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THE WATER SUPPLY.
[TO THE EDITOR
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."
Sin, The Government's attitude in the prenent water shortage is difficult to understandt
With a rainfall exceeding all ox- pectations the Government has been, pleased to lengthen the hours of supply to the various districte This is very welcome, but what bas
AQUATIC TREAT AT V.R.C.
MEDICAL WORK IN TERRITORIES.
FILIPINO SWIMMERS' BRILLIANT DISPLAY.
WORLD RECORD ALMOST TOUCHED.
BY WATERMAN"]
The 1039 swimming season Hong Kong will be remembered. for a long time becaued of the ex- sellent exhibition giver. at the V.R.C. bath last night, bofore a large gathering of enthusiasts, by the three swimming members of the Filipino Olympic Toam who are
the Government done for people in proceeding to Los Angeles by the the Colony who are dependent on.. Thisuta Maru.
were
the street fountains for their water The three swimmers to take part supply 7
T Ildefonso, A. Jekerim (breast stroke) and A. Ali (sprint). The first exhibition was over-a hundred yards and the local Cham- pion, Hector Ramedios," was includ ed in the race, but he was naturally in no way competent to pit himself against the two potential world-
Apart from any question of health and cleanliness, is "it" "not" the Government's duty to end the hardship which people of the poorer elisses are at present undergoing It is no child's play in this hot weather to carry a load of water una thire-storeyed fint. A four-beaters and although he put up a kron hours' supply at the net, very good race, was outclassed:
street
fountains ought to give nough time for every one to ob tain the water required for daily usu, but if that is the intention of the Government, I cannot under- stand why the water is not sent through the taps to the homes of
A three hours supply,
A Big Effort.
Ildefonso and Jekerim stayed
TRAVELLING DISPENSARY STARTS WORK TO-DAY.
WORK OF HEALING TAKEN TO DOORSTEPS OF CHINESE.
Under the control of Dr. K. H. Uttley, well-known in connection with his work in the Kowloon Government Hospital, & new Travel-
ling Dispensary will to-day begin its work in the New Territories.
Built on a Morris Commercial Six-Wheel chassis is a very smart and strong body, from outward view not unlike an ambulance body. Inside, however, instead of racks. for stretchers are built "cupboards, ahelves, a wish-basin and sterilizer, the latter heated by a Primus stove. The cupboards...contain.. medicines, lotions and ointments, while "dis tributed about the interior of the body are to be found all the 'equip- inent and conveniences of a modern dispensary.
Ether is carried and a minor operation could be conducted with the patient under an anesthetic. In cases of great emergency a patient could be brought into hospital from the Territories in the Travelling Dispensary, but it is not intended to use this vehicle as an ambulance except en occasion of sheer neces-
practically together over the first length of the bath; but the former drew several yards ahead of his compatriot in the sceoad and third
the poor.
lengths when he adopted very long sity. strokes, and each pub" gave him direct to the house would be so
a fast advantage. Jekerim made a much more welcome than the four-
Big effort to reduce the gap of Leen hours" available at the street
'seven yarda at the commencement fountains. I am not going to be
of the fourth length. Ildefonso, Heve that more water will be drawn from the houses in three however, managed to hold him off, hours than from the streets changing into shorter strokes. Ilde- feursen bours. Even if it can be fonso's last length was his worst while Jekerim's last spurs Was & proved that I am wrong, 1 am ruro
he amount which would be drawn treat to watch. Ildefonsa finished
in éxcess, assuming a supply to the ¦ four yards to the good. houses were available, would be very slight indeed.
The winner's time for the race wax CB.2 seconds while Jokerim took 60,4 seconds to cover the same
Recently the Government obtained sanction to apend $60,000 on pipes for the now set of street fountains. journey. The world record for the This was badly needed at the time and very rightly, the votes were 100 yards breast stroke is 67 granted without the slightest opposeconds, Held by Walter Spender. sition. No one, I am sure, would blame the Government if they gava
Tire, second exhibition was by A.
up their new street fountains right Ali who swam against two of the away and thus cut the loss on these best of local swimmers-Lawrence fountains. I understand, of this and L. Roza Pereira. The trio went sum a good deal can be recovered over a hundred yards and here taking up the pipes used and re-ngain the disparity between the turning them to Government Stores. Filipino boy and the local cand With the rain falling as at present dates was too big to allow of a is there any reason for still hugging race. the mere stave fountains scheme ?-- Yours faithfully,
Ungainly Speed.
