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HOUSING CRUSADE] LABOUR M.P.S

OPENED

MILLIONS OF MONEY

·FOR NEW HOMES

COUNCILS URGED

TO ASSIST

WHO DRINK

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933.

SERIOUS CHARGES BY DR. SALTER

STATEMENT BY

MR. LANSBURY

Dr. Alfred Salter, M.P., address- A now housing opoch has open-

in England the return of pri-ing a branch of the Workers' vate enterprise to the task of pro- recently, said that drink was hurt- Temperance League in Glasgow viding the British working cla8808. with houses at rentals they can ing the Labour party, and indivi

afford.

The Mistry, of Health, local authorities, the building societies and private buildors will be allies in the now campaign.

The Ministry last night has issued a circular to local authori- ties, who having lost the Govern- ment subsidy, will discontinue their attoripts to meet the housing shortage until it is seen whether private enterprise has succeeded or failed.

Councils are asked to co-operate by holding local conferences of builders, Investors, public utility socloties and building society ro- presentatives. They are also nak ed to sell to private investors, at reasonable terms, land they had acquired for housing.

The building societies, whose Assets now approach £600,000,000, will use their surplus funds in

00 making advances up to per cont. of the valuation of houses instead of the usual 70 per cent. The State and the local authorities will share the added risk.

PATRIOTIC GESTURE. Three-bedroom non-parlour houses, it is claimed, can be bullt for £360 all-in. Of this sum the investor will put down only £35 and in 30 years' time the house will bolong to him. The loan will ba at one per cant. below the building societies usual rate Interest.

of

duals in the party.

OXFORD

MUSEUMS'

DISPUTE

250TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

--

THE ASHMOLEAN RIVALS

Which of the two Oxford muse- name of Ellas ums bearing the

Ashmole should have held cole- brations of its 250th anniversary last month?

"We have Been Labour members in the House of Commons," he

The question has caused a con- said, "drinking, night after night.troversy of an unusual character We have seen another group go Into the smokeroom and soak between the authorities of the two thomsalves until they were stupid, Oxford institutions. and we have seen Labour Cabinet Ministers come into the House in a condition in which they could hardly stand."

In the course of an interview Dr. Salter said:

The Old Ashmolean Museum building, which was opened by James Duke of York on May 21, 1688, now houses the Lewis Evans Instru- of scientific collection ments, of which Dr. R. T. Gunther In curator. It also has a fow "I stand by everything I said exhibits from the original collec- at the meeting. I made a similar tion. All arrangements were statement in 1926, and I was made for the Old Ashmolean to called up before the House of celebrate the 250th anniversary of Commons for a breach of privi-its opening, when difficulty aroso lege. I repeated the allegation on the contention that the now before the House, and I gave Ashmolean Museum 'in Beaumont- further details. I offered to give street is the real lineal descendant names of the members concerned of the Ashmole collecton, part of to a Select Committee and sub-which was removed to it in the stantiate the charges I had made. Nineteenth Century. Only four days before that occn- sion I had helped to carry a mem ber to a taxicab,

OFFER OF EVIDENCE.

VIEW OF SIR A. EVANS

This contention is upheld by Sir Arthur Evans, Honorary Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and Perpetual Visitor; and Mr. E. T. Leeds, Keeper of the Musc um, in the following statement:

"I should like to make it clear," he stated, "that although I men tioned Labour members in my

"Our olu Museum, opened on speech I did not mean that they ware the only offenders. We are May 21, 1683, is the oldest in the

the other country, and, after the Bodleian. I not responsible for parties, but it is surely our duty is the most ancient institution in to see that our members are free the University. It was intended from blame in this respect.

by its founder, Elias Ashmole, to cover whole domain of nature and art. But, on the formation in

S

"If the House takes the same

Houses are to be let at renta afine on this occasion, I am pre-1855 of the University Museum 108. to 128. a week,

pared to repeat the statements 1 have made, and, if the House is for the Natural Sciences, this willing, bring forward evidence part of the collection was trans-

ferred there. The substantiating them."

Ashmolean Muscum, however, confined now to its antiquarian side, prolonged its

Sir Harold Bellman. of the Ab- bey Road Building Society, said: "The societies are in fact lending their surplus funds. There will be

Speaking at St. Mark's Lance-

no real margin of profit, and it 1.feld, Church, Glasgow, last night. existence in Its original home-

In fact, a patriotic gesture."

The National Association of Building Societies has agreed to set up a standing committee to afford information and guidance and to co-ordinate local schemes. The committee will consist of:

Mr. Walter Harvey (Chairman). 'Sir Enoch Hill (Halifax Build-

ing Society).

Bir Harold Bellman (Abbey

Road).

Mr. G. E. Jackson (Wakefield). Mr. J. E. Riley (Third Brad-

ford).

