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TAN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17′′B, 1919.
the war have passed? I'wonder whether any member of that much maligned Food
CORRESPONDENCE.
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the Manager or Sub-Mariner that it certain whether the hotels are paying their was the duty of the Hongkong Hotel to compradores substantially more per head cater for visiters, rather than for wosis for food. Catering in hotels in the Far dests, has not aroused cranient. The prob East is an absurdly simple matter for the Enzojan. The compridors chargés 833- lot of providing suthview hous" og ac
or $40 per month for leding each guest, comidation in Hongkong hats, he dis cussed for months past. ant and the proprietor probably charges his guest double to cover the cost of the table presumably, is satished that the need is indisputable and that all we can de new linen and to provide the very necessary profit. Flow much more are the com is "wait and see what the gods
the Cipvernment) are going to prepradors getting now than they were this It is a question which vide. We may pake its for grated that time last year! a very find hotel will be built in Kowany member of the Fund Prives Commit- ter ought to be able to naswer'off-hand.' on within a couple of years, That is excellent. But while the grass is grow. Perhaps, upproached in this delicate and
starting the horse is
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I am a bit of a profiteer myself.
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Still Eating with hotels, I hear that
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TO THE KITOR OF "THE RONGKONG
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A QUESTION OF NOTICE. COOLIE WHO LEAVES HIS WORK AUES FOR WAGES
An interesting case was heard at the Magistracy, yesterday, when Mr. U. Lauritsen, proprietor of the Dragon Oarage, was summoned by a coolie for Sen-We, have received from Mrs. Pol-refusing to pay the sum of fo dao hini lock remittance of £300 so kindly rais ed in Hongkong to andow a bed in Dr. Barnardo's Homes A brass is being prepared, and will be affixed above the bed. with the following inscription:--
THE HONGKONG BED. In acknowledgment of services ren- dered to the Empire and in memory of thow who died in the War 1910. The auln, of Esco is being invented in War Loan, and a permanent endowment will be created and a large number of the Nation's destituto boys will now
In the Hongkong" Bed
Dr. Barnardo's Forama 'have received
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wages.
Mr. Lauritsen: Well, he left without noties; that was the reason 1 refused to pay him. He started work on July pth. and left on August Grd. He was to be! paid $2 a mouth.
Mr. Smith: Any stipulations of go tice to leave, ete. ?
Mr. Lauritsen: No, I took it that he was engaged by the month. I have had a considerable amount of trouble. I used to pay the cooling in all. Once or twice the coolies left my employment after
Frat dollars by methods which do not in at the Peak they have adopted a very and in the years to come. receive their receiving their wages. I was hard put sube wither much labour or thought. If effective, and practical method of keping Arst foretaste of happiness when sleeping their use full over the winter months. Unlike the Hongkong Hotel, the Benk Honet does not wish to give its permanent residents even a chance of slipping away, let alone serve them with notice to quit it has Bidely taken as heart the advien of Polonis.
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Will you also please accept our thanks for any assistance you have given by fpublishing subscription lists and in other ways lending the support of your alt. able columns 7-1 am, faithfully youÉS,
vireumstätiges - play into iny hamis it is luck, and I am ready to accept all the
very generous, support from Overseas ek which comes to me in this imper feet, world without wasting too much time upon ang abstract consideration regard
during the stress and strain of the war ing the unfortunate wight who happens
Fears, but an outpost of Empire has been 80 generous as Hongkong in proportion ta, its size. Hongkong has sent more to be in the other side of the scale. This
The Cravius thog huse. and their may not be an atsitude which Mr. Meyle |
adoptina arial.
nan any other outpost of Empire, and Grapple them to thy soul with, hooks | we desiri, to thank very heartily, through alt commend, but as afraid it is th dhe adopted by the majority of, bis seat
you, all the generous subscribers There is tu km: 1200 I am clear sighted cough, how
Pise in prices if each holders.
six months can and everyung signi tract. Others, of course, must pay daily I should have thought that the resident buurders, seeing how ill they are being treated elsewhere, "would have felt glow of satisfaction that here, at any rate, there is a home, someone to welcome and love them, someone who will press them to stay even, against their will. But, das and are the inconsistencies of human nature, that, apparently, even this. delightfully simple arrangement is not giving the satisfaction one would have imagined. 1 abouldn't wonder if an En offeint Member were urged before long,
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ever, to see that the proficer com, have no claim upon the community." Stands ou one side, and the public the other."
