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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,

THE

NEW

· 1932

FASTEST SELLING

CAR-IN-THE

conclusion, of the report is that there is still; notwithstanding the heavy migration, a surplus of la- bour in industrial South Wales. It is estimated that there is a sur- plus-of at least 80,000 mon In coalmining, and of 5,000 or 6,000 in transport, with other consider- able surpluscs in iron and steel, among dook workers and ship re- pairers; and as the general popu- Jation in declining there is also a surplus in the building and fur-

•

DAY BY DAY

IF YOU WISH A SINCERE, FAITHFUL

AND LOYAL FRIEND, YOU MUST YOUR SELF FIRST GIVE OF TOUR FRIEND- SHIP.

Tho Ben Line ss. Benmohr, from Home via Straits and Manila, is due here on October 5th,

Members of the Hongkong inter-

W-O-O-RLD nishing trades. The total our-port lawn bowls team returned from

REAL-VALUE-HER STOP-LOOK-COMPARE

A FREE-WHEELING

ROADSTER

plus is probably well over 70,000. Shanghai by the Empress of Russia "But if a aubatantial number of

to-day; the miners," says the roport, "And alternative occupation within the region, and if a number of wo- SYNCRO-MESH

men who formerly would not DE-LUXE SPORTS have thought of entering indus- try, take up paid employment

Mr. W. G. Felshow will speak on within the region, then a renew-Is Theosophy a Now Religion" at the ed demand will be created for the usual weekly lecture of the Hongkong labour of transport. workers and Lodge, The Theosophical Society, 17,

Queen's Road to-day at 6 p.m. |others formerly dependent upon the activity of the coal industry, The surplus available for now In- dustries and `sorvices, if develop mont takes place, is perhaps in the neighbourhood of 40,000. The surplus to be transferred, if decay continues, we shall not attempt to

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

Amonget tho passengers who arrived by the Empress of Russia this morning were Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hyde Lay, Mr. D. M. Goodall, and Mr. R. É Coxon.

1932.

A BLACK YEAR BUT-

By MAJOR H. L. NATHAN, M.P.

Tt is almost exactly a year since "Very bad" is. written on every

a National Government camo paragraph of the Ministry into existence to save the nation. Labour Gazette, which is concern- Has it saved it?

ed with the 'position of the main Judged by the ordinary tests, Industries in the North and Mid- our economie and industrial post-lands. Here are a few extracts. tion is substantially worse than it was a year ago.

come

"In the fron-mining industry employment showed a slight docline and was very bad." "In the pig-iron Industry em- ployment showed a decline and was very bag." "In the engineering Industry employment showed a slight decline and was very bad." "Employment in the hosiery trade showod little change and remained slack."

com-

Unemployment has increased. The August figures are not yet available, but the figures for the end of July of this year show, that there were 2,811,783. unem- ployed. In August last year there word 2,733,782 out of work. To the acknowledged Increase must be added those who have off the Register of Unemployed The Rev. Fr. D. J. Finn will give by reason of the Anomalies Act an address on "Queries of an Anti-and later legislation, to say So it goes on. Every prosaic quary in Hongkong" on October 7 at nothing of scores of thousands of statement could be made a flaming 8.10 p.m. in the Union Assembly Hall, unemployed black-conted workers poster against the crass stupidity Hongkong University Union.

who appear on no register of un-of the gamble in Protection. employment. But far more than Railways. an extra two or three hundred

The decline in railway receipts, thousand unemployed is involved evident for some years, has been in these figures. They were con-In the last few months accole- unprece-rated. Passenger receipts for the sidered not only quite dented but also overwhelmingly current year are down by £3 burdensome.

milliona or 7%

per cont., Last year we regarded two and pared with the corresponding three quarter million unemployed period last year, while there is n as an unprecedented figure. We decline in goods receipts of £5 attributed it not merely to the millions or 9% per cont world altuation, but to special The Counterclaim. causos peculiar to ourselves, like our unbalanced Budget and a months of tariffs. What can be That is the dismal record of six Government apparently unwilling offset against. it? Mr. Horo-

necessary steps to Mr. C. B. R. Sergent, Headmaster to take the of the Diocesan Boys' School, will balance it. Those special causes Belisha, when challenged in the estimate." The problem is com- deliver a lecture to the llongkong have been removed, and still the House of Commons to state the plicated by the fact that owing University Education

number of mon that had been put Society on

unemployment figures are creep- into employment in new industries to the increase of births in the Tuesday, October 4, at 8.30 p.m. in ing to the three million mark and coming into the country as a ro-

the Union Assembly Hall, The sub- over. years immediately following the ject will be "Tho English Public

We have changed our doctors,ault of tariffs, had to admit that In actual fact they did not exceed only growing war, the number of children leav-School System," and the lecture will but our pain is

be open to the public.

