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"It Would Be Dishonourable To Give Colonies Away”
MR. S. HAMER- Kelires after 26 years with Hongkong Government.
be neither consistent with our Ratepayers. Will national honour, nor in the long
run would such a surrender make, for peace.
Miss Him
con-
dramatist, looked among his trin- kets for something he could contribute.
in the streets of Rome.
He found the Nobel, Prizo gold There are some whose opinions MILITARY efficiency and de- carry weight, who
votion to church work do medal won for literature in 1934, advocate not often go hand in hand bat and sent that to the Government. placing all Colonics under Man in Mr. Samuel Hamer, leaving died from pneumonia at Rome. On December 10, Pirandello date. If that means that the to-day for England after 26 He was Colonial Powers should become years service in the Hongkong illness was sudden. Only two 69 years of age. The Mandatorics for their own Government, both qualities were days bafore, he was out walking Colonies, the change would be admirably exemplified. regarded with complete in- difference by the dissatisfied Ratepayers will be interested Pirandello was born at Gir- Powers. They would gain no to know that Mr. Hamer was genti, Sicily, in 1867. He was thing except the benefit of the Second Assistant Assessor of first a schoolmaster, then a novel: Commercial Equality Clause, Rates at the Treasury. In him ist, and only became a dramatist which, ùs have shown, can be the Government lose a
late in life. He was 55 when his effected without placing the scientious worker.
first play was produced, but since territory under Mandate. A Before coming to Hongkong, then he has written about 50 dissatisfied Power would only Mr. Hamer was foreman of works for the stage. be satisfied if it were itself works at Port Sudan from 1906 for a business career, but he His father had intended him appointed Mandatory. Such a to 1908. He arrived here i abandoned the commercial school proposal is surely too fantastic. October, 1910, as First-Class he had been sent to, and--with- If it would be a breach of faith Overseer in the P.W.D. He out his father's knowledge- Stubbs Road THE arrival here of Col. S. P. to transfer a Mandate, it would became Supervisor and Ac- Willams (Retd.) in connec- be even more dishonourable to countant at the Imports and tion with the work of the hand over Colonies or Protce Exports Office in 1917. Surveyor But soon after this the collapse Royal Empire Society. is torates to a foreign Mandatory. of Buildings at the PW.D. in of the family's fortunes, owing synonymous with the receipt of No Colonial Power would think 1920," Senior
of to a water burst at his father's. that distinguished body's Do. of it. The advocates of Uni- Works in 1924, and was attach- sulphur mines, so affected young cember publication in which yersal Mandates would perhaps ed to the Valuation and Pirandello that he was i for Lord Lugard, most famous of reply: "Then let the League Resumption Office in 1927 and many months. all Hongkong's administrators, administer the Colonics with- to the Crown Lands Office, as When he left the nursing home, has some telling deductions to out a Mandatory," Have they Permit Officer, in 1931. In his hair and beard were while. draw from the Colonial position fully considered how such a 'October of the latter year, he
A period of poverty followed, to-day.
proposal would work? Colonies was seconded to the Assessor's but then Pirandello began turning While the question of Colonies are administored by local Office at the Treasury, being out novels at an astonishing speed. remains the chief bone of con- Governor, responsible to an in- appointed Second Assistant As It is said that in one year he pro- tention to-day, every man and dividual Minister, who, in turn, sessor of Rutes in 1933. From duced four volumes of verses and wonah must necessarily be is responsible to Parliament. May, 1934, to January, 1935, he 22 novels. interested in a question bound The Minister has a large staff acted as First Assistant As- ap with their own eventual of trained officials working all livelihood and extracts from Lord Lugard'a recent address to the Society are reprinted here.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mrs. Potts and her sons, and Mr. P. C. Potts, thank all friends who attended the funeral of the late Mr. G. II. Potts and sent floral tributes and kind expressions of sympathy on the occasion of their sad bereavement, as well an those who forwarded dona- tions to local charities 打算 his memory.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1937.
