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HIGH RENTS: "EMPTY BARREL."
OWNER REPLIES.
FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926.
WEEK'S ORDERS.
HK. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
THE BAND CONCERT,
NARROW ESCAPE.
HEAVY FALL NEAR TAIKOO DOCK.
WORKMEN SCATTER."
-
outside the
to entrance Taikoo Dockyard, near Sai Wan Terrace, was, for- tunately not attended by loss of life, workmen who were leaving at the time having a, narrow escape.
To the Editor of the "Chine Mall"]
Hongkong Volunteer Defones A fall of about 2,000 tons of Sir-It is all very well for Corps. Orders by Major R. Melville debris yesterday
M.B.E., tenants go rush into print to air smith.
Administrative their imaginary grievances about | Cemmandant under to-day's date. high rents. As an owner. I have rend:
Casuals. kept some of the impertinent let- tera I received from some of my Musketry Part I will be fred a tenants in the control dnya, when Stonecutters Rangu 0313 Sunday, I was seeking high and low to find accommodation for my brother who had then retired from his position in Kwangsi.
The principal tenant of one dat. rental $26 per mensem, want
Augnars,
Range Officer: Capt.'D. C. Logun.† M..
Launch will leave Murray Pler at 9 am, and callat Kowloon Pier at 9.19 a.m.
ed me to pay him $500 gratuity Dress: Uniformy optional but before he would surrender pcs-rike, bayonet. belt and pouches scasion to me. so that my brother must be taken. Fould live in my house. Times
Sand Table Scheme.
Subject: "Defence in Mobile' Warfare,”
Rifles.
Members are reminded that all rifles when not in use must be kept at Corps Headquarters, if the armouries at Talkse and Kowloon Docks are closed.
have now changed and the for- A. Tactical Scheme will be held innes of war will fluctuate again. under the direction of Major F. C.
One argument by tenants is Roberts. V.C., D.S.O., O.B.R., MBC that we bought at the height of on the Sand Table at Volunteer kind of contention altogether. He the boom and now fleece innocent Headquarters on Monday, August condemns the "principal tenant." Householders to repair our errors at 6p.nl.
fof judgment. This does not enter and gives a flagrant case of what into the question at all. } was]
to buy when prices is nothing more and nothing less not forced
Many members of the Corps are than "squeeze." In all the argu- were high. My tenant is not
bound to occupy, my property. If at present keeping their rides In ments submitted during the past he thinks the rent prohibitive, let their own possession. This pru eighteen months in favour of the him move out to suburbs and get Lice is contrary to regulations. retention of the Rent Ordinance a fiat at $25 a month.
on to another This leads me on the Statute-book we have
Trui.m. Chinese tenants are not always held that many of the ventiating their grouses in print, evils of high rents must be laid at They have their "face" to pre- the door of "principal tenants."rve. To them, the payment of Un one occasion we went so far more ren is better than telling the public that one's landlord has as to suggest that there ought to hanged $184 into $260. Telephones-Central 22 & 164)the compiled-and---kept by the aure that residents in the morej
authorities, for publle informa-Elect parts of the Colony would this futile, and puerile, attempt with the repts paid by them to to how up the landlord class.
Enclosing my card, the owners and the rents charged
Yours, etc... By them to sub-tenants. Even 20:
DIGNITY. although sorge of these rents are
Hongkong, July 30. an outrage on justice and equity. have not the owners the remedy in their own hands by imposing leterrent restrictions on their "principal tenants" in originally letting houses? The views of
Printers & Publishers
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Cable Address: Mai, Hongkong!
I am
Those members of the Corps "now in possession of riffes must re turn them to Corpe Headquarters without delay!
Armoured Car Co... Monday, August 2 being a Bop
All communications should be on a list of "principal tenanty"have found other methods than Hodday, there will be no parade.
addressed to the New pupor Enter- prise, Ltd., to whom all remittances should be made payable.
London Offices: The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 36-38, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C.2.
Hongkong, Friday, July 30, 1926.
THOSE RENTS.
