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SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931.
cocktails now. Its rather com- POLICE SPY IN A
|_ AN [LIVING EARNED BY
mon to drink beer, although some people like it. But still, what would dear old' Wimple do without old Bluggs's Best!...
ANGLING CLUB.
Over 100 Summonses Against Committee.
WALKING.
Efforts to Capture Big J. Trade
FOOTWEAR TESTS.
Miss
The people here are very nice on the whole and they treat us Vespa,kite. awfully well in the shop; not like. £499 ON GAMING MACHINES. at Home where you are just an
How a police spy was elected Two Liverpool girls, ordinary common shop-assistant. a member of the Brighton Deep Peggy Davies and Miss Phyllia Here you are Somebody and can Sea Anglers' Club and obtained Robertshaw, earn a living by go anywhere. I even went to evidence for a raid on the pre-walking, twelve miles a day, and mises was described at the have done so for four years. They dinner on the Peak the other Brighton Police Court, when 13 are carrying out important tests day. All the awells live there, committee members of the club of various kinds of rubber boota but it is a pretty rotten place if were summoned for infringing and shoes, and have walked about 12,000 miles along roads and over you ask me always fog and the licensing and gaming laws.
The offences referred to six rough countrys anobbery. All the nice people dates, in March, and the Com- live in Kowloon, but it is an mittee men, who were represent ed by. Mr. John Flowers, K.C. awful nuisance crossing
pleaded guilty to more than 100 Ferry...
the
I have been reading an awful lot lately. Last week I read an- other new one by Edgar Wallace. You should get it. May be I'll send you out this copy when I've done with it.
summonses.
Dunlop sports shoes factory at They are employed by the Walton, Liverpool, and neither of them would now go back to the desks they left four years ago. The results of their walking, which has given them perfect applied by their employers. health, are being scientifically.
Became A Member. Mr. T. J. Owen, prosecuting, Turner was approached by the said that a man called Mr. G. W Police, and became a member of the Club for the purpose of The girls attend the Dunlop watching what happened on the Company's works at Walton. premises. ...The girls out here are a queer;
every morning like the rest of The Police had to adopt this the employees, and are then sent lot. Sometimes I take them out method, as in law a Club was the out for a walk. Thoy go where bathing and what not. They same as a private house, and they please into the depths of can't half.lap up cocktails. But could not be entered without a the country or among the shops.
In the city,but they walk, and don't worry. There's far too
Drinking should have stopped the distance they cover is faith- many men out here for them to at 10 p.m., but on the first night fully recorded on a pedometer. chose from without you fearing that Turner was in the Club the Sometimes they vary the walk- to lose your Albert! Must close steward did not call for the lasting with lawn tennis, but they
orders until 11.55 p.m.
cover much the same distance in now as I'm going to the **Talkies."
Your affectionate son, ALBERT.
News in Brief.
warrant.
It happens sometimes that the
On one occasion drinking went running about the courts as on on until after midnight.
long tramps. Eventually the Police obtained. a search warrant, made a raid boots they have to test are not and found a number of people the most appropriate to the sea- including four members of the committee, on the club premises. twelve miles on a hot day in rub son. For example, to walk The summonses for gaming The On Fat Steamboat Company, were in respect of three auto-er Wellingtons is not the most Ltd., has been struck off the Re-Club books showed that in eight girls take the "rough with the matic machines. A search of the attractive occupation: but the
months £499 had been taken on
smooth" and enjoy life out-of- doors. these machines.
It is natified that the name of
mind if you join the Volunteers. It sounds a smart outfit to me and I should like to see a photo gister. of you in your unyform. I shall be that proud of it that I shall hang it in the front parlour so that all the best customers can see it and say "That's old Ma Bluggs's son." Now wouldn't that be nice?
vice at St. Peter's Church, West Point to-morrow.
..
The Bishop of Victoria (The Right Rev. C. R. Duppay) will be
Praised by Mayor.
"Phyllis and I have walked to. the preacher at the 11 o'clock Serformed 30 years ago and held a years," said Peggy Davies in an Mr. Flowers said the Club was gether throughout the four high reputation. It had been interview, "and, we have. never praised by a mayor 28 an asset quarrelled. We seldom have to the town and was known for colds, although we turn out in all its philanthropic work.
kinds of weather. We hope to The committee would guar go on walking for many years. antee that in future there would No: we do no hanker for pillior be no serving of drinks after seats on motor-bicycles. On foot
is good enough,"
The following marriage is an nounced of Thomas John Price,
schoolmaster, of 31 Luna Building, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, to Mary Enid Jones, of Phillips House, Mody Road, Kowloon, uplnej
Do the bandits give you much trouble in Hong Kong? I can't see it happening in old England, because Mr. Wopple, the new ...*
Accidentally knocked down by a Sargent, says that he would give China Motor 'bus in Publle Square them what for, and he is a big Street yesterday, a Chinese police man I can tell you, son. He says constable suffered injuries to his that Bluggs's Beer is like no ankle and bruises to his body. He was taken to the Government Civil other: He hasn't half got a Hospital thirst, he has. He was your way, too, I believe, in 1900 and something or other in India, he said, but it may have been China. Anyways there isn't much differ. ence is there ?!
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The following additions to the list of medical practitioners entitled to practice In the Colony, are notified In the Government Gazette:-Dr. Kwan Pah-chien, M.B., B.S., (Hong Kong) and Dr. Tan Tiong-lam, ME. BS. (Hong Kong).
Dr. Mistowski who is at present examining for the Trinity College of Music, intends giving a lecture
hours.
Mr. Flowers described the sum- monses for gaming as "the limit of triviality," and said that grown-up men ought to be able to amuse themselves on machines of
this kind.
