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Hongkong Daily Press
ESTABLISHED 1857.
No. 12.210 TAFAIXO. A★#A#4EE HONG KONG.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929.
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CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
(Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances of Heng Kong.)
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HIGH LIFE IN HONG KONG.
MYSTERY OF THE HOLE IN THE ROAD,
HOW THE WATER SCHEME ORIGINATED.
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SHIFTING A HOLE FROM THE HILLS TO THE HARBOUR.
This 'ole," said the bored-look ing individual, "as been 'ere a long time. I wouldn't like to see alled in at all."
(Br HERBENT FIELD.)
into Nathan Road. Then one of the Government 'eads saw the 'ole, which looked like a long trench.
Ha, ha he said, 'ole like A taxi swung round from Queen's this will take a big pipe, and a Read into. Ite House Street and Ibig pipe will carry water! jumped quickly back against the So the Government took the hoarding on the corner to avoid it.rcalie's "ole, and buried a pipe in
The weary one, however, did not move. Rabbing his shoulders lei sarely against a baulk of timber to obviate the energy of scratching, he puffed at his pipe, and a retrospec- live look came into his eyes.
Some "'Oles And Others 1
takes pride in this 'ole, he declared, dispassionately. "I remember when it was first start ed."
But what is the hole for?" I queried.
Well," he murmured, dreamily, "there's folks that say a bank is going to be built ere, but I knows letter. It's just an 'ole, that's al!! Once an fole, alwaya apale, ke- cause 'oles never change?Q can they 7"
Ong Kong is the finest place in the world for 'oles, he went on "Some belong to the Boarder and some belong to the Officer."
put on to another job, and the 'ole was forgotten for a long time and the records were lost. One day the records turned up again and every P.W.D. official who wears shorts ran about on motor-cycles lookin' for it.
"
The mystery of the lost 'ole It to carry water to Ong Kong." was the talk of Government Depart- "But what became of the coolic?" ments for months. Buff slips _'end "Well, guv'nor the 'ole finishes ed Please explain' were flying somewhere in the bed of the 'ar-nbout Battery Path Lad the bour!"
Pavement Holes.
Colonial Office until the matter was cleared up suddenly by a-brainy official discovering that an 'ole too many 'ad been entered on 'is re- turns.
A Clerical Error?
"No, Ong Kong doesn't do things by 'alves. Suppose the Tele- phone. Company digs a 'ole in the pavement to run a telephone cable, that 'ole will be the pride of all The P.W.D. claimed that is the coolies in the Colony and, if department ad pinched that 'ole, it's in the road, there ain't a rick-but I ad me doubts, guv'nor! It's sha coolie breathing who can pass my idea that the 'ole on the re- it without frightening his passen- turn was a clerical error, and that ger almost out of his life by run the F.W.D.'s 'ole is still missing. Bing one wheel along the edge of As I said just now, the 'ole was it!
lost near the Indian soldiers' dar- racks, and there's no known' what those goats the soldiers keep will eat li
"When the Telephone Company as finished with its 'ole, they fill it in nicely again bat, being natur- ally kind earted, they don't pus the earth down too tightly because. they know the, Electric Light Com- pany can't resist the 'ole, and will Who are they " I asked.
want to run a few wires themselves "The Board & Trade and the As like as not the Gas Company Office o' Works," he retorted, scorn-waits until the other coves 'ave fully. This one, though, belongs filled it in an then their coolies to neither. There's nearly two come along an' make → bigger and and lies workin' in this 'ole better 'ole than before, an' ruke a all day long, and every one of them few gaspipes into it." thinks 'e's entitled to a section of the 'ale. That wouldn't be the case if it was 'n Government 'ole, though, because everybody knows that the Government won't share its Poles with nobody.
The Harbour Scheme. Take the Great Kowloon 'Ole, fr'instance. It first started up in the 'ills. It weren't very deep, so far na 'oles go, and I believe it was scratched out by a coalie who want ed to bury something in it. Bat a polive-sergeant came along and stopped the" confie goin' any fur- ther with it.
Hi! he said, 'Don't you know you can't park 'cle's long 'eret You'd better move' it somewhere elac
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And that is the end of the hole, suppose !"
Lost Holes,
You don't say
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·៩ I do. I know a chap what found &'ole one day an' he couldn't find the owner. Right outside his 'ouse, it was, an' 'e fell in it "in the dark on 'ia way 'oud from 'is Olub. The 'ole stopped there for weeks an he spent 320 advertising it for sale.
The Expert
ed at the 'ole, and then ordered it "One day an official called, look-
to be filled in just as a prospective buyer appeared on the scene.
Yes, guv'nor, 'Ong Kong 'ns some 'oles that would make the London County Council go green" with jealousy. Just look at this 'ole which they says is goin' to he
Not a bit of it, guv'nor. The P.W.D. hob up and 'dig everything out again just to see if the pipes and cables were put in right. Each time sees the ole get a little bigger until, by the time four or Bank! Then there's another 'ole five other departments 'ave 'ad a bigger than this one near the 'Onë rake over it, it becomes the biggest Kong 'Otel And that yawning 'cle in the Far East and the Gov-ecolle on the pump over there is ernment feels no end proud!" showing another nice, 'ole?"
