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A Weekly Column - of Local Gossip
By The Scout
KOWLOON'S REPRESEN.
TATIVE BACK
The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga re- turned to the Colony last week looking very it after a holiday of six weeks in Shanghai and Japan, Mr. Braga, as is generally, known. is an extremely busy man, and the strain of his numerous engage- ments made is imperative for him to have JL hort holiday away from the desk and telephone! He has returned to the Colony at a most propitious time and as the Kowlood representative on the Le- gislative Council, he is speak on behalf of Kowloon resi dents upon the Budget recently presented by Government. It will be interesting to sen what Mr. Bragn thinks of the new Kowloon Post Office and the re-establish ment of a flying school at Kai Tak,
KEEN RACEGOER
sure to
Mr. Braga is a keen supporter
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933.
SUPPLEMENTARY
ESTIMATES
$1,300 For Opium Addicts
THE WATER
SUPPLY
FORECASTING THE WEATHER
Reservoirs Nearly Help From Wireless
Full
1
At next Thursday's meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legisis October 1st shows
The P.W.D. water return for tive Council Supplementary
a total Island esti- mates to a total of 818.000 will be storage of 2017 willion gallon. presented. An item of $1,300 is for At the same time last year, when' medical treatment of opiumi
ad-the reservoirs were practically full dicta.
the storage was 2,981 million gab loos,
Tytam Tuk is still 13 ft 10 ins fore- below overflow, but contains 1,102 the .. as against a total capacity of demands will be on this vote. 1,430 mg All the other reservoirs heavier than usual and the vote are full, except the small one at has been exhausted. A supple-Wong Nei Chung, which is 7 mg mentary vote of $1,500 is therefore below capacity. requested.
Full details follow:- Charitable Services It
is not possible to
advance
to the public and the less we hear seein of the others, the better!
THE HOLIDAYS
our
the
what
$1,500
Esti- ******* 20,000.
were
METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE REPORT
London. The amount of meteorologios in- formation broadcast from all coun- tries continues to ingrasse rapidly and new sources of information are constantly becoming available
In the annual report of the Dir ector of the Meteorological Office stated that during the latter part of the year messages transmitted from Herts, in the Azores, three times a day have been received fair. During the month 73.75 m.g. were
ly regularly. These messages com- received from the mainland.
The consumption of water during ships in the Atlantic which have tain a number of observations from the month in Hong Kong was 950 frequently proved to be of consider mg, working at 1 gallons perable importance and utility. head per day.
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-We commence stretch of holidays today and business will
Tsun Wan Water Supply. not be resumed in the Colony un
Public Works Extraordinary: til Wednesday. "There will be New Territories. Water Works, pretty full programme to while Water Supply at Tsun Wan's 8,000
made in away the time, the races being Provision. fixed for to-day and Tuesday while
mates the lawn bowls interport is on the
When the 1833 Estimates
THE MAINLAND, same day. Footballers and cricket prepared- a provisional estimate ers will have a busy week-end, and only of the cost of this work had The Mainland reservoirs are full, the interport swim is on Monday, been made. It was subsequently holding a total storage of 719.75 I suppose instead of feeling cool ascertained that
total cost million gallons (Kowloon Main 38 and refreshed on Wednesday, the would be $28,000, Le. 88,000 more m.g.) younger members of the communi- than the original tentative esti Total consumption of water was ty will be weary and sore after mate.
which 905.m.g. which works out at 21.6 their holiday exertions. Inci was consulted at the time agreed gallons per head per day. Last dentally, the Hong Kong Bank to this additional expenditure and years figure was 19.1. will be moved from its present a formal vote for the house to the City Hall during the $8,000 is now requested. holidays so that if you should have anything to do with the bank on Wednesday, don't forget, the City Hall is the place!
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Finance Committee
Opium Addicts.
Medical Department:- Treatment of Opium.
Addicta
excess 05
$1,300
In accordance with Article IX of the Final Act of the Bangkok Optum Conference, dealing with the care of Opium Addicts, Gov-
I understand that owing to the ernment arranged with the Tung resumption of the site by the gov. ernment, the Victoria Home and Orphanage in Kowlood City will be moved in the near future and that
of local racing and although heVICTORIA HOME" TO. does not own a stable, his know. ledge of China ponies is amazing and one of the foremost racing men told me recently that he thought t. Braga one of the best judges of horses in Hong Kong. He is present at all race meetings and, to use a racing pariance, is "pretty hot with his tips." Inci dentally Mr. Braga is a very sold resident of the Colony and can re- call the time when the Ruce Course looked very different" from what it is today, -..
KEEN SCOUT PASSES-
Beach Pyjamas in Repulse Bay. Photo by Leica, '.'
a
treat-
Wah Hospitals Committee to set aalde certain beds for the ment of such cases, and undertook to re-imburse the Committee In respect of its expenses. For the period 19th June to 31st August, 1933, the expenses amounted to 8403.50 The estimated expendi ture for the remainder of the year is $896.30.
No provision for such expendi- ture has been made and a supple- mentary vote for $1,300 therefore
¡ requested
Black Maria.
