HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1932.
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NOTICE.
WATER SUPPLY.
100000 GRGD
R.
IN
KOWLOON PENINSULA.
METERED SERVICES AND OLD STREET FOUNTAINS.
OMMENCING on Wednesday, lat "Jun", at 4.10 p.m. a thres hours' supply from the mains will be given oach day between the hours of
7 a... to 4.30 am, and 4.30 p.m. to 6 pm.
NEW GROUP STREET FOUNTAINS
(Kowloon Peninsula)
Commencing on Wedneslay, Est June, at 2:30 p.m. an olevan hours' supply will be given daily between the hours of:
7 a.. so 6 pm.
from the new group street fountains.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Water Authority.
ANTONY
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CLEOPATRA
SHAKESPEARE WROTE
"ploarean, Cooks sharpen with aloylana naon bin. appetite." Doesn't that sound great? Boy, if I could just get the once over on that goy Shakespeare. I'd tell him he'd spilt a plateful. Why, I reckon be know somethin' red hot in the way of sauces and pickles himself, the old play actor 1 But he'd have fair bast his third volume. if he'd known, what I do about Masono chie's
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though it is unlikely to fail alte- gether. If daily demands on the reservoirs were redued to three million gallons a day-a ration of three gallons per boad-wa should. have b
Two hundred day supply, sappening that there were about 000 !.g. in the reservoirs on June 1st, the assumption being that 80 m.g. had been sured by the Mas restric tions, It is inconceivable that
there should be no rain and ones it starts the reservoirs fill quickly, On July 1, 1020, there were 141 ug on the Island. By the 14th there were 217 m.g. and at the andis
of August 1,800 m.gl
Friend What strep already 1"
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Church Organist at 12.
Chauffeur Agod "78.
A few minutes later a R.O.M.S. prod on the inng and was promptly
A 78year old chauffeur, Walter hurled through the doors of the Purey, who has been employed by: stores.. the Misses Burke, of Newton Val His little dog followed him or esce Manor, near Alton, Hunts, for to thy mat, leap into ther nir ̧ with. ; soteryhody the past 33 years, first ne, conch-
a yelp. man and for the last 17 years as chauffeur, was fined at White bill for driving a car without due care and attention.
This was the first hlenish on his
Master Thomas Stoneham, of long record of driving. Nowmarket, who is 12 years of age has been appointed organist of Chippenham Church, about
right miles from Newmarket Hol cycles to Chippenham on Sundays for service and one night in the week for choir practice. His father member of St. Mary's Church choir, Newmarket,
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Arrest Due to a Blud.
We are therefore in a state of siege, with the sunshine that, we all
The fact that he blushed as a longed for after a seemingly interpoliceman passed led to the appear
ance at Bramley of George Brigden minable winter MA
who refused his address on (28), a charge of breaking into a house; in Sundridge Park, Bromley, and stealing goods value £11.
enemy,
There is no cause for alarm but our duty is to help the authorities in
P.C. Abel aid that Brigden every way that they suggest and lashed, and this led him to nak put up with inconvenience without from where he had obtained
parcel and an attaché ense. Ho re grumbling. There are, of course,lied that his mother in Queen- abreet Beckenham, had given them three aspects of the problem. 1, The
to him. As there was no Queen- provision of adequate, reservoirs, street in Beckenhain he arrested the!
min. 2. The proper distribution of the supply now available. 3, The con- seevasion of the present supply and making it last as long as possible.
Brigden was committed for trial.
Mice Attack Cats.
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The covering of one of the leads an electric light switch had worn off and the naked wire, com- ing into contact with a pipe, wont a curgent round the tin building and the mas
few
£100 Bequest for Hymn Singing." A. "Special Request."
There ILTO Children in the village of Lidgate,
artists hors are disappointed. The West Suffolk generous to their public then Jol Education Committee have decided! McCormack, and at his birthday that they cannot accept a bequest party at the Albert Hall they of £100 for the school because of taxed him severely with dores. the difficulties and expanse in carry- ing it out.
