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THE SANITARY BOARD wishes
to draw the Attention of the Public, and especially of those who bave recently come to this Colony, to the possibility of acquiring Dissasen,...g., Dysentery and Fever, by eating Uz cooked
Chineers nee Hanure
from human sources and their custom
is to pour the manure or spray it
from watering-pots, In liquid form, over
the Growing Plants..
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fore: possibly present on the Surface
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Gardener's spray falls,
1930,
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much money could be saved by a especially as regards Danzig and thorough reorganisation of the the the Polish Corridor, and a pos- sible application for a total or various public services." That vier partial Young Plan moratorium. was expressed in these columns last April, and it remains our opinion to-day. Without developing a rabid attack of emolumania" we have discussed this question of Civil Service salaries on what we hope
The new Turco-Japanese treaty of commerce was signed at Angort lost, wreck.
King Boris of Bulgaria, neoom- paried by a numerous suite, has left Brussels for abroad travelling strictly incognito.
It is announced that the last book of the great explorer and philan- Speaking at the inauguration thropist Fritjof Nansen will short- have been dignified and logical ceremony of the Latin-American ly be published in Leipzig under lines. The banduman who controle Institute in Berlin which was at the title "Through the Caucasus the largest and empticst instrument tended by a large number of diplo- | to the Volga."; doca not really make the most im-mata and high officials, Dr. Curtius, portant contribution to the har- the Foreign Minister, emphasized Further details regarding the the excellent relations existing Labour Commissary's decreo order- tween Germany and the Latining the suspension of all unemploy The Cost of Zaying,
That the cost of living in this American states as once more ex-ment doles show that payment of emplified at the session of the euch doles will only be continued Colony has increased very consider League of Nations. The now In in casos of physical disability as ably during the past twelve months stituto houses a library of 120,000 otherwise the demand for labour, nobody familiar with the facts can volumes the majority of which were both skilled and unskilled, is n deny. This naturally means that donated by Professor Quesada, connection with the Pintiletko, the #nices salaries are increased pro forming a source of information five years industrial plan, big portionately, avery worker in the and study unique in Europe. enough to absorb all the unemploy community whether ho gets wages
ed throughout the Soviet Union
fal distribution of the workers over the places where they are needed.
little." To the stupid, assertion "peculiarly dumb There are some who consider that that we were any member of the Civil Service is in June" our reply is that, while at all times fair game for derisive happily avoiding an attack of comment concerning either his work hysteria, wo were by no means
The Daily Telegraph_last week or his salary, if not both. There silent, Not only in June, but in are others who affect to believe that May and again in April, we, com- published a very remarkable state. ment from its well-known diploma. meated upon Civil Servico.salaries, tie correspondent wherein the latter one holding any offer as ʼn Civil Bervant becomes automatically and the views then expressed were asserts that the French Governmout
One of the first proposals to bo exalted to a privileged position by no means in favour of wholesale on the point of sounding out
Downing Street as Grent submitted to the now Finnish par- which plaer him above and be increases on the lines of Sir Hexar Britain's attitude in various oven-liament elected a few days ago, GOLLAN's jaunty theory of die, tualities connected with Germany's will be the repeal of alcohol pro. yond all criticism. Both views aro
regarding economic conditions. Prent political situation. These tribition. Premier Svinhufvud in wrong. Every member of the Civil There is a general impression that tion to revied the Versaille's treaty effect as he is persuaded that the include an eventual German sugges said to be drafting a bill to this Service is a servant of the public. There is no sacrilegs in criticising
corruption at present pravalling in either his work or his salary, just
public life is too great: extent. caused by prohibition and bootleg- place at St. John's Cathedral
as there is no justification for
ging and that this more than out- at 9.15 p.m., on Wednesday,
weighs the benoilta of probibition October 22, 1030.
gibes and jeers at a as for no
to public health. No invitations are being issued, other reason than that he happens but all friends will be welcome to be in, the Civil Service. The ception to be held afterwards in principle of a fair day's work for the Cathedral HaH. (0967 a fair day's pay should apply to
MARRIAGES.
