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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRE38, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 165, 1938.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
LOST MAN-POWER.
The act circumstances were these-One afternoon in April when the wind was on the new grase three Scotchmen went out. to a hill lope near the town. They carried with them three crooked sticks and
[YEON QUE,OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
little ball. There wus frmnes in their manner but nothing obviously EDINBURGH, June 27th...
criminal They laid the ball down, Emigrant sailings from the Clyde to the and began to beat it about on the grass, United States, sospended since May on They paid no attention to the few mystified account of the exhaustion of the British people who watched them. At the end of quota, will be resumed this week-end. From an hour they were seen to sit de an under a now on till the lata autumn, the stream of brier bush; there they remained for some emigrants to the States will flow at its time. It was thought at the time that highest level. Each year approximately they were either praying or drinking 77,000 British subjects make up the quota whisks. But the real truth was that they passing under the Stars and Stripes About formed themselves into a Golf Club. "It 45,000 people will cross the Atlantic under | was not long before the game began to these auspices within the next three months | exercise au effect upon those who at first It is a strange and a regretable fact that had been idle spectators. They became, the number of emigrants to Canada (ia | anxious to join in.' Here azid there, by a much smaller. Probably the States receive very obvious and canning piece of policy, more man power from this country in a they were invited to try their hand. The your than all the Dominions put together. spectator then foud to his surprise the Such is the superior lure of high wages peculiar difficulty of the game. He din- over the chanciness of pionearing. The covered that, simple though it looked, it Imperial authorities might profitably eu- was not possible for him to place the ball quire into this question of comparative in-
on the ground, take # drink" "of | ducements "and "consider steps to check a Scotch whisky, and then hit it with material as well as a sentimental leakage a stick. He tried again and again, of Empire resources.
but failed esch time. The natural result was that he solicited membership in the club, and reappeared on the follow. ing Saturday with a ball and a stick of his own and with a flask of whisky on his hip. The Saturday after that he turned up with
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a pair of knickerboker trousers, a 'round Following the example of a number of tam o' shanter hat, and a Cluny Macpher other large landowners, he has formed his son tartas over his shoulder; after that, na estates into a joint-stock company. The far as any general utility to the community company is a "private" one. The number went the man was lost." Describing the of its members, exclusive of persons in its clubhouse which was erected, he says:-"It employment, is not to exceed 30. The first WIS a modest affair-merely two frga directors of the company, who are also the rooms, one a sitting-room with easy chairs signatories to the application for re- for talking about golf in, and gistration, are Viscount Novar of Baith the other a rest or silerice room and Novur, G.0.M.G., and Viscountess for thinking about golf in."
"It is Novar, J. P. Raith, Kirkcaldy. The capital is £50,000 in £1 shares and the estates extend to 27,000 acres,
difficult to say what the fascination is, bat it in there. Sometimes I think it lies in pretending to be a Scotchman. It may be The purpose of the formation of these that--there are so many things about the Estates Companies is to lessen the burdeo Scotch that attract: their contempt of rain, of taxation on landed property. When a their peculiar nerve in wearing a ben's company is formed the landowner usually feather in their hat, their comprehensive holds the great bulk of the shares, but he ideas on damuation-that it may well be can apportion part of them to his children that the golf members are simply trying to or other members of his family in such be Scotchmen. In addition to that, I blame proportion that the interest would yield Harry Lauder a good deal, and undoubted. them sume equal to their previous allowan-ly Fobert Burns has a lot to answer for," ces. On these, therefore, he would save the | CLYDE'S MAGNETIC CRANES. payment of Super Tax. He himself may draw a salary as Director, saving also in the rate of Income Tax at which it is as sessed. There is also a saving on Death Duties, which vary from 3 per cent. ou an estato of „£1,000 to 40 per cent. on an es tate of £2,000,000. On an estate formed inton company Death Duties have to be paid only on the shares held by the deceas ed, and not on the whole estate. The Duke of Buccleuch recently formed his estates into a Company in this way
OUR GREAT BERT TO LORD BALFOUR.
When one sees fair women and brave men clad in furs and ulsters watching tennis, standing round the ropes at cricket matches and shivering at athletic gather. ings one reflects how much we in this northern climate owe to Earl Balfour. These long, cold days are good for golf and for little else, and it is to Earl Balfour that we owe the great boom in golf through his brave and repeated efforts to win the Parliamentary Gulf Handicap
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introduced to certain parts of Inverness and Ross-shire before the telephone, You will ace ariels in Kingussic, Newtonmore, Abiemore, und even Loch Maree; but up these places. till now the telephone has never reached
MR. GEORGE HARNKE. AS AN AUTHOR.
Earl Balfour has himselt said that when his political career was forgotten he hoped still to be remembered as the man who
Mr. G. N. Barnes, the former Labour had brought the grief and happiness of member for the Gorbals Division of Glas- golf into countless lives, which, but for him, gow, has just completed his "Recollections,” would never have heard of the must ex-which will be published in the antumu. asperating of all games. We could get on Since he foragok the burly-burly of quite well without most politicians, but should be in a bad way without the benefi- politics, "George," as he likes to be called, bas "spent a fow quiet cent work, outside politics, of one of the months at his home in Lochea His greatest of them.
career reads like a romance. As a journey. man engineer he tramped Glasgow looking for a job, and ultimately rose to be the secretary of our strongest trades union. Entering Parliament, his practical com. monsense gained him not only friends but rapid promotion. He was a member of the War Cabinet, his Pensions Charter is famous, while his signature figures on the Peuce Treaty and many League of Nations documents.
When, a short time ago, Tord Balfour and others were commenting upon the tremendous wave of golf which, coming from Scotland, "had submerged Eugland, they all omitted to observe another most striking pheticmenon. "That was the back wush of the golf wave into Scotland itself. I was looking recently at two golf maps of Great Britain, upon which the courses were represented by little black dots. The maps, were separated in date by a quarter of u century. Twenty-five years ago, though
At a nursing home in London, Jeanie, golf bad boan played in Scotland for cen- turies there were not many courses. In wife of the late Dr. George Ernest Morri- Enghard there were fewer stil. Then take" son, Peking, aged 34. the modera boom which, though it started in Beotland first, raged in England, and a little later returned on its "tracks and set Scotland itself aflame.
OBITUARY.
At Kilacolm, on 21st June, Jeannie Brown, wife of W. Davies, late of Shanghai.
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The effect was clearly shown in the maps of courses. In both countries their num-. bers increased enormously year by year until there came to be little difference in the factor for multiplication. It seems ratbor curious, that Scotland should have played the game for so long without realise ing its wide popular application until Eng land bad taken it up. There has, however, always been this important difference be
STEAMSHIP AGENTS AND SRIPEROLZES. tween the booms in England and Scotland.
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and/or Old, with delivery China at Very Low gripped the artisan class the cost of of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, New courses is perhaps too high-whereas in Prices, Scotland the working classes are among the beat and keenest players. But for this difference it is possible that, with our smaller population, we should not have been able to hold our own as we do. HOW LEACOCK YOURD COLE."
They havo &Chair of Humour in the M'Gill University, Canada; they call it Economics there, but we imagine its professor, Mr. Stephen Leacock, has become very popular, novertheless. In his latest book," Over the Footlights," he treats of many things from the drawn to the pictures, but to Scottish folk perhaps the best chapter deals with" Why Trofuse to play Golf."Ho explains that the game came to Montreal "in that invidious but forceful way that chameterises everything Scottish. It was similar to the spread of Scotch busking, THE RED BUILDING, (OPPOSITE ICE Hutar ST, the Scotch Church, and Scotch whisky:
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