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COLONY'S GREETING
·TO MACAO.
On Anniversary Of Republic's Birth.
According to a communication. from his Excellency the O.A.G.,' the following exchange of tele- grams has taken place between the Governments of Hong Kong and Macno
"To Governor, Mação.
"On the occasion « of the "an-¦ niversary of the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic' I offer Your Excellency and the Colony "of Macao my sincere godd wishes and those of the Colony of Hong Kong.
SOUTHORN,
Officer Administering the Government."
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1932
Unemployed Plod Over Australia
Foreigners, Too, Get Ration Dole
No Favouritism Shown
"I came to Australia at my own, very generous fashion;, but this is
expense in 1922, and have been not to say that hunger is not ex- perfenced on the road, though L without permanent employment since 1930,
actually came in contact with-none- and in receipt
who appeared to be suffering from of the dole for the past The reply was:—
twelve months. (AL the malnutrition. Of course this army "To Officer Administering the outset I should like to say that a
is unbelievably ragged and often. Government, Hong Kong. distinction is made between native absolutely unshod. I myself walked. "I thank Your Excellency most born and immigrant unemployed, in many miles in my bare feet last heartily in my name and in the the granting of unemployment re
Winter. However, the Common-·· name of the Colony for the good lief, are quite false). In the past surplus army clothing last Winter in wealth Government, did distribute wishes sent me on the occasion twelve months I have travelled over
Republic.
"
』『, ; GOVERNOR."
OPIUM SEIZED ON JUNK IN HARBOUR.
Woman Tries To Throw Evidence Overboard.
of the anniversary of the 5,000 miles through New South Queensland, and kindly folk did
Wales and Queensland in search of their best to help individually.
To cover the long distances "be- work," writes "Tramper" in the
tween most police stations, and to Shanghai Sunday Times.
In Queensland single unemployed save footwear which can hardly be men are able to draw 5s. worth of replaced. most of the travelling rations every
Tuesday, provided unemployed are almost forced to- that they keep moving and do not steal rides on goods trains. I have draw rations in the same town two "jumped" trains In Queensland on
which as many as thirty and forty" weeks in succession. Cards Ara Issued by the police, and travelling others were non-paying passengers, Acting on the formation that unemployed carry their cards from Very often these trains are raided by the police, but usually when the there was opium aboard, police police station to police station, pre- delinquents are brought before boarded atjunk in the harbour and senting the current one each Tues magistrate it is realised that any arrested Ho Yee-mui, 49, boat mig day in exchange for a 5s, order on tress, who was in possession of five a local store, and taking a new card normal individual must quall before the prospect of walking endless and taels of opium and three bottles of with them for use at another police aimless miles, and a few days in the station on the Tuesday following local lock-up is the penalty enforced. Chinese wine.
She attempted to throw the This system prevents the men from
No attempt has been made by the opium, valued at $60, into the har-massing together in or near towns Government to provide camping mists that the human stomach is beur, but was unsuccessful.
In absolute idleness, and it allows a limited thing, and that, where- A fine of $600 or three months them to make use of the opportunity quarters for the travelling unem as industries which pander to hard labour was given on the of picking up seasonal work. But ployed in any State. In Queensland nightfall usually finds groups hud- opiam charge and a fine of $10 or it gives the State of Queensland a vanity have an endless market, 10 days hard labour for the wine vast vagrant army moving hopeless dled together at wayside station there is a definite saturation charge, by Mr. W. Schofield at the ly about in search of work, of which sheds, in disused yards, and even in point for food and drink. The Central Police Court this morning, there is not enough to absorb one vogue of the long book, calling
TECHNICAL SCHOOL for considerable muscular de
OPENS TERM. In the latest publication of the velopment, should help the vogue International Labour Office on of the long meal. It is surely
Night Classes Find Health and Occupation there" are not altogether an accident that
Wide Curriculum.
Big Meals And Great Writers.
