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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
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DAY BY DAY.
Use of Schools.
WEDNESDAY: JANUARY 12, 1921.
AVIATION NOTES.
(By **Meteorite.")
FOOTBALL MEETING.
League Matters Discussed.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Dean Leigh is said to be busy
YOU'VE GOT TO QET UP' EVERY | The vary grudging way in MORNING WITH DETERMINATION
Since aviation has so markedly A general meating representa- which the local Government 18 YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO BED granted the use of the Kowloon WITH
SATISFACTION.-G. Haccelerated thought in every tire of nearly all the Clubs of the writing his reminiscences, The direction, it has not failed to Hongkong Football League was Leighs were all Liberals, and British School for a meeting of Lorimer,
quicken the perception of business held at Victoria Barracks last Gladstone offered an earldom to men who base their chances of evening, under the chairmanship the late Lord Leigh. The Dean's and financial success upon the firmly of Mr. R.J. Wilton,
other brother, Sir Chandos Leigh, Asked in the House of Commons children arrived by the Anchises founded business axiom, it pays The Floo. Becretary (Mr. K.C. Tho Was Speaker's
LIVER
SALTS
the K.R.A. in. October last is re- called by a question recently
taken in the morning will quickly relieve that slight derangement and impart a feeling of health, vigour and exhilaration
A pleasant, refreshing and cooling drink.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
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Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to forward their names and aldresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an
vidence of their bona Edes.
Mrs. F. M. Crawford
regarding the letting of a room in yesterday.
the rates and taxes should be $6 per share. granted to bodies teaching teneta
with which a large number of A Malty employed at the
ratepayers strongly disagreed. Sugar Refinery, was taken ill The reply of the Secretary of whilst in a public bath yesterday, Scotland was illuminating.
and was removed to the Govern- admitted the granting of the usejment Civil Hospital. of a zoorn to the Socialists on payment of the usual charge of
We learn that Major G. te six shillings, and stated that on Huquet and Captain P. P. Legg the same occasion Toons were have been granted leave to the granted on the same terms United Kingdom, and will leave other bodies, including the
by the s.s. "Bremen." Ulasgow Co-Operative Society, the Women's Guild of the Cathedral of the Scottish Epis-
kinds.
•
Canteen funds from H.M.S. The first mentioned,
indirect method
Lady Stubba has kindly con copal Church, and an evangelist sented to distribute the prizes at [for evangelistic services. But the annual prize-giving at the there is the most interesting par: Diocesan Bars School on Friday of the reply-These lettings January 28, st 5.30 pm. of school premises out of school [hours are subject to the common law, within the competence of the Education Authority. Nocharge falls upon either the ratepayers for the taxpayers in consequence, $36|anhas regards the purposes for which the premises are granted, The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscripthe Authority are responsible to tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a their constituents." full month.
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The Contrast.
of
Ambrose, to the amount of $1,800, course, an were stolon by the Chinese copy-aerial advertising, but it offers, clerk, who has since been arrest-none the less, a wide range of op- By cutting in half the distance between the seller and the buyer, the air mail pro-
to sents
the direct-by-mailį
occurrence fever (Chinese) and one non-fatal ease of diphtheris (Eurasian).
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calloi In last week's Ralston) having read the notice counsel, to advertisa,“ a public school at Glasgqw to the
"Bar, Bit nates, ons aspect of the influence convening the meeting, discusion miniscences |Central Socialist Sunday School.Į
Bat," Bath brothers were Subject to audit the Hongkong) of aviation on the topographical was opened on the allocation to The questioner asked whether it Land Investment and Agency formation of our cities and towna charitable organizations of the real cricketers. and Sir
Chandos often give A was with the approval of the Co, Ltd., will pay a final dividend was brought to the perception of proceeds of two recent charity
brave Education Board that accom of $4.50 per share and bonus of my readers. This week's columns matches, namely British Isles show
the Canterbury (modation in schools supported by
Week. This will now be devoted to an exhaus-r. the Rest, and England · v.