3,700. ing school and entering the labour

We have undergone the surgi- It is not a question of making. market will be exceptionally large

cal operation of tariffs, but it has up on the roundabouts what we in 1933, 1934, and 1935.

done nothing but harm. Our have lost on the swings. Practi- volume of trade has shrunk. Our cally speaking, there le no return imports in August, 1931, were at all from the roundabouts. $65,261,086. Last month they Scarcely anywhere is there n were £51,921,493. Our exports in crumb of comfort. The Budget August, 1931, wore £32,986,969; seems to have been balanced on last month they were down by the basis of unemployment being £400,000. We may have achieved stabilised at about 2,500,000. It a reduction in the amount (though has not been down to that figure be it noted, not in the porcent-once since the Budget was intro- age) of our adverse balance of duced. That means a further trade, but we have at the same strain on a revenue already de- time diminished the amount of pleted by the fact that income tax trade that there is to balance, and surtax are now being lavied Cool.

in respect of vears of acute de-

The marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place, between Geoffrey, Edward Ross younger son of the lato Mr. John Ross

The development of new indus- Divett of 17, Enton Square, tries la seen to be one of the neces Lendon and Mrs. M. B. Guning-

hame of Southampton, England. sition of the situation. In their and Eileen Margaret, younger absence, decay will continue, and daughter of the late Mr. Ninian Adair and Mrs. Adair of Tientsin, China.

BIRTH.

ROXBURGH-At the War Memorial Hospital, 29th September, 1932, to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Roxburgh, a doughter.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932.

AN INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table issued by some of the region's equipment in the Kwangtung River Conservancy docks and railways, warehouses, Commission shows the height of water in English feet on the dates. shape, hotels and houses will be-named in the West, North and come more and more redunant, East Rivers: whilst in other parts of the coun-

23.4

Sept. 23

24.2

14.3

15.0

4.5

.

Highest on Inwest, Sept.. regged on record. 27 try money will be spent upon new West River at

Shlubing. +41.7. docks, new roads, new houses, North Iliver at

Tingruen +4.7 new drainage and so on. A de-North River at

Eatmahut +27.3 -6.1 liberate effort to secure the intro-East River at

Sheklung. $16,5 - duction of new Industries into the region, remarks the report, "is not only desirable on sentimental or compassionate grounds, but is justifiable as a sound measure of [public economy."

Jockey Club Case.

It s unfortunate that the

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CORRESPONDENCE,

Appeal to the League

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.)

worse.

+

The trade figures examined in pression. 18.4 detail reveal even more depress Unrest.

ing resulta. Tariffs have dealt a

Industrial unrest that was not staggering blow at some of our a factor in the situation last year chief industries. The coal figures is breaking out again in all its this month, oven allowing for the tragic futility. There is a strike effect of the cessation of exports in the shipyards at Falmouth, and to the Irish Free State, are truly following on the cotton stoppage appalling. On August 22, 1931, at Burnley, all Lancashire is there were 822,300 men employed; threatened with a breakdown, and on August 6 of this year the there is talk of a busmen's strike number had fallen to

783,000, in. London.

while in the corresponding period the output of the mines has fallen |from 4,242,800 tone to 2,605,600

tons. Shipping.

But Here Are Rays of Hope.

The only hope in the industrial situation is that ao many people think that there is hope.

Sir, I wish to thank all who

Equally steep la Britain's de-While British trade has deterio-·· have communicated with me in

cline in shipping. Lloyd'sTM Re-

-rated, British-paychology has connexion with the proposed up-gister Book issued last month improved. There is leas de- peal to the League.

fentism to-day.

Stewards of the Jockey Club, One of the districts most ad- when announcing the disqualifica versely affected by the industrial tion of Champagne Bay and the depression in the United Kingdom suspension of the jockey, Dr.

