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Nathan Road
Tel. 56600-56603
Kowloon's Most Select Private
Dancing Academy.
Every night
till midnight.
7.30 p.m.
We beg to announce the engagement of several new lady instructresses, The latest dancing steps are taught, Private classes by special arrange ment, otherwise practice dances held every evening from 7.30 p.m. to midnight.
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The first consignment of Obristmas Carde and Calendars has just arrived.
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HONG KONG DALY PRESS, MONDAY, JUŁY « 17, 1933.
AQUATICS
The Volunteer
SPORTS TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 12
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The Volunteers will be holding their annual aquatic sports August 12 at the V.RC, and the following programine of events have been drawn up.
Evert 2-100 yards Champion. ship-Heats.
SOME KOWLOON GROUSES
Typhoons And School Holidays: More Street Lights Needed: The 'Bus Service: Open Air Concerts
(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Just by way of a change, 1.am going to make a departure from my usual practice and will cover a Event 1-100 yards Handicap- | few subjects in this issue instead of Free style-Heats.
the usual long and boring article I have been in the habit of inflict ing of my unoffending readers daily. It has been suggested that it would be a good idea to start a column in this supplement confined to “kicks and suggestions" from Kowloort residents, but as I cannot manufacture all the necessary kicks
Event 3-50 yards Handicap Free style-Heats.
Event 4-50 yards Championship Reats,
сар.
Event 5-High Diving. Event --Final-100 yards Handi. and suggestions required to fill this
column, I must invito readers to | send in contributions, addressed to Event 7-Final-100 yards Cham- the Kowloon Correspondent," c/o pionship.
this paper. Event 8-Pillow Fight.
To give this proposed weekly Event 0-Final-50 yards Handi-column & send off, I collected a few cap-Free style.
kicks" and the first one is from Kowloon Mother" who wishes Event 10-30 yards. Champion-to know why some of the schools ship.
Event -Inter-Company team
race.
Event 12-Water Polo-H.K.V. Defence Corpa v. United Services.. Events to count towards the Corps Inter-Unit Cup Events 5.6,
7, 9, 10 and 11.
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. EVENTS
V.R.C. ARRANGEMENTS
are in the habit of sending the afternoon as the case may be, when children house on any morning or
it happens to rain and blow a little. This lady tells me that she sent her children to school on the day cf the last threatened typhoon, and to het surprise, the children re turned after an absence of half-an. hour and said that "teacher told ng to come home as we are going to have a typhoon!";
On occasions like these, would it not be better if the children were detained at school unless the typhoon is really close? Most of them are taken to school by their amahs or parents in rickshaws, buses or even motor-cers had as
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night. To say that this is true in the case of Nathan Road and the other principal thoroughfares would be nothing short of false- hood, but there are places which would be much better off with a few more lamp posts. To my mind the clearest example is that section of Waterloo Road near the Dogs Home There are other places similarly neglected but they Aretoo numerous to mention. Hero indeed, is a problem which
the Kowloon Residents' Association might tackle.
THE BUS SERVICE Reference was made in these columns sometime ago regarding the bus service to Kowloon Tong and Homuntin, and although I | understand that there has been an improvement in this route since the new Company took over, there is rather hard to expect a new Com a lot more that could be done. It is
pany to give attention to all com- plaints that are being made, but it should not be hard to place a few more buses on a route to such popolar residential quarters Kowloon Tong and Homuntin, ex- pecially during the rush hours.
BAND CONCERTS
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The band concerts which were such a feature in the Kowloon social calendar some years back have, to all intents and purposes, vanished. We have some really ex- cetlent hands in the Colony yet no effort is made to give the lovers of these concerts the benefit of their
At a General Committee Meeting of the V.R.C. held on July 14 it 3000 as school is reached, the was decided to hold the Annual parent, or amah departa The represence. Open Colony's Championships in mult is that when the children are all the events competed for in sent home again, they get wet former years and, though the exact through and as there are also other dates have not been definitely points against children being out settled on, it will be somewhere in the rain alone, it is to be hoped around the end of the swimming that the schools in general will meet season, in order to allow the vari- nus Aquatic Clubs to decide their own Championships and enable them to send official representa tivea,.
Ag in previous years, these Championships will be open to the whole Colony and anyone may en- ter, whether he represents a Club or as an individual,
the parents as far as possible in this matter. Perhaps the best rule would he clear instructions to parents not to send their children to school when anything above No, 1 signal is hoisted,
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REMOVAL NOTICE,
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announce' removal. to Kowloon Hotel Arcade, Entrance on Hankow Road.
