1939-05-02 — Page 31

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 2, 1939.

CUP OF MAJESTY FOR THE U.S. H.K. RUBBER

Silver Treasures For

World's Fair

FIFTY HISTORIC silverware pieces, so precious that plaster casts, engravings, rubbings and other records have been made of them for purposes of duplication should they be lost, are leaving Britain shortly for the first time.

Taken from the vaults of the Government, they will be shown in the British Pavilion in the New York World's | Fair, together with 35 examples of the best work of mo- dern silversmiths.

The King is lending the massive sculptured Cup of Majesty presented to the Crown to commemorate the Coronation and pre- served for the nation at the palace of Holyroodhouse.

Transport and safeguarding have

the CU-

been arranged for wits operation of the Government.

PEPYS'S PARTING GIFT

Most valuable piece is a foot-high ewer elaborately chased in heraldlei patterns, which was the parling gift of Pepys, the diarist, to the Cloth- workers' Company when he retired as their Master in 1077,

It has never been outside the Cloth-workers' Hall before, and has been seen only by the few lucky people who have dined in state “s. guesta of the company nt anetent hall In Mincing Lane.

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Records of the Inside as well the outside were made during the past weeks, so that it could be duplicated in thickness at every point. Even a scratch and a dent: made over 100 years ago could exactly reproduced..

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An eighteenth century French re-l fugee, Paul Lamerle,

thr une of greatest silversmiths on record, made the second most important piece-a spectacular gilt ewer covered in high relief with human and fantastic figures, the handle itself a bearded god.

It is dated 1741 and belongs to the Goldsmiths' Company.

All the antique silver is older than the earliest American silver-mast of it by over 200 years,

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Rhapsody In Blue Wedding March

MISS PAMELA PHILLI- MORE, twenty-one years-old heiress, was recently married at St. James's Church, Spanish- place W., to Mr. Gilbert Alistair Cockburn, who is twenty-four.

Only forly guests were at tho wedding. It was intended that 500 should attend, but four days before printed cards were sent to friends saying that the marriage, fixed for March 14, was cancelled "owing to the sudden indisposi- tion of the bride's aunk,”

The wedding. i was added, would take place very quietly at some future date."

Miss Phillimore was a ward in Chancery until she came of ago recently. She then gave a parly to

to announce the date of her marriage to Mr. Cockburn- her third flance,

After an earlier engagement had been broken, she said sho would never marry.

Sho wore a loose while Greek gown and headdress for her wed- ding, and carried Prayer-book. She had long, heavy earrings. The organist played Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Bluo" as she en- tered the church.

Grocers' Company as a gift in 1881 is going in its slead.

The Leigh Cup, dated 1490, years before Columbus discovered A 20-in. silver gilt rosewater dish America, was t the last moment) considered too fragile to remove from the voults of the Mercers' Company, and a reptica made by them for the

weighing 112oz. İs be presented to the City of New York by the Cor- peration and 12 chlet Livery Com- ponies of Lonilon,

OFFICE BOY WHO MADE A FORTUNE

A MAN who started work as an office-boy, and be cause he hated the drudgery of copying letters, revolu- tionised office work with an invention which brought him a fortune, has died at Nice, aged 85.

Petr

Grandez

Mexico City's "Red Square" jammed with peasants and union members in a mass demonstration of loyalty to President Cardenas, on the Arst anniversary of the oll expropriations. Banners read: "Not One Step Backward In the Oil Expropriation," hailing "economic independence,"

PEER'S RELATIVE

TO RUN

RUN LAUNDRY

Joins The "Firm" By Marriage

HER

UNKNOWN TO FATHER, BANKER EDMUND HENRY BEVAN, OF HILSTON. WALES. MISS WINEFREDA BEVAN, GRAND-DAUGHTER OF LORD GILANTLEY, WAS

MARRIED RECENTLY BY DECLARATION, ACCORDING ΤΟ SCOTTISH LAW, IN JED- BURGH, ROXBURGHSHIRE,

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Bridegroom was Wilhelm Otto von Stans, 36-cars-old son Baron von Blanz. He is a Brush subject.

Beam-Radio

For Yard

A MICRO-WAVE transmitter operating a beam service to police headquarters on the Em- bankment has been installed at Scotland Yard's broadcasting station near West Wickham, Kent.

If every telephone exchange In London were put out of action by bombs the beam, which employa B wave-length of between four and five metres, could maintain an uninter- After a motoring honeymoon in rupted and secret channel of com- Scotland they will return to Jedmunication with little risk of inter- burgh..

