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ADVANTAGES OF KENYA COLONY
FOR RETIREMENT
Illuminating Address By Sir Atholl MacGregor
The many advantages of Kenya Colony for those con- templating retirement lh ease and comfort, were described by the Chief Justice, Sir Athöll MacGregor, in a most llu- minating and interesting address which he gave to Hong- kong Rotarians yesterday at the Club's weekly tiffin meet- ing.
The meeting was open to and every man must choose for ladies and there was a full himself....... attendance in addition to the large number of ladies pre- sent.
Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy presided and among the guests were HE the Governor and Lady Northcote, Hon. Mr. Sidney Caine, Mr. Justice R.E. Lindsell and Mrs. Lindsell and several other prominent residents.
LION STORIES
Bir Joseph Byme, then Governor THE ADDRESS
of Kenya, was on his way to
of their Sir Atholl MacGregor said, in one
cocktail partles † in his part:
new Rolls-Royce when
but
AIRPORT NEWS
Imperial Alrways: -
NORTHBOUND
Thursday: Bangkok, Hanol,
Hongkong.
Denebola- p. m.
SOUTHBOUND
Sunday: Hanoi, Bangkok, *
Della-7 am,
Air France"
NORTHRULND
France,
Wednesday:
Hongkong. Service-4 p.m.
SOUTHBOUND Thursday: Hanci, France Service-6 am.
Hanoi.
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 6, 1939.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY 8th DECEMBER, 1839, 9.30 M
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
Christmas and New Year Cards bearing not more than Ave written words and enclosed in open envelopes are accepted by the Post Office at the rate for printed matter, Le 6 cents per 2 ounces.
for all countries.
Hongkong, China and Macao at 3 cents per 2 ounces. Envelopes must not be closed.
Shanghai
Haiphong. Hothow & Fort Bayard.........
fir Mall by "Pan American Alr-ways Direct Ser-
vice" San Francisco date, 28th November. Air Mall by "Air France Direct Service"--Paris
date 29th November.
Shanghai.
Japan
Straits and Saigon.
Kenya's animal, is not the rhino, but the lion and of him stories Pan American Always; - are legion. Today two will suffice.
EASTBOUND At" Mbagathi, ten miles from Wednesday: U. S. A., Manila, Nairobi, lived a very charming
Hongkong.. couple whose friendship was valued
California Clipper-2 p.m. by all of us.
WESTBOUND.. Thursday: Manila, U. S. A. California Clipper-8.30 a.m.
AIR MAIL FROM EUROPE The Imperial Airways' inward Gone, long gone are the days he unfortunately ran over Sunday service, from Bangkok when the talpan by assiduous at-ja licness. The Rolls was not up which had been delayed, arrived tention to his health and to the set
the lioness was very in Hongkong yesterday at 4 p.n. brains of his subordinate staff nudibly. Half the guests, includ- Captain A B. Dykes was at tre and his compradore could retireing I am glad to say, my wife and controls of the
R.M.Ä. Delia. werd safely at Mbagathi There were no passengers. after ten years or so in the Far myself. East with a modest competency of but the other half were out on the totalled 216 kilos.
plates, held up by an angry pride a lakh or so of pounds.
Going, rapidly going, are days when his successor can count on being able to retire after a generation of hard and intelligent work with enough saved to bring In a thousand pounds a year. We live now in very different times.
the Ad- Sandakan. And so it is not surprising that so hastly recalled that he jumped miral's beautiful sign-board, and Japan and Shanghal many of us as the time for retire-right over the car. I may add that just under it, a rough cedar board Manila.
We all got home safely with an-on which was crudely painted the Shanghai ment approaches are greatly
other thrill to remember. exercised in mind about the pros- pect of life on pension in Great Britain. What can one hope to be the able to do in England on meagre residue that remains when savings have been wisely invested and income tax has been deducted and paid! To those of us.
the of lions. All the rides available!
were hastily issued, for a wounded
Tientsin.
7th Dec.
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Canada, USA, Japan and Shanghai
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U. S. A. & Manila (San Francisco date, 11th Nov).j
Air Mail by "Imperial, Airways Direct
-London date, 29th November Shanghai. Japan and Shanghai, Shanghai
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cr crippled lion is a very dangerous have it. their choice fell on the Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-
London date, 2nd December. animal, and out went the warriors, farm next to the Admiral's.
