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YOUR VIEWS AND

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A Weekly Column of Local Gossip

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By The Scout

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Mr. Lea D'- Almada e Castro junior, upon his election. as President of the Kow- loon Resident's Association. The KRA. could not have made a bet- ter choice as Mr. D'Almada takes a keen interest in Kowloon affairs und is moreover well qual flea to

amateur gardener in Hongkong is as keen as his counterpart any where else in the world. of compliment to the

A word' committee

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1934.

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Lord Beaverbrook's Stories of a Great - Statesman

LORD ZETLAND'S MR. EDEN MEETS OVERSEA TRADE

LONDON HOUSE

Famous Furniture For Sale

HERR HITLER

Berlin Firm About Nazi Troops

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(Special Air-Mall Service)

London, February, 201 Owing to the projected plearance of the houses in Arlington-street; facing the Green Park, the Marquis (Special Air-Mail Servics;

of Zetlandi, has erdered his historie

London, February 20. mansion to be dismantled and the "In an atmosphere of general London, Feb. 20

famous household decorations to be cordiality Mr. Arthuby Eden, the Lord Beaverbrook told. some seat to Christie's for sale on April. Lord Privy Seal, to-day begun his disarmament conversations with the stories of Bonar Law when speaking at a luncheon of the Canadian. Chapters of history are often heads of the German Government. Chamber of Commerce in Great illustrated in the suction room, and They will probably conclude on Britain in London. He said : this dispersal will link together Thursday, when Mr. Eden expects

"Bonar Law was a splendid char-again three very notable Scotsmen to leave for Rome, for them to be proud of this year's relish. He would always take the pertive professions in the 18th cen-by gir Eric Phipps, British Ambas

acter, but in small things he was

who were at the top of their res To-day Mr. Eden, accompanied best chair in the room and the big tury.

sador to Berlin, met Baron The Marquis of Zetland's forbear (Neurath, the gest cigar in the box.

Edinburgh wool merchant and army Reichswetr Minister, also took part I remember suce writing that Sir Lawrence Dundas, the successful Minister. Gen. von Blomberg, the Gorman Forelgu

1 want to hi house the best, chair contractor, when decorating his in the room had disappeared and country seat at Moor Park and his two chairs exactly alike had taken own house with the costlieet fur- its place.

nishings, called in his brother Scot, the gifted Robert Adam, to design furniture and mantelpieces. He also commissioned that exiled Scot, James Nellson, director of the renowned Gobelin tapestry factory, half.

is due for there was every reason

flower show...

VOLUNTEER WORK

At the annual dinner

of the

hold such a responsible honorary Portuguese Company of the Hong- about him, and when the next day.

at the head, of affalis

post. He has served for severni years on the Committee

kong Volunteer Defence Corps, 01 the Association and now that he will

the hope was expressed that in have to guide its destiny, it seems

the near future there would be certain that, he will do

two Portuguese Companies tristead 60 with distinction. There

of one, and that it was the wish His sister had done that so that are a large number of Portuguese residents

of Major General Bonrett that a I should never write such things on the Peninsula and it is in the company of one hundred strong about him again. Interest of the Association that one

will be available for, Kowloon and "In big events he was a most a similar number for Hongkong. It of their number (particularly one

generous man When he died he SO talented as Mr. D'Almada)

is perhaps the success of the pre- eft me his letters and papers, and should be put from time to time, sent company in both the field of found among them letters written, sport and in military competition to friends who had "criticised me, that has given rise to this hope, defending me.

These letters had been hidden There can be no denying the fact that members of the Portugueseaway so that I should not even know Company are the keenest volun- the criticisms that were being direct teers in our midst for they take dagalast me. their work very seriously, and from

The Days To Come their large community in the year

"We owe to him our triumph when a number of ponies are due kong, there is every prospects, if the war and to no other man. to be auctioned. In view of the recruiting campaign were or am not unconscious of the great publicity given in the local press

ganised of getting the two hun-services Lloyd George did for us separate companies?

not have. triumphed in the war. "CARRYING COAL"

He looked into the future with seeing eyes and would have told us

The K.R. A. has always placed the interess of the public arst and foremost and there is every promise that the year 1934 will be no exception. PONY AUCTION

This is the time of

Kong-

in the discussions..

