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HOSPITAL CRITICISM, GOVERNMENT'S ALLEGED BREACH

OF FAITH.

The provisions for patients at the Kowloon Hospital, the repres sentation of Kowloon on the Legislative Council and housing problems wore the three chief topics at the annual meeting of the Kowloon Residents Associa- tion which was held yesterday evening under the chairmanship of Mr. B. Wylie,

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Kowloon Hospital. Before proposing the adoption of the report and accounts, there are

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1925.

*A DIVINE FRAUD.

of the new Kowloon, Hospital and desire to press for the following conditions:-

expressed the hope that private to say a few words. I refer to the practitioners would be given leave question of representation of Kow- to treat their own patients. In the loon on the Legislature of this now Kowloon Hospita". In the Colony. This raises an issue of (1) That general medical practi course of his reply to the debate extreme importance, and also, tortioners be allowed to attend on behalf of the Government, it be admitted, one of considerable patients at the hospital in accor Mr. A. G. M. Fetcher.omitted to difficully." Tam sure that you all dance with the Government's make reference to this point but at recognise, gentlemen, as I do, that earlier promise: the close of his address he is there is, besides the European reminded by Mr. Pollock of the community, a very large Chinese

(2) That more accommodation be I will read you the population here on the mainland, exact words as I have taken then whose interests deserve just as

(3) That the provision of accom- from the official, Hansard report:much consideration as do those of

The Hon. Mr. Pollock-One the non-Chinese element, More modation and staff for the admis point to which the Hon, Colonial over, direct and specific representasion of maternity cases is con Secretary did not refer was to the tlon of Kowloon on the Legislative sidered imperative and that steps question of private practitioners body of the Colony would natural-be taken to provide for the admis being allowed to attend their own ly involve some departure from slow of such cases immediately patients in the Kowloon Hospital, precedent. Nevertheless, I can upon the opening of the institution:

omission.

The Hon. Colonial Secretary hot That Is the intention of Government."

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The information that there is to be no maternity ward in the

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SHAKESPEARE

ATTACKED-

BY CRITICS."

BACON FAVOURED,

Last night's lecture at the Helena

provided for first and second class May Institute by Mr. A. H. Crook,

patients:

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Mr. R. Packham seconded and the motion was carried.

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was attended by a largă audfesicer including Lady Severa.

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Mr. Crook said that he had come to the conclusion that there was a Bort of high priesthood of Stratford-on-Avon who would not recognise facts. Sir Sidney Loc. SCC that

written It would the insuperable obstacles.

(4). That it be an instruction to häd

250

of pages be possible, without de the incoming General Committee irrelevancies to prove that the And so you see, Gentleman, parting from the present nomina- to forward these resolutions to the Stratford-on-Avon

person had The Chairman sald: Gentlemen, that for over four years we have tive system, to evolve some scheme Government and to press for their the report of the General Com- been led to believe that when this whereby both Chinese and fulfillment."..

written Hamlet, but it proved mitter, together with the Hon. hospital is completed Kowloon European Interests in this rapidly

nothing. Other literary persons Treasurer's Report and statement residents will be able to go to developing peninsula would have

notably Henry James had called afteroom, when the M140INED

of accounts have been in your hospital and sojoy the continuance a far more direct voice than at pre- Election Of Officers.

Shakespeare a divine fraud. "As a RESOLUTIONSWILL BE PRO.

hands for some days and I will, of treatment by their own 'doctors, sent in the making of our laws and

The Chairman proposed, the matter of fact, all that was knowa POSED Undidary Higsolutions to

with your permission, take them When the Government tells us more especially in guiding muni. as read. I think we can con- that the hospital will be conducted cipal activities. I need hardly election of Mr. W. S. Balley as of the man could be written on a [4Fhat theauthorised. Caputul of

gratulate ourselves on having had on the same lines other point out to you that one of the President of the Association for postcard. "At his death and for The Company (whijeli, is dow

a most auccessful year. We have Government hospitals it means the objects of this Association deals Mr. Bailey had been a member of seven years after 13 plays signed

the ensuing year. He said that Shugaard cabasting of "895,

general medical with this subject in the following the Committee some time and last William Shakespeare and three 400 shares of the pental value FOR SALE-Eastman Graflex had an increase in membership, exclusion

Camera fitted with Aldis F.4-5 our finances are in a sound condi- practitioners. That means that words "To consider, and, as Di salmed of which the winofe

year was their Vice-President initialled W. S. came to light and have been issues; be irrasil | Lens, Changing Box carrying 12tlon, thanks to the increased sub-the Government has not kept falth may from time to time appear. He had taken a great interest in seven of the total were not accept

Govern. to 80 by the creation Platea; also Film Roll Adapter and scription which the annual meet with Kowloon people. In 1920 it needful, approach the

the Association and in all that sped by anybody as coming from 5 Plate Holders in good leather case. Ing sanctioned last year, and we pledged itself to meet the wishes ment. with a view to obtain. of high, saa aiddironal staires of

pertained to Kowloon. Kowloon residents in this ing adequate representation of

his pen.

