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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1922
Hughes & Hough
CsalTM Contractors, General Anationsors and Brokers.
|-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
TE Underaged have received insinc Mods to ill by Fablia Auction." Tar Account of the Concorned),.
ON
SATURDAY,
"Desember 16, 1929, at 10.30 a.m.
at their Baler Rooms, No. 8,
De Ve Bond, Corner of
Ice House Street,
A large selection of TOYS,
Comprising
Tea Sets, Dolls, Stockings,
Motor Oire, Xmas Trees,
&c.
Ac.. tc.
$160
Xmas Crackorn.
Terme-Cash on delivery,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONUERNED)
ON
SATURDAY,. Desember 16, 1922, at 10.45 a.m. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street.
A SPECIAL COLLECTION OF ITALIAN MARBLES, Buitable for Christmas Presents,
Also
Sundry Fancy Goods And
Val St. Lambert Glass Ware. Inspection invited on Friday p.m. Terms-Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, December 12, 1922.
INTIMATIONS.
DANCING.
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON.
Special Attraction.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
28 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS.–
$1. PREPAID,
Every additional word & Cente
for a insortiann.
FOR SALE.
COFFIN LOAN SOCIETY.
GERMAN: SCHEME CAUSED
BY POVERTY.
There is something particularly re volting in the idea of a communal muffin, yet cingumstances have forced the poorer people in the German town of Augsburg to form a coffin Ioan society.
This has led to an unavoidable dia respect of the dead, and the muni~ FOR SALE -1,500 Cast Iron cipal council has been moved to take
Water Pipes. $4 each. Apply
scenes which have taken placa.
|
THE CHINA MAIL.
The proposal is that the dead shall be buried in plain wooden boxes that
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CHILD LABOUR.
ONLY ASCHOOL9.
The loan society; says a Berlin mes- Inge, came into existence owing to the prices of coffins, which have in will fit into the coffins, and after the WHERE FACTORIES ARE THE creased so considerably during recent funeral ceremony the coffins shall be weeks that they are far beyond what returned to the society's quarters as the lower classes can afford to pay. How.
It is suggested further to divide When pour family aes bereaved funerals into four alates, and it is they can, on payment of a small fe?, hoped later on to make no charge for pay hire a coffin for the inneral day the boxes in the case of the fourth and then, after dark, the society's class the very poorest of the town. stall bury the body and return the coffin to a depot,
GRADED FUNERALS.
The corporation's proposal is the
against this inhurman prastice.
Billons Headache,
All that is nooded is to corroot the biliousness and the headache disappears, Taks Chamberlain's Tablets and you
by ali Chemista and Storskeopars
DIFFICULT ROCIAL PROBLEM.
de out absolve the amplovers from re aponsibility for the welfare of f Yenilemployees. Apparently the bew plan is to benefit children still omi- | played rather than, thom who have
had to
leave the factories ist obedience to the. Jabour ordinace of September. But the small step token tion system before industrialiam came walk mor boldly forward, is
Japan, by establishing her educa should enconrage the authoriting to.... upon her in fall force, escaped a rather stinging to British prids to torious dilemma that is puzzling good contrast what Amrica has dous for people in Obina, saya the Japan has done for her own with the little the Filipino children and what Japam Chronicle. These good people are distressed over the tragedy of child that Hongkong, with all Sts.wealth;
C. E. Warren & Co., 98A, Wanchal steps with a view to preventing the result of a great outery in the Prea will soon be as well as over. For. salolile in factories, but they are com-has undertakan for the Chines
Road.
To
TO LET.
[O LET-Two Airy Office Rooms on top floor of 6, Queen's Road Central Apply to Gaude. Price & Co., Ltd,.
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION
15, Morrison Hill Road,
INTIMATIONS
THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Annual General Meeting of Members of 'THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB, will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, LTD., Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 18th day of December 1922, at 5.15 p.m.
To Receive from, the Committee a Report, Balance Sheet and Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th September 1922.
To Consider, and if thought ex- pedient, pass a Resolution continuing. the additional subscription of $2.- per month until the 31st December 1924.
To Elect Officers, Members of the Committee, and an Auditor for the
BY kind permission of Capt C. S. ensulag year.
BENNING, R., D.S.O. The
: popular
JAZZ QUARTET
of
H.M.S. "TITANIA" will play at the above Hotel
on SATURDAY 16th. DANCING 9 p.m.
