NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL
NOTICE.
TEXT Term will cammance a
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1473
st 9.80 AM, New, Boys' should attend
'on That Day:
:: Particulare anɔto "Tene, etc, can be obtained from the School.
HEFT PYNER;
BRITAINS BEST
BEER!
WHITBREAD'S
PALE ALE
11371
Acting Headmastar,
ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.
FANLING CADDIES.
| 8, so far. No Caddies | Bare:||
registered under: the New Boheme proposed by the Committee and as the arrangements for providing Gaddles from another sauros have fallen through, Playors are kindly requested to make their own arrangements for Caddies till Further: "Netics," NO LOCAL CADDIE IB TO BE ENGAGED AT FANLING,
Special Hallway Tickets for Caddies. lakon from Hong Kong, may be obtained on Application to the "Club. Office
E. D. MATTHEWS,
Secritory.
11381
THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.
THE
INAUGURAL RACE MEETING will bo hold. (Weather Permitting) at the AERIA PRETA, MACAO o¤ SUNDAY, Uru SEPTEMBER, 1981, commencing at
The First Bell will be rang at 1 P.M. MEMBERS ENCLOSURE.” Members are Notified that they and their Ladies must Wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No one without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure. Badges admitting NON-MEM: BERS to the Members' Enclosure at $1 each are obtainable through the Secretary, upon introduction by a Member,
Members can obtain upon applion- tion to the Secretary Badges (limited to two) for the free admission to the Members Enclosure of Wives, Lady Relatives and Friends,
Refreshments will be obtainable in
the Enclosure.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
The Price of admission to the Public Enclosure is 20 Conte.
STEAMERS
The 5.8. TAISHAN" will Leave Hoso Koxa at 9 A., returning from Macão at 6 P.M.
Conveyances will be obtainable at the MACAO WHARE.
By Order,
11891
W. LALEXANDER
Bourutazy."
TUL.
BREWER A BOTTLES BY
BOLE AGENTS:
A.S. WATSON & Co.,
LIMITED,
EST 1841.
NOTICE.
We do and after the 26TH E beg to notify our Customers
“AUGUST, 1931, the TAXI FARE in accordance with Government's approval will be na follow
1
First Mils 50 Centa Etory Subsequent Mile
40 Cente Per Mile.
THE NEW TAXI CO, LTD. «
Telephone No. 28180) (Telephone No. 67417)
THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPART BLUE TAXICABS, LTD. TMENT is prepared to receive
Materials comprising the following HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
Tenders for the Purchase of Old
Scrap Metals Cast Iron Wrought Tron, Bras Bronze, Copper and
TAXICAB Co., Imo.
(Telephone No. 2040E)
(Telephone No. 28748), ₤1093
-
Aluminium; also Lamps DW. and STAR TAXI Co,
G.F110 Volt in Good Condition
Further, Particulars and Forma of Hong Kong, 24th Aug. 1931, Tonder may be ad on application to
the SUPT. ACCOUNTS and STORES, PUBLIO WORKS Department. [1131]
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
THE Undermentioned. Certificate for 100 Old Bharos in this Company registered in the Name of Mus. 8. ANDREWS bas, beon LOST/or: DES. TROYED' and should this Certificate not be produced to the
before Nám the P3RD SEPTEMBER Certificate for the said Shares will be insand and the Old Certifionte No. 5181 will thereafter be treated by this Company as NULL & VOID.
Certificate No. 6181, dated 7th BAPTIKERR, 1904, for 100 Bhares Nos. 78801/76900.4
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON, Ben General Managera,UNA Hong Kong: 24th Aug, 1981, -). [1090
FANLING HUNT & RACH CLUB,
THE following: Dates have been Balooted for STEEPLECHASE. RACE MEETINGS KWAN, TI during the Beason 1881/1982
BUYDAI (
SUNDAY
FRIDAY
Candi Buxi
November 15th
CREDIT. FONCIER D'EXTREME. ORIENT. MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE AGINTE,
"PEAK MANSIONS " Bis-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments
PRINCE EDWARD BOAD, MKOWLOON; 2)
Dezahed and Bom-detached„Villar Modern Constraction", with Garage/
** CAMBAY BUILDINGS " Zete with Modene Conveniences,
"People Who Matter
PEOPLE WHO
to the advertiser are the
and read the
iber 20th
Afford to
1st
Brd
Hong Kong Daily Press,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1931.
