TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932.
SPRAYOL
THE LIQUID INSECT DESTROYER.
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ON BUT HARMLESS TO CLOTHES
and FABRICS.
PRICE PER Large tin $4.50.
In the New
1932
CHEVROLET/
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Bulls and Inners
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From the Office Buits
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ALL LINES OF THE HUMAN FACE This is the month when local There's Siberian town named HAVE SOMETHING EITHER TOUCHING | anglers see tremendous fish in the Yannyszpobuni. One on. GRAND, UNLESS THEY SEEM TO reservoirs.
of thene Next month they'll days, a' cyclone will form in this region, and then the ZBW announ- cora will be tongue-tied.
COME FROM LOW PASSIONS.-George wish they hadn't said so! Eliot.
I wasted will be charged for such waste, and that this in itself will tend to check waste. Alterna- tively, it ie contended insofar as as it does not have this latter effect, revenue will be increased. We have contended before, and still do, that meterage, of itself can- not provent wastage: It may de. fect it, but that la quite another matter. In any event, there is nothing to prevent the wealthy from wasting just as much as they see fit to do. There is the AT THE CURB YOU WILL further point, which was in no
Victoria Gaol and the Lalchikok ADMIRE THEIR SMART
Prisons are declared to be houses of MODERN BEAUTY. ON THE way disposed of by the Legisla-detention under the Vagrancy and ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT❘tive Council debate, that when it Deportation Ordinances. THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, comes to serving several floors of THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF tenement houses with one meter, PERFORMANCE, AND THE LUXURIOUS COMFORT WITH It will not be an easy matter to WHICH THEY RIDE.
apportion excess consumption a EVERY MODERN IMPROVE | between the various tenants.
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/ HONG KONG'S HOUSE OF QUALITY.
SILVERWARE DEPARTMENT.
Tenders are being invited for site preparation and erection of a clinic at Taimabatsui,
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O O During the oppressive weather, counsel at the Supreme Court have been seen to soak their handker- some people should be postered by A reader wants to know why
chiefs with Eau de Cologne. Now mosquitoes more than others. Sup- we understand the meaning of the pose they've got more Insects' ap-. term "refresher."
peal.
O D Naturally enough, the assets Talking of the financial outlook, which freeze most easily are those money certainly ought to be which are well watered.
"engy." Wherever it is, it seem to be resting..
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A tearless onion has been pro- duced. We presume that all steak- and-onion devotees will now cry just for sheer joy.
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His Excellency the Officer Adminis tering the Government has appointed Mr. G. S. P. Heywood, B.A., B.Sc.)
The anti-depression slogan:- (Oxon.), to be Professional Assistant "There's a great day coming-buy at the Royal Observatory.
and buy !"
MAND. INCREASED POWER,
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culously careful in the use of AGAINST
His Excellency the Officer Adminis
In a divorce case, a woman ac- VIBRATION. THE VELVETY water would certainly not relightering the Government has, in accor- cased her worse half with having SMOOTHNESS OF THE FAMOUS | having to behr part of the cust
dance with instructions received from "abused, cursed and struck" her. A music eritie says all good SYNCROMESH
the Secretary of GEAR SHIFT-of wastage resulting from other Colories, been pleased to recognise hand."
State for the "in a manner unbecoming a hus- singing is heavenly. On the other ING. THE THRILL OF COAST-
Mr. R. J. F. L, Ohl, an Vice-Consul learn how these things may
It would be interesting to hand, the most we can say or in-
for Argentine in Hongkong.
be some ordinary singing is that it's done in a becoming manner. difference. Of one thing we may be sure, namely, that the land- lord will see that he comes out on the right side. But what of The poor tenant?
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The
Happy Valley
On the general question of the Colony's water supply and the financing thereof, the
Govern-
The hour for the conduct of publis business in Government offices in the
We hear of a Straits Settlements uro in future to
local resident be from 9 am to 4 p.m. and on who, ou taking Saturdays 4.m. to 1 pm. This up motoring im means no extension of half an hour. Previously work began at 9.30 a.m.)
mediately made
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ment is apparently to go into the Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood. Assistant whole matter when the full im- Harbour Muster. residing it 4 plications of the new undertak-police the theft of a barometer valued Leighton Hill, has reported to the nt $75. It was stated that the instru the premises some time between ment was taken from the hallway of p.m. and 9 p.m. yesterday.
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to the
îngs are more clearly visible. is not suggested that water will
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If the depros- is a hint that the incidence of
sion has done payment will be more equitable.
nothing else, it New Regulations provide that no This brings up the problem of person shall without the written per appears to have
mission of the Head of the Sanitary done much rating, which has long called for Department and the Medical Officer at down rovision. Not one resident in a
of Health sell or offer for sale any old-time hosti- thousand probably knows the con--nerated drinks in the preparation 1ity towards
of which fruit juice or herbs (other, ventional divisions of the general than ten) are used or sell or offer for sale the jellies known as leang Tan rate, and, in any case, it is to be and man tau la. questioned whether these are at alf fair in their incidence in res-
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Hongkong Telegraph.pect of varying localities.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932.
THE WATER QUESTION
is certainly. a call for revising the whole basis of the Colony's rating system, and not the least difficult aspect of the question is that relating to the water supply.
World Crisis: What is Normality?
