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(To the Editor, "Hongkong Telegraph.##)
Our Food Supplies,
Sir.-The proposed Industrial Home in the New Territorios, for orphan girls, particulars of which havo appeared in your journal, will undoubtedly ill af longfelt want, f.o. the training. on modern lines, of young girls for an agricultural life. A prosent a very large number of girle from the orphan homes of this Colony marry farmers and vegetable gardeners, but are quito unfitted for the life by their traming, which provides thom in most casos inoruly with a simple! vornacular education and proficlonoy in noodlework!
I soo that the course of tho now "Instituto of Agriculturo and
include! Industry" will agriculturo, industries, poultry. pig and cattle rearing and home aconomics.
TO-DAY'S FASHION
Among the colourful frocks is thie that uses black natin
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a foil for red and white printed cropa do chino. The collar with its littlo ruffle tio and jabot dividos honors with the interesting "shirt aleova" ouff. Sido drape and hom band do their sharo to make the frock a success.
CANINE FASHION.
New Dog From the East, }
A dog that has heretofore beon soon very little in this country, but which is now showing signa of coming into prominenco, in the Persian Greyhound, or Afgbanj Hound.
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These dogs, with their long faces and conspicuous "foathora"
and tail
feat, oara, havo boon
good кооп deal at recont shows, and have
tho atton. begun to attract
Thoy tion
lovers. of dog aro really bunting
dogs, oxtraordinarily loot of foot- awifter, perhaps, than any dog. that han over buon used for tho chaso in this part of the world. Somo who have hunted with them in the East, howover, say that they have a weakness in their timidity. They will soldom tackle, and practically navor kill their quarry,
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The Persian greyhound makon a charming pet, and is so dis- tinguished looking, stately and graceful, that the most fastidious dovateo of "style" in dogs would consider him
ornamental asset. There is something foreign about his appearance, something a littlo outlandish, oven, some- thing that sooms to smack of another contury and another) continent. Instinctively ono as-i sociatos him with eastern magnifi- cenco with stately palaces, gar-; dons and court-yards, with black) slaves waving fans.
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Yot the dogs themselves are the very revorso of unapproach- fable and are, indeed, most docilo and affectionate. A kind word or caress will always evoke answaring "smile," and rebuff will be taken to heart with visible distress. They are dogs it is quito unnecessary to train with tho whip.
MOHTB, Soares, A. and P. Loong and Wong Kwong-tin, and thoir associates are certainly to bo congratulatod on their corvicos. of an export from the Philippines Argioultural Collogo, but they aro still more deserving of overy oncouragement and support in their more ambitious sobems to establish in the Now Territories, near Shoungshut, a largo farm to supply Hongkong and South China with pige, poultry, voget- ablos, fruit, otc., reared and grown according to European methods and under oxport supervision. From time to timo hotels and Individuals in Hongkong have boon loft to the far-sooing promotors of this scheme to
A DAY'S WORK. moot a uced which has boon voiced for many years in the Hongkong press, i.o., the render- Bricks, Granite or Mad. ing of this Colony indefendant of! There has boon some discussion Chinese territory as rogarde its lately concerning a bricklayer The Afghan bound is perhaps food supply, and the providing at who laid. 879 bricks within an hardly the ideal friend for a man the same time of a food supply hour, which is at the rate of 4.10 who likes his dog to be a tough, which, produced under export soo. for each brick, Mr. J. E. game, rough-and-tumblo sort of supervision and in accordance Drower, & recognized authority animal; for, sporting dog though confidently rogarded as free from the Times that such a feat could and with vory little encourage- the many dangers of health bo achieved only by an excep tion-ment to become soft. which lurk in all food imported al man working under exceptional believed the bulldog to be tha from Chinese territory and pro-circumstances, with everything most comfort-loving of all dogs, duced under the insanitary con- made easy for him. According to but the Perelan groyhound could ditions prevailing in China, Mr. Drowor, when shop stowards give him points in the art of
The development of the project are present, mon may lay as taking his easo. will undoubtedly bo watobod fow as 300 bricka a day, though My bulldog would always get with interest by thousands of re-it is not uncommon to got 1,000 on to my bad if he had the chance; | sidents of this Colony and the brloks a day laid if there is no but the Persian groyhound is neighbouring ports. If supported interference on the part of trade positively the only dog I have
over known that will get under! in its initial stages, as it desorvos, unions.
badclothes and stretch it should be ช Succosa oven Still, to lay oven a thousand the beyond the most sanguine hopes bricke a day is surely less ox-himself out with bis head on the of its entorprising promoters. hausting than to crack a cubio pillow and his foot on the hot-
Yours, etc..
yard of granito into road metal-water bottle.-E. Kane Webb in M.D.R. a task rogarded as a day's work. Daily News. Hongkong, Feb. 28th, 1925.
