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VICTORIA DIOCESAN
ASSOCIATION.
A CHRISTMAS" AT HOME.”
Those who passed by the City Hall
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H.K.O.C . THE NAVY.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17:5, 1931.
THE MUI TSAI IN HONGKONG. WHAT THE CENSUS REVEALS. In his Report on the Census Mr. J. D.
At Sookuopoo a battle royal, will be fought between South China and the R.GA. The soldiers play good football it home as the ground is suited to their style of play. At present they are up Lloyd, the Census Officer writes This match taken place on the Club against luck for within a week they have
Special steps were taken to ascertain yesterday afternoon had a reminder of ground to-day, commencing at 1946. The played two games against the Tamar and the number of young girls engaged with the immanence of Christmas when they band of H.M.8. Haulins will be in at after having much the better of the games out remuneration in domestic service, beard carolinging from one of the upper tendance. The following will represent only took one point out of four. The known more commonly as mus-fees, a term rooms where a large assembly had gather the Navy:-Lieut. Beatty, Rev. Crole Chinese also consider this ground to the which cover all young girls whose ed at the invitation of the Bishop of Rees, Lient. Franks, Lieut.-Com. Greig, in their favour for they hays played Victoria and the Committee of the Midshipman Hayter, Lient Com Jatham, numerous games at Spokuhpun Valley Diocesan Association for a Christmas Midshipman Sheffield, Surg. Lieut. Com before it was finally handed over to the At Home. The visitors were received Stopben, Sub-Lient. Stephenson, Lieut. Garrison. The military are arranging at the head of the stairs by the Bishop, Stewart, and Commander Wood, ⠀⠀
for a large attendance and the game Victoria and the Bev. H. "Copley:
should be worth watching for both teams Moyle, Cathedral, Chaplain. A recherche IL SERVICE ▼ UNIVERSITY.
will be all out to play the game. Another good match between the services should ten was served by the Hongkong Hotel: The following will represent the Civil REFOR in the Chamber of Commerce Room and Service in their home lengua math, the Wiltshires oppose the League leadera be seen on the Nary "B" ground whore then the guests passed into a larger at 216 pm., to-day: 0 Bayer in their retura mutch. The sailors are apartment where they wore to have been feapt) B. Reid, E. W. Hamilton, A.playing a great game just now and should entertained by a party of carol singers Wood, W. H. Edmonds, HF strengthen their position at the head of At the last moment this arrangement had. Strange, F., J. Ling, E C. Fincher, fallen through so the assembly was asked. Dunkley, FJ. de Rome and E. to entertain itself by singing carola, Witchell. which it did, with rather more gusto than is usually put into the congregational. singing at the Cathedral, not that that: is saying very much. The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn and Mrs. Drew kindly led the singing. Mrs. Drew tack the treble soles and her clear soprano voice was heard to good effect. Mr. Severn also: A Fattydad. was a bost in himself; he not only took the tenor soles, very Enely, but conduct -ed the singing of the audience. It only peeded someone to tell ghost stories and reading of suitable extracts from Dickens to be quite an old-fashioned
Christmas party.
0.0.0.0.R.C.
Ethe League by defeating their military Crivals for League honours. The Wilts
The following wilt represent the C.0.0. ip choir league match against the C.R.C. to-day on the C.R.C. ground, at PB. M. Bradley (capt.), J. Bryant, 11 Omar, S. Jex, D Wilson, M. Marab, Y. Abas, A. Paice, A. Anderson, H. Basa,
K.C.C. INDIAN R. CLUB.
At Soo Kun Po Valley, to-day, at 3.16 p.m.. The following have been selected son, J. Stalker, B. D. Evans, G. J o play for the K.C.C.-J. P. Robin Stapleton, C. L. Braga, K. E. Macaskill, Capt. G. Spinks; F. G. Thompson, Macdonald D. M. Goodall, G. Dance, Lieut. A. G.
K.C.C. END XI, . 1.R.0, 2D XI
will be out to defeat the sailors and by doing go to head of the table, should the H.G.A prove victors over the Chinese ab Sookanpoo..
Ambrose are at home to Kowloon Navy A ground and a fast game should end in a win for the sailors.
Cairo receive the Police in their return motel-en-the South Chins ground, a the Police should win. Pearson and Valentine will be out this week and with a full side the Police should take both points in a fast game. Last meeting they shared the points with the sailors. The sailors are turning out a good side and with Stevenson leading the attack and all the way. Swan would be well advis Eve in goal they will make the Police go ed to watch the ball and not argue with the spectators near the goal posts..
