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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1987.

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RUSSELL. Suddenly at the French Hospital yesterday at 6 p.m. Mrs. J. Russell. The funeral will pass the Monument at 5.39 p.m. to-day.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1037,

HIGH COST OF BUILDING

Increased building costs, we

See

Britain

and

MARVEL!

A

PROMINENT statesman has just attacked the Government for failure to take the land of Britain seriously as a produc- tive factor in time of peace or war.

•

He was right to do so. The neg lect of Britain's countryside is, as you might expect, the ablding mar. vel of the age to me. We make things just about as uncomfortablo as can be for the people who ellher must or want to live or work there. We possess the finest lump of farmable land for any country of its size in the world, and, strange as it may seem, have the most suitable climate for almost any kind of farming, with the possible exception of wheat and sugar beet.

Our farmers may be at fault, but that is a long way from being the true reason for the neglect. Most of us would behave much as they do, were we in their place, as things are.

Good Times and Bad

The villagers may be behind the times, but areas closely dependent on a chronically depressed indus- try such as agriculture has been through good times and bad, bar the

war, cannot afford many extravagances.

And street and domestic light- Sewers extravagances. ing are and side-walks are others. And so are schools, when a whole county the size of Norfolk, excluding Norwich, does not possess above

observe, are causing copsiderable A WOMAN OPENS

three factories employing more than a hundred persons.

These things cannot be afforded by any area where 32s. a week sets the standard for purchasing power or rateable values.

Just why this all comes about is a bit of an enigma. But it is true that the average man and woman in this island nourish a contempt for farming as an industry and are blissfully indifferent to the spread of rural civilisation.

Yet none of the resources this country BOSSC5523 and controls could be more responsive to good management; or made more pro- ductive, than its land.

One Theory--

Nor could the civilising agencies now at our command be utilised to a more effective extent than on our countryside. Many people have

HER HEART TO TELL YOU--

"Villagers may be behind the times, but the reason for land neplect does not Ite with the farmer."

an idea

that if we produced more of our own milk and ment at home, it would mean such a cutting down of our purchases of food abroad that. we should the sterile be contributors to creed of economic nationalism. -Which is Wrong

Stuk and nonsense, when on every hand people are short of shirts and suits, the cotton and wool for which we could never cultivate, when the vast multitude of artisan homes have yet to be properly equipped with electric de- vices which could case them of their drudgery, an easement al- most solely conditioned by our ability to acquire copper and rub- ber, every pound of which must be Imported.

The time will come, sooner or Inter, when this country will and that if it wants the man in the street as well as the plutocrat to have his motor car. It will be dono by producing more of our own meat so that we can buy more of somebody else's rubber or metals. A rising standard of living in

this country to which nearly every sort of politician is coinmitted, and especially the Labour Party, will involve our, having, the ability to buy abroad much larger quantities of industrial raw materials we can neither grow nor mine on these :slands.

And the standard of lifɑ will rise, excluding a Great Waf, maybe to an ever greater: extent, in other countries at the' sama time. ́And how shall we afford the additional Importa?

plus

Whether or not this country will be able by the export or sur- manufactured goods and surplus investment capital, coupled with commercial services and ship- ping, to afford the additional com- modities higher social and econo- mic standards would requires in in doubt.

Rearmament Zest

For one thing. we are hardly likely to lend as much money abroad as was done during the last century, Possibly, perhaps even likely, the present zest for re-, armament has seized the capital- owning classes for no better reason than that neither New Zealand. nor Argentina or such old-time investing grounds, want more of their money.

Well, one way to pay for com- modities we cannot grow or mine, Buch as rice and rubber. copper and tin and practically every other vital mineral, would be to produce from our dwn soil another £103,000,000 worth of foodstuns a year and use the money we save by curtailment of food purchases abroad, in the increased buying of essential Industrial raw materials. All that would happen is that the character of our purchases would change and the source of supply, not the total volume of our Import trade or the scale of our overseas spending.

