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[ORDERS BY LT.-COL, L. Q. MÍRD, 2.1.0.; COMMANDANT.]
No. 340.
1-Arms,
All rifles and bayonets will be handed into Volunteer store immed- iately for the annual inspection.
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Sports Committee will meet again at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.45 p.m. on Monday, August 13th, 1928.
3.-Corps Bard.
There will be no further practice parades during July. Probationers will parade under Bandmaster A. J. M. Rodrigues for private tuition under private arrangements till fur- ther notice.
4.The Battery.
Representative to Corps Sports Gunner O. Moor has been appointed to this Committee
Committee.
CHINESE GIRLS WANT THEIR RIGHTS.
THE REVOLT AGAINST
POLYGAMY..
[DY MISS PAO WAY TRĖNO, Hend Mistress of I Fung Girls Collegiate School, Changsha, Hunan, China.“Miss Tieng, who was the first_Chinese_woman to graduate at London University, belongs to one of the four most ancient families in China, her known ancestry extending back 4,000 years. Her school in China was formerly her ancestral
temple.]
TIME-WASTING · M.P.'S.
REFORM OF PROCEDURE, NEEDED.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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Dom.
JULY 26TH, 1928. When you read of an all-night A.K. Bank $1,299 buy, 1,300 sul sitting of the House of Commons Do London...Els nom do not
waste any sympathy on Chartered Banks24 buy.
Mercantile Banks, A. &B...£SÒ nom. M.P.'s, writes the Daily Mail Par
Do..
U...E14 po liamentary correspondent. Do not P. & Q. Banks
£9) nom. *******$75 buy. East Asia Bank regard them as poor fellows by duty Canton Insurances $6ys buy. bound to lose a night's rest in the Union Inrarandes
1346 b service of the antion.
NorthChins Ins, memine?
Tia. 1434 buy, Tangtase inguraDOF.................
M. $50 mon okina Underwriters
el buy Chins Fire Insurances....3245 bay. Hong
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If M.P.'s
Nothing of the kind. have to sit up all night now and again to get the business done it After thousands of years of sup-much time on other occasions.
is because they have wasted so pression the women of China are to-day enjoying and wisely using
a new-found freedom.
There has been too much talk
...... nom.
about the reform of the House of Lords. A reform of the procedure They are taking an increasingly
of the House of Commons is much important part in business, in the medical, legal, and other pro-
more urgently needed, and will have to be undertaken before long. Let She Exploratio....... fessions, and they are showing MP's who make sarcastic refer- Shanghai LOADI themselves to be equal to respon-ence to the methods of the Peers Trench Mines sible work in Government depart extract the beam from their own
ments. And more and more of the girls of China are studying hard
as The Battery Representative. 5.-Mounted Infantry Company. Friday, July 27th Parade at 5:30 to themselves to serve their country with their brains, and at p.m. at Corps Headquarters for in-the same time to express their own struction on M.G. Serg: Watson's | îndividuality. Section only,
Tuesday, July 31st: Parade at Stable at 5.45, p.m.. for "Riding School. "
Friday, August 3rd: Parade at 5.30 p.m. at Corps Headquarters for instruction on M.G. Sergt. Pott's Section only.
Attendance: All ranks must be "at the place of parade five minutes before the time expressed in order,
Field Day: There will be a Field Day on Sunday, August 19th, 1928. Members are naked to keep this day Full details will be issued
Free. later.
6-Armoured Car Company. Car Section: Friday, July 27th. Parade at Volunteer Headquarters at 4.30 p.m. for lecture on Car Mechanismn
The new spirit among China's women is manifesting itself very changed attitude towards marriage. markedly in almost a viclently
For thousands of years the girls of my country were content-because they had no choice to be betrothed by arrangement,” This system still persists to some extent-the
parents of the girl settling the matter with the parents of the future husband, and celebrating the agreement" with a party, and the exchange of presents.
But the new women of China pro- claim-and exercise, too-their na- tural right to choose their own
mates.
