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SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 22, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS

TURN OF THE TIDE?

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Chits are nut accepted in local taxis. Why not? The moter is usually on tick, anyhow.

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Last week a dog bit a woman in a dressmaker's shop. Evidently it wanted muslini

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Sept. 14th-Up betines after a moons, and slabs of bread and Remembering the saying that figures can be made to prove al- very calm night for all the promise butter with prawn paste. There-

Recent heading to Cheung Chau most anything, and being fully of a storm, which did remind me after home, trusting that I shall not | Notes: "Informal Concert Is Well conscious of the folly of prematureof nothing so much as the beginning be sorry for it, after a glane or Supported: Many Leaving the optimism, we can, none the less of the great electrick storm in two with friends. This night | Jaland." Well-meant, no doubt, find some cause for satisfaction in 1926. Yet it passed far to sea. Ann's mother dines with me, and the Intest statistics concerning Hongkong trade. It is true that. Today the first signal is hoisted Inter i do call in upon Mr. Muley- Compared with last year, the first for a Typhoon and I fear we may grabs and his Lady and find them eight months of 1934 show sub- have a stormy week-end. Yet so at cards, and do' foin the game. stantial decreases in the volume far as storms go we cannot com-But, holding nothing better than both of imports and exports, but when we turn to the Agures for plain, this being but the second three deuces and losing, even upon last month we find that we have time that Number One has gone up that, I am

And. I do trust our catching I motor to go back to November before this season. encountering a higher figure In

good fortune shall continue. Talk- helmsman respect of imports, whilst so far

ing in the Clubho over my morning devil whom I as exports are concerned, only one

нес again month in the current year dia draft I do discuss it with Creed, to closed a better return. What is but I fear he becomes somewhat of clear orders, he takes me to Blake mere, as against July, the August a bufflehead, and I do not approve Pier instend of Queen's Fier, and Imports show rise of over ten his Feasoning. Later comes Mrs. I wake not up early enough to million dollars, whilst exports are Fovy, who tells me Mr. A. Grimmitt notice it o'er i da disembark. up by more then four millions. There may be seasonal explann hath won the Lawn Bowles Cham-

17th. After my office is put in tions of the increases, but so far pionship, as well as the Pairs and order I do get me to the Peake to nis imports are concerned, at any the Rinque competitions, which, as visit the sick, and I find them. rate, the August figare is only

I believe, is without precedent, and mighty well, and in particular Mr. very alightly below that of the

I am sad at heart that his rinque Gilbert, who, I doubt not, will be same month last year. Is it the

did not go to Shanghai where we somewhat at a stondie to make the turning of the tide?

did

get such a beating. News weight when he is it again to ride, comes that Senor de Valera doth which, LABOUR'S LOYALTY

I doubt not, will not be object to Russia's entry into the before next year. Home and early League, being, as I suppose, afraid to bed. that they will steal his thunder. For I doubt if there be much to

THE PUBLIC AND THE reco

BUDGET

Faced with what is well des cribed as a marking-time Bud- gut. the probabilities are that, on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill next week, the Unofficial members of

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in my chamber.

of

18th. This day I see in nowes shcotes that the Bookmakers

19th-Busy getting my tickets for the sweepstake upon the Picnic

We read of a man who has spent thirty years in the same brewery Vat à life!

Some cosmetics are said to cause shortness of breath. Powder and puff?

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A magazine writer says brown eyes indicate strength of character. And black eyes show a wenk de-' fonce.

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England now has only one wo- That's not count- man town-crier. ing those who talk over the garden fence.

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There's

move on to stablise

15th.--Up very betimes and to my' office but as is ever the case I am too thronged with my papers to get away early. However, I am

liquor prices. What's most needed, In time to reach the shoppes before Bay Race, and it has lately been however, is something to stabilise

the consimer

birthday, of which I do wish her to observe. And, though by so

they close. It being Mistress Ann's advertised in a way that is pretty many inppy returns. The weather saying I may become obnoxious to being fowle, there was no Krickett reproach, I dare wager they will I fear I did sleep some-sell no more than eighty-thousand what heavily. This night My Lord tickets or at most eighty-five. Yet of Harpenden, as I must now style it is good news that two thousand

played and

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Judging from the number of people who are convinced that they Jockey Club will have to provide have the winning number, the.

