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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1932.
their status as such may vary widely according to their respon- sibilities and the dignity of the institution employing them. Here and there are shopkeepers still carrying on business in the manner of John Gilpin, but al lowing themselves more days off. The Temple also supplies a large quota; but casual sleepers in hotels, it will be remembered, were enumerated as strangers in the last Cansus. An outsider on Census night could no longer bosst that he had gone to swall the population of the City. It appears that there is still a birth- rate in the City, and that it is 6.6 per thousand. It is to be hoped that the fifty or sixty children born yearly within the ed; something to take away the bad are nice and airy and the service is
excellent, All sorts of service. sound of its bells are taught to taste in our mouths; something to understand
the traditions of take our mind off our work; some wail of Chinese music, that seems to If it were not.. for the insistent which they are the representa thing so alien to our habits that it penetrate to every corner of your I'tives. As not a few firms of
Shum Chun Games A Real Diversion
Everything Free But The "Dice Ride"
AFTERNOON
ADVENTURE
Diversion: that's, what we want-train for Hong Kong.
tired guests.
The rooms
long standing in the City could would invigorate and stimulate. head, and the shouts of glee or dis- tell, some of the brightest and Excitement!
appointment from the gamblers, most trustworthy of their em-T From the outset, I will admit that the rooms would be very nice for ployees came in former genera-I am to blame for the escapade, but;
There is one thing that one can- tions from homes hard be:
I am covinced that it was well worth not complain of. That is the ser their parish church and its
For a day vice.. Wherever you go a "boy" is school had educated them, and our time and trouble.
see that your they spent their lives in honour-in Shum Chun's gaming houses is following to
every able work in the haunts of their well worth the money.
want is satisfied. Watermelon seeds, cakes, drinks of all sorts, childhood, though they resided |
After eating a hurried tiin, fruit and tobacco, all can oo had for elsewhere. This type of hard-
bitten Cockney has seldom re-grabbing a few odds and ends that the asking,
Hawkers? There is at mundance ceived the honour due to it; but could possibly be called necessities,
of them. fit has contributed much to the,
One may buy anything from birds to bananas,
We were treated to an excellent
POPULAR COUPLE WEDDED HERE.
Charming Ceremony At Peak Church:
made our
for the
The
· Classical Stuff.
new
building, C little more į while waiting for the train. over to watch
civilizing qualities of the London companion and 1, ran character. If an early upbring-18 train and just made it. ing in the City had its raw trip up to the little town that con- Chinese dinner and more beer. Two backs, it had also its advantages. tuins one of Lady Luck's largest attendants stood by ready to jump in if we even moved an unnecessary It remains to be proved whether palacas, was quite uneventful, and the new
finger. We adjourned to the new and traditionless! suburbs, such as the Middlesexe were glad to get off. Whether building, containing the bed rooms. of the latest Census, can supply the 300 other "suckers" were as glad I might say at this time that the ar equivalent inspiration. as we were. I don't know, but if the class of people who patronize the They seem to speed that they made for their place is of the best: favourite games was a criterion of in different sections. One could tell that this was a poor section, this General Staff, having fixed the
their enthusiasm, they were all one a little better, and so on. In objectives för all the various
It would save time fall, there are Leagerness. units in a general advance, were)
about 12 fan-tan to encourage the units which
the uninitiated went in and handed tables and six dice games running. and the crowd was thick around were making headway to ad-
the proprietor his pocketful of each one. vance far beyond the new line
Imoney, though. Russian Disillusions. laid down in order to compensate
We At the Peak Church yesterday!
the way across the In for the failure of other units Mr. John Reginald Hinton, of Can-tracks and entered a sort of wire.en-
! both played Russian official decrees, and The advance for window-dress-iton, eldest son of the late Mr. and still more frankly the utterances ing and propaganda purposes Mrs. F. J. Hinton, was married to
closure. Soldiers, and their arma- Finally I went of the Passian Press. show that has been especially rapid in the Miss Kathleen Elsie Keogh, second gents, were in profusion: good the Chinese. band that was just the optimistic hopes of what erection of tractor and motor
striking up. "My hast stood beside would he achieved grafer the factories, and especially slow in T. M. Keogh.
daughter of Lt. Col. Rev. and Mrs. chaps to stay away from.
