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ROTARY CLUB DINNER.
GOVERNOR'S TRIBUTE ON
PUBLIC SERVICE.
TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931.
CHARTER PRESENTED.
peal, that many leapt forward in response.
commercial
away.
the
Survival of the Fittest. Some have since fallen Apprehension as to thefr digea tive capabilities and a
audden conviction that to be absent from their allega a minute after two o'clock would endanger the whole
of their
respective nts, if not the general
of prospects Colony, were among the diment- Members of the Hongkong ties. However, the strong. Rotary Club, together with their vivad and still survive, for we now 2. out- wives and friends. gathered at the have 120 members and the Rotary Hongkong Hotel last night to cele-Club of Hongkong has come to brate the Club's first birthday,
stay
As a matter of fact the under the Chairmanship of the meetings of the Club start at one President (Sir William Hornell). o'clock or a few minutes before. |Two speeches were delivered, one But what is a Rotary Clubt by
the President and the other by Weil, when His Excellency han His Excellency the Governor, who presented eur Charter, I am going also presented the Club's Charter, to have the document read out as which affiliates it with Rotary well as
the six prinelples of International.
But principles There was
a large and dis Rotary Yes!:
are nice things to hang on the tinguished company of guests, wall so that in moments of elation These supporting the Chairman, in one can point to them and may to 14 Excellency theThem's my sentiments." Governor, were the Hon. Mr.
Does the Rotary Club, in effect, Mrs. C. Gordon Mackle,
do more than lunch together one Cameron, Sir Henry Pollock, Hona week and then listen to a lecture Mr. W. T. Southörn Mrs. or talk, and will it ever do more? | Southorn, Sir Joseph H. Kemp, the The answer is that there is not a Hon. Mr. . . C. Wolfe and Mrs. single member of this Club who Wolfe, the Hon. Mr. S. W. T'so and does not realize that we are not a Airs. Tso, the Bishop of Victoria, mere luncheon club. But don't the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. H. Tlet us despise the value of a com- Creasy, Sir Shouson Chow, Mrs. Bellamy, Col. Cousens, and Capt.to make a bustness acquaintance mon meal together. If you want T. A.H. Coltman, A.D.C.
and
And
On arrival at the Hotel, His Ex-come to your office; you may pos you nak him, I understand, to cellency The tovernor, who
wassibly adjourn with him to a neigh. accompanied by Capt. T. A. H. bearing bar, but that is. presum Corman, A.M.C., was received by the Hon. Mr. S. W. To,
Viceably, only when you want to get President of the Rotary Club and by pouring something special into something particular out of him conducted to the roof garden.
President's Address.
After the Enyad Toast had been hombured, Sir William Hornell, in prosing a least to the Guests,
him; if you want to make a friend, you ask him to lunch or dinner:
·
A Worth-While Movement.
SOME CHRISTMAS RECORDS
Columbia
Christians Awako 67190, Hark the Herald AngeĨA
Choir
61191
10 Come, All Ye Faithful
Good Christian Men
Choir
(The First Noel 167192) White Shepherds Watched
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Good King Wenceslns - 67195 God Rest Ye
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(Adenti Fideles 3814 Sanctissima
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(The Manger Throne 4579 The First Nowell
Cheir
ANDERSON'S
PUBLIC DISPENSARY.
WANCHAL INSTITUTION
OPENED.
The Wanchal Public Dispensary Can you point to any other or was opened yesterday afternoon, zanization which has been evolved the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. here, or is ever likely to be created.with Hon. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kote This in our first birthday. "The which will bring together weekly, wall and Mr. Wong Kwang-tin he summer hath its juss und winter round a comaton luncheon table. ing among those present.
said in part:
Its delight, and I suppose that such A varied collection of Decupying a floor at Queen's we ought to
our-citizens-citizens, who are there, Rond East in 1906, the dispensary congratulate selves that our birthday is in e-mark you, by virtue of what they grew steadily and reconstruction comber. Certainly December is a are, namely representative workers
became necessary to afford accom- pleasant month in Hongkong, so n all the most important fields of medation for the increasing nun- pleasant that provides for a per-this Colony's manifold activities.ber of patients. By the joint efforts fect plethora of seint ergies, There are luncheon clubs in of Mr. Wong Kwong-tin and Mr. But Your Excellency has found Hongkong, and very excellent in- Tso-shan a large sum of money time and strength to be with us stitutions some ví them are
was raised for the construction of to-night. We are proud and There are flourishing luncheon the present buikling,
which cost honoured. We
Are very NDITY
clubs in England, and some of more than $20,000. Including furni that Lady Peel could not be here them exist in the same towns side ture. It has an up-to-date mater- and I know that she is surry too, by side with Rotary Cluba. But.nity ward, with 32 beds, and the Her visit to Canton was planned Ladies and Gentlemen, ask you very small charge of 20 cents a before we got in with our invita-in all seriousness, would Hong-day, and free accommodation if fault, or kong have been wise to have re-the patient is too poor to pay, will rather mine. We hope that she is lected the opportunity which the be a great hoon. Anding
in the solitude of the world-wide organization of Rotary Shameen that rest which she has International offered us?
tion. That
28 we are.
WIS
our
so thoroughly earned. She has After all, if a Rotary Club be got there only just in time, for on song better than “a vast and The 15th of this month Canton will valgar machinë-like ghumminess," Rotary Club, then would there be Rotary Clubs in organise a things will begin to hum-it is not every European country. save all Rotary Clubs that are as quiet Russia, to say nothing of North, South ILIEC Central America, Before dealing with the other Africa, Ceylon, India, Burma, The guests, may say a few words Dutch East Indies, Malays, Siam, about this sungleas Rotary Club Indo-China, China, Japan, Aus- tralia and New Zealand? If Jim Davidson'à recent Rotary Rotary were not worth while, us tour in the East is now history-would some 154,000 men in various Jim Davidson put it a year ago, and what he did here and the re- anties which his netivities have parts of the world belong to it? evoked and will evoke, will doubt-One fool may make many, but you cannot fool everyone everywhere. bess be any appraised in the mach needed "History of Hongkong"] which has yet to be written.
of ours.
Service to Community, We have undertaken a scheme en for equipping and running play-
· (Continued on Page 11.)
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