The story goes that one of them, Up went a remshackle house Calcutta and Straits having stepped out of a two- and one day there appeared on the Halphong seater to look for the iloness, was post which supported
Our Official Receiver in Nal- robi was a genial Irishman with a strong Hiking for Scotch, One evening he was, playing bridge at the Club and, as so often happens, the last rubber. was interminable. and
their name is legion, who rapite to an outdoor open air life on retirement I de, most confidently recommend Kenya.........
1s
Its only.
concomitants were whisky and groundnuts so when Paddy finally drove home about 10- pm, his reflections were mel- low and his soul was at peace. Imagine his surprise then when having put as much of his car as he could into the garage he turned and found a black maned on sitting on his front door step
SERIOUS THOUGHT
name of the new house. It was "Shotty's Bottom."
Straits.
Shanghai
Nobody appreciated
the joke Java and Manila, Canton more than did the Admiral and
Shanghai his wife and the district is the
Straits. richer for four good settlers, who are also good friends.
POOR MAN'S PARADISE Ninety-nine percent of the settlers in Kenya are men and women Uke ourselves. Their aim
Japan.
Straits.
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Manila (Ban Francisco
date, 19th November) Calcutta, Straits and Salgon Straits. "
is to make an honest living from Rabaul. Kenya's sol. to bring up their Shanghai children as honest god-fearing | Australia and Manila.. men and women, and to rejoice in Australia and Manila.. and profit by the Colony's English Straits. Ufe and climate. Few If any of Japan. |them grow rich, but the Colony Is
a poor man's paradise and on an annual income that would mean
OUTWARD MAILS
"
A WONDERLAND " The gate-way to this wonderland the picturesque harbour of Kilindini, but as I am anxious in all things to be truthful I won't. Mombasa is a pleasant enough place in its way at the right time.. of year but at other times it is
Paddy was fairly hard boiled: incessant watch fulness and eark- apt to give a remarkably realistic one can't deal adequately for years ing care in England a family in
Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and `· where Imitation of a hot summer's day with plausible Ladian bankrupts Kenya is passing rich: can keep a
mallg åre advertised to close at or before 9 am. registered and in Hongkong and the memory of without becoming hard bolled; but horse or two and the essential the first stages of the slow railway this situation called
parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. for serious safari tar and can live a care-free Journey to Nairobi stir me to no thought.
Presently Paddy boldly healthy open-air life. enthusiasm.
advanced clapping his hands, and; Early next morning. however. close to the house loudly shouted things are vastly different. There shoo."
The charm worked the is a glorious tang in the fresh 11am rase and shambled off: and clear air and everywhere is game. Paddy having at last found the for the railway line is one boun-keyhold entered and thoughtfully dary of a great natural zoo. From closed the door behind him. dawn until Nairobi is reached at 10.30 am. you are practically never out of sight of game......
If you want to make a for- tune don't go to Kenya unless of course you choose to venture your all in the gold fields of Kakamega but if you are con- tent with a peaceful Ult, close to Nature there is always room. in Kenya for you and for many more like you.
VOTE OF THANKS
I
ails are advertised to close after Parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m.
Saigon.
WEDNESDAY
For
Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin, Straits, Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Beira, Marques, East and South Africa. .......... Amoy and Parcels only for Tientsin
Lourenco-
When Registered and
5 p.m.
Date and Time
Wed. 6th.
1.00 F
2
2.30 PM
2,30 FM
2.30 PM
K.P.O..
Reg
4.00 PM
5.30 PM
a.ro.
6.00 PM
Ord.
7.00 FM
- 7:00 PM
7.00 PM
Alrmall for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris Ord.
the and Northern, Provinces only) by
"Air France Airways Direct Service"--due Paris 14th Reg. December, ......
THURSDAY
Mrs. Paddy, a most wise and un- derstanding woman, contented herself with the suggestion that! IDYLLIC CONDITIONS Paddy might take more water with His Excellency the Governor, pro- The area of the Municipality of it and that groundnuts alone were posing a vote of thanks, said: Nairobi is 362 sq. miles, or very an inadequate blotting paper and regard it as a great compliment. nearly as much as the total area left the rest to Paddy's conscience. that I have been asked on" my of the Colony," but there all re- He himself assured me that he first visit to a Rotary luncheon in semblance ends. The population was on the verge of signing the Hongkong to thank the speaker for
pledge. when fortunately sleep his address. I also take the pppor-Straits. of Nairobi is less than 45,000 and so idyllic were the conditions of overtook him. Fortunately, I say,tunity of thanking the President Salgon life when I went there that thoughed such pug marks and such a myself for the charming compli
because next moming's light show-jon behalf of Lady Northcote and
among the residents there were four book-makers, each of whom mass of black mane left in the ment he had paid us
fence as to show conclusively that I am glad to be able to tell you, contrived to make a substantial
Paddy's vision had been literally that, speaking as a resident of income, you would seek in vain
true.
