BEAUTIFYING THE COLONY. THE WORK OF THE FORESTRY,
DEPARTMENT.
The following extrists are from the Report of the Botanical and Forespry Deprimete for 1919 -
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WASTED OPPORTUNITIES.
CLAIMS OF DIOCESAN SCHOOL
ip"
AND ORPHANAGE.
CASE OF A CHINESE KIM. The Rev. H. Copley Morle, who preached Formation of Pine Tree Plantations, the sermon at the morning service ns St. About 16.000 one year old seedlings were John's Cathedra: yesterday took for his planted on the hills in the vicinity of the text: Ah that I were as in mouthsi Fauling Golf Course and 6,450 on Chenng pist," (Job. 29.) Chau Island.
HƯNGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 2=1E, 1920.
INTERVIEW IN YOKOHAMA, ----་।.
Hot too much to expect that members of M. PAINLEVE'S "MISSION, our Charch and others who have bene NO CONNECTION WITH FINANCE. Áited by the Diceran School, will soon put it on a sound financial basis by giving it a large endowment. It is an opportunity! for doing permanent good flow many of all the people who tave made their fortunes with finances, or with the Consortium, Tho mission is purely »ducational, scigntiñe and in this Colods have made such generous
technical and intended to lay the fouĥata- benefactions to the Colony that their name
tion for a more thorough knowledge of the remembered with gratituda to-day.
My mission to China in nothing to do
Far East" said M. Paal Painlere, former French Pemier, or his arrival at Yoko hana on the Empress of Bussin.
Mr.
though they have pas nway to that As I was saying a fortnight ago, the world where fortunes count for nothing On the bills to the rust of the Fanling book of Job is an essay if religious philo There are of course some who have dong 30. Painleye is head of a scieutifie and techni Gulf Course, pine tree sends were gowesophy thrown into the form of a powds, fingers of one hand.
in sites, estimated to produce 30.000 trees.
At Aberdeen 5.960 pine tree Sites
Kresown,
between Beacon Hill and Lion Rock."
were
be one
Can almost count them on the Think of the vain
cal mission to China, invited by the Piesi- dens of the Republic,
The author, like so many thoughtfu), men.| before his time and since, was troubled by regrets which, in the next world, will fili
The young Chinese republicam are the problem of the world's pain and set the hearts of those who have necumulated
turning with sympathy toward the older out to state some possible reasons for it, large fortunes and used theut only for their sister republies, France and America," said On the Farling hills, 100 the of pine tree and he was specially troubled by the fact pleasure while they turned a deni car. Painleve in an interview, weds were sown broadcast, also 50 lbs, on that the righteou often suffer while the
to the crying needs of those whose labour the influence and the attraction which
• We know the smith side an,] 40 Ths, un the north ride. I wicked often flourish. In the chapter we they med. It is useless to pay a lip!
have just heard Job is "represented 48 man's life shows that he has in his Great Powers, the Governments of which service to the Christian religion, it a
Angio-Saxon America exercises upon the Six and a half pounds were sown broad bemoaning the loss of his former prosperity heart no love for those in need,
imaginations of the Chinese, All of thes cast on the newly turfed banks along the and honour, He had by a great man that is
Perhaps have understood the importance of peaces Chinwan Coastal Road.
living in the country, but his reputation habitually absent themselves from Chris sympathy and strong support for their. why so may people in this Colonyfal penetration into China, seek to crente "Brunddenrei Trees Planted.-2.435 for wisdoni and justice had been such that tian worship. They do not want to be broad-tenved trees were planed on the hills all the elders and chief wer of the neigh-reminded of God or His claims upon them, at Fanling, 3,494 on Cheung Chau Islandbouring city had been ready to listen when they do not like to be reminded that they For the Pakiuten-Road new filter he spoke and to consider a matter settled bels, 500 un Chinwan Police Station Hill, when he had given a decision upon it 69 on Mount Gough, and 19 in Kowloon His reputation for wisdom "seemed some Touz Cemetery The -rees planted more thing which was assured to him" for
ver,
nations there.