On every hand the evidence is others of our renders will be wel accumulating in regard to the in-comed on all aspects of the relits ¡crease of rents in the Colony, question,
There are two sides to every case, and it is a coincidence that the respective versions are set out in our correspondence "columns to- day.
DR. SEPHER.
GOING TO BRITAIN FOR STUDIES.
‚ 'VARSITY GRADUATE.
the United Kingdom.
EXORBITANT RENT INCREASES.
To the Editor of the "China Mall") Sir, I shall be grateful if you
Strength. The following ts taken on the strength on July 26, and posted to the Mounted Infantry Company No.1065 Pte. J. F. Pym.
Transfers
take
The following transfers effect from July 29:-
No. 542 Gnz. W. F. Simmons,
from Arty, Co. to M.I. Co.
No. 874 Pte. E, A. Brodie No. 1 Platoon to M.I. Co...
♫
from
No. 723 Pte. L. R. Andrewes from
Leave.
will kindly publish the following M.I. Cc. to No. 1 Platvon. few home truths in your paper for the benefit of the powers that be, The present high cost of living-largely due to exorbitant rents-is making it almost Impossibility for a Britisher to
ve in this British Colony.
The following are granted leave of absence from the Corps:--
an
I may state that I have been a resident of the Colony for the past twenty-five-years--and have.
2nd-Lt. A. K. Mackenzie, Scottish Co., from July 22 to Cctober 21,. 1926.
No. 697 Pte. J. Chatterton, A. C. Co., from August 1 to December
¡31, 1926.
No. 145 C.Q.M.S. E. G. Stawa
The landslide occurred about mid-day as a large number of the employees were leaving the Dock- yard and there would probably have been some casualties if the slide which brought down the bulk of the "debris had not been pre- ceded by a smaller one which warned the men and enabled them- to scatter in time.
The tram service of Shaukiwan had to be suspended on account of obstruction and damage wires and motor traffic was also held up until late in the afternoon.
LOCAL WILLS.
to
FORMER SHANGHAI RESIDENT'S PROPERTY.
"CURIOUS CHINESE WILL."
Estate in Hongkong amounting to $16,507 was left by the late Mr. William Stewart Davidson, « formerly a well-known resident of Shanghai. Probate of the will in respect of his estate in Hong- kong has been granted in the Supreme Court.
Probate has also been granted of the will of the late Mr. Yeung Shut-leung which is somewhat curiously phrased. Is opens with the following words:"A man's life does not exceed 'a period of several tens of winter and sum- mer and his birth and death will come to pass one day. I am at present continuously Il although still in good health."
The estate has been valued at over $17,000.
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PASSENGER LIST.
ARRIVALS.
Per 3.4. "President Wilson" frora Manila on July 20
Mr. G. Bariser, Mr. R. Dicknc.
Mr. F. Floro, Mr. Chia Li-huang.
A. Henry, Father C. Jurgens, Mr. Mr. C. Hewes, Mr. D. Huang, Mr.
Lukban, Mr. and Mrs. H. Lamond, Miss R. Lamond. Mr.
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always done my utmost to assist Infantry Co.. from July 20 Rebok, Dr. and Mrs. H. Scott,
August 19, 1926.
No. 26 Pte. J. L. McPherson,
Res. Stot. Sec., from July 26 to Singed, Mr. and Mrs. J. Osial. August 25, 1926.
Mr. R. Scott. Mr. Pelagio Yu
Mr. A. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. C. L.. Coppage. Comdr. and Mrs. E. Norton, Sister Mary.. Sister Stefana, Mrs. S. M. Seiffert. Miss
Promenade Concert. There will be a Band Night at Volunteer Headquarters parade
M. Kojima, Miss H. Swinehart. by the Band of the East Surrey Miss N. Cleaver, Mrs. M. Nickelsen. at 8.15 p.m. on Friday, August 6. Wagner, Mr. See Tak-chon. Mr.
Regiment.
