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FROM HONG KONG
PRINCIPAL OF ST. PAUL'S
GIRLS SCHOOL
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FLOWERS, AND FUNERALS
near the difference in the Gold value of the Hong Kong note and Mexican dollars which in their bullion value arq practically the same token. And this To the Editor of the China Melial concerns employing a large la
gaya disadvantage also affects indus- US. PRESS PROMINENCE Sir, May I be permitted, through bour force almost to the extent of put- the columns of your paper, to pass, ating them out of the competitive mar The "South Bend Tribune" of few remarks under the above, heading ket, thehusiness of ship repairing is June 10 publishes a photograph of I have no wish to start any conan excellent example. The local Dock St. Paul's Institution and of Mrs. troversy, or to hurt the feelings of any Company is claimed to be the bost bereaved relative of any of cur friends technically equipped yard in this part Y; K. Wod and Miss F. C. Woo.
who have passed on to the "unknown." The letter press reads:
of the world, yet commercially can- Mrs. F. K. Woo and Miss F. C. The sending of a floral tribute is the net be compared to its rival of Shang- last respect we can show, to one who hai which has earned handsome profits Wo, of Hong Kong, are guests of has been loved and esteemed; but could, all through this period of depression in Mrs. F. A. Bryan, 1325 East not this be done in some better way?
Jefferson, boulevard. The picture I refer to the sending of flowers China. The secret, is, of course, partly taken at the Bryan home shows to the funeral of a well-known and res- hai where the wage bill is not subject in cheaper prices obtaining in Shang. Mra. Woo seated with her charm pected man, or woman, as is done in to inflation of anything up to 15 per ing daughter at her side. These this Colony. How is it usually done? cent; and in the circumstances it is net residents of Hong Kong are hav-The office-boy, or servant, is often sent surprising that work is attracted ing a delightful visit in America. with a few dollars and a card to one
They are on their way around the street and told to order a wreath, etc., of the flowers sellers in Wyndham-
there.
The causes for the anomaly of a
world. Mrs. Woo has made the as required. The flower-seller does the "promise" being superior in value to world trip several times. They reat, and the wreaths are deposited at the "performance" in this issue are speak excellent English and are the Monument at a stated time to undoubtedly many, but the principal delightful in every way. Mrs. await the arrival of the cortege. They cause would appear to be the inade Woo has done much philanthropic are then piled on the hearse one on top quate supply of barik notes for "trade" work in China. Miss Woo is the of the ether until it will hold no more,ted is returned in millions, but what purposes; the value of bank notes omit-
poles to
and the remainder carried the grave-side all to wither and die proportion of those millions is in trade is unknown, nor is the in a few hours, and so we feel that circulation we have paid our last respects, and total ascertainable of the huge sum what is due from us to our dear de hoarded by the Chinese in South China
principal of St. Paul's Girls' col- lege in Hong Kong, an institu- tion having 600 pupils, most of them Chinese girls who are seek ing higher education. A few of the pupils are boys of 12 years of age and under.. Miss Woo is a graduate of Oxford, England.& Mrs. Woo is the widow of Dr. Woo Yee-kai, who lost his life in the terrible Chinese plague in 1894 and 1895 while administering to the victims of that outbreak. ĮS In the picture also is shown the beautiful seven
storey building occupied by St. Paul's School. Miss Woo in another column of the "Tribune" tells of the work of the school (which is too well known to "China Mall readers to require repetition here),
TUNG WAH HOSPITAL
H.E. THE GOVERNOR APPEALS FOR AID
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478966665J6398ogom
WATER SUPPLY HOURS
Vietoria and high level districts:-
6 am, to 8 a.m.
as a protective measure against the insecure and mercurial paper of their own Banks, and their coin of varying and doubtful values.
This is a wonderful tribute to the note issuing institutions of, Hong Kong, but they are. possibly not performing fully the service intended by the urdin+ ances authorising their respective nate issues in that an important per- centage of such notes (larger than most people think) is being utilised to
Districts:- Magazine Gap and Wanchaia purpose foreign to facilitation of trade by its permanent withdrawal into the Chinese equivalent of the French peasant's stocking.