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are bound to think of others as weli #, whiir China, seeking to mothernize herwell, of themselves. A short time ago a special is calling for intellectual guides and "France must not fail, at this time,
Japanese commission was sent from Japani technical concillors, to answer that call, prinsipally were Eucalyptus, Tristania, but with the loss of fucks and herds and of Christianity,ba American life and they turn to China leaves the way open for to the United States to study the influence Anything that fails to prisent French cul- all his prosperity men no longer heeded -, Fanting und Vore of kandide Trevs, but the youngest and meanest of that ported that while education, commerce, German. Kultur, in our hurt. Alongside or near roads in Hongkong and people laughed at it, so he lamenta the
and industry have been developed to a Kowloon 632 flowering trees and shrub Plot and cries out in the betterness of that the Christian" religion is regarded as ed China. Without in any way meaning to wonderful degree, there is litte evidence_gain_from_an gauriennioed or or Anghett "The peace of the world has nothing to fl. Oh chied were as in months past important by most of the people." We may offend our friends or allies, we feel that to
Cuamarina.
wrte planted.
Many fine old Baninn and her kind These words suggest as a subjent for our wonder what such a commission would have the French briongs the moral obligation of tree had to be crificed to. alloweditation this morning the irrevocable, reported had it been sent to Hongkong tu menarage and develop the intellectual,
Works Department,
Trees on the route of the electric tram way and those hear to different telephone lines were lopped to prevent their branches
coming in contact with trams or wires,
i
:
exist already hetween China and France. seientiße and technical relations, which
I am invited by the President of the his guest and go with the approval and Chinese Republic, Hiu"Chih-chang, to be bearing instruction from the Chinese expiofed and which possesses prodigious world-which represents a third of, ali hunmnity, which has countless riebes still
comes better known to the French intel. power for the advance of civilization-b lectuals and men of action.
"My journey to Chian has no other sim.
WANTS CHINESE STUDENTS FOR PRANCE.
alteration to roads to be runde by the Pablie passing away of opportunities, and the The Christian who lives for self alone is uselessness of vain regrets for a past, which laying up for himself a time of bitter duties and its own pleasures, each age has thing to have again the opportunities is no longer ours. Each age has its own regret whoa he will be ready to give any- its own opportunities for usefulness and which now he wastes, but then it will be service, and if at one stage of our life we too late, and he will for ever be filed “Mixcellaneous Planting,--133, Firda impossible afterwards-to-make good the doing good.
neglect the appurtunities it is well nigh with remorse for the lost opportunities of "creepers were planted w, the foot of "the" assion, new retaining walls alag Findlay Road.with the water that is past."
The win will never grind, regres expressed in the text "Oh that I If we would avoid the vain
84 at the base of an earth cutting near the Sukunpo Recreation Ground, and 220 in waken up with hemmasing the lost opporo teach us runter aur days that we But there are some people who are so the example of the Falinist who prayed
were na in manthe past “we must follow ; Kowloon Tong Conga ery: One hundred tunities of the past. that they allow the may apply &" and ten Willens sralas were planted opportunitits of the present in be lost also. There is some
hearts
untu wisdom,” alongside the nullah at the Sukuapo RI knew a July once who said that the bad make this Colony a better and a happier education toward France, where Chinese
rk for everyone to do to
Above all I shali, make it my nim to ervation, Ground, Abgin 130 feet of ham had none of the pleasures of childhood, and purer place," Have we ench found our students are already going in increasing. guide the Chinese who are seeking a higher boos were planted along Chatham Path. 25 fort. planted at Mey Kellett Rond, 114 foot but think how she might enjoy herseife Doing it, not to was the applause of men, of the south that if the people of the she wemed to do nothing in liter life work and if us have are we doing it numbers every year. I count as much on at like race courant and 70 Ing along bile bez kushan-and-chraen were not merely to heap up money for ourselves, north I think I will be able to rally for gaining the friendship of the republicans Bennedy Road.
negheted. The age of childhood ought to-but-to-please God. "Aour Blessed Lord came of France."
an age of happiness. We have come to, to the end of His Vie Ha was able to say! The mission will visit Tokyo, Peking, China the #ffretive sympathy of the whole gals that in, our schools much more than our predecessors did. People and to
** I have finished the work that thou gavest Fan, Mukden, Shanghai, Canton and pleasant if they were to train children is He said I must work the works of Toyko shortly after the steamer docked at me to do." Aud. He was able to say that,instititions. at these places are the parti
Saigon during their tour.. think ahnt schools must be harsh and beente while the opportunity was still cular object of their visit.