Prison Department:- Special. Expenditure, Cross-
ley Chassis
82,900
It is proposed to equip the Pri son Department with a motor van for the transport of prisoners be- tween. Victoria and Lai Chi Kok Gaols via the Vehicular Ferries. At present, the cross harbour transfer is effected by launch, and the pro- posed new arrangements will result in a considerable saving of annual charges in addition to which the launch will be released for other services, rendering the purchase of the Sanitary Department a new Infectious Cases launch for (for
vide $50,000) unnecessary.
Vehicle Drivers and Suspicious
Some of the grown-ups " at the M.CL. Gala,
Photo by Leien,
MR. BISHEN
SINGH
Tribute From A Former Pupil
Mr. Bishen Singh, 2 leading member of the Sikh community,
During the year it was learnt that Russia was broadcasting a synoptic message each morning containing observatious made At 0100 local mean time. These reports are now regularly received. and plotted on the weather map containing 0100 ... observations. Reception of the international synoptic of messa.
issued from Paris, Hamburg, and Moscow, which were referred to in detail last year, has continued to be on the whole satisfactory. Re ception from America has been less good, but considering the long ran- ge of transmission it was quite as satisfactory as could be fairly ex- pected.
Saccess has attended the reorgan ization of the work of the Forecast Division, by which the whole of the weather forecasting, whether for aviation, shipping, or the general public, was last year transferred to this division. As expected, it has been necessary to retain two types of working charts, one, which is mainly used for general forecasts,
Any Luck?-One" of the side
Photo by Leica.
the new site will be near the riding school in Kowloon City. Under the which the current estimates pro who has been, for nearly thirty shows at the MCL. Gala. Chairmanship of Bishop Hall, tentative Anglo Chinese Committee has been appointed to consider the expansion of this institution, HEALTH CAMPAIGN“
Naws was received in the Colony recently of "the death in Persin of Mr. Hassan Namazee, who was a former pupil of St. Joseph's Cal- Mr. lege and of the University. Nemnzee will be remembered by his many friends here as a keen Scout while at St. Joseph's College and at the University he was very popular. He was a Bachelor of Science and a particularly sad feature of his early death was that he was just about to take up an" engineering pest with the Persian Government when he died. His many friends will join me in ex- tending sympathy to his relatives, POLICE SEARCHES
Chinese population While the were celebrating their mid-autumn festival, the police authorities ware on the tire for trouble. Trumears were boarded on Wednes. day night and passengers search- ed. While the average person would, net unnaturally, resent be ing searched, the manner in which the Police proceeded about it must have reduced such resentment to a minimum, since the searches con- sisted of a mere tap at the breast and side pockets followed by polite Thank You.' A few years Dr. F. L. Tseung who is to lecture o, similar searches were regular on Infectious Diseases and their ly made of tram passengers, but Prevention. Dr. B. C. Chan, on on. those occasions the person outlines of anatomy and physiology; searched was required to put up | Dr. T.:0. Yip, on physical examina-. his hands, and the process was tion and first aid and Dr. H. A. sometimes Biore thorough than Tai, on personal, domestic and
school hygiene.
This laudable scheme deserves
gentle.
WELSH HUMOUR
A.
Dr. Vaugham Thomas who ad- dressed the Rotary Club on. Tues day, gave some excellent examples of the length to which "Welsh names can go, and also took the opportunity to treat bis audience. to some examples of Welsh hu- mours. Here's one of them: Welshman was giving a lecture, on "The Devil.” His command' of· the English language not being extensive, he explained that he wanted to speak on three aspects of the devil, namely, "Who the devil he is "Where the devil he comes from?" and "What the de vil he want?"
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CASH SWEEPS EVID
Characters.
years a school master at the I- dian School will be leaving the Colony next week and his depar Police Force, Photograph $2.500 ture is an opportune moment to The contract rate for photo-recall the work he has done in graphing vehicle drivers, suspicious the Colony. -
A Health Campaign Class for the characters and prisoners is consi- Soon after his arrival Mr. Bishen purpose of training volunteers to derably higher than originally esti-Singh Joined the Education De- work among the poorer class in the mated. In addition to the in- partment, and was for a time in slam districts of the Colony bas re creased cost, more photographic charge of the Anglo-Indian School, cently been formed by the local Y's work has been found necessary. Men's Club, hear that so far 43 volunteers" have registered: The doctors who have undertaken to leo- ture to the volunteers are:-
every success.
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FREEMASONRY. IN ENGLAND
Admiral Halsey And Hertfordshire Masona
Admiral Sir Laquel Halsey is to be installed Grand Superintendent
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SPAIN TO BUILD SUBMARINES
Construction Of First Of Series Begun
taking in a large area, and one of
The
a smaller ares on a larger scale on which more detailed information can be entered for aviation, former of the two working charts has been increased in size so that the area of the map row includes a portion of Labrador and of New- foundland, and extends from the American coast in the west to be- yond the Ural Mountains in the
ADVICE ON FLIGHTS
with a handful of pupils. He has stayed with it ever since, watch ing its growth and progress unit, In spite of the fact that the school is now housed in a modern build ing at Sookunpoo, it has become east, necessary to turn away pupils..
