CHAMPAGNE POMMERY AND GRENO
Per Bottle
MRS. PANKHURST
TO-DAY.
MEN'S JOB TO PROVIDE
HOMES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FIRE STATION BUILDING.
PROBABLE DATE OF OPENING.
It is expected that the now Fire
Bir George Nowman, Chief Medi-Station building will be occupied cal Officer to the Ministry of between September and November, Health, addressing the delegates and the following Departments are to the annual conference of wo to be accommodated: men's institutes the other day,, told his hearers that scientifle care of children was needed, if we were
to create an Imperial raos.
the S. C. As Department on the In the Connaught Road portion, ground floor and first floor; the An increasing number of women Imports and Exports. Department are asking themselves how this on the ground, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th necessary, care can be given to all floors; the Education Department the children of the British people. Probably on the 3rd floor; the How can we give our children the Medical Department, and Govern- environment and the physical, ment Analyst's laboratories on the mental, and moral care required fourth floor; the Harbour Depart for the making of a race worthy ment, and Government Marine of its Imperial inheritance and Surveyors' offices probably on the and prepared for its great re-fourth floor; the Police Depart- sponsibilities? ..
ment on the ground floor, the
The proper rearing of a child Audit Department on the 3rd, and is an expansivo-process, and only Fire Brigade offices on the 5th
the fortunate few among parents floor. can as yet afford to give their In the Des Voeux Road portion, children all they should have to the Fire Brigade will have the 'make thèm as nearly perfect in ground floor and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd body and mind as is humanly pos-floors. The G. P. O. and postmen sible.-:
"Why Don't Men Get Together?"
Even if every child were born of healthy parents (which is far from
enough suitable homes, nor enough
$ 5.20 Dozen - $61.00 being the case). there are mot Half Bot. $ 2.75 food and clothing, ready for them after they are born. How to Dozen $32.00 procure and pay for these in-
Wine Claret Per Bottle $ 1.10
* DozenTM
$12.00 ried
Per Bottle Dozen
dispensable things is the constant. preoccupation of the majority of mothers.
While Dr. Newman, was, doll- vering his admirable speech to women in the Queen's Hall, I was standing with one of these wor women in Horscferry-road, Westminster. We were looking at the experimental six-roomed house built by unskilled labour at small cost and in an incredibly short space of time..
White Wine...
After reading the notice board, $ 1,20
my companion exclaimed: "If $13.00 houses like this can be built so cheaply and so quickly, why don't meu get-together and build them, and so save women and children from having to live in single rooms, or even going to the work house, for shelter? It is the men's job to provide homes, so they say. Why don't they stop quarrelling among themselves and do it?"
Millions of women to-day are asking the same question.
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His Duty-and Hers.
If it is the woman's duty to risk her life in childbirth, to nourish and care for the child in infancy ̈“(and no one' denies it is her duty}, then it is clearly the man's job to provide a suitable and secure. home and the necessary money to enable her to do her work pro- perly,
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The greatest service women can render to the nation and the race at the present time is to impress upon men collectively and indi- vidually that their most pressing 'duty is to provide homes for the rising generation. Let us insiat on more houses without loss of time, because we know that this. year: 700,000 women will bear 700,000 future citizens, and therefore the need for homes is more than ever urgent.
Let us see to it that the houses so greatly needed are adapted to modern requirements and equip ped with labour-saving appliances, ao "that domestic work shall, not entail long hours of hopeless drudgery.
An adequate and conveniently Floor.installed supply of water, gas, and
MASSAGE HALL 28 WYNDHAM STREET
MRS. H. MORITA.
FINDLATER'S
STAG'S HEAD BRAND BRITISH LAGER BEER
VERY LIGHT $17.00 PER CASE OF
6 DOZEN PINTS. Or $3, per dozen including duty delivered to your residenco,
Sold Agents
will be on the 4th floor, Police De- partment on the 5th door, and Im- ports and Exports Department on the 6th floor.
NO WITNESS.
POLICE COUP ́AT TAI WAN.
Not being able to And, the man whom he required to give evidence- in his defence, a Chinese who was
remanded from last week on a charge of possession of a revolver and three daggers was yesterday sentenced to four years hard labour by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill and Major C. Willson at the Kowloon Magistracy.
