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BANK TO RE-OPEN
Sanction Granted
MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1936.
LOSS OF THE PARINGA
Local Lad Also A Victim
The
A petition to sanction the scheme of reconstruction on betali
scandaldus of the B.J. of the National Commercial and Bavings Bank Ltd., was made by Paringa, while engaged recently in Messrs. Eldon Potter, R.C., and R. the task of towing the sa, Vinca C. H. Lim before the Acting Chlef į from Adelaide to Japan for break- Justice, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindselling up, which has already been At the Supreme Court on Satur fully reported and was the subject day. Sanction was obtained and of an editorial in our issue of January 9, was again brought to the bank as allowed to
Mr. Potter said mind of local residents with the mence business. that the scheme was a destrable production of a letter written by one. as His Lordship would see by the wirelesa operator on board tha the petition, because at a meeting-fated craft, Mr. J. P. Hartel, a of the creditors it was adopted by past student of St Joseph's College, a considerable majority. As far to a friend in Hong Kong.
Mr. Hartel was one of the first as he could see the scheme was entirely within
His Lordship's batch of students to complete the Government Course at the new Jurisdiction.
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He then read out the petition,Wireless School last July, and it which in effect stated that the was revealed that when the oppor- capital of the company had been unity occurred for a job with the British Australian: Line, he jumped Increased from $2.000.000 to 85,000.000. The business had been at the opportunity. He knew noth- carried on in Shanghai, Hankow, ing about the actual ship he would Canton and other branches, and have to join, except that he was to serve on a vessel sailing from the position of the bank on De- cember 31 was a sound one. The Australia. It turns out that that closing of the bank's doors was ship was the illfated Paringa, due to two runs on other banks, one of which had been successful- ly staved off, but in the second case they could not raise sufficient money to meet the demands of the depasitors, and they were com- pelled to close their doora, -~-
The text of his last letter, writ- ten to a friend in Hong Kong, is as follows:-
- DANGEROUS GAME FOR US..
GALA NIGHT AT H.K. HOTEL
Cowan's And Bailey's Farewell Perfor
mances
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Patrons of the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden turned up in full force on Saturday night, to witness' the of those farewell performance popular entertainers Cowan Bailey, Estelle Davis. Ted and Evelyn, who were given a rousing send-of, also to welcome Denver's gift to Hong Kong the "Galety -Giris
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Playing to well over 300 people. Cowan opened the evening's show with popular songs accompanied by Bailey on the Banjo, followed by Ted and Evelyn in "Blue Rhy-
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Then Miss Estelle Davis, who acted as Mistress of Ceremonies appeared beautifully black georgette, to announce the long awaited Galety Girls, which number danced for their first
Modern Moods," and judging from the tremendous applause, we feel that these girls are due to stay Their next for quite sometime two items were "Shim Sham" and
Fines. of $1,000 or in default, the "Cuban." It is interesting to note that the "Shim Sham" was six months' hard labour and an additional six months' hard labour October 24, 1935. taught to the girls by the famous
were imposed by Mr. W. Schofield Dear Charles,-Well, I have seen coloured tap master, Bill Robinson.
Undisputedly, the most popular at the Central Magistracy Brisbane, Bydney and Melbourne.
Wong Bing. WODE Now we are at Adelaide, where our item on the excellent evening's | Saturday on ship the "Paringa? 1. The ship is programme was Cowan and Balley, Leung and La Fook when they of small tonnage (1,400) and we. with Ted and Evelyn dressed in pleaded guilty to the possession of have to tog one oil tanker (which the costume of the good old days, three daggers, three files and is 8,000 tons) up to Osaka, Japan, the gay nineties" singing a cat-knite without authority at Caroline to be sold as scrapped iron; it is chy number "On Sunday After- on January 6 Another man' TO KEEP BANK OPEN
certainly a dangerous game for us noon. from the film Broadway name, Wat Pul was discharged Mrs. Kershaw The directors at one time had.
to play with. The tanker at pre-Melody of 1998." As it was im- when he pleaded not guilty" to in
endeavour to keep the sent is lying at Western Port out-possible for Cowan and Balley to the charge and on the Police ac-. bank open. volunteered to the ex-
side Melbourne. We shall get our leave the floor, owing to the con- cepting the plea. tent of putting up money as
coal as Newcastle and then we shall tinued applause. they kindly ob-
two
Lumbers security but eventually it
say good-bye to Australia, which liged with found impossible to meet all the will probably be at the end of "Daisy" and Hong Kong's nation-
In this respect. Mr. Potter sub- mitted. that it was interesting to note that there had not been any suggestion that there was any impropriety on the part of the
management.
