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THE SPORT. OF KINGS."
FIRST NIGHT NEXT FRIDAY.
Booking for the Hong Kong Amateur Dramatic Club's
forth. coming production "The Sport of Kings progressing in a most encouraging manner and the A.D.C. is already assured of a repetition of the whole-hearted support which. the community has always given
them.
Hard work continues with the casts and next Friday will find them well prepared for the heavy demands the play makes on them. From principals to supers there is a kecpoets which Assures success and all are eager to face the start er and carry the A.D.C. colours frst past the post 1.
PHARMACY AND POISONS PLAY GROUND FOR
REGISTER.
TO BE KEPT BY THE MEDICAL DEPART-
MENT.
TRANSFER FROM THE
COLONIAL SECRETARY.
At the next meeting of the Legislative Council na ordinance will be introduced to amend thei Pharmacy & Poisons Ordinance of 1918.
The objects and reasons this new measure state:-
1.
for
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" of
Clause 2 of this Bill transfers the sake of convenience administration, from the Colonial Secretary to the Director of Medica! and Sanitary Services the custody The action of the play takes and keeping of the Register kept place, for the most part, in the under the Pharmacy and Poisons library of Newstead Grange, Sur-Ordinance, 1918, and amends sec ar-pro- ticas 3, 5 and 19 of that Ordinance rey the residence of a Atcer, one Amos Purdie J.P. and accordingly. for this scene Mr. C. P. Anderson, F.R.I.B.A has specially designed a very charming set of the Tudor period which will give the players an admirable background. It will, in itself, be a striking feature of the production. Mossrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. will be responsible for the furnishings which are again being prepared under the persona: supervision of Mr. H. E. Scriven,
The caste of the play is as fol- lows:-
Clause 2 also amends the Regula tions made under tint Ordinance in similar fashion: three of such regulations effected by such amend ments will be found on pages and 733 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925.
Clause 3 enable, the Governor in Council to make regulations for the issue of licences to persons other than wholesale dealers and ane whom the issue a tioneers to licences is at present limited. Amos Purdie J.P....W. A. Hannibal.
3. The amendment effected by Mrs. Purdie. Lucy Greensmith. Clause 4 of this Ordinance is neces- Joe Purdie . P. Sands.sary, because Katie Purdie..... Evelyn Harriman. Dulcic Primrose...Margaret Chubb. Algernon Sprigg.
4. Clause 5 amends section 10 the principal Ordinance song fo prevent the use by an unregistered person of the title of chemist, druggist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmaceutist or pharmacist in any language whatever.
some persons are " whilst Chemista Pharmaceutical others are Chemists and Druggists, G. Stopani Thompson which lätter a lower qualifien- Sir Reginald Toothill
O. C. Warner,tion. Chemists and Druggists, Bates-Butler C. P. Marcel. therefore, have no right to be regis Albert-Boots. J. N. Owen, tered as Pharmaceutical Chemists, Cook
Judy Marcel. Tweeny Kathleen Robertson, Jane Gracie Syme Thompson, Panama Petes Bookmaker
R. H. Charles. Police Sergeant
A. H. White. Barmaid
Billie Bond. Newsboy.......... Ian Black, There is a prologue, set in the champagne bar at a race meeting and a mechanical change, occupy ing two minutes, is made to the library, already described; where the remainder of the performance takes place.
By kind permission of Capt. G. Hopwood, C.B.E., R.N., and Om cers, the Band of H.M.S. Hermes will provide the incidental music.
The opening night is Friday cext, 16th instant, at the Theatre Royal, where the play will be repeated on Tuesday, 20th, and Saturday, 24th
instant.
Kowloon residents are again re minded of the performance at the Star Theatre on Thursday, 22nd instant, and we feel confident the A.D.C.'s enterprise in this connec tion will be rewarded by a WATIN welcome when they make their debut on the Peninsular.