made tive treatment of the opportunities Scotland. Several names were especially pathetic that it was which it offers for the enterprising mentioned by the Hon. Soc during last year's "Week" that advertiser.
retary in this connect on, with his widow, Lady Leigh, met har special reference to the good work death in a terribla motor accident In considering the matter of performed by the Hongkong in Canterbury, The Dean, who serial advertising, four main Benevolent Association. It wa was very popular in Hereford, is features of the question present mentioned that this Society was also a twin to Mrs. Leveson- themselves, namely: the opport-maintained privately but with the Gower, whese unity for rapid dissemination of cooperation of the Goverment. rst-class cricketers, especially advertising matter, followed by It gave Baancial aid to distressed "Shrimp," who was the Surrey quick delivery of goods, by means Europeans, as shown in a recent captain. Dean Leigh's wife was of the airplane: the dropping of case which came to the notice of daughter of Fanny Kemble (Mrs. Butler's Island, advertising literature in the shape the Hon. Searetary, when a naval Butler,
found of hand bills from aircraft of all officer, who
himself Georgia). Her sister was Mrs. B destitute condition Wister, the mother of Owen kinds: the display of advertise-in ments upon the outsideof airplanes successfully sought the Society's Wister, the author of "The and airships: and, lastly, the post- sasistance, which in the more de- Virginian. Dean Leigh was "Jim ing of advertising signs in pas-serving cases was preferable to Bols in the A.D.C.-which, with sanger-carrying aircraft of all going into the home for vagrants. Sir Francis Burgand, he founded. It was finally decided by the His nephew, Canon Adderley, meeting to allocate the funds as founded the Philothespins a of follows:-Hongkong Benevolent Oxford, which under Arthur Socisty, $100; Victoria Home and Bourchier became the 0.U.D.S. 106.05 to the Seamen's Institute, was a great supporter of Joseph Orphange, $100; and the balance, as a country parson the Deat The transfer of Cordeino from Arch and the agricultural ad. A sum of 61,200 was recovered portunities.
Joseph's to the Club de Re- labourers' movement. The Leighs creio was approved.
ate supposed to have royal blood Yesterday's health return
The meeting next considered through Charles Brandon. Duks shows two fatal imported cases
an application by H.M.S. Titania) of Suffolk. of enteric (Chinese), one fatal advertiser a means of rapid trato fill a vacancy in the League
of cerebrospinal sit that he will not long neglect table creased by the impending Dancing, which we are told is So i will be seen from the
departure of H.M.S. Carlisle for to be more popular than ever this Because of the altitude at extended cruise to Vladivo winter, is really more above that the Hams attitude is
which aircraft must is for safety stock and the North.
of an not the same as the ilongkong
It was exercise than a pastime, if one both to the fliers and to the stated that the remaining fixtures may believe the figures of a attitude. Here the Government Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a has apparently laid it down that military details due for Home to display advertising on the wing and. Second Divisions had to be calculated the amount of groand people below, the carrying of of the Carlisle in oth the First statistician who some years ago educational baillings shall not embark on the transport Bre- fixed period will be continued until countermaanded.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be be used for purposes not concert-men on Friday morning. The of a ballon completed and conditionally on covered by a person is going delivered to subscribers by. the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd..ed with education. At Home, vessel is expected to sail on the surface of balloon or airship has the Titanis taking over these through dance movements. His the local authority can let the same day and it is anticipated to what extent this feature may standing of the Carlisles team in are now old-fashioned dances,
been as yet, of little value. But fixtures and accepting the present investigations dealt with what. premises, outside school hours, she will reach England on the be developed by same advertising the table. The meeting approved but they are interesting. In & to whomsoever they care. Tae 19th of FebruMF Government does not interfere at
genius may not now be predicted. of the application.
