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FRIDAY, JAN. 23, 1931.
CIVIL SERVANTS SALARIES.
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the region of one shilling, but a further seven or eight lakhs will be needed. It is pertinent to observe also that had the Secretary of State not accepted the scheme,
THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON CAP- the additional amount to be found
ABLE OF COMPREHENDING THE ER- with the dollar remaining low would
HORS OF A MAN, AND THAT IS THE have been over two million dollars.WoM GOD HAB DESIGNED AS HIS We are glad to see that Lord Pass MATEA. II, Henderson. field has plainly intimated that fa view of the uncertainty of exchange, It will be necessary for the Govern- ment to review the question of the exchange rate for sterlinic-paid salaries from time to time. This may be interpreted to mean that if the dollar appreciates and the Colony's finances warrant the step, This sepecial scale may be dropped; ar, an the other hand,
if
In
Two cases of typhoid and one of Chinese, were diphtheria, all notified yesterday.
Woman's Part in Music.
By DAME CLARA BUTT.
you desire to know my senti-their names being household menta on the controversy of words! I think my readers will Art for Art's sake, you may find agree that woman fully holds her them in the following: "Munic and own in the realm of song.
As a promoter and supporter of Art and all also is good in propor-| The Committee of the Sailors' and tlon as it is good for something good music, too, there is no doubt Soldiers Home gratefully acknow- ledges the receipt of the following and I have very little use for Good about the importance of her role. her greater opportunity to go and donations towards the funds of the ess which is good for nothing, for Having more time perhaps gives Home:-Mr. J. K. Bousfield $10: that is great poetry which serveth hear the Moderna, Confronted Union Insurance Society of Canton in a great need and that la great Lid, and its Affiliated Companion $300. Music which in the sphere of with the "unfamiliar," man al-
Manic functioneth greatly."
ways shics a bit! He does not
I am supposed to write.on "Wo-Want to be dragged to a concert The "Empress of Asis" has been son-delayed by fog outside Shanghai, man's Fart in Music," and really of classical music when he has an ufternoon off. And then in the ditions get worse, further salary and, it is expected, will not be able] 7 don't quite know how to begin. evening there is dinner-an Eng- to leave that port until Noon, to- They say that, in order to write, lishman never likes to miss his The you should begin by putting down dinner! Whereas a woman does morrow for Hongkung
teamer is now due to reach Hong-nything that comes into your not mind having an egg! But, I
hend. lather dangerous this, I have known men miss their dinner' kong at yoon on January 26th,
think!) And so the thought I have to hear Wagner.
For an example of the readiness
stabilisation may be necessary. and event, it is well that, with the situation as it is, there should be [no Bnality about any arrangement {entered inte.
Hospital in a serious condition.
were
Women
They were much
Stated to have been suffering | Kiven came to me, and there it is thrown in. na it were. It seems from the effects of some kind of hypoison which was self-administered to have nothing to do with the gut with which women support the un- The proposal now approved
a Chinese woman, Chan Kin-ying,ject I am supposed to write about famillar. I must go back to the --at least, I do not think so. but days when the Operas of Wagner
first performed. The Home authorities will need the
of 472, Hennessy Road, was yester Legislative day sent to the Government Civ may find that it has ua I ge 60!were the great Wognerites then. endorsement of the
1 is rather difficult for me te They simply locked to hone his Council before it is put into effect.
write on the subject ehosm for works whether they understood this article, being a woman them or not. In this connexion, we hope that the
man should have been asked to abused and called hysterical, and Unofficial Members will, when the
tackle it! Then perhaps my Base one often heard the word "un- matter is breacheil, seek from the
could have come into it as having healthy" when the furore Wagner's Government a full and complete
done something to prove woman's music was creating was being dis- statement on the financial position
helpfulness in Music.
of the Colony. It must be remett- bered that the Government's ster- ling disbursements are by no meanя |confined to salaries, so that the slump in the dollar must inevitably
The Ordinary Annunt Seurai Meet- Sant, ing of the Cymdeithas Pow! Hongkong (St David's Society), is advertised to take place in the unlice of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerze, Chartered Bank Building, on Monday next, Jamury 26, at 5.15 T. III,
Arriving here yesterday after noon, the Dutch motor tanker Utrecht, from Tamahui, reparted to the Harbour Office that
she
stern showing. She warned three ships by Alorse algnals and re- guested them to inform the local Harbour nuthorities,
not really cavation Company
Yan Ping and han Tak, Wern about #L
each Bed $20, or three than income,
imprisonment.
cussed!.
