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Park Officially Opened
SOMETHING DONE FOR GREATER
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The China Solar Eclipse Obser- vation Committee has decided to send two parties of astronomers and" scientists... to the north-west
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 18th JUNE, 1941,
GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Thursday. 13th June, the General Post Office and Kowloon
HAPPINESS OF ORDINARY CITIZEN and south-east parts of China to Central Post Office will be open from 8 am to 10 am., Sheungwan
THE KING GEORGE V MEMORIAL PARK, erected to per- petuate the memory of His Late Majesty King George V and built with funds subscribed by the people of Kowloon and Hongkong, was officially opened to the public yesterday, evening by the HON, MR. N. I SMITH, Colonial Secretary, deputising for His Excellency the Governor,
The ceremony
was
observe the total solar eclipse on Sept. 21
Branch Post Office will be open from 8 am to 9 am, and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed. ·
There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sun-
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The party to the north-west 19 composed of meribers of the Re- search Institute of Astronomy of days, and one delivery of registered and ordinary correspondence at the Academia Sinics and the Col-10a.m. lege of Science of the University of There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at Nanking with Mr. Chang Yu-che, 11 a.m. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Talpo and Un performed into this pleasant place and I feel Mr. Wel Kuan-Jen and Mr. Chen Long. betore a large and distinguished sure that all will agree that suc-Tsung as captain, vice-captain and gathering.. those present including cess has crowned their labours:
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed. executive secretary respectivels. It With these few words I leave set out on June 8 from Kunming Kowloon's "King George's Field" for Kansu and Shens.. in the charge of our City Fathers,
The usual weekly Air Mail to Rangoon to connect with the Urban Council, with
The party to the south-east is the "British Overseas Airways" will until further notice confidence that they will worthily search Institute of Physics of the be closed on Mondays instead of Fridays. fulfil their trust,
Academia Sica and the China Society
His Excellency Major-Gen. A. M. Grasett, Sir Atholl Macüresor, the Hon. Capt. A. C. Collinson, RN Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie, Chairman of the Urban Council, and Mr.
Ritchle, of Messrs, Palmer and Turner, who planneu ine layout of the field.
The Park covers an ares of 94- 000 square feet and is situated at
HON. MI, W.-J. CARRIE
every composed of members of the Re-
of Astronomy with Mr.
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Chen Chung-chi and Mr. Tsou Yi- An experimental service providing sea transit to U.S.A. and air Preceding the address read by hsin as captain. vice-captain and transit from USA to Lisbon and United Kingdom has been Institut-" Mr. Smith, the Chairman of the executive secretary respectively. ed. The Inclusive postage rate is H. K. $2.00 per oa, for letters "the junction of Jordan and Canton Brban Counell, Hon. Mr. W. 3.Members of this party will set out and H. K. $1.00 each for postoards. Correspondence for this ser- Roads. Kowloon, It is intended Carrie, said that when King in August from Kwangtung and vite should bear the usual blue air man label with the superscrip- primarily for Chinese residing in George V passed away, a philan-Kwangsi for Fukien and Klangsi. tion "By sea to USA."
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the district, and it is planned to, thropic scheme was decided upon Stopping at various places on build later another Klug George in the Home lands to perpetuate their way, both parties will hold V Memorial Park in Hongkong. His Late Majesty's memory, which exhibitions of pictures of solar The main entrance gate is con- was to take the form of fields. eclipses and astronomical appara- structed in a Chinese motif with This philanthropic theme caught us and give public lectures en pagoda roof, and a bronze the imagination of the people of solar eclipses to arouse common in- plaque of His Late Majesty King Hongkong.
terest(Central News), George, V over the gate looks out A stirring appeal issued by Hls on the path leading into the park. Excellency Sir Andrew Caldecott, Addressing the gathering. the, then Governor of Hongkong, re- Hon. Mr. N. L Smith read the sulted In subscriptions totalling speech that was to have been de- $156,500.
