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NOTES OF THE DAY GADGET MANIA IN GOLF The Very Idea!
JACK ASHORE
for
Slooping, accommodation Jack ashore le an ever-recurring problem in Hongkong cropping up as soon as the Fleet is in for the
T
He had been eight years. upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucum- bors....Gulliver's Travels.
-By VAGRANT
WEATHER OR NOT!.. By Edward Kelly, Meteorothing -
7E have now become a W HE letter of enthusiastic camo smart little cases to carry:
full-fledged citizen of a appreciation from
These memories whetted my ap: Hongokng.
From now on, we can gaze
them in.
winter. This year, although ad correspondent regarding a petite, and yesterday I promised a la carte, ditional accommodation will be new grip set me musing on myself a gargantuan
So it was I spent an exhaustive, down upon all nowcomers provided in the new wing the numerous additions to exhausting time tasting all the with a supercilious stare, of the Soldiers" Sailors the golfer's outfit. The golfing fare provided in the shops and, when they mention
and
Home, it will still be insufficient.
various professionals, and
the golf requisite depart-typhoons, sniff.
On an average 830 ratings sleep coming of the bag was of
of various West End We refer, of course, to the or each night during the win- before my day, and really ment ter and last year there were bede the first of the extras I can emporia, in one of which, with the
critical eye of the greatest of lady typhoon yesterday.." for 640 only. Many men were com- remember was the captive golfers upon me, my innate shy-soon as the No. 9 signal was pelled to sleep on the floor of the ball which had a long string neas and acknowledged ineptitude hoisted we looked it up in and Sailors' Home-attached to it with a little prevented me from displaying my our typhoon guide. "Gale ex- Borry state of affairs. Tho
Soldiers'
As
invite Mrs. Battle to a game of pected to increase," it said.
We flung the perspiration off maximum number of ratings al-parachute at the other end. cracking swing. Rather, would I lowed shore leave at night is 2,800 We once had one at home "Rummy" And I issued gorged
ourself with a wat forefinger but in view of the restriction in for a month or two but it with knowledge.
and felt thankful. sleeping accommodation only left us in stirring circum-!
stances.
with
ล
brated pfils of the same name,
the fault of the Weather Bureau. That nothing happened, was not How could Mr. Jeffries help it if
After the barometer drops two or three times, Mr. Jeffries gets tired of picking
R with
piece of string. The typhoon signal is then. lowered, and Mr. Joffrles goes home to bed; conscious of a good
It can be said without fear of A miasma of deathly stillness quarter of them are able to ob
contradiction that the march of hung over Hongkong, but we tain the full value of that leave, the
It was a peaceful summer time has scon ench golden hour know it couldn't st. remainder having to content them-
The No. 9 signal, like the cele- scives with, berths in a "steel box", afternoon with the hum of the improved by the opportunism of as the Commodore so aptly describ-insects playing seconds to a the golf salesman, and the home of
real enthusiast has become a would soon start thin~~ moving. ed the warship the other day distant mowing machine., My museum of aids to the breaking of an opportunity for the father hit the ball well and the 50. Another round of the shops Here is community to show interest in the clattering jingle of falling glass welfare of the blue jacket. Why
the apolla.
one of his isobars fused? When not open some of the halls in the sounded like the collapse of the and only the Olympia will house
That gallows in the corner is a isabar not a bar? If so, why not? Colony as dormitories when Rot Crystal Palace rather than the
And once we've started in this needed for other purpose? The shattering of a conservatory device to keep the head motionless cost of equipping them could un pane. The irate 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 guilloting was the intend to write about the weather charge made for accommodation.