waltz, he calculated, the dancer all; if the schools are let to bodies
for it must be borne in mind that Messrs. Goldenburg and Day travelled The Shek Ki passenger boat aircraft of all kinds, in a very were re-instated in the Second mazurke
1,300 yards in the with whose objects the face lost a passenger resterday, when short time, be
1,050 yards, in the payers disagree, then that's a
vastly more Division team of the Hongkong polka 1,000 Jards. In the matter to be fought out between shop-coolie lost his life by numerous than it is to-day, and Club, the Hon. Secretary men-quadrilles a distance of a mila the local educational authoricalling into the harbour whilst the element of safety so developtioning that these players had and a quarter was covered. The and the public. Now, to give the crossing the gangway. Several ed as to make it possible to By at been acting as substitutes in the authorit made out that in question special local emphasis, would-be rescuers lamped over a sufficiently low altitude and at First Division team, owing to the going through a
board but after a lengthy search such slow speed as
complete we should like to stress the poini
to make indisposition of Hamilton and ball programme a dancer that the local body which sought were unable to recover the body-display advertising worth while the fact that another player had would the use of the Kowloon School, and whose application was A party of Revenue Officers! Meanwhile, there remain twoj A complaint sent in by Mr. unsympathetically treated, is an seized sonia 900 taels of prepared other means of aerial advertising Hollands, who, in his capacity Mr. John McE. Bowman-who organisation which aims at and opium from a sampan in the both of which, though, still in of referee (succeeds in assisting the Govern-harbour yesterday, and arrested their infancy, are unquestionably match betweas
is reported to be ambitions of ment by its advice on subjects a Chinese whom they charged susceptible of extensive develop and the R.G.A. had occasion showing London what an up-to-
date hotel is like-has with which it is competent, by before Mr. G. N. Orme at the ment. The dropping of circulars to order McGill, R.GA.. and
telling &n reason of local knowledge, to Police Court this morning. The from aircraft in flight has not Jones, of the other team, off the
American inter- viewer Ideal Imserves the ratepayers. case was remanded untill to-been highly successful as a field for fighting, was then con-
that, in his opinion. advertising medium because the sidered by the meeting. It was the day too, by watching Meir interests. | morrow.
of the small Ye: the K.R. A. was as good as told
method of distribution by such decided that McGill be suspend-hotel in the big city is over. By the small hotel be means one that that it must make other arrange- The following is from a recent means has not been adequately ed from playing for a period of
meetings issue of John Bull~"Slavery at/worked out, and so had been rather three weeks and Jones for one when he built the Hotel Com- has not more than 600 rooms. ments for future whereas Socialists. Co-Operators Hongkong-This scandal must indiscriminate and haphazard, week. for anybody else can get & room be sifted. Smug official denials many of the falling leaflets The Chairman maje
in a school building at Home! from smug
Under-Sacretaries landing on house-tops or in other announcement before closing the An announcement has apprate i in regard to the arrangements Why the difference, we wonder will not do. There is only too inaccessible places and so failing meeting that the medals ordered at the plan it was gradually en- larged, and finally be built for taking the Census on April 25 "respect of all persons in Great Imperial News Service. good reason to believe that trae of the purpose for which they were for the League from Home were
& 2,000 room hotel 3.3 in young girls for purposes other intended. But it does not require expected to arrives any moment.smallest that would give a reason. Britain who are alive at midnight on that day." and simultaneously
Judging by what was recently than domestic service is rampant
much imagination to devise an enumeration will be mads practically throughout the Empire.
able margin of unique and attractive containers
safety on Since the first general Census was instituted in ISul the returns said in the House of Commons in the Colo37."
for dropped-from-the-air leaflets,
the investment. The modern have been compital decennially, but although this takes in the on the question of an Imperial
nor for ingenious devices that
hotel-keeper, says Mr. Bowman, period of the Napoleonie was no decade has witnessed such news service there are people at
I will enable advertising literaturé
must run his business on the plan momentous, changes as that which has just passed. The statistics Home who do not think a very
of the great packer. He must for the various periods since the first Census provide an illuminating great deal of Reater's supply KOWLOON DOCK BALL to reach the earth from the air in just the right way, at just the
calculate his profits on each dollar Coalition
Latest League Results. lesson in progression. In 1501 the Census showed the inhabitants of Mr.
