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LEAGUE OF PEAK CHURCH'S YEAR
HEALTH
Miss Ming Talks On
Important Task
Displaying suppleness and grace in every movement of the exercises she went through, Miss Mavis Ming, tencher und organiser of the Women's League of Health in Hongkong, won the admiration of a large number of people who went to the fielena May Institute yesterday to see a demon stration and hear a lecture on health exercises based on the Bugot-Stack system.
Bishop Presides at The
Annual Meeting
The Bishop of Hongkong, Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, presided as Chairman, at the annual meeting of worshippers of The Peak Church in the St. John's) Cathedral Hall, yesterday,
A report on the Church's activities was given by the Hon. Secretary, Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, while the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. M. F. L. Haymes, reported a credit balance of $094.35 on the year's working accounts.
May 26, 1939.
Russian Parliament Meets To-day
Moscow, May 25. The Supremo Council, probably the most colourful parliament in Europe, begins its first session in 1930 in the former Czarist Throne Room of the Kremlin to-night.
Twelve-hundred depulles will re- present over a hundred races, and Russians in khaki tunics will mingle with re-shawled peasant women and turbaned. Uzbeks, Turcomans from Central Asia and Siberian Mongols, Cossack Horsemen and Eskimos wearing reindeer coats.
The signal for the proceeding to begin will be the entry of M. Stalin and the Inner Cabinet, but M. Stalin is unlikely to partelpate in the de- bates.
The following'grants were deelded upon at the meeting: St. John's Cathedral ($200), Christ Church, The Immense benefit that women Kowloon Tong ($150). New Terri- derive from this form of exercises torier Evangelisation Society ($50), was stressed by Miss Ming. Doc-Street Slipeers' Shelter Society ($50), tors,
she said, have recommended and the Society for the Protection of Die Bagot-Stack system na safe and Children ($50). scientific for women of all ages.
An interesting point made by Miss ling was that the exercises were which had the Joined with music, ¿ffect of not only refreshing the body but also the mind. Miss Ming also made reference to the promin- ence of the League in other parts one Sunday where there was no the cause of M. Litvinov's resignation.
of the world.
The Hon. Mr. M. K.
ed Ming Ming In enumerating in part
training Miss Ming In Australia.
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The meeting also decided to ask Dr. K. L. Reichelt nnd the Itev.} B. N. Nichards to join the Com- mittee.
The most important item on the agenda will be the foreign pelley, and M. Molotoff is expected to make a Dean Wilson said: With the statement, after which there will be exception of three Sundays in August) a general debate on the International when_no_clergy were available and situation. M. Molotof may indicate
congregation present, the Service of! Other subjects to be debated in-
Lo introduc- | Holy Communion was held through-į elude national defence and the third
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few words, out the year. The total number of five-year plan, The session will last TO - MORROW
the thorough Communicants being 522, an average a week or ten days.—Reuter,"
had undergone attendance of 7.1. Christmas Day Communicania 75, Easter Day Com-
Out of a total of 33 Tuesdays when THREE FOR SESSIONS.
the priest attended for the Service!
In charge of Miss Ming. seven municants 66. pupils of the League performed ele- mentary exercises, the object of which is to prepare the pup for the more difficult exercises to come. Mrs. Renald Ching was the plan In her address Miss Ming said in part:
Jst
Everywhere in the world to-day where women are allowed to, they are surging forward to help relieve the present sufferings of mankind and are bringing about a new cul- ture, which gives an atmosphere of freedom and space, and it must of necessity be based on health. Health fundamental. It is not
of Holy Communion, only 28 services Allegedly in Possession Of Communicants present. This service were held, the remaining five had no has been discontinued since Febru-
ary
Forged Notes
Proceedings against two women
Holy Baptism has been administer- and a man who were fount with occasions and one two occasions by in Connaught Road Central on Apri ed by Anglican Clergy on five forged banknotes in their porsession the Rev. K. Mackenzie Dow, while 10, were concluded before Mr. T. J. marriages were eclebrated Houston at the Central Magistracy during the year,
yesterday, when all defendants were committed for trial.
The cure and decoration of the Church has been carried out by Lady Pollock whose work is very much appreciated..,
Ho Sau-mul, 30, was charged with possession of 128 forged $10 bank- notes of the Central Bank of China;|
52DAYS TO DAY TO MORROW everything, but the necessary begin- voluntary service of the Rev. D. Br. similar forged notes; and the man.
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We acknowledge gratefully the Au Yim, 20, with possession of 122 ning for the certainty of develop Richards who has been responsible Ng Hak-sing, 34, unemployed, ment. If we could nil realize this for most of the Anglican Services. Individually, and base our being on
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gether with the women, with hay- ing conspired to have in their cus- tody forged bank notes,
Defendants were stopped by Police outside the Nam King Boarding house about 9 p.m. on April 19, The Women's League of Health Australia and Hongkong.
"In order to bring the League when the banknotes were found in exists in Hongkong to try to put within the reach of as many women their possession. This particular purpuse Into the
Det.-Inspector A. L. Hopkins pro- foundation of the building of this possible, the price for each clas..
was fixed at one shilling. Here in secuted. The work of culture.
the Hongkong it is fifty cents in the League until eight years ago was
As the and evening and $1 in the day. only available to the leisured und
League grows it will become corres- monied women in London who were pondingly pussible for it to reach a nlive to its importance. Then in
larger number of women, 1930 Mrs. Bagot Stack, after muca are confident that it will grow as It experience and research in health work started the Women's League of has been doing tready.
Health and Beauty. Mrs. Stack de-
and we
The League is for women, but
the
vised the exercises herself, adding not because we underestimate to Mrs. Conn's work, placed them in importance of men. It is the women who have been neglected in the past. sequences and set them to musle
In this way the Bagol-Stack system and they must be trained was particularly adapted to teaching, which is the method the League.
mass
so that
they may take their place with the omen In deelding the destiny of the
future.
"We all have within us potential
"In certain countries physical cul- ture has become an accepted part of powers, which modern ways of liv. the national life, but there is still have kept dormant, and it rests with us to develop them. To be hardly any attention Elven to the able to do so the mind will have needs of the older people, even to to be very much awake, and it will the mothers of the next generation not be if the body is neglected. Women of all ages can Join the League. The exercises gently streich
and relax the muscles,
and are
"An increasing amount of womer are realizing this and they are com- effortless even for women who have lrg to the fore, whatever their oc-
cupation, in their determination never exercised before.
tu
"In the Lengue classes the exer-set up a more abundant life. Ac- cises are done to music. Stretching tually the League is only at the be- and swinging movements are taught ginning of this enormous task which by the teacher from the platform. lies ahead."
The exercises teach correct posture and central control. They alm atj the ancient Greek co-ordination be-i tween mind and body.
"The exerelses serve n double purpose in that they are preventive as well as remedial, They are divided into elementary, medium and edvanced sluges. In the advance classes the exercises are learned in sequences, and after the sequences are known they give the fullest en- Joyment of the excrelses that is possible. The musle makes the members forget that they are exer- cising, and gives them A complete! mental relaxation, so that both mind! and body are refreshed.
"Doctors have recommended the Bagot-Slack system as safe and selentite for women of all ages, and often have sent along their patients to train their bodies for safe and healthy motherhood.
The aim of the League is health leading to peace. It grew out of Mrs. Stack's determination to give up chronic illness for health, and to throw herself out of her desire heart and soul into work for peace, after she realized the tragedy mil- lions suffered through purposeles:| destruction. The first members to Join in London gumbered 10. Since then the membership has increased!
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