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FRIDAY, OCTOBER
News in Brief.
One case of diphtheria-
would also be included in the pro- posal. There was a large hum- ber of such Clubs and he con- aldored they should also be call-was notified yesterday. ed upon to contribute to the re- venue. The Bill was rend a first time, the motion being passed without opposition.
9
1931,
both the British and Chinese come munity of Hong Kong.
I well remember that my first · public appearance -- in Hong Kong was at your Flower Show and it
The lowest open air tempera. came to me no a very great sur- ture yesterday was 79 degrees. prise to see what beautiful flowers could be grown on a rocky island The humidity was 66 at 10 a‚m.
In the tropics. and '74 at 4 p.m.
It was your flower show which
offorts have met with a certain success,
As most of you remember, we
We publish the official and un-
· Land, sea and air forces parti- Inspired me to do what I could to official arguments in favour of cipated in manoeuvres, when the improve the garden at Flagstaff the Bill in the Straits" in order 1st Batt, S.V.C., from HMS. House, and I believe my friend, Kent, "attacked" Singapore from Mrs. Dyer, our Vice-President, will to convince any in Hong Kong the sea, while the Gloucester-agree when the time comes for me who may oppose the Betting Tax shire Regiment and other units to give up my command that my Bill when it is introduced in this were the defending force. Colony. The arguments submit-
Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., ted in the Straits are on all fours Ltd., advertise that to-morrow all were left with no alternative but with those applicable to Hong departments will be closed. The to abandon the Flower Show this Kong. As a matter of fact the Hong Kong Dispensing Depart- Spring. Your Committee only de- Betting Tax can be made to cover ment, will be open for dispensing cided on this course at an emer prescriptions from 10 am, to 1gency meeting held on February more than betting at race meet-pni. and from 6 p.m. to 7.50 p.m. 28, three days before the date fix-. ed for the Show, in the hope that ings and/or cash sweeps. There is
even a few days sunshine would The badly decomposed body of another lucrative source of in-
an unknown Chinese, aged about 30 ravive the flowers and plants, that come of which the authorities
years, has been found by the Water had been affected by months of are no doubt cognisant without Police floating in the harbour off continuous fog and damp. It having to be pointed out to Stonecutters Island. Four jade We all hope however that wo rings, two chopsticks, and a bunch shall have better luck next year. them in print before the draft of of keys worn found clasped in his and that the weather will be such left hand. The body showed no as to enable us to put up a real-
ly good flower, show. sible signs of wounds.
More Members Needed. From the report you will see
the Betting Tax Bill Ja framed and published in the Government Gazette.
From Other Pens.
Exit The "Growler."
not.
A Chinese woman, walking along Keswick Street yesterday carry that our membership now consists ing her two-year-old child of 22 life members and 262 ordin harnessed to her back,
Although theso also ary membora. carrying. an earthenware pot figures may be regarded as satis- of boiling water, accidentally factory, I cannot believe that slipped and fell, and the contents of these numbers could not be easily the pot fell over the child's arms exceeded, should existing members I am surprised to learn that as and lege. The child, was taken to do their utmost to interest their
friends in our Society, many as forty-eight four-wheeled the Government Clvi! Hospital.
We are all indebted to our cabe-the "growlers"-remain on Before Mr. Fraser at the Kow. Honorary Secretary, Mr. Bagram, the London streets. It is many loon Magistracy yesterday after-for the satisfactory position of noon, a man, Wong Wah, was charg- our funds, the credit balance in rears since I have ridden in one,ed with armed robbery, with others the bank being just short of $2,000. Before concluding my address i years 1928-30 the amount of though I occasionally hire a han- not in custody, at 567 Nathan Road
by Dr. money invested on the totalisa-om, partly from reasons of senti- on September 17. Two other men, would like to bring to your notice
mentality and partly with the idea a woman and a boy, were charged Occasional Notes" tor and sweepstakes at race meet-of helping man and beast towards with receiving stolen property. Herklots and I would strongly re- ings in the Colony amounted to a good feed, for both usually look One of the men was further chargcommend all garden lovers to rend
thers. ed with returning, from banish-
I will also take this opportunity nearly $8,000,000 a yes. A duty pretty seedy,
Four-wheeled cabs seem mainly ment. After evidence the case wash
of thanking those who have serv of 2 per cent. on such transac-
to be seen in Cheapside and the dis-adjourned,
Jed on my Committee for the able As provided in this Bill trict, filled with mysterious card- In the course of his Budget tions
In connection with, the recent and loyal assistance - which they speech last week the Colonial should, therefore, yield about board boxes or coats on hangers,
Incidentally and even for this purpose the pri- $7,000 bank, note fraud, of which afforded me in working for the. Secretary stated that the Gov- $160,000 a year.
vate brougham is used as often as the victim was Wong To-po, sub-best interests of the Society.
