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Fraternity Book Room A new consignment of Bibles. Prices from Cents 75 to $35. New Testaments from Cents 10, 216, Nathan Road, Konton.
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April 4th, 5th and 6th,
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ESTABLISHED 1857
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933.
Kotoloon Supplement THE LANCASHIRE OF THE
HONG KONG, APRIL 4, 1933.
FEUDALISM
SOUTH
INDUSTRIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE MAINLAND
underrated.
I
Tie smelting was an industry, of some importance and value until the Chinese tariff, among other canises, robbed it of many of the lucrative features at one time en- imported from the producing mines joyed in Hong Kong Tin ore was in the province of Yunnan, smelted manufacturing centres in America; in Hong Kong, and exported to the but this industry has been ajan guishing one. due to adverse fac tors against which Hong Kong can not hope to contend.
SINCE the occupation of eighty per The general reader may not be cent. of the Chinese population is
aware that Kowloon is the home of farming the conditions of life which, collectively a highly import scores of small-sale industrice amongst the peasantry in the New ant fater in the trade of the | Territories are practically identical Colony, individually are overshow with those of the agricultural com-Yet Kowlonu. with its cotton mille, ed by the great foreign concerns, munities is the Interior. The only silk-weaving, knitting, rubber shoe yeal difference between them in that and cracker factories, bids fair to the former are care against ban-
become in time the Lancashire of the south. A review of these thriv- ditry and military invasion, famine ing industries will indicate that the and ruthless taxation. Socially importance of this Colony as a they follow the same traditions and manufacturing contro is very much systems of thought, in which the idea of the family is uppermost. It is evident that the Chinese concep- tion of the family is of long his torical evolution. In China the members of a family are, as a rule, economically dependent upon one or & few amongst themselves, who constitute, the food-winners. As a consequence, the Chinese tend to lack the spirit of independence. The family means nothing more than a group of dependents, sub- mitting their fate to one or a few successful persons at the top. The
With the activity in the building present political and social unrest trade in the Colony there has arisen in China is partly due to the lack a number of delictories in the of national feeling among the New Territories Bricks of excel Chinese people as a whole.
lent quality are made at Castle Penk and district; in fact According to Mr. Shih Chang,aucressful has this industry proved the author of a book on agrarian to be that the advent of a new economics, the fertile land not under factory has been mooted, Aided by tillage in Obina in 1987 amounted cheap-power the manufacture of to 800,000,000 neres. Tho intolerable tricks should become one of the Innd taxes imposed by warring trading local industries. The high generals have added to the misery tension electric cable installation I of the farmers, who depend on the in the New Territories is certain soil for their bare subaistence. In to reduce costs and enable the brick Some provinces the land is taxed industry to develop rapidly. The as much as eight dollars per acre. brick burning kilns are operated by The exorbitano of the taxes has Chinese labour and fanced by compelled the farmers to grow Chinese capital. poppies instead of grain, in ex- pectation of higher profits, and this has been encouraged by local authoritics Conditions like these have led to the break-up of the agricultural system, so that the soil remains unproductive and the popu lation is dependent on foreign food imports.
Brick Factories.
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out briquetter for household use is A coal briquetting factory turning a new industry situated in ideal urroundings on the waterfront at
HEART OF THE MYSTERY
LENTEN SERMON AT ST. ANDREW'S
Tsun Wan.. however, by the difficulty of obtain
It is handicapped,
factory. Time and again promises ing coal cheaply anywhere near the have been held out of, cheap coal being available in the Hong Kong tung: but the unsettled comlition market from the mines in Kwang of the country, the difficulties of transportation and the lawlessness practised by brigands have retarted the prospecting and devlopment of rich coal mines. with valuable
arama
within the Canton Delta. If only that are known, to exist scientific methods of operation and of transport could be introduced, tacked un by sufficient capital, cheap coal would tend to make Hong Kong and Kowloon an indus trial centre of tremendous im- portance.
Rubber Shoes,
Colony. There are factories both The ribbor-shoe industry is the latest that has come to stay in the on the Island and on the Mainland: both work without cessation, and both are meeting with a constant demand for the articles they pro- cannot overtake. The rubber shoes duce demands that the factories manufactured in Hong Kong and Kowloon are now recognised as being of excellent quality for the money, and they are sold not only in the extensive markets of China, but are popular in such pleees as countries beyond. the Straits Settlements and the
A. cotton-spinning, and weaving factory existed in the Sookumpon Valley late in the last century. It was started as a joint stock zom- pany, but it failed to compete suc cessfully with the mills at Shang hai, which had the advantage of obtaining cotton grown near at hand. The Hong Kong company
hought by a British company i its machinery and plant. were went into voluntary liquidation, and
Shanghai,
(To be continued).
