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POSTAL SERVICE
statistics relating to the fifteenth anniversary of the Parcel Postal Services. At the end of the first
twelve months after the inaugura-
tlun of the service on the first of August. 1883, parcels were sent by post at the rate of 23 millions a year. The annual figure is now.
Overseas more than 150 millions. parcel postage came two years later, and, since 1885 this traffic
Mr. Lam Woo
The death occurred on Wedden- day night, at his residence, No. 1 Tramway Path, of Mr. Lam Woo, the well-known local contractor.
He had been in indifferent bealth for some time and took a turn for the worse at the beginning of the week
Founder of the firm of Lam Woo & Co., the deceased had been in the contracting business for the past 10 years, having established himself as a contractor on his return to Hongkong from Australia where he had spent his younger days.." 4” .
A native of Sun Wui, he was 63 years of age and during his resi dence in the Colony he became associated with many local estab lishments and institutions He was keenly interested in the Anglican Chinese Church and was one of the founders of St. Paul's Church and the St. Paul'e Girl School..
HOUSES NEWS SUMMARY
Grievances of 12,000 Officers of British
Merchant Navy
Special Air-Mall Service)
London, December 8. A petition on behalf of more" than 12,000 officers of the British Merchant Nary was carried up the Thames to the Houses of Parlia ment to-day.
I boarded the tug Britannia at when two Tower Pier at 1 p.m. grey boxes containing 23,337 signa- tures to the petition were carried
aboard,
More than 12,000 of these were the signatures of merchant navy. officers, and they were petitioning for a publie inquiry into the con- ditions of service in British mer- chants ships. The
The rest of the signatures were from members of the public.
Over the side of the tug was stretched a banner with the words Officers 12,000 Merchants Nary petition Parliament."
He took a great interest in edu- cation and besides being we keep supporter of the Chinese YMCA he was the treasurer and a direc tor of the Lingnam University's
Once the petition and some of Agricultural College. Some years ngo he founded a free school in his the petitioners including Admiral M.V.O the native district of Sun Wui and Philip Nelson-Ward,
sura of $40,000 to Hon. Mrs. Nelson-Ward, represen contributed a wards its erection and mainten:ting the officers wives, and Cap- tain W. H. Coombs, a barrister, were on board the tug steamed away. 7
ance."
A hard and conscientious worker, the late Mr. Lam was a director of several local Chinese firms, in- cluding the Sincere Co., the Bank of Canton, On Lok Yuen, Sam Mau and the Shanghai Fire Insurance.
Mr. Lam Woo leaves three sous and three daughters. The youngest son recently went to America to further his studies.
Our London Air Mail Cetter appears out Page 1,
2.B.W Wireless Programme ap pears on Page 4.
Our special woman's supplement appears on Pages 2 and 3,
"Around the Gourts" which is an' assimilation of court cases tried yesterday, appears on Page &
"A week of British News" is an article covering British dying, in-
man threw a message on board a good luck penny wrapped including Canadian Airways Pugo 11. appeara Results of Christmas Golf paper with the words "Good luck
an Page 11. Merchant Navy."
AT WESTMINSTER By two o'clock the tug reached
Westminster Fier, where Mr. P. J3. Hannon, MP received the pe- tition and handed it over to Lieu- tenant-colonel J. T. Moore-Bra- It was then carried bazon, M.P. across to the House of Commons, where it was formally presented.
Here are some of the complains
fore-Parliament: which the officers are placing be
vprages, with no guarantee of acers are employed for single continuous work, and it is most exceptional for any solation to be granted even after long periods
af service.
Officers have no legal claim to leave and often serve for two or more years without being granted home leave.
6.
Echoes of 1859 appears on Page -
Home Football Nows appears on Page 10
A verdiot of "Death by Misad- venture was returned in the in- quiry which was held at Central Magistracy yesterday into the death of Wong Woo, a butcher, was died in the Government Ciril Hospital wounds sustained when he was on December 4, as the result of
Page 6 House.
