THE HONGKONG. · TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1936.
POVERTY INCREASE AMONG CHINESE
LOWER
WAGES,
LESS
With Roped Boy Marches
Prisoners
Of
War
NEW GOODS
:
WORK
EXODUS TO SLUMS
SETS IN
UNEMPLOYMENT 'added
to the suffering of the poorer class - Chinese in Hongkong last year, accord. ing to statistics published in the Annual Report on the Social and Economic Pro- gress of the people of Hong- kong.
-The Report was issued by the Colonial Secretary last night.
Owing to the fact that
Chinese who are unable to
find employment in the Colony tend to return to their native districts in China it is difficult to form
an accurate opinion on the question of unemployment in Hongkong.
But, according to the Government Report, there can bo little doubt that there has been an increase in unemploy- ment.
Fewer
people Werc Cm- ployed during 1935 and those
Government prisoners, most of them strapping youths, one (X), a tragically young boy, are marched -roped by their wrists--under armed escort to insurgent headquarters. They were captured an the insurgents advanced an Bilbao.
OVERCROWDING EVIL IN
HONGKONG
GOVERNMENT
.
1
REPORT
ON THE SITUATION
who were lucky enough to find RECOGNITION of the serious-
work received less pay than in 1934.
ncas of the overcrowding and slum problem in Hongkong:
"A natural corollary of this is made in the Annual Report on
WANTED!
general decrease in prosperity is the Social and Economic Pro- More Recruits
that many people who formerly rented rooms and cubicles have been reduced to occupying bed- spaces," says the Colonial Secre- tary in his Report.
"Consequently," he adds, "there has been an increase in overcrowd- ing in the poorer districts, despite
the
gress of the people of Hong. kong, issued by the Colonial
Secretary's Office last night. For Nurse's
Defects in many of the older tenements in the Colony are at- tributed in the Report to nn Ordinance, passed in 1903, which More recruits
Detachment
are urgently
fact that rents for Chinese was framed to overcome existing needed for the nursing detach- tenements have remained more or conditions. These conditions, less the same.'
viewed in the light of modernment of the Hongkong Volunteer
With the exodus to longkong's practice and knowledge, slums, minny tenements in the better districts have, it is disclosed, become "found to be lax.”
vacant.
The Report depression In seemed to have reached its lowest ebb at the beginning of 1935 and during the fest nine months there
states that the local Industries
was little, if any, improvement in business.
HOUSING
ore
Defence Corps.
This fact is emphasised by the
REFIT FOR H.M.S. KENT
ARRIVAL ON SATURDAY
THE flagship of the Ching Sia-
THE tion, IL.NL.B. Kent, wif
arrive in Hongkong from Shang- hai on Saturday, ca route to England for re-fit and recom- mission
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little is not aboard IL.M.S. Kent, and his flag.will not there fore be transferred to I.M.E. Cumberland. the new flagship before the departure of I.M.N. Kent,
Kent is due to leave Hong- kong for Singapore on Wednes- day next week. Her refit at Ilome will be Identical will those carried out in F.M.S. Cumberland, and will culaft considerable alteration to her appearance.
disclosure that the authorities, in Kai Tack
port, "some evidence has been shown up to requisite strength, recently "In recent years" states the Re-an effort to bring the detachment amongst the artizan class of the Colony of it quickening social con- circularised the wives of Army sciousness and the resultant desire officers resident in the Colony, to avail themselves of Improved
accommodation wherever urging them to join. houslog such is made' available.
of
Westerni
Airport Ready For Clippers
When the giant Pan American Clipper arrives in The shortage of trained nurses Hongkong it will land at the
.
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Selection-The Sorcerer" (Sw]l- van]; Selection-Trial by July (Sulli- van); Wedding of the Rose (Jessel); Hobomoko (Reeves); Americana Alouettes (Thurban); Valse des (Drigo); Ampretten Tanze (Gung's).