Tickets: $1 each are obtainable. Master C. Nickelsen, Miss L
téer Headquarters. at Anderson Music Co. and Volun- Nickelser., Miss A. Nickelsen, Miss
The nest, from a Kowloon Te sident, puts his plea for a Fair
the Government by offering my Rents Board very fairly. and
services during any political or in- moderately. His arguments
dustrial turbance, I have also Dr. A. M. Sepher, the first served "my Country
as a soldier should strengthen the hands of
local Indian student to graduate and, as a volunteer for twenty- the Kowloor Residents Associa. "in medicine at the Hongkong two years. I therefore consider tion, about 90 per cent of whose University, leaves by the "Hakone that I am justly entitled to some membership is reported to favour Maru to-morrow for studies inconsideration from the Govern ment during this time of stress.. the creation by the Government of
Dr. Sepher was educated at St. I have just received a notice Fair Rents Board.
Joseph's College, Hongkong. from my landlord stating that Entering the University in 1919, my rent will be increased by he passed his final examination Sixty Dollary, per month as from in 1924.
the 1st August, 1926. When I Since then he has served in the came the tenant of my present Government Civil Hospital ashore, eighteen months ago, my house opatretecian, house physi-monthly rental was $125. Since cian and house surgeon, conse-that time the Government, on be. Mr C. P. Anderson Mr E. J. Pearce cutively, until last month, half of the Landlords, allowed an Mr B. B.Authony Mr B. Pearman
Mr W. &. Dowley Mr E Priestley popular and capable in rease of 15 per cent, which 1. Mr A. disas Mr J. Hossholm Mr A, Sanom&D a'hlete, Dr. Sepher captained the of course, had to pay. The land Mr B. A. Kellor
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smith Mi16 M, Varsity football eleven for twoord knowing that he has a free Mr. T. King Me JH
tapa-linger years and also represented the hand. now the Rents Ordinance Mr Paul Leeder
Mr M.J. Thomsa Miss H. Lille Tai Hok Tong in other branches has been repealed, has increased Prof M. Laaganer Mr A. Tods of sport.
my tent by $60. Am 1 to be r. P. 1. W. Mass Mr&Mrs &. Vanuial turned out of my house, which Mr F. G. Facchaetz Mr G. Wraggo will certainly happen unless the Government gives that assistance. in the way of a Feir Rents Board
These increases in rents were bound to follow the withdrawal of the protection to tenants afforded by the Rents Ordinance. In many cases, indeed, during the last fifteen months, landlords, in letting houses to new terants. have carefully pointed out that such rents would hold good only for the duration of the strike and boycott, and that an increase must be expected afterward. ing away the Rents Ordinance the authorities have taken away every prop of protection that many tenants had.. There is now nothing for them to fall back on, and the only choice before them is
In tak-
As
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After his studies abroad, Dr. Sepher returns to Hongkong. Last night, his many friends met at the Kam Ling restaurant to wish him godspeed and. successful career.
to pay one, two, or half a dozen STOLEN TINPLATES.repair. Is it fair? increases in rent-or clear out to other' premises where they may possibly fare worse.
SEVEN LIGHTER MEN CONVICTED.
"SOCONY" PROSECUTION.
Lengthy evidence was taken before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when seven members of the crew
Yours, ete..
C. BOND.
No. 5, Aimai Villas,
Kowloon.
A DISGUSTING PRACTICE.
H.K. HOTEL RESIDENTS.
July 29.
'Ti
Surely it is obvious to all that
D. Nickelsen, M. D. Credo, Mr. F. de Coster, Mr. R. de Coster, Mrs. P. Erickson, Miss E. Ericksen, Mr. and Mrs. A. Elizalde, Master J Elizalde. Miss D. Forster, Mr. 3. Frank, Mrs. F. Castonguay, Mr. E. Herrier, Mr. H. Honerlah. Mrs. M. Lawrence, Mrs. G. C. de Poizat and Miss E. Wolfe.
Better Value,
A rich lady, accompanied by her maid, had just selected a picture for her drawing-room, representing - a group of four peaches and a ent melon,
"How much?" she inquired of the denler.
"Tez bounds."
"Oh, madame," whispered the I saw a much maid; "don't buy it. Aner one at another shop for £8."
