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W. T. FEATHERSTONE,
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THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT-
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EL & BOUSE, Hon. Secretary, Bailing Committee.
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provel for on TUESDAY, MARCH 298, against BGEY over Old Course, Fanling. Post antri. Players to arraren
•pponents.
NOTICE.
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THE CORONET THEATRE and its associated interests hire been taken over
THE
an from the 8th February, 1991, by the above.. named Company, to the Secretary of which al communications should, in future, be addressed. (P.O. Box No. 972).
H. W. RAY. Joint Managing Director, HONOLONG ANGGEMENTS, LID.
1448 Hongkong. February 12th, 1921.
WISEMAN, LTD.
DURING RACE, WEEK TEA DANCES
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will
be held in the Ohoce of Mestra. Dodwell &. COMPANY, LIMITED, on THURSDAY, the 17ru -Fæanuary, 1921, at 11 A.M. for the purposD Of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with Statement of Acconats to 31st December, 1990.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to 17th February, 1921, both dates inclusive.
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These conditions do not apply to adults only, but to children of the tenderest age: before the child can walk "it is added to the load on its inother's back; as soon as it can toddle, it follows its mother in her work; when bay or girl can stagger under a few bricks tim life of labour on Tuesday was killed by an anchor chain begins, and continues until he or she falling upon him. The body was badly reach an early grave.
A coolin working on the as. Pouksang
crushed.
As a general statement of the conditions which obtain, we think little exception Three nurses are to be attached to each can be taken to the summary. It may be school in Tokyo, according to the plans objected that there is no evidence to of the Japanese educational authorities. support the statement that the boy or gir! The nurses will be recruited from. "the who begins a life of labour at a very present staff of teachers; who will be given › early age by staggering under a few
several months of special training. bricks reaches an early grave; but, in tha absence of statistics it is a fair inference, especially in view of the fact that the mortality statistics of the Colony show among the Chineso a death rate from 30 to 75 per cent. higher than obtains in the United Kingdom, and this notwith- standing the fact, known to everybody,
A correspondent is anxious to know if the Big Ben of Hongkong, as he calls the new clock at the Kowloon railway station, which is now upproaching com- pletion, will strike the hour. We do not know, but our correspondent will not have long to wait in order to learn.
The Japansso Government has received
dyes and chemicals from Germany in settlement of reparation" claims, and a large stock of them has been kept in Kobe "warehouses, pending the considera- tion by the authorities of their disposal. Part of the stock is now being sold in 'a limited' market by the Government.
that Chinese who are ill depart if they possibly can either to recover their health or end their days in their ancestral homes on the mainland. But that is a minor point. The conditions under which women and children of the poorest classes work in Hongkong and China shocks the sensibilities of avery European or Ameri. can visitor who has a sense to be shocked.
The only question which really arises An American sailor was found drunk out of the discussion is the expediency of and incapable and lying in the middle of passing resolutions on the subject calling Morrison Hill Road, in the early hours:
A fine mellow Scotch Whisky.for legislative action by the Government of yesterday morning. It was fortunate
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of the Colony. The Rev. Dr. T. W. for him that 'no motor-car care that way PEANCE, for whose experience and know-before the police took charge of him or · ledge of the Chinese we entertain the he might have been run over. At the highest respect, was inclined to doubt the Magistracy some hours later, the sailor wisdom, or the timeliness, of legislative again occupied a central position and was. action and expressed a preference for fined five dollars. educational propaganda on the basis of what we may call the Chinese religious sanctions-the, sanctions of the ancient Classics, which, as he said, are full of
The American Association of Yokohama was recently called upon to discuss the eligibility of women as members. The
A fine old liqueur Scotch humanitarian doctrines. Dr. PEARCE will American Association of Tokyo is open ka
Whisky.