South China and Wilts on the South China ground should draw a large (the efowd making fo: Seokunpoo to see crowd in the opening half of the game the Chinese seniors early in the clos Ang halfy and a fast game should end in favour of the Chinese The Club Res visit Kowloon to play the Punjabis and they will have to put out a strong side, if they wish to defeat the Indian soldiers. play a draw and University should defect Kowloon and South China should St. Josephs
Amongst those who attended were H.E. the Governor and Lady Stubbs, H.E."the. General Officer Commanding dad Lady,A."el Arculli, M. H. Abbas, 4. H. Rum The following will represent the I.RO. Kirkpatrick, the Hon Mr. Claud Severt jahn, B. H. Ismail, S. D. Ismail, S. Ar and Mrs. Severa, Mrs. Bowden Smith, Ismail, J. S. Curreem, D. Rujahn, S. Miss Duff, Mrs, Macnaghten, Miss Pitts, R. Ismail, O. Ismail and F. M. Arcalli Miss Woo, the Hon. Mr. E. E. Pollock,, Mr. J. R. Wood, the Rev, D. Pearce, Mr. N. Teesdale Mackintosh, Mr. M. S. Northcote, Major Hickling, Capt. Fisher, Mr. Schofield, Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Mr. Ernest Rice, most of the clergy of the Colony and many others. During an interval the Bishop of Victoria gave an -address.
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The BISHOP OF VICTORIA addressed the gathering on the purpose of the Victoria Diocesan Association and its progress He explained that its object, was to link together those at Home and in Hongkong who were willing to support the work of the Diocese At Home, there were 800] members and in Hongkong 375. Every- body probably realised that the diocese was by no means an ensy one to work; in fact it was a very dificult one It used to take in Anglican church work in the whole of China and Japan; his predeces sors had to make journeye, to Peking, Shanghai and Japan; his task was smaller so far as distance was concerned but it was still very large. In June he had to go right through Indo-Ching to get to Yunnanfu, & province three times the size of Great Britain, but only one of four provinces included in the Diocese. Kwangtung. another province in the diocese, had a population of 30,000,000. He did not suggest that the work of the Anglican church was proportionate to
the territorial extent of the Diocese, be cause it was not, but the Anglican church had a witness to give and it needed all' the work that they could do to make that witness strong. Mr. Balfour at Washing- ton spoke of Hongkong us the foremost port in the world and he also referred to the very great financial importance of the Colony. As church people they want ed to make the influence of the diocese
strong in a religious sense. The average working life of his five predecessors as Bishops of Victoria had been fourteen years be could not feel that, if he car zied on for fourteen years, that the re sult of his first year's work, multiplied by fourteen, would take the very far: Nevertheless, there had been a good deal of activity new churchers were being consecrated and new schools opened; re- building schemes, as at St. Stephen's Girls School and the Diocesan Boys School, were in view Only yesterday be heard of a generous gift that Sir Paul Chater was making in memory of the lates
The teams selected to play in this match at Kowloon to-day at 2.15 p.m. are as
follow-
Kowloon.-A. O. Brawn, H. Overy, E. J. Edwards, L. E. S. Hodge, L. J. Black- Evelyn, W. B. Haslett, E. W. Alderson, burn, E. F. Spinks, F. E: Lawrence, F. and A. Leach.
H.K.F.C. PUNJABIS.
kong Club Reserves in their match e, the The following will represent the Hong Punjabis to-day at 2:30 pm, on the Punjabis ground, Kowloon R. Hatchi- son; J. Israel and W. Pritchard; 8. Hasty G. Angus, W. Hyde, D. Banner Sorensen, J. MacDonald, and R. Duncan,
Indian BC.-E. Ali Mocsdeen, E Moosdeen, S. Abbas, U. A Ramjahn A. uhell, R. Nazarin, A Wahab, A. H Madar, H. D. Kunjahn, N. B. Kit Minu, and M. Sadick. Benerves-Land F. Beeseler Hassan and A. R. M. Samy.
TOOTBALL.
