MID-LEVELS RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION.
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW MOTOR ROAD URGED
UPON GOVERNMENT.
CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND ALSO WANTED.
ACTIVE YEAR'S WORK REPORTED.
A subject of particular interess to residents of the Mid-Levels. and especially to those in May Road, was raised at the third. annual meeting of the above Association which was held at the Ladies Recreation Club "yesterday evening.
The matter in question is the need of a Motor Read through May Road and along Magazine Gap Road..
Correspondence on the subject has been going on betweeen the Government and the Association for some time past. A start has not been made yet, but in view of the increased population in this level, the need for the road is being stressed by inhabitants of the locality.
CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH
Secretaryship.
The Chairman concluded by re- Mr. W. A Dawley, Chairman of the Association, presided over the marking that Mr. W. G. Joseph.. mesting and reviewed the activi resigned from Secretary on leaving ties of the Association, touching the Colony last year and his place. upon the new motor road at length, was taken by Mr. E, & C. Brookes. He said that members would have The latter had to give up the post noted that they had 50 members on going Home on furlough, But and that the number would doubt-he considered they were very "for- dess be increased" "if newcomers joined up. As a matter of fact, he explained, they had a round-up last week and applications were being received daily.
The Chairman informed the meet. ing that the Committee had been brought to its full strength of twelve members and they had in- vited Mesars. J. T. Bagram, L. Dunbar, H. Ferguson, Henry Humphreys and O. Steenstra to ecome members and all of them had cordially responded.
Turning to the accounts he said that it would be seen that there
was a sum of 8183 in hand, which was ample for the current expenses of the Association.
Motor Road,
A matter of keen interest to residents of the Mid-Level was the necessity for a motor road through May Road and along Magazine Gap Road, and as members would
noted from the
have
tunate in eecuring the valuable services of Mr. T. A Martin.
Mr. Dawley then proposed the adoption of the report and state ment of accounts." Mr. A. G. Cop- pin seconded and the proposal was carried unanimously.
Election Of Officers. The following were then elected for the ensuing year on the motion of Afr. T. S. Morrison, seconded by Mr. W. A. Davidson:-
Chairman: Mr. W. A. Dowley. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer Mr. T. A. Martin.
Committee: Messrs. J. T. Bag ram, L. Dunbar, A. H. Ferguson, Heary Humphreys, O. Steenstra, J. H. Backhouse, J. H. Brister, A. L Shields, Mrs G. Harriman, and Miss Russell.
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OTHER MATTERS. In reply to Mr. report
Davidson Chairman said that they they had again been in correspon- the dence with the Government. The had decided to form sub-Com- reply received was that the road mittee to deal specially with the was being included in the 1929 question of the proposed motor- Draft Estimates. He remarked road. In any event the Govern- that they all realised the Government had already drawn up their "ment had had a difficult time with plans, but what they all particular. the hoances of the Colony and ly wanted to see was the work they had therefore refrained from started... pressing their demands pending, an Votes of thanks were passed "to improvement of the financial posithe Hon. Secretary, Mr. T. A tion which was now being enjoyed. Martin for his good work during But they were still without their the year, to Mr. J. M. Norrie for
Meantime, motor road,
while auditing the accounts and to the Ladies Recreation Club for kindly lending the Club's premises for the meeting.
Shekko and The Peak had their roads Mid-Level Residents had still to rely on the tram, with the alternatives of chair coolies, or walking,
Mr. Dowley was of the opinion that it would greatly help the Com mittee if all residents in that locality joined the Association. They would then speak with great. er force and the meter, road in those parts would be pleasant to
all
"*
Obvious Necessity.
THE REPOORT.
The Motor Road.
The obvious necessity for adequate The report stated inter alia:
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER: 7th, 1928.
ROYAL ACADEMY SALES.
300 PICTURES AND OTHER EXHIBITS.
There were lower visitors to the Royal Academy summer exhibition this year than there were last year.
The attendance then was ex ceptionally high, and this year it has been about normal," stated an official "I do not know why there so many visitors last year. The number of pictures sold has also been about the average," "
wore
About 300 of the 300 odd pictures and other exhibits which were for sale have found purchasers.
DANCING AND BEAUTY.
THE LISSOM LINE AND) 'MODERN' CLOTHES.
WORKLESS MAN DUPED.
300 MILES JOURNEY FOR JOB
·THAT DID NOT EXIST.