The letter to the Secretary-Gen- is South Wales, from which, with L. Reidy, did not also disclose the eral has been sent to-day, support ed by 50 names. Other aigantures in a period of ten years, nearly a grounds upon which the protest have since come to hand, and quarter of a million of people, re- was lodged. The hush-hush policy these will be forwarded by ordin

adopted has had the opposite to ary mail. presenting over twelve per cent. the desired effect. Publie curio-

་

E. L. ALLEN.

SUGAR MARKET

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

The following.cnble at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messra. Pen- treath and Co.

of the population, have migrated.sity has been stimulated; the im- will, with your

Any reply which is received permission, be Unemployment has risen in the pression has been given that the communicated to the press. area from about & por cent of the Jockey Club wishes to conceal the insured workpeople to nearly 32 facts. In consequence, every en- per cent. The total number of couragement has been given to the workpeople insured against un- circulation of rumours regarding which are employment has fallen heavily, the riding, rumours but the fall has taken place possibly very wide of the truth.!

It is obvious, perhaps, that Dr. amongst men workers whilst the

Reidy was not suspended for number of insured women haa

twelve months for a purely techni- rison considerably. These are cal branch of rules, but, at the some of the atriking facts emerg- same time, it might still be in the ing from the "Industrial Survey" real interest of the rider if the carried out by the University of authenticated facts of the In- South Wales and Monmouthshire (cident which occurred were pub on behalf of the Government. lished. Apart altogether from In South Wales, economic pros- case, sufficient criticism has been perity depends mainly upon the

levelled against racing in Hong- heavy industries, coalmining and kong to demand that when the iron and stcol. The principal Stewards of the Jockey Club do cause of the decline revealed intake disciplinary action, the full- the survey is the depression in cat publicity should be given to these industries. How they have the eircumstances. Visitors come been affected by the prevailing to Hongkong, go to the races and oconomic crisis is illustrated by when they arrive claowhore pass the unemployment "figures. The exceedingly disparaging remarks

about riding in this Colony. The 2 pts. general increase in unemployment, racing public In Hongkong

London (28/9/32)-Cuban Raws na stated above, is from an frequently voices the complaint 98 0.1.F. Hongkong Shanghai, average of 5 per cent in 1928 to that it does not feel assured of a October November shipment, we over 31 per cent in 1930. But in fair deal. Bumping and boring is quoto 6/1% per cwt. the principal Industrial groups the all too common and there`ssoms incrcaso is staggering-nearly 26 no necessity for the looking round

(this particular and unfortunate

London Terminals. Décember 1932 5/10 up 11⁄2d. March 1933 6%-% up. id May 1933 6/21⁄2 up id August-1933 6/5% up 1%d asking d1⁄2d more.

Buyers at above prices, sellers

New York Terminals September 1932

December 1932 1.08 up 8 pta. March 1033 1.03 up 2 pts. May 1039 1.07 up 2 pts. July 1933 1.11 up-2 pts. Cuban 90°-Spot N. Y. 1.15 up

that goes on. The public does backers of the declared Winner, per cent in conlmining, over 68- not want examples made. But it but there is prohibition of open per cent in iron and steel, over 68 desires to feel that if it backs a jactivity by bookmakers and this por cont in tinplate manufacture, starter, it is going to have a fair difficulty does not, therefore, ap and 10 per cent in the distributivo chance of winning. One action pear. The backer to-day rightly trades. Over half the Insured which might provide a useful stop fools disgruntled if his "fancy" is population in the area was at the in this direction is the abolition pushed out of first place by a beginning of the period employed post rule. It is an illogical rule and his money goes to the sup of the "pay out on first past the horse subsequently disqualified in coalmining in 1980 the pro-and it le unnecessary. The exis- porters of the delinquent. In portion (of a much smaller total tence of "bookles might complie other words, the Augoan stables of insured workers); had fallen to cato the handling of bats on aayas might improve with a little cloan- less than 45 per cent. The brea, tam schich ensures payment të shMENG

shows the greatest decrease in tonnage of any country in the world. In Great Britain and Ire. land it

WR& 691,230 tons. In other great shipbuilding countries, like the U.S.A. and Germany, it

The British poople-little thanks to the National Government-iş now seeing our problems in a truer perspective and is recover- ing its nerve. re-Tho will to recovery evidenced by the splendid auccoss of the Conversion Loan is a potent factor in prosperity.

was 95,000 and 89,000 tons spectively. Our tonnage is now so much in excess of what is re- quired that a proposal is made by a Sunderland shipping firm in the Times of August 22 that 0 de- finite number of vessels of 20 years; old and over should be scrapped,

The right paychology cannot pro- duce prosperity, but prosperity. cannot come without it.

Yet it would be unwise to blink

by agreement among the ship-facts. Though the popular view. owners every year.

Heavy Industrice.

may be right that the tide is now on the turn, judged by every

now than it was a year ago.

All the heavy industries 'record objective test it is further out the same tale of wos.