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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1928.
office and he is required, at the Disease le an abnormal coritli same time, to perform the duties tion. There is no reason why it of his own office, he may be allow. Fahould exist at all. The science of ed half the initial salary of the the present and the future is pre- temporary office, together with vention, not healing-Sir William Tones and pro- the whole salary of his own office. E. Smith, M.D., D.Sc. On Learning nunciation bave However, no person should be up- been difficulties pointed to discharge at the same
Chinese
Information has been received
Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, J.P., has been appointed a member of the Board of Arbitrators to determine compensation to be paid in res- pect of the resumption of Kow loon. Inland Lot No. 1278.
often spoken of time the duties of two distinct The Ch'a Kui Taung. Kung Wul by young men who come out from offices whenever any other ar-(the Teshouse Workers' Guild) Home and are encouraged to learn rangement is practicable; and is declared to be an unlawful so- Chinese. There is one aspect unless the offices are distinct and which presents difficulties to separate offices in different de ciety. Chinese who are naked to partments, or are offices not romanise words for foreign standing to one another in any in- friends. A colleague who writes timate relation of superioritat from the British Consul at Amoy. to-day about Dr. Miao Chung-yi subordination such as two magis that Hong Kong has been declar- on page 1 refers to the misconcep- tracies, only half the salary ofed infected on account of small tion of the name as cabled, each office can be allowed, or the pox. Romanisation of Cantonese, apart. officer's own salary if that be from other dialects, is a vexed greater. subject, but Mr. J. Barrow has written an enlightening article on If a post be rendered vacant by. it in the current number of the the death, removal, dismissal or Hong Kong. University, Union absence on half-pay of the holder, Magazine. Here is a part of what the person appointed to act in his he says:-". neither Eng- stead will receive half the initial lish, French, German nor Dutch salary of the office. Should that has all the Cantonese sounds in its person be the holder of another language. Therefore a system of office (and he generally is), but romanisation based on the normal not performing the duties of it spelling of any one of these lan- while so acting, he may receive, in guages must have some conven- addition, half the initial salary of tions extraordinary to the lan- his own office and all the incre
Nobody pre-ments which he has earned in that guage itself. tends that any system can be office. This hardly applies to perfect there seem to be Cadets, the most fortunate of all several systems, nearly all bad, Civil Servants, who are transfer- chiefly because hardly one is sys- red freely from department to de tematic
It must be an patment. Certain posts are re axiom that, for Englishmen. Can-served for them and their salary tonese should be 10manised acis according to the Cadet scale cording to our own spelting of our no matter which job they may be own sounds.
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Pleading guilty to a charge of causing an obstruction at the southern entrance of the Cause- way Bay Typhoon Shelter, three junk masters were, this morning, fine $10 each by Condr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., at the Marine Court.
Mr. Wood, Chief Officer of the 9.8. "Delts" was killed in a motor- ing accident near Bombay when a car in which he was riding struck a bridge and fell into à -watercourse below. Mr. Wood was Should an officer who is appoint-about 40 years old and leaves a From Taipo Hong Kong's comes the foled temporarily to a vacant office widow and two children in Eng-
Mosquito lowing re-be confirmed therein, he will be land.
Plague
entitled to draw the full salary of cable from that office from the date on which Home relative to the. recent he first took up the duties; but The Kitchen locust plague in Kenya Colony from the date on which he draws Homeside News Folk were Mr. Wong Tsui-ngau, Domin- such full salary, he will not be en No. VI.Another excited, there tons Under-Secretary made a titled to salary on account of any Revelation was no misstatement regarding the recent other office which he may have
cesan Association in the Helena take
Miss about plague of Mosquitoes in the held at the same time. Then an that. Chancing to pass the door Colony and adjacent territory. He officer promoted in the ordinary May Institute yesterday. the other evening I heard them said that no steps were being course should receive the salary E. S. Atkins spoke on education Overland China Jail, talking in their high-pitched taken to deal with the plague and of his new scale, grade, or appoint and the Rev. C. I. Blanchett on
voices and laughing heartily. Won- that expenditure amounting to ment as from the date when the the Chinese Church. dering what the topic of conversa- £65,000 would certainly not be vacancy occurred in the superior tion could be, I listened. As usual
post, whether he be in the Colony or on leave of absence on the date in question.
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the cook was preparing the even← ing meal. "What date is it this year?" demanded the boy in, his best English. "Always b'long
Information concerning the Civil same date. Nex moon, number
Service in Hong Kong has been given twen'five day," grunted the cook,
in these columns on previous weeks. rolling out the pastry. "Will Mas- At the end of this series will be ter get dlunk this year?" ques- found a number of very interesting Moned the coolie eagerly. "Hush,"
paragraphs. Further articles about the Colonial Service, as it applies tu said my voice via the boy-Hong Kong, will appear on succes: "Muster no gettee. dlunk, just sise Saturdays in this column. happy," he added with a smile. "Last year have b'long velly ex happy, have pay me one dollar," said the coolie with a grin. Out side the door. I was blushing furi- ously, but then, who can help the funny things servants say?
