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THE PUNKAH.
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BY J. PENN.
kernel is now to be seen out on the paddock alongside the Kow. loon post-office and the Y.M.C.A. It is a beautiful specimen of the carpenter's craft, and has been snapped by all the best amateur photographers of the community living
What'e all this excitement about selves in a quiet, inoffensive way the defence of Hong Kong! I by keeping diaries in readiness for don't understand it at all. Whe-writing chatty little articles for the ther the R.N.V.R. comes into exist parish magazine when they get cace or not, we have in this Colony home. They were not versed in a fine force of well-trained men the wicked ways of men, 10 Dow who are putting in hours and hours for the story. One lady said that of drill steadily every day. I con- she did not like the lock of the
that side of the harbour. stantly see them forming fours, man sitting opposite her; thought Bettlethwaite heard that it is in- doing the goose step, marking time, he had a hard, cruel face. "Oh, tended to be used as a free filling- doubling. And going through all the no, my dear," said the other; "etation lor fountain-pens, presented other customary parade-ground pre. am sure you are wrong. He must to the community by a well-known parations for sanguinary bostilities, be quite a nice, kind man, for Scottish gentleman (who has a overheard him telling a companion large number of shares in a local that he had put his shirt on"
laundry and a soap-works). I have horse that was scratched !”
the very best authority for stating. however, that this report is quite a-but this news is so important inaccurate. The structure is really that it should have a paragraph to itself..
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True, 1 must confess to not having actually seen them At hayonet exerciee or ride-practice, but possibly this part of their Any of my weaders who may be training is being done secretly, at thinking ofking a holiday trip aight, in their spare time. But I Canton during the coming win have seen them practising with ter will be interested to know that scaling Indders, and have seen them the Board of Health has drawn up doing first-aid work, lifting and a set of regulations to be observed carrying helpiese men
Now, the real explanation of the on their at all hotels and tea-houses in the picturesque erection in question is backs-you know the sort
stunts city Judging by the conditions this--but before I forget it, I should that, get the V.C. when performed now prohibited things, must have say a few words about marine aur- on active service. Yes, sir (or been pretty bad in the Canton veyors and their hard lot. It ap madam), you may rest quietly at catering business. nights without losing any sleeping from internal or external change their clothes when they go Nobody suffer. pears these poor fellows have to about the adequate defence of the disense may as employed in restau out on job which necessitates Colony so long as our gallant fire rants and tea-bouses: "Do brigade keeps up its present high from sick art dead animals, poul bilges, and the process of meta- meat groping about skip's boilers and standard of efficiency.
tries, and birds, or stale or decom.morphosis usually takes place on posed meat a to be served"; no board the launch on which the sur I will any this, though-in strieb fruits may be used, nor no sauce been suggested that these officiale stale fish or perished vegetables and veyor goes out to the ship. It has confidence I don't think it fair to or gravy which has turned bad"; could get to the various docks and the League of Nations and all those no liquors containing poisonous in shipyards by road, and thus save other Johnnice at Geneva that we gredients may be sold, and no "re. the should be training an army here surrection" must be served. There launches, but
expense *of buying more disguised as firemen. Fair's fair, are a few of the "may nots," and master properly pointed out, & sur Ta the Harbour- and it should be made quite clear among the "most" aro to the disarmament experts that in chairs, tables, plates, and utensils, in a bus or tram: Just imagine a olean veyor could scarcely change his rig addition to the Navy and the Army, clean ice and pure water. There poor fellow with one leg out of his and the Air Force and the Volun-are quite a number of may nots" teers and the Police and the Kau and
panta and the other one in, strug- Sing we have here in Hong Kong quoting, as I know some people are a hot afternoon to complete the
musta"
which refrain from gling in a crowded 'bus or car on a skeleton force of straight-spined rather sqichinish about such things change, with two or three portly deep-chested, brand-shouldered, top-booted men who can dress by and forced, life assurance and out of the vehicle. It would Angbowl the new regulations passengers pushing their way in the right, number,, rightabou turn on visiting Canton for be awful-besides, it would be odd numbers one pace forward id week end should show d subetza positively immoral march, and form fours with all the tial reduction very soon..
click" of the smartest men at Aldershot.
Therefore I kay NO in steatorian tones. Let the surveyors have their launches, and let them (the launches) be "There's one thing of which I'm nicely itted up with shower haths; What all this has to do with fire. dursed certain," growled George P. changing-roome, and lots of mir fighting goodness only knows. Sure: Battlethwaite, stubbing his toerors, so that the substitution, of ly these fellows are not expected against the bedpost and groping dungarees for more dignified ap to draw up in review order for in- for his electric torch and revolver. parel may be carried out with
"What!" whatted Mrs. B. from comfort and decorum. spection and then do physical jerko in front of a burning building be- under the mosquito-pet. fore proceeding to save life and
"Why," whyed 'George,
"even acatter water around t Bottle the most advanced of modern thwaite says all this exercise is women will revise her ideas about designed to keep the men from sex equality when she think's getting fat. increased girth there's a burglar in the flat!" means more expense all round for uniforms and belts. Personally I'
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don't believe this, and think the After reading the Home football men put in all this hard, work news, Ah Lin said that the wicked- voluntarily simply because they findness of footballers, was remarkable, there are so few fires to attend to Why, two whole clubs had been that time hangs heavily on their sent to the Second Division nands.