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tenth of the men
a pigyard in company with twenty pigsties! I have myself camped in Last Winter I waa one of this or thirts other men,
-In New South Wales the ration-- number, and travelled as far north'
scale allowed to travening un- in North Queensland as within seventy miles of Cocktown, and in employed, though more generous the six months that I spent in the nominally than in Queensland, goes State I only got two days' work no further owing to the higher cost of living. However, in New most comfortable sayings, sup the Victorians both wrote and
Amongst the numbers I encounter porting the view that on the ate at the friendly length they
ed "on the track were a goodly South Wales the affigle unemployed whole excellence with the pen did, and that the eighteenth Kong Technical Institute has just saddest feature of this phase of ly indefinitely. In spite of this, be- The prospectus of the Hong sprinkling of immigrants hare hot kept on the move and can draw rations in one town practical- goes hand in hand with excel- century thought so generously been issued. It contains courses existence as I witnessed it was the cause perhaps Queensland is a more
field number of youths, native-born lence with the knife and fork, of what constituted a dinner or in building construction,
prosperous State and certainly en- and that the great writers are a book. Let there be posters surveying, electrical engineering, Australians, who have scarcely any joys, a more general Winter climate, shorthand for beginners and re- time to accustom themselves to there is a tendency amongst the the great trenchermen as well. showing Rabelais composing at vision, book-keeping. ". English, habita of work, and are now drift-
travelling unemployed to gravitate- Literary ambition is so common table his tremendous master-French, and sanitary engineering ing into a condition of shameless thither.
At the moment of writing I am in these days among the young piece, or St. Thomas Aquinas Kowloon will also offer classes hoboląm.
in chemistry, practical and
Genial Climateż that the doctors who are now finding the regal board an aid to theoretical, shorthand and cookery.
|living in a south coast town in New The Winter climate in North South Wales. I am camped in an The first session has already Queensland is as genial as any in empty house (by permission of the raising their sagacious voices philosophical debate. It will be against slimming and the sacri said that these great meals are commenced and will end two weeks the world and naturally tends to owners), and I draw (as a locally before the Chinese New Year. The lighten the burden of existence for registered unemployed) 16s worth fice of physical well-being to dangerous, but it can be crush second session will begin two such as are homeless and destitute of foodstuff every fortnight, The vanity find an excellent arguingly answered that man ought weeks after the Chinese New Year
nevertheless the condition of the majority of people in this town are ment to their hand. The great to live dangerously. Why should and Anish in June.
men. on the road is an acutely, un-English immigrants; the man-folk A nominal charge of $10 per comfortable one. The 58. worth of are mostly miners who have been attraction of the literary life is ail the admiration-kept for those that it need have no regular who live reckless lives go to tequirements have attendance rations lasts at longest about three out of work for more than two requirements have been made quite days, so that for the remaining four years. The married folk still hours--which means, in other steeplejacks or parachutists, and strict. Anyone not in attendance days in every seven the traveller is manage to keep roofs over their words, that meals can last inde- none be kept for those who bold for two weeks will have his name entirely dependent on charity heads and to live in restricted finitely. The great men of ac ly call for a second and a third removed from the register.
Classes are scheduled to be held feel bound to say that the Queens comfort. By far the worst feature tion have to live by schedule; ateak in the face of the most every evening except Saturday landers have stood up to the burden of this life as I see it is the stark Napoleon had commonly finished menacing and solemn of medical They are to begin between 5 and of helping this ragrant army in a hopelessness of the future. his food in twenty minutes. All warnings? The great writers, 6 pm, and will end not later than
JAPANESE PRODIGY SPANISH PEASANTS who live by the clock and whose the Johnsons and Balzacs a and
LIVE IN MISERY. days-consist of appointments Dumases, who disposed of great with their fellows find that but slices of life with such relish and
Money Non-Existent once in the day, and that only in gusto, were not skimpy men for the sleepy and exhausted even-ever fearful of getti out of
In Many Places. ing, can they settle down to training, and the report of the deep repletion: But writing can LL.G. bears, useful tril not only be postponed, it can be truth that a certa done at table. It is not alone in ing eager
petite for experience must mark
te to the uncalculat ast Lap
10.
TWO EARTH COOLIES STABBED.
Fight In Wanchai District.
Two Chinese earth écolies were stabbed in Percival - Street
last
this, for the practice of other the great writer, and that meals Right during a fight. One of imaginative arts, and notably also are experiences. the sale of stocks and shares, has always combined very hap pily with the larger meals; but writing has the further tage that it can alone
the
BRITISH SOLDIER PAYS $25 FINE
In Possession Of
Stolen Broo
TO BE HEARD.
Another Pleasant
Concert.
gramme
Another well-selected soft musical items is sched
take place at the Peninsula Hotel next Sunday night.
cone
An opportunity of hearing the them, who received three wounds, tists, Sadao Iwal, will be afforded youthful Japanese Xylophone ar- is now lying in a critical condition! at the Government Civil Hospital, during the concert A fortnight while the condition of the other ago he gave an inspi man, is not considered so serious an appreciative aud Both men were employees of the Feninsula Hotel, Fuen Kee firm of Buliding contrac be remembered
praba fors, and were set upon by several men when ssing the Lee Theatre. The reas
attack at
present
fora
Mocking
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the Province of
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to investigate conditions
description says
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considered rich, and this bread Is
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