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MEMORIAL MEETING.
A Memorial Meating of the late Mr. O Yausheung will be held on Sunday, September 18, 1927, at 3 p.m. sharp in the Hong Kong University Union. Relatives and Friends are kindly requested to attend.
Flower-wreaths and Memorial scrolls should be sent to the Clark, Hong Kong University Union, NOT later than three hours before the Commence. ment of the Meeting.
WONG KWOK-FÖNG, (Hon, Sec.) Government Vernacular School.
Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1927.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1927.
COLONY'S MONEY.
$2,000,000′ TO BE VOTED
AUTO-DAY..
TYPHOON DAMAGE.
THE ORE CASE.
JUDGMENT APPEALED
AGAINST.
Kotewall says, would be a retro- grade step to be much deplored. The Government's intimation at last meeting of the Council was jonly in the nature of a warning to non-Government schools, but no
· TO BE HEARD LATER. doubt it will be guided by the Board of Education, a body of Votes totalling $216,498 were be Application for leave to appeal whose proceedings and delibera-fore the Finance Committee this was granted at a Full Court sit- afternoon, the amounts consisting ting this morning in respect of the of the following Items:
decision of the Puisne Judge re- Public Works Recurrant, Typhoon garding the claim of Messrs. John and Rainstorm Damages, $123,700.
tlons the public are nowadays not permitted to know anything.
and
man,
at
Wrong
To meat the cost of making good Batt and Co. (London), Ltd., damage done by the Typhoon of against Silva Netto and Co., of. 20.8.27 and carlier heavy rains. Hong Kong. Valentino's Shirt.
Public Works, Recurrent, Ty- The claim, which was for over Women were forever foolish, phoon and Rainstorm Damages, $800, concerned the supply by the what with falling in
love Kowloon, Typhoon and Rainstorm defendants of a shipment of anti-
Damages, $64,000.00. the marrying
mony sulphide ore. The Fuisne A sum of only $10,000 was pro- Judge found in favour of the de- falling in love and
vided under this vote and the not marrying
all, re- amount
fendants. already expended on fusing to believe any good of Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages is Mr. F. C. Jenkin appeared for their sex-members, and going $0.400 leaving a balance of only applicants for leave to appeal through life in a generally con- $600. During the last few months against the judgment. tradictory and inconsistent man- (previous to August 20, 1927), a Mr. Jenkin was making his the most foolish, it large amount of damage was sus-opening submissions when Mr.
tained in this District and in order Silva Netto, who was present in : those poor to meet the situation it is estimated Court, asked leave to make a females who, all over the world, that a further sum of $89,762 will submission. parade around with wet eye-be required.
ner. And seems to us, are
Out of Order.
lashes eternally lamenting the The sum asked for above does not death of one Rudolph Valentino, include any allowance for damage
His Lordship, Mr. Justice J. R. departed film actor. We read caused by the typhoon of August 20, Wood, pointed out that these were with sorrow of the existence in (which will be the subject of a fur ex parte proceedings and Mr. London of a "Valentino Mem-ther Message)
Kowloon-Canton Railway: Speci- Silva Netto could not be heard. orial Guild," which exists to
al Expenditure, $4,000.00.
If the application was granted, perpetuate his memory through Cost of repairs to quarters, sta- Mr. Silva Netto would be served re-issues of his filme, and "by tion and other buildings, fencing, and would have to appear later. engaging in charitable work stone pitching. Taipo Pier, etc., Mr. Silva Netto asked if it known to have interested him," damaged by the typhoon on would be necessary to have an- and it appears that there has 20.8.27.
other sitting of the Court if he been nothing in the history of} Fire Brigade Building. wished to apply for this applica- either stage or screen to equal Public Works, Extraordinary;tion to be cancelled, the passionate sincerity of devo-Hong Kong, Buildings, Fire Bri His Lordship indicated it would. tion evoked by Valentino among gade Station, $4,309.00.
Mr. Silva Netto was proceedilig Original Estimate, $1,450,000.00; to refer to the costs of such a admirers. his countless women Some of them have erected a 092.68; in 1925, $829,966.57; in there were precedents when His Amount Expended: In 1922, $142 procedure and to the fact that ahrine to him in their boudoirs. 1924, $80,455.91; In. 1925, $321 Lordship directed him to sit Others grow flowers beneath his 206.69; in 1926, $492,554.93. Total
framed photograph. The crown- Expenditure up to end of 1926, down as he could not be heard at $30 to $100 a month, the addition displayed by a misguided woman
ing piece of asinity, however, is $1,366,270.78; Balance, $83,728.22. these proceedings.
