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HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
NOVEMBER
Pay Your Doctor's Bill
At Least It Will Help His Wife
MANY"
To Dress Decently
"BAD DEBT" PATIENTS
By ISOLENE THOMPSON
How long do you wait before you pay your doctor and your dentist?
A doctor's wife in a good-class London suburb writes an appeal to you and to me to pay our bills more promptly. She says:
We wives of suburban doctors and dentists often have a struggle to keep up appearances. The credit system is agony, the accounts going out quarterly and
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only fraction of the mAILY coming in.
Meanwhile l 11 own ro- 1s have to be inet-wages, fund, rent, light, heat, and setting.
fel
All have to be paul promptly. although many of our palant: delay paying theit areants twelve months or longer. Wolf- to-du people are the wor 1 offen
Then we often have difficulty in getting mats, for our hores re- quire a much larger of thin we en alford.
EMPIRE NEWS
PEASANT REVOLTS IN INDIA
CALCUTTA.
The peasant revolts in the States
of Dhenkanal and Talcher, which
out recently rola
So the poor wife works all day, and yet must appear well-dressed m
and apparently with plenty of leisure
10 attend ceriain lucal
by coming!
Rading fitatsen, tech 17 on-j funetlens which her position In Altea ottempt wa, nude to wreck Community demands.
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passenger fram between Tulcher
A detachurat of thel and Pur My houer is large and old- King's Own Scottish Borders has
it Clenita for Dhenkanal to fashioned, with no other veniener, and the added handienen matching order
Craft-
of consulting rooms on the pe mises.
The deaffections part of a general neverent throughurt Cased by the!
If we did thms in they do themamali ndependent raja-ruled States,
in the States there would be not obtain representative government, of this worFY.
A week ap police were obliged to Over there all professionai men open tre in Dhenkanal, and four is person were killed and many in- have offices, and your miles away if you wish. Your has-jured. band's pallents need never know i If you wear one dress two years or
if you have one mald or six.
And glory hef) when you visit your doctor you pay at each visit. If it is the dentist the names his half then and the fee; you pay balance on your last visit.
The
of Dhenkanal is 192 square miles, and that of Bulcher 309 quare miles. The total populy
the twu tion 250,000.
Comfort In
Dug Outs
hows an interior of one of the dugouts for shelter from Bomb spinsters tut have been entstructed by inundreds throughout the Fugit la eramta yrirler. This one is at Surrey, south of London. and siłowo two girls wearing their gas mals, an they read news- The dugouts a three fort underground, equipped with POHJARES froad and ten
TAKE CARE OF THAT GAS MASK
States is aboutį Every re piratoi adet by each council is effeint-make no mis- I have tester one Firework Restrictions.~Bermer of take about that. the large number of serious needientsyself under concentrations of gases May it come to us here in marjon festival thays, due to ignorance fur stronger than are ever likely to time, say and
fellow-suf handling large threworks, only those fof which the content is known and ferers.
specified by name, will be allowed The imported,
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Street
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RICHEST ARE WORST The wife of Harley
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Football Sperlators Anger. When professional #21.173 said: sympathize with your correspondent, The Baripala fotball team failed to Everything she says is perfectly true, appear at Cultnek, Ceutral Provinces,
fulfil 1.
engagement,
encountered, writes Capt. Nerman Macmillan,
But certain rules must be observed to preserve this effeiency. For ex- ample, the respirator strap must be il air is breathed · in though the perfectly adjusted to ensure that all
Ꭲ, Alter
Again it has not been possible antry to
to supply all respirators in cardboard #spectators pulled down all the fen boxes, sa that special care should be
taken in handling them costs as, on an average, between ving round the ground and made a
1.100 and £1,200 a year to run bure of at. the house. quite apart husband's professional exernses, and Income tax,
in my experience at least.
I have one child.