Picnic Bay Sweepstake.

Council will not be found unduly arrested before Lahaur can go into him after his new dignity, his Lady, and four hundred dollars are being about 50,000 first prizes in the

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There is no doubt that, following

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Some dance bands are going in for gold saxophones. And blow-

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A Kowloon lady says it's a It must give British people

difficult problem to know where to gratification to reflect upon the

put jellies in the hot weather. common-sense altitude of the La-

theShe can't have any kiddies. bour movement in the British Isles,

* ᄆ and, for that malter, throughout | choose between the conditioun of the Empire. Unlike the stormy the peasantry of Ireland and du lay the odds of ten to one upon

the During American unions, British Labour-Russia. This day later to a pre-

recent floods in Bobsleigh for next year's Derby,

Ites re

America, an agriculturist used n at for industrial pence

much hope there poor floating landmark to identify his nimost

Any price these days. view of an excellent picture and a and I do British workers lost 1,070,000 work pretty Indy comes to help my judge honest and deserving men do not property. A kind of farmer's

through their "buoy". ings days in 1933, owing to strikes ment. Thereafter to the Snakepit come to any harm

race being of one sort or another, as against where we send for her Lord who over-liberality, the

I am In 6,490,000 in 1932 and 8,290,000 in

plays at cards, and there talking scarcely nine months off. 1929. The policy of studied pence- fulness has continued thus far in for some long while. Writing after one doubt as to whether Rusalia and Turkey be fully elected to the 1934, and only about half last

Lengue, nor do I trouble 'much year's total in lost working days hna been reached. Labour's atti

myself, tude appears to be based

of two points: one. recognition that with the prevailing unemploy- ment, strikes would be risky in any but the most skilled and highly organised trades; and, two, that membership in British trade unions, has declined from 6,518,000 in 1920, the peak year, to around 3,400,000 in 1933. It seems to be felt that this declining tendency must be any of the old-time pitched battles and Mr. Franco did eat their dinner invested therein every day, and I critical of the Government pro-

with me at the Gloucester House, am minded to notify the Economic with Any hope of висеевв. posals. Regrets will possibly be No-one should be deceived, how- and after to the King's Play House Commission as a proof of the de- to Bec "Spring-time for Henry." pression. For when 50 much expressed that a bolder policy is ever, into thinking the British trade

And this i believe to be the first money is available, and there are not being followed, but, general-unions have lost their strength, time I ever pay money to see a so many cars owned that the whole

They

still ly speaking, a consciousness of he Are

extraordinarily the uncertainties of the future powerful. They are the driving Picture of which I have had a pre- city is scarce sufficient to provide force of that larger Labour Move view, save only in the case of Mr. parking room, the time has indeed will probably temper any critic-ment (which embraces a great sce-perceive a difficulty, for while the King's servants. I see in the of bathers diving in shallow water.

T. Walls or R. Lynn. But I do come to dock the wages of the A reader points out the danger. isms offered. Apart from the tion of the anlaried middle class) upper circle proves full the house newes-sheetes that an M.C.C. team Enough to make anybody go off the somewhat abnormal conditions which has made Great Britain the is nigh empty below and I see very goes to West Indies, and with it deep end. which have prevailed during the leading social-democratic country few Chinese, the plece appealing Hammond, Hendren, Ames and recent past, it is, however, re-

of the world.

more by its witty dialogue than by Leyland. And how these mon grettably true that the Budget

its spectacular action. Back after-shall give of their best when they The worst thing about restaurant debates-for longer than we care

wards to the Snake Pit-for-a-glasse get-no-rest-at-all-I-know not.--To- orchestras is that there's always i to remember have not been

of strong waters and so to bed. the Krickett Clubbe where much danger of a vigorous trombone characterised by the strong line

The decline of the Unions'

talk of our coming match, and later, I player cooling your soup before 16th, (Lord's Day).About nine reading a book, and so to bed.

