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"CATHOLIC UNION CLUB,
THE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will be held in the 'HALL of the Club, TO-DAY, 2771 JULY, 1981,"st-6- ̧p.x, for the following purposes
1-To TecDive the Report and :” dö counts of the Committee for the
Year ended 30th December, 1930,
To pass for adoption the amended Bye-Laws and Rules as per copy circulated
3. To elech New Committee.
6. To transnot General Business,
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G. A. VAS,
Hon. Secretary.
·MID-LEVELS RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION,
NOTICE.
DHE FIFTH ORDINARY GEN- TERAL MEETING Alle bed
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T. A. MARTIN,
Hon. Secretary.
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The objects of the College, are to provide training in the science and practice of tropical agricul ture to students intending to be come tropical planters, agricul tural administratora or officers, or specialists in different branches of agricultural science and technology, and to offer facilities for the study of tropical agriculture to graduates of other colleges and universities. An increasingly important feature of the College is the provision for research and investigation work its laboratories and fielde afford."
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THE NAZI LEADER,
★ News and Views
The Bxact Word
Baluting the Manting,
HERR HITLER, the mystery man, who recrives nobody, has fallen at last, to tho publicity men. His followers have now published an raphy of the Nazi authentic biography. leader. It follows the model of a recent MUSSOLINI biography, Thero of excitement and exclaimed. "Oh, bxcellent authority, that wan
is a page of text-in four lang
ages, including English to a page of pictures. There is a preface by the great man himself. The pic. tures show him in every conceivable attitude, and in every conceivablo attiro, with the famous brown hirt predominating. We see him addressing 20,000 men and women in the Stuttgart Hall-surely tha greetest-indoor
Betty, aged five, had just acen a street organ for the first time. She came running into the house full
mummie! There's a man mangling the music." the
A New Drug.
A German drug which converts anxiety to a dreamy sleep was used recently for the Arst time in Eng fand to relieve lockjaw. This must not be confused with the soporifes, so popular with certain politicians, which convert anxiety to dreamy sleep, but which do not in any way
the powers of speech.
audience in Europe! LADY
In the text are all his slogans
No Place Like It.
The
A London paper waxes quite indignant, because it is said
Gandhi visited Lord Irwin for chat and hot lemonade, the guard mounted outside the Viceroy's res sidence saluted him." If the story is true it would be interesting to know how Gandhi qualified for this compliment. King's Regula- tions are very clear on the subject of paying complimente, and I know of nothing in them which would entitle Gandhi to receive mich an (honoar," says the writer. Thó nu- wer is simple. When Mr. Gandhi visited the Viceroy he was a guest and an official one. In any case courtesy coste little and is general-
repaid. That is the first lesson learnt by an Imperial raco.
Grand Old Man.
A bugs crucifix dominated the in- terior of the Albert Hall at the joint anniversary meeting of the Anglo-Catholic Congress and the Workmen, Grange, East Barnet, Herts, found fax, father of Lord Irwin, who is
demolishing
English Church Union. Lord Hali- underground passages believed to 12, became President of the English church, which is half a mile away, 60 years ago. He is the most lead to the twelfth-century parish Church Union, position to Field The passages were known to exist, remarkable Englishman alive," said but they had been lost for genera-Sir Samuel Hoare. Has any Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of after several years, to a responsible tions: It was here that the ghost of other. Englishman ever returned, Essex, who was charged with tren-post that he held 00 years before 1"? son and, died in a meat, minde a Then Lord Halifax made a long appearance last Christmas.
His words challenging speech. rang through the hall, and at the ond he did not appear at dll fatigued.
