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TOWN PLANNING IN HONGKONG,
A PLEA FOR POSTERITY.
CONTRIBUTED.]
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The short history of Hongkong as a British Colony is one of continuous and rapid development, The improvement in the health of the residents has been re sarkáble. During the net half-century the Public Works Department has carried -out many very fine schemes. Much of the criticist which, in the past, has been levelled against that Department has been -unjust; it has often originated through ignorance Gf the diffieties and technical details connected with the work done. The writer hok nu brief for the Govern- ment, or any section of it, but it is only fair to remind people of what has been Tone as well as to suggest what might be done. The conveniences and improvesi merats which we accept without much thought were unknown to past genera- tions. Fifty years ago Hongkong was a barren island, végy much of the appear· ance of the hills on the Kowloon side of the harbour: to-day it is covered with trees and foilage as far up the hillsidej as vegetation will grow. It has good ponds, although it must be confessed that they are inadequate for motor, traffic, but out of Alerts were not designed for it. The water supply system of the Colony is
'creation of the last boF-a-century, and- it is something of wirich the residents, as well as the P.W.D., may well be proud
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COMPANY REPOET.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1917.
CHINA LIGHT AND POWER
CO., LTD.
The report of the genere managers (Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.), for pre- sentition to the shareholders at the six- teenth ordinary general meeting to be held on the 20th inst., states
The net profit for the year, onding 31st July, 1917, including the sum of $399.68 brought forward, is 887,374.26, which it is proposed to deal with as follows, viz.: Write off the value of lines. $20,000.00 Write off the value of buildings
and machinery
47,374,26 847.374.96 Consulting Committee. --"Ms. X. P. White resigned, his on leaving the Colony and Mr. G. W. Barton was invited to take his place. In accordance
xeal
with the Articles of Assucintioú Hon. Sir Paul. Chater, EMG., and Mr. G. W. Barton retire, and are eligible for re 4:lection.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD.
Ja as follows →→
The approximate statemen of tradic receipts for the week ending 6th Octobe
Receipta
week. $14,926 14,415
This Year.......... Last Year Increase... Decrease...
Aggregate receipts.
for 40 weeki,
$43.613-
499
3,025
40,312
back to the island, and wonder why we allowed block after block of ugly flats
SPORT.
SWIMMING.
ENTRIES FOR THE HARBOUR RACE,
The following have entered for the annual swinning race across the Har bour, which will take place under the suspices of the V.R.C. this evening a half-past Ave o'clock:--Messrs. J. C. Finch (lust year's winner), A. V. Harros, . A. V. Hall, C, Choa, J. Adams, S. A. Marcal, F. L. Silva and R. Lee, Corporal White, R., Second Corporal Jackson, R.E., and B, Watson, B.G.A. ̈ ̈
The poor starts from Kowloon and the finish is at the Praya Well between the V.R.C. and the bambon wharf.
AMBULANCE BRIGADE AQUATIC SPORTS.
SERVICES' ENTERTAIN-
MENT FUND.
The following statement of accounts of the above fund up to the end of Septem ber is submitted by the Rev. C. L. Cooper Hunt, C.F., the military secretary and treasurer, who also gratefully acknow ledges subserijitions received during the week ending October 9th:- Balance at end of August Receipts during September.
Total
INTIMATIONS
LANE, CRAWFORD
and Company.
$1,817.50 SPECIAL VALUE IN MEN'S
-870.85
$2,694.75
Expenditure during September... 4,1185 Balance at end of September E. 1. (September) W. C. F.
W. J. Pringle
FC. Butcher
IN. J. Stabb
A..G. Coppin
...$1.569.30
SLEEPING SUITS
CEYLONEITE
13.00
200.00
*3.00
20.00
8.00 FANCY
STRIPE
3.00
H. L. Dowbiggin
3.00
11, Haarock
5.07
Arthur
3.00
AM Williuos
10.00
Hon. Mr. H. E. Polinck, K.C
10.00
$3.50 TO $4.50
20,00
5.00
PER SUIT.
10.00 FANCY & BLOCK STRIPE CEYLON
Total carried forward Monthly subscription.
$1,890.50
$ Bonnrion.