The report and accounts were editor of the Tsun Wan Yat Fo,
funanimously adopted. ernment hopes to introduce the amount of duty proposed is
D'Araujo Guimaraes, What, I wonder, has happened to Guilherme
New Officers Elected. alias before the end of the present considerably less than that con-
The election of office bearerà re- year a Betting Tax estimated to templated by the 1928 Taxation that three-wheeled cab which could alias Willam Gulmarges,
be seen in the West End not so very Kam Chi-so, was at the Central
sulted as follows:- Police Court-yesterday afternoon, bring in $260,000. He described Committee. 14.
long ago?
President, Major-General J, W. this as falling within the cate- "Now I have no doubt this tax: With the explanation which I committed by Mr. Williams for Sandilands: Vice-President, Mr. gory of luxury taxes, falling will be passed on by the Turf read to-day that a "growler" was trial at the next Sessions, on the gr
The second Committee:-Mr. H. Green, Dr. most heavily on those best able Clubs to their members and if so called because its wheels were charge of larceny.
G. A. C. Herklots. Mr. Ho Kom- as it rumbled along on. Its alow stealing $3,000 from Ho Pul-yim, Long, Mr. Ho Leung, Mrs. F. C. to afford them. Such a tax, it is that happens I should like to supposed to make a growling sound count against accused, that of
will be heard separately this after Hall, Ms. R. E. Hoare, Lt-Col. generally agreed, is, if anything | draw attention to the paradox progress I cannot agree..
Surely the origin of the name noon.
T. A. Robertson, Mr. J. P. Robin- overdue, looking to the necessity that it will not really hit any-
son, and Mr. F. W. Stapleton.
Hon.
Mr. for raising additional revenue for one. For if a member fails to lies in the one-time surliness of the drivers of the old four-wheeled
Secretary,
J. T. the Treasury. As a matter of pick the winner on the totalisator cabs, who were supposed-with
Bagram; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. A. Tse. fact, a tax on betting and a tax he will merely lose his $5 just as what foundation I know not-in- on cash sweeps have long been he does at present. On the other variably to growl at the In-
P. & O. ss. Naldera yesterday, y advocated in this column. It is hand if he does guess correctly significance of the tip?-Londoner. turned from Home leave by the operative, elsewhere to varying and wins his bet he will be so de.
The forthcoming wedding is an degrees and is even less resent lighted that he will gladly yield Practical Jokers.
nounced of Edwin Lawrence Powell,
A fatal tram accident took place This seems to be the season for of 2, Banoo Building," Kowloon, and ed by the general community up the very little that is demand- than the Amusements Tax. It ed from his unearned increment. practical jokers, by the way, for Doris Elizabeth Clements, en route on September 2 in Rangoon, the victim being an Indian school boy is to be trusted that the Un-And so every one will be satisfied, following the recent disclosures from Home on the s.s. Corfu
...about 8 years old, a pupil, of "The tha Free Press of the distinguished official members of the Legisla- "A most important point in
Sub-Inspector W. Je F. Chevalier Muslim Free School in Kennedy foreign gentleman who so success- tive Council will give the Betting favour of this tax is that it will fully took In Singapore, The (prior to retirement after 15 years Street. The deceased was held to be easy to collect. It will be seen Topicist hears of another instance, service in the Hong Kong Police have been crossing the tram line on J. O, his way to school when he was that the Bill constitutes an though not on such a grand scale, Force), Lance-Sergeants
In which it is once again proved Gibbling (invalided). F. Howarth, knocked down and cut in two by at It is of interest to find that in amendment to the Stamp Ordin-how easy it is to fool some people J. Hill and H. A. McKay, are going Tram. The remains were pinned Singapore so recently as Septem- ance, 1920, and the idea is to use some time. It appears that two Home on leave to-morrow by the under the car which had to be raised ber 29, the Treasuror introduced the machinery of that Ordinance fellows found time hanging heavi- P. & O. ss. Mantua.