The Educated Ape,
People in Hong Kong who are in any way interested in agriculture, either directly or as sellers of commodities, no doubt wish that either Ceylon or the Straits Settle- ment might have been selected as the site for the College. To get
There are London clubs in Queer information from about the most Almighty God bless our Street as well as in Pall Mall and distant point on the earth is not
Arms Leadership means power St. James At one, certain wealthy to move the masses." "Break the members were asked cach to give Personal
contact is impos- chains of Versailles, Tear the £100 to help tide things ever. One sibla and correspondence about
Youxo Plan · asunder.” rapidly changing processes of
must show the Marxists that the went hot-foot for the secretary..
member who received this request Nazis are masters of the State."I know a club should be as home animal and vegetable growth cannot "Swift as a grey-hound, tough as like as possible," he said, "but this be of immediate assistance. A
leather, hard as Krupp steel.
is a bit too much like it?" crop disease would run its course Other slogans revealed the man's
Secret Passagos," long before the case could be diag-phychology as leader: A states nosed and the antidote discovered.man's speeches are not to be judged But, on the other hand, the by the impression they make on College is becoming a vast réposi professors and other learned men, tory of accurate knowledge, Soils but by their effect on the people." are analysed and the effects of the There are some interesting details presence or absence of certain ele of HITLER's youth. Born in Aus ments on various tropical crops trin, he despised his Fatherland. DREGGS. On July 20, at Shanghai, carefully noted. The problems of When the other schoolchildren sang the "Austrian anthem, he sang Deutschland, Deutschland über alles." He was an orphan at six teen. With fifty gulden in his pocket he went to Vienna to try to be an artist. Hunger forced him to enter the building trade When the war broke out ho enlisted in the German Army. For four The College is situated within easy years he fought on the Western access by rail or road to estatesFront, rising to the rank of lance. and plantations where sugar-cane, corporal and being decorated with GRCED, coffee, coconut, banana,
the Iron Cross Then he was gas Indian corn, rice, rubber, citrus and numerous minor crops are sed. When the revolution broke grown, The Government experi-out, he was lying blind and help mental Station and Stock Farm, less in hospital. His recovery, he re controlled by the Trinidad Depart gards as a miracle, performed by immediate vicinity of the College Providence to enable him to fulfill grounds. Unreclaimed forest land his destiny as the saviour of his and savannah, forest reserves and
people, agricultural holdings in all stages of development occur within the Island. Students are enabled by frequent excursions to visit these regions, and thus. to obtain first- hand knowledge of the principles
DEATH,
OWYANG. On July 20, at Shanghai, OWYANG KEE, aged 68 years.
best composition of soil in relation to certain products are being care. fully tested, and the results made available for the merchant and the farmer. Again, to quote the pros pectus, "an area of about eighty Editorial and Business, Offices: 11
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HONG KONG, JULY 27, 1931.
SCIENCE "AND TROPICAL
AGRICULTURE,
We have received from the Colonial Becretary copies of the prospectus and the annual report for 1829-30
ment of Agriculture, are in the
"Forty Years On."?
now
A correspondent, to Lan- dan paper is much · dix- turbed by an American Pro- fessor'a reported intention of educating a baby ape as a human Looking back on all the "swots" being. He thinks that the Profen who were at school with me, and sor will be largely successful in whose scholastic, achievements were and he wonders if the Professor is example; I only know of one or two "creating a very dangerous boing," Jalways held up to me as a shinifig prepared to take the responsibility whose early promise has been for the ape's actions when it rea- | justiñed by success in later - life. richly this ape is brought up, he on my own low level are ches maturity "No matter how On the other hand, many of those
Empire-builders and Ruoccoaful writes, "it will return to nature. Put a labourer's, baby in a ridibusiness, man, writes a correspon man's nursery and no matter what dent to a Home paper. There care is taken with the child it will was one swot" in particular who return, socner or later, to the life was always top of the form of which of its real parents, Who will look I was bottom, and for whom a bril after the Professor's dangerous and liant future was forecast, in order useless creation after he is dead to encourage us to be like him. As to the argument about; the rich When I last heard of him he was man's nursery, there are too many the cashier in a small cinema in notable exceptions for it to carry Borneo. Another, of even greater weight and in any case, such things scholastic eminence, has just emerg should not be said nowadays !.......... ed from a few years in prison.'