The following statisties for the month
By kind permission of the Committee of the V.RC. aquatic sports will be held at the Baths next Saturday in connection with the St. John Ambulance | W. J. D. (September)
M. S. Brigade Ocerséis, Hongkong and China District. The following is the programme of events: Class B Handicap, 30 yards; ; Brigade Championship Race, 100 yards; | Breast. Stroke. 30 yards: Team Race (four), 25 yards each: Swimming under † of September muy be of interest to sub. water; High Dive; Long Plunge; Class serilers for the funci :--. A Handicap, 100-yards; Handicap open to Y.R.C. members only, 100 yards; Life- Saving Competition: Swimming on back, 50 yards; Diving for Plates; Beginners Race, 50 yards; Consobilion Race, 50
rds: Open Event (open to members of H.M. Naval and Military Forces. 100
$6.00 AND $8.00 PER SUIT.
A total of 1,958 men have unde indivi- HEAVY dun pleasure trips to different parts of de finnd from Mt. Austin and Victoria Barracks,
Materials for writing 12,500 letters have een applied by the fund. This figure
de
TWILL
CEYLON
$6.00 AND $8.50 PER SUIT.
not include a large Humber written WHITE to defner Caine. Road, and other places yards: Open to native regiments, 100 from the Men's Club on paper' kindly)
**taiparis. had their Where earlier dwellings. They will especially marvel that me protests were raised against the vandalism which defaces Happy Valley,
THE NARROW ROADS.
Towards the end of the year the new reservoir at Tytum-Tak will be completed, It is a remarkable piece of constructional work, carried out entirely by in the Colony, without ang extraneous advice or assistohen. The duties of other sub-de-
the maia duty of the Government Murtinents and many. That of the Buïll ing Authority must be indeed onerous; of the Colony, lo se, that the finances are for anyone with but the slightest satisfactory, and there are doubtless die Knowledge of the Chinese contractor can ficulties in the delicate task of ixilancing appreciate the anxieties produced by the secounts, of which only the Government complete diangard for ageurngy which is re aware. Last year, however, according one of the most irritating traits in the to the published figures, there was quite Chinear nature. It is indeed, uirk comfortable surplus-despite the very able that there are very few cues ofrge Military Contribution, which no (collapsing structures. Many of the houses body in war-time grudges. Only an ex- are built on a steep hillside, where all of per tan say whether the Colony · cur the coalitions, such as je pical raiss, and afford in widen its road and to remove crumling oil, înyour trouble.
some of its ryesorts. It has recently The activities of the P.W.D. include unged to find the money to straighten the draining of mailals; work primarily out the Pokfulam Road, and it might do responsilde for the extraordinary immor. It could surely avoid selling, or re-leasing, little bits of land where it is
yerds
ASSOCIATION
FOOTBALL.
supplied by the Missions to Seamen.
Approximately 618 men have enjoyed aj change of scene by means of 12 launch out ings,
Club
Three Concerts with refreshments and ** smokes" have provided a jolly evening | for roughly 180 men.
AND COLOURED *VIYELLA”
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
A THREE WEIGHTS.
WAR
83mm COY, HG.A. v. đĩm COY. R.GA.
These teams met at Happy Valley yes been entertained to supper at the Men's
120 Billiards and Tennis players have,
erday. in a "friendly" match. The WES- unt At full Stonecutters team strength, and the 83rd Coy. soon establish- ed their superiority. Their forwards were: particularly good. Geen at centre for ward being very conspicuous. The loft men have entered for 2 Billiards wing, ton of the man team was un-Tournaments, the rounds of which are expectedly goal, and should prove
being played off at Mt. Austin and the 66 great help to the R.G.A. this year,
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After two shots had been saved by Divine from Green, one of the 87th Coy's, defence had the misfortune to put the ball through his own goal. This was most unfortunate start, but before long Livesay gave a point to his opponents, the Bard Coy. thus being two goals up. Small, at centre forward for the 67th
Men's Chah.
132 men have entered for two Tunis and two Quoits Tournaments.
