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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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Alesandra Buildings, Des Voeux Rond Central.

The Telegraph

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 1926.

HIGHER PRICES.

is an advance of from Afteen to seventeen per cent, at least. What is more, some of the shops state that if the dollar continues to fall, further increases will have to be imposed.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926.

LIVING ON £700 A YEAR.

Can It Be Done in England?

DAY BY DAY.

IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED IN THE. WORLD YOU MUST MAKE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITIES AS YOU GO ON John B. Gough.".

As was the sowing so the reaplag and hospitals are a certain, rather Is now, and ever more shall be than

a problematical, cost in Thou art delivered to thine own Hongkong. When we realised been appointed Chairman of the

The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn has

live, Shanghai, sec, has just been complaining of its high rentals, it being said that many foreigners have to pay away as much as one-third of their salaries under this honding Many Instances of a much higher ratio than that could be cited from Hongkong, whilst we know that general food costs are much lower

It began during dinner, and we to keep half the family in Eng- wondered how many other couples land, we were all convinced that in the Northern port than they were thrashing out the same pro- the East was a hopeless propost are here. The whole subject of blem with the gloves off, and the tlon for the man without capital the cost of living in Hongkong is sleeves rolled up." The plain truth We said we would just work out on our the cost of living in England and becoming growingly serious. It is that we cannot live

market value! Earning capacity then pack. This is what we is the biggest issue affecting the is one thing, and "opportunism" is found." public here, foreign and Chinese another. We all like to think our- Living on £700 a year on the alike. And it needs to be selves in the latter category be outskirts of any large town, such

cause there is a curious fictional as London or Manchester: thoroughly looked into. As a pre-halo about the Far East Walling-Income tax with rebato for liminary step, the Government |fords, who "get rich quick.” one child... might do far worse than to appoint a Commission to study the quas tion and make recommendations thereon. Things cannot be par- mitted to go on ns they are at present,

keeping. Only thyself hath afflicted theol that it would take at least four Licensing Board.

--Kipling.

hundred and fifty dollars a month

Rates

and £35 Life ditto

woman

Since those days of peaceful Rent unfurnished. progressive prosperity prior to Insurance 1% on £1,000 1914, old and young have been living on the assumption that they 1 indoor servant or daily have only to hold on long enough to become wealthy. They never nurse or governess ....

Food for five at £1 a weak analyse this. conviction. It is Clothes for 3.....

rained.

"As soon as we are Coal, Light, Gas @ 25/- through the war," says the taipan,

Week "the whole world will be hungry Heavy laundry10/-a

week for goods." "As soon as this jolly Railway fare to work @

10/-1 week old war is over," says the junior,

shall get bonuses." They were Lunch and town expenses

@ 2/0 daly both right. What la moro, if they were as fur-aceing in the spending Chemist @ 4-week ... Cleaning and renewing materials @ 5/- week of their wealth as they were in

6/14 a year. Tobacco,

etc. ...... a high dollar, andare still solvent.

a month This problem does not concern Whisky, gin, 2 bottles each them just yet.

The Miners' Chance. Although there are very many people who think that the Govern ment at Home might have taken more helpful attitude regarding the settlement of the coal dispute than the more washing of hands counting their unhatched chickens, 100 cigarettes weekly at

by the Premier, there can be none to gainsay the fact that the Gov. ernment cannot force the owners to work their mines at a loss or compel the miners to work for lower wages or longer hours than they stipulate. The Government's last suggestion has been turned down and there is a great deal to be said in support of the Premier's contention that the Government

an"

they laid a nest-egg at Home at!

8/-a dozen

2 130.

3.00.

40:

45.

40:

45

260.

100.

65.

26.

26.

30.

10.

12.

20.

30.

10.

Mr. C. G. Alabaster has resigned as an elected member of the Licen- sing. Board, but has been appoint- od Vice-Chairman thereof..

Ela Excellency the Governor has appointed Dr. George William Pope to act as Medical Oncer of Health.

A Router's telegram received from Peking states that Bishop Scott, who was captured by bandit in Shantung, has been released.

Hia Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr.. T. M. Hazlerigg, M. C to be Treasury Solicitor, in ad- dition to his other duties.

"A Lecture Goor."This matter has already been well-ventilated and we do not think any useful purpose would be served by publishing your letter. Ed. "H. K. T."

For the theft of a quantity of solder and lead, the property of the . Telephone Company, a Chinese boy was ordered by Major C." Willson to receive ten strokes with the rattan this morning."

A bankruptcy notification states that a first and final dividend of $10.20 per cent. has been declared

2. 28. in the case of the Hing Loong

Shing Kee salt fish dealers,

3,

-168,

15 and 16 Mui Fong Street.

of

The man who is really standing Beer, 6 bottles weekly @ with his back to the wall is now 1 Library subscription aged somewhere between thirty-Newspapers, Times 7 days:

He finished periodical two and thirty-five. some course of training during Wireless

Golf, Subscription, Balls, Ho Caddies, Fares, Food, 1914, and. got his first job.