под

Later the Chancellor, Herr Hitler, received Mr. Eden in the presence of Baron von Neurath and Gen. von Blomberg. The discussions, in which Sir Erlo Phipps again participated, lasted for about an hour and a

to provide exquisite panels (13ft by They were concerned, "according 17ft) after designs by Boucher, to an official statement, with the Tessier and Jacques, with appro-solution of the disarmament question priate tapestry covers to suites of furniture designed by tions put furward during the dip- it the on the basis of the German sugges- Robert Adam.

lomatic negotiations of the past few The chief interest of the sale lies months, and also of the recently in the works of Neilson and Adam: published British memorandum, Many will remember, for example, It is emphasised that the conver- that superb set of four arm-chairs sutions are being conducted in igand a setter by Robert Adam which very friendly spirit. All the points were lent to the Exhibition of Eng-raised in the British memorandura sh.decorative art at Lansdowne of Jan. 29 will be reviewed in the House in 1929, with one of the Berlia talks, which will consequently

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some six months ago with regard dred men required for the two but without Bonar Low he would Neilson-Adam firescreens forining turn upon both the regulation of

to the treatment some of these ponies are alleged to receive when sold to "Canton more far" there is a strong feeling in certain quar-

It is somewhat amusing to read

ters that a pony which is no good turing electric batteries are seek

that a firm in Colombo, manufac- 'for racing should be destroyed Ing agents in Hongkong for the rather than be sold for a few dol- sale of their goods. This was an- lars. I think, however, that, pon-nounced at the Chinese Chamber les which are not wanted by race of Commerce during the week owners would be gladly received by the local Machine Gun Troop, where it is assured of good treat

ment. I mention the point for what it is worth.

DANCE DISPLAY

The Dance Display during the week by the pupils of the O'Keefe- Montgomery Bchool of Dancing drew a large gathering to the King's Theatre and the parents and friends of the many talented girls who took part must be grati- fed with the result. The pro- gramme was a lengthy one and had to be curtailed at the last moment, but in spite of this it was very enjoyable since there was plenty of variety, Dance displays by pupils of local dancing schools have been going on for, almost a dozen years and I am wondering whether it is possible to get up a show on the same lines as the one presented last week. by past pupils of these dancing schools. THE FLOWER SHOW

A few years ago such a communi- eation to might have provoked some inter- Hongkong merchants

est. but to-day electric batteries are being exported from Hong- kong. so rapidly has this line of industry developed in the Colony. Another industry which has grown very rapidly in Hongkong is that of manufacturing rubber shoes,

to years ago-unemployment and the chases of the disturbances in Europe to-day were as they were nothing else. Revolution does but cross the frontiers of an employed

country.

"We shall see in the days to come successive Ministries swept away for employment, and Canada will play failing to deal with the curse of un- a leading part in all these changes

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MOTHER-IN-LAW'S

To-day locally manufactured POWER BROKEN

shoes are being exported in large quantities all over the world!

PRETTY NURSE AND THE 1 NOTE

Poppy Day Fable

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, February 20. Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill, congratulated the Women's Section at Denision House, S. W., yesterday of the British Legion (Metropolitan Area) on the success of Poppy Day. Then she said she must tell "this one":

What a riot of colours. the flower show presented gt Volunteer Headquarters on Thursday! It was selling poppies when'

A very pretty young nurse was refreshing to see the many beau-buyer, a young man, told her that a potential tiful blooms arrayed in competi-be would give her a £1 note for a tion, and the large number of poppy provided she would promise people who sent exhibits into the to nure him if at any time he went competitions. The Horticultural to her hospital. She agreed. Society has definitely succeeded "By the way," the young J in improving the standard of asked, "where is your hospital?" flowers and vegetables grown in *[ ain at Queen Charlotte's Hongkong and no one who visited Maternity Hospital," merkly replled the show during the week can the pretty nurse, putting the note gainsay the statement that the into the box.

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part of the original Moor Park Gobelin tapestry suite.

The Dundas Chippendale also is

armaments and assurances in the political field.

and those who are aware of the tion of the storm troups. On this The most difficult problems are very important, especially a suite of ten chairs covered with tapestry, Germany's air claims and the ques- skill of eighteenth-century English point the Reich is obdurate in wish- craftsmen in using Derbyshire sparg to have the Brownshirts consi- with applied ormolu ornamentation dered as a purely political force for designs of candelabra will be--that is to say, not counted at all. greatly attracted by a pair fashioned three ormolu figures of Hercules by Mathew Boulton, of Soho, with

Fupporting.

CIVIL SERVICE

also maintains a private army of a support of Signor Mussolini, who Berlin looks forward to the full

similar type, and raises the same international problem.

