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One casc (Chinese) of typhaid The fever was notified yesterday. weekly returns of noflable diseases are analysed in another column.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1931.
Y.W.C.A. WORK.
Rapid Progress in Hong Kong.
ADDRESS TO ROTARIANS.
WINE PARADISE.
Drinking Under Fruit, Trees Near Berlin.
HILL OF BLOSSOM.
There is a hill near Berlin-to Before a representative gathering which included the Hon. Mr. Wilfrid be preciso, a peninsula on the T. Southern and 'Mrs. Southorn, River Havel two hours by steamer Mra. H. T. Creasy; and Mrs. G. D. R. from the city-to which no true Binck, Miss T. H. Shin. General Cerliner falls to travel when the The forthcoming marriage is an-Secretary of the Y.W.C.A., gave au first blossom is upon the fruit to Rotarians trees, and from which no true Ber- nounced of. Edward Young Sage, of interesting lostre Shameen, Canton, to Olga Utilia yesterday, the address dealing with liner ever returns quite sober. It Bias Azedo, of 8, Middle Road, the work and growth of the Associa is the peninsula of Werder, the hill of blossom-canopies, beds and Kowloon.
The Y.W.C.A., said the speaker, bowers of It-and it is the penin-
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No ordinary wine is drunk here; The port of Amoy has been declared Y.W.C.A. came into being.
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At yesterday's monthly meefing personality, and her life as a whole; gundy, or Hock. Werder's wine is of the Chinese Chamber of Com- or, in other words, the four-fold pressed from the fruits that grow of spiritual mental, on the hill Itself, that hang from merce, Mr. M. K. Lo was re-elected purpose Legal Adviser, and Mr. T. N. Chau physical, and zucial development. the sky when the blossoms aro It made 10 distinction between gone, that grow up from the earth high and low, rich or poor, în creed, or depend from canes-peare, ap. It is understood, that Mr. Chan class, or race.
ples, raspberries, strawberries and Rapid Growth.
plume Heung-pak has resigned the Secre-
Miss Shin then traced the growth On perhaps two Sundays every taryship of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and that Mr. Lee Wan- of the local branch from its start year, at most three, and on Ascen
then- kum has been appointed his succes-in two rooms in Caine Road; until sion
the present time, when the purchase thousands of city workers sit under and equipment of a house in Bon-the coralled canopies drinking the Suffering from the effect of ham Road had been effected, at Juice of fruits that the year, before adoline poisoning, # man named total cost of about $80,000. From were waving in, blossoms over Wong Lut (22), a resident in the 81 chartered members at its or other tipplers' heads. Far below Tai Ming Boarding House, has been ganisation, the roll had grown to them, glimpsed through interstices taken to the Government Civil over 700, whilst over 3,000 women of shell-pink, cream and lavender," Hospital
and girls took part in its activities, lies, the river. during the year.
Day-especially
Gentle Pear's Fierce Juice. The Hong Kong & Shanghal The Wa Kwong Clubs were made The wine (who would have Banking Corporation has declared up of girls of 12-to 18 years of age, thought the gentle pear could yield an interim dividend of £3 per cent. the endeavour being to develop so rich a juice?) soon heaves the at the rate of 1/0% per dollar. train, and build good citizens. The oldest toper to his feet and sets The dividend will be payable on or educational programme included them shuffling to the music: all after Monday, August 10.
general, health and religious tuition over the hill and round the shorca The health education Included two the motley company of drinkers go exhibition was not of great in Mr. Wong Kwong-tin yesterday baby welfare centres, and an annual in and out of the fruit trees, from terest, but in its setting and with assumed office as the new Chairman Baby Welfare campaign was held, one wine-garden to the next, india- a projected Indian pavilion left of the Chinese Chamber of Com- together with an annual Health criminately... The whole flowering half constructed through some merce, and presided over the month-Week for women and girls. Another peninsula is one great orchard with ly meeting, supported by Mr. Ho side of the work in contemplation bands to every 20 trees or so, spon- financial trouble, it could scarce-
was the establishment of an em-taneous, amateur bands, made up ployment bureau.
It
ly be calculated to raise British prestige in foreign eyes. was a grim joke, not only on Paris but on the British attempt at national advertisement.
