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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May

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.

Oving to the number ôf ships:

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

Those classed as millonaires that is, with incomes abovej £10,000-rose from 629 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 still 182 of them

Finally there are 204 people with between £60,000 and £75,000, which is an increase of 18, and 73 carning between £75,000 and £100,000

which is one mere,

Well, what have these, people done

with all this money?

The Commissioners of

venue can account for a

tion of tint.

land te

large por-

another

THREE

S AND

THOU- spinsters

sent Mr. Chamber- lain an umbrella ou his birthday,

On that day the National Spinsters' DEATH DUTIES DRAIN

Pensions Associa- The

amount of Inland Revenue tion held a rally in dulles collected was

£520,634,983. Birmingham. With These were some of the Items: the umbrella

this note

Estate dulles, £00,500,102, Stamp duties, £24,050,722. Income tax, £353,552,753.

Surtax (including super-tax), £57,073,877,

Excess profits duty and muut tlons Jevy, £835,790.

National Defence Contribution. £1,513,302.

Among estates liable to estate

ว

was

"The spinsters of Great Britain send their. best wishes and hope to be given the protec tion of your Minis- terin umbrella for that rainy day

duty, ten were 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 à good many of them."

and two over £2.000.000. TAILPIECE

Many people must still believe in

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

is 10

Storage space at works is virtually illed, and until the congestion relieved companies are forced ralon their killing services among farmers and stock buyers. Although the king senson has

passed it (peak. It is reported that thousands fof head of stock are to be held on

farms until the position enses.

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

MAURITIUS

CYCLONE HOLDS UP LAW COURTS

PORT LOUIS.

The case in which Dr. Cure, Presi- dent of the Soclete de Bienfaisance des Travailleurs de l'lic Maurice, is Baking the Supreme Court to annul two orders of the Governor'could not be taken on the day set, because a cyclone passed 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 factory has been closed till further notice. It is stated that there have been no cattle for six months. Pari

of the staff has been drafted to the Rhodesia factory opened two years

ngo.

the old stockings for keeping their shows that cash in the house" after refuse to deliver beasts to the Licbig The Government states that there His plenty of entile, but the natives death amounted to £1,155,055, while An analysis of the gross capital cast at the bank" totalled £58,- factory. values of persunailty in Great Britain 820,900,

wealth,

Woman Walks Into

Plane's Propeller

10 Mrs. Fairweather-und walked

straight into the spinning propeller,

turning 700 times a minute.

She died soon afterwards.

Mr. Douglas Fairweather dew

time

HOT

Dedication ht New York World's Fair of the Boy Scouts' tepee and totem pole. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, viec presi- dent of the National Counell, preslded, with Fair President Whalen present.

£17,000 Lost In Ciro's By

Dance Band Leader

JACK HARRIS, dance accountants-only one woman re-

band leader, lost at least plush-covered mahogany chairs and presentative Wts present-sat on £17,000 in the down-fall of beard Jack Harris, who was chair- Ciro's, London, most famous had put the company Into voluntary man of Ciro's, say that Sorie, Ltd., dance club in the world. liquidation, and had appointed Mr.

He told the club's creditors at liquidator.

P. C. Molyneux, City accountant,

Ho

the Holborn Restaurant recently

Peter Ruttazzi gazed intently et u that Sorie, Ltd. (Ciro's back-printed statement of accounts. wards), the company owning the saw the club owed £11.341, and had club, owed him £4,000 for unpaid "ssels of £4,467, but £3,870 would salary for his band alone.

go to the debenture holders. Не Peter Rattazzi, late manager of little or nothing

then realised that there might be Ciro's, who was recently awarded damages.

left to

pay hi £2,352 danages, for arrears of salary and wrongful dismissal, was op- pointed a member of a committee

"MOSTLY LOST"

The natives have for some I been resisting the Government's polley of destocking, which has been undertaken to improve coll fertility. Forcible seizures of stock have been followed by protests, SOUTH AFRICA

SPEEDING UP WORK

Mr. F. Dirs (for a creditor): Who OF PARLIAMENT

of inspection which will investigate are the debenture holders? the club's affairs. With him on the Mr. Molyneux: Mrs. Jack Harria committee are a grocer's represen- holds £3,000 worth, and Mr. Harris CAPE TOWN. talive and an agent for a

The Numerous changes aiming at speed-cleaning company.

balance from Renfrow to join his wife in ing up the work of the Union Parlia-

carpet! £750.

represents London after news of the tragedyment are recommended by a report with their

interest. Bowler-halled business men, some was telephoned to him.

