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The

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who aro altting in conference with members of the other Parties and representatives of Indin would continue to participate in the proceedings if they believed that' to be the case. Unhappily, how ever, unless Home official dia- claimer is forthcoming. theno members will have been placed in a very invidious position on the result of Mr. Church's t-

terance.

DAY BY DAY

quantum

1930.

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NEVER SAY AN ILL THING OF A PEION WHEN THOU CANST HAY A GOOD THING OF HIM; NOT ONLY STEAK CHARITABLY, BUT FEEL-80.- Elizabeth Fry

It is notified that the Wo Fut Steamship Co., Ltd, and the Scen Seen Co., Ltd., have been struck off the Register.

HIGHER AND HIGHER IN NEW YORK.

By W. F. Bullock.

【TEW YORK'S present skylinejant part in the rapidity of their on a clock- la a wealth of skyscrapera erection. They rise that would make the utmost work schedule, which alone on- towers of lum" look like pimples ables the contractors to make their on the earth's surface.

profitn. You cannot pay killed workmen £3 a day and have them Five years ago a stranger pass-dling on the job,

exactly

A few

On the general Indian question,

His Excellency the Governor has this Tory talker does not appear reappointed Dr. Wong Taz-chuon to

ing up the harbour would gaze In this time-table, ao to be very consistent. He accuses be a Member of the Midwives Ecard with astonishment at the group of

for a further term of three years. mighty buildings rising so executed. Ites the epic of modern the Governmeni of wonknees,

strangely on the tip of Man- American labour. I toured the It is notified that at the expira-hattan encouraging the

Empire Building from its base- and then he would which is

consclous of स sudden nient, 33 feet below the streat tremists, yet admits that thou-tion of three months, the Vic-be

toria Food Products Co., Ltd., will, cession of wonder пя

to the mooring mast pint- the level annds of Indian politicians are unless cause is shown to the con-upper reaches of the fluid level. Finally, I stood on a small form 1,200 feet above the samne now in gnol and that the Gandhitrary, be struck off the register and sented-except for movement has been largely mun- the company will be dinsolved.

ings-the normal appearance of awnying platform reached only by growing city.

the nighty-fifth tered. What more does he expect Observatory returns for Novem-

Todiny all is changed. Sky-storey, Before I scaled the "dizzy so thickly height," a foreman asked me to in the handling of a situation of ber show that the average mean

scraper towers arc tanger? temperature was 70.7, the highest nassed round midtown New York in a certificate of exemption in extreme delicacy and

being 86 and the lowest 60.9 There

case of accident. The contrar- fast losing their anique Seemingly, he is an apostle of ro were 205.6 hours of sunshine and that those on lower Broadway tora were taking no chances.

character. T'he modern sky- At the elevation only a small pression in its severest furn-the 19.036-inch of rain, whilst the aver

age humidity wae 70

70. type of outlook which creates

The

are

exolic

Indders

from

craper is pushing its way higher crane handling the steel girders and higher up the island and,lood higher. The air roared with Passengers who arrived here by | fresh troubles rather than smooth.

the Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon in Jumping over East River, rises the noise of riveting.

ngain in Brooklyn.

I turned to the construction ing the way to agreement.

cluded Mrs. Alabaster, Mr. and Mrs,

The wonders of the ancient superintendent beside me and ́ask- Round Table Conference so far 11. A. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. A. world cannot vie with these cised if his men ever went dizzy at

Penn, Mr. and Mrs. Piercy, Mr, and

altitudes. He answered. gress, thanks to a very obvious Plummer and Mr. M. M. Watson.

has made anzfugly good pro-Mrs. J. F. Sherry, Mr. J. A. H. Phantine structures, which are In-auch

terspersed on all sides with re- "No, most riveters are what in

Canada sidential flats only less lofty than

we call blue-noses. their office neighbours.

They're one-time sailors, used to

the country:

and earnest desire on the part of

It is notified that the Governor-

fron I will not dwell on the beauty rigging, who drifted inte all the delegates to work for a

in-Council has appointed Saturday,

Having learnt the job united India. If they succeed in the 27th December, to be observed of this modernity, preferring to hops during some alack winter their task, they will have written as a general holiday. The Imports tell the epic of labour that lies in months.

and Exports Department will be construction. But, incidental and found pay good they have one of the brightest chapters in open for the purpose of Revenue, it is worth noticing that the stayed in it. They work in gangs

of four and tour the history of the Empire and collection and issue of permits only roofs of some of the largest AkyThey're as happy up here as we

said-country estates have solved a problem which has from 9 a.m. to noon on the above Scraper flatu areas someone has

clouds. hitherto dofied solution. Keeping that point in mind, it passes com- nas ut Mr. AN UNTIMELY SPEECH. prehension that a

| Churchill's experience should go out of his way to cast reflections

SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1930.