Before Mr. Bingley, the Mary lebone magistrate, Henry Stephen Harding, aged 28, a chauffeur,, of St. Lawrence-road, North Kensing ton, W., was bound. over on a EVERY DANCE THE DRESS IT charge of stealing £1 by means of
DESERVES..
(BY MERIAL WILSON, AMATEUR BALL- ROOM DANCING CHAMPION
OF IRELAND.]
Dancing and department were always twin subjects, taught simul- taneausly in Victorian days Now
a trick, from William Kear, a chauffeur, of Leamington-road. Villas, Bayswater, W.
Detective Dennis said the two men met in a public-house. Kear said he had just had to leave his job Harding said he had the address of a job at Edinburgh. Kear gave him £1 for the address. and journeyed 400 miles to Edin burgh. He searched in rain for we have dropped the word "deporting. Finally he returned penniless the arm and address given by Hard-
mest."s
to London. The firm did not exist. Harding pleaded guilty, but said particulars of the job were given him by another chauffeur.
*
The New Lissom Line. But if by department" you mean a graceful carriage, and a: beautiful figure, modera dancing, properly taught, gives it auto, who hold themselves well and easily matically. Nine women out of ten
Sir William Orpen's. picture, "The Black Cap," priced at £2,100 the highest resorve price in the catalogue has been sold, and other highly-priced pictures sold are:
*+ The
Head of John the Baptist" by Mr. Charles Ric ketta, PA. (£400),
A Dorset Landscape, by Mr.who walk gracefully without either Algernon Newton (420),
striding or mincing, and whose Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, gures have that lisson, Howing by Mr. Glyn Philpot, R.A. (£400), line which is demanded by modern "The Nurse," by Mr. L. Camp clothes and which has succeeded bell Taylor, A.R.Á. (£375),"'"
the boyishness of last year," are "Autumn in the South of good dancers. There is no exercise France: Hautes Alpes," by Mr. to compare with modern ballroom Adrian Stokes, B.A. (£300). dancing for keeping one it without
ungainly muscular development.
Fire of the late Mr. Charles
Sims's mystical pictures were sold at the beginning of the exhibition for £300 each.
LONDON BOY'S WANDER- LUST.
Strength Combined With Suppleness.
Hockey, for instance, makes for powerful development, but hardly for grace of movement. Gymnastics tend to tighten up the muscles and give a certain heaviness of trend which may account for, the fact that at physical training colleges Morris, not ballroom, dancing is
once or twice a week, even without any supplementary "physical jerks" or exercises at the bar, does develop strength that is at the same time supple. It should never be over- done. Good dancers sit out a great deal because they find the exercise very strenuous.
A RECRUIT FOR THE NAVY. taught. But dancing done only
When Charles Laycock, aged 13, was charged at Tottenham with being found on enclosed premises for дл unlawful purpose, Mr. Platten, the chairman, asked: What shall we do with you, my boy?"
Laycock I would like to join the Nary, if you please, sir. I have two mates there and they
like it.
The mother said that the boy persistently ran away from home His father had brought him home from various parts of the country on different occasions. He was a good boy, but seemed to have a
kink" for wandering.
to the conclusion that Harding was The missionary said he had come
a worthless fellow and could not be believed.
Mr. Bingley said he was very sceptical about Harding's story. The missionary was directed to see Kear and ascertain if he deserved help from the poor box.
NEW CAERLEON FINDS. UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WITH MASSIVE WALLS.
Many of the Romans who oc cupied the fortress at Caerleon, Monmouthshire, close to the am-. phitheatre given to the nation by The Daily Mail, were worshippers of Mithras, the Persian sun god, who was believed to bring victory in military adventures. It is there- fore not surprising that a stone, measuring 10ft. by 7ft, having the appearance of a sacrificis altar, has been found during the ex- cavations now taking place.
Two underground chambers, with walls 4ft. to 5ft. thick, have also been exposed.
In the school field freestone
In what is still called the bear- house field-probably in allusion to I cannot urge too strongly that the place where bears were kept for the dancing, to do good, must be gladiatorial combats, though now goed. We pride ourselves on taking part of Caerleon racecourse what things seriously now-a-days. We looks like a dungeon, about 10ft.
so that square, has been unearthed... are properly "coached our tennis is far better than the blocks, about 4ft. square, have been pat-ball of the eighties. No one discovered at regular intervals. sings or plays the piano at a party They possibly formed part of the unless he or she is competently lower walls of a large building trained. But there is still a come associated with the legionary for- mca delusion that anyone can tress in some way. It may have dance" because, modern dancing, served as the quarters of one of liko ali difficult arts, looks easy,
the higher officers.
