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THE PARASITES OF
HONGKONG.
FLIES AND SANDFLIES.
ALSO MOSQUITOS AND WHITE
ANTS...
[DY AN OLD REA(DENT)]
Many of us remember Thursfeld, the local poet who contributed amusing » and witty rhymes to the Linily Prest in the days gone by.
SHORTER MEN FOR THE GUARDS.
"SIX-FEET. TRADITION OF THE
GRENADIERS.
HOW RECRUITS GAIN AN INCH.
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INDUSTRY MUST BE 'MODERNISED.
VIEWS OF THE RT. HON. G. N. BARNES.
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S.P.C.A.
INSPECTORS' REPORT FOR · MAY.
The following. is the report of the combined work of the Inspectors of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to animals for May. One Inspector was on duty at the Dogs home daily from 9 am till 1 p.m. and from 30 p.m. till 3,30 p.m. with the exception of 'Sundays and Public Holidays.
TRANSPORT
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Mr. G. N: Barnes, commenting upon the reports of the trade unionists who were The height standard of the Foot sent by the Daily Mail to investigate Guards (Grenadier Guards, Coldstream conditions in America, says that most of Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, and our industrial troubles would disappear Welsh Guards) has been reduced from if only industry were modernised.
After all," he says,
Poultry, crates our troubles six feet and upwards to 5ft. 13in. and
Poultry on trucks and lorries, are of our own making. These arise from upwards.
loads This is done temporarily to meet past error and present misunderstand-
Poultry in junks and ferries.
crates...... They say that he resigned his appoint- ent with the Hongkong and Shanghai existing conditions, although it must noting. Employer and employed' are too a gulf Bank so that he might take a part in the be taken as a suggestion that it is no much wrapped up in thetaselves, and management of a glass works in London. uger possible to get men who register each looks at the other across My own idea was that he had ambitions six feet and who fulfil the corresponding which now exists orly in their own to be inclulled in the famous circle of wits physical requirements, to come forward imagination. If only they would come At the together more in the workshop, as the who sit, once a week, around the table as candidates for enlistment.
would find out a good deal to their in the office of the editor of Punch. The moment, however, there is a shortage to sides mix together in America, they names of Phil Way, Du Maurier and other be made up.
mutual advantage and direct their re spective organisations for collaboration jay-makers are to be sees on that table. Perhaps Thursfeld's name will appear
instead of for condict. there at no distant date.
Anyhow he once contributed a poem to the Daily Press about a mosquits. It was that poem and Thursfield's amusing! treatment of this subject that came to my mind when I commenced to write this article.
IDEAS OF HUMOUR
Not that "the posquito is an insect that can be laughed at. He-nu, she, for the "she is the real enemy-is a natural foe of the human race. Disease is trans- The mitted by the bazzing scourge. scientists say that the male is harmless. Death is in the unhoneyed kiss of the female.
.".
You cannot laugh at the insect pesta of Hongkong, or, if you can you must have a queer sense of humour. Anything less comic. than a house fly it is difficult to nume, unless it is the sandy or the mosquito.
The flying white ant may seem funny at the first introduction, but it soon be comes a great nuisance. The srants in sects suddenly swarm into a house. They collect around the electric lamps. There is only one way to deal with them. It is as follows:-
Switch out every bit of illumination except one light near a wall. Place a bowl of water as near, to the lamp as possible. It will soon colicet hundreds of the dying white ants,"
ROTTEN ROOFS, There have been quite heated argumenta about white ants. Are the flying white ants the same creatures as the white ants that inake the timber rotten?
The white ants in the timber have no wings, but they have a wonderful equip. ment which enables them to eat up almost anything.
They prefer soft woods such as pine. They attack trees and cause them to die. They will if really put to it bore through hardwood, such as teak or billian, but they prefer the softer woods.
PUTTING ON AN INCH.
"That is the first and, as I think, the most important lesson to be learned from America.
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The height standard of the Foot It is a Guards is not a common one. tradition with the Grenadiers that their men shall be six feet, and when there are vacancies in the battalion the recruits who full this requirement usually find their
way there. The King's Company HIGH WAGES FOR HIGH OUTPUT. "Another is the importance of high of Grenadiers is composed of men who average Bit. in., and the men of the production and high wages. British em- Prince of Wales's Company in the Welshployers in the pait nibbled at wages The so as to cut down the cost of production Guards reach the six foot average. height standard in the other Guards and get a foreign market. American ex- Battalions (omitting the exception doted perience shows the better way in the Welsh Guards) shows a slight at home through the high purchasing
power of high wages. variation.
