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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1937.
S.C.A. TRIBUTE TO LATE MRS. KOTEWALL
HON, MR. R. A. C. NORTH'S SPEECH AT PO LEUNG KUK MEETING
on your de- A meeting of the Po Leung Knk to congratulate you Permanent Board and Committee cision. As to the possibility of was held at the Po Leung Kuk accuring suitable candidates I do yesterday for the purpose of elect- not think that there can, in these ing a Committee for the coming enlightened days, be any lack of year. The Chair was taken by the them, as soon as the first step is Secretary for Chinese Affairs.. taken. I have just returned from
Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, Chair-the Conference held in Java under man of the annual Committee, and the auspices of the League of Na- the Secretary for Chinese Affairs tions to which the Republic of (the Hon Mr. R A. C. North) ad- China sent eight delegates, four of whom were women. I do not think dressed the meeting.
In the course of his speech, Mr.that the women of Hong Kong will
prove backward. North said:-
we have
New Committee. Since the last similar meeting
her The Committee for the coming suffered, through
was elected as follows: death, the loss of one of our Lady year
Messrs. Au Shiu-cho, Luk Oi-wan, Visitors.
It is more than thirteen years Lo Tung-fan, Mrs. Tam Chu Sui- since Mrs. Kotewall became a visi-yin (Mrs. Tam Woon-tong), Messrs. tor to the Po Leung Kuk. Great Chan Cheuk-man, Cheung Lan-chau, changes have taken place since then, Kwok Lam-pat, Lam Chik-ho, Tsang and I, for one, feel that the in- Hin-hung, Wong Chenk-hing, Wong spiration behind those changes came Chi-po-and Li Kwok-ying.
in no small degree from those ladies who have worked so quietly and efficiently for the comfort and hap piness of the inmates of the Po Leung Kuk.
Swedish Air Force Orders In Britain
We miss her very much; and no
Stockholm, Yesterday. words which I can use would be The Swedish air force has placed adequate to express our gratitude orders for a large number of modern pursuit planes with British armament for her help and for the example firms, according to the newspapers which she set us all.
here.
The papers state that a fund of
I wish to acknowledge the debt of gratitude which the whole com-235,000 crowns has been placed at the munity of Hong Kong owes to Mr. disposal of the Swedish government by companies Swedish banks, insurance Tam and his colleagues.
and other business concemas. Trans- Ocean.
Chaiman's Task.
Imperial - Airways' New Service
We who are present know a great deal about the work done by the Annual Committee. We know for example that the management of the Home and of its finances is
Istanbul, Yesterday. only a small part of it. We know
Imperial Airways will shortly open how much time is spent daily on a regular air service between the prin- the investigation of problems some cipal Turkish and Greek cities, says a of which, such as family quarrels, semi-official announcement here. have no connection with the traf-
UNEMPLOYMENT TRAGEDY
Aerial communication between the two countries ceased: entirely when fic in women and children, to the concession granted by the Turkish combat which the Po Leung Kuk Government to the Italian "Aero was founded. But the general Express" for operation of a service public does not always realise this. between Athens and Istanbul, expired It does not know, for instance, that last year. Trans-Ocean. since Mr. Tam's Committee took office, more than 745 letters have passed between the Committee and the Chinese Secretariat, and that each of these letters deals with the
A tragic case of the results of affairs of several individuals, or unemployment was revealed that the Chairman has attended cently. The tragedy concerned Mr. no less than 258 meetings during Percy Hardman of Manchester, the year, the vice-chairman 254 and aged 59, who was discovered hang- several other members more than ing in the cellar of his home. 200 each. I was glad therefore to At one time, he was a Manches- read in the recently published reter buyer to a firm of furniture deal- port of the Mui Tsai Commission alers. For a year after he had well-deserved tribute to the work lost his job, the man concealed the of the Committee.
misfortune from his wife. He left Commission's Proposal
home every morning, pretending he The Mui Tsai Commission in was going to work, but actually to their report make two recommenda- hunt for i
tions which concern the Po Leung Then on the day when, unknown Kuk. One is that a separate build to him, he had been found a post, ing should be provided as a refuge he was discovered handing in the for prostitutes. This is an inter fcellar of his home. esting proposal but it is not on the After the inquest, at which a ver- agenda of this meeting. The other dict of "suicide with insuficient is a suggestion that we should evidence to show the state of mind” consider the inclusion of ladies in was reco.ded, the heart broken the membership of the annual Com- widow remarked that her husband- had never told her anything. He This is not
course a new pro-was always cheerful and whistling posal It has been under consid about the house, and every week he jeration for some time and I have gave her housekeeping, money.
no doubt that it would have been
made in any canse from within the The American Mail Line membership of the Kuk, If not this nounce that the "President Me year, then next year You have al- Kinley will sail from Hong Kong ready, at a meeting recently held, at midnight on Monday, for Shang- decided to accept the recommenda-hal, Kobe, tion in principle and I should like Seattle,
Victoria and