Tax Bill, when introduced, their full measure of support.
in the Legislative Council & Bill for collecting the duty. It will.on their hands, so to pass it
away they dressed their syce in a
the hotels, where he was presented
Personal Pars.
Lance-Sergeant K. W. McLeod re-
HORTICULTURE.
Society.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS,
CUT IN TWO BY TRAM.
A School Boy Victim.
before the body, which was severed at the waist, could be removed. The face and bead were crushed. The driver of the tram was a Burman, who was being taught to drive. At- the spot several accidents have taken place during the past year."
To-day's Thought.
When you don't care what you say, you generally make it un- animous.
Ten Years Ago.
From the Chlan Mail" of
October 9, 1921.)
Today's dollar is worth 2/118.
to amend the Stamp Ordinance be a very simple matter and in-dinner suit and took him to one of and provide for a two per cent. volve very little trouble to any tax on all totalisator and pari- one.
to quite a number of people as Annual Meeting of the mutuel bets promoted by any "It may be urged that the Tungku So-and-so. He evidently entered into the spirit of the thing Racing Club or Associations. duty hits one section of the com- and ordered his Johnny Walker Similar legislation has been en-munity alone, that section which without batting an eyelid-to such
H.E. Major-General J. W. Sandi. acted in the Federated Malay is interested in racing. To that good effect that he was not at the wheel when the party went home. States, and it is intended that it 1 reply that that section em-The incident should serve as a
lands, President of the Hortieul tural Society, occupied the chair should take effect in both ad- braces most nationalities in this warning in cases where the motive at the annual general meeting of ministrations from the same Colony, that the tax can easily is more sinister-Topicist, Singa- the Society which was held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, date. Hong Kong will thus, be abe avoided and in any case if a pore Free Press.
Matheson & Co., Ltd., yesterday. few months behind the Straits person can afford to bet he con
afternoon. Those present included and F.M.S. in this matter.
afford to pay something toward Repartee.
Mrs. RM Dyer, Capt. D. B, M. We may be pardoned for quot-the revenue?”
Things are not as harmonious 25 Camerou, and Messrs. H. B. L. ing here almost in toto the ad- Mr. Lim Cheng-ean seconded they might be between two very Dowbigglu, H. Green, He Kom
well-known West End clubs, which tong. Ho Loung, F. W. Stapleton, dress of the Straits Treasurer on the motion that the Bill be read are run on much the same lines anda. Tee . 2. Whyte, F. C. Hall,
A distressing bathing fatality pccured at Repulse Bay yesterday: the subject:
a first time. He stated that at draw on much the same type for and J. T. Bagram (secretary),
In moving the adoption of the noon. The victim was. Mir. Thoms “It is a tax which contains the beginning of his appointment membership. many of the elements of what is to the Council he asked a ques sent a message to an aqually in-year, the chairman sold:
An influential member of one raport and account for the past Duckworth, a warder of the Victoria Jall. He was ons of a party of generally regarded as a good form | tion of Government whether if fuential member of the, other, an It fa a great pleasure to me to five warders who went to the of taxation: Betting at race meetings can be classified as a would be willing to impose a tax follows: "We hear you are now find myself addressing you this popular resort in a motor boat for Insolvent. We would be glad. to afternoon as the President of the a swim. None of his companiona on betting. The
The answer was absorb your members...
Hong Kong Horticultural Society seemed to mier Duckworth while In luxury. This tax, therefore, be given that the finances of the This was the reply.
and I regard it as a particular the water, and it was after they re- longs to the class known as sump- Colony did not justify such taxa "Regret you have been misin honour to be the holder of this turned and were dressing that they tuary
taxation "and all the
tion. He was very glad to find formad. We have had the best office, as it is scarcely three years realized that one of their number authorities, I believe, regard that that the hopes that he then ex-year we have ever had. Kind of since I first arrived in this Colony, was not on board. Later his body you to say you would be glad to It would be more natural to expect was found in about 7, fect of water class as the most desirable of all pressed had now come true. Her our members. We, on the to find one of the more senior renoms twenty yards from the shore. kinds of taxation.
added that there were Clubs other hand, would be anything but sidents acting as the President of Dr. Harston who was at the Hotel Again it will probably given other than Turf Clubs that ran glad to have to absorb yours."your Society which is closely con- rendered prompt asistance but the
Londoner,
nected with the domestic lives of deceased was beyond human, ald good yield. During the three sweepstakes, and he hoped they