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Marriage Allowance Scheme

(To the Editor of The Times)

Bir-Representations from con- stituents who are members of the Medical Branch of the Royal Navy have led me to look into certain questions connected with Rowan- ces which formed the subject of a recent letter to The Times from. Commander Sir Archibald South- by.

From my past experience I am naturally interested in Service questions; and I venture therefore- even at the risk of encroaching upon spheres which others have made peculiarly their own-ta offer certain comments that accur

to the present controversy in regard

GENERAL

Scene during Bisley Rifle meeting last week. On extreme left, with back to camera, is Mr. J. Hargreaves, Hon.

Treasurer of the Hong Kong Rifle Association.-(Staff Photographer).

to which there appears to me to be SAN FRANCISCO MOSQUITOES AND

some risk of creating a sense of grievance where попе should exist

I do not think Sir Archibald

WORLD'S FAIR

Southby does justice to the pro- Many Approaches To

posed scheme for marriage allow- ance for naval officers. He does not accept the principle on which. this proposal is based. What is this principle?

Treasure Island

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Hoiding an exposition of world- After the War wide scope on

island in the when the Fisher Committee advised centre of San Francisco Bay is the Government an comparable | unique, of course.

RUBBER

Difficulties In Plantation

Has it ever occurred to · you,

when spinning along on besnil- ful or bumpy roads, that mos quitos are capable of putting a complete stop to motoring? Not

remuneration for acers of the How will the vast crowds at- | because they might attack you in three Services, the Board of Ad-tending the San Francisco World's swarms, but because they are cap- miralty and naval officers pre- Fair in 1939 reach the island?

tu

able of making tyres so expensive ferred the same rate of pay for all

There will be several approaches that the horse and trap would officers, whether married or single.

to Treasure Island, the 400-acre once more make their appearance. The obligations of marriage were man-made site of the exposition..

Of course, there is not much not specifically recognized except-

affairs in the implication that an officer's The 8-mile San Francisco Bay danger of this state of pay was considered sufficient for Bridge will be the means of bring taking place new, but it nearly him to marry on if he chose. Asing motor car transportation from happened in Brazil and the Für a consequence officers who chose both San Francisco and East Bay East, where most of the world's and where cities directly to the grounds via rubber is produced remain bachelors were more verba Buena island to which the mosquitos abound in millions. comfortably off than their mar-

site is connected by a six lane Although the United States uses In ried colleague of similar rank.

causeway. On Treasure Island more tyres" than the test of the other words, there was a hidden marriage element in the pay of there will be parking space for world, rubber cannot be produced there and tyremakers are obliged ail officers at any rate above the more than 12,000 cars.

Electric trains crossing the to seek elsewhere for their raw rank of lieutenant.

14 why Henry bridge in both directions will de- material. That The Army and Air Force. however, chose a lower substantive posit passengers from both direc- Ford, in Brazil, and Harvey Fires- Buena, from tone, in Liberia, have created vast tions on Yerba rate of pay plus extra allowances whence they may reach the ex-

rubber plantations. far married officers. What Sir

The price of every tyre includes, a small percentage to cover the Archibald Southby presumably now position island by special motor vehicles designed for the purpose. This same type car will transpor cost of Aghting mosquitos. This married officers in the Navy theisitors about the grounds inside Percentage is so small as to be i

almost negligible. Nevertheless. It the gates.

has been charged up to customers

seeks

to

do Is to

1.

Zor keep

higher substantive rate of pay containing this marriage element. and to add to it marriage allow. The great bulk of the crowds by certain tyre-makers, who have ance in addition. If that were however, will be transported by been obliged to pay it to rubber done the other. Services might ferry bont, Ferries, will operate producers. reasonably object.

on frequent schedules from San The owner of a rubber planta-· The Government, on the other Francisco. Oakland and Berkeley. tion has to contend with a whole:] hand, say in effect: "If we grant Theree ferry slips on the San series of difficulties, the principal allowances to the married officers Francisco side of the island and ones being mosquitos and malari there must be a slightly lower another on the Oakland-Berkeley In British India, millions of people are attacked by malaria every substantive rate for each rank side will be prepared to accom- between lieutenant-commander modate more than 50.000 persons year, because the population is The time taken in cros-elther too poor or too ignorant to and captain." That, I understand, an hour. s the principle on which a cut of sing the Bay to the Exposition site purchase quinine.

