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SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1937,
INDIFFERENCE
TO LEPROSY
These Names Make News
An Artist Comes To Hongkong
To Prepare Exhibition.
With п brush, Sir Francis Rose Ands pleasant living in Hongkong.
buy for £1, Picassos, which now tached to no particular school in' his art nor tied to any place as sell for anything over $1,000.
Sir Francis exhibits almost his domicile. Single and 27, he regularly at the Galleries Vignon is lucky to have found his niche and Pierre Col in Paris, the early in life. He is an artist Wildenstein Gallery in London whose works indicate that he with which Sir Robert Abdy is muy yet startle the world from associated, the Harriman Gallery which he has already won re- in New York, and the Arts Club cognition and praise. in Chicago. His versatility is
Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg apparent when one has seen his vivid allegorical sketches of Leaves To-day scenes in the Spanish war, his
landscapes, pictures of native A popular official who has made life and imagery and the magni- some kindly impressions by ficent edition of the Childe reason of his public work outside Harolde illustrated by him as the sphere of his duties, leaves long ago as 1919.
by the P. and O. Ranpura to-day
Of distant Scotch extraction, in the person of Mr. T. M. Sir Francis had an English Hazlerigg, retiring Crown Solici- father and a French mother, for of the Hongkong Govern- daughter of the late Comte Rouy ment.
year he assumed duty on sub- stantive appointment as Regis. trar of the Supreme Court, Re
Mls Bessie Owen flew over Europe
the occasion arise.
He was the Society's first Secretary and later became Hon. Director and subsequently joint Hon. Director, with Mr. S. V. Boxer.
de la Badesse. Mostly he lives Mr. Hazlerigg arrived in the in Waco four-seater and bounced in France. travels with an Colony on Christmas Day, 1920, crazily into Hongkong. American friend and manager, on his appointment as Assistant DRESENT in the Colony for Mr. Charles Mills, and a little Crown Solicitor, and during the on distinct understanding, Peveral weeks is Sir Francis terrier named Squeak. Inciden- period of his service here acted however, that he was to have Rose, artist in general, painter tally. Squeak once crashed head-ns Land Officer, Crown Solicitor, the full right of being independ in particular, and a charming lines himself when a story-seek- Treasury Solicitor, Deputy Re- personality to meet.
ing reporter detected a tiny dia- gistrar of the Supreme Court ent of the Government should Sir Francis is the fourth mond on his Sunday collar and and Police Magistrate, until, in Baronet of a title created in 1872 wrote a coloured account of how 1929, he was appointed Supreme Public Work and suceceded his father in 1915 Sir Francis had melted down the Court Registrar. He returned when he was six yours old. family plate and studded it with to the Crown Solicitor's oflice in When 11, Sir Francis painted the family jewels to provide a 1932, and in November of that Few people will have read the his first oil painting and showed necklace for his pet.
promise of the consummate Gave Head Away i official replies to Dr. S. N. Chau's artist he later became. Evid-
questions on leprosy at Tues-ence of his general interest in When he left France on his gistrar of Companies, Official
The amount of time and day's meeting of the Urban the realm of things beautiful trip through the East, Sir Administrator and Official Trus-
and intellectual is his recent Francis had the intention of tee. In 1935, he was for a time energy which he has put into Council without feeling that the the work of the Society is be yond computation; he has subject is one on which the Tourane during which he had facile brush. A hard worker and in November last he was throughout been the inspiring authorities are displaying an at-the rare fortune to unearth two and a keen observer he found appointed Crown Solicitor, a post genius behind the scenes, and
valuable heads of the Cham much... he sat in jungles and which he has since filled.
has worked with high efficiency titude which borders on indiffer-
carving which gave French discovered the secret of their Born in 1882, Mr. Hazlerigg and characteristic modesty. The enee. Whilst denying that there archaeologists a clue they had fascination. They are as noisy was admitted a solicitor in Eng. success of his efforts has been as cities but the traffic is of in- land in 1906. He practised in in large measure due to his great exists at present a colony of been long secking,
After a few days in Hongkong, seets and animals, strange noises Leicester for some time and be gift of seeking out people with lepers in Kowloon. the Govern-
enme Secretary of the Leicester special interest in specific as- Sir Francis explored famous Cat that make a magic whole.” ment spokesman stated that in Street, found a Chia Ching pot In Ceylon he was entertained branch of the National Society pects of the Society's work and, September last a
number of of the Ming Dynasty and bought at Mr. George Knox's house for the Prevention of Cruelty to by example, inspiring them to shucks, inhabited by squatters.it for $20. "If it hadn't been "Chelsea" and, 1,000 feet above Children, of the National Coun- go forward,
cil of which he was made an broken so badly it would fetch sea level, painted an exquisite Honorary member in 1933 in Mr. Hazlerigg has had some- Since, the Society was started, were found near Tong Meiover £1,000 in London. As it is, picture of the garden.
recognition of his services to the thing to do with all aspects of Market, and that approximately the peculiar Mohammedan Blue
In. Annam, Sir Francis met Hongkong S.P.C.
