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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930.

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ROUND

DOTLAN KATSANTA CLAUSTAR 37 6

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By E. A. Briefiey.*'

$4

A. B. Didsbury, of Victoria Jall Michael was a very modern little rail, for his own claiming $500 general damages

were not big arising out of a motor accident in

boy!

Bough, and moved ithelinho-guard "everything Queen's Road on the afternoon of mechanical, and he was lucky Father Christmas to

from before the fre to allow enough to possess several splendid Into the room properly.

come down mechanical toys. One day, when. "There does not look much

October 12,

GOOD WORK FOR THE EMPIRE.

Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P., was the guest of honour at a dinner of the Empire Industries Association recently when a presentation made to him.

"Perhaps if he is too fat he will come through the window," sug- back the curtains gested his mother. "Soe, I'll draw casement wide.

and open the eyes tightly, Michael, and try to Now close your

go to sleep quickly."

- Michael did as his mother told him, and in a few minutes ho was fast asleep.

he was shopping with his mother room said Michael anxiously. at a big shop in the town hear "He may have a great big sack." which he lived, he saw something he wanted very badly. It was a with dear little twinkling electric gorgeous model of an aeroplane, lights on its tail and at the tips of its wings-lights that would really was switch off and on! Michael knew, for he tried them when his mother Sir Henry, in a speech acknow- ledging the gift, described the Con-)

was not looking!

"Will it dy, really and truly servative policy as that for which he and his colleagues had strivan shopman breathlessly, for he was properly?" Michael asked the all their political lives, and asked very excited. for steadfastness on the part of thei Conservative leaders in the coming the assistant, who was really quite "It flies like a bird," answered fight.

thrilled by the aeroplane himself Referring to the future, Sir "Like to see it?" Henry said: "It looks as if our. dreams may now come true; but say anything. Here was something Michael nodded, too overcome to that will only happen, if there is that he wanted more than great faith, great resolution, great thing in the world. sacrifice of personal energies and great unity. Such immense issues

any-

WAS

Whirr Whirr! Whirr! Whatever was That? Michael sat up in bed. It, sounded like an

noise aeroplane passing overhead. The louder. It was an aeroplane. Oh! getting louder and

it was stopping just outside his was out of bed and pushing open window. With one bound Michael

the window.

"Steady, young man!", erled jolly voice. "You'll push me ovor.

Thang in the balance that no words/Piane In his hands, placed it on the Would you like a trip round the.

A

slip on your thick overcoat for I chimney tops with me? Hurry up,

haven't a minute to spare."

Was

The next moment Michael clambering into the aeroplane and taking his sent by the pilot, who, of course, as you have guessed, was Father Christmas..:

"I thought I'd show you I was real," chuckled Father Christmas, help me I called for you. Now aeo "and as I wanted a smart boy to

those parcels? They are all toys for boys and girls in this town. Every sack is labelled with the name of the street, and, as I call

you to pass them to me. You can out the name of the street I want read, of course?"

The shop assistant took the aero-

can exaggerate their description. the machine rose slowly in the air floor, there was a whirr, and then The very industrial life of Britain, and circled round the room. and in consequence the happiness of our own people, are at stake. Michael.

"Oh. Mummy, look, look?" cried The decision as to whether the Emreal aeroplane."

"Isn't it gorgeous? pire is to unite, or to become en tangled for good in economic ties Michael's

"It's wonderful, darling," said with foreign cuntries, hangs in the excited little face.

mother, noticing his This Micawberish reference balance.

"These issues are not much less could

"Oh! Mummy, do you think I naturally recalls the memory""of

23 began Important than those confronting healtating a little. "Would it cost Charles Dickens, than whom, nous in 1914, and they demand equal lots of money?"

Michael,

man ever did more to emphasise will power and equal courage. This "the deep spiritual significance of is no time for squabbling betweened his mother.

"I am afraid so, dear," answar- the. Christmas goose," as the late this or that fine distinction of added, "I can't buy it for you now, Then, when the leaders of thought sa to whether shopman told her the price, sha Locker-Lampson pleasantly put policy is best. The question le: Michael; perhaps if you are a good lit. One might almost say that Shall we give our workers the right boy. Father Christmas may bring with the death of Dickens, Christ to work and the right to live? And you an aeroplane for Christmas." mas, as a domestic institution, or the Briton, wherever he dwell, to his

whether we prefer the products of:

"Oh yea," answered Michael. Now Michael, at the bottom of "All except very long words." saturnalia “en famille," fell into a the foreigner, in order to restore Christmas to be a kind of fairy sald Santa Claus, with a

heart, considered Father "Well these are all short ones," sort of slow decline. Assuredly cur export trade and to establish

jolly a lasting partnership for the salva-"Father Christmas may bring you

story. So when his mother said, laugh. "Isn't that lucky? Now there are no such heroic repacts, tion of Britain and the well-being an aeroplane" he was very disap- you plense pass me the Back?

we are passing High-street. W such ultra-convivial gatherings, of our sister nations of the Em-pointed. in these degenerate days of gas-pire.