There they will work to- ception or jamming, gether to build up a hand laundry business which Mr. von Stanz is starting in Jedburgh,

months ago, but had never been Jedburgh until her wedding day.

Miss Bevan met Mr. Stanz

Ordinary Post Office lines now carry the morse messages tapped out some in the Yard's Information room fo omitters (three on important occasions West Wickham, where two trans- like the Coronation) flash the coded warnings and crime news to patrol- ling Flying Squad cars day and night,

ONE DAY'S NOTICE He was Hungarian-born David Gestetner, inventor of made when Mr. Stanz called to see a Arrangements for the wedding were the famous duplicating machine-which-bears his name. Jedburgh solicitor. He brought

Gestetner's first invention, patented in 1880, was a cyclostyle

In the next year he began to make his duplicating-machines land. in small premises in Cross Street, E.C.

pen

"Thus in the event of wor four proof of 21 days' residence in Scot-separate transmitters could be put on the air at a moment's notice. The A petition was drawn up and sub-"beam" is intended to operate a tele- mitted to Hon. Sheriff Substitute phone service not morse. To-day the Gestetner Company has He found that it худя because Anderson, who granted a warrant an authorised capital of a million papers were short-Abred that they that the marriage should be re- The Home Office has already made pounds, hundreds of branches and inade bad stencil papers and dis-gistered. depots all over the world, employs covered a long-bred one now known about 5,000 men and women, and has as Japanese stencil paper. a large factory at Tollenham.

plans to Ilak up radlo-equipped So carefully were their plans forces in the provinces with this aer guarded that Mr. Stanz's landlady,vice to form a national network of Miss Briggs, of Ellerway House, Jed unbroken communication.

An early discovery by Gestetner Mr. Gesteiner started in a very burgh, did not know he was not com- went a long way to perfect his in small way in 1881, but as early as vention.

1000 he had taken the works at Tot-ing home as usual to lunch.

Mr. Stanz went to Jedburgh last The efficiency of a duplicator de-tenham where Gestetners are made. November, and took over the pre- pends upon the use of a good stencil "He never retired and worked anemises now being changed into paper, which Gestetner found difficult til last Christmas, when he went to to procure.

Nice."

laundry.

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He plans "something new in laun. dries to cater for the big house of the district,"

LONDON'S CHIEF WARDEN London's Chief Air Raid Warden under the new regional etvil defence plan will be the Hon. Arthur Howard, brother of Lord Strathcona and son- in-law of Lord Baldwin.

Mr. Howard, who is 43, was Mayor of Westminster in 1937 and has been Chief Air Raid Warden of West- minster for several months. During the war he Guards,

SHOES AND BRITAIN

Agitation For Limitation

INTERESTING revelations regarding the attempts by rubber goods manufacturers In the United Kingdom to obtain a system for limitation of Hongkong manufactured rubber shoes are contained in the Annual Report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Events leading up to the arrival in Hongkong on January 0 of Mr.

5. T. Rowe,

United representing Kingdom, manufacturers, tra de- scribed in detall in the report.

The report states that the case for the United Kingdom manufacturers was that," after the introduction of the crepo sole shoe about 1924, the manufacturing industry developed considerably. Home manufacturers did not reap what they considered their rightful share on secount of severe Japanese competition.

"Unfair Competition"

'This was suppressed by action under tariffs but, they claim, was Inunediately succeeded by Hongkong | competitori, which was duty free under Imperial Preference and there- fore could not be excluded.

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"I nothing is done, the United Kingdom manufacturers state there will inevitably be agitation, both from manufacturing interests and from trade unions, for a modifica- tion of Imperial Preference, Report states.

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"The argument against Hongkong will be 'unfair competition' from workers on scales of wages lower than those which prevail in the United Kingdom.

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"United Kingdom manufacturers state that Hongkong exports almost completely eliminated thele footwear from other British markets, while Japanese competition has cap- tured the foreign markets.

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"It is only reasonable, they urge, that they should have at least per cent of their own home market in the lines in which Hongkong competes."

5,428,000 Pairs In 1938

The report discloses that Hongkong exports to the United Kingdom of summer footwear has risen from ap- proximately two million pairs per annum between 1934-36 to, 4,540,000

in 1937. In the first nine months of 1938 the total was 5,428,000.