Educational M. Painleve right. Now every effort is made
and other members of the mission left for schools attractive. Not only are lessons
Him that sent me while it is day the night the Customs Pier,, A reception was bald Albisia transplanted. For a considerable but games are generally given a regular many Christian people there are who do and ather Ministers of the Japanese
given in as attractive a manner as possible cometh when no man can work"
for them at the French Embassy. The next Flow day, they were the guests of Premier Hara distaher along the level stretch of this road
not sim yet to have realised that God Government.
Faumati-Taijer tant, -131 Camphor and 10 Critic trees Wong planted "between the 4th me and de, Shain level-rrassing, and on the banks of the road 200 flowering shrubs. Between the Shatin level-crossing. and Taipo, 256 Melaleuca and 74 Erythrina were planted, and 20 Camphor and 8
nake
at Shatin it is useless to plant trees as the Place in school life. It is recognised today has a work for them to do in the world and; Borre), director of the Normal School of
branches would in a few years time inter- fere with the telegraph wires which are carried on very short poles.
Taipo-Fanling-Castle Frak Road-Be aween Tripo and Castle Peak trees which had salted were replaced by others. Ons thousand four hundred sad fifty Melaleuca
that every child ought to be given a happy in the Church: life, while he is a child, even if he must expect a hard life when he
work is now. grown up.
The time for doing that The place for doing it in
and if that character is to be a it is in childhood that character is formed 1st where we are. Let us waste no time
happy one
in vain regrets for the lost opportunities
the surroundings of the child must be such of the past, but let us seize the opportuni- small children who work hard in this place time comes to pass beyond the grave we as tend to happiness. As one wes the ties which are ours to-day, so when our rees were planted between Autant and one often wonders how much happiness and shall be able to say with St. Paul," I have Carlo Peak on the side of the road which fun can find a place in their lives. In a fought a good fight, I have finished was completed in 1918 The Augusttown like this where so many fortunes have course, I have kept the faith." typhoon did a great deal of damage to been made it is surprising to see that those trees along this read, but few were de stroyed,
institutions which provide for destitute children have not been well endowed long go Take, for instaner, the case of our
Much harm continues to be done to many of these roadside trees, by the villagers Dioccan Boys School and Orphanage, stealing stakes, damaging.ree guards and generous donations have been made to it
SPORT.
-LAWN. BOWLS LEAGUE.
my
Other members of the party are: M. M. Paris, who during the war was General Secretary of War and President of the French legislator professor of law in the Council M. Germain Martin. well known
Abei Bonnard, literary man, poet and dis- University of Paris and former collabora tor with Premier Alexandre Ríbót; M.
Delegate of the Chinese Government. tinguished novelist, representing the Minis try of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Hain-Jon-Kia,
INCREASE ARABLE AREAS. JAPAN FINDS TWO MILILON CHO AWAITING CULTIVATION.
A preliminary investigation by the The Kowloon C.C. met and defeated the Commerce of the wade land of Japan that Japanese Department of Agriculture and
nilowing their cattle to go unattended or th from time to time and some scholarshin. Police by two shots at Kowloon on Satur-can be made"available for cultivation re
charge of very young children.
have been founded at it, but it bal bever
day, the scures being:--
yeals about 1.300,000 cho jn Japan proper
Samo of the Pvincianes near Fanling yet. received any substantial endowment.FIRST PINK :-Davidson, Labrum, Rich and 700.000 che in Hokkaido. One cho flowered well in June,
It is safe to say that there is not a la mond and G. Gerrard (skip), 18; Booker, equals about 2:15 acres. Frontier Load-Along the completed firm of any standing in the Colony which 88, A. Clark, and J. Clark (skip), 13. portion of this road 3 Candien, trees as not benefitted from the work of that and Siikatous (skip), 19; Gashman, Robert cho of waste land this year. In order to SECOND RINK:-Elson, Iles, Blackburn clamation and cultivation of about 30,000 - The government is undertaking the re school during the many years of ite existence, set no one so far has given or, Grimmett and Grant (skip), 20. -. encourage people to take up this, land, bequeathed money to endow it and make TRIAD RISK-Mackenzie, Purves, Pile
a grant of X,1000 per eho is made to the its work greater and more far-reaching,
cultivators.
were put in.
