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sures in regard to betting than NATURALISATION. ere in force in any other form of gambling. The taking of chances is no worse offence in one street than in another and if it be wrong
NA BILL FOR LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL
to speculate there is, from the ab- TOWERS OF REVOCATION. solute standpoint, just as much
CATHOLIC WORK.
NEW INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL) INAUGURATED.
ITEMS IN "THE ROCK.”
evil in a large bet at Ascot or, at│· A bill will be introduced at the The February issue of "The Monte Carlo or at the Stock Ex-noxt meeting of the Legislative Rock"-a Catholic magazine of at- change as in a mere hazard of Council to amend the Naturalisation tractive appearance and containing
|Ordinance of 1902.
some excellent reading-contain coppers made in the cheapest sec The "objects and reasons" stated an able summary of recent events in China, comments on topical tion of a greyhound ring. The are:
as Parliament and subjects such legislation at present in force at 1. Ono object of this bill is to the Prayer Book and on other re
the
the St. Louis Industrial School at
(a) where naturalisation was ob-West Point by the Salesian Fathers tained by fraud, or falso re-s recorded and an indication given presentation, or concealment of the good work which is going on to fit children of lowly parent- of material circumstances; (b) where the person in questione for taking a useful place in society. There are also notes from has shown himself disloyal to Chinese vicariates. and, interesting and instructive 'articles on many subjects.
His Majesty,
>
Home gives rise to the complaint ply to local naturaliantion
ligious and secular subjects. powers of revocation which exist that the poor man is being penal-with regard to imperial naturalisa-ly publication, has undergone con- The magazine, which is a month- ised for doing what the rich man tion. Put shortly, the chief cases in siderable change and appears in a can do with impunity and to which revocation will be possible are new series.. The organisation of single out the dogs for even more the following: Bevere discipline (which is at present being agitated for) whilst leaving the rest of ordin- ary practice about gambling un- touched is to strengthen the impression that what is deemed tolerable among the wealthy is intolerable among the poor. Whilst the difficulty is not likely to arise in Hong Kong as the "Tote" would inevitably be the medium of the "punters". should It be introduced here-it is to be hoped for the sake of fair play and justice that the agitation at Home will be taken at its face | value by those in control of bet- ting legislation.
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(c) where the person in question trades with the enemy, or úd- heres to the onemy,ia nay
war in which His Majesty, is engaged; palaga
(d) when he has gossed to rosido
permanently in the Colony; (o) where he is sentenced by any
court in His Majesty's domin jona to imprisonment for twelve months or to penal ser- vitude or to a fine of ono thousand dollars or one hun dred pounds.
IDLE YOUTH.
MANY OPPORTUNITIES IN CANADA.
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY,
Mrs. Flora Drummond, who has recently returned from a tour of investigation in Canada, was the gucat of honour at a luncheon given In cases (a) and (b) above the by the Women's Guild of Empire, Governor must revoke the natural- of which she is, the Controller-in- ization rights of the person in ques-Chief, at the Hotel Cecil. tion: in the other cases he has a Mrs. Drummond, in stressing the discretion. Provision is made that urgent need for peace in industry, before making any order the Glover-said the women of all classes who nor may refer the case for in-were members of the guild, but par- ticularly the wives of the workers,. POLICE SCHEDULE OF NEWquiry to a committee to be were in deadly earnest about in pointed by him and to bo presided dustrial peace because they saw the over by a judge of the Supreme seriousness of the conditions which Court, In certain cases, including existed in industry to-day. The those referred to in (a) and (b) obstacles in the way to peace, above, the person to be affected will strange as it might sound to many, were not the Communists, but those The following new motor bus have the right to an inquiry. the keenest interest. Popular routes for the three Kowloon Bus 2. The other object is to provide people who posed as leaders and both at the University and among Companies have been drawn up by that a person naturalisod locally who talked industrial peace with the many outside it with whom the Police and are to come into shall automatically loso his local their tongues in their cheeks. British status i ho leaves the Those were the real enemies to he came into contact, Dr. Pearce effect on April 1:
For the China Motor Bus Com- Colony and beconies naturalised in progress. But the women were de will be much missed and the best]
This provision termined to have industrial peace, pany: 1st Route, from the Star Boms foreign state.
and when a woman' made up her. wishes of all will go with him in Ferry to Shamshuipo via Nathan is also based on the law relating to mind on a certain thing she usually
Foreign Bible Society in whose activities in China he has taken
his retirement.
·
AS FROM APRIL 1.
6tli
DR. COOK.
TO WAIT FOR POLAR FLIGHT.
TO FINISH SENTENCE.
got it. (Laughter.) Her investiga- tions in Canada had been conduct- ed on behalf of the Guild of Empire in order to see what could be done for the surplus population In this country..