SOLE IMPORTERS:
any American citizen," but the Yako hama organisation had so far limited It was membership to male citizens." believed that the feminists would carry the day when the question was put to the vote in Yokohama.
not quarrel with us, we imagine, when we say that the Bible has stood in English-speaking countries for just as much as the ancient Cinssies stand for in Chína. Yet no country in Christendom has preferred to wait for the humanitariao
The bill whose object is alliteratively teachings of the Bible to make their appeqi, described in the Manila papers as being to the conscience of every individual ist Philippines, which was introduced re- to put pants on the pagang in the order to secure the improvement of concently in the Senate by Mr. Sautos, has
THE Race Book is now ready and the only HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE 4 Hamber Car, wine wheels with spare. A. S. WATSON &ditions of labour for women and children. brought a Hood of offers from clothing
Edition is pablished by MeART, NORONHA & Co., WHICH IS COPYRIGHT UNDER THE ACT OF 1911.
R. J. PATERSON,
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MESSRS.
STEPHENSON
& CO. nnd
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COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company, will be held at the HorGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 19TH FEBRUARY 1921, at 11.30 4.x, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a HARWOUD Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st
December, 1920,
MESSRS TATHAM & LOUSADA.
HE Businesses of Solicitors carried on by TEPHENSON HARWOOD & CO. (Horace G. Earwood, Robert C. Witt, Charles Mackintosh, Appelbe Adams and Villiers F. C. Hawkina) at 33, Lombard Street, London, E.C.3. and by TATHAM & LOUSADA (Julian G. Louda anl Percival C. Fawcett) at 16. Old Broad Street, London, EC. 2, have been amalgamated as from the 1st January, 1991. The style and addriss of the new Firm it:
STEPHENSON, HARWOOD & TATEAM, 16, Old Broul Street, London, EC. 2.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th February to the 21st February (both days inclusive), during which periodno Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
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THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
CO. LTD.
THE THIRTY-SECOND ORDINARY
TANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- FOLDERS in the Company, will be bold at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Build- ing, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 22 day of FEBRUARY, 1921, HOTEL.at 11.00 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposs
receiving &
Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1930 and declaring a "Dividend."
DINNER DANSANT.
WEDNESDAY, 16TH FEBRUART, SATURDAY, 19TR FEBRUART,
MISS ALMA ADAIR That American Singer of Popular Songs" Direct from Broadway, New York,
late of Low Field's "Poor Little Ritz Girl "· ·
B. F. Keith's New York Vaudeville Hons
J. J. and Lee Shubert's Winter Garden,
New York, and the Capitol Theatre, New York,
MISS ADAIR HAS KINDLY CONSENTED AUTO RENDER SOME OF THE
LATEST SONGS.
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FANCY DRESS BALL.'
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T the request of numerous Patrons, the
A regent derided iter the
above from a Supper Bill to a Fancy Dress
of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 12th February, 1931, until TUESDAY, the 22nd Feb- ruary, 1981, both days inclusive.
By order of the
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, February 3rd, 1921.
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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 26TH day of FEBRUAR”, 1921, at Noox, for he purpose of receiving the Report of the Cot of Directors together with a Elatement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1990.
The REGISTER df SHARES of the Cor- poration will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 12th February to SATURDAY, 26th February, 1921 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of
A. GEN..
Chief Manager, Hongkong, February 7th, 1021.
May be viewed at the Hongkong Electrio Company's North Paint Generating Station any time by appointment.
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WAR MEMORIAL
SUBSCRIPTION LIST.
Lista may be found at ---
CO., LTD.,
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Phone 616.
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In China as elsewhere, such improvement manufacturers in the United States, who are anxious to secure contracts to clothe in the conditions of labour an all humane the non-Christian tribes at the expensa persons must desire to see can only come of the Government. within any measureable distance of time
The police in Japan are reported to be from regulation by legislation. Incid, busy carrying on rails on students entally it may be said of the Ancient organisations in the country with a view
to preventing the disseminat on Classics of Chian that one of the supremo extrema political ideas. Recently a virtues they inculcate is the obedience of students' society attached to the Waseda the child to the parent. Now it is by University was raided, and it is alleged that incriminating documents were seized, ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
parental direction that the children of A students' organisation in Takyn Sir BOSHAN WE YUK and family wish the poor either hawk in the streets with Imperial University was also raided,
to thank their many kind friends for out a licence (for which, be it remember- their expression of sympathy in their recent boreavement.
