WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13,
BULLION BROKERS.
A Maligned Community.
REALLY DOCILE AND HARMLESS.
An Amusing Address.
1932.
other follow may confess to you
that he has just done a quarter of a lae of yen or a wad of rupesa. One of my friends can always bo won over by telling him the lat When he est after-dinner joke.
has finished laughing, he is in such a good mood that he will tell you all he knows. Unfortunately it never amounts to very much.
MENINGITIS OUTBREAK.
Mortality Not Abnormally High,
Mr. M. K. Lo, pursuant to notice, asked questions concerning the at yesterday's meningitis scare meeting of the Sanitary Board. His questions, together with the answers, were as under:-
"In view of the prevalence of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis cases in the Colony, will the Head of the Sanitary Department obtain the necessary information and inform the Board as to:-
Well, gentlemen, 1 could go in- definitely. but I shall be getting How- the bankers on my trnek. The weekly Rotary Tiffin was,
the ass. ever, I hope that. like all of you, yesterday, hold un burd President Hoover, Mr. A. M. Bowes-we have our worries, and that life one long rikisha Smith being the speaker, delivering with us is not a witty and hundrous aldress on ride. Next time you hear a shout- ing in the street and are nearly bullion brokers.
In the course at his address Mr. knocked over by a bullion broker's Bowes-Smith said, that exchange coolies, do not vent your anger on brokers as a body are an often shot him, even if he looks as though owned the President Hoover, at in the Press that when one rises he
to be the Think rather of his frustrated in public he half-experts
that banana and rotten hopes and agony of mind, and re- Larget for
that underacath member apples.
"There is no section of the com- pretty buttonhole his heart may is be as heavy as the silver market. munity" he continet, which
I'de not suppose I shall address bullion! more maligned than the
incubation (2) What is the brokers, unless it be the Broadcast- you again on this subject for the ing Committee, the civil servants next fifteen or twenty years, but
period, and what are the charac- of Ice House if I have dwelt to-day on the and the inhabitants Street. Yet a
more docile and drawbacks of our profession, you harmless lot of human beings it may rest assured that next time Iteristic initial symptoma of the
Accused shall strike a more optimistic note. of almost every crime from rigging shall be ist thinking of retir- the exchange market and rooking ing. and must get SOMEONE to buy my scat (Laughter and Ap- the pubile, down to exceeding the rikisha speed limit. these mild- plause.)
Mr. Li Tse-fong, thanked Mr. it hard manered gentlemen find at tities to holl up their heads and Rower-Smith for his address.
would be difficult to find.
konk their
in the fellow citxene
Even the face. (Hear, Heart sharebnikers look askance at them,! as though tray have deliberately engineered the rive in the dollar to)
in time depress the stick market.
"
Y.W.C.A. First Successful Function.
WAR
(1) What is the total number of cases reported up to and including Monday, Aprit 11?
A. Sixty-three.
disease?
THE CHINA MAIL.
MILD EPIDEMIC No Need For Alarm. When seen by a China Mail representative this morning, with regard to meningitis In the. Colony, Dr. G. Pope, Medi- cal Officer of Health, agreed that there is an epidemic of this disease here at the present time. However, he charac terised it as mild, as witness the fact that whereas a high mark for the month was reach- ed when 12 cases were return- ed for the 24 hours ended on Munday, there was only one case yesterday, and none had been reported for to-day, up to the time of the interview. There is nothing to be unduly alarmed about,
BABOON INVASION. Farms Raided and Motorcars
Stoned.
"EASY DEATH" FOR SUFFERERS.
Doctors Who End Their Lives.
USE OF DRUGS.
The plea for Euthanasia ("ossy death") in cases of painful and in- curable disease which was made by Dr. C. Killick Millard in his pre- sidential address before the Society of Medical Officers of Health last Weober is emphatically endorsed by Sir-Arbuthnot Laue.
In a foreword to the printed address, by the C. W. Daniel Com- pany (2s. net), Sir Arbuthnot were not points out that animals permitted by law to continue in their sufferings, and yet, in the case of the human subject, how- ever intense the suffering and how- over hopeless the condition, the un- Troops of starving baboons forunate individual "praying and and monkeys are causing havoc lenging for death can find no relief! alleviation afforded by to the orchards and farms of the from his agony except the very tem- Pineapple and banana fields opium or other narcotic drugs."
