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We cite these Instances to show that even in Crowit Colonies which are far more backward in develop ment than Hongkong, the public has a direct interest in government.
IN CHARACTER, IN MANNERS, IN Here in this Colony, our Unofficials STYLE, IN. ALL THINGS, THE SUPREME are either nominated by the Gover-EXCELLENCE IS SIMPLICITY.-Long-
fellow, nor or else selected by privileged Lodies. This system, we suggest, ไฟ absolutely out-of-date. Apart From the question of an Unofficial majority, of which we are not great-
The name of Mr. Henry Jemson Tebbutt has been added to the List of Authorized Architects.
The names of Mr. Frank Ikin
1930.
BEVERLEY NICHO LS on
RIVIERA UNDRESS.
fcome no tantalised by the process SOMEWHERE ON THE RIVIERA.
of tanning that they cling to the CONCERNING” the physique of beach like limpots, day in and day
the lady
and will desert husbands, on my left, whose gut. back, bare to the walet, is of homes and children for the flere
However, even
sun.'
ly enamoured, ratepayers surely | mil“Mr. Ling-Man-i-have-been add-fering itself to the sun, there is xins of the sun they will be all.
should have the right to choose their cd to the list of auditors under the
companies Ordinances. own representatives. We are aware that the seiretion of an appropriate Passengers arriving here by the electorate right present difficulties,.. President Taft included Capl. F. R. Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. but these are not by any means in- V. Searle, and Mr. Wallace superable. We have the systems in Harper. vogne in other Crown Colonies as
At
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COUNCIL REFORM.
heard in
of the age is toward democratisplion
know.
really little that I do not Also concerning the ladies on the right in October, when the first cold right--in fact on any part of this wind bites them in the back. The bine and magical shore.
ever been before,
+
Yet, am I Alled with joy or dis-eat of us are anner than we have Consider the queation of pyjamas. may about them? am not.
Nor would you be. Nor would if you saw the Duchess of Wrex anybody except a locni authority at walking down Piccadilly at six some British seaside resort. Not o'clock in the evening wearing that the women-nor the men-pyjamas and sucking an orange you will down here are Incking in physical would call for a large (and wo
policeman. are some absurdly hope liberal-minded) an example of what could be one
beautiful people-brown and gay who would promptly conduct the charm. There or even the existing electoral roll
lady to a home of rest. And dext and slender. an applied to sur ewa Sunitary
They are as nearly naked as they day the papers would be full of can be. But the question of naked-headlines about "Duchess's Strange Board might serve the purpose. a time when there is sitting in Lon-
Lieutenant-Colonel Lennox God-nens never enters one's head. I am Pranic."
But when the duchess walks down But honestly, a little toy street on the Riviera in don a special conference to considerfrey Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E.. on return no more innocent and no less human
from leave has assumed command than anybody elne.
It is quite an effort to bring my pyjamas nobody even turns hía the grant of Hominion Status to
of the Hongkong Volunteer De-
mind to the point of realising that head. Why should he? What is there are people who would think farmy about a woman in pyjamas? Everybody knows they wear them. it very wrong. * In our Pictorial Supplement to-
Huko advertisements in newspapers of government, the suggestion that day, the son of Sir Robert Ho Tung That seems to me grossly illogical. are filled with pictures proclaiming
I can at least understand the point the fact. After all,
a pair of the elective principle should be re-who is A.D.C. to General Chang
pyjamas ส
It is not a mystie robe. cognised in the chotes of Unofficial such-liang is described as a Lieut- of view of the ascetle Puritan who
enent. In point of fact, his rank frowns at some woman in exquisite merely piece of material, cut into members here cannot be described is that of Captain.
clothes, with artful powders and passionate perfumes, and enticing very sensible shape, which women
wear because it is comfortable. ww anything but a very mild and ren-
The Silk forwarded from Hong-jewels. He can say, with obvious If people with old-fashioned, re- sonable request. The reason why Hongkong hus remained so long in kong by the Empress of Canada trath, that she is endeavouring to pressed and twisted minds choose R 30th October arrived to New appeal to men, which, in his opinion, to anigger at the sight, so much the the backwash is no doubt
(SL. John's Park)
worse for them. I can only and is apparently deplorable.
