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FRIDAY, DEC. 5. 1940,
RATING REFORM.
DAY BY DAY -
TRIDE 15 03SERVED TO DEFEAT (TS OWN END, HY BRINGING THE MAN · WHO SEEKS ESTEEM AND REVERENCE INTO CONTEMPT.--Bolingbroke.
the same locality are uniformly treated for purposes of rating. Here in Hongkong that is not neces sarily the cane, Indeed, it may so happen that two adjoining houses Identical in every respect may be ferently assessed for rating pur- poses simply beenuse, through for tuitous circumstances, they aro
The forthcoming wedding is nn-1 rented at different prices. The nounced of Mr. Joseph Harrop, of landlord of one may not ask soHuntington, Stubbe Rond, to Misa
Phyllis Margaret Goodall. Ava' landlord of the House, May Road,
much A the
other, or one
on long
appene
be
to
ils
mare be
ti
Li flm (18), an apprentice, was admitted as a mental case into the Government Civil Hospital yester day after being discovered acting in a strange manner at Central
Street.
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CHINESE Y.M.C.A.
a
LESLIE BISHOP on
WHAT OXFORD TAUGHT ME.
NOUR yours at a public schools But I would rather throw-daris
make Oxford seem at frat 11
In a pub with rowing hearty paradise of freedon-freedom than listen to painful and some- to drink, amoke, and luugh wicked-times deformed young men being ly in spacious rooms, which are clever at a literary ten-party or n
Union debate. your own for a year.
Thought wings fruer in Oxford than outside, but three years of it make you ready for the salt gusta of an unsheltered world.
•
The best way to get an idea of the place in twenty minutes is to The Dramatic Suclety bas 11 climb New College bell tower. falso reputation for being full of Think how dirty it is on the waydecadent eccentrics. It is, in fact, up and see how beautiful It looks full of earnest young Colonials when you get to the top.
A Contrast.
with a flair for brilliant stage lighting and obsessed with Shake- speare. Modern drama more To those who do not take exer-less died with the Playhouse. cise, it may seem a grey town of neurotic, unimaginative men, reek- Who ever heard of a greener, ing of heer. To those who do, it more puntable river than the Cher- seems the best place on earth. well?
You will probably be educated| No one takes the proctors very in spite of your tutor by meeting seriously, least of all themselves. intelligent youth and hearing the. great men of the world beckted at mushroom societies and forming being caught on the spikes while I only heard of one mam over your own opinion.
elimbing over the college wall at
Ing. poor fellow.
on
For Oxford has a large heart. night. He stayed stuck till morn- You will meet Russian monarchists in exile, who drown thoughts of Laniladies. the Soviet in port, young men who, place bedrooni Tubulture
You are generally in lodgings steeples, light bonfires in quad-your last year, and the landlady VISITED BY GOVERNOR' AND rangles, or trench sermons stand-problem is acute. Both the worthy ing on their heade-Indians, women who sheltered mo had trou- Poles. balloon-madeaps, and bles and inadequate bathrooms.
Commemoration-dancing Governor Japanese princesses,
morning dawns over the college
LADY PEEL.
till
miny have been
ant Jense rental therefore show a variation
There is an attempt to make on- as compared with the other.
In
dergraduettes sexually hideous by England, considerations of this
statute, but, like other women, they are often ugly, sometimes character would not have any in-
If, instead of thinking of it as a beautiful, occasionally intelligent. tuonce: there would be uniform Mrs. R. Thompson of the Advor dream efty of spires, you consider and usually harmless. The effort rating of
the twe properties.tising and Publicity Bureau, arriv- it from the purely sanitary point to keep the sexes apart encourages Moreover,
ed in Hongkong to-day by the s.a. of view you are able to awake each to spend its spare time dis the rateable value in Rawalpindi" after a ten months, suddenly,
eussing the other and favours England is almost variably business tour of Europe and the
words more than deeds, lower than the actual rent,
United States,
There can be little doubt that We have received From the | the method of assessment which | Society of St. Vincent de Paul a further ist of donations to the jat present prevails here is rather forthcoming fete in aid of Hong haphazard in character and as on kong's poor. It includes a sum of THE HONGKONG HOTEL } which lends to all manner of $150 from Sir Robert Hio Tung.
janomalles. The necessity www.uid At the Kowloon Magistracy this
to
Butters, devise | morning, before Mr.
