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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.

TIN AND RUBBER EL DORADO OF EAST Golden Dreams Come True In Singapore, World's Richest City

THE QUEEN

MARY WILL

BE FASTER

Experts Debate Problem:

Do Big

WHO

Ships

Pay?

Southampton, Jan. 10.

HILE experts were debating the question, DO BIG SHIPS PAY? the 80,774-ton liner, the Queen Mary, which has made maritime history in the last seven months, put in at Southampton to-day for her annual overhaul. It will take six weeks.

One thousand two hundred men and women who have

THEY PAY MEN

FORTUNES FOR

DOING NOTHING

(By A CORRESPONDENT)

Singapore, Jan. 10. THERE are many men here who have been paid sums running into five figures not to work! They are the fortunate owners of unworked tin- lands in British Malaya.

Trade Goes

When the tin restriction scheme, came in operation they applied for licences to produce under the quota agreement. These, entitling` tho owner to produce a given

Up And Up quantity of the metal every year,

THE gross trade of

Malaya for the ten months ended October was £93,144,700, com- pared with £89,006,300 for the corresponding period of 1935,

Imports were £41,652,400, against £40,430,900. Exports were £51,192,300, com- pared with £48,575,400.

There was a favour- able trade balance of £9,839,900, compared with £8,144,500.

MARRIED TWICE TO MAKE SURE

Hollywood, Jan. 10.

are transferable. So when they had them these fortunate fellows sold them at £1 to £3 per picul of tin to mines already working whose output had been reduced.

After that they came down to Singapore to enjoy the proceeds

-and the sunshine.

SEA BIRTH: SEA BURIAL

Plymouth, Dec. 28, ID-OCEAN-drama revealed

MD-O

when Elder Dempster liner "Abosso reached. Plymouth to-

day.

10 Off West Coast of Africa. 808 from German steamer Panther. "Doctor want- ed. Woman about to become mother."

2 p.m.-Abosso nights Panther. Sends doctor and nurse aboard In Webost.

2.20 p.m. The passenger, an

Englishwoman, Mrs. A M

Harries, safe in Abosso's lispl- tal.

4.30.—Baby born.

Midnight-Baby dies; burled д) вед....

Mrs. Harries, completely re- covered,

was later landed al

Freetown.

TOO MANY

BOOKS

SO THE PROFESSOR IS REBUILDING HIS HOUSE

"If you want to find El Dorado, stay right hero," said a rubber planter to me in the Singapore What does a university professor Club. The 6,000 civilian "white" | do with his books when he retires? who inhabit the 220 square miles which is Singapore, with 8,000 more in British Malaya generally,sor Ernest Scott, of Melbourne Uni- are being swept along on a golden versity, who retires from the Chair

wave,

The answer, according to Profes.

of History at the end of this month, Every increase of one farthing as: Enlarge his house and rebuild pound in the price of rubber, at

the rate of production authorised around them. Ile has started to ander the restriction scheme do so.

(450,000 tons for 1936) means He already has 15,000 books nt home, and he has to transfer un- other 3,000 from his study at the University saya Austral News. He has bought them in many different parts of the world.

another £1,110,000 for the rubber estates--and Singapore, To-day British Malaya is producing less rubber than in 1932 and getting millions more for it. In those four years the price per pound has risen from 1d. to more than Dd.

the

AND MORE TO COME

DISEASE-BEARING Morcover, on November 11 "quota" for British Mulaya was

DUST PERIL spent the greater part of their lives at sea, and who played HOLLYWOOD is starting a raised by nearly 15 per cent, If that vogue for "double mar-figure stands, next year's wealth from their part in the Queen Mary's Atlantic blue riband voy-

DOCTOR'S WARNING is going to be on a scale which rubber is ringes.'

would satisfy even a Rockefeller.

The danger of disease-bearing dust age, came ashore for a rest.

Gail Patrick and Robert Cobb.

Similarly, every increase of 21 a

mixing with the smoke partielen in married at Tijuana, México, last ton in the price of tia means £75,540 elty air was discussed recently by Dr. week, will be married again at a year for Malaya, Since tin restric J. S. Owens, Superintendent of Ob- tion came the world price has rocket-servations on Atmospherie Pollution Hollywood church service to-morrowed from £100 7s. Gd. a ton to around in the Department of Scientific and and Brian Donlevy, and Marjorie £240 tiria

year.

Industrial Research, in u lecture to Lane, to wed at Enschada, the Mexi-

Copra, too, the third important the Institution of Mechanical En- return can coastal resort, will

lo

export, is "up" by nearly 300 per gineers in London. Hollywood for a second ceremony on

cent. In four years. New Year's Eve.

Nothing like this was known even In the palmalest of the "good old days." Those golden cargoes which leave the Clapham Junction of the East every day have made it the richest city in the world.

Britain's wonder ship goes into the King George V, graving dock to-morrow morning. Her engines will undergo a thorough overhaul, alterations will be made to her tourist and third-class passenger accommodation, the problem of vibration will be tackled by the crection of stanchions to "stiffen" the ship. Storm rails will be put up to eliminate injury to passengers in bod wenther, and drastic alterations will be made in the engineers' quarters and in the "glory hole" (the home of the liner's 000 stewards).

