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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932.
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STUDEBAKER
| PIERCE-ARROW
DAY BY DAY
Estimates do show that the Colony is not standing still in the mattor of development. Much more could, of course, be done if the funds were available, but, with matters as they are, it has been found possible only BY SAYING WHAT YOU THINK, AND POLITICAL REPUTATIONS ARE MADE
to make a selection of the more THEY ARE KEPT BY BAYING WHAT urgent needs, in which connexion YOU DON'T THINK John Oliver it is worthy of note that no serious Hobbes. criticism was levelled against the
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By EDWARD
IN DARK ("CONGORILLA")
KELLY
DARKEST AFRICA
TH
aolf. We are a bit better now, but
THERE seems to be a At last we reached the coast surfeit of jungle pic-and gradually working our way down, arrived at Shameen. We The prospectus has been issued of tures at the local theatres were put to bed with delirium Government's choice of works. the Hongkong Technical Institute, lately. First we had "Africa tremens, and emerged eight weeks
which has opened its sessions, the Apart from the Shing Mun scheme, Arst term being October to January, Speaks," and "Trader Horn" later, the shadow of our former THE NEW STUDEBAKER SIX on which we comment elsewhere, and the second March to Juno, 1933. came back so often that we every now and then a touch of 70 HORSEPOWER SPORTS the main issue raised was the queя-
The marriage take place in began to think it was a the old complaint comes back to ROADSTER WILL DO BETTER tion of facilitating the early link- Shanghai in December of Miss
M'Bangopongo, Zam- THAN 20 MILES TO THE ing up of this Colony with future. Evelina Faith Drakeford, daughter Harry Lauder final appear- remind us of those days in Zam-
of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Drakeford, to ance. Then last week "Tar-boanga,
Bucca and other places too GALLON OF GASOLINE. Aair mall services. On this matter, Mr. John Edmund Jupp, son of Mirzan" gibbered at us, and numerous to mention. SEASONED CAR BUILT TO whilst the Government were able to and Mrs. John A. Jupp, formerly of next week they threaten to TRADITIONAL SPECTIFICA-
Hongkong. profess a sympathetic putlook,
bring on "Congorilla." Soon, TIONS FOR STUDEBAKER cannot say that much evidence was H. M. S. Caradoe, which is en route CHAMPIONSHIP
PERFORM- forthcoming of any real anxiety to from England for further duty on the by means of wireless televi-!
after
recommissioning, sion, we'll have to sit and Yanglaze, arrived at Singapore yesterday morn watch the explorer in the ing. She is due at Hongkong on hai on Friday, October 14. The Com- on our wireless sets. Tuesday next and will sail for Shang-jungles of Darkest Africa manding Officer of
ANCE BUT NEW IN ITS BEAUTY OF LINE AND CONTOUR.
COACHWORK --
New and arresting beauty, COLOUR:-
Below Moulding; Absinthe Creen. Moulding: Coach Green. Fenders; Black.. Wheels; Absinthe Green. Striping; Cream. UPHOLSTERY:-
Genuine Leather. harmonising with colour scheme.
Wo
see that the Colony is not left be
fact
Captain Edward J.M.S. Caradoc in
Sylrot, R.N.
A SILENT HOME
hind. We have to face the
By R. T. LEWIS. that aviation is destined to make
"One man's noise is another big strides in the Far East in the
man's music," is how Dr. G. W. C. Which is all wrong. A man Kaye, of the National Physical days ahead, and unless serious steps are taken to see that Hong- In attempting to separate two dogs, can't get a bit of privacy now, Laboratory, sums on the effects of kong occuples its proper place in one being here, which were fighting, even in the jungle. It was dif- the many noises that have grown
yesterday, Mrs. Organ, the wife of ferent when we were in Darkest up with our civilisation. future schemes, there will be a dis-Sergt. Organ, of Mount Austin Bar- Africa.
The secret of silence in DUT tinct danger of the Colony beleg racks, was bitten by her own dog,
We were in the darkest part of homes is, of course, a matter of with the consequence that she had to
the shutting out these sounds of the side-tracked. We quito appreciate undergo precautionary medical treat. Darkest Africa, where even
ment The dog has been removed to natives were dark, We shall outer world; but whether we the point that the Imperial authori the observation depat at Kennedy never forget the time when wo should all benefit from the exclu ties may be disinclined to sanction Town.
