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No. 21,879 號玖拾柒百捌仟豐萬弍第日肆拾月棨辰戊 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28th, 1928. 式拜禮 日期廿月淵年八廿百九仟登英
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Taipo Market Cap 7,15
Fing
2.85 5,00), 4,20) 5,48|7,30°
4.38 5,50
712,53 1.51.
1.50 6.0% 7.50
8,04 6,15 BAS
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UP TRAINS
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Temati ...Dep.
Bhatin „Deb. 7.01
Rp 7.30
-7,30
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Canton
1.08 9.05.8.14 1.14 2,13 8.90 3.40
5,08 6.19 8.07 8.18 6.30 8.17 5.38 5.55 8.31 5,29 6,41 8
•ATT.-12.40`--- 5.38
7.26
DOWN TRAINS
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8,06
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Canton Dep.
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Tripo Bhatin
..2.30
11,58 3.584,39 5.49 8.457.04 12.03806 LU
6,52
12.07 | 8.10 | 4,50
12.18 8.21 5.00
18.3 5.25 5.04
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HOP-PICKING" "SCANDAL.”
M.P. ATTACKS CAMP CONDITIONE
OFFICIAL REPEY
Conditions of life among the hop pickers, who will make their annual migration from London to Kent The directors of the Southern drew a caustic speech in the House Bailway have decided to recommend f of Commons from Mr. Frank Briant, their shareholders to approve the the Liberal member for North Lam- transference of Charing Cross Sta-beth. tion to the south side of the Thames, The £12,878,000 scheme adopted by the London County Council is in consequence, a reality.
A new London, changed almost beyond recognition, may arise with in the next generation as the out- come of the plan. An image of the London of the future calls up visions of a wonderful transforma- tion of the ziverside district in which the new Charing Cross Sta- tion is to be planted. The Surrey bank of the river will no longer be a dreary expanse of wharves and timber yards.
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Flowered Gardens. - + An embankment, with flowered gardens, will stretch from West- minster to Blackfriars Bridge. Great Juxury Hotels will spring up to cater for the custom that will irresistibly tand to drift to the south side of the river Town-planning experts of long vision predict that the area by the south bank of the river will gradually rival, and even supersede, the Piccadilly district as the centre of the business and social life of the capital
He hitterly attacked the local authorities in Kent...
"Disgusting, - flthy, anfit for human beings to live in," was his general description of the hoppers' quarters, as he had seen them in
previous years," -
Seven or eight persons, he stated, often shared a room ten feet by nïns feet, without chairs, tables or even a box, and no place on which to set food save dirty straw. The water supply in one place was A ditch in which the children washed, Sometimes condemned Army tents, which were seldom trenched, were used for sleeping-quarters, and bed clothing was always 'damp in bad weather.
Yearly Trek.
"Sixty thousand persons," he cried, leave London for Kent every year. They have the right to demand the accommodation given to a decently bred borse. It is a Work on the new Charing Cross scandal that London people going bridge will probably start next to Kent for a sort of holiday should Autumn, and the immediate sequel be subjected to conditions, disgust is bound to be that great developing, degrading, and disgracely in ment schemes will be put in band
the community." on the south side of the river.
Increase In Values..
Fine sweeping boulevards, CX- Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the tending as far as Battersea Park, Minister of Health, replied that he may eventually be laid out to set off the new embankment. Elum bad little power to control these areas and old buildings will be pull-conditions very little power be- ad down to make place for new yond exhortation. It is the local structures in harmony with the growing dignity and importance of authorities," he added, "who are the district.
really competent to deal with the question. I am glad the subject One result of the great trans-has been raised, because what we formation will be that property want is to educate public opinion values in the district will be enor- mously enhanced. Far-seeing busi- in this matter. ness men have already realised the boundless potentialities of develop ment, and have begun to inquire about the ownership of the land. Tenants of large properties and small shopkeepers alike may stand to win fortunes in the next ten or twenty years for leases which are Dow of no great worth.
No doubt conditions in some of| the hop-fields are very far from being what they should be. I have done all I can to induce local autho- rities to adopt model by-laws. In the absence of further powers I can do no more," "
ELECTRICITY FOR BAD
HANDWRITING.
PROFESSOR'S STORY OF AT
BACKWARD BOY.
Much of the property round the site of the new Charing Cross Sta- tion is owned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: The remainder is divided among small landowners. On the Blackfriars side of Waterloo "Bridge. the principal landowner is the Duchy of Cornwall, or, in other wards, the Prince of Wales, Land values in the area will prob ably be increased by millions of pounds with the passing of years.
The beauty of the Thames vista Council at Cambridge, Professor will be increased out of all know-A E. Heath, Professor of Philoso ledge, and the view from the great Phy at University College, Swan- new Charing Cross bridge will be sea, dealt with an electrical ap- one of the most inspiring in Europe. Paratus which had been used as an experiment to teach a boy to write.
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DIARY OF EVENTS.
Today,
(August 28th.) Queen's Theatre:"Love Me and the World is Mine."
