The Stewards of the Hong Kong
THE HEALTH SERVICE Within the Tsao-Tang village expected luxuries provided, being ancestral hall there have been set.
The annual dance of the St. almost unanimously voted by the up a clinic-in charge of a doctor. John Ambulance Brigade has been party as an enjoyable boilday. an assistant and a mid-wife-an arranged to take place at the Hong The objections, at any rate, isolation room, for infectious cases, Kong Hotel on Saturday, April 6, résulted in the itinerary being and a male and female ward con- when an extremely entertaining considerably shortened down to talning
beds each.. The cabaret programme" will be pre- eight days of
Page 10 sight-seeing in charges are only 10 coppers for sented. Klangsi. Because time was so registration, and 5 coppers for Emited, the schedule was drawn each subsequent treatment. Serv- up with military-like precision,ing an area approximately 15 11 in with the result that, not only was radius, this health service seven o'clock in the morning after 30,000-people-A branch deemed late enough for us to be clinic has also been opened a up and about our job each day.jshort distance away." Attending (necessitating our rising at six), to the sick is only a part of the but time was so sparingly appor-work of the health service. It tioned-for-each Item-on-the-pro-also distributes posters, containing gramme that we usually spent the health injunctions, gives lastric afternoons trying to catch up on tion and advice daily on matters the time lost earlier in the of personal hygiene and public day.
health, locks after" drainage," pro- The first after-dinner reports per disposal and treatment of ex- We had at Nanchang had well crescence and rubbish, and mis- prepared us for what, we were to cellaneous similar work. see on the following days. Stress It will be remembered had been jaid generally on the these welfare centres have four constructive rather than the des- maini branches of activities-- tructive, and hence it was fitting health, education, agricultural im-
and that
Arst introduction to provement.
co-operation. Klangsi should have been first to The administration of these other Communist Reformatory in departments is also housed in the the
ancestral hall building. Kiukiang, and then to the Tsao- same Tang Welfare Centre, whither we Altogether there are eight techni- repaired on the second morning of cal expert workers in these var- Ndyyour stay in Nanchang.
London, March 21. The Singapore Base, ought to be ready by 1939 at the present rate of progress, sald Capt. Euan Wallace in the House of Com- mons. It was stated, that every thing was proceeding according to plan
A smaller sum was put down on the new estimates than last year, largely because of the fact that all the money voted last year had not been spent.
The works vote of the supple- mentary estimates for the had been passed.- Reuter..
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RAILWAY LOAN TO CHINA
Britain Asks Fon Repayment
1-
Nanking, March 22.
Our
that
lous departments and a number öf voluntary workers.
STRIKING ECONOMIES
told us,
Jockey Club have chosen April 6, as the date for the Third Extra Race Meeting. The programme Page 18 for it is published on
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. E. P. Curtiss was recently appointed factory representative to cover the Far East Territory for the Graham-Palge International Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, U.8.A. Mr. Curtiss sailed from San Francisco in January, planning to GOOD ROAD TO TSAO-TANG
stop at Bonolulu and then con- Situated about" forty miles to
tinue to Japan, China, the Philip- the south-west of Nanchang, we Mr. Philip Chen, Field Superin-pines, Dutch East Indies and India." travelled there by bus over the tendent of the N. E. C. rural Mr. Curtiss is well known in that new well-built motor-road which work, supplied very interesting part of the world, and covered the terminates at present at Kao-An, information on this phase of the same territory for Graham-Paige about a hundred miles
His distant. Council's activities.
enthu in 1930, 1981 and 1932, Like all the other roads over slaam was decidedly infectious. which we passed later, this one The initial budget for the existing
The annual general meeting of is surfaced with red earth over a six welfare centres, he
members of the Hong Kong Gen--- foundation of rock and stones, was the very small sun of $20,000— { eral Chamber of Commerce will ...while the width is sufficient to a sum that we agreed was, the be held in the offices of the Cham- the language at all. The report Bir Alexander Cadogan, the allow two
cars to pass comfor- merest pittance, considering the ber of Commerce, Chartered Bank CO.recommends that & television British Minister, has communicatably. The construction, appar- scope envisaged by the scheme. Building, on Monday, 25th March,
station be established in London ted with the Chinese Foreign ently had been by some form of But by the exercise of the rigidest 1935. at 430 p.m.
meces-economics, and utilizing existing within the course of the current Office asking for early payment impressed labour-military neces-
Mr. J. L. Stuart, D.D., president year. "That this meets with "off-
of the principal and interest of sity would justify such a measure, buildings and other available re- cial" approval may be gleaned from
sources wherever possible, it has of Tenching University, who has the fact that no less an authority of the shanghai to
the British loan for construction of course but at Intervals, we
possible to cut down the recently arrived in Hong Kong in Fengching passed small groups of labourers, been NHE "THIRTIETE ANNUAL T GENERAL MEETING than the Postmaster General, him- section of the Shanghai-Hang four or five in number, engaged in outlay to only $6,000/-, thereby a tour of South China, will speak SHAREHOLDERS will be held in self proposes such a step. Na chow-Ningpo Railway.--
repairing and levering the sur- leaving a surplus of $14,000 with on "Religious Education" at Hop the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., doubt such a move will be greeted Reuter.
face. This, we understood, is paid which to do a good deal more of Yat Church on March 24th-at 7.30 Ltd., on WEDNESDAY, 3rd April,
labour; for the villages and dis- extension work. The Tsao-Tang pm. Mr. Stuart is one of the tricts are made responsible for the Welfare Centre established 1935, at 11 am. for the purpose of
pioneering educators of China. receiving the report of the General.