The tens of the boquest were that the interest should provide sonnal prizes alternately for the most properly-behaved scholar in Lidgate School, and for the girl of the school who sang, in the most accurate and spiritual manner, Lidille's "Abide With Me."
The offer of the £100 was made by Mr. Vyvyan Wells, a Finchley solicitor, on behalf of the executors of a client. The testator had left the money to commemorate his wife, whose maiden name was Lid gate.
The Grammarians' Grammar.
Before he began he received a louter from lady who said: "When you have really finished will you put down the top of the piano, su" that we shal; know that if we go we shall not miss anything!"
After he had completed his pro- gramme he came back four times, and then put down the top of the piano.
But he sang again after that.
Hats Scarce in Moscow.
A stranger arriving in Moscow might be impressed by the almost omplete absence of hats on mhle mhabitants. Has factories have not figured in the Five-Year Plan,
The Muscovites wear caps, for the Founded nearly 300 years nge, most part, although the tall gene- mainly for the purpose of construct-shaped Astrakhan wool head cover. ing & grammar, the French Academy ing is not uncomman in the winter its end months. Leather helmets, not a- now achieved- Grammaire de l'Académie Fran-like equipment of American foot- çaise of 284 pages, --
ball playors, with ear: Aps that are convenient on nipping days, are
has
THE Public are hereby notified of Tthe following Traffic, arraaga ments which will be enforced on the Night Editor (Wanchai Office); The last two are the immediate con-tralia, doing serious damage to the best-seller, and on, the "day of pub- also worn.
occasion of the King's Birthday Parade on June 3rd, next-
1. Motor are conveying officiala to the ceremony at the Cenotaph will be stopped at the junction of Des Vaux Road Central und Jackson
Tel. 24013.
1.0.4
Road where the occuparte The
The car will then be sent to Chater
Road, West of the Statue, to park there.
The Daily Press.
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Millions of mice have infested the Malle region of Victoria, Aus wheat stacks, and the Senior Con- stable at Ouyen reports that cats] in the district have been attacked und eaten by the mice.
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Fining Them on the Spot.
A scale of the charges which he intends to levy upon motorists who crash through a hedge into his garden has been issued by a man living near an awkward bond on
The book has already become a lication the first edition of 100,000 copies was exhausted.
Some of these early copies are likely to besome valuable, for the first numbers issued contained a mistake-in grammnur!
Kreuger Blackmail,
London Office 33, Fleet Street, en. It is too late to get on with the five year job of the Gerge Reservoir. Every gallor that flows down the Shing Man to the in-tako is being absorbed and the dam, if created overnight by an army of
Police officers searching the..pri- "Litans, would" not help. With re-
vale office of Ivar Kreuger, the Match King." who shot himself gard
to distribution, Kewioon
in Paris, found a number of letters from women, many of them of a meter supply is down to three hours
So many motor-cyclists' take the blackmailing character, bend at & speed, which "forces them It is evident that Kreuger had per dicu. This may have to 80
to enter the garden through the paid out large much lower. Three hours is suf-bedge that he has determined tooney..
make them pay for the damage. He ficient to a huge number of DESPITE the normal expectations of the season, and occasional optimismes Half an hour is a possibla figurn A Chinese family drawing from a street fountain get about
HONG KONG, JUNE ), 1032.
2. From 9:45 am to 11.30 am. moter omnibuses and lorries travell ing along Caine Roud in an Duaterly direction will be diverted by way of Arbuthnot Road, Hollywood Road, Lyndhurst Terrace and Wellington RATIONING THE WATER, Street to Queen's Road Central and Blake Fier vin Pedder Strest. From the lower levels to upper levels there vehicles will travel by way of Pedder Street, Queen's Road Central and Ic House Street.
