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HORNSBY OIL ENGINES.

AGENTS FOR:

THE EXPANDED METAL CO. LTD. KXPANDED METAL FOR EL-INFORCED OOKORSTA

TARRYER MACHINE TOOLS.

FAIRBANKS. Morse a co Al Khals of Machinery and Engineering Supplies.

HOUGLAS & OPAKT.

Rim Xia and Steam Engines.

FRANCIS WEBSTER & SON.

Chor: Twines b.

LIBCREWOOD HALF. DO. Kalting Engines, Pla Dzivam, ka

THERED HAND COMPOSITIONS LTD.

Anti-Foaling and Anti-CorrosiTE Paint.

AND VARIOUS OTHER MANUFACTURERS. Quotations for any description of Machinery or Engineering Plant on application to

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Machinery D-pt-

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

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BOLE AGENTS.-

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. (MACHINERY DEPT.).

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD.

HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

00

LTD.

PURE MANILA ROPE

3

STRAND

Le to 15***

CABLE LAID

5" to 15"

CIRCUMFERENCE. CIRCUMFERENŰR,

4 STRAND 8" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCE.

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length. Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

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LIME JUICE CORDIAL.

SIRDIR

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK MACGREGOR

& CO.

"No. 15, Queen's Road, Central. Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE

MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mr. U. SUGA

Mr.L. HONDA

Mrs. A. SUGA

Mrs. S. HONDA

8 Queen's Road Central, Hengkong-

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering works, Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony,

SINGON & CO.,

(Established A. D. 1880.) HING LUNG ST.

Phone 513.

MASSAGE HALL

28. · FLOWER, STREET, MR. T. TAKAYE,

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DEED.

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION No. 2 THERAPION No13

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General Managers.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,-

in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against

FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents,

Yorkshire Insurance Co.

Limited.

ESTABLISHED 1884.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS

against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

AGENTS.

CREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs, net. In Bags of 250 lbs. net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MUNITION WORKERS'

PROBLEM

A LABOUR PROPOSAL Mr. W. A. Appleton, secretary of the General Federation of Trace Unions, deals in the following article to the Daily Chronicle, with the industrial and commer-

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22. 1919.

CONFIDENCE IN MR. LLOYD

GEORGE.

Un-

NOTICES.

CALL

AT

THE HONGKONG

CO., LTD. AND ASK FOR

EL PALACIO"

AND

YOU will be convinced that Hongkong is

now

favoured

with the best brand

of

a willingness on the part of the agriculture or its related ocen- people to pull as a team, it ought nations, or in transport, should to save the industrial and com- immediately be reallocated to mercial life of the nation, and these cceapations. Such a trans enable its people to liquidate ference would have an early national liabilities without seri- and beneficent result. It would ously increasing hardship effect those improvements in the coal situation in food production and in the transport of supplies CIGAR STORE The first essential to success is which are so so desperately need- cial situation that will have to be public confidance, the second is ed. It would facilitate the early faced after the war. He makes common sense, and the third, and renewal of those commercial suggestions for meeting the case greatest, is hard work, In view operations upon which so much of the many thousands who will of the agnificent achievements of the country's future depends be unemployed when peace of the Prime Minister and those Increased postal facilities and comes, and argues that the associated with him, confidence the clearing away of arrears of hardly be withheld. work in societies concerned with demobilisation of the Army en

the real the administration of National who know not the most serious problem Those that has to be solved. Every people have abundant faith in Health Insurance will provide useless Department of State, he their common sense and their reimmediate employment for many declares, pass out of gnition of the necessity for thousands.

must

hard and intelligent work; most existence:-

So far as wonien are concerned, The war is won. It is our of them are alive to the fact that all who have private means present business to minimise the they must either increase their should be dealt with first. evil after effects of war. This production and sales or decrease employment for these may mean taak must be jointly undertaken their standards of living.

loss of some luxuries, but it offers The first business of the no real terrors. These should be by the people and the Goveru-

Government should be to amplify | followed by the warried women What have we got to face 2 this knowledge, and in plain, whose husbands are at home and An industrial and commercial simple language to explain the in employment. situation arrested and dis difference between fixed and fluid organised by war millions of capital; to show that present work-people to transfer from payments both for wages and destructive to productive enter-materials are male from moneys prises: permanent casualties borrowed at high rates of interest; that seriously diminish that further borrowings tend to power and weaken

cational diminish national credit and effectiveness; a blank space in increase the price of all the food the technological training of and other necessities which many thousands who, during Britain must purchase from war time and war service have foreign countries. passed from youth to, mauhood; | I emphasise the need for this a keener competition in markets kind of propaganda because of formerly British, or mainly so; an unfortunate and rather widely a sickness rate accentuated by held belief that notes are actual inferior foods and by arduous and that the Government can service with the Army and in pay all things by printing the workshop Truly a formid-Treasury notes. These conclus able catalogue.

ions are silly. but not more so than many conceptions of the soi-disant intellectual, or their airy and pathetic faith in the State's capacity to finance reform by conseripting capital.

ment.

