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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930.
SOMERSETS' BALL.
SIR H. GOLLAN.
of the Singapore Municipal Com- Gay Gathering in City Long and Honourable
mission and making the most of the opportunities that are left to it. That such opportunities exist is apparent not alone from a perusal of the very lengthy report of the Playing Grounds Com- mittee but from a personal tour of the city and outskirts on the Island.
Hall.
NOTABLE GUESTS.
Career.
NIGERIA AND HONG KONG.
Mga
Called to Bar.
Sir Henry was called to the Bar
About 450 guests were present
Hia Lordship the Chief Justice. at the City Hall last night, on the Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, Kt., K.C., occasion of the Jellalabad ball, C.B.E., loaves Hong Kong by the given by the Somerset Light In R.M.S. Empress of Russia, going We were once asked to believe fantry. The two rooms for danc- Home via Canada on leave prior to that there was a splendid town ing, and the supper room were going into retirement, thus bringing planning scheme in process of tastefully decorated with flags and to a close a long and honourable evolution in Kowloon, but, unfor- ferhs, while an avenue of palms careor, of which he has spent 30 tunately, the activities of the led from the rooms to the door. years as a law officer in the Colonial building contractors belie such an excellent supper was provid-Service. belief. Flats, fats, and still more ed, and no effort was spared to flats are the order of the day make the affair a success. and night, too, alas-in Kowloon: and even on sites that appeared ikely to remain tennis lawns or open spaces for generations more to come, the vandalistic builders have reared monotonous, drab, and dreary blocks of flats. It was not before time that the Playing Fields Committee were appointed. It would be a thousand pities were their report and many of their recommendations to be per- mitted to gather dush and dirt in the archives of Government De- partments, with, perhaps, little hope of being retrieved ten, twenty, or thirty years hence to
find what the good folk who lived
His Excellency the Officer Ad-at the Middle Temple in 1891, and ministering the Government, the after eight years' practice as a Hon. Mr. Wilfred T. Southorn, junior counsel, he was on September C.M.G., and Mrs. Southern accom-1, 1899, appointed Private Secretary panied by Capt. Swayne, A.D.C. to Colonel Lugard (now Lord arrived at 9.30. Other guests Lugard, a former Governor of Hong Major-General J. W. Sandilands missioner and Commandant of the were His Excellency the G.D.C., Kong-1907-12) who was then Com. and Rear-Admiral R. A. 8. Hill, West African Field Force in the also many other officers, both Roer War. The following year Sir nayal, and military.
Henry became Private Secretary to supervision of
Arrangements were under the the High Commissioner of Northern C. Sgt. Major Nigeria, holding the appointment Leigh, and a ten piece orchestra from January 1 to September 21, of the S.L.I. provided excellent 1900. During that period he also music.
The gathering broke up acted as Secretary to the Adminis- about 2.45 a.m.
trator of Northern Nigerin (June The programme was as follows: 1 to August 31). 1-Extra (Fox Trot); Button Up! On the day of his relinquishing 2.-Extra (Fox Trot): This is Heaven.
Your Overcoat Waltz: Tondeleyo..
2-One Step: Olga.
3Fox Trot: Broadway Melody. here in 1930 thought on the sub-4-Lancers: The Gondollers.
5.-Military Two Step: Valparaiso.
High Commissioner (September 21, his post as Private Secretary to the
1900) Sir Henry was appointed Attorney General of Northern Nigeria. Two months later, on
'ject of lungs and playing grounds. 3.-Fox Trot: I get the Blues when November 16 he acted as Chief
News in Brief
..
it Rains.
7.--Waltz: Destiny.
First Supper. 8.One Step: "Gee" but I'm Blue. 0.-Fex Trot:
"Excuse MoYou were meant for Me.
Justice of Northern Nigeria, until April 4, 1901. He finally received his appointment as Chief Justice on November 4, 1001. Three years later Sir Henry was transferred to stampa will be auctioned by Lam-11.-Waltz; Song of Songs,
A valuable collection of postage 10-Boston Two Step: Mukin about Bermuda as Chief Justice. He re-
the Garden.
mained in Bermuda until 1911 when mert Brothers on Friday afternoon.
he went to Trinidad as Attorney 12. Fox Trot: Love, your Spell is General, and subsequently filled the
Everywhere.
Second Supper.
same position in Ceylon, being ap- March, Lancers:
pointed in 1918. Merrymakers.
Time.
Arms.
The
A Chinese fireman employed on the C.P.S. Empress of Russia fail-1-Grand Proceeding, our contemporary ed to answer a charge at the Kow-14-Fox Trot:. In Orange Blossom quotes Mr. R. P. Davis, of theloon Magistracy this morning con- Town
Kuala Lumpur, as saying that four dutiable battles of Cognac 16.-One Stop: My Wife is on a Diet here on October 3, 1924, and arrived
Arrival in Hong Kong. .Sir Henry's connection with Hong Planning Department, cerning the unlawful possession of 15.-Waltz: You're always in my Kong dates back less than six years, he being appointed Chief Justice wine, and had his bail of $50 "to-day there are not many parts catrested.
