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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPIL.. THURSDAY,

OCTOBER 11, 1934.

İNCOURAGING

INVENTORS

REDUCED INCOME TAX URGED

LLOWING KAISER'S

EXAMPLE

What is wanted to stimulate istry at present in this country tilo of the spirit which per- ted Germany in pre-war days, n, under the personal stimula

of the Kniger, inventors were ouraged to the utinoal,"

o declared Professor Sir James Tenderson in his address to the gineering Section of the British ociation at Aberdeen recently, The spirit seems to be reviving Germany now, as I met a Ger- n a few months ago who had he here to sell the British rights a dozen German Inventions of Terent types," he continued.

Every invention Introduced re from abroad means a lonk to i s country of the capital repre fting foreign rights, and l- ough it is advisable in the terests of employment to Intro- ce all new inventions of merit, is highly desirable to give pres rence to our ow

inventors.

hey have always been leaders in vention, and I feel that it only eds about half the stimulus hich has been given to research be given to the development of ventions to ensure a consider. ble aceleration in economic

ecovery.

"One possible method of achiev ng the desired result would be for the State to agree to forgo ncome-tax upon the expenditure apon all seientific research and development up to the commercial tage.

be

by

"Such an action would nest gratifying recogaltio the Government of the part which inventors have played in establish- ing our industries, It would move many of the anomales which exisi at present, and it would have a very stimulating effect upon the Introduction of new Industries."

INEVITABLE PROCESS.

Every second counts in spreading canvak, Here is the Rainbow's professional craw working to hoist the giant mainail.

BETTER BEVERAGE

THAN TEA

South America's Refreshment

NOW KNOWN IN

EUROPE

A description of a South Amer-

of

Sir James said that a moments ivan beverage known us perba mate WAM given to the Anthropology rellection on the part of anyone

lay Captain T. A. Joyce,¦ conversant with industrial history | Section would show that mass production Deguty Keeper, Department was not the sudden and rurales Ethnography. British Museum, in

recent years, Creation of

trut

his presidential address. simply the inevitable outcome of u

He and that the infusion was thousand and one inventions of

procured from the leaves and shouts the last century- result which admittedly was hastened by war, of the New paraguayennis, a shrub but

would which

have been achieved within a comparatively indigenous to Paraguny short time even if there had been Southern Brazil.

fnf drying, alded by fire, hot water no war at all.

"Engineers," said Sir James, was poured on the broken ur pow. "will agree that there are man dered lenf, and the infusion was potential new industries lying

imbibed through a tube of silver dormant in the Patents Ofice divided into 146 of native lamba. différent classes. Can nothing bet

records

DI

our

and

After a process.

From the centre of its right it

done to stimulate the development ispread rapidly, like all valuable food of some of these?"

ilo added:-"I

pluels, to Argentina, Chile, and have every Pern, and, especially since the war, sympathy with research and pro- when many South American contin paganda in its favour, but it does gents were engaged it had become tu be sufficiently up- more familiar in Eorape than fur- preciated that the research of tu merly.

not seem

The particular virtue of

the i

day is Inoking after the industry of ten or more years hence, where- as the propaganda of economic drink was that it contained little or recovery lies more in the develop no taunin, combined favourably ment of inventions lying dormant with a ment diet, and could be re- peatedly refreshed by hol, water In our Patent Offee records.

In "It la easy to be wise after the without deleterious effects. event, but think for a moment of South America, especially amongst the enormous difference it would the timecho class, it used to take the have made to the cotton industry place of fruit and vegetables, for antiscorbutic of con- If uncreasable Obre had been was no developed and ready for the mar-siderable value. Mixed with cold ket in 1919. This new industry water it provided a very refreshing is only now in its infangs. What beverage, but the normal method of will it he twenty-five years hence taking the drink was in the hot in- fusion. When lukewarm it was resi

INVENTIONS IN DEMAND, kurded as a violent aperient. "It is generally thought," he