Clubs joined up at the beginning of the

It's no use going on any further the China National Tobacco. Cóm- He survived it adds up to £1,055.17.0 now.pany, Ltd., and the Nam King Re- « possibly engaged.

cause is many things. He married in 1917. One of the ghosts asked what had staurant, Ltd., unless He left the Army in 1919 with the been left out, and the answer came shown to the contrary, will be struck

He back quickly 'enqugh. rank of Captain or Major.

"Just all off the register and the companies

It is hereby notified that. 52. the expiration of three months,.

was then a travelled, experienced the things that keep getting left will be dissolved. man of the world, having lived out here in Hongkong,-doctora, amongst men from all quarters of dentists, fares, the child's educa-

watch

every

zero hour.

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of

Our Cologne correspondent'says.

There is at the moment evidence i.cannot do more than wait until war. He was twenty-one and] on all hands that many local either of the parties come forward compradore shops, giving as their with practical suggestions.

Winston Churchill, who WAS reason the low exchange value of

apparently speaking for the the Hongkong dollar, are seeking Government, lias now said that the to ruise prices on practically Government is prepared to give everything they sell. Not only do the miners anal chance," and

that if the miners can, make a the Dominions. He had carried tion, stamps, writing paper, holl that the Wiesbaden-Calais express, the notified increases refer to improposal touching the real pro- the lives of these men on his stop- days, entertaining and the dog the official "leave train" for the Army of Occupation, will be dig His licence. ported tinned goods, but also to blems and difficulties of the

Simultaneously We became continued early next year. The

fixed locally-produced

provisionally

is commodities, situation which the Government health is still good, his nervos are smokes and drinks. In some

can endorse as being reasonable, pretty fair, considering. His only irritable. How can mere figures, date then the Government is prepared boast is that he intends to become sketched on a column of paper February 12, This step is being instances the variation between to carry forward that suggestion a Special Constable in the next produce so many emotions in one? taken owing to the severe financial

He reaches out into life, First à desire to bully them! losses which the service entafls. the new and the old prices is not irrespective of the opinions of the war.

Get hold of them

Latest reports make it clear that That is an offer which eager to substantiate himself, and shake them! very marked, but in others there owners.

ought to bring a generous and his wife, on a road inhabited by and shake some sense into their

All he silly futile curves. Three quar the animal caught in the New Ter- well-considered response from the old friends and new. miners' leaders. Of course, there craves is a-living wage and securiters of the country must be living ritories a couple of days ago was At the Headquarters of his happily on less than seven hun- not a tiger, but a cheetah. It was is a very wide gulf of difference be-ty. tween what the miners' leaders 1914 job, he enquires about his dred year, and yet, according sold in Yaumati for $100, for ex he far put forward and what first post. "Oh yes! James, Old to this slip of paper, it goes once hibition purposes, but has since the present Conservative Govern-One-Eye' as we used to call him, and a half times before life has been removed to the Police Station

He got on begun to take shape.

there, where it has been placed in ment might consider "reasonable" he succeeded you.

How are the vaunted middle a large cage. To the average householder, the but there is once again presented well; quite a big man now, never

opportunity for the miners' seemed much of a chap but the classes of England standing up to

this It is notified that information cost of living in Hongkong is leaders to drop their policy of years of responsibility during the the impudent attack

war made him take life seriously! iniquitous collection of gnomes. has been received from H.B.M. already quite high enough., obstinacy and genuinely seek a Indeed, many married couples find compromise. No-one will, doubt Worked pretty hard, and now he is Evil fairies they must be! Or is Consul-General, Bangkok, to the the sincerity of Mr. Baldwin and sub-manager. Losing that eye at it a dream? If it is not a dream, effect that all persons entering It increasingly difficult to make on-one now doubts the tremendous Rugger was a blessing in disguise how are all the women at Home Monthon Krungdheb on vessels to him. You want to come back? so well dressed? Where did arriving from Hongkong will be ends meet. These increases, with harm being done to the country Yes, I quite see that, but there Robinson buy that smart little subject to vaccination unless they the possibility of more to follow by the prolongation"

the winter is a catch in it. You know, you two-seater, and who paid for can produce satisfactory evidence later on, are therefore causing settling in in earnest, it will soon

struggle.

are twenty-six, and we have plenty Jones's second baby? Mrs. Smith of successful recent vaccination.

On 1st November, the office considerable concern in numerous be a vital matter of the health and of students applying here with gives those jolly little Saturday

daya a week of the Treasury Solicitor will European households, and there comfort of the whole community, your qualifications, nged twenty night dinner partics, and keeps a

Smith is always holding forth on be opened at Post Office Build- is a growing public feeling that if and it is quite possible that unless or so, and they can live at home, gardener four

Floor, and all the working-classes can buy coal or on £250 a year in rooms.”