KOWLOON 1st XI. v. AMBROSE,"
parents have assigned their rights of guardianship to other families-for- monetary consideration, and whose labour is at the free disposal of the new gut- dian till the bers of those under 14 will be found for marriage. The numi- classifed according to age in Table XXIII, Part II, those of 14 and Aver New Territories North 110, Now Terri- to Table XXIII. The numbers are for tories South 39, Island of Hongkong 7,891, Kowloon 800, Floating Population 4; a total of 8,683, of which there are 5,758, under 14 and 9,639, of 14 and over. Of these 9.539. I estimate that 30 per 18, 20 per cent, under 17, 18 per cent cent. are under 18, 35 per cent. under under 18, 8 per cant. under 19, 6 per cent. 19 and above. The majority were found in the City of Victoria between Upper Levels. Under the age of there Eastern Street and Glenealy and on the are very fow; between the ages of 10 and 14 the numbers are very equal for each several were returned as married, end nge. The eldest noticed was aged 35,. few as widows, these evidently had found the homes of their old masters more com- fortable than those of their husbands. Upper Levels where the better classes. The majority are uneducated, but in the live, and the greatest proportion of mui write formed per cent of the total. tai are found, those able to read and
are only about 150. The general age for estimate that shove the age of 19,there. marriage seems to be between. 17 and 19, most being married at 18 or before. Very Tzitory, or in the provinces of China few were recorded as born in British outside Kwongtung. No effort was made large majority of cases this is really un- to classify the birthplaces since in the known, and Canton is entered instead, that being the place whence the sellers of the girls came. In very few cases was the surname the same as that of the master or mistress, showing they did not
probably correct, the surnames being come from the same clan. In many cases, no surname was given at all, which was quite unknown, though later on they would doubtless be known under the surname of the faimly to whom they be
large number of mui-tia, did not figure Kwongtung, which used to supply a longed Krongsai and South West
largely among the birthplaces, but the sources of supply are apt to vary accord- ing to the state of prosperity and arder such were recorded in the families of the in the various districts No-mui-taas as Portuguese and Indian population, but some young Chinese girls were found described as servanta or adopted daugh ters whose real status probably appro mated to that of the mis taas in a Chinese family, I am informed that maitaal were common in most
Kowloon 1st Eleven e. Ambrose, Navy The following is the programma in the A" ground at 4 p.m. Crocker; Hongkong League to-day :--
Morrison and Oswick Coupland, Wey- Portuguese families of sandi Very man (capt:) and MeKelvie, Roberts, Dog few young girls are employed as hired gerall, Townsend, Duncan and domestic servants, the Chu Lin (Nin) Coomba "Reservo: Millard.
Mui or girl hired by the year, who has been suggested as a substitute for the mui-ta, does not appear to be popular, number of boys between the ages of 19 but there are on the other hand's large
Chinese households. 12 young girls were and 14 employed in domestic work in described: Ba Xuk Nui a tera, which is most cases donates the same status.
Division Kick-off at 4 p.m. Hongkong Club . H.M.S. Titania, Olub.
ground. Referee: Mr. Jones. R-GA South China, Bookinpoo ground. Referee: Mr. Hollands. H.MS. Tamer v. Willettres, Navy "B"
ground. Referee: Mr. Leaf, - HM.S. Ambrose Kowloon Navy "A
ground. Referee; Mr. Mooze.
H.M.S. Cairo . Hongkong Police South China ground. Referee: Mr. Cheesley, Division II.Kick-off at 2.30 p.z. 2nd Punjabis v. HK. Club Reserves,
Railway ground, Kowloa. Referee: Mr. Bayer.
South Chinn "A". Wilts Reserves, "South China "B," Kowloon ground, Happy Valley. Referee: Mr. Austin St. Joseph's, St. Joseph's Kick-off at p.m.
Referee: Mr. Angum.”
University
ground.
RUGBY,
Hongkong Club H.M.B. Caira, Club
ground (kick-off at 230 pm.).
ed
and Club Secretaries are advised to Late starts are constantly being report. turn their teams out punctually.
Titania are the visitors to", the Club should see the sailors win their first ground this afternoon and a fast gama Loague match this season.
The Club will take the field without Gerrard, Railton and Telfer and with the sailors turning out most of last year's players they should capture the points.
(Continued on 'nezt column.)
KOWLOON 2D XI. v. 5.0. B." 2nd Elever v S.C. (B), Kowloon ground at 2.30 pm:-Hallam and Mason (capt.); Muskett, Harland Spary Wad Brown Evans, Morley, Pasco, Hay- Ward and Estorffe. Reserves: Rasmussen
and Norton.
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
MORE QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE,
be played on the Club ground at Happy Hongkong Government recognise the Oh the 94th instant a rugby game will tary of State for the Colonies if the Sir T. Bennett asked the Under-Secre Valley when two teams, representing neccesity for legislative or administrative. England » The Rest, picked from the action in regard to the mai-tsai or girl should result and followers of the rugby with the intention of resale for immoral combined Navy, Army and Club players slaves within their jurisdiction whether will meet A most interesting game it has been proved that girls are bought code will doubtless see some good play purposes; whether the deed of transfer what ought to be a keenly contested In such cases is merely a form of words adopted in order to evade the legal penal Following on this, the Cup matches will ties against slave dealing in Hongkong permitting the games will be on the except the criminal law, to the right of take place and circumstances and weather and whether there is any limitation following dates:---
the purchasers of these girls to demand any work or service of them that thes please, to punish them at will, or to treat them ne concubines t
game.
