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February 17, 1920. Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G.. Colonial Secretary.
Sir,
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(Sď.) W, JACKSON,
Hon. Secretary, Kowloon Residents' Association.
medical convention comes
Close on the heels of this! thel in Tientsin the first week of KOWLOON. SCHOOL. Y.M.C.A. Convention to be held
April.
the
UNFURLING OF FLAGS,
Mr. W.
THE POPULAR MAN AND THE I wonder how many readers Hongkong has seen a very full MAN OF TRUE, AT LEAST OF have felt inspired at one time ori harbour these last few days. On GREAT, · ORIGINALITY, ARE another to make a speech but yet Tuesday there must have beenSELDOM ONE AND THE SAME.- have lacked the nerve? That's just how I felt at the annual nearly a record entry of shipping. Carlyle, In addition to the arrival of the
meeting of the St. George's
It is not often in China that we have received the following Empress of Asia no fewer than
Society on Monday evening. eight hundred or a thousand copy of a letter addressed to the seven Blue Funnel bosts were in held at the Kowloon
A boxing tournament is being wanted to wax eloquent, to carry people from all over the country Government
British port, and the P. and 0. 5.s. Khira School un Saturday at 5.45p.m.
my audience along with me, but concentrate in one spot for only a also came in, in addition to quite
all my enthusiasm was controlled few days, to hold a few meetings a number of the ordinary coast-
br want of pluck. It's a fearful and then scatter again to their ing vessels. Recent reference "Spectator."-We have passed admission to make, I know, but respective homes. This happens has been made to the need that your letter on to the paper in perhaps there will be one or two 20 infrequently that the transport-
Sir. I am instructed by my exists for the improvement of the which the correspondence with sympathisers, Anyhow, I am ation problem involved in a big harbour, but the unfortunate part which you desi originally appear- going to make that speech right convention such as the Tientsin Committee to invite the earnest of that reference has been that ed.
now. In the comforting confices.M.C.A. affair promises to be is attention of the Government to most people seem to think that
of my own room I shall talk to not easy of solution.
the urgent necessity that con- harbour improvements are things
The largest convention of tinues to exist for the establish- The Canton Amateur Theatric-myself as I wanted to talk to for the future, whereas in fact al Society is, to present the
others. Here goes:
doctors ever held in China was ment of a hospital in Kowloon. they are things for to-day. In farcical comedy, "Ann," at the
recently held in Peking. Many The frequency of cases in which most public matters there is far Canton Club Theatre on Satur
weeks before the opening date, patients in extremis have had to too much talk of the future-day night.
"Mr. Chairman:-Before we
February 21, careful plane were undergo the painful discomforts everything is left for some other
go any farther with this very dull made by a transportation com- which transportation across the time, and so there arises a con- tinual incentive to procrastinate,
Playing in the Basket Ball meeting, it might be just as well mittee and the railroad officials. Harbour involves has caused my to leave things over
if we took stock of ourselves. It was difficult for the committee Committee to view with grave until League at
the YMCA last take it that this is a formally of doctors to say to the concern the absence of a hospital to-morrow. One has only to
night the American Athletic Club convened meeting, and we have railroad officials just how many for Europeans on the peninsula. look at the vastly increasing beat South Ching by 20 to 5, and listened to a formal presentation and vicinity would be able to get respectfully suggest to the Gov doctors let us say from Shanghai I 100 further instructed to amount of tonnage now operating white by 14 to 8.
University "B" beat Queen's of a statement of accounts and to a on the Pacific, the majority of
from their work very formal speech in attempted away
and ernment that, pending the erec which will have its terminus in
explanation, more or less interes actually board the trains for tion of a permanent hospital, a Hongkong. to realise the need The Douglas Company's newly-ting. But, sir, don't you think that Peking. Whatever the reason, structure to serve as a temporary there is for Hongkong to be made acquired
it happened that -eighteen hospital, to "contain Morialta, we are something more than a the doubly attractive. Only this week which is to be renamed the formal Society? Why is it that Pukow without accommodations mediately
doctors found themselves
in 12 beds, should be im- we have announced that new Hailoong, is to make her first we
erected, cannot follow the common
Or, in passenger boats are being al trip for the Company on the 23rd practice of having circulated There was also some difficulty in premises be requisitioned for and to get on any further.the alternative, tha: suitable located by the United States inst., when she will leave for among members an annual print the matter of getting the ticket appointed as a temporary hospital Shipping Board for the America- Coast ports. Cap: E. Walker ed report containing the balance sellers all along the line to under- for the reception of cases demand. Orient run and it is certain that will be in command.
sheet, and having appended to it as time goes on the volume of
a complete list of members' names?
stand the significance of the sixing immediate medical attention Pacific trade will grow even
sheets of credentials with which and experienced nursing. Such report could also contain the larger. At the
The Marie Tempest season notice convening the meeting.
