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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.
THE DAY THE WEEK BROKE
By J. R. GREGSON.
The very moment he awoke, on the couch, carefully wrapped in an old shawl, and the whole. he remembered it was Thurs-
house seemed to be thinking of dug.
as though the Tuesday. The white was getting It was thought had been sitting on his smudgy half-starch and half pillow, waiting for the first mist because Tuesday, the day blanket of sleep to be rolled of slops and misery and washing was on the way. "A dull, waters" He rose quickly, eagerly. He blue was Tuesday, with cold rice dloffed his nightie and put on his pudding, cut solid like cake, for day things in haste. He wanted dinner. The worst day of the to get into Thursday, and Thurs-week, with puddles on the floor and shiny, bubbly soapsuds day didn't begin until you were downstairs. None of the days which he wasn't allowed to play belonged to upstairs. He often with. What a blessing was Wed
nesday, browny golden, with the wondered what the days were like before and after bed claim-smell of ironing and a general the house and à drying-up of ed him. Perhaps they began usi little things, coming from some-getting ready for Thursday,
For Thursday. The day that where and going back to nothing. This Thursday now, which al was waiting for him downstairs, with the "plumpff-plumpff- ways came round in its proper place. Did it stop still when it plump" of the kneading, and wasn't there, or did it go so far the "sweee-ick" of the dough as away that it simply couldn't heit left the sides of the big bowl. seen? Most likely it was that. He had only to step down four- Some day he would wake early, teen steps to be really in Thurs- before it was Thursday at all day. No, twelve steps, really. because the bottom two were on and wait for it to come.
the other side of the stairs door, in the house, and already in the loveliness of the Thursday that was watching for him.
At first it would be so tiny and so far away that there would be no colour in it at all. Then, nearer and nearer it would come,
more red
could
Now there was only the stairs door between him and the day that was waiting to rush upon he lifted the him the moment rattly Inteh..
than anything else. Then nearer and nearer until he see the orange and the gold and the yellow, and then the little white streaks that flitted
quietly Lift it quietly — them all. And somewhere in between he quietly. Perhaps he would catch would begin to smell it. and it with its back to him....
in and out between
would he quite Thursday 19 it would be to-day when he went, downstairs.
A day of oranges, reds, and yellows a burning day. Even the fire knew when it was Thursday, was glad about it, ton, and flung fluttering banners all over the walls and the ceiling and little yellow lights that played hide-and-seek on the pictures - but more on their frames than their glass
There was no Thursday.
----
There was no fire in the grate there was a man, full of smudges, with brushes, kneeling in front of the empty bars, and a smell,
of soot.
"Nah, then, nipper!" said the black man, and his teeth were ever so white and his gums ever so pink.
"Isn't isn't it Thursday?" and his bottom lip, felt queer.
"Accordin' to my reckonin' it
THE CHINA MAIL.:
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
A "Quietly Steady" Opening.
LITTLE VARIATIONS.
The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:
The market this morning again "pened quietly steady, with little variation from the rates of yester- day.
Sales,
Banks, $1,410/$1,420. Star Ferries, $971⁄2, Ewos, Tls. 18.30. China Lights, $26.
Buyers.
Douglases, $281⁄2, Providents (old), $5,35. Providents (new), $2.45. Tramways, $22.10. China Lights, $26.
Cements (combined). $19.15. Cements (new), $5.60. H.K. Government Loan, $24 cent premium.
Benguets, $114.
Chinese Estates, $95.
Ewos, Tls. 16.10. Star Ferries, $97. Singapore Tractions, S/ Sinceres, $16.
Constructions (old), $5%. Constructions (new), $1.85.
Sellers. Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. H.K. Lands, $82. Electrics, $782. Dairy Farms, $30. Constructions (old), $54. Raubs, $39,
Providents (old), $5:40. H.K. Realties, $12.
Telophones (Part Paid), $28. Entertainments (old), $16.
per
!
HOW THE CABINET
WORKS
ASIR J. SIMON'S ADDRESS.
Changes inTM Cabinet machinery amounted to quite a bulky collection. and method which strike a Minister.} This change, said Sir John, was who returns to the Cabinet after a not the result of any statute or considerable interval were described order. It was one of those adapta- by Sir John Simon at King's College, tions which were characteristic of London, last month. Sir John was the free working of British Institu a Cabinet Minister before and dur- ing part of the war, and he recent- ly returned to the Cabinet as Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs after an interval of fifteen years.
came
tions.
Misunderstandings.