Loung, the new Vice-Chairman,
Social Service. Six months' imprisonment was
Miss Shin referred to the social imposed on Wong. Sol at the Kow. Joon Magistracy this morning. He service work of the Association, pleaded guilty" to stealing 19 feet particularly with regard to attempt
of companies of good fellows as- sembled haphazard; bands.that any reveller may conduct; that at any minute may themselves disperse. among the trees in pursuit of a
of chain from the s.s. Tilawa, and ed suicides. "We are simply try bevy of fluttering frocks.
admitted two previous convictions.
ing to express friendship to as many The sun sinks and the blossoms Looking at another side of the
as ask for it, in whatever way they blaze out with their own radiance picture, it is reported that in a A man named Ip Luk (88) of OB, need, and at the same time to open or is it the radiance of Chinese survey of Argentine trade, pre- West Street, was admitted to the a channel for the full and free ex- lanterns? No matter, By sun Hospital last pression of their powers of friend- down all's one. It is May-in- pared for the Carnegie Endow-Government Civil ment for International Peace, night suffering om n lacerated ship with individuals or groups," dubitably it is May, for does it not
wound on the forearm, as the result the speaker concluded. Mr. George Jackson Eder, chief of an accident at the Taikoo Sugar
Mrs. Southorn briefly addressed roof one over, wap one round?— of the Latin-American Section Refinery.
the gathering at the request of the and last year's vintage was good. Chairman, Sir William Hornell. So that some of it must be taken Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Found wandering on the Kowloon After referring to the rapid growth home to flavour with Werder's so Commerce, writing unofficially, Godown wharves last night, a Chin- of Rotary, she emphasised that hilarious juice the insipid daily. and giving a pretty personal ex-eee married woman has been hand-whatever the Y.W.C.A. did, they did round; and as the evening ad-
Secretariat for very well.
Mrs. Sauthorn also vances, bottles of Werder's wines pression of opinion, declares that ed over to the the most skilful, consistent and Chinese Affairs. She stated to the thanked the Rotary Club on behalf slung across the shoulders, begin
to multiply upon every good tips. Police that she had intended to com- of the lady guests. influential commercial propagan-mit suicide.
The Hon. Mr. R., H. Katewan pler's back, "treading a wild fling dists in Argentina are British
thanked Miss Shin for her able of their own, clinking together address, and assured her of the help merrily-pear, apple, raspberry,
any time when it was called for.
KAI TACK AERODROME.
statesmen, merchants, bankers Soldiers' Home acknowledge receipt and assistance of the Rotary Club at strawberry, and plum.
Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 15, 1931. and industrialists.
gens.
British Trade.
Paris
LONDON EXCHANGES
New York Brussels
Geneva Amsterdam Milan
Berlin
Prague:
Rugby, Yesterday.
128.79.
4.85%
The Committee of the Sailors' and
At last, in the early hours of the of the further following donations
morning, fainter and fainter in the "During the past
several in connection with the appeal for
atsamer's wake, comes the chorus years," he says, "the propaganda, funds:-Jockey Club $500; Mr. John
of the last city-bound boat-load- already well established as a con- Goster $10; Sergt. A. Day $10
Wattie $20; Captain W. II. G.
The Colonial Secretary will move steaming away from the peninsula structive agency for building up $540: Previously acknowledged at to-morrow's meeting of the of blossom and wine. Two very interesting para-
Legislative Council: graphs in the Home papers of goodwill for the British, at times $1,177.50-Total to date $1,717.50.
That this Council approves of the mail week are of interest to the has assumed a more disquieting
A meeting of the Council of the expenditure of $568,000 on the Kal commercial community out here, aspect in its veiled attacks on Football Association will be held at Tack Aerodrome slipway and hangar as showing, on the one hand, the Argentina's American friendship, No. 20 Ice House Street at 5.30 pm:during the financial year 1991 queer ideas of "boosting" Bri- and while its influence on trade on Tuesday when the business will which sum shall be met from a fu- tish trade, and, on the other, of has been slight, its ultimate include: To elect an Emergency ture loan and shall meanwhile be Committee of three members. To charged as an advance from the effect on the international rela-elect the Referees Committee surplus balances of the Colony. belittling its development over-
To elect the League Within the past few tions, if preserved in, can only (three).