ነ . the nominat value Price new $250.00 Gold. Will sell at have concerned ourselves with of

Mr. Stokes seconded, and Mr. nking vid and bargain Mex $150.00, Apply Mr. good result with many communal regard and we would now like to these districts on the Legislature."

The first folio of Shakespeare as offer aspect par pisst with, Teall, Room F. 2nd Floor, 34, Queen's matters. As the "report" reveals, a know the circumstances which So far, gentlemen, no such repre. Bailey was elected amid applause. produced was shrouded in mystery

sentations have been made to the

The other officers elected for and Ben Jonson's dedicatory verses the dams constituting the Road. Corner of Wyndham Street. wide variety of subjects has en- have led to this change of front.

gaged your Committee's attention,

Government. "Miserably Inadequate."

We have, and the coming year were :- Telephone C, 4860,

were regarded as a leg-pull. Many and it has been clearly demons-

think quite rightly,deemed, it

Vice-President, Mr. L. E. Lan-pages were wrongly numbered and trated that the usefulness. ‹of So far as the accommodation is wise to first of all place this mert; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. A. J. J. some had no numbers at all. Of the Association tends

to in-concerned, we feel it is miserably Association on a sound and useful Martin; Hon. Secretary, Mr. D. A. the Tempest, most enigmatical of crease with the

rowth of inadequate regarding first and basis. It is now precisely five Goodwin; General Committee, the the plays, it was thought that a Kowloon's population. There is second class patients. We are still room for a much larger mem. fully aware that it is only the first years since the K.R.A. was in- Rev. Father Spada, Rev. G. R: large slice had been lost.

augurated, and I think we can, Lindsay, the Rev. J. H Johnstone, Referring to the wonderful bership than we have at present, portion which is being completed without being in any way guilty Dr. J. C. Macgowan. Messrs. B. knowledge shown in the plays... and it is, to be hoped that the report by August next and that extension of the sin of vanity, look back on a Wylie, J. M. Alves, S. L. Hidder, the lecturer said that the author's now before you will have the will be made from time to time, but career of considerable utility and A. V. Tofte, W. Forsyth, 1. E grasp of legal matters and apprecia surely the Government realises point with some measure of pride Anderson, T. T. Laurenson, T. E. tion of law terms was extraordinary to join and, by that the provision of three first to a record of beneficial achieve Arnott, A. Morley, C.F. Mindham, and therefore many biographers their membership and support,

class and eight second-class beds

ment on behalf of the whole com A. Ogilvie, L. Jack, and W. Hyde, had made of him a lawyer's clerk. strengthen the hands of your is very much less than is at present-munity. We have always endea

Tribute to Officials, necessary if all the paying hospital voured to work in the closest co- General Committee.

quoting that part of his plays which patients from Kowloon are to g operation with the Government,

The Chairman paid a tribute to dealt with things medical had said to the new hospital..

and from the frequent expressions the services of Mr. Mariin as Hon. that he must be a doctor, while others claimed him as a school" of thanks received from high Treasurer and to Mr. Morley as

master who taught at Ovid. one or two matters upon which hospital is; I venture to claim, the quarters we can, I think, claim Hon. Secretary for the great work, although that book was not trans- objective has been they had done during the past lated at the time, were in conflic would like to say a few words. greatest disappointment of all, achieved. The Kowloon Residents' year.

In moving nominations Those of you who have received more especially for our women Association has fully justified its for the Committee he mentioned tion with the party who assigned the full report and correspondence folk. To tell the women of

creation. Its activities have been that many old members were pro- to him the role of courtier and. will doubtless have noticed that in Kowloon that they cannot have a directed by men with a collective ceeding Home and mentioned in country gentleman connection with the new Kowloot matemity ward in the new hospital and intimate first-hand knowledge particular Mr. R. Packham.

If the writer was born in hospital--the complation of which because there is one at Victoria of the affairs of the peninsula had served on the Committee. He Stratford-on-Avon has been promise for August Hospital on the Peak and because men who know Kowloon's needs was not heard often when there up there, the facts of the case next-we recently addressed a the ward would have to be a separate because they come in daily con but when he did speak it was to did not fit in even though he series of questions to the building with a separate staff is to tact with its life. We fully the point. Government regarding the con-deny them their rights to con appreciate the sympathetic man-

The Chairman also mentioned knowledge could not have been ditions which will apply to sideration as the mothers of our ner in which the Unofficial Mam-

that he had received great help gained in a village school for l that institution when ready children. The birth of a child at bers of Council have, in the past, from the Committee during the puzzled many people even now.

