1934-11-19 — Page 6

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER · 19,

1934.

HERE'S HEALTH!

IN A

WHITBREAD

at a natural

WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE

vacuum

-“VAUXHALL"

NOTES OF THE DAY

BIG-SIX BIRMINGHAM'S CENTENARY

Can now be seen and tried ! €325

controlled

year

THE

LOOKING AHEAD OF BRITAIN'S FARMER

By J. L. HODSON

The Very Idea!"

OFFICE PROSPECTING

tarlo city harks back to 1834, when T countryside-are we hosting atience can give the comma shank excitedly,

not yot in-

grown

Synchro-Mesh easy gear change, by a self-elected body of Street probable unless something unfore-Again the four-crop rotation that

seen arloes. He believen we shall

lever english Red to be thought sa rigid as the Glittering nuggets of pureat gold!'

indicators

GARAGE SHOWROOM

tho in

It would be too bad getting hundred million chopped dollari gold.

Three great cities of the British Empire, Toronto in Canada, Mol-

By George bourne in Australia, and Birming- ham in England. are thin

"Say chaps," said Cruik- celebrating centenaries. Tho' On

future of our community

"What

the little town of York, with a towards

this Cocos Island more mechanisation? for. We can, as it were, all a great about The NEW

treasure? Why don't wve Ho showed to me CX- VAUXHALL SALOONation of 10,000 souls was How many more than its present store and leave you to pick and

erected into the city of Toronto. million and a quarter will the land choose." Melbourne dates its beginning to maintain? Is there a futurs for amples of ripe mazie grown not do something about it?" 27 H.P.

The typewriters continued to the hat built one hundred years the unemployed there? What is far away for the first time this Call us up for a

ago on the banks of the Yarra science doing?

year. "Thirty years ago you would click to the sordid tune of the demonstration

Yarra River by John Batman.

We, being the only union man you're a big motorist-Birmingham celebrated on October

present, were hot particularly: At the Lunch Table, Whitbread's Pale Ale's brilliant amber

if you enjoy the feel of a the opening of the Dowcipher These questions were in my mind in England. Could not be a daily task and common grind

"Plants have been developed of busy and we found time to flick an clearness, delicate flavour and refreshing tone make it sa

powerful engine purring under the beautiful classical edifice that Research Station to talk with Sir soya bean, too. It sharpens the appetite and alds--the.

the bonnet--if you like the has been the rallying contre of the John Russell, D.Sc., F.R.S., the

bofore enquiring the universal favourite.

luxury of a big, roomy saloonelty's life during the past one director, who is also president on shorter period of growth and our apple coro at a hardworking proof digestion. It can be served off the ice or

hundred years. A century nga the International Association new English climate can now produce reader this is your car. At £325 this Birmingham was but an immense engaged in mapping the soils of them. What took..say, five months amount of the treasure.

now needs only four. The same "One hundred million dollars," temperature.

new 27 hip. Vauxhall Big Six is overgrown village"--to quote the the world.

of thing is true of New replied Cruikshank. Hort remarkable value-for-money. It present Lord Mayor, Alderman

Sir John, like nii scientists, inZealand flax and other bros. Snurd.paused on a back space to is an all-feature car, with entirely It. E. Goodby-was

query. "Hongkong m automatic chassis lubrication, corporated, had no Town Counell chary of prediction, but he was Scientists have improved drought hou

ignition, until 1838 and was administered ready to speak of the reasonably isistance and disease resistance. Singapore dollára?"

"Gold dollars, mani Rod gold strong WDB Commissionern. So

laws of the Medes and Persians enckled Cruikshanks, Pedomatic starting, self-return-

and the publle spirit, however, that the Bee a resurgence

countryside,

with an improved

has been changed. Knowledge of ing direction

"No good," remarked Snur magnificent Town Hall was built, position for the 200 to 300 nere sol deficiencies, manures, feeding Vauxhall No-Draught Ventila

and the people came into posses farmer; an increase in the number stuffs has opened the possibility of thrashing his machine vigorously tion. And it is a product of a

alun for the first time of a building famous factory that has been fitted to be the centre for civic small farms of 50 to 150 acres larger yielda more cheaply and Snurd, we should say, distrusts at building outstanding motor cars unity and, an impressive witness intensively farmed by the whole less liable to peats." (Later in the hut local currency. Hongkons family, more (but restricted) day Sir John showed me a field dollars being the only bad coin h for the past thirty years.

to elvic ident It was an epochal demonstration of a public-spirited. mechanisation in certain areas. that has produced whent every year knows which can be passed. HONGKONG HOTEL

news on the part of the citizens more smallholdings and a greater since 1843-a world's record.)

readiness on the part of the that brought their city rapidly to countryman to remnin the front. By 1851 the powers country.

