BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

.USTKxLIi.S .MJ iS.Z. CAUOI. AoSUCf AIIOST COCNTESS GIVES BIRTH TO ' TWINS.

LONDON, May 14. ! The Countess of l.even and Melville | lias given birth to twin sons, which i raises the question of succession to . the Earldom. The newspapers recall that th'' present Ear! of Durham suo- ! reeded by virtue of bis birth preceding his twin brother's by thirty minutes. PRINT E OF WALES. LONDON, .May IT. The Prince o: Wales attends the opening of the Olympiad at Paris. ; CHINESE ON THE DOLE. LONDON, .March 11. How able-bodied Chinese in the East End of Loudon live on the dole rather than work was described to a reporter ye-terila.v by a woman who has made a i Id—e study ol London’s Chinatown. 1 She said : J I know one brainy Chinese who has i been living contentedly on the dolo 1 sice last July. His Etilislt wife admlt- | led that he was drawing 22s Gd a week, but it may be more. He is a clerk and a clyver artist. He could easily get work but be prefers tlie dole. He is a great opium-smoker, and be thinks it wonderful that lie should do nothing and that the British Government should pav for his opium-smoking. This man lias four children, two of i whom are at school, while his wife goes * out to work in the West End. She t asked me to state that she had been employed by me at 15s it week, so that she could draw the dole herself. There are a number of Chinese drawing tho dole front tlie Poplar Guardians instead of working. Why should we work hard to keep these people in idleness when they might ho working?