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The whole position of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui at the pre- sent time is alle of transition, said the Rev. C. B. Shann, at the "at Home" held by the Victoria Dio-
A warning has been issued by the Harbour Master as to the discovery of wrecked junks by As to newcomers from Home, the 8-s. "Ichang." The notifica- to a recruit from Home, on aption dated Nov. 23, states that two pointment; half salary, if avail-derelict junks were floating bot able. will be allowed as a general tom up, at 4 p.m. on Nov. 22, in rule from the date of embarka- lattitude 22 degrees 45 45" N. tion, and full salary, if available, long, 116 degrees 7' 35" E. They from the date of arrival in the are regarded as .dangerous to Colony, provided that he comes navigation. out; otherwise he will be allowed to draw half salary for such time
"West Point,"
stirring ganctioned by the Taipo District perform the journey. No loan tary training camp will be shown only as is ordinarily required to action romance of a famous mili- Council for any Anti-Mosquito from salary is showed to officers for the last time to-day. William Campaign which was about jo be launched by the Department of or on leave, except in special leading players. Other flims also either on first appointment Haines and Joan Crawford are the Agriculture or Department of Sanitary Board. The Govern the Secretary of
cases to be determined by having their final screenings to- State for are, Man Power" with "Why do they call it Christmas, ment of Hong Kong had agreed the Colonies. Collateral secur Richard Dix, at the World, and Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 24, 1928. dear?", questioned the boy, in his with Doctor Koch who had had ity will be required when the "Jazz Mad" starring Jean Here
best "Missle-fashion-voice." "Be- many years' experience of chivvy advance exceeds a month's salary; holt at the Star. cause have gottee Chlistmasing Mosquitoes that some perman puddings!" said the cook, his ent organisation was desirable for and the security of another officer mind ever on his art. "Member dealing with the movement of employed in Hong Kong will not
be accepted.
Mr. Allan Kirk, F.SI., Charter- last year, boy," said the coolie swarms of mosquitoes and this cheekily, smiling up at the boy's would be considered in next year's
Most salaries are on incremen:ed Surveyor, M.R.San., who join- calm face,Jackie blong tree estimate. He recommended the tal scale, Although very fewed the Hong Kong Government After an inter-year old, have chow too much caging up of Mr. Wong Taul-ngau Government employees are de Service in 1921 and has been En Bankruptcy val of about Chistmas pudding, nex day who it had been reported to him, prived of their rises, they are not sincer in charge of Valuations medicine man come, bling telly-had habitually imported mosqui- entitled to draw any increment as and Resumptions, Public Works wo months, drums for some time, has Accumulation two
the Bankruptcy giguled. No b'long tellyfone" Territories and allowed them to HE. the Governor. In the case been appointed to a post in Cey- Court will sit on Monday when said the boy wisely. "Doctor become vagrants in Hong Kong- the Chief Justice (Sir Henry have pay he plenty meddycine, Taipo Wireless Service.
makee he better. B'long velly
A LOOK AROUND
[By The Mail Men)
of a subordinate, a certificate is lon and will leave on Wednesday required from the head of his with Mrs. and Miss Kirk. A Gollan) will have a long list of good doctor. I likee foleign doe-
department that he has discharg-presentation is to be made to him cases to deal with. I hear that tor man," he added. "And master
Along the water-ed his duties with diligence and at to-morrow's evening service in there will be a number of applica have gottee velly sore head," put
Motor Cars front we have fidelity. Service for increments is the. Wesleyan Church, Wanchai, tions for rescission of receiving in the cook, "have go looksee
on the
often seen reckoned from the day on which the new Soldiers and Sailors' orders, which is rather unusual. A Jackie and Bay. Gleedy little
Waterfront coolies engaged a man first begins to draw any Home of which he has been pro- few debtors are coming up for devil, serves you right." "And either
in free fights salary of his office. In the case minently Identified with as a among themselves or where a man's salary at the time member of the building com.. their public examination. Fur- Missie have cly-cly, talkie she go with motor car drivers. of promotion is not less than the mittee. ther, there are some applications home-side" added the coolie It is hardly an exaggeration to minimum salary of his new office, for receiving orders.. I have not gleefully. "Humph, what for she say that a week's programme is he will continue to draw his for- the statistics with me but I still have stop?" demanded the boy never complete without one or mer rate of salary in his new think, in spite of this long list, angrily. "Becos," said the cook, two such incidents. It has often office; and the period qualifying that the number of bankruptcies great in his knowledge of ways of been revealed that the belliger for the first increment is to be this year is below those of 1927 foleign-man, Master have say, ents not only fought with their reckoned from the date on which and, particularly, 1926. The con-Oh go, and no come back!"