An Exhibition of Classic Dancing will be given by
MB. 3. THOMAS and
Mdle. E. MAXAROWA
in the following dances: Oriental Dance, Gypsy Dance, Polka Dance, The Love, Flowers Dance.
MRS. HAN INOKUCHL
Teleplanno Kowloos 751. No. 21, Ashley Road, Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre, CERTIFICATED EXPERT MASSAGE, HAND AND HECTRIC, Also at patient reakdance by arrangement,
ESTATE OF THE LATE T. 0. WILKEN.
To Decide on any Résolution which may be submitted to the Serretaries & Treasurers four days prior to the Meeting.
Any Other Business.
By Order of the Committee, PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING,
Secretaries and Treasurer.. Hongkong, December 7, 1922.!
Nominations for members of the General Committee should reach the Secretaries and Treasurore not later than 5 pm. on Thursday, the 14tb Decomber, 1922.
HONGKONG BOXING
ABSOCIATION.
SECOND TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON,
Faturday, December 23rd,
at 9.15 pm.
AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.
MAIN EVENT. Fifteen round Contras for the Mid dleweight Championship of the Culosy
ALL Outstanding Acounts and the Hongkong "Daily Press" Bolt.
connection with the above estate should be sent at once to the undersigned c/o "China Mall" office.
G. W. C. BURNETT. Hongkong, September 22, 1922...
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
BANITARY ENGINEERS
MONUMENTALISTS
Unlees and Bialowns,
ma Wanchal Rond, lungh
Tel Central No. 200,
Large stock of
BATHS and DATH BOOK FITTINGS
LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSED.
COMMODEN BIDETS, &c.&o.
OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES.
AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARDLE MEMORIALS-Alio in polished Hongkong Granite.
A large selection of Artificial Wreaths. Prices on Application.
A. H. Duncan v. C. P. O. Callagan II.M.8. Titania. H.M.S. Magusia
ALSO
Two Lightweight Contests, One Featherweight Contost. Que Welter weight Contest, One Middleweight Bantamweight Content and One Contest, all of six rounds each.
A Band will play between the events.
Booking at Montries.-Hembers 20th December, General Public Iram Decea ber 21st,
USUAL PRICES. NEXT TOURNAMENT Saturday, January 13th, at the Theatre Royal,
NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTRY. Bend - aud we will moxil you ramilsely weary, week for 6 weeks a copy of say British Weekly
nich sa: Lords, Péopla, Tit Tits, Pour Pete Handreds of paper on enr Big malinkfres. A different paper sons weekly, cer. Che same piskiication for it wieka, 171⁄2 baya for a year's
herption, foetulog portage." Most uniqn np-to-date service, grundly appreciateil by menahoru. Fireughout the Empire. Beud 19/-.b-day, to
Periodical Foming Coy, Flymouth, England.
JA, QUOLA'N BAL, UM,
WORKS aranchal Bd.
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mocral Commotors ar
·House and Office Furnishers. 'Bálpe Uphichotokers 105 Painters
esok 75 cents, Head, Ngau Tac, auch 1.00) Heart-Ngan Sam... lb, 16 Hamp, SaltNga Kin., 22 Feet-Ngan Kankesch 12 Kidneys,-Ngau Pis » 12.
20 --Ngan Maf --- TE Liver, Ngan Ko b 18 Trips (andremad), Ngan To lb. 7 Chivas' Hand and Fest.-Ngao-tai-
tab-kook ...
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PRODUCE IN HONGKONG.
50
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Yowiu, Hainau-Hel Nam Kai ',, 38. Goose--Ngo
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Pigeons, Carbon-Pak Kap...each 40
Hethow,-Hol Hsu Pak Kaỹ
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Torkers, Cook-Fo Kal Kang lb. 85
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APPROXIMATĘ RETAIL PRICES,
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Poultry,
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1992. 1916
June 1914
December 7, June
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Bee! Sirion-Me! Lang Pa... lb. 20
Prime Out...
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Jan. 1914 Ctc.
144
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20
24
12
Obloken,--Kal
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30
Corned Ham Ngan Yak.
28
20
Ospore, Sani-Sla Kal
40
28
Roast, Shin
24
24
Capons Larga,-9la Ká
45
#
Breast-Ngan Nam - 19000 1
22
18
Duck-ap....
