1940-11-08 — Page 24

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH November 8, 1940.

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MARTON-On 8th November, 1840, at Bagulo, to Anne, wife of 0. E. C. Marlon, a sob.

The

OF INTEREST TO EVACUEE HUSBANDS

Living

So you may be coming to

live in Australia. That is,

Conditions In Australia

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ACROSS THE FRONTIERS

By ROBERT POWER:

THE

late George Lans- bury once gave some grand advice about growing good; you can be sure of a or tram or own a car; those who ly begin at 25s, and 30s, and go old.

"To all old people," he warm welcome: Naturally can't get to market find our up to 45s. and more a week.

of obtaining daily help, and for wrote, "I would say, if you' you want to know something green-grocery shops very good. You would have a better chance

this the pay is 18. an hour. want a happy, a good, old of the cost of living and

AUSTRALIA is well served A great many women in Aus- age, grow old without know-

with electricity. If you can tralla do their own work, and particularly, if you could

afford to buy electric labour it means no loss of standing.ing you are doing so. And manage on £7 a week..

saving devices you can run your You will find that very true; do this by giving some time you may be at your laundry to tiny children and talking Well, you can. Hundreds of home cheaply and easily.

perts calculate that a small all tubs Monday morning, and meet on terms of equality with Australian familles on electric home can be run on who you will, where you will, them as often as possible." much less than that, for the about £12 a year. Gas for cook Monday afternoon.

If you admit to doing all your Alas! I can hear several old: average basic wage for the ing, heating and refrigeration is Commonwealth is £4-2-0 a week. available in all our big cities own work, far from losing by fellows of my acquaintance the admission you will gain by snort at this injunction. But it That is considered sufficient for and is good and reasonable. two adults and two children; it

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

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live

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It is very true that in order to keep one's youth, no matter at what age, one must mix with

provides baro necessities and you will understand that on the dignity of labour in Austro- nothing more. To the basic £7 a week you must practice wage earner your £7 a' week re- most careful economy because presents something like luxury; you must have money by for so other things clothes; to hundreds of others it is very many little. The man in the bigger they are reasonable here, c 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 But you can-with wise manage your house; insurance; medical dinner and we serve supper-the company of the young. The

ment and economy.

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

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

hongkong Telegraph.country too, of orchards and

Friday, Nov. 8, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 26015

is used by the "longkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- catione Ordinance, 1910. Bach new an bears the indication "UTH 1 received in tlonkkone on the date of publication by serve all rights and fortid republication. the United Press Associations, who re either wholly or in part without previous arrangement

into our suburban areas as I

BY JOAN GILLISON

In A Broadcast From Sydney

You will find that entertain youth. Nothing is so essential ing here is simple. Dinner as to keep touch with the whole parties there are, but the great pattern of life in order to retain majority of us have our friends one's own identity within it. come to spend the evening after

The young, naturally, profer

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

company of the old. Yet the Or our women friends come in frontiers between the two ought 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 seek the expensive.

{adventure companionship Iwith the old, and the old should

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maintain touch with youth as with the fount and origin of their own being."

Mr. Lansbury was also right-

in stressing that all such trafficking across the frontiers must be on equal

Four methods of housekeeping and pricing sound strange to poultry farms-and you may

you there is a good way to over 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

One touch of condescension, one THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph the fowls and vegetable garden. help with these and education, economy for both young girls s

On 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 and follow on to the high invaluable to you. expect the majority of you schools and so up to the univer- been concerned with ways and more than it does do to understand

Necessarily this talk has all to with a ellek,

Each generation ought to do far would-still you can have

Bity. No fees are charged at

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

But den and a small pen for fowls, fees

we have good feneration on each side of it. In- at the high schools. pounds.

tolerance is an ugly thing, and no- Many families do.

Scholarships are available right things to give you for which where more ugly than when it ex- ☆

through for the particularly you need no money at all. We presses itself in terms of censure be- ✩

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have sunshine most of the year; tween the

one generation people of good scholar.

wonderful beaches near all our and the next.

Because of the friction created Ly ECENTLY our Common-

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capital cities; lovely gardens in

this intolerance, SOMO men and wealth Arbitration Court

women arrive at old age embittered discussed the minimum living YOU will notice that I haven't the heart of the cities.

mentioned domestic help. In these dark days of war, because they have allowed. them- cost for an Australian family.

