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The China Mail.
It
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932,
What Employers Say About Boys
Polite But Bad At Spelling
GIRLS? WELL
men such good gardeners. must be an immense zeliet in the moments of leisure to, get away from fretting passengers and their silly questions, and be free to let the sight and sound of the expresses, thunderir; majesti- cally through. fill the heart with pride and also with thankfulness that they are not going to stop. As a change from telephoning and opening and shutting doors and waving flags, and blowing! whistles and heaving luggage about, nothing can be so recrea- tive as within the garden plot to plant the bergamot, or the what not: or to prune the roses, or to arrunge the pebbles and the shells (and we earnestly hope that no foolish modern prejudice, is besieging the offices of employers fewer did it, perhaps eight out of ar, other influence, may ever per-all over the country.
"The Wage I Fancy." " vert the railwaymen from their ago the sunner school term ended,
A northern millowner said he old and admirable love of peb-and more than 100,000 boys, it is was disappointed in the boys who bles and of shells in garden de-estimated, are now seeking jobs. hid applied to him fer jobs this sign), The King of Brobding- nag would certainly have some thing to say in commendation" of discover what the employers, the less than these makers of more beauty men whom the boys must convince top standards. This one hopes than there would be without of their ability. think of the boys his letter will meet with 'ap-- them; and if only the railway
All the proval
firm had companies would pass on from they are seeing this year.
to 'disperse' with his that agree
they are their station gardens to their employers
An office boy says: "The ' services. station approaches, they would neater than ever before. Beyond wage I should fancy for a start is win back still more quickly, the that strangely differing experiences 12s. 6d. *** public countenance, which, for were related. lon: turned away, is now begin- The chief employment officer of found two rally brilliant boys.. ning to smile upon them anew.
News In Brief.
One case each of diphtheria and meningitis
notified to Health Authorities on Monday.
were
the
A great army of
British youth enter the room.
ten.
A fortnight
The "Sunday Express" set out to year.
Ten years back
"They seem to have learned ever at school. Look at these letters from boys in the
Another Bays another
"At the same time, I recently
"Both are under twenty-one, and'
the London Chamber of Commerce, who interviews 2,000 boys and girls they are doing analytical account- fancy work that would normally every year, believes that the quality be done by men twice their age."
of boys seeking work has improved The works manager of John I.. in almost every way during the lust Thornycroft, Ltd., says this about
the boys he has seen;-
"When we ask what ambitions
five years.
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Open Shirts. "The boys who are coming to see
they have they are vague. "Instead of asking:
'What
me are much more tidy," he said to chances are there to get on? as boys used to, the boys we are see- the "Sunday Express" representa ing now ask: *What privileges
Both parents and school-shall I get?' and 'Shall I have to masters, knowing the intensity" of work overtime ?'
Sweeping Preferred. competition, are hammering in this!
"None of them wants a job if it lesson.
is abroad....." Yet too many elementary school-"If boys we already have are
Six cases of diphtheria with two deaths, and 53 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis are contain-! ed in the Health Authorities' res turns of notifiable diseases for the tive. ing places must in time open up week ended October 22. the route to the type of small! machines with only one engine, An interesting talk on practical Hong Kong. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1932. whose pilots, because they are gardening was delivered from the necessarily more liable than the ZBW studio last night by Mr. J. T. big liners to engine trouble, may Bagram. At the outset, the speaker boys are seeking jobs in open-collar-offered the choice between a job on well hesitate to run the risk of emphasised that the talk was not so ed shirts, and
Too many very young girls are will learn something, and a floor-- flying over country where the re-much for the gardening enthusiast sult of a farced landing will at but to encourage the average listen-applying at offices with powdered
faces and vivid lips.. present almost certainly be disaster to take up this excellent hobby.
Both these things, noticed by the Messrs. J. Lyons and Co., Ltd.:-: ter.
The boys we are seeing seem to Purely formal business was tran-employment chief, are seriously pre-
have no ambitions. They just judicing employers. sacted at the fortnightly meeting of
Girls are being better prepared want a job-any job. They have the Sanitary Board held yesterday for their future at school. Fifty per not even the ambition to want to
Mr. G. R. Sayer president. more, compared with ten years be engine-drivers,
Improvements In The Cape Air Route.
