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those, the Government can como forward and ask for a big vote on an entirely new rond on the main- land, for which there is no" de mand, we cannot imagine. "First things first" is a motto of which the Government nover appears to
DAY BY DAY.
TITE GREATEST MERIT OF BOME MEN' IS THEIR WIFE-Poincelot.
The P. and O. a.a, Nellore, from Singapore, is due here at 6 am. on
the 25th Instant::
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The name of Mr. Leslie Owen Ross, has been added to the list of authorised architects.
"The name of The Ping On Bandit Risk Insurance Co., Ltd., has been struck off the Register,
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Tenders are being invited for the construction of a reinforced concrete covered service reservior, at North Polat
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mt, Roger Soama Jenyas to be an Assistant to the Secretary, for Chinese Affairs,
have heard: Another far more urgent matter than the Sai Kung road which we might mention is the widening and strengthening of Kennedy Road to permit of its use. Part of the for motor trafile. road from the, western end is at present open to such traffe, but this can be of little use until the whole of the thoroughfare la dealt with! If that were done, there would be very little necessity for motorists to pass through the Chinatown district of Wanchai, which is one of the most .con- gested spots on the island today. How much better to push on with a scheme of this character than to fritter away public money on an unwanted road on the mainland?
Any number of other necessities not alone in respect of roads, could be quoted as being prefer able to this new thoroughfare across the harbour. Better gaol, hospital and market accommoda-dissolved. tion, a vehicular ferry and a host of other needs instantly occur to one in this connexion. These are the things upon which the Govern-
It is notified that the tender of Messrs. Wo Hing for the purchase of Sanitary Department Barge S.D. "C" for $350 has been accepted.
It is notified that at the ex- piration of three months, the New Territories Building & Agricu!- tural Development Co., Ltd., and the China Shun Nung Shih. Co., Ltd.; will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the companies will be
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The Forbes Russell Comedy Com- pany presented "March flares" at the Theatre Royal last night. This comedy new to Hongkong, abounds
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ON
PORCHES IN GENERAL An American Institution Praised.
been almost unknown in the Old World.
One of my chief distinction is the publication of an essay on the peculiar advantages of the Some day, perhaps, someone will upper porch, when appeared a write of the porch is one of the most exactly four years ago in this revealing manifestations of Ameri very column. I call it a distine can experience in its peculiar on- tion, not because of any particular vironment. At the moment we merit which, I can claim for my can merely remember that amid modest sketch, but because, to my all the architectural variety of knowledge, no one had ever write Europe, the home of the people ten upon this important subject have remained practically porch- before. In my essay I explained less. Whatever the reasons may how I had tested various surround-be-and one might suggest the ings as general study, headquar- desire for greater compactness” to tors for the summer season, tenta, meet the needs, both of economy tree-platforms and various kinds and defence the Old World sub- of seats shaded and unshaded, by stitute has been a different kind the seashore and the banks of of outward extension, smaller and streams. And I made confession often elaborately beautiful, in the of my ultimate rejection of all form of the balcony. these and choice of the upper
If our European friends wish porch as regular study don. In to take us outside of their houses, recording my satisfaction with all they invite us into the garden, per- the featues of my special discovery haps into a covered arbout. But I observed, "When I can cross thoif they live on a city street, their ocean in summer I live on the up house presents a solid front to the per deck: when I cannot I live on outer world, only in the retire- the upper porch."
Naturally ment of the rear do they show drew comparisons to the disadvan- tages of all porches on lower levels, and I suggested all of the superior outlook which belongs to higher elevations.
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their true hospitality. In rural England the small dooryard, trim and bright with flowers, is a cheer- ful invitation to linger there..
But you are never asked to come ́up and sit on the porch-for there
is none.
MISSEN-On September 19th, at ment should utilise its revenue with amusing situations, of which ing. the particular problem of most rich and spacious, as well as
Copenhagen, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Nissen, a son.
The
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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY SEPT. 21, 1929.
On non-
the most was made by the Company, To-night the Theatre Royal season ends with "Good Morning, Bill. However, the Company will next week have a brief season at the Star Theatre in Kowloon.
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before launching out urgent projects of the type under notice. Above all, there should be concentration on essential schem- es which have been started but never finished. If a list of these Shipping is warned that between were made! the Government would the 15th and 31st October, 1929, anti-aircraft gun practice will be soon find that it had ample work carried out from a position ad- on which to employ its funds jacent to the road between Shek O Gap and Cape. D'Agullar in without bothering over fancy pro-latitude 22° 13'5 N., longitude 114° jerts which can well be left over 14'6 E. (Chart No. 1466). The
danger 18 contained between two for future attention.
lines drawn 180 and 239° from this position and the are of a circle 5% miles therefrom..
