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New Territories Railway Service
HONG KONG, JUNE 12, 1933.
OUR HOMELESS
The number of Chinese men and women living in Kowloon who possess no homes is truly amazing. We believe that some rough sort of census has been mado of these homeless folk, yet it would tax the powers of one greater than the Civil Servant to obtain accurate figures. Even in the case of actual householders and their tenants, it is extremely difficult for the census officials to ascertain the exact num- ber, and the published results must always be taken as comparative. As for the hundreds of homeless, the man who was able to count them would be a magician, since. like all those who have, in the words of the Law, no fixed abode, they shift from one door. way to another, from this gutter to the next. One has only to take a stroll down Nathan Road and enter the side streets that lead to Yau- mati, to discover the pitiful groups of men, women and children whose only home is the pavement, Some of them choose the most extru ordinary places in which to sleep, such as the coping of a theatre cr the top of a wall. Quite a number sleep in the forks of the banyan' trees whilst the smallest patch of grass is usually crowded with pro strate bodies. In the
summer months there is nothing particularly irksome in this open-air life, and perhaps it is even preferabic to the suffocating way in which some Chinese families crowd into one tiny room. So long as he has had his evening meal, the homeless coolie is perfectly happy as he lies storing on the grass, with the sky bis roof and the soft breeze to take the place of the electric fan. But in the winter it is a differont tale, for the bitter winds chill, his ill. nourished body and lead him speedily to the mortuary,
SOME AWKWARD GAPS IN THE. TIME-TABLE
There is not the slightest doubt that the" Kowloon-Canton Railway authorities give a good service, but as there is never any satisfaction even in the most efficiently run railway systeme; one must expect kick" from the public every now and again. The latest "grievence" seems to be with the time-table, and as this is going to form the subject of this article, I will give below, a copy of the time table now in force.
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No. No.
STATIONS
2
UP TRÁINS
No No. No, Ur No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
10
12.14 16 632 18 24 26 28
4.M., AM{ 4X) AM.] A3+ [Mixed P.M. P.M.P.M. P.M. P.L. P.M. FIL| FM.
Kowloon Dep. 6.36 6.15 8.37 2.15 10.12 11.30 12.12 1.05 1.86 3.20 4854.55 6.08 7.40
Yaunati.Dep. 8,83) Shatin...Dep. 8.45 Talpo...Dep. 8.69 TaipoMarket.
Dep 7.04 Fanling.Dep. 7.16. Sheungshul...
Dep. 7.20... Bbumchun
44
+4
3.24 10.19.11.41.12.19 1.12). ..
0.38 10.31 11.58| 12.81] 1.24|| ...
9.50 10.46 12.08 13.45 1,37).
9.85 10.5013.16 12.49 2.41
... 10.06 11.011282 18.59 1.51...
(5,02 6,15) 7,48
5.186.37 8.00
5.28 8.418.14
5.826.48 8.19 5,426,57 8.29
9.14 10.11 11.0812.37 1.05 1.56...
2.58...
6.47 7.02 8.84
Arr. 7.6 8.53 9.20 10.17 11,1212.43 11 2.02 2,16 8.05 5,136.63 7.08 8.40
Canton ...Arr.
11.255,86
140
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4.477.45)
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS
G. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
a 5
11 15 9 1
.7
17 DW19 131
FJA A.M. LX. A., A.X.P.M.
PM. F.M. AM‚ÏT.M. }{\F.M.
Mixed
12 31 P.K.P.X
8,00
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193
8.40...
420 8.14
Canton Dep.
+11
6,12
6,25 6.35....
9.07
hunchus Dep. 7.087.80 1080 10.48 13.10 241 408 434 5.25 0.12 6,50 8.48 9.00 Bheangabul...Dep. 7.097,371055 12.23 2.51 4.36 441 8.33 11.00 12.28 2.58 4.20 445 8.45 Fanling, Dep. 7.14 802
12,39 8.08 4.81 4.88 6.01 11.10 o Market. Dep. 7.25 8.13
11.15 12.44 8.11 4.35 5.00 6.09 8.40 .... * Dep. 7.80 8.16 Shatin Dep. 7.4 8.80 Yaumati....Dep. 7.58 R48
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11.28 12.68 3.24 450 5.14 6:27 6.68... 11.41 1.19 8.37 5.04 6.25 6.427.05
Kowloon ....Art. 8.02 8.40 11.06 11.47 1.18 3.49 5.10 5,826.48 7.11 7.28 9.28 9.41
O-First Class only. Will stop at any station on request. Q-Sundays and Customs Holidays excepted.