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A "yard" of granito weighs just about a ton.
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Gunboat Requested to Destroy Seals.
A paragraph appeared in one of the London nowspapers 21 large recently stating that
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Probably either task is light| Telephone Service. Sir,--Since the now cabla has compared with that of mud- been laid to Kowloon there is a pushora who may be soon follow- wonderful improvement in the ing their vocation in the vicinity servico. It is now quite easy to of
Standing in hear Kowloon subscribers over two or three foot of Thamos loy the phone. Indeed, one can get mud and water, with an botter results when telephoning wind blowing on them across the to Kowloon than whon speaking rivor, the mud-pushers are en-number of seals had appeared in to a Hongkong subscribor. This gaged for five hours a day in Novin Bay, North Wales; that fact suggests that there is some-clearing the foreshore with a buge
and had actually thing wrong with the cables on swooper. Their Sisyphuslike task they had been busy destroying the Hongkong side. I am not a in to prevent any accumulation the fish, technical man, but the difference of mud at the antlet (near Black endeavoured to climb on board SOUTH CHINA KNITTING FACTORY botwoon Hongkong and Kowloon friars Bridge) of the River Fleet, the fishermen'e boats when the
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is now so much that thoro must which now runs underground. nets were being drawn in. be something wrong with the During the weather experienced was added that the fishermen Various colours former service. Let us hope that lately, mud-pushing must have had appealed to the Lancashire and sizes. Excellent the now Company will remedy been one of the most unpleasant and Westore Sox Fisheries Joint any defects.
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to destroy the soals. Inquiries Quality. TALE OF THE TRAWLERS.
Yours otc,
SUBSCRIBER. Hongkong, Fab. 27th, 1925.
NO WEMBLEY RODEO.
Year's Exhibition.
Committee to send their gunboat
Hosiery Manufacturers
Now Premises
have failed to show any founda- Lowest Prices. tion for this remarkable story, Inspection and Enquiries and a correspondent, who wroto About nine or ten years agofa to the Superintendent of the Soiloited. Labour Government in Now Lancashire and Western Sea South Wales decided that tho Fisheries District, has received time had come when it would the following reply:- build up a fishing industry on "Bo far as I am aware thoro is In reply to a communisation something like the gigantic seale no foundation for the reports which he addressed to Sir Travors of that in Newfoundland. Then which have recently appeared in Clarkos, of the Administrative Mr Theodore became infected the pross with reference to seals Staff, Wembley Exhibition, on with the romance, and ho came in Navin Bay. This Joint Com- behalf of the Leeds Rodeo Protost back from a visit to Sydney tell-mittoo has not got a gunboat, their patrol ateamor Committee, of which he is honing the rowspaper men who wore nor is scoretary, Mr. Honry B. Ames, with him of the days when a James Fletcher armed in any has received the following letter floot of trawlers would rush out was; neither have I received any from Mr. Frank Fox, Assistant to the ocean, spread their nots, request for assistance. There Chief Administrator: In answer gather up loads of fish, and rooo are a few seals, which brood on to your letter of January 13 to back to the city, where waiting Bardsey Island." Sir Travors Clarke, you may trains would carry the fish to tho accept it as definitely decided country towns. Ho was cautious, that there will bo no Rodao-howevet, and experimented with Exhibition at Wombley Park in one trawler, and finally disposed 1925."
DAILY HUMOUR.
CHAEL
BY BARE YET
FLOWER GIRL'S "STRIKE"
A Hghtning "strike" was called
of it what he could get. Now among the flower girls round; the South Wales gatherod its "flost "fountain in Plocadilly-oirous last of trawlers and added heavily to month to protest against the in- its deficit. This la atory as trusion of a coster woman with a told by tho Agent-General baskot of oranges. Laden with
in that Stato, The trawlors that a large stock sho took up hor pitch enst £134,000, and wore valued at the foot of Eros and propared The flowor on the books of the State at £202,to sell her wards. 000, wero shown to be worth £32,-girls were taked by surprise, but 900 when sold in the open market. immediately they realised what The trawlors and other "assets" was going on they began an which cost the Stato £206,755 agitation for her removal. An were worth only £50,771 when the appeal was made to the polloo, Government had to sell thom. who, discovering that the intruder The total loss on the romance had no licence, moved, her on, was £317,000. Thus endeth a Protesting vigorously that or Labour dream, a vision, and the anges were sweeter than violets, THE "UNEASY" CHAIR.
taxpayers are loft to foot the the womsh then retired in the
direction of Boho, -Sunday Ohronicle, Manchester bill-Brisbane Courier.
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