SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1930.
PROTECTION OF
CHILDREN.
Society's First Annual Report..
LADY INSPECTOR'S WORK.
The report of the Society for the Protection of Children for the period ended November 14 is under:-
A
Sir
place where the standards of living 44
THE CHINA MAIL
are low for a great bulk of the MADAM, WILL YOU
population. A
Your Committes feels that there is great danger of the mind of the offender being con- youthful taminated by contact with older delinquents.
DANCE ?”
New Rhythmic Complications.
NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions.
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,-LTD,
PENINSULA HOTEL.* Friday, 2nd January, 1931. Your Committee has had under
Madam has chosen her frock consideration a Bill drafted by Mr.
Patrons are notified that no Hazlerigg making provision for the and now she must dance In it.
To-day-Tex Dances at Hong DINNER DANCE will be held at Have a care, milords, or you slep institution of Juventia Courts, the on danger, and a dance is danger. Kong and Peninsula Hotels. segregation of youthful offenders
at the above Hotel on FRIDAY, 2nd Dances To-night-Dinner ous enough as it is, with four new before and during trial, the ap compositions on the programme. Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels January, 1931. pointment of probation officers
To-morrow-~Toa several sorts of music, and, as charged with the duty of aupervia usuni, no room to move-not after pulse Bay Hotel. ing youthful offenders. released on eleven, when the theatre crowd probation, and the substitution of
joins in. But to what tune the custody in a place of detention to be provided under the Bill for im-new frocks are to dance nobody p.m.
has a notion. There is something prisonment as now inflicted.
marlonettish
in this, as though fashion were waiting for some im- pulse from above to animate it and dared not shake its skirts till the right moment. Well, that is very sensible. second on that turn, and down you
chorus of lyrics from the or Yet there has been a great
chestrás, quite an anthology, all.
The Society was constituted on January 21, 1990, at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Cec!l Clementl, K.C.M.G. Its Aims and Objects, as laid down by the Constitution, are printed on the last page of this report.
The Committee The first object of your Commit- this Bill to tea was to raise suficient funds
consideration..
has forwarded the Government for
to admit of the Society engaging] Your Committee recognises the the services of an Inspector. The need for the provision of Institu- Government contributed a sum oftions wherein youthful offenders $3,000 and by the and of April the can receive industrial education and
go. to this matter will continue to receive generous response of those *whom the Society appealed for careful consideration.
office.
Wai Shin-pak for his donation of $10,000.
Hesitate but
Dance at Re
To-night. Returned Students' Union annual super dance, C.R.C..
Entertainments.
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Theatre
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Today Central "Captain of the Guard." To-day-World "The Flying Fleet."
To-dayStar "The Exalted Flapper." To-day Majestle "College Love.",
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Theatre.
Consignees of Cargo: are hereby in- Theatre; formed that all Goods are being land- ed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whones and/or from the wharves da livery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be givan before 26th instant.
Home Malla assistance produced a sum which Your Committee desires to ex-doing their utmost to produce Justified the Committen in engag-press their thanks to the Govern auch strains as would have won
To-day-Inward from America ing an Inspector and equipping anment and to the Chamber of Com-the ear of Pluto" but leaving and ports (President Adams)...
To-morrow-Inward from Europe Shall Eurydice entirely baffled. In this connection the Committedmerce for permitting the use
rooms for its meetings; to the she dance the Midway Rhythm, via Negapatam (Kashima Maru) to thank Mr. District Watch Committee; to the the Whispering particularly desires
No claims will be admitted after the Harmony, the Outward for Europe via Siberia, handsome
Goods have left the Godown, and all Auditors, Messrs. Percy Smith, American Quickstep, the Blues, the (Kashima Maru), 9am.
Goods remaining undelivered after the Meeting. Seth and Fleming: to Doctors and Moochi, or what? Should she The Committee, at first expert Hospitals for their valued help toy with the Seven Step1 And
January 14-Meeting of Gradu-2nd January, 1981, will be subject to
rent. ented some difficulty in obtaining and to the Press of the Colony for where does the pleasure of wear-ates in the Great Hall of the services of a person with the re-its interest in the Society's work ing a new frock come in if you University, 5.15 p.m..