Big Factory Extension
The Dunlop factory at Walton is engaged in a strenuous at- tempt to capture for Britain the rubber footwear trade. Between Committee member was fined ber footwear is imported. Dur For the drinking offence each 80 and 87 per cent. of the rub and £1 costs. For the gaming ing the past two years, however, offences they were each fined £1 the Walton factory has doubled its employees. They now total 1,600, of whom 475 are mates.. At present 1,280 are working: opertime, week-days and Satur- days, turning out summer wear. The desire of the company, however, is permanent-
Two stewards were also fined.
CORRESPONDENCE.
SAFE BATHING PLACES,
[To the Editor of the "China daily to increase output and em
ployees. The present floor area Sir, The tragic drowning of of the factory is 12,000 square
Hong Kong. Saturday, June 20, 1931. Well, Albert, I do hope your landlady is looking after you, same as I would, but that's hard ly possible, is it? I hope you in the music room, City Hall, to two boys reported recently empha-yards, and in another two months "Without fear, favour or malicewear undervests, same as I told all teachers, pupils and anyone in-sises the necessity for the provi- splendid extension will be open-
you before you left us. Our terested.
This lecture has been sion of safe bathing places, esed, covering another 6,800 square
A Peep Into the
Win is looking fine. Tom often arranged for Tuesday at 6.15 p.m. specially for children. In this hot yards.
weather children cannot be pre During the past seven years Mail Bag.
asks after you. The dog is look- In the Central Police Court yes-vented from bathing, and they over forty million pairs of rub From Mre, Bluggs, of the Hanging grand, but we had to take terday afternoon, Mr. E. H. Wil-ought to have somewhere more ber footwear, costing nearly ing Arms, to her son Albert, employ-him to the Vet, last week, but he liams, accepting the story of the suitable to, bathe than off the £6,000,000 have been imported into Britain. If the majority of defence, discharged a Chinese, who Praya... ed in a store in Hong Kong.
says its only fleas. Well, take was charged with the larceny tragedy occurred during the perfed home manufacturers, there would It is noteworthy that this this trade could be captured by Hanging Arms,
bookbinding and printing requisites Wimple-on-the-Wold, Your affectionote MA.-
Herts, nu From Mr. Albert Bluggs, Hong Kong, to his mother in Wimple on My dere Bert,
Thanks for yours of Janury.the-Wold, Herte.
care of yourself, sonnie..
from 129. Bonham, Strand, and the when the public matsheds hither be work for another 6,000 people, tp provided by the authorities in addition to 1,100 more colton alleged embezzlement of $72.59.-
were not available. One would workers. All the cotton used at William John Simpson again ar children's lives is an expensive the Dunlop mills at Rochdale, the think it axiomatic that risking the Walton factory comes from peared at the Kowloon, Magistracy,
largest self-contained cotton mills yesterday on charges of having way of economising. stolen motor cycle accessories from
in, the world. the garage of an unnumbered house on Castio Penk Road and having ridden a motor cycle belonging to Pte. Angus, of the A. and S.H., without the premission of the
owners mang l
Yours, etc.,
GIGADIIS. Hong Kong, Juna 19,,
ROYAL PARK FOR MADRID.
I was very pleased to here that Casuarina Boarding House, you are comfy in your new bord
Po-ho Road, Hong Kong. ing house and that the food is Dear Mater
An Important market for Alberta. alright. What's the beer like got your letter. Thank you
beef cattle in Great Britajn la pro- down your way, nothing like awfully for it. You seem to be
bable If satisfactory arrangements good old Bluggs's Best, eh? having an awfully good time in
can be made between a British co- Well, my boy, I do think you England. I am glad the girls
operative society and Alberta breed- ers. Representatives of this co- might write more reglar to your are quite fit Bungo must be
operative society, which caters to poor old mother, though I dare awfully old by now, but I think
upwards of twenty million consum→→ Since the proclamation of the ers in the British Lalen, after an say they keeps you busy at the the reference to feas was a bit shop. Never mind you stick to indelicate. You know, they effect from June 14, 1981: Com Spanish Republic people have taken extensive tour of Alberta ranches, it and one day they will make don't talk about such things in any Sergeant-Major Andrew to visiting the late royal possessions stock farms and feed lots, stated the you Manager, maybe. Wouldn't Hong Kong, margaret on Walter Brown to be Second Lieu- and landed properties in Madrid, possibility of taking from 400 to tenant and Sergeant Thomas including the famous royal park of 600 head of prime beef cattle per I am getting on very well in Perkins Saunderson to be Second El Pardo. The Pardo Park, apart week, provided a standard of quality
that be fine now?
1 do hope you are taking care of yourself in Hong Kong, it Beems such a dangerous me, as
In the O
saying?
Mra Bluggs,
Foughter bear
my pos
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following promotions in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corpe, with
am glad to say, but Lieutenant shan't be Manager for a long
The case in whic time, as there is lots of others
hhargedyat above
Some of them are poss
pigs Mr. Sweetly, the Ma nice fellow. I thin
him but the fothers
El Pardo To Be. Thrown Open
schedato
Tears Ago
from Its natural beauty, comprises can be guaranteed. no less than 16.222 hectares, or over as Chinese 40,000: agres; it is about ten times with larger than the famous royal Cass forged de Campo, or country villa. A visit ad to the splendid scenery of the Pardo evl-Park will benceforth be the delight of foreigners and Spaniards alike. On hyvisit to the park,
that the couple gero-day's dollarda
likely that was
be post-
been
Onday.
ERT
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From the "China Man" of
Jun 29, 1921.1
rolardia worth
At 8p.; on Saturday the root.
Connaught Road West col
ringing, down with itlihp.
neighbouring ; house, both houses the day the cted the