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Exit 1931!

To-night the curtain will fall on the year Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-One.

the administrators of 1981'

might were they alive in 1956 have reason to protest against criticisms of their regime were such to be published' a' quarter of a century hence.

THURSDAY, DEC.

INQUIRY.

ed to have been the invention The Radlo Service Station, 81 CARSTAIRS DEATH

Anne Marie Stanhope, wife of Bonham Strand, has fasued a con- the seventh Duke of Bedford, venient chart showing the time of who died, at an advanced age in day at any place in the world at a 1887. She made tea parties the glance. vogue in the Inte forties, but

evidently they failed to please all The 9 o'clock time signal will be tastes, for Sir: Algernon West re-repeated on the Observatory Wire- corded his memory of them as less, Mast at midnight, to-night. The last signal will indicate the dreary functions."

close of 1981:

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An Open Verdict,

The inquiry into circumstances attending the death last May of Douglas G. Carstairs was conclud- The distinctions between "high" Suffering from crushed toes,

ed yesterday. The jury returned tea," "tea" (without qualifica as the result, it is alleged, of being an open verdict We find that Mr. tion), and "afternoon tea" are

run by a hand-truck at Stavely Carstairs died from a stab wound here fairly well understood, but Street, a girl," Kwa Ngoi-klu, (6), in the abdomen. There is no evid they frankly puzzled a young was taken to the Government Civil ence to show the author of the German student in Britain

wound, and we, therefore, return an open verdict."

who for a time never knew what Hospital yesterday for treatment.

Personal Pars.

The forthcoming marriages are

to expect in the way of eatables when invited out by her British friends. At last, however, the difference became clear-cut in her mind, and, writing home to her announced of Joseph Vincent parents in the Fatherland, she Panizzi, salesman, of 1, Kent Road, told them that "high tea" meant Kowloon Tong, and Marjory May not quite so much, while "after Martin, of 74a, Nathan Road, Kow noon tea" was just a piece of thin loon; and of George Frost, divil ser- bread and butter and a bit of vant, of 16, Hankow Road, Kowloon, cake-Manchester Guardian. and Curtis Eva Curtis, of Savarin

House, Kowloon. The 1932 Model:

The Coroner (Mr. J. A. Fraser) accepted the verdict as being the only one returnable with the facts of the case before the Court.

THE INDOMITABLE EAST END NIPPER.

"Here is a delightful character sketch of the East London nipper The funeral of Mrs. Kan Au-tze, by one of our Medical Officers of The following from Peter

street: Simple's column in the London mother of Mr. Kan Hung-chao, of Health. He is writing of a drab the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Morning Post is about the best

"Some children were sprawling Company, who died some weeks of its kind we have ever come ago at her residence in Happy in the dirt on the pavement with scross. It is too good to keep to Valley, took place yesterday after-their heads just beyond the kerb, oneself, and therefore we pass it noon, Mrs. Kan Au-tze, who was after a heavy shower watching on to readers:

80 years of age, is survived by her ships' that pass in the gutter, stray Tomorrow, so to speak, the son and grandsons and six great pieces of vegetable debris, direlikt dation will take · delivery of grandsons.

þite of paper, carried off By" thì downpour. if 1982, model, super charged,

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"Glorified Ecstasy."

and highly finished National Dr. John Archibald Venn and his Parlament. I hope that the wife are staying at the Repulse Bay child who first saw the ship, and

"The score was made by the

Prime Minister will drive it Hotel. A fellow and junior Burser carefully for the first five hun of Queen's College Cambridge, Dr. Wan thereby entitled to be its cap dred hours, as its useful life yenu ir a University (Gilbey) tain and to convoy it safely with will thus be greatly prolonged. lecturer in the history and econa- his fingers beyond the posts of ob

servation. One of its outstanding fea mics of agriculture. A keen lawn tures is the reduction of Op tennis player, Dr. Venn has secured

"Thet's moine."

No it aint." position friction to a mini-his County colours and was Secre- muni, which should enable it tary of the Cambridgeshire Lawn to attain high speeds. Cost of Tennis Association from 1998 to upkeep and running is no 1914, He is also interested in higher than that of previous archaeology, ornithology, models, and this one should motoring. cost. its owner less in "Inciden tals."