It was anticipated that all
A Mistake. al fee will be a very heavy burden who has one of his old shirts, before the close of 1926 and there make the point which he believed counts would have been submitted Mr. Jenkin anid that he would indeed. Dr. Kotewall surely does which she keeps in a gold em-fore no provision was made in the Mr. Silva. Netto wished to bring
broidered esaket. We ask you! 1927 Estimates. Then there is that other collec-
re-
not expect officials drawing £2,000 a year to understand this tion of feminine perverts who the balance of payment due
The amount now required is for up. It was provided in the Ordin- on ance that leave to appeal should point of view or to concern them-recently attended a "Valentino "Lifts" Installed in New Fire Sta-be applied for within seven days of selves about the grim struggle Memorial Service" in a picture tion, which were supplied through the judgment. The present date from month to month of mere hall at Shepherd's Bush. One of Crown Agents in 1926. The ac- had been fixed by His Lordship's the women who had booked seats count was received too late to be own clerk and as the Ordinance
provided for nonentities whose wage per month came from the far north os brought into the 1926 accounts.
extensions were is only between $80 and $100! Scotland. Another called at the
Chinese Faculty Grant. justified he made an application Miscellaneous Services, Grant in that such times should be extend- In the words of the worthy doctor, cinema to place red roses be- hit by the prolonged trade depres-neath the photograph of Valen-aid of Hong Kong University Chi-ed.
His Lordship, commenting that sion, with the cost of living stead vestibule. Again, we ask you! Finance Committee agreed to assist arisen from a misapprehension of
tino which was hanging in the nese Faculty, $4,800.00.
Government after consulting the the mistake appeared to have ily rising, these people already One of the objects of the Guild the University in establishing his clerk, indicated that there find it hard to make ends meet; mentioned above is the unifica- Chinese Faculty and the above sum would be
no difficulty on that and many parents of large fami- tion of Valentino's women ad-represents the financial ald
score. mirers-married, single, young, quired for the current year. lies are not a little exercised in middle-aged, and elderly in the
Imports and Exports Department, Counsel said that his first their minds as to how they are to common purpose of defending Expenses-Purchases of two tion was that when the action was Other Charges, Opium,. Incidental ground for making the applica- keep their children at school when his name against the aspersions gallon extincteurs of the "Foam" heard, an application for an ad-
of the cynic. We would suggest type, $180.00. the increase takes effect. Doubt that another Guild needs forma-
Journment by the solicitor for the To provide four two-gallon ex-plaintiffs was refused. less officialdom will rejoin, or at tion for the purpose of defend-tincteurs of the "foam" type for been agreed between the parties least think in its own mind, that ing his admirers' names against the Opium Factory, Kennedy Town, that the correspondence passing the snorts of the disgusted. Not as advised by the Chief Oncer, Firs between the plaintiffs and defen that is no concern of its, and that in any spirit of "sour grapish- Brigade. if the increase in school fees adds ness" do we write, for although The above is to be met frem sav-dants should be produced and Mr.
inga. to the already heavy cost of living our abilities as a hero of the in what Mr. Braga has described silver screen have not so far been
tested, our share of good looks Publie as the most expensive Colony in (for a place like Hong Kong) is Special Expenditure, New Machin-change of front by the defend- the East, they must look else- more than a fair one, and our ery, Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Sants, who in Court, did not admit that the agreement between the where for sympathy. But, as efficiency in love making has This expenditure is necessary to plaintiffs and the defendants, rightly pointed out at this after-never been questioned. What meet the cost of the under-mention- and the agreement between the concerns Is that it seems ed machinery which is urgently re- plaintiffs and their buyers of the noon's meeting of the Council, one women will remain-for ever-quired to replace defective ma-ore were the same. inevitable increase in' school fees foolish.
will be that a large number of
children will be withdrawn from school earlier than they other-
POLICE MEDALS.
wise would to the detriment of FIVE EUROPEAN OFFICERS themselves and, consequently, of
society.
HONOURED.
His Excellency the Governor
I
Wireless Machinery.
Works
tion, $6,000.00.
Department:
It had
Andrewes based his case on that correspondence. He, however, was surprised when there was a
chines at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless
Leave to Appeal Granted, Station:-(a) Rotor and Armature,
Mr. Jenkin submitted that on $1,800; (b) Motor generator set, the correspondence there was very $3,940; (c) Also for the purchase of
a Geographical Globe for plotting good ground for the application great circle routes and distances in for an adjournment being grant- connection with Wireless · Tele-led. graphy work, $260.
His Lordship said the material With regard to (a) and (b), when used as evidence was common to the 1927 Estimates were framed It bath parties and therefore how A further strong argument has been pleased, on the recom- was impossible to forecast that the could there be surprise. against an increase in school fees mendation of the Hon. Captain existing machines would become Mr. Jenkin said there was no- at the present juncture was ad-award the Police Medal to the connection with Wireless to defective during that year. Superintendent of Police,
(c). This Globe is required in thing in the papers to warrant the CHINESE AND EDUCATION vanced by Dr. Kotewall in recall- following Officers of the Honggraphy Research work.
Tele-argument that the two contracts
were different. ing His Excellency the Governor's Kong Police Force:-
Savings are provided to meet this| With regard to the second point Temperate in the extreme were remarks in the Budget speech Inst
Second Class to Chief In-supplementary vote.
