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STILL WATERS
A Lady Orator
For the first time Mrs. Southorn, wife of His Excellency the Officer Administer-
ing the Government, graced the children's New Year's Day sports
SATURDAY, JANUARY
*
Dr. Arthur Woo has returned to the Colony after six months spent abroad,
The Society of St. George,
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Important post has nothing what- ever to recommend it. It is wonder that some of our public officials have done so well in the pastion being entrusted with the administration of the whole Sani-Hong Kong, held their annual tary Department. But the ball in the City Hall last night. system is not fair to those to: whom the science of modern sani- Mr. Wong Kwong-tin has been tation and hygiene is a dead re-appointed. a. member of the letter, for they have got to be Sanitary Board for a further term guided by the permanent staff of of three year Inspectors. The Municipalities in
Mr. M. Hassaram, proprietor of the Straits Settlements have each their permanent President ap back in the Colony by the 8.8. the Bombay Silk Store, arrived
pointed by the Government.
-1929
CHINESE COUPLE
HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL WEDDING
THE DEAN OFFICIATES...
The marriage of Miss May Yvonne Lym of San Francisco and Mr. Lai Kwong-taun of Shang- hai took place on Dec. 22, at the Trinity Cathedral. The Very Rev. A. C. S. Trivett, Dean of the Cathedral, officiated.
Mr. Lym Sing, a prominent Chin- Miss Lym is the daughter of
Until such time as Hong Kong has" Morea," after spending a holiese merchant of San Francisco,
and Mrs. Lym Sing. Miss Lym's family States but she came back on
are all in the United
蟲
visit to her uncles, Capt. Arthur F Lym, and Mr. Alfred S. Lee, in
its Municipal Council, too, the day in India. head of the Sanitary Board should The name of Dr. Yang Lin, be appointed permanently. Then would our multifarious sanitary M.B., B.S. (Hong Kong), whose and public health problems be address is given as Eliot Hall, the given a genuine opportunity to University, has been added to the Shanghai. be tackled as they ought to be
local medical register. tackled.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Choy Cheung-loi, Although disas-
said to be a shroff and partner of trous to the occu-Hop Hing Loong, No. 19 Chung Dwellings pants the fire that Ching-street, Hong Kong. He is destroyed eleven reported to have absconded with small houses of the matshed type $1,790.
Slum
..
Mr. Lai is the son of Mr. and since his return from America, he Mrs. Lai Hol-aan of Shanghai; has been on the staff of the Ne- tional Commercial and Savings Bank. Ltd. met in America when they were The young couple both university students.
Gordon Lam Best Man The bride was given away by
at Shamshuipo last Friday night (or "before midnight on Saturday Yesterday afternoon Major C. morning." as our junior morning Willson, O.B.E., committed for her uncle, Mr. Alfred S. Lee. Mr. contemporary quaintly put it) trial at the next Criminal Ses- Gordon Lum, (Lum Po-wah), the should be welcomed as distinctly sions, a Sikh-named Kam Singh, well-known tennis player, attend- affecting a "slum aren," tiny on a charge of unlawful possesed the bridegroom. though it was. The matshed sion at the Tai Lo Tin hotel of 86 houses and brick dwellings were forged $10 Hong kong banknotes of Dr. and Mrs. Ma Soo, acted as Miss Elizabeth Ma, daughter far too closely, huddled together and two rounds of ammunition. to be healthy, whilst the constant
maid-of-honour. pools and quagmires were a grave
The bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Eighty-three samples were sub- Lai Hol-san, and his sister, Mrs. menace and an encouragement mitted to to the breeding of mosquitoes, Analyst for examination during to attend the ceremony in Shang- the Government Chow, went down from Tientsin which are reported to be "terri- the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1928. hal. ble" in this particular neighbour- These were divided under 11 head- hood, in spite, even, of the coldings. All three samples of pepper ception, which was given in the Both the wedding and the re- snap. Before the builders get were found, to be adulterated. Sun Sun Hotel, were largely at busy again on the site of the fire, One out of 20 samples of milk was tended by foreign and Chinese" the whole place will have to be declared to be adulterated.
friends of the couple.
put in a proper state of sanita-
tion. And whilst they are about
ཨིན་
Mr. and Mrs. Lat are returning
it the Sanitary Board people the Government. has consented to here. (Photo on page 7).
FLE. the Officer Administering to Hong Kong shortly to live might do worse than make an in-hand to Drs. S. F. Li, C.-K. Ma, spection of another collection of B. C. Wong and I. P. Woo, at
matsheds in the same vicinity, Government House, on Monday AIR CHIEF CRASHES near a ginger factory.