The ceremony was-
It one song. The "pig run" was eventually me and translated | Five-Year Plan are now giving the heavy industries on which
performed by the Very Rev. Dean traversed and we came to the casino was something about a girl trying place to disappointment and ever they depend. In transportation Swam
to make up her mind te go some- itself. The first thing that met our to anxiety. The Commissariat and distribution there has been
The bride was given away by Mr.
where. I timed the song. It of Heavy Industry of the Soviet little if any advance, possibly F. Syme Thomson. The bridesmaid gaze was a pretentious sign erected 'commenced at 6.25 and finished at Union, after studying the reports indeed actual retrogression. The was Miss Maureen Greig
on the top of an arched canopy that 6.50. I never did find out if the of the progress made during the result, which might have been A. C. I. Bowker, the Interport lextended for about. 50 yards to the (girl got where she was going. The first seven months of this year. foreseen, is that "many factories
,main entrance, The sign reap suspense was too great.
Yae Sang. High Class Gambling At about seven o'clock, a "boy" has publicly declared that "our erected at
great expense have cricketer, was best-män.
A reception was afterwards, held" "iron and steel industries are been unable to start work, while at 167. the Penk, the residence of
House.**
tapped me or the shoulder telling causing the most "serious anxiety others are working irregularly Mr. and Mrs. F. Syme Thomson, Two Europeans set loose amongst me the train was due in 11 minutes.. in the Communist Party, to "the and at great loss. The Molotoff the happy couple leaving later for a crowd of 400 or so noisy Chinese My partner and I left to go back Government. and among the Motor Works at Nizhni Nov-Fanling for their honeymoon. gamblers don't seem to mutter down the path that we had so gayly ¡much. 1 was cautioned by my trod a few hours before with enough jcompanion, that whatever I did money in our pockets to at least was not to get in a fight. I return make a 'nbise.. Now it was what ed the advice, and we took the fatal is known as noiseless walking until steps that led to the abode of "The we reached the main gate. Here a Goddess of Chance."
Iman with a bag of money was stand-
Mr.
whole working class." The re-gorod were opened in triumph perts show that these industries last New Year's Day. as "the
are working, most unsatisfac-largest automobile works ini News In Brief. torily since the spring there Europe" with 25,000, and later has been a serious fall in the rute 30,000, workmen, and it was!
There was a clean bill of health of production of the iron and steel promised that they would turn reported in the Colony on Tuesday neered for the innumerable fac-out 50,000 motor-cars before the
tories which, with much flourish-end of the year. So far a few! The quarantine restrictions im. ing of trumpets, have been set hundred cars have been produced, posed against arrivals from Tientsin up all over the Soviet territory. some lacking essential parts, and or account of Cholera have been re- Moreover the Government has in the beginning of this month moved. failed lamentably in its organiza-it was stated in the Russian
Our surprise was great when aling. As we came up, he reached man, a suave man and smiling, very 'out his hand and handed us each a graciously offered so take us around. little packet of loose change. This He spoke English, much to our re-is curfare home. Hief, and performed a host's duties But friendly. with true Oriental thoroughness. Chinese!.
First we were taken into a huge
tion both of railway transport Press that some 600 incomplete Mr. Bessell, a resident of Repulse and of distribution. In spite of cars. had been put outside the Bay Hotel, has reported to the Police room that contained fan-tan tables. and the loss of £30 in Australian notes A crowd was gathered around its the fact that the output of coal factory for lack of space in the Dbnetz Basin has fallen to were rapidly deteriorating from his jacket pocket in his room edge and the betting was lively. less than two-thirds of what it through exposure. The most on Sunday. was last January, the mining au- important tractor works are
Our host explained the simple rudi- ments of the game. But we wont-
thorities complain that an exces building a large proportion of Tam Yak, of 10, Clarence Street, jed "dice." “O, yes," he said, and sive amount of coal is allowed to their tractors without radiators was summoned before his Worship led the way. accumulate at the pitheads while because they cannot get ade for a similar offence and, in view of her circumstances a fine of $25 various industrial centres are in quate supplies of the proper danger of a fuel famine due al- metals. The despised indivi was imposed. most entirely to transport dif- dualist manufacturer can do bet- ficulties. Even if the factories ter than that working in benight- were thoroughly efficient ined capitalist countries without themselves which is by no any Five-Year or other Plan. means the case except in rare instances-failure to supply them
Suspected.
Last
FL
Just a gesture. Clever,
these
L. B. B.
MR. ROBERT DYER RESIGNS POST.
Served Dock Company
¡now.
For 22 Years.
SUCCESSOR IS NAMED.
years
Hunting For Dice, My fingers were just itching to throw 1 pair of "galloping Mr. D. Maclachlan will speak on dominoes" as they are so "affec- Theosophy at the usual weekly tionately called down in my state.