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Nor will they tolerate polsgamy. The educated girl now insists on a promise from her chosen husband that he will never attempt to in- "troduce another woman into their home. If a husband did attempt to do this his wife would divorce him
Monday, July 30th: Inspection on Machine Gun at Corps Headquart once. ters at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Mufti.
Wednesday, August 1st: A run in the Armoured Car will be held starting from Volunteer Headquar- ters at 5.30p.m. sharp. Dress: Mufti.
Friday, August 3rd: Parado at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for lecture on Car Mechanism.
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Divorce is now
very easy in China. There is a very tragic side to this, however, so far as women are concerned. Now that the sexes, among the educated classes, are mingling freely socially, and in business and in the professions, it is, inevitable that many young men who were married according to the old betrothal system meet girls whom they like better than their
eye.
At the beginning of every session the Government plans a legislative programme which nearly fills the available days, and Ministers plead "No time for many useful Bila the reform of the motoring law and the regulation of bogus charities, for instance-and "No time for de bates on urgent and unforeseen affairs.
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R.K. Realtion Humphreys Hatatos......$14.55 bay. BK, Tramways
All the time needed and more could be found by a few simple alterations in the rules, which have not so far been made simply be- | Paik Trama (old). cause in parliamentary procedure Do. what has been must be and tradi. tion is mistakenly supposed to be the only shield of liberty.
Taxes Discussed Six Times,
which kept the House up all night. Take this matter of the new taxes
They are discussed no fewer than six times a year before they become law, and similar arguments are trotted out and defeated on every; occasion.
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$47; nom.
Macao Electrics Telephone China Buses Singapors Tractions... 0/6 buy.. 11/
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11/8 sel (Prof.)...16/8
$8,40 now,
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Do. (old) Ds. (new)
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First the Chancellor, introduces his Badget and moves the new tax resolutions in committee; then there comes the report stage of the re solutions in .committee. Not until this has been passed is it legal to embody them in a Finance Bill. Next we have the second reading of the Finance Bill, the committee Watsons stage of the Finance Bill, the re- Der & Wings ̧ .................. port stage of the Finance Bill, and Lane Crawfords........ the third reading of the Finance Maskintosh............ Bill.
Since *********
Powells Anyone can see that at least the Wa first two of these stages are re HA. Amasentals $20 sei. dundant. but the Commons cling to H.. Constractions ..... sol. them, "forsooth, "because centuries, 'que. Indus. G.Bonds. nom. ago they were trying to curb the HK Gort, Loans.......6% prew, bay. too much money from his. sub- N.C.O.'s Class will parade at This ground is held to be a very time could be saved here.
of incompatibility of temperament.jects. A week of parliamentary Headquarters on both dates at anme good one. time and place, but on August 3rd will proceed.. to Kennedy Road Range in the Ford Truck for Traversing and Searching.
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7.-Machine Gun Company.
.
Parade, will be held in mufti at wives. 5.30 p.at. at Corps Headquarters.
The result is that they seek, and
buy.
on Friday, July 27th, and Friday easily, obtain, divorce on the ground power of the King to extract buy-buyaru; sel-sellera; sa.-- salen ;
August 3rd.
8.-Scottish Company. Vickers Gun Class of instruction will be held at Corps Headquarters at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 30th,
1928.
9.-Portuguese Company.
The Portuguese Company Concert will be held at the Club de Recreio an Friday, August 3rd, at 9.13 p.m.
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10-Strength
The following recruit is taken op the strength on July 23rd, 1928, and posted to No. 2 Platoon:-No. 1359 Pte. S. M. West.
11.—Transförs And Appointments.
Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin is transferred from the M.I. Co. tol Corps Headquarters as P.R.I.
Lieut. N. L H. Railton is trans
ferred from The Battery to Corps appointed Musketry
Headquarters as from June 22nd, 1028, and Officer.
12.---Leave. "No. 1390 Fte. G. R. Razavet, No. Platoon, from August 8th to October 2nd, 1998.
No. 1111 L/Sgt. C. E. M. Terry No. 2 Platoon, from September 1st, 1998, to March 31st, 1929.