Final Results of Macao Yacht gored by a biffalo in the Slaughter
Col. J. H. Morris, the new A.D. face appears on Page 10. B. & P. to the China Command is due here on January 11 Page
One of the Colony's oldest con tractors. Mr. Lam Woo, passed.
away on Wednesday night at his Page 8. British officers are paid at low-residence. er rates than in most foreign
Item exceeding $27,000 are due countries. They receive no over- time although they frequently to come up before the meeting of There was a pause while the en- work for 90 hours a week and the the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council to day. Page 74 sign was dipped to the Merchant bos'un often pays off with more
money than the third officer. Navy War Memorial on HILL
In one prominent shipping.com- pany the negro cooks receive more un-wages than certificated third off-
cers and are paid overtime. **
Tower
A few minutes later the tug lay alongside a large steamer loading grain to collect 20 last minute signatures.
With flags waving the Britannia started up the river. On each
The maximum compensation for total disablement is 308. & week,
Many British ships are manned
NO STOKERS NEEDED
side steamers lying in the wharves entirely by foreign others and Mechanically Fired
and COPY
JAPANESE BRITISH MARKS
Mr. Runciman Admits Need For Action
WESTERN COUNTRIES' COMMON 'CAUSE
(Special Air-Mail Service).
blew their toghorns their
crews crowded to the rail cheer
Shouts of "Good luck" came from passing barges. From
oficers men, while 3.000 British and 40,000 British seamen are un- employed.
Many of the best men are being driven out of the service-a mat-
Hungerford railway bridge a work- ter of vital national importance.
SPEEDY LAYING
OF
ROADS
"Skin" Of Bitumen And Earth
We are in sight of what has been authoritatively described as the 'greatest military advance since the war." Trials that have taken place in India have opened a new
- London, December 5. There was some plain speaking by Mr. Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, concerning horizon.
It is not a new weapon or ma- the menace of unfair-Japanese competition to British trade, chine, but a new method of me- be pushed for- has grown from 113,000 to 5,200,000 which was the subject of debate chanised high-speed road-making.
In the House of Commons last By it roads may
ward into wild or hostile territory "parcels a year. "In connection with night.
The question arose on a resoluat the rate of about eight miles a parcel post we must also bring to
the road thousands of lorries can run notice the system of pre-payment tion proposed by Capt. Fuller, the day! And over this new type of
Conservative. Member for
Yet it can be made with very of Customs charges for parcels Ardwick Division of Manchester.
This urged the Government to little labour. sent abroad which was introduced
By the
a bitumen use af a, hard "skin" can be Also there is the cash- "state its intention, in the event In 1898.
of satisfactory quota arrangements emulsion on-delivery system which was not being made by agreement with rapidly laid over the surface of introduced at the beginning of this Japan, to take immediately all the ground that will form a road- Both these innovations steps within their power to mini-way strong enough to bear an ai- century.
ordinary road, to have been of boundless service andmise the competition of Japanese most unlimited number of "motor
Imports both in home and Empire lorries. The
stand hard ise, has to have a markets." .....
deep layer of large stones, with top. Great lighter metal quantities of labour, transport, and water are needed and are dificult to supply in barren, regions,
the complexity of their organisa- tion is evident:
It is an extraordinary thing that the nearer an institution or an organisation attains te perfection, the more vigorously are its faults condemned. A good example of this is the postal service, both in Great Britain and throughout the Empire. Any fair and impartial numerous other developments, and investigation of the work of the according to a recent announce- British General Post Office-andment by the Fostmaster-General the same system holds good in the it would appear that more inno- Colonies, so that a commendation vations are likely to materialize of one is a commendation of all
CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the shore named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR xx in the Hong Kong must acknowledge that it does its
Steamer. Gooda
No Fire Insurance will be effected by na in any case whatever...
to
Besides these there have been
shortly.
Support for the motion came from every part of the House, and Mr. Runelman admitted that as Lancashire cottan regarded the
trade things were growing worse rather than better. As an instance of unfair competition based on the Infringement of designs and trade marks, he said they had found in some parts of the Empire goods imported direct from Japan bear- ing British nanes and British trade marks.
on
Simple Method The new military roadmaking is infinitely simpler. The surface is scarified, a track levelled off by means of a grader, and the bitu men emulsion is then mixed, cold, with the earth on the surface. Thus the "akin' is formed.