It is difficult, perhaps public define the
in this connectim. the Throughout the range of husiness positions are constantly" changing. The han who smokes my bitterly denounce w rapacity and unrighteousness of the
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individual who has made a
He and all his fellow-smokers cigars. will represent the public," but at the same pre he may be taking advantage of a shortage in the market to sell his stock of boots at a higher pruf: than the wearers consider gitimate, and it is matheal and just that in this case the public" should refuse to have any associa The press can be re-
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at 1 commenced these philosophien! reffertions with a reference to the housing problem and the attitude of hotel pro prietors. Now there are very few of us who run hotel, and for that reason 1 cannot understand how it is there has not her a howl of protest against the stand taken by those who do. Residents. surely have a right to claim that their interests should out be sacrificed to the convenience of visitors, many of whom,
are travelling for pleasure perbays, The accommodation is limited. and should not be within the power of those who control that, accommodation to turn
it
WILLIAM BAKER
(Flón. Director).
Dr. Barnardo's" Home-
15 to 20, Steptey Läuseway.
London, E1,
July 11th, 1918..
THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.
The Hon, Treasurer (Mr. „S.
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to it to get new coofies, so I decided to keep half a month's wages back and pay
He has not got his pay yet; he only it to them when they gave notice to leave. received the $1 extra I gave to all molies owing to the rice situation. It is not
eanness on ing part; I'am willing pay, but it is difficult to get coolies.
Complainant: I became sick for four days and could not attend work.
Mr. Smith: Why did you not let your employer knowi
Complainant: I told the Indian int charge. When I beenne better" sent back to work and was told that I was cut going to be taken back.
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Mr. Smith: Did you get maticu tiput the man was sick, Mr. Lauritsen
Mr. Lauritarn: No, he simply walked sway and two days later told the Indian he was sick.
Mr. Smith (to
complainant) Why did you not send a note along?
Complainant: I could not write a Jetter. I told the Indian in charge on August 4th.
Mr. Lauritsen: Complainant is an ordinary conlie.
Mr. Smith: It is easy to get coolies. Mr. Lauritsen It is easy
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have been losing a lot of things at the
coalia-foreman.. place The man should have notified the told the ecolie-for- Complainant man the same day, when I got ill in the garage.
to ask question about it in the Legisla-Dodwell) and the Acting Chaplain (Rev.oolis, but who is to know who they are l tive Council. That is a wonderful way W. T. Featherstone) of the Missions to of settling af grievances; it never fails Seamen, Hongkong, acknowledge with Au effect. The restraining influence it many thanks the receipt of the following always has on public opinion is remark subscriptions and donations for 1919. able. When the question is asked and the Whampoa Bethel Fund
8 300 Union Insurance"Society of Canton cryptic official reply given, everyone
Limiter... beaves a sigh of relief and is placidly Meery, Jardine, Matheson & Co.. content that everything humanly possible
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It is hopeless, however, to expect much help. 1. an afraid, from the Government. Hon Sir Paul Chater; C.M.Goh...
They have Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Look at their own policy.
new assessment of the Mears. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. just prepared n Colony, which came into force on July Canadian Pacific O. S., Ltd..... 1st.. the date arranged for the disegnMesars, Shewan, Tames & Co.
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The Indian denied that complainant ld him he was sick. The man wante to leave, and witness asked for a month notice. He refused to give notice, stating that be, wm going to Canton and would
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Mr: Lauritsen: We have no other way)
Mr. Smith: You had 5 days' work 100 out of bim..
Mr. Lauritson: Fam quite willing to раб.
Mr. Smith: That is all he wants.