38
32
Soup.-Tong Tuk
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12
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18
DOT-Pan Kan
08
Bboak,-Ngan Yak Pr
24
24
21
Egge, Boo, Kat Tan (cooking) pagdan 13
18
Steak Sirloin,-Ngiu Lan » Bettge,Ngan Cheng, Hallock's Brafas,-Ngan No pir seb 12.
Torigue, fresh,-Ngan Id each 60 Tongue, corned,--Ham Ngan L
32
20
Eggs. Hen-Kat Tan (fresh)...per don. 12
25
28.
28
Fowls, Canton,-Kal...
b. 60
10
50
60
1.00
1.20
14
18
Turkeys, Hen-To Eat Na60
12
Solpe-Sha Tsui...
bach 23
19
Pheasant,Shan Kal.....
200
22
Quall-Om Üben
2
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19
14
Partridges ----Che Ku
25
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7
1.00
Fruits.
1,00
23 1
38
Shoulder, --Yeung Sha
36
21
24
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18
孟麵
“Pig's Chitlings, —Chu Chong » 38
Brains, Chu No............... per set
25
27
Heong Chin
12.
12
Cambola-Yeng To..
12
Foot-Chu Krak...
ib, 15'
Coconut-Ye Too
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10
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Fry-Chu Chap
30
18
Lemons, China,—Ling Mung... Ib.
7
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140 "
18
20
Lemons, (America), ---Kam Shan
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Lang Minng... sach 10
8
10 each 10
Lichess, Urted, (smull stone),**
Kidneys, Chu Yiu...
*** #sah 10
10
8
Lai Chi Kuo lb.
31
3
Lee Jun Ki
1 lb. 30
90
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Oranges, (Chaton), Sweet-
18
10
Pork Chop,-Obu Pal Kwate
30
25
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Log, -Cha Fol...
30
28
27
Oranges, Tim Chang
13
Lalo,-Chu To
18
Pears, (Canton), Cooking, —Shu 15
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Fat or Lard.—Cha Yaa....... dosp'a Head and Foot,--Young Tha-Keuk
21
Pearcts,-Fs Shang...
18
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:12
Plantain,Tai Chin
Heart Young Sam each 10 Kidneys, Yeung Yla each 15 Liver,-Young Kon... th. 36 Sucking Pigs, to order,--Chu Taxi, 25° Snot, Beef,--Bhang Ngan Yan ............$7 28
Maston-Shang Teung Yaʊ,, Veal,--Ngau Taal Yok...
Bruges—Ngon Trai Duong 3%
8
7
12
10
Walnuts,-Hop To
26
25
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20
40
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set $1.94 Matter Chop,-Yeung Pel Kwat. lb. 28
Leg, Young Pel
Hond-Chu Ton
Heart-Ohu Ba
No. 1... lb. 26
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Hot Sto Yu
01
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Apples, (California),-Kam Bhan
Play Bo
Banzona, (bride's), Macao,—Sem
Pomelo, Elain-Talm Lo Yan .......es
Grapes,-Po Tai Tax in
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28
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Vegetables, &o,
Artletokea,-Ah Ont Übenk
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pelled to ask themselves whether the children there. The excams to be phildren would not fare even worse if affered is that those in Hongkong are they were driven out on to the city worse off on the average, then the streets the only other place provided children of Chins itself; ander Chinese
Government. for many of them. The cave for the abolition of child labour is strong One can hardly imagine any Western community permitting the continu
education since the Revolution bul
China has made some progress in still wosfolly backward. From the
ance of the conditions known to exist Western point of view she is likely. Co at Shanghai, Children working on the contiuus so. The Chinese people are night shift in the mills there not infre less inclined than Europeans or Japa quently become entangled in the ms- note to submit to compulsion regard. chinery and are fearfully mangled. ing the care of their children, ad in We have heard of more than one in other concerns of life. Such provision etance in which the little head, over has been made in the past for the coms with sleepiners, drooped for schooling of the very young has bean ward. In a moment the hair was entirely the outcome of local effort, caught in the machinery and the scalp and even now it is leit to the local ripped off. A-foreign lady in Shang. communities to care for primuiry hai recently visited a hospital in the education while the provincial aid mill district and found there at the national authorities attempt (for one time three children who had been as political chaos permite) to ras badly mangled. The arm of one was higher schools and universities
The interesting question arises lacerated; the leg of another wa almost nevera i; tha scalp of the third whether China's whole sosis! develop had been torn away. It is that sortent is not destined to be along of thing that makes you see red," asid different lines from those of the West, the lady in recounting the facts. But which Japan also has tried to follow. few people see enough of the suffering The new industrialism thrives hardly- to be troubled by a single extra heart at all except ander the shelter of the foreign settlements, and against that beat.
industrializm there in already a power- ful revolt among China's intellectuals..
