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THE REGISTRATION OF SERVANTS.

Shanghai Ratepayers" Association Discuss the Question.

The attendance, numbering about

stick, and that the better

a

opposition had bean roused. She truly believed that the ashame] was intended to be beneficial to both employers and employees, bus it had been presented in súab a manner that ils real character had beat lost sight of. In the presont heated stage of public |opinion. it would be im- possible with any amount of talk- Fing to get the matter cleared up. She was convinced that it would be best to drop the whole thing, for the present. If there was any ides of bringing it up at some future date, would it not be wise that pamphlets printed in both English and Chinese which would. prasent the case without any possibility of mistake should be widely circulated and that special care should be taken: to convince the Chinese of the desirability of the step proposed ? As to the socond question, she begged thatn to re- member the case of the man who rode a tiger and could not dis mount. In order that they might not hesitate before mounting

tiger. she proposed the following resolution: That the, presentation of the proposed petition to the Municipal Council in regard to the opening of s registry office under Municipal control be indefinitely postponed."

Mr. R. N. Macleod, in second- ing Mrs Ayscough's proposal, said it was doubtful whether registration could be made com. pulsory. He knew of no means of doing it. If it was not to be compulsory, there was nothing) left to discuss voluntary registra- tion being a matter for the ser- vant, not the employer.

RESOLUTIONS CARRIED.

The resolution was carried, with only two or three dissentients, as was also a second resolution, pro- posed by Mr. Akehurst, expressing strong di-approval of the sugges tion that domestic servants should be registered under the auspices of the Municipal Council.

A discussion on schemes alter- cative to registration followed. and Major Manners mentioned & sci:eme adopted in his own household: viz., the placing of 10.

WEDNESDAY, MÄRCH & 1922.

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REDUCTION IN PRICES.

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**DAISY "

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10

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BUTTER

**DAIRYMAID**

from $1.10 to $1.00 per lb.

$1.00-to-

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per cent, on a servant's wages in ENGLISH MADE Packed in 7-lb. tins with handle, and 1-cwt. Drums

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savings bank, and so giving him, an additional incentive to good! service. Thus the servant became Has Sex registered at the bank, sad the money could not be withdrawn without the joint signature of employer and servant.

Other speakers suggested that some system of guarantees would be effective and acceptable to the Chinese.

A "COMMISSIONER FOR CRODES." One gentleman, who objected

to the matter being undertaken, by the Council (who would pos-

sibly proceed to the appointment

servants, and issue

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Izdoperall in the United Shaskar ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, HONGKONG.

ware

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of a "Commissioner for Crooks" of America is planted. Quarter pended on the properties, and at bigh salary to work the of a century ago the members of allow them to remain in posses- department), thought it would be that mission, in their search for sion as long as they paid every well to establish a school for some place to which they might season in

advance eight per which would entitle the efficient hit on Chikungshan on the top the

diplomas retire during the bot months, ceat. interest, by way of renk for holder to a little extra financial of which

money which bad thus consideration; but an experienced semi-cultivated valleys which no one objected and all went on there Were small been returned to them. To this critic pointed out that there would were immediately be a number "dip people were friendly and the involved in the great war. The private property. The favourably till Chios became lomas" for sale on the market. magistrate well-disposed so they arrangement presented certain It was suggested also that met with no dificulty in acquir difficulties which at first were pot guarantees" would be marketable ing a certain area and having the felt It seems to be a moot point weeks prior to publication of the in the same way. proposed petition to the Municipa!

The meeting accordingly con-them.

property officially transferred to as to who is responsible for keep- Council scheme for registration claded without any alternative was wanted for their own use, perties in repair. Bungalows will As they had more than ing these government owned pro- was actually in existence at the scheme being agreed upon. Municipal Police headquarters,

the surplus was thrown open to not stand forever, and also they: including arrangements for finger)

whoever might care to acquire it. may happen to gat burned down. prints, forms for medical ex.