Lok Ma, Chow Houd. This road, which was completed in 1915, was planted with -172 Caudlenut trees..."
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the Colony but it has also an orphanago ride,
and Jack (skip), 17; RC Watt. Kent, It is not only one of the leading schools of G. Watt and W, Gerrard (skip), 13.
TOTAL:-Kowloon, 54; Police, 52,
Dhrung Sha Station Hial-At the cross roali Casuarina, and... 0- Bauhinia Make were planted on the site of the
Into which needy children are
JAPANESE SOLDIERS,
Republic of Korea" at Shangbai sends us The Bureau of Information of the the following communication:
"A reasonable harvest cannch, be ex- pected from these new fields before the third or fourth year," says Mr. Udo, an official of the Department. When all the
of Japan will be increased by one-third. || newly locate waste land is brought under cultivation, however, the producing ares The dimoulty of the scarcit
of arabia land will be solved in time?
The following message came to the local TRAGEDY OF NIKOLAIEVSK. Korean Headquarter on June 20th:~~
There liave been for some time past many SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT BY WAR in Northern Korea, and though they may, armed challenges to Japanese, serereignty
MINISTER.
the
old tea house. Owing to the widering of received. Only a short time ago a small A KOREAN MASSACŘE OF this road was necessary to transplant, 22 lite boy was seen-up-country" in "China "of the trees on the west side. Twenty- working in the feds with Chinese children. twa Hibiscus were put in between the cres His history, was a sad one. He was the so roads and the Golf Club Cours
"Castle Peak Coastal Road-Planting of white parents in Australia Thera bis which was commenced in 1918, was con father had died and his mother married tinted on the sections of the road which a Chinaman, who brought her ack to were finished. Altogether 1983 trees of various kinds were planted and this work China, where she died and the, Chinaman should be compleyed in 1920
*** married a Chinese wife. The little white Funting Golf Course. The Rhododen boy could only speak Chinose He is now not have accomplished very much, yet they Lieut-General Giichi Tanaka, drons planted two years ago on the hills in our Diocesan School and learning to to convince the Japanese that Kores must
show that. Koreans. will go to any lengths Minister of War speaking before the near the 17th fairway flowered fairly well. The red-leaved Cannus between the 4th and peak English, and having some happiness be for the Koreans. On June 7th at 7 members of the Upper House on the 19th 5th fairways wore taken up, divided, rein his life, Surely the endowment of such am in Fung Woo Tang village of the inst," stated that, although the Foreign planted, and the bed, extended. Trees an institution would be a suitable way to Kwang Ching District, Manchuria, some Office said that it had received a report and shrubs which had died from one cause make a thank offering to Almighty God med Koreans, called by the Japa out from the Consulat Nikoiniavak, Mr.
another were replaced by othere. A few
law while entrenched in the woods, met Ichida, on January 28th, arging the were transplanted in connection with for prosperity in business. It would be 500 Japanese soldiers unawares and finish necessity of despatching additional troops the laying out of the new courm. Several making a good use of a wonderful oppor-ed treatly 120 of them in good fashion, to Nikolalavik, the War Office had not of the fairways, were given a top-dressing unity, for benefitting not only the present while the red had to flee for their lives. received a similar report and consequently of earth and artificial manure, The im provement in the turf which has received but future generations When one thinks the message states that fighting still in he added, was prepared to face the res The Koreans pursued the Japanese and the tragedy occurred The War Ministry, these annual dressings is very: marked. of the large fortunes made here it is adrely } progress.
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