Thank you. Now I'll alight on this tronomic moderation, as those "If the answer is in the affirmaly at bedtime that night, "tell me neys with the toys. Will you walt "Mummy," said Michael sudden-roof and just pop down these chim- tive, then for Heaven's sake let us recorded by "Boz" when his start the march.

for me hore, and look out the sack exuberant altruism, vented itself |

for King-square?"

Quota or Tariffs."

about Father Christmas, please." In the pages of his "Christmas "I have taken the unpopular Father Christmas was a jolly, kind

So she told all she knew; how Books, and other notable volumes, path, and tried to speak what I be hearted man with a laughing red With the elder among us, Christ-on your behalf at the Caxton Hall he was always dressed in red, and lleved to be the mind of the people face, and a long white beard; how mes is rather a season of self-meeting, when I asked for an end carried a sack full of toys on his communing and remembrance. to the referendum and a mandate back; how overy year, on Christ- There are flowers that yield a negotiate treaties with the Domin- girls, acrambing down the chim for a free hand from the electors to mas Eve, he visited good boys and sweeter fragrance as the day ions by any and every means neys in their bedrooms and filling declines and the shadows lengthen along the lines of mutual prefer their stockings with toys. on the everlasting hills; and with eace. This policy was not acceded

to then. Today it is the acknow-haps it isn't just a fairy story,

Michael listened' eagerly. the coming of the night are the lodged policy of the party, and to he thought. immutable stars, and one, the deny that it meets our views would brightest of them all, that burns be dishonest.. afar off in the Near East, whence

Hope came into the world.

News in Brief

"Quota or tariffs are both Pre

Per

"Where does Father Christmas live?" he asked.

"At the North Pole," answered

ference. If Canads and Australia his mother.

"How does he get to the chim-

wish for a quota to give greater security for their wheat, let them neya?" have it. If not, then we will give a tariff preference to wheat, just as we intend to give a tariff prefer-quick enough,

"In a sledge drawn by reindeer." A Merry Christmas 11 Once

"I don't think that would be -The forthcoming marriage is an-ence to their other products.

Mummy," said again the age-long wish will be nounced of Sverre Odmund Berg, "To-day we have the policy for many chimneys, and it would take Michael. "You see, there are so re-echoed in every home from of "Bergalico," The Peak, to Tul which we have been striving all simply ages to come from the every heart in Hong Kong at mid- O'Kane, of Park Lane Mansions, our political lives but a terrific North Pole in a sledge. I expect

Sydney, now

ow residing at 161, The struggle lles before us, and unless he uses an aeroplane, like the one night. We have no white" Peak

we are led by men who will be stead we saw this afternoon, only big. Christmas so far as snow and

fast and can convince the country ger, of course." frost are concerned. But in the

Father Christmas had gone. In Before Michael could reply, spite of his size and huge sack he down chimneys climbed over roofs and scrambled Michael was frightfully proud at like lightning. being asked to help Santa Claus, the sacks. Soon Father Christmas and he bustled about bually among was back again, carrying on empty

Back this time. Of they were in the air again, passing from streck to strect, flying here and there." At last Father Christmas gave a sigh.

*This town is finished," he said. "I don't think I have forgotten one boy or girl, and I have used all my toga. 1'll have to fly back to one of my workshops for more."-

"Have you many workshops," asked Michael

"Lots", answered Father Christ mas, "in different parts of the about them. country, but very few people know Now you must be

tired. I'll take you home, and you must pop into bed, shut your eyes, Then, perhaps you'll see something and not open them until morning. Suffering from the effects of that in our policy les salvation,"Perhaps be does; dear," sold laughter.

you like," and he roared with purity of our thoughts and the poisoning, the nature of which has the triumph will be snatched from his mother. "Now you

not yet been ascertained, Ho Chi-us; and dir will be in vain.

go to

"Oh! do you mean sincerity of our wish we can make yun (22) a printer of the Com-This is no time private interests

began Dreamland. Good-night."