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from thu Observatory, staff the rain 8 From.9.45 am, to 11.30 a.m. that we need avoids Hong Hong.five minutes at a slow running.cap! motor omnituses and lorries travell Most other places appear to have ing East alung Queen's Road West will be diverted by way of Bonhamorn than they want, but here the Long before the nathorities let the reservoirs ge dry they would redugu Strand, West, Korrison Street and
the meter houses to one lap each Des Vœux Road Central.
and so many minutes only! Thus
4. Between the hours of 9 am and 12 noon vehicles will not be per mitted to, park in Connaught Ron Central between Pedder Street and Murray Road; Chuter Road, East of Queen's Statue, Wardley Street, North of Queen's Statue and in Jack- son Road.
wet weather looks as far off as ever, There is no typhoon on the way and; | for all that we know."the drought |
the main Usk-Monmouth road.
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Rübber stamps of the signatures
found."
has fixed the following scale : cf well-known persons were also.
Solo rider, 2, .d;
Cyclist with pillion rider. 5.; Driver of motor cycle com- bination, 10s.
He has not yet fixed the senle for a motor couch.
Sydney Bridge Second Death.
The great new harbour bridge at
The Electric Doormat.
The absence of hats does not apply to women in Moscow. Fac- tory worker and peasant classes mostly wear kerchiefs around their hends, but many other women con- trive to make or buy hats.
Joseph Chamberlain's Schoolidays.
When Sir Austin Chamberlain visits Camberwell, in June, to open an exhibition of painting n the ledger containing the original_en- Art Gallery, he will be shown a tries of the amounts paid by Mrs. Chamberlain, his grandmother, to the first schoolmistress of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, his father.
The house where Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was born may still} be seen. It is. 153, The Grove, where the Chamberlains carried on business as boot and shoe manufae-" turers fol 120 years.
of men.
The school where Joseph Cham- This is the tale of a magic mat berlain attended in The Grove, (Army pattern) which lowered the when he was eight years old, has dignity of a regimental quarter been pulled down. While he was master sergeant, threw a man 20ft. at this school he showed early evi into the road and gave a small dog dence of his ambitions as a leader the shock of its life.
He started a peaco or- Old and weatherheaten, the matganisation, and one of the first re- Sydney has been the scene of any on the stone steps of the quaesults of this was a fight between at Martinique Joe and another boy as to who should hold the position of the frat second suicide. A man threw him termaster's atone
▲ Bergeant out of the president. sell from the bridge and was killed, Barracks, Bordon.. anya a Reuter message.
stores: As he stepped on to the mat he shot into the air and land- ed on the road 20ft. away.
may continue indefinitely, In 1929 using real discomfort to these the rain came on July 12, but it is whom the shortage has not yet undeniable that Hong Kong win touched. Even that would leave the tenants of houses with meters in ther can indulge in any degree of
The first suicide occurred two
The bridge was irregularity and remain fine still far better position than are the days previously. later in the year. History records inhabitants of the "rider main dis-opened on March 18,
sricts at present. The rntion now great droughts, and though these
5. No vehicular traffic will bo por witted in Connaught Road Centrul between Pedder Street and Murray occurred before the invention of iren to those districts can hardly
Roid between the hours of 9am. and 12 noon.
The Traffic arrangements for the Reception at Government house on the night of June 3rd. are as follows:-
Owner driven cars will park in Kennedy Road.
Iba, reduced, except na welast resort
£he hearts
rain guages the facts recorded by and after most drastic reaerictions chronicles mako curious rending. We all hope and trust that the have been placed on streets will be flooded and the with direct supply. These are the stresaria running in possibilities and it is just as well catchment torrents by the time this is in print, that they should be realised. No car will be permitted to park but there is nothing to suggest that we do get unfely through the pre in Government Huse Garuge.
Chauffeur driven cars will purk
this will happen, and people who sent predictment then will be the on Murray Parade Ground where a say it must rain before long." time to apply whip, pur and goad special telephone to Government are merely expressing a pious wish. House will be installed to facilitate Droughts are curious things when the calling of cars.
they get going.
