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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931.

COLONY'S

CENSUS

Methods of Enumeration Described.

SELECTING A DATE.

de

In

of

In France "la population fait" consists of al persons pre- Bent in a district at a given time and this is distinguished from "la population de droit" consisting of all persons usually resident the district inclusive of those tem- porarily absent and exclusive those only temporarily present. We distinguish these two methods of enumeration by calling the one de facto and the other de jure. Ia Hong Kong as well as in all other parts of the British Empire (ex- cept Canada) it is the de facto population that is Enumerated.

The great advantage in this mo- thod is its simplicity and in Hong Kong any other method would be Impossible, as there would be no

.. menns

THE

ROUND THE CINEMAS

JOHN MCCORMACK IN "SONG O' MY HEART."

SONGS ON PROGRAMME.

CHINA MAIL.

SHADOWS BEFORE

Hong

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT

CLUB INTERPORT.

HONG KONG v. SHANGHAI. WILL be sailed on SUNDAY, February 15, 1931. First Gun at 10.05 a.m.

The singing of John McCormack

COMING EVENTS, ANNOUNCED is, of course, the main attraction in

IN CHINA 'MAIL. the talkie" "Song O' My Heart" not occur. Secondly, the time of which is now running in the

Social Functions, the enumerator is saved and the Queen's Theatre. His superb

To-day--Tea Dance at cost of taking the census is thereby tenor was well recorded through Kong Hotel, 4.30 p.m. much reduced, The Labour of the "mike" and well reproduced. To-day--Dinner Dances at Penin- writing out the particulars is He sang eleven songs in the pic-sula and Hong Kong Hotela, 8 p.m. the Club kindly notify the under- Will members requiring tiffin at divided among the whole com-ture, all of which were well suited To-morrow-Dinner to Britlah signed before 12 o'clock Noon on munity and such division makes it to his voice. Those that "went over" Mission, Hong Kong. Hotel roof SATURDAY next? possible for the particulars to be best were a few bars synchronous for all parts of the You'll Remember," with which the

of "Then garden.

February 21-Interport Football country. The chief pbjection to picture opened, and "Ireland, dinner, Peninsula Hotel roof garden, the householder method is that the Mother Ireland." In the picture, accuracy of the census is then limit-too, McCormack proved to be a ed by the Intelligence and literary good actor, and showed himself a capacity of the population readily linguist in one part in which he to grasp the meaning and require-spoke and sang in Italian. ments of the blank forma issued

The vehicle

i

8 p.m.

Entertainments. To-day- Queen's Theatr "Song of O' My Heart."

To-day Central Theatre "The Battle of Paris."

--

for McCormack's and to fill them up properly. It ainging la love story with To-day Majestic. is obvious that in Hong Kong the new angle to it, and in the un- literary capacity is wanting in afolding of the story the audience. Jarge proportion of the population, were anused with it big au un

of computing the number and that this method cannot there-humour and pointed arguments, fore be employed in its entirety. well sustained by a cast in which The chief advantage of the can-Irish names predominate. The vasser method is that dificulties scenery is fine, particularly that of due to ignorance

"temporarily absent. The Chief objections to the de facto method are that under it visitors are in- cluded while temporary absentees are excluded so that some places have their population anduly in- flated and others unduly diminish-method ed. To minimise these objections It is usual to fix the time of the renaus at an hour of the day and at a season of the year at which the displacement of the population is at a minimum. The dete in Hong Kong was fixed with special refer ence to China New Year and the Tsing Ming Festival.

On Saturday night, March 7 it possible that the European population of the New Territories (especially in the neighbourhood of Fanling may be above its normal figure but this is unavoid- able. A week-end date has many advantages over one in the middle of the week and the fact that March 7 is the final day of the annual Races will probably keep all but the keenest of golfers to their usual habitat.

it out b-b-

Dentist: "I'll have before you can 5-8-say J-J-Jack R-R-R-R-Robins-8-8-8-"

Patient: "I think I'll have gas"-Passing Show, London.

Considerable

discussion took place recently in the United King- don regarding the advisability of having the census date in the mid- die of the week on this occasion in view of the phenomers growth of the "week-end

habit"

in

Britain. Sunday, April 26, has been chosen as the Census Day and

an additional question has been in- seried in the Census Form "Usual Residence." The United Kingdom

Census of 1931 is likely to com- bint, therefore, the features of both a de jure and a do facto enumeration.

distinct methods

to

Theatre;

Theatre.

