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CATHOLICS CELEBRATE GOOD PRESS DAY
Sermons And A Play
Special sermons were delivered in' all' Local Catholic Churches" yesterday which had been set aside as "Good ·Presa Day" - by the Roman Catholic Community of the Colony,
This day is observed with the object of encouraging thọ reading of good Catholic Biterature, and spreading the works of Catholic imagazines.
On Saturday night Club de Recreio was the scene of an unter- taining concert when s play entitled "Dearies"" was successfully staged. • In the course of the eventug Rev. T. F. Ryan, S.J., delivered a lecture on "The Good Press,”
CHRIST OR CHAOS,
HONG KUNG, DAILY PRESS MONDAY APRIL 1, 1935
GOVERNMENT
-HOUSE
Tuesday March 26th.
His Excellency received Lt. Cdra. Kano-oka commanding ** HIJM, Gunboat “Baga.“
In the afternoon His Excellency, accompanied by Lady Feel and at
ended by Captain Walter, per- formed the opening ceremony of the new ⠀⠀ Aberdeen Industrial School.
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Thursday March 28th. His Exceliency presided at meet ings of the Executive Countfi in the morning and the Legislative Council in the afternoon,"
FROM THE GAZETTE
Appointments, Etc
Additions to and deletionis from the list of pensionable officers are contained in the Gazette.
His Excellency the Governor naa appointed Miss Kong Ching-poh to be a Member of the Nurses Board for a period of three years.
Professor W. L Gerrard, OBE, has been appointed a member of the Nursing Board for a period of His Excellency received His Ex-three years, vice Professor K. B. cellency Admiral Sir Frederic Drey- Digby, resigned. er, K.CB, CBE, British Naval Commander-in-Chief, on his re- turn to Hong Kong.
In the evening His Excellency and Lady Peel, attended by Captain Walter and Mr. Pilcher, were the guests of the Honourable Dr. 8.'W. Tao, O.BE at a Chinese theatri- cal performance at the King's Theatre in aid of the funds of the Chinese
company of the Hong Kong Police reserve.
Friday March 29th His Excellency the Governor, st- tended by Captain. Walter, was the
guest of the Chairman and Meme
bers of the Committee of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and China Association 17 Hong kong at a farewel luncheon given in honour of the Hon. Mr. C. G. B. Mackie, --
An election of a Justice of the Peace to serve in place of Mr. J. McPherson on the Licensing Board is to take place at the au- preme Court on April 18.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Chan Wing to bể a Public Vaccinatur.
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His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. R. AD. Forrest to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.
appointed Mr. C. B. R. Sargent to His Excellency the Governor has
be a Member of the
Board of
Education for a period of two
years.
THE FLOWER SALE
$2,500 Collected For
S. P. C. C.
A collection or $2,500 was made at the street sale of flowers on Saturday in aid of the funds of the Hong Kong Society for the Protect tion of Children.
The collection was organised by the Women's. Auxiliary of the So clety for the Protection of Chil- dren, the officers of which are: President, Lady Southorn; OBE: Chairman, Mrs. N. L. Smith: Hon Secretary, Mrs. A. Hicks; Hon. Treasurers, Mrs. Hospes and Mrs. Y. K Chow. In addition to the ladies in charge or districts and the helpers, valuable assistance was rendered by Mrs. R. M Hen-
derson..
Amongst those taking part in the street sales were the following:
Central District-In charge of Lady Shenton, "assisted by' Mrs. J. W. Franks, Mrs. McAvoy, Mrs. Ben- itt, Mrs. Mead, Mrs, de Precourt, Mrs. Davies, Mrs. Holmes, Miss H. Mrs. M. Turner, Mrs. D. §. Gubbay,
Gerrard, 'Miss B. Gerrard, Miss H
grearley, Miss I Dowbiggin, Miss Hodgson, Miss M Beaver, Miss. J Hancock, Miss A. Steele, Miss Vera
B. Elderton. Mika R. Smalley, Miss C. Bone, Miss L. Sroser. Miss Gilles- pie, Miss J. Wallace, Miss Delcourt, Miss M. Yeung, Miss Peart Chow. His Excellency the Governor has
West Central District-In charge Lieutenant. Francisco Paulo Be-bers of the Nursing Divisions of the approved the promotion of Second
of Mrs. Langley: assisted by mem- queira to the rank of Lieutenant inst. John Ambulance Brigade. the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
The players all acquitted them- | my faith, and, the faith of those selves very well and the play was } with whom I stand, that the entertaining in every detail.