Mr Laurits: It was only a matter
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this arrangement the rateable value of asiata Petroleum Co., Ltd. the Colony has been raised by about scan. Bradley Co., Ltd.
elman & Co., Ltd. The step was justified, no cent out permanent residents in order that doubt, in some of the rapidly developing they may let the vacant rooms to the outlying districts, but it is like trying to bird of passage:" simply because he is Hece a shorn lamb in the City and Hill districts. The modus operand; is simpli- prepared to pay fancy prices. The situa tion is becoming daily more acute, and cite itsin. All they do is to put up your the reflection that the conditions may be assessment when your landlord-puts up normalised within the next two years or - so cannot bridg much consolation to those who feel that they are being exploited
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your rent, so that you get hit in two places at once. If you are outs kilted with a sense of humeur you can derive Rome amusement from the situation. A couple of years ago the Governtaent said When the war-tax was imposed the in effect Rents are so excessive that keepers of hotels and boarding houses we must really ask the Legislative Coun were supposed to recover the amount, bycil to vote us a little relief out of the a deünite and separate chark placed on public funds. We calculate that from top This was to avoid pro, to bottom we are all paying two or three fiteering," and anyone who 'nsed the war times as much as we ought to pay for tax as an excage to raise the general price the privilege of having a roof over our for board and lodging was liable to prohods, and the difference ought to come Hecution. 1 do not suppose the condition out of the Treasury chest." This was regarding a separate charge was enforend, agreed to, and the position, which up to but the fact that the regulation was laid that point was neither better nor worse down showed that it is not beyond the than it had Eren for a long time past. power of those in authority to exercise suddenly became mare serious for the some control in these and similar matters public," because every member of the Civil Service who had been content The Hotel Mansions, which formerly ac commodated a good number of residents, hitherto to live in a hotel or a boarding- house fel; that it was his duty now to have now been. let as offices, Why I Because, presumably the letting of offices get a house at any cost, while those who is a more paying proposition. Surely were sheltering friends had to turn them the Government might have prevented out in order to quality for the dole. An this. Under the present abnormal condi- consequence of the competition thus tions it would not have been à very great hardship or injustice if a rule had been made that rooms fitted and used for habi tation should not be utilised for any other purpose until the congestion had been relieved... The hotel-keepers tight bave protested against unwarrantable in terferurice, but their protests would have) fallen on deaf ears.. In this instance "the public would have swamped them. ***
And what about monthly rates at the hotels? They are difficult to obtain now, During the war, prâces could not be rais-
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At the Magistracy, yesterday, a Chinesi 25 was charged with using abusive language an Indian constable in Wanchai n Monday night.
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It was stated that the constably was 25 passing along Happy Retreat when de 93fendant called out to him Molt Kwai 25 (Indian devil) buy me some congee.". 23 When the Indian Ponstable went up to 20him, the man said: "Do you know that 2 Chinese constable shot an Indian con- 20stable to-day ? He belong number one
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18 Defendant denied that he used abusive 10 language, an Indian friend was passing
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At the Magistracy, yesterday, a Chinese house boy,, of No. 106, the Peak, the residence of the Chief Justice, was charged with stealing some soap and rectal polish.
Mr. Lindsell fined, defendant 23,"nd bound him over in a personal bond of Sico to by of good behaviour for six months.
ABUSIVE CHAIR COOLIES, CHINESE LADY INSULTED.
Two chair-bearers employed by Dr. Strahan were charged with using bad language to a Chinese lady at the Hong kong Star Ferry Wharf.
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Complainant stated that she was going to the ferry From the Public Gardens when the coolies nid: "Here goes a prostituto"_ The lady went to the wharf, amidst the jering, of a crowd of people. She spoke to an Indian con The Chief Justice informed Mr. Lind stable who accompanied her to the coelies sell that the boy had a good character stand, when she maked them: What and, so far as bo was aware, it was the do vou men by ferring nt me!" The coolies replied We did not call ont Arst offence the boy had committed. He your name; your name is not worth call- asked the. Magistrate to deal leniently ing out. The canlies were then arreated. with the boy..
Both defendants denied using, abusive languaon. One man said "be called the Mr. Lindsell fined the boy $10, with the other "Linn Chi (pretty boy)" in fun, alternative of fourteng days bard and the lady apparently misunderstood Jabour,
Mr. Lindell fined "enth defendant $3 The Chief Justice paid the fine, which and bound theme oyer in bonds of $100 to will be deducted from the boy's wagen. keep; the peace for months,
him
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