6 p.m. to 8 pm. Severn Road Section only), Barker Road,
(Eastern
6 to 8 a.m. and 4 to 5 p.m.
Remainder of the Peäk:-
6 to 9 a.m.
$
12
This unexpected use of bank notes has kept Hong Kong currency over silver parity, and a position in taela, **************6996 | originally contracted for trade require- ments which did not eventuate and parted. Also the death of a well-known since carried on speculatively, has in-. person is made the occasion for the tensified the difficulty by keeping up Blower-seller's touts to go around accost- or even increasing the premium for ing people to buy their flowers Ore of bank notes, a natural and normal con- these approached me at the corner of sequence of weakness in the sterling Pedder-street on Saturday afternoon rate in Shanghai vis-a-vis a relatively last with the information that "one urimovable rate in Hong Kong. European man makan die, you wantchee other words, the premium of Hong Bowers?"
Kong, notes is primarily due to the de- This sort of thing to my mind is all mand therefore exceeding the supply, wrong, and I think there are many and in a secondary manner to the others in the Colony who think likewise, speculation in taels. There are un- I know the matter has boer, openly dis-doubtedly other causes, but whatever they may be, the fact remains that a At the funeral of the late Mr. departure of a currency from, its parity, na less than 147 wreaths
were whether a rise or fall from its basis of
Ip
The following announcement has been sent to the "China Mail" by was sought of Feng Yu-hsiang's Mr. M. K. Lo, Chairman of Direc- complicity in Soviet clandestine tors of the Tang Wah Hospital:-
The directors of the Tung Wah movements, In other words,
Hospital have the honour to when the first blow was struck announce that His Excellency the cussed by individuals. by the Chinese, Feng Yu-hsiang Governor,
thought of. When K.C.M.G., has been graciously sent by private individuals and fami- vahue, cannot react otherwise than de- next step was taken pleased to permit the publication of lies, 3e by various firms and associa-trimentally to trade.
was
the (that is, the
Sir Cecil Clementi,
1
for funds to provide the annual work-
ment.
I
on this matter?
Yours, etc.,
FRANK BATLIS,
Hon. Secretary, General Charities Organisation. Hong Kong, July 15,
CURRENCY PROBLEMS
[To the Editor of the “China Mall.”]
Sir-With the advent of rain and
The question is full of intricacies,
couragement to payments to the Trea- sary in the Colony's legal tender.
An increase in notes accompanied by free circulation of dollars interchange- able into notes and general observation of the fact that silver dollars are legal tender in this Colony would appear to be effective almost at, once in bring- ing down the Hong Kong paper dollar to its true value.
It is desirable to retain bank notes, and its temporary increase might be facilitated to the issuing Banks by the
a message to the public in aid of tions, and 13 by Masonic Lodges, mak- seizure of
the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital ing a total of 105, and more, as stated and a satisfactory solution even more the Railway), the reduction
Appeal, as set out below.
in the columns of the newspapers, so, but a remedy might be found in an of Feng Yu-hsiang to being a The directors desire to record Taking this total at an average of $3 increase in the issue of bank notes, negligible factor had just been once more their keen senae. of per wreath we get a sum of $585 simply and placing a curb in the speculation accomplished. So that there is at gratitude to His Excellency for his thrown away on a few flowers. How in teels. The latter might be reached much better could this amount be without great difficulty by unfailing interest in, and assistance least one reason for thinking afforded to, the Institution, and His cieties who are badly in need of funda, themselves
spent by some of the Charitable So- agreement between the Banks
but; for that the National Government of Excellency's message
obvious is another and how much more good would be reasona, it cannot be effective unless aċ- China made sure of its own posi-testimony of His Excellency's soli- derived from it to the living, at the companied by measures to meet the tion first, vis-a-vis the "Christian citous concern for the welfare of same time still showing our respect to trade requirements of Hong Kong in W the dead. the Institution.