In accordance with the an- nouncement made six months ago by Sir Alfred Beit, the Beit Trustees, after consultation with the various authorities concern-
Flowery Ways.
ed, have decided to devote part Someone in the days gone by afternoon. of the funds at their disposal to was it not Sir Arthur Quillered, others present being Hon: Mr.
:
A
a machine at 6s. or 7, where they
sweeping job at £1, they will choose
to sweep the floor."
"We recently had a boy who had'
..
"
<
ago, have been taught shorthand WATER COLOURS and COLOUR PRINTS the immediate improvement of Couch?) dreamed of a railway R. M. Henderson and Messrs. Wong there before they apply to the Lon- been in the seventh standard and
thought Glasgow was in. Ireland. the air route across Northern which on either side was gar- Kwong-tin, L. C. F. Bellamy, C.
"The adventure spirit seems and Southern Rhodesia. When dens, gardens all the way,
The boys seeking work now are And Champkin. J. H. Gelling (Secretary) don Chamber of Commerce.
We offer fine opportunities these improvements have been in the spring-time, before the and Ng Mui-kai (Assistant Secre-
of better physique. Among the ap-dead. carried out pilots flying between grass grows long, and again in tary).
plicants to the chamber are now a for clever young waiters to work number of boys of sixteen to seven-for six months only in Paris, Ber the Tanganyika border and the the autumn when it is failing. a
Brought before Mr. Butters a teen, who gre six feet tall. This is in, or Rome to learn the language. Transvaal will be able to count great many of the railway cut- upon a chain of landing-places tings are gardens-gardens of the Kowloon Magistracy this morn not always an advantage, because When we ask boys to go they say at shorter intervals than are to wild flowers, which the traveller ing on a charge of the theft of
some employers write, "We have their mother or their sweetheart be "found anywhere in Europe. can see and enjoy as he goes. In handbag from Miss Jessie Dick in only a small office, so do not send us does not want them to go!"
C. F. Higham, Ltd., advertising. Over the whole stretch of 1,200 high summer the grass must be Cameron Road yesterday, a Chinese big boy."
"The boys are keener, and they agents miles the average distance be-cut, and with it the flowers; but was found guilty, and sentenced
"The last few boys we have seen. tween them will not be more even then there are the dog roses to six months' hard labour with 12 are more content to start at the bot
tom," the chief employment officer and taken on have been as good as · than fifty miles. reduced and the honeysuckle and the elder strokes of the birch.
sid.
any we have ever had. Some are Southern Rhodesia to between flower-more of the beauty of
Lau Kau, a licensed motor driver, "Their spelling is slightly better, secondary school boys, but they do twenty-five and thirty. The pro-wild Nature than the motorist is gramme of work includes the likely to get in the docked reported to the Police that last night though some still stumble over 're not mind running errands at first. one in forty ap-They do not say, "I must catch my construction of new landing-hedges and paved walks beside while driving public motor car No.ceive, and not places, the completion and en-his ruthless road. And the rail-419 along Queen's Road Central,plicants I saw recently knew what train, when there is something to Eighty per cent of the largement of others; the drain way companies are careful to near Garden Road, he accidentally diffident" meant. Some of the boys be done. age of important aerodromes, the supplement Nature by art, in knocked down Chinese male, applying for jobs are forgetting to elementary school boys we have
taken on are turning out well. provision of direction-finding ap those railway station gardens of named Chan Siu-beung 16, who sign their letters."
fractured leg. · The Boys are more polite. Nine outi "The general standard is much: paratus between Broken Hill and which some account appears in sustained' a Salisbury, and the improvement this journal to-day. Time was man was sent to hospital for treat of ten take off their hats as they improved the year" " of the meteorological services, when the railway stood for allment. In order to save part of the heavy that was mechanical, dingy, un- expense of constructing big aero-beautiful. The railway was to Lung Sik-hung, 41, 'a paint scraper dromes some of the landing-places ruin the look of the country. We at the Naval Dockyard, was remov- are to be made by clearing away know now that it has improved ed to the Government Civil Hospital the bush and levelling the ground the look of the country. The yesterday suffering from injuries to He was working on a at suitable points on each side prospect seen by William Collins his head. of existing roads, so that the in his exquisite Ode to Evening staging in the dry dock when the roadway and the clearings will would be incomplete to-day with-rall, holding the staging slipped from
By kind permission of Lieut.-Col. between them provide ample out the white smoke of a distant the stanchion, dropping, the work-
G. T. Raikes, D.SO., and Officers, the talented band of the 1st Batin.. space for emergency landings. train fleeting along the valley, er 20 feet to the bottom of the dry- Pilots who may be forced to And it has been discovered that dock. His condition is not serious.