Michael, but he had not time to Hit a truly "white" Christmas for mercis Press at Kennedy Town, or partial affections. The spirit fore Christmas, and every day home:

This happened not very long.be- fmish his sentence, for he Was ourselves and all around us. 1

was yesterday taken to the Governor'scuttle has been threatening our Michael thought about the aero- ment Civil Hospital by his toki. Although the Christmas season

position in our foreign policy, our plane he had seen in the shop, and a fairy story, do you?" asked "Now you don't think I am just has been denuded of much that This morning at the Central cannot repulse Socialism and de-a real person! By Christmas Eve

Imperial and bur home policy. We wondered if Father Christmas was Father Christmas. past considered Magistracy Mr. R. E Lindsell Im-Zeatlam by meeting these evils half- he hid made up his mind he was, obligatory to a proper observance altertiative of six months hard I do not believe that providence cited. He had tried so Hard to be

posed a fine of $2,000 with the WAY, HECHE Markofa

and he was now tremendously ex of the feast, the gift of the spirit Labour on a Chinese who adibitted has entruated us with the guidance good, so perhaps on Christmas Day still remains with us; and, after being the unlawful possessor of 70 of more than a quarter of the he might find his beloved aeroplane fall, that is the essential principle; taels of raw opium.

world's population merely to sur on his bed. A If by some evil chance the funda-A verdict of death by misadvento hand over countless of our fel- his mother had great preparations. render to crime and agitation, and Before he got into bed, he and mental religious significance were ture was yesterday afternoon re-low-subjects to anarchy, corrup- They fastened two of his father's to be entirely eliminated from turned by a Coroner's jury who tion, and ruid

Let us appeal to golf stockings securely to the bed--

was in time

is a breathing-space, or short interlude, in the common round of “getting and spending,” of lay. jing 'waste our powers,” inclining

the festival, the fact that here at with Mr. H. R. Butters to In the highest motives of our people quire Into the death of a coolle and rally them to the great call of named A Chuen, who was killed duty and patriotism, reminding by the collapse of a crand at the them that we are still a great ru

ing race and these Britons will not let us down.". (Cheers.)-

BRIDEGROOM OF 97.

Kowloon wharf on November 38

Chung Kwong-kit, master of a us, rather to a consideration of fishing dunk has reported to the the Claims of others, than a too Police that, whilst sailing his craft Complete concentration, on our at three o'clock on "Monday morn

NEW COMMANDER.

CAFFAIN BRITTEN TO JOIN THE BERENGERIA.

Sue Bugby, Yesterday, Captain Britten, the commander

"Of course not; you are a darl- ing. I'll never think you're just a as he snuggled down in bed. story again, never!" cried Michael

wis daylight, and there, perched on When he next opened his eyes It

the rail of his bed was his acro- plane!

shouted Michael excitedly. "Mum

"I knew he would give it me," my, Mummy, look what I've got.”

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mall" "of Decendier 24, 1920.).

To-day's dollar is worth 3/1 3/18.

lown personal affairs, would alone ing about three filles east of INTIMATE. FRIENDS, UNAWARE of the Cunard liber Franconia Damage estimated at £20,000 was

Waglan, another fishing junkrad OF CEREMONY

the Aquitania, Maure-inds, asisted the floats, the flames

make the great feast one. of ethical into it, causing damage

has been appointed to the com.caused by a fire which broke out în importance in the fleeting years extent of $200. The other Junk Mr. John Graham one of the ion to Commodore Sir Arthur

mand of the Berengeria in Bucces last alght

a matched in the Kowloon Docks that constitute the brief span were injured fatale has been married at All Saints

then salled away No persons coroners-for- Durham, who is 97, Rostron.

Although the members of both which is our life here below, Andi porn vi

the Hong Kong" and "Kowloon Church, Upper Norwood, Sto Capt. Britten has commanded in Brigades, the latter with their en- it in above all, the chlidren's feat Suffering from Kamersion, after Afias E. Ashton, of Shotley Bridge,

the ValjegĄ Christmas without chil- having attempted to commit suicide Durham,

tanis

La colift? pol be checked, and tha grets would be as dismal a fallure by jumping into the harbour Even Mr. Graham's Intimsts. In 1928 he was appointed to the structure was completely gutted.

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Wony La Kilends were are that the ranconia, in which he made two Marine Internal combustion oil

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her oldest solicitor Great Britain [Captain Britten will be remem Artatie Petroleum Compa condition was?)

His bride is month 170,- This Is bered in Hong Kong which the damaged to an estimated philosophic

Bhel was Fescued Up Scát his kõird marriage, this second wife Franconia included in her world peopl

Erving died

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220,000 The cause of the ou break is at present a mystery.