: next, at noon, Votes of Thanks from the Order of St. John for Some of the valuable services rendered by the Initials Free terrors of vac-gentlemen named..
cination, in the
at the Kowloon Cricket Club with minds of children, are being re- her presence. What was more,
she made a simple little speech moved. During
SIR E. ELLINGTON
***INJURED
Baghdad, Iraq. Air Vice- The health bulletin of Eastern
Marshal Sir Edward L. Ellington the present ports for the week ended Satur- was injured in an air accident quite extempore, every word of campaign of free vaccination day last, issued by the Director while flying from Baghdad to which could be heard and under-some of the children are having of Medical and Sanitary Services,
England. stood even by the tiny tots. It their initials stencilled, or en- contains the following cases, the
Sir Edward, who is 50, will is good to see that even in this graved, or pricked with the vac-figures in parenthesis indicating succeed Air Marshal Sir John Colony the ladies are coming into to display these proudly to their Cholera, Negapatam (3), Tuting-in-Chief
cination needle. They have only deaths.-Plague, Baghdad 2 (2); Salmond as Air Officer Command- Air Defence of their own in the matter of public paymates for the latter to begin corin 39 (18), Bangkok 8 (1). Great Britain. Since November speaking and that no longer are to:elamour to be, similarly tat- Saigon 8 (1); Small-pox, Basrah 1926 he has commanded the Bri-
their listeners treated merely to
tish Forces in Iraq.
His A.D.C. piloted the aero- plane in which he left Baghdad.
Fog necessitated a landing near the River Euphrates. The ground turned a somersault. was heavy and the aeroplane
a feebly ejaculated "Thank You" tooed." Should the system be- 3 (2), Bombay 3 (1), Negapatam on being the recipient of a bou- come common there should be 4 Pondicherry (2), Samarinda 3, quet of flowers or a vote of fewer lost kiddies in future, for, Saigon 2, Shanghai (12), Bagh thanks at prize distributions. on a stray child being found all dad 6 (1)... May it be also hoped that, certain the Police have to do is to look at of our men friends will profit by the vaccination marks for the last
The British Legion (Hong refrain in future from reading lead to speedier restoration to dis-sum of £1,500 has been forwarded Edward was slightly bruised and the example of Mrs. Southorn and one's initiale-a clue that should Kong Branch) reports that the what they have got to say at of these same kiddies wander Earl Haig's Fund for Ex-Service Ramadi, on the Euphrates, by car tracted parents! And should any to the Central Fund in London of public gatherings?
shaken. He was taken to from the path in a different sense Men and their dependants, as, the and then 70 miles by air to
7
The pilot was unhurt, but Sir
when they grow older those vac-reault of the appeal. which was From observa- cination initials might prove a made through the sale of Poppies, Baghdad R.A.F. Hospital. A Torn Page tion it would very good complement of finger etc., on November 11 last. In He is making excellent pro- appear that the prints! An idea right away for addition, Demand Drafts for £80, gress, but will probably remain public reading room at the City the very next "best seller" if 247 and £2, being contributions in Baghdad. about a week. Hall Library is being much more some local novelist will only take from frequented than was the case, the hint and let us share in the say, three or four years ago. In- deed, at certain parts of the day
royalties. one cannot always make sure of getting a seat or a glance at the
If the Star Ferry particular paper or periodical one
Draughts management, is not wants. It is regrettable, how-
finished yet with ever, to find that some members making "improvements" in the of the public do not respect the shape of too narrow turnstiles and the "rattlers" as the small buses privileges of a free reading room. the seats on the Hong Kong side in Kowloon were appropriately It is invariably found that one.
so forth, will it consider "boxing",
of
The advent the New Year Exit the "Rattlers" has seen the exit, at long last, of
Wuchow and Hoihow, are also "THE SQUEAKER'
residents in Swatow, being sent Home. A full state ment will be forwarded for pub-PROTECTING THE GERMAN lication in the near future.
"NEW" DIAMONDS FROM SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW
EL DORADO®
CARRIED BY 'PLANE
South
ACTOR
"Please post. £1,000 for police sage received from Berlin recent- to hold was, the startling mes-
ly by Mr. Edgar Wallace, who was signing a lease of the Kuenstler Theatre in Berlin to produceThe Squeaker" there.
The money is held by the police, Government is re- whoever be the producer, and is quan- an insurance that the actors will
termed. One had only to ride in particular page of the overseas to shut out the draughts? One one of the fine big buses on the "Daily Sketch" is torn out, evid. has only to wait a few minutes for Hong Kong side, and then sample ently because it contains a cross-a Ferry on a cold, wind night to Johannesburg. The a "rattler" in Kowloon, to appre-word puzzle! This is a selfish and realise how easy it is not only to African ciate the mighty difference be- mean form of vandalism, and it is catch a common cold but a very ported to have sold a tween the two. Moreover, the to be trusted that it will cease. severe chill that might lead to tity of diamonds from the Nama-not be left stranded. No. 2 route "rattler" was always Others besides the vandals may pneumonia or pleurisy. It would qualand diamond field to a dia- more or less of a nightmare owing be equally interested in the par- require only the expenditure of mond syndicate for $1,134,000. Germany, and a very good prac to always being permitted to get ticular page mentioned, so why few dollars to "box" the existing Government officials are very overcrowded near Mongkok on the should they be deprived, of the seats and make Ferry patrons ap- reticent. way out to Laichikok. It was pleasure of reading it?
preciate the thoughtfulness of the only, sheer good luck that saved
management
over.
one or more of them from toppling And passengers had in- variably, to alight at the Bus Company's depot on the journey from the Ferry to permit of fresh supply of petrol. Now they are gone, and nobody who has to travel any distance in Kow. loon will feel
bit sorry.
