Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November
1940:
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The K.C.C. presents
Someone at the Door
a play of
MIRTH!
MYSTERY!!
MURDER!!!
on FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY, 15th, 16th and 17th November at 9.15 p.m.
In aid of the South China Morning Post Bomber Fund
Seats at $3.00, $2.00 and $1.00 can be booked at the Club or Messrs. Mautric & Co., Ltd.
Directed by LUWIS SUILIN
Presented by
WARNER BROS:
4
A WARNING TO
THE WICKED...
A BEACON TO THE WEAK...HIS RED COAT LIGHTS A MILLION MILES OF WILDERNESS!
He is the man who never turns back- until he gets his man!
He is the guardian of
a great land- and
its brave women! He is the one man death cannot stop- a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman!
"Heart of
the North
All in TECHNICOLOR
Serson Play" by Large Vident Bharrena - Based on a Nevel by
NEXT CHANGEKING S
AT THE
USED CARS
Make
Dulek Sedan
1035
Morris 10 Saloon
1834
Miles Reg. No. Frice
38847 5285 $2,400 1
.... 35593 GOST, BOO
Humber 12 Saloon
1034
Singer 11 Saloon .1630.
32420 54 $1,000
OF INTEREST TO EVACUEE HUSBANDS -
Living
31864 7015 $1,100 So you may be coming to live in Australia. That is
Studebaker Champion Coupo
1940
2302 309 85,000 Studebaker Champion Sedan
1040
1543 0417 $4,200 Vauxhall 14 Suloon
1934 Studebaker Sedan
1930........ 10887
ACROSS THE
Conditions FRONTIERS
Australia
In
T
ROBERT POWER
"HE late George Lans- bury once gave some grand advice about growing
"To all old people," he
good; you can be sure of a or tram or own a car; those who ly begin at 268. and 80s. and go old. warm welcome. Naturally can't get to market find our up to 45s, and more a week.
of obtaining daily help, and for wrote, "I would say, if you you want to know something green-grocery shops very good. You would have a better chance ........ 35213 3202 $1,300
this the pay is 1s. an hour. want a happy, a "good, old 79 81.755 of the cost of living and
AUSTRALIA is well served. A great many women in Aus- particularly, if you could with electricity. If you can tralin do their own work, and age, grow old without know- afford to buy electric labour it means no loss of standing ing you are doing so. "And manage on £7 a week.
saving devices you can run your You will find that very true; do this by giving some time Well, you can.
Hundreds of home cheaply and easily. Ex you may be at your laundry to tiny children and talking...
perts calculate that a small all tubs Monday morning, and meet on terms of equality with Australian families live on
electric home can be run on who you will, where you will, them as often as possible." much less than that, for, the about £12 a year. Gas for cook- Monday afternoon. average basic wage for the ing, heating and refrigeration is If you admit to doing all your Alaa! I can hear several old Commonwealth is £1-2-0 a week. available in all our big cities own work, far from losing by fellows of my acquaintance. the admission you will gain by anort at this injunction. But it That is considered sufficient for and is good and reasonable. two adults and two children; it'
it, for we have a real sense of is logical, it is sound.
All cars serviced the same as
for new cars ADDITIONALLY
All units of $1500 and over in value carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage
guarantee for three months.
Inspection and trial invited
Hongkong Hotel · Garage
Stubbs Rd.
The
Phone 27778/9
好
la.
provides bare necessities and you will understand that on the dignity of labour in Austra- nothing more. To the basic £7a-week you must practice wage carner your £7 a week re- most careful economy because presents something like luxury; you must have money by for so other things clothes; to hundreds of others it is very many little. The man in the bigger they are reasonable here, es- income group may even say to pecially our lovely silk stock you, "No, you can't live on it." Ings: taxes; rates-if you buy But you can with wise manage your house; insurance; medical
BY JOAN GILLISON
ment and economy.
Should you choose to live in the country you can make three economies;. keep a cow. have
Thongkong Telegraphi.hens; grow vegetables.
Friday, Nov. 8, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 28015
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In A Broadcast From Sydney
to
It is very true that in order to keep one's youth, no matter at what age, one must mix with
You will find that entertain-youth. Nothing is so essential ing here is simple. Dinner as to keep touch with the whole parties there are, but the great pattern of life in order to retain majority of us have our friends one's own identity within it. come to spend the evening after The young, naturally, prefer dinner and we serve supper-the company of the young. The coffee and sandwiches
and old, without thinking, prefer the savouries-about 10 p.m.
company of the old. Yet the Or our women friends come in frontiers between the two ought the afternoon and have a cup of Inever to be closed, with armed tea with us, and scones and guards, as it were, on either cake; all very pleasant and in-side. Youth should seek the expensive.
adventure of companionship [with the old, and the old should maintain touch with youth as with the fount and origin of their own being.
Four methods of housekeeping and pricing sound strange to you there is a good way to over-
vegetable plot in your back gar the state schools and only small me
Many families do.
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good scholar.
Mr. Lansbury was also right--- In stressing that all such trafficking
across the frontlers must be on equal terms..
One touch of condescension, one
height, and the frontier-gates swing io with click.