As it is fitted with a self- charging policy, the, chauffeur will have a free hand on dif- fealt and crowded roads. The| patent "Lansbury" exhaust valves are (more or less) total-

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But the record of public service in the Colony during 1981 is by no means a' doleful one. In Except for buoyant youth, the prevailing spirit of goodwill, mental stocktaking will begin be- credit will readily be given where fore, at or after midnight. The credit is due, alike to the ad- end of another year: another step ministration and the numerous toward the realisation or defeat public organisations identified

months, eight of our lives' ambitions and with movements for the welfare

According to a report made to On Paris. of the whole dreams: another year's march and progress

the Police Portuguese, F. A. On demand The most hardened Aquino, aged 98, has been missing Credits, months' toward that bourne to which all Colony, mankind is destined.

cynic must admit that every from the Mental Hospital since 3 sight

On Berlin As a Colony we can likewise effort made leaves Hong Kong ao'clock yesterday afternoon.

On demand follow the example of the in-better and brighter place than it

The total output of the Kailan dividual and recall all the good was 365 days ago and that the Mining Administration's mines for On-demand things and all the ill things that prospects for the ensuing year the week ended December 12 Credits, 60 days sight 2614

On Bombay have featured the history of the are roseate in the extreme. amounted to 119,182 metric tons,

On demand past twelve months! Let us not There is much greater evidence and the sales to 125,469 metric Wire

On Calcutta... judge our balance sheet by mere of that civic spirit that can do material things such as surplus so much for the entire com At the meeting of the Finance Wire. assets in the Treasury, losses in munity. Indeed community ser- Committee of the Legislative Coun- On demand

cil yesterday afternoon, votes total On Singapor exchange, heavier imposts and vice is continually enlisting reling more than $1,300,000 were ap-On demate levies to Help to balance the cruits of all classes and races, proved, particulars of which ware On Manila -

each and all anxious to assist in published in yesterday's China Mail. On demand Budget.

On Shanghal Let us, rather, glance at those the development of what our

The lowest open air temperature On demand things that make for the uplift American cousins would term a yesterday was 68 degrees a com- Dollar

On Yokoham mal of the Colony: those efforts real worth-while Colony spared with 68 degrees on Tuesday.

On demand source of pride to governors and The humidity at 10 am. yesterday that have been made toward

was 72 and at 4 4p.m. only 59, com Sovereigns (Bank's making of Hong Kong a bettei governed and to all who are proud pated with 83 and 78, respectively, buying

Silver (per and a brighter place in which to to be even humble units in the on Tuesday,

Bar Bilvarin With

Kong: live those afforts toward great British Empire. proving that we are worthy of optimism the prevailing note on our glorious heritage as a link of this last day of 1981 we can with Empire and worthy, also, of all every justification wish, in con- that was done in the years or fklence, all our readers? Auld Lang Syne by the little band of pioneers of this now great British Possession.

Critics are ever wont to com plain of the lack of foresight the part of earlier admi tions in respect of publie ties, forgetful, ma acted according

the blic

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

From Other Pens.

Under the pretext that they had a present for the occupfer of the Copper Cash house, four men were admitted to Copper Cents the first fiter of 18, Upper Lascar Rate of Native In- Row, yesterday, They produceil daggers and, aft Mading and Chinese Sub Coin gagging the inmates, stole valuables Hong Kong |amounting to 385

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Yusa it is, I seen it fust

"There's another-that's moine. "No it sint.

Yus it is, I seen. It fust

Tm captin that one.

"No you afat, that one ain't got no captain-e's only got (mate) gee.

The pity of it all!'

The glorified ecstasy of being captain of a castaway gobbet of vegetable refuse on a gutter sea" In another part of his report the Medical Officer of Health says:..

It may be Bald, generally that. the children have nowhere to play except in the dangerous open strosts. Here they may be seen skipping, spinning tops, playing, as soldiers," playing cricket with heap?" ed costs for wickets and a tied-up cup or newspaper for a ball, swing Ing and climbing over hand trucks, baiting dogs or teasing cats.»,

Mind Your Back!" "They swing on ropes,attached to the brackets of street lamps. They

may be seen wheeling ramshackle hazardous prams containing babies on the payettent or on the road) |way, colliding with" gaa” standards For diffident wayfarers, with the apologetic formula, 'Mind your bäck, please, after the collision has taken place. REAL

“These streets, out of school hours, in alum districts teem with raw life and strenuous activity The cave man is awakened in each child," a c

......... And so he feels that there 'ia nd" urgent need for playgrounds, He [says:

One of the most urgent and pressing noede is the provision of open spaces for children for play and recreation, supervised and con trolled so as to prevent horseplay and injury From The East End Star, the organ of the Rev. F. W Chudleigh's East End Mission

5 Welling

To-day's Thought.

the " youngi man

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