Chinese was charged with the an- procedure more 173 liz
lawful posersion of €04 with the Home practer, which hs, of tabacea, on which the duty world MPETITO greater unk had not been paid. He plended
The well-dressed men in the col- Ten-pound ears and raucous formity
not guilty, and the ease was re- lege are the scouts and the worst motor-cycles are so plentiful that of treatmen than ni
manded for one week. Bail in dreward the dona. All the older no one need confine his interests present obtains, Por this purpos, $5,000 was granted.
tions regard themselves us the to Oxford. I spent four very the tank should be allotted to a
Portland vase and walk according-happy days of one torm in Glas- Inspector qualified ussessment stud
Marks, before Mr. ly, trailing beards in some cases.ROY. Lich
Butters, at the Kowloon Magis- Would work on a trasis
of pro- trary this morning, charged peely value. We rent at the
Chinese with possession of two tarb of raw opium Government intends to bave the Road,
Jordan The defendant said the question of water pry. Des re-uplum had been given to him by a quiring separate treatment, when man in Won Street. A fine of $60 or one manth's imprisonment, it draw up its new table. Prewas imposed, visely what this phes is not at the moment clear. if. however, A point of considerable import-
It is intended to raize aner unvonnexion with the assesse
venne from the water seysires, we ment of property for rating purs poses was raised by the Colonintay, when the proposals are out-
eriticisms lined, hage son Serretary yesterday on the futro suction of the new scale which is make of any proposal temdding in to come inte force from the gin- """. ning of next year. It was shown that under the existing law, no
Mr. Dorling's Silver Plan. differentiation is made between i The public services for which rates.
America's interest in Mr. are payable and the Government ling's proposals for the stabilin- Company of St. John Ambre, "onsequently, distrusted to four blades in the great frost, meet- now proposes to review the whole tion of silver in its relation to gold Brigade, under the direction of Ounique degree by most of the in-ing an American, who introduced matter in an attempt to find a uni- at a figure which would restore er Sze To-chung, and at the en- babitants thereof.
me to his own unsaddened country, trance of the building were greeted form percentage charge to be levi.
Asia's position as a big buyer inby Mr. K. L., Chan (President
the stillness of the great libraries, able in all rated areas for the ser. European and American markets, Chinese Y.M.C.A..), Mr. J. D. Bush death. Rowing is so much more people roaring at everything under A rowing man need never fear racing cars and devil-may-care
vices which
is certain to be duplicated in Hong- (Vice-President), Mr. Y. L.. To, unpleasant. The best our I knew the sun. intention is to bring this simpling. The Colony has everything Mr. J. L. McPherson and the Board said onee. "Rowing is fun to watch
to gain and very little to lose by a of Directors.
and fun to have got over, but the Oxford encourages two wrong fied table into operation as from concerted effort to put it into effect party raden tour of the Building and then "Ten, nine, eight, seven, The first is that it does not exist After ten had been enjoyed, the devil to do," Suspense...idenk about the outside world. July_Latual__MaHalifax stated The reptics will, of course, make His Excellency being greatly in-six, five, four, three, two, one and." The second is that those people in
vague the most of the fact that Mr. Dar-terested in the work, especially in ก bang
.... Breathless hell and it, who are very poor, must necea- practice has grown up to allocate in aims exceedingly high in seek the large number of boys and young meaningless rouring from the tow-sarily be very miserable. rates to specific expenditure bat ing a ratio of 20 929, of silver to men whom he saw taking part in path till pu crash triumphantly painted out that there has been no
1 oz, of gold, but that there
various activities. The gymnasium Into the B in front or the bank IN
Our revels now are ended. method in his madness becomes evi- and swimming lath came in for or get crashed into from behind Were they worth while? What a rule requiring adherence to 1-
particular attention, the visitors or seven blind minutes of question! Were we self-conscious uniform percentage. There is There seems to be in iden in some tellities provided.