771: Service men have been present at the At Homes" from 4 to 5.30 p.m., on Sunday afternoons at the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home,
It should be noticed that during the above period the expenditure has exceeded
provement in the health of the place. In possible to set back a highway. Recently Coy., did good work and almost managed the receipts by $235 This will probably
the early days malarin killed of a large buildings have been erected right up to
Eo scary but Attwell, in goal for 83rd Prove to be exceptional, although, with Company, could not be beaten. Green the continually increasing popularity of
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CHARITIES.
"OUR DAY"
THURSDAY, 18th OCT., 1917.
MORNING:
Collection for LADY MAY'S ROSE FUND.
Or cheques may be sent now addressed to LADY MAY, Government House (envelopes being marked Rose Fund ").
proportion of the European population the edge of one of the main thoroughfares then got going and found the net twice the fund, it may bercane necessary to nakAFTERNOON at 3 o'clock. of those who' returned," bom," pearlyChicago, with its-over-the-street, railway before the interval, the nen from Lyemun for still further support in the future.
all could say with Kipling's soldier from Mandalay that the blasted English drizzle wakes the fever in me bones.** Very few of this new-comers to the Colony are subject to that painful disease of the tropies; the little mosquito frids is hard to breed on a steep hillside which is pro- porly drained. Therefore, we should be grateful
game
A friendly match has been arranged to take place to-day between the Royal Navy and the R.G.A on the Navy Ground Kick-off, 4.30 p.m.
is worse, but such streets in Hongkong leading by four goals to wil at half-time. are bad. It may he urged that, in this
Play slackened somewhat in the second time of crisis, it is wrong to think about half, the 38rd Company, with their big anything but trade and the war
Yet lead, taking things easily. Green, how. our men are dying to preserve something ever, added the fifth goal, thus doing the more than trade, and that something is hat trick. This player, who is reported an abstract thing called freedom. It may to have played for provincial clubs, gives be fair to say that Hongkong cannot promise of being a prominent member of] THE NEW EXAMPLE..
afford to spend much money on local im the Artillerymen team this year. Just When all is said and done, however, provenients which will show no immediate before the end, Watkinson, who had Hongkong presents dus usual composite "ctures. There was, however, a surplus... | played well throughout for the 87th. picture, seen so often in Great Britain, quite a large surplus in the annual Company, scored their only goal. Result: of the very good and the very bad. Any revenue of just year. Even if expen.83rd Coy R.0.A.,3 87th Coy., R.G.A., 1. thing less attractive thin certain streets diture is inadvisable, a great deal might be Sergt. Edgeler was in charge of the in the Calong it would be hard to find. done by impressing upon everyone certain There may be less beautiful buildings than fixed principles. The principles should those seen in the Colony in other parts involve that all new roads likely to be of the British Empire, but, if so, they used by motors are from fifty to one are probably built of wood. It is dif- hundred feet wide, with trees planted foult to imagine anything more ugly alongside wherever possible: and, as soon made out of brick and stones than some of as it is feasible, the chief arteries of the atrocities of Hongkong. It is of traffic should be widened. Encouragement course, all a matter of taste, and doubt should be given to keep dwelling-houses fess native owners, are proud of
A programme bristling with good the separated by gardens. In the model things. colours and plaster and the style which eities for workmen in England there is the Theatre Royal, when the much-
is promised to night has been dubbed "compradorie." Op one eltage for about one-fourth of any talked-of "Funtastics will make portunities have, however, been missed by the British residents. The desire to kong but it is lamentable to observe the Miss Billie Seaton will include among That may be impossible in Hong their first appearance in this Colony. olevate the Law Courts, for example, must feverish activity of the builders who dis her items two humorous "Buster Brown" size every passer-by who thinks about over a few feet of garden near a dwel numbers-"They always pick on me." what it might look like.
ling-house on the lower levels.
and Mississippi"; Mis Ivy Aldous. will present several dainty dance offer Gradually the Chinese are swarming Fred. Keeley, whose chief sole effort will
There is ample room on the island.
ings, and will also be associated with Mr. westward. In the near future all of the The Inebriate Dance"--a number in land between Belcher's fort and Pokfulum which he displays remarkable cleverness now ebbs and flows in Kowloon Bay wide will be covered with Chinese residents, and agility.
unless the new garden city at Kowloon selected "Loin du Bal" as her chief Miss Elsie Black has
It is one of the revenges of time that new enterprise, financed entirely by Chinese syndiente, will provide Hongkong With
a practical demonstration of what i might have been done. Where the sea
roads and a well-planned district will
sera.