WRIGHT'S
COAL
TAR
SOAP
INVIGORATES AND
REFRESHES,
TAKES AWAY
Editorial and Business Offices: 11
Ice House Strust. Tal. 30251, Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 94511, London Office: 83, Fleet Street,
B.0.4
The Daily Press,
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931...
CHILD · WELFARE IN
HONG KONG.
We all know perfectly well that that kind of humbug in noé goo
Very
enough: The Soul wants $15,000, and is doubtful if it will get it, in spite of-Mr. Hazlerigg's advoondy, Thể hard faut remains that the money în question would have lives, and
mend broken bodies of
·Is" worth
children,
not, a eugenist would advise: Put up a lethal chamber and shorten the
In England, when the country wad poor, 'disorganised and divided against "Itgolf, this problem of utter destitution was faced. Within alty
years of the dissolution of the Middlo monasterics, where, in tho
News and Views *
Mr. Baldwin's (Birthday
the electric
Reprieve,
chowan
NAVAL ARSENAL.
COLONY TO PAY $2,000,000. The Colonial Secretary will move st, the meeting of the Legislative Council to-morrow:
In 1931-$500,000 of which 1216,259 in chargesbla to Praya East Recla mation Fundi
That this Council approval the Mr. Stanley Baldwin, M.P was Caro Paul Bruce, a Holstein buit payment from the funds of the es last month The Conservative condemned to the stockyards, three Colony of sum of $2,000,000 to the Lords Commissionera of the Ad: leader apont, his birthday quietly ! years ago, in to-day grand champion miralty, in return for the nurran- among his own people in the Bewd bull of the Calgary Exhibition dar to the Hong Kong Government. of the Naval Arsenal Yard, and ley Division of Worcestershire, and Stampeds. A Baskatchewan
Kellet Island payment of the said brooder who originally owned Cano Laum being regulated as follows: ---- Kain-Line Electridustion:))
Paul Brace decided he was worth more dead than alive, but "a res presentative of the Dairy Branch rescued was being led to the and the animal was-
aced with a breeder. Appreciat the show qualities of Cano Paul Bruce, a live stock representativ
of the Canadian Pacifio Hallway took an interest in him, and under the Strathmore Farm colours the bull was awarded the grand champion- shipment
The first stage of the tion of the London-Brighton line is expected to be completed by next July This is the first main-line electrif
tion in England, but if the report of the Weir Committee re- cores the support it deserves, it
beginning in a will be only transfor
Hon of the whole railway system, sosed
“A Scot"The Golfer,
of
Australian up-country hoop-farms A Brot be lives at one of those
fds,
South Africa and Trade with Japan
pan
the hero of the newest golf story His loves of this aggravat alas were few. Therefore, so the back trade which is being lost to ing game was great; his resources, An Empire-wide attempt to win story goes, he built one green and Japan may be initiated through the set aine tees in a circle around it. Durban Chamber of Commerce, To avoid long walks from too to which has asked its representative. groen he uses aine balls, each one on the British Empire Federativi numbered: he plays from each tee of Chambora of Commered to learn in turn. But what does he do when, all nine balls are on the green simultaneously. Suppose he lays himself two or three stymies
WINDA!
Ager, the destituts were, helped, Queen ELIZASI's Couneli, had set: up a system of Poor Relief. When the system broke down last century organised. No one in England is allowed to starve.