"Yes, but how do you know it was better?"
"Why, there was at least 12 peaches, and the melon wasn't cut!"
Local Chinese theatre-goers will be pleased to hear that Mr. Sit. Kok-aeen, "the famous matinee Idol, is back in Hongkong, after a stay of over a year in Shanghai. Mr. Bit has deserted the old-style Can- tonese stage, on which he rose from an amateur to a "big star"-in the melodramatic heroic roles-in
or other methods of stemming formation that these bodies had such exorbitant demands.
·been deposited under Police orders. Landlords are increasing rents and were the remains of sampan and at the same time expect people who perished in the typhoon Subsequently the tenants to keep property in good of a week ago.
coffins were removed from the road- way and taken inside the mortuary, stench continued although the unabated, and the fact remains that under present conditions the Kow
very It cannot be gainsaid that the
loon mortuary constitutes' s graye public danger. Jandlords have been as badly hit
With so much apparent concern as other people by the conditions
for the health of the people it is. prevailing during the past fifteen
very astonishing that the Govern [To the Editor of the "China Mail"} 'ment can have overlooked a condi- months. In some cases a certain
Sir-1 shall be grateful if you tion so greviously inimical to the increase in rent could not be
will kindly afford a little space in general welfare. grudged. That 15 per cent, per- of the Standard Oil Company's your valuable columns to a matter mitted by the "Government-to lighter "Delawar" stood charged of great importance concerning the Waterloo Road and its vicinity
is no longer a desirable or suitable year or two. In Shanghai, he felt which one of our correspondents with larceny of 16 cases of tin public health.
plates,
I refer to the Kowloon Mortuary situation for a public morgue, and the magnetism of the cinema world. to-day refers-was at least rea-. Mr. F. G. Vaux prosecuted on which although when built years that same should be removed to He is at present the managing director of the Ideal Motion Film sonable, even although the very behalf of the Standard Oil Com-ngo was on antisolated site, is now some less populous districts.
Having sold or leased ground for Co. and is down in Hongkong for natural and human tendency on pany, while Mr. W. B. Hind ap in the very centre of a residential
a few days on business. His many friends are trying to induce him the part of people who do not own peared for five of the defendants, district and a source of most dis- the erection of dwelling houses is the other two being unrepresent-agreeable annoyance and even dan- it not up to the Government to see
to return to his first love and give their own houses is to resist all ed.
Ker to the occupants of adjacent that these buildings are fit for
only and every increase in rent.
The case against the men was buildings-To take
one healthy, occupation and not subject a few performances here. much further landlords can go that they stole the cargo, which instance: last evening (July 29) at to incessant bad smells?-Indeed Sit (his foreign name le S. C. was part of that discharged into about 9 p.m. a police van drove the public has every right to de- Harrey) was educated at one of the beyond that 15 per cent. without the lighter by the 8.9. "Spey Into Waterloo Road and deposited mand that the Government see that grant-in-ald schools in Hongkong,
twenty unnalled a locality they have sanctioned as being actually oppressive is not a bank," the theft taking place approximately question for us to discuss. Each while the lighter was taking shel, coffins by the roadside in front of a residential "district is made safe,
on its ter from the typhoon in Tsun Wan the mortuary. case can only be taken
Bay. merits. And that, again, can only be decided fairly and equitably by a Fair Rents Board.
How
In regard to the views of the owner, also published to-day, ho strikes at the root of a different
These contained sanitary and healthy, by the re- bodies in a very advanced stage of moval of the mortuary from the After hearing evidence, His decay and the smell therefrom was midst of dwelling houses. Worship convicted all the defen- so intolerable that a number of
Thanking you for your courtesy dants, the first. being sentenced nearby residents assembled at the in publishing this, to nine months' hard labour, the Yaumati Police Station with a com- second and third to six months' plaint and request for the imme hard labour, and the others to diate removal of the bodies. They three months hard labour.
were surprised however, by the lo-
1 BIT...
Yours faithfully,
DISGUSTED. Hongkong, July 30.
EVERY UBER IS A FRIEND
A
Mr.
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