date.

jare on the streat.” the In

At the peak of construction some 3,000 men representing 30 In connexion with the Shanghai 85 Storeys..

trades are engaged on these four- bank frauds, of which we gave aj

One, for example, has a tennis walled cities built to contain day report yesterday, we are asked to

populations ef from 10,000 to 20,- 000. On the bay-roll of the Em- state by the National Commercial court, a miniature golf course.

croquet lawn, intermingling with and Savings Bank, Ltd.. that its lower-beds and hedges. Trees,ire I read 384 brick labourers Shanghal branch has had from twelve to sixteen feet high. (odmen), 28 arch labourers, 290 Mr. Winston Churchill appears on the Conference and belittle is business dealings either with Panare planted judiciously here and Juricklayers, 285 steel workers, 226 to be building up a reputation as efforts. The only consolation we Georges Varenne or with Varenne there, while a brook runs through carpenters, 192 plumbers, 107 dor-

rick men, and 105 electricians. a green lawn and pigeons gather Britain's moat irresponsible and love is, na we observed in open- and Co.

on the low walls. Far below the 10,000,000 Bricks, mischievous politician. Not for ing. that Mr. Churchill has latter-

city's roar rises ever so faintly.

But the offico the first time in recent times hasly become noted for untimely and he "rushed in where angels fear-balanced specches. His latesi to trend" by delivering himself of utterance, therefore, may be sentiments in connexion with the garded as merely another illustra Indian Round Table Conferencetion of this unfortunate habit. which are no credit to himself or

to the Party to which he belongs. One would have imagined that the dictates of common prudence would have prevented Any man

In order that a complete list may

requested that ladies And gentlemen

They have put into the build- be maintained for record purposes, it

give New ng 10,000,000 bricks, 2,000,000 those the "apartment kings and not

rest-York Its unique architectural foot of electric wiring, 76 miles of

in Hongkong, other grandeur. And one of the most water mains, 200,000 cubic feet of re-ent

than those now serving in His Ma- amazing features of modern steel stone, and 50,000 tons of steel. jesty's Forces, who have had any construction is the rapidity with Sixty-five lifts are in operation decoration conferred upon them by which these "cities" within city

to the various floors, engaged in His Majesty the King, will informare bullt. Tho Empire

State carrying every bit of material the Chief Clerk, Colonial Secre- Lailding, the greatest of them all, except the steel jirders, which are tariat, unless this has already months after the old Waldorf As-steel girdere come straight from

for occupation just fifteen hoisted up on the outside.

lorin Hotel, on the site of which the Pittsburgh furnaces and are in place 88 hours after they have ખો over to the house-breakers. The

The Railway Problem. These are critical days for Bri- tisk railways, Intensified road

been done, with 14 days.

que.

The

It is notified for general informa. Irises the new monster, was bemerged white-hot from the fires. competition is cutting further into tion that by Exchange of Notes a Singer Building of 41 storeys The master-link ateel who lays claim to being a states-freight losses caused by the in. f commercial modus vivendi on a re- the world's attention for five jabout five feet squaro, supporta;

n much average em-

above clouds,

column.

efprocal most-favoured-nation basis hel man from saying the least thing dustrial depression and passenger has been established between His years, until the Woolworth, 60 weight of 5,000 tons, and other which would belittle the Confer- receipts are ats falling below Majesty's Government in the

storeys, soared into pre-eminence. colunins carry from 4,000 to 4,500 The Woolworth remained the tons, enee in the eyes of Indians at a average. Without

a doubt, in Kingdom and the Egyption world's tallest building for seven-

Each floor to a miniature work ent. The agreement recorded in moment when the hopes of success these circumstances, a very good

case can be made out for some similar reciprocal mast-favoured- Bank of Manhattan, 65 storeys, materials, with turning tables at this exchange of notes provides for teen years. Yet, although it is shop, equipped with its own all- less than three years since the way, along which the trucks carry are far greater than had been relief in labour costs. The wages ed nation trentment between Egypt antleipated. Even if that con-bill to-day JA approximately and Hongkong, and is to remain and the Chrysler Bullding. 68 key points for the ready handling alderation does

Some floors are not weigh with £115,000,000 or two

storeys, and a half in force until the 16th of February they are already outstripped by still

Everything,

of electric cables and Mr. Churchill it might have been times the figure in 1913. The 1931, unless previously replaced by

steel pipes the volna and arteries that the limit is of the reasonably hoped that he would statistics presented on behalf of Treaty regulating definitely the the Empire, 86 storeys.