Civil Servants just as it should to Cox-BECKIT.-On September 17, at those in non-Government service, Rathmines, LIONEL Cox, of the but with special consideration for Government Monopolies Depart-circumstances. In fixing Civil Ser-mony... mont,Singapore, to JOAN KATHERINE, eldest daugister of vien salarica, due consideration Mr. and Mrs. HAURY O. BECKH, should be given to the advantage- 15, Palmerston-road, Dublin, ous conditions of employment which Reid-Aunold.-On September_20,
ERIC are not enjoyed by persons in the Minchinfumpton, FIELD, only son of the lato 8. service of private individuals. Ren, of Singapore, and of MTS PIPE WOLFERUTAN, of For-Just or Generous? woad, Minchinhampton, to Nobody will deny that salaries of MARY DENISK, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. AlgERNON H. public officials should correspond emolument-is worse, off to-day | The President of Lithuania has provided that thoro is a more care- ARNOLD, of Burleigh Court, approximately with those paid for near Stroud.
similar services in local professional SUMMERS-PEACOCK-On September
18, at St. Mary's, Ely, Squad. and commercial circles, having ron. Leader J, K. Summer, regard, however, for the very im- only son of the late Mr. J. Aportant fact that his position once SUMMERS, I.M. Customs, China, and Mrs. Sukas, to AUDRET, established carries with it much only child of Mr. and Mrs. greater security and many special PEACOCK, 11, Cambridge-road, privilegea denied to those not in Ely. WINTERBOTTOM-KENYON.-On Sep-
Government employment. Nobody tember 19, at Glasgow, ARCHI- wishes to defend a niggardly policy BALD, third son of the lato JOHN
in regard to salaries, and it is KEZIAH LISTER WINTERBOTTOM,
obvious that positions which are of Oldham, Lanes., to IBADELLE, eldest daughter of WILLIAM and financially attractive will ALICE RADFORD KENYOŃ, of not attract really capable men. Bury, Lancs, and Derby Pre Writing on this subject last sont addreas: Bumpyo, Gensa¤, Korea.
April we said: If it is a fact that the salaries paid and allow- The Legislative Council on Mon- ances made to Government servants day will be asked to approve that drder for the little more," and no are not too generous, then ways and doubt it will, but in the hope that means must be found without delay in due coureo the Retrenchment American Prison Association in The Duke Bores d'Olmo, chief for raising more revenue to meet Committee will be able to suggest Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. George master of ceremonies of the royal how tho bill ean, before long, be W. Wickoraham, chairman of Pre- Italian court, celebrated his 100th tho increasing cost of public ser-cut down. The now taxation which sident Hoover's Law Enforcement birthday in Rome last week. Ho is now proposed seems inevitable for Commission, suggested that the has held his present post for the the coming year, but it should be association take steps to determine last 60 years. mies without reducing the efficiency crime deterront. He indicated that: possible soon to effect many ccone- the desirability of flogging as B of the public services. During the the penal laws in the United Staton Candenberg, last week, the Arch- past week or so we have reviewed at the present time are, in his bishop of Malines officiated at the some of the more important items opinion, a hopeless mixture of re- baptism ceremony of the Prince in the 1931 Estimates, and pointed vengeful and reformatory measures, Baudoin in the presence of the out how the "devil of necessity
Royal family and the Princes and necessary-at least, for the time may make it imperative that the
executed in a haphazard manner.
Princesses of Belgium, Sweden and ranks of the Civil Service will have Mr. Clarence Spiker has been Denmark, King Albert of Bel- being."
to bo thinned very considerably: promoted from Seeind. Secretary to gium was the godfather and Prin When the Retrenchment Committee First Secretary of the American cess Rence de Bourbon the godmo- Bubmit their report, we shall know Legation at Peiping. to what extent it is considered this process of disintegration can be The French Minister of Education. carried with safety. As the Colonial has unveiled a statue to Chateau Secretary has admitted, a proper briand at Combourg. The work is margin of efficiency can be secured that of the sculptor Terroir, and at a lower cost by sacrificing pome, stands at the foot, of the chatonu of the finish" which now udorns where the great writer spent his the work of the Civil Service. infancy.
DEATHS. BEST-On October 12, at Shanghai, LYDIA JOSEPHINE BEST, aged 31, dearly beloved wife of. E. A. E BEBT. NEESON.On September 21.at Tung sht, Pine Cliffe-avenue, South bourne, Bournemouth, Jony WALTER SCOTT NEESON, late of Shanghai.
