THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
1926
HOTELS
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL. REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.",
... AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
Telegraphic Address:
HOTELS. LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel, Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNOH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Polephone Central 373
Telographic Address . “ Vioronca **
KOWLOON HOTEL
Premier Hotel in Kowloon
RATES:- Daily
$5.00 Upwards
Monthly $120.00 do
MODERN TOILET SYSTEM Elevator and Telephones to each floor. SALOON BAR & BUFFET.
Manager's personal attention. Tols:- K. 608 & K. 609.
Tel Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong
Tal: Address:
"Glenealy" Hongkong.
GLENEALY HOTEL. 84, Glenonly
Wm. Harold Perry,
Manager.
Telophone C. 980...
(Near Dairy Farm). Splendidly situated, with
A first class Residential and Tourist Hotel. "ta easy walking distance of all business centros: Large airy rooms. Hot and Cold water. Excellent Culatae under the personal supervision of the Proprietress Monthly and family rates at moderate terms.
For further particulars apply to:
"
MRS. FREDERICKS, Proprietress.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel Address. "PALÁCE." Tel Kowloon No. 82
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Forry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management, Electric Light and Fann through- Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terme moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress.
crut,
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
ERVEN LUCAS
BOLS
QUAD DECANTER Four Liqueurs in one bottle
A saving of time and
A joy to the eye.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. (Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances of Hongkong.)
Telephone 75 Central. 15. Queen's Road C.
Take her to the Pictures I
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL,
SPLENDID WORK OF THE SOCIETY
The annual report of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul states that the expenditure in 1925 was 8720- over receipts, Grateful thinks are tendered to the public of Hongkong, for its generous response to two appeals. The, council also places on record its regret at the death of Sir Paul Chatervand Mr. Ho Fook
The net proceeds were $14,849 as against $20,626, la 1924, and in consequence of this decrease the Soelety has been obliged to curtail its activities, as the following figures show.
Money and
provisions Rent... Clothing and
"SHOBA
Education
1925 1924
$8,100.00 $8,985.14 2824.18 2,750.02
+
218.45 268.80
4,097.32, 6,418.29
To provide relief to urgent cases and to meat a higher rental for the Home for Aged Poor, disburse- menta under the following head- ings were increased."
1926, 1924,
Medical Ald...$454.40 $358.00 Home for Aged
Poor....
2,184.89 1,075.44 The.Rellef Work.. • From January to September, 1282 visits were made to the poor and 97 families comprising 208 per- sons, irrespective of race or creed, have been regularly relieved,
Owing to the smaller revenue it' has been necessary to reduce allow. aces in many cases, and to sug- pand others. The expenditure for the first 9 months of this year was $5,504.00 as against $6,308.00, for the same period in 1925,
Owing to a large numbor of flats becoming vacant, cheaper housing accommodation has been availablo and there was less assistance sought for from the Society under this heading during the year. The, expenditure for the 9 months, January to September, 1926, was $696.10.
However, on account of dull trade and retrenchment in many business establishments the Society had to come forward, on several occasions, to the assistance of some poor families in their plight against distraint for rent, and the sum of $146.00 was spent to relieve such cases.
Besides providing clothing and shoea for the children of the poor, to enable them to attend school, the Society spent during 1925, $370.44 for blankets and woollen auit lengths, and a spedal grant of $88.00 for clothing and unbrellas was made to the orphans at the Blind Home in Shaukiwan. These items are accounted for under "special grants."
Central Reference Office.
ROYALTY DUE TO-MORROW.
Above is a happy anapshot of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden, who are due here aboard the 5.3. Katori Maru to-morrow morning. They will spend only part of a day here, as the vessel by which they leave
departs at p.m..
of study for children living in y over-crowded tenements, and fifty boys are avalling themselves of this facility.'
Subsidy Wanted.
EMPIRE ISSUES.
(Continued From Page 1.) "
The Society's expenditure on this school up to 30th September, 1926, rants to New Zealand have been was $938.00. This expense is a agreed upon. Southern Rhodesia heavy drain on the Society's re- is considering co-operation with Rources, which depend entirely on Britain for reduced passages to Canada's 8,000 families the uncertain results of each there. annual Bazaar. It would be a pity scheme has proved a conspicuous
there was gen to have to curtail, for the lack of success and funds, the scope of activities of eral agreement in Committee, that this school. The School Commit
come a permanent feature of tee have, therefore, applied to the this form of settlement should be Government, for a subsidy, and the
of the Governments of Bri- Council hopes that this appeal will joint Overseas Settlement policy Measures to meet with sympathetic response.
success were approved the Anglo-Australian
The Society also pays fees for tain and Canada. cleven poor Chinese girls attend- ensure ing the Tack Ving School. This is under a new school, in Wanchai for £34,000,000 scheme for assisting Chinese girls, and is doing very 1,000 families to settle there in a useful work in that district. period of four years.
The object of the employment In consequence of the general bureau is to find suitable employ- trade depression the Society had ment for poor boys and girls on to deal with a larger number of leaving school, and also to assist applicants under the heading of others who may be out of employ- Temporary Relief and Passages toment by bringing to their notice Europeana and Other Destitutes particulars of any vacancies. from outside the Colony.
Among them there were many who were entire strangers, and it has been difficult for the Society to investigate the merits of such.
cases.
EMPIRE FILM
The report on the exhibition within the Empire of Empire cinematograph films, which was also. approved by the Conference, 're- During the period under review commended, with a view to correct- employment was found for four ing the prosent preponderance of foreign films, that the following girls and seven young men.
