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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1949.

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Britain's Falling

Londoners Get A

Peep At Life In The

The Colonies

By JOAN ERSKINE

rest

7ITH very few ex- they sink in a corner to

ceptions the long before they have seen the

whole.

Colonies are tropl-

cal or sub-tropical...." ran

the notice beneath`a large

The Humidity.

Illuminated map, showing IEX are not likely to do that the geographical setting of start to finish one's interest

at this exhibition. From

the main colonial regions.

held and sustained. When

is

The small Colonial Exhibition went, I left sunlit Oxford Street which in the principal Picial with its crowds of sightseers and contribution to "Colonial shoppers, and found myself in | Month," is in no way com- the humid atmosphere of the parable to the huge exhibitions West African jungle. The en- sirged at Wembley or Olympia. tranco is through a model of But 1 is a miracle of careful. Part of a traditional African planning and artistic thought. house-"The old Africa, a home The drawback of exhibitions the of mud, windowless, airless, and Calze of the British Industries Insanitary,"

Fair is that their very size do- feats their purpose. The public are su exhausted after tramp ing a few thousand acres that

Birth-Rate: Part

Two

BRINGING UP A FAMILY MUST BE MADE EASIER

That is the view of

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the Royal Commis- sion of Population - eight man and six women-sat up in Britain to examine tho birth- country's declining

rate. The first part of this article appeared yesterday.

THE cost of bringing up children, points out

T

the report, has been

pro-

For instance, different

Midwife services should bo fessions might have their own available for four weeks, if tho pooling scheinca for family mother has her now baby ot allowances, all paying In, and home, and for at least two those with familles drawing weeks after her return home, if from the fund. This "deserves she goes to hospital. the serious attention of profes- Women who might not want sional organisations.”

to take full-time employment might give domestic relief ser- vice on a part-time basis.

Discussing income tax allow

the unces for the family man, report says the present allow- ance of £00 per child is insuf- ficient.

Nurseries

Then a short stretch of jungle, dimly green, and full of weird twittering animat noises, and steamy heat, led Into the "New Africa-a modern home, well ventilated, clean, hygenie,"

The rest of the exhibition is divided into amant sections, deal-

Ing forcefully with subjects such ng the "Menaces of

climate, nature, plant disease and human disease, poverty and malnutri- tion." It brings home, by means of photographs and working models, the enormous difficulties that beset those who are doing their best to improve the silun tlon in the colonies. Small cinema shows are going on con- tinuously-but do not Interfere with each other, as each amait screen is in a recess.

Focus On Pests DESTS➡tsetse

and

fly, mosquito, locunt can ba seen through magnifying glasses set through in the wall. I gazed one, and found myself looking at a fearsome creature wielding a long spear, storing balefully at me with tiny eyes. That, read on the notice above, WOR the drended tsetse fly. One vivarium housed a group of At present, a couple with DAY nurseries might be re- swarming locust which tas- organised on a morning and cinated visitors almost as much £800 a year, and a family of afternoon sessions basis, so that as the tactse fly. four, are regarded as having the twice the number of bables Next I was attracted to a alm same taxable capacity as a might be looked after for halt showing a section of under- bachelor with £412, or a child a day at a time. The nurseries developed territory where farm- less couple with £500, and all

might also be used as pay the same tax,

primitive and centres during school holidaying is often

wasteful. It showed how Im- Residential nurseries are sug-provements could be, and are results in bachelors cally better off than the family mothers are ill or in need of rest, or to look after children MOTHERS have shared very little in the great reduction of man because they have a larger while their mothers take a holi working hours and the shift from heavier to lighter work. margin to spend on luxuries The work of running a home and caring for a family have and amenities.

day.. Lagged behind the gènefol ́advance in living and working

increased by the raising of 1849: Four In tivo families had more than two children. the school-leaving age from

parents &s

14 to 15. The commission "cannot accept" the conten- tion that financial aid and tax reliefs for should be put off until the national financial position is easier, because lack of nc- tion will, in effect, be going buck, and the family's economic position will worgen.