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vices. On the other hand, if it is a fact that the payments to and privileges allowed those who are employed in Government Depart ments are too generous, effort must be made to effect auch economies as will make an inevense of taxation
than he was twelve months ago. If refused to accept the resignation of the economic conditions which. Sir Foreign Zaonius. HENRY GOLLAN SO light-heartedly disregarded could be similarly Herr Louis Hagen, president of M. Doumergue, President of the ignored by the Government, all the Cologne Chamber of Commerce French Rephblic, has received many might be well, but the cutter of the and one of Germany's most pro letters from ex-soldiers' Associations Civil Service coat must of necessity minent industrialists, speaking at in England and the widows of the take some account of the quantity Cologne scorned the panic-stricken! victims expressing thanks for the of available cloth. Monday's bate gives an opportunity for Un-covering on the outskirts of homage rendered to the R.101 vic-
who were tumbling over, tima. official Members of the Legislative each other in their haste to place Council to paza an opinion upon their capital in faneled security Switzerland will next year cele the cutter's work. He is in the (for abroad. He bluntly stated that any brate the 25th anniversary of the him) fortunato position of not being doubt in the absoluto safety or Gay Lopening of the famous Simplon limited strictly in his cutting to many's currency was sheer nonsense tunnel that underlies the routs the amount of cloth actually in and added that this inclination to which Napoleon constructed for sight. He can-and has ordered a little mera material in order that Sir HENRY GOLAN's design can be carried into effect.
A Last Hope.
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"a policy of courting disaster ont of pure pessimism was a crime, against the country.
It has been desided by the Baden state government to put up the salaries of the Ministers and Diet deputies by 20 per cent.
Speaking at
convention of the
marching his troops into Italy. The precise date will be June 1, 1931 and a bronze fablet will be affixed at the entrance of the date com- memorating the ovent. The con struction of the tunnel provided an entirely new ront for people of 1 western Europe with Italy and the
Near East.
At the Church of St. Jacques at
thor.
First Lieut. Harvey Byars Allan of the U.S. Marine Corps commit- ted suicide at Managua, Nicaragus. last Sunday. Lieut. Allan was with the American expeditionary forco which has been assisting in main- taining order in Nicaragua..
Local Notes and Events
What "Adequate " Means,
When Bir HENRY GOLLAN said it was not a question of economics which the Salaries Commission had to consider, but the "adequacy" of Balaries, it is to bo assumed what he really meant was that the Com mission was not expected to suggest" how, where, and when money was to be raised to pay, “adequate ” CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO THE "WELL-FED TIGERS." salaries Their task was merely to
CHINA. SIAM, STRAITS
indicate what the amounts paid SETTLEMENTS, MALAY ON Monday the Legislative Council should be; it was for the Govern STATES, NETHERLANDS will meet te discuss-and, probably, ment to find ways and, means of INDIA, BORNEO, THE to approve-the Estimates for 1031, carrying those recommendations PHILIPPINES, Etc.
amounting roughly to 23 million into effect. It may be remember dollars. That total includes persona!ed, too, that Sir HENET and his emoluments amounting to almost colleagues did not consider it reces 813,000,000-an increase over salariessary to consult even one of the for 1930 of $3,200,000, or about 30 dozen or
A landslide occurred near the so largo employers. of
Mr. F. Mason, A.R.CO., L.T.C.L., junction of Austin Road and Cox's per cent. This increase is the direct labour in the Colony to ascertain assisted by Mrs. Snowdon Jones Path, Kowloon shortly after 16 result of the depreciated dollar and their views as to what would be a (soprano) will give an organ recitalam. yesterday when two earth of the recommendations of the fair, interpretation of the word at St. John's Cathedral on Tues-coolies wore buried. They were dug Balaries Commission. The Chair adeguato "as applied to Civil
day, October 21, at 5.45 p.io. - out and ruched to the Kowloon Hospital "where, one is in a serious man of that Commission, Sir HENRY Service salarice. All this, of
The forthcoming marriage is an- condition and is not expected to GOLLAN, took the remarkable view course, is new ancient history; and Vance, of the U.B. Navy, to Miss
nounced of Mr. Shelby Nolan recover, that remuneration paid to Civile mentioned merely as a reminder Kino Ohama. The local addrem of Servants was a matter outside the of the manner in which the present the parties is 37, Marrisson Hill scope and influence of economic con situation has developed. ditions. Commenting some months
Ourselves and Others, ago upon that strange outlook, wa said, the attitude of Sir HENRY
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Cathedral to-morrow at the Harvest The preacher at St. John's Festival at 11 s.m. will be the Right Rev. J. O. Feetham, Bisobp of North Queensland.
Road.
