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OTHER GOVT. DEPARTMENTS "BEHIND?"
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1926.
SWEEP BAN.
| WHAT IS THE POSITION
LOCALLY?
TO WIND UP.
DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY CALLS
MEETING.
VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION"
An extraordinary meeting of the Hongkong Development Building & Savings Society, Ltd. has been con- vened for if pm on July 21, at the City Hall, so propose the voluntary winding-up of the company with Mr. J. Heanesagy Seth and Mr. S. K. Ross, as liquidators.
Should the resolution by puasad, a further meeting will be held on'. July 28, at the same time and place, to confirm the resolution.
READER'S OBSERVATIONS.
MEETING'S -RESOLUTION.
[To the Editor of the "Chinn Mail."] Relative to the banning, by the Sir wish to ask you to local Police officials of the sweep alow me a very little space. on the St. Leger in ald of certain have many dealings with Gov-charities, (reference to which ap- ernment departments. The peared exclusively in the "Ching Colonial Treasury is not the only Mall" yesterday) a meeting of those public office which is late with interested was held yesterday even- receipts. There are others as
ing at the Kowloon Hotel. well, where one has to return Mr. Haytor, who with the up- after approximate intervals to proval of the two charities con get a receipt, Try paying in a cerned the Hongkong Benevolent judgment at the Supreme Court Society and the Society of St.
Formed a few years ago, the and get an instantaneops re Vincent de Paul-organised the Sastety we primarily interested in ceipt.
Not only receipts, but sweep, made an explanatory state the Government'e "ssisted" 40 permits, acknowledgments from ment in which he stated that the
years lensa. scheme, propounded by Government offices, or any docu-organisers had emitted to obtain Mr. A. G. 3. Fletcher new Colonial ment which needs a signature. the sanction of the Police, The Secretary of Ceylon as a means Or even a raply to an official Director of Criminal Intelligence towards solving the housing short- letter. True, one gets an int had informed them that the running age then. so acute in the Colony, mation that your letter is being of sweepstakes for whatever pale was intended to encourage build- considered but you still have to
pose was illegal.
ing to a large exteșt on Jardinėļs wait for a reply.
Lookout.
With the advent of unexpectedl conditions, little was done."
Mr. Haytor added that he replied asking for a reconsideration of such a decision as it seemed unthinkable that a property organised" awoep. stake should not be run whilst 19 was stormy a proposal to ad- The last annual meeting on May others were run for private gain.journ it being lost by n large A final communication from the majority. Mr. A. el Areulli, on police notified that the ban could behalf of himself and other share- not be removed.
holders, questioned the chairman ag to certain loans, by the company, which the nuditors had certified as not having confrmation by the bor- rowers, this being a process of send- - ing out form to debtors for gc- knowledgement....
A member of the audienct com-
is admirable in every respect. As a business man. I told protects bona fide charities and my client to wait till to-morrow for a receipt he would think me protects the public who buy mad. Or for a delivery order, tickets. Unless both tickets ani or any other document. "Why advertisements relating thereto cannot the Government conduct businesslike clearly state that Police sanction their methods in
fashion. To-day it is recognised has been given to a cash sweep, the world over that even Govern- the public wisely refrain from ments must be businesslike if mented that something like $1,000 purchasing tickets.
they arë to renounce slipshodhad been spent on the organisation systems which are not satisfac- of the sweep and he had been in- tion to anybody else. In all formed on taking legal advice that seriousness I maintain that the the various parties concerned would departmental clerical staffs are have to defray costs. too small, or that the system is pay.
It may be that a way out of their financial gmbarrassment will be found by the organisers of the charity sweep banned here by Police. It is quite evident that
at fault.
My business has to
Mr. Haytor said he would like i: put on record that the police be requested to inform the public
A had not the slightest inten-Therefore I am restricted in the f what is and what is not permis-
STUBES. On July 4. 1926, at
H. N. Stubba, a.sen.
Hongkong, Tuesday, July 13, 1926.
tion of either defying the law or amount I spend on staff. But sible in the way of sweepstakes "taking in" the public.
the Government is a different He had been invited this week Having
proposition. All the more rea-to participate in four, and once refused to give permission son for getting the best men and would save trouble and annoy- for the cash sweep to go on, the prompt attention to the public ance if organisers were given Police could not be expected to which pays the salaries after a definite instructions with regard
to this. reccnsider their decision unless under very changed conditions. It is a pity, but the organisers ap- pear to have no remedy.