Feb.
December31st-Army Navy. January 7th-Navy . Olub. 14thArmy v. Club, 18 Navy t. Club.. 8th-Club ."Army. 4th-Army Navy. Army are unfortunate in being unable On form, the Navy ought to win. The to obtain the services of many of their last season's players who appear to have sadly lost interest in the game, a game home and abroad Until, the new regi too which has ever received such wonder ful support from our soldiers, both at
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Mr. Edward Wood): As re gards the first part of the question, I would refer to the answer given to my that the sale of girls for purposes hon. friend the member for St. Rollor on 24th October. I have already stated prostitution is expressly forbidden by the law of the Colony. As regards the last part of the question, I have no doubt, that Dr. Jordan Bir Paul had offered a con and the Archdeacon Barnett would speak.
the criminal law in restraining ill-treat- in Hongkong, as elsewhere, this force-of public opinion is a powerful adjunct to siderable sum of money to purchase a new organ, and a memorial window for Ten members of the Home Committee meat arrives they will be hard put to hold mens of adopted children. and I under St. Stephen's Church where the memorial had been resident in this Diocese and their own against either the Navy or the stand that by Chinese custom a girl can service was held These things were very knew the conditions; Mr. Bowley, who Club, The Club ure a doubtful quantity only encouraging, but he was convinced that had just returned Home, had become one Provided they remain fre from casualties the consent of his wife, the girl herself,
made a concubine by the diocese would never make great proof the editors of the Outpost, the organ they may do wonders. They are lighter and her parents, gress unless he, as Bishop, had behind of the Association The Bishop mention than either of the other teams, but what him a strong and united body of workers ed various efforte made at Home in sup they lack in weight they possibly make up man aware that this custom is illegal in Colonel Wedgwood! Is the hon. gentle. That was the object of the Victoria Part of the diocese and also related the for in speed,
China, and only legal in the British! Diocesan Association, which aimed at work which had been done-in Hongkong The Shanghai Rugby Club are making Colonies and that it amounts to blakery 1 organising such a body so that workers since the Hongkong branch was formed. A preparations to meet the Hongkong XV. could be united in spite of all the concommittee of ladies had been helping Mr. either late-in-February or early in term slavery in connection with this cus
Mr. Wood: I and my predecessor have continually repudiated the use of the stant changes of personnel taking place Waldegrave in his work in the Missions March in Hongkong.
to Seamen. A working party had been. Provided the Hongs are prepared to
tom. I despair of ever getting the hon., Speaking of the progress of the Also Pakhoi and Yunnanfu; Mia Wyndham good team is seated. No doubt they will-forntion, and this saformation of
making articles for the hospitals in "relcaco" sufficient men for this trip of the
and gallant Member to abandon the use ciation, the Bishop recalled the first had collected a great number of articles do so in accordance with that sporting everybody
I can only Ray for his annual repnion in London, last June, for a sale held in Kensington; other spirit which is so widely found in the Far lending attended by the English members and by fadies had given voluntary services to East..
that it is entirely mis those resident in the Colony who haprocal educational institutions. Also, as a pened to be at Home: Speakers who-re result of the two concerts held recently
Wedgwood Is not the custom illegal in China outside the bounds of presented, the diocese on that occasion in the Cathedral Hall 8850 had been
the British Settlements?... were prezent now Mr. Copley Moyle, raised for hospital work thereby reliev
MrWood Tething the hon, and gal- whom they were glad to welcome back ing the missions which this year had present the Hongkong CCM.S law was passed making it illegal. What The following have been chosen to re-lant Member is correct in saying that a again, and Mr. Arthur Stewart who only suffered greatly owing to bad conditions Ceirs to-day at Happy Valley:-R. M. the Chinese did sanction was that the returned on the previous day. It was at Home. A generous anonymous donor had Henderson; F. A.. Davidson, A. M. D. principle of adoption on a system of felt at that meeting that here was a given 3250 to the Association and the Wallace, J. D. McClatchie, G, Lancaster lump eam for hire to be put down at the Flying point for all those at Home who Riahop hoped that similar sums might be VG: Smyth, N. J. Smyth, U. J. Cooper, time of sdoption,
hiring up
to the age of 25 was legal; 3 were interested in Hongkong He hoped given m order that work in mission D. Logan, H. Day, A. G. Lamplugh, He that at next year's, meeting General Bit schools might be supported. Teachers A. Mabey, J. W. Brown, W. Andrews, to believe that there is any close connec G. M. Kirkpatrick would be in the chait, were doing their work shorthanded and H. C. Macnamara Kick off, 30-ption between the Chinese law and the Sir D. Roes: Is there any reason ¿Continued at foot of next column.) under very great difficultien.
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