$3,500..---
now programme is being shown, in
At the Central Theatre to-day a | Looking Back 25 Years. which "A Dangerous Woman" is along Queen's Road on Tuesday. As a local resident was walking the leading feature. :
evening he was accosted by, a besch- comber, who told him the usual story about having starved for 60 many days. All he wanted was a few cents to buy a meal. His hearer advised him to go to the House of Detention. The bench- comber asked to be shown the way there. The gentleman took him to the junction of Queen's Road" and Pottinger Streat, from whence ho directed him. After gazing up the Those interested in Oriental fine hill for a few seconds the beach- arts are cordially invited to an ex-comber put his hand into his hibition of Chinese paintings, au-trouser's pocket, extracted three or cient and modern, which will be four twenty-cent-pieces, and turn- The steam launch" Foi Tin" was held at the To Yuup Restaurant, ing to the gentleman said:"Say
How much will it. cost to take a put up for sale by public auction West Point, between 10 am, and At the same time, reference to yesterday by Meares Hughes and 4 p.m. tomorrow, under the ans chair up theref-Hong Kong Daily was as absurd as the idea that the those matters affords an opportunity Hough when it fell under the pices of the Hong Kong Litora Press, October 19, 1903.
Arta Association. dollar. can
be stabilised at any for refuting the recent recklessly hammer to Mr. Yes Kaing for ture and Fine
Looking Back 50 Years. figure wo care to decide upon. inaccurate suggestion by our morn.
The winter programme of the Another issue of the Government Economic, conditions must governing contemporary that only at this The subject for the Essay Com Cheero Club Naval and Military Gazette fins appeared, without, how- petition organised by Hong Kong YL.C.A.) has now been arranged, ever, the promised publication of expenditure upon-salaries, just as late hour have we summoned up S.P.C.A for Boy Scouts and Girl and particulars of the various the annual report of the Colonial they must affect the value of the courage to comment critically upon Guides of the Colony is: What activities can be obtained at the Surgeon. Why this delay This is dollar. Anybody can act on Bir the subject of Oivil Service salaries. Claim Have Animals On Car Con- club-rooms in the City Hull. It is not the first time the Health report announced that the Ladies Cont has been kept back from the public, HENRY GOLLAN's principle and de- We are charged with having been tideration 1
mittee aro arranging to hold the the last time being during Sir, sign coat without taking into asleep and "dumb when we should
A boat-woman was fined $10 or Arat dance of the season in the St. Arthur Kennedy's Administration, consideration the amount of cloth have been both alert and assortive. 14 days' imprisonment by Mr. Georges Hall, City Hall, on Moa-It is to be hoped, however, that the report for 1879 will be published, available. Yet, if the idea of the The very kindly suggestion is mado Buttors at the Kowloon Magistracy day, November 3
yesterday for the larceny of six
late as it is in the goar, and that, designer is to be carried out, some- I that we may, to some small extent, sacks of conl. It was stated by the When charged before Mr. II. Rt. too, without its previously under paring down. The ro body eventually has to deal with retrieve our self-conect by making defendant that the coal had been letters at the Kowloon Magistracy going any aring do the
Colony is the economic aspect of the situation a tardy show of public spirit accing thrown on board hor junk from a yesterday with the unlawful possen- port on the
sion of an iron-bar, a Chinese statod always necessarily interesting, and that he carried it as a defensive we have reason to believe that the $12 either by obtaining the necessary that there is now nothing to fear, ship in the harbour.
$8 quantity of cloth required, or by and oven H.E. the Governor in The President and members of weapon against two men who had one for 1870 is more so than usual. amending the designer's ideas to known to bo in sympathy with the the Hong Kong branch of the Navy assaulted him some time ago De The publication of the treaties with, suit the limited amount of cloth fetreachment Committee's Inbours. League will attend at the Canotaph tective Inspector Fallon: told his Roumania and Bertin and sundry cloth Brochment Committed Intours Databer 31. Nelson Day, at 11 Worship that decaned was arrested other documents of no newsible in- available. All this has been already As sur contemporary so blegantly am.. for the purpose of mymg & he buttery Burebo on the bong dealt with in these columns, and expresses it, we may think that wreath on the monument. They able to give à satisfactory explanas might well have been deferred until.
will later proceed to the Wanchai tion as to the possession of the iron the Health Report had appeared. the theme need not be further well-fed tigers are lesa dangerous Monument, where a wreath will also bar. A fine of $50 or one month's Hong Kong Daily Preen, October
imprisonment was imposed. pursued.
and may be discreetly flogged abe laid.
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