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The Fate Of A Garage In The Balance
SALISBURY ROAD TO BE WIDENED?
Interesting developments are ex- pected in the controversy which has arisen between the Kowloon Police and the Kowloon Railway authori ties over the fate of the property in Salisbury Road known as the Austin Garage, which is sub-let to This unusual conflict between two Messrs. Alex Ross and Company. governmental organisations is due
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CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY
MR. BAKER RETURNING NEXT YEAR
We are informed that Mr. R. Baker, J.P., Manager and chief." engineer of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, is due for retirement ear- ly next year, possibly in the Spring. Mr. Baker, who was responsible for the opening of the line to Canton in 1910, has been in the Govern ment Service for twenty-seven years, and has seen a great many changes during that period. When the line was first operated an old sugar warehouse was used as a station, building not being completed until the. present handsome 1918. Owing to come peculiar' whim
IN 1711
red-brick
There is a philosopher living in Kowloon Tong. He is not a grey- beard, learned in the theories of Hegel or Descartes, but an dinary, average resident who crosses on the Ferry four times a day and works, like the majority of us, at an office desk. Where he differs from a great many people in this Colony is in his attitude to life. He never grumbles and he never Experience has taught him that what you think you become," and he has seen too many to the determination of the Police on the part of the then Governor, of his friends become soured by to widen the roadway at this junc- Sir "Paddy" May, no official open- looking on the dark side. When hature by another twenty-feet, making ing was made and the Railway au- first came to Hong Kong, ten years the full width 100 feet, and ago, the novelty of life in the East equal determination on the part of erect a commemoration stone. Mr. anthorities were not even allowed to fascinated him as it does most of the Railway authorities that this Baker intends to remain in the us for the first few years. The age-shall not be done. old customs and social habits of
Colony, when he retires, and will the Chinese were a source of con
The property yields a substantial live in his house at Taipo. atant interest to him; he would get income to the latter in rent, and thrill from walking down some they maintain that it is wholly un- narrow side-street, with its quaint necessary to pull the building down. A CHINESE CENSUS signs and the shops in which indus- were re-built in line with the Fire They assert that if the Post Office trious craftsmen make their goods Station and the hill fronting the before your eyes. There was always Water Police Station were remov something new and unusual to heed, a perfectly straight roadway 100 found in the streets, and when one had enjoyed one's filt of sight seeing, there were inviting walks to be made in the New Territories. Little by little he began to make fresh acquaintances and learned to his sorrow that the Englishman quickly tires of the strange sights and scenes of the Orient. Ha digs himself into a groove and just stays. there and grouses. The weather is dull and damp; he grouses about that. Business is Black, and he wonders whether his employers will dispense with his services at the end of his contract. His salary is too small; how on earth do his directors expect him to live decent. ly on the meagre pittance they allow him? The Colony is "dead"; there is nothing for an active man to do, and his life is one long round of boredom. He is tired of the cinemas, tired of sport, tired of his friends and tired of the East.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR LECTURES IN KOWLOON
feet wide could be constructed Moreover, the, Railway officials de- clare that when the Canton-Hankow line is completed it will be essential
The principle causes of over-popu for them to have additional space lation, death and birth rates were for the construction of new booking explained by Mr. M. A. Cooper. offices and another platform. If B.Sc., Lecturer to the Department the site at present occupied by the of Commerce at Hong Kong Uni- Austin Garage were demolished and versity, in the course of an infor made into a roadway, it would seri mative and fascinating lecture given ously interfere with their future at the European Y.M.C.A.. Kow. plans. Nobody seems to know how loon; on Monday evening. The lec the controversy will end, but the turer, quoting Professor Carr fact that Messrs. Alex Ross have coat of paint rather points to a recently given the building a new confidence that the Railway authori ties will win!
Saunders, stated that a population
year 1711 in connection with the poll census was taken in China in the tax and military service, the total arrived at being 28,000,000, büt when another census was taken some years later with a view to reliev ing distress, the total reached was
and vegetables of which he had 103,000,000. The essential distinc every reason to be proud
A change began to overcome our philosopher. Not only did he find Our philosopher soon discovered himself (talking cheerfully instead that he was being influenced by the of grousing, but he acted as a grousing of his friends and there tonis on his depression" friends. came a time when he, too, began They all wondered, enviously, what to lose interest in his surroundings was the secret of his happiness. and to complain of everything that one day they found him, on a did not appear to be exactly as he his dogs in his little garden. The Saturday afternoon, playing with. would have liked. words of Browning, he asked him was due to content. Directly his
Echoing the
secret was soon out. His happiness sell" What's
wrong with
the world?"
After some thought, he would take the bus and return to work at the office was finished he
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tion between practically all the earlier censuses and those made to- day was that the early investiga tors aimed at discovering the num- ber of a particular element in the population, and were not primarily concerned with the total number of people inhabiting a particular area.
A NEW CLINIC
TO BE OPENED SOON.
The venereal clinic which the Pub-
came to the conclusion that the his home and, once there, his worlio Works Department are construct world had never been worse andries would fall from his shoulders ing at Tsim Sha Tsui, below the never better. It was he himself like an oppressivo mantle that is Water Police Station, is expected to that was wrong.
taken off. His advice, with which be completed within the next three we find it hard to disagree, is weeks. It is a three-storeyed build- Stop grousing. Cultivate a smile, ing and comprises four or fiva smál! inwardly and outwardly. It's the rooms, including a waiting-room, only way to enjoy life." This is dressing-rooms, office; Medical On- a slogan which we can confidently cer's room, injection room etc. The who may he suffering from the de male and female out-patients, will recommend to all of our readers clinic, which will be open to both Passion and all the ills and irrita- be under the charge of a Govern- be able to own a house with a floors have been constructed of ter- tions of this life. Wa may not all ment Medical Superintendent. The garden, but a cheerful heart costs raze and cement and granite chípa, nothing.
the cement used being Japanese."
It was not long after this dis- covery of his complaint-some might call it his self psycho-analysis that he took a little house. at Kow Joon-Tong-It-war-not-palatial and the rooms were small, but it caught the sun in the morning; it had verandah where he could sit in the hot weather, and the garden, culti vated with care, produced flowers
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