The mun comes East. His pay the true economy of buying the ing, Second shops are likely to exploit their at a reasonable price, there will customers by charging unwarrant be much unrest. It will be a folly, is very little more, but he has best at the beginning, and I am communcations, with regard to ably high prices for the common however, if the miners' leaders heard fairy tales of his prospects. sure he is right; I am also sure arrears of Crown Rent, Rates necessities of life, the authorities seek to exploit that fact too far: Some Fairy Tales are Grimm. A that his pay is something under other revenue should thereafter be

Better would it be for them to temporary boom gives a small eight hundred a year.

relief.: He manages to pay his 'It's perfectly obvious that none should intervene and protect the sacrifice some of the little dis consumer. Such a course would, ferences that remain and get the wife's fare Home when a baby is of these items are adequately re- born. They have been married presented. Food at a pound a

In aid of the funds of the Police miners back to work. admittedly, have its difficulties,

five years and they argue that they week per head, when a ham costs have a right to a child, even fifteen shillings! The only item Branch of the M.CL. à fancy dress but those who plead for protection

though they cannot afford it. that can be called an extravagance dance was held last evening in the cite the action which the Govern-

They are wrong, No modern is goli, and a man must have some Gymnasium ment took when it was evident

young couple has a right to a relaxation. The only luxury for quarters. There was a large at- the woman is,where is it? A tendance and the dance proved child on a speculative basis. that certain unscrupulous land |

successful and enjoyable. After ten years of married life, share of the gardening which must very lords were putting up ronts be-Parls

these young couples sit with us pay for itself with ten hours. of Many original costumes were seen yond a fair level. They say that Brussols

12123 around that mystic dinner table washing and ironing a week as an and, late in the evening, prizes Amsterdam profiteering on food supplies is as Berlin

20.38 awalting our answers to those extra; clothes to make and a desire were awarded, 18.23 questions at last put bravely and to earn money eating into her Copenhagen much a subject for Guvernniest vier

Vienna intervention ns is profiteering on Helsingfors

Laban rents and the argument certainly Buenos Aires has its strong points. The situa

With

of the

EXCHANGE RATES.

Shanghai Yokohama New York. Genev

tion most decidedly needs watch- ing in the interests of the public.

Milan -- Time and again it has been noticed Stockholm in this Colony, that prices gre raised on the least pretext, and

Rio that, once up, they seldom revert Bonbay: to the old rates. In the present Hongkong

Sliver (spot) situation, the low exchange value Silver (forward.) of the dollar has certainly not been operating sufficiently long to

Rugby, Oct. 29.

163

.34.85

Britio.

34.844 squarely to the test.

102 217/32 15.13/10 2/4

2/01

4.8455

soul.

Can you live in Hongkong on

The concluafons are these: seven hundred dollars a month, we cannot afford to live in the and keep your wife and child Enst because we have no savings for accidental expenditure. We at Home for one year in five?:

Can you get a job at Home cannot live in England because we 26.14

worth £700 a year, and can you must not only fight the war, but 111

pay for it afterwards by incomo 18.15 live on it if you get one? .19.45 We sit together at that table far tax. We have lost five 1694 into the night, and the ghostly irretrievably, and must therefore

year

"

or

sert to the Treasury Solicitor at the above address instead of to the Crown Solicitor.

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at Police. Head-

The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports published by the League of Nations for the week ended Octo- ber 23 ahows the following cases of infectious diseases: Plague, at Tamatave one case, at Mauritius two cases, and at Rangeon one case. Cholera, at Calcutta 15 cases, at Bangkok one case, at Amoy five cases and at Shanghal three. Small pox, at Alexandria two cases, at Calcutta four, Bem-

04 presence of those others presses retire that much later, and we 0,25/3

round about us, leaning over our have committed the fatal error of bay seven, Madras two, Padang 1/5,29/32

child, four, Batavia one, Bangkok two, 1/10% shoulders sighing and laughing as allowing ourselves one

which necessitates a home as Vladivostok three, and Rangoon 2113/16 the flems appear.

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opposed to hotel life for its up- one. Wireless.

bringing.

We agreed upon certain points. Hongkong 'having proved, itself unhealthy in our caso we prefer

The solution might lie in every which makes all the difference

At the China auction rooms yes to live in England, aufficiently fargarden-city subscribing to a whole between Hving on the crumbling warrant the imposition of higher terday, Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sous, away from a large town to allow

where, for a small sum, a mother accurity behind a good stone wall, prices

on imported goods, whilst sold No. 64 Peel Street, to Mr.us to have half an acre of garden./day or half day. garden school edge of a precipice, and living in Still the world is wondrous there is no excuse whatever for Li Chan-shut for the price of We are convinced that we would could leave her child at 8.80 p.m. putting up the rates on locally $16,000, the upsot being $.10,000, be happier with a small car Home and fetch him later on payment large-seven seas-from marge to.

margo, k with bids of $200 acceptable. The amongst the heather, and equally of a reasonable sum. This Hongkong has the distinction of square feat and was a popular lot, than having to pay about £400 child, but it allows the wife pance that statement that thousands live property consists of an area of 818 convinced that it would be cheaper scheme not only benefits the only One answer is a reiteration of being one of the most expensive On two occasiona bids of $1,700 every four years for a wife and of mind to run her house on less. I wish they would tell us

Possibly it gives her time to earn how! ware offered and two bids of 3800 child to travel Home and back

Added to which doctors, dentists that extra hundred pounds a your were also made.

produced commodities.

places in the world in which to

TISTHENES.