In Jane lust a Shanghai paper pub.
lished a casual paragraph about a child that had-bren-killed-in-the The great ocean of Chinese life r machinery of a mill during the night bardly ruffled by the storm at its shift. There was no comment, no ex edge. The bundreds of millions care citement, no popular demand for little for the capitalists who enjoy fenders to be placed around the wealth and lurary within the jurisdje- tion of the foreign. Powers and machinery. Some months later a
little for the controversy arose in the press on the they care whole question of child labour. A Socialists who seek to overthrow
Bat this vast coller: capitalism. correspondent said that serious ad cident occurred almost daily. Ation of human communities has an foreigner had been waked morning af ge long tradition of communien ter morning by the crying of child family communism in the villages. going to a factory before daylight. guild communiem in the tower, The People who visited the mills found impact of the West, the impact of that many were lacking in ventilation industrialism will have some affect, and o'ber bygienic provision. Few but the shock will be largely abacated had the apparatus required to take by the vastness of Chinese tradition. The outcome is likely to be different Buff
from the atmosphere. The air was laden with from what one would expect from filth and nonaturally beated. In such purely Western precedenta, and the places babes, infants and children of difference is likely to be very notable all ages lived for twelve hours in the in relation to children, their care and, day. The babes were brought by their parents; the children who were oldj enough were themselves working at
the cotton
the machines.
upbringing.
In education Chinese children will probably never be place! at the tender mercy of a universal national.”
stem, conducted by a contraliseti
byranny.
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Crael waste of child-iife. But what was to be done? What is to be done!
Many will grow up iguomnt of sim- Would the children fare any better if
| pla equations; on the other band they they were left in their stom homes will be blessed with freedom from the during the long hours of the day of useless brain-ex reines that compogna night while their parenta are as work?
It Brems reyond question that the great part of driegimented Western toiling parents want to have the schooling.. The Chinese do not resent t'e sight of ohïdren working. They children with them, and it would be
anjust to suppose that their onlycquirace too readily in the cruelties of the present time, yet there is reason motive is to increase the family in in their view that the young should come by the children's small earrings.
The city workers have broken grow gradually out of play ints the more serious play of earning à liveli from the patriarchal
families of the ancestral villages but hood rather than that they should they cling to what irmsins to them of devote their lives to school for many family life, and no one can blame years and then be thrown out on the them for taking their children to the marciless ware market, factories as long as there is no better place, 9.0
But where is the many in the present lactories at Shanghai where Hongkong people are faced with the children working the two've boure same problem, In September the night shift are mangled and killa by the machinery 1 One may well ank, Government of the colony, beeding the
Missionaries and othern-ainesíally. voice of reformers, passed an ordinance
the worker of the Young Women's for the protection of children, pro Christian Association-in Shanghai
hibiting night work for those ander
fifteen and ordering that they should trying to find ways of improving have one day's rest in seven, Inrbid-conditions. They may sacosed in shoe ding entirely the employment of these lishing child labour and in rabstitu under ben in factoris, and imposing ting e eches sad schools and play. other restriction. But it is emigrounds for the squalid, surroundings to put the children out of the fee of the mille and the elums But the Gaal ontoome in Chics will not bo torios than to provide the needed crèches, schools and playgrounds for found in institutionha idols of the Western mind. There is a strungeT their beneit. The Hongkong Gov- armsof seems to be far behidd Tapat tendency is that country toward the
natural communism of village" is-- in its provision for children, but it has dustries as idealised by Morris and
cognized the need and has notifi d
that it will consider favourably the Buskla, Kropotkin and Tolstoy, and gracting of financial aid to any chati- modern minis so diverra ne. ASJA table or educational organisation that Penty and Henry Ford..
stody and control
of fobiju worker. The clete of the Blue and cream colop
step
not very clear, but omnibus, fisted,
Toomee ik sa a | and clutchless petrol fres and comment atated to alin toʻsay, starting the
omnibus company,
howevir, that Government
aotivitie
London streets.
MICHELIN
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