Mr. A. Webb (London Co-opera-

tive).

district

The Ministry state that if pri- vate enterprise in any does not rise to the occasion as anticipated, local authorities will continue to build houses without subsidy...

SLUM CLEARANCE.

With regard to slum clearance, a five years' programe

was re-

quested from local authorities by the Slum Clearance Act of 1930, and plans will be submitted to the Ministry in September. A 58. a week subsidy is offered on each house cleared.

The Ministry further advises Councils to demand higher rents

room for poorer, persone.

A second manifesto is also ad- dressed particularly to rural au- thorities pointing out that slum clearances applies to rural as well as urban districts and that the same facilities for new housing are offered.

Dr. Salter returned to the subject.

If the Labour movement, he Bald, were to realise the fullest function of Its Ideals it must purge itself and cleanse itself of the evil of strong drink.

Members of Parliament were tempted by some of their col- leagues to drink in the House of Commons, and he knew of one case where a man had fallen a victim to drink, but became a teetotaller, after he had seen the evil of his ways.

"NAME THE MEMBERS." Mr. George Lansbury, Leader of the Labour Party, told a reporter that the party had never been a teetotal party.

"Dr. Salter makes these state-

obtaining, indeed, a fresh endow ment-till, as the result of a wider movement of archaeological and artistic concentration, it was in 1894 transferred to the new building built for it in Beaumont- street, where it was finally united with the University Fine Art Galleries oxisting there Ashmolean Museum of art and archaeology, ..

na the

"At the time of the transference of the Musoum to its new home every step was taken to ensure its historic continuity. Our second whom founder, Dr. Fortnum, to the new building was largely due, condition made this, indeed, a sine qua non."

DR. GUNTHER'S REPLY Dr. Gunther, in an interview..

"Owing to the confusion of the

---"Numbers of us, however, are made the following reply: total abstainers, and I am among them, but I hove never felt myself virtuously better or worse thannames of the two institutions, I had already been asked to make it those who drink a glass of beer clear that any celebrations for the opening of the Old Ashmolean for ments on his own authority and, which I am personally responsible, of course, has a right to say what are in no way connected with the he pleases either inside or outside Ashmolean Museum, on behalf of the House of Commons, but he which the University authorities is a member of the party.

decided not to have a celebration.

"The Old Ashmolean is

In

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Shipping.

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Docks, etc.

H.K. Wharves, $128 ¤, H.K. Docks, 310 b.

b.

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Lande, Hotels, etc.

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Cotton Mills. Ewo Cottons Sh. $14 b. S'hai Cottons, Sh. 3109 n. Zoong Sings, Sh.314, n. Wing On Textiles (5) 397 n. Public Utilities Tramways, $21.65 b. Peak Trams, (old), $161⁄2 n. Peak Trams, (now), $7% n. Star Forries, $92 b. Yaumati Ferries (old), 281⁄2 n. China Lights (old), $13 b. China Lighta, (now), $121⁄2 n. H.K. Electrics, $73 b. Macao Electrics, $38 n. Sandakan Lights, $101⁄2 n. Tolephones (old), $29 n. China Busca, Sh. $111⁄4 m. Singapore Tractions, 1/- n. Singapore Prof., 18/-n.

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Malabon Sugare $15 n. Cald: Macg. (old), Sh. $20 n. Cald: Macy, (Prof.), Sh. $16 n. Canton Icca, $6 n. Coments (Com.), $7.65 sa. Cementa-(old), $6.40 n. Coments (now), $11⁄2 n. H.K. Ropes, $9 a.

Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $27% 8. Watsons, $10 n. Der A Wings, $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $4.85 n, Mackintoshs, $21 n.“) Sinceres, $14 n.

Wm. Powells, $2.10 n. Wing On (H.K.), $186 n. x div. Miscellaneous. Amusements, $12, n.

H.K. Entertainments, $121⁄2 ¤. 8.0. Enterprises, $81⁄4 u. United Theatres, Sh. 38 n. Macao "Greyhounds,” $10 n. Constructions (old), $4 n. Constructions (now), $1 n. B. Ind. G$ Bonds, 70% n. H.K. Govt. Loans, 8% b. Prem, Wallace Harpers, $8 8.

"Ho meets us nearly every from tenants of subsidised houses of the opinion that it is his job Theatre, and houses the collection Tuesday, and as he is so firmly Broad-street, near the Sheldonian who can afford to pay more, or, alternatively to ask them to buy to clear the party of this re of scientific instruments given to the houses or quit them to make proach of drunkenness among the University by Dr. Lewis some of its members, the place the party itself. where he should start is inside Evans. The Ashmolean Museum I hope he willa devoted to collections of art, come and name the members, and Pictures, and archaeology, and is let us have the matter cleared up. situated in Beaumont-street.

