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MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931

CORRESPONDENCE.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.

{

GUIDE RALLY

CUP PRESENTED TO 5THH.K.

COMPANY.

WINNERS OF ESSAY.

(To the Editor of "China Mali."!

Sir, Your correspondent, "Im- partial's" review of value of shares, appearing in the column of participated. took place at he A rally, in which loral Girl Gujes

Fourteen days imprisonment was your valuable paper some time Diocesan Girls' School playgroud imposed at the Kowloon Magistracy ago, now clearly proye that the on Saturday morning, when lo this morning on. Wong Sing Tin. strictures ho then made on certain S.P.C.A. Esany Cup was presentj for stealing seven iron rods from stocks were indeed justified and by the Hon. Mrs. Tufton

A house under construction in Yaurati.

honest in the extreme, now that I have before me the Company's Re-

Among those who are staying in port and Accounts for 1930, and I the St. Francis Hotel the would really like to see now French aviators, Monsieur Moonch

ure

and

the 5th

Hong Kong Con pany, the winners

of the competition "Have Animals a Claim евяду

on our Consideration ?"

Man is generally the chief agent jof a wide and continual distress to

and Monsieur Burtin, also Captain (again in your paper such honest and the lower animals, which though Johannson and the officers of the truthful review. by your corres. created to benefit humanity, was

wrecked m.v. Roseville.

pondent.

The profit of the Company's

pay

not destined to suffer from ita mag- ter.

The winning essay is as fol.

A motor car belonging to Mr.legitimate business amounts to lows:- A. S. MacKichan, of Messrs. Leigh | $76,702.11 only, and out of this it Many a time, through reckless- & Orange, was completely destroy-

ness and heedlessness of dividend

mind, ed by fire after it had been taken is proposed to

mankind ill-treat the animalą. into a garage in Russell Street last absorbing $136,000. What a policy But is it correct?

The animals night. The origin of the fire is not indeed! True, the Company has have a claim on our gratitude, for yet known.

made a profit of $11,240 on Interest having benefitted

us in so many and Exchange, of $33,488

on Inways, Under the nuspices

Creatures they are, and inferior University Amateur Photographic come from Investments, of $20,491 ones too, but their nature feels an Club, a cinema show of educational on Unclaimed Dividends from 1915 much as nurs does. These poor interest will be given by Eastman to 1926, of $149,270 on Sale of animals just look, and tremble, and Kodak, Ltd., in the University Investments and of $13,514 on Sale #ive forth the very indications of Union Assembly Room at 8:30 p.m. of Deep Water Bay property; but, suffering as we do. Theirs is a dis- on Wednesday.

as all these items of profit wereįtinct cry of pain. They put on the runde outside the scope of ita sumne aspect of terror on the de-

the of

H.E. the Governor (Sir William legitimate trade, that is to say, of monstrations of a menaced blow: Peel, K.B.E, K.C.M.G.) accom-nauufacturing and sale of cement, they exhibit the same distortions of panied by the Inspector-General of they are, therefore, non-recurring, agony after the infliction of it.

Their blood circulates as ours, Police (the Hon. Mr. E. D. C.that is to say, they will not appear Wolfe, C.M.G.) and Chief Inspector in the Company's books again; and they have pulsations in vari P. Grant paid a visit

to several while the Investments account has ous parts of their body as we have. Police Stations this morning.

shrunk from $664,656 to $147,162 They alcken, grow feeble with age, only which may or may not bring and finally die just as we do. in any profit this year, and, assume They have the same feelings and ing that it does, it will, at best, be instincts that we have. A lioness robbed of her whelps causes the

very small.

The lovel Police entertained their Shanghai confreres in the Police Recreation Club on Saturday

As predicted by your correspon-wilderness to ring aloud with pro- can be made to profit from the night when a most enjoyable smok dent, "Impartial," there is, on the clamations of her wrongs; or a bird bitter lessons of the past and re-ting concert

was held. Hosts and

Company's own admission, outside robbed of his little household filla frain from provoking conflicts guests provided some good talent its Balance Sheet, an outstanding and saddens the grove with melo- either against each other or convivial evening.

and all spent a very happy and tiability by the Company of £120.dies of deepest pathos.