Other missions immediately took In the case of a bungalow which amination, etc. He thought that

up lots, and also many Hankow was burned down some time ago. merchants of various nationali- and which neither the govern Some interesting views on the in this, as in other dealings with servant question, and a decided Cainese, Shangbai had got the

ties-the missionaries favouring, meat nor the tenant badinsured, it one side and the merchants the cannot be decided who is to re-i comensus of opinion. against com.wrong end of the

other. pulsory registration, were te Suggested

place it. The case is in Peking ture of a meeting convened by plan would be small be-

now and will probably remain the Shanghai Ratepayers Asso ginning through the medium of a be extended to that section of the mans who were quick to rec- Germany all the rights of the

The deepest sympathy falls to many bungalows built by Ger-

Amongst the rest there were there. ciation, and held on the 1st ins more or less private agency coa Chikungshan community who, ognise the advantages of the German merchants to bungalows When Chins declared war upon at the Royal Asiatic Society ducted by ladies who might be most unexpectedly, are threaten-place. Hall, Mr. A. J. Hughes presiding. safficiently interested.

ed with the loss of the bungalows number of years when it was drawn,

All went on well for a at Chikungshan As showing that the finger which have been in their occupa-suddenly discovered that the Germans

and many of the 40, was composed principally of print system was most obnox-

tion for several years. tous" to the Chinese, the Chair kow in the summer time, with mountain was a serious inve gave notice that

Han-

themselves were Mr. Hughes opened the meet-an mentioned that the plan had its excessive damp heat, is no son

presence of merchants on the repatriated. The Chinese ing by saying that the Committee heen tried by local Insurance place for ladies and children, and rights. Only missionaries

the empty of Chios's sovereign bungalowe companies, but had very quickly wherever it can be arranged permitted to have houses in immediately snapped

could be let to Are other tenants when they were) ¦ been abandoned.

MUNICIPAL CONTROL for them to retire to cooler re-the interior and merchants, merchants of various nations- up by Mrs. Ayscough asked if the done. In Hankow the children, aned to the limits of the open Germans also had a good deal gions this certainly should be by Treaty stipulation, are coo-lities. At Kuling, where the establishing of a registry office like drooping flowers, may be seen ports. under municipal control was the to wilt from week to week.

These limite have ne- of property, the buildings were best way of surmounting the two most accessible places, to Chinese hold that they do not and kept ready for the day fora was: should the administra.

The ver been clearly defined. The simply sealed up by the Chinese sion compel the registration of difficulties? Further, WAS domestic servants and exercise a present moment an suspicion Kaling and Chikangabad. The of concessions, where such have has now arrived, and whether

the which a retreat may be made, are extend beyond the boundaries of their measure of control over them. one for suggesting a scheme former has the advantage as been granted, while the foreigners the Germans have asked for return. That day A gentleman prisent citel the which cuts at the very roots of the regards elevation, beauty of claim they extend to a hundred the restoration of their Chi- Bystem in vogus in Colombo, Chinese social system, the system cenery. where servants are officially reader which it was decreed that greater development, and a right

larger community, all round, this being the treaty-kungahan bungalows, or whe gister.d, under & finzer printig

every undertaking, respon- unlimited extent of mountain foreigners may travel without accordance

distance Bystem and the registry supplies sibility shall be contralized? In through which the residents may being supplied with a passport. order to restore German property to which ther the step is being taken in servants when necessary.

with the general The regard to the first question, she rove. The latter has the pull in In any case Chikungshan was is not known, but the fact re- system worked well. Since said it was quite evident from the being more accessible-5.1/2 hours beyond the widest limit, and mains that those who have bees coming to Shanghai, he had as correspondence which had ap- by rail from Hankow-and some therefore the merchants must be occaping ex-German bangalows employer, fan himself at peared in the press that there was say it has the better air through evicted in order that the treaties at Kuling may now have to give

by no means unanimity opiciou in the foreign community

of its more Northern location. on this point, and that there was, stands on the top of the moon- tested and declined to budge,

The resort of Chikungahan

should be preserved nabroken. them up.-C. China Post. Mr. Akehurst expressed strong moreover, a very great deal of tains which divide the provinces whereupon the Chinese hit on s Naturally the merchants pro- disapproval of compulsory rez-misunderstanding as to what the of Hupeh and

MORE PIT ACCIDENTS. istration, and the

masting promoters of the scheme really through which the railway passes the situation all round. The fatal accidents in Notte coalfeld

Honan,

"Since the end of the con!! and splendid das which would meet stoppage there have been more generally agreed.

Mr. Heal also opposed the the Chinese community was con- the mountains is the city of would refund to the merchants history. Mr. F. B. Varley, ■ proposed to petition for. As far as by means of a tunnel. Beyond Honan provincial government than in auy single year in its , suggestion.

Incidentally, be cerned, all sorts of fears had been Binyangchow where a station of the total amount they had ex-Notta miners' official.. mentioned that some two or three awakened, and quite unnecessary the Norwegian Lutheran Church

ladies.

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of the Association oferei definite opinion on the question. Personally, he thought that any system of registration short of

compulsory registration would be quite useless. The question there

docidad disadvantage.

STRONG DISAPPROVAL.

J. T.

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