It will be recalled that on the
night of the 11th inst. à party of police officers under Sub-Inspector Stimson of the Kowloon City. Station lay in wait at Tai Wan and arrested three of four Chinese who were alleged to have been on their way to commit an armed robbery at Ngau Tau Kok. The men were intercepted and three were arrest- ed, the other escaping after several shots were fired at him.
"At a previous hearing two men received sentences of four years'. hard labour while the third- de- fendant was remanded tb call a witness, whom the prosecution stated yesterday "could not ba found at the addresezgiveHT
When our houses are built and furnished our work will really begin!
The Imperial citizen in prospect is an expensive as well as a pre- cious responsibility. He must be kept in good health, be well. fed, well clothed, "and well educated, There must be no scrimping and saving where the child is concern- ed. If we are to make a real sue cess of our job.
To economise at the expense of the child is a fatal policy: and yet we are faced with a most dif- ficult situation.
The war left us poor, and strikes and industrial disputes have made us poorer. How in the face of these hard economic facts are we to find the means for our great and patriotic task?
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The answer is to be found in.) the' exclamation of my chance ac- quaintance in the Horseferry- road: "Let the men-stop-quar- electricity should be compulsory relling among themselves" and in every house, however small; and no house must he built with-urn the necessary money. out, a bathroom In the family No More Class Warfare. house there must be not fewer than three bedrooms, comfortable living rooms, and a conveniently arranged-kitchen-
Recent experiments have proved that it is possible to provide such houses at a moderate-price
We-can-accomplish-the-task-of- creating an Imperial race when na tional unity and co-operation take the place of class hatred and class warfare, when arbitration takes the place of atrikes and lock-outs. It has also been proved that the which mean the reckless squander- necessary labour can be recruited ing of life and money. By means from-the-ranks-of-the-unemployed of co-operation and industrial The six-roomed concrete house I peace we shall acquire the nation- inspected in Horseferry-road is al wealth, prosperity and security. the work of unskilled men, and that are needed to secure the home I shall long remember the pride conditions, the education and the with which one of them (an ex- training that are essential for the Service man) showed me what creating and preserving of an Im- they have accomplished. He knew perial race. nothing of house-building when he started; but "There's nothing you can't do if you want to do it and use your brains," said he
and
Women by nature and inherited training and experience are vitally interested in the guardianship of the race. They are, now citizens. sharing with men the duties and Then-Strikes.cosponsibilitics of citizenship, and can do much to make men of all classes realise the seriousness' of the present situation.
The War, Can we not without further loss of time make an effort to settle the housing question and solve the problem of unemployment by Men and worgen alike must in building on a large scale the the national interest forget their
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ed, and must be provided before and develop the grent inheritance we can hope, for success in our of the British people-Emmeline task of creating an Imperial race? Pankhurst in Ex..
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926.
BANG
Go Prices!
AT THE FINAL WEEK
OF
WHITEAWAY'S SALE
MONDAY, August 30th to SATURDAY, September 4th
EXCESS STOCK AND ODDMENTS
MUST BE CLEARED
OF COST.
REGARDLESS OF
BARGAINS AT HALF-PRICE.
BARGAINS AT QUARTER PRICE.
SPECIAL BARGAIN TABLES
AT
$5.00 and $2.50
HALF PRICE BARGAINS
TOYS & GAMES
A Lot of Toys and Games to be
Cleared at Half price
CRACKERS & TABLE DECORATIONS
"Must be cleared to make room.
LADIES
for new stock coming
forward HALF PRICE:
cofs,
WATERPROOFS
A small lot of Ladies' Tweed and Cloth Waterproof Suitable for Winter use to be cleared at
HALF PRICE.
QUARTER PRICE BARGAINS
ART SILK UNDERWEAR
Consisting of Chemises, Vests, Knickers, Petticoats, etc. ALL TO BE CLEARED AT QUARTER PRICE,"
LADIES' DRESSES:
Lot to be Cleared at
QUARTER PRICE.
LADIES READY TO WEAR HATS
All new and up to date. Having overbought excere sick
must go at QUARTER PRICE,
Not Miss The Dollar Bargains
SOME WONDERFUL BARGAINS WILL BE PROCURABLE THIS WEEK.
REMNANT DAY, FRIDAY, Sept. 3rd, NOTE!
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW, & Co., Ltd.
HONGKONG.