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was introduced in the later stages by far the most authoritative critic of the war by Mr. Lloyd George, and);
of the new order waa Lord Oxford. Other Ministers, such as Sir Austen Chamberlain and Lord Curzon, who had actual experience of both dis- pensations, defended the change. Sir John gave examples-for which he said he was indebted to Sir Maurice Hankey, the present secre- tary to the Cabinet-drawn from political memoirs which showed how serious misunderstangings had oc casionally arisen in the absence of authoritative record due to different impressions of what was in fact de- cided at Cabinet meetings.
Sir John said that there were only three members who had had the experience of being Cabinet Minis ters before the war, and in cach case there hd been a break of some fifteen or sixteen years between their two periods of Cabinet re- sponsibility.
"In 1913, when I be a Cabinet Minister for the Arst time, the methods by which a British Cabinet conducted and got through its business, were much less highly organised than they are to-day. There was no Cabinet Secretariat and there
were no Cabinet meetings except Cabinet Ministers themselves, save on the
One instance occurred after the rare occasions when the Prime bombardment of Alexandria when Minister asked for the attendance of there was under consideration Sir some other person specially con Garnet Wolseley's expedition to cerned. The only record of
Egypt Lord Hartington's pri what
discussed Was
or de-vate
secretary wrote to Sir cided Was dontained in
Edward Hamilton, one of the report which the Prime Minister Prime Minister'a private secre- made after each meeting to the King, and, of course, that report
по one was communicated to else. It
dis- was, indeed, u trict breach of tradition and, & departure from the spirit of consultation for other Minig- ters to keep any record of their own save so far as it was
the
MOTORISTS GO ON necessary to communicate what was
STRIKE.
Protest Against High Cost of Petrol.
decided to the Department, for which an individual Minister was respoh- sible.
taries:
My dear Eddy,-Harcourt and Chamberlain have both been here) this morning and at my chief about yesterday's Cabinet pro- ceedings. They cannot agree about what occurred. There must have been some decision as Bright's resignation shows. My chief has told me to ask you what the devil was decided for he be damned if he knows. Will you ask Mr. Gladstone in more con- ventional and less pungent terms?] Sir John also recalled the state-
"Now all this has been altered. A most responsible civil servant who is known as the Secretary to ment of Lord Curzon who describ- the Cabinet attends every meeting ing the old Cabinet system before and sits at the Prime Minister's the days of the secretariat, said: side. If for any reason he could not "The Cabinet often had the very be present his place would be taken haziest notion as to what its de-
He makes a full
by his deputy. and on the dresser,
and on the lustres; but if you shut one eye at the lustres you
blues as well.
He would 9000
is!"
Then his mother came
in
minutes."
a -paper
cisions were."
Sir Austen Chamberlain, too, had
Cabinets to break up under the Im- thing, and every Minister going pression that they had settled some-
away asking his neighbour what was the decision to which they had come."
said in July, 1921: "I have known
Riga, Jan. 13. Motor traffic came to an al- most complete standstill to-day throughout Lithuania following note of every Cabinet decision, to- the proclamation of a consumers' could see purples and greens and from the street and gave him atrike against a 25 per cent, in-ether with such record as is neces
sury of the main considerations his breakfast on a stool near crease in the price of gasoline. which led up to it. be down the door, because all the best or This increase had been made the records, which, after being cir
He draws up stairs amongst the glory and ments were on the table cover necessary by a Government de-culated in draft, become the official the warmth and the busy, rooded with a newspaper, and he ate cree providing for the admixture
why smells. His mother would be on slowly. wondering
the of 25 per cent. of home distill- Before every meeting her knees on the hearth-rug, houses opposite looked just as ed alcohol to all motor spirits, containing the agenda was prepared kneading the bread. Then, while they always did.
Sir John said he thought that and thus the strike, organised under the Prime Minister's instruc-even to-day there was no formal and he ate his breakfast, she would And when the black man by the Lithuanian Automobile make the mout-and-potato pie, had taken his white teeth and Association, was directed against tions and circulated with whatever official document which stated how
preparatory memoranda were neces- the Cabinet was made up. and the dough would begin to pink gums out of the house Thurs- the Government.
sary. Whereas twenty years ago swell. After that the smells of day crept back. But it was a
In the capital, only the cars members of the Cabinet usually met! currants drying in front of the frightened Thursday..
of the ministers and departmen-with little documentary material fire after being washed, and can-
tal heads as well as the buses of and sometimes with only a vague flied peel, and the dough and the
the municipal line were seen in idea of what topics would arise, pie cooking the day would go At Sincere's roof garden the the streets. All private vehi- nowadays papers for Cabinet con- from one to the other, with tarts exhibition of the Lai Ching Arts cles from large limousines down sideration, each marked with its re- and coconut patties and seed loaf Academy (principals, Mr. and Mrs. to the smallest motor-bicycles ference number and duly. Indexed, and the browning of bread. S. Y. Pau) was opened yesterday, have been withdrawn by their were all issued under a continuous A lovely day, with the love Chinese paintings and embroidery owners whose solidarity is ex-system of distribution through the liest colours of all the week, being greatly admired. The Sometimes he thought it really hibition will be open to-day and to
expected to compel the authorities Cabinet Secretariat, and the print. revise the decree.Trans-fed or typewritten documents ac- ought to be the last day as well. to-morrow, admission being free. Ocean Kuo Min.
companying the agenda often Funny thing, how grown-ups didn't save the best things to the
last, but his mother didn't seem to mind Friday coming after Thursday.