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A number of the smaller knitting and weaving factories closed down altogether und some of the larger
At the end of last year, the total factories worked shorter hours,
"The unskilled labouring classes, strength of the deinchment was one During the last three months of however, are still found densely short of a hundred. It is believed the year, however, some of thepacked in tenement houses deficient that at least double that number is Industries began to improve.
In light and air. This class Many workers, the Report dis-labour has to find its habitat as close required to adequately deal with the closes, are working from a.m. as possible to the scene of its labour, problem of war-time, nursing. lo 5 p.m. for the princely wage of with the result that the 15 centa a day!
Song-I'm a are the best part of the City of Victoria, which Locomotive drivers
houses the native business quarter In the Building and closely, adjoins the portion of paid operatives Trade. They receive from $1.60 to
the harbour handling the traffic from $2 per day, Carpenters and brick- the West River and Chinese Coast, layers receive 50 cents to $1.25 Ports, is seriously overcrowded.. day, painters, plasterers and folders from 80 cents to $1.25-a day. and labourers from 40 to 75 cents a day.
scat-
are
Work
in the
Colony emphasised by
the fact that two members of the most up-to-date airport in
Nursing Detachment were recent-
ly called upon to aid in an argent the Far East. operation at one of the local hos pitals,
able to land in a deep portion of The 25-ton Clipper ships will be the harbour practically free of junka gers and cargo are disembarked into and sampans, and, once its passen- a lighter, be lifted up to new slip- way and housed in the existing acrodrome.
The bay facing Kat Tack Airport is over a mile long, giving ample space to the biggest seaplanes in the world to alight and take off. allowed to enter a defined area when Junks and sampans will, not be seaplanes are due to arrive or de- part from Hongkong.
Work on Kai Tack Airport, These conditions are being slow-
which is also an R.A.F. Basc, Members of the Nursing Detach-is now almost completed.. ty mitigated by the rebuilding of properties which from time to time First Aid, dressing of wounds, and ment receive thorough instruction in Employees of the Hongkong are condemned for reasons of struc- treatment of all cases likely to arise Tramway Company receive slightly tural defects.
in the event of war. Part of the higher pay than Bus employees. "This process Tram drivers are paid $30 to $43.4 however, too slow to create any up- each of the members undergoes full
of elimination
is training includes anti-gas work, and month, while Bus drivers receive from $30 to $50. Tram Conductors Preciable, improvement.
gas drill. "New legislation, which calls for sive $30 to $39, as against Bus the provision receive
of reasonable yard! 310 to
Брасе,
hasten the removal or vin conductors, month paid to Bus
reconstruction of much of the old port, "the major defect of housing The lowest paid workers those employed in factories.
property. This, whilst providing is due to lack of town planning. Improved housing conditions, will nine hours a Ing
day, female
no doubt mean increased cost of "But since a Inrge proportion of workers in cigarette factorles re-
the City was erected in the carty living to the labouring classes. ceive from 30 to 55 cents a day.
days of the Colony, when town Employees in knitting factories are
planning was little practised even in paid from 20 to 50 cents a day,
Europe, the conditions to-day are a while the lowest pald the em-1 "Hitherto, the hostility of the pro-¦ heritage, the elimination of wheili ployees in electrie torch factories-perty-owning class to the introduc- involves immense sums receive from 15 to 40 cents.
of money, tion of legistation requiring addi- and probably considerable opposi- tional open space and thereby tion if attempted on a large scale. reducing the earning power of the property has been the chict obstacle A new Building Ordinance, passed In obtaining improved conditions. It last year, came alo Гогсс on can, however, recorded that this January, 1. spirit of obstruction is less evident fo-day as a result of education, and It provides for drastic Improve- of the example set by some of the ment in the conditions of light and better class of realty companies ventilation of old properties in the whose blocks of tenement houses Colony which, under the 1003 Or- dinance, were not called upon to compare not unfavourably in cs-
AN UNLUCKY SAILOR!
