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THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH,

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As specialists in

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we have been entrusted with installations at the

SCHOOLS.

following institutions, etc:-

Diocesan Boys' School,

St. Stephen's College.

HOSPITALS

Victoria Hospital.

CLUBS.

Hongkong Club. Hongkong Cricket Club.. Hongkong Jockey Club.

Matilda Hospital. Alice Memorial Hospital. New Tung Wah Hospital. Nursing Home, Shaineen.

HOTELS.

Repulse Bay Hotel. Oriental Hotel (Canton).

OTHER BUILDINGS

Mountain Lodge.

Sisters' Quarters, Matilda Hosp. Polica Station, Sham Shui Po. Stubb's Road Garage. Branksome Towers.

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The-attantion of travellers is drawn to the importance of safeguarding themselves in the carrying of their funds. Our system of Travollore Choques and Letters of Credit exposes travallers to the least possibility of fraud. Our Travellers Choques are issued in Starling in denominations of £20., £10 and £5 and in U.8. Currency $100., $50, $20 and $10. Foreign currencies, Lottors of Credit and Travellers Cheques encashed." Drafts and Telegraphie Remittances offabted.....

Shipments offected to all parts. Consignmente cleared at low rates. Insurance arranged. Invoices collected against delivery of goods. Dry storage accommodation for all kinds of Non-hazardous Goods,

Accident Insurance Policies issued for any journoy. Baggage Insurance effected from departure to arrival at destinations Travellers are recommended to avail themselves of this insu rance as Companies accept no liability for loss of baggage.

A large staff is maintained for the purpose of answering enquiries either personally or through the mail and we offer to our clients the most complete travel service possible, based on an experience, of over eighty years. We have a chain of over 300 Offices throughout the world and for the special care of Far Eastern Residents, there is a FAR EASTERN DEPARTMENT at our Head Ofoe, Berkeley Street, London,

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GENERAL" FOREIGN PASSENGER AGENTS, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. In co-operation with WAGONS-LITS CO.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928.

WEST HAM ERA OF

ECONOMY.

RATES REDUCED BY 3/4 IN THE £1.

NO HARDSHIP IMPOSED

A saving of £1,000,000 a year by economising on out-relief along is the stupendous achievement of [the nominated Board of Guar-"| dlans, under Sir. Alfred Wood. gate, which some time ago took byer the financial administration at West Ham

The "call" for the half-year beginning October I will be re- duced by Bd. This is the fifth re-. duction, equal in all to 3s. 48. In, the &, since the days of squander- mania,

Sir Alfred has now

been in charge of West Ham's finances for just over two years, For the Inst six months of their office the old Board spent £669,000 in out- rellef. For the last six months; | under Sir Alfred, the now board has spent £160,000 In other words, for that item alone, there is an annual economy of no less than one million sterling.

Example to Other Boards,

Sir Alfred Woodgate discussed the whole subject with a press representative at his home at Kingston,

"Our saving on out-relief har not inflicted hardship on

any. body," he said. "Far from that,. the old Boards' squandermanin corrupted young people, and gave them in relief what a general la- bourer could earn. Why, then, should they work?

"Last week, for example, we renched our record low figure. We Rave £4,956 in out-relief against an average of between £27,000, and $28,000 a week by the old Board, I anticipate that even these figures may be reduced in the future.

"Nevertheless, our progress is good. We are very satisfied. It has been uphill work, but we have been successful from the start.

"Furthermore, our work is hav- ing an influence throughout the country, and even neighbouring Boards such as Stepney, Bethnal Green, and others, are dropping their expenditure.

"Other savings may acem ex- ceedingly amall in comparison with the enormous figures of out- relief, but they are Interesting, Savings on staff have amounted to £80,000, and we have reduced. the number of children left on the hands of the Guardians."