GARDEN CITY IN KOWLOON
Residential Area for Europeans.
THE FIRST SOD TURNED.
GREY HAIR WHICH
· REMAINED.
Judge Awards £500 As Damages.
ADVERTISER SUED.
London, Jan. 12. Friday, the one day, except
A judgment likely to have far- Tuesday, when the house didn't!
reaching offects on advertisements) seem to be like itself. When
now being erected many important, pany had resisted it, and as an en- was delivered in the King's Bench] the floor was bare and the table-}
buildings and schools and predicted thuainst for oped spaces in residen- by Mr. Justice Rowlatt to-day, cloth was a newspaper. And
that the day was not far diatant tial areas, he offered those connected | awarding £500 and coats to Mr. F. all you could smell was polish,
when the Garden City would become with the project his congratulations, A. Wood against Letrick, Ltd. and his mother always rubbed
the pivotal area in the European re- and hoped that the successful frui- The plaintiff's case was that de- her nose with the back of her
sidential district In Kowloon.
tlan of their efforts would inspire | fendants guaranteed to pay £500 if, wrist, and yet it was always The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, After the ceremony Sir Robert others to follow their example, after ten days use of their électric smudged.
C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, marked Ho Tung, on behalf of the Hong The site adjoins the Dioceaan comb, grey hairs were not restored Funny, too, how Friday always the first step in the building of the Kong Engineering and Construction Boys' School and is bounded by to their original colour. seemed to go on until Saturday model garden city at Kowloon, when Company presented to Mr. Southorn Prince Edward Road, Waterloo Road The plaintiff alleged that the dinner-time.
a souvenir of the occasion. Saturday never yesterday afternoon, he turned
The and Argyle Street; It is proposed comb did not improve his hair dur- really began until the brass fire-sod of earth on the large plot of souvenir took
of a to divide this area into 65 lots, the ing the stated period. The com frons were down, and the fire and at the corner of Waterloo Road miniature pickaxe in silver with a smallest of which has an area of pany denied liability. seemed too frightened to crackle, and Argiye Street. The ceremony | blackwood handle.` It was enclosed 3,660 square feet and the largest Saturday was the day that was was attended by a large gathering. in a blackwood case with a silver 48,000 square feet:: green he never knew whether of prominent residents of the plate containing the following in-
scription:
4
'the form
of the first sod. Presented to the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, C.M.G. Kowloon, January 20, 1932
it was because of the plush table- Colony. cloth which he hadn't to ruffle or
The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, as "Hong Kong Engineering, and because the greengrocer called in Chairman of the Directorate of the Construction Co., Ltd. Garden City the morning. He felt he ought Hong Kong Engineering and Con- Scheme. Souvenir of the cutting to like the day better than he struction Co., Ltd., which is undor- did thore was his "Saturday taking the ambitious enterprise, in penny for one thing, but a long speech outlined his Company's Saturday was half-and-half. His aims, and the steps necessary to A Welcome Project. father came home at noon, and transform the vacant uhoven land
The Hon. Mr. Southern, after re- the day didn't belong just to him into a well laid-out suburb with at- turning thanks for the souvenir, and his mother, like all the other tractive cottages.
said that it was with very "great days but Sunday.
Mr. Braga said that the Garden pleasure that he had turned the first Sunday was the day for the City will not be in name only, as the soch of the new Garden suburb of three of them the day his special conditions of sale provide Kowloon. As his listeners mother said "Shsh" to him and that no houses of a greater height aware, he said, one of the great his parents said things to each than 85 feet will be permitted to be local problem of the time was the other silff day when he built on any one of the lots and that overcrown of the city of Victoris, musn't be rough and spoil his the houses are to be of a detached and, to A lock extent, of parts of Sunday beat or crumble his or semi-detached type. There will Kowloon, so that the project, that collar Starch white be ground ca each lot for a small had heard Mr Braga outline was only the day didn't shine, garden, a tennis court and a garage, very welcome one. The temptation
Neither did Monday, when the
He pointed out that around, the - to cover that large area with houses rass-fire-irons were put away site of the Garden City, there was Emust be hard to resist but the Cou
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