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The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 74 degrees, The humidity was 89 at 10 a.m. and 78 at 4 p.m.

According to a report from the Au Tau Police Station, the body of a Chinese youth named Wan was picked up by the side of

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931.

THE O.T.C. 'CUT' WILL

NOT MATTER.

What the Public Schools Think of It.

PARENTS' POSITION.

Public schools throughout Bri-

DIVORCED WOMAN AND YOUTH.

Court Story of Money and Infatuation.

NO DELICACY.

A

pond. He had apparently been tain were discussing the cut in the Grassholme,

Mr. John Reginald Hudson, of Stratford-on-Avon, grants to Officers' Training Corps, who was sued at Westminster that was announced by Mr. Shaw. County Court, by Paquín, Ltd., for Au Yee, a woman living at 36 the Minister for War, in his speech £79 78. 11d., was stated to be Cheung Sha Wan Road, was removon the Army Estimates in the young man who became infatuated ed to the Government Civil Hos- House of Commons.

with a woman about ten years his pital, suffering from the effects of

Henceforth no boy under the age senior, Mrs. R. a drug called "Ma tain," which she of 16 will be recognised as a mem- West Horsley,

V: Ferguson, of is Meged to have taken in an at- ber of an O.T.C., and there will be lavished money and for whom he on whom he had tempt to commit suicide.

no grant for boys under 16. Roys gave an order to Paquin's for 3 ́Li 'Cheung, a shoemaker, of 2620.T.C. but no boy will be supplied

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Mrs. Ferguson said that she had 16. divorced her first husband, mar- the Government Civil Hospital Parents of younger boyu who wish ried a second time and had been yesterday suffering from pro-

wound in the left side of the body,hem to enter the Corps must act divorced by her

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"The smaller schools are the ones who is alleged ta have chiefly affected by the curtallment absconded.

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over, the cost of living at Home has fallen recently so much (from 60 per cent. above 1914 at the end to 50 per cent. of February) above at the same time this year) that even if wages are cut by, say, five per cent. all round, labour will still be getting more

than a year ago.

McKechnie,

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Recond husband. Mr. Hudson, to whom, she, said, she was engaged for a time had spent about £200 on clothes for her.

Judge Tobin: Did you meet her and lunch with her after that? Mr. Hudson--Yes.

aud Vice-President, Mr. J. B. "At Stowe our subscription is 109. taken Mrs. Ferguson to his father's term and 30s. for the week at house at Christmas. His father, camp. We also receive a grant offin consequence of the relationship, The Hong Kong Government is £1 4s. 8d. for each boy. You can had threatened to cut him off and informed with reference to the re-see from this that if a father wishes have nothing more to do with him. sent announcement by the Chinese his boy to join the Corps before he His father had allowed him £40 a Government that foreigners enter-

is 16 it is not going to be a very week, but reduced it to about £15. ing Shanghai after May 1, 1931, expensive luxury." will require to have Chinese visas

Young Boys Not Encouraged. on their passports, that this re-

The cut in the grants will have gulation will not be enforced in re practically no effect on the Harrow Judge Tobin: Why, if she was a apect of British residents of Hong, School O.T.C., which consists chiefly "gold digger" and you were дл Kong.

of senior boys.

noyed with her?-Because I hap- "We do not cucourage the young-pened to be very fond of the "gold- In celebration of the birthday of er boys to join the Corps," said Dr. digger." His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Norwood, the head master of Har of Japan, a reception was held by row. "We do not care about boys the Consul and his wife (Mr. and of 16 going to camp where they will at their home, have to move about among boys of No. 7A, Conduit Road, yesterday 17 and afternoon.

18 and perform equally H.E. the Governor

with them. strenuous duties was represented by Capt. T. A. H. imposes too great a strain

Did you tell her that you wanted Coltman, A.D.C. Others present In growing boy."

to marry her?—I certainly did tell "The cut will affect our numbers her that. cluded Major General J. W. Sandi-

She accepted me until lands, Captain

Cameron, A.D.Calightly, but it will not make any my father said that he would cut Commodore A. H. Walker, and the difference to, our efficiency," said me off and then she did not want Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern and Mrs. Mr. Frank Fletcher, the

head me. master of Charterhouse School.

"No boy here is allowed to join Whilst a lorry, which was carry-in his first year, but we have 50 or

Mrs. T. Yoshida)

Southorn.

"Very Wenk."