Truth of Christ is the only thing The players who took part in that can stand against the forces the concert were:-
of evil working in the world to- Deborah Main (Jeanette Marr), day, that to-day it is more than Barbara (Lucy Jorge), Kate (Bella, even "Christ or Chaos." and that Marr), Lena (Ruby Moy), Mrs. the eternal Truth of Christ can Langthorne (Elizabeth Wong), only be steadfastly defended when Sylvia (Marie Albers). Mrs. Chuse it rests in the age-old, unchang (Katherine Marr), Mammy (Olive | Ing fortress of the Catholic Lee) and Miss Ada Armitage | Church. (Julla Matheson), and all are to be congratulated on their excep- The issue is knit to-day. It is tionally good display Musical between. Christ or Chaos in the Items
arranged were
by: the home, Christ or Chaos in the state. Troubadours Jazz Band.
Is the home being attacked? Can Among those present were:- you read a paper, can you open a His Excellency H. Valtorta, Vicar magazine. can you take UD £ Apostolic of Hong Kong, Mr. A. H. novel. cao you visi: a cinema Basto, President of the Catholic without have thrust before you Truth Society, the Rev. Father blatantly, shamelessly, the claim Gallagher S... Principal of the that God does not matter, that sin Wah Yan College. Chey. J. M. does not matter, that all that Alves. Dr. Bernardo da Bouza, matter is money and pleasure, and
In the evening His Excellency Messrs. L. A. Barton, Rober, Chou, that only cranks and puritans the and Lady Peel, attended by Cap President of the Chinese Catholle contrary. And what is our an-tain Walter, were the guests of His Young Men's Society, and Mr. Eswer to that? While others tem- Excellency the British Naval Com- Lau, vice-President of the St. porise and compromise, we oppose mander-in-Chief and Lady Dreyer Teresa's Chinese Young Men's Soto it fearlessly the Catholle doc at dinner on board HMS. "Heat." clety, and others.
trine of the sanctity of marriage,
Saturday March 30th the life-long endurance of the The following dined at Govern marriage bond, the sacred ob-mént House: ligations of parentage, the eternal His truth that pleasure is not the one Frederie and Lady Dreyer. His
Excellency object of existence, and that suf-Excellency Major-General O.C. fering and hardship must some Mrs. Borrett, The Rt. Revd. Bishop It is noted that the names of and Mrs. Hall, His Honour Mr. the East Asiatic Journal, Ltd., the Justice and Mrs. A. D. A. Mac-Union Leather Articles, Ltd., and gregor, Commodore and Mrs. F. Elliott, Major-General F..W, Bar ron. O.BE, Hon. Sir Thomas and Lady Southorn, Hon. Mr. N. L and Mrs. Smith, Hon. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Taylor, Hon. Mr. R. M. and Mrs. Henderson, Hon, Sir Henry and Lady Pollock, Hon. Sir William and Lady Shenton, Mrs. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. C. G. 8. Mackie, Captain E. R. Bent, D.S.C. RN.,
In the course of his lecture, Rev.