An awning is carried which can he erceted from the side of the dis- pensary, thus giving a covered space outside the car of sufficient area to conduct the necessary medical worke in the open air.
Modern Fittings.
The interior of the dispensary is fitted with an electric light and fan. and in spite of the enormous amount of equipment rarried, ample room is left for the doctor and his assist. ant to work in. It is typical of the thoughtfulaess with which the fating nut of the" dispensary has been, conducted that most of the medicines are of double strength. the necessary dilution being obtain- ed with the use of water, about ten gallons of which is carried.
Worthy of note is the steriliser Thie for boiling instruments, etc. bas been constructed throughout by the P.W.D., and follows the usual lines of such a neccssury adjynet to medical work of any description. It is bolted to the floor and uses for its source of heat w Primus
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TRAFFIC TIME". "AT CENTRAL.
INDIAN PUBLIC DRIVER HEAVILY FINED.
SPEEDING CASES,
Lee Lok, the driver of a public vehicle, who drove from Bonham Street East, through Queen's Road Central to Pedder Street, of a spood averaging 20 miles per hour was fned $25.
PI
48 M.P.H.
Going at a speed of 45 miles an hour on his motor cycle, Traffic- Sergeant M. Clarke was unable to catek Cheung Man, who speeded in Hennessy Road. By the time, the Sergeant did catch him, the defen- dont had driven to the Cantor Steamship wharf and was returning
Ali led from the start to finish,. "LET 'EM HAVE IT.
increasing his lead at every stroke. [The Reservoirs are very far from. To watch him swim one gets the full, and, if a spell of fine weather impression that
A very awkward now set in there would be every crawl
The stroke is employed. prospect of starting the dry season writer has watched Takaishi, the with the reservoirs far below the world-famous Japanese swimmer, al overflow level.
Thin leaves the work at the V.R.C. bath and also possibility of another famine next the "ernek " Australian swimmers spring. It water is drawn from who prased through some time ago street fountains a minimum is used. and all theses swimmers seem to If it is supplied direct to houses possess a free and easy stroke that the fear is that every receptacle i seem to allow them to glide com in the pilnes would be filled against fortably through the water. Ali the possible need. Incidentally, if is just the opposite. He bends bia the ground floor people were selfish, hand the elbow to a very great timo a very workmanlike job, and (b) driving in Queen's Rond Cen those above would get nothing.extent at the beginning of each
certainly reflects great credit on its trai in a manner dangerous to the These 1.re
of the reasons stroke, and if one did not know is
builders in against
the public, and (e) carrying three designers and supply-En, reputation and the fact that he ILAD,P.),
finished far ahead of the local stal-
passengers in excess.. warts, one would be inclined to doubt the stop watch. With this ungainly stroke however, Ali seemed to produce a wonderful speed, There WILS no mistaking his Dear Mus-se-ter,--Just new' b'long superiority yesterday und at the tog muches rnin fa' down, what for end of the hundred yards he was Wong a no pay poor man more quite fresh. The stroke employed water? My may b'ong velly shame by Ali is a very strong answer to man must cutchen water those who claim that there is only street side. Good-bye-Yours ser one way to swim the crawl and that is the orthodox, way. If Ali were a beginner, be would surely be ufled up for bending his arm the way he does,
in situated the wash-basin, which An Indian chauffeur named draws ite water through a tap Rahman was charged before Mr. the ten-gallon tank, the Schofield yesterday with (a) failing waste pipe issuing through the to stop after running into baskets bottom of the ear body. The whole carried by Ya Kai, n Sanitary
to Wanchai. Defendant had two outfit is a handsome and at the same coolie. in Caine Rond on May previous convictions for regligent
ROMINE
home:
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 1950 KONG
DAILY PRESS.
poor
vaat.
MO SUL
FILM HUMOUR.
