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Scottish Air-Mail Letter TO REMAIN ON

Scotland Making Headway: A Scottish Victory: The Unemployment Problem: Duke And Duchess To Visit Skye:

The Sabbeth And No Cards: Sergeant John Riplay, V.C.

SCOTLAND MORE

CHEERFUL

(Special Air-Mall Service;

Edinburgh, Aug. 30. Despite the ultra-nationalist critics and the incorrigible pessi mists, Scotland is making head- way even" in these dark daya. One of the most successful of holiday seasons, is now concluding with a highly satisfactory total of tourists and revenue. The hard-hit. West of Scotland can tell of a number of new factories recently opened, and the stricken Clyde has been cheered by a few gleams of bright- Hess. These, added to the good harvest and the tonic of a bright summer, constrain' many' to think that things are cheerier.

A SCOTTISH GOLE

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tained in the death of your dis- tinguished husband and to convey to you his Majesty'a deep sympathy your sorrowCharles Warr, Dean of the Thistle." ROYAL VISIT TO SKYE

GOLD STANDARD

Dutch Governments Decision

The Hague, Sept. 19. THE intention of the Netherlands Government" to maintain the gold standard is re-affirmed in the Budget, the figures of which were revealed to-day,

The deficit in the coming fin- ancial year, on the present basis, would, be" 267,050,000 guilders.

This deficit will be met by a renewal of the temporary taxation and by an increase in duties.

New measures, which are esti-' | mated to bring in additional re- venue to the extent of 108,500,000 guilders including a sales tax, a coupon tax, a crisis income tax, and increases in the duties on tobacco and coffee.

The visit of the Duke and Duke and Duchess of York to Skye next month to open a boys' The deficit will be further: de- hostel will be a time-marking creased by economies in expendi event on the island for several gen-ture. Eighty-four million guilders erations—unless the increasing will be saved by new salary cuts popularity of the place among affecting Government employees. holiday-makers brings about ā and by reductions in expenditure profound change in the habits of an education, defence and public the people.

works.--Reuter.

And the lalanders will not be easily changed. They are scornful of time in a way that shocks the Lowlander.

Nearly all are Gaelic speakers, and some speak Gaelic only. They are closely intermarried, so that every other man a Ross' or `à Scottish boy golfers seem to beat | MacLeod, and many of them have England as inevitably as Ameri-pedigrees almost as long as that

PRODUCTION OF RUBBER

cans win the Open Championship. of MacLeod of MacLeod, who traces Dutch Want Fifty Per

THE DEVIL'S BIBLE

Cent. Cut

Batavia, Sept. 19.

Yesterday's match at Carnoustie his ancestry, to the Norse kings of was won and lost in the morning the Isle of Man foursomes, success-in which might well be a Scottish prerogative be- sides being a tradition, for the two- ball foursome is known in America as "the". Scotch foursome." The performance of the home players There are no Sunday steamers, į advocating a fifty per cent. T should give them the incentive to and Bunday recreation is so con- striction of rubber production dur- continue the sequence of Scottish demned that one landlady told her ing 1934 and the annual fixing of successes in the individual cham-holiday-makers very gently that the restriction percentage in fu- plonship.

she would like them to remain ture years by a Commission. the house or garden unless they were going to church.

Skye is a stronghold of the old.THE Dutch rubber interests, ac unbending, Sabbatarishism.

cording to the local press, are

By this win Scotland has raised her sequence of victories to five, and over the whole series of mat- ches now leads by eight matches to two."

JUVENÏLE EMPLOYMENT

The report on the prospects for juvenile employment in Scotland "during the next seven years la disquieting. The principle cause for the heavy surplus of juvenile labour is, of course, the depression, but it is highly significant that the report says Glasgow even with a revival of trade will be unable to absorb the surplus. The in- Greasing mechanisation of indus- try is, making its contribution to the problemis of the labour mar két,

FILLING UP THE GAPS

In 1937 Scotland may have near- ly 70,000 boys and girls on its | hands, half of them in the Glas- gow and Lanarkshire areas. What is to become of them? The report

suggests that some may be trans- ferred to areas where there is & shortage of juvenile labour, but it is feared there will be few nich areas in Scotland, and it will be imagined that England is Hikely to have enough unemployed of its. own without needing what Scot- land can supply. But if the scheme of transference is at all practicable there is a great deaf to be said in its favour.

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Cards at any time are regarded as the "Devil's Bible." An "in. nocent neighbours to play bridge. The minister heard of it, and visit: - ed her next day, to wám her of the undesirability of the practics.

And yet only a few hundred years ago a raiding party of Macdonalds The committee suggest that the surrounded church in which. best contribution to the problem MacLeods were worshipping, guard- will be made by raising the school-ed all the exits, and burned it to leaving age, and it is possible the ground (along with the con- such a step may be forced on the gregation) while their piper play- country. But it will not be im- ed in shrill triumphi agthed that it is the ideal solu tion. There is no real substitute BLACK WATCH V.C.'S for the discipline "and" "purposë that work can give young people

DEATH at the formative period of their lives. But another year at school may be the best "makeshift untur we gain a better understanding of the whole world economic muddle with which the question of em ployment is inextricably mixed up. THE LATE DR. DONALD

FRASER

The widow of Dr. Donald Fraser, the missionary, has received the following telegram on behalf of the King

It is also stated that the Gov- érament favours the restriction of native production by the imposi tion of an ad valorem export duty, which would remain in force for a period of Ave years.

During that period of five years, fresh planting would be prohibited. --Reuter.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(September 21) (VIII Moon, 2nd Day)

St. Matthew.

Anctions.

Letting And Bale of Crown Lands, Land Office, Ping Shan, 11 am.

Tangiowan

Lammert's Sale of Nos. 45 to 52 and “Chung - Shan Knitting Factory, Balea Room, 3 p.m.

Hughes and Hough's "Bale of 40′′] Cases Beer, Bales Room, 11.30 am

Meetings-Theosophical Society, 4 p.mi." St. Andrew's Church: Com- mittee and Stall-holders of Inter- national Fair and Pageant, 9 p.m.

at Civil Service Whist Drive Cricket Club, at 8.45 p.m.

Theatres.

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