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Hong Kong, Saturday, March 26, 1912
Quest for Peace.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1932.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CERTIFIED SEA COOKS.
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To the Editor of "China Mall”I
Last Christmas whilst turning Sir, It has been said. that a over the leaves of a Magazine 1 good dinner brings out the softer came across the following on My qualities of man, under its genial lady's page. Recipes. Strawberry influence. The gloomy and morose trifle. Take the whites of six become jovial and chatty. I am eggs, eight ounces of castor sugar, therefore inclined to think after four ounces of fresh cream, one reading an article in the Chino pound of strawberries, etc. I will Mail dated March 21 under the confess Mr. Editor, I am awfully heading of "The Sea Cook: New stupid with regard to this cooking Style" Contrast with the bad old business, but how this expensive days-from the pen of a special conglomeration came to be named representative to the Morning a trifle, I can offer no explanation, Post, that the inspiration was due it is beyond my intelligence. to this cause, and not founded on would suggest that this recipe enquiries and experience of sea- should also be included in the list men relating to conditions prevail-of menus to be created out of the ing on tramp steamers of the Bri- Board of Trade rations, I say it in tish Merchant Navy. He deplores seriousness there is about as much that people still go on writing of hope of obtaining the foregoing as the plum duff era as though it the Breakfast and Dinner taken at persisted to-day: many of them are random from the teachings of Mr. novelists of repute who ought to Grey. know better."
1 will substantiate my assertion Under the Merchant Shipping, by giving the prescribed total Acts the statutory minimum scale weekly scale of provisions aa of provisions for which a total sanctioned by the Board of weekly and no daily allowance is Trade:-
provided on the average tramp is bad, and I will emphasise that also by saying that it is exceed- ingly had.
The Officers Merchant Navy Federation is drawing up a nati- tion to Parliament with a view of holding an enquiry pertaining to conditions in the Merchant Navy with a view to obtaining a redress of their grievances and recogni- tion which is undoubtedly far too long overdue. The general public can do much to assist them in this respect by turning, a deaf ear, and dispel from their minds, articles as such to which I have drawn attention which could be used for the purpose of propaganda, luus- much as there is no necessity for such an enquiry.
I cast no aspersion upon the ability of Mr. Grey as a cook, but I would add he is a magician and a humorist, whether that humour is Justified at the expense of the seamen of the Merchant Navy is debatable, I would suggest when he feels that way inclined to give vent to his feelings, he should con- tribute to that well known paper which caters for the comic alde of life, known as Ally Sloper.
Yours, etc.,
MARTINGALE.
Hong Kong, March 24.
News in Brief.
During the Gala to be held in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel to-night, Miss A. Goldin and Miss Dot Fay will give an exhibition: of Folkloristic Dances.
3
Craigengower Cricket Club will be The married members of the
hosts to the bachelor members at the Annual Ball to be given next Saturday night at the Club House.
Cumberland are holding their dance The Ships Company of the H.M.S. In the Garrison Hall, Wellington Barracks, Dancing will continue from 8.30 on Friday, April 1.
Stanley Charles Beresford,
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given, sanctioned by the Board of Soft Bread 3 lb.; Biscuits 4 lb.; Trade, and which in almost all Sait Beef 3 Ib. Salt Pork 2 lb.; tramp steamers is the maximum Preserved Meat 2 lb.; Fish scale applicable to seamen on lb. Potatoes 6 lb.; Dried agreement dated after June 1, Vegetables b.; Split Peas 2/3 1807..
pint: Green Peas 1/8 pint; Beans The efficacy of the Act is des-1/3 pint; Flour 2 tb.; Rice 4 lb.; troyed by substitutes and equi-Outmeal 8 oz.; Tea 1 oz.; Coffee valents, and the inclusion of the 4 oz.; Sugar 14 b.; Milk 1/8 tin;) words "when procurable at a rea Marmalade 1 lb.; Molasses lb. sonable cost" there is no stipula-Suet 4 oz.; Pickles pint; Dried tion that the fare shall be varied Fruits 6 oz.; Salt 2 oz.; Mustard Fresh Meat when in port, or the 4 oz.; Pepper 4 oz.; Curry Pow- propose reconstruction of the social cheapest obtainable. The cost is der oz.; Onions 3 oz. and economic order.