Miscellaneous. quisite qualifications for an Inspec- and the gratuitous publication of cannot make up your mind what to tor, but in August appointed on lists of subscriptions and
other dance? Mr. Hergesheimer him-
To-day Agricultural Show probation Miss Seto Wai Shoung, matter.
self, the Fatou of novelists, could Territories. B.A., Ginling College, Nanking,
not tell us. who had made a particular study of sociological matters, including child welfare.
Cases Investigated
the
New
All claims against the vessel muni bo presented to the undersigned on or before the 12th January, 1931, or they will not be recognised.
To-morrow Christmas Treo
Sports.
As mentioned elsewhere in this On the other hand, there have Party, R.A.0.B. Club, 2-6 p.m. report the Society had no Inspector been demonstrations at the Em Monday Prize Distribution, until the appointment of Miss Seto press Rooms, in that famed Ken-Wanchat School. A note on the case investigated in August.
sington Balon where the glories of: by Miss Seto appears elsewhere in
The total, number of cases in-movement have always been cul- this report and the Committee feels vestigated between August 1 and tivated as an art. Mr. Thornton that her work has been in every | November 14 was 27, way satisfactory.
Your Committee has prepared for distribution, among the general public leaflets stating the aims and methods of the Society, the things which constitute offences #gainst children according to the laws of the Colony, and what should be done by any member of the public in order to invoke the Society's aid on behalf of any child.
See. Diary on page 13,
LINES.
Tacey, who went over to America RECOGNITION OF AIR August and September produced in seach of rhythm, discovered the only four cases in all, but in Octo-American Quickstep, and has been ber 13 cases were investigated and dancing it with his partner, Mias the first 14 days of November pro Murielle Sturgless. Together they duced a further 10 cases.
swept the ballroom with innumer-
tion visits.
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The 27 cases investigated affect-able chasses and with coils upon ed the welfare of 27 children and the heel of incredible swiftness. involved 49.offenders advised. The whole thing is based upon the In 26 cases the parents were chasse, or closing of the feet, and advised or warned, and in 11 ofis thus abbreviated In its length
Washington, Dec. 4. these the Inspector arranged for and breadth and made to measure
An effort to make American The District Watch Committee medical treatment, on several oc for the populous floors. But this dirigibles and aeroplanes eligible has kindly allowed the District casions accompanying the parents chasse must be accentuated (says for foreign mail contracts was Watchmen to make a house to on their taking the children to hoa-Mr. Tacey) to give the dance a launched in Congrera to-day by house distribution of these leaflets. pital. No prosecutions were con proper salting of impudence. As Senator Charles L. McNary, Re-
It is anticipated that as the residered necessary,
it is already American, one would publican of Oregon. Senator Me The Inspector made 63 supervi- have thought that was enough, and. Nary Introduced into the Senate' a
indeed. it is a bumptious affair bill designed to give American aero Seven cases were reported by only to be criticised on the planes and dirigibles, with respect various hospital authorities and the score that its four movements to mail contracts, the same steam- remainder were found by the in-lack variation. It is taken very ships flying the Stars and Stripes. spector.
lbit fast, and the music was perfectly The rapid advance of aviation FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, The cases may be classified as played by the Empress Rooms and the prospect that dirigibles
SCIENTIST. follows:--
band, which, like other bande, has will soon be operating on regular (Branch of The Mother Church, Neglect, including improper considerably reduced its bark... schedule over the Pacific basin The First Church of Christ, Scien-
feeding through ignorance
"Whispering Harmony."⠀⠀ or otherwise, or neglect to
On the Piccadilly dance Boors caused Senator McNary to intro-fist, In Boston, Mass., U.S.A.1 duco his bill. He said that Good obtain medical treatment.. Suffering due to poverty Advice Bought on account of
disease Chemist: "What kind of tooth- Homeless and without relatives brush do you want?"
19 the "Whispering Harmony" school year-Zeppelin Company is prepar
4fs enchanting its disciples. This
Macdonnell Road, below Bowen
has been introduced by the Kit-ing to establish a dirigible line Road Tram Station.
from California to Honolulu .' and Sunday Service, December 28. 8 Cat Restaurant, where Johnny thence to Manila. From Manis 1930, 11.15 am. 1 Hamp la persuading dancers to a
neroplanes or. dirigibles would. Subject:-Christian Science." No cases of ill-treatment or as- more reposeful, beat. Mr. Hamp operate to ports in China and
The Sunday School is held on Jacky: "Pretty big one-there'ssault and no cases. in connection is an interesting man, a ballroom Japan.