velvet smoking cap he wore, to only cure for dandruft?) The odd weather you like it or not,
The wind is what causes it. Up make matters worse one of rubber contraption on the floor is
calculated to groove the swing. at the Royal Observatory the baro- those with a tassel. MRS. BESANT
of great golfers' meter drops and the typhooI To my father's explanation that Here are casts it was a captive ball, he paid seant grips, which can be fixed to the signal goes up. They always do The declatve Influenco on the
attention. Looking back on the club and faithfully overlapped, things by opposites. That's why remarkable career of Mrs. Annie scene now, my father's story, as unlese, of course, your hands, like typhoon means "big wind" in
resemble wicket-keeping Chinese, Besant, the world-famous theos0 he stood dangling, as the
only mine,
When the barometer drops, Mr. phist, whose death occurred yester-
I said, but this brilliant Jeffries swears, and picks up the day, was her meeting with the Rus-imay evidence of his innocence, gloves. "Could we but wear their
the blameless parachute on
the shoes," 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 long partnership with the errant pass it on to you. To keep the left humidity, meaning a dead relation Having joined the Theosophical
of the surgical A FORTY HOUR WEEK Society, she devoted all her energica 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
it up, so he hoists the typhoon The International Labour Of Shaw met his match when he went for golf wag little known amongst macabre about it. The floor is to protest against her desertion of we Sassenachs in those days.ittored with substitutes for holes
signal. fice of the League of Nations has the Fabian Society. She replied Even so, despite his ignorance of that one may practise putting in-
All you have to do then is listen. now issued to all governments a that, like him, she had become a golf and aeronautics, our neigh-doors, when daylight fades, with a questionnaire on the debated vegetarian and that perhaps this hour was gradually soothing down, bent gripped putter to ensure the to other people, while they tell
was about to descend his perfect pendulum swing. Nor has
cnaght the garden escaped, for just be- you about the '00 typhoon, or the subject of the reduction of hours had enfeebled her brain. She and
travelled all over the world to ladder, when my father of work as
a remedy for spread the tenets of her faith and sight of me, holding my sides in tween the clock-golf and the 23 typhoon, until the barometer unemployment. At the last alter the death of Mnie, Blavatsky dumb, agonising mirth behind the shrubbery are a net into which are is permanently fixed in position International Labour Conference in 1891, became the acknowledged rainwater tub. He struggled for let pockets to catch the accurate practically all the workers' repre- leader of the moyement. In the one breathless second, wavered-shot at varying heights, and a vast
day's work. sentatives and a considerable following year she transferred her and all his solemnity, too, came off slab of plasticine against which to
Typhoon is the Chinese name a flight clearly indicated by the In- cap disappeared proportion of the governments main activities to India, taking up the string of control. The smok-drive a ball and see the error of
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
captive hall of heroic memories blizzards, and depressions gen- cluding an immediate Convention work, playing an important part we never saw again. But I always there is a ball on a string, with a rally, depending on what part of limiting hours of work to forty in political developments for nearly considered it a wonderful 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 baek
Owing to the financial blizzard, glass. tion came, of course, from
That was many years ago, and but cannot hit you. I wonder? America can have only one de- employers; but the British Gov-
the captive ball seems to me by No form of mechanism ever does pression, or tornado, a year. This far the earliest of golf gadgets, what it ought to do with me-Ila naturally referred to as the
a long gap with once lost a finger-nail in a mouse-economic depression, Again it is being rumoured that Then there is
Freak things often happen in the information available on the
But of all these fascinating typhoons in other parts of the economic and social effects of a work on the new Cunarder will rubber tees, with gorgeous taasela trap.
soon be resumed. It is under-attached, as the next milestone, 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 driven church was swung around on its tionnaire, therefore, contains, that this again depends on the ing undertone. (Can anyone for a soft ball which is attached to axis, so that the front door be besides the usual set of questions amalgamation of the Cunard and get the proud ownership of the strong rubber to limit ita fight to came-the-back-and vice versa. Should this first one? I found mine in a about three feet. 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
. 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-Sic transit 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 to be known as the British Na- heights made thus available ground out by the gramophone at boy friend. They were suddenly subject of hours of work and tional Services, with the Cunard came, I think, peg-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
Since then she has been re- to report on numbers employed through its stronger faancial the low-handicap class, but soon my
This much of the became universally used. Harry stick combined. Behind me will
ferred to as the girl who went wooden clubs gaily and unemployed, existing hours position.