GIRL GUIDES
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
AT KOWLOON
The first birthday celebrations of the 4th (Kowloon) Company of Girl "The law of retribution shows Guides was held at the Victoria sow, but sowing for spiritun! gain is attached, on Saturday afternoon. us that men always reap what they Home and Orphanage, to which it. bears no promise of a material har. There was a large attendance of vest," declared the Rev. W. Walton visitors, including the Rev. W Rogers. Vicar of St. Andrew's Walton Rogers, Vicar of St. -An- Church, Kowloon, in the course of drew's Church, and Mrs. Rogers, a striking sermon, the fifty of Mrs. Rajkes and others, who were reries dealing with Bent, delivered received by Miss Hollis and Miss on Sunday morning.
Jennings, of the Home. Several visiting troops of Girl Guides, in- cluding the 1st Kowloon Company and the Diocesan Giris School Company, were also present.
The collapse of rural economy in China is closely related to the problem of population. Owing, to the far-reaching influence of the inoral teachings of Chinese anges and the general ignorance of birth † control, the birth rate in Ching has been increasing by leaps and bounds. The effect of over-population upon rural economy is that the tillable land is divided and sub-divided among many persons until each of then comes into possession of a negligibly small piece of it at the expense of the fertility of the soil. For instance, Mr. A, owning 100 acres of land, distributes to his five song twenty acres each, and each of his sons again divided his share among his own sons, five in number, It was a mistake, the preacher who receive four acres each. The continued, to believe that a mad descendants of these grandsons still was responsible to no one but him sub-divide their respective shares self and that the kind of life he led Amongst themselves until the whole muttered to nons, We were not tract of land becomes uncultivable just single unita, but were all
Unfortunately Mrs. Southom, the and waste.
It has been estimated united by a multitude of TONE-
Commissioner, was unable to attend that each peasant possesses less than threads, involving different races
the celebrations, but her kindly two acres of land. Thus the and continenta. Victory for the feature in sending a cake was problem of over-population has a race, however, could only be won highly appreciated. Under their direct bearing upon rural economy at the cost of muffering Now here Captain, the girls of the 4th Com in China and is probably due to the was the mystery. Our minds pro-pany gave an interesting display deap rooted traditional conception tested against the idea of suffering of games, woodcraft and basket of the family. The indirect in ne out of place in God's world, and ball, which was followed by an ad luence of the family idea upen Christ Himself declared war on dress by the Her W. W. Rogers rural economy is that civil wars sickness, and disease. His Church who congratulated them on their arising from conflicting loyalties likewise abjured the Disciples to efficiency and thanked the Matron (Abstinence),
for the family, increase the interest hea! the sick," "elonnse the of the Home on behalf of the other Thursday At 7.80 Holy Mass in on loans to euch an extent that the lepers" and to cast out devilí.' honour of Our Lady of Sorrow6.
guests. This Company, although it extension of credits to the farmers Yet, at the highest level of our re was only formed fast year, already April 6th, Thursday. is impossible. Many reformers be- ligion, there appears the Cross of has the proud distinction of having Holy Hour from 6 to 7 p.m.
here that the only way out for Calvary. To most of us the gallows won the Girl Guides Banner in a April 7th Friday,
China to day is in the development was a horrible and ropulsive thing competitive display against all interest to us in Hong Kong in today gaze on the last muffer. of small-scale industries. This is of and humano men would not comers recently,
of the craz bomulliy_0224 Non view of the fact that large numbers ings of ninal
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Tunday, At 7.30 Holy Mass in At 6.15 p.th. Meeting of the Memo honour of Our Lady of Borrows berd of the Apostleship of Prayer.
Wednesday, At 7.30 Holy Mass On Week-days. Masses at 8.30 in honour of Our Lady of Borrows and 7.80,
Territories have been absorbed by criminal was the central point endured the Cross, despising the the Knitting factories and other of the highest religious worshin the shame. The Cross was no after- This has prevented the agricultural bore witness to this-that ein was Calvary in God's heart. The WAY small-scale industrick of Kowloon, human race has known. The Cross thought. There had always been Areas from becoming over-crowded horrible beyond words. For the of the cross was the way of life. and has undoubtedly increased the Joy that was set before Him, He and refusal to bear it was wokal prosperity of the farmers,
(Continued at fool of peat Qulumn), nest. And selfishness, was death.
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April 2nd, 1983,
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