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Friday,

HONGKONG telegraph

USED CARS

Make

Miles Reg. No. Price:

Bultk Sedang tekut

1935

Morris 10 Saloon

1034

38847 5285 $2,300.

....35592 0007 . #· DOO

Humber 13 Saloon

1934

a2420 $4 $1,000

Singer 11 Saloon

1035

31864. 3615 $1,400 Studebaker Champion Coupo

1940

2302 SGD $3,000 Studebaker Champion Sedan

1940

1543 0417 $4,200 Vauxhall 14 Saloon

1934

35213 3202 $1,300 Studebaker Sedan

1930

November 8, 1940.

OF INTEREST TO EVACUEE HUSBANDS

ACROSS THE

Living Conditions FRONTIERS

So you may be coming to

live in Australia. That is

In

Australia

By ROBERT POWER THE late George Lans- bury once gave some grand advice about growing

And

good; you can be sure of or tram or own a car; those who ly begin at 26s, and 30s. and go old. warm welcome. Naturally can't got to market find our up to 458. and more a week.

"To all old people," h

"he green-grocery shops very good. You would have a better chance you want to know something.

of obtaining daily help, and for wrote, "I would say, if you this the pay is 18. an hour, want a happy, a good, old 14887 70 $1,750 of the cost of living and'

AUSTRALIA is well sarved A great many women in Aus- particularly, if you could

afford to buy electric labour it means no loss of standing. ing you are doing so.

with electricity. If you can tralia do their own work, and age, grow old without know manage on £7 a week.

saving devices you can run your You will find that very true; do this by giving some time Well, you can.

Hundreds of home cheaply and easily. Ex- Australian families... live on electric home can be run on who you will, where you will them as often as possible.”

perts calculate that a small all- tubs Monday morning, and meet on terms of equality with you may be at your laundry to tiny children and talking

much less than that, for the about £12 a year. Gas for cook- Monday afternoon. average basic wage for the ing, heating and refrigeration is If you admit to doing all your Alas! I can hear several öld. Commonwealth is £4-2-0 a week. avallable in all our big cities own work, far from losing by fellows of my acquaintance That is considered sufficient for, and is good and reasonable.

the admission you will gain by snort at this injunction. But it two adults and two children; it

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it, for we have a real sense of is logical, it la sound,

All cars serviced the samo as

for new cars

ADDITIONALLY —-

All units of $1500 and over in valus carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage guarantee for three months.

Inspection and trial invited

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Rd.

The

Phone 27778/9.

Thongkong Telegraph.

Friday, Nov. 8, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"

used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to

Indicate news which is strictly copyright cations Ordinance. Such bears the indication "gp is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication. alther wholly or la part without previous arrangement.

unders posince 2018. Bach news

REASONABLE REQUEST

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provides bare necessities and you will understand that on the dignity of labour in Austra nothing more. To the basic.. £7 a week you must practice wage earner your £7 a week re- most careful "economy because

to hundreds of others it is very many

**

It is very true that in order to keep one's youth, no matter at what age, one must mix with presents something like luxury; you must have money by for so

other things-clothes: YOU will find that entertain youth. Nothing is so essential ing here is simple. Dinner as to keep touch with the whole little. The man in the bigger they are reasonable here, es- parties there are, but the great pattern of life in order to retain income group may, even say to pecially our lovely silk stock- you, "No, you can't live on it." ings; taxes; rates-if you buy majority of us have our friends one's own identity within it.

come to spend the evening after But you can with wise manage your house; insurance; medical dinner and we serve supper

ment and economy.

Should you choose to live in the country you can make three economies; keep a cow; have hens; grow vegetables.

BY JOAN GILLISON

In A Broadcast From Sydney

the company of the young. The and

The young, naturally, prefer coffee and sandwiches old, without thinking, prefer the savouries-about 10 p.m.

Or our women friends come in frontiers between the two ought company of the old. Yet the the afternoon and have a cup of never to be closed, with armed tea with us, and scones and guards, as it were, on either cake; all very pleasant and in- side. Youth should seck the adventure of companionship with the old, and the old should

expensive.

Mr. Lansbury was also right-

across the frontiers must be on equal

terms.

If you come to the outskirts of our big cities you are still virtually in the country-lovely

I our methods of housekeeping maintain touch with youth as. country too, of orchards and

and pricing sound strange to with the fount and origin of poultry farms-and you may

you there is a good way to over- their own being. practice those three economies, though you would probably pre- expenses-you would probably come it; in all our cities we have fer to buy milk and just have join one of the many lodges to splendid schools of domestic stressing that all such trafficking the fowls and vegetable garden. help with these and education: economy for both young girls

One touch of condescension, one On £7 a week your children and women; a short course at And even if you come right would go to our State schools one of these would be absolutely small hint of stooping from a great height, and the frontier-gates swing. into our suburban areas as I and follow on to the high invaluable to you.

to with a click. expect the majority of you schools and so up to the univer

Necessarily this talk has all Each generation ought to do far would still you can have a gity. No fees are charged at been concerned with ways and more than it does do to understand

with vegetable plot in your back gar- the state schools and only small means;

pennies and and sympathise with the ideals of the den and a small pen for fowls. fees

But we have good generation on each side of it. In- at the high schools. pounds. Many families do.