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And now coming back to Row loon. The structive to which refer. ence has been made is nothing more or less than a scale model of the proposed Home of Rest for Flat-footed "Rickshawmen. If not passed as approved by a representa tive committee of these poor fel lows,, it can be readily converted into a Home for Lost Dogs, and if the S.P.C.A. do not consider it suitable for the purpose, it is pro- The mystery is solved! It stands posed to erect it on the Children's Speaking of kindness to animale revealed to all who have eyes to layground (in or about 1950) as a -which I wasn't-two dies sit-sed, and who pass along the shelter for tired amnhs. Should ting in the foyer of a hotel were Chitham Road with their eyes the weary women not be satisfied discursing the personal appearance open. All those yarns about tiger with the structure, it can be easily WONDERFULLY situated in this of other folks silting around. you traps and elephant-stockades was converted into a bandstand or beer- know, just as ladies will. Now, bunkum. The bamboo fence and hall, or it can be pushed over to ladies were simple the matshed (mainly composed of form an annex to the palatial post. minded soule, just making a tour odd hits of old corrugated iron) is office. Failing all these things, it of the world and enjoying them- merely the shell, so to speak; the can be chopped up for firewood.
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Diary of Coming Events.
Today.
(September 29.)
Queen's Theatre: "She Goes to
War."
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World Theatre: Blue Skies." Star Theatre! 'Girls Gone Wild:"
Tea Dances: H.K. Hote!, Penin- sula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels
8.20 p.m.
S.C.A.A.: Harbor Race, North Point, 2.30 p.m.
Lawn Bowls: Craigengower Kowloon Dock, K.C.C.
Greens. Division II: Taikoo v. K.B.G.C., Police Greenz.
Baseball: Kiarost. South China. H.K.V.D.F. Athletic Meeting, K.C.C. Ground, 2.30 p.m.
Lighting-up Time: 4.14 p.m. V.R.C. Night Fete, 0.15 p.m. Tides:-High, 4.26 1.m. and 8.47 1.3.; Low, 12,52 a.m. and 11.08 F..
European Mails: Outward for South Africa and ports, and Europe zid Marseilles (Mantua), 10.30 a.m.
Sunday. (September 20.) Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity. Tea Dance: Repulse Bay, Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
St. John's Ambulance Brigade:
Swimming, King's College, 10 àm. 5.C.A.A: Aquatic Sports, North Point, 1p.m
Queen's Theatre: Homesick." Star Theatre: Arizona Wild. cat."
World Theatre: "The Kid" and "Arabian Love,"
K.C.C.: "At Home," 4 p.m. K.F.C. Teamis Tournament. Lawn Bowls: Interport practice, KO.C.; Interdepartment
Fine (Police. P.W.D.), Police greenia. Lighting-up Time: 8.13 p.m. Spey Cup Club de Recreio v. Kowloon Dock, ECC. ground, 5.30.39,
Tides:-High, 5.54 am and 8.33 p.m. Low, 1.39 p.m. Monday, (September 30.)
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Auctions: Lümmert Bros., "6.8.
Lee Man, 3 p.m.
Meeting: H.K. Branch of Eng-
Home Mails: Inward from Ame rien und ports (Empress of Rus- Bia),
Tides:-High, 7,00 a.m. and 8.50 p.m.; Low, 1232 a.m. and 2.15 p.m. Tuesday, (October 1.) Sanitary Board: Meeting, 415 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Man, Woman, and Wife."
Star Theatre: "Laugh, Clown, Laugh."
World Theatre: "Big Parade." Lawn Bowls: K.C.C. v.. Shang-
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pulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Re-
Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High, 8.05, a.m. and, 0.16. p.m.; Low,' 1.36 a.m. and 2.48 ̊p.m.
Wednesday. (October 2)
Auctions: Lainmert Bros., pro- ish Association, St. John's Cathe-perty, ("Winton," Bowen Road), dral Hall, 5:30 pm.
K.F.C.: Meeting, Club Pavilion,
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Queen's Theatre: "Homesick." Star Theatre: "Arizona Wild cat.".
World Theatre: "The Kid" and "Arabian Love,"
Bowls K.D.L.C. Laun Shanghai.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, $.30 p.m.
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Epilors and Soldiers Home: Christian Hour, 8.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Man, Woman, and Wife."
Star Theatre: "Laughy Clown, Laugh"
World Theatre: "Big Parade." Lawn Bowle: Craigengower 0.0.
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