T. F. Ryan said:-
It is a consoling thing for those who have at heart the progress of the Good Press movement to find so many here to-night ready to give it support. I know that sup-times be endured if eternal life is port of the movement has "not to be won..." been the sole cause of your com- ing; for the name of the brilliant players who have within the last
few months added so notably to their previous laurels is enough to
THE LOCAL PRESS How can you impress upon your- seives sufficiently strongly these principles so that they will stand Arra against all the callousness and draw many out of their homes. on an unpleasant evening, yet I know cynicism and evil example that you see around you, how, if not that it was the thought of sup-by letting your mind open to good most of you here, you have shown your support of it by coming, and the thought of the excellent per- formance that you would witness
porting the Good Press that drew
was just the reward that you felt you bad a right to expect for do- ing such a good "act.
impressions through good reading? head regularly books or papers that are as insistent on the truth
Admiral
The Government is inviting tenders for filling in the area north of Prince Edward Road and east of Grampian Road, and for form north of Sai Kung Road. Biring a "Flight Gap" and roadway and
as other books and papers are in- Captain the Honourable and Mrs. sidiously hostile to it, and the evil G
Fraser, Commodore F. N
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the Kowloon New Asia Hotel, Ltd., will, unless cause in shown to the contrary in three months, be struck of the register and the compares dissolved.
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appointed Leslie John Davis, M.D., His Excellency the Governor has Ch. B., M.R.CP. Professor of Pathology to the University of Hong Kong to be Pathologist to the Government Civil Hospital.
Helena May Tast, and Peak Tram. -In charge of Miss Taylor, assist- ed by Miss Roberts and Miss Graspy.
N. L. Smith and Mrs. Ralston, Peak District-In charge of Mrs.
assisted by Mrs. J. R. Collis, Miss R. Alabaster Miss Monckton, Miss Gibbon, Miss A. Evans, Miss...M, Taylor, Miss D. Dodwell,
Bowloon-In charge of 'Mrs. Begg, assisted by Mrs. C. N. Barber, Mrs. C. B. Easterbrook, Mrs, S. Gar. rod, Miss W. Georges, Mrs C. M Manners, Mrs F. Martin, Mrs. P. Wisden. Miss E.-Witchell, Miss D. Witchell, Mrs. Wheaply Miss Wheaply. Mrs. Sharp, Misses. Nam Hing Kan Chue Shm Wah, Pong
Pik Yue, Chan Miu Laan, Chin Chun Flain, Woo Wai-Fang Pong Kam Lin, Chin Kam Tsan, Tsain Shun Hing and Chan Fat Laen
Happy Valley and Wanchal-In charge of Mrs. Maughan assisted that they do will be combated.Attwood, R.N., Captain and Mrs.
by Misses Patsy Wood, Mary Joy. Mr. David Kossick has been ap- Parsons, Peggy Macfadden, Pearl Remember, I am not speaking I B. B. Tower, Miss Mackie. Pay-pointed Assistant Covernment Beaucannon. against all non-Catholic publica-master Commander R. R. Porter,Marine Surveyor (Engineer Sur-Dorothy Salmon, Georgette Crosth- Caroline Cafin, tions as if they all were harmful. R.N., Lt. Cdr. F. B. Tours, R.N., and veyor), Harbour Department. say something to you about the Good Press. I want you to un-Least of all am I making any ac- Mr. W. 8. A. Clough-Taylor derstand the importance of it, so cusation on our local press. We that Jou will become not merely are fortunate in Hong Kong in
Now that you are here I want to
supporters of it but active worker having a clean press that main-heroic Missionary in the hands of for the spread of it. I know that tains a high sense of the dignity and honour of journalism, but t you already appreciate the value of good reading--whether of books, has to bear witness to the events pamphlets or periodicals but in the world around us, and the
want you not merely to appreciate it in theory but in practice too, 80 that you will each one of you be- fore Good Press Sunday comes to
an end take a definite decision to become regular readers of good literature in the coming year and
often the deeds of those who re- things it has to tell are only too
gard not either God or His law.
Secondly, I said that you have to be well-informed on Truth There have been diferent times and different places in
which
the Communists, Fr. Bravo, the Dominican, who was released only
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few weeks ago after more than a year's imprisonment; a descrip. tion of the present state of things in Mexico; an explanation of what really happens when a person is declared a Baint, as Blessed John Fisher and Thomas More will be In a few months; a statement of jubilee thanks-giving service at Macdonnell Road and St. Paul's
of the Honourable Artillery Com- pany as guard of honour at the
the Catholic position with regard St. Paul's.
