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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY GADGET MANIA IN GOLF The Very Idea!
JACK ASHORE
for
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucum. bors....Gulliver's Travols.
them in.
-By VAGRANT
THE letter of enthusiastic came smart little cases to carry
appreciation from
These memories whotted my ap-
a
WEATHER OR NOT By Edward, Kelly, Meteorothing X7E have now become a full-fledged citizen of Hongokng.
Slooping, accommodation Jack ashoro is an ever recurring problem in Hongkong cropping up as soon as the Fleet. Is In for the winter. This year, although ad ditional accommodation will be now grip set me musing on myself a gargantuan a la carte.
So it was I spent an exhaustive, down upon all newcomers in the new
wing the numerous additions to exhausting time tasting all the with a supercilious stare, Soldiers' and Sailors' Provided
the golfer's outfit. The golfing fare provided in the shops and, when they mention Home, It will still be insufficient coming of the bag was of
In the golf requisite depart-typhoons, sniff, On an average 830 ratings sleep
of various Went End We refer, of course, to the AB ashore cach night during the win- before my day, and really ment ter and last year there were beds the first of the extras I can emporin, in one of which, with the for 640 only. Many men were com- remember was the captive critical eye of the greatest of lady typhoon yesterday.. pelled to arep on the floor of the ball which had a long string golfers upon me, my innato shy-soon as the No. 9 signal was ness and acknowledged ineptitude hoisted we looked it up in Soldiers and Sailors Home attached to it with a little provented me from displaying my our typhoon guide. "Gale" ex-
THE correspondent regarding a petite, and yesterday I promised From now on, we can gaze
་
maximum number of ratings al-
MRS. BESANT
It was
various professionals, and
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pected, to increase," it said.
We flung the perspiration off ourself with a wąt forefinger and felt thankful.”
Hongkong Telegraph.me decor of the attention. Looking back on the unlose, of course, your hands, like typhoon means "big wind" in
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933.
for
day, was her meeting with the Rus-imsy evidence of his Innocence,hoes," I said, but this brilliant Jeffries swears, and picks up the
•
.
THE NEW CUNARDER
After the barometer drops LWO or three times, Mr. Jeffries gets tired of picking
It up, so he hoists the typhoon signal.
All you have to do then is listen you about the '06 typhoon, or the 23 typhoon, until the barometer to other people, while they tell is permanently fixed in position: with a piece of string.
The typhoon signal is then
Borry state of affairs. The parachute at the other end. cracking swing. Rather would
Invite Mrs. Battle to a game of lowed shore leave at night is 2,800 We once had one at home "Rummy" And I issued gorged but in view of the restriction in for a month or two but it with knowledge. sleeping accommodation only a left us in stirring circum-] It can bo said without fear of
ob- to
A miasma of deathly stillness quarter of them are able
contradiction that the march of hung over Hongkong, but we tain the full value of that leave, the stances.
a peaceful summer time has seen each golden hour knew it couldn't last. remainder having to content them- Belves with berths in a "steel box", [afternoon with the hum of the improved by the opportunism of The No. 9 signn), lke the cele as the Commodore so aptly describ insects playing seconds to a the golf salesman, and the home of brated pills of the same name, ed the warship the other day distant mowing machine. My real enthusiast has become a would soon start thin moving. Here is an opportunity for the father hit the ball well and the 50. Another round of the shops the fault of the Weather Bureau..
museum of alds to the breaking of
That nothing happened was not to show interest In the community the blue jacket. Why clattering jingle of falling glass and only the Olympia will house How could Mr. Joffries help it if not open some of the halls in the sounded like the collapse of the the spoils.
one of his Isobars fused? When- That gallows in the corner la a isobar not a bar? If so, why not? Colony as dormitories when not Crystal Palace rather than the
The shattering of a conservatory device to keep the head motionless needed for other purpose?
And once we've started in this cost of equipping them could un-pane. The rate owner popped when practising swinging. (Who strain nothing can stop us. We doubtedly be met from the small his head above the wall. A was it said the guillotine was the intend to write about the weather chargo made for accommodation. velvet smoking cap he wore, to only cure for dandruff?) The odd weather you like it or not. --
make matters worse-one of rubber contraption on the floor is The wind is what causes it. Up calculated to groove the swing, at the Royal Observatory the baro- those with a tassel.