"Perhaps the outside world does not realise the extent of the wark that Guardians have to do. This work is uf such a natura that it le becoming more and more a matter to be handled by experts. The costs of institutions is very heavy and we cannot cut them down much. Nevertheless, we have made a saving of some £10,- 000 on such institutions as work. houses, hospitals, &c,”

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The Lowest Figüre. The nominated Board's timate of expenditure for the half- year ending September 90 is £616,- 235, as against £057,728 the pre- |vious half-year. This reduction Is equal to a rate of 3d, in the £. The other 34. reduction will, as to 2d., bo'taken from the Board's balances, and the other penny will be made up by economy. The last half-yearly "call" of the Inte Guardiann Was for $765,962, which compared with the last "call" is a difference of £269,868. SOVIET The reduction comes principally

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A Moscow correspondent writes

MAURETANIA'S NEW RECORD.

NEW YORK TO PLYMOUTH IN FIVE DAYS SIX MINUTES,

DIFFICULTIES. munists refuse to attend the of

ficers' training schools. It is, for instance, noticeable that tho military school at Leingrad, with accommodation for 920 cadets; has received only 350 applications, Le, but little more than one-third of the requisite total. In the Ukraine, the young men decline altogether to attend the military school. Ac-

Liverpool, Sept. 4. - Council have sent a commission to this morning completed her fastest cordingly, the Supremus Military The Cunard liner Mauretania that republie with instructions to voyage from New York to Ply- organize propaganda in favour of mouth in 6 days 3 minutes, military training and to. onlist candidates for the officers' schools.

After landing passengers at Plymouth at 6.10 a.m. the Maure- tania proceeded to Cherbourg, arriving there in time for Con tinental passengers to have dinner, in Paris to-night.

from out-rellef, which is now es- timated at £158,000, as against HOW TO GET ARMY OFFICERS, £109,000 for the current half-year. Out-rellef has now reached the lowest figure that has been tou- ched since the unemployed were us firat given relief in 1920. On That Soviet Russia, possesses a June 1, when the Guardians made capable army is very largely due their last report, 21,813 persons to the fact that so many officers of were in receipt of relief, at a cost: of £5,769 weekly; on September the old Taaristic regime have placed 1 18,633 persons were on relief, themselves at disposal for training and the weekly cost WAS only the recruits under the present com £4,955.-

munistic regime. One striking ex- ample is Schaposchnikow, the re-

Doubt of Success, The Finance Committee of the contly appointed Chief of the

Doubts may justly be entertained Camberwell Borough Council re- General Staff, who received his own as to the success of this effort commend a rate of 68, in the military education at the Russian The commission is not likely to re- for the half-year ending March Imperial Military Acadmey and be Ukraine as that country is at pre ceive a very cordial welcome in the 31 next. For the corresponding came a most able officer in the sent under the influence of an in- Thiele the third record the half of last year the rate was 6d. 2d, in the £, and it has stood at General Staff of the old army.

dependence movement whose aim Mauretania has set up within the the same figure for the six months Quite apart from the fact that, la separation from the U.S.8.B. past three months. Last July she' ending September 80.

within the visible future, all this Tho matter is so serious that, at made a record when she reached old staff which has remained over Kiew, Odessa and other places, a New York from Cherbourg in 5 from Taaristic days is bound sooner both military and civilian-have in the month she established an- considerable number of persons- days 3 hours 17 minutes. Earlier or latter to disappear, it is, both as been arrested for being implicated other record by doing the round regards prestigo and internal in the movement.

trip from Southamptonto New politics, an important matter for This independence movement in York and New York to Plymouth the Soviet rulers to form á corps the Ukraine and the lack of military in 12 days 15 hours. After this trip, she wound up her voyage by crossing from Plymouth to Cher- bourg at an average speed of 27,84 knots,

Count the

TELEGRAPHS! of convinced Bolshevistic efflcers, cadets are questions of moment

This presents considerable dificul which are calculated to cause great tles Inaarnuch as the young com- 4nxiety in the minds of the Soviet

rulers,

The ometal time from New was 4 days 23 hours 10 minutes. York to Eddystone Lighthouse