But I can not understand him that it all seems very ord
ordinary found in the fact that the public | Hoboken on the 19th November. 1 when he condemns a woman for a healthy to mo. And I am quite cer.
having been 20 days in transit.
artificial ni-cal pearing without any
tain that it must be very bad for lurement, plunging tuto, the sea, the His Excellency the Governor has and then dancing about in the sun-ne busineas, of certain salacious change appointed Subedar Major Shah (ight like a grown-up baby. Hofplaywrights who think that they need only show a woman in pyjama Zamnan Khan, 3rd Battalion 9th my think it undignified, ugly, unfor the entire audience to be filled hat Regiment, to be one of his feminine, but why he should think with unholy delight. If the audi-
Alden-de-Camp. vice it indecent passes my imagination.ence were composed exclusively of" Honorary Subedar Hikmat, 3/16th Punjab It is no more Indecent than the people who had spent the summer Regiment.
here they would be at first puzzled and then bored.
to be
York
has been quiescent on the matter. So long as that attitude remains, We cannot hope for any Past experience in other Colonies
to
sunlight.
think
concessions has shown that Not much
bas xen
popular demands have only been Hongkong, for some years just, ofsecured by vigorous representation. constitutional reform. None the We are told that communities every-
The Gazette notifies that the sum If nakedness makes you less, the public will doubtless have where usually get the Government
"What is she going on like that she has ON learned with interest that the ques- they deserve. Another way of ex-of $10 in prescribed as the remun-about the body at all, it makes you for just beenuse
Pyjamas?" they would ask. tion is being raised in the Straits pressing this thought would be toleration to be paid to each examiner, think about it with respect. If not being a salaried offlcer of the your body is ugly or weak or fat,
each you try to do something about it. Government, in respect of Settlements, where a demand has say they will only get the full mea-
in fact, I think it is high time sure of reasonable control of their examination conducted by a Board For example: A rich sugar mer that silly people stopped muttering sprung up for Official and Unofficial own alfalts by asking for it. Hong-of Examiners under the provisions chant arrived here last year in July nonsense about the immorality of equality in both the Executive kong has suffered by its silence. If of Section 6 of the Pilot Ordinance, with one wife, one child. and one the Riviera. I do not claim that very large corporation-all bolongwe have achieved, down here, the and Legislative Counells, the Gover- it riade its demands sufficiently 1910.
ing himself. He had never sun-Age of Innocence, but I am sure the right nor to have the casting vote in each strong to be heard in
Mr. Wilbur Voliva, proprietor bathed before and he had not realia that we are much nearer to it than instance. The direct clection of quarter, and if these demands were
and manager of the Zion institute, the extent to which his figure Councilor Jenkins, of Mudford-on- Unofficial members is also urged, in reasonable in character, there would linois, was a passenger by the 8.8. had deteriorated. He had been an Sen, when he is making speeches which arrived used to concealing it behind long about the importance of wearing place of nomination, und for this be some hope of much overdne re- President Taft,
accontables when he was presiding at bathing dresses which do not ex- Mr. board meeting, of hanging gold tend more than three inches below
watch chains on It, of guiding it the nape of the neck.
purpose a l'anel of Voters has been sagrester, to consist of British sub- jects. The presumption is that all people born in the Colony would be regarded as eligible for the vote, provided they came within one or other of the suggested groups. "The classification, especially when it emmes to distinguishing between
forms being instituted.
here yesterday. Bc in panied by his wife and by Joseph Depew, chief announcer and manager of Radio Station into rich limousines, that he had WCBD., of Zion, Illinois, and the really come to regard it almost as Carl La gift, or at least as a commercial Jutter's secretary, Mr.
luth.
PILOTAGE BOARD OF RENT OF PIERS.
asset.
But here, on the bench, with the pitiless sun shining upon it and the rude waves buffeting it, he saw Only too clently that it was nothing but
in
LANE-NORCOTT
JUMPS BACK
IN DISMAY.
large and very regrettable pro- tuberance. He looked about him A reader who has followed my........ und saw lean, brown bodies leaping little chats to parents with great to ask my the surf, saw men twice his age attention has written PERSONNEL NOW DECIDED with figures like arrows, and he views on the steeple-jacking in
dustry. swore a great oath,
"We--that is, Mother and " Ho stopped drinking with meals.
UPON.
Strikes in the Offing. A position of acute difficulty in relation to wages appears to be developing simultaneously in the railway and mining Industries and Britain will be fortunate if it escapes serious strikes in the next few weeks. In the mining indus- try. the clash will come over the various callings, is a trifle puzzling. thirty minutes daily. In York- extension of working hours by
the more so seeing that one of the
shire and a large part of the Mid- groups in komprehensively referred | lands, where the underground to as "Ratepayers." il? should working time is unchanged by the It is notified in the Gazette for He lunched en fruit. He gave up writes this reader, "are wondering have thought this was a case in Coal Mines Act, there is no sign general information that the fol- beer as a nightcap. He went for if it would be wise to apprentica have been long walks in the heat of the after-our Ernent to the steeple-jacking of trouble, but in South Wales lowing gentlemen which the farger included the lesser.