THE FACTS ABOUT SOUTH WALES
He says: One of the most striking characteristics of the present day is the universal recognition that we are living in a period of transition. In the West the rival forces of Nazism,
A Commission of Inquiry which has been visiting the dis-Fascism, and Communism com- tressed areas in Britain recently heard evidence at first-hand, when it visited Cardiff, concern- ing the actual conditions in South Wales. And it was tragic story that it heard. South Wales has 174.000 unemployed. Included in that number ure
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employed registers during the
past eleven months, and 70 per
cent. of the adult population is drawing unemployment pay or public assistance. As a result of de-rating and the closing of collieries the rateable value of the Rhondda has fallen from £240,804 to £29,000. At the Cardiff inquiry, Mr. George Hall, M.P., gave some figures which leave no doubt about the chief cause of the disaster which has overtaken the coal industry in South Wales. Since 1930, he Haid, that area has lost an export market of 10,000,000 tons. This
in Africa that vacant and -colonieable--lands-are-to-be
found. Though the
KING George VI. in open-
ing the new building of the Royal Empire Socicly, in his then capacity as Duke of York, said: The relations between the various paris of the British Empire are not just the concern of their respective Governments. They depend even more on the human touch. The So- ciety has in its power to make the homecoming of many Д Dominion and Colonial visitor a really happy memory and thus to bind the peoples of the Em- pire by the strongest tie in the world-the tie of friend- ship.
tries
Inspector
adopted a classical education.
His Orst novel was successful.
His first really notable book, sessor.
"The Late Mathias Pascal," was From the time of his arrival translated into 14 languages. in the Colony, up to the present, One of his plays, "Right You Mr. Hamer has been connected Are," was written in three days; with the Methodist Church at and as long ago as 1927 there Wanchai, having filled most of were 360 novels bearing his name. the offices in the Church; being To English playgoers he is best Church Treasurer for many known as the author of "Six years and for some time Secrc Characters-in-Search-of-an tary of the Quarterly Meeting. Author" in which the six charac- He was a member of the Com- lers interrupt a stage rehearsal mittee of the old Sailors' and and demand that the manager Soldiers' Home in Arsenal should give them life and become Street, now demolished, and their author. The play was ban- served on the Building Com- ned for a time in England, but mittee of the new Home in was performed in Italian, when Hennessy Road, of the Com the author, visited London and mittee of which he was a mem answered the audiencò's questiona ber up to a few years ago,
from the stage.
Mr. Hamer has also been a
The ban which was lifted after·
pete with Cach other and against Democracy. Their armaments grow daily in size. und threaten the extinction of Our so-called civilisation. In the East, India and China, the two great foei of population, together between a third and o half of the human
race, are moving towards a new destiny.
keen Volunteer, having served three years, astonished Pirandello. There is the demand by
for 20 years at Home and in "I have never written a shocking European powers for lands to
Hongkong. He was in turn a line in my life," he said,
Another of his plays, "As You which to emigrate, but it is not day and every day. To replace member of the old Artillery
these various Colonial Minis- Company, then known as No. 4 Desire Me" was made into a film
with their archives and Company, the Civil Service and Greta Garbo appeared in it.-
Pirandello was intensely mod- average experience it would, I suppose, Company, and the Engineer. density of the continent as a be contemplated to set up a Company. He is still a member His plays were usually whole is low, it is because vast gigantic International Office in of the Cadre of the last-named puzzling but their eccentricities areas are waterless desert. The Geneva, armed with executive Company. Mr. Hamer has also He has been described na
were leavened with real humour. already populated (in some cases up to powers, composed of members been a member of the Civil "playboy of playwrights" and the the possible limit) by races policy and methods; responsible years.
with varying national views on Service Cricket Club for many Einstein of Drama." which are increasing now that to the League Council, which Both Mr. and Mrs. Hamer Caballero Facts
has no tradition or special have made many friends in the knowledge of Colonial Adminis- Colony, amongst whom they tration. Local Governors must are most popular, and all will FRANCISCO Largo Caballero, be appointed, and the dissatis join in wishing them and their the Spanish Premier, who fied Powers would romain dis- family many years of happy left Madrid on the approach of to Colonies, for the control of satisfied unless those Governors retirement in the Old Country. the insurgents, is the illegitimate subject races is said to be a question of national honour and ernment by Committee is Im- were their own nationala. Gov- prestige. But we want Germans
to realise that
cultivable areas ате
tribal wars, slave-trade, and epidemic diseases are checked.