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ed, they are prosecuted), staggor at an early age under their londs of bricks or coal or HONGKONG OFFICE: 10д, Dzs Vavi. HD. C.
181, FLERT STEET, B. cement to the Peak, or work in the loading LONDOM OFFICE:
of lighters at the quayside; and an appeal to the Classics does not seem to us to be either a speedy or an effective way of giving, in Dr. PEARCE's words, "relief to toil-worn. weeping children, whose lives are being endangered by their toil." Educational propaganda is, of course, a desirable and necessary complement to legislation, and an appeal to the sanctions of the Classics would doubtless have its uses in securing obedience to the public low.
The Baily Press.
·HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 17TH, 1921.
THE
**SWEATED LABOUR" OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. MR. BOWLEY, in the paper he read at the meeting held in the Cathedral Hall,
on Tuesday night, on the. subject of the It must not be overlooked that Mr. "Sweated Labour " of women
and Bowley not only makes his appeal on
Captain Ricou few from Macao to Canton, on Monday, with General Huang Chiang, Dr. and Mdme. Rossi, of Canton, and Lient. Col. Hayley Bell, D.S.O., Acting Commissioner, of Customs, Macao district. The journey occupied 50 minutes. An excellent landing was made opposite the old Dutch Folly Fort. The return journey took 55 minutes. This is the first flight by the Macao Aerial Transport Co. to Canton.
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The police are searching for a band of seven men who have been stopping parties of women and children, intimidating them with revolvers, and robbing thera of money and jewellery. One of the men belonging to the party has been identified by a person robled, so there is every prospect of an arrest being made separate parties of women were robbed on Monday. In one case, they cried for help, and on the appearance of some men who were working on the hillside, the robbers
NOR the section by Patilie Subscription, of building to be run 01 Y.M.C.A. Eines to be called the WAR MEMORIAL INSTI. TUTE and to be managed for the joint use of the Navy, the Army and Civilians by a Joint Board of Directors. A portion of the bam raised will be devoted to the erection of a Per children in the Colony, put his caso humanitarian principles: be emphasise made off, with only part of their booty. manent Stone Memorial which will be put in for legislative action with a cogcacy and the duty and responsibility that the
At the funeral of the late Lady Wai Yuk hand at an early date.
force which is irresistible. The discussion Treaty of Versailles, and the Labour wife of Sir Boshan Wei Yuk, on Tuesday, H.E. the Governor was represented by which followed the reading of the paper Convention which attaches to it, impose Captain Warner (Private Secretary) and did nothing to weaken the case the lecturer on every Government which has signed Mr. D. Burlingham, A.D.C. There were also present the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, presented. Mr. BoWLEY was charged with the Treaty. That duty and responsibility C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary), Mr. 3. R. having enormously exaggerated," for his extends in the case of the British Empire Wood (Puisne Judge), Sir Robert Ho own purposes, the sufferings of women and to every component part of it, and the Tung and a large number of other pro- children. We are unable to discover proposals which Mr. BOWLEY has put from Sir Loshan Wei Yuk's residence where support for that charge is to be forward; and which were endorsed by the No. 44, Bonham Road to the Tung Wah found in the paper. Here in four short.
Mesure, Lane & Crawford,
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The Hongkong Club.
Hongkong Cy cket Club. Clab Lusitano, Engineers Institute. Victoria Recreation Club. Kowloon Cricket Club. Kowloon Bowling Club. Peak Club.
Crab de Recreio.
Craigengower Club.