based per seaman by the Board of} After perusal of the scale I' These experimental and proposed Trade at one shilling a day, the would not say that seamen have ways to perpetuate peace were born Act prescribes if the seamen's al- been treated in a generous spirit. out of the bitter experiences of lowance is reduced by not more Milk could be purchased for four generations of men. To listen to than one third of the quantity pence half-penny a tin, by simple their voices and become the bene-specified, compensation shall be arithmetic the milk allowance p.m. to 1 a.m.· ficiaries of their trials and errors is paid at the rate of four-pence per amounts to three-half-pance д a unique privilege of the present day, in excess of one third eight week, average families give their Yesterday we speculated about
To ignore the lessons pence, in respect of bad quality a cat more milk than that, drinking private in the Royal Army Service generation. the peoples of other lands. To-day of the past would lead us into the sum not exceeding one shiling a strong tea I understand is apt to Corps, who was charged before Mr. we live with them. Lindbergh flies same mistakes of our well-meaning day. It is the duty of the Own produce nervousness,
so provision Schofield at the Central Magistracy er to provide proper provisions for has been made that seamen will with obtaining credit at Lane. from New York to Paris in a few
the crew-but-If upon complaint not suffer with that complaint, in- Crawford's Restaurant by fraud hours. President Hoover and
the provisions are found not to be aamuch, no blame could be attri- other than false pretences, was sen sound the Master of the vessel is buted to the Board of Trade, the tenced to seven days hard labour. Bainsay MacDonald converse on
fined unless he provided provisions other items are also on the same of proper quality-bat-if the fanatical extravagant scale. complaint of the crew is unfound- "Among the arts in which in ed the Owner is entitled to be re- struction is given in Dock Street warded by fining the complainant are pastry and pudding making, walls of the Vatican, la broadcast to Mr. George Gray, arrived yea-two days' pay to be deducted from and every conceivable treatment AAAAAAAAAA the far corners of the earth. terday in Hong Kong on a busi- their wages. After June 80, 1908 of the egg:"
Through the magic of the celluloidness trip from Shanghai.
every vessel over 1,000 tons gross, I suppose this is where the mas füm, we see the King of England
must carry a duly certificated querade business comes in with Mr. D. B. "Sparks, combining Cook. There is no provision as to two pounds of flour, and five walk through Westminster Abbey business and pleasure, arrived in the employment of the certified ounces of dried fruits which can to lay a wreath on the tomb of the Hong Kong yesterday from Shang in cooking for the master and rants, figs, or prunes, no eggs, it cook. He may be employed solely either be sultanas, raisins, cur- Unknown Soldier; we watch Ad-at miral Byrd in his great tri-motored
officers. If a certified cook is car will certainly be some kind of a ried neither the owner nor master cake. I have been asked what is can be under any liability although it? To which I replied give it a on his way he does not cook one ounce of the name mate and you can have the
seamen's food during the voyage. lot.
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LINGERIE,
MEN'S PYJAMAS, DRESSING GOWNS, SMOKING JACKETS, PEKING JEWELLERY, and RUGS.
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world problems instantaneously by! Mr. James Paxton of the Amer telephone. The voice of the Pope, ican Consulate in Canton arrived in heretofore unheard outside the Hong Kong yesterday.
shrinks before our eyes.
plane drop the American flag on Mr. Marcel Gulllet arrived in the South Pole. Barriers of race Hong Kong yesterday and language and nationality are home to Paris; for an extended swept aside to make way for a new vacation: world culture. All these are ac-
On the top floor of the Sailors", The genius who was responsible complished because man has dis Mr. J. B. Roge, who has returned Home in Dock Street, the London for Certificated Cooks being car covered new ways of transportation from leave, has taken over the that this demand is satisfied.