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5. Clause 6 amends section 11 of
the principal Ordinance so as to make it provisions with regard la the labelling of poison correspond with the provisions of the English Act, 13 and 14 Geo. 5, c. 5, 5."4 2). & Clause of the Bill amends section 13 of the principal. Ordi- nace by the addition of a sub- section (4) for the purpose of enabling registered medical practi tioners and registered dental sur- geons to buy poisons specified in scation 12 subject to certain tona ditions."
7. Clause 8 of the Bill amends section 19 of the principal Ordi annce by the addition of a sub- section for the purpose of imposing a penalty on the Chairman and every Director and officer concerned in the management of the Company where the Company is convicted of an offence, unless such Chairman, Director or Officer proves that the act constituting the offence tock place without his knowledge .or consent."
3. Clause 9 of the Bill amends the principal Ordinance by the addition of the section, to be num
bered 23, which provides for the calculation of percentages in the case of a liquid
9. Clause 10 of the Bill is in- troduced becaust it has been found that many poisons are being sold under newly invented trade names.
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WANCHAI?
SPRINGS ON THE ISLAND.
MALARIA PREVENTION, AND ELIMINATION.
INTERESTING QUESTIONS AT SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
Several interesting questions will be asked by Mr. J. P. Braga and Dr. W. V. M. Koch to-morrow at the Sanitary Board Meeting. Among Mr. Braga's questions will be one relating to the need for-aplay ground for children in Wanchai.
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Dr. Koch is seeking information as to whether the geological survey of the Island and the mainland has
Mr. Braga will ask:-. revealed any spring on the island.
"Attention having been drawn in the Press to the need for a child.. ren's playground at Wanchai, and in view of the approaching comple- tion of the Praya East Reclamation, will the Government make known its plans regarding the allocation of any land for open spaces and re- creation grounds in the Wanchai district 1
"What provision has been made out of public funds to lay out and maintain a playground in the Wan- chai district similar to those now available for children on the Peak and at Kowloon!
"If a scheme for a children's playground is yet in contemplation, will the Government consider the advisability, in the interest, af public health of reserving a site for recreation purposes to meet the pressing want of children of the working classes residing at Wan- chai
The Kowloon Mortuary. Mr. Bragu will further ask:- "(i.) Regarding the Public Mar- tuary at Kowloon will the President state whether
(a) The Town Planning Com- mittee, made any recommenda- tion with reference thereto 1 (b) What is the nature of such re
commendation ?
(.) Having regard to the fact that the Mortuary is situated within the residential area of Kowloon. and is a real nuisance to nearby residents, will the Government.con- sider its removal to a site not open to the same objections as the pre- kent
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Are There Springs On The Island? Dr. Koch's questions will be:- · "(i) Will the Head of the Sani- tary Department ascertain for the information of the Board whether any attempts have been made by responsible authorities to find out HER PICTURES
• "GORILLA'S NEST, by boring, the existence of springs on the island,
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"PUT THEM IN THEIR PLACES."
OF A WHAT WIVES SHOULD DO TO
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DR. LANG'S ADVICE,
(i) Has any report on the ONLY 500 OF LITTLE PEOPLE
LEFT.
The Archbishop of York (Dr. geological survey of the Island and Mainland been drawn up lately; and if so has such report been made widow of the American naturalist clergyman, berechishop of Can- Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, the Lang), in bidding farewell to Huli
new duties as public-If not is there any inten- who died on the slopes of an Africanterbury, addressed a number of volcano two years ago while con- ! clergymen's wives at social tion to make such report public?