occupation. Wo asked, night whilst the for

mother

Some controversialists go so far year. It was a very large com- was championed our cause, but we do among other things, whether crossing the harbour to hospital in not think that there can be any patients would be allowed to have Hongkong has

mittee, there being seventeen on as to say that Shakespeare was not been an

earlier incarnations, con-- the extent of the accommodation this Association pressed for a

men to represent Kowloon needs. bad been a high average attend-his and whether there would be a hospital on this side of the harbour the mainland which we have wit

The remarkable development of ance, nearly fifteen, he understood. tinued Mr. Crook and to prove it showed that the fourth letter from maternity ward. The answers to it had in mind the removal of atnessed in recent years, and which

Rent Question.

the end of each play title, working XXXXXXXXXXX" those questions were contained in least one great disability from is still continuing, makes it im- connection

Mr. R. J. Vint remarked that in from the back of the book speľa: a letter which we received less which the women of Kowloon have perative

with the Rents Bernard Shaw, and this was very.. than a month ago, and I may say suffered far too long. I could say attention should be given to the

and Ordinance it

seemed to him much more conclusively an estab- straight away that those answers much more on this matter, but I peculiar problems of the peninula, tion to it

that the landlords' chief objec- lishment of the reincarnation are extremely disappointing. We think your imaginations-and,

was that tenants theory than the whole collection of are told that the hospital will be hope, the imaginations of

sod we want to feel that the could sublet flats at a very much recent letters to the Press, our Government" has access conducted on the same lines as Government officials-can Ell in well-informed, first-hand advice in sore polat. He wondered whether to Edward de Vere, Earl of to increased rental. That was their The plays had also been ascribed other Government hospitals, that all the other considerations as to dealing therewith, there will be accommodation for why a maternity ward in any new recognise and Jully appreciate the the point be looked into when the Lord Verney, but the order of the We gladly the suggestion could be made that Oxford, and to Francis Bacon, three first-class patients, eight hospital for Kowloon should be an fact that in several matters of high Rents Ordinance. was revised or plays together with the Incidents second-class patients and 28 third- indispensable provisión..

Importance to the welfare of Kow amended in any way. class parents, and that it is not Taking this subject of

of his life where such varied loon, the Government has been t considered necessary to provide a Kowloon Hospital as a whole, pains to consult those who might

Mr. W..J. Stokes quoted M. knowledge could be acquired, bear maternity ward at Kowloon be after many years of waiting and be presumed to be capable of Humphreys as saying that he was out that the latter was the real Cause there is already one at the expenditure of many thousands offering useful advice, but we think not getting seven per cent, on his author. There were many instances

of dollars, what are we promised? the time is coming, if it has not

money but last year he paid a of similarity of expression in the 1. venture to state that keen dis already arrived, when mere,ade dividend of 15 per cent, paying works of Shakespeare and Bacon, appointment has been felt by quate means should be available $1.50 on each $10 share. If his and this was particularly shown every Kowloon resident and 1

for the representation and safer (the...speaker's) arithmetic was in a case where both quoted propose, a little later in

that was 15

per cent. Aristotle wrongly and in the same guarding of the interesis of all correct

words. meeting, to move a resolution

(Laughter). communities on this side of the to be forwarded to the Govern harbour." The question of the Mr. Purves mentioned certain Then there was the famous hospital question it has been suitable revision be made in its end might be reached need not be erected. He had seen them and plays of Francia Bacon are" pre. ment expressing the hope that a precise method by which such an premises that had recently been anagram which solved out "These Along Proposals regarding the institu- discussed in detail at the moment. was astounded that the authorities served for the world."

Without in any way throwing the bad permitted such places to be these lines Mr. J. C. Squire had I would like to pass on to the Constitution of the Colony into the put up. In one room the tenant said "Never believe a Baconian" very important question of housing melting pot it ought to be possible, did have God's light but in the and in support of this quoted an in connection with which it has re-perhaps by tacit understanding, other he hadn't even God's fresh instance where he had written a Green, had said in print that he Mr. Vint added that he had seen was surprised that so Baconian

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discussion will shortly take place ales Unofficial Members of the should be drawn to such things. cently been announced that a that when His Excellency nomin air. The Government's attention poem himself and ascribing it to

Their recommendation regarding

stated that the Government has

a site was adopted, but, it speak

perfectly open mind on the matter.

mittee, undertook, in response to bility of renewing the Rents' Or- these should be a Kowloon man. several like that. The layouts had used it as evidence of the amine and report on various sites dipance for a further term after its That, we consider, is not an unrea were not suitable for European faicity of Shakespeare's claim. in Kowloon suitable for a hospital. expiry in June next. It has been sonable proposal, and the benefit people. They were more suited Surely enough, shortly afterwards of such an arrangement would, we to Chinese people. Very few Sir Edward Durney Lawrence did feel sure, be, felt as much by the were laid out in any way approach. 5ouse it without consulting Green's ing on the disadvantages of one that much argument is needed to cerned.