GREATER

SPEED

Improvements in the ventilation and heating of the Queen Mary are other matters which are to be tackled, and it is expected that the ship will fitted with new pro-

be Over the verandah grill, which is pellers, which should enable her to on the sun deck, special quarters for keep up an average speed of more the engineers will be built (during than thirty knots next season. During the past seven months the Junior the past season her average speed engineers have occupied passenger has fluctuated between twenty-five accommodation because their own and twenty-nine knots. was found unsuitable).

In her fourteen round voyages she has carried 41,000

But passengers, And for the first time In his she has had no luck with the tory, stewards will have rooms weather. Terrific gales have slowed "with" "Tuuning-hot and cold water. her down and caused accidents to- The effect of these changes will passengers and damage to property, be to give more accommodation to, or she has had engine trouble. third and tourist class passengers, Long before the passengers went

The object to make sure of the validity of the Mexican marriage ceremony in the United States, and it is believed that the precaution will be widely adopted, since there are several cases of Mexican marriages which are said to have taken place before the completion of Californian divorce processes. Similarly, Call- fornian marriages have taken place between

Publle expenditure on the Straits Settlements (of which Singapore is the most important part) is down by 25 per cent, since 1931; revenue is buoyant; the colony has no public people whose previous debt of its own. Mexican marriages had not yet been legally set aside.

SHOPKEEPER'S 1100,000

Fashore from the Queen Mary to-day! The xternal trade of British workmen went aboard, spent hours Maloya as a whole per head equals fixing up scaffolding and stripping that of the United Kingdom-this parts of the engine room.

in a country where there are only 14,000 civilian Europeans.

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"It seems probable that the in- difference to the presence in the alr of harmful dust has been caused,” he said, "by its invisibility under ordinary circumstances, and its fai- Iure to affect any other sense, such as that of smell,”

The was also the fact that in the elties the air was so heavily laden with amoke particles that the addi- tion of more dangerous disease-bear- ing particles would not be apparent. In cinemas, for example, the beam from the projector often looked almost solid with floating impurity, and anyone observing this would naturally conclude that an addition or removal of a little dust would make no difference.

Last week a Chinese shopkeeper

Malaya wrote a cheque for This is where the, danger lies," 850,000 Stralis dollars (£100,000) | he said, "and it appears to take years to pay for some Investments. As for the fact to become recognised. he was known to have been earn-

ing sixty dollars (about £6) a month four years ago, the firm re- ceiving the cheque asked the bank whether the security was good. "Perfectly good," was the answer. "He could wrlie a cheque for three times that sum without worrying us." Nor is this an isolated instance.

In 1931, in the clubs which are a feature of life in British Malaya, they were playing poker with is. "chips.

To-day the lowest value of i in "chip" is 25s. Often it is the

equivalent of £12,

Chinese owning small

tin-mines

"The country is full of tubercular people, and their habits are not al- ways very cleanly; their clothes are probably full of infected dust. Is it any wonder when they come into a theatre or concert hall, flapping their clothes about, the the air is filled with a dangerous form of dust?"

AN EPIDEMIC OF LIVER

DISORDER

By Dr. Quignon of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris

worked by the family-the equivalent of tenant-farmers In Britain-orc enjoying Incomes estimated to aver- age £2,500 a month.

long WIII

all this last? As long as rubber trees produce rubber an epidemic of "liver" disorders-A Just now I am kept very busy by and the valleys of Malaya harbour

Hour

an ounce of precious tin-ore.

great many people feeling "out of As long as the Union Jack flying sorts," bilious, depressed and unable over Government House at Singapore to enjoy their food. Undoubtedly guarantees law,

order and wise the best remedy for an upset liver is government in the interests of the provided by thirty races which make up the

certain famous Con- polyglot population of this Paradise.

tinental Mineral Springs, but science has now made it possible for a liver sufferers to enjoy in their homes all

Inventor As Aladdin Of The Flashlamp

the

benefits of Continental Spa treatment, at little cost. By repro ducing in crystalline form the essen tial, principles of seven world renowned Spas, including those at Vichy, Carlsbad, Aix-les-Bains and on Marienbad, 'Alkia Sultrates' provides American Inventor, claims to what is probably the finest liver tonle have discovered a method by which and corrective known. It is obtain- exhausted flashlight batteries can be recharged at negligible cost. The able from ull high class Dispensaries Invention is being studied by a firm and Stores.

MR.

New York, Jan, 10.- WILLIAM SKINNER,

in Miami, Florida.

To men and women who-uro feel-

It was demonstrated to the Miami ing Hverish and out of sorts, and to police authorities recently and they those who are suffering from Rheu- it la stated, were satisfied by his

matiani, Lumbago, Kidney trouble

claim.

He chose the police department for and High Blood Pressure, I can the tests because they use a large recommend Afkia Saltrates with number of batteries and the annual confidence and I advise them to start cost to the clly is considerable,

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori

MASSAGE.

The demonstration,

the treatment without delay. saliafied the police that batterles 8111 capable of giving a dim light could be recharged to: double their original strength and one fully exhausted could be restored to original strength. Mr. Skinner would not divulge publicly the details of his method.

The Miami firm who are interest- ed in the invention say that nego- tiations are pending for the English | rights.

Acupuncture, Moxocauals and Bone Betting, folder of Japanese and lianghong Govern mans Licens. Curse Sprained Ankle, and Write, Recomtsended for many. Fears by Local Hospital and Doctor.

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