Buch
from
and
BUY AUSTRALIA
LESSONS OF LONDON TRADE TALKS
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Tha
SYDNEY
Do not scratch or bend the win-
dow
Do not expee,
the respirator strong light or heat: Keep it dry; ang Do hot carry iť°by the straps, as that will stretch
face the rubber
to
Vhr. for flowers alone in the surgery waiting-room, it costa me £20 a year! Wealthy patients are often the worst payers,"
Commonwealth Attorney-Piece. Suld a Finchley doctor's wife: have heard my husband say that 25 General, Mr. Menzies, on his arrival per cent. of his patient: are that back from London, declared that the
when. was coming "Most people like to argue, that that no major change took place in the panel system has made doctors the reonomics of the Old World, rich. Panel practice allows opening Australia would be compelled as th
manufacturing to be for about 15,000 doctors to allend extend her about fifteen million patients."
exporter
debts.*
time
rome
substantial #
(A doctor gets 9s. a year for each manufactured goods. panel patient and is allowed in to 2,500 patients)
London.
"A NIGHTMARE"
Turning
i1 £500
year,
assuming
of
but non-paying patients are alreadyfelt
"The difficulties of our trade negotiations in London."
Mr. Menzies, "were very great, and on The wife of a dentist in North the whole the results must be re- The garded as not unsatisfactory. British market in which we have en saldi-
"We have not been married long yed generous preferences since the
Ottawa Conference is
is naturally not! of indefinite expansion. a nightmare to me. When a pro-Great Britain not only has her
non-payers gwn agriculture to consider, but als
has her position as a large inter- "Our budget leaves no margin national trade to maintain."
fessional man starts his own he runs the risk
of the
flocking to him at first.
for savings, car, possible family SOUTH AFRICA
and it all depensis on whether patients pay up if I get a decent evening frock this winter."
It should be stored, for maximum efficiency, 11 cardboard box, and packed with the metal Biter at the bottom of the box, so that the mica window hes fat and furing upwards
on the top.
A thin Glm of wet soup rubbed on the inside of the window will keep. it from becoming misted by breath. Carbolic snap should not be used.
But Don't Do
This-
As a large number of Brad- ford elutdren did recently, when they discovered How toys- some of the 100,000 respirators which have been issued, there.
space, where
one ope
A.R.P. trenches had been dup. two gangs of children took pos-
staked session and
miraic battle from parallel trenches. Stours and clods of carth were the missiles,
All the "combatants," most of whom were aged from 5 to 10, wore the note respirators-until
they were dispersed by police, who did what they could to marn parents against permitting children to damage the masks.
YACHTSMEN FINED
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7,, 1938.
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An
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| RELAY OF "REMEMBRANCE”
Captain Richard T. Dixon, aged seventy-five, international racing yachtsman, of Admiralty Cottage, Mylor, Cornwall, was ordered at Penryn, Cornwall, recently to pay fines amounting to £56 and £20 expenses for contravening the Excise and Customs regulations.
Hadio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on Frequency of 845 kc's. and on Short Wave from 6-11 p.m.
on 9.52 m.e.'s per second.
I.K.T.
:
Ding
0.0 For The Children, Nursery Rhymes; Intro: Dong Dell; I Bitw three ships; Hickory
Dickory Dock; Polly put the kettle on: Curly Locks: Bad, Bas Black Sheep: Jack and Jul; A little cock sparrow: There was it woman: Dame get up and bake your ples: flot cross buns; When I was a lad: Hush-a-bye-unby: There was a little mun; See Saw Marjory Daw; Twinkle, twinkie, little stars:
Oranger
Lemons
Uncle
George Party with
Orch.;
Silly
Walt The
Symphontes--Selection Disney (arr. Munro); Intro: wire Httle hen; The grasshopper and
the ants; Pecullur Penguins; The Ay- ing mouse; When Day is Done (De Sylva, Katscher, transcription are. Munro....Ambrose and His Orches tra with vocal chorus: Studio-Seral Story Seeing The Empire"; Hark! Hark!
The
Lark (Shakespeare- Schubert); The Little Sandaun (Brahms).... Elisabeth Schuman
ifis deck-hand, Albert Corke, who jvilar, two bottles of whisky. Bity was jointly charged with hùn, was cigars, 680 cigarettes, and Box. of ordered to pay fines totalling £6.
