$1 TIFFINS
at
Also
Jimmy's
A la Carte
China Bldg., Hongkong.
Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
Wednesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 21, 1938.
DEAD-END CHILDREN
Rotary Club Contributes
To Local Society
In an eloquent address on "Children of the Dead End," Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier, Honorary Secretary of the Society for the Protec- tion of Children, asked for contributions from the Rotary Club yesterday to help give the poor children of the Colony a happy Christmas.
On the suggestion of Rotarian T. B.¡have a house, lent to us and equipped Wilson, who gave a contribution, a by the generosity of Mr. Ll Po-chun,
for this cause.
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND en was afterwards taken up where for the past 18 months we
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Steamers
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1 BANGALORE
CHITRAL CARTHAGE +BHUTAN
RAJPUTANA *BEHAR
RANCHI
1 SOUDAN
Tons From H'Kong about | 0,000, 21st Dec., Noon. 14,500 24th Dec., Noon,
0,000 31st Dee.
17,000 7th Jan. 14,500 21st Jan. 0.0001 28th Jan,
17,000 4th Feb. 8,900 11th Feb,
[17,000) 10th Feb.
0,000 25th Feb,
Destination
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'bg, R'dam & A'werp. Marseilles & London. B'bay, Maelles, Havre, L'den Hull, H'bg, R'dám & A'werp.
Cargo only Calls Casablanca All verols may call at Malta
TALMA
DRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINUS (SOUTH.)
10,000 31 Dec., 10.30 am. į S'pore, Port Swettenham
Penang, Rangoon & Calcut
DO.
SIRDHANA
10,000 14th Jan,
0,000 28th Jun.
10,000 11th Feb.
SHIRALA
TILAWA SANTIA
8,000 25th Feb.
DO.
DO.
DO.
53. Apear Lika Steamers have excellent accommodation for lat de Ind class passenger EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINGS (SOUTH.)
NANKIN NELLORE
TANDA
7,000 | 31st Dec., 11 a.m.]
7,000 3rd Feb.
7,000 4th Mar.
The Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan presided, and the guests Included Dr. C. T. Wang, former Ambassador of China to America and, prior to that, Governor of the South China Rotary District; and also Dr. J. M. Henry, present Governor of the District and Chairman of the Canton Refugee Council.
Dr. Wong said he was glad to be again among the Rotarians he knew over three years ago. Of the service to others which Rotarians rendered,
have had a creche the first of its klad in the Colony. Results have proved this new departure to be most successful experiment. Work- ing mothers come at early morning and leave their babies, ranging from The new born to two years in age. mothers are thus left free to earn dally wage and the babies, cared for by trained nurses, gain by their lay in clean surroundings and pro- per feeding.
We have no institutions of our own and are grateful, as the Colony
he was sure lip service only was not should be grateful, for the homes, one to which the local Club sub-|orphinnages and industrial schools to scribed.
which we can safely entrust casES against a small payment which may cover the base cost of Ilvlug semetimes, I suspect, less than that,
Dr. Henry said he would have plensure in informing flotary Hend- quarters of the progress made by the foral Club, which was, in his opinion, cne of the best in the District.
The Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall; Rotarians T. C. Yu, Tientsin; E. Pin, Talnon; G. G. Helde, Changsha 1. Kadoorie, Shanghai; H. M. Ya der Schalk and A. Hofmeister, Can- ton; F. Turley, Canada; U. W. Robin son, Los Angeles; G. A. Fitch, Nan- king; were visitors at the meeting which included a large number ladles.
Caser
Attending Courts
and
Tragedy
To-day the Juvenile Courts are attended by the representatives of the Society, members of the Women's | NEXT MORNING Auxillary, who get into touch with and bring them.to_the_ notice of the Society's officers. Our Society aims at preserving the health of children and rescuing them from the dangerous environment which is al that their destilution has to
them.
offer
Airs. Crozier outd, in port; In the past week I have spent a lot of time at the Society's centres and what I have seen has made me realise Last year the Soclety spent $1,558 that more than ever are we in needyond its incume, and this year the of your support--the Society's pro-income again fell short of expendi- blems are multipled, its burdens inture; but we are out for even more.
the influx of refugees centres. Creased by
Our mothers cannot afford We have more hungry mouths 10 buses and trams. Nor сам they feed-in normal times we do not, afford the loss of a day's wage a matter of policy, give anything small as it may be-f the nearest other than purely temporary relief centre Is too
for away. A centre for children whose parents are note Manlia, Rabaul, Brisbane,
Hongkong born-but, as you know, costa a little more than $5,000 a year. there people cannot, as yet, be sent and we have not got the money for But we are going out to back. Government and the Emer-X more. gency Refugee Relief Committee are future does not mean launching out get it. Expansion In the immediate doing their best to make provision into anything new. It means enlarg- for these people; but
organising homeless wanderers takes time and ing the scale of our present opern-
fed. meanwhile their babies must be
Sydney, Melbourne & Kobari
Regular monthly saliings from 'kong to Shanghai & Japan & 'kong to Australia
SIRDHANA
CARTHAGE
*BEHAR
NELLORE
SHIRALA
RAJPUTANA
TILAWA
RANCHII
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
8,000 22nd Dec. 3 p.m.
