Geneva, Aug. 30.
Dr. Wu Kai-sing, Director of the Permanent Office of the Chinese Delegation to- the League of Nations, has depo: lted with the Secretariat of the League "560,000 'Swiss' franes towards payment of (China's contribution to the expenses of the League for 1929.—Reuter.
After-many rumours as to what was to happen to the Dorchester House site in Park Lane, it now transpires that the building and land have been sold to the Gordon Hotels, Ltd, and that it is their intention to build thereon a hotel which is to rank with the finest in Europe, The same syndicate recently built the Mayfair Hotel in Berkeley Street and have had such [success there that they feel justified in repeating the experiment in Park Lane. Thus comes another step in the gradual change of Park Lane from a street of luxury houses to an avenue of gigantic hotels, shops, and blocks of flats. The rumour that Dorchester House was to become the new National Sporting Club is now] definitely disposed of and the new hotel will be ready some time in 1931.
While many of us regret this tran. sition of one of London's most delightful residential streets, there is something to be said for the erection of large buildings in a more; central position. London, at' pre-ut, spreads its vast population over a much larger area than is really necessary ard it is matter of} rear amusement to our American friends to see our rows and rows of two-storey houses where they would have blocks of flats. The change ill undoubtedly come as land becomes more and more _valuable the London of the future wi nothing but a collection of enormous buildings, The Prime (er's Salary.
The inadequacy of the Prime! Minister's salary as raised in the House of Commons. this week by Mr. Brenden Bracken, the new Conservative Member for Padding. ton, and, judging by the favourable reception given to the proposal, it! seems that it will only be a matter lof time before the change is made, JAn ings ity was mate in 1921 and it, was then recommended that $8,000 9 year would be more adequate than the present £5,000. It} a well-known F1t that no Prime inister can entertain all his tect ry guests in a fitting manner ithout having t" pet his hand into his own pocket to a considerable extent and we Save it from Mr.
Asquith that he went out of office a considerably poy'er man than when the entered it, Now that we seem to be entering 0: un era when a ist Prinso Minister may be.
common recurrence, it is ix) that something should be Jdone to make the salary of that]
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