Most folk who An Overhaul, patroniso the Wanted Library at the agree that it is high time that it City Hall wil!
received
a
Offices
<
"It is the general practice in tice," said Mr. Wallace. "I should
like to see it in force here."
"The Squeaker," which has been running at the Comedy Theatre, was produced in Brooklyn (New York) and had an enthusiastic reception.
The diamond field is at Alexander Bay, near the mouth of the Orange River. The South If the
African Government has already Star Ferry recovered £6,000,000 of diamonds Parcels people wish to rise from this sandy waste.
still higher in public
"I have always wanted my own estimation why should It is surrounded by a barbed production in Germany," said Mr. a thorough overhaul. it not instala parcels office at 7ft. high. Inside there is another difficulty about getting the right Some of the shelves look as if the both the Hong Kong and Kowloon high enclosure where the men en- kind of theatre The Squeaker wire and closely meshed fence Wallace, "but there has been a books had been thrown back any-sides? There is no central place require not only dusting but re-leave parcels to be called for an convicts. Anyone approaching view of the audience."" how, whilst many of the books at present where shoppers can gaged in recovering the diamonds should have a revolving stage. are more closely guarded thap A scene has to be changed in full pairing and rebinding. A stranger hour or two later, and few, if There is still a roing into the Library for the any, would grudge paying five the diamond field is liable to be Cleaner Cars difference
be-irst time would be pardoned for cents per parcel or small trunk at The gems are carried two or
shot at sight.
S CAPT. VANCOUVER tween the buses concluding that he had stepped the Star Ferry Parcels Office. In in Hong Kong and those in Kow-into the Old Curiosity Shop In-fact, the more the idea is explored three times a week by aeroplane loon, and that is in the matter of stead of a Library maintained by the mare/does it appeal to the to Cape Town, where the pilots cleanliness. On the Kowloon side Government that prides itself imagination, both as a convenience hand them over to an armed many of the buses look as if they a Colony can be judged by its making affair for the Star Ferry HERRING CATCH
on being abreast of the times. If to the public and as a profit guard were suffering from the drought Library and Reading Room, what in common with a great many a poor opinion outsiders must other things. Why they cannot
LARGE INCREASE IN EAST ANGLIA
ASHES MAY REST IN LAND. NAMED AFTER HIM
Vancouver Plans are under “way, sponsored by the local Cana- dian Club, for the removal from Petersham, Surrey, of the re mains of Captain George Van- couver, who visited the site of the city was named. His ashes this city in 1792 and after whom will rest under a monument to be
be brushed out, and the windows form of Hong Kong! There are The Master calmly uttered, as and so forth dusted at each ter-surely some real book enthusiasts if his paradoxes were platitudes, in the Government Service to the most amazing statements. minus, the travelling public whom could be allotted the plea-Love your enemies. The incredu A large increase in the catch would like to know. Furthermore, surable task of devoting a few lous respectable man says, "Love of herrings landed at East with the small-pox epidemic rag-hours each week during office my enemies? Why Loften find Anglian ports is recorded in the erected in his memory... ing, why cannot the conductors hours) to bringing both the my friends very trying. How can return of the Board of Agricul
The British Columbia Agent
of the buses on both sides of the Library and Reading Room into I love my enemies?" Even many ture and Fisheries, the figures General in London has been asked harbour be provided with Lilacko or Lotal sprays and thus keep state of pristine glory orthodox church members do not given for the week ended Nov. 28 to open negotiations with the Bri- them disinfected? The buses aro
Abaco take these remarks of Jesus being more than double, those for tish Government and any rela not always full and the conduc-
When Dr. Welling seriously. As a matter of the corresponding week of 1927. tives that may be living tors are not for ever punching Sanitary ton, the new Direc fact, the command to love our The quantities numbered 13,660A great navigator and a pupil. tickets and taking in cash. Why Board tor of Public Health, enemies is eminently practical crans, compared with 6,858 crans of Captain Cook, with whom he not make them keep their buses. "Head" arrives and assumes It is a remedy for a mental in the corresponding week of last made two voyages as midship- clear of dust and germs? Now
duty, It is to be disease; the remedy is not for year, an increase of 8,001 crans. man, George Vancouver went to that the Tramways Company has trusted that he will see that the our enemies but for ourselves. The total catch from Sept. 1 to Vancouver on a mission from the taken over the business of the Sanitary Board has a permanent Jesus was thinking of us, not of date was 880,110 'crans, compared British Government in 1791 and Kai Tak Company, may we look to Chairmans The present system of our enemies. William Lyon with 670,876 crans. in the same returned in 1796, dying three. it to set the example in Kowloon?, pitchfording any Cadet into this Phelps.
** period of last year.
years later at the age of 40.]