If you come to the outskirts of our big citles you are still virtually in the country-lovely country too, of orchards and poultry farms-and you may practice those three economies, though you would probably pre- expenses-you would probably come it; in all our cities we have fer to buy milk and just have join one of the many lodges to splendid schools of domestic the fowls and vegetable garden. help with these and education. economy for both young girls On £7 a week your children and women; a short course at And even if you come right would go to our State schools one of these would be absolutely small hint of stooping from a great into our suburban areas as I and follow on the high invaluable to you. expect the majority of you schools and so up to the univer- Necessarily this talk has all Each generation ought to do far does do to understand REASONABLE REQUEST
would still you can have a sity. No fees are charged at been concerned with ways and more than
with pennies and and sympathise with the Ideals of the PUBLIC
But we have good generation on each side of it. In- reaction to the den and a small pen for fowla. fees at the high schools, pounds.
tolerance is an ugly thing, and no- Government's announcement of
Scholarships arc, available right things to give you for which here more ugly than when it ex- . through for the particularly you need no money at all. We presses itself in terms of censure be- the abandonment of the compul-
have sunshine most of the year; tween the people of one generation wonderful beaches near all our and the next.
Because of the friction crented ly sory evacuation scheme and the
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capital cities; lovely gardens in
Intolerance, SOTIC men .and wealth Arbitration Court refusal to lift restrictions on the RECENTLY our Common-
women arrive at old age embittered return of the Colony's evacuees, discussed the minimum living YOU will notice that I haven't the heart of the cities.
mentioned domestic help.. In these dark days of war, because they have allowed them- every Australian is selves to become strangers within will probably find crystallised cost for an Australian family. Frankly, I don't see how on £7 though
A dietitian, Basing her figures
week you could possibly afford heart and soul with Great Bri- the world and strangers to their own expression at this evening's on the cheapest groceries avail- domestic help. Still you may tain, we are far from the actual th
"Yours is the world, and all that's That is the inheritance of the meeting at the Peninsula Hotel.able and a diot that was Jted choose to deny yourself various combat and we can give you in it." man, "All"—including the
adequate and no more, computed things so as to have help. Even comparative peace and security. full that £2 18. 9d. was the absolute
And above all, whether you young of every age, with their new minimum to allow for food for then it isn't easy to obtain. I'm a family of two adults and two bound to admit that. So many have £7 a week or £27, you can interests, their stimulating activity,
girls, for one thing, are in share this with us that free-their zest for life..
To cut oneself off from all this is children.
munition works. Good help is dom which is the very core of to die, though one may still walk the
earth with a folr show of vigour, Housewives of the small in- available, but the wages usual- our being. conic group handling- though not a great deal more, than the basic wage-argued that this was too little, even for housekeeping in industrial suburbs; they claimed £2 108. a week was nearer the mark.
The authorities are likely to dis- cover that what originally was a somewhat forlorn quest for information, has developed into -public-outcry and demand which will be difficult, if not im- possible, to side-track.
-more,
Our evacuated women have been subjected to arbitrary treatment from the start and the uncompromising refusal to per A typical week's budget of mit them even the opportunity the small income group was this -meat, 88.; fruit and vege- of returning is merely perpe- tables, 88.; (much reduced if tunting the injustice; it means you grow your own vegetables); milk, at 8d. a pint, 6s. Gd.; that once again Government re-bread at 3d. a lb., 2s. 6d.; gro- fusca to admit that it has made ceries 12s.; electric light and a mistake. The authorities have power, 28. Od.; gas, 2s. 3d.; fuel, never successfully countered the in winter time, 38.
That comes to just on £2 58. accusation that compulsory eva-
you would find that the odd cuation at any stage was an extras in housekeeping quickly error: the Indictment has been brought it up to 12 10s. Well ignored; to-day they continue to I know it, because I belong to the small income group myself. justify their blunder with a de' Butter averages from 1s. 41⁄2d. cision which makes the second, to is. 71⁄2den Ib.; tea, 28. 6d. a lb.; sugar, 4d. a lb.; flour, 21⁄2d. state worse than the first.
a lb.; rice, 4d, a lb.; bacon, ls. Yesterday the Telegraph"4d. to 1s. 9d, a lb.; coffee, 2s.. postulated a series of questions | 6d, a lb. Our own excellent tin- ned fruits, vegetables and tinned which, if answered honestly, foods are not dear. may contribute towards a gerisi-
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ble solution to the present enig- ma; they prompt another query. We have an abundance of beautiful-and cheap-vege- Can it be legally argued, or morally tables and fruits the justified that when a scheme, such round; overy, overseas visitor as compulsory evacuation, has been always comments on this. We abandoned, addenda complementary can buy grcons and salads in to, the original scheme.may remain winter or summer, and in sea- effective? The restrictions imposed son, almost any vegetable you
care to name." upon evacuees returning to Hongkong came after the introduction of the compulsory. evacuation scheme and were intended to make the whole
On an average we pay 3d. and 4d. alb. for our greens; 8d. and upward for cauliflowers; 24. and upwards for cabbages; for
thing water-tight. Now that, scheme apples, pears, peaches and to- has been abandoned it is hard to matoos we give about 4d. alb.; Justify the continued application of oranges, 16 a shilling, with big these additional restrictions in their ones at 2d anch. entirety. The least concession which can be given is to permit, if they so desira, unmarried adults and married women without children to return to Hongkong. If to-night's meeting de eldes to make, this request, we feel will be not asking anything
All the big cities and many suburbs have fine markets where you will see stall upon stall, a blazo of colour from fruits and They are cheaper. vegetables. T than in the shops, but to go to market, you must be near train'
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An amusing
ion" cartoon from the Chicago Tribune:
the Blitzkrieg score card.
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