1931-10-15 — Page 12

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7, CHATER ROAD,

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HONG KONG.

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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931.

H.K. HOTEL BUILDING WIVES WHO CANNOT

ALTERATIONS.

Extensive Programme

Nearly Completed.

MORE LIGHT AND AIR.

com-

Extensive alterations, menced carly in May this year, and expected to be completed by Christmas time, will give the present Hong Kong Hotel build ing a remarkable appearance, with a neat modernistic touch, The alterations were carried out with the main idea of better lighting in the lounge and dining rooms, coolness, and more air. Mr. A. Brearly, the Hotel Com- pany's engineer, who is super- vising the work, conducted a China Mail representative on tour of inspection, and explained the numerous alterations.

Plans for the alterations were prepared by Messrs. Palmer and Turner, whilst the work of de- corating the entire interior are in the hands of Arts and Crafts,

Main Feature.

Q

COOK.

MISUSE OF LEISURE.

Licut.-Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson, discussing "the epic and tragedies of civilisations" before the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Oxford, said that a problem very closely allied to the wise expenditure of wealth was the right use of leisure.

The misuse of leisure by the people at large seemed to be symp. tomatic, he said, of the decay of a civilisation.

He gave the "following extract from the Roman. Tacitus:

this

"Again, there are the peculiar and characteristic vices of Metropolis of ours-the passion for actors, the mania for gladiatorial showe and horse racing. When the mind is engrossed in such occupa

is left over for tions what room high pursuits? What else do we hear our younger men talking about whenever we enter their lecture- halls? And the teachers are just as bad. With them, too, such topics supply material for gossip more often than any others."

Sir Arttuld commented: "This passage might have been Was actually written today. It

the

Was at ita

. The main feature is the de- molition of many interior walls, so that the ground and first floors will be practically two huge penned about A.D. 50 when rooms. The appropriation of Roman civilisation several shops facing Queen's height, but decay had begun to set Road Central will give the lounge in. and cafeteria premises extra uc- commodation.

Unhandy Men In the House, "The results of the present sys- The first floor. scheme pre-tem of education are for all to sec: vides a commodious grill room vast numbers of poverty-stricken replacing the present dining intellectuals who cannot use their room there. It is nearly three times the size of the present room, as, by the removal of two walls, it will occupy the addition- al space of Bessie's Bar, and also that over the former cafeteria. This grill room has a placquet dance floor, built directly over the present cafeteria. The din- ing tables will be on the space now occupied by the present din- On ing room and Bessie's Bar. the south side of this dining and dance room there is, a cocktail lounge, sitnated on the verandah.

Private Dining Room. The barber's shop and ladies' rooms have been removed to Gloucester Building, and their position taken by a large private dining room, which is to be used for carnivals, parties, Board meetings, or other big gather. [ings.

Bessie's Bar has been moved further north by the extension of the dining room, to take the place

hands to any useful purpose, men unable to paint their houses or to effect even the simplest repairs, unable to understand what is wrong with the simplest mechanism, and obliged to call upon a semi-skilled workman to perform the simplest task; women unable to sew or cook or to look after children, and who are miserable because they cannot afford to pay for others to serve them.

"Recent legislative changes which have tended to make a great pro- portion of the nation look to the State to provide them from the cradle to the grave have their coun- terpart in previous ages. The re- dia sults have invariably been astrous."

SCAREMONGERS BEWARE!

Four persons were sentenced at Bremen, Berlin to imprisonment for circulating false rumours which started a run on a savings bank, of the present writing room. It A woman teacher who was found is planned to run the decoration guilty of the same offence was fined scheme on similar lines to the £10.-Exchange.

Spanish note of Bessie's Bar,

On the

ground floor, two

the

is

additional entrances to the hotel site now occupied by Mac's, have been provided--from Glou- used as the cafeteris.

One of the advantages of this ceater Building. Arcade and from Queen's Road Central. In order to alteration will be that the selling make allowance for the Gloucester counters now situated at the rear Buliding entrance,

reception of the cafeteria will be removed to offices that face Pedder Street are Queen's Road. With this change. maved back, following the demoli- the show room and buffet snack tion of the wall behind, and the room facing Queen's Road are re- The wall which now extra space thus allowed, is used as moved. the lounge. The barber's shop and separates the cafeteria from the ladies' room have been removed to lounge is pulled down and replaced

by a low grating. the Gloucester Building arcade.

Mac's Cafeteria.

The present cafeteria is enlarged to more than twice its size. The Wal Kee jade shop on the corner of Pedder Streat is to remain, but

ACROSS LIBYAN

DESERT.

Visit to A Coptic Monastery.

SIDKY PASHA'S TRIP.

Alexandrin, August.17. Sidky. Pasha has arrived from Cairo after a two-day trip of 286 miles ucross the Libyan Desert. During the trip the Prime Minister visited the Coptic monastery of Deir Pirameos.

This was the first time that the head of the Egyptian Government has visited any of the famous desert Coptic monasterios, of which Deir Firamcos is the most unclent. It to provide an abode for the Princes was created in the fourth century Maximos and Domudion, two sons of the then Byzantine Emperor.

The Prime Minister's party,

the included

Ministers of War, Communications, and Agricul- ture. They travelled in motor-cars. The Director-General of the Fron- tiers led, with a Bedouin tracker to show the way. A detachment of light armed cars acted as cacort.

On approaching the monastery, which is constructed of white stono in the form of a medieval fortress,

detachment of mounted Bedouin. with high walls, they were met by a The venerable Patriarch Yoannes, who had come specially from Cairo,

arrival. greeted the Prime Minister on his

Proposed Motor Road. The day was passed in visiting also the long. the monastery and established salt works at Wadina trun. After spending the night at the monastery, the party went on to Alexandria. The Premier took the opportunity to inspect the line of the proposed Cairo-Alexandria motor road scross the desert. This follows the old Roman road, and links the interior with the sea- board, which in Roman times was a great agricultural area.

In this connection Sidky Pasha authorised the study of a scheme which Green Bey (Governor of the Western Desert) outlined for tho as in the Roman redevelopment, Perlod, of the northern portion of the Libyan Desert. It is proposed to

reopen the Roman cisterns, abounding in the area, which, owing! to neglect, have been filled up with sand, and to plant trees in their neighbourhood. This, while creating a series of oases, would increase the rain supply, and enable the area to regain the agricultural prosperity it enjoyed 2,000 years ago.

It is a highly important project. because not only would the nomadi Bedouin be provided with the means to become useful members of so- ciety, but the task of the authori- ties, Italian as well as Egyptian, in controlling desert tribes and pre venting raids across the frontier would be greatly facilitated.

ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING FOR

FOREIGN LEGION.

Twa Frenchmen, charged with re- cruiting for the Foreign Legion, The whole of the granite front have each been sentenced, at Lune- columns and base of the granite burg to four years' penal servitude pillars have been chipped and re- and a fine of £75.

It was alleged that they had at- modelled with green terrazo, thus giving a natural glossy polish, and templed to carry off a young Ger- the next three shops have removed, a better appearance as a whole to man in a motor-car, after making the Hotel building. The terrazo is him unconscious· with a drugged more hygienic.,

the interior walle pulled down and the entire space, in addition to the

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