Channel Vessel
London, Dec. 20. The new railway steamer-Great Western, launched at Birkenhead, has a particular interest for en- gineers in that she is the first coal- burning cross-channel steamer to be entirely mechanically fired.
The steam results that are being achieved with coal as a matter of the daily round in power stations All that is needed are a number ashore should not be incapable of of tractors, a quantity of emulsion, imitation aflost, and whilst this and a comparative handful of has been done in several larger trained roadmakers. Tests, I ships the arduous weather condi understand, have already proved tions experienced on the cross- that such a roadway can be made channel services appear to have across the desert, "by mixing the militated against the introduction bitumen with the surface sand of mechanical stokers in ships so
This fact alone opens up im- engaged
There can be no doubt that s mense possibilities. To grasp the
means are taken in the type of far-reaching Importance of such a development we have only to re- atoker fitted in the Great Wester famous sayings-that "an army fire, even the elimination of the member two of Napoleon's most to prevent the avalanching of the marches on its stomach" and that extra air which is admitted on "the whole secret of war les in each occasion when hand firing takes place will go far to improre the communications."..
This is especially true of the the all-round steaming efficiency of type of wars in which the British the boilers.
on the distant frontlers of Em- Army is commonly engaged wars
regions. Here the promptness of pire in barren and sparsely peopled action and the rate of advance de pend far more on the difficulties of the country than on the enemy's powers of resistance. And the greatest difficulty of all is usually hat of feeding and munitioning the forces that are used.
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NEW MILITARY HOSPITAL
Further Land Acquisitions For Service Purposes
-Further acquisitions of land in Singapore by the military naval authorities are indicated by notifications in the Government
Bo difficult is this that nowa days no large force can be..em- ployed unless a railway is built. The new method of rapid road making may change the whole picture or Gazette. necessity for a railway
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The annual Christmas tree party
The Admiralty require an area of more than 15 acres in the Mukim of Sembawang and the customary declaraiton was made in the Gazette last night.SA
It might not be out of place to and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cowwork with astonishing efficiency. mention that the estimates for
"A-Form of Dishonesty."! pany's Godowns at Kowloon, where each Consigament will be sorted out MarkIt has a task of amazing complexity his department' presented by the
"That appears to me to be a form by Mark and Delivery can be obtained and magnitude and this task is Postmaster-General to the House
that any Govern- of dishonesty
Similar declaration was made in the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here carried out quietly and with sur- of Commons are usually considered ment should do its best to sup
regard to an area of more than 34. acres in the Mukim of Ang Mo Kio, unless Instructions have been given to the prisingly few hitches. Yet the Post quite a good indication of the press," he added. If material on which action could be taken wwas contrary Six Hours before arrival of the office is regarded as fair game for commercial prosperity of the coun-
One case of Entenc tever was which is in the centre of the hesitate to make representation not cleared within 8 day grumbling at the slightest error try. That the G.P.O. earned a re-supplied to them they would not
South Seletar, on the east by Pong- including date of arrival will be subject to it makes.
cord surplus last year of over ten in the proper quarter with, he will be held at the Police Recrea- reported in the Colony for the 24 island, bounded on the north by gol and Serangoon, and on the west Bont
The "Christmas season especially million pounds may be taken as hoped, satisfactory results.tion Club, Happy Valley, on New hours ended December 27,
The wedding is announced to take by Ula Kalang, this area of land for military must make us pause, for a momenta sign of the growing confidence, he added, the Government Year's Day, commencing at 2 pm.
We are informed that, the discus- place in the near future of Mr. being required they wished to take were-inter- consider the amazing work in Great Britain of an early return found that such effective steps as
fered with by the Anglo-Japanese sions which were fixed for this David McLellan, schoolmaster of hospital. carried out by the Postal services to prosperity. throughout the Empire. Think of
Treaty new comederation would evening and January at the King's College, and Kiss Winfred
Kowloon. arise, but he would rat wish to Bishop's House have been cancelled. Henderson, of 7, Waverly Terrace, Chinese Chamber of Commerce on The Health report of the Colony embarking on the abrogation of There will be a meeting at the that Treaty
December 30 ut. 3 11,m. on January for the week-ended December let at 3 pm. There will be a New showed a total of 1 case small-pox,
enteric, and, I case of meningitis, Year reception had five case diphtheria, two cases of
The P. and O. "Handbook of Information has just been publish
d. Those who may wish to obtain information in regard to this Company's service can procure one on application.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Con- signee, and the Company's Surreyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Douglas, at 10, on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.