building. commercial relations between

Some say the

Tunched, because floor paco AL commit himself to no utterance the companies reveal that railway United Kingdom and Egypt.

in these days work never halt workers have enjoyed

these high altitudes cannot be let for weather, except that heavy rain likely to create an awkward situa-

profitably. The Empire will be will interfere with the riveting of greater rise than tion for the members of his own ployees in other

industries and receipts must mean some saving 1,248 foot high, and the American the steel columna. No serious ac

Institute of Steel Construction has cidents have occurred on the Em- Party who form part of the Con-trades. The approach to this pro in expenditure, and apparently set 2,000 feet as the limit for a pire Building, one attractive "Safe- ference now sitting.

blem, however, demanded care ignoring other means of eflecting skyscraper. Mr. and tact and the proposals sub-economies in working costs. It Churchill imagines he is serving mitted by the Managers show is not, therefore, surprising to find An Eple of Labour.

It would seem spirit of resistance among the Let us watch the construction of I need you, Daddy." when he talks of the Conference signs of neither.

cost the Financial Cilies. that the companies deliberately men. A good deal of heat is likely such a building. The having no power to frame a Con-made demands which the Unions to be expelled before the laser the Chrysler, £3,000,000; the Em- Bank of Manhattan, £2,000,000; stitution, and says that no agree were bound to refuse in order to are settled.

pire. £5,000,000-plays an import ment reached will be morally or pave the way for a compromise legally binding on Parliament, we cannot imagine. He must know perfectly well that no-one for a moment suggests that the Round tunately there is room for concl Table Conference possesses legislation. The machinery in opera- lative powers, and that any deci- tion, to provent a' stoppage on rail- sion arrived at must be passed by ways is very extensive and forms Parliament before it becomes law. }^ formidable bulwark against hanty or considered action.

What useful ригрове

nature. It was of a lesa drastic poor, strategy and the Unions have countered in the only possible way, a demand for increases!

For-

On the other hand, it does not e-The two aldes are expected to come quire much prescience to realise to grips for the first time next that a grave responsibility would week when they appear before the rest upon any Parliament, how- National Wnges Board, on which ever it is constituted, if it rejected users of the railways have a sub- A plan which had won the ap-atantial voice. It may be noted that reductions in wages are not proval of the thoroughly, repre-

the only proposals put forward sentative body now considering by the companies. There are cor- India's problems. We can contain conditions of service, costly ceive no more' effective means of in operation to some extent, on encouraging Indian extremism which relief is sought. They re- than to suggest, an.Me. Churchill quest that the standard 48-hour -week shall include Sunday duty does, that the deliberations of the

when required, whereas under Conference really count for no present conditions, railwaymen thing at all. What in even worse get overtime pay for working on la bin implication, in the words Sundays. All the demands, if "we shall be free to halt and re- conceded, would, it is estimated, tract our stepa," that if the pre- result in a saving in labour, conte sent Parliament should endorse of over £10,000,000. Officially it ls stated that the traffe receipta the findings of the Conference, a

of the four compantes' will bo Conservative. Government might lower than last year by $10,500,000. upset the whole agreement. We In other words, the companies are cannot for a memont believe this seeking to wipe out the deflcft by represents the official Partya wages counter-balanco, paying view, or that the Conservatives no regard to the fact that reduced

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"I'm afraid I'll have to make this car do another year. Father said I needn't expect much Christmas."

ty First" precaution being the dis- play of a picture of a child, while above are the words "Remember,

When these "Anuncial cities" are completed yet another miracle trans- forms them into the workaday habitations of busy men and wo man. Central agencies will under- take to find a suitable office, furnish it, and hand it over provided with every detail

ness or processary for any busi

The lessee

says what he wants. Then, if he Wishes, he can' on a certain day, arrive to work and find everything

ready evon to the typist secre

A subway, will link the

Pon-

with the grout vania station at which 80 many workers arrive from distant suburbs. Thus, someone working in the building will be able to the leave home and arrive at

cifice with the minimum of ex- posure to bad weather. Shops on the lower floors will offer overy- thing that one needs to buy, Doctors,

nurses, bankers, and.... barbers will be at hand. Swim ming pools and an athletic club will offer exercise,. In addition will be rest rooms.

As the last real American touch, the city's lift lawa hayo been rowritten to permit occupants to shoot up and down at the rate of 1,000 feet a minute. What more can life offor?

A fawn Alsatian bitch belong- Ing to Mrs. Hope, the wife of Llout. J. W. Hope of the South Walos Borderers, residing ... at Kingsclere Hotel, has been re- ported-as missing. The animal, which rushed out of the front- door as it was being opened by a servant was' weazing" a echar bearing the Inription Hope, Penlan, Crecòn'