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BY GOLLY! LAST NIGHT WOZ
A ROUGH NIGHT- BUT I'M GLAD I GOT IN WITH OUT
MAGGIE SEEIN' ME-
THE CHINA MAIL.
Bringing Up. Father
I HAD BETTER GO DOWN AN' GIT
THE MORNIN' PAPER BEFORE
SHE GITS UP-I'M AFRAID THERE MIGHT BE SOME-
THING ABOUT THE
FIGHT THAT ENDED
THE PARTY- MY
NAME MIGHT BE MENTIONEDY
कु
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1931.
BANG!!
SUFFERIN' CATS!
THE DOOR SLAMMED SHUT-
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket .Club. Four minutes from ferry. lay bus.).
Suites of rioms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.
EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet casily accessible,
Terms very moderate. RearrVA-, tions by letter or cable.
CLAREMONT
Tels.: 788 & 57385 (Private). Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" ILK.
CASE WAS WROur motto "SERVICE."
' ViFla -
PM LOCKED OUT-
THIS IS A NICE
HOW-DO-YOU-
صلي
HEY! I'LL GIVE YOU TEN
BUCKS IF YOU'LL DRIVE NE DOWN TOWN.
IOUSO
SURE. I'LL GIVE YOU ME MILK ROUTE FER
THAT MUCH-
STEP ON IT- I'VE GOT
TO BE BACK TO ME
HOUSE BEFORE ME WIFE
WAKES UP-
SAY! JUST REMEMBER-
I'M NOT A CHIEF OF THE FIRE DEPART-
MENT -
MILK
WE HAVE
NOW
REMOVED
AND
ARE SHOWING
A
SPECIAL DISPLAY
OF
BUT I DON'T OPEN MY STORE
UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK-
SUIT CO.
YOU OPEN IT NOW
OR I'LL OPEN IT WITH A BRICK- IVE
GOT TO HAVE A SUIT OF
CLOTHES-
AFTER YOU GIT ME ALLTHE CLOTHES
I NEED-GIT ME SOME TOOLS-I'VE GOT TO TAKE A DOOR OFF-
SILKS
Suitable for Spring Wear.
TAJMAHAL SILK STORE
King's Theatre Bldg.
RELIABLE PRINTING
no order
too small
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD.
CHINA MAIL BLDG.
IA WYRDHAM MT.
ALL RIGHT-
SIR-
THANK GOODNESS-THAT DOOR WON'T BE HARD TO GIT OFF WITH
THE TOOLS HE GAVE ME-
SO! THIS 15'A FINE
HOUR OF THE MORNING TO BE GETTING HOME-
BUT, MAGGIE
CH-WELL-IT'S THE FIRST
BLACK-EYE SHE HAS GIVEN ME IN A MONTH- SO I CAN'T KICK-
GREAT HEAVENS-SHE'S GOT THE PAPER IF THAT STORY
is IN THAT PAPER-I'M GONNA GIT A TAP IN THE
OTHER EYE-
NOW-COME TO
YOUR BREAKFAST
YOU LOAFER-
✪ 1131. Intt Feature Servies, Inc., Great Bruten monts remotved.
THE.
HONG KONG.
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
• LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL.
9-12, Chatham Road, Kowloon. Finest Situation on the Península. Largo Airy Rooms with Full Benefit of the Cool Ses Broezes. Unequalled Calzine.
Cable Add. "Harview.
Phone
Tel. 58784
Proprietroas.Br. Gardiner.
MARBLE HALL
21, Nathan Rd, Kowloon. Tel. 57089.
A Select Private Hotel fumlalied with an eye to the comfort of Its Tenants. Single and double suites of rooms with private bath- rooms attached.
MAN LOONG.
PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.
NEW SEASON -FRESERVED: GINGER. Best quality Prompt attention to Expaztars, Office:-1, Dundas Street, Kewlook. Til 57088. Factory:—2 Godown, Prays, Dundas Street, Mongkol.
TEACHERS FAVOUR not be at the expense of young peo-
NEWCOMERS.
How Surplus Can Be
Absorbed.
Whether there is a risk of over- crowding in the teaching profession was a question debated at length at the National Union of Teachers Conference at Yarmouth.
ple leaving college.
"Up and down the country," said Mr. Tasker, "there are certißeated teachers who cannot get poeta, and have been compelled to take posts as uncertificated teachers. There are over 200 such cases In Wales."
Mr. G. H. Barker, seconding, said that the union had no right to get young people into the profession and then damp all their enthusiasm by telling them there were no jobs for them.
Mr. W. Merrick, a member of the
The amendment was lost, and the carried executive, moved a resolution motion was, subsequently welcoming a Board of Education unanimously. circular on the subject, and urging
Private School Defects,
local authorities to increase teach- The conference also unanimously ing establishments, in order to re- passed a resolution urging that duce the size of classes.
private schools should be probibited Mr. Merrick anid that there by law unless the buildings were would be an abnormal annual in-certified to be suitable by the local crease of 1,250 teachers turned out authority and the education given It should doemed efficient by the Board of by the training colleges. be comparatively easy for 300 local Education. authorities to find room for them. Mr. A. B. Coleman, of the execu- During the next three years there tive, quoting instances from the.re- would be a rapid and very consider port of a committee which in- able increase in the school popula-vestigated the question, said that tion, and they had every reason to one school was kept by a lady whose believe that the additional teachers birth certificate showed that she The equipment now in training would be required was born in 1850. for that increase.
and text books were nearly as old as the proprietress.
Mr. A. F. Chubb, seconding, said that there was need for a five-year educational plan in England, car- ried out irrespective of the change of Government.
One school was presided over by a bed-ridden lady of 70 years of age, who conducted the school in the bed room of her small private house, Mr. A. Tasker, another member with the pupils congregated around of the excutive, moved an amend the bed. ment asking that steps should be
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Another case. referred to a girl of taken to warn intending entrants of 12, who had been educated in a the risks of unemployment If no private school up to that age. She action were taken by local authori-] then, went to a State school, where ties. Local authorities, he said, it was found that mentally she was would have dificulty in sustaining three or four years behind pupils ef the present teaching strength, and that age at 14. She left the would find it almost impossible to council, school and returned to her Increase: It. Pleks taken abould' old private school as a teacher.
In a town in the Midlands they found a school rejoicing in the name of a college which was kept by a man. The pupils were taught In a amall back room, at the top of a long flight of narrow stairs, and when the danger of fire was point- ed out the proprietor wrote a letter which ended, "Surely God will take care of his children better than that,"
"Apparently," said Mr. Coleman, "his argument was for the temporal abolition of fire brigadea."
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STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrise and Sunset in Rang Kong for June, 1931, Stan- dard time of the 120th Meridion East of Greenwich) are na fol. lowe
Sunrise Sunset
5.38" 7.06 7.06
Juno
7
a.m. p.m. 5.98 7.06
8
5.38 7.06
"
10
»
5.38
11
1
5.58
7.07
12
6.38
*
: 7.07
13
5.38
7.08
14
窗中
5.88
7.08
15
"
5.38
7.08
16
}
6.88 7.08
, 17
5.38 7.09
18
5.88 7.09
19
5.89 7.09
20
$.99 7.10
21
5.89 7.10
22
**
3.89 7.10
28
+
5.40 7.10
D
24
5.40 7.10
26
5.40
7.10
مولا
5.40 7.11
5.40 7.11
5.41 7.11
5,41 7.11
5.41 7.11
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