(iii)Assuming Ruch survey to ducting a seientife expedition on
behalf of the Belgian Goverament, gathering in the Guildhall
I am not in a position," he have been made, are there any in-showed the Zoological Society of said, to judge of the value of the dications of the existence of springs London last month, the first pie-wiver of the clergy, but as to the tures ever taken of a gorilla's nest. value of the wife of an archbishop After her lecture, during which I have my own opinion. You will she urged the extension of preserves know the difference that a wife fox wild animals threatened with makes to an archbishop when your extinction, Mrs. Akeley told a
new archbishop comes." Daily Mail reporter something of
Sometimes, he added, the work her experiences. She said:
of a clergyman was affected by un- No marti- necessary mannerisma, ed men should have manneriais. Their wives should be able to cor- Sometimes clergymen rect them. showed signs of being elated with themselves and became a nuisance, but their wives would know there was probably very little reason for elation.
on the island, especially in and about Mount Parker, and if so, is it not possible to tap them and ensure reasonable addition to the water stored in the varicus Reservoirs "
Malaria 1 Further questions by Dr. Kocb will bec
"" (i) Will the Head of the Sani- R. T. Boffa, James Flintoff (8.1. Portun), Miss A. Gerasimoff, E. tary Department inform the Board Kustenko, M. Rejzes, A. Rasmus-whether steps are being con- G. Alander, Capt. P. M. Andersen, United Land Investment Cotinuously taken towards the prob son, Dr. C. Barreda, Dr. Benjamin, C. D. Wardle..
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Adventist... Hamley (Continued on next Column)."
From.
lem of Malaria Preventian and Elimination? If so, what steps have been taken recently, and to what extent ?
(ii) As presumably the Autho- Boston, Mass.ritics are in possession of the report Saigon. by Surgeon Commander Given, Haiphong. B.N., on the Prevalence of Malaria Swatow, in the Colony, may we be informed 4099... Wschow, whether any action has been taken
Hanoi.in accordance with bis recommenda Saigon. tions. If so, what steps have been Makesser. taken ?-if not why have steps not Tchekam, been taken ?
Three days after we had climb- ed Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo, in territory where no white wo- man had hitherto been, my hus band died and I was left to carry on his work. I stayed on the slopes of the volcano for more than seven weeks. At night the cold was intenso, and I sat in my
"Deal with them gently and tent with two charcoal stoves. I also suffered from constant rain sympathetically," said Dr. Lang, but firmly; put them in their and a shortage of provisions,
Later, with the help of assist place" On the other hand, when ants and Dr. J. M. Derschied. their husbands were in moods of general secretary of the Belgian depression, very natural in these Committee for Nature Protection, days, they should lift them up. I was able to complete my hus. One reason why the clergy were band's work. This was the col-down-hearted and depressed was lection of specimens of animal because of their inadequate means. life, plant accessories, and paint Never were wives more obliged to children and bd ed backgrounds for an African mother their Hall for the American Museum governess, cook, housemaid, and
an income not com of Natural History, New Yoric gardener on That hall is to be known as the parable with that of a confidential Cari Akeley Memorial African clerk.
Dr. Lang paid a tribute to the Hall
way in which many clergymen's wives refused to lose heart.
Manila, "(iii) Is the Department aware Nanning that in the pools and small streams Manila. alongside the road from the Peak
Dr. Derschied, who accompanied Hong Theng, to Aberdeen, malaria carrying mos Mrs Akeley claimed to be the only Makasser: quitoes have been found quite re-white man who bas hunted ele Manila, cently all the way down to the phants with the pygmies of this re- Bandoeng, Pokfulam Reservoir: and that in Sandakan. the pools formed by the nullah 8ion. He added:
Road Harlech RCTOSE Canton. cunning New York. Anophelines are also to be found Nogalesariz. and that probably in consequence Djokjakarta. some cases of malaria have occurred Manila which can be traced to these Hanoi. sources, potably the case of an in- Prea, Adoma.fant-will steps be taken to deal Portland Ore. with these sources of infection 1 *** |
There are only 500 pygmies left in this territory, and I saw 200 of them. The pygmies and the gorillas are oa the best of terms. The gorillas, who live higher up the mountain than the pygmies, will never interfere with the (Cohlinued at föct of next column:)
Keep an eye upon your hus- band," he said, "but don't ang ** He hoped the day was coming when the wife of a clergyman, would not be in any way a sort of parish hack.
native settlements, while the Pygmy will not attempt to hunt the gorilla unless in the pay of a professional white sportsman..