And we should have reinvigor- nted our own countryside, brought about a sharp rise in its standard of living and utilised a basic re- source that is second to none in any other cornor of the world, taken as a whole, and for its area.

No Argument

All this is no argument for sub- sidies, but for standard prices. And the only way to deal with additional supplies of home-pro- duced food that' standard prices would bring along would be social- ised methods of food distribution.

The State would be obliged to make itself responsible for dispos- Ing of the Inevitable so-called sur- pluses. The hungry would at last bo led.

In 35 Years I've

learned

comment at Home, the more so since one of the effects is to cause some curtailment of the programmes for re-housing the poorer classes. Municipal ac- tivity and private enterprise arc alike being affected, and there would appear to be in existence a partial boycott of contractors, in the hope that this will result in the cheapening of materials. There is a widespread belief that prices have been raised further than the circumstances warrant; they are certainly much above those prevailing some few years ago. Despite the many neres of new.flats, bungalows and other residences which have come into being, especially in the suburbs of large towns, suturation-point still seems far ahead. This is one of the factors which is be- lieved to have caused the higher building costs, as contractors, noting the continued demand, are in a mood to maintain pre- sent prices, if not, indeed, to in-N those few words, sung, and play- crease them. Wages, it would on the stage, on the nir, on the gramo

those who homes.

have

two

I want to be happy, But I can't be happy Till I've made you happy, too,

ed hundreds of thousands of times

phone, Hes the secret of life.

never

We all want to be happy, and we until we ever achieve happiness make others happy too.

in

just

things

-THAT

REALLY

MATTER

I

unpunctuality, forgetfulness and dis- Now I renilse regard of convention. that I should have insisted on his fac ing up to the larger responsibilities of married life, while coaxing him cleverly out of his lesser fallings.

OURS

URS is what the world calls. a happy marriage: our love

Being a woman, my interests are is strong and lasting, but although focused on three points: marriage, I'm supposed to be a wonderful wife I haven't been clever enough to bring

motherhoud and men.

The last word bas a scandalous put the best in my husband. There-- flavour a married woman, mother fore I have done him injustice and of a young family, frankly confessing fafled in the supreme test of wife-

hood. her interest in men!

"My husband's attitude to me is per-

men

more

showr

would

Why not be frank?

that Roughly, the first third of every ectly summed up in his way of giv

ing me scem, are not the principal cause

presents. He thinks women's life is spent in equipping nothing is too good, or even good in the upward trend; the sugges-

herself to attract a man; the remain-enough for me, and when he wants tion is that too high a profit is

ing two-thirds of her life are spent to give me something extra speelal That is one of the two fundamental

In keeping that man away from the such as a new radio set, a wrist being made on materials. What-

facts

chaif, or of life I have discovered

clutches of other women.

watch, a desk and matching ever the explanation, the fact thirty-five years: the other has been

a fur coat, he calmly borrows the de- building put into words by the late Sir James I can stay alone at night in my lone- high remains that

LIKE and admire my own!posit from my housekeeping allow- ly house: I have learned to swim, Barrie. "Courage is the thing. All

and forced myself to go in an nir-

sex, too, and have a deep once, presents the gift with a magni- prices add to the cost of living, goes if courage goes."

I confess with shame that I am a plane. Humbly, and not boastfully, and fender sympathy with women, fleent flourish-and leaves me to pay, both to those who are able to buy their own property and to born coward. I fear, or used to feur. I can say that such physical pain as who, in my opinion, have to bear an off the hire-purchase instalments!.

MINOR Incident to rent their everything and everybody, school.'ve had to bear I've been able to unfair share of life's burdens.

Nevertheless I and fire, air, water, pain, burglars, school-dure cheerfully without a moan.