острой оп the M'Bongopongo.slon of noise is open to doubt. any undue expenditure of public
Our head boy came dashing to our You can have a soundless room money unless there is some renson-
tent, crying, "M'pah, Mao-gow!"if you wish. (We are known as M'pah Moo-gow
Librarians, whose thirat for able guarantee of success, and that
by the natives, meaning, "CREAT
quietude has always exceeded Hongkong's hands are to that ex-
WHITE MASTER WHO STRANGtheir thirst for knowledge, have Khaki, Smartly shaped.
that tent tied. But
LES PANTHERS WITH we do feel
relied on the dianiay of large HAND WHILE LIGHTING HIS THE DELIVERED PRICE something more is required than to
PIPE") It seems that a large tiger notices labelled "Silence," paying COMPLETE WITH BUMPERS,sit still and await developments;
An alarm raised by an arah was eating the cook-boy. Ilastily more attention to the size of the
letters than to the material SPARE TIRE AND TUBE IS the least that the Government can haatened the departure of four loading our rifle, we ran to the which they are printed.
HK$4,540.
do is to press on the Ifcmo authori- Chinese who visited the third floor spot, ties the extreme desirability of re- cognising Hongkong's rightful pinge, in future services. In other words, the Colony should exert all its powers to influence the Imperial authorities in the direction of look- ing at the question with vision and
TOP
May be Inspected at Our Stubbs' Road Garage.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
The Hongkong Shanghal Hotels, Ltd.
Incorporated in Hongkon Blubb Rond
DIRTH.
Happy Valley
the urgency of the matter. Other- wise, our claims to consideration might easily be overlooked.
AMAH SCARES ROBBERS
ONE CAUGHT BY CONSTABLE
ONE
on
For it is in material that the
is concerned.
of 423, Lockhart Rond, Wanchal, The tiger glanced up and secret of this soft pedal business at 9 o'clock yesterday morning bounded towarda 116, yelping wil the object of carrying out an furiously. armed robbery.
DRAMA!
It was noted during the demoli- tion of some old-world houses in We firql our first barrel, Nova Scotia that the walls were packed with a local growth known screamed and forced them to make, but still he came on. The as cel grass. This packing had
They had been on the premises for about five minutes, when an antal, toused by their movements,
a precipitate flight down the stair-second failed to stop him, so the effect of dendening Bound and CB粉疸。 One was left struggling
foresight, and, above all, to realise with a young Chinese male inmate picking up the first barrel so insulating one room acoustle-
until his escape was cut off by awe rolled it towards him. He ally from another..
tripped over it, and while he police constable.
This man was found to be armed was down we brained him with a knife, which is being kept with the other barrel. At the moment, we need refer to by the police as an exhibit in none of the other points raised dur-forthcoming Court proceedings ating the debate, except to pen o
HARPER.-On October 7, 1932,
No. 747, Nathan Road, Kowloon,! to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Harper, a daughter.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932.
BUDGET POINTS
Shing Mun Surprise.
is
The anxiety expressed by Un- ocial members of Legislative
Mr. Bell wished to avoid.
would
when it Is run down?
amuse
And
درا
or
the statement that
SENSE AND NONSENSE
The eel grass, finely matted to- gether by nature, contains mil- lons of air holes, Irregular in shape, thus breaking up and absorbing the sound waves: do- He was a fair' specimen of a Marcelling them, as it were, tiger measuring 22 feet from nose making them non-permanent,
Scientists put their heads to- closing comment on Mr. Kotewall's arrangement, as unbusinesslike as to tail. The largest we ever shot
one (any Government method could wan that measured eight gether and business men their assertion that the Colony is at pre-possibly be. Briefly, it amounts miles front nose to toil,
We blow pockets, with the result that the sent taxed to a point beyond which to this: the contract is let outį his tail off, and we estimate that hush-hush game became a sound
The covered eight milen before business. it would be impolitic to go. It is to the Binnie firm, whose profit pulling up. One day sitting be- Thin quilts are made of this cel often claimed, when fresh taxes are on the undertaking (represented fore our G'Blime, or tent, we grass and worked into partitions contemplated, that Hongkong gets by a fixed fee) is guaranteed in thought we
the and walls and floors, so insulating is no saving natives, so we drew out oura room from those around it and off much lighter than other centres, advance. There
Zabgle-Zangle, or Saxophone. They deadening all sound within it. This claim, however, does not bear clause for the Colony, as for
If the estimated cost laughed when we sat down to we enn see.