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YOUR PICTURES If the Government do not care to run these concerts, perhaps some enterprising private contern might KOWLOON HOTEL BLDG. KOWLOON
SUN KWONG do so.. At present no use is being made of the piece of land on which the exhibition stalls in the Empire Fair were erected. Cannot arrange. ments be tande to have a band stand and enclosure erected there? Some little time ago, we had the open-air miniature golf-course" on this site and it was surprising how many people gathered there in the evenings not so much for a game the management of the Peninsula as to be out in the open. Perhaps Hotel might find it "expedient and wise to give the question of band concerts their serious con- sideration? They would be just the people to run such a show, and it would be no trouble for them to refreshments during these
The casual visitor to Kowloon usually gathers the impression that the peninsula in superior" place to the island in most respects, but those who live in the peninsula, although they feel that Kowloon is in excellent place, have a lot of complaints to make. One of the
serve are latest I heard is that the roads în Kowloon are very poorly lit at
The various Championships events are given below with the present title-holders and times and, as the 30 yards Free style is now recog. nised as event for Interport
Committee competition, the considering the inclusion of this distance in the programme,
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Secretaries of Clubs desiring fur. ther information are invited to communicate with the Hon. Secre- tary of the V.R.C. who will gladly
supply name.
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1939-33 Season Championships: 100 yds. Free Style.-8. V. Git tins (V.R.0.). Time: 60 3/5 sec.
220 yds. Free Style.-L. Roza Pereira (V.R.C.).. Time: 2m. 37 3/5 sec.
440 yds. Free Style.-L. Roza Pereira (V.R.C.). Time: 6m. 59 1/50ex.
PRINCE FLIES IN A THUNDERSTORM
NORWICH AIR PORT.
OPENED
(Speciál Air-Mail Service)
NORWICH, June 20. The Prince of Wales arrived here thunder- 880 yds. Fres style.-L. Roza by aeroplane during L Pereira (V.R.C.). Time 12m. 18 storm just after noon to-day. 3/5 sec.
100 yds. Back Stroke.-L. Roza Pereira (V.RO.). Time: 74 1/58ec.
Chun Hang (8.0.A.A.), Time 77sec. Long Plunge.-S. H. Garrod |(YM.C.A,), sift. Dins.
His Royal Highness, who came
Legh.
concerts.
BETTING TAX CUT
ORDINANCE TO BE AMENDED.
A draft Bill of an Ordinance to amend the Betting Duty Ordinance of 1931, to came into force on Sep- tember 1, is published in the Government Gazette.
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The amendment reduces the duty on totalisator or pari-mutuel bets, Luthorised under the principal Or dinance, from 3 per cent, to 2 per cent.
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to open Norwich's new municipal aerodrome, was Sying in his D..come by the Lord Mayor of Nor 100 yds Breast Stroke.--Kow Dragon Moth, piloted by Flight-wich (Ald, B, M. Holmes), his
Lieut. E. B. Fielden. He was
companied by his Equerry, Col. Royal Highness said he spoke
one who looks upon flying as my main means of transport now. The pilot had made a detour toadays. He hoped that other Avoid the worst of the storm, but municipalities would follow the forked lightning was still flashing example of Norwich in providing (8.C.A.Aerodrome, and there was heavy which was holding up the develop- within the eastern border of the landing facilities, the absence of
ment of air transport,
Throwing Polo Ball.-F. Webb (Y.M.C.A.), cft. Tins.
100 yds. Free Style (Ladies) Mies Young Bau King Time: 79 1/8 sec.
Policeman: "What standing here for t
Loafer: "Nothing."
Bra
you
thunder.
After formally opening the aero-
"Even if in these hard times it
drome and inspecting the new, preis not possible to have as elaborate
mines of the Norfolk and Norwich
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In Loaves7 Cheddar Gorgonzolla Swiss
Emmenthal Dutch Gouda
In Balls Dutch Edam
In Tina Limburg Camembert Green Herb
Brie
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etc. etc, etc.
· Kowloon
, Hankow Road,
kar Tenten,
Aero Club, the Prince again board- an establishment as yours," he HABADE, LTD. ed his aeroplane, which then set said, “a start could be made at a out for King's Lynn, where he had comparatively low cost by others, on a further engagement. It was still with a landing Beld, wind jodice- What if everybody was to stand in raining, and the sky was overcast gratulate you in Norwich on what ane place i How would the others by heavy thunderclouds,
you have here, and of the splendid get by 1"
Replying to an address of wel. lead you have given to others.
Policeman: "Well, move
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