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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1987.

Government Food Inquiry

Housewives To Be

To Be Paid For Filling

OFFICIAL CHECK

ON RISING COST OF LIVING

TH

B, H. W. SEAMAN

HIRTY THOUSAND British housewivos are about to receive 30,000. half-crowns for fil- ling up a form.

Mr. Ernest Brown, the Minister of Labour, is going to ask them some exceedingly personal ques- tions of a sort never asked before.

It is part of a nation-wide inquiry into the rising cost of living.

The so-called "cost-of-living index," on which many of the Government's calculations are based, is notoriously out of date. It is compiled from market prices and reports of ether Govern- munt Departments.

To get at the truth about how the people of Britain live the Minister of Labour is going to the people themselves. The half- crowns are for their trouble.

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Ho will ask them how much they and their families spend

on eating, drinking, smoking, rent, amusements, lighting, heat- ing, and other ne essary things.

As free citizens, they will be entitled to tell him to mind his own business, but he hopes they will not, for the information he

Is after will bring good to everybody.

NO COMPULSION, NO PRYING

No such widespread inquiry has ever before been under- taken. It establishes a new and personal relationship between the Government and the people.

Sunday, October 17, begins the first of the series of test

Up Forms

Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to France, one of the most brilliant younger statesmen. speaking before the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva, when he protested what he termed Japan's polley of aggression. His later resolution condemning Japanese bombing was adopted by 52

nations. The Aga Khan, upper right, is presiding.

"Flying Doctor"

Found After Ordeal In Desert

weeks. One out of every 30,000 British housewives, in town and Lost In Scorching

country, will be asked to explain just how she handled the family budget in that week.

There will be no compulsion about it, and no prying. The Labour Ministry, like, the Health Ministry and the War Office is calling for volunteers.

Only housewives with less than £5 a week to handle will be asked to co-operate.

The inquiry will be carried out through the employment' exchanges with the assistance of local advisory committees. Vol-j untary helpers have been re- cruited from women's guilds, co-operative societies, trudel unions, and other bodies.

DEARER FOOD

There will be other test weeks next January, April, and July, in order that the cost of living at all seasons of the year may be! studied.

Half-a-crown will be given for each form in each of the four weeks,

Everybody who keeps house knows that the cost of living has risen sharply. in the last few months.

M.P.s

Το Stop Baby Farms

PARLIAMENT is to pro-

mote legislation carly

in the new session to end the scandal of baby-farm- ing,

Northern Territory

EXHAUSTED after seven days

of exposure to scorching heat, with his meagre stock of the food almost finislied, af mercy of clouds af slinging in- Becta, Clyde Fenton, Australia's famous flying doclar, has been rescued in Australia's Northern Territory.

STOCKBROKER'S TRAGIC END

Read

"Death In The

Glass"

London, Oct. 5. but temperamental young man, who Inherited his A FORMER New York Society one day would have

beauty hurried

from Ireland father's Scoliish estates. Inst night to her Chelsea home where a letter is waiting from her husband-Old Etonian and Oxford graduate who was found in a bed- rooni

at a house in Tite-street yes- terday morning with a bullet wound through his heart..

The letter is one rot soyen. Patrick St. John Stirling, 30-year- old stockbraker, wrote in West End clubs on the last evening of his life. LAST GOOD-BYE

Lieutenant W. L. Hely, scorching the desert oren north of lal Tanumbrini, 2 cattle station which Dr. Fenton was flying to ans-said good-bye to her ft. husband wer an urgent call for medical aid when he left her with friends at when he disappeared, found hirn Delgaay, County Wicklow. beside his undamaged plane.***

Mrs. Stirling was on holiday in to Ireland. A fortnight ago she had

-Dr-Fenton-was-taken to Newrustei Waters and is recovering.

every

She wrote to him almost day, and a few minutes before Mr- surling

read her last mes- died he sage us he paced-his-library..