Why put yourself in the way of temptation of the wheedling "gold- digger" by inviting her to lunch?

It the whole time.

on A

was very weak, as I have been

Judge Tobin said that in the words of olden days when people called a spade a spade Mrs. Fergu

These arguments appear to us. as they stand, to be flawless, and there is much justice in their application to some industries, ing alx cooling, was proceeding 60 members below the age of 16, and sun was a "baggage,” and in words in which the present depressionsudden swerve near Eastern Street we do not depend on grants alone to

along Connaught Road West, name of these may drop out. But of old books Mr. Hudson would is the result of a world crisis caused two men to fall off backward maintain our corps, and I do not largely due to monetary causes. to the road. One suffered slight expect any great falling ofT."

There is some justice, too, in abrasions, whilst the other became

"It certainly is not going to unconscious. Both were removed shatter our the statement that the sheltered to the Government Civil Hospital Favill, of St. Paul's School.

O.T.C., said Captain

industries, such as transport, where, it is stated, the latter regain- "We will have less money, but the have profited at the expense of ed consciousness and both are pro- training will go on, although it will those which have to compete in was travelling at a speed of 14 bers as thoroughly as

gressing favourably. The lorry to more difficult to train the mem- one would international markets, and that miles an hour at the time. wages in them are unduly high

wish."

in relation to the standard of THINGS THAT SPOIL WOMAN'S SUCCESS.

living in the country at large and}

Hong Kong, Thursday, April 30, 1931. in the world. The argument of

Case for Reduction.

In the news columns of the Chine Mail to-day we publish the

report of an address delivered in.

Atlantic City yesterday before

the Chamber of Commerce by Mr.

Robert Lamont, Secretary of Commerce, in which he is given

those who say that high wages

COUNTRYSIDE.

mean more purchasing power, A "Devil's Catalogue

which is one of the strong argu- ments of Mr. Lamont's

case

of Offences.

PASSES FINAL EXAMINATION IN THEORY OF WAR.

NO SPIRIT OF REVENGE.

Mrs, Gordon Potts, of Dial A "Devil's Catalogue" of thinge House, Datchet, has just passed at

have been called a "dirty cad," gone to the bad because of the absurd, egregious allowance which he said he had been receiving from his father. He was sorry that tho plaintiffs should have had to em bark on a litigation involving auch shameless, disgraceful, disclosures as had been made in the case. He believed Mrs. Ferguson more than Mr. Hudson and relied upon plain- tiffs' evidence, and gave judgment for them.

BAN ON NOTES.

RUN ON CENTRAL BANK IN CANTON,

"gainst reduction, and that they which deface the countryside was Oxford her final examination in

BOYCOTT IN FORCE? are, therefore, good for industry enumerated by Mr. A. B. Knapp military operations and theory of

д lecture to the war. in the long run, are sound if ap- Fisher in

Mrs. Potts, wha is the first

Canton, Yesterday. The Central Bank notes are plied only to the whole of the Architectural Association in Lon-woman to obtain this distinction,

don recently.

is the wife of Mr. Gordon Francis down again. For the last week world's wages. If consistently Referring to the urgent need Alan Potte, a Mathematical masterar so, the notes have depreciated dally disfigure at Eton College.

to as much as 20 per cent, or even applied by any one country they of arresting the

the countryside, Mr. "I took the examination."

she more, while tradesmen have would lead only to inflation and ment of bankruptcy, and stil more so if without sense or conscience were hopes, later, to do some diplomatic accepting them.

Knapp-Fisher said that builders states, "because my husband shown considerable reluctance in

This morning, they were applied by any one in-responsible for the erection of work, and I thought that I might the principal shops refused to do dustry.

I want They cannot even be thousands of ugly dwellings, possibly help him.

em- business when these notes were to deny that this offered. The exchange hops considered by Britain while she placed, completely out of harmony phatically

was taken with their surroundings, and hav-examination

in any have for some days Reclined to

notes continues to compete for worlding all the appearance of an un-spirit of revenge on the University take any for subsidiary trade; and it is possible that the sightly disease.

authorities. I took the examina- coins, giving the pretext they same reason would justify reduc

"No one, I suppose," he went on, tion because I wanted to get my have no cash on hand. "Beta out governed by malice to dis- degrees,"

The Central Bank has been pay- tions of the present wages in figure the countryside. If it were: Mrz. Petta sat for her examina-ing coins against all notes on pre-

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as saying that a reduction of the wages of workers in the United States would further delimit the purchasing power of the people: and add a fresh burden to the heavy losses sustained by trade, due largely to unemployment.