"We regard a moderate exten- sion of assistance to parents not merely as a desirable objective, of long-term policy, but as an urgent need.”

It is suggested that the finan- cial alds should be pressed forward, but it is recognised that some of the other pro- posals-home helps, more day nurseries, and so on may have to walt until the labour situation is easier..

Higher cost FAMILY allowances

..

THIS TRIBUTE

the

heart of the report and the childes being economi- gusted for children when their being, mande.

conditions.

"In general, the only way in which mothers can share in the important social gain of Icisure is by severely limiting their lamities.

*It is unlikely that, in any foreseeable conditions, mothers as a whole will have as much leisure as other sections of the community,

Many of them accept this handicap, sciting against it the deeper satisfactions of motherhood: but, in present con ditions, as one wliness puts it, the price most mothers are asked to pay is too high."

'Recommended'

More "altters-in" should

he

The report has this to say on:

2

On my way through "Colonial Administration" i rashly peeped round a corner and found myself equipped with a peculiar pair of spectacles, one lense red, and the other green. The Surveying Section had found a victim. The glasses brought the huge plan

of

piece of territory into sharp relief, giving the impression of a model, instead of a flat surface. were was shown how maps drawn, and surveying out. This huge apparatus known as the ping equipment.

carried

Multiplex Map-

15

Hongkong Merchant

AMONG the life-size

One proposal exomined was available, 80, that married that the rate of tax should be based on the average income per evening out together, and local couples may have an occasional head of the family.

councils might organise the ser vice where voluntary silters-in are not available.

These would be paid for by BUT a better suggestion, in the parents, according to means, but commission's view, la that they would not be available for the allowances for children, households with an only child instead of being at a flat rate of under two. £60 each, should be one-tenth of the income for each child,

WASHING: This is a "heavy with a minimum of £60, and and tiring job," and was de-

**TUS- the one-tenth allowance to be scribed by one witness as a provision

saud" models of

Colonia! Hmited to incomes of not more "nightmare," so the than £2,000 a year.

of washing machines on hire peoples was a Hongkong mer purchase suggested, with chant sitting diligently typing in As this is "on the high side."__priority for familien of two or his office. Over thirty types the

were featured to show the wide commission recommends more children. that,

Incomes on

bolween

the There should also be more diversity of peoples In £1,000 and £2,000, the allow publie washhouses "on imagina- various regions.

Infant mortality, leper sellic- once should be one-tenth on tive lines." the Best £1,000, and

ARTIFICIAL INSEMÍNA-¡ments, protective settlements, twentieth on all in excess of TION: "This subject, raises education, and many other sub- thin.

serious moral, legal, and protes-jects were graphically Illustrat- alanal questions, which wo do ed. Tiny sparking fewel-like not think it is our business, to fish from the Caribbean, the Far discuss in this report."

East, and other parts flickered HOUSING: Many wrole to the in aquariums set in the walls. commission saying they "dare Witch doctors' Implements hung allowances to 10s, a week would is suggested that the youngest,

not"

have a child until they got from the celling, exquisite hand- cost only another £60 million rather than, as now, the eldest, for any system of marriage loans should be exempt from laxation, is concentrating too much on the corners, primitive antimas by There is not a sufficient case The commission suggests that better housing, and the commis-work decorated the walls, masks Another suggestion is that the should be left out.

the Slate family allowances sion considers the Government glared unexpectedly from odd Arst child should still be left.

or allowances especially as the out, but that the allowance for it is suggested that the

As the cost of living has risen, rate of marriage today is excep- mainly because the present sys- three-bedroomed house and that great beauty, and paintings by the second chid should be raised allowance to all children under age

Es. tionally high and the marriage tem of taxing them has "serious there should be more elasticity local artists decorated other sec- lo 7s. Gd, and for all other de- 11 should be raised to 75.

exceptionally low, and psychological disadvantages.” pendent children to 158, week, and to all over 11 to 10s. tall serious economic hardship."

amarriage as such does not en week. This would cost about a week, whether the other plans

£02 million.

are adopted or not.