Consignees are specially notified that it is necessary for a Revenue Officer to be present at the examination to damaged dutiable cargo.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 17th Jan, 1934, or they will not be recognized. Az
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, MAOKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co,
Agents. Hong Kong, 28th Dec.; 1933,
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Voice That Is Always Right,
exhaust all others means-before-
He had examples sent to him every day of cheap Japanese goods, and it might be necessary that Western countries would have to stand together in a common economic cause.
That was the reason that the Government was trying to impress on Japan that it was well to live on a friendly footing with the rest of the world rather than carry their movement so far that they aroused a feeling of enmity.
When we take into consideration the millions who sent out Christ- the foregoing figures we should mas mail and the millions who sent and an excuse for the occasional parcels. We just dropped them in hitches that may occur. And yet a red letter-box, or à brass-lidded
our very intolerance towards mis- shute, or pushed them across the takes the Post Office makes may
be the sign of unconscious praise. counter, and never gave them a second thought, taking it quite as a matter of course that they would reach their destination. But con- sider the sorting and the checking and the punctual transport of this huge volume of mail matter: the correct delivery at the other end of the direct routes, and the re checking and transport of all the mall that goes to out-of-the-way corners. It is just as if it snowed and hailed letters, cards, magazines, parcels, and busy workers below. The clockworks hardest at "Profoundly disappointed with
to the two previo shunned everything here and there about 8 am when hundreds of the speech of P.B.T
peable ring up to see how many thing
atlefed until it was all tidy for Christmas minutes they have lets before to things
petul Bett Day. It is really awe-inspiring ing to work
fled with the How great is the task the GP.O Sundays, and holidays are #clays
of rest
lock for then it other quarters of the Ho one branch has an average OL 36,000 calls eral support in House blication of to auswert
by the
The talking clock" of Paris, which tells the time over the tele- phone whenever it is ring up, has earned £23,000 in the first year of its installations
It spoke the exact time of day to 4,000,000 inquirers during the year, at an average rate of 11,000 calls a day
M.P.8. Protest, Five Lancashire MPs and one Cheshire M.P. signed a statement, drafted in an unusual form after Mr Runciman had, spoken an Japanese competition with British trade it stated:
The sixth annant dance, of the Hongkong Ladies Hockey Club will take place at Lane Crawfords restaurane od January 18 at 9 pan Tickets are obtainable from the committee, AT
WORLD'S RICHEST GIRL
Miss Duke Receives Part Of £7,000,006 Fortune
New York Nov 29, Miss Doris Duke the tobacco heiress and the richest girl in the inherits on the occasion over. world, comes of age to-day. She 2,000,000 as the Arst part of her fortune of $34,000,000 Cabout 27 000.000)
pa on Wednesday when a married There will be a Dinner Dance at
A fatal accident occurred at Tai- woman, Wong Kun, aged 29 years, Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday Despite her wealth, Miss Duke alighting from a moving train night, December 30th & Carnival 18 an almost unknown figure in hich she died on Der way to the with the appearance of diss Arlive quiet disposition and dislike ap- received severe head injuries from on New Year's Eve December 31st, the United States She is of a The woman formerly Bancroft and Miss Thelma Tyndall, pearing in public more than is Street, Taip and a Tea Dance on New Year necessary. Owing to the kidney- ping scare she is guarded night Day, January 1st 1834,
and day by armed detectives, boke She now automatically becomes Airlie
one of the trustees of the Duke anuary Endowment Fund of $150,000,00 This devoted to North and South
con
Madame Lottie Gordon will be giving a concert at the Musleroom nexo dnes
signatories were all Con- there wi
Hotties
welfare
tobs
the chief Dilka dons and factories
are altuated B.UP.