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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.
KOWLOON GOLF
CLUB
THIS YEAR'S SUPPER DANCE
The Committee of the Kowloon Golf Club has decided to hold a Supper Dance at the Peninsula Hotel Rose Room on Friday, Febru ary Si (from 9'p.m. to I am.).
The dance will be on the same lines as that hold, with every sue ges last year, when about 100 people
were present.
Tickets at 83 each person (includ: ing cost of supper) may be obtained from the Secretary..
The Committee are asking that Applications be made as early as posible and not later than Febru- If applications are not ary 17. accompanied by cash the cost of all tickets applied for will be debited to the applicant's account,
Members are requested to make
up parties of not less than four, and to make arrangements with the Hotel for table accommodation,
CHEAPER TAXIS FOR A BATHING BEACH,
KOWLOON?
Small" Hillman Taxis
to Start in March.
30 CENTS FOR FIRST MILE
PLEASE!"
What Every Kowloon Resident Wants
No one, with the possible excep It is understood that a scheme tion of a low strange souls who has been submitted to the Inspector find the boast worth the discomfort, General of Police, the Hon. Mr. E. wants to go bathing at this season, hot weather comes and once again D. C. Wolfe, OM.G., for the intro.but it will not be long before the duction of smaller taxis in Kowloon. Kowloon residents will find that unless they have a car, their only harbour and the Island and make chance of a swim is to cross the their way to Repulse Bay.
This new enterprise is by the Blue Taxicab Company, pioneers of the taxicab business on the main Land, and proprietors of an excellent service.
The plans laid before the 1.G.P. for his approval seek permission to operate small 10 h.p. Hillman taxis on the mainland it a fare of 30 cents for the first mile and five cents for each subsequent quarter mile.
The Company have also asked permission for the reduction of fares for the present taxis to 40 cents for the first mile and 30 cents for each subsequent mile instead of the present rates, namely, 50 conts for the first' mild and 10 gents for each
|Howloon 25 Years Ago subsequent quarter milo.
THOSE RAILWAY ESTIMATES!
It is believed that two private concerns approached the Govern ment for permission to operate small taxis in Kowloon but permission has so far not been received,
We know, of course, that Hong Kong people come over to Castle. Penk, but again these are the car
owners or at the least those to whom $10 to $20 for car hire is easily paid for a day's enjoyment. It is the cause of the loss lucky people, which we want to plead, of the young married couples who have hnd to decide between a family and car, and have chosen the former, of the children themselves.
On the Castle Peak Road. Surely it should be possible to arrange for a bathing beach within reasonable distance, say 6 or miles, of the residential ren to the east of Nathan Road, and served by a frequent bus service. Looking over the possible sites one must Hillman "Minx" Baloon.
count out all the eastern coast-al The type of taxis which the com The railway question simply bristles with different points of pany will employ will be the popular the Kowloon Peninsula between the 10 horsepower Hillman "Miux "railway station and Hung Hom and. view, none of which can well beloon, equipped with the usual on the western side from the ignored. Unfortunately, few of us taximeters. An order for six have wharves to Sham Shui Po, where the en claim competence to discuss already been placed with the agents, water is too dirty to make bathing pleasant. But once beyond Eni Chi- Them all. When estimates are sublezars: Gilman & Co., and the cars
Kok on the eastern coast, along the mitted for a railway in a new coun-are expected to arrive early in
Castle Penk Road, there appears It is only to be service improves, and with the per-to be mile after mile of narrow being exceeded.
beach which with a little prepara expected. But when they happen mission of the authorities, to in-
tion might be made admirable for to be so greatly exceeded as is the crease this number. case with those first submitted for our short line, enquiry is as proper
March.
try, it is nothing new to find thero It is further hoped as the
More Stations for Kowloon, With the addition of small taxis
ΠΟΥ
vehicular ferry service in Jordan Road,
only..
as it is natural. No amount of in the service the company have. official palliation can abolish the drawn up plans for the introduction ecmelusion that the estimates in this of many parking areas on the main- case must have been arrived at land for their taxis, including Kow mainly by a process of guess work loong Tong, Homuntin and near the Even then the trouble is not all stated. Should the expenditure have swollen to the dimensions it
The reduction of the fares for the he. Very few men can ace why larger taxes was made to balanco auch a short line should cost so the fares between the larger and much, One popular solution does smaller taxis and to avoid a concen- not lend itself to much argument. trated demand for the smaller taxia A shrug of the shoulders, the three words Crown Agents again" and the answer is obvious to most men. Then there comes the extraordinary variety of opinion as to the best alignment, by the admittedly com petent engineers. A battle of routes, in which the amateur engi neer is sometimes lese disinterested than duymatic, has been spared us, but in its place we have had a chapping and changing by men we can trust to be at once competent and disinterested.
