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THE CHIT SYSTEM.
Pontiane from Page 2 ily wish, this questi n. as
I matter of ja esital opinion, zi o
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923,
luctant to take a drink when late fur, one particular section of, see that the man has to produce the community and not for an the money for it out of his own other is distinctly unjust No- puchot, hut on the other hand ifning that has been said or miny I see a person signing tur it be said tan controvert that. The leaves me cold. When one hears argument yen ased, Sir, as to the the favourite American phrase large profit ; drinks, would be Mag 1 buy pon a drink" that puts equally trae, and is true, of any ital once on cold cash basis.club in the Colony. The credit which makes one inglied to say system has existed as long as the His Excellory' the ovenų:"No." In the other Chise where nl ny has existed and it will not The matter, as the loom, ingver of you go into a club, call the boy be abolished by any piece of
ad Mign a chit there is no, such legislation such as this. You can internal vgement of the hotel, fe ling of modesty.
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master: Jon I should like to detaly Fmany a good man go wrong hehe members of clubs that, even || Cab Consider a Lowe pitautes, in cause of the chic system. I think were not a member
Board of Directors: I would pro- estre sing my personal stews of that evin if a man is nbspending test against this piece of discri whas the pogor judgment in sachjor drinking, too mhach if is extreme. ja case should be. Tam se nesatisfactory he should be inuating, legislation. It does dis- Beriminate between the man who that if we were starting with the habit of running up bills withean wander into an hotel and can clear fieht I should have proqgised out knowing what his position
It is a waiter for himtain credit if the hotel company will give it to him and the man stuch a clause intä the law Ime, the should be.
to know more Gr Less how.he deline is Hole, Beertainly Ear stands, and I think the general and can sign for drinks to who kinders into an adJscent! done no harm I have searelod With open bees awl isonal with bad, and more especially is the edit exhausted and can ?
extension of credit for anything
any amount until the club saya. Jan opra mind to hear any shadowwad in the case_of_drink. The of reason put forward for repealing Hon. Mr. Holgoak informs us that Tit. My sexi falls on the mask of the Hongkong Hotel rigidly res
Mr. Shewan 1 was merely tying telts its credit in the case of the
ming, out that the
Ryounger members of firms here.
to
The
no longer be allowed.
Hos Mr. A. R. Lowe: I' hap-
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to be a Director of the Hong- kong Hotel. -
The motion was then put to the vote and His Excellency declared it lost,
The Hon. Mr. Pollock demanded names and there voted:
Against: His Excellency the Boxerior, the Colonial Secretary. the Attorney General, the Colonial Treasurer, the Secretary föri Chinese Affairs, the Director d
*** | of Mu" Drew fi and Ale Pilock is he does not, I think, cong
Jaro yery bad deed mid require that that does Bet help his argu | the support of two, sibie turs in ment. It is interference with Filiis Colony to help them f. the herty of the subject to ask Subtitute Mr. Hyunk Malaipan to, pay cash, is it not
For Mr. Pollock's motiop: Hon. Todwill, who was roues nie, his equally interference with
Mr. Pollock, Hon Mr. Holyoak, ate the inbourgt, I take, leave liberty of the subject to restrict Bon, Mr. Lang, Hon. Mr. Lowe, laseribe to the rims of the employee's credit to $2500 on Mr. Ketesali and the Hon. Shewan. Weshas no bed And what happens when the Mr. Chin Sn-
Fulgee has reached the limit of genblaner of oral angsminn
his credit" He either goes with falt about invnvenience. What if drink or has to pay for it. If lik" inconvénience in carrying aludut he pays rash for it, why cannot alleertain, intuler of antes or the pay cash all adoar instead of ertain amont, of in in Now previously running up a debt. 1 Education and the Director of
We all haħdi- d. į have glared through the solir Public WoMS, linkami zamliked a made-mas diftor's letters which appear in Han: His Excellency the Covernor. 1 1. de it their heeiussard in 1917 to find good reasons should like if I may, to take this Potvenient
for their "objection to the taking opportunity of saying that if the they are of large denominationg
of cash. All I can find is some Hon. Mr. Holyoak will make any A Te rible Picture
suggestion that it is diten suggestions which will remove the Mr. Bolji painted ja terrible control-ther servants. "We would inconvenience which, the Hotel picture of a gentleman who was point, ut that not only will our Fomplains of while at the same giving a poty perking to Eur to clients' revenue considerably detime not opening the door too wide a beatre and fodd himself afcrease hat their expenses will be the exterion of the chit sys Terminal began by: Has wandered much greater owing to the necesiem, I shall be very happy to dis-
from the dining room to the long -1235, first, of having to pay higher cuss the matter with him.
