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HONGKONG & CHINA CURRENCY,
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By COLLINSON OWEN:
T last there is some prospect the nation is dragooned by potty of the absurdities that cling laws, is now some fifteen or sixteen to Sunday entertainments in yours old. The younger generation England being sent to the limbo to has known nothing else. Victorian London and England would have roared with laughter at such rub which they belong.
the only experts called in are the Currency Commissioners who have only recently arrived in the thxt Colony. Beyond the fact these Commissioners have been Roni out to study the general eur-fellow. rency problemi, nothing has been dinelosed as to their terms of re- ference. We are left to speculate whether the prime object of their visit is to ascertain if we can stabilise independently of China, or to work out a plan which shall be in readiness in the event of China defnitely going on to a gold
It will give a chance to start basis. Possibly, they have both
afresh, and if there is not some It is notified that Mr. W Tsatisfactory and broadminded golu these points in view. At any rate, the divergence of viewpoint dis-Southern, CM.G., resumed duty astion, then it will be the fault of
Colonial Secretary on 23rd April, 1933. Parliament.
Parliament is supposed to repre- closed by the majority sudi minority Committee reports of the local
The prunes of Mr. Richard Edmund sent the people. There is no doubt would seem to have been a factor Ler and Mr. Ip Hin Fong has been as to what sort of solution the animating the Home Governmented to the List of Authorized great majority of the people de
in sending outside experts to the | Colony,
пр-
At Tursday's meeting of the Rotary Club, Squadron Leader P. C. Wool will speak on "Aviation."
The Government is inviting tenders for the completion of the staff in ters the Shatin Railway Station.
Architects.
A bankraptry notification states sintes that a second and fanl dividend of $2 per cent, has been declared in the ease of than Tsz-chruk, of 131, Wellington Street,
The matter of immediate ment, however, in whether there is any dunner of our being left in that position which the local Com-
An arder has been made for the nilter described na being
"closing of the road feasting from the Pre-enstern entraner to the Kowloon disastrous to contemplat»,”
Hospital northwards to the temple sent developments in China would near the Junction of Boundary Street (seem to point to the necessity of and Prince Edward Roni. the Currency Commission expedit
Among the
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arriving
a noted aborter of
'As soon as possible after Easter the Government propose to bring bish. It is an enforced rule of life in a Bill-to be left to a free vole not fit for savnges, not fit for chil
will review dren of the House-whleh
now stands the whole ridiculous situation as it
no more.
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mand. It is freedom, just that and If theatres and all other forms of entertainment are open, then nobody need patronise them who does not wish to do so.
But we go on submitting to a political treason because as a great majority we are too supine and tos shiitless to overthrow It. Such a nation is precisely the material which a Gandhi needs to thrive on.
Forgotten Freeilum. This multer of cigarettes, matches, chocolates, club-hours and all the rest is much more important to a gation's good convelt of itself than most people realise.
It is striking to think that to-day no persum under the age, say, of there was ever a happier state of thirty-two is actively consclous that Since the tradition that any form affairs, when in a hundred little of entertainment--whether on Sun- ways the people had far greater day or otherwise is "witheal" still liberty in their everyday life. In lingers in the minds of only a very ten years' time no person under the small minority, then it follows that age of forty-two--that is to say, the to suck a rational great ajurity will realise this. of personal any opposition state of things could only come from Even the memory the exercise of the bettiest form of berly will be lost.
Then same day, say fifty yours tyranny on the part of this small
hence, some person
of more than number.
average intellect or curiosity will wake up and say:
Dragomed by the Minority. That minorities are so powerful
"Cond heavens, do you know the
ing its works, if it is empostered here in the .. President Lineoin was one of the curiosities of life, al- to draw up a scheme for copluy | Dr. P. C'sland,
he chemistry from the Hague, Balland, though the psychology of it is quite trath about all these absurd little of people Inwal They were imposed during with alten changesver
Dr. Calamat is accompanied by his simple. A small body
people nt Ching Some comfort, however, wife. They will return via the Dutch who mean business-whether good the Great War of 1914-18, us a
East Indies,
or bad business will always get the means of keeping the 1 fact may be gathered from
letter of a large lady of people who home quiet and serious and in order, are bothering about nothing in and with the express promise that that China appears to be moving
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It is simply the iden of purpose and here we walking over the broken portion of mutter of this sort, would it not be the road at the 17 mile point on fulness, elfelenes and discipline as round our necks still. Can you brat
exemplified in a small body of police that
"That is precisely the situation possible for Chion and Britain to the Castle Peak Road.