But economic advantage is by no means the only or even the principal reason for the claim
tho
We
possible, and, by such a Com- consider that British honour disastrous. The local Governor. W
mittee, the attempt would be and good faith are deeply in must inevitably become a prac
Gave Nobel Medal
For Melting Down
Outside War
the
son of a Spanish don and a per- sant woman.
His name means "the long gentleman.' His opponents call WHILE patriotic Italians were him Canallero, which is the volved. That we should declare tically uncontrolled autrocrat, to the melting pot to provide alle
sending their wedding rings equivalent of the French "can- ourselves ready to share any It is surely unnecessary to dis- funds for the Abyssinian cam-
Although he has had a hard life year there has been a loss of economic advantages accruing cuss such a project further. paign, Luigi Pirandello, famous and began to work in the mines
from our Colonies is an honour-. able gesture' of goodwill To hand over on demand, as though they were slaves
or cattle. peoples to whom we have pledged our protection, would
the re-opening of tinworks, the establishment of canning indus- tries and milk and
bacon
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cer,
at the age of nine, he has not al- ways been 100 per cent. Red.
During the Primo de Rivera. regime he accepted a State Coun- cillorship from that rather easy- going dictator, and for a time worked amicably with him.
C.-in-C's. Captain On
Staff Leaves
leaves to-day by the P. and
newspaper Spain seems a matter of great. A KEEN follower of the hunt headline. The trouble was that import. the latter couldn't Stop Press.
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O. Rajputana, Capt. J. W. A. Waller returning Home on the expiration of his period of service on the China Statiori.
3,000,000 tons. At this rate the export trade of South Wales will be completely lost in five years.. No other district has suffered so severely from the policy of quotas, tariffs, exchange and other restrictions. All the dele- gates who spoke at the confer- ence stressed the need for the
factories in the Vale of Glamor- setting up of new industries. in this stricken area. Mr. Arthur gan, the re-opening of Penarth Docks, a bold scheme of land Jenkins, M.P., pointed out that drainage, and the equipment of although the Special Areas Re-electric light and water supplies
Lots of men are now trying construction Association in the rural areas. It can It is proposed that golfers to get rid of the Old Yule tie. brought into being by the Gov. scarcely be denied that these should not be allowed to carry!
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Capt. Waller came here In clubs. ernment for the purpose of help-schemes could be put into opera- more than fourteen
Vines and other climbers must December 1985 and held an im- tion speedily and would effect a This will jigger some of them.
now take their hats off to Perry. portant post on the Station as considerable improvement in the
Captain on the Commander-in- O industrial life of South Wales.
Another funny little animal
Chlof's Staff. Formerly he wasTM The Commissioners appointed by has been discovered on the
After being submerged in the executive officer on H.M.S. Lon- the Government have advocated Peak. Stoatally different to the first two games, Australia come don when that ship was on the the adoption of many such last one.
up for the third time, schemes. No such action has, however, yet been taken. Even regarded from the point of view of defence, it would surely be wisdom to plant some of the new industries in South Wales, if only for the reason that they
ם.
ing the establishment of new industries in the areas, has been In existence twelve months. nothing has been done in South Wales. He also urged that locni authorities ought to be relieved of the heavy burden imposed on them. In spite of their extreme poverty, Glamorgan and Mon- mouth are the heaviest rated counties in Britain. Among a made at the conference were the possible centres of attack in in a fire this week. Too bad of utilisation of coal by-products, war-time, '.
the old flames.
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Capo Station and served in many. capacities in the Royal Navy Five elephants were seen in
Spain seems to be the rendez until his promotion to Captain Hongkong this week. Must vous for the league of unruly came in 1932. His family are at
Home. have been proceeding to one of nations these days.
His place will be filled here by .0 those jumbo sales.
Capt. E.G.N. Ruahbrooke; R.N.,, Nudism is said to have failed D.S.C., who arrived on the trans- in Hongkong. In other words, port Lancashire on Wednesday: a new doctrine which didn't take on.
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number of practical proposals would be far removed from A lot of undies were damaged
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