It is cnny to argus that a system of Poor Relief is impossible in Hong Koog. We all know the line of reasoning about attracting every sponger in China But is Hong Kong antisfied with its street sleeporn, its prowling children and hungry destitutes! How virtuously angry we are when we rend of such things in far off Russia The
whether concerted action can be wealth of a nation lies neither
taken Durban.commerce is alarm ed by the leaping Japanese importa in gold, nor in the efficiency of
into the Union of South Africa, as revealed in the trade returns for the a small class, but in the general
first three months of 1951.. Imports. health, prosperity and happiness
from Japan were worth £605,000, The Gulf of St. Lawrence should being 4.8 per cent of the total im of its citizens. This doctrine of ank among the finest fishing WILLIAM COMBETT is now a common grounds of the world; saye Dr. Ports: last year they amounted in value to £10,000. The Chamber of place; and it is trus of, Hong Kong Harry M Kyle, marine biologist Commerce statement is to the affect There are immense commercial and and fishery expert of Hamburg that while a clous watch is being Germany, who attended the Cana industrial possibilities in, this place,dian Bloorical Conference,,nt the maintained locally for any un but the only sure foundation is a Matamok River. Dr. Kyle points toward results of the agreement be healthy, and contented population;
ant that over fifty species of food tween Japan and the Union, the fact that within recent months im fah are taken in the North Sea; a great community cannot be main and is of the opinion that the Gulf Ports from Japan have increas, while exports actually decreased, is tained on a foundation of alums, many species that should he avail-teorssarily due to the agreement like the slums of Hong Kong. It able for Canadian cns imption and This increase would have taken with the South African Government, is no good arguing that Hong Kong for export to the United States | has always been like that. As a
and Europe. city grows its slums tend to become worso-more and more crowded and dirty, and, inhabited by growing numbers of discused persons; un employed and unemployable. The new areas arp fairly wholesome, but the older parts of Victoria get steadily worse.
At yesterday's meeting of the Rotary Club it was obvious that Mr. T. M. HAZLERIGO stirred some very uneasy consciences. An ap peal was made on behalf of ChildWe have been warned that this Welfare Work in Hong Kong, and vory early in his address Mr. HAZLERIGG Was showing that noverty is at the root of child suffering. The poverty in our aluma in past belief, and the Rociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, of which Mr. HazinIGG
Colony has roached the limits of taxation, and our evils must take care of themselves We commend that warning to the affluent sections
of the community and wo ask them, to ponder, one Saturday afternoon, when it is too wet to go racing, to play games, or even to visit the
is Hon. Secretary, is doing work cinema, whether that is really the among peoplo" whose income is as" | truth i low as sixty cents per week per head. In 1921 child mortality was corded as 206 per thousand in-
fants under one year. Last year 6,770 children under one year died, and another 2,500 between one year and five years. The main causes were' malnutrition and the discasca. arising from that state. The Society has no hesitation in saying, that though ignorance, and fear of Western medicine are big factors in this sacrifice of infant life, sheer poverty is by far the greatest
cause,
1.
SIR HALL CAINE:
A REUTER cable tells us to-day that Bir HALL CAINE is dead at the great age of seventy-eight. Sir HALL CAINE was obe of the oddest figures of English lettera. Long ago, as a young man he was an associate of WILLIAM MORRI DANTE GABRIEL Ross and others of that brilliant circle, and an carly work from his pen was a study of 8. T. Co RIDGE's mystical poem Cristabel. But young HALL, CAINE soon deserted
of St. Lawrence contains fully
Flat Champagne 1.
place if no agreement had been made, as it was caused entirely by the low prices of Japanese goods in i comparison with those of Great One thing in the Queen's Doll's Britain, Europe, America, and the House is not quite perfected the Union. The increase is causing the champagne in the miniature bottles gravest apprehension among in- in the cellar is flat!, The bottles, dustrialists and businessmen. and the wines they contain, areIt is realized that a growth perfect in every way. Even the of purchases from Japan, if labels are exact replicas and the it attains large dimensions, as it is wines in the tiny containers are atending to do to-day, must prejudice genuine and representative collec Bouth Africa's trade relations with tion of the finest in the world. The Great Britain and Europe, where culd be got, but owing to the blem is felt to be probably too great champagne, too, is, the best that the Union's markets lie. The pro tiny aperture in the necks of the for the Union Government alone to bottles, it was necessary to remove solve, but the Governments of the the gas before bottling, because the Empire should be able to deviso an bubbles were too large to enter.
effective remedy."