Third Supper. 17-Fox Trot: Without you, Sweat-in the Colony from Ceylon on Octo- heart.
ber 15. Since then, in addition to Under the auspices of the Hong 18-Boston Two Step: Dite's Moll his office of Chief Justice, Sir Henry
University Ergineering 10.-Fox Trot: F've Never Seen
has acted Society, the last lecture on Architec-
of the Smila ke Yours.
Salaries Commission (1928), and ture by Mr. Charles E. Moore will 20-One Step: Feminine Company. acting Vice Chancellor of the be delivered in Room "K" of the 21-Fox Trat: Shout Hallelujah.
University of Hong Kong (1929). main building on Thursday, at 8.45 22-Waltz: Good Night.
He received the degree of LL.D. (in p.m. with lantern illustration. The general public are invited to attend.
honoris causa) of the University last year.
of any towns in the Federated Malay States where it is not possi- ble to reach open country in a comparatively short time, but with the passing of a few years much of this open country will be built upon and provision must be made now for the preservation of suitable areas for playing fields and open spaces where workers may enjoy fresh air and relaxa [tion." Mr. Davis declares that in planning Kuala Lumpur an en- deavour is being made to provide
Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 8, 1930. open spaces in such positions that no one will have to walk a greater distance than half a mile in order
OPEN SPACES.
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Kong
Ma Mere?
Some Phonographic Innovations.
a
Describing herself as an opium MUSIC HATH CHARMS addict, a young Chinese woman, on appearing before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on a charge under the Opium Ordinance was fined $100 or one month, in default. The woman was sentenced to three weeks last October for an opium offence.
In the
With the report of the local areas is greater than those living people walking
dle of the road,"
manner in Shanghai Street.
Chairman
In sporting circles, Sir Henry is a keen racing man and has been a Steward of the Hong Kong Jockey Club since his arrival here. He is also a lover of music being a Vice- President of the Hong Kong Phil- harmonic Society.
A China Mail representative who
ANOTHER VETERAN, called at the Anderson Music store yesterday was given a demonstra- Mr. Robert Duncan Retires From "This might not be a serious tion of the Columbia Model 950 In
Service. cuse. But it is very difficult to ride which a phonograph, radlo set and to reach one. "The physique of on .2 bicycle straight along escritoire are combined. The model
Mr. Robert Duncan, Senior In- |children living in open residentia! Shanghai Street, with these is electric throughout, and so de-spector of the Sanitary Department, mid-signed that it can be plugged in on in charge Kowloon, leaves Hong Baid the house current. It is operated Kong to-morrow, ол retirement, Playing Fields Committee fresh in densely populated ones, their Mr. Whyle-Smith, at the Kowloon by a single switch, which, if thrown after 27 years, in local Government in his mind Sir Cecil Clementi has intelligence is superior, and their Police Court this morning, when he one way, puts a six-tube Radio Re-service, all of which was spent in the lost no time, in his first official moral standard higher. People cautioned a Chinese youth for rid-celving Set in operation. If thrown Sanitary Department. tour of the Federated Malay are affected not only physicallying, it was alleged, in a zig-zag the other way, the Columbia Elec- He joined as a temporary Sanitary tric Viva-tonal Phonograph can be Inspector on June 2, 1903, and pro- States, in congratulating Serem but mentally by the conditions
operated. The phonograph turntable, motion came to him as follows: ban on the number of open spaces under which they live and the Mra. Mina Mary D'Iffanger, twelve inch one, is placed in a Third Clasa Inspector, November it possesses. This inspires the kind of forms on which they widow, who died at No. 85, Glouces-drawer underneath the desk. Re-1, 1903; Second Class Inspector, ter Terrace, Hyde Park, Middlesex, cords can be played with the draw August 25, 1005: First Class In- Strait Times to make a trenchant habitually look. The atmosphere on August 11, 1929, left Hong Kong er opened or closed.
spoctor, November 8, 1907. Ho act- criticism of conditions in this re- of their surroundings-whether estate which has been valued at $600 The Instrument is an ornament to ed as Senior Inspector from Septem- spect between the towns and spacious, harmonious, chaotic or while gross estate at Home amounts any room, baing in the Georgian bor 18, 1924 to January 17, 1925, cities in the Straits Settlements mean-will to some extent per- of probate of the will has been taina a record bin which will hold following day, so that he had been to £83,622 198. 11d. Exemplification style, with a walnut finish. It con- being confirmed in the position the nd those of the Federated Malay vade their lives. A child reared granted to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, of 25 records, the bin itself folding Senior Inspector for over five years. States. It says that Singapore is in a slum does not become so Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master. into the side of the cabinet.