She had returned more convinced than ever, that Canada offered op portunities for many workera which could never be obtained in there crowded islands. It was distress- ing to and right through the Dominion so many industries being | worked by foreigners. That ́ was mot Canada's fault. She could not
Road, Laichikok Road to Shamshui-imperial, naturalization. po. 7th Route, from the Star Ferry o Kowloon City via Hunghom to 11th Route, from In the current issue of "The Kowloon City.
To-kwa-wan to Shamshuipo vis Rock," an organ dealing with par-Hunghom, Jordan Road. Yaumati ticular branches of work under Ferry Wharf, Shanghai Street, Can- the auspices of the Roman Catho Route, from Star Ferry, to Sham
ton Road to Shamshuipo 12th
lic organisation in Hong Kong and shuipo vin Canton Road, Shanghai China, the establishing of a new Street to Shamshuipo.
For the Kowloon Motor Bus Corn- Home is recorded-viz., the St.
pany 2nd Route, from Star Ferry Louis Industrial School at West to Laichikok vis Nathan Road, Lai Dr. Frederick Cook, who almost afford to refuse any labour that
Washington, January 19. Point-the direction of which is chikok Rond to Lalchikok. being undertaken by the Salesian Route, from Star Ferry to Kowloon found the North Pole and who cer-presented itself, but the fact
City via Nathan Rond to Prince tainly found a lot of financial mained that the foreigners were Fathers. The object of the new load to Kowloon Tong 10th suckers, will not fly to the South taking the jobs while we at home.
Pole this year as scheduled.
were wondering if the emigration school is to carry on the good Route, from Star Ferry to Kowloon While Dr. Cook chooses to do it, problem was not getting worse. The work inaugurated by Don Bosco, City vin Canton Road, Shanghai the Supreme Court of the United Women's Guild of Empire could Street, Prince Road to Kowloon States has chosen otherwise. play a big part in tackling that pro- the founder of the Salesian City.
By decision of the court an-blem. Their work 'lay in the in- Fathers, who devoted his life to For the Kai Thek Motor Bus Com-nounced the famed explorer and oil dustrial centres of the country, and the interests of the children pany, Ltd.: Brd Route, from Star stock specialist must serve his en- they had to appeal not to the boy, Farry to Kowloon City via Chatham tire sentence of fourteen and three-but to the mother, who did not real- whose alum surroundings give Road, Hunghom, to Kowloon City, quarters years in the Leavenworth fae that by keeping her son tied to them little chance of rising above 4th Route, from Yaumati to Kow. Federal Penitentiary, this sentence her apron-strings she was robbing loon City via Hunghom. 5th Route being the one imposed some months him of his chance in life. Boys their environment and erected from Yaumati to Hunghomage for using the U. S. mails to were standing in groups at the After nearly half a century's
| street corners of every Industrial Pending the arrival of the new defraud.
It is all very sad, for Colonel town, grumbling. They did not residence in the Colony during technical schools and workshops
for their training. "Two things cars, of the Kai Tack Company the Charles R. Forbes-cellmets of Dr. want the "dele" they were sick of which he has earned the goodwill will strike the visitor," states 3rd and 5th routes will be run by Cook and former director of the It So the guild appealed to the vehicles of the Chino Motor Bus
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Hong Kong, Sat, Feb. 4, 1928.
A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
MR. J. S. GIBSON.
FORMER RESIDENT NOW HERE.
ago that he and the Doctor would
No False Ideas. be companions on a flight to the South Pole in the very near future she had come back with no false Proceeding, Mrs. Drummond said "Dr. Cook will be the scientist ideas about Canada. The oppor of the expedition," Colonel, Forbes tunities were there, but it was had predicted, and I will go as necessary to work hard to get them. navigator..
We have chosen two
had visited in Canada she had left
men to accompany us as pilots and Explaining the scheme of emigrat- will push our plans to completioning, she said that in each town sho as soon as Dr. Cook is released a small group of women who had from Leavenworth."-
By submitting to Colonel Forbes Empire, and when families came what the Colonel described za to their organisation for details of
become members of the Guild of
of all sections of the community, «The Rock.":"the efficiency of Company while the Kowloon MotorWar Veterans Bureau--had told mothers to let their boys go and be- both Chinese and foreign," the work of these poor boys who, Bus Company will run also on the the United Press only a few weeks come u eful citizens of the Empire. T. W. Pearce is shortly retiring with the as-yet inadequate equip-4th route. from the London Missionary So-
ment, are able to do so much; and ciety. Dr. Pearce came out East in the second place the cheerful in 1879 in connection with the
faces If a prizefighter or a L.M.S., going to Canton where he
champion golfer passed through spent eleven and a half years Hong Kong to-morrow, ""The His connection with Hong Kong Rock" continues, everyone would dates back. from 1890 where, know that he had passed. Why apart from his activities in con-
is it that workers in the noblest nection with his Society he has of causes can come in so quietly
A former resident in the person vast amount of scientific data, the life and prospects overseas they of Mr. J. S. Gibson has returned much of which is unrefutable." could be put in direct communica done splendid service. He was and settle down to work for the to the Colony and is now practis: Dr. Cook had convinced his cell- tion with their members who re- mata that the ill-fated North Fole sided near, to the district to which senior member of the Board of benefit of the community and so ing his profession that of an expedition through which he won the prospective emigrants desired Examiners and also the Board of few know that they have come." architect on the sixth floor of notoriety was conducted with "sin- to go. Through that correspond Education and as Warden of Mor- We would suggest that the reason China Building.cerity and honesty and that "only ence they would get to know
Mr. Gibson's acquaintance with his inability properly to present the truth about the conditions and rison Hall his interest in the the arrival of the Salesian Hong Kong goes back to 1898, results of his explorations led to a chances of euccess, and from it Hong Kong University, of which
Fathers and the inauguration of when for five years he was en- public disbelief in his accomplish-would spring a sense of friendl
CES, which would do much to re- he is an Hon. LL.D., is well their new work is so little known gaged as chief draughtsman on ments.