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I have made one friend down in Adelaide. He supplies us with daily provisions. He is going to invite me to take dinner at his house and take me round the city in his car. By the way, have you seen the beautiful harbour of Byd- The meetings which were orderney and the bridge? Well. I ed were held and in regard to the havell creditors there was an overwhelm-
With best regards to your father ing majority. while in respect of and to Jimmy-Yours sincerely, the members they were unanimous.
J. E. HARTEL. Counsel then quoted authorities to PS-Wish you a happy new year. show there was no single legal op- Jection that sanction "should not MEMORIAL SERVICE - be given, and after he had outlined the draft scheme of arrangement His Lordship granted the petition,
USE OF SLANG
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BY GIRLS
HEAD MISTRESS'S PLEA TO PARENTS
Purity Must Be Preserved
An appeal to parents to help in rooting slang out of their daugh ters' speech was made by Miss F. M. Fordham, head mistress of the Liverpool College for Girls, at the prize-giving in St. George's Hall
Misa Fordham said she was not really satisfied with the girls Eng- liah.
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ing Trapeze.”
a result of information received After obliging with the encores that an armed robbery was being Cowan, in a few well chosen words planned at No. 7 Caroline Hill expressed his appreciation of the Rond, a party of Police was sent reception given by the Hong Kong at 8 am to the vicinity, and about public. and also thanked the noon the defendants were seen to Orchestra for their whole hearted support.
WEEKLY TRAFFIC
ACCIDENTS
approach the house in two groups. one coming from Cocton Path and the other from Caroline-Hill Road. They were presumed to have part- ed company at the Causeway Bay tram terminüs. They, however, recognised a detective and bolted but were arrested
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All the defendants, with the exception of the second, were seen to discard something, while the first, when searched, had a screw- driver and some pieces of wire on two him
The total number of traffic, ac- A simple, but impressive service cidents reported for the week De was held at the St. Peter's Seamen's cember 28 to January 4 was 55, Church last night by the Rev. C. which were responsible for Brown, in memory of the officers deaths and injury to 21 perstus. and men who were lost when the Both deaths were caused by jump- s.s. Partiga, foundered off Meling or falling of moving vehicles. bourne on December 26, 1935.
Thirty-three collisions between were injured when walking in the running ACTOSS the The service opened to the strains vehicles occurred, involving injury || roadway.or of Chopin's "Funeral March" atto three persons, while 15 people road. the conclusion of which was sang the hymn, O God Our Help In Ages Past." Following the reading of Psalm 130, the Rev. C. Brown gave the lesson, selected from Corinthians 15-20, after which prayers were said for the dead.
The most impressive part of the service was the rendering of "The Dead March in Saul (Handel)" while the congregation stood in silence, and the solemn service was brought to a close with the singing of "Abide With Me."
The playing of the organ was in the capable hands of Mrs. G. W. R. Griggs.
giri. The results of public ex- "At its best." she said, "English | aminations had been entirely is one of the ninest and most ex-satisfactory. pressive languages, full of grace, rhythm, and melodiousness. A Its worst, it is an abomination, especially in these days of slovenly speech and meaningless slang.
Dean on Education The Bishop of Warrington <Dr. Gresford Jones) presided, and the prizes and certificates were distributed by the Dean of Man- chester (the Very Rev F. Gard- feld Williams). The Dean ald that in India there were hundreds of thousands in schools, and three or four years after they left one would never know they had been to school at all Those leaving school should do so, with a certain amount of knowledge, the power by habit of study to, acquire more knowledge, and most important, the power of-perception.
To Avoid Degeneration "Its purity must be preserved if we are to keep it from degenerat- ing and from sinking to the level It has reached in some parts of America. The only way to save our language, is by co-operation between school and home. May I ask the parents to help me in en- suring that the written and apo- ken Englian of their daughters shall be worthy of its highest traditions? We can do something The world was being swamped.
to help their written English! Will you help us to root out from their speech solvenly phraseology and loose, meaningless lang? Wir
with a thing that was called know- ledge but was not. The world was becoming progressively more. superficial, as it learned more and
you encourage them to read wide more about itself. That was the
ly from a carefully-chosen brary, to love what is good, and to imit ate the best in a full, rich litern ture??
deng
Referring to student success.
disaster of the modern age. The only hope was, that education would make it possible for them to minimise the Harm of mass, edu-
Sometonthey @must÷be.
· Misa Fordham saldati believed tauf that the award to Miss Hazel 1'Estrange of an open exhibition tivate, to the Royal Academy of Music, was, they the first occasion the exhibition on the had been awarded towa Liverpool on the
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