World Theatre: "Whispering Smith" at 5.15 and 820, other houses Chinese Drama The Knight of the Burning Temple.” -
Star Theatre: "Mannequins." ‚» Tea Danos: E.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Principal Mail:-O`utwardi Europe vid Marseilles (Obenon- ceaur), 2.30 p.m.; Europe via Siberia (Athos 17.), 1. p.m.
Wednesday.
(August 29th.) Extraordinary General Meeting, Hong Kong Bape Manufacturing Co., 11 am.
Water Polo V.B.C...... “A” *. Navy.
violin Recital, Cecilia Hansen, Theatre Royal, &.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Love Me and the World is Mine.”:
World Theatre: Whispering Smith" at 5.15 and 9.90, other bouses Chinese Drama "The Knight of the Burning Temple:
Star Theatre: "Mannequina.” Seaman's Institute Whist Drive, Tea Dance: H.E.Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Principi Kail:÷Outward; Europe vid Vancouver (Empress of Russia), 10 á.m.
Baseball:
Thursday.
(August 30th.)
Junior *Division:
St. Joseph's Y.M.B.A, 5.30 p.m. Queen's Theatre í Steamboat Bill Jr.
World Theatre: La Bohème. Star Theatre: The Telephone Girl.”
Tea Dance; H.K. Hotel, 4.30 pm. Principal Mail-Inward: Europe rid Suez (Kashgar).
Friday,
(August. 31st.): Christian Fellowship Meeting Helena May Institate, 10.30 8.m.
Violin Recital, Cecilia Hansen Theatre Royal, 9:15 pm.
Queen's Theatre! ***Steninboat Bill Jr."
World Theatre: "La Bohême.". 'Star Theatre: "The Telephone Girl."
Tes Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Saturday...‚'
(September 1st.)
Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. Basebal1:-Junior Division: South China v. China Athletics, 2 p.m. Senior Division: H.K. Base- ball Club South China.
Queen's Theatre: "Steamboat Bill Jr."
World Theatre: "La Bohême.". Star Theatre: "The Telephone: Girl."
Tea DancesHK., Hotel, 4.30 Addressing the Summer School | p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. of the British Social Hygiene Principal Majls:-Out ward: Europe vid Marseilles (Valdera), 10.30 am.
He once had a boy pupil, he maid, who was particularly bright
Sunday. (September 2nd.).
13th Sunday after Trinity. Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. Baseball Junior Division:
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in conversation, but who was ab South China Scouts. Kloris, 2 solutely hopeless at school work. P.m. Benior Division: Chins Ath They found that the difficulty sim-letics . Y.M.C.A., 4 p.m.
A Kiss in a ply was that he could not write. Queen's Theatre: They found that be held his pen World
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"Painted MONTREAL that he was tired out almost at the Ponies"
Star Theatre: "The Mysterious Following the wake of the Mar-end of a line. To cure that the tin Frobisher expedition, which boy was given special lessons with Rider."
Tea Daace: HE. Hotel, 4.30p.m has not been disturbed since the an electrical device, using a stec) days of Queen Elizabeth, a party pen with connections, so that he
Monday. of Canadian mining engineers and got a shock on the back of the neck geologists have sailed from Halifax every time he pressed too hard.
(September 3rd.) in the tern schooner Mario "bound The Professor described on the
Annual General Meeting, Hong for points in Hudson's Bay to blackboard the melbod adopted. seek knowledge and development The boy had to form letters be Kong Hockey Club.
Queen's Theatre: A Kiss in a the Hair Practically Straight and requires of the uncharted mineral wealth tween two lines on cardboard. The electrical connection was so con-
A Weekly Waterwaye, Ma, J. BETEN Taxi" of the Canadian sub-Arctic.
World: Theatre: "Painted (Trained in Para), No. 2, PRATT' The expedition is sponsored by structed that when the steel pen
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Star Theatre: "The Mysterious 945, and is in charge of Mr. G. H. Blazing sound, and when it went over chetts, exploratory engineer of the too far, a bell rang. Thus the boy Rider"
Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 1.20 p.m. Department of the Interior, who is was able to develop muscular con- on leave of absence for the pur-trol and form the letters ebaily.
In a statement after the lecture, The expedition plans a two-year Professor Heath said that the ex- stay in the north. It will venture periment took place at a Hamp-Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15 beyond the Tree Belt" into the thire school. "It was in the p..
Queen's Theatre: barren lands where the engineers iaboratory we fixed up the ap
"Stop that believe they will unearth, mineral paratus," he said "It appeared Man." resources of vest value which may to us as a possible solution, and World Theatre; "Butterfly - in be exploited with profitable facility we had not heard of it be the Bain." on the completion of the Hudson's Fax Rollyer
The schoonor is commanded by Lieutenant-Commander J. 4. Ban- dell, D.B.C., a retired officer of the British Navy,
Tuesday. (September 4th.)
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answer, bift in this particular cases Dance: HK Hotel, 400p is was successful. The boy after- Principal Mail-Outwards. wards went to Cambridge and "did Europe vid Marseilles (Lencas), very well.
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