The advantage of the system can close analysis, and
play, but when we had blown a therefore We
is exceeded, we shall foot the bill-few notes they screamed loudly often have you, in your efforts to
readily
appreciated. How welcome the reminder that costs of it the completion of the job takes and beat it into the jungle.
emphasise living are still high, that the Colony ten years, the contractors cannot Left alone, except for a few your wife is an idiot, stamped suffers periodical disturbances of be penalised. It may, of course, tirers and alligators, we realised your foot on the floor, only to Inasmuch as the Government's trade, and that there is always an work out quite satisfactorily, but that the position was serious and have it mistaken by the people in Budget proposals were by no adverse exchange factor with which the clement of risk is far too evi- decided to make for the const. We the flat below for a signal invit- dent for our liking. It seems the shudder now when we think of ing them to come up and join you means spectacular in character, it to contend. When allowances are
that terrible journey. Tramping at bridge? was hardly to be expected that the made for these matters, the suge Messrs. Binale, Son and Deacon the steaming jungle, jaguars drop with these devices, it is possible sort of contract which might spoil through the rotting vegetables in In a home, competely fnstalled Unofficial views, outlined in Council. gestion that the limits of taxation
for other people. its only merit. ping down our neck from trees to hear a pin drop, though possibly yesterday, would present any have not yet been reached will be and that not worthy of considera- above, sleeping rolled up with a few of us have any great desire to abnormally striking features. scen largely to disappear. Indeed, tion where big contractors are python to keep warm in the chilly hear it.
wild berries nights, Living on None the less, the public's spokes- what business here needs not concerned, is that no encourag (Oh, we haven't finished yet!) men gave plenty of evidence of further taxes, but, as soon as is ment is offered to skimping of leaves, roots, and such zebras as having studied the Estimates in an humanly possible; à remission of the work. Meanwhile, the Colony we managed to run down. analytical frame of mind, with the some of those already in force. fa ordering plant, the very thing what nutriment is there is a zebra | result that they were able to dilate on quite a variety of points and to put forward many practical augges- tione. In the main, however, the Government was criticised rather Counch that no time be lost in for ains of omission than anything pushing on, with the Shing Mun else, while the official replies, if in Valley waterworks scheme now some instances not too convincing seems to be shared by the Govern- or accommodating, were what one [ment, Proliminary work, essent- has come to expect when we bear ally more extensive for a big un-" in mind the Government's general dertaking of this kind, is of n obvious disinclination, except in unusual nature that shows no circumstances, to depart from the results and gives rise to fidgets in consequence. The latest report yearly programme once it has been from London, however, is highly worked out in détail.
encouraging; the Resident Engin- The broad idea emerging fromer will be in the Calmy by the the Unofficial speeches was that the middle of next month. There is, Government had adopted a rather nevertheless, such a thing to unduly cautious outlook in planning much need. The Hon. Mr. W. for the coining, year, but although H. Bell's happy suggestion that there may be points on which this the big British contraelors
com- criticism could be sustained, wo invited to tender-without
the Colony. to ac- mitting cannot altogether ace that any other alternative presents itself at cepting any one, of such ten- dors-produced the surprising in- the prosent moment. The fact has formation, as we read it, that the to be faced that revenue has not Colony is already definitely com- latterly been coming in no well as mitted to an arrangement for the was hoped, whilst above and beyond construction work to be under. everything else is the circumstance taken. The consulting engineerà, that the whole world is still living Messrs. Sir Alexander Binnie, in a period of decided uncertainty, Sen and Deacon, are to be ra whole work, with the result that none can fore-sponsible for the
both design and construction. tell what Hes immediately ahead. For their professional services Therefore in deciding to err, if at they will be paid a fixed fee. all, on the side of safety, the Gov-The Colony, will pay all costs, in- ornment would appear to be follow-cluding the salaries of staff and ing the path of wisdom. Yet the so on. It seems an extraordinary
be
Don't talk to me about dry weather-ylion, I think what it's done to my fairway shots"
By ROBERT MAGILL
£
There used to be an idea that the countrymon, as opposed to the townsman, was sort of moron, who used to stand about all day long with his niouth agape at the wonderful things there are In this world' that he couldn't un-... jderstand.
Whether it is due to the wire- ¡less, fron education, or the daily Press, this is not true nowadays, and it behoves the Cockney, who goos travelling to be careful that nomo unsophisticated nitive doesn't sell him à gold brick, or get him interested in somo' dud shares.
George and I recently called in Jone evening at a country Inn to see the time and buy the dog a sponge cake, or something liko that. In the varlour were a couple of rustica throwing ániky, things into a large cork dine hung on the wall. It appeared to be an enry sort of game, and when one of the men suprented we should all Įplay George jumped at the chance. It seems that he had played the game in the Y.M.C.A. huta in Franco in the early part of the war, and he told me that it would be a shame to take the chap's money, but when he had shown I'm a thing or two he would hand
It back to him.
Unfortunately this countryman, who had never travallad Alva milan from his native village since ho (Continued on Page 11.)
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