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THE HONGKONG
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
TELEGRAPH.
The most diflcult thing for the.j player taking up contract Lo master is the tables of valuation. The valuation tables for this sys. tem are made as simple as possi-
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1932.
LOCAL SANITARY REFORMS
RECENT PROPOSALS
CRITICISED
AN UNOFFICIAL MOTION
Board has to failed to function to effectively
warrant the implied criticism of the D.M.3.5. that the Sanitary Board undar this proposed new scheme will (confine its activities to sanitation in the restricted Benso of the term.
The majority of my non-official colleagues are professionally qualified to analyse these public health proposals with more perspicacity than I can claim and I would have preferred that they Certain items in the recommen should have been subjected to a and Sanitary Services regarding give them in briefly putting for- the reorganisation of the Colony's ward the motion that stands in ation, were subject to severe
medical and sanitary administra- my name.
I would like however, to say that theticism by the Unofficial members the motion as it stands is the con- of the Sanitary Bourd at yester-sidered and unanimous view of day's meeting.
ble. The official system of valuations by the Director of Medicat more detailed scrutiny than I can
tion is confined to:
(a) High-eard tricks (b) Low-card tricks. Contract bridge is primarily game of OFFENCE, hence official system will value all honour cards with respect to their trick taking potentialities when pinyeti offensively. It is a fact, however, that all high-card combinationa used in this system contain the necessary DEFENSIVE values to justify making all opening bids. Below is given the table of high-
card tricks:
Table of High-Card Tricks
ARQ
AQ
3
AKI
AJ 1011⁄2 21⁄2 kqmf
AR
A Q J KQJ
2 K Q
KJ 10
kx
W
to
This table is to i used for valuing the high-eurd tricks in the bidding hand. Slightly in- ercased values will be added three or four of these combina tions in estimating the values of high ends when held in the sup porting hand, as well as in the bidding band, should it be advisa- blo for the original bidder to RE- HU
When a player estimates the trick-taking ability of his
hand,
he should calculate the value of high-rard, tricks, as given above, and add to this total the value falF LOW-CARD TRICKS.
The total of HIGH-CARD and LOW-CARD TRICKS equals the (number of PROBABLE TRICKS contained in the band. Low-caril tricks are valued as follows:
Count unch vard in The B SUIT in EXCESS of THREE, as my low-card trick.
Count each card in a site suit in EXCESS of THREE, as worth one trick. provided the suit con- tains at least five cards, and fur- Her provided the side suit and the bid suit are both strong in honour cards.
Probable tricks are the back- bone of the oflleint gyslom.
There
Won.
ar exactly 18 tricks to be and it a player and his partner are able to estimate
averately
the number that can be won, if played as doelarer and dunity. 99 per cent, of their troubles are
The hands nyer,
below given show the manner in which player contemplating making an original bid should value his holdings:
A
(1)
HOT
LCT
WA
SK Q 10 83
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LCT
4
HCT-High-card tricks, LCT- tricks. · PP-Probable
Low-curd
tricks.
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TWO HUNDRED PERISH IN FERRY MISHAP
Noukbali, Bengal, Aug. 2. Only 31 were saved out of 247 occupants of a ferry boat, which struck a sandbank and capsised on the estuary of the Ganges fo- day. Router.
SALESMAN
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cri-
Mr. C. Champkin, pursuant to notice, moved:"
"That, in regard to the copy of Recommendations submitted by the Honourable the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for the Re-organization on modern lines of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony, which was forwarded to the President of the Sanitary Board by the Honourable the Colonial Secretary under cover- ing letter of the 19th April, 1932, the views of this Bourd in regard to such Recommendations are as follows:
|
the non-official members of this
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Board. I think I could go no far u to any that the D.M.S.S. hoa laid us under a heavy obligation by setting forth so lucidly and convincingly needs that clearly our duty to urge. The Sanitary Board will not stand between the DM.S.S. and the putting into effect of such pubile health reforms as are obviously desirable and we non-officials are agreed that many of the reforma he advocates are long overdue.
