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Nathan Road
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-55, NATHAN ROAD
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We have for sale Imported Portuguese Sausages, Salad Oil, Olives.... Home made Portuguese Sausages...
...Smoked Eels, Italian and Australian Cheees
etc.
The Variety
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and Restaurant.
Wine and Liquors Served with Meals.
28 HANKOW ROAD
TEL. 58807.
Fraternity Book Room
Bibles, and Books about the Bible,”
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933
KatoLoom Supplement
PRINCE EDWARD ROAD
THE WATERLOO ROAD DISTRICT
Hand Kong, MAY 24, 1933.
PROGRESS
11
We are clearing our few remaining beach pyjamas `at: 35100-each, and a pair of beach ologs will
be given free to each purchaser.
THE JADE TREE, Lid. '
10-21 BANKOW ROAD
Tel. 88538
And Its State of Disrepair!
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NEW HOUSES NEARING COMPLETION
JAD
ед
building lots is so great, it would not at all be surprising to see more reclamation work in progress in the next year or two. Whether that is go or not, I cannot say but I do know that a lot of building is going co-in fact by the end of this month or early in June, Kowloon will have added to its already long list of modern buildings two three-storey houses at the junction of Argyle Street and Waterloo Rosd.
The houses I refer are
those
being put up by the Humphrey's Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., and when I called at their offices yester- day, I was very courteously shown the plans of the buildings which are nearing completion. The site is near the foot of the hill on which the Kowloon Hospital stands and although it is more or less on the bus route, it is far away enough from the more crowded parts of that particular districts for the houses to come, more or less, under the cate- gory of country houses."
Somebody once" made the remark It is generally acknowledged that that Kowloon will never stop grow this world is full of grousersing, and because the demand for people who are always asking for THE electrification of the "Naw the best of everything and who do Territories by means of high-tension not want to give anything for it. power lines, an enterprise for which But it also must be admitted that
there are times these "grousers the China Light and Power Cb. do make reasonable protests and in Ltd. are to be commended, bids the case of the way Prince Edward fair to revolutionise the lives of the Road in allowed to remain in a.con- agrarian settlers. The word "tinus state of disrepair, it would volutionise" is perhaps a trifle seem that a "kick" in this direc dramatic for the changes which tion is quite legitimate. come in the wake of industrial pro- It appears that the authorities are gress, yet so sharp a cleavage from very fond of having the Road Up. time-honoured traditions can be like Piccadilly during the Season, described best by a term to which along this thoroughfare, and, no poetic import was given by Tenny-sooner one part or section of it is son in the lines, the old order given a nice, new surface, than in changeth giving place to new." It another spot it is ripped right off. may seem sacrilege to some to New houses mean new drains, cable, speak of poetry and electric trans- water pipes, etc., but a "road up mission cables in the same breath, for each operation, instead of one fyet it should be remembered that for all does seem the method!
science and modern invention, even the steam engine and the factory, have had their paens sung in verse. It was early in the days of me chanical methods that. Walt Whit man invaded literature with his atrange, unaven rhymes of indus- try; today the song of the ma- chine is a creed held sacred in Soviet Russia. The New Terri- taries, if one overlooks the metalled road and the railway track, have resisted until now the inroads of: what is called "progress," but which would be battar described as "the adoption of mechanical means for quicker and cheaper produc tion.' Chief of these are labour-saving devices, the refrigera. tors, typewriters, telephones, gas, electric cookers, vacuum cleaners- and electricity. To those who for centuries have depended on cand les, wood fires and oil as sources
the
A certain resident complained that for the last six months he has always been able to spot a gang of coolies repairing the road, and never yet has he seen the "road up" sign out of the place.
Perhaps it is also rather difficult for the powers-that-be to keep this. road in good condition owing to the amount of heavy traffic that uses it, but surely things could be better arranged than at present...
POLICEMAN WHO DIDN'T CLOSE DOOR
DOG OWNER'S. COMPLAINT TO BENCH.
Defendant. I would like to say that when the Police sergeant served the summons on me, he left my front door open and allowed my dogs to wander out in the street again.
The Magistrate. That was on a subsequent occasion,
Defendant.-Yes.
You have not been summoned again, I hope."
Mr. A. N. Betts of No. 6 Suffolk for domestic power and light, the Road pleading guilty to a summons incidence of na invisible
agent for allowing his two, dogs out in which can do everything except the street without muzzles on May create life must appear a form of 5 was fined 810 at the Kowloon magic. Yet the Chinese are noted Magistracy. for their phlegm and have a curi ous trait of accepting innovations with little excitement. If the elec- trification of the countryside may seem strange to them, they will be the last to display astonishment, and within a year or so we shall find them switching on the light with as much unconcern as though they wore lighting a taper or an pil lamp. With a people with so little capacity for primitive won- derment, one might suppose that they would quickly appreciate the uece of modern invention, but it "is to be feared that beyond a grudg- ing compliance to have their houses lit by electricity they will not take Mr. J. D. Thompson was fined full advantage of the new oppor- 88 in another case for allowing his tunities. After all, the needs of white and brown fox-terrier out in the farmer and his labourers are Prince Edward Road without a simple and to introduce labour- muzzle on May & He pleaded saving devices in their households guilty. would be to cause disorganisation. Yet it would be futile to attempt to preserve the picturesque feuda. lieni of village life, we can no longer endure to see men and wo
Defendant-I thought the police man might be summoned for allow. ing my dogs out in the street with out muzzles.