"Innocents of Parla”

To-day "Barbed Wire

The Hawk," (Chinese picture).

To-dayWorld. Theatre,

C. EL. GRIST, Hon. Secretary, Sailing Committee, e/o Wilkinson & Grist, Hong Kong, February 12, 1931.

LAND WITHOUT LIBERTY.

Socialist Critic of Soviets.

workers would not tolerate the "French, Belgian, or British

or literacy of a typical Irish village in which via Suez (Khyber); from Europe Soviet regime for a fortnight,'

concern of

or sorrow

every-

those enumerated are to a large anybody's happiness extent obviated. But for

the this is be successful thebody else. There are niso the enumerators themselves must not inevitable village gossips and a only be fully intelligent and have simpleton, in this case a boy who a clear knowledge of what is re-jis never free of cuts and bruises quired and how it should be re-received as the result of pranks cordad

niso have the played on him by the other village ability to obtain rendily the desir-youngsters. ed information by means of quee- tions well chosen and earefully asked.. It is hoped that good enumerators will be obtained in Hong Kong and care is being taken to train them in their duties.

but must

the second.

"THE BATTLE OF PARIS,"

A new type of picture is now showing in the Central Theatre in the 'form of "The Battle of Paris," which will remind most ex-Service men of very pleasant memories.

acting

Home Malls, To-mcrrow-inward from Europe (Kashgar); from ports (President Grant); Outward for Europe via Siberia (Khyber), 6 pm.

Sports.

Via Siberia America

and

See Diary on page 8.

Meeting.

4

of

H.K., Canton & Macao Steamboat

March 5 Annual meeting

declared M. Emile Vandervelde, the Belgian Socialist leader and former Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the representative of the "Intransigeant," on his arri val at Marseilles from a tour in the Far East.

dent of the Socialist Internation. M. Vandervelde, who is presi- Co., Ltd., Queen's Building, 11 a.m.al, has just completed a journey

Lammerts' Auction.

To-morrow-At Sales Room, Dud- dell Street, household. farniture 2.30 p.m.

Miscellaneous.

To-day-French Convent School prize distribution, 4 p.m.

To-morrow-Concert, Helena May Institute, 9 p.m.

JEWELS PAWNED.

TO KEEP RICE CROP IN BARNS.

POSITION IN SIAM.

China, and French Indo-China. across Russia, Siberia, Manchuria,

"When I was in Moscow a few months ago," he said, "I was effort to achieve industrial recon- struck by the real and visible

methods. Then I could not help struction according to modern asking myself:. Where does the money come from Obviously. there was no question of loans from abroad.

The Canvasser Mill ed. The chief disadvantage of the canvasser method by itself lies.

Gertrude Lawrence, musical in the fact that the enumeration, comedy atar combines beauty, grace. owing to the time taken in obtain voice, humour, dignity, ing the desired information, is not ability and immense charm that you synchronous for the whole country can't resist her appeal, and thus it becomes difficult to "The Battle of Paris" is stirring- avoid omissions and duplications ly presented in a new comedy style,

"Inquiries convinced me that, due to changes of abode and also music and faultless dialogue, but

the explanation was to be found errors due to forgetfulness of the it is for superior to

in the fact that the Government, any attemps facts as these existed on the cen- that have been made to bring such

having a monopoly of foreign aus day when the enumerator does a style

trade, sold far below current of story telling to the not call until some days after that screen, for it is really quite en-

prices in the world's markets in date: In 1911 and 1921 the can-grossing.

order to obtain ready money vasser method was employed as

The story is that of a young

quickly. It is the famous 'Dump- regards the New Territories and waif who sells music in the streets

Bangkok, January 26. ing.' The farmer, as well as in enumerating the Floating Popu- of Paris before the

the "At the war. Zizi middleman, in the great rice taxation and heavy indirect taxes same time crushing lation, one month being taken in Charles Ruggles) is her partner. producing centres north of Bang- produced high sums," he said. the first instance and 4 days in In the scurry before a Police raid kok where an exceptionally plenti- "The State buys from the pea- Georgle (Gertrude Lawrence) meets ful crop was enjoyed this year, is sant at ridiculously low prices On Hong Kong Island, in Kowa young American artist, Tony, and responsible for the holding up of and sells to the populace at prices loon and New Кокров the when she leaves she takes his wallet the crop's export Householder, Method was mainly with her. Returning the wallet to

that are desperatey high. used in 1911 and 1921. and an at- Tony, the next day, she is persuad- by an experienced observer who Russia," M. Vandervelde con.