Sedan chairs and rickshaws will set down their passengers at the main
How then does the water supply entrance in Upper Albert Road. stand. At the end of April there These vehicles will not be allowed inside the grounds of Government were 710 million gallons in the
to the obstructionists (tonsc
polite expression) who don't think water
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proper
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came
Sir Austen Chamberlain will formally present the Art Gallery with a photograph of his father.
* Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar was yes- terday quoted at 18. 2d, un de mand."
Li Kwan Tak, of 87, Jervois Street, on Saturday gave an un- known Chinese the sum of 8300 when told that it was required by the "manager's sister. repenting of his gullibity.
He is now
According to a report made to the police by the manager of Holt's
from the files.
1 A Chinese variation of the "Long Firm Fraud was successfully prac tised on Chan Kwong Wah, man ager of the Handicraft Distributing Company, last Saturday. On that day two men ordered goods to the value of 8300, giving as their ad- dress 37, Queen's Road West, and Looking Back 25 Years, told the manager to send a foki there to
CTI collect the money Monday. Needless to say, the men were not there to receive the jaki. The body of yet a third victim
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“EXPLOSIVES IN GARDEN, BOX, A PARK, AND ON A FIRE,
Four schoolboys who were stated to have placed the whole town of Eastbourne in danger were severoly. reprimanded in the Juvenile Court at Eastbourne, when they were charged with stealing 5lb. of gelig- nite and 94 detonators from the explosives stores as the Redoubt.
The Corporation silicitor said:- It is a miracle these boys are
House except in the event of heavy Island Reservoirs and 212 million / TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Wharf, someone broke into one of of the Kowloon Bay lifeboat acci- vessel fecently stranded" off Lulu alive to-day." He added that some
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T. H. KING, Inspector General of Police. Hong Kong, lat June, 1929.
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BOY KNOCKED DOWN: TRAFFIC SERGEANT SKIDS.
their godowng between 6 p.m. last dent, in which 20 men were throw Saturday and 8.a.m. on Monday into the water by the capsizing of which they wero and stole cloth to the value of a lifeboat in $3,408,
boarding the .s. Ben Lomond, was recovered from the harbour near Taikoo Dock on Monday. It was identified as the body of He Wah, 20 years of age The Ben Lomond is being broken up in Kowloon Bay.
Engaged in some work on the | Traunway Company's premises in Hussel Street, an electrician named Li Lam (33) fell from a ladder, zustaining injuries to his legs and forehead. Ife was subsequently re- moved to the Government Civil Hospital.
At Kowloon Magistracy yenter. day, two Chinese were charged with the theft of drain pipes from houses
recreation
con Mr. G. P. "Yosforday at Lammert, auctioneer, offered for sade by public auction the wreck of the steamer Nicolaos, which
Head, Quemoy Island near Amoy of the explosives were found in a Mr. Mok Lai Sam became the pur- back garden, others in a box, a chaser at a bid of $3,000, and for part was buried in
ground, and one boy plaved two another 850 her cargo of cement denotators among the coke at his also became the property of "the home, and an explosion occurred in purchaser of the vessel, Bong the kitchen fire.. Kong Daly Press, June 1, 1907. Looking Back 50 Years,
Shanghai papers to hand yester
When the Town Clerk naked the hovy if they were bware that they had put the whole town in danger they replied, "Yes sir."
The charge was dismissed.
gallons at Kowloon. During that month the consumption was m.g at Kowloon and 945 in the Island, a total of exactly 409 m.g. There had been a constant supply in Kowloon and a full street foun- tain supply in the Island. At that
A European boy named D. W. ralu wo would now have a total Hyde-Lay, living at 3, Armand Government storage of 129 m.g. It will be in- Building, was knocked off his push with Accordance
The EXCHANGE resting to see the water figures cycle yesterday afternoon and in- BANKS will be OLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIQ HURI- for May, showing to what extent jured in the leg. The vehicle re NESS on FRIDAY, 320 JUNE (THE the normal supply has born responsible for the accident was a BIRTHDAY or HIS MAJESTY' THE | duosd.