respect of bank notes. General," who might, should
Something of this sort is, I under- Neither will an His Excellency's Messages
increase by itself Russia have resorted to war in-
stand, being done in Shanghai. Just in the issue of Bank notes remedy the "The Directors of the Tung Wah how I do not know; but perhaps sorge situation unless accompanied by a cor- stead of negotiation, have proved Hospital have issued a public appeal one of your readers could enlighten us tainty of continued unrestricted im- a thorn in the side of China.
ing experse of their branch hospital at
I simply make the port and export of silver dollars to còr- Japan has taken very close in-the east end of Victoria City, which is suggestion. Cannot some of our lead-rect the vagaries of the tael, and the approaching completion but cannot be ing business men get together and do free circulation and acceptance of terest in each development, opened for lack of the necessary endow something? It is only a matter for dollars, and in this the Government The subscriptions for this organisation, and should not be alto-might assist by withdrawing its dis- Nippon's interests in Manchuria branch hospital actually received by the gether impossible. are wide and, furthermore, the Directors to the end of last year totalled $380,007.40 apd the sum re- Japanese-owned South Manchuriarrived
up to date this year ik Railway is just south of the $17.236.31, These subscriptions will, Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 16, 1929. bore of contention, the Chi-in the cost of construction and equip- however, be almost entirely absorbed nese Eastern Railway. And it ment of the new hospital, which pro- vides accommodation for about 120 was Aot so long ago
that Dr. beds. The estimated annual working Wang and Mr. Kenkichi Yoshi-expenses will be about $90,000, which means that, even if the Directors are Many
onezawa (Japan's Minister to China) te be saddled with the task of collecting year by year one half of the annual motive,
China's arrived at an understanding in working expenses, an endowment and the consequent diminution in iraport grant of less onerous conditions for art rather hasty action against regard to issues outstanding be. of at least $600,000 is needed.
earnestly hope that this sum will be ance of the water problem, loss in excess of the present amount, subject. Russians in Manchuria, which tween Japan and China. China raised, for there can be no question public interest on such matters as to a gradual reduction to 2 figure action has now engaged the at feels at peace with Japan. And that this new institution is badly need motor car taxes or the efficiency of fire proved by experience to be sufficient for
ed at the eastern end of Victoria City, fighting appliances, may I bring to the the Colony's requirements, tention of capitals all over the the new Premier, Mr. Y. Hama-1, therefore, heartily support the appeal notice of our legislators a problem of world. The motive, of course, is guchi, is opposed to previous the Tung Wah Hospital, and I trust the commercial community but to the facts have been exposed to warrant an This is by no means an exhaustive now being made by the Directors of the greatest importance not only to review of the situation, but suficient to secure control-each side "positive" policy towards China. that there will be a generous respuse Colony as elder
not only in Hong Kong but from China
examination of the problem by the Gov blaming the other in cross-accusa- All in all, therefore, there are and from the Chinese overseas, for the I refer to the abnormal state the ernment. Perhaps one of our un- tions But the causes concern grounds for thinking that China Hospital extend fer beyond the limits, high premium of the notes issued by take the matter in hand and move for charitable activities of the Tung Wah currency of Hong Kong due to the official members of the Council will more than the two parties in- is spoiling for a fight. The op of the Colony."
the three Banks operating in the a commission to explore the matter in volved and, by reason of being so, posite is the case, however. The
Colony. The premium is common to all its aspects, or preferably a currency notes of all denominations but as an expert might be engaged to report deserved careful study. It will be present leaders in China have no
example take the case of a $1 note, thereon. noticed that the seizure of the desire for hostilities with any Passengers on the "President which promises, to pay the bearer on Years ago a situation detrimental to of the the interest of the Colony in reference Chinese Eastern Railway almost foreign nation, but they feel Taft" which left do-day included demand $1 in the currency
island. The theoretical sterling value to small coins was corrected by the returning to the U.S. from a tour and on the current price of this metal lies again with the Government to take up of the momentous conference "get back one." They cannot re- of the Pacific Captain Saunders is is hardly 1s. 9d, and in Shanghai such steps as may be necessary to re at Peking and the sudden depar- sist the temptation to do so, but, in the steamship business in Santsels, the silver content in the same move the handicap which now exists to ture of the leaders-acting like on the other hand, it is futile to Francisco.
