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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

May 1, 1939

WE ARE GROWING WEALTHIER

Ten More Britons Become

Millionaires

PEOPLE of Britain are becoming wealthier. There

are ten more millionaires, and the number of people with more than £2,000 a year is 95,750—the highest for several years.

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue-the men who decide how much income tax you must pay-tell you these facts in 'their report, published recently.

EMPIRE NEWS

LACK OF SHIPS IN NEW ZEALAND

AUCKLAND.

Owing to the number

of ships

In the year 1936-37 the number of people liable to surtax available being insufficient to accom- rose from 91,392 to 95,750.

Those classed as millonaires —that is, with inconies “above £10,000-rose from 529 to 539.

People with incomes of over £100,000 fell from 83 to 80.

Those getting between £40,-

Spinsters gave our

000 and £50,000 lost seven of Premier

their number during the year,

but there are stiil 182 of them

Finally, there are 204 people with between £50,000 and £75,000, which Is an Increase of 10, and 73 earning between £75,000 and £100,000, which is one more.

Well, what have these people done with all this money?

The Commissioners of Inland Re- venue can rerount for a large por- tion of that.

DEATH DUTIES DRAIN

The anant of Inland Revenue £020,034,003.

duties collected was

These were some of the items:

Estate duties, £90,500,102, Stamp duties, £24,058,722. Income tax, £353,552,753. Surtax

ncluding super-tax). £57,073,077.

Excess profits duty and muni- tions levy, £835,798.

another

THREE THOU- SAND spinsters sent Mr. Chamber- lain an umbrella on his birthday.

On that day the National Spinstera' Pensions Associa- tion held a rally in Birmingham, With the umbrella this note:-

wns

"The spinsters of Great Britain send their best wishes and hope to given the protec- tion of your Minis-

be

National Defence Contribution, terial umbrella for £1,511,302. Among estates liable to estate duty, ten were

that rainy day

valued at between which has already £1,000,000 and £1,500,000, four be- tween £1,500,000 and £ 2.000.000,

come too soon to n and two uver £2.000.000.

good many TAILPIECE

them."

of

moctare cargoes, killing of meat for export has been greatly curtailed at many North Island works.

is to

Storage space at works is virtually filed, and until the congestion relieved companien

are forced ralon their killing services among farmers and stock buyers. Although the killing season has passed its peak, t reported that thousands of head of stock are to be held on farms until he position cases.

The Westfield Freezing Company has been obliged to pay off aboutl 130 workers.

MAURITIUS

CYCLONE HOLDS UP LAW COURTS

PORT LOUIS.

The case in which Dr. Cure, Presi dent of the Societe de Blentalsance des Travailleurs de Plle Maurice, is asking the Supreme Court to onnul two orders of the Governor could not be taken on the day set, because a cyclone pussed quite close to the west coast of the island in the early-mor- ning.

KENYA

NATIVE REFUSAL TO DELIVER CATTLE

MOMBASA, Owing to lack of cattle Liebig's

Dedication at New York World's Fair of the Boy Scouts' tepee and totem pole. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, vice presi- dent of the National Coynell, presided, with Fülr President Whalen present.

£17,000 Lost In Ciro's By Dance Band Leader

WIB

rom

on

factory has been closed till further JACK HARRIS, dance accountants-only one wotnan

presentative It is stated that there have band leader, lost at least plush-covered mahogany chales and

ngo.

notice. been no cattle for six months. Part of the staff has been drafted to the Rhodesia factory opened two years Many people must still believe in

The Government states that there the old stockings for keeping their shows that cash in the house" after refuse to deliver beasts to the Liebig is plenty of entile, but the natives. wealth.

death amounted to £1,155,056, while factory. An analysis of the gross capital cash at the bank" totalled £58.- values of personality in Great Britain 820,000,

Woman Walks Into

Plane's Propeller

to Mrs. Fairweather-and walked siralght into the spinning propeller. turning 700 times a minute.

She died soon afterwards.

Mr. Douglas Fairweather flew from Renfrew to join his wife in London after news of the tragedy was lelephoned to him.

Lord Runelmun's daughter, Mratised in Glasgow. Margaret Fairweather,

was in

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Dr. Cook, who was forty, prac She was a meme the death of her friend, Dr. Elizabeth took her A licence in October 1933.

The natlyes have for some been resisting the Covernment'a polley of destocking, which has been undertaken to Improve goil fertility, Forcible seizures of stock have been followed by protests. |SOUTH AFRICA'

present--sat £17,000 in the down-fall of heard Jack Harris, who was chair. Ciro's, London, most famous had put the company into voluntary

man of Ciro's, say that Sorle, Lid dance club in the world. iquidation, and hnd appointed Mr.

P. C. Molyneux, the Holborn Restaurant recently

He told the club's creditors at liquidator.