It will be noticed that the first train to leave Shumchun is at 7.02, and taking exactly an hour for the journey, gets into Kowloon at This train is all right 8.02 a.m. for school boys and girls and peo- ple who desire to get to town par ly in the morning, but for an office worker, it is rather on the early side. The next train. leave at 7.50 a.m. and this, of course, would be the ideal train for most people as it gets to Kowloon at 849 a.m., thus giving them plenty of time to get to their offices. But what if they missed this particular one? It will mean that they shall have to wait until 10.48 for the next. train from Shumohun and as this does not get to town until 11.47 a.m., the inconvenience caused may well be guaged by the fact that the whole morning will have been wasted.
znost
An extra service like the one sug- gested is highly desirable, and as an instance let me say that at. Faaling residents present,
the catch the 8.02 trainin
Would they not wei- mornings. come less of a rush and a train at.
as well It only takes 8.30 am. some 47 minutes to get into Kow- loon from Fanling, and while an extra train may not mean much to the Railway authorities, would be a very welcome relief for those using it."
it
Regarding the service from Kow- loon, I must confess I have not heard many complainants though some improvement could be made on Saturdays. A train leaves Row- loon at 12.12 p.m. and on Satur- days, the following one goes at 1.05 instead of 1.19 p.m. Quite a number of office workers spend the
when
week-end in the New Territories Why then, cannot the authorities and for those not fortunate enough It is difficult to suggest a remedy maks arrangements for another to be able to leave the office until for the situation. The underlying train to leave Shumchun sometime1 p.m. it means a wait until 4.55 fact is that these people cannot between 7.50 and 10.46 a.m. 7 Quite before another train is available. earn sufficient to pay for a cubicle a number of people live out in the This does soon rather absurd,
one takes into consideration: the in a lodging house, and barely New Territories these days, especi ally Chinese, who are employed as Enough to pay for a bowl of rice clerks in offices, and one of them fact that the Canton Express leaves There are so many of them that re- told me that an innovation like at 1.36 p.m. and a low train could lief measures are difficult, and tho this would be very welcome, and very wall follow it. In the summer Shatin months, a surprising amount of provision of a dole is out of the from Shumchun to question. The trouble is that a sidents near the stations would people spend their Baturdays and large percentage of these homeless benefit greatly by it. Quite a Sundays in Shatin, Taipo, Fanling folk is not native to Kowloon, but large community of foreigners also or some other past of the New comes here from the poorer districts have their permanent residences in Territories, so if the Railway Au of Kwangtung where competition the New Territories, and while the thorities will make some such is too keen to allow them to make majority of them are owners of provisions. for the public, I A living: Bo they come to this motor cars, they use the train for sure they will have done a very Colony, believing that because it is getting to and from their offices. good dead prosperous they will do better here than in China. Unfortunate-
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ly most of them are untrained and wealthy Chinese in the Colony to unskilled and are fit for little else take up, if they are at all interest- than coolio labour, of which we ed in the welfare and happiness of have an abundance at the mo- their compatriots. We suggest. ment. So, unable to find employ- that they should form a syndicate ment, they resort to begging or, if and establish an institution similar they are fortunate enough to belong to the doss-houses in England, SALLEH RADIO. SERVICE to one eke out a bare substenance on where, the bona fide destitute could the few cents daily allowed to them procure a night's lodging as well by their guild. The charitable never fail to give them scraps of as rice and as for a few cents. Food, but fow will give them shelter Some effort might also be made to at night, and thus we find them Procure employment for these poor huddled in doorways, on the pave people or to give them a bed and mente and in trees. The social meal in exchange for a day's former might well shrug hie, should work in the institute. It would ers and ask, what can we do be too much to claim that such an for the Government cannot afford arrangement would provide a final to provide food, homes and cloth-care for the desperate problem of ing for these destitute visitors from out homeless, but it would oon famine and poverty stricken China siderably ameliorate the situation Rather is it a matter for the and save a few hundred souls from (Continued at foot of next Column) further degradation.
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