CHARGE AGAINST CHINESE TENANT
DISMISSED BY KOWLOON
MAGISTRATE
the purpose.
Permanent Structures,
at
A concrete platform following the curve of the road embankment, and raised on piles, has been suggested. On this hutments rather on, the lines of the more permanent wood and concrete "matshods", Repulse Bay could be built. The sheds could be leased by the month or season, and, if the price were not prohibitive, there would be no lack of applicants for them. Fur ther developments in the way of a public, shed, and an open air ro staurant such as Lane, Crawford's maintain at Repulse Bay inmediate- ly suggest themselves.
The enterprise might well be undertaken by the Government, or if that were mot possible by some private company. If some such beach' could be constructed it would add very considerably to the amenities of life on the mainland during tho summer months,
PROMINENT GUESTS AT
THE PENINSULA
Among the guests staying at the Peninsula Hotel are Mr. and Mrs.
A charge of permitting his flat to be used as a lodging house for prostitutes, was unsuccessfully brought against the Chinese tenant of No. 3 Woosung Street, Yau- At the Legislative Council on mati. The charge being dismissed Thursday, His Excellency (Sir by Mr. Ri H. Butters at Kowloon yesterday, 011 the Frederick Lugard) was obliged to Magistracy point this out, and at the same time grounds of insufficient evidence,
The police officer in charge of the ingeniously explained the reason, which by the non-expert must be case remarked that a complaint was Accepted without demur. His Ex-made to the Secretariat for Chinese cellency also reminded the council Affairs and on raiding the flat the lors that the line was demanded police arrested three women who
ters. Mr. Pentray arrived in Hong practically irrespective of its cost admitted, after interrogation, that J. O. Pentray and their two daugh or earnings. Those were not his they were prostitutes."
Mr. Y. C. Kuan who appeared Kong on Saturday by the R.MS. words, but the broad effect of them. The line had to be, to preserve the for the defendant, proved that the Empress of Japan, on a visit to the predominance of Hong Kong, by flat was run by a private family who making it the termitas of the great did not know of the status of the trunk line that will aventually con- women to whom he rented the neet the north and south of China. cubicle. The women had admitted, Yet it almost seems clear from His in evidence, that they carried on Excellency's remarks that this at their work outside using the flat as pect, as temporarily lost sight of their quarters. when the first estimates (totalling
Orient.
Mr. Pentray, who is President of the British-American Paint Co... Ltd, of Victoria, British Columbia, was also ex-Mayor of that city from 1925 to 1928.
Another notable guest is Mr. Norman Yarrow, who also arrived from British Columbia on the Em- press of Japan
Mr. Yarrow is the son of Sir-
TO NORTH KOWLOON RESIDENTS
only five million dollars) were pub far no limiting the expenditure lished. The single brilge and so goes, is quite easily discovered.. It farth were projected as if for a was the Secretary of State for the Alfred Yarrow and the Managing- However that Colonies who decided that the line Director of the Yarrow Shipyards merely local line. may be, and while there should be should be constructed on the de-
at Esqimalt, B.O. no niggardly carping over fraepartmental system, by the Crown tional expenses in such a momont Agents. As a correspondent recent- oits undertaking, which is more ly pointed out in our columns, quat over generally regarded as a vital ing Maleyan experienecs, this alone issue for this Colony, there is makes the focal control ineffective. difference between legitimate and in the all-important matter of cost. unforeseen augmentations of coat, Entimate or no estimates, the ulti- and preventible extravagance.. It mate outge thus becomes as uncer was, we suppose, a suspicion, or attain in amount as that of a man least a fear, of the latter that who forwards, a cheque signed but prompted the anxious enquiries with the amount and dato unfilled that led to His Excellency, making in. His Excellency admitted that
The China Light & Power Co. the full statement on railway affairs the system allows of very little local appearing in our issue of yesterday. control over the consulting engi, warm residents that the supply of Much emphasis was placed on the neers, and even if it did, those electricity will be cut off from B statement that the Colony that pays eminent gentlemen are usually in a.m. to 8 p.m. to-morrow, Thera
Waterlon: the piper has retained control of all position to lend all but the most day, on the South aide of Prince important factors, but how worth cautious and thrifty clients by the Edward Road, from less this local control really is, so tuose.-Hong Kony Daily Pren, Road, eastward to Ma Ta Wai
Village. (Continued on nezi Column) February 8, 1909,
.tt.
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