Internal Changes.
We appreciate the advantages i. Thut it is unnecessу to
of his proposals in so far as they crvale Public Health Board
He concerned with internal which is to function separately departmental changes-by which and independently of the exist-1-mean changes in nomenclature. ing Sunitary Board.
increases or reductions itr
of
1. That the Constitution of the Sanitary Board be enlarged Personnel and improvements or Additions to material and equip- in order that it may function as a Public Health Board with the ment,
It is of course impossible for personnel suggested by the
us to Director of Medical and Sanit- to hazard an opinion. ary Services for his Public whether the public benefits Health Advisory Board (except these proposals will be commensu- that the Vice-Chairman shall be rate with the public expenditure There must be a non-technical man, preferably they will involve. the Secretary for Chinese point of balance somewhere and Affairs) but with it propor if we look upon this Board rather tionate increase in the number as the guardian of the public of the nullicin representatives health than as the eustodian of of the public, (so that the exist- the public purae we may still, I ing unofficial majority be ap- | hope, rely upon some unhygienic proximately maintained), such Finance Committer submitting enlarged Board to exercise all this arheme to a more searching the functions of the present { economic analysis than we are Sanitary Board, together with } able to give it. the new functions contemplated We entirely gre with the by the Director of Medical and D.M.S.S. as to the advisability of Sanitary Services for his Public a clearer demarcation, by new Health Advisory Board.
ordinances, or by amendments to existing ordinances, of the many interests concerned with the health, safety and convenience of the public that come within par
iii. That it is imperative in the interests of the general public that all questions of policy and expenditure of public money should be vested in the Public Health Board.
tu
province.
We do not however agree that it is necessary or desirable--we are emphatically of opinion that it is very unnecessary and entirely ardesirable-that the carrying out of these reforms should cloak a scheme for depriving the tax- payer of his elementary right to ask questions through the elected members of this Board on matters
That, as regarde the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services' recommendations under sulabeating "The Medical or Curative Branch", having re- Kard
the necessity for economy in the working out of the scheme, suflicient recognition has not been accorded to the fact that there are in the Colony highly qualified medical practi- to tioners who may be willing cooperate, either in an honorary capacity, or on part time engage- The Prevention and Treatment ment, or to the fact that long-1 of Epidemies, the Sale of Food. kong University. Clinical Pro- and Drugs, Factory and Workshop fessors are, and have for some| Conditions, the Construction of time past been, rendering valued Buildings. Cattle Disease, Town and highly appreciated public Planning, matters relating to services.
Water Supply, the Public Health and everything else except Sanita- tion in the restricted sense of the term-all these by n'stroke of the pen are to be placed beyond public criticism,
to They are langer matters of public concern, Paying the Piper.
public interest apart from sanitation in the restricted sense
the term.
v. That
of copies
such niemoranda on the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services' recommendations is have been submitted to the Head of the Sanitary Department by mem- bers of this Board be forwarded to the Government for its con- sideration.
be
J10
that
vi. Subject to the points
The taxpayer that pays the enumerated above, the unofficial Piper may be quite content members of this Buard are in the D.M.S.5. should call the tune, general agreement with the but if the taxpayer is to be told to polley of reform advocated. by mind his own business when be Le Director of Medical and ventures to enquire what the tune Sanitary Services."
is, then I say he will not tolerate this deprivation or his right. The Mr. Chumpkin's Speech. non-officials of this Board will Mr. Champkin said.—As a news | most strenuously
resist the pro- comer I am under the disability | posed abrogation of their authority --or it may well be that I have the to criticise any and every depart- advantage of knowing nothing ment concerned with Puble of any considerations by the Board Henith."
that may have prompted this very The suggested establishment of able and interesting memorandumaa Public Health Advisory Board by the Hon. the Director of consisting of the Hon. the Colonial Medical and Sanitary Services, Secretary, the Hon. the Director
I approach it without knowing | of Medical and Sanitary Services, in what respects, amy this
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