each doctor was moment it is
armed from I have the honour to remain, quite true to say that there is no opens at the Theatre Roral to- Members would then feel that Peking to show that he was port in South Ching which can night, when "Penelope" will be they belonged to a Society that really entitled to the reduction hope to rival Hongkong in its staged. It is seldom that Hong- had more life than one that just offered. However, two hundred facilitous catering for the trade kong gets an opportunity of see- contents itself by advertising in through and had a fine conven- and seventy-seven doctors got passing to and from the southern ing such a famous actress, To- one of our daily newspapers its interior, but it should not be left night's play should be deeply most important meeting of the until the days of competition enjoyed-it is one in which Marie year. Are we going to put nothing before Hongkong makes a move Tempest has great scope for on record besides a Chairman's to render the service it can clever acting.
extempore speech at a meeting give attractive in every pos-
Should we not have a properly sible way. Not only is there the
The attendance at this George Carter had drunk him-drawn up annual report every problem of providing decent self to sleep at a public place at year to form the nucleus of what Convention promises to be at berthing for all ships that arrive Wanchai when the Police gather-ever history the Society is destin- least four times larger. If enough and the necessity of hurrying oned him into their arms. He paided to enjoy! And should no conventions are held in China, the Chinese officials to complete bail of $5 at the Wanchai our annual meetings be something by and by everybody will The Kowloon British School is
know that the railway communication, but Station and last this morning a little removed from this dull,
special such matters as housing, hotel by failing to answer his charge unenthusiastic gathering of a few govermental credentials issued how the proud orner of two very useful acquisitions-a flag-staff. accommodation. storage room when the case was called before at which we have heard nothing represent a Hong-Kong Shanghai and a barometer which are the and all those other essentials that the Magistrate. Doubtless a re- calculated
banknote onlyinsize, aat in colouri go to make up a well-equipped turn to consciousness had brought mear bership? We are rightly
or monetary value. We shall gifts of two Kovloon residents, and thriving port ought to be with it a little more wisdom.
proud of England and all that she habit in Chisa just as has hap staff, which is a fine one, stands. soon be getting the convention namely Mr. B. L. Frost and Graham. The flag given earnest and urgent con-
stands for, but this gathering pened in other parts of the world imposingly in an enclosure in sideration. Our local Resources
of Englishmen bas ат atmos. The repetition of the recital by phere Development Committee could
and even the ticket sellers will front of the School and gives to it little removed from well occupy their time with the Professor Danenberg's pupils, boredom. Everything seems to
know how to proceed.
a fresh dignity. Under the At the present time. when strong efforts are being made to whole of this subject, for in its at the City Hall last evening, be left in the hands of our
For this Y.M.C.A. Convention fostering care ofthe Head Master, more then the usual liberal maintain British commercial prestige in the Far East, Hongkong proper handling and development drew quite a large audience, and Society's officials and we hear
this School has made rapid pro- is vitally interested in the state of the engineering industry in the lies the prosperity of everything all present greatly enjoyed the nothing except what the Chair-
reductions have been granted. Old Country, for it is on Britain's ability to deliver the goods that connected with the Colony. All various items. The skill man-man, or Secretary or Treasurer Word has just been received in the ass in its studies and athletics, and the ceremony of "breaking"
therefore, to take a glabee at conditions at Home. At the beginning and it is time that we saw some-most diffcult pièces showed how And "a meeting of Englishmen the rate of one fare for the return the success of the trade campaign riust depend. It is worth while, things else are subservient to it ner in which the pianists played care to give us at this mecting. National Office of the Y.M.C.A the school flag yesterday maras
that the Government has granted
a further step forward. of last year, the engineering industries of the British Empire had thing being done which could well they had been trained. Mrs. like this should be made an op-
Thanks to this gift, the School already started to convert themselves rapidly from a war to a peace convince the community that the H. A. Jones again kindly assisted portunity to review wha: England
In addition, there is has now the opportunity of dis- this good news to those footing. Throughout the British scientific world there was a quick Government is alive to that fact. by singing two songs, which were has done since we last met. The appreciation for the need of speeding up useful production: we are THE WIRELESS CHAIN.
playing its very own flag, which, much enjoyed.
meeting itself should carry some living on the coast. Delegates as the Headmaster say, forms a significance over and above the Convention will be granted re- the pupils to their school.