"This great increase caused the United Kingdom manufacturers, who have been making frequent repre- sentations to Government authorities during the last few years, to become seriously alarmed,"

With the arrival of Mr. Rowe in Hongkong in January, the Report con- tinues, the United Kingdom asked Hongkong manufacturers to enter in- lo a

price-maintenance agreement (with ten per cent. Increase in prices) and into voluntary limitation scheme for a two-year period and to undertake to limit output to the United Kingdom to 4,000,000 pairs. of summer footwear, 500,000 pairs of plimsolls, and 250,000 pairs of boots, and to promise not to develop other lines of footwear.

The Imperial Preference Sub-Com- mittee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, in a Report on this suggestion, said it was unable to recommend acceptance. The Com- mittee's view was that Japan created a market (to which Hongkong sue- reeded) for a cheap shoe attracting a class of consumer which did not pre- viously exist, and for whom Home manufacturers were unable, on account of higher labour costs, to cater. Their most serious compet!- tors appeared to the Committee to the Canadian manufacturers operating in the higher priced class.

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SOUTHAMPTON.

THE ship that can move sideways-the new "Red Funnel" 1,300 h.p, motor-ship Vecta, recently made trial runs in the Solent. Propeliers of the Voith-Schneider type enable her not only to turn practically within her own length, but also to dispense with a rudder. She steers, as readily at low speeds as at a normal rate, ahead or astern.

She will carry passengers and motor-cars daily between Southamp ton and the Isle of Wight. Over the measured mile to-day she averaged 15.0 knots.

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"The majority of the Sub-Com- mittee was of the opinion that the industry would benefit, both here and in United Kingdom, if local rubber shoe manufacturers would

into and adhere to a price His job will be to co-ordinate the maintenance agreement; also that, to work of wardens in London.

forestall agitation adverse to Hong- kong's interests under Imperial Pre- ference, it would be advisable for the manufacturers to agree to a voluntary limitation of output.

It may have been a matter of pride A scheme for closer co-operation with Karl C. Kulle's her, but, the between local authorities and the day after a Groton hen laid an eag chairman of Traffic Commissioners in measuring 0% inches in circum-the earmarking of goods vehicles for rerence and 64 inches long, the local A.R.P. services in war time is pro- hen produced one 0%1⁄2 by 7 inches, vided in a circular issued by the

A.R.P. Department.

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MR. MONTAGU NORMAN, head of the Bank of England -“the place where they keep all the‘gold" (old song) -broadcast recently about banknotes.

He said that one of the dulies of| The ship has been built by John the Bank, as agents for the Govern- I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., at their ment, was "to keep clean and tidy" Woolston shipyard, Southampton, a circulation of about 300,000,000 and engined by the English Electric notes.

Co., Ltd., with two sets of six- And he added, “I cannot abide a cylinder Diesels.

dirty note myself."

speeches then seldom exceed one hundred words. To hear them

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by suggested United Kingdom manufacturers ap- peared Impracticable in all the cir cumstances, but the Sub-Committee suggested that a gure lower than The announcement that the Gov-1930 production be considered," ernment has sunctioned the construe- tion of a three-mile A.R.F. tunnel round Ramsgate has brought a flood of applications for house accommo- idation.

The suggestion has even been made- that the Council should consider the construction of a subterranean town with permanent underground dwel lings, schools and hospitals. Local engineers say that this would be feasible.

This step was taken when detalls were disclosed to him of an order from Woolworths in London.

Subsequently further negotiations have progressed, as a result of which certain proposals have been made, chief of which is that Hongkong man- ufacturers have agreed to a schne of limitation if certain obstacles can

is necessary to be a shareholder The Mayor of Ramsgate (Alder-be overcome. and Bank of England shares cost man A. B. C. Kempe) told the "News Mr. Norman's broadcast was rather Chronicle" recently: "The Council

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underground, dwelling we stern. Each blade revolves around Millions at home, in the Empire: His English is so meticulous that have to give it very serious a drum housed within the hull. Dur-and the United States listened in he leaves you wondering: "Is Me.sideration." ing motion the pitch and angle of because it was the first broadcast of Norman a foreigner?”25% these blades can be altered at will the world's No. 1 bunker. But he

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car. Four completo revolutions are

to hear Mr. Norman speak. His ported from the United States, is £250,000. required to put the helm, or rather thepropellers, from hard over to hard over.

only public utterances are when under way in West Australia. The Part of the scheme would include he presides at the half-yearly Federal government has appropriated two traffic tunnels-linking up busy court of the Bank of England. His $67,000 for the quest.

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