upkeep of their respective sections only in November 1934, not even materially aiding in the founding Managers together with a statement
In regard to economy, the technic.or the cost as both of them may of the highways, and each place three months previous to our of Yenching University, a leading of Accounts to 31st December, 1934.
al progress has now reached * be classed as the immediate gain-usually has its road-gangs for this visit But the success of its Christian educational institution The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
the immediate in-ers. Another, cause for regret 18 purpose.
health work, and its popularity in North China. The public are Company will be CLOSED from the pot where 23rd March to 3rd April, 1935, both auguration of a public experiment that, at the outset, a more popular THE WELFARE CENTRE with the peasantry, is clearly evi-cordially invited to attend. dates inclusive..
dent. Even the rade labourers be anticipated than £50 to £80, Two hours of comparatively easy know instantly the difference be No one, will perhaps even for a
The Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, Head- moment dispute the wisdom of thus putting them beyond the motoring brought us to the show-tween modern medicine adminis-master of the Diocesan Boys" entrusting the operation of tele-reach of all but the more wealthy place. Tsao-Tang Welfare Centre, tered by qualified hands, and the School, will be ordained Friest in situated about five minutes walk vision to the care of the B.B.Cclasses.
Tage herballst. The midwife's next Monday. The service will he
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
4:
as a sound one, and though certain excuses for a postponement might' have been put forward, especially
General Mand service is highly desirable.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
that on Sunday, March 24th, Hong Kong, 18th March, 1835.
1985, the Motor Coach which leaves. Kowloon at 8.05 am, for Shum Chun and Shum Chun at 10.63 & m. for Kowloon will not rus."
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B. D. WALKER,
Matager, Railway.
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
"ELIJAH" (Mendelssohn)
Will be Sung by the HONG KONG SINGERS THE SECOND EXTRA on Thursday, M
March 28th
BACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on BAȚURDAY, 23rd HAROH, 1985, commencing at 2.00
p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung at
1.80 p.
By Order,
Q. B. BROWN,
Secretary Hong Kong, 18th March, 1983.
Sat 9:00P.M. Conductor ANDERSON MILLER Organist:-FREDERICK Mason.
Proceeds to be devoted to THE HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
Admission by Programme, to be Obtained from Mesers, Moutried Co., The Anderson Music Co. and Teang (8846 | Fook Piano Co...
price for the receiving“ scta cannot
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especially as it is clear that in All patrons of broadcasting will from the highway. This is one oft-or-miss" methods of the vil- the School Chapel at 7.30 broadcasting, as on the films, no doubt endorse, heartily, the re-the six welfare centres established services, too have leapt into taken by the Bishop of Hong Kong, sight and sound are so destined to commendation of the Committee under N. E. Causpices, which Mr. favour because public health pro-and other clergy who are expected become inter-dependent that it is to exclude advertising by tele- Hsiao had told us of in his report paganda (carried also into the to be present are-Rev. L L Nash, imperative that the same authority vision, though the Committee do the preceding evening. That school-room) has impressed the Rev. NV Halward Rev. A J. Ben- | should be responsible for both, favour" sponsored" programmes, port, lucid though it was, gave us peasant-women with the advan-nitt, Rav, G. E. 8. Upsdell, Rey
The financial arrangements, un which, in other words, mean pro- & scarcely adeq ate idea of what
tages of hygienic obstetrics.
Tsang Kel Ngok, Rer. N. Cham fortunately, do not appear to be grammes provided free of charge & welfare centre is. One could quite so satisfactory. After much by an advertiser with the intims not quite understand merely from EDUCATION SELF-SUPPORTING berlain, Rey. EL Davies, Rev. Lel That leads us to the subject of Kau Yan Rev. J. R. Higgs, Rev. C. discussion, the Committee concern- tion of his name. The other main a report how, half a dozen such ed decided that the best method recommendation of the Com- centres could be expected appre- Education second of the four Brown; also the Chaplain of the of covering the initial cost of mittee, including particularly the clably to help in ameliorating branches of activities Fifteen Empress of Britain, and Deaconess £180,000 for the London station stablishment of a Television Ad-conditions of life for the country schools for popular education hold Vincent
180,000 night classes for adults men and Up to the end of next year would visory Committee, and a pool for people of a prvince of
for the Special Cash be to share it between the Treasury television patents, should meet with square kilometers, or almost one-women, and day classes for child Tickets and the B.B.C. While this means general acceptance. There is no third the size of France. But aren. Supervised by advisers sent Sweep on the Juling stakes at the On the one hand a public subsidy denying the fact that even the visit to Tsao-Tang was an eye by the Provincial Department of 7th Extra Race Meeting on June It is, on the other the diversion of most ardent supporter of television opener, because it reveals the Education, these schools are self- 1, 1935, at HK $1 each will be on better-educated sale at the Cash Breep counter, a part of the proceeds of wireless grants that some time must clapse huge possibilities of carrying the supporting, the licences for the benent of the before television achieves the per- ides into every village and every farmers in many instances giving the Race Cours
cea-freely as teachers throughout the minority who will acquire televisión fection at present enjoyed by sound little hamlet where the benefits their receiving sets within the period. broadcasting, but when it does, the of improved sgricultural methods. This utilization of local available
Every impo Ong way of “easing" the situation influence which it promises to education, modern medicine and tale would have been to call upon the exercise on everyday life and man co-operation are at present lack in the cheap running
rural welfare Institutions. "lockers themselves and the zers cannot be too strongly stress-ing. manufacturers of television sets to ed. And the practical beginning is The headquarters of the welfare
centre can be spottes brithe, her contribute a reasonable proportionat hand.
held in th
at the Secretary:
ster
(To be Continued);
available at a cost