NAVAL COMMANDER
MISSES
THE TROOPSHIP ·
Hongkong's most disappointed resident is probably Lt. Cdr. J. S. Dalison, of H.M.S. Moth.
CHIEF OBSTACLE
The plans for accummodating sca- planes envisage regular flights to the Colony within a few years of not only the Pan American Clippers from across the Pacific, but of the huge Imperial Airways seaplanes now under construction.
When the proposed air mail scheme is brought into force, all Empire first class mall at present despatched by
steamers will be carried by 'planes.
SMALL CRAFT, DARRED sentlal respects with modern conform to modern requirements,
Hongkong's crowded harbour pre- European practice."
"A higher standard generally is sented many problems to the avia- The housing of the Colony is all being called for," states the Colonial tion authorities, confronted with the privately owned, and control is Secretary's report. "Building owners task of providing a sato landing maintained by the operation of the are themselves slowly realising the place for regular seaplane services. Public Health and Buildings Ordin- advantages to be Lt. Cdr. Dalison was due to ance, the provisions of which also modern
gained from It is believed that these problems methods have been solved satisfactorily. leave for Home yesterday by the mould the character of the housing nilied to proper hygienic principles." In other paris of the world, nota- Troopship Lancashire.
Generally the houses are built back
bly in America. there have been At the lost moment he was re-
to back in rows, separated by Although a commnlusion was⋅ ap-| disputes, as to the laws applicable feet in width pointed as early in the year as May to a possible collision between n called to duty to become Acting scavenging Jane six Senior Officer in the West River specified by the Ordinance, These 10 to enquire Into the housing dif- aying-boat and a ship.
Brish law, however, is well de- houses vary in height from two to ficulties of Kowloon and Hongkong, eboard H.MS. Tarantula.
overcrowd fined. When a flying-boat is in the Captain W. Dowding, who recent-four storeys according to the width with special reference
of the street to which they front; | ing and its effect on. tuberculosis, air, it comes within the control of
to become Sénior Oficer of the
a
constructional
at-
con
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8 p.m. Time, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m. Orchestra.
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Drury Lane Memories; King of Jazz-Selection.
8.20 p.m. From the Studio, Hawaiian Selections by the Monna Beach Boys.
Programme,
3,
1. Dreeze; 2. Slack O'Lee Blues; On the beach at Waikiki; 4.
(Continued on Page 4.)
PILGRIMAGE TO SANCIAN IS.
HONGKONG'S PART
OF EUCHARISTIC"
CONGRESS
ta
'An unique incidental affair in connection with the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress in Manili will be a pilgrimage from Hong- kong, starting February 18, Sanchan Island, 80 miles west- ward, where died in 1552 St. Francis Xavier, the "Pathfinder- Apostle."
to
Many of the pilgrims from the United States will be carried Manila on steamers specially chor- tered for the purposes. These al- ready include:
The President Plerce, from San Francisco January 8;
Empresa of Japan, from Van- couver, January 5; -
Taisula Maru, from
San Fran- cisco January 7
President Jefferson, from Scat- tle early in January.
ly arrived in Hongkong from Home whilst the average, height per storey it was able to hold only one meet- | the' Afr 'Ministry and is under an. West, River Patrol was suddenly is twelve fort, a minimum being in during 1035. The delay in ful-obligation to avoid collision with The Transylvania, leaving New
Alling the purpose for which the shipping.
York in December on a round-the- taken ill this week and had to be controlled by the Ordinance.
Commission was appointed is relieved from duty.
Once on the water the flying-boatworld cruise, will remain in Manila tributed by the Colonial Secretary becomes subject to ordinary, mari- Bay for the duration of the Con to absence of members from the Ume regulations. Being a mechanie- green.
All these vessels will enli Hongkong.
Pending Captain Dowding'BE "TE- covery, LLCdr. Daliton will take up the position.
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