He could have told you that 1] have aften been accused of sing-Man's Attitude. ing inferior music, and, man-like. Men often adopt the same at- he would have started an argumenttitude towards music as towards about what constituted good muse port: whereas to a woman, if it Aa vindication of my standard as tastes good, the age does not mat an artiste, he would have told you ter. Music wear before Bach and
add a huge sum to that now resuir. Passed a derelict junk, with her far I hope he would) that I have Beethoven, but they have become nover in the first part of my prof it were the foundation stones led to meet Civil Servants' pay. Even
gramme sing anything but good, of the Temple of Music. Now I recognised, zunel above fon the basis of a is. 4d. dollar, the
regr
am off! I feel I could write for picion muste! I certainly on tour hours on this last thought. All Government budgetted for a de-
did it ne kind of medicine, as
sorts of idens come tumbling ever Beit of two million. It is easy. Charged before Mr. Butters, at always knew what the General each other; the difficulty would be
Kowloon therefore, to sew that this shortage the
Magistracy
thin Public was waiting to hear me to sort them out, no back 1 go! will be infinitely greater i the morning, with the theft of two sing.
I have touched on woman's part Even at the mitch-abused Ballad as performer and supporter in the pieces of timber from a tunnel at does
recover Even not of dollar
Shek Li Pul, the property of the Concerts to my young days, co-musical world, and now a few the
of September. Hongkong Pile Driving and Extrary to the wishes of the pro-words on woman as a source of Civil Service will be dis during the month
two Chinese, motors, I insisted on singing
inspiriation. I am sure you will appointed that the Secretary when the slumpze had
were classical item for my first number. agree that here she comes into [of State has Anally approved the begun, outgoings
weeks" I should have read all that this her own.
suppositious male writer sald with proposal for the payment of ster-million dollars more
an appreciative smile. Bug salaries on the basis of one despite the fact that revenue show- In the public half at one ahilling and sixpence to ed an upward trend. the dollar and the remaindre at the interest, therefore, the Government current rate, we feel sure that the should lay all its cards on the table, great majority will, reflection. that we may know exactly where For this reason, we trust arted that no hardship is indicted we are. (by this devision. Indeed, we have that our Unofficials will not forma.
recently encountered more thin antically approve of any scheme but. Government Servant who has frank will plain statement of the At the future He admittel that payment at the present peion eurgent rate would place the ster outlook. Ting-paid men in an mwarrantably sheltered puition as cumpared with the ordinary resident who has to face the tluctantiens in the dollar
to
Educational Policy.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Cruelty Case.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.)
FRUIT-EATER.
LAST EVENING'S MUSICALE.
But this is by the way; i must get to work to prove to you wo man's part in the austeni world. and I will begin with her part as
a performer,
Woman to the Fore.
Whom inspired all tho love songs? The Mother songs? No country in the world hur lovelier songs than those of the four na tiona who compose the Motherland. And many of the loveliest their Inspiration to women.
owe
It la notified that cable-laying Safforing from injuries to her operations will be carried out in head and spine, caused by being the cable reserve between Kow- knocked down by a tramear in Jean Paint and, Victoria from Tues- Des Voeux Road, near Western
a Chinese wonian
named day, 27th, to Thursday 20th inst... Street, inclusive. The vessel employed Lau Nagu, aged 68, of 29 High will exhibit the usual signala for Street, was removed to the Govern-
ment Civil Hospital yesterday...
All can see woman's activity in the Musical world, but the bigger It will be impossible for me to part can be put down to her na give you all the names of women napivationi, composers, violinists, pianists, andi It was, indeed, a womnul who 'cellists, an I think it best to ask inspired and a woman who spoke Sig. I have got followed the you to look at a gramophone list. what is to me the greatest Love corresponleger in your columns and you will see that in this ente song in the world "And Ruth with regard to dog-eating, but Igory and in every branch woman said, Intreat me not to leave thee commend "Dog-Enter [T's" advice holds her own,
or to return from following after to all carnivorous friends claiming | With regard to the voices of the thee: for whither thou.Koest, I education, enlture and humanity. world, God made no distinction will go; and where thou lodgest,
The slaughter-house is truly a between the sexes when He gave 1 will lodro: thy people shall be them out. Whether we go back my people and thy God my God. The Vice-Chancellor of the Un-sad commentary on nn's place in
The ethical and aesthetic world.- to the times of Jenny Lind or Where theu diest, will I die and ns best he call. If the proposals iversity thinks that education ex-
Patti, or consider Mellä and Galli | there will" 1"by Tiried:"the" Lord" of the Salaries Commission werependiture will be closely scrutiniz-Yours, etc.,
Carei of our own day, there are do so to me, and more also, if to remain in forer, Civil Servants fed by the Retrenchment Commis-
always women with power to aught but death part thee and the highest balls in the world, me." would for all intents and purposession and sees un adequate rencon enjoy the advantages of a stabilised for its exclusion from the economy crank will mrreney, whereas non-Government campaign. Only the
find emuse to differ from that view. employees would reminis at ti
which is and must be based upon mercy <1 the declining dollar.