** added, "thut industries are on the Two appliances were sed, the or silver cup in Juokout for new inventions, but wate, a potrd

the type of invention which chiefly which the decoction was prepared, intercals them is one which will and a tube, the bombilla, through reduce their working costs and whieh the infusion was drunk. which generally lead to increased The word for the receptacle (male) unemployment. This has been al became transferred to the leaf and most the only type of invention for the drink; both were now generally which there has been a demand known under that name, especially .since the war. Industry Is in Europe,

essentially a commereal concern, CARDIAC AND NUTRITIVE. and its leaders. ure commercial men interested in their dividends It might be concluded that the and in eonserving their capital,netion of the infusion would be that except in so far as it can increase of a cardiac and a nutritive, while their output.

the relatively small proportion of "Assumlug a capitalist desires tannin would render

to become a promoter of inven-digestible than ten. tions, and has no technical know-

ledge to guide him, how is he to

of

it more

To leave aside for the moment

in the question of the actual discovery. the "ten"

decide out of thousands ventions which he ls to select? In of the properties of yerba mate, the the past the link of inventor and initial exploitation of promotor has been left to chance, was undoubtedly due to the Fesult Is it not possible to organise this missionaries. On the expulsion of connection for the good of the the Jesuits, their mission houser Industry of the country so as to and lands became Crown property, stimulate employment tu the maximum?

"Already taken in this direction. Tho Council of the Institution of However, the Handbook of Para- Mechanical Engineers has recent-quay (1894) stated that the Jesuit ly appointed a committee to act attempts were so sucedasful that | as the link to introduce ita meni- at Santiago (Paraguay) there once bers who are inventors to pro-existed a grove of 20,000 trees. moters with capital. Such a link On the explusion of the Jesuits would be very useful, not only for these plantations disappeared, and the purpose of introduction, but only in recent years had successful | also to act as arbitrators in any verbutes been established in the disputes, which might arise during Misiones territory of North-East- the development.“

ern Argentina.

and the mate industry had become 80 prosperous that, in 1807, the one step has been profits derived from it were reckon.

ed, at £100,000 annually.

STEP AGAINST

JAPAN

NO INTIMIDATION TOLERATED

D.E.I. ACTION

Amsterdam, art. 10. Holland has taken strong mea- sures to suppress any intimidation by Japanese in daya.

The Authorities have

raptais to take him back to Japan. Holland claimed that the Japan- While reports from Batavia in-ese were undercutting freight diente' that trade relations he-prices and setting up unfair com- tween the twn countries have im-petition. It is now generally.ex-| proved, this condition of affairs pected that Japan will co-operate | was only brought about by sharp in altering this situation. netion on the part of the Dutch.

Trouble was caused by the for-) mation by Inpanese merchants ading in the Dutch possessions, of a "Pottery Association." which aimed at looting the market with Japanese pottery, so that the im- porters could demand larger

brete

La

FEAR PENETRATION.,

Holland has long liven appre-

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ensive of Japanese "peaceful the Dutch East penetration" in Andies. The islands have a native population of fifty million with aly a handful of Hollanders to govern them, making it particular- y easy for foreign encroachment. Immediately this became known. The Dutch part of New Guinea Is the Netherlands Indies "Govern- so vulnerable in this respect, that deported ment instituted a quota system for Holland has been strenuously

Japanese pluna ja Japanese journalist for writing Japanese pottery. The imposition opposing

allegedly Insulting articles in of the quota was followed by arrange for large settlements of Dutch East Indies papers, and alienant protests from the Japan-its nationals in that part of the temporary quota was placed on theese, but the outcome was that the Indles. imports of Japanese pottery, until assuciation was so completely die-

The recent announcement that the Japanese importers disbanded solved that it removed all danger the Standard Oil and Dutch Sheil their combine,

to the Dutch trade policy in the

Companies have decided to parti- "Taki, the journalist, did not take | East Indies,

cipate in the exploitation of the his explusion pencrably. He went on a hunger strike. In Sourabaya, į In trade discussions between the petroleum fields there, has tended and persuaded the captain of two guvernments, the Dutch per- to give the Dutch an easier feeling Japanese ship to refuse to carry sunded the Japanese to include the regarding their Eastern him. The authorities forced the all-important shipping problem. Įsions.--United Press,

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