travelling in groups to wont to deprecate British "slowness" but the past year has, indeed,
the link binding the allegiance of been a revelation. The effects of putting our hands early to the
So Hongkong is not going to be
transaction of formal duced rates by these four steam- The s.s. "Robin Gray," which formal plough are being felt already production is increasing, the export overlooked after all in the pro- the Admiral Line have chattered, business. We have just elected a
It was a happy though small of manufactured goods has begun to rise and, true to our British jected Imperial wireless scheme arrived from Seattle on themorne Committee and put a number Swire. Jardine Matheson; Santhyesterday for the cere
ship companies: Butterfield- gathering of parents and pupils habits, we have early recognised the insistent claims bath of skilled Reuter has given us an interesting of March 16th. From Hong- of new men on it, and rust that Peh Steam Navigation Company them and unskilled labour, and it is now happily true that Great Britain ing digest of the scheme drawn kong she loads e full cargo of rice they will see no of the Susters and the Chica Merchants Steam there were Mr. E. A. Irvins, (the Amongst those pres at is much farther advanced towards the peaceful solution of labour up by the Marconi Wireless for Cuban Ports. This steamer annual meeting of the Society is troubles than ever had been hoped. The fact that the Ministry of Company, and if the Home Gov- was built by the Shinner and different in character and spirit solution of the transportation Dior DB. De
Navigation Company. The Director of Education) and Mr. Labour has now taken over and improved the machinery for dealing ernment approves of what bas Eddy Corporation, Seattle, for to this present spiritless and un-problem both by water and by with labour disputes augurs well for the smooth running of our been suggested, the Empire will their Robin Lite S.S. Co. At the inspiring gathering."
The Headmastér (Mr. Nightin- rail in this matter of engineering industries in peace. It must, of course, be recognised possess a network of wireless of present time they have four of
rates gale) said:-It is certainly a red- that the period of preparation is necessarily long, but we are rapidly almost inestireable value. There these boats operating, and have
will increase the number of letter day in the history of the losing our old national inability to adapt ourselves. The recent is no necessity for us to go four more on the ways, which are
delegates. That was where I should have. As the date for the opening of afternoon when we take formal Kowloor British School this Automobile and Transport Exhibitions, held respectively at Olympia through the proposals in detail expected to be launched in the sat down amidst applause from the Convention draws near, the possession of this magnificient and the Agricultural Hall, should quickly dispel any doubts as to this. here, because it is safe to assume near future. This type of vessel the backbenchers and then we list of
We are informed that new and bold engineering enterprises are that all interested read them in is considered one of the best might have had some further talk participate in the Convention the best flag-staffs in the Colony. national figures ΤΟ flag-staff which I think, is one of already being established in the Old Country. One large firm of the telegrams, but we will only steel ships put out by any on the same lifes The idea activities grows longer. Further it was presented by Mr. Frost, steel manufacturers is wisely establishing a works in South Wales stay to remark that matters have American shipyard.
that I have tried to express could confirmatory word has gone out-(Applause). The cost of pat to house a sintering" plant. This will be the first of its kind in been such a long time in coming
be very much more forcibly put out from Tientsin to all the large ting it up has been borne by the Great Britain; it is a method of treating an iron ore of a class hitherto to a head that it is to be hoped,
We understand that the Com-siderably. But all who attended Ex-President Li Yuan Eung has Mr. Davison will tell you that it
and could be added to regarded as being too costly to work.
con Y. M. C. A. centres in China that Public Works Department, and British adaptability has come now something definito has been in here; the high prices and shortage of pig iron enable advantage formulated, that there will
mittee of the Victoria Recreation the St. to be taken of this method. Then also throughout the war there was not he
George's meeting must so arranged his work as to be is a splendid fag-staff. There So very much more Club are now arranging to revive feel that someting ought to present at the opening of the are certain appliances attached to a growing demand for the supply of Portland cement to British delay. The Hon. Mr. H. E. the holding of their annual be done to make the meeting a Convention to speak in person-it, making it of important educa standard specification, both for home consumption and for export Pollock bad an
illuminating athletic meetings which were little more attractive.
This word from General Li should tional value. Mr Graham bas and, at the same time, the Continental-source of supply failed. Ex-reply to a recent question held in abeyance for several years.
be reassuring perts compute that the demand will exceed the supply for at least in the Legislative Council on the on account of the war. These
to those who presented us with a barometer ten years to come. British engineers quickly appreciated the short- subject. Over nine months ago meetings were formerly ant I don't know whether I shal! suspect that his interest might go be attached to the age and as early as February, 1919, had started to construct an he asked as to whether any steps athletic event of the Colony for he divulging a secret that should no further than to send & repre- wind screen table on the vernadah entirely new works-one of the biggest of its kind-on the were being taken to include longer than most of us can re-not yet be made public, but I have
who would read outside sentative banks of the Thames. That factory will be equipped with the most Hongkong in the proposal, and meniber, and we hope that the seen no previous reference to the speech in such high Wenli that is also a magnificent gift and we no one could understand it until thank him very much. Mr. and modern plant, including.some of the largest rotary kilns in ex- when he recently asked if any Committee will receive every fact that our outlying Police so fortunate as to got a written Mrs. Dyer, who I may fittingly call istence. Before the class of 1920 this works will be turning out news had been received from the encouragement from the athletic Stations are now linked up with copy. General Li promises to be the patrons of the school, have three thousand tons of cement weekly. The construction of addit-Home Government was told that youth of the Colony to cans on Hongkong in the matter of tele- there in person. ional units is only a matter of time and by 1921 the output is ex-no reply had been recived in the project which they hare in phonic communication. The
vory generously given us two pected to be nearly half a million tons per annum. This enterprise answer to this Government's view.