Kai Tack motor bus, and the collast week there were two fatal cases guilty and were each given twe sion of a treaty between the United KING).
of reall-pox, four cases (two deaths) months hard labour but the case States and Corea The "Forbidden [ang] in Julp two years-agut-the-daily-liston occurred at the junction off diphtherin, ten cases (two death) painst the man who was charged Land has thus, as-length, emerged- "Hong Kong, 30th May, 1932.
sxpenditure from the reservoirs, Austin. and Chatham Roads. The of enteric fever, five cases (three with receiving was remanded until was screwed down to about three boy was taken to his home where deaths) of meningitis and s deaths, Monday afternoon as it was under- from her long cherished seclusion stood defendant was seeking legal, and entered the comity of nations. The event is one of greater interest advice.
The Prince of Wales. went down million gallons a day according to he received attention from a doc from palmonary tuberculosis,
than importance. The advantage Post Office manhole when ho a statement by the Hon. Mr. H. T. tor, and it is believed that his right At Kowloon Magistracy yester.
day a Chinese was charged with the Shortage of water seriously ham. to be derived by other nations from visited the Ideal Home Exhibition N attractive European residence CRBASY. We are certainly nowhere leg may he fractured
theft of two tyres from a motor pered the efforts of the Kowloon the breaking up of Corean isolation at Olympia, W. at Taipo.
reur that figurs at present. Then Another accident occurred on a
He tried uncovering some wire lorry left in garage at No. 398 Fire Brigade on Monday night when cannot be very great, especially for Situated South of Railway between
pliers. The wire. Portland Street. on the evening they endeavoured to extinguish the Orst few years of commercial with a pair
Then an official show.odi Tai Po and Taipo Market Stations, a large supply brought from over unnamed path between Ho Mus containing a Reception-rooms and 4 seas and from the Pearl River by Tin and Hung Hom, when Traffic of May 20. Detective Sergeant firm which broke out shortly after intercourse. but it is a gain to the troke. Bed-rooms, 2 Bath-roonis, English baths
maintained in
the Sergeant C. F. Clark, in avoiding Lamont, who prosecuted. said the 10 p.m. at the Lam Thi Hon coal civilised world to have torn down him the trick of the job, and the defendant broke open the garage | yard in Mongkok. The Mongkok the barriers which the mingled Prince succeeded in uncovering the fitted with hot and cold water, Flusli tanker was
new And Tsimshatsui appliances and i timidity, jealousy, distrust, and wire without further mishap. water-closet. Fitted for Electrio light,street tinks. What was done two a Chinese woman who ran in front door, and took away two
The official said afterwards: Hard wood floors, Lawn, &c.
"The Prince is the only man I For further particulara, apply yours ago can he repeated to-day of his motor cycle, skidded and teres, which were valued at $172.Nos. 1 and 3 firefloats were sent to prejudice of the Corean Govern Superintendent of Crown Lands and and there is still a useful supply fell, receiving slight injuries to his The defendant was understood to the scene, and succeeded in putting meat had for ages interposed bo-
have sold them for 81.50 each! out the fire at midnight. A large tween that country and all comers have known to do the job properly: 2 Surveys, P.W.D., or District Officer, coming into the filtera from the elbow and knee. The machine was Sentence of three months hard quantity of coal was consumed byong Kong Daily Press, Juno 1, after being shown the way only
the, flames. North, Taipo.
labour was passed. [2217 Shing Mun River. That source of slightly damaged.
Two cases of small-pox, two of in Mengkok while a charge of re-day confirmed inteligentes previous- diphtheria and three of meningitis veiving, was preferred against ly received announcing the conclu THE PRINCE IN MANHOLE. were reported on Monday. During third man. The first two pleaded
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