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PUBLIC HEALTH.
gerous infectious diseases,"
according to Dr. A. L. Hoops,
17
with all they had seen, and the lustonishingly high
standard which had been achieved there in the realms of medicine and that more complex problem-the public health.
LOST HIS NERVE.
ENQUIRY INTO FIREMAN'S FALL.
BRIGADE DRILL DEMONSTRATION.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
So many stories the devil, and pointing in turn_to` HARRY AGAIN: have been invent a Scotsman, an Irishman,, and a ed around the Canadian, he said: "He can reach Tó fallure of his nerve when at personality of Sir Harry Lauder ||you."
a good height from the ground in that it is pleasant to be able to Then his eye met an absorbed record a trua one. Someone ask- |Australian, and he said. "And the the course of hook ladder drill was ed him for a subscription to a devil can also reach you, too." attributed the fall of a
Fire charity.
Sir Harry wanted to Promptly the Australian re- Brigade recruit into the circum-know how much he was expected plied, "Well, the damn thing stances of whose death Mr. R. Eto give. When a sum was named might just as well be loose."
he gave double, remarking as he That stopped the argument," Lindzell (as Coroner) and a jury did so: "The mon that expects a added Birdwood. enquired at the Central Magis-geeft from a Scot desairves what tracy yesterday.
he gets!" Which could be taken Evidence was given to the two ways. affect that on December 31 the recruit ascended to the fourth
A FULL.. stage and then hooked his ladder PROGRAMME. to the one higher up, and started
For example, there is the new to climb. The ladder appeared to an operation at the age of 78, was be securely fixed: As he started famous among other things for a trade in frozen eggs. Egg mer- to climb, he seemed to give the reply he is said to have given to chants we have always had, and his father, who asked, what he in- egg albumen manufacturers, and ladder a push which made it tended to do with his life. "Well, in course of time we became fami- swing. The recruit tried to catchair," he is fabled to have answer har with merchants of eggs in hold of the cross-bar on the tower, ed. "between cricket in the sum-powder and liquid form, while but failed to reach it. He released mer and hunting and football in there are no fewer than five egg his right hand from the rung, and the winter. I really think my aubstitute makers. Now there is fell a distance of about forty feet life is going to be a full one." He one importer of eggs frozen. to the ground.
lowed Eis nickname of "Monkey””
Amongst other new trade head- to his extraordinary agility in his ings are younger days, when he was the most famous of ail stealers of
The new issue of NEW Kelly P.0. OCCUPATIONS. Directory for 1926 Mr. A. N. Hornby,
(558) contains a the veteran Lanca-number of new occupations to shire sportsman, which fathers can put their sons: who has died after or daughters.
A foreman in the Fire Brigade Evidently there are lessons for who conducted the class on that day said that the recruit had Hongkong to be derived from joined a little over a fortnight short runs. Manchuria, the benefit of which before the incident. Firemen will not be lost, thanks to the were taught to hold the rungs
tightly and not the upright in THE COMIC sonding of Dr. Severn as Hong-cases such as that in question. kong's representative.
There would have been no danger if the man had kept a firm grip on the ladder.
"EXCESSIVELY UGLY.”
·TAIKOO BALL.
LAST NIGHT'S ENJOYABLE FUNCTION.
PLEASING DECORATIONE.
The Taikoo Club Ballroom was
а
MUSE.
An epicure, dining at Crewe,
Found quite a large mouse in the stew, Said the waiter, "Don't shout And wave it about.
Air pre-heater makers.. Dynamic balancing machines, Electrical carcase wiring, Table liners, and Motor-car dealers (by hire
purchase)..
Altogether there are 5,000 trades and professions in this monumental work, which em- braces the County of London to-
Or the rest will be wanting one gether with part of the Borough
too!!*
THE REAL WENCESLAS.
11
ATLAS JOYS.
The other day I met a man who
My own atlas is a particularly
Mr. H. T. Brooks, Superinten- Mr. Bernard Shaw has made dent of the Fire Brigade, said he
of West Ham. The publishers known an accident
say that in the revision of the the suggestion, and like most, if had never
"Good King 4,000 pages some of the correct- not all of his utterances, there is similar to this in connection with
Wenceslas," which ions were 50 per cent. to the something to be said for it. His hook ladders:
still seems the most page. cpinion is that all buildings should Mr. Lindsell said he thought it be razed after being in existence would be advantageous if the discordant minstrels, was not a London there are no fewer than popular carol with An astonishing fact is that in
ten years.
All buildings"ury could see the ladders in use, king but a duke; his expedition 104 eel-pic houses, not courting. needs some qualification, for no and it was arranged that the "on the Feast of Stephen" was not branch establishments. lone desires to see the wanton Coroner and jury should visit the a picturesque embassy of mercy, destruction of those places of Wanchai station next Tuesday and the tender young page was antiquity which in themselves, morning to see the drill perform-ulas!