A Just Claim, against the Government now in

000 and $400,000 in connection with the New Plant of the Company

Yet man regards them as sense. power in Nanking, there ought to Prof: C. A. Middleton Smith, which is very dismal

less beings, Incapable of suffering be no real ground for pessimism will address the Arts Association indeed; and this

was the reason and of happiness, but auch is not in the financial years succeeding of the Hong Kong Univer why the Company withdrew its the case. They have a heart. as

aity on "The New that ending on

Civilisa-announcement of calling in only $4 much as we have, and so they have June 30 next. tion in Chinn," on Thursday, March per share on the new shares as hy just claim on our kindness, help. True, vast sums have still to be 19, at 8.30 p.m. in Room K of the doing so and refunding $2.50 per

and protection.

reading

expended on the necessitous cam- Main Building of the University, share on the old shares to share- In gratitude for their beneficial paigns

All interested are cordially invited. holders, it will be utterly impossible services to Mankind we should against Communists, bandits, and pirates. That task

for the Company to meet this huge treat them accordingly to some ex- Cho Cho, a stoker on the 8.9. Ha liability. Moreover, even if the tent, and feed them woll. must be brought to a successful Lok Sze, pleaded guilty in the Kew Company were to call in the whole

Some domestic animale, as the conclusion,

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out cement

the

Animals, like man, are found all In the temperate

Created For Our Benefit. Man could not do without the

matter how great loon Police Court to-day to stealing call of $6.50 on the new shares with horse and dog, have a high degree the financia cost, as otherwise a grey felt hat, the property of out making any refund to share-of sensitiveness, and they know

still Man Ping, from a contractor's hut holders, China's trade recovery must-con-in

Company's well how to ropay their mastors. the Kowloon Dock premises, financial position leaves much to be The horse, in gratitude, will be tinue to be retarded and her, civil One month's imprisonment was im- desired.

willing to carry heavy loads, and rehabilitation deferred still fur-poned.

Yet in the face of all these adverse give his master a good, long ride. factors, the Company deemed it The dog instead, will be ever ther. If the Government in Nan-i king can weather the storms of Stated to be an ex-policeman, and expedient to pay a dividend costing watchful for his master's house, $130,000 which could be better and will express joy at his master's civil warfare, it can also weather having three previous convictions, applied by conserving it to pay off presence.

Ho Ying-pui was at the Kowloon the blasts of troubles occurred by Magistracy this morning sent

its liability, seeing that it will take to years before the new plant can turn over the globe. Reds, bandits, and pirates. Thus jail for three months for stealing R

such plentiful regions they are hunted for the there is no reason for the real piece of timber, the property of quantity as to enable the Company sake of their fur, as foxes, squir Hong Kong. Menday, March 16, 1931. leaders of China-those to whom

Wah, from No. 311, Portland

to earn enough to make up for its rels, and brown bears, Street.

cost and also to put the Company's

The cow and goat, for instance, the country's welfare comes first

finance in a sound state; for it must provide us with meat and milk. and personal aggrandisement, no-] The wedding took place in St. be remembered that in cement the The latter can be made into cheese where -- taking an ultra-pessi- John'a Cathedral on Saturday business is a very competitive one and butter, and milk is a perfect mistic view of what the imme- afternoon, of Mr. John Barnes, son because, besides the different kinds food specially for infants and An eloquent commentary on diate future has in store for the

of Mr. and Mrs. R. Barnes, and of cement usually imported into the adults. the expenditure of the Chinese country as a whole.

Gertrude Lavinia Rowbotham, Colony from various places, the Rather is daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Company has a potential competi- Nationalist Government is to be there the foundation for that op- A. J. Rowbotham. The Dean (the tor in a like concern in Canton. animals previously mentioned, and found in figures furnished by Mr. timism that helps tremendously Very Rev, A. Swann, M.A., D.S.C.) whose plant is most modern and as they are created for our benent. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, in the effort to solve a nation's

the cast only $2,000,000 as the purchase by

thoughtful Creator, we in his report for the year ended internal trials and difficulties. If

price was paid in full before the have to treat them in the best way Mrs. Constancia Leocadia da slump in exchange; so that with possible. June 30 last and only published the will to win out persists in the Rocha died at

her residence in raw material at hand, cheaper now. He states that the Nation-same degree as at the present Wanchal Road yesterday, at the age labour, and much less capital ex-regions, animals are found as polar alist Government's expenditure juncture, civil war, Communism, of 82 years.

She is survived by penditure, the Canton cement com-bears, seals, and whates. In the was split up as follows:- Loan banditry and piracy should in less two

her son, Mr. E. B. da Rocha, and pany will, after antisfying Canton's Barren Lands, the Eskimos are pro

married daughters, payments, 37.5 per cent.; military than

Mrs. great need of cement for the provided with the reindeer, which a decade be but a bitter Marques and Mrs. Remedies. The sent, be in a good position to offer serves not only as an animal of expenditure, 49.6 per cent., and

burden, but also provides China should settle funeral will pass the Monument at strong competition in this trade. civil expenditure, 12.9 per cent. down to enjoy at long last 5.30 to-day.