"Then there the all-important fair deal. Employers in There has been no attempt to exclude fetar of a men who on enlistment did not reach the America, we,äre told, stick to piecewerk six-feet standard: The new standard, prices, once they are agreed upon, no therefore, may be said not materially to matter how much may be earned. The effect the Guards at all. Generally speak cutting of these when, as employers ing, the system of recruit is for the Foot thought, labour was earning too much Guards as a whole. The only discrimina was a short-sighted policy, for it ha pro- tion made is to favour the Grenadiers duced a mentality of labour, zooted in when the six-feet men pass the tests pre-suspicion and distrust. I believe that cedent on enlistment. It is not unlikely, most employers have now realised that therefore that the Grenadiers will be ua- the policy was not only morally but able to maintain their standard, for re-economically wrong, and some of thera cruiting statistics show that there is a satisfactory supply of recruits who at 18 years of age reached bft. lin., and the training, regular feeding, and open-air life they lead gives them the additional inch in a comparatively short time.
To-day the average height of the ment enlisting in the British Army is over ft. sin. The height standard is, of course. a question of supply and demand, and as only 20 out of every hundred are se cepted, the standard generally maintain- ed is high.
THE NULLAHS..
have proved their sincerity by works.
Pigs in junks and ferries
"971
140
53 429
Figs on tracks and in baskets.. Pigs by rail
Poultry by rail, crates
133
Cattle in junks and fèrries... Cattle, ashore
33.4
Poultry at Taipo market
Dugs at Taipo market
Dogs by rail
Cat by rail
Pony in junk Cages of birds Terrapins, baskets
Pige
IMPORTS
Poultry, crates
1,50%
'S.170
Cattle
1.012
Sheep and goats....
414
Terrapins, basket
1
Cages of birds....
10
Crickets, baskets
Frogs, baskets
Poultry, crates Cattle
EXPORTS.
Sheep and goats Dogs
Markets.
VISITS.
Landing place at Kennedy
Town
Poultry depots Cattle depote Dogs home Birdshops Railway stations
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ignorant cruelty cases
*rected
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26-1
310
3 1982
cor-
15 10
24
132
99
3
6-1
Markets watched, times Ferries watched, times Dogs in home during month Dogs claimed during month Dogs sold during month Dogs died during month Dogs destroyed during month...
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UNCLE SAM'S CLAIM.
MR. MAXSE'S WARNING.
"But the American lessons are not only for employers. The workman may well read and learn-and, in that con- nection, I hope the reports will find their way into the monthly journals of the
In the May number of the National trade unions. There is to be noted the
Review Mr. Maxse warns the British shsence in America of those demarcation people to show vigilance in meeting tho disputes which have been and still areUnited States blockade claims, and says: a disturbing element in British industry..
"Only a few months ago I saw the work of a great factory in the Midlands being dislocated through this couse. And, from the same cause, old plant is sometimes retained because of the fear, on the part of the employers, of some pet- tifogging dispute arising as to who should claim the "right" to operate a new machine." The fact is that British trade unioniam is too much run in Ere no sections, and those in each section cannot
We are told by the sanitary and public health experts that where there are no pools of stagnant water there mosquitos.,
right it is also the island of stagnant waters for it is certainly the home of myriads of mosquitos.
This is said to be the island of "sweet They like the darkness as do all male-waters." If the sanitary experts are factors. They attack the wood in the roofs of the most innocent looking houses. They probably dislike reinforced concrete but there is a story that they have bored through that.
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SANDFLY FEVER. The most elusive of the local insect pesty is the sandfly. He is so small and be does not herald his approach as does the mosquito...
There is a tradition that sandies are the cause of dengue fever. Some of the doctors say that a particular type of mosquito carries that infection. sandfly must carry disease of some sort, because where there are many aandflies there will be found illness also."
Decaying vegetable matter, cut grass and dead leaves seem to be the natural breeding ground of the sandfies. The dust bins are also suspect. It must have been sandfies that figured in the plagues of Egypt.
MALARIA.
For many years, there was great enthu- siasm in Government circles on the sub ject of proper drainage of the hill sides. New and wide granite nullahs appeared, as by magic. The hillside water no longer lay stagnant but went swiftly to
the seu..
see that their best interests lie in the co-ordination of labour-they cannot see over the sides of the deep ruts of sectional interests into which they have dug themselves. I preached these things for years. to my fellow-engineers when I waa in their service. Perhaps they may heed the same teaching now from their fellow-rocmbers from the workshops who have just seen
the good results in America of the policy of allowing mana- gers to manage.
CLASS BITTERNESS.
And, surely, if there is any lingering idea among workers that "ca' cannyism" or restricted output in any form is, or could be, of any good to them, it should be dispelled by knowledge of the fact that great output was found everywhere to be accompanied by high wages. Each worker in America, we"are. told; bas on an average 3-horse power at bis elbow and he is the highest paid worker on the face of the earth.