right spot without harm or hurt
in tractions of cents, and most the United Kingdom to number 16345,645. By fairly regular Unionist, recently asked whether
Just by way of
London, Dec. to any one.
depend for a large revenus not gradations the figure had risen in 1911 to 45,370,530, and we are told the Government was taking and
suggestion, a tiny papier mache
The results in the last series of jupon a large profit per unit but that at the outbreak of the war the total was officially estimated at steps to improve the newsservice
a big Association Football League game: upon a great number of units. 46.089,249-which strikes 035 as a pretty precise figure for an between the Old Country and Kowloon Dock Ball takes place airplane let down from
above and filled with were as follows, played on the Owing especially to the increased estimate. Of course, in these days of organisation, when we are other parts of the Empire on Friday, the 14th instant, and Plane all officially ticketed in suntry ways, there are plenty of data to whether it was intended to insti- for the convenience of Hongkong advertising literature would be a ground of the first named clab is cost of labour and the difficulty go on. With war losses approximating to seven figures and the tute any form of Government folk launches will leave Blake novel and interesting souvenir cach instance:- influenza scourge of 1918-19 doubts have been expressed whether control or supervision over the Pier at the following times-8.15 for a commercial Fair or the new Census will nor, for the first time, fail to show an increase dissemination of subsidised news and 9.15 p.m.
sent. and whether the p.m., 5.30 p.m.. 8.43 p.m. 9 p.m. The general indications are that there will at any rate not be
would be achieved through any decline, especially as until just lately emigration had dirsinished.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1921.
COUNTING HEADS.
news
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The Programme,
The dance programme is as
Extra Waliz.
1. Lancers.
2. One Step.
3. 19 altz.
4. Caledonian9.
5. Fox Trot..
6. Highland Schottische, *. Waltz
8. Lancers. 9. One Step. 10. Fox Trot. 11. Waltz.
INTERVAL
Extra Waltz
Aerial Tournament.
+
not arrived.
recent
miles.
Oilers the
HOME FOOTBALL.
FIRST LEAGUE
Blackburn Rov. 2 Derby Co. Bradford C...
And this brings me to the Chelsea newest and most fruitful, perhaps, Huddersfield of the big ideas still to be
Manchester En.
developed in the way of aerial Liverpool..... advertising Passenger-carrying aircraft is with us to stay. I Middlesbrough remains to be developed to pos- Newcastle Un sibilities as yet only dreamed of Oldham ....... and, along with its growth, will Tot. Hotspur... increase the opportunities for W. B. Albion advertising in such craft. The thrill that comes with one's first
the
Manchester C. 1 Arsenal
Bolton Wand. .0 Burnley 5 Bradford .........
Everton
¡travel About elaven
been
modore his original scheme was for 1,000 rooms. As he worked
Ibe
of getting competent service, the total turnover of the small hotel is solimited that the profit account is always tending to reach the vanishing point and the proprietor can scarcely escape
o worry.
D
2 Aston Villa....1 0 Preston S. E.
She Feld Uo. ... & Sunderland
SECOND LEAGUE
& Coventry C. 2 Leicester C. 1 Barnsley
1 Rotherham 3 Fulham
A latter-day Census contains an abundance of information single agency or would equal follows both valuable and entertaining, and this year the inquiry is to be of facilities be given to all authoris a very comprehensive character. In the early days of its history cd newspaper correspondents. the Census was restricted to the number of persons and of houses, The reply for the Government with a very limited attempt at classification of occupations recognised that the news service A much more detailed form was adopted in 1841. sad the registrat should be improved and that, as a ion of births, marriages, and deaths furnished the authorities with general principle, the Government an important checking instrument. In the middle of the century was in favour of granting equal the Census was extended to take in social statistics, such as the facilities to all agencies and
newspaper Bumber of blind, deaf. and dumb persons, and educational recognised particulars. At this period the Irish Census revealed the decrease Pondents without any control or
flight is without parallel in other Birmingham of population in the Emerald Isle, due largely, of course, to emigration. stipulations as to the character Subsequent Census retures have further widened the scope of of the news sent. It was farther
"first time" experiences. The Blackpool. perceptions are quickened, the Bristol C... inquiry, shedding a volume of light upon social and vital conditions, stated that practical difficulties the 1901 Census taking in the overcrowding evil by inquiries as to might for the time being make it
mind is alert, the spirit buoyant: Bury ..... the impressions received are Clapton Or. the number of persons occupying any particular room or part of necessary for assistance to be 12. One Step... a house, while the 1911 Census supplemented these points. The limited in its spplication, but 13. Eightsome Reel..