But rubber growers and tyre- 24. a day is based. To mitigate from either side of the Bay will any possible hardship that cut of be eight minutes. This will give makers are neither ignorant nor visitors the opportunity of poor. They are fully aware of the 25. a day is only to operate in the the case of the single officer on his viewing both the $77.000.000 82 fact that whilst quinine costs next promotion. In the case of Francisco Bay Bridge, and the money. It is an excellent invest-

cut will $35,000,000 Golden Gate Bridge.

ment. On the other hand, they the married "officer the

also know that malaria and mos- operate either on next promotion.

quitos if they are not dealt with or immediately if he wishes to

are capable o! Taking advantage of the present energetically, enjoy the benefits of marriage allowance in his present rank. In national crisis, the outlaws in Sze- paralysing and wiping out every the latter case there is really no chuan seem to have become more enterprise of this kind. Hence the cut, for an officer hälow the rank and more daring as reports of small addition you pay for you of captain only gives up the 28. sbanditry have been received from tyres. This addition day to receive a marriage allow- a number of places. The robbers meet the cost of a steady" quinine ance of 4s. 6d. a day plus 28. for at Fu Ling Chang on the border campaign. Interided to prevent and the first child and is for each of Pishan and Yunchuan districts cure malaria. They know, like the subsequent child.

are so active that they have dug rest of us, that quinine is the most Sir Archibald Southby makes a big tunnel to link the two re-rellable remedy for malaria.

The Malaria Commission of the an unfair comparison between the glons and have plenty of food- pay of a bachelor commander for stuffs stored therein. Since the League of Nations recommenda whom the cat will not operate one year's time-limit beginning for prophylaxis a daily dose of 6 until the next promotion and, the from January 4, 1997, during which grains during the whole malarial has bandits were allowed to surrender season, and for treatment a daily pay of a comander who already enjoyed in the rank below by themselves, is over, the military dose of 15-18 gratus during 5-7 the benefit of marriage allowance, leaders have ordered that they be days. After-treatments are omit- Had the cut of bachelor officers suppressed without leniency. been made immediately there

would have been some ground

for complaint on their bat #t Ex Barely not Fair

part, half-pay, when they are likely to quite need it most. I think also that

serves to

ted, but all relapses are treated

in the same way..

AIRCRAFTSMAN WITH ARMS

to quote against" the some arrangement might well be

Liang Shu-yue. 40, aircraftsman, Board of Admiralty, on behalf of made to ensure that a married appeared before Mr. E, M..A.. Bar- married offler whose treatment officer ashore shall not be worse nett yesterday at the Kowloon can be jusilhed on its merits, a off in the future than he is now. Court charged with the possession concession made to bachelors in The scheme, as I understand of an automatic revolver and 31 order to avoid hardship to them. involves in its present form rounds of ammunition without a I understand that the Fleet reduction of total emoluments licence. Det-Serzt. Brooks pro- were offered two schemes-one when a childless married "officer was a flat rate of marrriage allow-goes to take up a shore appoint- ance with no addition for children, ment in which quarters are not and the other as a slightly lower provided.

secuted.

Defendant said that it was a souvenir, which belonged to his superior officer, Accused

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Was

marriage allowance plus allowan- Subject to these reservations I ces for children. They chose the believe the scheme, when properly found guilty and fined $10, the Iatter. Had they chosen the former understood, will be generally sun and ammunition to-be-con- perhaps the case quoted by Bir acceptable to amcers in the Navy.fiscated... Archibald Southby would not It will certainly be a blessing to have arisen. I believe the Fleet married officers who spend so chose wisely. Childless married much of their time, afloat to onacers with fewer responsibilities receive proportionately to their would have received the same need a contribution to the main- Leung Hung, 32, unemployed, of remuneration as married officers tenance of their families which No. 16 Shanghai Street 3rd floor, with the heavier responsibilities they have not hitherto enjoyed. If and Chan Chun, 30, widow, of No of a family. The cost of the whole I am right, it is surely a pity that 82 Portland Street, appeared before scheme to the Government is, I scheme which does confer Mr. M. A. Barnett at the Kow understand.

£120,000 for immense benent on the married loon Magistracy yesterday charged comtalssioned officers, alone.

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