FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933.
BRITAIN'S
CLEARANCE
OF SLUMS
Splendid Response To Five-Year Plan.
PROGRESSIVE LONDON BOROUGHS
FAST DRIVING IN
THE CITY Two Motorists Fined $25 Each.
MR. EL. GROOME AND MR. M. E. POLITI.
Mr. E. L. Groome, of Mesars. Gibb, Livingston and Company, was fined $25 at the Central Police Court
this morning for driving his car, No. 910, in Queen's Road East on August 6, în a manner dangerous to the public.
HENDREN HITS
TWO CENTURIES
THE CHINA MAIL
To-Day's Short Story.
AGAINST KENT. The String
Freeman, Takes 15 For 122.
MIDDLESEX DEFEATED
of Tick Freeman (15 for 122) and
Of Glass
CONKLIN'S
By Ruth Alexander.
"So your house," said Juan. iron spoon, and threw it after him.
Her
NO you've nearly finished him smartly on the nose with her
London, To-day. He had beer watching the old Casimira, their daughter, came London, To-day.
In spite of a century in each Inman Giuseppe put the last lap on round from the back of the hovel. nings by Patsy Hendren, Middlesex the adobe wall.
She was, at sixteen, quite lovely. A slum clearance scheme estim-
collapsed before the slow bowling ated to cost £7.400.000 was yes-
Giuseppe smoked his calabash ten years' time she would become exactly like ber mother, with an terday approved by the Liverpool
were beaten by Kent by six wickets pipe and went on working,
enormous waist defined by a piece) Corporation Housing Committe. The Traffic Sergeant Winalade said at Lord's yesterday.
"Yes, it's nearly finished. I shall of string over a pink bed-picket; but] Hendren compiled 101 of the begin to whitewash it in a day or now she was in her zenith. scheme includes the demolition of that be followed the defendant's car
from Stubbs Road to Victoria Middlesex first innings total of two; and then I shall plant the gar-large black soft eyes bad that kind | 12,742 slum houses and the erec- Batracks in Queen's Road East, 235, the remainder of the batsmen den, for my house will not be like of brilliance by day that lamp-light tion in their place 5.692 houses, where his speed was about 30 miles providing Freeman with 8 wickets yours, with nothing but bare patches achieves for most eyes; her small to accommodate 40,600 people. per hour. When passing Seven-for 64 runs.
of earth round it. I shall have red mouth was petulant, her black Building operations, which will and-sixpenny Hill-it was 34 miles Leslie Ames treated the Middle flowers. Of what value is a garden hair was elaborately coiled over her
sex attack with scant respect in his without flowers? As the sky with-ears. extend over several years, will per hour. alone employ 1,600 men.
effort of 128 and Percy Chapman jout stars!"
Casimira walked after the spoon, The scheme is to be submitted Traffic Inspector Saunders pro-declared the Kent innings at 386 He waved his arm towards the picked it up and stirred the soup for approval to the Minister of secuted in a summons against Mr. for 9-153 runs on.
collection of scattered adobe. huts, again. muttering, angrily:~ of Health, who recently called M. E. Politi of Messrs. A. H. Polts,
county fared even each surrounded by its patch of "Leave my animals alone, wil}} upon all local authorities affect- for driving at a dangerous speed in worse in their second innings and bare, trodden, yellow earth and its you!"
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ed to produce by the end of Sep-Des Voeux Road Central and Queen's Hendren's 101 was largely res-irregular fence made of rusty old "Shall I let him eat the dinner, COMMENCING TO-MORROW AT THE CENTRAL tember five-year schemes for the Road East. Mr. Politi pleaded definite elimination of the slum guilty and said that although his evil.
speed was a little fast he did not Many schemes have already think that it was dangerous. been submitted and are receiv- It was stated that the defendant ing the consideration of the shot out into the road near Mesars. Ministry.
Watson and Company's Dispensary A few have been judged in Des Voeux Road, accelerating to insufficiently drastic and what appeared to be the maximum have been returned to the of the car. The speed Increased to local authorities for prompt 30 mph, at the Hong Kong Cricket amendment,
Club ground and outside the Royal Numerous progressive boroughs Naval Dockyard gate rose to 35 have already freed themselves of them.ph. ejum evil, but in other instances The defendant admitted that this local difficulties have been encoun-was a correct statement and was tered which will be swept aside fined $25. in the campaign which has now been
Lorry Driver Fined. undertaken by the Health Ministry. Traffic-Inspector Saunders also Several London Boroughs have prosecuted a Chinese lorry driver, shown notable real in tackling the Wong Hung. for negligent driving problem inherited from
past and driving car No, 2447 without an days, when conditions of hous-appropriate license. ing, out of keeping with modern Inspector Saunders said that the ideas of sanitation, were considered defendant drove the car up quite normal.