dent when his molives are revealed. speaking highly of the excellent sweat till you finish the course, if schoolboys or were we happy? Is doubt, however, that originally the quarters that the propuxal in quixo
you do neither.
not happiness always worth while? total pureentage was specificallytle and for that reason is likely to: divided so as to cover police pro-come to Bothing. It does not re- tection. 1ghting. Are protection quire a very long view, however, to and water. How it has come about appreciate that the benefits to ne- that this grading has been done crue will find foreign industrialistn away with, we do not know; suffice with a very large share, apart from it to say, however, that the rates will obtain immense relief in a de- the fact that international finance
hays for years past been based on
parture from rigið adherence to the varying percentages for different gold standard, which is one of the loeptiles, and that the proceąda major causes in the world's renno- have gone to the general revenue mic ills. The fall in silver prices, į of The Colony.
if not "artificially" arrested And It is satisfactory to know that must mean two things, equally im placed on a higher and firm basis. the Government intends to insti-portant, in every day economies. tute a much-needed reform so as to In the first place, it means bring the rating of the Colony mure 1,000,000,000 people have virtually into line with services provided lost their power to purchase goods that is at present the case. We of any quantity from countries on
are provided. The
Textereny that A
זין 1 בנין
rc-
would suggest. however, that form is needed not only in regard
to the allocation of the rates, but also in the muller
that direction.
Dar
tint
a gold basis, that European and
an outlet for American manufacturers have lost their goods, Uni- employment becomes rife in those
of the method countries and the vicious circle
of assessment. According to the Hoes on. Secondly, there is the
Ordinance, rateable value means rent at which any tenement may be reasonably expected to let.
still more menacing side from the point of view of industriullats abroad, the possibility of Asia turn- Ing manufacturer-as she must do In other words, rontal Is if the process of adjustment to pre- the sole factor.. Where houses sont levels is allowed to go an in- are actually occupied, the rates definitely--and dumping goods inte are fixed on a percentage of America and Europe at low prices, the rental pctually paid; where the made enay by labour paid on a de- property in unoccupied or owner-preciated silver basis. It might be occupied, the ratculation is on what very long time before Asla pro- duced an exportable surplus, but if
it might be expected to yield in the the West donires to retain its pre- way of rental. This is quite con- sent position in the commercial, trary to the Home practice, where scheme, and does not desire property is aaagused on a rateable to RCO alt accepted values value basis which takes account of of the present stampeded. all manner of considerations. It the lenders of Anance and Mr. may be true that these considera-form a basis for discussion at a Darling's scheme would at lenat tions would be reflected In the ront, world conference, A ratio of 30 to 1 but, rental apart, houses of the would place the dollar in a fully same type and accommodation in satisfying position.
His Excellency the Sir William Feel), paid visit to the Chinese Y.M.C.A. yesterday afternoon, when an inspection of the building was carried out, the visitors displaying great interent in the activities of the Association,
They were received by a
by a guard of honour composed of the
of
Lhe
The Morris Works have made it garden with a woman you love more cosmopolitan atill.
(you are a fool to pay four guineas for tickets if you do not love her)
is quite wonderful.
Undergraduates may be defined generally as unfortunate persons who maintain in prospority large towns in unhealthy vicinities and
勾
*
Memories-cider in the cricket pavilion, the spray freezing on the
"Huh, Sweetie, this ain't nothin.
Why, I can do eighty when
hittin' no one.