In view, therefore, of the Com-with meat, milk, oil, fat as well as p.m. The Budget deficit is $101,000, an uninterrupted era of peace,

pany's position as disclosed by its clothing. balance sheet and a dividend of 34 All over the globe, men hunt 000, and this sum is expected to plenty, and prosperity at home second floor of 98,

The courage of a cook on the cents only on combined shares, it is these animals

to supply them Belcher Street truly inconceivable that Cement selves with comfort, and warmth: and of friendliness, amity, and frustrated attempted armed shares are still quoted at such an but they do not realise that in kill- goodwill abroad.

robbery by three men, one of whom absurdly high price as $16.70 per ing these animals, they sadden the was armed with a file, yesterday.combined share.

hearts of the mother of those crea tures, thinking that they are in- capable of suffering.

be exceeded in the course of the financial year

end- ing on June 30 next. The admission that nearly fifty per cent, of one year's expendi- ture has gone on the military is a grave one-one that ought of it- self to

memory.

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officiated.

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The men entered under the pretext of having come to fix electric lights and water pipes. Lo Po-shun, the cook, shouted out and the robbers, |

News in Brief, The lowest open air temperature becoming alarmed, made good their make the numer-yesterday was 63

degrees. The escape. Nothing was stolen. ous war lords pause and humidity was 93 at 10 a.m. and $2 ask themselves whether civil at 4 p.m.

civil

On

MR. R. H. HAMSON.

FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY.

the

PROFUSION OF WREATHS.

Youra, etc.,

TRUTH.

Hong Kong. March 16.

S.P.C.A. BALL..

Even in the Arctic and Antarctic

them

Animala are inferior to us be- cause they have a mortal soul, which decays with the body, while we, human beings, have immortal souls.

[To the Editor of "Chino-Mall."]

Now as one has in view all the Sir, I shall be glad if you will benefits derived from animals, one be kind enough to publish this short would surely be kind to them, and not ill-treat those poor creatures; letter of thanks.

men

war can ever be justi- The Rev. J. J. Hodgins, M.A. fed: whether the time has not C.F.. arrived fi the Colony indeed come to `close their ranks on Saturday from Shanghai on the]

Our Carnival Dance, held at the though they are provided by Mother Peninsula Hotel on the evening of Nature with natural weapons, they and join their forces along paths A.. Saarland. Mr. Hodgins, is

March 14 was a great success and, are not able to fight against man. of peace with their goal of per-staying here for two weeks before

on behalf of the S.P.C.A., I wish to in early days the primitiva proceeding Home. manent prosperity? Owing to

thank all those who assisted in the could not fight so easily with ani

could ravages of

defend war A wreath will be laid

work, During the evening I re-mals, and they ceived a letter enclosing ($100) Ons (Continued at foot of preceding throughout the country only Cenotaph by Colonel C. D. Myles, O.B.E., Vice-President of St.

hundred dollars, as a donation in

Column. 12.9 per cent of the ex- Patrick's Society, at 11 am. to-

The funeral of Mr. R. H. memory of Dear Old Jack, from penditure could be

allocated morrow.

The full Committes are Hamson, who passed away in the Bess and Nigger. Dear Bess and to civic requirements, thus dis- expected to be in attendance.

early hours of Friday morning, Nigger, on behalf of the Society and took place at Happy Valley on Sa- all your "Pals," I thank you very closing what a tremendous leeway

To-day the Young

Women'sterday afternoon, the Rev. G. T. much.

'Yours, etc..

the

:

.... J. RUSSELL.

Hong Kong, March 14, 1981.

Ten Years Ago.

[From "China Mņi” of March 16, 1921.)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/4-14.

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Crown land, 'measuring: 19,802

has to be made up in regard to Christian Association begins a Waldegrave, M.A., officiating at civil administration-tó mainten- finance campaign for $10,000, the graveside. A large crowd of ance of and repairs to roads, Enlisted as workers in the campaign mourrere paid their last respects. A profusion of wreaths were bridges, public works of every old friends and subscribers of the placed on the grave. among them are 55 Chinese ladies, who will visit conceivable kind, and so forth. It Association and solicit their annual being those from: "Loving son themselves against man; but now square feet (Inland Lot No. 2,324) is little wonder that Mr. T. V.subscriptions, and endeavour to win Arthur," "Loving, con Tommy," adays no animal can resint the on Shaukiwan Road was sold for the present rev friends and subscribers. The "Loving Children Connie and power of man who is provided with $10,150 at an auction at tho Soong declares that'

Henry," "Loving Cousin," "Lov-fatal weapons, as guns.

Public Works Department. Tho civil expenditure provides only Association numbers among

A little forethought will hinder | purchasera were Mr. Tam Wing-. friends many loyal supporters in ing aunts," "Loving brothers and for the bare minimum of exist- both the Chinese and non-Chinese sisters," "Loving nephews and ran from Il-treating the poor on and Mr. Lo Yuk-tohg.

· communities.

Inleces," "Bortia and Mary.” ence.

animals.

upset price was $9,851, *

Tho