children's welfare work in the In dozen of these squatters show, colour is inimitable," he told me
M. Coedes and M. Gouloubew, of In his room at the Hongkong L'ecole
. When the Great War broke Colony, including the juvenile Francaise d'Extreme
a courts, industrial schools, infant Hotel, the drawers are full of Orient and enjoyed the advan- out, Mr. Hazlerigg secured
playing-grounds for commission, as Lieutenant, in welfare, paintings he has done or started tage of their expert knowledge the Royal Army Service Corps. children, hospital facilities, etc.. away, but the lepers were notou in his journey through the in browsing among the delight He held this rank until 1915, and all who have been concerned rounded up. In other words. East. Many of them have to be ful ruins of those ancient places. when he was promoted Captain, in these activities have always whilst there was evidence of the completed in a month or so and At Tra-Kleu he found the two and remained in the Army until found him a source of inspira-
despatched to Paris where an heads referred to, proving that Fa existence of the discuse, the exhibition of his work will be that district was linked with 1920, serving in France, North tion. In particular, Mr. Haz- Russia, and Austria. He was lerigg has insisted on the keep authorities, so far from attempt-held at the Pierre Loeb, Paris, Fourth Century culture under awarded the Military Cross on ing of reliable data on the con-
in May. "I seldom attend my the Cham Dynasty. He gave May 21. 1918.
ditions under which the Colony's ing to cope with its possible own exhibitions," said Sir one head to the school and, with
poor children live, and the an- spread, were content to disperse Francis. The brochure to be the aid of a bookful of docu- Some ten years after Mr. Haz- nual reports of the Society have, the sufferers and allow them printed in this connection will ments, gained permission to lerigg's arrival in Hongkong, it in this respect, been models of
have an introduction by the keep the other for himself. was decided to form the Society what such reports should be. freely to mix with the com- eccentric and famous Gertrude
for the Protection of Children, Sir Francis painted the port the origin of the movement be
In view of his approaching munity and become a possible Stein, American art critic and source of danger thereto. This author of a number of books rait of the wife of Dr. Welling- ing despatches which had passed departure from the Colony, Mr. written in a strange "free" ton Koo, present Chinese Am- between Lord Passfield, then Hazlerigg has gradually passed action is all the more inexplicable style something like the effect baggador to France.
Secretary of State for the on much of the administrative when it is borne in mind that produced by transposing alter- A cousin of the late Robert Colonics, and Sir Cecil Clementi, work of the S.P.C. to other en- thusiastic officials thereof, but in 1935 the Government secured nate lines of Sacheverell Sitwell's Cunninghame Graham-a roman- then Governor of the Colony, his valuable advice has always poetry and running it as prose. tie and colourful author, travel. In view of Mr. Hazlerigg's past been available to the Society. the passage of a new Lepers
In her last and most under- ler and artist who died a few keen interest in the well-being of His departure will be a great loss Ordinance, under which power standable book, "The Autobio- months ago-Sir Francis follows children, he was invited to take. was given not only to appointgraphy of Alice B. Toklas", the artistic strain that runs a leading part in the formation not only to the Society, but to places as leper settlements, but Gertrude devotes several chap through the family. He is at- of the Society, and he agreed, welfare in Hongkong, but it la also to order segregation where tera to Sir Francis and his works, of which she has bought about considered necessary and to pro-40 herself. She was wont to vide for the medical treatment of sufferers. The Ordinance also makes provision for, inquiry into cases of alleged leprosy. In the
under notice, the authorities traced a batch of
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fortunate that he has so well laid the foundations as to ensure a continuation of this beneficent. work in the years to come.
In social life, Mr. Hazlerigg has made innumerable friends by virtue of his genial disposi- tion, his sterling character and his unassuming nature, and he will leave Hongkong with the It is said that Scottish sol- subjects, and these sufferers are
Visitors to the new prison at good wishes of all his admirers,
remarked on actual, not alleged, lepers; yet, sent to the leper settlement at [diers have a more pronounced Stanley
the who will wish him happiness ‹ ›
the Old apparently ignoring humani-Sheklung, Over thirty such, sense of humour than English absence of a golf course for the and prosperity in
inmates. The shortcoming is Country. tarían considerations as well as some in an advanced stage of the Tommies. Jock-ularity!
believed to be due to financial atringency.
This Aviatrix the potential danger to the disease, were collected in Kow- public, they were content to loon alone last year. But what becomes of the Hongkong-born scatter the sufferers without
lepers? Are the powers of the giving them any treatment Lepers Ordinance invoked on
piloting her red, Waco- whatever. Medical opinion may their behalf? If we are to
biplane through a rough wind to differ as to the degree of injudge by what happened in Kow-
Perry and Vines are to play a bouncy landing at Kai Tak fectivity of leprosy, but the mere loon recently, there are not. There is no truth in the rum- forty matches. What's the bet- Aerodrome a week ago, I guessed fact that the local Ordinance, in The Colony may not be able at our that one of the cells at the ting that they are not all square she would be a competent and masterful woman, of the true mon with the laws of many present to afford the establish- new gaol is to bear a tablet:at the end?
American species. De places, makes provision for ment of a big and costly First Occupied by a former | segregation suicient to war- leprosarium, but surely. same. Director of Education."
rant the taking of very possible thing could, be devised within
precaution In the public Interest,
to say nothing of — amélia”
A local Australian has two rabbits as pets. In his country
O O The thief who stole the Kow-
was obviously light-fingered.
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Defied Rules
they transpose the last two floon Magistrate's typewriter WHEN I saw Miss Bessie Owen
letters.
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I found later that she was 'all' The Wyndham Street flag-pole
this and greater war is reaching even
more. Rebelling against finnicky rules and regu... heights, our means, and use made of the "Do you know-what becomes
lations, she has, during her one the lot of the sufferers con existing law in the matter of of your money?" asks an insur- By the same token, it's quito year flight across Europe to selves. It was estimated by gtment of aufferers. At ance company's advertisement. disconcerting to see from one's Hongkong: landed where she Committee which reported
stion is merely Yes; shroffs hound us until we office window "The Latest in was not supposed to and taken
let 'em have it.
Lingerie."
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