That medical men suffering from have been stripped bare and Eastern Province, South Africa, poracy
A. The incubation period is un-
many acres of maize and Kaffir cancer or other painful diseases have terminated their own lives, known. It is probably not more
corn laid waste. than ten days, usually stated be
The thick wild bush on the continues, is well known.
inhabited by "They, realising from experience four to five days, but the evidence
coast, which was numerous tribes of baboons and how long they may be tortured and un which this estimate is based is inconclusive. The initial symptoms
monkeys, is rapidly being clear-in agony, possessing a knowledge: type
being of which the lay sufferer is for- are generally influenzal in
the ed, so the animals are severity with
Fields of maize tunately ignoraat, telescope the varying in
Headache driven inland. severity of the attack. of varying intensity is a constant and other crops are taking the duration of a life of pain and
place of the wild apples and roots misery."
The pamphlet also contains the on which they fed.
Besides pillaging farmlands draft of a Bill which it is proposed for food the baboons have ren-to introduce into Parliament, pro- dered the roads dangerous hyviding for the granting of permits showering stones on any motor-"which will render it legal for per- car that comes within range.
feature. More Serum Being Manufactured, (3) Whether there is a sufficient supply of anti-Cerebro-Spinal A. The Hor. Director of Medi- Meningitis seram in the Colony? cai and Sanitary Services informas me as follows:-There is sufficient serum for three hundred cases in stock at the Bacteriological In- stitute. More is being manufac-! tured.
they aequire a sort of inferiority!
In the west lounge of the new comipes, feeling that no matter how the present their use to the pub-wing of the Y.M.C.A.. yesterday. It took the fis, no one will believe a word they the newly formed Women's Section
As a matter of fact. I have held its first function. Hap
a bridge and mahjong never known any excha:, to inoker tell form of
drive in aid of the Girl Guides Hut an entruth."
An enjoyable time The speaker also deal with the Fund. excellent manners displayed by these spent by all who attended.
Prizes were awarded as follows:-
Mr. Lo then asked two supple- misunderstood men, and after de-
Contract Bridge. 1st Mrs. E. Being their prive lives, and
Miss Elliott-Hay-mentary questions. They were:
in (a)-As regards the serum their calling, dealt with the intricate Cock; Bonby, question of finding out the rates.
of the reticence
stock in Hong Kong, is it prepared locally and how long does it retain Referring bankers, the speaker said,
its efficacy?
to
| ward.
Auction Bridge, 1st. Mrs. Grist; Baaby, Mrs. Holloway.
Mahjong,
Russell;
1st. Mrs.
bag, made
"Most of the bankers are re- luctant to tell you anything until, Booby, Miss C. Allison. A hand-made leather they have found out what you are trying to do, and they only make and prosented by Mrs. J. H. Hunt, their wants known when they think was won by Mra. L. Jack.
The prize were presented to the you are going to be of some use to them. It is therefore most unwise winners by Mrs. T. H. King, in the to be put off by a banker's statement unavoidable absence of Mrs. W. T. she received a No Southorn, and is doing nothing. that he
of flowers from Miss banker ever does nothing. There bouquet
are a thousand and one things he Johanna Heland, a Girl Guide.
wants to do. But he won't tell you.!
That is the humiliation of the pasi-
tion.
Take my friend here, Mr. Kan Tong-po. When you ask him some- thing he shakes his head solemnly and
Very slack! says "Very Black!" Whether he is referring to business or to the broker is not at all clear. You press him again and he says "See what happers." What he wants to do will be reveal- ed in due course--and then probably to one of your competitors.
But
you have got to keep on pegging away. He may suddenly like your face and give you an order."
Keeping Pace with Rates. Mr. Bowes-Smith then dealt with the market, and the practical: difficulties that stand in the way of the broker. "To keep pace with the rates," he said, "you have also got to try and find out what your competitors are doing in the inter-1 bank market. But though you sec signs of activity right and left, least you may not know in the
what it is all about. It may not! be interbank business at all. A man can get just as bot and bothered over buying a draft for fifty pesos.