Local Notes and Events
Mr. B. L. Agassiz resumed duty. At to-morrow's meeting of the Two Chinese and one non-ChinesÓ
Hornell will speak on "The Comed on Friday. Rotary Club, Rotarian Sir William enses of typhoid fever were report merce of Thought."
of that interesting and important of tropical agricultural practice, foundation The Imperial College the methods of biological experi of Tropical Agriculture. The obmentation, including plant breed and Registrar of Trade Marks and na Official Receiver in Bankruptcy jects of this institution and how it ing, and the nature and control of Letters Patent, with effect from came into being are admirably set plant diseases and pests. In ad- 20th inst out, as follows, in the prospectus dition, students of chemical techno-
"One result of the Great War was logy are given opportunities of in-hows, Bachelor of Medicine and
The name of Dr. H. D. Mat to emphasize the importance of specting sugar factories, cacao and Master of Surgery of the Univers tropical agriculture and the neces- coffee curing plants, dopra-drying, ity of Sydney, has been added to Bity for developing the tropical citrus products factory and a
the list of medical practitioners, colonies: An influential Committco, rubber plantation factory." appointed by Viscount MILNER in 1919, called attention to the need for research into tropical agricul- ture and also to the great dearth
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Dr. Neil Duncan Fraser, of Swatow, c/o Mr. C. E. Moore, May Road, to Violet Mary Chesworth, of Fatehan, St. Paul's Hostel, Garden Road, Hong Kong.
Appropriations for the Chinese ous foreign countries have again Legations and Consulates in vari-Looking Back 25 Years.
There was an exciting scene at been unpaid for the past three the corner of Des Voeux Road and months, says a Nanking telegram Queen Street on Tuesday night. to the Shanghai Chinese Press, so when a ricshe coolie attempted to the Waichiaopu has requested the pull his vehicle, in which a China- Ministry of Finance to raise the man was" sented across the front The experiments such as those on
recessary funds to meet the needs of, an approaching tram.. Finding he could not cross he turned back, the sugar cane and banana crops
without further delay.
but failed in this also. As soon as are of direct interest to us, and the
of Woosung Street, attempted to he applied the emergency brako, Early on Saturday morning a girl, the motorman realised the danger general work, of this institution, of trained investigatora The estab both in teaching and research,.
commit suicide by jumping into the but the car was too close to be pull lishment of a training centre in brings home the need for a similar tion of three months, the Asiatic distance of the Yaumati pier. completely smashed, while the un harbour from the Taumati ferry ed up in time to avoid a collision. It is notified that at the capira Man Li whilst it was within a short, The ricahn was overturned and the tropics was accordingly recom-institution in Hong Kong. China Trading Co., Ltd., and the Kwok Cheung Ngau, a coxswain of the fortunate passenger was jammed mended. After careful considerais ripe for an agricultural revolu- Fung Co., Ltd, will, unless cause Harbour Office, who was fishing in between the richa and the trolley tion of many possible sites the
tion. Already the use of artificial is shown to the countrary, be struck the vicinity, pulled the girl on to post, with the result that his legs Committee finally recommended
manures has spread far inland, will be dissolved.
off the register and the companies his sampan and later had her were broken.. The riesha coolic ran Trinidad as the most central. especially in Kwangtung. China
removed to Hospital.
off but was apprehended later, and on being brought before Mr. F. A. Among the factors which influenced wants to improve her silk industry;"
The following charges are to be It is notified for general in. Hazeland at the Magistracy yester them in arriving at this decision to win back her old place as the and dried vegetable products by the hesion of Hong Kong to the Inter- defence being, thint he did not see made for the inspection of fresh formation that notice of the ad-day was fined $15 or a month, his were the promise of very substan
producer of the most fragrant tea; Botanical and Forestry Depart national Convention relating to the car-Hong Kong Daily Press, tial support from the Government to increase her rice yield; to improvement Not exceeding 20 consign Motor Traffic has been given; and July 27, 1908. and planting community of Trini her breeds of pigs and poultry. We ments. 35; exceeding 20 but not that the Convention will have effect did and Tobago and the natural have sought to suggest in this exceeding 250, 816, exceeding 250; on April 29, 1982. The distinctive
820. and physical advantages of the column the great part that the New B
mark chosen for this Colony is Looking Back 50 Years, HK A copy of the Convention; On several occasions the in- island. It was shown that Trinidad Territories might play as the ex-Falling from the first Boor of 02, can be seen on application at the portance of a daily service of , meteorological telegrams” between was able to grow a very wide range perimental farm of South China Parkes Street, where he was repair Colonial Secretary's Office.