Australian is selves to become strangers within A. dietitian, basing her figures Frankly, I don't see how on £7 though every

"Yours is the world, and on the cheapest groceries avail- a week you could possibly afford heart and soul with Great Bri- the world and strangers to their own able and a diet that was just domestic help. Still you may tain, we are far from the actual youth.

That is the inheritance of the "All-Including the adequate and no more, computed choose to deny yourself various combat and we can give you in It

man. that £2 18. 9d. was the absolute things so as to have help. Even comparative peace and security.full

And above all, whether you young of every age, with their new 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 £7 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.

To cut oneself off from all this is children,

munition works. Good help is dom which is the very core of to die, though one may still walk the

earth with a fair show of vigour. available, but the wages usual- our being.

REASONABLE REQUEST

to the reaction PUBLIC Government's announcement of the abandonment of the compul- sory evacuation scheme and the refusal to lift restrictions on the return of the Colony's evacuees, will probably find crystallised expression at this evening's meeting, at the Peninsula Hotel. The authorities are likely to dis-

Housewives of the small in- cover that 'what originally was come group-handling more, a somewhat forlorn quest for though-not-a-great-deal-more, than the basic wage-argued information, has developed into that this was too little, even a public outcry and demand for housekeeping in industrial which will be difficult, if not im- suburbs; they claimed £2 10s, a

week was nearer the mark. possible, to side-track.

Our evacuated women have been subjected to arbitrary treatment from the start and the

A typical week's budget of the small income group was this

meat, 88.; fruit and vege tables, 88.; (much reduced if you grow your own vegetables); uncompromising refusal to per-milk, at 34d. a pint, 68. 6d.; mit them even the opportunity bread at 8d. a lb., 2s. 6d.; gro- of returning is merely perpe-ceries 128.; electric light and power, 28. Gd.; gas, 28. 8d.; fuel, tuating the injustice; it means in winter time, 38. that once again Government re-

That comes to just on 22 58. fuses to admit that it has made you would find that the odd Ia mistake. The authorities have extras in housekeeping quickly never successfully countered the brought it up to £2 10s. Well I know it, because I belong to accusation that compulsory eva- the small income group myself. cuation at any stage was an Butter averages from 1s. 4d. error; the indictment has been to 1s. 7d. a Ib.; tea, 2s. 6d. a lb.; sugar, 4d, a lb.; flour, 211⁄2d, ignored; to-day they continue to lb.; rice, 4d, a lb.; bacon, 18. justify their blunder with a de-4d. to 18. 9d. alb.; coffee, 28. cision which makes the second ed. a lb. Our own excellent tin- ned fruits, vegetables and tinned state worse than the first.

foods are not dear.

Yesterday the "Telegraph" postulated a series of questions

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which, if answered honestly, W have an abundance of

beautiful-and cheap-vege- and fruits the year round; every overseas visitor

may contribute towards a 'sensi- tables

care to name.

blo solution to the present enlg-always comments on this. We ma; they prompt another query. can buy greens and salads 'in Can it be legally argued, or morally winter or summer, and in sea- Justified that when a scheme, such son, almost any vegetable you an compulsory evacuation, has been abandoned, addenda complementary On an average we pay 3d. to the original scheme may remain and 4d, a lb, for our greens; 8d. effective? The restrictions imposed and upward for cauliflowers; 2d. upon evacuees returning to Hongkong and upwards for cabbages; for came after the Introduction of the apples, pears, peaches and to compulsory evacuation scherne and were intended to make the whole matoes we give about 4d. a lb.; thing water-light. Now that scheme oranges, 16 a shilling, with big has been abandoned. It is hard to onca at 2d, each,' justify the continued application" of

these additional restrictions in their All the big cities and many entirety. The least concession which suburbs have fine-markets where can be given la to permit, if they, so. destro, unmarried adults and married you will see stall upon stall, a women without children to return to blaze. of colour from fruits and Hongkong. Hito-night's meeting de vegetables. They are cheapor golden to make this request; we feel than in the shops, but to go to that they will be not making anything market you must be near train

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An amusing "'invasion" cartoon from the Chicago Tribune, Note

the Blitzkrieg score card,