The meeting now under cables arrived a few weeks ago
glorious flags, one the Union Jack.. shows great engineering foresight and will increase the manufacture query. We commented at the consideration will be open to all and they have been successfully
the emblem of the Empire, and of cement in England by over 25 per cent. Much could be written time on the seemingly needless gentlemen amateurs of the laid.
Cheungchow, Tai O, light. I was taking. a walk the other the school flag, the of developments in the air" industry, but what is being accom- delay, but it is gratifying now to Colony, as formerly. Meantime Lamma and Katto can speak over on the Kowloon City side possession of which brings plished in this sphere is well reflected in recent long-distance learn that the matter has not particulars may be obtained from direct to the Colony, which is a the other week-end and it sense of loyalty and comradeship flights. At seal much secrecy has necessarily had to be observed been shelved. The old saying Date of meeting and all other old state of isolation. Mr. H. E. ideal sites there are over there education in this School.
the-Hon. Secretary of the Club wonderful improvement on the struck me what a number of to all those who receive their by the Admiralty and much progress is still hidden from us. It is, reads: Everything comes to however, no secret that many thousand pounds have been spent in them that weit"; and it seems details will be published later. Pollock will be glad to hear the for factories. I had previously Mrs. Dyer was called upon by experimental work on the development of the "Still" engine and a that when dealing with the Home
news, if he has not heard it caught a whisper to the effect the Headmaster to unfurl the close study of thermodynamics has cow produced in a practical officials, waiting is all that one
already.
that many applications had been Union Jack, which she did, to form the long-looked-for combination of the internal combustion can do. On many very important land is urgent. To bring about
made to the Power Company. for the accompaniment of the singing and steam engines. It is no mean achievement to have lowered the points we are still "hung up" an occupation of that land for
juice "when they get the new of the National Anthem. The fuel consumption of crude oil to 35 lbs. of fuel per brake horse because of
pronounce civil purposes might be, expen- In getting about, one hears a works completely erected and breaking of the school flag. power per hour. Here is another triumph for British engineers, ment from Home. and if sive, but it could never be so good many little things. In working, and it was fairly simple then took place to the accompan and the technical world eagerly looks forward to the early com- any arguments were need costly as the prolonged restriction addition to the above piece of in- to visualise the time when on the iment of an appropriate song by mercial adoption of this engine in marine work. Already British ed at this stage in added of the City will prove. The mat- formation I could tell of some mainland we shall be having the school children. marine engine builders are applying for licences to construct these favour of self-government none ter may have been sent Home others. Of course, we all know many factories busily engaged in In a few words Mr. Dyer engines.
stronger could be adduced than by this time for consideration or that the China Light and Power manufacturing a good many of thanked the Headmaster for This brief article would not be complete without one other re a few examples of the seeming in- or it may not. But even if it has, Company of Kowloon, are going the things we now import. The baving asked them to come there ference, namely to the work of the British Engineering Standards difference of the Home perman- what hope is there of anything to put their cables underground railway is fairly handy and when that afternoon. Ile wished the Association. The work of this body is too little known abroad and ent officials. Congestion in the being done in time to reap the in the near future.
That we do get that promised Canton- children every success in their in the Colonies to-day. It is, however, one of the most highly Colony has almost reached a most benefit? Looked et in will do away with the present Hankow line the whole aspect of studies under the guidance of efficient organisations we possess, and it may be said without limit point and the City portion every way, it seems as though dangerous overhead system, and our nearer portions of the New their present Headmaster. hesitation that, through the standardisation of mechanical com- has long been restricted in growth the Colony is being vitally it will also mean that whe- Territories might very easily be Two little maids presented Mrs. cost of manufacture and to place our British engineering industries tion of the military monopoly of have not the necessary power. ponent parts, it has done more than anything else to bring down the by the lack of room for expan-bandicapped because the people ther there is a typhoon blow-changed. Everything seems to be Dyer with a handsome bouquet sion. The recently raised ques-who should be doing something ing or not the people of Kowloon ripe for it except the people who for ber services, and the ceremony in as sound a position to-day as any in the world.
will still be able to have their would benefit most.
concluded.
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