Hong Kong and Manila has been of tropical crops, that it
ing the telephone wires, Tong posscased
The Forestry and Botanical Do Cheung, aged
Wednesday, July 29, is the last urged on the Government, both by employed. a healthy
by climate for the tropice, partment docs admirable, fork on the Hong Kong Talegaone day to enter for the Motor-cycle the local and Manila. Press, and and that it was outside the hurri
Company was removed to the Rehability Trial. The date has much surprise has been expressed se large a scale as the money grant Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffer been extended in the hope that a by the latter at the culpable cane zone and wis not subject to
ed to them will allow; private firms ing from injuries to his face and larger number of entries will come aparthy displayed in the matter earthquakes. Moreover, proposals like Imperial Chemical Industries, body
in. There are already forty entries here. The sulla Government, had already been under discussion Ltd, and individuals like Bir
for the trial which any motor.... with a generosity which merits the for the establishment of a West ROBERT and ady Ho Tung and Hoi Kh of 104, Winglok Street, who being an average of 90 miles per traordinary indications of bad cyclist may enter. The course is thanks of the Hong Kong" public, The body of a man named Tong not difficult, the main requirement gends notice whenever there are ex- Indian Agricultural College, and General LI FOX LAM are all engaged had fallen from the roof of the hour over a 100-mile course, it interesting to record that the College was Arst opened in tem- porary "buildings on October 10, 1992, s.
purely West Indian in- stitution. In a short time, how ever, as the demand for post graduate teaching dross, its scope widened and in 1928, it was in
on the same taak. But they need house to the third floor verandah
the help of a great institution during Friday night, was removed Dr. John Anderson, M.D.
to the public mortuary. The mau had gone to sleep on the roof and during the right had rolled off on to the verandah below,
weather there, but what is requir- tanked in n regular service, so that per
tons here interested in the weather. like that of Trinidad, with labora
M.1.C.P., D.T.M., of Wallasey, may be placed in a position to tories and trained investigators to
Cheshire, and care of The Lester form their own judgment from the explore, in conjunction, with the
Trust, Shanghai, Chion, of the readings of the instruments, in- practical farmers of the aron, how
Henry Lester Institute of Medical stend of rolving on the opinions of the new knowledge can be applied
Research, who died on March 28. meteorologists on the other side of The age-old agriculture of China An aged Chiness was knocked at 52, left estate of the value of the Ching-Sen. With a perfect has been perfected on the basis of down and received a fractured leg £7,501. He left £250 to the Unisystem of weather stations the hand and water buffalo labour, when he was hit by a motor versity of Hong Kong for the course of every typhoon might be y carnotated by Royal Charter a Rut what market guld be nooped.l.cucle combination driven by AR establishment of sprite in the form predicted with almost absolute the Imperial College of Tropical for the stockbreeder, the chemicals; Thompson, a Parman of the U.S.Sa of a gold medal to be given annual a certainty, taure placing those reng Agriculture In the same year the industry and engineering firms if Mindanao on Queen's Road Eastly to the medical student who at dangered on their guard-a
"Bura programme for the rooon-| near Tai Wong Street, on Satur: taing the highest aggregate of lieving others of unneces College received the gracious Pat-struction of Chinese agriculture day. The man was removed to the marks in all the professional ex
Hony: Kong, Dail Government Civil Hospital@amin
ninatione,
TIONS OLDSE 08 AUGUST 10T - they will receive the utmost assist- For telephone to the above address WE HOLLANDS, azice and the latest available infor Hon, Becretarymation on all subjects of enquiry 18th July, 1931-
1972 will be placed at their disposal ronage of His Moscaty, the KIND, could be deviïéd !.
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