FANTASTICS OPEN THEIR
SEASON TO:NIGHT.
at
BOOD appear. Where the pirates of the ota should check the present surging move-fute solo, and Miss Nellis Black will be
days were taken out of a boat on to a sandy beach, to meet their well-deserved
The thanks of the Committee are tender. ed to the 88 monthly subscribers to the Fond and to those who have given dona- tions; also to those who have assisted the fund in other ways. The above activities would not have been possible but for the generous support which has been given.
FIRE AT KOWLOON CITY.
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GREAT DRAWING OF WAR BONDS at the Murray Parade Ground.
St. John Ambulance Brigade competitions. Teas and Refreshments in English and Chinese style, and various attractions.
EVENING at 9 o'clock.
A serious fire, which is estimated to have resulted in damage amounting to 18th $17,000 broke out at Kwong Wing Cheang will Chan Dye Works, Koktotsun, Kowloon City, on the night of the 7th inst. The Police, with the assistance of some coalies, managed to extinguish the outbreak, although some of the fire appliances could not be used owing to the hydrants being too far away. The premises, it appeared, were insured in three different insurance companies for $3,500, 20,800, and $1,000 respectively. The cause of the fire is un- known
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NO. 1 HONGKÒNG. V.A.D. Members of the Detachment volunteering to sell programmes and badges, in uniform, at the Exhibition of War Pictures at the Public Gardens, on "Our Day" are requested to send in their name to me before Saturday, 13th inst. The following have been passed
"Efficient in First Aid" and "Hemne Members:-Mrs. Mansfield," Mrs. Gond- Nursing" for the year 1916-17 |||||
ban, liss Denisen, Mrs. Evan Jones, Mrs. Carleton, Mrs. Griffin. Mrs. Alabaster, Mre. Murrey Scott, Miss A. Gordon, Miss Lammert, Miss Loureiro, Miss M. Loureiro Miss: Davidson, Mrs. Leask, Mrs. Pierpont, Mr. Shenton, Mrs. Danby, Mrs. Brotherton Harker. Mrs. Armstrong, Miss Wilkinson, Miss Worters, Miss Judah, Mrs. J. W. Taylor, Mrs.: Goldsmith, Mrs. Gegg.
ment, There is nothing to prevent a con- heard in the violin solo, Serenade *** tinuation of the nightmare of Caine Road. (Drdla), and will also contribute a series end, electric lamps will light up a high right out to Pokfulum, unless public of "imitations." Miss Fern French, Miss way, which will be used by wealthy opinion demands that the old system shal! Hilda Felstead, and Mr. Bert Wiles will Chinese ciding in motor-cars. That tiny ho abandoned. It is the hope that atten- all contribute dainty musical items, and Probationers Mra Chisholm, Miss Hast tion will be drawn to the probability of Mr. Ray Traynor will joke with the porner of the New Far East with, in five future hideousness and Inconvenience in of comedy songs by Mr. Leonard Nelson The First of a course of Lectures of
internal strings of the piano. A budget years, be one of the sights of Hongkong the Colony that a ples is made for some will also be a feature of the programme, We shall take tourists across the water definite attempt at town-planning. There and a comedy athletic novelty by Mr. to ace the place, and the tourists will come might, at least, be a commission appointed Redhead Wilson will doubtless prove to deal with a subject which is a matter attractive. The box-plans are at Mon- (Continued at foot of next column.) of urgency and importance..
trie's.
ings, Mrs. Haywood N
Home Nursing" will be given by Mrs. Tisdall at the Helens May In stitute on Friday next at 8 p.m.
W. WILKINSON. Acting Adjutant and Hon. Sec.
FETE at the Public Gardens. New OFFICIAL WAR FILMS shown for the first time in Hongkong; Illuminations and
Music.
INFANTRY 74th PUNJABIS and POLICE RESERVE THE BANDS OF THE 25th MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, play during the Afternoon and Evening.
GRAND CHINESE THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT From 5th till 12th October, at the Taiping Theatre. Tickets for the War Bood Drawing are obtainable at all the
Principal Banks.
Powell
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