Nothing of what I wrote then can I retract now. But porches
Among the more elaborate hou in general, upper and lower, of ses of some lands on, the Canti- every kind are no less fascinating ment you may be fortunate enough. to me at this particular time. At to be asked to visit open court least some of my readers have yards surrounded by colonnades or faced, perhaps are even now fac porticoes, which make one of the planning the design and construc- ancient, features of architectural tion of a house, and this means of invention. coursts at least one porch. (It
It is, indeed, the portico, more were quite unthinkable that an elaborate and imposing In itself building which could call itself and in name, from which our more a home should be deprived of what formal American "porch baa the dictionary coldly describes as sprung.. But porticoes were al an "exterior appendage."). Only ways too grand for ordinary dwel- when we must make a choice lings. They were fit only for the among the innumerable alluring homes of lords or for the publie possibilities of the verandas which buildings of the city. It is we we must live on and live with who have domesticated the portico every day through the years, do of the few and made it a porch for we come to a realization of the full all import of them. Suppose also I am, then, singing the praises that you must fit your own part of the American porch. It speaks cular porch design into the pic of a twofold desire for an open- ture of a street, and that you are ness of living: a friendly wish to strictly regulated in the latitude remain partly in the world of permitted you in this pattern. other human beings, even when This is, the condition which one is at home; the unconscious Attractive as the Sai Kung
porta for the week ended Saturday now happen to face. Your porch desire, while still partly sheltered, Road scheme' may appear, we find son to view with special sympathyst, issued by the Director of must be exactly aligned with all to remain closer to nature than ourselves at one with the majority the points raised by the Hon. Sir Medical and Sanitary Services, others in the row, both for the four inclosing walls would per of the Unofficial Members of the Shou-son Chow, in Legislative gives the following cases, the sake of the aesthetic values in the mit. A special privilege and even figures in parenthesis indicating total effect and for the mainten-birthright, then, the porch would Legislative Council when they ae- Council on Thursday, regarding deaths: Plague, Alexandria, 4ance of complete equality among seem to be for every home in Am- sert that it is a project which is the Government's method of pre- (2), Bassein 1 (2), Rangoon (1), all of the home-owners. Accord- erica. at present premature. That the paring and presenting the Bud Singapore 1 (1), Fnom Penh 2 ing to the further prescriptions, tion of regret for the all too num- Cholera, Calcutta. (15), you must not inclose your porcherous blocks of porchless row- The notes are (2); Joad will run through beautiful get Estimates.
so that no one may shut off the ous streets of our cities. For the with possibilities of frequently scanty to the point of Karachi (6), Bangkok 4, Chin with anything but screen or glass.houses which line the more popul- country, building sites on all hands, cannot burlesque, the actual cost of the wangtao 2, Chemulpo 1, Osaka 8. vistas of another shoreward. In dwellers in these I can only wish Shanghai (4), Newchwang 1, Swatow (7): Small-pox, Berbera 8, the light of all of these conditions, as ample a back porch as a
the understand how absorbing with as pleasing a view osible the whole question of porches be-be
A PREMATURE PROJECT.
be disputed, but that such sites would be taken up to any extent
venient season..
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Budget Presentation.:
The Press of the Colony has rea-
The health bulletin of Eastern'
Aden 1. Bombay 6 (5), Calcutta (6), Cochin 4, Karachi 8 (3), 16 (7), Moulmein 2, Negapatam 1, Batavia 1 (8), Macasser 4 (2), Dairen 1.
Madras
KWANGSI NOTES.
SOLD IN CANTON AT 85
PER CENT. DISCOUNT..
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If all mankind can be divided into the two classes of those who appreciate porches and those who do not, there can be no question that he belongs to the unfortunate group.
Yet it requires but little im
I must venture a sugges-
WHO WAS L ROLAND.
A gigantic young. count, eight feet high, Roland was the most trusted `commander in the grand army of his uncle, the Emperor Charlo- magne,
different departments is in many cases impossible of discovery. however diligent the research, is very much open to question. If
largely owing to the grouping ay-
How formal and inadequate age," but an integral necessity of Not a mere "exterior append- it were the case that most of the tem which is carried out in re-
then is the description in the every house that is home, is the available sites on other motor roadspect of items quite apart from the
dictionary! "Porch: An ex informal friendly porch. From on the mainland were occupied, Cadet, Senior Clerical and Junior
terior appendage to a building it one may see the world go. there would be a strong argument Clerical Services, while year after
forming a covered approach of While still in the midst of one's vestibule to a doorway; a covered family, one may hail the passing in favour of pushing on with the year votes are made which, judg
way or entrance whether enclosed friend or acquaintance and invite Sai Kung scheme, but,
or unenclosed!" Almost grotes him into the circle. And if the 48 the ing by results, might well come
quely incomplete, I contend, is any weather be at all propitious, what Unofficials were able to show, this under the heading of "face." The
such picture as this. The man can be a better place for the soli- is not the case. In the cireum- truth lies at the bottom of a very
who wrote that definition in all tary hours with a book or one's a very salutary
Cantón, Sept. 19. ·
probability never had to build own thoughts, or best of all for a stances, the proposed circular road deep well, and
change in system is essential if During the last provincial war, porch. I doubt if he ever owned talk alone with your friend? P. K. cannot be described otherwise
the real facts are to be given the General Wang Shad-hung issued a or even enjoyed one. It sounds in the. Christian Science Monitor. than as a luxury motor thorough full light. On the point of classi- large quantity of notes for the pay-suspiciously as if his experience fare. Its total cost is put at well fying the junior clerical service ment of Kwangsi troops. These had been limited by a two-by-four back porch, a plain bare necessity, over a million dollars, of which separately, there art two distinct notes after the war have become which in the homely Dutch Ameri- two lakhs are car-marked for the views both of which contain merit. practically worthless, as they have can phrase is designated as coming year. As, however, Under the old system, it is argu- ceased to become legal tender. Re- "stoop."