D'Aguilar Street and actually Bermondsey, for instance, where a struck him on the leg.
few years ago whole areas con- When pulling into the aide aisted of hovels of the worst type, of the rond.. He asked for has replaced these by pleasant futs the driver's license and found that equipped with baths, airy rooms, he was only authorised to drive a kitchens and electric light.
lorry.
Bermondsey is mainly inhabited: The defendant was fined $20 on by riverside workers and is entirely the first summons and $5 on the
second.
a poor area.
But the manner in which those,
who were previously slum dwellers'
To-morrow's story will be "That Fool Of A Mabel," by Freda M. Winter.
ponsible for the total of 181. Free-flattened-out kerosene tins enclos. then!" screamed Marla, "Next man was again in deadly form, ing the rubbish-heaps, water-barrels time be'll be in that pot himself, taking 7 for 58
and piles of eucalytus branches with and a very fire puchero he'll make, Requiring only 29
(their to win
rustling leaves brown and too!" Keni lost four wickets in col- curved like dead crescent moons, She proceeded to ladle the soup. lecting the necessary runs.
among which chickens pecked and out violently, splashing Juan who Hendren, who has made the quarrelled, goats trotted, a cow or lounged against the door-sill with highest individual score of the two stood motionless by the side of the mate-pot in his hand. Juan season-301 not out against Wor-her muzzled calf. center performed the fent of Somewhere about every one of scoring a century in each innings these little ranchos of colour-washed for the first time in his career.or naked mud hung strings They were his eighth and ninth coloured balls, Isrge as coconuts or centuries of the season and follow-small like tangerines. They repre- ed his 111 against Surrey in the seated the love of beauty denied by second innings of his last match. nature; and did not the old ones, wiped the drops away, and said, Ames' century was his eighth of the xrandfathers and grandmothers, always anxious to keep the peace, believe that they kept evil from the "The little old one is getting on) house? The young folk scoffed; nicely with his house. And what do still, the balls hung there.
you think, querida?" turning to Giuseppe stopped working, "and, Casimira. "He is going to grow taking his pipe out of his mouth, flowers and vegetables. He will put gesticulated freely as he continued: us all to shame, we who are too lazy 18) (Hendren 101. Freeman "Not a bit of green staff, not even to grow flowers." 7 for 58)
a sapallo plant for your puchero Maria laughed shrilly, but Kent 386 for 9 dec, (Ames 125)
You could grow cabbages and pota-Casimira tossed her head and cried, 32 for 4 wickets.
toes, all the vegetables for your "Well, poor onel Why shouldn't be? [salad, instead of letting your chil. He must do something to keep him
drea and animals trample over from being lonely." everything. Well, wait. You will Casimira leaned against the door- sec what I shall do with my garden." post, peeling an orange' and throw- Juan laughed scornfully as being the skin about the yard, while {strolled away across the dusty her bright greedy eyes roved over
waste to his own adobe dwelling. the collection of adube huts, men's,
"He is mad, that viejo," he told his nests as simple and primitive as the
the season.
Scores as cabled by Reuter were: Kent beat Middlesex hy 6 wickets at Lord's. Middlesex 233 Hendren 101. Free.
man 8 for 64)
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
Horn Annoyance. Leung Siu, driver of car No. 325
Yorkshire Sussex an a Kent
TABLE TO DATE.
have responded to the opportunity of was fined $5 for causing living in better surroundings is anoyance by sounding his horn un- Essex complete answer to the sceptics who necessarily in Lockhart Road at 7.30 Lancashire doubted the social effect of good in.m., on August 6.
Warwick Derbyshire housing conditions.—British Wire-
Sergeant Clark said that he heard Gloucester less Service.
the horn sounded several times. The defendant, when questioned, replied: that he was signalling his brother.
POTATO IMPORTS
REGULATIONS.
Emergency Scheme In Force.