(5s, a week for each child, except the first) cast 200 million year, and if the allowance also went to the Brst child, it would cost £128 million-08 million more--a year, as there are many one-child homes.

But to continue exclude the first child and to raise the other

"But even as an ultimate aim," says the report, "we do

1949: One. In three tamilies have more than two children.

Assuming the frst child were this plan would

Contributions

ink it desirable to relieve still left oultional £33,500,000 a A should be a

parents of the whole financial cost of maintaining their chil- year.

dren, although we believe that the financial burden

one-

Maximum deduction would then be £150 a child, on in- comes of £2,000 n. year

row of

in the size of houses built with tions.

Next I brushed up my history Taxpayers, says the report, State ald. feel that the State in "always People should be encouraged by reading "How the British looking round to see how it can to move into smaller houses Came," (and how the Colonies governed). A huge figure- take back with one hand what when their familles grow up and are It gives with the other," and this leave home, to make room for head from one of our old chips PROPOSAL that there is therefore a matter on which those with growing familles. I walked round this

"gazed proudly above my head us.

section, Old houses at contributory it would be wise not to press

least three million, of them should scheme for family allowances, logic to the extreme."

be where the information is given In the form of brought up to date, with things to the public We recommend this as repre- cach contributing according to Income, is turned down as be-

In a long examination of the like modern kitchen units at-large books on the wall. There

Was parents senting the minimum policy re-ing open to objections of de handicaps suffered by mothers, led, and refrigerators on bire.

Illustrious have to bear is today exces quired to do justice to the incisive weight."

the report saya, the conflict be MARRIAGE TRAINING: ns-Sir Walter Raleigh, Bir tween family lies and the do- There should be more classes in James Cook, Lord Nelson, Livingstone, John Hanning It would in effect, it is argued, aire to live a fuller life cannot housekeeping, including some

Speke, Sir Stamford Raffles-to be an addition to the income tax be resolved without community for boys, to instil a rense

name a few. to make sacrifices would be a the first child in the allowance rent to effort and enterprise.

of rate, and would act as a deter help.

responsibility, as well 29 In a small section・ where profound psychological mistake." system, the commission points

This is Justified in fairness to technical knowledge Improved fountains played, I mund book The suggestion that the allow out that this child usually calls.

As the allowances would be mothers and in the interests of sex education is also advocated. lets on the beauty spots in the ance should go up when a child for

Finally, it is suggested that heavy spending on cols, avaliable to all, it might involve the community as a whole. reacher the secondary school prams, and other equipment, a man who has reached an in- Even where no help is er eil-at present Mr Herbert Mor-

the Lord President of the Coun. Bahamas. age (11 years) is justified on and may also lead to the come of £400 a year only late dinarily needed in running TOM D'ANDREA • HELEN WESTCOTT - DOUGLAS KENHEDY RICHARD BARE the ground, that costs of keep mothers giving up peld work in lle contributing to the sup home, a. mother still needs "od responsible for watching popula- rison should be made generally

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terests of the family, even in "To attempt to build up the times of financial stringency and population

on the assumption economic difficulty." that parents cannot be expected Arguing for the Inclusion

then rise and the choo begins If no allowance is to be given, to pinch most acutely."

there might be a special lump It is therefore urged that the sum payment for a first child, allowance should be doubled, to and allowances for children en 108. a. week, at that oge.

titled 10 them might begin If one child of a family is to before they are barn to meet

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"They Speak!!"

port of the family of a young eastoral rellef from continuous ton maysments and their bear-TWO tall figures stood nearby barrister beginning his career

dulles "on with her home ing on national' policies. with £400 a year.

and it is proposed that.

resplendent in greens coâts, (Royal Commission on Popu- silver chain epaulettes, puttees But "the question. remains more domestic help should be station Report, H.M. Stationery and spurs, and red, groen, yel whether some more appropriate made available, in normal cit Office, 48, 68.).

low and black striped, hõad- and satisfactory, way of apply- cumstances and not merely In

dresses." When I 'had recoveredi" ing the principle can be found." emergencies.

--{London. Express' Service) (Continued en Pago. 5)

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