Inasmuch as the correspondence Police Grant.
pointed to the contracts being the the views of the Chinese com-year-that money spent by the specter W. Kent for zeal, ability
and initiative as Traffic and Charitable Services: munity voiced by the Hon. Dr. Government on education is of the Chief Inspector,
Special same the onus was cast on the de- Grant for Sanatorium Treatment, fendants of establishing that they Kotewall at this afternoon's meet utmost value to Britisk interests
Third Class to Divisional In- Police Sergt. J. Robertson, were different. ing of the Legislative Council, & in China and that the Government spector P. Grant for zeal and $3,150.00.
The application for leave to ap- report of which appears else does not grudge the expenditure. West, during the past four years ment for Police Sergt. Robertson
ability as District Inspector, In 1926 Council voted a sum, to peal was granted.
cover the cost of Sanatorium Trest- where in this issue although in- "Since these utterances were Fourth Clasa to Inspector late of Hong Kong Police for that complete without the official re-made," says Dr. Kotewall, "no-H. J. Patterson for exceptional year. The Crown Agents did not " plies. Still, Dr. Kotewall has had thing has occurred to justify a Felice Training School,
ability as the Principal of the pay the account for the second half Home leave, he was instructed to a good deal to say on the subject change of policy on the part of
of 1926 until March, 1927, and it undergo a course of Board of Trade. Fourth Class to Acting Chief therefore becomes necessary to re- Training at North Shields and of education-the raising of the Government will be sensible Detective Inspector A. N. Rey vote the sum of $1,401.
Liverpool. His travelling and sub- school fees and the Government's enough to withdraw its proposal work throughout his service in ing the current year and it is anti-num £86.8.8, which was paid to ha nolds for steady and reliable
Council further agreed to pay for sistence expenses in connection the cost of further treatment dur- with that courae amounted to the warning to non-Government for increased school fees. What the Police Force.. schools regarding a limit of ever may be the official reply to- Fourth Class to Detective Sub-called upon during the current fin- Hong Kong Funds in their June ac- cipated that Crown Agents will be by the Crown Agents and debited to grants under the Code in the day and we are writing before Inspector F. W. Shaftain, ataucial year for payment of approxi- count at exchange 2/4 to the dollar. future...
that is available there is still Chinese Affairs, for zeal and half of 1927.
tached to the Secretariat for mately $1,659. respect of the first No provision was made in the cur
rent Estimates as sanction for Mr. Dr. Kotewall referred to the in- ample time to reconsider this ability throughout his service in Transport Expenses,
R. Hall to undergo such training crease of $67,000 shown in the question most seriously.
the Police Force;
Public Works Department, Trans was given after the current Esti- Budget under "Public School With regard to the other point
port and Travelling Expenses, mates were prepared." Fees," and recalled the remarks affecting education raised by Dr.
| $4,000.00.
The above is to be met from say- The amount of $20,000 was ori-inga ginally estimated by Director of
A New Path.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
of the Colonial Secretary that it Kotewall-the limit of grants to A Chinese woman living at No. Public Works as necessary for was "a email. Increase" and that non-Government schools under 888 Queen's Road West, second Transport and Travelling Expenses Fath, 10 feet wide, North of Public Works, Extraordinary, "It could not be considered a seri- the Code there is reason to anti-floor, yesterday attempted to com- reduced to $10,000 in the hope that The formation of this path was
for this year, but this amount was NK.I.L. 257, $1,500.00.4% ous burden." The amount is cer- cipate a more conciliatory reply mit suicide by strangulation. She with economy this might prove provided for by Financial Minute tairly small when it is spread from the Government. Whilst the was found unconscious on her suficient. The sum has, however, No. 86 of September 15, 1921, the over the whole population, or need for economy is fully recog: tfed tightly round her neck. The $4,000, it la estimated, will oceur. The work was commenced in
bed in her cubicle with a string proved insufficient and an excess of sum provided being $2,500,0 when it is compared with the nised, it is always open to the string was immediately removed Supplementary Vote for this amount October, 1921, and on December 19, amount spent on education by the Government to consider special and the woman was hurried by an in accordingly requested. 1921, the Contractors pald Government. But Dr. Kotowall applications in a sympath
ambulance to the Government The above is to met from savings. 3660 Unexpended Balance, $1,840,
Special Training, or The work was finished in 1922 but undoubtedly makes a strong point
Harbour Department, Incidental the bill for the completion has only Expenses, Travelling and subsis just been submitted Aténce expenses of Mr. B. Hall while The sum due to the Contractor is
undergoing a course of Training In 31,500 for which there is no provi d. This England, $866.00.15 da slon In the 1927 Estimates fr her walle Mr. H. Hall, Assistant Gov. 2 The above is to be met from 17-
vernment Marine Surveyor was an Ingse
Civil Hospital where she is now in a critical condition. Acco to the police reports. had been imbling
when he states, that to those in might ten dividuals who have children to educate,,, particulafly to those of
the working classes earning from. tion
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Colony.
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