City accountant,

Peter Rattazzi gazed intently at a that Soric, Ltd. (Ciro's back-printed statement of accounts. He time wards), the company owning the saw the club owed £11,341, and had club, owed him £4,000 for unpaid assets of £4,407, but £3,079 would salary for his band alone.

go to the debenture holders. He then realised that there might, be Peter Rattazzi, late manager of little or nothing left to Ciro's, who was recently awarded damages."

pay hie £2,352 damages for arrears of salary

"MOSTLY LOST" and wrongful dismissal, pointed ກ member of a committee Mr. F. Dirs (for a creditor): Who of inspection which will investigate are the debenture holders? the club's affairs, With him on the! Mr. Molyneux: Mrs. Jack Harris commillee are a grocer's represen-holds £3,000 worth, and Mr. Harris CAPE TOWN. Lative and an agent for a carpet £750. The balance represents ing up the work of the Union Parlin-

Numerous changes aiming at speed-cleaning company.

interest. ment are recommended by a report with their solicitors, others, with Bowler-hatted business men. some

and Orders. The report advocates of the Committee on Standing Rules, the "guliletine" system.

SPEEDING UP WORK OF PARLIAMENT

with

was no-

the Gen. Sir Pierre van Ryneveld, Chief

state of collapse recently following ber of the Scottish Flying Club, and fixing beforehand of time imite for of the General Staff, and a number

Sym Cook, at Heston (Middlesex)

airport.

Mrs. Fairweather's plane was on the-tarmae-ready-to-inke-off. The

debates.

was

Mr. Harris said: "When the club was opened about £13,000 spent on redecoration and equip- nient. I found most of the money. It looks now as if most of it, I not oil, is lost."

He told the creditors that the club Other recommendations

of technical officers of the Depart- are thement of Defence have visited Robbens opened in March 1937 by him- TINY BABY GAINS abolition of one of the two private Island, off the Cape, to inspect and self in conjunction with Mr. Am- ment four days a week for its busi-gun batteries to be installed in the under a service agreement with the members' days, giving the Govern-survey-sles-there--for-the-1-inch prose, the dance-band lender... Mr. LISTOWEL, Ont.

| Rättazzi two women, both qualified pilots.

was appointed manager Weighing only one pound 13 ounces ness, the strict limitation of the time island. were looking forward to a three-when she was born, Nov. 30, Betty spent in Introducing bills and in third week flying holiday to Egypt.

Dr. Cook ran

Ludwig has gained weight steadily reading debates, and regulations for CANADA from the airport ever since, doctors reported. She saving time office with papers and forms oficially as been kept in an incubator in measures. stamped, put them in the cabin of a super-hented room, and DOW

She turned to speak weighs two pounds.

the plane.

in

company".

After Initial dimeulles, the business continued successfully until

discussing formal CAMP IN ROCKIES TO it was closed for the holiday period

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as a result Mr. Harris deemed t camp-the King's Camp is to be established in the necessary to purchase Mr. Ambrose's Rockies, on the Sulphur Mountain,

interest for cash. overlooking Banff, to commemorate brought by Mr. Rattazzi, Mr. Harris Peak Depot,

Referring to the recent action Hong Kong Depot, Tel. 21279, Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Flr, Tel. 28036.. the visit of the King and Queen to said he was convinced that had that

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It is proposed that the cump, under been able to continue. the auspices of the National Council Mr. Harris mentioned that when of Education for Canada, shall Le Mr. Ambrose and his bond were at opened by a large party of English, the club they received a salary of Canadian, Australian, New Zealand £350 a week. When he (Mr. Har- and, it Is hoped, South African girls ris) agreed to work for the club he next August.

An Invitation is being sent by the

(arranged to receive £50 a week less, National Council

Mr. Molyneux, who was appointed of Education in liquidator by the creditors, said that Canada to a number of girls from of the liabilities of £11,000 odd Mr. private and secondary schools in Jack Harris was the largest creditor Great Britain to take part in n coast-for £4,075, arreurs of hand money, to-const tour of Cunada by special and the next largest creditor was Mr. train, staying a week or longer at Peter Rattazzi, whose claim against the King's Camp, und returning via the company was estimated the Great Lakes.

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Britain Tells Nazi Agents To Get Out

DRASTIC steps against members of Nazi propaganda or-

ganisations in London are being taken by the Home Office.

at

On the Home Secretary's desk is mons when he said the three people a list of thirty people, some of them had been asked to leave, members of the Gestapo, Germany's Mr. Mander (Soc., Wolverhamp- secret police, With the list, is a ton, E.), asked whether in the in- report of each person's activities. tercats of national security, he would

A tick against three of the names bers of the German

consider cancelling permits to mem-

secret woman and two men-indicates and other Nazi organisations.

police that they have already been expulled from the country. Many others aro Sir Samuel replied that carefut lkely to follow when: Sir Samuel [nitention was being given to the Hoare agalni reviews the reports after matter.

would Appropriate action the holidays.

The dossier, compiled by the Detectives have been checking up Special Branch, deuls also with some on every Nazi organisation in London prominent members the Workers' recently. They have been In- National Socinilat Party, Germon vestigning suggestions.

that organisation which has its head-German institutions in this country quarters in Cleveland-terrace, Bays-use. intimidation methods in derling water,. Recent references to this with their nationals. organisation, were made in the House of Commons.

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