clear-cut and indelible. The Hall City advertiser should take advantage Notts Co. forthcoming inquiry provides a still more elaborste list of questions, that lower rates for cable mess-
14. Fox Trot..
of an opportunity so rich in Shet. Wednes.... though there is nothing in them to perplex an individual of com-ages were desirable for all news
15. Waltz. services. We in Hoogkong have 16. Caledonians.
prospouts. Illustrated, bookletes. Shields. In former days there was a considerable amount of prejudice especial interest in this
describing the route flown over, Stockport. 17, One Step
novel souvenirs of the memorable against the Census through people misunderstanding its object, as question as we should stand to 18. Maxina. was likewise the case when the registration of births, marriages benefit by any Imperial scheme 19. Quadrilles.
journey will bring results propor- tionate to the enjoyment and and deaths was introduced. The spread of education has done adopted. The present service of 20. Fox Trot... much to remedy this, and to-day a feeling of hostility has been aws is not all that can be desir-21. Waltz.
pleasure of the novel experience. Brighton Electric devices could easily be Exeter.......... replaced by one of healthy interest in the community, though weed and is not a little expensive, 22, Ons Step.... remember one lady in the Old Country declaring that abe would having regard to the fact that
installed in a passenger-carrying Laton Town walk about all night to aroid divulging, her age. As it chanced. Reuter's Agency is officially
airship or airplane by which a Norwich... series of signs could be flashed in Newport farious rain damped this heroic resolve. Articles in the Prass assisted. Lately, there has been at large have attracted the public to a study of the national family, little to complain of regarding Home
service pleasurable succession to the
advantage news should be fuller and the Imperial immenss
of
Reading. the while juvenile interest has been aroused by explanations at school cables delaye, but the What was once regarded as an inquisitorial process is now viewed received is extremely meagre Parliament would do well to give advertiser with foresight enough Southampton ... Grimsby with general favour, and the forthcoming Census will be specially and brief, as one can very readily the question of an Imperiai news to meet his opportunity literally Southend
learn by scanning any of the service its serious consideration. on wings".
Swansea.............................. ◊ Crystal Fal .... memorable,
Imon-sense.
papers. The
Stcke
*
constant
Another conviction of Mr. Bowman's is that the personal must disappear from hotel-keep- ing. The traditional "Boniface" of ten or twenty years ago has passed away. Speaking in bis office to the interviewer, Mr. Bowman said: "I would not dare
to go down into the lobby this minute. If I did I could not get 0 back for an bour. I could not possibly afford to give an obour in the middle of the business Notts For......3)day to the merely sociable or i Leeds Un.
#ide of .....2 Bocial
this hotel Cardiff C.
If I did I could not Wolr. Wand...2 attend to the business of the others o Port Vale... 0} managing it and
ថ tbis district which WB operate." Accordingly, Mr. Bow- man delegates "theso hospitable functious" to lieutenants, select- ...oed with all the cara he can ex- cercise. He confesses 1 to be s pity that the personal welcome of the always accessible innkeep * Bristol Rov...er has bad to pass into the gallery of førgotten things, but be regards the
Inevitable under
1.West Ham ................0)
THIRD LEAGUE.
2 Q. P. Rangers 4 Northampton 2 Brentford z Millwall
0 Watford
& Plymouth Arg. 1
conditions,
change modern