School of Nautical Cookery ensures ried, must have heard the saying. and communication. The world management of the local branch of understand from the article in out of nothing-yet; when I ask I-a good cook can make something the Mercantile Bank of India. Moreover, the parts of this
question Mr. Grey is the instruc-ed my good lady if there was any". diminishing world have become uni- Mr. Lai Jam Ming, and Mr. Quan Here without a doubt, some of Mr. Editor, I upset the harmony [tor, an old sea cook himself. truth in the saying, belleve me fied and interdependent. All man Fie, returned to Hong Kong yea kind suffers when any portion of terday by the President Madison, the best, and certainly the most of the household. I could, under- the planet's surface is convulsed by after an extended stay in America. turned out.
ingenious cooks in the land are stand Certificated Stewards being war or racked by economic depres-
After a course in compulsory as it takes a man of sion. Gandhi's boycott of Eng The members of the Hong Kong of salmon into jugged hare, make to weigh and solve the fractional Dock Street they can turn a tin no human mathematical ability Usip goods closes the mills of Eng-Police Reserve Chinese Company salt beef masquerade auccessfully absurdities prescribed by the Act. land and thousands of men in Man-are giving a tea at their headquar as chicken and ham. chester walk the streets searching ters in honour of Sub-Inspector
I wish it to be clearly under
|by a killing blight. As the Unit
for employment. Rubber frees in B. J. Hunt this afternoon at 4,80 thumbad book with a well-nigh letter that the fare provided for Mr. Grey has a huge well stood by those who may read this the Dutch East Indles are attacked p.m.-
incredible list of, menus to be Deck and Engineer Officers on the ed States consumes over one-half of Mr. G. G. Kimbla, S.D.A., another created out of the Board of Trade China Coast is in most cases good, all the rubber the world produces, missionary en route to Bangkok,
ratione,
and I will emphasise it by saying American industry becomes handi- Siam, arrived in Hong Kong yea-Some indication of the standard, it is exceedingly good, but the fare capped and constricted."
terday. He is accompanied by Mrs. of cooking on the least lovely Man's sole hope for existence, in Kimble and their daughter, Miss Cargo bost in those days can be this diminishing and Interdependent Dorothy Kimble
obtained from the following world, lies in his ability to devise
sample of a menu taken at random
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new ways whereby the economie Mr. J. J. Karris, representative of from the teachings of Mr. "Grey"" and social stability of nations may the Fairbanks Morse Company, en Breakfast: Porridge, bread and be Insured through permanent world route to Bangkok, Slam, arrived in butter, grilled ham and egga (Kip- peace. In the past we have tried Hong Kong on the President pers for the Officers). many ways. Repression of weaker Madison yesterday. He will con-Dinner Chicken broth, roast nations and races by the strong has tinue his journey on an inter-island mutton, fresh vegetables, potatoes, been found wanting, for the con- steamer..
queror in turn became reconquered
Board of Trade pudding (Roast Chicken extra for the Officers).A
by the subjected race. From the Mr. LI. Bowers, S.D.A., who is]: »T will say that If they can serve Congress of Vienna in 1812 to the a minilonary, with headquarters in out hi th, In comparison to the Treaty of Versailles in 1918, the Singapore, accompanied by Mrs, high standard of this dialectical cations tried secret diplomacy and Bowers and," their daughters, the nonsensical trash to deceive the a balance of power. And finally, Misses Elizabeth Naomi Bowers, public to which I have referred; “It we have reported in vain, to war arrived,
Kong on the| will-leave-not doubt as to their son Yesterday.
to end wars. We plunged into the Prealdem läst destructive conflict to make the
world safe, yet
|ing during?
Lora
riod of arm
eficiency with regard to conjuring
and cooking, under the able tuition of their presiding-genius.
Those
were mentioned before Mr. Wynne Petty thefts from two local banks Jones, at the Central Police Court geant D. Fitches charged on Thursday, when Detective. Ser-
a man
manager's office of the Ka Wah with stealing a felt hat from the Savings Bank of 208, Des Vœux Road Central on January 19 and with stealing a pair of shoes and a the Netherlands Bank in Ice House jacket from the lift "boy's" room of Street on February 17. The defen- sentenced to six weeks' hard labour dant. admitted both counts and was on each charge.
Ten Years Ago,
From the "China Mail" of
March 26, 1922.3
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ployed in such garrisona sa Hong Kong and Singapore.
There can-
ther reduction of the Royal Garri not (anys the writer) be any fur
son Artillery companies In these stations as they are being retained at the lowest possible strength com- mensurate with efficiency..
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