In
You therefore set out like a sleuth-hound to gain the desired knowledge. Some bankers just sit with their contrasts before them, turned upside down, and defy your efforts at thought reading, with a You bland smile on their facсB. won't get much help from those quarters. But some will reveal a transaction in confidence: some will talk quite naturally about what they have done: while others small minority-will very blurt it from the housetops. the latter case a purchase of} $10,000 becomes £30,000 in no time, by the more process of rumour-mongering, and an hour later it will be reported that they have bought up the whole market."
On the whole, however, you will! not glean as much as you would wish in the course of this detec tive work; and the next step is to tackle your broker competitors, in the hope that one of them will be f an expansive : or boastful mood. The offer of a cigarette, or the gift of a place of chocolate, will sometimes work the oracle. Under the spell of your friendliness, the
ALSO PACKED IN PACKETS OF 10
WILLS'S
A. Yes. Indofinitely if kept under proper conditions.
(b)-Are the cases already re- ported in Hong Kong of a malig- mat type?
A.I am afraid I cannot give anything approaching as accurate answer to this question. So far as I am aware, the case of mortality is not abnormally high.
MR. CHURCHILL LIKES HIS NEW CAR.
sons who are certified to be suffer- ing from incurable, fatal, and pain- ful disease to receive Euthanasia, if they so desire, and thus tol shorten the severe physical suffer- forms of Mr. Winston Churchill founding entailed by certain a surprise waiting for him when disease."
Numerous safeguards against he arrived in London on March
embodied in the draft! a lecture tour in the abuse aro
Bill. 18 from United States.
Drawn up alongside the plat- form was the £2,000 saloon car which has been presented to him) by friends. It was the first time that Mr. Churchill had seen the
car.
WATER RETURN. All Reservoirs Below Overflow.
After admiring it for a mo- ment, he said, "It is lovely. She
The level and storage of water in books as if she will do about 80."
Then he entered the car and the reservoirs on April 1, 1932, were sunk back appreciatively.
He was driven to his home at: Westerham.
GOLD FLAKE
VIRGINIA CIGARETTES
as under:
City and Hill District
1932 1931 26'11"B 27 78 Tylam Tytam Byewash... 25' 1"B 25' 9"B Tytam Intermediate 35' 0"B 37' 3"B 42'10" B 89'1'B Tytam Tak Wong Nei Chung 36'10" 24'11/B 22 7"B 24 3"B Pokfulum *****
41'11"B
Aberdeen Upper ...
Aberdeen Lower ...
[Noto: B. denotes "Below Over flow; A. denates "Above Overdow": L. denotes "Level with Overflow."
Storage in millions and decimals of gallons.
Tytam
1931 193.20
1932
189.20
Tytam Byewash
.08
48
Tytam Intermediate
52,10
Tytam Tuk
581.60
47.10 627.33
Wong Nei Chung
5.67
6.69
Pokfulum
19.66
16,66
Aberdeen Upper
34.90
Aberdeen Lower
Total
022.83
864.10
Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in milliont and de- cimals of gallons during the month of March, 1932.
Consumption
1931 1032 257.13 248.64
362,500
21.0 Includes 27.15 million gallons from Mainland.
Estimated population 451,480
Consumption Per
head per day ...
18.
March, 1981-From March 1 to 81, 1931, a constant street fountain supply was operated in all Rider Main Dis- tricts.
March, 1982-From March 1 to 31, 1932, a constant street fountain sup ply was operated in all Rider Main Districts.
Kowloon."
1931. 1982 288B 2511"B 49' 2"B
6'0′′B, 11′ 4′′B 180B 11′ 2′′B Storage in millions and decimals
Kowloon Main. Kowloon Byewash Shek Lal Pul
Reservoir
Shing Man Recep-
tion
of gallona.
1931 Kowloon Main 181:30 Kowloon Byewash
1932
187.23
13.10.
18bak. La Pui
Reservoir
93.00
40.66
74.46
Shing Mun Recep
tion
2.27
7.24
259.60
Total 260.17
Consumption of water in Kowloos
in million and decimals of gallon the month of March, 1982...
1981
during
Consumption
Estimated
i population
Consumption
10660
·1932 -169.50 1297,850
head per day 25.116.6° Constant supply in all Districts dur-
March 1931 and 1982
The reports of the Government Bes! teriologist and Analyst show that the quality of the water is satisfactory.
Total rainfall "recorded by Royal Observatory from January
March 31 4.05, from January 1 to Mirch 31, 1982, 47
4.7857
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