With four centuries
Kennedy Road, Robinson Road,
to do your part to induce others Truth needed- special champions to evolution; a few pages devoted of history behind it this London Katle Woo, assisted by Miss Chan
also to do likewise.
TWO REASONS
Why, you might ask, is it neces-
sary to insist in this way on
need of it now that did not exist
before? There is a very special
valiant
At one time it needed pioneers who would cut new paths by people in Hong Kong Just like generally believed to be the old
to answers to questions proposed unit which belongs to what is across the world; at another time It needed brave champions who yourselves, and so on. But this is est regiment in the world,” hás would defend it
only one of the many Catholic courageously.
anything
need, but I am selecting only two of the many reasons that exist, You should read what is good. firstly, in order to counteract in yourselves the effect of so many direct attack.
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Tegatie Shenton. The company mendis that of the ~ small
marched in the funeral proces Bhouson Hill and Deep Water How can you become well. Pamphlets that are on sale near ston of Oliver Cromwell
Bay-In charge of Mrs. Beld harmful influences that are work-
lecki ing upon you, and, secondly to be laformed if not by reading? You the doors of the churches. Do nov think that they are of slight im- well-informed on ", the side of need not spend days over. pon-
If you make a portance because they are small Truth. But, frst of all, let me derous volumes, say what I mean by good reading. practice of reading regularly, some or because they cost only ten do it by taking part in the work I do not mean
what is merely of the periodicals or small book-centa. They are a splendid bat of the newly-formed Association negatively good, that is, what islete that are issued now to meet te against falsehood and error, under the auspices of which t not definitely bad. I mean what the needs of the day, you will be and I strongly recommend you to Good Press Day has been organis. is positively good, books and pa- prepared to withstand attack and look over the titles now and then pers that are expressly written to to help others to withstand it.
help you to lead better lives and
SOME SUGGESTIONS
as you pass, and to take one home with you to read...
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
THE PRINCE'S STAFF
„tápécial" "Afroðfu-ServiÇBİ
London Mar. (35) ed this year: the Hong Kong Cathalie Truth Society. It has The Prine of Wales is shortly to been formed for the purpose of lose his stalstant private secre- spreading good literature both in tary, Mr. Hugh Lloya Thomas, to be active in the cause of good. Hence my recommendation to
Chinese and in English, and the who, after being with him since Reading of this kind is neces-you on this Good Press Day is to Now so far I have only spoken extent of its work depends on the 1929, is returning to the Diplo sary, as I said, to counteract in register a determination to be- of your own part as a reader of amount of support which it rsmatic Service, from which he was yourselves the influences for evil come regular readers of good good literature. I want you to telves from the Catholic laity of seconded that are actively affecting you. Literature. What kind of litera-think of others too. Do not be the Colony. The annual subscrip. It is understood that Mr. Thomas There is no need for me to tell ture? I have two suggestions content with giving the benefits of tion 5. Membets who pay this will take up the appos you that such Influences are at Either become regular readers of good reading only to yourselves receive every month a carefully Couns work round about you: influences same Cathodic perio.tical or be share it with others. If each of selected pamphlet and they assist bass active against the very name at come a regular purchaser of
in spreading far and wide Catholic, God; influences subversive of the Catholic pamphlets. What periodi
Truth through the written word. I 'moral order; influences directed cal? Any Catholle periodic
hope for great things from this against everything that stand for You see them on sale outside the
young Society, and I think myself in order justice and lawful anthority, And door of your churches on Sunday
fortunate in being able to bite threads what are we to oppose to these morning. There are monthly and influences" I know that I am weekly periodicals available. First, that speaking to many of different Choose any one you please. As I and redd-at faiths, to many, in whose lives re-happen to be Editor of a Catholic Catholic peră "ligion holds a varying place, tó monthly periodical, "The Rock" I Secondly,
some in whose lives it holds per- naturally feel interested in that put some good- haps no place," but as you come one. It is designed to meet your the hands of here to a function held under needs and
Catholic auspices I know that you ins
interests
you could become a centre for the diffusion of good literature, what untold good could you not do See If you cannot do something Here is, refore a twofold re solution this I propose to your
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