WATER LEVELS
WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- The following table fasued by the mission shows the height of water in English feet on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivers:
Ilighent on Lowest Aug. record, an record. 1
Shahinat 41.7 Noch River at
Thingyuc 441.7 North River wi
Sambui -1-227.A East River at
Sheklung ..-18.0 --2.5
Interesting as the Legislative Council debate on the rider main question was, it was rendered
The idea of normality is deeply | West River at largely academic from the fact that, ingrained in political thinking. It after due consideration of all the may well be that it has misled us. factors, the Chinese representa-and that instead of perpetually tives were prepared to accept the training after what we are pleas principle of abolition.
ed to call normality, regarded as a starting point for future pro- gress, we would do better to accept existing conditions as our starting point. During the War everybody appeared to think that when the conflict was over the world would return to pre-war days, But the whole circumstances of
If we are
in indge from Mr. Kotewall's speech, however, it was not so much a case of conversion to the official viewpoint as a recognition of the fact that the Government had made up its mind to accept the advice of its experts in decid-living had changed, and it is a foo ing to abolish the system. Thelish waste of energy to endeavour to cash for rider mains was extreme- ly well put by Mr. Kotewall; even opponents of his views must con- cede that much. The arguments
were
some
retrace our stops. After the war, we were living, as it were, in a new world. Yet immediately we fell into the mistake of considering the post-war years to be "normal." well marshalled, and es-
In many respects those years were pecially pertinent was the evi-
excellent. For dence adduced to show that, in they were disastrous, but speaking countries other days, the official attitude generally, they registered an im had been that the rider main sys- mense advance. They were, on tem, so far from causing wastage,
the whole prosperous years. They was introduced in the belief that
not only stimulated production and consumption but they gave fresh It would have a precisely op- conceptions and a wider outlook. posite effect. But, in view of the They were followed by the present Chinese willingness to accept the economic depression. At once it principle of abolition. there is was assumed that the boom period little purpose to be served in fur-
had been "normal" and that the ther argument on the point. The present diffenlties are "abnormal." plea for postponing abolition for
Yet it is just as reasonable to sup- pose the opposite to fit the facts. a period of two years has not been In any case, we should ascertain conceded, but the Government has first in what direction it is now #L any rate made a gesture of desirable to proceed. It may not goodwill in deciding to bear the ho at all desirable to get back, say, cost of installing and connecting to 1920, when prices, wages, and meters in unmetered houses in
values were admittedly inflated. the rider main districts to all who tain deflation is necessary in order It is at least possible that a cer- make application by the end of to reach the imaginary condition October, IL fs to be hoped that known as normality. It is plain this concession will prove accept that readjustments of the most able to those concerned.
drastic character are needed. Whether the ridor main system. The relations of production and has or has not rosulted in water Wages and prices no longer march consumption have become unreal.
wastage, there can bo no two in atep. The interdependence of opinions on the point that anations is proved in many ways, direct sorvice, uniformly applied, but cutting athwart it is the re- is by far the more satisfactory crudescence of the attempt to method of distribution. In this establish national indopendonco. There is unquestionably a disequi- connexion, it is claimed that the
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LANDLADY: I am sorry
you do not think the chicken soup is good. Sir. I told the cook-boy how to make it, but perhaps he did not ratch the idea.
BOARDER: No, I think it was the chicken he didn't catch.
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One of the paradoxes of the
age is that fro-
zen ussets make
things hot for
busines.
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Close relat-
tions are usual-
ly distant when you try to bor. row from them. ☐ ☐ The local Nu- jati appear to have retired
from the lime- light. What about a "Come to the Nude Ter-
ritorica" paign?
cam-
Drunkenness is vanishing from We suppose these people who are England, we read. So it's no long- tired of the old tunes could be er a tight little island.
described as fresh air fiends.
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"When the atom was split," says There were imense crowds at a scientist, we found that its the Olympic Games.
The power power fell far short of our ex- of a tourney. |pectations." Evidently it was not
all it was cracked up to he
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duel, as still they do in some coun- British politicians no longer
tries. But some of them certainly van fence!
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"You've converted me," as the 17. War Loan said to its owner.
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ments are called for. But these readjustments may be hindered instead of helped if we are ob- sessed with the view that they can only be obtained on the basis of a reversion to the immediate past, It is, at any rate, conceivable that.
there was something in the imme- diate past that was essentially im- permanent, and to try to stabilise the provisional would be a foolish waste of time.
A boy scout recently kept a baby anused for over an hour.
His "Goo" ileed,
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New Definition:-Candour is the art of saying what one thinks in order to demonstrate that one is capable of thinking of something worth saying.
of us
want to live with. You see, we couldi
to any agreement.".
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Can one really train a nullah In the way that it should go, Or rider main in Aqua Pura
stakes?
All these posers muka me duller, Weighing every con and pro.
For the more I think the more My poor head aches.
Is Puisne Judge a small one,
la an "LG.P." a "veg?"
Or does "C. S. O." mean
See us owe a lot?
Is an "A. S. P" an adder,
Or "C. Vt. S." a hedge?.
And does "P. 0. Q." just stand For tommy-rot?
Does one really need a ladder, When enjoined to watch one's
steps?
Or
patient's
Can patients' Patience make?
patience
This language makes me mad-
der,
And I flounder in the depths,
That was a dreami Thank goodness I'm awake!
-CYN,
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Sailors may have a wife in every port, but some of our local girls seem to have a pal in every ship. ロロ
One of the world's puzzles is why all these remedies to
cure
hair with a single application are usually put up in such large bot- tles.
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Party labels are now said to have been almost adjusted for tho coming election in the United States. Party Ibels will follow.
Lots of motorists who pride themselves on being law-abiding slow down when they hear à mo- tor-cycle coming.
The millenium will have arriv
ed when politicians can be sued
for breach of promines.
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Things are getting so bad in
Hongkong that you can stand at
one spot and count $100,000 worth of motor-curs Inside ten minutes.
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The world is getting better in home ways. You seldom see a man photographed with his chin in hie hand.
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Liquid rubber is now
boing
lllent protective-covering, Maya be an idea hero for pedestrians. A