Kenya for over a quarter of a cen- over the length and breadth of the town for a stock and share
TWO SEPARATE WORLDS tury, I do not think the speaker diverted more than one whit from broker.
I undertook today to talk to you the truth (Laughter). That happy state of affairs came of East Africa. In spite of that abruptly to an end shortly after undertaking I have refused to talk! the discovery of gold at Kakamega, of more than one part of the most interesting and eloquent Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Mauritius, Reunion Ma- for an amiable monocica gentle-country so surely. I must have address was. his mention of some man whose previous claim to fame something to say about the people thing which Mrs. Paddy Keating jhad left to Paddy's conscience: I had been an
uncanny ability to who have chosen to live there. socket his mashie shots, blossomed Kenya is unique in that in the knew them very well in Kenya and knowing his wife as I do I doubt out as a broker and held the field Highlands, with which alone I am
The only diversion from truth in
Airmail for Manılla, Guam, Honolulu and U. ́S, A.,
by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service”—¡ due San Francisco 13th December, Sandakan. Fort Bayard Japan.
Thu, 7th,
EP.O. Reg. 6th 5.00 PM Ord 8th 5.30 PM
G.P.O.
Reg. 6th 5,00 m Ord, 7th 7.30 AM
8:30 AM 1,30 PM
3.30 FM
dagascar Lourenco-Marques and South Africa
Parcels
3.30 PM K.P.O.
3.00 PM
Reg. $5.00 Ord.
6.30 PK
Africa, G.P.O.
3.00 PM
Egypt and Europe via Marseilles due Mar- Parcela seilles, 5th Jan. 1940, and London Parcels due Reg. 5.00 PM
Ord. London, 11th January 1940.
- 7.00 PM
Fri, 8th.
FRIDAY
unchallenged until my departure today concerned, Europeans and it very much whether she left it straits, Ceylon, India, East and South from the Colony. I hear that Africans live as it were in two to his conscience (laughter). "
AN OLD RESIDENT there is now a riyal broker estab- separate worlds, lished and I suppose the time will
Apart from that, the speaker's Even in Nairobi one sees · few come when Nairobi too will have Africans and up-country all the remarks are perfectly true and, an Ice-House 'Btreet......
farms are European farms and the speaking as an old resident of that notices YAST COUNTRY
boards bear European country I will be quite prepared at names. What the average Settler some future time when he comes Nairobi is no fit subject for this is like I cannot more aptly describe to retire from the distinguished talk, but where are we to go? The than by telling you yet another position which he adorns in this Shanghai." -country is so vast there is so much story which like all my others has Colony to recommend him for the Canton difference between the coffee lands the merit of truth.
near Nairobi, the mountain scenery:
Tourane. Manila.
SATURDAY
|post of Immigration Agent for Shanghai.
Kenya, unpaid, of course (loud" laughter).
of Nyeri.and Nanyaki on the foot-: hills of Mount Kenya - or of the Aberdares, the wonders of the Great Rift Valley with its felds of wheat and maize, and its great Lakes Naivasha which now pro- vides excellent black bass fishing and flamingo clad Nakuru, the evergreen tea country round Kericho, the.... gold; fields. near Kakamega, the plateaux of Trans Nzola, and Uasingishu, and the lower Wing shores of Lake Victoria A couple of year later two the Kenya we first knew 35 years. that no one can hope adequately young sen-dogs who had left the ago was a happier country than to sing the glory of all of them. Navy as midshipmen came to set- latterly because of its natural Each area makes its own appeal tle in Kenya and as luck would charm which is now changing.
A year or two before I went to Kenya a retfred Vice-Ad-', miral had chosen the Colony as his home and had balli mü house in the Cherenzant Hills which he appropriately styled "Admiral's end, a name which chastly inscribed in gold leafing Wisely. My wife and I too have. on a mahogany board where the road of access met the main road,“
After relating some interesting anecdotes regarding Kenya resi- dents, HE. concluded by saying: You may be tempted to go to Kenya, Do so and you will be do-
"SNOTTY'S BOTTOM"
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been thinking of settling down there in the country which We Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin. knew so well. But if you are goBangkok
ing I would say go early for the Shanghai and parcels only for Tientsin country is changing and I think Canton ....
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