Mr. Harris said: "When the club solicitors, others with. Dr. Cook, who was forty, prac-of the Committee on Standing Rules

was opened about £13,000 was Lord Runciman's daughter, Metised in Glasgow, She was a mem- and Orders.

spent on redecoration and equip- The report advocates state of collapse recently following took her A licence in October 1933.

ber of the Scottish Flying Club, and the "quiiloline" system.

ment. I found most of the money. with the

Gen. Sir Pierre van Ryneveld, Chlet

It looks now as the denth of her friend, Dr. Elizabeth

Axing beforehand of time limits for

most of it. I of the General Staff, and a number debates. Sym Cook, at Heston (Middlesex)

not all, is lost." He told the creditors that the club of technical officers of the Depart airport.

Other recommendations pre the Mrs. Fairweather's plane was on

abolition of one of the two private Island, off the Cape, to inspect and self in conjunction with Mr. Am- ment of Defence have visited Robben Was opened in March 1937 by him- the tartar ready to take off. The

members' days, giving the Govern- two women, bath qualified pilots,

LISTOWEL, Onl.

ment four days a week for its busi-survey sites there for the 15-inch rose, the dance-band leader. Mr. Weighing only one pound 13 ounces ness, the strict limitation of the time land.

was gun batteries to be installed in the attazzi

appointed manager were fucking forward to a three- when she was born, Nov. 30, Betty spent in introducing bills and in third

under a service agreement with the week nying holiday to Egypt...

Dr. Cook ran

company... from the airport ever since, doctors reported.

Ludwig -has gained-weight steadily reading debates, and regulations for CANADA

After Initial dificulties, office with papers and forms officially has been kept in an incubator In measures.

She saving time in discussing formal}

business continued successfully until stamped; put them in the cabin ota

was closed for the holiday period the plane. She turned to speak weight two pounds.

super-heated room, and now Robbed Island Batteries-Mr. O.

in July 1937. Pirow, Minister

Then Mr. Ambrose of Defence, Maj.-

Fentered into a contract with one of

Margaret Fairweather,

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A permanent camp-the King's as a result Mr. Harris deemed Camp-Is, to be established in theccessary to purchase Mr. Ambrose's | Rockies, on the Sulphur Mountain,!

interest for cash. overlooking Hanft, to commemorate

Referring to the recent netion Hong Kong the visit of the King and Queen to brought by Mr. Rattazzi, Mr. Harris Peak Depot,

said he was convinced that had that

Canada.

It is proposed that the camp, under not occurred the club would have the auspices of the National Council;

been able to continue.

Mr. Harris mentioned that when

of Education for Canada, shall to Mr. Ambrose and his band were at opened by 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 Canada to

in liquidator by the creditors, said that: 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 a const-for £4,075, arrears of band money,. to-coast tour of Canada 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, and returning via the the Great Lakes.

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company whe

£3,000,

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.

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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 recret police. With the list is a ton, E.), naked whether in the in-

Mr. Mander (Soc., Wolverhamp report of each person's activities. terests of national security, he would A tick against three of the names bers of the German secret police consider cancelling permits to mem- - woman and two men-indicates and other Nazi organisations, that they have alrendy been expelled from the country. Many others are!

kely to follow when

Sir Samuel replied that careful Sir Samuel attention was being given to the Hoare again reviews the reports after mutter. Appropriate action the holidays.

would be taken if necessary. The dossier, complied by the Speelal Branch, deals also with some on overy Nazi organisation in London Detectives have been checking up prominent members of the Workers' recently. National Socialist Party, a German vestigating suggestions that home They have bren in- organisation which has its head-Germun institutions In this country quarters in Cleveland-terrace, Bays-use intimidation methods in dealing water. Recent references to this with their nationals. organisation were made in the House,

of Commons,

The German Government have been told of the British Government's The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel determination to

stop any inter-

Hoare, revealed little of the recent|ference with the personal liberly of police activity in the House of Con-Germans here.

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