DEAF MUTE
CHINESE GIRL'S SERIOUS "ALLEGATIONS
gestion--if it can be called such-Don't you know a lot, darling "sts but also with bamboo poles ne began to draw that rate of pay. in the bankruptcy branch of the cooed my wife's voice. The cook most hostile of such fights are be- amount as will bring his pay to and iron hooks, Perhaps the His first rise will be of such
COURT DIFFICULTIES Supreme Court has been due part turned and glared at the boy. "Itween the coolies and the motor the next step in the scale of the ly to the Summer Vacation (of 'long old man," he said...
Considerable difficulty was ex- car drivers. As our waterfront is new office. four weeks) during which the
perfenced in the interpretation of one of the busiest, thoroughfares Court did not sit, and also to the
the evidence of a Chinese girl, "This Ch'listmae have gottee in the Colony, motor vehicles Pensions and retiring allow who gave testimony at the Kow- recent illness of Mr. E. L. Agassiz, the Omeiar Receiver. Lt. Col. F. plenty man come chow? asked might easily rim into one dethese arices in the Colonial Service are loon Magistracy yesterday after- Eaves, D.S.O., of the Land Office, the boy after a few moments. "No coolies engaged in discharging governed by the laws or regula noon, as to being assaulted by an carried on, in addition to his own savee, she no have talke me, cargo from the vessels to the go-tions of the Colony concerned. Indian constable, attached to the duties, in the absence of Mr. complained the cook. Tink so downs. When an accident has oc- The rates vary in different Kowloon City Station Agassiz. The latter has recover said the boy, cos Master have curred: hundreds of coolies gather Colonies, but the general principle The girl is deaf, and as a result ed in the interval and is now back catchée more money las moon round the vehicle and set upon the is that the pension is based on the of the Court interpreter being un- at work. I shall not be surprised So," he said with the air of one driver. This is sometimes the ex-length of service and on the aver able to understand her, the if the sitting lasts well into the prepared to do his duty, Imus planation why chauffeurs drive axery drawn the mother was sworn to interpret.
one time more go nex door and on at high speed immediately last three years of service, theIt was alleged by the mother askce they lendee some plece after knocking down a pedestrian. maximum being two-thirds of final that in making a complaint of Do you know knife and folk.This year more We would suggest then, that the salary. In the case of officers who the assault, the girt said that the careful, grunted the cook "Last police authorities should adopt have served in more than one constable drew his revolver which Wonders of that dragons year you no saves, who man me preventative measures before it is Colony, a separate pension is he pointed at her. Animal Life still exist? Do dinner and you have go or too late
you know that and catchee some tings and next- door-missies have come for din- If man could build as well as the
ner,” he added with white ant in proportion to his nearly cat
that time size, he could set up a cathedral boy," and they all tau meday May as big as Mt. Evereat? Do you be one day we go Pea alle makee hee any know why the pelican carries a live, s'pose Master bag under his beak? Do you more mon know that every freshwater eel is fully
afternoon.
born deep down in Mid-Atlantic? with ad
Do you know that in the Area gov. Tientsin-al
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erned by the Taipo District Coun clatic place, as Ms
cil there are forms of life so small Whi
that 3,000,000 of them could be crowded into a Scotch Süighball said that the
The reply by Sanitary Board to all the above Homest questions was in the negative, a hold of
sometimes awarded from each Dr. L. Newton gave medical Colony, based on the length of evidence t
Jobs in the service performed and the final Mr. H. Somerset FitzroY_COM- Government Hong Kong salary, drawn in that Colony. Inducted the case for the Crown, Salarles Civil Ser- certain groups of Colonies, how while Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, and Pensions vice, parti- ever, an employed receives a total junior instructed by Mr. Leo cularly those pension as if the whole of his ser d'Almada, senior, is appearing for with sterling pay, are known to vice had been in the Colony from the defence. 4 he good things, and even better which he finally retired. Com- Mr. F.H. Loaeby holds a watch-- seems to be in store with the premutation of perislona is not ing brief on behalf of complainant. sent Commission sitting. On the allowed. In the case of some of
last two Saturday, I told how the Cantonese in the poiled darlings of fortune" are Police Force, they get a lump sum sacked or prosecuted fellow instead of a monthly quots. scribe in the Sunday Herald added is done, I think, to preclude" afew more facts. So this week necessity of men w
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come out every now and the
hereby undergo expense:
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