This is the conclusion reached

The standard of life in tempt-was made to fill in the gapsed to remain and model for him. has just returned to. Bangkok tinued, "is mediocre, and wages left by the illiterate by Having the They fall in love. War is declared after a brief but exhaustive sur are low. There is an insufficient forms filled in by the enumerators and Tony enlists, Georgie keeping vey in the field. His name is supply of manufactured articles, when collecting them.,

his apartment until he returns. not published at his request but and those articles that are offer- In some countries, notably inj While nursing in a large hospital his observations he consented to ed for sale are as expensive as India and Ceylon where the pro-in Paris Georgie becomes the pet of give in an interview with the they are badly made. blem is similar to that which faces threa strange friends, the three Editor of the Bangkok Daily us in Hong Kong, special expedients musketeers. She learns that Tony Mail.

"There are Interminable have been adopted to reduce asis in Paris on a two days' leave and

queues outside the shops and This observer confined his sur. after waiting for hours, people much as possible the objectionable rushes to his features of the Canvasser Method. him, but Tony falls to put in his loke and Bangkok. He stopped handed.

apartment to meet vey to the area between Pitsann often have to go away empty- A preliminary followed by a final revision on the him, finding him in the arms of a railway and went into the surfats are almost unobtainable. canvass is made appearance, so she goes In search of off at four or five towns along the "Meat is rare, butter and other Cenaus Night.

waitress.

rounding villages, talking with Under this regime," declared the The three musketeers come to farmers, middle-men, merchants, Socialist leader, "there is no It is proposed to follow this her aid, but her efforts fail. She and foreign exporters' buyera Liberty." method in Hong Kong. Commen-is lured away and made a prisoner. about the all-important problem ciag immediately after the China Tony joins the three friends in of the day-the depression in the HULL'S IMPORTANCE New Year holidays (17th and 18th their search for her. It will spoil rice trade. February) the enumerators will go the picture for you to tell you the He found that the farmers

Hong Kong Method.

ignorance, they believe the price

IN-BRITISH ISLES.

round their enumeratin districts reat, but we will say this much-themselves were hgarding padi, SECOND LARGEST FISHING PORT and at once write in, on the Con- the action is as stirring as you can refusing to sell because, in their sus forms, the particulars obtain-imagine, ed by questioning the people. The enumérator also prepares mary in a special book prepared for this purpose. By checking.

or

4 sum-

"GOOD NEWS.”

will go up in a few weeks. The Hull recently overhauled Aber There are two

peasants talked confidently of deen as the second largest fishing of collecting the information re-

getting better prices through port in the kingdom, and has dur quired from a Census, which have

Camera roller-coasters enabled waiting. They laughed at the ing recent years. added a large been designated respectively, (1) dules as written in by the enume-

the aummary book and the sche-Edgar MacGregor and Nick Grinde suggestion that the price would ga number of the modern type of the Householder Method and (2)

to obtain unusual football action down even further if we hold up deep-sea trawlers for fishing In rators during the fortnight that talkies for "Good News," Metro our crop very much longer and the Icelandic, Faroe Isles, White the Canvasser Method. Thus

elapses before the Census night, it Goldwyn-Mayer's screen adaptation thus give our competitors a Sea Bear Island and Greenland generally throughout the British

should be possible to see that no of the big musical comedy hit, chance to step in ahead of us and fishing grounds. Empire the occupier of each "dwelling" is the person held, pri- is omitted.

building or portion of a building which will open on Sunday in the undersell us. Of the world-wide Hence the heavy landings of

On the Census Night, Queen's Theatre. marily responsible for furnish-

or rather, early

business depression, this obser fish which are rapidly bringing the morning. After rebearsing the plays of the ver said, the farmer knew, no Hull to a premier position as a ing a written record of the

after, the desired particulara relative to all

enumerator will again game with members of the Univer- thing and cared less, thinking fishing port. The landings of the inmates of the dwelling occu- pied by him.

