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SUPPLEMENT NO. 93
KOWLOON DAILY SUPPLEMENT
Hongkong Daily Press.
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Nathan Road
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We have for sale Imported Portuguese Sausages, Salad Oil, Olives....... Home made Portuguese Sausages... Smoked Eels, 'Italian Australian Cheees
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 22. 1933.
Kowloon Supplement THE BRITISH EMPIRE FAIR
HONG KONG MAY 29, 1933.
COUNTRY LIFE
ARRANGEMENTS FOR OPENING CEREMONY
BY H.E. THE GOVERNOR
Arrangements are now practical- ly complete for the opening cere mony of the Empire Fair
officials.
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Canton (Mr. E. G.
H B.M, acting Consul General at Jamieson, C.B.E.) is also coming to Hong Kong for the Fair, with the official
visitors from Canton,
H.E. the Commander-in-Chief. and Lady Dreyer have had to de- cline an invitation to be present, owing to the absence of the China Fleet in northern waters, E. the General Officer - Commanding and airs. Borrett have returned to the Colony just in time to be present.
The Acting Chief Justice will be there and Mrs. Wood also if the Empress boat due that day brings her from Japan in time. have accepted invitations to be The Commodore and Mrs. Harrack
present.
Paterson, Chairman of the Empire Fair Committee, the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood (Secretary for Chinese Affairs) representing the Hong Kong Government, Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon, Dr. R. H. Kotewall and the Hon. Mr. T, N. Chau,
Several Chinese ladies have also in view of the presence of Chinese kindly undertaken to join the party Indies amongst the guests. Other well-known Chinese and British members of the local community will also be present.
Police Escort.
By direction of H.E. the Gover not the courtesy of a police motor vanguard-escort will be accorded the Chairman of the Kwangtang Provincial Government, who ranks as a visiting Governor.
The visitors with their hosts, will be conveyed by a fleet of motor-cars to the Peninsula, Hotel where they will be entertained until it is time to assemble for the opening cere mony. The guests from Canton, by the way, are being accommodated the Peninsula Hotel. They return for the night in suites of rooms in
by another special train on Thurs- day morning.
fortunately sufficiently recovered H.E. and Lady Peel (who has
will arrive before noon at the main from her recent illness to attend.
entrance of the Hotel where they
Members of the Executive Coun- cil and their wives have accepted will be represented by the trade invitations to be present. Canada commissioner (Major V. E. Duclos) and the Australian Commonwealth will be received by the Chairman will be represented by Mr. S. of the Committee, the Vice-Chair- Williamson and Mr. J. A. Tonnin
the latter arrives on behalf of the and the Hon. Secretary.
men, the Dominion Representatives bourne, in the course of the next Department of Commerce, Mel- few hours.
Mr. Williamson also represents New Zealand by virtue of his ap- pointment as Honorary Agent,
They will proceed through the ranks of a guard of Honour of Girl Floor Lounge where the opening Guides and Boy Scouts to the First ceremony will take place.
It is Monday morning; after a Wednesday next at noon. The cere glorious week-end in the country-mony will be performed by HE. the Governor (Sir William Peel, side, sailing in Taipe Bay or strol K. C.M.G., K.B.F.) and will be at- ling through the wooded lanes that tended by the Chairman of the meander across the hillslopes, the (Mr. Lin Yun Koy) the Major of Kwangtung Provincial Government Taipo resident catches his 8.18 train Canton (Mr. Liu Chi Wan) and and within am bour is back to the number of other prominent Chinese week's routine-but with a new spirit. This is one of the advan tages of living in the country, where the air is purer, the scenery rest ful, the village folk friendly aid where the days pass in a trance of quietude. Many will shrug their shoulders at the suggestion that enjoyment can he obtained from much a life, but that is usually be cause they have not experienced the joys of the countryside.
They imagine that without their cinemas, their dances and their bridge parties life would be unbearably dull, and that one would quickly vegetate in such surroundings and develop into & misanthrope or, at best, into an eccentric. There are of course, those for whom Nature has no attractions; whom centuries of city life have ipfuenced throught their forehears and who would be unhappy if for long removed from the sea of hers, the drone of traffic and the artificial gaiety which animates our human bee hives. Yet the attractions of city merely stimulate the senses like a drug, whose pleasures, like the food of Tantalus, are snatched away at the moment of enjoyment, or, if we do taste them, are honey tothe tongue but turn as bitter as gall. There is no rest for body or mind in the nervous purnuit of transient joys; the consequences
Mr. Lin Yun Koy (Chairman of are a choice of two evils, boredom
Kwangtung Provincial Govern or a headache. Moreover, in a ment), Mr. Liu Chi Wen (Major of tropical climate and an atmosphere Canton) Mrs. Liu Chi Wen, Mr.