appointed by His Excellency the noon sun. And slowly but surely trade. I maintain that the work, and Scotland, there In deepening Governor Except that it is an interesting apprehension, and the
BR members of the the corporation faded away. To being where it is, would keep him Labour Pilotage Board of Examiners: day he has a figure like a boy. out of mischief, and his mother thinks that the fresh air would do indication of the spirit of the organ, the Daily Herald, quite open- The Deputy Harbour Master times, we are not concerned with the ly forecasts a strike. The situn (President). Singapore movement.
tien la not made easier by the fact that the owners have failed to pre however, an a reminder that Coun-
sent any specific proposals, but cll reform in Hongkong 'is long
even if they were forthcoming, overdue. When we take a look at
there is reason to doubt the like- the other Crown Colonies, it is at hood of mutual accommodation. once seen that Hongkong is with The National Board, to which the the small majority which has dispute might have been referred, neither Unofficial predominance nor
has not been set up, the Mining the elective principle. Let us look Association having refused to at one or two of these more for-nominate members, an action tant- amount to a refusal to recognise lunate Colonies. Bahamas, Bar the right of such a Board to ad- badoes and Bermuda cach have, bejudicate. The marketing arrange. siles the Executive and Legislativements have not been in operation Councils, House of Assembly com-long enough to materially improve posed of elected Unoffieinls On 1
serven,
moderate franchise, British Guiana has an Unofficial majority on the Legislative Council, all but five of whom are elected, Honduras and Ceylon both have Unofficial majori- Lics, whilst the elective principle applies to the choice of Unofficials in Fiji, the Goid Conat, Jamaica, the Ledward Islands, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone And Trinidad, to name only a few. The franchise, in most instances, is based on a property qualification. In the case of Jamalen there is an
interesting provision In the Con- stitution to the effect that if all the fourteen Unofficials are unanimous on a resolution, they cannot be over- ridden unless the Governor declares the matter to be against the pubile interest, whilst the votes of nine Unofficials suffice to carry any financial mesSUTO.
the economic position, and alto- gether the outlook is grave. The railway position is alno very un- certain, though giving less cause for alarm. The truce period end- ed a week ngo, and the Managers immediately ceased the oppor tunity to present wage-cutting de- mande, which the mon are certain- ly not in the mood to accept. The financial position of the railways admittedly, is one inslating upon retrenchment, but the N.U.R., the R.C.A. and the Locomotive Men's Association 'are unanimous in re-
slatance. The first-named organi. pations have gone oven: further, the executive of the N.U.R, having
suggested an adult minimum wage of £3 weekly, which represents an Increase and comparen with the 38/- offered by the Managers. Tho safeguard hero is the National Wages Board, to which the die- pute will undoubtedly require to be aubmitted, but the wide margin of difference is not a good ́augury for a satisfactory compromise.
An Officer of the Royal Navy. Mr. Charles Butler Riggs. Mr. Reginald Dowsett Thomas. Mr. Arthur William Heron.
TAR
People tell you that society goes him good. Do you know anything mad on the Cote d'Azur in summer. about steeple climbing as a buel- I should have thought this was oneness and can you advise us? of the few occasions when society. Well, it is no use boating about becamo sane. Of course there are the bush, I suppose. I may as well a few sun-crazed women who beadmit, here and now, that I am utterly ignorant of this peculiar profession. Still, frankly, I don't like it.
'Now we've chocked the rilloago-just wall' till the guv'nor starts his line about how far he had to go to get to school'
Of course, I can quite understand that this lad-this Ernest will be fascinated by steeples at first. They will possess his every waking thought.
"Oh, Mother!" he will exclaim at breakfast. "I'm going up such a lovely steeple to-day! And I'm going to take my catapult with me Loot Just you see if I don't bring you back n pigeon for dinner!"
And so, full of glamorous hopes for the future, this young lad-thle steeple- Ernest commences his jacking
ho
his
career. Sometimes
comes home with a plump bird for mother, and at other times he picks off a small gargoyle In paa- sing and brings it back for his dad.
Poor
big-hearted boy! He has yet to learn of the drawbacks to his
trade.
And then, as I see it for Cupid. the little rogue, has his way with
s all-Love dawns. Thie ydung ind-this Ernest-meets a young girl. Let us say, that Mabel.
Alas, what inaccessible, tiresome things steeples must seem to him now. Two hundred and fifty foot to climb down each time ho wishes to telephone to his dear one! Two hundred and Arty weary fest to climb up again after two wrong. numbers and a "No reply." How he must wish then that he had ro- firmo or GYOD taken situation with
timo goes of sitting on on and the long- Hinoge which to part church tops eats into his soul; may wo not suppose that this lad this Ernest begins to doubt ble little
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