MONT BLANC RESCUE. AIRMAN'S PLUNGE INTO ÌCY TORRENT.
CHAMONIX.
A school attendance officer said
When Deportment Is Wrong, that Laycock was not a bad lad, and on one occasion when the father Of course, it is nothing of the was ill and out of work he sold kind. And if it is done badly, Peanuts to try to help the family, dancing accentuates rather than area. which included six younger chil- improves faults in carriage, auch aa sticking the chin fortyard, turn- M. Platten said that the boying the feet out or in instead of seemed to have the wanderlust, and straight forward, or holding the aboulders badly. Modern dancing, they would send him to a training ship, from which he might get into
like Greek dancing, makes for easy the Navy.
and natural poise, but it is not learned by the light of nature. It require proper instruction; also is not only complicated steps that deportment if one may use the old-off to fly over Mont Blanc with a fashioned word,
party of tourists as passengers when he was told that two men and a horse had slipped into the torrent, which was swollen by the mountain snow.
The lad brightened up at once, and said Thank you, sir. After kissing his mother and the baby she had in her arms be left the court smiles. with the missionary, his face all
*
MONMOUTHSHIRE GHOST PLAYS BANJO.
"
Lieutenant Thorst, the French airman who specialises in Alpine flying, saved two men from drown- ing in an icy mountain torrent near Mont Blane.
The airman was about to take
T
I have seen many good dancere during my seven weeks' visit to London, but I have seen also a depressing array of bad ones. The latter turn the left foot in or out, Seizing & rope, Lieutenant for, curiously enough, it is usually Thoret ran to the stream 200 yards the left foot that goes wrong, or away and jumped in. Half-swim- they crouch towards their partners,ming, half-walking, he managed showing that no dancing teacher to get the rope to the two mea in has taught them to hold themselves succession and dragged them to
safety. .well.
Another airman, M. The Dancer's Figure,
Chatelard, rescued the horse.
Lieutenant Thoret, who was more The good dancers, on the con- trary, hold themselves with dignity than an hour in the icy water, was yet with a certain lissom fon carried to bed in an exhausted con- that is particularly desirable when dition, but it is hoped that he will fashiou decrees flowing chiffon be about again in a few days.
his again been the subject of cor. transport facilities on these Levels respondence with Government. I was asked that, if completion of The new blocks of flats lately the original Road was not contem- put up and other building opera plated, whether or not the intention tions now pending had made the-was to widen and strengthen exist- need for the road even greater ing roads on the Mid-Levels for the FATHER PUSHED UPSTAIRS. than before and when they heard purpose of accommodating motor of plans for roads in the New traffic. Gvernment replied to the Mr. and Mrs Herbert Dyer, who Territories they could not help effect that the work was unavoid- live in Hafodartha-road, Llanbil- thinking that the claims of their ably cut out of the departmental leth, Monmouthshire, believe that own growing locality had been estimates for 1928, but that it would their house is haunted by the ghost overlooked.
included in the 1929 draft of their son Leslie, who died at Mr. Dowley concluded his refer- estimates. In this connection, it Newport, Monmouthshire, Hospi- ence to this subject by assuring would greatly strengthen the posi- tal, from tubercular meningitis in those present that the Committee tion of the Committee if all: re- 1998 at the age of 12... proposed making further represidents affected joined the Associa
Aaa rule, too, they have They say that they were told sentations in the matter.
tion and attended the annual meet after
beautiful figurea Amateurs are their son's death by hardly fair examples, as other ing of Members to be held on 6th spiritualistic medium that they factors might contribute to their September.
would have communications from their dead boy. Their son Herbert, development. But take the profes sionals, who spend their lives in the aged 17, is believed to be a suc cessful medium, and it is when he ballroom. is present that the disturbances
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Children's Playground, The Chairman then dealt with the "question of a children's play- Children's Playground AL May
Road. ground in May Road. At present children had nowhere to play on Your Committee regret being un- those levels and had consequently able to report further progress ou to use the paths. The Committee this matter, beyond the fact that the had suggested that the grass court work is again being included by in front of Queen's Gardens would | Government in the 1929 draft meet the present needs provided estimates for consideration. the Government could see its way reply was elicited following the to erect a structuro giving the Association's suggestion that the necessary shelter from the sun and grass court in front of Queen's rain. The position to date was Gardens would meet the present that the Government was consider. urgent heed provided Government ing the matter in the 1929 Draft could see its way to erect a struc Estimates.
ture giving the necessary' shelter from sun and rain.
occur.