In 1991,000,000, gardag In.1033-8800,000, 1992
LEPERS IN HING KONG, QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCILA
The Ho M. WE Shenton, atto-morrow's - macting" of the Legislative Council, will makija sariga, of questions in connection with the treatment of lepera and the cost of transpording them from
follows: the Colony. The questions are as
followwhat is the Government's
suffering from leprosy in this policy in connection with personŠ Colony in respect of persons (a) entitled to British nationality and (b) those not so entitled
Has the Government, any facilitics for the treatment, of le- prosy in the Colony and/or out- aids, the Colony
3. Does the Government pay the cost of transporting lopers out of the Colony
4. Does the Government pay for tenance, in. leper asylums of such For otherwise arrange for the main-.. lepers as may be transported ont of the Colony ? be
5. Has the Government any data to show the number of lepers in the Colony in the course of this year firma He
Will the Government inform this Honourable Council extent (if any), the powernant
directions contained in Ordinance No. 24 of 1910 has been exorcised and enforced in the Colony 1
August Bank Holiday.
"It was nice to sit in the sun- shine at the Ovalto-day (August 3) and watch Notts and George Gunn for a brief period. If there were more days like to day we should" hear less of the ors for brighter cricket. On the dull sunless days plavers" and spectators acem dall: to-day the sunshine, and that Cock- nay element in the crowd which is characteristic of popular holiday, medo everybody feel happy. The Londoner on holiday is a confirmed grumbler: nobody including him- self-takes his straight from the shoulder comments too seriously.
Except on's chilly day kingsda
Local Notes and Events
The rainfall last month, amount- ed to 13.64 inches. There were three days on which over two inches were registered and ten days on which no rain fell
A nation issued at the Harbour Office states that no examina-
ton will be held for certificates of compotency for masters; mates, or engineers during the week ending September 13
Banished for life Last year, a woman named Wong Kam was charged before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with returning from banishment. She latur, Pete
While the ferry bout Man Kue was drawing from the wharf at Kowloon City, a Chinese married woman fell overboard. An alarm
From the files.
was raised and Tam Chi, a cook, jumped overboard in an effort to rescue the woman. He failed to locate her and abandoned the at Looking Back 25 Years. tempt after a long search. The This morning at the bathers ware woman was named Lo Kwai, and
beach opposite the Bay View House, formerly lived at No. 71 Hoklo-as, usual having their dip on the chuen Rawloon. City district,
Macao, a strange animal of several feet in length was observed by those Acavenging coolie, unti Te cently employed by the Sanitary on the sands. The bathers were at Department, was charged before once apprised of their danger, and. Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magis they immediately quitted the water.
The animal appeared-like;, a tracy yesterday with the theft of urocodile and was abant ten or some clothing from three other twelve feet long. Sportsmen are coolier Défendant said, he realis
Mr. HAZLER100' was deeling with highbrow stuff, and in 1885 his 1. was sentenced tone months hard ed ho might be sont to gaol for keeping a watch for this monster!!
fundamental things, and he aura- marised the position when he pointed out that there were two possible
which has somewhat, intimidated. this offence, but he had no food and reduced the usual crowd of stal and, was forced to commit the
offence. He held a good record in bathers in this mach frequented the Sanitary Department and loftspot Hong Kong Daily Press,
September 2, 1906, his post any about a month agr when he fell sick. His Worship said he would take a lenient view of the case and would bind defen- dant over in the sum ci 8100 for. 19 months,
career as a novelist began with, The Shadow of a Crime." The curious thing was that HALL CAISE A whist drive is being organised like his rival Miss MARIE CORELLI by the Police Branch of the CL took himself very seriously, and and will be held at the Police No fully believed that he was in the
creation Club on Thursday, at succession of FIR and THACK- p.m. The function is open to 3
charged.