you've had a chance to consume it, membership can probably be traced which Unofficials were wont to directly to the 1926 General Strike, of the clock I do partake of my take twenty or thirty years ago. At that time, only 1,680,000 work- More and very ill news of the how I do find I hate each new day Sunday kipper and reat after. 20th-Up betimes, but Lordi The fact that the Government ers actually struck, out of a totai Morre Castle and I doubt if the and the prospect of its sameness. always has the whip hand of the of 4.100.000 on the union rolls. full facts will ever be suffered to And, even though there be a touch ing the expense! opposition, by virtue of the Official Majority, may be a fac- the collapse of the strike, the posi- come out. But it seems a most dis-of cooler weather in the air. I do tor in the situation, but, even so,

tion of the rallway workers and graceful incident. To the Library rise unrefreshed and do detest the the public does miss the stirring miners was seriously worsened. where I staid awhile reading prospect of my office which, had it

Some contend that the strikes. of the newes sheetes, and later with been upon Monday or after Then there was the confirmed debates of other days, when our 1920 and 1921 are the root of the Mr. Part and his Lady to a bathing festival, I could in someway under-racegoer who went to the seaside Unofficials were not averse from dceline evil. In 1920, when the shed, set in a little secret bay that stand. But last night I did dine and wanted to back the white pressing their viewpoint to the union membership was at its peak, is most pleasant, and we alternate- early and was abed by ten of the horses,

And so I do take it to be extent of registering their votes

ly do swim and demonstrate the clock. 6,616,436 names in all, there was a

theory of Shing Mun to Master the general feeling at the end of against the Government. Com-record number of strikes, 1,607,

compared with 357 last year. Part, though in the end his demand the summer, and do become more pared with the procedure in the These. strikes were aimed at the that the stream should be made to cheerful, tho' at firat at my offical but not close. House of Commons, where mem-maintenance of war-time standards flow uphill doth quite outge me. Am somewhat opinionsstro. bers do not hesitate to move the

of living and in 1021 they cost After hot ten in a tin flaggon such Home and reading of my mail, and rejection of proposals with 86,872,000 working days-that that as I have not drunk these many so very early to bed. which they disagree, Budget de-many days wages for Britain's bates in Hongkong normally are workers. Where these strikes were not only colourless and farcical, lost they were naturally dis- but they are marked by a timidi-heartening to the rank and file. ty on the part of the Unofficials Where they were wan they had which usually leaves the Govern. They probably prevented it from little effect except on industry. ment with no difficulty whatever participating in the post-war boom, is answering the arguments put Therefore, it is maintained, the forward. The fault cannot be subsequent decline of trade union laid wholly at the door of our membership was probably a direct Unofficials; the public, because it result of appreciation of the futility is seldom vocal, must bear its of strikes. share of the blame. Failure of ratepayera to express them the Government.and the rate- selves on the Budget proposals payers, the Unofficial members when they are made known might even themselves convent naturally leaves our Unofficials such a meeting. Until some in some doubt as to the public such innovation is introduced, attitude, with the result that it the public representatives must is largely left to the newspapers of necessity be groping in the to endeavour to reflect or inter-dark: Pending such a move, or, pret the community's reactions. what would be even botter, some In any case, the Unofficial mem-sensible measure of constitu bers of Council are, under the tional reform, the most that existing system of government, ratepayers can do is to utilise | responalble to no-one. If the the columns of the Press for the elective method were in force, purpose of airing their opin there might possibly be greater ions. Failure to make usc

of inducement for Unofficials to this medium will carry, the im- sound their constituents the Budget proposals.

on plication that the public does not The really care.

Civic spirit in the need for a real link between Un- Colony is not strong, but this is officials and the public is obvious. We would suggest as one method general feeling of the hopeless- no doubt in part due to a the convening of a yearly rateness of fighting against the payers' meeting, some time be-present system of government. tween the introduction of the Budget and its second ronding. offered the public to take a real Once some encouragement is which our Unofficiala might at arid lively interest in the

end for the purpo

im between time disappear.

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is a fool and his typewriter.

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EXPENDITURE. Either out- goings or shortcomings.

SURPLUS.--Ecclesiastical · gar-

ment.

DEFICIT Either grave or grey. mattor..

PUBLIC WORKS EXTRA- ORDINARY-Peak Car Park.

TAXATION,-Soe Vexation, SUPPLEMENTARY

Financial elasticity.

VOTE...

PENSIONS.-Bod and Board at

the Seaside.

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LOAN WORKS.-Londing libr.

INTEREST. Sometimes (lage,

EXCESS WATER-Tyüm apato.

PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS Revenue absorbent.

SUSPENSE ACCOUNT.

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i bank account.