- "M ̈J, BREEN,
Hon Secretary War Memorial Committee. Hongkong" December 15th, 1920. 1129
ORDER AT ONCE TO SAVE DISAPPOINTMENT,
Dinner Ball; therefore, Tablon may be Booked THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA-“DIRECTORY &
on the usual lines, and holders of the Supper
Dance Tickets can obtain a Refund on presenta- tion of such Ticketa,
Tim charge per head for the Dinner Ball will bo on similar lines to the sun? Wednesday and Saturday Dances.
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THE approach Boads to the above Homes are CLOSED temporarily for the purpose of regrading... Patrons are, therefore, kindly requested to use the stope opposite the Main Entrance until completion of euch work,
TION COMPANY, LTD.
THE Directors of the abois Company have declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND on
Deferred Shares for the year 1920, at the rate of 6/- per Bhare,
CHRONICLE
OF
minent residents. The coffin was takem
paragraphs is Mr. BoWLEY's description meeting on Tuesday, surely represent the Hospital to await removal to the ancestral of the conditions under which women and minimum that the Government of this home of the deceased lady. children are employed in Hongkong, and, indeed, so far as we know, generally in
Colony can do to show that it is not utterly indifferent to the obligations which this epoch-marking Treaty of Versailles imposes upon it. We do not believe that
China:
They work in factories for ten hours day (excluding mealtimes), for soven it would fail to enlist in this effort to said: The British maintain that the days a week, a weekly total of 70 hours, improve the lot of women and children by:"treaty. In addition, overtime is the sympathy and support of the best common at busy seasons, and is not elements of the Chinese pugulation of checked in anyway.
as compared with the 48 hours laid down
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In reply to a question in the Dict tween Great Britain and Japan on the regarding the difference of opinion be administrative system. to be introduced of the equator. Count Uchida recently into the former German islands south
clause in the Covenant of the Peace Treaty specifying the principle of equal opportunity should not be applied to the administration of the South Seas, while trary view. It is quite regrettable, how- They work in small workshops, and the Colony. Mr. Bowler has sketched the Japanese Government takes a con- private houses, at trades, as sempstresses programme such as the Government must ever, that the League of Nations had not 93 or as domestic servants, for hours without sooner or later adopt; and the sooner it come to any agreement in regard to these.
administrativo systems, although count and without number, at wage does so the better for the credit and months have passed since the conclusion governed solely by the law of supply and reputation of the Colony. We are not of the Peace Treaty. The Japanese Gov- demand, or (in the case of "mui-teai ")
much concerned to know that these ernment, therefore, has thought fit to The recognize the British theory, reserving for no wages at all.
They work as coolics irrespective of age things are not done in China." and ox, carrying heavy loads, in all Government has done many things in this the final decision on the interpretation weathers; stunting their bodies, injuring Colony which are not done in China, and of the clause in question for some future the present generation and the next; within this particular matter, as in so many occasion. The Japanese delegate, accord- no luxuries, no leisure, and no pleasure; other respects, we must not lose sight of ingly, conceded the British proposition, often without the barest necessaries of the fact that Hongkong is a little bit but with an understanding with Mr. life, insufficiently fed, insufficiently of England" British Colony whose Balfour to the effect that Japan would clothed, sleeping as and where they can mission it is to be a beacon light, a ship take the opportunity of insisting on the on bed-boards under staircases, or in any ing example, us regards its laws and their maintenance of her rights already acquip
ed in the South Bena south of the equ odd corner without any facilities for administration, to the vast population of cleansing either their parsing or their China which is moving slowly but surely tor. Thus it must be understood that clothes
towards Reform and Progress,
Japan has never dropped her first claim.
Dividends for Shareholders on the Colonial CHINA JAPAN, STRAITS. SETTLE Register are free of Income Tax and will be MENTS, INDO-CHINA, PHILIPPINES, paid at the rate of 2/10 per dollar.
for 1921
Dividend Warrants will be obtainable on and after BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26911, 1931. st the Company's Office
TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from February 10th, to February 26th, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., I
General Managers: Hongkong, January 28th, 1791,
ETC.
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