dealing with an unorgmised mob-- keep in diplomatic touch on the
At a meeting of the Senate of the applied to ordinary every day af- with regard to Sunday, entertain- Whilst Hongkong continues to currency issue? That is a point University of London Sir Reginald fairs. If all the people who want ments today. Up to the Sunday Ob discuss the desirability of stalelis-which ought to be taken up, and Fleming Johnston, K.C.M.G., CHE, freedom exerted themselves half as servance Act of 1870 the theatres M.A. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Hongkong),much as the people who desire to had opened on Sundays ever since we see no reason why the long-w
appointed to the University limit it, then the fanatics would the Stuart days, when Charles II. ascended the throne, making a wel ing. He currency, China would up-
kong Government should not make Chair of Chinese, tenable at the School not have a chance.
of Oriental Studies, na from Sept. 1. But the great happy-go-lucky came change from too much Puri- # to be "ying gold" by
even if that amiable Bear
majority remains just that, and tanism. gradual process,
The first mave representations along those lines
more. Its members are monarch swang too far in the other Among the latest vivilian appoint-nothing to escape some of the ill-effects of to the authorities in London.
ments made by the Admiralty are the merely concerned with living direction.
In 1780 the war against the Am- a debased silver currency
Wedlock, which is often difficult enough, any- following. Mr. E. W. first-grade verk, Naval Store Depart-how--and have no crusading hobby. erican colonies had developed into a made when, last year, the Nanking
ment, langkong Dockyard; and Mr. Thus in Oil From Coal.
politics, religion, in local war against half the world. The Government dreided te collect
FW. E. Dann, acting second-grade administration, on licensing bodies, Sunday Observance Act was aimed The eventuai establishment in lerk, R.N. Armament Depat, flang and in many other ways, the small to close not theatres, but certain Custom dues
basis. 21 1 grisl
army of Nosy Parkers carries the assembly halls where unorthodox Shrewd observers then foresaw Great Britain of a new industry, em-kong.
day against the far greater army of religious meetings were held.
In the tumult of the times no- that this was but the initial move barking on the production of sil
The meeting of the Hongkong amiable De Nothings. They issue from enal, will be of immense signi-
branch of the English Association orders, make rules of life for others body bothered about the fact that towards weaning the country
ficance in the protection of Bri-
post pied from April 7, will be held to follow, and generally impose their somehow theatres had been includ from silver. The latest develop tabi's economie nad strategic post in the Cathedral Hall, at 6.30 pm will on the majority. They are the ed in the general ban. And so for
the others a hundred and fifty years, aight- The process to be exploited on Tuesday, May 5, when Mr. A. H.Stronger only because
the Sueday night closed from May 1st, at banknotes x-has nothing in common with low Fenwick, B.Sc., will deliver a lecture allow them to las 80-
theatreland in London and England. Knuckling Under to Dora. carbonisation pro- pressed in terms of Customs gold temperature
If England could only abolishi There is nothing "wrong" In once and for all those various In- going to a theatre or a cinema on muits. Described as a measure of cesses, which produce small quanti-
The health bulletin of Eastern hibitions which were laid on us dur- a Sunday any more than is the case convenience tu importers for the ties of liquid fuel us by-products
only. After months of intensive resorts, issued for week ending Apring the war, in the name of Dora, on Monday. It conflicts with no payment of duties, this decision is
search. the difficult technical opera- two deaths in Baghdad, and four cases her real soul, and face with quite niced, in countries such as France. 18, rewards Ave ender of plague and she might recapture something of truly religious principle. It le a commonplace, passing quite un- now interpreted in Shanghal as [tion of hydrogenerating coal into and four deaths in Bombay. Alexan-another temper those greater dif- yet another step towards the adopted and fuel oil with but a small drin has had one notißention of typhuries which rate one thick where really "religious"
and the Agures for cholera are---Cal- of m
by catta, 82 caps, 51 deaths; Chittagong upos us. tion of a gold basis for the whole residue of waste product
The heifer is that Na-value, has been brought to a success. country.
which will
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ment is the intended-issuing, ustions,
recommendations of the Keminierer Commission's Report and compren- ( * 1 the gradual introduction of uniform gold currency, Whether
nan "F. W. It. Myers." This is the last meeting of the sensDB.