For my own part I do not think Government as by the people con- ing decent manner on the Kowloon work to verify the authenticity.

With that germ of 'an side of the harbour. He wondered, No Shakespearian would listen "As far as European residents prove that some form of rent con- idea, we can, I think, gentlemen, if there was any way of getting a to a word about the Northumber- trol is still an imperative necessity leave this highly-important and better type of building erected. land Manuscript, which to many in the general interests of the growingly urgent matter.

Surely the Government, could ways proved Bacon to be the real Colony's residents. If the present

There are several other matters indicate to builders the style of author. The only person who could the bw any real light on the Mr. A. Ogilvie remarked that he subject was Ben Jonson, and he . think the report in your hands

particular site, they explained;- 踪 Kowloon

Arc concerned. miles away

а hospital five

offers little, if any advantage Ordinance is allowed to lapse with

over the hospitals in Hongkong out the institution of some other upon which I could touch, but ]) bụliding that was required.

It is also a serious disadvantage to

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the patients to be so far away from form of rents protection we shall deals fully with the work of the thought he could explain matters said nothing, or very lit at most their own doctors, for Kowloon undoubtedly witness a general all- residents are most anxious that round increase of rentals. It has past year and that you can safely for Mr. Vint. The present Public His poem "The Poet Ape" was their own doctors shall continue been stated in newspaper corres-

leave current and future questions Health, and Buildings Ordinance accepted by Baconians as his real treatment while they are in hos pondence that there are thousands to the care and consideration of was designed in 1903 to meet the opinion of Shakespeare, whilst the question of Chinese houses, and dedicatory verses in the first folio pital" Now, gentlemen, we had of vacant flats to let in Kowloon the in-coming Committee. no intimation" from the Govern and even if that statement be true I now beg to propose the adop nothing more, and they therefore were said to be his appreciation found architects to-day doing of the real author whose identity ment that that statenient was based 1 would like to ask whether the re- tion of the report and accounts, as on a wrong idea. In October of moval of the present Ordinance presented, and should be glad if their best to try to design European he suspected or knew. He had as a translator and was doing so held in the same year, at a public meeting would fill them. The only effect someone will kindly second the houses with an Ordinance which lived with Bacon for many years.

applied to Chinese houses, and

when the first folio was published the Kowloon British so far as one can see, of the remo- proposal. ̈

After the resolution has been nothing more.

in which the verses appear. School, the then President of your val of the present Ordinance would

Unfinancial Members.

Mr. Crook then related his ex- Association, Mr. B. L. Frost, re- be to permit of general increase in secunded, discussed and passed, marked that he "belleved that the rentale charged for pre-1921 the Chairman said:

The Association treasurer, Mr. perience with a friend who said provision would be made for six properties and could not affect post- Gentlemen as I indicated to my Martin, before the conclusion of that he could advance as good a wards of beds to be reserved for 1921 properties for which extremely remarks just now, I think the quas the meeting, rose to propose an theory as the "Bacoulans to the private patients, who could have high rents are already being, detion of the conditions to govern the alteration of the rules of the As effect that the late Mr. Gladstone their own medical practitioners manded. Has the Ordinance mili- new Kowloon Hospital is so im

sociation. As they stood the had written Browning's poems. conclusively The Government also allowed that tated against the building of new portant that this publicly convened rules did not provide for members Having proved statement to go undenied, whilst houses? We all know that the meeting of Kowloon residents who fell into arrears with their that Bernard Shaw had written In the following month there was answer is an emphatic "No." As should send a strong expression subscriptions. He proposed the Shakespeare, although the author a definite public statement by the an Association, we strongly urge of oninion to the Government.

adoption of rule' (43,"If the sub. was probably Francis Bacon and then Colonial Secretary that it was that protection to tenants is therefore, beg to move

scription of any member be un- that Gladstone had written Brown-: the Government's intention to silil a vital necessity, and we look "That the residents of Kowloon, paid for two consecutive years ing's poems, he would-ask-his- allow-patients to have their own to the Government-so-continue-to-assembled at the annual meeting of then the general committed stall audience not to believe anything private doctors. On November 18, safeguard the interests of tenants the Kowloon Residente' Associa have power to delete his name he had said, but to their own 1920, during the debate in the in general.

tion, wish to record their sense of from the list of members."

mind. They should not harden Legislative Council on the Budget Member for Kowloon, keen disappointment at the Governe Mr Stokes seconded.

down to one point of view, but mant's proposals regarding the

The motion was carried unanimi should bolleve nothing and test regulations to govern the operation, ously,

everything.

for 1931), the Hon. Mr. ·ILE, There is, gentlemen, one other Pollock (now Sir Henry Pollock) subject upon which I should like