HON. MR. N. L. SMITH" Mr. Smith said;-
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→ CAUTIONED
con-
livered by His Excellency Sir King George's Field In Hong. Geoffry Northcote, who was unable kong is to be the garden adjoin-
Tam Wal-yee, a building to be present owing to indisposi-ing the old Civil Hospital.
tractor, appeared before Mr. S. F. tion.
Mr. Carrie referred to the good Balfour yesterday charged with a work of Mr. Pan Yun-ting, of breach of Defence Regulation 50 Messrs. Lai Ker Company, the 1940 by having in his posses- contractors, to the bronze gates, a son, custody or control 105 piculs Mr. Carrie, "Members of
perfect work of art by Raoul Big- of rewood without the written Urban Council, Ladies and Gentle- [Lz; and to the layout of the gar permission of the Controller of den from a horticultural point of Stores, preparatory to selling or His Excellency has asked me to view, the work of Mr. F. Fuppance, removing such wood from his pas express his very real regret at Superintendent of the Botanical session at Tung Chung Bay on June having to miss today's ceremony and Forestry Department.
9.
men,
ward with great pleasure.
the
c,
to which he had been looking for- A problem of the park remain- In discharging defendant with a ing to be solved was that of water caution, Mr. Balfour advised him I will now read the speech which supply. Good filtered water was to get a permit from the Controller His Excellency had intended to de-essential to the drinking fountain of Stores. liver this evening:
that had already been installed
It has been said by a cynie that and it was hoped later to install | ----- the last and greatest blessing be- two more.
stowed an mortal man is that he is Mr. Carrie concluded by men-Dr. Il Shu-fan, Mr. C. G. Sollis, spared hearing his own funeral tioning the help given by Sir Capt. R. B. T. St. John, A.D.C., Mr. oration. That, as I say, was a Atholl MacGregor, Mr. T. F. 1o. C. K. Hawkins, Mr. Ho Kom- cynic's thought. It is, on the con- and the Children's Playgrounds 'toris, Mr. Heung Sing-Chiu, Mr. trary, with a very reverent and Association in equipping the fields 8.mon Tse-Yan, Mr. A. el "Arculli, very loyal tongue that I say this for organised games; and, by re- Mr. F. H. Loseby, Major C: M. evening that were it possible or questing the co-operation of the Manners, Mr. and Mrs. R. Pestonj, His Late Majesty King George the public, the old among them to set Col. E D. Matthews, Mr. L. C. F. Firth to be here this evening and the example, to endeavour to keep Bellamy, Mr. George She, Mr. M. F. to see what we have done in hon- the grounds in good order arid asKey. Mr. P. 8. Cassidy, Mr. our of his memory he would be a" free of litter as could be. pleased and gratefu man.
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Wing. Mr. T. S "British, Overseas Airways." ordinary citizen and nothing was MacGregor, Mrs. N. Smith, Hon, naud, Mr. Ho bearer to his heart or more often Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. R Whyte-Smith, Mr. J. P. Braga, Dr. Dr. P. S. and Mrs. A. M. Rodrigues and in his mind than the comfort and AC. North, Hon. well-being of the peoples in the Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Mr. 8. H. Dod- many others. vast. Empire over which he was well, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Hon.
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YOQDA KAVE CLEASED Inere is, i think, more than one Lang,about this "King's Field" walen woula, nave pleased him. To Degin with, ne was essentially, a Jura! and 1 simpic-hearted Lugu 800 the simplicity of this little enclosure with its grass lawns and quiet seats would have seemed just right to him.' Or, again, had he gone to its further side and seen, the
Dr. S. N Chau, senior Chinese
Mr. A. d'Almada e Castro, jr., Hon. Mr. Chinese translations of His Excel- W. N. Thomas Tam, Hon. Mr. T. lency's speech and of. Mr. Carrle's E. Pearce, Hon. Mr. 14 Tse-fong, address.