13.—Sírück Of The Strength, No. 1093 Pte. L. E. Haynes, No. 7 Platoon, as from July 20th, 1828.
R. A. WOLFE YUurnar, Major,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, August 27th, 1998.
NOTICES,
1.—Swimming Sports. "By kind permission of the V.B.C. the Corps will hold swimming aports at the V.R.C. Bath on Friday. August 24th, at 9 p.m. There will also be music and dancing after the sports,
Admission 81.
Entrance forms for the various events can be obtained at Volunteer Headquarters and V.R.C. entries
free
All entries to be sent into Corpl D. Lyon, c/o Jardine, Matheson & Co, not less than August 16th......
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No. 2 Platoon Rifle Club will hold their August Meeting at the Peak Range on Sunday, July 29th, 1928, at 9.30 am. which it is hoped will be as well supported as usual
But what is to happen to the dis- carded wives! Seeing, that it be comes generally known that they have been divorced because their husband's decided that they were not nice enough for them, other young men are reluctant to marry them, thinking that what was not nice enough for somebody else is not nieg enough for them!-Daily Mail,
Divisiona
Consider, now, the divisions. How time-wasting they are! I do not reler primarily to the method of recording them-the walk through, the division lobbies, though mecha nical devices might be. used to re- duce it by half-but to the number of totally unnecessary divisions.
Twenty or thirty times every session the Prime Minister moves the suspension of the standing order which says that the adjourn ment must be at 11 p.m. This re- aplution is always carried, but the Opposition always challenge it, and WHY THEY CANNOT INSURE other quarter-hour of parliamen-
ACTRESSES' · JEWELS.
THEM.
"TALK TOO MUCH."
Are actresses more careless about their jewellery than other women?
Underwriters and insurance com-
tary time is wasted.
Why not make the suspension of the. 1 o'clock rule, dependent on s certificate of urgency by the Speaker Time equivalent to a full parliamentary day would be saved. And there are scores of other un- necessary, divisions with pre-ordain- ed and inevitable results that could
panies think they are and refuse to be avoided those for instance when accept the risk of insuring their members march for hours through valuables against loss. It was owing the division lobbies to vote for the to this fact that Miss Fannie Ward, expenditure of departments which who lost a diamond bracelet said they have never even discussed.
Trivial Questions... to be worth £10,000 on her journey across the Atlantic, was unable to Half the daily hour allotted to effect an insurance,
questions is wasted by members who put down demands for. statistical information or queries on trivial local topics to acquire glory in their constituencies. Only written replies should be given to these, and the Speaker or the Clerk should have
A leading London assessor told a Daily Mail reporter that the ban on insurance of actresses, jewels is now in operation in this country and in the United States. He said:
It is part of their business to adorn themselves with jewellery and, being actresses, they tell everybody about it. The whole world knows that Miss So-and-So has a beautiful pearl necklace of great value, and that is the sort of information that thieves are anxious to get.
right to refuse permission for them to be put orally.
The adoption of these simple sug- gestions alone would avoid the necessity for any all-night sittings and give legislators who think they are overworked another full fort night of parliamentary time every That does not mean that all session to discuss the things that
matter.
actresses are barred. There are actresses and actresses; but even for those who are accepted a high premium is demanded.
Miss Heather Thatcher mid to a reporter:--
'.
I know insurance companies do not like to cover actresses' jewala against theft or loss, and many of my friends who own consider. able jewellery are absolutely un- protected. Many of them have tried all the leading companies in
vain,
They are only a beginning; there any M.P.' mean business. are plenty more that can be made
H.M.S.
TREASURE TROVE ÁT SINGAPORE.
SINGAPORE, July 19th.. During the course of excavations at Fort Canning in connection with the Municipal reservoir, some Chi- Fortunately, I have always been nese women workers discovered a able to effect a cover for my own, number of gold ornaments of an but with popularity the premium cient native design. The articles goes up. When I was an unknown have been handed over to the actress I could insure my jewels authorities, and
their possibls
for 7. Ed. per £100, but now I origin and history are, now being have to pay £2 per £100 a year. investigated.
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