down to the sea ju slips. and the extent to which the undertaking is distinctly a sten in Vardon was, I fancy, the last of come my
So when you sum it all up, average working week has in the right direction. Street eco- the great ones to desert the sand-caparisoned in woollen sleeping-
this there's not much use for typhoons. practice been reduced by means nomy is cssential in shipping to box. The first of the peg-tees helmets, or, subject to the in- of general reductions, rotation day. With the elimination of
co-ordination of
Bervices soon followed by metal ones, which page, mackintosh covers, and a About the only decent thing they Thus the only man who is really systems, and so on; the effect duplication in operating facilities were made of wood, but they were fallible weather report on which a reduction of hours to rather than competition, much got into the mowing machines, or jangling armoury of graded irons do is fill the reservoirs with rain.
re- so it was said, then bone ones, tees in a bag of bungalow dimensions. forty per week would have in should be achieved in that
He is able to lift the water- increasing or decreasing un-spect. Britain perhaps may dis-of compressed milk, papiermache And there will be mackintosh pleased when a typhoon happens.
(Continued on Page 10.) `
restrictions in time to have employment and on the labour like to view its shipping policy and goodness knows what else trousers and coats in the great along is Mr. Tickle.
Yet besides. And close
another water shortage next market according as existing as an outright subvention.
year. reduced if it is a subsidy, it is necessitated rates of pay were proportionately to the reduction by policies of co-ordinated control of hours, or increased to leave pursued by other European coun the Total Wages Bill unchanged; indications of the measures SIZE COMPETITION
to which would be necessary neutralise or miligate a reduc-
ernment also opposed the idea of THE NEW CUNARDER the Convention, pointing out that
and
trics.
f
the
With
Italy is waving the flay in tion of unemployment in indus-jubilance over the fent of trics in which this might result Rex and its pagsago of four days, from reduction of hours; the thirteen hours, fifty-eight minutes. But from the oxtent to which costs of produc- is noteworthy.
·tion.and the general national standpoint of practical economy, economy would be affected ac-it la doubtful whether the Rex's cording as the wage bill were fuel consumption chart reveals
superliner. reduced proportionately or main-figures to advance the cause of the
extravagant tained; the effect of a reduction the Clydeaide about to renew work of hours on social insurance on the huge 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 spoed in ocean liners takes another constitute a formidable list, and costly stop. This phase of the it is very doubtful whether many merger presents a striking para- dox to the save-the-rope-yums governments will be able to give polley which actuates the satisfactory answers to all of taking. It indicates that the time, the spectre of nationalism has not them. At the same most advanced industrial coun- yet been driven off. From a self- tries, which are those whose centred viewpoint, the shipping
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reasonable attitude is most important, are amalgamation also those in which the informa-meve. But if the merchant sor- tion concerned is likely to be vices of the world fail to wasther off their respective governments, most complete. It would certain all may eventually be obliged to ly be advantageous from every adopt a polley which many point of view if a clear picture servore bellovo ahould have been 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
possibly prove difficult to obtain
a
ob.
the adhesion of many industrial can hardly fail to hasten on the countries to an international general movement towards re- convention for the reduction of duction which is spreading80 hours. But the compilation and fast.in individual industries and publication of this information firms.
after-
on the flood
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cook make us somo
cofthe
struck by a tornado, which did not harm them, but tore the girl's dress completely off,
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 bo your last message to the public of Hongkong If you wore caught in the middle of Shung Mun dam in a typhoon?".
"Au réservoir", he answered.
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SLIPS THAT PASS
orora
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watch" from Cathedral, and the correspondent auggests that this may be taken 28 дл anticipation of Huxloy's "Year of Our Ford." In a aport Ing paragraph a tennis player won his title in 1928, while an- other paper, gavo among its com-.
the Items
fact that mercial Imports into Holland Included
whaeld
bo
canned beer,
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