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Thursday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 19, 1939.
"TOUGH GUY” OF THE VILLAGE, AGED 102
Money
By Menaces
And Bogus Charity
MAG
[AGISTRATES in juvenile courts recently were faced
with the problems of:
A 10%-year-old village "tough guy";
The delivery lad of 14 who dumped goods in a ditch when he could not find the house;
A rebel of three, beyond parental control-he once lay down on the tramlines; and
.
Breakfast-in-bed demands of a 16-year-old who would
not get up until midday. Approved homes and probation officers were the solutions in three of the cases.
THREATENED SUICIDE AT 1034
Demanding money by menaces and obtaining goods by false pretences were the police charges against the 10-year-old village boy who up- peated in the Salisbury court.
A child beyond control was the The N.SI.C.C. plaint against him. Court was told that in the last three months he had
Contiamily disappeared from horne, taking money with him, nod sleeping out under advertisement hoardings, hedges and on rubbish (tumps;
Threatened
small boy and frightened him into taking money from his money-box and giving it to him;
Had gone round the village, from house to house, collecting money for Christmas presents for the
little brown native children":
Assaulted a small boy and small Bl lati
When his step-mother tried to exercise control, threatened her with a fender and suld he would commit suicide.
When he was sent to a home at Salisbury to await court proceedings he absconded, taking with him 23s belonging to a charwanan.
The magistrates decided to mend the child to an approved home.
"The must extraordinary case ever before the Court," was their com
ment.
BITTER SWEETS Caxton Hall Juvenile Court was the 14-year-old boy whom u policeman found in the crypt at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. He was said tu be in need of care and protection, and the Probation Oficer told haw the lad had lost twu jabs:
visions in a ditch when he could not find the house.
While working in factory he went out to buy sweets. He offered the foreman one--and was discharg- ed. He had had other jobs, too, I was stated.
A police officer said that the boy hd cycled from Windsor, us someone had told him that he could get a the crypt. free meal
The father said that the boy had hud an accident which might have affected him, and the case was nd- journed for the Windsor magistrates to be communiented with.
DEFIANT 3-YEAR-OLD
A young mother in tears took her three-year-old son to the same court. The boy begun to scream and shouti and had to be taken outside for the rest of the hearing.
Once, sald the mother, he lay down on the tramlines.
"We have tried every method to checkt him," she added. "We Inok him to a doctor, who said there was nothing wrong with him.
The ease was adjourned so that the probation oflcer could make arrange- ments for him to "go away" for a time.
Then
there was the widowed mother who told the Caxton Hall magistrates that her 16-year-old son demanded his breakfast in bed at 11 a.m. and stayed there until middny.
He insulted her, used bad language and kept late hours, she said.
The boy replied that his mother had refused to give him his break- fast. She had told him to "get out," so he left home, and now shared #; room with his brother, paying the rent between them.
As a grocer's boy he was sent out 1 ha probation ailleer was asked to with deliveries, but dumped the pro- see thig hoy and his mother.
A
BIG
SHOW
Budgerigar Billy
Mrs. Greaves, of Plufold Lane, Darfield, Yorks, was very upset when she lost her budgerigar Billy. But she had talih in Billy. She had taught him to say his name and address.
Ten days after Billy vanished. Mr. Greaves licard at work that a bird had been caught in Brampton. 1wo miles away, which recited "ffumpty Dumpty," and said “Billy Greaves of Pinfold Lane.“
There was soon a joyous reunion in which 12-month-old Billy gave rechais of "Ea. Ba, Black Sheep" and other nursery rhymes he has learned.
UFSI
Mr, Anthony Eden, young, handsome, self-assured, as he spoke before 4,000 diners at the National Association of Manufacturers' banquet In the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The former British Foreign Minister saw this era as one of perll and called on democracy to face the challenge of dictators. He was given an ovation.
JUFS
Rumours that her marriage plans had been infinitely postponed were effectively quashed by Kay Franels, screen star, when she per- mitted this picture to be taken in Hollywood, showing her with her flunce, Baron Eric Raven Barnekow. Misa Francis, recently returned - from a South American vacation, sald they would be married in
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"OUT of date and unsafe" ray apparatus at Brighton Municipal Ilospital injured a girl probationer nurse while she was holding a child. and caused her to collapse on the door.
This accident is revealed in a re-
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on
FRIDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1939, at 9.00 P.M. TO BE HELD IN THE ROSE ROOM, PENINSULA HOTEL.
Under The Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency. The Governor of Hong Kong.
Sir GEOFFRY A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G. ARTISTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:--- MISS AUDREY OAKENFULL
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£7,000 Fire On B.Q.M.S. Dicks (Comedian). Pier In A Gale
Bournemouth.
WITH heavy sens, lushed by a gale, breaking over them, firemen Bourne- recently fought a fire on mouth's fainous pler which causerl damage estimated at nearly £7,000 to the solarium and bandstand.
Thirty-feet Games roared through the roof of the pler buildings for more than an hour.
When the brigade arrived they found the ft. high gates to the pier closed. They had to climb over and run their base through from the ap proach 200 yards down the pler to- wards the sen.
About 50 auxiliary firemen, train- ing here under the A.R.P. scheme, were called out to help the regular brigade.
ALARM FROM HOTEL
Nearly four hours after the pier, had been closed a hotel visitor saw from her room tho first burst of flame, and gave the alarm.
A member of the hotel staff said the fire began in the bandstand and spread to the solarium.
of
many
Despite the storm hundreds townspeople and visitors assembled on the promenade to watch, sitting in their ears, sen spray strik- ing the roofs. Dancers in the muni- cipal pavillon ballroom overlooking the pier also left their floor (the fire.
scr
The solarium is one of the most Popular pier attractions, visitors in search of winter sunshine spending hours there each day.
port to Brighton Health Committee by Schools' Monotony
the medical superintendent. The committer have agreed with bim that new apparatus must be bought.
Ila purchase has been postponedj for two years "owing to financial considerations."
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London.
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The urgent need for more open- air schools for anaemic and under- nourished children is stressed by Sir Arthur MacBally, chief medical of- The report shows that the nurse Ocer to the Board of Education, in had token a child to the X-ray de-his report. Ile states that while in partment, and was holding the child such cases here is much to
done, the school medical service has the examination table. It is
much to its credit. In its 30 years thought that the nurse, feeling faint, of effort it has improved the health tried to save herself from falling, and and conditions of the school-child clutched the X-ray tube or the table beyond all comparison with the past. Dealing with nutrition, the report leading to the tube.
records that during the year 1,090,- "The radiographer noticed a flash 527 children were assessed, with the pass between the girl's head and the following nutritional groupings; Ex- tube, and she fell to the floor," says cellent... 16 per cent. Normal... the medical superintendent.
73.8 per cent. Slightly sub-normal The girl suffered from shock, and 10.6 per cent. Bad... her hair was singed, but she was able cent. The figures are about the to return to duty in a few days." same as those for the last two years.
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