Some experiences related by Mr. and Mrs. Dyer and neighbours
This are:
Public Telephone Service.”
Increase Of Fares. On The Peak A suggestion had been made to
Tramways. the Telephone Co. that they should
"In common with the Peak Resi- instal a public telephone at May Road. The Company were pre- dents Association, representations. pared to instal the box provided were made last year following the ..the Association guaranteed the decision to increase the Peak Tram annual rental of $108. The Chair-way Fares. As the P. R.A. were man suggested that that should be unable to move Government in the done on the understanding that matter by amending or adding to the ten cents collected be paid to the Ordinance under which the the funds of the Association for Company functions, no effective re-
sistance could be made to the in the year. Thin was agreed to.
ereased charges.
Difficulties With Chair Coolles At
Water Service.
Seth's Corner.
A mysterious being descended the stairs, opened the doors, and pushed Mr. Dyer, who resisted, - upstairs He saw nothing.
A tool was lifted hy in unseen hand.
A banjo used by the dead boy was shifted about and tunes . played on it.
A table stood up on end and attracted a crucifix standing on, the mantelpiece.
Mrs. Dyer says that she cannot keep the tablecloth on the table and watches are taken from her pockets and replaced.
Slippery Condition Of The Peak Boad
frocks. They hold their shoulders back
TROOPS FIGHT FIRE.
FOREST OUTBREAKS IN FRANCE.
PERPIGNAN. cannot think of a
Soldiers from Perpignan and single London professional dancer Bremen from every town on the at hotels or dance clubs whose northern slopes of the Pyrenees figure I have not admired. Their have been rushed to Laroque-des- bodies are slim and supple, their Albers, near the Franco-Spanish legs are slender and elegant, and frontier, where a forest fire is exercise. and that dancing keeps on es their ankles do not thicken with this devouring hundreds of acres of woods on the French slopes of the
I myself and that:
me so it that even after six The fire started in a chestnut months lapse I can go for a long wood near Céret in the middle of ride on horseback without feeling the night. The tocsin was sound. stiff afterwards, and any of yed and the inhabitants turned out partners who are keen players of to a man to try to circumscribe the games find that instead of games fire. They had almost got it under keeping them fit for dancing, control when a new and more seri- dancing keeps them fit for games...
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Ballroom dancing this year is A company of the 24th Algerian more artistic than it has ever been: Rifles hastened to There are no ugly or jerky move motor-coaches and cars which were ments, and the action is based on commandeered at Rerpignan. They the natural movements in walking, were followed by all the local fre the foot straight forward and the brigades which were also driven to heel coming down a fraction of the spot in motor-cars.
second before the toe. Old- fashioned methods of teaching Following complaints received, induced children to walk with lancers; even with the much-vaunt W your Committee suggested to the the toe, well turned out, care-ed but "mannered " and formal Public Works Department that as fully placed Brat, a thoroughly minuet. Every dance gets the dress the slippery condition of this road artificial and mincing step being it deserves, and our own feminine Weather rendered it a positive danger to the result. I think that ballroom clothes, are the freest, of any aloco. Bata ... pedestrians and chair coolies, par- dancing develops natural, graceful the Greeks, ticularly when the road became poise, now that the Charleston has given way to smoother movements. prevent this danger. A reply was Compare it with the stilted, old received to the effect that the mat fashioned waltz, performed by ter had been referred to the proper rather stiff and stout Edwardians; quarter, and resurfacing, would be with the jerky polks that was pos carried out when considered necessible in a bustled with the heydenish sary. This has recently been done. (Continued at foot of nezi column.)
In response to several complaints the Secretary of the Committed wrote to the Water Authority In response to several requests pointing out the present innde received from Members, your Com- quacy of the water service. The mittes took up the question of the Association was informed in reply unsatisfactory.servior at this Depot, that only two complainte had been and deputed a Member of the Com-worn, regular resurfacing would received and further particulars mittee to personally represent mat were asked for. Ha requested ters to the Hon. O.S.P., who under- members to lodge details of their took to investigate complaints. The complaints to the Secretary to resulting improvement in the aer that instances might be giren to vice has been much appreciated. the Water Authority
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