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Chairman's Speech
Just One Of The Audience
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unencurable!” Tsim now go, for a lecture is not writ- GREATEST wife complained. ten in the time which it takes to TRAVEL "Day after day, week after boll a hen's esx. I will think of SYSTEM week, your honourable father it, when I have time.” sits with his hands folded in
Taim Wao, stroking his icms front of him, doing nothing, or beard, was addressing his wanders aimlessly in the gar-fish.
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youth has passed, oh fish, is it Her husband laughed as he sat necessary that youth should take! there at his desk, idly playing with with it all youth's prerogatives? |
Hour Sharr Naga Kobe Toko- the writing-brush.
Joy, light-heartedness, the parsuit:
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Leave Arrive Leave Leave Leave Leave Arrive Love working, often needlessly, resent satisfaction?
and love's
E/Canada Apr. 3.Apr. 15
Apt. - 8. Apr, 10 Apr. 17 Apr, ** the pleasant idleness of others? corollaries? Say, oh' fish!"
£/Russia Apr. 17 Apr. 19 Apr. 21 Apr. 23 Apr. 25.
May 4 A little wind stirred the surface E/Japan May 1 May 3 An illogical argument! Must men
May 6 May 8 May 14 May 19 do always what women do? You of the pool below him. He shiver- E/A May 15 May 17 May 19 May 21 May 23
Juza 29. May 31 E/Canada June 14 June 16 June 18 June 20 would turn the world topsy-turvy.ed, and tumed into the house.
June 3 June 5 June 12 Juna 17 And now go away, I beg of you, A week later, in the hall attach- E/Russia June 12
Jane 25 June 25 E/Japan
July1 July 3 July 9 July 14 for ed to the now disused Confucian because I have this lecture
E/AÏ Jnly 10 July 12 July 14 July, 16 July 18"
July 21 Schools, at a desk which his books E/Canada July 24 July 26 next week to prepare."
July 29 July 31 Aug. ↑ Aug. 12 Aug. 24 "You and your lectures!" she shared with a tumbler of water. E/Russia Ang 7 Aug. 9 Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 15
'Aug. 21 Aug. 23 scoffed. "Talking unheeded Tsim Sek satmoodily watching | di Japan
Aug. 26 Aug. 23 Sept. 3 Sept. words to men (and. women, I re-the arrival of his audience. gret to say) who ought to know There was the President of the better than to listen! As if you Literary Society. Taim Sek re- knew anything of the subject on membered the President's visit, which you are to speak. By the somewhat more than a week ago. been way, what is that subject?" The expected lecturer had
"England and the English, as; enddenly.......prevented from appear- insuhi," Taim Sek answered her.ing-a first-born son, or some such And now. if you have finish-complication. Tsim Sek had been
In proposing the health of Sifled. . . * William Shenton, the Hon. Mr.
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words were dated by his education. townsman left the Colony on re "You asked me, no question, my Then there was the Treasurer. tirement the members of the Hong wife. The fact surprised me.” Mang Lee, from the North Kong General Chamber of Com
Your father, the South Insurance Company, merce and the China Association honourable Tsim Wao, is the ques- found in the simple finances of the wished to express publicly their tion. He sits and sits and walks Literary Society a relief from the weighter calculations of his pro- thanks to him for the tremendous and walks.. amount of good work he had done "You speak of my father as if per trade. Also some respite from for the Colony and to wish him he were a hen," said Tsim. Sek. his new wife. and Lady Shenton good health and Well, if it will give you any com-
There
the best of luck and happiness in fort. I will think about it And tique dowagers, who emerged from the future.
Sir William came to the East in 1908 as an assistant in that old- established and highly respected firm now known as Deacons, and he gradually worked his way up until he became Senior Partner.
very
in
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Rescue of Rajah." (A Detective Story)
was a sprinking of an-
retirement once a fortnight to prove their revolutionary modern- ity. There was a background, of clerks, of shopkeepers, of Govern- ment servants and the idle rich.
And there was the girl in brown, sitting beside her obvious mother. The girl's short silk jacket aboue) in the electric light-her short, dark skirt served but to emphasise the whitness of her hands as they:
FAREWELL TO HON.y in her lap. Her hair, cat at
SIR W. SHENTON
Tea Party Given By St. John Brigade
During his years of residence in the Colony, Sir William had done the
best he could the service of the public. Sir William had been
the level of her neck in the High Unofcial Member of the Execu
(School manner, swept forward al- tive and Legislative Councils
laringly under each small ear. Her since 1927 and for this and his.
face seemed innocent. of make-up. other public work His Late Ma-
which probably meant that she had jesty bestowed on him the well-
made up with uncommon skill deserved honour of a knighthood:
Sek in the New Year's Honours List The Hon. Sir William Shenton. "Who is the girl?" Tsim of 1933. The news of this who is shortly leaving the Colony whispered to the Treasurer, Mang honour Was received with 2.on retirement, was the guest of Lee but Mang Lee shook his head. "I do not know,” he replied. “She universal chorus of approval by honour at a tea party given by residents of the Colony, and Sir the St. John Ambulance Associa looks as if she came from Shang William and Lady Shenton were tion and Brigade at the Gloucester hai"
"And now, ladies and gentlemen overwhelmed with congratulations Hotel-yesterday. from their many friends.
Tributes to his services to the the President began.
Taim Sek stretched out his hand Work For Chamber
Brigade, in the capacity of Honor
Sir William's work for the Hong ary legal adviser, were paid by for the glass of water, his eye on Kong General Chamber of Com- Mr. Alfred Morris, Commissioner, the girl in brown. The glass slip- merce must be specially meation and Mrs. R. Langley, Hon. Secre ped, and the contents splashed the ed, for he had been a tower of tary, and in his reply Sir William President. strength. As a member of the recalled his happy Legal Sub-committee since 1921 with the Organisation.
The function was largely he had rendered yeoman service.
association
at
When the matter had been re- inedied, Tsim Sek transferred his appreciative eye to his notes.
"The peculiar difficulty in under- He had been a member of the tended and among those present Trade Marks Sub-committee since were Professor W. L Gerrard, Mr. standing the English," he began, 1926, and a co-opted member of Ip Lan-chuen, Mr. and Mrs. L. A due not only to the difference the General Committee, since, Mitchell, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, Mr. in our manners of thought, but which 1928. The members of the Gen-E. M. Raymond, Mr. A. et Arcalli, also, to the languages in 27th Mar. eral Committee felt that in Sir Mr. Chan Man-chi, Mr. Fang Ki- those thoughts are expressed."
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Six William Shenton, replying to
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3rd Apr-the toast, said that he would like Council under three Governors and to say how very much he appreci- two Acting Governors and have ated the generosity and kindness been privileged also to have the of those present in coming here confidence of two other Governor of the history of English Litera- to-day to wish him Godspeed on These are things of which I can-ture in half an hour of speaking the new journey he was about to not but be proud."
time gave a careful selection of undertake. The Chairman had The unknown was in front of ach other poetry as appealed to Tues., 3rd Apr. spoken of him as a Hong Kong him, continued Sir William, but him either because of its novelty He thought he might truly he still hoped to take an interest or because it approximated a little regard himself as such. Anyone in the public and commercial life to the Chinese idea of a poem, in the early fifties who had spent, of the country to which he was ended with a few personal remind as he had, twenty-eight years in going. It was a natural, human, scences of his visit to London, to the land offand came to a full stop as the hour one place could be regarded as desire to return having spent the best years of his one's fathers, but whatever the expired on the clock at the far life in that place.
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