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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.
P'RAPS-
PRAPS NOT !
it may be asked in all serious-since then little has been heard ress, if any of the 'old-about it. It would be of use to timers can estimate the age every town in the Orient, if of the cotton-tree" as it is com-they would tell us what measure monly known. Inquiries tend to of success they are having. In success of the show that it was planted along Colombo the with the other banyans (near the Street Boys' Club is unquestion- fountain) when the City Hall was able. In both these towns the
Spats were invented by built. And that was very many initiative has been taken by the years ago. If that be the case, as Police, who have had no difficulty Aberdonian to save him from there seems no doubt, then the in winning the interest and co-buying new boots. tree is well-nigh reaching its een-operation of the public. If the
Singapore Police want to.remove It's always darkest before the
tenary.
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a hot-bed of potential criminals | yawn. St. John's they might consider getting busy Estimated Age: Cathedral is along these lines, says the Singa- You may think you are firm, 90 Years eighty years pore paper quoted. Here in Hong but your wife knows you are only
old, and Kong, a laudable start was made stubborn. that tree flourished when the with the Waifs Club, but, al- cathedral was built. When plant-though provided with all the re-
Most of us are so busy dodging а shoe black's brick-bats we couldn't see a ed where it now stands, it (as quisites for must be assumed) was a young "career" it petered out. The bouquet if one-should be thrown sapling, ten years of age, so that waifs look all that was going but at us.
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it now must be ninety years old or simultaneously resorted to a life thereabouts. Those who park of petty stealing and committing | Believe it or not, more people a die annually of indigestion than their cars outside the City Hall, or trivial offences. How far who in the ordinary course of Reformatory in Hong Kong would were killed in the world war. The a funny man, is business pass the tree, cannot fail solve the problem could only be pan, says
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Passer-by: "How's business, Tony?"
Scissors Grinder: never saw things so dull in my life."
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to see the cotton-pods' every ascertained by practical experi- mightier than the sword. where on the covers of cars, on ment in the light of experience! the seats, on the road, and in the elsewhere in the Orient. gutters. Everywhere in the
A boiler maker, of No. 14, Tai vicinity is literally bespattered with them, and one in passing Wong-street, Wanchal, was yes by finds that the thin, scarce.terday removed to the Govern ly visible 'cotton' slowly ment Civil Hospital suffering from descending from parent the effects of poisoning. plant, clots one's ears, mouth,
Silk forwarded from here by and
Sug- even eyes. gestive of the age of the tree, is the "Empress of Russia" on the following-an old Chinese May 1 arrived in New York (St. woman was known yearly to col-Jon's Park) on May 22, having. lect the 'cotton and at the end of been 21 days in transit, a day's gathering she had a good
nose
its
Jinks: My wife played bridge last night.
Binks: Sorry, old haven't got a cent!
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Sentimental writers tell us that the three most beautiful words in the world are."I love you."
amount. This she treasured and, Among the passengers dis- after drying it in the sun, she embarking from the s.s. "Morea" However, to the growing boy of would use the stuff for padding yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. J.ten, "Dinner is ready" cannot be pillows, cushions, etc. The Johnston, Mr. A. J. Linge, Mr.improved upon. woman died ten years ago (about C. H. Ashworth and Capt. J. G.
A clerk to the greyhounds once 60 years of age) but she had al-Coxetter. ways made it her regular duty to gather each year--even from girl-
went
Suffering from the effects of an To invest on the bow-wows his
rent. until recently, when it was found hood. And the tree still immersion in the harbour after
to be too small. Cars now left flourishes, and will for some time jumping from the s.l. "Man Lee" Like the dogs on the track unattended in the charge of an yet. It is a relic of the "old Indian watchman employed times" worthy to be preserved. specially by the Hong Kong Automobile Association ex-
the com- Youthful
of the Yaumati Ferry Co., a Chin-He brought nothing back, ese woman was sent to the Gov. And the bulge in his-wallet's a ernment Civil Hospital.
tend
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Hong Kong, Saturday, May 25, 1929.
STILL WATERS
right from
of the space near the Police Pier to the junc- tion of Salisbury Road and Can
ton Road. The cars are crammed
Offenders
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dent.
Wife: "That's the kind of hus- band to have!
Did you hear Mr. Dike tell his
twenty-pound hats?"
The unpleasant
Whilst the Shumchun-Kowloon duty of having to
train was approaching the Low send youthful offen station yesterday, it knocked ders to jail in this down and injured a Chinese of wife to go and look at some Colony was the subject of am about 16 years of age who was near each other and only about article in the "China Mail" some taken to the Kowloon Hospital.
time ago. The Government was balf that space is roofed in pro- urged to found an institution for tection of the cars. For many
Col. and Mrs. R. B. Skinner these young delinquents on lines were among the passengers leav years, in fact, since the inaugura-similar to the Borstal at Home.ing for Shanghai and Tientsin per tion of the motor-bus service on As there is no indication that the the F. & O. liner Rajputana" the mainland, it has been the cus-Government is doing anything to which sailed yesterday. Tom of the buses to line up on
Husband: "My dear, have I ever deprived you of the privilege of looking at twenty-pound hats?"