Scholarships are available right things to give you for which tolerance is an ugly thing, and no-

where mor

more ugly than when it ex- presses itself

In terms of censure be- through for the particularly you need no money at all.

have sunshine most of the year: tween the people of one generation good scholar.

wonderful beaches near all our and the next capital cities; lovely gardens in

mentioned domestic help. In these dark days of war, every Australian is will probably find crystallised A dietitian, basing her figures Frankly, I don't see how on 27 though expression at this evening's on the cheapest groceries avail. 4 week you could possibly afford heart and soul with Great Bri- meeting at the Peninsula Hotel. able and a diet that was just domestic help. Still you may tain, we are far from the actual youth is the world, and all that's The authorities are likely to din adequate and no more, computed choose to deny yourself various combat and we can give you in it That is the inheritance of the

that £2 18. 9d. was the absolute things so as to have help. Even comparative peace and security full man. "All Including minimum to allow for food for then it isn't easy to obtain. I'm a family of two adults and two bound to admit that. So many have 47 a week or £27, you can interests, their stimulating activity,

girls, for one thing, are in share this with us that free. their zest for life. munition works. Good help is dom which is the very core of to die, though one may still walk the available, but the wages usual- our being:

PUBLIC reaction to the Government's announcement of the abandonment of the compul. Rory evacuation scheme and the

refusal to lift restrictions on the

return of the Colony's evacuees,

cover that what originally was a somewhat forlorn quest for information, has developed into a publie outery and demand which will be difficult, if not im- possible,-to-side-track.--

Our evacuated women have been subjected to arbitrary treatment from the start and the uncompromising refusal to per- mit them even the opportunity of returning is merely perpe tuating the injustice; it means that once again Government re- fuses to admit that it has made a mistake. The nuthorities have never successfully countered the accusation that compulsory eva- cuation at any stage was an error; the indictment has been ignored; to-day they continue to justify their blunder with a de- cision which makes the second state worse than the first,

✰✰... ECENTLY our Common-

wealth Arbitration Court you will notice that I haven't the heart of the cities.

discussed the minimum living cost for an Australian family.

children.

Housewives of the small in- come group-handling more, though not a great deal more, than the basic wugeurgued. that this was too little, even for housekeeping in industrial suburbs; they claimed £2, 10s. a week was nearer the mark.

A. typical week's budget of the small income group was this -meat, 88.; fruit and vege- tables, 8s.; (much reduced if you grow your own vegetables); milk, at 3d. a pint, Gs. Gd.; bread at 3d. a lb., 2s. 6d.; gro- ceries 128.; electric light and power, 2x. 6d.; gas, 2s. 3d.; fuel, In winter time, 38.

That comes to just on £2 Gs. you would find that the odd extras in housekeeping quickly brought it up to £2 108.

Well I know it, because I belong to the small Income group myself. Butter averages from 1s. 4d. 'to 1s. 71⁄2d, a b.; tea, 2s. 6d. a lb.; sugar, 4d, a lb.; flour, 211⁄2d. a lb. rico, 4d; a lb.; bacon, 1s. 4d. to 1s. 9d, a lb.; coffee, 28. 6d. a lb. Our own excellent tin- ned fruits, vegetables and tinned foods are not dear.

Yesterday the "Telegraph" postulated a series of questions which, if answered honestly, may contribute towards a sensi- ; ble solution to the present enig- ma; they prompt another query. WE have an abundance of beautiful-and chomp-vege- Can it be legally argued, or morally tables and fruits the justified that "when a scheme, auch round; every overseas visitor as compulsory evacuation, has been always comments, on this. Wo abundoned, addenda complementary can buy greens and salads in to the original scheme may remain winter or summer, and in sea- effective? The restrictions imposed son, almost any vegetable you upon evacuées returning to Hongkong.

care to name.

year

came after the Introduction of the On an average we pay 3d. compulsory evacuation scheme" and "and 4d. a lb, for our greens; 3d. were intended to make. the whole and upward for cauliflowers; 2d. and upwards for cabbages; for thing water-tight. Now that scheme apples, poara, peaches and to has been abandoned it is hard to matoes we give about 4d. a lb, Justify the continued application of oranges, 16 a shilling, with big these additional restrictions in their ones at 2d, each.

entirely. The isust concession which All the big cities and many

dari be given is to permit, If they so.

desire, unmarried adults and married suburbs have fine markets where women without children to return to you will see stall upon stall, a Hongkong. It to-night's meeting de- blaze of colour from fruits and dides to make this request, we feel vegetables. They are cheaper that they will be, not making anything - than in the shops, but to go to. unreasonable

market you must be near tráin

We

this

Because of the friction created ly Intolerance, Bome men and women arrive at old age embittered because they have allowed them- selves to become strangers within their own the world and strangers to

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And above all, whether you young of every age, with their now

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