14,500 23rd Dec., Noon.
0,000 2nd Jan. 1
7,000 5th Jan, 8,000 5th Jan. 17,000 0th Jan. 10,000 10th Jan. 17,000 20th Jun. Cargo only.
Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
Shanghat & Japan. Jupan
Shanghal & Japan.
long.
com-
The Society does, in extreme cases, Does not the fact that, as a com- pay up arrears in rent for mothers munity, we have not shouldered the with little children-soaring rents burden of these, our own, hapless have increased the Society's liabilittle children as have other ties. The
rise in the cost of living munitios, give them a claim on our the price of food and woods mak-
voluntary services as individuals? ing many who would otherwise be Our immunity from rates and taxes able to manage come to the Society for social services, in their regard for food for their children.
It was
to assist the children of in at the cost of the children's suf- ignorance and want that the Society was started nine years ago; dedicated Some years ago, outside a hospital to the threefold proposition: That in southern Europe, Intended, I be- no child of whom we have knowledge lieve, for foreign seamen, there was Agents shall lack food; that we shall provide notice "We Harbour All Disease
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or procure medical care for any such and Respect No Religions," The child as needs it; that, as far as our Society for the Protection of Children means allows, we shall rescue such is a little like that, for no mother destitute children from dangerous ens has ever been refused who has up- vironment. The Society bas four
centres, two on the Island and two pealed to it on behalf of an ailing or In Kowloon, managed by salarieder-nourished child, and we are not concerned as to her religious or Inspectors, in whom we owe more
than I can tell you, with advice front political attachments, Ikinorary branch secretaries. Go The sum of $30,000 kept our con- inte any of these centres and you will tres going this year. We are asking see lines of mothers receiving good for $40.000 for 1939. It is not much rich soup, cheap in cost, so that pre-in tortas of sterling or gold doliars. gunt and nursing mothers will be but in terms of healthy mothers and able to build-up healthy bables. happy children its value is incalcul You will see rows of them feeding able-with that amount we shall be small babies with milk, prangeable to carry on and open two new Julce, codliver oil, and the same soup centres. (Applause). that the mothers receive. The babies
noted The Ion, Mr. M. K. Lo, in thank-
vill be weighed and Perment willing the speaker, sald he was sure ot
in the files, medical
be secured for this baby with "sure this season of good cheer and good- eyes, or that with tubercular glands. will, that Rotarians would not be or skin disease.
Exlucating the content with merely praising the mothers is part of the Society's pro-speaker's sentiments, but would sub- #ramme of service. This last year scribe financially to the cause, whielt 53,303 visits were pakd to the well exemplifted the Rotary spirit. Society's centres.
It was announced that there would Then there is the Lien Yuet Stenbe no meeting of the Club Creche. At Clarence Terrace we Tuesday.
TO MANILA
Fri., Dec. 30.
at-
next
of a tired-
to GLORIOUS
looking bridesmaid
I don't want to See the wedding picture. I know I look dreadful!
Betty darling!! what is the
matter. You even wake tired these days. You ought
TWO MONTHS LATER:
to see a
doctor!
What a lovely couple!
-and the bridesmaKĖS, aren't they sweet. Pity Betty looks sto dull-spoils
it rather
From a wedding comes a wedding, but not for Betty if you ask me!
"AT THE DOCTORS
· THAT
Where's my
bouquet?
I'm so thrilled
THINKS
How I dread
this. I look awful beside the others! my face so duff- and this firedness
NIGHT
...this waking
tired tells on your whole appearance. During sleep you bum up energy by breathing and other automatic actions. if this energy is not replaced-
of course you wake tired. It's Night
Starvation!
I'm
Oh, mummy, so thankful to you for helping
me!
and so every night :
Does your daughter wake fired?
WAKING TIRED affects a girl in
Wher appearance and personality
She never looks and never feels het best. She's unfairly handicapped. Give her Horlicks a cupful regularly at night. She'll wake refreshed — full of energyandsparkle. Get Horlicks today.
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