H.K. ELECTRIC WIN
INTER-HONG GALA
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY'S SWIMMING TEAM space there showed undoubted superiority over their opponents in the inter- where the cauldren of the pour hong gala held yesterday evening, at the European Y.M.C.A. may and a little room for play ne
The proceeds, in aid of the Bomber Fund, were further aug- would have been glad as only one mented last night, when the third prize, No. 12, a bottle of cham- who was the true father of his pagne, was auctioned and went 10 Mr. Phillips for $105. people could be glad. And that
he felt as a father towards us no one who remembers King George's Chritmas broadcasts could ever doubt or ever forget.
The first prze was No. 178 and, berts (Jardines) 2; 4, J. A. Stewart the second No. 287.
(B. & S.) 1.
A water-polo match in the Euro- Diving: 1 H.K. Electric 4 pts.; pean YM.CA. Invitation tourna-2, B. & S. 3; 3, Dodwells and Jar- zent was played between Royalj dines each 14.
We may, 1 am convinced, rest Scots and Royal Navy "B,"'; result- 100 Yards free-style mixed re- assured that by doing something ing in a win for the former by lay: 1, H.KE. (D. Hutchinson, Mrs. in memory of him to better. the three goals to one.
Crawford, Miss Grant and G.
Grant and
living conditions of the less well- The officials of the evening Saunders) 7 pts.; 2. H.K. Bank. (D. to-do of his Hongkong subjects we were: Starter and announcer, R. G. Day, Miss J. Booker, Mrs. J. have done something that he him- Goldman; Judges, Capt. C. M. M. Dappuy and Mr. F. M. Thompson) self would nave us do. It makes Man, Lt. G. C.. Graham, Lt. G. W. 5; 3, B. & B. (J. A. Stewart, Mrs. me deeply happy that I am pri- Flood, G. T. May and W. B. Ure. Crawford, Miss
G. vileged to open this Field in me (also referce in the water-bolo Baunders) 3; 4, Jardines (E. A Roberts, Miss B. Longbottom, Miss mory of a King whom I served match).
V. Blackburn and N. D. Booker) 1. throughout his reign and whom
150 Yards free-style relay: 1, and whose memory I revere and
Jardines (E A. Roberts;N. D, cherish.
THE RESULTS Results follow:-
100 Yards medley relay: 1. H.K. Booker, D. O. Parsons, W. K. Cor- WORD OF APPRECIATION Electric J. H, ・ Maycock, -J. K. | neck, E. A. Gaubert and G. „P.) It would be ungracious-and in-
Sloan, D. Hutchinson and G. Saun- Stone) 7 pts: 2,, H.W.D, (C. Logan, deed most unlike His gracious ders) 7 pts.; Jardines (E. A. Ro-A S. Bliss R. L. Barkus, M. berts, E. A. Caubert, N. D. Booker Dietrich, V. Ramsay and R. Laps- Self-were I got to add to what and D. O. Parsons) 5; 3, H.WD. ley) 5; 3, HK. Bank (C. F. Hyde, has already been well said, a word (RL Barkus, C. Logan, M. D G Day, G. THarrington, M. F. of appreciation of the thought Dietrich and A. S. Bliss) 3; 4, Dod-L. Haymes, M. G. Carruthers and and work which the designers and wells (C. L. Ealter, L.-A. Benn, P. F. M. Thompson) 3; H. Electric builders have devoted to this H. Wilson and D. H. "Stewart) 1. disqualified. "King's Field." Only a few months Veterans' race: 1,, H.W.D. 4 pts.; 200 Yards invitation relay: 1, ago-as you, Mr. Carrie, have sug-2, Hongkong Bank 3; 3, Hongkong Hong team; 2, European.. Y.M.C.A. gested--it WREE dusty, stony Electric 3; 4, B. & 8, 1. --
Hong Standings: 1. Hongkong wilderness, an eyesore to the 50 Yards free-style: 1, D. Hut Electric 24 points: 2, Jardines 161: Passer-by and a home of vaga- chinson (ĦĦE) 4 pt; 2, L., A. 3, HLWD. 12; 4, H.K. Bank 11; 6, bonda They have transformed it Bean (Dodwells) 3; 3, E. A Ro- B. & 8. 8; 6, Dodwell 61.
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