Management Committee (five). To Discussing the federal orchard months there have been strenu-be unfortunate."
appoint Treasurers.
survey of the Annapolis Valley, ous efforts made in various direc Mr. Eder cites the British
made in 1929-30,. Prof. J. Coke, as- tions to advertise Britain and Trade Exhibition in Argentina Ba Agreeing with the defence, Mr.
partment of Agricultural Econo things British We have been having the clear purpose from E..H. Williams, at the Central Police sistant commissioner of the De urged to be "advertisement the beginning to "attack Ameri-Court yesterday, ruled that a mere mics, said that ten farmers in one bargaining by a publie officer for a area who did not apply any com- minded," as the Americans can mercantile supremacy," but bribe without the would-be-giver mercial fertiliser obtained a# would put it; we are shown, off-he doubts whether the Exhibi-consenting to the sum demanded did
receipts of $68.34, while 49 farms cially and otherwise, the neces- tion had any real commercial not come within the meaning of the average yield of 46,9 barrels with Ordinance. He accordingly disapplying fertiliser, at a cost of sity of each one doing his bit in value commensurate with the re-charged, a District Watchman of $12.38 per acre, secured an aver a national campaign of sales ported cost of approximately agreeing to accept a bribe of $1. age yield of 85.4 barrels with re manship.
£6,000,000, of which, he says ap-1.
A case under the Protection of Considering our present indus- proximately £2,000,000 was loss.
Women and Girls-Ordinance came trial position, all that is to the Mr. Eder expresses the opin- before Mr.. W. Schofield, at the Nineteen Chinese newspaper the ion that the visit of the Prince of Central Magistracy yesterday, the hawkers appeared before Mr. E. H. ed but then, just as chorus is going splendidly we Wales and Prince George was a defendant being a Shanghal youth Williama, at the Central Police named Ah-Mão. Defendant was Court yesterday on charges of ex- come upon a piece of official "social success, but of no appar charged with having taken or caused posing for sale indecent literature stupidity which is enough to un-ent significance from a commer-to be taken, an unmarried girl in the form of copies of a newspaper do we know not what amount of cial point of view.". He analyses aged 17 years, residifig at No. 84, from Canton. His Worship fined careful abade work.
British sales methods, which he Hau Woo Street, out of the possesene man $10, he having but three Paris in mail week was flock finde faulty, especially, the adversion and control of the complainant.copies in his possession while the He was fined $50, or, a month's hard others were each fined $20.Thres ing to a remarkably fine Colonial tising, of which the British con- labour.
absentees had their bail of – $5 estreated. exhibition in which the chief ception: "would seem to conalet
positive assertion of Crowded houses were the rule all nations of the world were playing a merely positive
* Italy, Belgium, Holland, superiority, unsupported by any day at the King's Theatre yester At the monthly meeting of the day when "Rookery Nook," the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the all joined with France in facts or reasoning, as seen in the famous and admirably produced Secretary, Mr. Chan Heung-pak,
a
ceipts of $186.82.
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817
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19 1/16. -British Wireless Service.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mall" of July 15, 1921.).
To-day a dollar is worth. 2/8%."
à proud display of their Colonial typically British slogan, "British British picture, was again screen made reference to telegrams and The London Missionary Society system and products. Britain's goods are buy or Lord ed In response to popular demand. letters received from the Canton and the Alice Memorial and contribution, it is stated, was a D'Abernon's arguments on the Those who run riot-on-paper Flood Relief Committee, the Taing Affliated Hospitals have suffered display of all, the diseases of the recent Argentine mission, Briver Inforlor Hollywood productions Yuen Merchants Association, Hong a severe loss by the death" From and dama this and other British pic- Kong, the Magistrate of 8ze Wul pneumonia of Dr. Eric Arthur British Empire.
pire, and no pains tish, roads are recogalsed to be tures with very faint praise are do district and otherKwangtung Woods, who arrived in the Colony Mring the British film industry a dis- public bodies asking the Chamber on Jung 24 to assist in the work of were spared to make the show as the best in the world." true & picture as possible. Eder says that the typically Bri-tinct disservice. Rookery Nook" for financial assistance and co the above Hospital,
would never have had 409 perfor-operation in the flood relief cam- Dr. Woods was born in Hobart, tish salesman "handles a single The French officials were tco
mances at the Aldwych Theatre, palgn. Mer Luf Yan-shuen -sug Tasmania. He came to his ap- polite to a guest to do more than line and is not a fluent linguist, London, if it had been other than it gested that as so many thousands pointment with the highest ro
and usually in G
junior really is. Its transfer to the were homeless in the Tsing Yuen comendations from his instructors Fraise their
Talkies enhances its production con- district the relief workers, should and co-workers. During his short The most appreciative enlist their services in return for stay of 20 days In the Colony he ace at the King's yesterday the free food distributed, to assist entered Into the life of his prospec
exconly possible vardiet of in the construction of the destroyed five sphere of service with great.
dame The meeting approved.
the word
thought
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