DROP IN REVENUE
CAPE TOWN. ex- The revenue. of the Union for £7,242,372, a drop of August was
with the compared 415 £54,000
The men were charged with har- corresponding month last year.
For the five months of the Govern-houring three bottles of aqua vitae at Admiralty Cottage, said failing to April. ment's finial year,
May, nem
the total declare un the yacht Seacrest four June, July and August,
bottles of gin. two bottles of aqua
"Most doctors have big insurance premiums to pay, heavy car penses, and a big house to keep up," said a Surbiton doctor's wife. "Their, training is expensive, and in buying a practice they often put themselven
responsi financial heavy under bilities for many years.
one.
period last year.
£5,000,000
from
Lobices,
Poprano) with Piano accomp. by
Moore,
030 Close locul Steel. Quotas
6.33
You
Latest Dance Music, Quicksteps-The Shoop So Let Me For The Leader Of A Swing BandThe Six
directed Swingers by George Scott Wood with vocal Chorus: Fox-Trots-Love Walked In; The Maidens Of Tyrol...Jay WH- hur and H. Band with voel chorus by San
Sum Custig Wall-Say Good.
night To Your Old-Fashioned Mother; Fox-Trot-Little Lindy Make Believe-Billy Collon and
Band with vocal chorus; The Fiat Foot Fl
Bougies »
-Strike Up The Band lly Cotton (from the film
Del
Waltz
arel His Band: Tango--Nostalgia
D107
Selection Tales Of Hollinain (Offenbach).... Bernabas Von Grezy and this Or-
chestra;
r Fox-Trots Outside Paradise (from the Almi: Lost and Found....Jack Harris and His. Or- chestra with vocal refrain by Sam Browne;
Cherry....The Big Choen- late Dandies with vocal refrain: Love Ain't Nothin' But The Blues.... Frankie Trumbauer and His Orches- tra with vocal refrain.
with
7.15 Variety Programine Gracle Fields. Sandy Powell. The Ms Brothers and Gino Bordin and His Hawallans.
Cold
Comedienne--Out in The Cold, Suow (ilm Love. He and
Last Laughter): Love's
Word Is Spoken
(Hixio)....Gracie Field Orchestra; Vocal-Miss Ofs
with
Regrets (Cole Porter): My Headache
(Alfred Margis); Chibiribin
(Razaf, Johnson)....The Mills thers; Hawaiian Orch-Valse Blene (Pes- Bordin
and HI: Hawaiians with vocal refrain; Come-
L'art
an-Sanly Gone To Se
Ship The Stowaway: Part
Sandy Powell; Hawalian orch Flowery Path-Waltz... Ging Bordin and His Hawalians; Come- |dienne-What Archibald Says, Goes Failing In
In Love Again
Castling):
The Blue Angel').
Grac
Orchestra, Hawalian
Orch-Hawalian Berccuse (Gino Bordin): Tears Of Love (Gypsy For- Song-Bordin-Alton)....Gino din and His Howalions.
8.0 Timy nouncements.
Weather ind An-
8,83 Mozart-Quartet Tu E Flat Major, K.428.
Played by the Pro Arte Quartet, 8.30 Studio-Recital by Gallant Sun (Soprano) with Lindsay A. Lat- ford at the Plano.
I.
Linden Tree (Schubert); 2. Rust Thee, My Darling (Brauns): 1. Once Again (Sullivan); 4. Could! I (Tosti).
8.50 Studio-A talk by The Very Rev. Father A. Ranti on the *Chinese Refugees".
8.55 Philadelphia Symphony chestra.
Or-
"Rienzi" Overture (Wagner); "Twilight Of The Gods Finule (Wagner)....conducted by Leopold
Stokowski.
9.10 London Years After.
Relay - Twenty
General The Rt. Hon. J. C. Smuts, C. II. from South Africa (By your tesy of the South African Broadcast- in Corporation).
9.30 London Irlay-The News,
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Trial By Jury"--Selection (Sul-i to £1 5. 44., and on the second to livan); "The Sorcerer"
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(Sullivan); "The Yeomen Of The THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.
10.10 London
£ 7, 118.