"Neither the State Department nor the Republican Administration has any intention of abandoning a popular cry against England, and the moment the omens are more favourable or the poli tical prospects of the Republican Party. necessitate something sensational, out will come these blockade claims, which, be it remembered, practical politicians hate encouraged the thousands of claimants to believe will be paid by Great Britain, who can be made to pay anything. It therefore depends entirely on the vigilance of our own people whether this fresh robbery materialises.
We cannot excuse ourselves in the usual lazy British fashion by saying, "I thought it would be all right as it seemed unthinkable that. any civilised Government could press anything so preposterous. Nothing is unthink". able" in this wicked world, and this particular business is much thought about in Washington'
Mr. Maxse, looking beyond the atmos- phere of the House of Commons, speaks some plain words to the Government:
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"If the Treasury Bench become im- mersed in parish pumps and Leagues of Nations to the exclusion of the Im- perial idea, it would devolve upon our rank and file, it only as a matter of self-preservation to call their leaders to order.
We are reluctantly constrained to inquire whether the Government has any definite Imperial policy or whether, as so often before in the melancholy history of our party, the Cobdenites, of the Carlton Club- who are infinitely more dangerous than Cobdenites elsewhere--have once again paralysed all possibility of Construc tive Imperialism."
LEGAL AGE OF MARRIAGE. TWO YEARS?
Mr. Pethick-Lawrence (Lab. Soc.; Lei
That was in and around Victoria. Nowadays we go out into the outlying districts where there are ho nullabe made The mosquitos welcome us The by mad.
They bite our arms and faces just as quickly as a cat pounces on a mouse.
"Then there is the comparative absence Why cannot we bave granite nullahs "on the South side of the island Why don't of that class bitterness which is fomen ted here by some of our trade union we mosquito bitten, adily oppressed oficials. Mr. Mosace has rightly pointed inhabitants rise up and compel the out how it handicaps us in relation to authorities to clear out these insect pests 1 American industry by its encouragement of slackness and reckless conflict. Other Concerning the typhoid carrying, dysen- Labour leaders might well follow his try spreading house dy, much might be courageous lead. For it is here, after written. It is a peril that should be all, that we get down to the bed-rock tester, W.) asked the Home Secretary in eause of industrial discontent or rather In the good old days" many a Euro exterminated.
industrial conflict. Many of those who the House of Commons on April 20th. pean in Hongkong died at a premature
Let the poets sing of the beauties of have the ear of labour have got them-whether he proposed to introduce legis- age because of malaria fever. There is the scenery and the glories of the sunsetsly related to daily life, and they confuse
selves confused with theories but remote-lation to raise the legal age of marriage, Sir W. Joyason-Hicks: This really still an argument as to whether it was of Hongkong in their exalted moments. their followers with phrases of dubious difficult question is under consideration, Sir Patrick Manson or a doctor in India In the days when their genius is whipped meaning but unsettling effect. Nobody and I am not yet in a position to make named Ross who first discovered that the by fever let them make caustic rhymes sien of industry. The world will one ancient marriage laws of the country! claims finality for our existing world a statement. The more I dive into the mosquito carries the disesse. There is that will burn into the minds of the day grow out of it. But, meantime, we the more difficult it appears, I am not now no doubt that the mosquito doce
populace about the insect pesta.
have to operate it efficiently or go under sure it will not turn out to be that the to those who will,
legal marriage age is two. (Laughter.) spread fever.
None of these insecta should have sur "And that brings me to my final exaggerated hopes of betterment by revolution, or by Parliament or some
Last night's weather report, forecast Perhaps, after all, that was why the other outside agency. It is a vain hope.
revolution. And, whatever else Parlia said: separate variety is a carrier of some dis-poet Thursfeld left Hongkong. He gibed Russis is a warning of what may follow and remarks by the Royal Observatory ense. The doctors tell us that it is only at the mosquito, but the mosquito.rement may do, it cannet run the indus Pressure is still highest over the East"
tries of the country. Employers and em the female that makes us really ill Unmained after she had driven out the poster must do that for themselves andern Ben and lowest over the South China fortunately, all of the mosquitos appear She who laughs last laughs longest, for the community of which they are
Forecast:-E. winds, strong, moderat to prefer human blood to anything else. and the laughter of the mosquito is members. And they can do it efficiently
only in good will and co-operationing, overcast, occasional raia. (Continued on next Ouluma). sanguinary.
There seem to be almost as many dirvived eighty-five years of clean adminis-word Glass, war propaganda leads to
ent kinds of mosquitos as there, are pects in any of the great religions.
tration
Some of us have a theory that "each
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