In the realm of sport, Mr. Duncan a classic example of the evils good a citizen as one whose life The will contains a large number of
The whole set is operated from a was a player of several games, but which the modern science of town has been spent in more healthy
family bequesta.
control board over the desk, and is in later years he has concentrated planning is able to prevent, and and congenial surroundings."
so designed as to make the operation on lawn bowls in which he rolls a a matter of the utmost simplicity. mean wood as a member of the -to a pathetically small extent The foregoing comments are
The Instrument has a real-Kowloon Bowling Green Club. combat when actually in exist- singularly appropriate in view of
ly beautiful tone, the radio ence. In a seething network of the recent publication of the re- streets and alleys bounded by port of the Playing Fields Com-
local experts. Apart from the Senior Inspector, Kowloon, by Mr. Beach Road, Bras Basah Road,mittee in Hong Kong. It is a pity
Pleading guilty to a charge of steal- range of selection offered in the the rank of a Senior Inspector of A. K. Taylor, who has been holding Selegie Road and the Rochore that the administrators of two or perty of the Public Works Department, writing desk give an added value to January 1, 1927. The vacancy for
ing nine feet of lead piping, the pro-musies! line, the practical uses as a
the Sanitary Department since Canal there is precisely one play three decades ago had not been a Chinese street coolie was at the Kow the model. |ground to which children can go, imbued with the same sane and loon Police Court this morning sentenc-.
another Senior Inspector will be and that was carved out of packed healthy ideas on the necessity of ́ed to six weeks" hard, labour.
filled by Mr. R. R. Wood, who has It was stated by Sub-Inspector Mr. Anderson also demonstrated been in the service since December shophouse property at great ex-lunga in the crowded areas of the Fendor that the defendant took the pip-the Wonderphone, a ranchine which 1, 1914, reaching the rank of First pense. In the central area of the Island (and even of the mainland) ing from outside the Kowloon Mor is quite new to the Colony, by Class Inspector on May 1, 1922.
tuary, Waterloo Road. city, there is again but one open as their successors in office to-day.
means of which any record can be amplified in such a way that it has space of any size-at People's The builder has had matters his
all the sound effect of a full orches Park-and the conversion of the own way far too long. The most
tra. The apparatus is especially present, racecourse into a public has been made of every available day, in which pig entrails were served, dancing, and is operated through a After a hearty evening meal yester.sultabla. for open-air concerts and recreation ground, while a most site whereon to rear ugly, repul- nine fokis of the Yne Tal pawnshop. specially-designed sound box, admirable and valuable scheme, sive-looking, and
488 Shanghai, Street were taken 111. unhygienic will benefit the youth of the tenements, with their myriada of dote had been administered, but the
The Wonderphone is of British salaried "classes," who can afford cubicles an open invitation to 'other six had to be taken to the Kow-design and construction, being made To-day's dollar is worth 4/-101⁄4d. bicycles and bus and tram fares, overcrowding and even worse loon Hospital, where they were this by the Oxford Camera and Gramo
morning reported to be recovering. phone Company, of London. Here The first steamer to load at Ham- rather than the thousands of evils. The needs of the people in! One of the six, a boy of 19, named again the aim is for complete ease burg for the Far East alnce the working-class children who grow regard to recreation spaces and Kung San, has already been discharged and simplicity of operation, and termination of the war was the sa. from hospital. The other patients are
A MORBID THEFT.
Piping Stolen from Mortuary,
FOOD POISONING?
Three of them recovered after an anti-
in
particular having elicit- ad very high praise from
The "Wonderplione",
British Made.
Hia Successor.
Mr. Duncan ja being succeeded as
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China. Mall," April 8, 1920.).
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to maturity with no other play-fresh air have been in the past, expected to leave hospital in the course the tone of the record gains in the Tatsuno Maru belonging to the
ground than the warrens of subordinated to Crown land sales of a day or two, hak Chinatown. Twenty years hence, and building contracts. It may
¡f. Government uses wisely some be argued as the Straits Times
amplification. It is not an expen-NY.K, which sailed on February 6. sive machine, and can be attached,
to any make of gramophone. The The foal of the 1919 Captain's The pronouncement that Profesdemonstration was most convincing, Cup (36 holes) was played, over of the land that will return to it does in respect of Singapore sor du Plessis has been guilty of and the Wonderphone will no doubt King's Park course yesterday, G. H with the expiration of leases, the that the mistakes of the past are heresy has created-fealing in be a popular feature at al fresco ay and WT Elston being the South Africa that there is trouble dances and parties. In the Colony finalists. The result was a win for position should be better, but it is irretrievable, but we would like for the Dutch Reformed Church. before very long.
Elston by 6 and 4.
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