"He will have a full opportunity "My celebrations were planned of stating his case," added Mr. to give expression to the satis- Lansbury. "None of us, I feel faction felt by 'Friends of the Old defond Ashmolean', and others because drunkenness either inside or out-the original museum room in the side the House, For my part 1 Old Ashmolean la now, by decree hope that one day the House of of the University, being used as a Commons will be put out of public muscum for illustrating the bounds for the sale of intoxi-liistory of science.

(Continued from Page 8.) canta,"

"There is no public, celebration. There is only a private party, and attention of the referco for quos this is taking place in the Old tionable behaviour and later for Ashmolean, the original building being inside the two yards mark,

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MURDER IN A BOARD ROOM

Belgrade, May 20. When the proprietress of a children's. outfitting business In Belgrade, Mme. Georg Stanko- witsch, reported that her husband- was missing, the police discovered that he had been murdered in un- usual circumstances.

Stankowitsch had

como into touch with a man who two years ago was sentenced to penal ser- vitude for forgery and had been released conditionally.

This man had apparently got to know that Stankowitsch was carry- ing a considerable sum about with him, and on the strength of a proposition as to some profitable business had lured him into the offices of a film company.

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but respectable provincial bank. Stankowitsch therefore had no suspicions when he was ushered Into the board-room of the pany in which he found the banker, and where he was killed with an axe. The murderers locked the door of the board-room, outside which they hung a notice to the effect that a private con- ference was in progress.

They thon placed the body in a trunk, drove along the Danube Semendría.

PEOPLE WHO THINK IT | human socioty,” said Doan Inge opened 250 years ago, and not in was twice ordered out of the bath, and dropped it in the river near,

A FAIRY STORY

TREND OF MODERN PREACHING

Having divided the £200 which they found on their victim, the ticket-of-leave man fled and the banker returned homo. He was arrested, however, and finally con- fossed to the crime.

"tend to look upon heavon да fairy story, and many of them, the Ashmolean Museum. This and similar treatment was moted unhappily, think that the clergy celebration is entirely my own out to a South China player.

Short of two of their regular are trying to keep them quiet by show, and I have only invited giving them promissory notes to those people likely to be interest players, and endeavouring to make good the deficit with a spectator, be paid in another world which 99,"

the YM.C.A. rarely touched true they think does not exist. They! even look upon the doctrine of

form. Thoy appeared to be ag- Dean Ingo, preaching at St. future life as a pious fraud at last to Theo repaid

When bis antecedents were in-" gravated by the unecessary tactics a thousandfold of the Chinese and tempers, became vestigated it was discovered that Mary Abbott's, Kensington, nld| exposed.” -

will be." he did not believe that there over

he had been several times. con- If beliefs were put in such a

very frayed. "We are not doing full justico They only had one real chance of victed for fraud and forgery under time when Christians materialistic form, he said, they to eternal life," he added, "when scoring, and this G. Fowler missed other names. It is alleged that thought less about heaven than wore not much better than awe say it is in the future and not by hitting the cross bar. The "Y" he was the head of a robber gang thoy. did now.

fallacy, and the geographical in the present, The time has defence was quite unable to cope and that many hitherto un- "Death judgment, heaven and heaven and doctrine of com-gone by, when people were boat with the fast moving Chinese for explained crimes are to be laid to hell," he said, "seem to be depensation in kind were unwelcome taught by crudely-coloured dog wards. Cheung Wing-kwong and his credit. liberately avoided In popular to many spiritually minded per-matic picture books. They would Loo Ping-eul gave the Chiposo a preaching. The clergy feel that sons who had got, beyond such rather have us say, Wo don't two-nfl lead at the interval and they are not popular, especially teaching. They were ashamed of know than have crude symbols this was further increased by when addressing working people, singing, "Whatover Lord wa lend presented to them as actual facts." Cheung (2) and Chan Shul-kam. As soon as we leave this world and its interest their attention

Was

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DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

finding the net three times and Kerr, Campbell and Donn once each. On A UNIVERSITY LOSE.

the change over the Y.M.O.A, again The Y.M.CA. "A" team had a dominated play and further goala runaway, victory over the University were added by Schreuder (8), Camp- In the Water Polo Longue. yesterday | bell (1) and Korr (1). of society to be set up on this

avening, when they scored eleven In a league game procoding the earth at a future date, which they oVERTHROW THE VIRTUES, AT LEAST loft Yokohama on the 18th at 8 p.m. Bathing Club Baths,

IF VANITY DOES NOT ENTIRELY The R.M.S. Empress of Asia | times without reply, at the Chinese above match, The Young Companions Association defeated the Chung Sing hope is coming very soon. ***

MAKES THEM ALL TOTTER and is due at Hongkong on the 26th At the interval they had gained a B. 8. by, four goals to nil. The score Rochefoucauld.

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