To my father's explanation that Here are casts of great golfers' meter drops and the typhoon it was a captive ball, he paid seant grips, which can be fixed to the signal goes up. They always do decisive influence
on the club and faithfully overfaprod, things by opposites. That's why resemble Besant, the world-famous the so- he stool dangling, as the only mine,
wicket-keeping Chinese. gloves. "Could we but wear their When the barometer drops, Mr. phist, whose death occurred yestar-
the blameless parachute on the sinn mystic, Mme. Blavatsky, who fickle string that had severed a double entendre missed fire, so I pieces. This is known as relative introduced her to Theosophy. Having joined the Theosophical long partnership with the errant pass it on to you. To keep the left humidity, meaning a dead relation A FORTY HOUR WEEK Society, she devoted all her energies ball without warning, sounded the arm straight is a leather sleeve in a hot place.
to Its service, and Mr. Bernard.ready invention of an agile brain, with a touch of the surgical The International Labour Of-Shaw met his match when he went for golf was little known amongst macabre about it. The floor is to protest against her desertion of we Sassenachs in those days.ittered with substitutes for holes fice of the League of Nations has the Fabian Society. She replied Even so, despite his ignorance of that one may practise putting in- now issued to all governments a that, like him, she had become a golf and aeronautios, our neigh-doors, when daylight fades, with a questionnaire on the debated vegetarian and that perhaps this bour was gradually soothing down, bent gripped putter to ensure the my father caught the garden escaped, for Just be subject of the reduction of hours had enfeebled her brain. She and was about to descend his perfect pendulum swing. Nor has
travelled all over the world to ladder, when of work as 3 remedy spread the tenets of her faith and sight of me, holding my sides in tween the clock-golf and the unemployment. At the last after the death of Mme. Blavatsky dumb, agonising mirth behind the shrubbery are a not into which are International Labour Conference in 1891, became the acknowledged rainwater tab. He struggled for let pockets to catch the accurate practically all the workers' repre- leader of the movement. In the one breathless second, wavered shot at varying heights, and a vast
day'a work. sentatives and a considerable following year she transferred her and all his solemnity, too, came off slab of plasticine against which to lowered, and Mr. Jeffries goes
a flight clearly indicated by the in- proportion of the governments main activities to India, taking up the string of control. The smok-drive a ball and see the error of home to bed, conscious of a good
cap disappeared with
Typhoon is the Chinese name her abode in Madras and combining
In place of the old for cyclones, tornados, hurricanes, present were in favour of con- ing religious, social and political mumble of Imprecations. The ball dentation. cluding an immediate Convention work, playing an important part we never saw again. But I always captive ball of heroic memories blizzards, and depressions gen- limiting hours of work to forty in political developments for nearly considered it a wonderful after- there is a ball on a string, with a crally, depending on what part of In the week. The chief opposi-thirty years.
noon for ten shillings worth of length of rubber at right angles to the world you live in.
the flight. The ball comes back
Owing to the financial blizzard, glass. tion came, of course, from
I wonder? America can have only one ́dè- That was many years ago, and but cannot hit you. employers; but the British Gov-
the captive ball seems to me by No form of mechanism ever does pression, or tornado, a year. This As the ernment also opposed the idea of
far the earliest of golf gadgets. what it ought to do with me is naturally referred to the Convention, pointing out that
a long gap with once lost a finger-nafl in a mouse-economic depression. Again It is being rumoured that Then there is
Froak things often happen in the information available on the economic and social effects of a work on the new Cunarder will rubber tees, with gorgeous tassels trap.
the next milestone, But of all these fascinating typhoons in other parts of the soon be resumed. It is under attached, as reduction of hours is still very stood, however, that this depends and the steady development of the games, the one I like best is that world. In Mexico the other day incomplete. The present ques-upon Government support and rubber-cored ball as a never ceas-which enables the player to drive a church was awung around on its (Can anyone for-la soft ball which is attached to axis, so that the front door be tionnaire, therefore, contains, that this again depends on the ing undertone. besides the usual set of questions amalgamation of the Cunard and get the proud ownership of the strong rubber to limit its fight to came the back, and vice versa. Should this arst one? I found mine in about three feat. If the drive is We have often been that way bearing indirectly on the nature White Star lines.
There was the other instance of of the proposed Convention, a development occur, it would cause cabbage patch at Seaford and lost accurate the ball hits a target and ourself, but never at a church. further preliminary question- little surprise in shipping circles. it one stroke later in the gorse. rings a bell, of which the cheerful
Sie transit. ..) After rubber tinkle is somewhat drowned by the a girl who was walking along the naire asking Governments to The merger will involve the es- submit information on the whole tablishment of a holding company tees, folding with three different record of golf instruction being seashore at Palm Beach with her subject of hours of work and to be known as the British Na- heights made thus available ground out by the gramophone at boy friend. They were suddenly
tional Services, with the Cunard came, I think, pog-tees, which were the open window.
