round the music and round. Suddenly rose to a perfect scream, and in trying to reverse the wrong way Miss Hedgehog fell on top of me.

Her spikes stuck into me at all I thought it was going to eat angles, and, feeling as if I'd been me, but, instead of that, it gave stung by a thousand wasps, I woke

a push, and sent

me bowling up. down a hill.

And, as I was bouneing along,

י.

BANK OF ENGLAND BYE-LAWS

ANTIQUATED ONES BEING REPLACED

London, Sept. 22-Bye-laws 200 years old were scrapped and sub- stituted by others more suitable to modern conditions at a meeting of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England to-day.

One of the new "bye-laws re places one which had been operat- ing since 1733 and which provided that all "cash be carefully kept under three or more, locks," the keys of which were to be held by

three or more persona selected from among the deputy-governor and the directors.

ROYAL OBSERVATORY'S DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

STATION

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OCTOBER 3, 1982,

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Switzerland. In commemoration anniversary tion of the 30th of the completion of the St. Gotthard. Railway and the oficial

A new bye-law empowers the the St Gotthard Court of Directors to engage from opening of Tunnel, Switlerland issued a set of three large postal stampa boaring time to time the exclusive services the inscription, "St. Gotthard, of any member of the Court and to 1892-1002. The 10-cent value showi a portrait of Louis Favre, builder remunerate him for such services. of the tunnel, the 90e a portrait of It also provides that an annual Alfred Escher, first president of the sum not exceeding £30,000 in any Gotthard Society, and the 300 n portrait of Emil Welti, president Year be placed at the disposal of Shanghai. of the Swiss Confederacy in the the Court, year of the inauguration of the railway. The tunnel was complet

I had been stung by a thousand

Swarms of them were buz the thread unwound, and the buzzing round me, and I realised that

louder than zing sound became

I'd gone to sleep by their nest. ever. I came to a slop against a tree-trunk, feeling very dated. The "Now I understand why I hoarded June 1, 1892, and links be south buzzing, droning noise still sang in to buzzing all through my dreams" ern and Italian apeaking canton tuy ears as I looked about me. il muttered as I crawled sadly Teesin with the other part of

I was puzzled to know where the Bound was coming from till I saw, .beneath a cluster of glow-worm (Could, at top of next column.

DO YOU KNOW--

HOW THEY JUDGE' HEIGHT

How many of you have wonder

home.

...

I was so swollen with stings that I could scarcely get into the bar row, and when I did manage to squeeze in, all mother would any

Berves you. right.”.

WNS:

Switzerland.

Mexico. The new Air Mail rate to the United States is 20 o., and in order. to use up large stocks of the 15. c. Air stamp, a new 5 c. value has been printed. Mr. Julio Fabian, who tells us this stater that the first delivery of the Print- ing OfBoe was 800,000 copies.

Newfoundland. We understand were printed of the "DOX! -stamp, of which 23000. were probably used on the fight. Covers we have seen were all post marked St. Johns, May 10.54.

SMILE AND WHILE that 8000

Cholce.

ed from time to time how it is that. He was a new boarder, but when the big loads on railway trucks prunes were served for breakfast always just manage to miss the for the third moming in succo railway bridges

kion, he felt he was entitled to say It is quite easy to accoting for something."* 'really.' You see in every large am not very fond of prunes," ahunting yard there is a special he said, "Have fño choice 1 guage.

"Yes, replied the lady of the house, sweetly, "you, may take 'em or leave 'em."

Every wagon must be able to paas beneath this gauge before it leaves the yard to susure that no pile of merchandise will exceed the height that permits it to pass through the lowest tunnel or bridge.

The average height of these load gauge-in-England-in-13ft Sins

HIDDEN ANIMALS

Here are the answers day's-jumbled names.

1 Horse

2. Mule

3. Blephant 14. Lion (trB... “Donkey PC Tabbi£:

Eves,

"What are you doing, dear asked a mother of her little daugh ter, who was making rawit and scratches on a piece of paper.

I'm writing a letter to Betty." But, my dear, you don't know how to write.

Russia. Various values of the current serries exist imperf. These, we are told officially, were issued during a breakdown of the per- forating plant

Southern Rhodesia, The old 21. and ad. Victoria Falls stamps will remain valid for postage only un- til the 31st of October of this year. Queries

Mr. Montagu Norman, the famous Governor of, the Bank, ex- plained that the aggregatą rr- muneration for the governor, the deputy governor and the 4 direc- tors was at present limited to 15,500 sterling a year and that a larger sum was needed to secure the services of firmklass ma to day,

One of the proprietors, amid ap planse, expressed astonishment that Mr. Norman's allowance was only £9,000 and that of the direc tors £800 which in his opinion was

hardly a living wage to-day,”!

HONG, KUNGF

From October 5, to 11 1932

HIGH WATER LOW-WATER,

Q. Will you please tell me what is meant by, "newspaper, stamps” and "occupation stamps" IL B

A "Newspaper stamps are is A-A sued for the special purpose of pre paying the postage on newspapers wed and cannot be used for any other postage. However, some countries have allowed low-value stampatin- postage to be used for payment of tended primarily for newspaper

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