siplaries to all servants employed. Mr. Holyoak: I am quite and desires te strink, brandy This coffee muggest to the hon in the Bitel who, under the pro- |sure, Sir, the Hotel has no desire i
The proposed Bill
to evade the law-and it asks for number that there is an altomatis vision wold
the position course betalen staying in the disreceiving cash payment,
of the support of the Counell in their and
arteaipts not to do so. tots and the
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Servants." Well, intention to lay upon the table a To the house without paying for it gentlemen, we are used to seeing statement of the grounds
We di exartly the sun an Euclandoyer parte statements made assent at the next Council meet- 1 at know of any hotel in any in lawyers' letters, but 1 confess)
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| part of the world, except perhaps I have seldom seen a document) His Excellency the Governora in Bokong, which would accept which contained such an absolute will you, if possible, supply it to phits in payment from pratops wholy idiotie statement as that. Are the Clerk of Councils before the
The Chinese, I may ask, a less rext Council meeting. not resident in the hotel endifese, I have signed chits my honest race than any other in the in Eastern hotels batt that was he world? The servants take cash can-e I had forgotten to bring myfarody and all the law requiries money with as The argument that that they should take a little persons who are prevented from mere cash.
cost you more or the prices, will
be reel as they should. It is pe fertly obvious that when drinks are signed for largely and wirlely, up to the figure of $25
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Fr. Malotto Rektased.
Chinking in hotels will drink more The Financial Argument, .
Hankow, Sept. 6-Father. Ma- than "is grid for them-in The Clubn Then there is another point. flutto who has been held captive not a Sound one, Mr. Shewan have been advancing this argu-by, bandits for two months) has again p
The argument that a meat on moral grounds, hat there been released. The conditions are personi will have hotel and go to is the financial argument, the at present unknown---Kenter. Celules, be drink is, all hose practice of the signing of chits Mon, who fequort the hors of hofelis encouraged your drinks will pen the men who belong to the chals at all.". If that is th person who was affected are Jaret. "the" anemilors of għabs, aid éven if
the thôny way a coved one, which by juniors and up to any figure Me. Shewan say he thinks it ). jiy "other people, there must be a situation in China, concludes that set."I think a"club may be trusted fairly considerable amount of bad there is little hope of improvement ky see that its members, du debts. Do you suppose, gentle until some leader appears as aj habitually jobbe more than men, the Hongkong Hotel bears dictator and dissolves the present
those bad debts? It does not prepisterous remnant of" Average Man. Drinks Too Muchrash, or cash their chils pay for generally believed that some such You and I and the ople who payment and copvenes another. It is question, with all respect to higher prices. Even if they development is inevitable soon.. the Directors of the Hotel Comare bad debts the Hotel is not out Reim. pany, whether the Hotel has quite of this maney for any appreciable the same interest in this matter length of time for a month at]
good for them.
London, Sept. 6-The Times Peking correspondent reviving the
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as a club, and I cannot avoid least, and there is the loss of
WHAT 15 EYESTRAIN ? feeling that the reason why "the interest or the money has to be cles. When objects we look at do The gye has certain tiny mus. Hotel is anxious for the repent made up. And how is it made no came up to a sharp focus in of this Ordnance is because theyup? It is made up from our the eye, these muscles exert | think that people will drink more"
pockets. Both economically and themselves unduly and enable us if they can sign chits than if they morally the system is unsound and to see clearly in spite of the de- have to pay cash. Personally, I trust gentlemen to carry you fect. These muscles tire and am absolutely certain that that is with me.
reluxcausing the objects looked at: the case, I confess I should like Hon. Mr. Pollock: 1 have ato become blurred and indistinct. to see the chit system absolutely right to reply, but I would ask Upon closing the eyes for a few. abolished. I should like to say that your Excellency to allow the Hon.seconds the muscles become more I agree with Sir Henry May that Mr. Holyoak to reply instead. the policy is altogether thoroughly
or less rested and objects are bad. As honourable members are Certainly.
His Excellency the Governor: clear again for a brief period. Properly fitted glasses correct aware I am not a teetotaller, and
Hon. Mr. Holyoak: The main eyestrain, whether caused by 11 do not wish to persuade others to point of my argument, Sir, was astigmatism or age. The Hong- kong Optical, Co., successors to
[be. I do not hesitate to say that referred to in the first argument Clark & Co., manufacturing and I think the average man drinks a advanced, that this Ordinance is refracting auticians, 53, Queen a great deal more than he really unjust in the sonse that it dis Roud Central, have the equipment needs, and he would certainly tinctly penalises one section of to fit your glasses properly. drink less if he had on each che community against the reat, occasion when he was standing I am entirely with you that if the drinks at the club or bar to pro-chit system as a whole could be (duce cash. My own feeling abolished it would be a good that I always feel somewhat re-thing for the Coinny, but to legis-1.
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