031

What have we got to par? After Mr. Bonar Law's forth coming statement we may have definite information. At the moment we guess cur in lebted

ss and assume that sinking had and interest will adil five

CASE OF MUNITION WORKERS.

The next step must surely be hundred millions per year to our to deal with munition workers. pre-war charges of two hundred The proposed continuance of

millions. Add to this total the manufacture, after hostilities have

immediate cost of war pensions and allowances and we are faced with the necessity of raising in taxes, either direct or indirect, about four times as much as we raised in pre-war days.

And this colossal expenditure includes nothing for the visionist schemes for State housing, for

Carrying out these measures would not solve the whole problem, but it offers a practical means of commencing the great | task that lies before us, of testing any machinery the Governmenti has created, and it clears the way for the gradual re-association of the soldier with industry and commerce.

of

TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES. In the minds of most men the

$0.

demobilisation of the Army has seemed the greater problem.. I doubt whether this is Transport difficulties alone are sufficient to steady the streams men, bus repatriated beyond this, the Army has acquired a sense of dis cipline and reality which no: be claimed for all the civilian population. It will resent injus- fices, but it will expect to move in ordered sequence. Msay who have demanded return by indus tries and by pivotal men have

can-

MANILA CIGARS.

NOTICES.

KODAKS

& FILMS Developing & Printing Undertaken.

26, Des Voeux Road Central.

don did how hardly their A. TACK & CO., demands may press upon long ceased, "would involve not only service meo. These ought to be the useless expenditure of human

compensated by substantial effort and the useless wear and

grants in the shape of deferred tear of machinery, but would, in

Par. addition, involve waste of raw naterial which is imperatively needed for other purposes.

Most people appreciate the need for increased production, but few have discussed the need Better, in the case of those for bigger markets. If all the whose earnings have mot permitt-national effort and ingenuity is State maintenance, of the young ed more than a comfortable expended upon production, the up to adolescence, for State existence, *10 grant, for ultimate result will be very endowment of motherhood, for a limited period, some form unsatisfactory. Britishers can- | State provision of industrial of non-contributory and, con- pensions, or for a hundred other sequently non-compulsory things discussed and resolved at employment benefit. Labour and similar cenferences. case neither human tissue, nori Has the Government thought machinery, nor material would of all these things? Does it be wasted.

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In this

not live solely by selling

to goods

each

other; they must find customers in far- away markets. Their success in this direction will depend upon the readiness with which they adventure abroad, the skill with which they meet the require showing their occupations priorments of possible purchasers and to the war. This would facili-the price and quality of the tate an immediate transference to articles they desire to sell. basic industries. Every munition worker who, prior to the war, was engaged in or about a mine, in

believe we can liquidate our Returns should be secured at liabilities? Can we meet the once from munition workers demands of the visionaries? The answer to the first two question is in the affirmative; to the third question, the answer must be

No.

"

During the past two years the Government has through its various technical Committees ex- plored theories and planned machinery for dealing with many sides of the great problem. Given

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a PIANO

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Transport will play a consider- able part in the resuscitation of

international trade. The Gov- ernment can help by a speedy re-allocation of shipping to routes now neglected, by avoiding all vexations restrictions upon the, transit of goods, and by establishing an effective

com- mercial consular service. Great fede rations of employers might also, from their combined resources, send out pioneers of commerce charged not so much with selling goods as with discovering opportunities..

THELESS STATE DEPARTMENTS, Every useless department of State must pass out of existence. The necessities of the future will not afford a continuanes of the duplication which exists. Dir. ectors and Ministers and staffe must go if their functions cease The or become transferable. fewer non-producers, the lighter the task of the producer.

When it has done all these things the Government will still have to face the situation deliber- ately planned by those who, in madness, or for selfish reasons, would involve this country in dis- asters similar to those which have reduced Russia to barbariem and despair. They work in certain well-defined centres and they are "reckless of consequence.

While these men only talk, little can be done in a country || which claims free speech, but the moment they act, stern measures should, be taken.

WINCARNIS

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PHONE 450.

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DRACON MOTOR CAR CO.

MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE.

Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON . and CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.

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tr

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