..conducted by Mr. B. N. Stephenson, for the Cus- Guard" (Sullivan). "When we started at £800 a year collections amount to C17,077,502,
toms and Excise, described how aicat. R. G. Evans; Changing Or nan-paying patients caused us many
flying squad of
oneers The Guard (Flotsato and Jetsam). rummage a sleepless night, in more ways than which is a drop of nearly £700,000!
with the corresponding the Great War Malaya paid about went aboard the Seacrest Torquay conducted by Licut. J. C. Windram. Relay "Remem- Now our income is round about compared
for rice supplies
spirits and totaceo] and found the £1,200. We have three children. Penetically, the whole of the de-i
hidden in lockers und behind abrance," "I wonder if your correspondent
drawer which could not be opened loves her husband" was the com-crease is reflected in the Customs India, Burma and Slam-Reuter.
until a companion way was removed. ment of a doctor's wife in lamp- and Excise returns.
South Taxation. Th; Alining ntead.
Finance, Mr.
PRIVILEGE AS YACHTSMAN "If she does, surely it is a Afrlean Minister of pleasure rather than a trouble to Havenga, defended the Government's of taxation In the House mining
women."
New Zealand
ANXIETY FOR NEWS Auckland.
By Ralph De Pamera; Characters (in order of speaking): Joyce Bar- low, Barlos' daughter; Nigel Fowler, a young author; Edward Burlow, He stated that Dixon left Fal., 11.8.0., M.C., a barrister, Inte April for a six months' O.C., B/Bty.; Ruth Borlow, his wife; have the consulting rooms on the
The danger of war in Europe Alls mouth in premises instead of as she would Assembly to-day. He said that the public mind to the exclusion of cruise in the North Sea being al-Captain Taylor, c.R., M.c., on Anny chaplain; Lleut, Frank Haddon and profer, in offices miles away. was unwilling to accept the six other toples. The Empire broadcasts lowed the special privilege us
was 100 "Most doctors' wives complain that restion that his taxation
from Daventry are awaited with myachtsman of considerable integrity Second Lieut. Lennox, B/Battery they see too little of their husbands.high-Reuter.
Tense interest,
of carrying in bond even gallons of men: Gunner Clarke and Bessie. TWO £50,000 Bequests-Mr. E. A.
maid; Scene: The lounge of Barlow's "I think, taking things all round,
Crowds are thronging the news spirit and 10lbs. of tobacco.
Dover in Muy The Seacrest left
residence, near London, on an Arm we've less to grumble at than most Capelll, the South African racehorse
owner, who died here recently has paper offices to-day, anxious to learn
the
of any new developments at the car and returned on August 11, when de-tlee anniversary, during a broadenst Rand lett £50,000 cach to
claration was made at Daver that of the Albert Hall Festival of Re- liest moment. University lind the! Johannesburg
there were on board only ninety membrance; Production by Howard India
1-16th Rose. Hospital-Exchange,
elgarettes, 11h. of tobacco, 1
allons of spirit, and 2-6ths gallon of wine, which were placed under seal, When the vessel was boarded at Torquay the rummage squad found other quantities of dullable goods. These were seized together with well-known ractor the yacht, a craft, which was later released forfeiture of £50.
Rats Store Nuts
Visala, Cal.
MALAYA
FOOD CONTROL PLANS
KUALA LUMPUR.
AIR MAIL NIGHT FLYING
•
Night
Mr. C. A. Vlieland, who joined the
Bombay.
Between
A. J. Dula, rancher, who had tald out a few bushels of walnuts on the Boor of his granary to dry for the
ying facilities winter, was surprised to and they Malay Civil Service in 1914. Bombay and Karachi to link with bad all disappeared. Investigation been appointed to the new post of Imperial Airways are expected to be showed that a mother pack rat and Chief Food Control Ofce, Malayn. complete by the end of the financial ber young brood had stowed all the He will be particularly concerned year. The erection of beacon light Huls away in the boxca for their with plans for making Malaya self-is in progress They will be spaced winter supply.
supporting as regards food. During 50 miles apart.
On
The squad then conducted a search
of Admiralty Coltage and there found the three bottles of aqua vitae.
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