When you are in the middle-aged knight. Apvich. "gym" playing for exer- Hongkong, Saturday, January 16, 1928. are reminders of past greatnessed and to continue the inquiry Wenceslas drank top, much, adt
and are as pleasing to the eye as afterwards.
cising, suppose a man ing naively. "as a prince might," scratches you or give you a butt. they were to those who built
but he took drastic measures with with his head, cutting your them. But in general, let the
other drunkards. "If he could cheek. Don't show any sign that plea be accepted; and at once go
convert them in no other way he you notice it and don't suspect numerous slums, tenement houses,
would invite them to supper and that he did it deliberately or that Outside medical and sanitary bungalows, and buildings. whose
beat them lustily." Wenceslas he is a treacherous fellow. Yet was killed in a dranken brawl by at the same time don't be too care- circles little interest is naturally only excuse for existence is their utilitarianism. Think of the
his brother Borislaus.. taken locally in such an academic trade impulse such a suggestion..
less; keep watch out of the corner subject as the public health and if adopted, would provide, to say
of your eye. He may not be try- "Birdie" that is ing to harm you, but take no sanitation of Manchuria. Still, the nothing of the urge to architects
THE DEVIL'S to say, Field-Mar- chances. Just keep out of his to give their imagination full play.
LONG ARM.. shal Sir William way. recent public health conference
That's easy, Just watch If we are to took at buildings all
Birdwood! Com- out and don't let him get near you, held at Dairen, under the auspices our days, let the buildings be
mander-in-Chief in India -has" and there'll be no trouble. Which of the League of Nations, threw worth looking at. How much the
been telling more stories about is cne of the best ways, we know much light or the conditions mind is directed in the right.
channel, by what the eye sees, we beautifully decorated in black Australians, this time in a speech of to avoid trouble if i we know
(at Calcutta. prevailing, there-"a marvellous do not pretend to know. But if and gold with coloured lights for
done with a proper maintenance "I remember once,' he said. of self-respect. system of medical colleges, hos- the sight of a beautiful picture the occasion of the annual Ball being in a small room at a base
The above, by the way, was said pitals, research laboratories, and inspires to nobility of thought, last night the arrangements for in France-I believe it was. by Marcus Aurelius Antonius institutions for preventing dan. utterance and action; the same which were carried through with Dieppe-when a Welsh padre was paragraph 20 of the sixth book of may reasonably be applied to the the thoroughness and attention to addressing an audience consisting his philosophy. Marcus Aurelius building of perfect line and form. detail which is always such of Irishmen, Scotsmen," Cana- ascended the Roman throne with Is it possible to adapt such a plan striking feature of Taikoo events dians, Australians, and others. Verus in 161 A.D., so you see, it is
Behind the be-flagged and light He was emphasising the power of nothing particularly new. P.C:M.O., Straits Settlerfients. to Hongkong, where much of what
Dr. Elkington, of Brisbane, exists is due to mere expediency coloured supper room was the bar, often the desire, to make money camouflaged by the name "Dis- speaking of a visit to the quickly? The thought is more pensary" and beyond it lay a very room. The new hospital at Dairen, said: impressed upon us by 'catching comfortable" card
I may say
sight of a phrase of Sir E. Stubbs messroom and verandah were frankly. that,
speech in London recently. "The comfortably Atted for sitting out (although
Australia,
webuildings were good, though ex- purposes.
The Club shield was illuminat-· pride ourselves on hospital con-cessively ugly" he assured his struction and equipment, I have audience concerning Hongkong's ed, and immediately below it didn't know where Tripoli was. fine specimen. It contains all
structures. Sir, Edward, during was hung the photograph of John never seen anything like it in my his stay here, could never be Swire, which was draped with the Tripoli happened to come into the sorts of surprising maps which never come Into ordinary' own country or elsewhere. It accused of obscurity of atterance. Union Jack and the B, and S. flag. conversation, and he was evident-geography. I think my favourite
2 A pleasing innovation was the ly at loss. represents the realisation of a He is not a polished orator, but
Let's see," he is a picture. of the Pacific Ocean,
sanitarian's dream."
his speeches invariably read well, patent illuminated sign by which said. Tripoli is just down coloured in varying shades of blue und are models of clear thought the dance numbers were Dr. A. G. M.
Severn, and expression. His opinion is a nounced. Arrangements for re- by the-er-you know. Assistant Medical Officer, Hong-most striking one. Is it true? freshments were excellent. They the name of that place?" "That's kong, joined
What do our architets think of it? were in the hands of Cafe Wise right," I answered, "just opposite "The British Empire showing the Would they like, in the words of man. The music was supplied by Thingumabob. I could show you great commercial highways"; of approbation, being, as he stated the absent minded artist looking Mr. R. E. Norton's Orchestra, in a minute on the map. It's near another of "The North Polar at the conference, impressed by at a woebegone cab horse, to "rub augmented by the orchestra of thewhat do they call it? At this regions showing the progress of the high standards attained in it out and do another?" The lay "Empress of Canada." When the moment the train stopped, and explorations"; maps of the trade Chosen and Manchuria and by the mind shrinks at a candid criticism Anal fox trot had been danced and got out and went straight home routes, of gulf streams, and
beautiful things of that kind. of Hongkong's buildings. There the goodalghts said, launches to look at my atlas.... beneficent influence of the South is so much to consider the in-from the Dock conveyed the I always enjoy these periodic Why, with all your geographical Manchurian Railway Company, structions to the architect, the guests back to Hongkong and excursions to my atias. People knowledge you couldn't even tell which attends to all educational area of ground built upon the Kowloon.