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Two Bills Passed.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTES $69.500
London, To-day. The Minister of Agriculture bas! been in negotiation with represents- tives of potato-exporting countries with a view to emergency action for the regulation of imports pendingi the coming into operation of home marketing schemes and
Two Bills, one to amend the Bet- of a per- manent system for the regulation of ting Ordinance. 1931. the other to potato imports.
Nolte Surrey Middlesex Somerset Northants
Hampshire Worcester
Leicester
Glamorgan
Int
Inns. Nu.
'P. W. L. W. L. R. Pts.
-16 5-3 4
29 19 3 3 4 0 312 wife Maria, who sat at the thres-nest of the prairie-dog that burrow- .31 18 5 1 0 308 hold and sucked at, her matc.led holes in the golf-links where the .30 15 8 3 3 1 253 "He thinks he is going to havead English walked in the sun after .26 13 8
62 30 214 flower-garden and to grow his own the little balls they hit bfeore them. 27 9 1 10 8 1207 vegetables. Ha! Ha!"
Casimira's brother, Cabine, knew
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Maria laughed as fatly as one the characteristics of the "mad 24 181 would expect from her proportions. English" well. He was thirteen, and 73 6 3 8 3 171
5 2
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"Bueno, he'll soon find
spent all his time down at the out for ancha finding golf balls, baling
5 12 3 14 himself," she remarked complacent them out of the irrigation streams
14 2 2 1 126
6 10 2 4 3 124ly, passing up the male-pot and intersecting the links or from among
6 11 5 3 0 109 bombilla to her husband.
2 9 3 11 2 88
12 8 6 2
8 5 7
MONGKOK FIRE
INQUEST
Verdict Of Death By Misadventure.
the spiny cactus roots with a long
sd k "Casimira!" she called in her piece of hooked wire, and selling 71 hoarse valce." The puchero's ready them back to their owners at half 69 Where's Gabino? At the cancha, the price of new ones. Sometimes as usual, I suppose, with these Eng- he condescended to tramp after the Kish and their Idiotic golf-game."mad English men and women, and She stamped her foot at an intrud-carry their clubs for a dollar. ing goat attracted by the savoury Casimira's idle gaze wandered smell. cried "Sali! Go away!" bit back from the distant links where
little red flags stood out in points: of colour.
The Coroner's inquest into the provide for the incorporation of the death of Po Sam and six others
It has now been arranged that Procurator in Hong Kong of the who met their deaths as a result during the four months, September Pontifical Foreign Missions In-of a fire which broke out at 393 to December, Imports into the stitute, were passed at the meeting Reclamation Street, Mongkok, United Kingdom from the Nether of the Legislative Council yesterday. August 10, was concluded at the lands and Belgium will not exceed] The Betting Duty Ordinance WES
Jy.
on
8,000 tons and 250 tons respective-amended by the deletion of Clause when the jury returned
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. 4, fixing September 1 as the date on verdict of death by misadventure. Other foreign exporting countries which the Ordinance should come which do not usually export potatoes into force.
J
their
The jury made the following statement"We find that all the
NEW COSMIC-RAY DETECTOR
Installed On President Garfield.
RECORDINGS BEING MADE IN HONG KONG
Giuseppe
to the new ranchita was building. He
sitting there now
WAZ among the
| rubbish, staring across at a low line jef iron goods-sħeda belonging to the
over the plain. new narrow-gauge railway trailing
At twillight; when all the land-be- came dovecolour, these sheds took од the semblance of hills to old Giuseppe's eyes. They melted into the rest of the landscape, grey and soft like the big feathery month that hung under the thatch all day. to the United Kingdom market at The Bill passed all stages.
They reminded him of his own The robot scientist arrived in Italian hills, this time of year have been · Laked On the motion of the Hon. Mr. deceased met their death by mis-
adventure... There is no to refrain from doing so for the Kotewall, seconded by the Hon. Teo,
proof Hong Kong this morning. Secured How vividly they brought back remainder of the year.-British the second and third readings of the that the fire was deliberately caus-to the floor in the corner of the meories of his own land! But all Wireless Service.