Melrose, dollar gives it a value of about 72 the trade of Hong Kong.. returning to candoreens, showing an inflation in the the Arabs who folded up their say that they are actuated solely missionary worker,
the US. on vacation, accom- value of the local bank note of anything tents and stole silently away by by a desire to checkmate "Red" panied by her two grand between 12 per cent, and 15 per cent This state of affairs has existed for night. General Chang Hsueh activities in China,
children. Rev. Edward Hughes and. liang, Governor of Manchuria,
Rev. Brother Jordan Warnock O.P. Some years, but never to the extent
now obtaining, and certainly the bur Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Constant and connected with the American den has never been mere keenly felt was present at Peking and he family, left by the "President Taft Dominican Fathers in Foochow Rey by the commercial community of Hong spoke with both Marshal Chiang for the United States. Mr. Conetant and Mrs. E. T. Snuggs, missionary Kong Kai-shek (head of the National is connected with the Standard On workers from Indo-China travelling Animportant part of the export Government and Commander-in. Co. of New York.
to the US. They are connected with trade of South Chins, controlled from the Southern Baptist Convention Hong Kong, has been diverted to East- Chief) and Dr. C. T. Wang
New Kowloon Inland Lot No.
ero centred with foreign exchange rates (Secretary for Foreign Affairs), 1254, adjoluing New Kowloon Inland The funeral took place yesterday approximating silver parity, and this The main point, however, is that Lot No. 1212. Cheung Sha Wan at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, diversion in turn has further restricted sports, already a diminishing" quan-
Motorists will be glad to learn Chiang Kai-shek had arrived at road, was sold by public auction at Happy Valley, of Mrs. Francie tity, as the result of the decrease in
the Crown Lands Office yesterday to Maria Lima Yvanovich, who passed buying power of the inhabitants of the that the price of petrol has been an agreement with General Yen Mr. Kong Wong or $5.916.
away at her residence in Gordon neighbouring provinces. To the x-reduced, the new rates coming in Hai-shan regarding the disposi
Terrace, Kowloon, at 7.30 am. poster, as less than to the importer be force to-day
com tion of the "Christian General,"|___For driving a car to the danger yesterday. The deceased lady, who cause of its repercussive effect, the "Shell" brand may now be pro-
of the public at a speed of smiles was Fang Yu-hsiang, in the immediate per hour from Nam Tong-street &own Portuguese family. She Is mortifying to see the little available gallon as against 70 cents pre- u widow, came from a well- situation is serious in the extreme, and cured for 65 cents an Imperial to Prince Edward-road, Jan See survived by three sons and six trade being driven out of the Colony viously Those who are more than usual chin was Aned $12 at the Kowloon daughters. One of her fons, Mr. Shanghai where the foreign buyer" ly observant will recall that when Police Court yesterday Defendant P. A. Ivanovich, was at one time is currency to meet the Chinese the Chinese raided the Russian had a learner's licence, and Sergt billiards champion of the Colony seller demand for any given quantity Scrim said that there was a fully There was a large attendance at the of conumodities, the silver prices of Consulate General at Harbin, & licensed driver beside accused, funeral and many floral tributes which do not differ materially in North hint was thrown out that proof when the offence was committed.
and South China, at least nowhere
synchronised with the winding that the moment is opportune to Captain and Mrs. C. W. Saunders, of this coin based on its silver content action of the Government, and it now
future.
wers sent
Mrs: M.
need part, with a amalier autount of
Yours, etc.,
“ÕUSERVER.”**
Hong Kong, July 16
PRICE OF PETROL
REDUCTION DEGINNING
TO-DAY
"Socony" gasoline, the product of the Standard Oil Company of New York, has been similarly reduced. The Texas Oil Company have also reduced the price of their "Texaco" brand of petrol