"There ain't such a thing as Inspector of 'Oles or else I'd "ave a go at, the job," he went an It's a job that would 'ave its worries, though. Suppose the Inspector lost an 'ole or two?"
"What is your profession ?" I asked. "Are you the Hong Kong Hole Expert Pi
"Me Lord Jamme; no; guv'nor! The only 'ole I know anything about is the stoke 'ole of a ship! That's impossible!" I exclaim-I'm an engineer."
He sighed expressively.
So the poor old coelie started ed. to hack the 'ole up and shift it. "Don't you believe it!" he re- "But, I'll tell you what," he Believe ine, guvʼnor, ila no joke try-plied, darkly. Why not so very concluded, "when I was a boy I ing to carry an 'ole about! But long age some coalies dug a big 'olead a job making 'oles in Stilton the coolie was a good'un at eart, in Fermati, near the Indian solcheese, and I 'ave a brother. what and pushed the ole right down diers' barracks. Then they were paints 'oles in tin whistles !**-
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day.
(October 1)
Sanitary Board: Meeting, 4.15
p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Man, Woman, and Wife"
Star Theatre: "Laugh, Clown, Laugh,"
World Theatre: "Big Parude." Lawn Bowls: E.C.C.. Shang. hai.
Chinese General Chamber Commerce, 230 p.m.
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Dinner Dances: HK. Hotel, Re- pulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.,
Tides: High, 8.95 a.m. and 0.18 p.m.; Low, 1.36 a.m. and 2.48 p.m. · ( European Mails: Outward Europe riá USA (President Hayes), 2.30 p.m.
Thursday,
(October 3.)
Football-Division: 1: Roya! Artillery, Police: Chinese A.Á. ».. Recreio; Club, Kowloon; Somer-
Queen's Theatre: Tide of se, Navy; St. Joseph's". Empire."
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Star Theatre: "A Sailors Sweetheart" and Torcats Roosters. Theatre: Ancient Mariner."
World
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Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Lawn Bowls: Civ Service Shanghai.
Tides: High, 3.45 a.m. and 9.50 p.m.; Low, 3.00 am, and 3.46 p.m.
Friday, (October 4.)
Lawn Bowls: Shanghai u. Police R.O.
Queen's Theatre: 4.Tide of
Wednesday, (October 2.) Auctions: Lammert Bros., pro-Empire." perty("Winton," Bowen Road), 13 p.m.
Sailors and Soldiers' Home? Christian Hour, 9.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Man, Woman, and Wilo."
Strir Theatre: Laugh, Clown, Laugh."
Star Theatre: "A Sailor's Sweetheart" and Torcats Roosters. World Theatre ." Ancient Mariner,"
Children Fellowship: Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.
Tides: High, 10.35 am, and 10 18
World Theatre: "Big Parade." Lawn Bowls: Craigengower C.C.P.m.; Low, 3.53 a.m. and 4-8 p.m. "Shanghai.
Polo (Finals, Lady Stubbs' Cup): Somersets . Typhoons, 4.30 p.m.
Hockey Club 17. K.O.S.B.. U.S.R.C.) 5.15 p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High 8.66 m. and 9.39 p.m.; Low, 2.24 m. and 3.19 p.m.
Baturday. (October 5)
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Jewish Year, 5090 begins, g Interport
Lawn Bowls:
on
K.C.C. Ground.
Dinner: Lawn Bowls, Interport, Peninsula Hotel.
K.0.5.B.. Division II: Eastern K.0.8.B.; South China v. Somer- set; University Recreio; Royal Artillery Joseph's: Ewo v. Chinese A.A.
# Kowloon; Navy r. St.
Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay
Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Golf: Captain's Cup. South China.
Baseball: Hong Kong B.C.
Queen's Theatre: Tide of Em. I re
·Star Theatre: A Bailor's Sweet- heart and Torcat's Roosters.
World Theatre:: Ancient Mariner. Tides: High, 11.22 a.m. and 10.07 10.m.; Low, 4.30 am. and 4.41 p.m.
European Mails: Europe, viá Marseilles, 0.30 a.TA. (Haruna Maru).
Sunday.
(October 6.)
19th After Trinity,
Tea Dance, Repulse Bay Hotel,
4.30 p.m.
Golf: Captain's Cup.
Baseball Filipinos v. Kiaoras,
Lawn Bowls: Recreio v. Shang-
hai.
Queen's Theatre: Lonesome.
Star Theatre The Gay Retreat and Torcats Roosters.
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World Theatre: Coben's and Kelly's in Paris,
Tides: High, 0.10 am and 10.55 p.m.; Low, 5.20 a.m. and 5.2 p.m.
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