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from year to yçar in regarded as a minor point when compared with the diffulties which arise over the question of what Itoms of revenue are properly assessable or not for the purposes of the Defence Con- tribution. The records of the Straits Settlements contain many Instances over a period of the Inst Thirty years, and the latest memor gndum drawn up on the subject provides numerous illustrations in order to show the desirability of arriving at some Axed basla, so that past difficulties may be eliminated. This, indeed, seems to be the main motive of the Government. In serk- | CERTAIN QUARTER TRIMS TO JUIT IT!.

DAY BY DAY

THE MAN WOD NEVER ORIGINATES ~WATCHER OF THE ATMOSPHERE

TAKES 115 DUSERVATIONS.

AND WHEN HE FINDS THE WIND IN A

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BUCH A PERSON ÁLAY BE A POWERFUL ing to fix the Contribution at a

MINISTER, BUT HE IS NO MORE A yearly sum of five million dollars--GUIAT STATESMAN THAN THE MAN to get rid once and for all of this WHO GETS OF BEHIND SPECIFICA

constant source of disputes and dis- cussions, which, says the official statement, apart from the trouble they give, place the Colmy in the Invidious position of appearing to attempt to evade its legal obliga- tions.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1931,

THE MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

defere

The R.ALS. Empress of Asia arrived at Vancouver in the Rih inst.

The R.M.S. Empress of Japan left) Vancouver on the 5th inst, and is dor here on the 26th December.

Much sympathy will be extended to Not all items of rovente, of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. S. Hodge in the lass of their infant daughter, who course, are assessable for Military passed away yesterday afternoon Contribution, certain exceptions alofter being it for three days from ways being allowed. Here in Hong-meningitis. The funeral takes place;

at 5.30 pt. to-day. kong, for example, no call is misde on the apium monopoly. the rail- way revenue, the widows' and phans' pensions contributions

Recent appointments and prom tions made by the Colonial Ofee in- orelude Misa B. M. Dichens an Asalatont

Mistress (Kindergarten), and Miss H.j M. Knill 153 Assistant Mlatrenn (physical training). Education De- partment, Hongkong.

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the interest on public works loans. There are, we believe, other items in regard to which no decision has yet been reached. It will be re- enlled, also, that an effort was minde, without success, to secure exemp tion for the recent additional taxa- tion necessitated by the increase in civil servants' salaries, whilst on more than one occasion has it been suggested that there should be reduction in the percentage. On this latter point, it is well to re- member that the sterling value of the Contribution has markedly de- clined since the fall in the dollar, a circumstance

itself 01 which operates against any probability of

Dr. E. C. Humphreys, son of Mr. Henry Humphreys, has just recently arrived in longkong and intends to practice dental surgery carly in the new year. Dr. Humphreys was born in Hongkong, but has been away in! England for a number of year.

Above, Sovial saleswoman in a grocery store. Below, looking over some new goods in ■ department store which the clerk (the man in the cap) is showing. Shopping in Moscowy has the found a tiny room he could sublet desperation some sporting element of chance for the winter. In

over trying to locate a bed.some- An enjoyable dance was held atas big game hunting.

If you lived there you could where, went to the press depart Lane Crawford's Restaurant last night by the ship's company of never tell what you were going toment of the Narkomindel (Soviet LMS. Kent. During the dance there bag. What the stores have stock-body corresponding to our U. S. was a running buffet supper, Dan-led to-day may be gone to-morrow State Department) and pleaded his cing was carried on till a lute hour, and what you have looked for in case so eloquently that he got a [to the straing of exerilent music sup-vain for six months may be in the government order to have a bed

pliest by the Invicta Dance Orchestra,

atores to-day.

made. If it is books or periodicals you | The first store that struck my An advertisement in this issue un-want, almost

was a pet shop. every other store eye in Moscow nounces the opening of the new along Kuznetsky Most and Tvers Inside rabbits cost 12 roubles the

Gramophone"

canaries "that sing." 26 hend kay and other main streets is a pair "Brunswick

quarters in Hongkong. The show book shop. Every afth or sixth roubles, guld xh, 75 kopecks. room in situated in the Arcade,

The place was jammed, mostly machines and records of this well-rending matter. Every phase of

hia shaved- the present method of calculation known concern may be heard there, the Five-Year Plan is dramatized One father bought

of rab- is far from satisfactory, from The agency is controlled by the China and available in reading form. headed little sons & pair

Phonograph and Radio Ltd.

Periodicals and books cost 10 and bits and one mother got her baby whatever standpolat it is viewed.

25 kopeeks each.

an cel. Russians are fond of pets. Hongkong, in commen with all

If it is lipstick, rouge or other Almost every family I visited had The return showing the cases of other Colonies, is willing and infectious disenues netifled during the cosmetice, you can probably get a cat, a dog, a bird, gold fish or a

want. You may turtle. week ended the 6th inst., shows 10 whatever you anxious to pay its proper share for cases of diphtheria with one death have

brands. but the Soviet flower shop. Hothouse flowers, the protection which H. M. Forces therefrom and three cases of enteric Ruse an aversion to the inferior Two doors up Tverskaya wat a fever with one oath therofrom. trust puts out full line, and like roses, carnations, forced cry- assure, but some better plan should | There were also 01 deaths from pul- that's all there is.