Bill providing for the incorporation ed, and we express our sympathy captain's cabin on the 8.&. President he had now was the son who worked. of the Procurator in Hong Kong of with the relatives of the deceased. Garfield, this unpretentious looking on the new Argentine railway and the Pootifical Foreign Missions In We commend the work done by the instrument is taking recordings of lodged down in the town to be nearer the most penetrating ray known to his work. The neighbours dingust- stitute were passed after which the Fire Brigade.”. |Counci] adjourned sine diz.
Mr. H. R. Butters sat as Coroner, fecience the cosmic-ray-measured him. He meant to show there! Subsequently a meeting of the assisted by a jury comprising ing its intensities and quantities in lazy, scoffing portenon that it was easy to have a garden. Therefore, Finance Committee was held, the Messrs. H. J. D. Lowe (foreman), all parts of the world. Colonial Secretary presiding.
With an exterior resemblance to when Canicira came at close of day. large bomb, this instrument may just as the sheds were beginning to revolitionise science, for up to the he fills, and clapped her hands to- present, the cosmic-ray, is practical gether outside the new wire fence. ly an unknown force, although since surrounding his lote of ground, he it was discovered, a little over Ave was hostile at once. "What is it?" he be given by the Bishop of Hong sented were:
The Director of Medical and years ago, it has proved to be 1,000 called sharply. Kong, the Bev, R. O. Hall, In St.
"Nothing, senor," the girl replied, His Excellency the General Of-Sanitary Services (Hon. Dr. A. E times more powerful than any exist
"I came only to see how the new John's Cathedral at 11 am. on the fleer Commanding the Troops. Wellington).
ing ray,
“Pass in, then,” said Giuseppe inlin
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Hallowing Ceremony To - morrow.
The Bishop of Hong Kong, the Rev. B 0, Hall, will hallow the Church House of the Kowloon Tong Anglican Church, at a service to be held to-morrow at 6 p.m.-
The House is nituated on How-
four Bundays of this month and at Major-General O, C. Borrett, C. The Acting Director of Publie Two graduates from the Yale Uni-house is progressing. 6.80 p.m. on the five Sundays of B. C. M. G., C. B. E. D. 8.0.) Works (Hon. Mr, A. G. W. Tickie), veraity. Mr. Charles E. Bedaux and more hospitable tones. He got up The forthcoming marriage is m-)
Hon, Sir Henry, Pollock, Et. Mr. Henry W. R. North, are accom-courteously to meet her. Over the nounced of George Augustus Ware panying the instrument on its world new fence she handed him a big ing of the ss. Yuen Sang, to Hon, Mr. C, G. S. Mackde." tour, and will take scientific data.
The instrument, however, auto parcel tied up in newspapers. He, Tatiana Victor Bherakoff of 159
took it surprisedly.
Avenue Heig, Shanghai, matically records on film, the "I thought you might like to make variance in these mysterious rays your asian beautiful so I have
Hr. W. Kay, M.A., Headmaster which are bombarding the earth brought you some of my coloured of the Ellis Radoorie School and an from the outer space.
ballz Casimira murmured. dif- turned to Hong Kong tals mors on Inland Lot No. 2,585 in Duke The detector was installed confidently age board the vessel by Dr. Robert J. Giuseppe pushed the parcel across ing from Kobe by the da. President Street, and can be reached by the Mr. A. G. W. Grantham (Deputy Milikas of the California Institute the fence again.
Garfield: He was accompanied by No. 6 Bui, by alighting at Knight- of Technolog
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Street
The Colonial Secretary (Hon. Questions and discussions on the Mr. D. W. Tratman, C. M. G.) ¡E. C. " Sunday addresses will be held on The Attorney General. (Hon. Mr. Mondays at Messrs. Lane, Crawford C. G. Alabaster, K. CO. B. E.) Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. and Company's at 1 pm. for men, The Secretary for Chinese A-LIAD, commencing from Monday next, and fairs (Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood);
Hon. Mr. S. W. To, O. B. E, for women at the Helena May In- The Colonial Treasurer (Hon. LL.D. stitute at 10.30 am, on Fridays, Mr. M. J. Breen).
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson. commencing on September 8,
Hon, Mr. T. N. Chan. Hon, Mr. Pau) Lauder.
Joint discussions for men and wo
men will be held on Friday evenings at 8 pm at the Bishop's House,
The Inspector General of Poles (Hoa, Hr. E. D. Wolfe, C.M.G.)
The Acting Harbour Master (Hon, Commander J. B. Newill, Clerk of Councila),
his wife.