Like the low-price store in Hong South Wales Borderers under the come down by engine trouble or a railway station, being an en- atmospheric conditions, such as tirely artificial construction, can "Electricity and its domestic ap-Kong, the new dollar store in Yau- leadership of the popular handmas opened yesterday ter Mr. J. L. Gecks, will provide heavy rain or thunder-storms, be the very place for a formal plication" was the subject of an mati, which was
the entire entertainment at the will be able, if they are flying at garden, to which the rustic interesting lecture given by Rota- by the Sincere Company, received a Peninsula Hotel next Sunday night. a good altitude, to glide safely graces of the cuttings may lead rian D. S. Hill, of the Hong Kong most flattering reception. Crowds to the nearest landing, instead up in the true scale of beauty. Electric Co., Ltd., at the Rotary
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LOW-PRICE STORE IN YAUMATI,
Sincere Company's Enterprise.
"PENINSULA HOTEL.
Borderers. Band To Play On Sunday,
The programme comprises an at-
of running the grave danger of Gardens by river locks seem, by tiffin at Lane, Crawford's yesterday, swarmed into the shop and business tractive selection of interesting in- coming down in the thick bush. comparison, only to be expected: in the course of which he dealt with prospered. The popularity of the strumental numbers.
An admission fee of $1.00 will be:
expense The provision of solid runways although there are beauties (a the functions of the arc and new enterprise is assured. in aerodromes or emergency sta certain white lilac bush at a lock tantalum lamps, and the application
There can be no doubt but what made owing to the
involved, and those intending to tions liable to be converted into near Henley, for instance) which of electricity for heat, light and
these stores do supply a long felt be present, should arrive early to bogs in the rainy season will can never seem other than the power.
want. They display everything at avoid disappointment. make it possible for them to gifts of a great magician. There take off again in the required is no such incongruity in idea
tractively, hold large and varied The concert is scheduled to" com direction when the crisis of the between a river lock and a gar
atocks and the quick sales and mence at the usual time, approxím-
ately 8.45 pm. moment is over, instead of floun den as there is between a garden
efficient service offered render shop- dering helplessly in the swampy and a railway station: Noise and Among the arrivals to-day on the ground; and the combined result hurry and dirt and fass in the C.PS. steamer Empress of Asia ping an easy task. of the various improvements; in- one: quiet (or at any rate much were Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Stone. The new store has been converted cluding more reliable direction less noise, even at Boulter's Lock Mr. Stone the General Manager from the first and only departmental al wireless and meteorological on a Sunday afternoon), sweet of HK. and China Gas Co., Ltd. services,will sensibly increase air, the soft gurgling of water Other passengers were: Mr. P. S. store in Yaumati which was opened
Personal Para.
ARGYLLS ENTERTAINED BY R.A.O.B.
Members of the Argyll and ther The building is spacious and Sutherland Highlanders who are
the comfort, safety, and regular a world that is put together out Grant of Butterfeld and Swire, by the Sincere Company many years ty of air transport over this dif of News from Nowhere and Mr. H. N. Hopper, Mr. H. W. Lee, ago. ficult section of the route beThe Wind in the Willows
Walkino Miss M Wallace,
well the
tween England and the Cape these, surely are the settin o Mr. and Mia 1. H FD Nor it only Imperial Airways the lock-keeper-for, even that will ave reason to be grate steamers and the
Bei
ees for their humbled Core him
ipped. Ideally situated a leaving the Colony on November 4, were given a farewell dinner by populated part of Yaumati R.A.0.B. at the Garrison Lecture
at hand, the site is Hall last night tha
The toast of "Our Departing Brethren. was proposed by Mr. MATH Blake, who wished the members of the Regiment
bon
nd very