Hanthemums, tube говед were

| relief being secured, None the less. Gloucester Baikling and the latest corner has a kloak (stall) selling with children tooking around.

be devised for computing that monary tuberculosis. Five cases of If it is a pair of A No. 1 skis high, costing around 10 roubles for The present system is Tair/diphtheria and one of enteric fever and skiing shoes you crave, you a sizeable bunch. I saw a poorly.

shore.

neither to the Colony nor to the Im perial Government.

were reported on the 7th. Inst.

cun get them for about 20 roubles dressed couple buy a whole arm- In a

after copainshon, for the Soviet atute fül of field daisies, marigold and

These

#ed netsky Most because practically ar. all goods now are produced by the luck. No xovernment outlets and uniformly

the Spewriter, sale on the Tverskaya and Kuz-

any

Banished from the Colony

sporta essential to young bachelor buttons for two roubles. having been arrested on two previous Russia's health, ar sporta equip. occasions for begging, D blind!

Buch of Moscow's 10 districts mendicant who appeared before Mr. ment is rated a necessity. Due to unanimous Unofficial op-

The Betting Tax.

Williama at the Central Folice Court ut

But, should you want a ther has its blocks of stores. mometer, hot water bottle, sheets, district stores repeat the goods on position, the Straits Settlements Little fault will be found with the this morning was sentenced to two me Defence Contribution Bill, which principal features of the Betting months' hard labour and also fined $10 a raincoat, a pair of

or two weeks for begging, the sen- cooking stove, a tences to run concurrently. The or

many other proposes to fix the Colony's annual Tax Ordinance shortly to be intro- appropriation to Imperial and local duced in Legislative Council and defendant, who was arrested in fee ticles, you are out of

at a round five million designed to be operative as from House Street together with anotheristore has these to date. The woy-stocked. The same articles cost blind boy was banished from Hongerament factories producing them the same standardizad price in January 1. In the first place, no dollars, is being referred to the objection will be taken to a betting ten years after having been convicted You may borrow them or buy them

kong in August last for a period of are still supplying institutions. every Moscow store.

shopping centre, you Secretary of State by Sir Cecil tax Bource of revenue. Those twice for begging. His Worship tc-

of stores; hook shops, sweet shops, Clementi. It has long been felt in who can afford to gamble should be marked that the defendant would only from an individual, but the chances will pass about the following kinds

be a nuisance in the gaol if he were are, you will just do without.

a sports good house, an antique the Straits Settlements, as it is in able to afford any extra burdan In-

sentenced for a long period. After term expires he will be auto-

A young American newspaper-shop, an office supply store, a |Hongkong, that the present method volved. Furthermore, the Bill has

matically banished.

man, broke from living in a hotel,

quor store (only bottled goods here), a Chinese laundry of enkulating the Military Contri-been so drafted as to remove many

(half price for laundry if you bution is far from satisfactory. In of the uncertainties regarding the position of non-racing clubs in the a recent official memorandum or

deal roun Colony

of organising the subject, emphasis was laid on sweepstakes. The LG.P. objec- the inconvenience of estimating the tion to books of tickets has not been Henceforth all local Contribution, as it is impossible to sustained. determine the Colony's liability sweepstakes must be operated by means of such books. As regards from year to year with any reason-

the method of collection this seema able degree of certainty. As

simple enough on the surface, known, the contribution is at pre- though the briefeat consideration is sent based on twenty per cent. of gumleient to suggest that interest- If, so that in ing complications can arise. the Colony's revenue, drawing up the annual Budget it for instance, the Jockey Club do- becomes necessary to make procides to pass the whole of the pari- vision for far more income than is mutuel tax on to the punter, the really needed. This is the main clerks in charge would, we feel sure, find themselves quito unable to cope drawback of the system, especially with the fast minute rosh when, as In the case of Hongkong tickets because of the demand for since the slump in silver values, small change. There would be chaos extra taxation is needed in order at the "box-offices" at the time to balance the Budget.

for

When most bets are laid. If, on the other hand, the Jockey Club in in the case of the Straits Settle- ments, for a considerable number of prepared to contribute a very smail years now the cost of the Garrison percentage of the tax in order to preserve the price of the tickets at has been much below twenty per 35, they will find themselves dealing cent. of the revenue. This, accord- in half cents because of the condi- ing to the official viewpoint, has tion that the maximum substrac- has tended to obscure the difficulties in- tion, after the Government herent in the present method of taken its share, shall be ten per calculation, but it is felt that with cont. It would also be interesting to have the Government's estimate a steady increase in the cost of the of the revenue expected from Garrison and a declining revenue, aweepstakes organised by clubs out- the time may not be far distantside the Colony. At first sight, it when such difficulties will again be.seoma that this particular form of the proposed tax is so easy to evade

come prominent. The matter of that the expense of trying to collect determining the Colony's liability I would not be warranted by roturns.

"I'll tell him I never want to see him again. That ought to bring him home in time to take me to Jane's party,"

bring your own. soap), an art store, big department store, dry cleaning establishment, tailor shop, an optician's office, a radio store, a shop to pleat and hem. | stitch materials, a toy shop, a pho- tographer's studio, 4 peasant- ware shop, an undertaker's win- dow displaying a gruesome red coffin.

There are two kinds of depart- ment stores, one rather expensive and the other inexpensive where workers buy clothes. add other necessities on coupons on their food cards, physical abourera Intellectual. rating more than workers.

There is one huge, handsome department store where no one can trade but workers of hn G. P. U. (the Soviet secret servo). In addition there is a well stocked and general store called Torgsin, where only foreig money is nccepted, hence only fdeignera trade. The big hotels run tanches of Torgsin in their lobbies

antique

Newest are the Udarall shops. These are fancy goods stores where only those can trap who are members of the Shod Bri- gados, as workers are call who volunteer to speed up the work in their factories, mills, fans.

The windowa of a new Ubrnik store in Moscow displayed tå frat "onsemble" some of the реод hind |ever seen, a woman's sweaterferet and long, fringed scarf mis of cheap rayon in flamboyant peple, pink, vermilion, orange and sen stripes, at 75 roubles the net. Thoro were rayon stockigs,

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