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I've heard a lot abaht 'em lately! 'Erb: "Wot's a merger, Alf?
Alf: "Crikey! An' yer don't know what a merger is, 'Erb?
both sides of the road past the try to solve the problem, it may stimulate local officialdom to read. Ferry wharf, waiting for passen- the opinion of Sir Joynson-Hicks eral meeting of the Indo-China go to church or chapel on a Sun- The forty-eighth ordinary gen Why, that jee' shows you don't gers from the ferries. A large on the subject. open space just beyond that occu- Twickenham recently he said that advertised to take place at the sweeps up the confetti after wed- Speaking at Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., is day. A merger's the bloke wot pied by the buses for a long Britain is to have increas-offices of the General Manager, dings." time stood waste, until it was oc- ed facilities, including Д cupied recently as a parking space fourth
"Borstal"
institution
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co..
for private motor cars. But now for boys, to help to reform Ltd., on Wednesday, June 19, at that space is being used by the young people who have made a noon. buses, which line up in rows of bad atart in life, thereby avoid- two each in separate divisions.ing the necessity of sending them Just how this is expected to im- to prison. It was impossible to: prove the bus service is a very send a child of 16 or under to moot point.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PLAY GROUNDS IN KOWLOON
"Yes," said Binks, in oratorical mood, "we shall never recover our lost trade until we advertise more. Our slogan should be: "Tell it to the world?""
"But I know a better slogan than that" observed Jinks.
"And what is that?" asked Binks.
"'Sell it to the world!"
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prison. He wanted to raise that age to 17. He did not think it
To the Editor of the "China Mail.") The problem right for boys and girls to go to Problem More for car-owners prison. Sir William wanted to see Sir,-May I be allowed space in Acute has thus be-ja remand home, not a prison, at-the columns of your paper to voice come all the tached to every big court or col-an opinion with regard to the
Mrs. Brown was rather indign- more acute and urgent. They are lection of courts. He added that much vexed question of "Play ant concerning her grocer, and We understand now deprived of the additional they hardly ever got in prison a Grounds."
The point has already been as she spotted his good lady ad- Trade Figures that the Gov-space recently procured on the man or woman who had belonged
"island" and are again confined to to a Boys' Brigade, Lads' Club or made clear that Kowloon badly vancing along the road towards Wanted
with her. that space across the road next the Boy Scouts or Girl Guides or needs a park for children, and I her she resolved to have a word to the Kowloon Godowns. How any thing of the kind.
would like to suggest that the
"I can't understand," began slopes of Signal Hill approaching Mrs. Brown, "what's the matter can a late comer park his car
Even Singapore from Minden Avenue might be with your husband! I went into near the ferry when all the park- ing space is already occupied?
and the F.M.S. admirably suited if levelled off the shop just now and asked him... The traffic department to all, ap- Fundamental are ahead of us and protected by stout railings. for a dozen cracked eggs for cook-
is blind to this pro-
in this social it is the only high spot left with-ng, like he often sells off cheap blem. But, as 3000 as 8
problem which in easy reach of Kowloon, and it
ernment has communicated with a number of firms asking them to supply information as to how much their stocks have in- creased during the last year. Howpearance ridiculous the Government is,
The
Problem
cannot
tion.
MORE "HOWLERS"
pre-
Visiting a famous Sussex paratory school the other day, the genial headmaster produced some of the written efforts of his younger pupils which he adds to a special General Ignorance register.