And to-day I shall set out with costs. Governments are asked Line dominating the partnership scorned at first by the golfers of
gay umbrella and shooting to report on numbers employed through its stronger financial the low-handicap class, but soon my
This much of the became universally used. Harry stick combined. Behind me will my wooden clubs gaily and unemployed, existing hours position, and the extent to which the undertaking is distinctly a stop in average working week has in the right direction. Street
box. The first of the peg-tees helmets, or, subject to the practice been reduced by means nomy is essential in shipping to-
day. With the elimination of were made of wood, but they were fallible weather report on of general reductions, rotation duplication in operating facilities soon followed by metal ones, which page, mackintosh covers, and a About the only decent thing they Thus the only man who is really services systems, and so on: the effect and
so it was said, then bone ones, tees in a bag of bungalow dimensions. which a reduction of houre to rather than competition, much got into the mowing machines, or angling armoury of graded irons do is fill the reservoirs with rain. forty per week would have in should be achieved in that Increasing or decreasing un-spect. Britain perhaps may dis-of compressed milk, papiermache And there will be mackintosh pleased when a typhoon happens
on the flood) employment and on the labour like to view its shipping policy and goodness knows what else trousers and costs in the great along is Mr. Ticklo
Yet besides. And closo market according as existing as an outright subvention.
reduced if it is a subsidy, it is necessitated rates of pay proportionately to the reduction by policies of co-ordinated control of hours, or increased to leave pursued by other European coun
tries. the Total Wages Bill unchanged; indications of the measures SIZE COMPETITION
to which would be necessary neutralise or mitigate a reduc-
Italy is waving the flag in tion of unemployment in indus- jubilance over the feat of the tries in which this might result Rex and ita passage of four days, from reduction of hours; the thirteen hours, fifty-eight minutes
But from extent to which costs of produc-is noteworthy tion and the general national standpoint of practical economy, it is doubtful whether the Rex's economy would be affected ac-
fuel consumption chart revcola cording as the wage bill were figures to advance the cause of the With superliner. reduced proportionately or main-extravagant tained; the effect of a reduction the Clydeside about to renew work of hours on social insurance on the hago. Cunarder, probably. schemes, and the technical prac-designed to surpass the Rex, inter- ticability of reducing hours to national competition for size and forty per week. These questions speed in ocean linera takes another constitute a formidable list, and costly step. This phase of the merger presents a striking para- it is very doubtful whether many
dox to the save-the-rope-yarns governments will be able to give policy which actuates the under antisfactory answers to all of taking. It indicates that them. At the same time, the spectre of nationalism has
From a self- most advanced industrial coun- yet boon driven off. tries, which are those whose centred viewpoint, the shipping B reasonable attitude is most important, are amalgamation is also those in which the informa-move. But if the morchant ser tion concerned is likely to be vices of the world fall to weather off their respectivo govornmonte, most complote. It would certain- all may eventually be obliged to ly be advantageous from every adopt a policy which many ob point of view if a clear picture servers boltove should have boon of the whole position resulting pursued long ago-international from a reduction in hours of agreement and co-operation. work could be obtained. It may
were
possibly prove difficult to obtain
co-ordination of
*
Vardon was, I fancy, the last of come Cco- the great ones to desert the sand-caparisoned in woollen sleeping
re-
tho
the
not
the adhesion of many industrial can hardly fall to hasten on the countries to an International general movement towards re- convention for the reduction of duction which is spreading so hours. But the compilation and fast in Matviddal Industries and publication of this information, firms tang
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struck by a tornado, which not harm them, but tore the girl's dress completely off,
Since then she has been re- ferred to as the girl who went down to the sea în silps.
So when you sum it all up, thin there's not much use for typhoons.
He is able to lift the water restrictions in time to have another water shortage. next
year,
He is the only man to whom (. a terrible "blow" is not a - terrible blow,
We were asking him about it the other day.
"What," we asked, "would be your last message to the public of Hongkong if you were caught in the middle of Shung Man dam In a typhoon ?"
"Au reservoir", he answered.
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SLIPS THAT PASS
A correspondent, drawing at- tention to the number of typo- in. Hongkong graphical erors newspapers, quotes several amus- Ing examples. A Sunday radio column advertised the hymn "Ford St. John's her watch" from Cathedral, and the correspondent suggests that this may be taken as an anticipation of Huxley's "Year of Our Ford." In a sport- ing paragraph a tennis player won his title in 1823, while an other paper gavo among its com
the fact
that mercial items imports into Holland included canned boor.
shaold bo Of cutse, t
the shrdlucm wyp dambered that in the
overy newspaper emploops Chinesa sino-typiste, mary of whom have oly a-shattering of English Typo griphical errors have occurred in overy newapepper, in, the world; in Tikes this respeck evey the London thes 1-anot Infillibleaux
In veiw of the pecial elreumatano that ariak in the ar Feast, the nowa papers, mountain airy high stand- Arda's 25108 Takes? doji Honkkonk pipos, are by no – midan"