031
people are
auch more strict than any we
18 and 4: Madras 1 and 1; Pemi- It is a situation which resembles knew,
On the other hand, there is much king has resolved to net on the ful conclusion by the Imperial dicherry, 3 cavea; Promi-peah 1 ense, one very familiar to mind specia that is right about it. For many
nad Saigon 3 and 3. Small-pox.lists. A man suffers from a "xed Chemical-industries,
Calcutta 60 ml 42; Bombay 2 cases; idea." It is originally small and people it is the one real evening of take a leading part in the com- Chittagong 1 case; Cochin 11 cases; perhaps not too important, but it relaxation in the week, and there is
Karachi 5 cases: uwercialising of the process, The
Moulmels 1 and 1: Negapatam 1 case: obscures everything else..
Madras 4 and 1 grows and grows until finally it nothing whatever unft in a man and his wife going to church in the rapid strides recently masle were Rangoon 2 enses; Pondicherry 26 Cure him--if you can-of the morning and going to see a play in fully explained by Sir Harry Me-cuses; Singapore 1 death; Canton two fixed idea and the mat is himself the evening. It would indeed show
cases; Shanghai 7 deaths: Grunter time Gowan, the chairman, at the annual
Shungbal CBSE-Cerebr-Spinal again and fit to face life once more. their cathollelty of mind. That it meeting. The pilot plant for con- | Fever.-Shanghai 9 deaths; Greater
So with England and is a should be "wrong" to be amused on Sunday evening is an idea worthy has Shanghai 10 by hydrogeneration version However marked may be the con-been continuously employed in fur-
char's and death; cigarettes-after-eight-o'clock menta- Batavia 1 case and 1 fatality.
lity. That state of mind, by which only of a loincloth and ring-in-the-
nose mentality.
this conclusion is justified, witi tell.
Niet of opinion locally on the ques
ther research work, with the result tion of Hongkong acting indepen that major improvements have been dently of China in this matter of made in the development of the pro- currency reform, there is, happily. cesses. The advances made have no diversity of view on the wisdom brought the difficult technique of of steps being taken to see that high presure synthesis into the com- mercial feld, and, it may be noted, this Colony is not forestalled by
the importance does not consist Chinn first "going gold." Those
solely in the ability to render Bri- who assert that it would be dis-lain independent of foreign sources astrous for Hongkong to stabilise for her fuel supplies. High pres its currency, before China does, sure synthesis is destined to play a would be the Arat to admit the leading part in the main develop- of every branch of the regrettable consequences of Hong-ments kong being left in the lurch. In-chemical Industry, and the know- ledge which the Imperial Chemical deed, the local Currency Commit-Industries has added to the process tee plainly stated that if Hong-entitles them to unreserved con | kong were found unprepared for gratulation. As the result of work Chinn changing over to n fold in the conl-to-oil process, a marked standard currency, she would find fall in the working costs of the pro- has been obtained, while herself a holiter of much-cheapen- ceas
quality of the product ed silver. " situation
Is beyond question, being equal fri astrous to contemplate." Accord-
grades of natural oli on the market. ingly, the recommendation was The capitalising of these discoveries made that all available data should and processes will add not only to be placed before expert opinion the prestige of this great company, with view to formulating and but will do much to restore pros- having a readiness a feasible perity to the British coal Industry. acheine, worked out in detnil, i whereby the transfer of the Colony's currency from a silvor to
too dig- the.
It is notified In the Gazelle that tho Official Administrator holda á sum a gold basis might be effected or $318.10, being balance of the smoothly and with as little troublnintentate estate of Wong Nam, and if an expense as possible, in case a the sum is not claimed within Avo audden change-over be forced upon years it will be transferred to the the Colony. Unfortunately, the general revenue of the Colony.
"He wanted to know how he'd recognize us, so I told him I'd be wearing the white flower,"
Parliament will shortly have the chance to lift from us a little of that blanket of depression that has ben over us ever since the frouzled rejoicings of Armistice Day-on which frenzied day all the restric
Ions should have zone in sweep,
one
That the cinemas should be closed again on Sundays is un- thinkable. There are dim and drab provincial towns which will be all the better for the lights of the cinemax on Sunday nights, puerilo though many films may be. It 15 better for young people to hold hands in the picture house than to walk ceaselessly up and down a main street when perhaps only the lights of an inn-for which, some thanks-show any signs of life..
And if the cinemas are legally given this freeßom. then the theatren certainly must have. It. What the actors make of it is their own affair. It is time the public as a whole was considered, without reference to any one or other sec- tion of it, and Parliament should now do what it is elected for: that, to make life better for the people.
MEN
A
SUPERSTITIOUS.
By HELEN ROSE,
Lord
soclety bridegroom, Brougham, bought a half ticket for the Grand National Sweepstake þe- cause he says he found three black eats on his doorstep! So hure was (Continued on Page 7.)-