Leaving the room, with its book- shelves packed with crime novels- Lieutenani Iely gave a vivid acne novel, "Death in the Glass," was count of how the doctor had fought later found opened on the lable--he Σουιτ In the for life in an isolated region which went up to a spare

hours of the morning. He can normally be reached only by carly

took with him a sporting gun which desert rack. horse or car njonit a

had been at a gunsmith's until last "We sighted smuke signals north-Saturday..... cast of Tanumbrini and in a clear- ing in woody country beside a water- a white plane," he

The many recent reports of hole we saw babies found abandoned have said. emphasised the need for imme diate action.

WEAK FROM EXPOSURE "It was Fenton's We signalled

PERFECT LOVE MATCH" His valet and butler, Mr. John Muddoci, last night stated that the has ended a "two years' tragedy perfect love match."

"Al 8 o'clock this morning I open- ed the door of the spare bedroom. There was a black patch near the

Thus one of the provisions of im and dropped a message, and he ceiling where part of the wall had the proposed Bill will be the signalled that we could land. Butter has gone up 4d, to 5d.registration of all adoptions. "After noifying Darwin of our a pound since May, tea 2d,

Between 2,000 and 3,000 children posliion we pulled in beside his un- bacon 3d., sugar d., lard 1d..

darnaged machine. are legally adopted in Britain every bisculta 20., jam 11⁄2d., and there year. The number ' al unofficial "ile was obviously weak from has been an increase of at least adoptions is unknown-but is very long exposure, but we gave him food and cold water and after an hour's 20 per cent, in the cost of im-high, and is increasing.

rest set out for Newrastle,

ported beef.

UNWANTED CHILDREN

been shot away...Mr. Stirling lay on the carpet, the gun by his side. "A REAL CHAP" "He was a fine gentleman-a real chop. He was absorbed in his City work. I have never worked in a happier home."

Son of Lieut.-Col J. A. Stirling, and Kippenross, of Kippendavie Perthshire, and Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Mr. Patrick Stirling "He told us that he lit a fire to had written his farewell letters at his clubs, the Guards and Brooks's. By attract attention.

When working in Wall-street he "He had been blown north and met Miss Eugenia Morris, the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nay failed to find his bearings.

Morris, of Park-avenue,

York

There will be no interference with The official index figure shows bona-fide adoption societies. that food prices have advanced these every adoption is legalised, nine points in the last year,

and no monetary consideration 3 involved.

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What the BRI alma at wiping 13 Lite professional baby. farmer who undertakes to look after the unwanted children for a lump-sum payment,

And most frequently afterwards the children are left neglected.

He married her in New

"I landed near a water hole his petrol exhausted. le injured without walling to announce a form his nose trying to shoot a duck mal engagement.“

pitol Later he

He was a member of the firm of with A Verey found a cow bogged near a water- Mesars. Williamson, Fawcett and hola and after stunning it with a Sirling, Old Jewry, E. C. lor of wood out its throat with a pocket knife.

A partner in the Orm said lust night: "It is a very painful shock to Mt. Stirling's partners. As for us "Most of the beast, however, was we know his private affairs are in children are "exported" for adoption under mud and he got little meat."order. So far as the firm la con- in foreign countries.

Every year scores of British

Under the proposed 11, this will cease, or at least be strictly regulated by licence.

WOMAN'S CAMPAIGN

Much of the groundwork for the

110 suppression of baby-forming been inspired by a woman-Min tional Children Adoption Association. Clara Andrew, founder of the Na-

"It was at the request of the As sociation that the Home Omco ngroed to selting up the Commission that inquired into the question of baby-farming," she said.

"The Commbalon has now sub-

ABSORBINE JR. mitted its report,

For yours hae vallaved usta muselas, mureth-

las kobis, kruluses, eata, sprelua, obraslana.

The groat need for legislation s proved. Many of the cruel aban- donment cases have been traced to

"Balan Again: Müller, Maxisän & Co. In baby-farming,"

Dr. Fenton passed through Singa-comed his affairs are certainly in pore last year on his way from Dar-order." win to Swatow, where his elderly mother lay seriously .

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