His Worship. You can take out a summons if you like.
RINGING UP THE WORLD
'PHONE
With the completion last month of the telephone service from Eng land to India, 95 per cent. of the world's 35,000,000 subscribers (or more than 33,000,000) will be able to exchange calls.
...
men working in primitive drudgery 33 MILLIONS NOW ON THE when, provided with the amenities which industrialisation has ́ sup-. plied, they might share all the. privileges of the townsman. The electrification of the country will seal the doom of much that is evil, backward and unhygienic in village life, although in the past it has been hidden under what is often falsely termed "rural charm." It will lead to the development of areas which are now either totally unproductive or which yield unpro- fitable crops, and, by the establish ment of factories and local indus tries, will afford employment at comparatively high rates of pay for those whose sole means of liveli hood was the produce they grew
st the sweet of their brows. Since Great Britain has the suzerainty of the New Territori it might be considered that it was incumbent upon us to lighten the darkness of these simple essente, and to give them the benefits of urban villsa
Speaking to their friends across the world is much more expensive for some than, for others, as the cost does not depend altogether upon distance. There are bargains in telephoning. "Dha
The Londoner who speaks to Now York, a distance of approximately 2,500 miles, has to pay the same (Continued at fool of next Column)
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lumber we thus make them poten tial purchasers of commodities and pleasures of which they previously pover dreamt, and of which they
SALLEH RADIO SERVICE||We have no doubt that they are not actually in nead. Yet it is
-802, Nathan Road...........'Phone 66681
*- Kowloon's Leading HädioTMStore. **- Quisk and Bcient Radio Repairing, Reasonable Price From $1.00 per month ple
There will be four rooms to ench flat. These will be fitted in the vided with refrigerators. Three of most modern style, and will be pro-i these will be Westinghouse makes while the other three will be sup. phed by, the General Electric Com pany. Apart from the four very comfortably sized rooms, there will be two baths nieluding all modern conveniences, a kitchen and servant quarters.
Drive Up to. Garage,
Each bouse will have a small lawn in the front while at the back there will be what might be termed a kitchen garden. The garages will be some little distance from the houses-near enough to be conveni- ent, yet far enough to keep all noises attendant on locking up or starting up on a cold morning from disturb ing the household. This is a great advantage for I know that it is rather annoying at times to be dis turbed in the middle of the night by a car garaging! There will be altogether six garages and nice roomy ones they are too.
out
One advantage of living there"" is that while agreeably far away from the city it is at the bame time quite easily accessible and it takes but a few minutes to go out on a bus or, if one owns a car, the ride is rendered even more pleasant.
Both, the houses will be fronting Waterloo Road and from what I was told about them, they are just the typo for a small family. The rent is, according to my informa aut, only 8110 a month including taxes, and seeing that they are quite the last word so far as the modera Hat (small one for the man of average means), the charge does not seem to be exorbitant in any way.
fee-£8 for three minutes-as his
neighbour next door who puts in world to a friend in Melbourne, á call nearly halfway round: the more than 10,500 miles away tires minutes, is charged for calle Theisme daytime fee, £8 for
Miles approx Montreal AZN 3,200
stor
Cape Town 7,000 Buenos Aires 7,000 Bargains are available in calls tor places nearer London, the hun of the world syatau The follow ing are examples:
Miles Charge for
mins.
13 8
0 14 3
1 2 3
Copenhagen 680 Madrid (via
Paris)
alo Moscow (vis
Berlin) 1,010. Jerusalem (via
Cairo)...... 2,450 3 18 0 to emerge from the mental | poorer sections of the community Telephone fees vary because lethargy which a purely agtarian to the level of the highest, leaving rates between different countries. stence produces but perhaps if Fate to shape this rough material, a arrived at solely between the Them from their bucolic azactly in what manner time--and | countries concerned, and cost de Faloal of next Column) -elect city will tell.
pend largely on local factors.
are not eager to change their ways the task of Empires, to rate the
Golden
The most exquisite.
Chinese Embroidered
Linens in the Colony.
Ivory, Amber, Crystal-
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KOWLOON GARAGE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co. (1918), Ltd.
Aiding In The Development of Kowloon
and the New Territories by
PROVIDING ELECTRICITY
for
LIGHT HEAT POWER
USE MORE ELECTRICITY
Economical-Convenient-Attractive
Head Office St. George's Bldg.
Tel. 78537
Kowloon Office 27, Nathan Road. Tel. 57677
The Blue Taxicabs Limited.
NOTICE.
Our Patrons are hereby notified that from the fat, day of May, 1983 the fares for taxicab hire will revert to- the old tarif–ke, 40 canta First mille and ten pents for each subsequent quarter mile, kendi
In Addition the Company will run small taxicabs from New Ferry Plor Stand at Jordan Road, Kowlson, the tariff to be 30 corte Pirat mile and 5 cents per quarter mile for subsequent mileage.
Also public cars for hire Day and Night :--
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Waiting time at balf
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