What is of greater public con-
Sourabaya, to Mr. and Mrcern, however, than the bauning of cne cash sweep is the question asked in certain quarters whether this does not foreshadow the curb on all future cash sweeps in this Colony? Does the latest decision imply the thin end of the wedge? Will the Jockey Club and other organisations be forbidden in
ARE SWEEPS DOOMED?
Much comment has been: occa-
If the Government can give any explanation why unbusiries:- like procedure is necessary, then I shall be more surprised than I am now dubious.
Yours, etc..
CALCULATOR. Hongkong, July 12.
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE.
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HELPERS.
MR. STERN'S THANKS.
To the Editor of the "China Mail":
Criticisms were levelled at the" policy. Mr. Arculli asked a num- ber of questions and Suggested that the meeting be put over Lill
a committee of investigation had neted.
Mr. Arculli's proposal met with a storm of protest and the business was passed with few dissentients.
Directors present al the last meeting included Mr. Fred Ellis (chairman), Mr. C. E. H. Beavis, This was put as a resolution, Mr. 1 Yau-tsun, Mr. Sum: Pak- and nonded. There were no minu. Mr. Leung Yan-po- and Mr. dissentients; and the meeting Chan Sau-fung. then closed,
It is understood that the Tickets in the sweepstake were two dollars each, and that the first prize was $40,000, second $15,000 and the third $7,000. In addition starters were to receive $1,000 each.
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KOWLOON BUSES.
STOPS AT RECOGNISED POINTS.
IN FORCE ON THURSDAY.
The regulations recently made for the better working of the Kowloon bus system by stops. being allowed at only recognised places on the routes will come, into force from Thursday.
There has been some delay in getting ready the necessary notice boards for the stopping - places on all the routes, but these The old system of stopping have now been placed in position. vehicles at any place will be done away with from Thursday morning when passengers will see that stops will only be made at on each bus & notice intimating
the recognised points.
An explanatory note on the back of the tickets intimated that 5 per cent. would go to the Hongkong Benevolent Society and 5 per cent. to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Eighty Sir, I shall be very much sioned by the prohibition of a future to organise cash sweeps following most grateful and sin. Prizes, and 5 per cent. would be! obliged by your inserting the per cent, would be allocated to cash sweep organised on behalf of even on local races ? Once the cere acknowledgment. et the allowed on 50 tickets and over 5 two local charities the Hong Puritanical maria gets in any Mura Shipoff Art Dancing and per cent. organising expenses. kong Benevolent Society and the where it usually pursues a head. Music display Co. toLt.-Col. The tickets also stated that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.long course, heedless of mild re- C.M.G.,
F. 8. Montague Bates, C.B., prizes would be proportional to
D.S.O..
the number of tickets disposed of, Commanding Incidentally criticism has been proof-ar-obstinate obstacles Soofeer of the East Surrey Regi- freely expressed of the Police far Hongkong has enjoyed an im- ment, for the courteous patron- Department in refusing to permit munity from senseless and un-age of the complimentary benefit the sweep to go on.
performance for the benefit of But are not necessary interference with pro- Miss Mara Shipoff, at Mount R: ST JOHN ERVINE TILTS AT the organisers taking, the wrong perly-organised-cash, sweeps, and Austin-barracks theatre on J July line? In spite of the great lati-that privilege has never been. tude allowed to cash sweeps in abused. Any departure, however, for courtesy in arranging this don't go to church," said Mr. St. "The reason why many people Major R. S. W. Faton, F.R... this Colony, nobody could seek to is bound to be resented, Gaming most successful performance.
John Ervine, adjudicating in the deny that each and all are liable Ordinance and gambling ethics All officers who patronised the elocution section at Hull Competi- to be tanned under the Gaming notwithstanding.
The introduc show.
tive Musical Festival (England) Ordinance.. Special permission tion of any thin end of the members of the East Surreyigious, but because the clergyman President, conductor and all "is not because they are not re- must be sought and must be given wedge is bound to raise an out- orchestra, who kindly contri- will not speak in an ordinary tone for any sweep. Charitable bodies cry, for there is no saying to what buted to the success.
Most of them speak in a 're- like the Benevolent Society and depths it will probe.