The situation in Great Britain

many industries, even if these so, the remedy would be easy-to tion in June last and left her sentation, and the bank's premises resembles closely that obtaining industries were working as effi- clap all the offenders into prison. college, St. Hugh's, three days be-nre crowded with anxious people. in the United States, and Mr.

"The cause is more insidious; It fore the end of the term without Hence it is dificult to account for ciently as is possible for them. is a cause born of ignorance, of giving notice, with the result that the depreciation of the notes, un- Lamont's criticism may be ap-flere, however, we come upon an lack of education and culture, of her name was removed from the lees the native banks and plied with equal justice to the

argument which is very dum- an absence of any aesthetic sense, books. It was, she states, simply change shops have come to a com- industrial crises obtaining at

aging to the employers' case. If of a wrong scale of values--with a case of thoughtlessness on her mon agreement to boycott the Cen- Home. Negotiations

part; she knew that she should tral Bank notes, in order to force are still

labour is to be asked to make pecuniary gain as the motive.

"The ugly resultant fact is that have asked permission, but she was the Finance Commissioner to being pursued between the vari-

sacrifices, it should be made many of our old villages, our hia feeling tired. She had sat for her waive the new regulations, com- ous trades and industries and

quite clear that every other toric buildings, and the serene and examination but she never knew pelling all banks to have a capital and the the Government, and the deci-means of reducing costs has first natural charm of the most lovely the result, as her papers were torn of no less than $50,000 sions on a number of important been tried or is to be tried. Un-taken away from us and our chil- them. Later her

country is in process of being up and she was not allowed to see compulsory taking of photographs name was re- of those in the bank business.—— questions affecting wages are fortunately, in many of Britain's dren and our children's children-placed on the books and she was Canton News Agency. being taken. In fact, it would industries, and notably in some who cannot be blamed if they rise allowed to take her examination

this year, with the result stated. seem that there is, if not what of those in which disputes are up and curse us for our folly.

"It is a curious paradox that the Mr. Potts has only recently join- some Labour politicians have de- now in progress or pending, it is more man seeks the country, so illed the staff at Eton College, and scribed as an “organised attack" quite clear that they are wat does he use it that the less country this is his second half. on wages, at least fairly general working anything like as effl- is there for aim to find. Mon's

minds can be so obscured by of Ignorance and avarice which are employers, in cliently as they might. The only material and immoral conditions so rampant to-day whose demands for reductions way to make Great Britain pros-that they lose all sensibility to the The main offences against the most of these questions origin- perous, and thus be able to pay really finer essentials of life. ate, that now if ever public opin-high wages. all round, is to put “Shoddiness and Vulgarity."

The Kennedy Town and North "It is true that we live in an erection of ugly buildings; rib Point public bathing beaches are to fon will support them in asking her industries into a paying, con-age in which the clash and din of bon" development; badly laid-out be open as usual this year, front for sacrifices from labour.

dition. Minimum Wage Acts wil money-making, of ao-called, pro- roads and towns, and the disregard May 1 and 15, respectively. It is Their strongest argument, of not do it, and neither will redue-ross and competition, drown the of "boning"; the disfigurement and possible that we may keep them course, is that industry cannot tions of wages, unless they are and good manners; and in which bridges, etc. diafiguring patrol

still email volca of truth, quality demolition of historic buildings, both for years yet. afford the present wages. You accompanied by reforms which the weedle of beauty Is lost in a pumps and stations blatant. cannot, they say, get more out will bring Great Britain abreast haystack of rank mediocrity, shod vulgar and misplaced advertise A souvenir will be presented to of an industry than there is in it.of modern practice, If she diness and vulgarity.ments; overhead cables; litter; the Sir James and Lady Lockhart at the "Just as medical science tries to pollution of rivers, canals, etc.; un Hong Kong Hotel on Monday after- If you try to, what there is will could achieve that, both Acte and keep pace with bodily disease, so necessary noise; and the uncheck noon when they will be entertained disappear, since the industry will reductions might be desired no education, legislation, and example ed and unregulated means of trans to tea by Mr. Lau Chu-pak and. be put out of business.

longer.

must keep pace with the microbes port.

other Chinese friends,

feeling among

amenities of the countryside' said The Mr. Knapp-Fisher, were:

Ten Years Ago...

[From the "Chins Mall" of April 30, 1921.)

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