"But all this makes planned

"Do you know where Lh Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Road. previously held by eight separate

bodies were centralized in the To begin with Sir John sets economy more and more argent. Town Council. In 1889 the town great store by the cultivation by At present we produce 40 per cent. treasure is?" asked Abigail in th was raise to the rank of a clty, village schools of their own of our food. It would be quite act of demolishing

"Of course not. Why do yo Continual expansion as an indus-gardens, and the growing use byeney to raise that proportion to fashion. trial centre brought the population teachers of their surroundings and 50 per cent,, 60 per cent, or even ap from a little more than 180,000 of "the daily miracles around more. How for souls in 1841, to well over a million them." "The children," said Sir go?"

I asked him whether he foresees could go and lay their hands on it in 1934, giving it, second place in John, "are, learning about cultiya-

more intensive mechanisation, it's the fun of searching that get the Kingdóni.

tion and fertilisers and their

A form that people." poultry clubs are teaching them Already there is

At these appalling words seve ideas on co-operation that are go formerly employed 40 men and a ing to he of immense value. large company of horses which now typewriters rushed into action an Education is being linked up with employs only four men who drive it was sometime before Cruikshan

ject of "fun." Birmingham has been credited practical affairs-geography with tractors and the community keeps could iguin be heard on the su Finally he secured our car ar There are so many conflicting with being the best governed city the neighbourhood's gilmate and roj most of the 36 in idleness. reports in circulation regarding in the world. This high reputa-on.

Sir John said: "Almost certainly asked how much we were prepare the industrial situation in Geron, according to a writer in the

there will be a development of to sink into the venturo.

We assured him we didn't Inter anany that it is interesting to London Times, Is due to "a prin-

"Young farmera of to-day are muchanisation, but I believe It will turn to frets and figures disciple and tradition of civic service far different from 20 or 30 years be restricted to regions such as to sink anything but were willi elosed in the review of German -the ideal and, the rule that the

can not endangered. economic development during the more the city does for the citizen can talk now about phos. Lincoln Heath and the wide South to lend, capital of $3.66 if it w

phates and proteins and often Downs where big machines

Snurd offered to put $5 into t first half of the current year, the more the citizen ought to do enough be asked questions I can't wander at will. Cereals and cer-

answer, There is a real love of tain types of animal husbandry are venture If Cruikshank would le recently published by the Reichs for the elty." This public-spirited-

the as it was in

money temporari леня, inherent

countryside developing in suitable. One may visualise the him Kredit-Gesellschaft. This shows

developed by people, was

very large farm nn Cruikshank necordingly borrow fine part due to their ability to take time when on that not only has there been a leadership. Foremost in this res-motor-buses into towns and learn aeroplane might be used by the our 88.66, put a dollar to it hims marked expansion in internal pect stands Joseph Chamberlain, how unsatisfying the towns can be, farmer, who would direct oporn-falso on account) and by colle trade, but à decided decrease in who went to Birmingham. As a Better amenities village in-tions by wireless telephone. ing all the copper coins in t neighbourhood brought the ta junemployment. Measures taken young

18, and retired stitutes, wirolean (I think there

al- "The rotary principio has

up to $5. for the creation of work, intro- twenty years later to devote him- will be an extension of sultable

That was the Inst we saw duced last autumn, have led to a self to civic and political affaire wireless lectures for countrymen)ready been applied to some extent

to our farm machinery, linking up Cruikshank that day and fr continuous rise in the level of until his death in 1914. le standa better libraries--all

and speeding up processes: also delicacy on our part and cauti out as Birmingham's great citizen, helping. employment, instead of a season-So completely did he give himself

we have fixed rubber tyres to on Snurd's part, no reference w tractors. The fault of the made to the treasure island co

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A

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, NOV. 19, 1934.

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visited this summer.

Continued on Page 5.)

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DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Juliet Lowell. Full House

al shrinkage. The improvement to his city and the city respond. "I see farmers' daughters read-jour under this heading continued atto his spirit of service that in an ing books you and I would be happy mechanised farm is that it depends pany's progress for a week. Th increased rate in the unparalleled way the пате of to be seen with. Often the girls usually on one product-it is too we ventured to put the questio spring of this year that there was eltizen and city are inseparably are better educated now than the closely linked with price and de- and were told that lack of capi

a crop fails and rain was holding the scheme up. a reabsorption of some four joined as "Chamberlain of Bir-boys. There's a revival, too, of mand:

We have follows,

"You see Snurd owen you $3 million workers between January mingham." During his mayoralty love of eraftsmanship.

and me $1.35, and as the compan gides making many administrative the fourth generation.",

"In Canada, for example, one capital-so-far-in-only $5, and development, coupled with