Under the care of the Little remedial measures be considered by Effec- Sisters of the Poor, 75 old people the various Governments. are now domiciled In St. Joseph's tive customs duties on foreign Home for the Aged Poor, Kowloon aims, whether accompanied by a Tong Home.
The excellent arrangements made change in the basis on which duties with the Tung: Wah and Kwong are payable, or otherwise; ample Was Hospitals whereby the cases preference or free entry for films of old and entirely destitute per- produced within the Empire; and sons left in the hands of these aos-the imposition of requirements as pitals after treatment would be to renting or exhibition of a mini- received by the Home, should muin quota of Empire films. accommodation be available, have British Wirelcsa." been working very successfully.
Thanks to the generosity of a large number of contributors, and with the aid of the Society, and
The B. I. steamer Talma, which.
In a few instances the Council co-operated with the Hongkong Benevolent Society and therefore welcomes the scheme of the CS.P. for the establishment of a Central Reference Offee to be financed by the Government and the various charitable Societies, to which all such persons needing assistance should be directed. The scheme will not only prevent over-tapping but assist very much the work of investigation. It is hoped that it will soon be in working order.
The expenditure under this head- a grant of $20,000 from the Gov- left Singapore yesterday, is" due' ing was $588.42 in 1925, while for ernment in substitution for the here on the 25th instant at 7 a.. the first nine months assistance grant of land at Kowloon City, to the extent of $425.65 had already originally offered to the Sisters. 38 been given. This included six a site for a Home, the Little Sisters
Notices have been placed at the passages to Shanghal, one to have been able to buy a property. Tientsin, one to Mexico and aat Ngau Chi Wan, outside Kowloon various lodge gates in Windsor grant of $200.00 was made to the City, for a permanent Home for the Greut, Park, warning the public Hongkong Benevolent Society in aged. The Council considers it an not to approach the red deer dur- ing October, as they are. consider- co-operating with diem in the excellent acquisition.
It wound take sometime to con-ed dangerous.. rollef of a distressed' family re-
vert these buildings iuto suitable turning to England.
quarters for the requirements of a Home. The work of reconstruc- tion is going on, and the Little' Sisters are anxious to move in,28, soon as possible; as, for want of
The Sixth Extra Race Meeting accommodation in the present buildings they have been frequently will be held (wheaher permitting, obliged to refuse admission to many at Happy Valley, on Saturday 27th November, 1926, at 2.30 p.m. The really deserving cases.
The Council wishes to record first bell will be rung, at 2 p.m. here on behalf of the Little Sisters The charge for admission to the their deepest sense of appreciation Publle Enclosure will be $1,00 for to Dr. Smalley, Dr. Fehilly and Dr. IP Kam Wah for their honorary all persons including Ladies: Sol medical treatment of the aged Poor diers and Sailors in uniform half
price. and the Sisters,
The Society is grateful to some of the Shipping Companies for re- duction in their fares.
Education for Poor Children. The Society has always been deeply concerned in the provision of education. for the children of the poor.
The Education Sub-Committee organized last year: to look after the moral and intellectual improve ment of the students, and to pro- vide them with clothes, shoes, stationery, etc., when required, have been working very success fully. One boy and one girl have. passed the local University Exami nations with distinction.
Besides providing education for 146 children, of whom 68 are re-. ceiving an English education, the. Society is also maintaining five destitute orphan girls at the Italian Convont, Calne Road; and three boys at the St. Joseph's Seminary, Macno. The Council is grateful to these schools for reduced feca.
The Kailap a vernacular school. assisted by the Society for poor Chinese boys at Wanchai, continues to make progress. One of the school rooms is thrown opon every evening from 6 to 7.30 to provide la bright and well ventilated place
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
closure.
The report makes acknowledg- Members are advised that they ment of contributions and sub-must show their Badges to obtain scriptions, and appeals for support admission to the Members. En- when calls are made,
Each member has the right to Lord Byng of Vimty, newly re-introduce 2 non-members to the turned from Canada, only came Members Enclosure, tickets for back to his home, Thorpe Hall, whom can be obtained from Messrs: Thorpe-la-Soken, Essex, on Thurs-Linstead and Davis at $5 each day, and on the Friday night the up to Friday 26th November 1926. mansion was visited by burglars The charge for admission for and a quantity of jewellery and Ladies to the Members Encloure other articles stolen. Lord Byng will be 2-Each member can be made the discovery on retiring attain, upon application to the Secre
Ladies free of charge. light, when he found an upstairs tory, Badges for admission of window open:
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The
kid is back
The Joy Picture/
JACKIE
COOGAN Rag Man
The
again in just the kind of role that
made him famcus
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2.30
5.15
QUEEN'S
WORLD
William J. Locke's famous story The Tale of Triona filmed as
THE FOOL'S AWAKENING
TOM MOORE
and
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THE MYSTIC MAZE
By WALTER B. GIBSON
There are two entrances to this mystic muze.
If you pick the right one you will be able to find your way in and out through the passageways hid Back to your starting point without meeting an obstruction.
When you have discovered the cor- rect course, the line. you have made will form the outline of a picture. Fill in the outline with a pencil and Watch for the hidden picture as you will have the completed picture.
outline develop as you progress. To day's picture has something to do with you go along, and you will see the
man's speediest means of locomotion.
Saturday's pletu
Bedstead.