According to one boy. "To smell
a rat is when a man comes across
motorist, through unavoidable concerns the younger generation, would be cool and quiet. There-and he looked me up and down making itself in condescending to circumstances, is forced to leave In Singapore recently the District are already quite a number of/and said, 'Oh, dear, no! Nothing ask from firms trade figures that his car outside the "white line" Judge ordered a 12-year-old Chin-shady trees
on the slopes and doing in that line to-day! What "Well," said the grocer's wife, should already have been accessi (the boundary of the space per-se by to be sent to the Reform-more might be added, and if such ever is his idea the
a concession were made by the "I'll tell you in confidence! He's mitted for parking) the traffic atory and his 14-year-old com- ble through a Statistical Bureau. "cops" are awake enough to spot panion to receive eight strokes of Government it need in no way singing at the local church con
interfere with the Signal Station, cert and he's not taking any It is believed, too, that the request it, and summons tife grave offen- the rattan, Their offence was came through a former statistical der. In view of the acuteness of that they had robbed a bread- which at present occupies a very risks!" officer in the service of the Govthe need, and as the traffic de seller in the early hours of the small area on the top of the Hill,
The pitiable sight of amals and partment does not come forth morning and they both confessed ernment. "Wake Up, Britain' with a suggestion, how about this that they were practically living babies huddled under the noisy sheds in Chatham-road or beside was the slogan adopted not so idea: allow private cars
to on the streets. The younger boy the shops in Nathan-road, must the entrance went to the Reformatory because very long ago in regard to British park outside
and/or near the vicinity of the he was medically unfit to receive surely plead for urgent considera- trade abroad. "Wake Up, Hong Kowloon-Canton Railway build a birching. No doubt this was Kong" is a slogan that the Gov-ing. It is well known that the all a magistrate could do in the
Yours, etc., ernment here badly needs to ap-road at this point is very wide circumstances, but one
ENGLISH WOMAN.. ply to itself in respect of trade and not used to any great extent help feeling how inadequate the
Hong Kong, May 24, 1920. and proper trade etatistics. If it by vehicular traffic, with the ex-sentences were to deal with the does not know the value of a ception, of course, of jinrikshas fundamental problem. Whether a THEFT FROM SHOP Trade Bureau or a Statistica! It should be possible for cars reformatory turns a boy into a Bureau, why cannot it scrap some to line up in two rows as closely confirmed criminal or makes him CHINESE SENT TO JAIL FOR a person he wants to marry," and of its "experts" and import a real as possible to the railway build a self-respecting citizen seems to live wire" in the shape of an ex-ing, without impeding the park be an absolute gamble. Products perienced Statistical Commission- ing spaces permitted already for of Borstal, the famous British in- er from one of the States of the the taxicabs and public vehicles.stitution, re-appear in the courts Australian Commonwealth, which Sympathy will be with the unfor- with unhappy frequency, and the is comparatively close to Hong tunate motorist who said that "Straits Times" wishes that department of the Hong Kong pearls usually found in India.
The vigilance of the detective sible," and "rupees are valuable Kong? The day or the year will she was forced to park her car statistics could be produced as to Police, has led to the discovery Members of the Stock Exchange assuredly come when the Govern-over the white line and was the subsequent careers of boys of those who participated in will learn with surprise that it is ment will be sorry indeed that told in reply that if the parking discharged from the Singapore thefts committed recently. It will a place where anyone in England priceless opportunities for keep spaces at the ferry were occupied Reformatory As for the thrash-be recalled that Messrs. Der A. can go to if they want a workman ing statistics of our trade up-to-she would have to leave her car at ing which the other lad has re- Wing Co., and Chosen Co., Ltd.,
Asked why we have fireworks on date have been frittered away on the back of the Peninsula Hotel! ceived, it is in the highest degree had property stolen from their November 5, a very small boy wrote, the false score of "economy." Which is about five minutes' walk improbable that it will turn him respective premises in the for-"To rember Guy Fawaks when he from the ferry. In that case, we from the life he is at present lead-mer case, two electric fans and a blew up the house, of the Lord." That adequate ask, what is the use of owning a ling a life which is an inevitable number of fountain pens, and in and to the question, why do cats Parking Spaces parking car in Kowloon?
preliminary to serious and profes-the latter case clothing and other have whiskers he replied: "The property to the total value of cat can't help having wiskers be- cause it is its nature. They do not In Colombo and At the Second Court this morn- poke, the eyes of a mouseout but Kuala Lumpur a ing, Major C. Willson sentenced a help cats to purr real effort has Chinese, who admitted stealing at And, finally, what sounds almost been made to both places, to six months impri- too good to be true, "Noblesse oblige
means the new rich" 1
in Kowloon spaces are re- required by the
sional crime later on:
How many could! That Fine rightly name the Old Tree age of that old tree next to the City
Street Boys Chub
ever increasing number of owner- drivers in Kowicon, is a question that is becoming more and more important, and which, no doubt is Hall? The one in question is of
SIX MONTHS
RECEIVERS SENTENCED
"Courting disaster means get ing engaged."
A fable is explained as being "a story with a moral which is impoa-
vexing the traffic department of the Kapok species, which year deal with the problem of the un-sonment on two charges. the Police. That part of the road ly sheds a fine, silky texture of employed street boy. The Two others arrested in connect- in the vicinity of the Star Ferry stuff not unlike cotton in its raw pioneers of the Kuala Lumpur ex-ion with the robberies were sen- Twickenham (Middlesex) borough wharf did previously supply the state. Perhaps it is hardly fair to periment had, we believe some tenced to three months jail each, rate has been reduced from 128. 3d. requirements of the car owners put the question so bluntly, but, startling experiences at first, and on charges of receiving.
to 108.