In the United States of America however, and in Ire- land, Canada, India (except in

out any that may have left in the board railway, from which cameraa hoarded in the north, huge fields cwt, the total being. 4,157,000 interval and adding particulars of and microphones kept every play in of grain lie unharvested becausa cwt, compared with 3.107,000 the case of Europeans and of In- dia of high rank) and Ceylon

any new-comers to his district, close Locri

of ignorance," said this obser- cwt, during the The enumeration districts or

previous the original entries are made by blocks have been

The plank camera routo Included ver when he returned to Bangkok, year. the enumerator as the result of smaller than in the past.

made much sharp curves, rises and falis, which "Farmers I talked to in many It is expected that, Hull will. Inquiries Instituted by him,

The afforded youngsters in the neigh-towns and villages are actually qualify as

the world's largest Report of 1921 states that 203 bourhood much joy when the film pawning their jewels. In order to fishing port, a distinction up to Enumerators were employed on the company departed, the roller-coaster pay their incidental expenses-now, held by Grimsby." Island of Hong Kong and 72 in furnishing unlimited potentialities rather than let go their padi at the Kowloon Peninsula. It is "aimed to the juvenile minda..

In

Hong Kong, as in India, It is pro- posed to employ a combination of the two methods.

The Householder Metied.

The Householder Method has great advantages. The ability to error is much diminished and as all statements rest on the house holder's own authority, erroneous, entries through hurry or releas as in taking down abaw can

go round his enumeration district sity of Southern California footbali that it had nothing to do with fish at Hull for the twelve and check up the particulars pre-squads, the directors followed the their problem. vlously entered by him, striking action with carpenters and built a

***months ended November 80 ex- "Huge stores of padi are being ceed those of 1929 by 1,000,000

prices now being offered by mid- AFTER NAVIGATION.

that one enumerator in the urban Bessie Love has the leading role dlemen. While some middlemen area should not be required to ob In the collegiate musical-movie and are equally ignorant, equally tain the particulars for more than the supporting cast includes Mary hopeful of getting a better prico 1,000 persons and for the ares beLawlor, Stanley Smith, Cler in a month or two, many that 1 low Bonham Road and Caine Road, Edwards, Gus Shy, Frank McGlynn, Interviewed are acquainted with from Kennedy Town to Fedder Dorothy McNulty, Billy Taft, Tom the true situation and are anxiou Street over 450 enumerators will Jackson and Delmar Daves. be employed.

GYROSCOPE COMPASS PATENTS.

Two patenta relating to the

to huy and bell at whatever price gyroscopic compass for use on ships they can get now. But most of taken out in the names of the inte the farmers are refusing to sell. Professor John Perry and Mr. To pay their debts to the Sidney George Brown, of 8. G small merchants, to get a little Brown Limited, electrical ent [spending money, the farmers are gineers, were extended by Mr

selling small parts of their crops Justice Luxmoore in the Chancery, but the bulk of this year's crops Division for ten years, the limit ng far as I could determiné, ja be allowed by the Patent Act, A doint conference of representa ing held back by the cultivators. Lives of South Shields and Tyne

JUVENILE COURT.-

APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE,

“BY GOVERN

ernment has appointed a Com mittes to enquire into the question of a Juvenile Court tour de mp

Th

The Hon:

TUNNEL UNDER THE TYNE, £1,240,000 Project Disemised.

North

greil (Police mouth Coupole, at douth Shields road and one footpath at an e the Hon MP RACscussed the question of construct timated cost of £1,240,000:3 cretary for Chinese ing a tunnel under the River Tyne A depitation

"of the to line up the two bazough and add wait on the infeter my Brother Hourigan endiselta. 41

packtory contrib

inted

* HOLLVIC WA anothedd That tife Fourt ord cost of the CM.02 MG tng had decided in favor of rajaumulader to be borne

of Children, the Goy-Mi R. Lo and Mr. T M Hazlerigg, tunnel 27, 6la, in diameter with a two boroughs.

by the

Ala-Lordship held that the patented was entitled to the fu ther ten years becausaha had not only been inade quately remunerated, but he had actually suffered a 1045. The inventing he daid, was also ext eeptionaly Ingenious, and anything? which made havigation easier and safer must be of the greatest im. portance to the public.

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