Whether by accident or design to-night's "Angriff," the organ, of Dr. Goebbels, lays atress on the solidarity existing between the regu- lar and irregular forces of the

PAY Cost-of-Living Bonus Reich

Cuts.

A claim for increased remunera- tion throughout the Civil Service was presented at a joint meeting in London recently of the official and staff sides of the National Whitley Council for the Civil

Service. London. Feb, 20.

Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, at a lun-

A report issued later by the staff cheon of the Distributist League inside stated that the staff representa London recently, described her tives at the meeting referred to that she had been amazed at the recent tour in China, and said the reduction's in Civil Service pay

present position of women in that country.

broken,

in recent years by a succession of cuts in the cost-of-living bonus, amounting in all "to more than 40 per cent in thousands of cases, in spite of the fact that out of about 300,000 civil servants 35,000 received

per week or less, 183,000 received 4 per week or less, and 219,000 received £5 per week or less.

The statement adds:

"The power of the mother-in- law among the intelligentsia is now she said, "though in the country districts it still exists...

"All the professions which are open to men are open to women to China but.. they do not want to. adopt them. To Chinese women

With a view to the settlement, of marriage still remains the most

a new basis of remuneration the desirable profession, and she can staff representatives proposed that get married because there are more full compensation for the increased than enough men to go round. cost of living should be given to all "Chinese women go to the Uni- civil servants on rates of pay of versity with their brothers, but the only profession which they enter in any great numbers is that of teaching.

per week or less, and that the cost-of-living bonus for those above the amounts of the increase at £3 this point should be increased by

per week.

Japanese Women "Chattels'

In view of the absalescence of "You find that there is a parti- the 1914 basis for the Ministry of cular, reverence for women in China Labour's cost-of-living figures and existing throughout, the whole of their consequent inapplicability to society, and, according to Chinese the conditions of the present time; practice, no woman must wait up-it was further proposed that for on a man outside the family. the purpose of arriving at a more In Japan, however, the position equitable adjustment the Ministry's of women 13 very different, for the figure of as against the present Japanese regard their women as figure of 50 in the Civil Service chattels, and they are completely should be used as a basis for the 'beasts of burden. They are also new agreement. regarded as being inferior to men." The staff representatives further Referring to Japanese militarism, intimated their intention to urge Mrs. Chesterton said this was a that the most lowly paid grade in very serious menace, not only to the Civil Service should receive Western civilisation: Japan had further upward adjustments in pay, decided to absorb the whole of the and that all adult men and women north of China down to the Yellow in the Civil Service should be Flyer. She also had her eye on equally paid for equal work. Bingapore and Hongkong, and she certainly meant to be the dominant Power in Asla.

DOG RACING

MEETINGS: Saturday, 9.15 P.M.

Sunday, 9.15 P.M.

$2 Pari-Mutuels; $1 Cash Sweeps; ADMISSIONS: Members Stand $1, Public Stand 40

cants.

The staff claim is now under pre-consideration by the Government, ond 逛 further meeting of the Whitley Council will take place at an early date,

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The following official joint state ment was issued later: - ..

"Representatives of the official and staff sides of the National Whitley Council for the Civil Service appointed to consider the future basis of remuneration for the Civil Service met yesterday at the Treasury, The staff side_pre- sented a claim for increased re- muneration throughout the Civil Service which, they stated, was based upon the findings of many committees of inquiry and the obsolescence and inapplicability of the Ministry of Labour cost of living figures. A further. early meeting of the two sides will be held.

More Raw Material

· Imported

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, Feb. 20:

The monthly trade returns issued, yesterday are compiled in a revised form, with the object of making them more informative. A notable change that has been made to faci- litate the measurement of Empire trade is that, in cases where coton- tries of consignment or to which goods are consigned are shown, the 5gures for British countries are given first. Many additional details ate now shown.

raw

Compared with January, 1933, imports last month rose by £10,761, 870 (19.9 per cent.) to £64,671,82,

declined by £116,007 (9.7 per cent.) cent.) to £31,809,383; re-exports and exports by £2,403,961 (82 per

to "£4,073,081.

9,453,000. Among the raw material and of manufactured articles by materials were higher by £8,200,000

Importa of

imports rises may be noted of £491,000 in raw cotton, £2,797,000 in wool, and £326,000 in rubber. Ex- ports of manufactured goods were £2,038.000 larger, increases Being shown under the headings of iron and steel, machinery, cutlery, wool- lens and worsteds, and new ships, The only important reduction was in cotton goods.

Further details of the returns are given in our City colurane.

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