Kan Chich Hou (Inspector-General the guests from Canton, members of H.E. the Governor and Lady Peel, which is more or less humid for the for Foreign Affairs for Kwangtung, the Executive Council and their greater part of the year, the ner-Kwangsi, etc), Mrs. Kan Chieh wives, principal local officials and vous and physical system cannot for Hou, General Ho Lok (Commission- the Organising Committee of the er of Public Safety), Colonel C. W. Fair will then be entertained to ever withstand the strain which Leung (Consellor to 1st Group luuch in the Roof Garden of the such a life imposes. Hence, those Army Headquarters). Dr. Wu Paak Hotel. The Band of the Lincoln- people who are forever chasing Shing (Municipal Counsellor and shire Regiment, by kind permission Secretary to Mayer), Mrs. Wu of the Commanding Officer, will elusive happiness in cocktail parties Peak Shing, Mr. Chow Hok Tongplay during lunch and throughout and late-hour entertainments are (Secretary to the Chairman of the the afternoon. After lunch, His seldom in good health and soon find w. . Lun (Secretary to the Com-visitors will be conducted by the Kwangtung Government) and Mr. Excellency the Governor and the their powers of resistence weaken missioner of Public Safety).
Chairman and the Organising Coin- ing. The man who lives in the country, on the other hand, con- serves his energy and imposes strain on his nervous system. On leaving his office his cares and on
in Malaya live away from the xieties vanish directly he takes his
towns, in the heart of a green anti seat in the train and the serenity and one's new surroundings sug silent country, and there enjoy a of the countryside which flashes gest troch enterprises; books be communion with Nature which is us past, his window in colourful come a necessity and the mind is dear as the dream of the Lotus patches, luils his mind into a state urged to thoughtfulness. After enters. Foreigners seldom feel that which is the nearest we can an. few months of retirement in the affection for Hong Kong, which proach to utter contentment. Once country the whole man becomes they often leave with little regret,
Those attending are particularly
It is hoped that these will be asked to be present by 11.45 at the General Committee of the Fair for will be cloend at 11.30, but the side full attendance of members of the latest. The main doors of the Hotel whom seats will be reserved.
danton Visitors.
The official party from Canton wil arrive at Kowloon by special list of the visitors is as follows train at about, 10.20 a.m. The full
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entrances will be availale after that, until the Guard of Honour forms up.
the speeches will be delivered, there Behind the platform, from which will be a tableau of Britannia and after the ceremony baskets contain. ing typical produce. from the Dominions and the Now Territories will be presented by Girl Guides and Brownies to Lady Peel.
The visitors will be received atmittee on a tour of inspection of the Station by the Hon. Mr. J. 7th Exhibition.
which overcomes the town dweller Gradually one's perspective changes
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Fresh Large Consignment JUST ARRIVED.
PRICES from 86.75, Every Pair Guaranteed. PAUL RENNET ET GIE. AUSTIN-NATHAN Roads, KOWLOON.
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We are clearing our few remaining beach pyjamas
at $5.00 much, and a pair of beach cloga will be given free to each purchaser.
THE JADE TREE, Ltd.
19-21 BANKOW ROAD
Golden
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Old and New
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Kowloon Office® 27, Nathan Road. Tel. $7677
The Blue Taxicabs Limited.
NOTICE.
Our Patrons are hereby notified that from the 1st, day of May, 1933 the 'fares for taxicab hire will revert to the old tariff-le, 40 cents Firat mile and ten cents for each subsequent quartermiles of
In Addition the Company will run small taxicabs from New Ferry Pler Stand at Jordan Boad, Kowloon, the tarif? to be 30 cents First mile and 8 cents per quarter mile for subsequent mileage.
Also public care for hire Day and Night's-
seater car at $2.40 per hour.
#
$8.00,
04.29.m
Waiting time at half charge.
For large and small caps or public care Ring $7417 -and 57714 and car will be sent immediately from ries
Office and Garage
in the solitude of his home he be changed, and he grows to appre- but this is because the greater part Corner Nathan Road & Market Street, Kowloon.
comate aware of an inner self which oiate and even to love a land of their residence here has been the distractions of city life have which he had detested before Few spent in the town. Had
they pass- suppressed; he learns to caltivate men who have lived in Malaya of their time in the country there his mind and to discover realities liberate themselves from the spell is little doubt that they would have which that country caste upon acquired a strong attachment for which he never previously suspect-- ed. There is no boredom in the them, and they look back upon it the Colony, for the countryside is with un affection as great at that an enchanting mistress who never one has lived felt for their native land. This is allows her lovers to forget past craving for excitement becanes the ma
countryside
down
once
......
of Europeans favours.
AIRLIE HOTEL
22-25,-NATHAN ROAD, European Management Excellent Unisine Teleph. 57357
Hung Cheong Groceries and Provisions Wine and Spirit Merchants) 66, Nathan Road.
37108