Most of the younger members of the Indian Community in Hong The increasing use of the aero- Kong, have at one time or an-plane as a means of rapid transport other been pupils of Mr. Bishen by Royalty, members of the Cab Singh and by them, the retiring net, and high officia's is reflected schoolmaster is held in esteem and in the increasing demands for spe respect.
cial forecaste before such flights are undertaken. In spite of the num erous broadcasts of information on Sying conditions which are made in code from the Air Ministry and by wireless telephony from the Heston Air Port, the number of inquiries from civilian and Royal Air Force pilote for information for individual fights continues to grow. The number of general inquiries also shows a large increase,
Services To The LR. C.
Madrid, Sept. 28. According to details published by El Debato to-day, a new submarine construction of which was begun at Carthagena on September 3rd in the first of a series of this undersea Mr. Bishen Singh took a great craft to be built for the Spanish interest in the Indian Recreation war fleet.
Club, becoming a member when The new submarines has a dis. the institution was in its infancy, placement of 1.050 tons on the sur- and it was not long before he was face and 1,370 tons immersed while made a Vice-President of the in- its surface speed will be 20 knots & stitution. In his younger days he its submerged speed 10 knots. It took an active interest in ten- armament will consist of que 102. nia, and latterly his advice millimetre gun, two machine-guns has been much appreciated by the and six torpedo tubes.
Club's ' committea. - The Spanish Navy só present has
In the activities of his own
a high place, and worshippers at the Sikh Temple have much for which they have to thank him.
of the Royal Arch Province of only 18 submarines capable of community, Mr. Bishen Singh held
Hertfordshire on Oct. 13, at Mark active service Masons Hall, Great Queen-street, WC.
He will thus follow his father as FATAL LORRY ACCIDENT head of the Royal Arch Masonic Province of Hertfordshire (as he has done in the craft). The late Bir Frederick Halsey was Grand Superintendent from 1975 to 1924.
Chinese Who Fell Off And Was Killed
With The Police Reserve
•now..
Information was supplied to mem bers of the Houston Mount Everest Expedition regarding the best per lod fo the year for a flight over Mount Everest and the meteorologi cal conditions likely to be encoun tered. A special meteorological or- ganization was also brought into A keen Police Reservist, ME operation for the nonstop fight of Bishen Bingh served in that body the Fairey Napier munoplane from throughout the War, doing very England to South Africa. The de valuable duty in the Colony when An instance of how badly cash
most of the regulars had been call the whole of the route were collated
tails regarding the weather along" sweeps in the Colony can be con-
There are now twenty-two Royal
Whilst riding in a lorry along ed away. When the Reservists ducted was brought to my atten. Are Chapters meeting in Hertford Murray Rond at about 7.46 am were formed again after the Strike by the meteorological stem at Oran tion last week. Apparently the shire. institution running the sweep kept
September 15, last, a Chinese of 1925, Mr. Bishen Singh was well and detailed information ro Sir Lionel Halsey is to provide at named Chan See-wing lost his made Commissioner of the Indian sarding conditions along the route within the limit of commission, al the annual meeting of the Pro balance and fell off the sustained section, and his departure will supplied to the pilota lowed them by the police, but when vincial Grand Lodge, to be held on serious injuries and was removed leave a gap in the ranks of the was supplied to the Directorate of A considerable amount of data the lucky drawers of prizes pre Sept. 27, at the Masonic Peace to the Government Civil Hospital Reservists which will not be easily Civil Aviation, including reports sented their tickets to be eashed,
Memorial buildings.
The next re-union of the Anglo- they were told that the club ex-
where he subsequently succumbed filled pected a rebate of ten per cent. Foreign Lodges in London will be dent at Central Magistracy: yester dening and it was thanks to his side of the Persian Gulf and be There was a sequel to the inci. Mr. Bishen Singh's hobby is ger- for projected new air routes by Imperial Airways on the southern People who suddenly come into held at the Cafe Royal, Regent day when Mr. W. Sonofeld, sitting enterprise and initiative that many several thousand dollars, do not street, W., on Friday, Oct. 6, under as Coroner, held an inquiry into varieties of fruits and vegetables en Calculta, and Australia. mind paying a few hundred to be the banner of the Helvetica Lodge, the man's death. He was assisted were at one time grown at the able to get their money without of which Mr. George Laemle, by a jury comprised of Mecere indian School trouble, but if some of the victims is the Master
B. Macdonald (foreman), T, P. He is returning to his native urs plucky enough to bring the mat The Anglo-Foreign Lodges in Tong and F. H. Farne country after many years in Hong ter to the attention of the author London are: Der Pilger, Le Dr. G. E. Thomas gave medical Kong in the service of the Govern ties, they will be doing a really France, Italia, L'Entente Cordiale, -evidence and after two other wit ment, and his friends will wish good turn. There are several pró Deutschland, America, and Hel messes had gone into the box, the him a long and happy refirement, perly conducted sweeps available vetica.
inquiry was adjourned
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