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The Manufacturers Bank of China, Ltd.

(Incorporated in China) Hong Kong Branch

P. & O., Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

Telephones: '33280, 23283-33287.

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GENERAL

Pithead Baths OFFER OF £100,000 FOR

For 365,000 Men INCREASED USE

BY MINERS ·

£16,000,000 SPENT

ON WELFARE

Every mine in Great Britain will be provided with"pithead baths by 1944, and every inter will use them,

This is the implication of the 16th annual report of the Miners' Welfare Fund, publish- ed recently.

By the end of last year 208 baths had beer completed, giving se- commodation to nearly 273,000 miners and a further 70 bathis, with accommodation for 90,000 miners. were under construction.

BLARNEY STONE

Talisman Of Irishmen Wanted For New York Fair

Solicitors In London w.role recently to Sir George Oliver Colthurst, B., owner of Blarney Castle, Cork, offering him £100,000 If he would lend the Blarney Stone to America for a year.

The offer. a financier said, is from a syndicate of Americans with Irish associations, who want to exhibit the famous stone in the United States and Canada and charge visitors who kiss it a dollar a time.

The syndicate is prepared to give a generous proportion of the receipts to Irish hospitals. It would insure the stone. and return it to its present position.

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“NO VISITORS' WITHOUT A CUSTOMS PASS

There has been a steady increase Former Regulation To

In the use of, the baths. An average

of 92 per cent. of the miners used the avaliable baths In 1937 com- pared with 33 per cent, in 1931,

Since 1920 the fund has made grants amounting to £16,523,533, the receipts being £18,701,774.

ALLOCATION. OF GRANTS

This huge amount of grants has been allocated as follows;.

institutes and parilions. Nearly £5,500,000.

Be Enforced.

Those who have been in the habit of going down to the whart to meet an incoming liner and thus getting on board. to see friends without delay are warned that the Customs au- thorities are now to enforce the former regulations regarding visitors boarding ships st Shanghai.

Since the hostilities, and unti

Sir George Colthurst did not seem interested. He said: “I think the

proposition is impossible. Much as I might like £100,000, I should not like to see the stone go from here.

"And I imagine Irish people would hate it to go. I am sure its removal "would rouse local feeling.

"SOME ONĘ ELSE WAS

AFTER IT

He but

"A man from 'the States came to see me earlier this year. was after the stone, too, cathing happened,"

Attempts have been made, to borrow the Blarney Stone for New York World's Fair of 1939. News of this caused great indignation, and American Irishmen formed a committee to protest against its removal

Recreation, ---- Sports grounds,

There is already a piece of the children's playgrounds, boys' clubs: and camps, swimming pools, halls, quite recently, visitor often pro stone in the United States. It is

ceeded straight down to

such a chip that was presented in a

FLS wharves the Shanghai and silver box to Mr. John O'Brian, Hongkew Wharf Co. Hongkes Mayor of New York in 1933, 20 Pitbead baths and other facili- Wharf, Hunt's Wharf and so on that he could say he had kissed ties--including canteens,

cycle and were able to go straight on the Blarney Stone without cross stores, frst-ald' rooms, and women's board before passenger had been ing the Atlantic. vest rooms. More than £5,000,000. disembarked and

Health Convalescent

and

baggage

des-

are

Those

who kiss the stone såld to win the art

homes (patched. ticket

funds. hospitais.

of flattery. It is worn smooth The Customs are now enforcing by ambulance and nursing services. the regulation which states that all climbed a 120-foot tower and then the millions who • have and special medical treatment and passengers and baggage must be reached head downwards to do it. appliances. Nearly £3,500,000. cleared from the ship before visit-while they are held by the legs.

Education-Buildings and equip-jors can be permitted to go on

ment for mining instruction, safety instruction classes scholarships and grants to students and non-voca- tional lectures £1,165,000.

board.

Of course, those holding Customs

passes are exempt from this re-be a laudable one-no passes will i gulation, but unless there is an ab- be issued.

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Research Grants to Safety insolutely vital reason for such ex· Relatives and friends will there- Mines Research Board for research treme haste-and mere destre to fore find. It more convenient to into precautions for the safety and meet friends or relatives is not an meet passengers ́AN they come health of miners at work. Nearly extremely vital reason, Customa ashore at the Customs Jetty. £1,000,000.

authorities declare, although it may (N.C.D. News).,

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