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
Wednesday Evening Meating at pany into Its happiest mood with tenenator the prospect of regular 5.30 o'clock; attemp unerring skill, and it is all the commercial dirigible and seroplans Reading Room at above addresa, same to him. If you have trodden hes across the Atlantic ocean as open
ton of us."--
Smith's Weckly. Sydney.
sult of the publicity thus obtained there will be a great increase in the number of cases reported and that It will be necessary in the near fature to engage the services of an additional Inspector...
with mui tsal have as yet been reported.
The ages of the children concern ed were as follows:- Under 1 year ....
From 1 year and up to 7 years From 7 years and up to 14-
years
12
paychologist. He plays the com
McNary drew at
on the fashionable end of your wall as those now operating be Tuesday and Friday 10 am to
9 partner's frock in the midst of tween North and South America 12 Noon.
an otherwise majestie arrival There are also veroplane lines in Monday, and Thursday 5.30 to 7 on the Boor. He will play operation in the arcas touched by P.m. In the 25 cases in which the Euridyce back into a good temper the waters of the Caribbean Sea. family income was ascertained this again. Indeed, the Whispering
Aircraft development corpora- was found to average $21.56 per Harmony has put a beam of plea- tions, Senator McNary said, should
In four cases there was sure on the face of America. The month.
Your Committee feels that it is desirable for the time being to engage only women, as Inspectors, as it is believed that they more readily gain access to the homes of those concerned and that they are more capable of advising in matters of child welfore than men.
Your Committee has given much
public were hored with the whole. Consideration to the subject of the
business, save for the one pos sibility that its feminine element treatment of juvenile offenders.
In answer to questions asked by
might be swept into the arms of the orchestra leader, who had unlimit the Hon. Dr. Kotewall, the Colonial
YOATS. The child was suffering ed powers of action. As for the Secretary stated that during the
The problem of obtaining proper from malnutrition, owing to impro-speed of dancing, this is to be Jear 1929 the number of boys under
attention in cases of per methods of feeding sixteen years of age brought before the Magistrates was 085 and the tuberculosis which require lengthy The Inspector advised the mother institutional treatment is one and zocured the provision of suit number of girls of like age 137. *** -
It was stated that such children which presents the greatest dial able diet and the child is now put
ting on weight onder 16 years of age, while being culty, detained at the Police Court or at
o income whatsoever, and in a fur- "hot rhythm," which every one has be encouraged in their efforts by ther eight cases the income was $12 discussed but none defned, has dia making it possible for all varistica appeared. All the blaring accents of mail carrying contracts to be per month or under,
The Committee, while recognising which turned the ballroom into a awarded to them United Press. the danger of indiscriminate relief, superior circus, all the vaudeville has felt it necessary to allocate cer tricks, the hurling about of saxo- tain funds in order to make provi- phones, the personal attack upon sion for relief in urgent cases suppor-tables, are now vieux leu where there is dire, poverty. Re- And a very good thing, too. The Het will be made in kind and no money given,
medical
put to public vote at the Kit-Cat on October 23, after a series of highly technical discussions be tween Miss Josephine Bradley
Mr. Wellesley Smith, her partner,
Mr. Frank Ford, Mr. Victor Sylves
ter, Miss Barbara Miles, Miss
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Specimen Cases (Plant No. 12 dealt with a the Gaol awaiting trial, were do Plaint No. 4The child consimilar case with a younger child tained in company with adult, offencerned was a girl two days old.with like results) ders, and that (unless bail had been The father had three daughters by Plaint Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16 of the pastime. Naturally they nese prevalling in family life in found) they were placed in the dock his first wife and five daughters All those plainte concerned children favour the Midway Rhythm against Turkey that the law on marriage with adult offenders,
and two sons by his second wife who were suffering from trachomas more furious vibrations of the and divorce is now sold in the It was further stated that 181 Though the father's Income was or other diseases of the eye, and Quickstep, But we chall see at street in penny booklets. of the boys and 5 of the girls were good be neglected to supply ad he had not received medical treat the Haymarket Waterloo, for there The number of suits has con- sent to prison
coquate money for support of the ment. In all these cases both all Your Committee fools that it is family and on the birth of this parents were employed for long roythm And it is sirable baby quarrelled with the mother hours and pleaded in the highest degree
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