Mr. Robert Morton Dyer, C.B.E., public lecture of the Theosophical My friend was just as cager, I Society, the Hong Kong Lodge, 17, could tell by his nervous gestures the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock ¡M.LNA., B.Sc., Chlaf- Manager of Queen's Road Central, to-day at 6 that he was a natural-born dice
Company Ltd, for 22 years, and fiend. with adequate fuel and material In The City Of London. p.m.
We stepped into another
who is at present. on home leave large makes it quite impossible for them to turn out goods in any. "Seventy years ago, as the The body of a Chinese woman, Ho room where the only other game be-with Mrs. Dyer, has resigned his thing like the quantity or of any- Medical Officer of Health for theng, 20, was found lying at 30 sides fan-tan was in progress. It is Position, it was officially announced
Square Street by the Police, and re-la dice game, alright. thing like the quality expected City of London recalls in his removed to the mortuary.
It draws yesterday. Suicide is larger crowds than fan-tan.
Mr. Dyer will be succeeded by But of them. According to the Rus- cently issued report, there was a sian Press many industries from residential population in the City
it's a three dice affair and very com- Mr. Edward Cock, M.B.E., M.IN.A.
a number of Iplicated. which great things were hoped of some 112,000 persons.
A sort of abbreviated Manager for are now working under, the most year, when the national Census In an attempt to commit suicide, "roulette," without a wheel.
As one of the best-known re- chaotic conditions.
One bets on the numbers that turn woman, of Haiphong Apart from was taken, there were 10,808 a Chinese the inherent difficulties of build-only, so low does the tide of life Road, jumped into the harbour from up or the total of the three dice, sidents of Hong Kong, Mr. Dyer has
the business" |ing up overnight as it were a now sink in the richest square
the prays
near the Hung Hom odd or even, high or low, and so on.jbeen associated with
and social life of the community and She was rescued and I decided after three "beers," whole number of great manufac-mile in the Empire, after the workshop. turing industries in a country day's work, performed by nearly removed to the Kowloon Hospital quantity of cigarettes and other on more than one occasion has been like Russia, the root cause seems half a million persons, is over.
"house" donations; that this trip Chieftain of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society. Mr. Dyer has Allegations of ill-treatment were would be highly profitable. It was rendered great public service, e to lie in the fact that the Those whib remember that the Piatiletka, originally conceived function of ancient cities was to made by a mus-teat to the Wanchai for a time. as a scheme for the orderly co-house and protect by night a Police Station on October 12, re- I was, about $18 ahead while my pecially in connection with the ordinated development of Rus population which went forth to sulting in the appearance of her companion was up over $50 on small Shaforce, who were stationed in the Colony daring the anxious time in alan resources over the five years its labour in the fields by day mistress, Chan Yuk, before his bets.
1927. He was also a keen mover period, has in practice been used will perceive that the process has Worship on a summons of keeping But it wasn't long before I was in the Scottish Company of the not as a plan but as a stimulus. now been completely reversed. an unregistered mui-teat. Defendant. down again and I decided to take a Industries have been urged not Few as they are relatively, and was ined $25... merely to reach the standards their habitations in many of the.. set in it but to surpass them if central parishes not obvious to Pleading guity to a technical My companion stayed on, calling sident of the 9th Kowloon (Dyer's
the little cubes to "come to him. Own) Troop," nossible. There has been great the eye, the 10,808 would still offence, Mr. B.. A. Wadeson, before
Mr. Dyer is succeeded by Mr. Ed- Jasting whenever it has been make a respectable muster in Mr. Schofield at the Central Police
A Place To Sleep.
ward Cock, who is a Cornishman by reported that one or the other company. They include police Court yesterday, admitted a sum- Adjacent to the main hall, a new birth and has also taken an active branch was, producing more than and firemen; clergy, and hospital mons brought against: Chan Tal-koo building has been erected. It con- part in public affairs, One of his the plan stipulated at that stage, stañs; hotel, employees
was tains besides two tables, one for dice chief interests has been the Kow- uileged to have kept an unregister and one for fan-tan, sleeping quar loon Residents Association, of DAVIE, BOAG & Co.Ltd. counter-balance the failure of majority are probably what are ed mid-ladi, A fine of $25 wasters for those who become engriss-which he is a past President and
other branches. It was as if a known As caretakers, though imposed.
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and, these successes were held to licensed victuallers, but the Bonham Road, who
In the first 20 minutes
little walk to see just what all was ¡Volunteers and in the Boy Scout featured in this gamblers' mecca.
movement, in which he was Pre
led in their games, and miss the last committee member.