the realisation that the burden
SONG & PIANO RECITAL Obviously, it is only right and must be evenly distributed as far
MUCH ENJOYED. share the as possible.
time. proper that all should
At the same well acquainted retrenchment in education must unt
The furgre audience. burden. We are
which the Helena Mayenble ships. with the argoment that if a man is be effected by arbitrary methods. Jassembled at emplayed from ilone at a sterling We suggest rather that it requires Justitute last evening for the song thea dreper study than does any other piano recital by Mr. and Mrs. salary, he is entitled
A. M. Bowes-Smith deeply enjoyed branch of goverment activity.the rich musical feast providel. equivalent in local currency of his
Already W find subsidies
The talents of this popular couple' sterling pay. That would be a fair
vernacular schools appearing in were well demonstrated in the submission if in the past, when the the Budget as a lower figure than fact that they sustained the whole dollar was high, the same rule ap-last year to the prejudies of some programme, although appreciated and able support was rendered by |plied, but we all know that at the hundreds of children of the poorer Mr. C. Dudley Bartlett in accord-
other end of the scale Government classes, and we should be strongly panying some of the songs.
It was the unanimous opinion servants have enjoyed a privileged, opposed to any recommendation in-
volving a further reduction, I has of all present that Mrs. Bowes- rate. They cannot therefore rea-
development of her vocal abilities sonuisly expect in profit from the been pointed at before, if we re-Smith continues to improve in the member rightly, that the more and that she has never been heard low dollar na well. In any event schools of this type there are in in better voice or in finer interpre- the "reduction" to which they are existence, the lighter is the res-tative skill than last evening. leavesponsibility of the government in Opinions will naturally differ now being subjected still
her best regarding which were, them in a very favourable position the matter of popular education, numbers, inasmuch as all tastes In her group of as compared with those who enjoy rather elementary education, which are not alike. no compensation whatever, in ad- undoubtedly, in the past, has been German songs, all by Strauss, she gravely neglected. Ilis Excellency was remarkably good, especially in dition to which it must be remem-the Governor has promised to seek Meinem Kinde, which was sung All hered that they will get, under the advice of the Education Board with much understanding.
songs were most sym- the new arrangement.
notably cut in their pay chèques as com-alisation of education, and it is Quilter's Fair House of Joy and pared with the salaries they recely-realised, evidently, at Government Ivor Nevello's "Page's Road Song," Hose that secondary education in whilst in Landen Ronald's Adonais ed for December, inasmuch as these the Colony is occupying a shocking great dramatic power was display- Bausciution and artistic were based on a dollar, rate much
ly favoured position as compared ed.
wished in everything sung. For the purposes of understand-imately three months have elapsed Mr. Bowes-Smith gave a varied ing the position, it is well to point since Sir William Peel briefly out offering in his two groups of pluno on the Colony's pleces. His Chopin numbers were out that when His Excellency the lined his views Governor put forward the proposal educational policy, time enough, very charmingly done, especially now adopted. he anticipated that it we imagine, for a preliminary the Valse in A Flat, whilst Inter would result in a saving the survey, the results of which might the programme the Moszowski pieces were given with a delight- 0л ba employed to assist the Retrench-ful airiness and the Rachmaninof Budget of nearly four lakhs of ment Committee in their thankless preludes most understandingly dollars. As a consequence of the taxic. If cuts are necessary, clearly treated. slump in the dollar, however, not they should be in a direction which only will this expected saving bo would conform to any wiped out if exchange remaing in gramme in contemplation.
no actual regarding steps toward the ration- the Bally. Kiven,
uf
higher than that now operating. with lower standards. Approx-Presentation were all that could be
Now
The whole programme was most pro-enjoyable and was a tribute to the accomplishments of these popular musicfans.
"They've been teaching us in art class to make our own presents. So we're
Aging to give each other lamp shades"