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[TO DITON OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]
Mr. to
Fraction Less Than the Record. Alf's time of 50.1 seconds is only afth of a second behind the local bath record held by the Japanese SIR,Our salutations
swimmer, Takaisht, but it must be remembered that when Takaishi Proulx, the Manager of Metrocatablished that record here, he was Goldwyn-Meyer for China, for his far from all out. In fact, if T sound sense and courtesy!
remember rightly, he deliberately Those of us who laugh at British tayed himself over the first two Jokes and thrill to British drama want to have our fair turn without lengths and then went all out in the
last fifty yards, any unfairness to other Bima, of
Incidentally, Peroin and Law. which there is not likely to be any
ronce, dead-heated yesterday, taking. shortage.
The Talkie no longer draws merely 69.3 seconds for the hundred yards by the novelty of the invention, When these two meet in the next and Trade Depression has brought night fete I would not like to lay disaster to many cinemas both in odds on the result.
the States and in Great Britain
whose managers had neglected to
keep up interest by variety. The fault lies in the strangeness, which best is quite good enough for Hong con wears off. Surely if British Kong, wherever it come from. hamour sounds foreign in a British. There is an old saying that the Colony that in a very strong argu- best foundation of friendship is to ment for giving it u fair change? Inugh at the name jokes. nation had its own particular sense of humour, that does not immedi ately appeal to a stranger; bus the (Continued at foot of next column.)
Every
Yours truly,
THE BRITISHI-FILM-DIE-
TRIBUTION. CO... Hong Kong, June 14, 1932.
P.W.D.
Stationed, in Territories.
driving.
In imposing a fine of $40, his Worship recommended the defen-. dant's licence to be cancelled, He was fined a sum totalling $10.
Out Across Tram. Sub-Impector Sapudera said that |··· It is intended that the dispensary!
defendant drove in Caine Road Cho Fau Sang. the driver of s shall be stationed, with its driver und the dresser, at Fauling or in from East to West. Two copies of public car, who cut across a tram- the Sanitary Department were walk car in Des Voeux Road Central, and. Long, while Dr. Uttley will mesting along by Shing Wong Street. in turning into Wardley Street,
it by appointment each morning at whatever village is the first to be visited that day. With its six whole and robust construction, the Travelling Dispensary will be able to negotiate open country with cafety, so that no village will be too inaccessible.
"
With this exceedingly mobile unit, the Government is starting a work which should have the most far- reaching results, and the Chinese) of the New Territories will beneat
The car approached from the rear.just missed running into Traffic-
ne coolie crossed the road miteensy Sergeant A. R. Brittain was fned fully, but the other, Yu Kai, who 820.
A carrying two baskets of old Yick Lamb, the driver, of a taxi- bottles, could not cross in bind, the cab, who overtook a private motor- midguard of the car striking the car at a nasty bend near Shing baskets. The coolie harf his foot ent. Wong Street in Caine Rond, was rather badly by one of the bottles, ned 830 and warned against n re and was an out-patient at the hos petition of the offence by his Wor- pital for several dayṣ, «
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Many Water Carriers. Traffic-Sergent McInnis, said,
ship.
Traffic-Inspector C. F. Alexander- said he was riding in motor-eycles combination in the opposite direc
enormously from the praiseworthy in connection with the second sumtion, and a collision was luckily
innovation.
COMING TO THE KING'S]:
WILL:
啦
ROGERS
AMBASSADOR
BILL
mous, that defendant drove very avoided. fust in Queen's Road Central, past i the Queen's Theatre. He sounded
his horn once only, and there were
Car With Low Hood...
For failing to obey the traile
a number of water-carriers about light signal. at the junction of
at the time going up. D'Aguilar Queen's Road East and Arsenal Street. There were three man, two Street, Miss Iu How Ming was women, four children and the
'fined $10. driver, in the car a five senÍPE... . Horn Nulsance.
Pang Choi, who sounded his horn very loudly in Hollywood Road ont-
side the Central Police Station whe
"Defendant pleaded that the hood, of her car was low and she was tip- able to see the lighti.
His Worship on being informed
fined 8. Sergeant McInnis said. by Inspector Alexander that the that car drivore wäre inclined to post had recently been lowered, re- -blow their way through mard-wonchod-that it was the owner's fault···· ed streets instead of driving slowly if he or she bought a car with allow.. nil steadily...
hood.