-improvements, carried out three fact that wage costs have re-great designs. In taking over the

Sir John took me to ace some cent up or down may make enor can't increase it until Sourd p difference. When I Wag I am holding on to the $6 a mained unchanged, has resulted supplying of gas he established a wrought-iron gates a smith has mous

sort of security so that I do in a relative decrease in

the gas

department which is the madebeautiful pieces of solid but there recently

If you d burden of overhead costs. A de- largest

gas undertaking in the artistle work from which architects was penetrating even into the suffer a dead logs.

have been glad to learn. "At one mechanised territory. Russia, too, want to go on with the sche tailed examination of the indices world. Birmingham's water-pipe

fund the $5 less the $1.35 i puj of production, however, shows service in 1870 operated only three time," he said, "I had to lecture on has found that many of her farms Snurd can pay us and I will that the increased activity has times a week, half the population market days in a public-house toare too large.

men who were tired-that was the; "I think in this country we shall and the $3.66 you pald......

Now Snurd and I are prosp been largely due to expansion in depended for its drinking water only time I could catch them, always have the smallholding pro-

surface-wells-often tainted by

our own--for a way the capital goods industries, re- sewage and from perambitlating. Nowadays they fill a hall and ducing for life and selling only the in sulting from a public investment carts. From the pellucid springs they'll listen and question as long surplus--they can meet these eco getting even with Cruikshank, policy, which took the form of of the Welsh mountains seventy as I can stop. official subsidies and interest miles away pure water was brought opinion of the growing generation. to settle the unemployed on the allowances granted in connection by aqueduct into a hundred thou-And they are settling down in the land it must be lone in that sort with building operations: in sand homes. Festering sluma in country.". addition

to which there have the heart of the town were abolish-

Turning to the technical side, he been large outlays for publled. The death rate fell rapidly

"There is no doubt that works, such as road construction decreased. The housing scheme

your after year and general disense said: and other undertakings. .Coming was framed so that Birmingham, to Germany's foreign trade, it is when the lenses expire about seen that whilst imports show twenty years hence, will be one of an incrense, exports have fallen the richest municipalities in the away, with the result that the Kingdom. favourable balance of 317 million marks for the period January to July, 1933, has been replaced by adverse balance of 258 million marks in the same months of this in meeting industrial needs -as year. British banking comment well as requirements of enjoyment, on the situation is that whilst it health and well-being, Birmingham must be admitted that, in so far has been true to its coat of arms, on which are figured industry side as the German trade position has by side with art and literature. been affected by competition Its canal system connects with from countries with depreciated London, Bristol. Hull and Liver- currencies and by the multiplica-pool, and its Municipal Bank has tion of trade barriers in various 2,000,000 transactions yearly. It parts of the world, the deteriora- also has a Shakespearian collection tion in the foreign exchange of 23,000 volumes in fifty lungu- situation

has resulted from ages; art gallery, museum, college forces outside the country's own and cathedral. The Town Hall was built largely to accommodate control. On the other hand, the the famous triennial musical festi- influence of the measures taken vals. Mendelssohn himself pro-i to improve the internal position,duced his "Elijah" in Birmingham, through large expenditures on and here was brought to birth in public and other works for the 1859 the Hospital Sunday Fund. creation of employment, is a Great names are associated with factor for which Germany is this great city. There John Bright herself responsible. To some ex-ived in futur years. Its greatest literary name is Cardinal Nowman, tent, it would seem, says a bank-who resided at the Oratory for ing authority, that the Reich has forty years. The centenary has endeavoured to pursue two.con- just beon colebrated of John Henry tradictory policies. In the pre- Shorthouse, author of "Jonn In- vailing circumstances, the main-glenant." Bishop Charles Gore, tenance of the international value first Bishop of Birmingham; Dr. R. W. Dale, Non-conformist of the reichsmark necessitated a reduction in internal prices if her preacher, and James Watt, the engineer, were among its citizens. competitive power was not to be So also were Joseph Priestly, who reduced, but actually the steps discovered oxygen; John Drink- taken to expand internal produc-water, poet and playwright, and tlon-have caused a rise in the Priestley Smith, father of eye price level.

surgery.

"We'll have to atop asking the boss over. He, stays half the night and then bawls me out if I get to work one minute late

the next morning.”

10.22

We had to wander about the b

•

Postal Card

Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, New York City.

Dear Ma:

Arrived here in

Atlantic

safe and sound laat night by didn't enjoy ourselves so far. the picture houses were full, had to wander about the ben

Love,

Disi (BI

Job Please.

January 5th, 19

Mayor John Puray Mitchel

City Hall, New York

My dear Mayor!

Just read of the der

a city maglitrate. Have yo

objections to my being put place?

T. Cassidy

(signed)

City