talk a good deal of nonsense about me the distance between Yoko- Among the 300 guests who the importance general tendency to build rooms and hygienic affairs in its area which is after all what a house thronged the Club rooms were Mr.
of teaching hama and Honolulu, but I can (over 600 miles). According to is built for-and to pay not much, G. M, Young, the Hon. Mr. P. HZeography at school instead of give the answer in a moment
·useless subjects like Latin and 3,879 miles. Also I know exactly Dr. Severn, whose visit to Japan if any, attention, to outward Holyoak, Mrs and the Misses Greek, but so long as you have an what a section of the world along and Manchuria should be produc effect, A very capable local Holyoak, Mr. J. Reid, Mr. R. M. atlas near you, of what use is lat. 45 deg. N. looks like and architect has put it on record that Dyer, Mr. E. Cock, Mr. G. M geography? Why waste time there are very few of our most tive of great influence in relation architets here are constructionists Shaw, Mr. S. Baker, Capt. S learning where Tripoli and Fiume learned men who can say as much. to the betterment of public only. If this is true then Sir Robinson, O.B.E. R.N.R.. of the are, when you can turn to a map But my atlas goes even farther health in Hongkong, the problems Edward Stubbs is confirmed in his "Empress of Canada," Sir Eric of Africa and apot them in a than this, though I for one do not of night-soil disposal, the destruc-opinion that our buildings are and Lady Stuart Taylor, Staff-moment? In a loading article in follow it. It gives diagrams of "excessively ugly.". Would the Captain Neyell "Empress of "The Times" (no less our pre-exports and imports; it tells you tion of refuse and garbage, ter year period of building help Canada, and Mr. E. L. Matteson.mier English newspaper) it was where things are manufactured and the fly danger appear to have matters? Probably not." What The committees responsible for stated during a general election or where grown; it gives pictures been given careful attention by is wanted-and what one day will the successful function were as that Darlington was in Yorkshire of sheep an immense sheep re- the public hygienic authorities in connected with
come-will be an advisory body follow:
You may say that "The Times" presenting New Zealand and a the Building Decorations: Messrs; leader writers ought to have been mere insect representing Russia, Manchuria. "No doubt," he said, Authority, to advise on the J. Simpson, T. Grimshaw, W. E. taught geography; I say that un- and alas no sheep at all for "these problems will be solved in beauty of a building, no matter Price, M. H. Wallace, T. Young, fortunately they have been taught Canada and Germany and China.
what the nature of the building W. Warneck and Jas. Sloan. the near future and a working
geography. They learnt, or Then there are....pictures in may be. Thus, whilst the same Buffet: Messrs. H. J. Muirhead, I thought they learnt, that colour of such unfamiliar objects scheme contrived. This will be of concern is manifested to see that P. M. Stewart, W. Warnock and Darlington was a Yorkshire town, as spindles and raw silk and great benefit in the extermination building ordinances are observed E. Howell.
If they had been left in a state of miners and Mongolians and fron of parasitic and intestinal dis- to the letter, there will be some Card Rooms: Messrs. W. decent ignorance, they would ore statistics of traffic receipts
concern as to what a building will Weir and G. McLeod.
have looked for Darlington in the and diamonds. I say that I don't eases, particularly the typhoid and appear to the mind. Hongkong Bar Messrs, A. J Russell, map and found that it was in follow-my-atics here, because dysentery groupe, which are tools natural beautyra
Wallace Pe Robertson and Barkamomumenting information of this sure doer tur common in Chosen and Man-many there is the disquieting fact J. Simpson.
29-Yes, Durham; that's right.). seem to belong properly to an churia."
that much of what has been done, Dance M.C.'s: Mesars. W. P. As it is, there are at this atlas. This is not my idea of
and and in the course of being done, la Seath, C. Young At a subsequent dinner Dr. tawdry and nasty, and has no Robertson.***
W. moment some hundreds of retired geography at all. When I open colonels who go about believing my atlas I open it to look at maps Severn said that they went to bearing on beauty or anything. Guests were received at the implicitly that Darlington Is in to find out where Tripoli is-not else. The matter seems to be entrance. by: Messrs Weir, Yorkshire because "The Times" to acquire information about flar Manchuria with the impression summed up in a saying, the exact McLeod, Grimshaw, Price and has said it. How much more and things, yet. I cannot foregu that they should and things in a wording of which escapes us, that Simpson. The general secretarial important than a knowledge of the boast that if I wanted I could rather primitive condition, but God made the country and man work was ably carried out by Mr. geography is the possession of an even speak at length about fax. they were agreeably surprised made the tow
W. Robertson,
atlas.
A. A. Milne, in It. PM
in
the chorus
What's
sea......
according to the depths of the
Then my atlas has a map of
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