1937-10-29 — Page 27

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29,

Government Food

1937.

Inquiry

Housewives To Be Paid For Filling Up Forms

OFFICIAL CHECK

ON RISING COST OF LIVING

By H. W, SEAMAN

HIRTY THOUSAND British housewives 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The so-called "cost-of-living index," on which many of the Government's calculations are based, is notoriously out of date.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 other Govern- ment 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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He will ask them how much they and their families spend

an eating, drinking, smoking, rent, amusements, lighting, heat-

ing, and other necessary 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

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 policy of nggression. His later resolution condemning Japanese bombing was adopted by $2

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-1 untary helpers have been re- cruited from women's guilds, societies, trade

co-operative

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 studled.

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

M. P.s To Stop Baby Farms

PARLIAMENT is to pro. mote legislation early in the now

session to end the scandal of baby-farm-

ing.

Northern Territory

EXHAUSTED after seven days

of exposure io scorching heat, with bis meagre alock of food almost luished. at the mercy of clouds of stinging in- secta, Clyde Fenton, Australla's famous flying doctor, has been rescued In Australia's Northern Territory,

north of

East

STOCKBROKER'S TRAGIC END

Read "Death

"Death In The

Glass"

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

Inherited his

hurried from Ireland father's Scottish estates. last night to her Chelsea home where a Ieiter is waiting from ber | husband-Old Etonlan and Oxford graduate who was found in a bed- room at a house in "Tie-sirect yes“ torday morning with a bullet wound through his heart.

The Jetter a one of seven. Mr. Patrick St. John Stirling, 30-year- old stockbroker, wrote in West End Lieutenant W. L. Ilety, searching clubs on the Inst evening of his life. the desert arcs

LAST GOOD-BYE Mrs. Stirling was on holiday in Tanumbrini, a cattle station to Ireland. A

fortnight ago she had which Dr. Fenton was lying to ans-said good-bye to her 6ft. husband wer an urgent call for medical aid when he left her with friends at when he disappeared, found him beside his undamaged plane.

Dr. Fenton was taken to Newcastle Waters and is recovering?"

Delgany, County Wicklow.

every

She wrote to him almost day, and a few minutes before Mr. Stirling died he read her last, mes- sage-as-ho paced-his-

1-his-library,

Leaving the room, with its book- shelves packed with crime novels inter found opened on the table-he one novel, "Death in the Glass," was

up to a spare

in the room hours of the morning. He lock with him a sporting gun which had been at a gunsmith's until last

Lieutenami Iely gave a vivid ne- count of how the doctor had fought for life in an isolated region which went can normally be reached only by early horse or car along a desert truck.

"We sighted smoke signals north-Saturday. cast of Tanunbrini and In a clear-: ing in woody country beside a water-

a white

plane," he

he

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

"At Bo'clock this morning I open- toed the door of the spare bedroom. celling where part of the wall had There was a black poich near the

been shot away, .Mr. Stirling lay on the carpet, the gun by his side. "A REAL CHAP

The many recent reports of hole we saw Everybody who keeps house babies found abandoned have said.. knows that the cost of living emphasised the need for imme WEAK FROM EXPOSURE has risen sharply in the last dinte action.

"It was Fenton's We signalled few months.

Thus one of the provisions of him und dropped a message, and Butter has gone up 4d. to 5d. registration of all adoptions.

the proposed Bill will be the signalled that we could land. pound since May, ten 24.,

"After notifying Darwin of our bacon 3d, sugar d., hard 1d.,

Between 2000 and 3,000 children position we pulled in beside his un- biscuits 2d., jam d., and there year. The number

are legally adopted "In Britain every

damaged machine, has been an increase of at least adoptions is unknown-but it is very long exposure, but we gave him food 20 por cent. in the cost of im-

high, and is increasing. ported beef.

The official index figure shows that food prices have advanced nino points in the last year.

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UNWANTED CHILDREN

He was a fine gentleman- real chap. He was absorbed in his City work. 1

"He was obviously weak from happier, have never worked in a

and cold water and after an hour's rest set out for Newcastic.

Son of Lleut-Col. J. A. Stirling, of Kippendavie and Kippenross, Perthshire, and Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Mr. Patrick Stirling There will be no interference with "He told us that he lit a fire to had written his farewell Iciters al these every adoption is legalised, bone-ide adoption societies. By sitract attention.

his clubs, the Guards' and Brooks's. When working in Wall-street he and no monetary consideration

"He had been blown north and met Miss Eugenin Morris, the daugh- involved.

iniled to find his bearings,

ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nay Morris, of Park-avenue.

What the aims at wiping out is the professional baby- farmer who undertakes to look after the unsanied children for a lump-sum payment.

And most frequently afterwards the children are left neglected.

Every year scores of British children are "exported" for adoption in foreign countries.

York

"He landed near a water hole. He married her in New his peirol exhausted. He injured without waiting to announce a for- his nose trying to shoot a duck mal engagement. with a Vercy pistol. Later ho He was a member of the arm of found a cow bogged near a water- Mesars. Williamson, Fawcett hole and after stunning it with a Stirling, Old Jewry, E. C.

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and

log of wood out its throat with a A partner in the firm said lost pocket kalfc.

night: "It is

very painful shock to Mr. Stirling's partners. As for nå "Most of the beast, however, was we know his private affairs ore. In under mud and he got ittle meat." order. So far as the firm is con- Dr. Fenton passed through Singa-cerned his affairs are certainly in pore last year on his way from Dar-order."

Under the proposed Bill this will cease, or at least be strictly regulated mother, Iny seriously fit.

win to Swatow, where his elderly Ill-health is believed to be at the by licence.

root of the tragedy of this athletic

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"It was at lhe request of the As- Eociation that the Home

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"The Cornmission has now sub- mitted its report,

"The great need for legislation is proved. Many of the cruel aban- donment cases have been traced to baby-farming!"

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