Fixed Time-table, There are
Simultaneous with the coming the Society of St. Vincent de Paul not only cash sweeps there are
faned, meaning refined. way. Dean Inge ta the worst offender, Linto force of these regulations have done splendid work-no one raffles, games of chance, and so
know. If I were the Archbishop of the Kai Tack Motor Bus Com denies that for a moment-but forth carried on by really decent
Canterbury would unfrock alpany is commencing to run to a ministers who speak, in a vefaned fixed time-table on two routes- the more deserving the cause the and respectable people. Have
tone of voice, and I would not Kowloon City to the Star Ferry greater the necessity for follow-these now, all to go by the board
ordain any unless they spoke the and Kowloon "City to Yaumati. ing Police requirements and secur-at the bidding of a new oracle of
English language correctly and dia- Experience will enable the Com Uinctly,
pany to calculate what times will ing official sanction to a cash prejudice and narrow-minded-
so-called refaned boy was be practicable but in the mean- sweep. Apart from the personnel ness? Let the air be cleared once
often more vulgar," he added.time a tentative time-table has of the organisers--which should and for all, and let us see exactly
than the boys of those whom some been fixed... not enter into the discussion at what we are up against!
people called common. Those wie went about talking in a refined all-does it not strike them that
wig were doing more harm than the ator, ignorant person who did not
know any better."
charity would have benefited prac-j
HUSBAND'S ALLEGED ATTACK ON WIFE.
tically nothing "in proportion to ABERDEEN MURDER, the prize money? Tickets were to be sold and many were detual- ly sold at $2 each. The prin-j cipal prizes were to be $40,000, $13,000, and $7,000, unplaced atarters to receive $1,000 each.
And yet how was charity to bene-
SEQUEL TO QUARREL,
7
Mount Austin Corporals' mess others, who so kindly helped." and Ptes. Brewster, Tucker and
All the supporters
Yours, etc...
ARNOLD STERN.„
Manager, MURA SHIPOFF Co. Kowloon, July 11
A MOTOR PARADE?
of voice.
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In order to facilitate in the running to a fixed time-table, the. Kai Tack 'buses will be assigned a separate stand at the Star ferry wharf.
If this scheme proves success- SCISSORS LEFT IN A MAN'S ful it should eliminate the cause for complaint on those routes as to residents having to wait
BODY.
will
To the Editor of the "China Mail.") Sir-It must have been who organised the Pony and source of gratification to those
Motor Cycle Gymkhana to have met with such an excellent re sponse on the part of the Hong- kong public. The entertaining
An X-ray photograph of considerable periods for buses. programine which was provided patient at a Cologne hospital has of their particular colour. The will ensure an even larger atten- revealed a pair of scissors lodged Kai Tack Motor Bus Company dance at any similar undertaking in the wall of his stomach.
Eg to be congratulated on ita in the future. A Chinese bricklayer of No. The thought has struck me that questioning the patient, whom that the other companies
The surprised surgeons, after initiative and it is to be hoped ft? By a paltry five per cent, for 24, Wu Pak Street, Aberdeen, it would be good from the point of they had first suspected of at follow their example. the Benevolent Society and five was charged at the Central view of all concerned if the idea tempting to commit suicide, are per cent. for the Society of St. Magistracy yesterday with the were enlarged upon and a Motor convinced that the Instrumente Parade organised on lines similar were left behind by a surgeon Vincent de Paula totally in murder of his wife on Junz 21.
Mr. Ching Tim-chu, the popu adequate allocation in compariHazlerigg, Assistant
Outlining the case, Mr. T, Mto those which have proved very during an operation.
popular in some of the large towns Complications have now artsen lar Chinese actor, called on His von with the huge sums offered in Solicitor, said that the couple and Australia.
Crown and cities of England, America because the patient declines to Excellency the Governor, the.. the way of prize money. We had been married about twenty
have the scissors removed, on the Secretary of Chinese Affaire, With everyone disinclined to do ground that the surgeons might and the Superintendent of Police have known instances of cash year and had six children, anything very energetic Hong leave some less portable and in yesterday, accompanied by Ho sweeps elsewhere in which official There had been quarrels between kong is rather a dull place in the convenient instrument behind interested in the Chinese classif Sai-kwong, and found them all sanction is withheld unless the them for a long time regarding summer and a parade with prizes charitable object in view is to family affairs and beyond this effective designs (local agents awarded for the most original and
cal plays he produces. benefit by at least 50 per cent of there appeared to be ro, motive would doubtless cheerfully fork large number of entries in the the proceeds, whilst one condition for the crime alleged against the out for this purpose) would do open events on Saturday proves, I is that within a certain period the woman a throat with a chisel. If 500 people can forsake cricket, are prepared to enter into the
man, which was that he had cut much to brighten up the place think that motor cycle owner after the drawing a duly auditet In his statement to the police football, athletic sports, tennis, spirit of such events and I do not balance
sheet
must be sent to the the defendant said that he had yachting and bowls for a gymk- think that car owners would be head of the Police artment
quarrelled with lig wife but had hana on 2 hot afternoon like "backward in coming forward 2 not intended to kill her. and a copy advertised in one local Formal evidence being taken, can be any doubt as to the popu
Saturday I do not think that there
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