courses: to ignore the suffering duo to poverty, or to provide rallef, The former policy had the merit of being cheaper, but the latter was ALL CAINE had plenty of me fee of 50 cents being
in accord with the dictates of humanity,
ELAY, Sport and DICKENS
Looking Back 50. Tears,
The letter written by the Viceroy of Ubibli, to the Secretary of the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Banished only in April this year. Wong Man,, described as a Can- Suppression of the Opium Trade for 10 years, a Chinese was charg ton cadet, was charged before Mr would be a document were it got ed at the Kowloon Magistracy be A Fraser Eyesterday with ride for the fact that it is the reply of a fors Mr. Fraser for the theft of ing on the Canton Kowloon Rail Chinese mandarin to the Anti- Pick and two..axes, and for reway without having paid, his fare. Opium Society. His Excellency Gi turning from banishment before It was stated that the many got Hung Chang is perhaps the most the expiration of his term. On the into the train in Canton. In potable man in the Chinese Empire first charge defendant was sen cadet's, uniform, but when he was and his Honest opinion on a politics! tenced to three months hard leo asked, to produce his ticket he question should be of great valut. our and on the second, to nine failed to do so. Defendant lead But it must be remembered that.. months the sentences to run coned that, he was with friend who Chinese officials have two ways of
1 secutively.
had his ticket. He fell asleep on looking sé matters the abstract aind the train and when it arrived at sentimental and the common-place
agination and real literary gilts, but his tasts and his sense of values angu were utterly false, when judged ry the tested canons of literature. However, these defects were quite approved by many rather simple minded people who regarded HALL CAINE the prophet of the age these days, ever, we see that the villaing of his villains was often laughable, and his heroes were un- Lelievable prigueze/Ve
Sir HALL CAINE outlived his day. His Manx stories are his best work, $nd still sell to some extent," but most of his books have been snowed A second ease of drowning is ro Cheung Muk Tau, his friend got and practical. Their public utter under by the great drifts of recent ported to have occurred off the off, leaving him in the coach. Hences,hich are more or less of the best sellers Modern writer of bathing pavilions at North Point had also intended to get off at former character are usually popular novels for from few illu within the past week, It was state the same station, but he did not diametrically opposed to their nets, sions. If you solemnly informed ed that the body of a. Chinese (in know, when he got to his deatina, which are generally governed by the Mr. EDGAR WALLAIR that he was a bathing suit) was recovered float-tion as he was sleep The Mn rules of common sense. Any one hun clasic," he would tell you that you ing of the Chinese Athletic Amgistrats adjourned the case for 24 but to road the memorials published were a fool or a sycophant. But ciation bathing pavillon. The body, hours in order that the cadet mighs in the Peking Garette to understand whist enjoyment he gives, especially when recovered, was in such a con produce his friend to substantiated entirely this is the case.The to those of us who want to forget dition as to suggest that it had hin story, Bail in the sum of $50 Viceroy of Chihli may or may not everything after a hard day's been in the water for some time was allowed for bo opposed to the Opium Trade, bat work fir HAL. CAINE WGS ES VOry It was subsequently discovered the path Konconscientious workman, but he that the name of the man was Bins unt
A very general attitude is to say that we foreigners are, not hers for the benefit of Chinese paupers; we are a community of British traders and professional men wo look after any
deserving and
many not very deserving, cases of distress among our own people, but, wo live în cur own compounds, and at our own standards, and we cannot be ex- nected to shoulder the burden of China's poverty. We emulate, in pot, a man of property and two respectable ecclesiastica" of whose conduct, &, certeán „Tancher of nine- teen centuries ago spoke rather disparagingly, when dealing with the ternal problems of destitution and Hong Kong
might hure written, perhaps, and King Tis aged 25, a broker who have been and are even now are altogether dif- really fine book out of a library of lived at Canton Boad. It apcing upon) China a drug that the Admittedly amma placa medic Enders that he was "bathing along neither wishes no! needs Hong
out anybody noticing his plight, 1881FER
"of his tow
he would probably be startled. construction English renderi put upon his letter. they take his lette needed grain
a (Continued: