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A Weekly Column of Local Gossip
By "The Scout"*
LOCAL BEAUTY CONTEST.
ing that he had acquired a worth- lesa lot. Incidentally Macao is also known for ita oysters and shrimps, and does a large export business in oyster-oil and shrimp paste.
The THE TOTE.
We are going to have a beauty contest in Hong Kong for Chinese girls! The event will be held next month and is being promoted, I} 'understand, by a local doctor. Chinese girl is a model of chic in her own way, but now we are going to see what promises to be an ex- hibition of the smartest." Unlike Shanghal we have no beauties' made famous by publicity in our midst, but prize-winners at the forthcoming contest will have to be, pretty good, as there are many really lovely girls in the Colony.
THE ADI OF THE CONTEST.
With the racing season here again' would it not be pertinent to a when the Toy will be intro duced? The Arst totalisator for the Far East was installed at Klang wan Racecourse a month ago, and. so I am told, already it is giving every satisfaction to racegoera. In Hong Kong the totalisator would tend to reduce the number of ridi- culous dividends pald from time to time. A few years ago, a pony won The aim of the contest, however, in Hong Kong (Ace of Spades) with is more than an exhibition of good only one backer, and in 1931 at Ilgures. The modern Chinese giri the Annual Race Meeting, Valley is to be encouraged in her emuls- Hall, with only one ticket on it, tion of her Western sister in sport, nearly won. With the tote instal physical culture and general "eduled, such a state of affairs would cation Where she was formerly be highly Improbable. excluded, to-day she can share to the fullest all those things that give value to the new principles of We and youth. The beauty con- test, looked at from this point of view has significance for the future of Miss China. The idea should gain wide support.
THE
GOOD" OLD DAYS. The letter from the Bishop of Victoria to a friend in England written in 1848, which was reprint ed in, the "Dally Press" during the week, gives Hong Kong reason to .be grateful for the security under which we live to-day. In the early days of the Colony, not only was piracy rife on the China Coast, but pirates made their headquarters here. The Police of those days were inadequate to deal with the
NO TYPHOON.
What a scare the community had
on Wednesday morning when the No. 9 signal went up! School children were quickly packed home, and many grown-ups also left their work to return home, especially those living in Kowloon. Most of the trams were sent back to the
depot, only a skeleton service being maintained. and all was ready for the typhoon, which did not come! This is the second time Hong Kong has had a way imply criticism of the Observatory staff.
This 'reminds me that a few weeks ago, I wrote in this column there is not likely to be a big that according to the Chinese, typhoon this year, and it looks as if they are right, though they are
and tradition!..
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1933.
FATAL MOTOR
ACCIDENT
Driver Acquitted Of Dangerous Driving
"I am inclined to believe that the dangerous driving charge has not been fully proved and that the de-
ceased contribution to his own death" said Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday when discharging Li Wing, a lorry driver accused of dangerous driving. The defendant, however, Was
brakes and charged with
carrying An load, and for these offences he was excess
fined $10 respectively."
also
ANTI-MALARIAL
WORK
Science's Battle Against Mosquito
LECTURE BY DR. JACKSON
TRAFFIC DAY AT CENTRAL
I will not wear faded shirts
Several Motorists Fined
Yesterday, being “Traffic Day"
at Central Magistracy, a batch of motoring offences. motorists were duy Anad for
Preceded by a fim showing the various types of mosquitoes, their Chiu Hoi, driver of a public car. method of breeding, how they fed, was fined $50 for having driven and how they could be destroyed, amn, a dangerous manner in Upper lecture by Dr. A. Jackson, given to Albert Road.
the Medical Society of the Hong- Mr. having nemcient
The charges were a sequel to an accident in Queen's Road West, in which a Chinese was knocked down and killed by, a lorry driven by the accpard.
accused.
Mr. B. H. Cole represented the
of the accident he was driving The accused said that on the day
"about seven or eight miles an hour before he turned the corner Inta Queen's Road. He sounded the horn and also put out his hand, and was given the green light by the constable at the corner. kept on the left of the white line. He first saw the deceased in the middle of the road; and when he sounded his horn deceased stopped, but suddenly turned to his right He applied his brakes, but could not avoid hitting the man.
kong University last evening, proved of exceptional interest.
The aim was kindly lens to the Society by the Asiatic Petroleunt Company and had been made with the co-operation of the Ross Insti- | tate.
"Dr. Jackson said that malaria was the most importatis of the tropical diseases, not only on account of the number of deaths it "caused," but brought in its trail. also on account of the sickness it
-
Sir Patrick Manson in 1898, "Dr. Speaking of a book written by
Jackson said that, befors Hongkong was ceded to Britain it had no malaria, but after it was taken over Hennaria become rife and caused many deaths. He said that the labourers who came to Hongkong must have brought the malaria with them, and in time the mosquitoes became infected with the disease and they in turn infected human being, so we had a vicious circle: In reply to Trafic Inspector Malaria was now practically an Alexander who prosecuted. witness known in the city districts in Hong said that he would not have avoid-kong. That was due to the drain ed the man he had swerved age system on the hillside, where there were many other pedestrians into concrete channels, so that the either to the right or the left as a the streams have been directed
the lorry. He found that the sea. on the road. The man ran into mosquito larvae were swept into the brakes were ineffective about 10 Hongkong and the New Territories, In the urban districts in am. of the day in question and he however, there were still plenty of made some repairs.
mosquitoes.
Mr. Cole submitted that
there
Director, C. 1. D., said that the LH. V. Booth, Assistant
defendant overtook a bus on the bend in Upper Albert Road and cut in between it and another driver applied “his brakes to avoid a collision.
Defendant had a previous con viction for the same onance r
Tha
A Woman - Killed.
A fine of $50 was imposed on negtigent, driving in Des Voeur Lafa Man, a lorry driver. for
Road, West.
Traffic Inspector Alexander said that the defendant knocked down
woman who was killed. After knocking, her down he should hare stopped as the front wheel had passed over her, but hearing the shouts of the crowd he drove on and the back wheel also went over the woman. It was more or less the woman's own fault. She was practically blind, and carrying a child at the time The child escaped injury.
conviction
Defendant admitted a previous
*W.AS
For having driven at a danger-
and the Naval Canteen in Wan ous speed between O'Brien-Road
chai, Kan Wing Ho. a private car driver was fined $25.
the defendant was doing about:35 Trame, Bergeant Brittain said
panion.
was no evidence that the defendence an interesting talk on the vari- Dr. Jackson then gave his audi- ant had driven dangerously. It ous kinds of mosquitoes he had going fast. The was equally clear that he was not found in Hongkong and the New alles an hour, and a Chinese who walking in the middle of the road clusion to be drawn from the pre-
deceased
was Territories, and said that the con-back just in time
Attempted to cross was pulled by his com- and suddenly crossed. The accus sence of the large number of anophe ed might have made a slight mis- calculation. but this did not of people infected, was
les here, compared with the number amount to dangerous driving.
that the Anopheles did not always succeed in infecting humans.
posed a vote of thanks to Dr. Jack Professor Gerrard presided, and at the conclusion of the lecture pro hon and the A.P.C. who had kindly loaned the fim. Sir William Hor- nell, the Vice Chancellor of the liniversity was among the large gathering, which included a num ber of doctors,
situation and foreign settlers were guided by nothing except folk-lore THE AUSTRALIAN
particularly unsafe. The commu- nity were at the mercy of agitatörs from the mainland (Kowloon) who, according to the Bishop's letter openly offered rewards for
the
A SLICE 'OF CHINA.
murder and for capture of foreign-Kong may have some idea of life Those of us who live in. Hong
'ers.
CRABS-AND CRABS.
in a Chinese village, but few can have any idea of what a small Chinese town looks like. In the The Chinese are particularly fond old days Wanchai was a fair of crab-meat and I noticed a example but, to-day, with its number of baskets of crustaceans cinemas, and its Neonlite signia, being brought ashore by Chinese Wanchai is modern. Still there is passengers returning from
one spot in Hong Kong that bears the Macao races by the Taishan. Crabs its original Chinese atmosphere and from the Portuguese Colony are that place is Shaukiwan-the area specially prized, but the uninitiated between the tram terminus and buyer can easily be victimised. Lyeemoon. Here you will see quays since the best quality crab, con- for junka, and men and women taining plenty of juicy meat, in its engaged in making fishing books. natural state, looks no different line and tackle. The houses on from the common meatless variety, each a'de of the road are of the The experts can tell the quality of | one-storied, Chinese, style and the any crab at a glance, but not sq roads are narrow with old trees on the novice, who frequently finds, at each side. It is a very picturesque the end of half an hour's bargain-place indeed.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS
FOR WEEK ENDING 16th SEPTEMBER.
Plague.
Cases deaths
Bassein
2
Bombay Rangoon
2
Cholers.
Calcutta Cebu
Small-Pox.
Bassein Calcutta
Madras
Negapatam
Rangoon Shanghai
NETHERLANDS INDIES TREATY REVISION
Tariffs Valueless If Nations Subsidise Traders
STATUS OF S.M.R. OFFICES
DESERT
What Irrigation Could Do
pronouncement
Mackay Aerial Expedition has re- Sydney, New South Wales.-The turned to Sydney from its survey tralia with the of central and northwestern Aus- that of the 260,000 square miles covered about one-eighth could be described as desert whereas the remainder would carry stock with a practicable scheme of water conservation
RESERVOIRS NOT FAR OFF FULL
Nearly 2,000 Million
Gallons
Mr. E. B. Devar, residing at 68, Village Road, was fined $10 for not having full control, of his car.
the steering wheel when driving that the defendant was combining "Traffic Sergeant Winslade said his hair and had both hands of in Stubby Road.
CORRESPONDENCE
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The Blind Home Outing: An Appeal
HONG KONG
The Jaland Reservoirs are, filling (TO THE EDITOR OF THE This is the fifth expedition up satisfactorily and himself at a cost of several thou- 1,896 million gallons, an increase which Mr. Mackay has financed yesterday the total storage-was at 6 am.
DAILY PEKES."]
sands of pounds. -Two airplanes of about 450 million gallons since the Victoria Diocesan Missionary Sir,The St. Peter's Group of were used by the expedition which the drought ended. W supported by an efficient
Association, has in the past six ground organization.
years organised with the assistance of generous friends, a summer picnic for the girls of the Blind Home Pokfulam,
M
gal
Less than 2600 million lons are required to fill the re- servoirs to capacity, which is 2.387 million gallons.
On his return Mr. Mackay said he was convinced his outlay was more than justified by the work done in the cause of exploration
The flow into the reservoirs is Likely To Gain Virtual Rank and by the fact that a vast terri expected to continue for some ride to Bhekko, when the
Of Embassies
tory had been made more widely days even if the rain ceases and known. Btock raising and mining, there should be #t least 2,000 he said, were the hope of the area million gallons in storage by the covered. In country where one end of the month, would not imagine a human being
Dairen The South Manchuria Railway Co. to-day announced an
Yesterday's rainfall was 0.80 of important new plan for enlarging could live one found nativesa an inch, up to 4 p.m. and raising the status of its clear indication that water must offices at Shanghal, Canton, and be there. The country, he added, Peking. It is stated in some would one day carry stock in a circles here that in future, these | fairly big. way,
SEAMEN'S UNION
The picnic consists of a motor girls, about 60 in number, are given tea and a present, and supper on their return to the Home.
It has been decided to follow the same plan this year, the picnic to take place on Saturday October 14th.
The committee organising" the
· plenie would gratefully welcome the loan of cars or donations Offers gind gifts may "be sent to: Mrs. E. E Booker e/o St. John's Cathe« Madralny
offices will be of such Importance "One has to go into the heart MESSES, B. & S. AND THE that virtually they will be em- of Australia to appreciate the en- bassies. This development is re-ormous size of this continent," karded as an indication that busi said Mr. Mackay: "If a man were ness relations with China have looking for gold out there, for Early Settlement Hoped For limproved,
example. he would feel antlike in
It is further stated in Dairen his smallness Central Australia that Mr. Shinji Bogo, the Director will never carry a big population. "Deliveries of cargo from the B."" of the South Manchuria Railway, What is aboriginal reserve of the godown at Pak Hin Hok are has been invited by capitalists in country that we surveyed should still being held up by the Bea Cheklang to go there and that he be left as such, since it is essen- men's Union who inalat that any will proceed to China shortly. tial. I think, to isolate the blacks of Butterfield and Swire's tally- Sovjet-Manchonkwo Negotiations. from the whites 1f-the former are men who are re-engaged in order not to disappear as a race. I to effect delivery shall be under Tokyo-Pessimism generally in entertained as to the future of PCs to make a full report to the control of and be responsible the Soviet-Manchoukus negotia, the Federal Government,
to the Union,INAN Tokyo Consul General Sai- tions for the transfer of the North Another member of the exped-In order to ensure correct de- chiro Koshida at Batavia report-Manchuria lines. The negotiation said that among the party's to the Foreign Once that the tions came to a deadlock owing to discoveries was a chain of dry salt
Indles government the divergence of views in regard lakes, about 70 miles long.
Netherlands desired a general revisión of to the exchange rate between the treaties with all powers for the rouble and the yen. In order to purpose protecting domestic in remove this stumbling-block, the dustries.
Moscow Government sent Mr. Bal SHANGHAIKUAN CELEBRA
When the new law limiting the shinikov to Tokyo, but he has not quantity of importing goods was yet approached Manchoukuo to passed on Beptember 5, the govinx the opening date for negotia ernment explained to the cham- tions. It is reported that the ber that they desired to conclude Soviet are taking a firm attitude, new trestles or amend existing which seems to have puzzled the treaties so that they could Dre Manchoukuo delegates vent dumping, Mr. Koshida re-
ported. It is understood the
Indles government will propose to
TIONS
BILANHAIXUAN, Sept. 15, The entire populace of Shanghai- kuan turned out this morning to witness a ceremony at the residence
livery Messrs. Butterfeld & Bwire
Thank you for kindly permitting this letter to be published in your paper.
D. BOOKER.
Honour Secretary, Peter's Group/ VAO M.A.
THE TUNG WAH FRAUD
Hearing Again Adjourned
are trying to get the Union to
The case in which three, Chinese, agree that in the event of Chan Kan, Wong Kya Cht and engagement of the Godown staff
to effect deliveries, the latter in Hu Kwong are charged with swindling the Tung Wah Hospital bed to come under the over the price of the removal of direct control and b
be responsible
human remains from the new G. to the Company, themselves??
C. E. site at Pokfulam to Aplichau Negotiations are proceeding for reburial was continued before and an early settlement of this Mr. Schoned yesterday and after question is expected,
fürther evidence had been taken,
was adjourned int
of Gen. Hirata, The Manoboukuo cheon flag was hoisted, followed bythe and unveiling of a large photograph of peror Mr. Pu Yi Chief Executive of Fresider Manchoukno. It was
that Thi Ipilow rnment this was done for the
of ports and lers of peace and good will
over 200 guests at dom
dies
treaty nations soon, the conciu-tection of the home industries sion of reciprocal treaties Instead † exporters receive
most-favoured-nation : bounties: from their of the (agreements, " The custom taria” in the opinión of, the will be of nd effect for the pro- Indies. - United Press,
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