however, the money satisfies no necessity, it can well ed, the exact cost of a department cently, be postponed until a more con- could be ascertained. Sir Re-chingers in Canton have started to ginald Stubbs, the author of the buy in these Kwangal notes at 85% The strongest argument against change, dissented from this view-discount. Enquiry as to the rea point, expressing the opinion that son for this buying reveals that the Kwangsi Government is con- a start being made on this road is the argument was not strictly ac- templating the redemption of these that there are many other more curate in view of the fact that notes by exchanging them with the pressing claims either waiting to cost of clerks changed almost Kwangsi Bund Construction Bonds, be put in hand or pushed on to monthly, the amount estimated,Canton News Agency. completion." From every stand- therefore, probably being far dif
the actual cost point, it is more desirable that ferent from
ed,
till we might be forgiven for to the Treasury. He also urged doubting if the intention was ever money be spent on these than on a
that the grouping saved con- project of very doubtful value. Let siderable expenditure in time and extant. The Salyingpun" Market us take the matter of the road stationery ht the Treasurer's Of and the No. 2 Police Station were from Causeway Bay to Quarry Bay fice, We are not at all satisfied," to have $350,000 this year, but the Government proposes to spend as a case in point. This is a big however, that the old. system was
In Japan, China, India, we 'find these lightly built open areas with scheme, designed to meet a press- not the bettar: To arrive at the $40,000 as a maximum. The same ing need, which has for some in- present cost of a department, remarkable disparity between the floor and roof and without walls. explicable reason been lamentably which after all is the test of value estimates and the revised esti- except for sliding partitions of delayed.. Two years ago, provi- received, if not necessarily of mates is to be found in other paper or screens; most inviting they have proved adaptable, we sion was made, in the Estimates efficiency, laborious checking and items, the result being that the and pleturesque. And so far as Cross-checking is demanded which Government contracting to spend. have taken over similar designs for 1928, for $53,000 to be spent is quite unnecessary. The pro- say, 35,000,000 on PW.E. In a year, for the sunnier climes or for our on a very small portion of it. vision of adequate explanations, is actually does work to the value of own continent, just as we have only. Some naturalized the old Sanskrit word Subsequently, the catimate was also a matter worthy of the earn-about $1,500,00 revised at $23,000, the intention est attention of Government, if times, be it noted, the money la veranda for ourselves. Thus have being to complete this part in only to save the Unofficial Mem- diverted in the rush of Finance we might commonly suppose. 1928. Up to the end of that year, bers from lumbering up with Committee meetings, to some pet Even a fully developed porch as however, not a single cent had trivialities addresses on matters scheme of Government. If the an integral part of a dwelling to been expended, and the position of Importance. Close scrutiny of last two or three years are to be be used as a constant centre of do the Estimates for several years accepted as a fair example of the mestic living and individual en- joyment, we owo scarcely at all to to-day is that on a re-revised esti past reveals another striking fact, annual difference between promise our European background. In the mate of $30,000, half may be which has not recoiyed the at- and performance, we would sug-eastern part of America, before spent this year the remainder intention it deserves. We refer to gest that the D.PW. undertake a any Asiatic Influence had produced 1930. Meanwhile, the main pro- that "popular" Vote,
Public thorough reorganisation of the ject remains untouched. How, in Works Extraordinary. Appropria system which operates in seeking the face of circumstances such as tlons are made and never expend-provisions.
agination to picture the significant role which porches have played in all times and all stages of human development. Their advantages were among the earliest dis- coveries of our race. In the tropical lands, which we associate with primitive men, most of the needs of mere shelter seem to have been served by rude open galleries which were the beginning of the the Orient to-day.
more or less elaborate verandas of
we become far more Oriental than
an effect, we had spent our days In the open, which is one of the distinctive expressions of our New World civilization, and which had
With Oliver, his friend and comrade-in-arms always by. his side, Roland, won many glorious victories over the Saracens, but was at length slain in the valley of Roncea- valles as a result of a terrible piece of treachery. He was leading the rearguard of the - army, and when hotly pressed by the enemy sounded his magic horn to summon the assistance of the main body......... Charlemagne heard the horn, but owing to a con- spiracy. at his own head- quarters, it proved to be im- possible to reach the soroly beset. forces in time. Roland and Oliver, together with. many another doughty, war rior, were found dead and Durrounded by a host of enemy corpsed.
Roland's horn" is a term you will often come across In literature, and you have no doubt heard the phrase, to give a Roland for an Oliver," which means to give tit for tat.:
Roland is the hero of many poems and dreams, but none more famous than Theruulde's ...) “Chanson de 'Roland,”