This feeling on the part of the lieve the feeling of loneliness cx- important contract work. "From known. Dr. Pearce shares with a lies either in their own reticence 1300 to 1908 he was employed in Colonel led to formulation of the perienced by those who act out for few the distinction of being a life or in their lack of appreciation of a similar capacity in Singapore, which might afford at least partial in this matter, she cald. "We are scheme for a South Pole venture a new land. We mean business member of the University Court the value of publicity, but now and in the latter year he returned vindication of Cool's fair name, a non-party organisation, and as and by virtue of the fact that he that public attention has been to the Colony.
Dat the Supreme Court ap- such we are in the glorious position In 1911 he went back to Eng-parently paid more attention to the of being suspected by every poll- has been Warden of Morrison drawn to the good work, it is to land and was chief draughtsman remarks of the trial judge who had teal party. But here we are with Hall, one of the oldest Hostels, be hoped that the good fathers for the North-Eastern District centenced Cook, declaring him 40,000 women behind us, and we ever since its foundation, he is work will meet with the apprecia- and the North-Eastern Coast De- "one of the greatest swindlers of mean business. (Cheers) known as the Senior Warden.
fences, remaining at this post all time."
tion and help it deserves.
until 1915, when he joined the
Army N
In 1916 he was chief draughts-
SIR JOHN DUNCAN,
HIS EIGHTH WIFE.
GLORIA: SWANSON'S NEW PICTURE.
the
an excellent Dr. Pearce is an
The agitation which is taking man on the Somma front, attach- Chinese Scholar and has success place in certain sections of the ed to the Fourth Army, and was With Lady Duncan and Miss fully tauglit many aspirants to Home Press against greyhound invalided Home with trench fever Duncan, Major-General Sir John business honours at the classes racing and for greater control of in 1817 with the rank of Lieuten- Duncan continued his voyage Home Showing at the World Theatre, ant and Quartermaster. For a from Shanghai on the “Malwa”-to-to-day, is a unique picture of a organised by the Chamber of betting generally by means of the while he served as Officer-in- day, re-embarking shortly be beautiful French girl, the daogh- Commerce and he was one of the totalizator is of topical interest in charge of R.E Stores, Hounslow fore mid-day, after a brief stay in ter of an aristocrat, who is in the ATA claws of bankruptcy, and whose one examiners in Chinese in connect view of the near approach of the from the Army, being gazetted as on relinquishing command of the hope to save his broken pride is
District. In 1920 he resigned Hong Kong.adge ion with the University Local annual race meeting in Hong relinquishing his Commission British Defence Force at Shang to marry the daughter of an Ameri examinations.. conjunction Kong. Whilst the public has a with the retention of his ranked portraits with General Chang flago ceremony, she finds she has
he, Sir John exchanged autograph. can millionaire. After the mar with Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh, right to be protected against the Since then Mr. Gibson has been Ting-fan of the Nationalist Army, married a modern, Bluebeard.
chief draughtsman under the Mayor of Greater Shanghal Dr. Pearce was chiefly re bogus agencies which are stated war Department and Clerks of dr. TeT. Chen on General Chang ending
Many queer eplande take place? to be springing up allegedly to Works under "the" Air Ministry. Ting-fan's behalf, presented Sir American pro
new greyhound racing His local professional activities John with a silver cup at a memenHuntley
Set include a survey of the Kowloon to of their pleasant dealing to sorr appears to be Hinterland and the Assistant sur gether add sir John's close the new sport should evorahin of the Kowloon Canton operation with the Chinese
ble for the founding of the Kong University Christian
lation.. Yet another organisation
which he has been connected is the British and
more restrictive
Railway
Authorities.
brom
tarling climax. The is played by with Gloria Swan ctive wife... Other reen zadartists at ære Paul Weigel and
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