A

that I am at last acquiring This question of build-teachers, other people's opinion, my found from experience that doctors stimulating and amusing than women,

men between fifty and a sense of proportion about small. and nurses like uncomplaining pa- espectully servants and my husband. ing prices is one of distinct

Some of these physical fears I have tients, and are more eager to serve sixty, who are more appreciative and unimportant things. When I was who try to conceal their considerate than young men between making out the laundry list this week interest to Hongkong. Despite been able to overcome by will power. those

sufferings. And, of course, it's very twenty and forty. That, of course, is I found I had been using a bath towel the fact that labour is cheap in

pleasant to be told you're a heroine because I myself no longer interest returned by the laundry which didn't belong to me. Five years, three years and the ideal patient.

men under fifty. no lack of this Colony, with

poorer classes are to be re-

And the men I ilke don't worry too ago, my housewifely pride basic materials, construction housed, it will be essential that DUT it's lock of moral much about women's looks and have been outraged: I should have

Bu

In

to tracic trying costs are undoubtedly high. The they are able to find quarters

courage which undermines clothes: it's character and disposition exhausted myself consequence is that rents are carrying rentals which they are my life. Even now, at my age, half- that count with them. They want down my own towel. To-day I think high, too, as the owner has a able to pay.. There is a further way through my three score years sympathy, understanding, tolerance, one towel is as good as another, and cannot say to anybody, I good nature: these things outweigh I'm only too thankful for time and right to expect a fair return on point deserving of mention, employ: "You are lazy and ineficient plucked eyebrows, painted lips and towel wherewith to enjoy a bath, his capital. More than once, it More and more Europeans ute and not worth the money I pay. Unvarnished clawa

Marriage I have found a fascinat- IN the early years of my ing problem. has been suggested that there making this Colony their home, less you improve you must go."

I was brought up to

motherhood I almost suf- Rather than reprove a servant I exists in this Colony a contrac-but the great majority of them!

and that the household should re- protect them from danger. I even tors' "ring which operates for find it quite impossible to build submit to slovenly, grudging service believe that men were super-beings facated my children in my anxiety to until it becomes intolerable: then, the specific purpose of keeping their own houses. It is one of feeling ili and terrified, dismiss the velve round the husband. My ear-used to pray that every pain destined mysteries why, offender. I have never been able to list idea of God was of masculine for them should be diverted to me so

Siguro costs as high as possible, both Hongkong's

resembling my father, en- that I might suffer for them. Now

our kitchen armchair, know that it is my duty not to stand in regard to public works and with cheap labour, it should cost understand women who enjoy giving and private undertakings. The point anywhere from $20,000 to $50,- servants a piece of their mind; to me wearing a bowler bat and a deep stiff between them and life, but to teach

seems a disgusting entertainment,

collar. is one which is well worthy of 900 to build a residence which but all the same I know that I ought

I made the fatal error of

My greatest happiness has been in showing my

husband that I was mothering my children: my biggest charged with investigating the in many parts of England. The without getting in a panle.

And then again with letters. How grateful to him for deigning to

thrill confessing housing problem-that is, if the whole question of building costs committee is still in existence, locally needs thorough investiga- dread opening a letter from the such an unworthy creature as myself, my husband, when my love for bank marked Private. Sometimes At the same time I shouldered too round his neck and wild, "Oh, my

dear, I love you so, I love you so!"

and ten,

them

consideratlon by the committee could be erected at half that cost to be able to administer just reproof bringing 10 this mistake in my UD- and low to go out into the world

Obviously, in any slum clearancetion, for it is indisputable that when I receivá such a letter at night many of the burdens which he pose that if I were to dis now, plan the cost of alternative ac-a lowering of the scale would I haven't the pluck to open it: I leave the man of the house, the head of the halfway to three-score and ten, the

less humble I could not conceal my of me is, "She meant well."

commodation will be a big fac-conduce to the general well-t on my desk, hoping that I shall family, should have undertaken alone,

have more splet in the morning, or As the years passed and I became best and the worst that 'could be sold. tor, since rents will be based being and happiness of the com- preferably that my husband will see

the munity.

it and break the news gently. If, therefore,

contempt for his small faults such as that's not good enough.

thereon.

But

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