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SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933.
"I Would Rebuild
London Thus
Artist's Solution Of Slum Problem
BEAUTY BEFORE HIDEOUSNESS
(By C. R. W. Nevinson.)
If I were a dictator. and could replan London, I would start de stroying as little, and constructing as much, as possible for the rising generation.
I would do.
FRESH LIGHT ON COMPLEXIONS
Controlled By Gland In Head.
U.S. SCIENTISTS DISCOVERY
New York.
Discovery that complexion is (controlled by a gland in the head! is claimed by two scientists at the American Museum of Natur- al History.
The gland is the pituitary, a small organ near the base of the brain. Its complexion control is
bridge that would end approxim-ulfilling its function and supplyired coats appear
[ing] its extremities with
ately at the Elephant and Castle; circulation.
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Orders issued by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E.; Com-
mandant H.K.V.D.C.:——
Hong Kong, Friday, June 2
PARADE
Corps Band.
The Battery,
Lewis Gun Instruction at
Head-
Promotion
Cpl. 1319 E. H. P. White, Anzac Company, No. 13 Platoon, promot ed temporary Lance Sergeant with effect from June 2, 1933. There will be a Band Practice! a minute secretion of chemicals on Friday, June 9 at Headquarters,
Leave. Lieut. L. T. Ride, M.A., M.B., which activate the setting of at'at 6 p.m. sharp. To begin with, I would devote least two skin pigments, red and
B.Ch., M.R.C.S., LRC.P. fifteen myself to South London, because
months leave with effect frum black. it already has so many wide roads.
June 1, 1933 to August 31, 1934. Discovery of the red "activa-, There will be a parade for
No. 1336, Besides another Embankment, I.
Pte. S. E. Edgar, would make a new Mayfair in Lam-tor" follows closely on the heels
of identification of a black pig-5.30 p.m.
quarters on Thursday, June 8 at three months leave with effect Machine Gun Company, granted I would start in the centre, and beth, and link the "City" with raiment control announced recent-
from May 22, 1933 to August 21, wark on the plan that London must pid river transport,
ly by two German scientists.
Miniature Range will be avail- all in my power to break down the cease from sprawling; therefore, snebbery which exists between the
1983, The red control is different day, June 7.
able for Battery use on Wednes-
Public Holidays. at Charing Cross I would make onenorth bank and the south back of
from the chemical which acti-!
Volunteer Headquarters will be large terminus, with an enormous;
vates black pigment. Both are
Corps Signals, bridge, starting from Trafalgar. the Thames.
I would make the heart of Lon-found while the two Americans
hormones. square, much on the same principle don healthy, instead of a congest were experimenting to learn why
The new one was p.m. on Tuesday, June 6, 1933.
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 closed on Saturday, June 3, 1935. (King's Birthday) and Monday, June 5, 1933: (Whit Monday) ex- as the Grand Central Terminal in
ed and clotted area, incapable ofi
Machine Gun Troop.
cept for business of. an urgent New York City. It would be Я
a red salamander' turns red. The Parade at Causeway Bay Stables nature.
when this at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 6, proper
Strength. species metamorphoses from lar-1933. it would be a bridge that would that though London is every
I would remember
No. 2068 Pte. H. F. Russell, vae into adults.
Parade at Causeway Bay Stables A.P.C., Tel. 29183, A. C. Section, year carry all forms of transport.
When becoming cleaner and less smoky,
the pituitary glands at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 3, 1933 30.5.33, were Jowing to gas cookers and electric
removed from baby sala-for King's Birthday Parade. (re- power, it is, nevertheless, a city of manders they grew up mist, and that light will always be tural red. But a frog's pituitary
a pale (peated). yellow, never turning their na- Armoured Car Section. for climatic reasons, its most pregland extract could turn
The crews that have been detail cious and rare possession. This is
themed for the King's Birthday Parade the most essential and particular red.
The fact that the pituitary ofja.m.
will parade at Headquarters at 9.45) problem for London, which makes! most modern town-planning from a cow or a frog is just as good Dress:-R.T.C. Russia, Germany and America im-la sex control, for a salamander Hose-Tops, Puttees, Boots.
Caps, Shorts, as his own product seems to in- Monday, June 6, being a public Unsuitable Architecture. dicate that the hormones of this holiday, there will be no parade. Up to the present, English archi-jaland probably are universal The Section will parade on Mon- Opposite Royal Naval Hospital, tecture has been mostly unsuitable among backboned animals. Man day, June 12, at Headquarters at
far Britain, because it has refused so far as known produces exact 5.30 p.m. to face our unique climate. Tooly the same kind of hormones in the English past has been based upon the tradi- Animal pituitary hormones have quarters on Monday, June 5 for for any reason, Members will meet
the architecture of the his pituitary as the lower animals. The Section will parade at Methodist Church. Wanchai (Options of sun-soaked Italy and been used to control growth of Machine Gun Instruction. posite Royal Naval Hospital, France: one of the fundamental children and for other human
reasons for fine architecture has medical treatment. Reuter,
King's Birthday Parade. always been as a protection against
Owing to the indisposition Sunday, June 4.
the local climatic peculiarities.
Heart of the "City and its healthy His Excellency The Governor, the Morning service 10.15 5. Also, London will never be able to
Escort Parade is cancelled. Preacher Rev. Erris
Machine Gun Company. Monthly Shoot, Sunday, June 4,
Rauge Officer-Lieut. D. L. Stref-
CHURCHES
A CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, WANCHAL
Queen's Road E.
practical.
The following are the forthcom-much of ing services, etc., at
Queen's Rd. E).
surroundings.
W. H. G. GOATER, Captain. Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps.
NOTICE:-
Sergeants' Mess.
The President and Members ef; the Sergeants' Mess will be "Ati Home" to their friends_on H.M. The King's Birthday, June 3, 1933 from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
All members of the Mess are requested to meet the Adjutant in the Mess at the conclusion of H.M. Head-The King's Birthday Parade.
Should the Parade be cancelled
Motor Machine Gun Section
C. H. Trib- run up to the skies in the Manhat Terraces, as has been discovered beck Subject: "Can Pentecost be can manner.
in Sydney, are a protection from! repeated?"
For the future, every tradition street noises, and to help this im-jat Peak Range at 9.30 a.m. The Sacrament of Holy Cam of "Ye Olde," every survival of the portant reformation I would have STUDIOM will be observed at
the picturesque, and every convention traffic lights at every turning, tim-
lett. close of the morning service.
of the Renaissance and the Neo-ed to change colour according to Evening Service 8.15 pm.Classic must be forgotten.
the volume of traffic on the, most- Preacher: Rev. Erris C. 1. Tribe Architects must be constantly re-
used roads. beck. Subject: "Jesus the
Manminded that there is no longer al
town and Jesus the Spirit."
tax upon windows; that glass no'
It is the usual thing for planners immediately to wish to widen streets, Certainly this!
of
N.C.O.'s Instruction Class. Thursday, June 8 at 530 p.m.
Nos. 1 Instruction Class, Friday, June 9, at 5.30 p.m.
Portuguese Company. There will be a Lecture by Capt.
SAILORS & SOLDIERS' HOMES longer needs casements, leade, or should be done, but, as Fifth, S. Jarvis, M.C. to all N.C.O.'s and] wooden slats; and that for moneyAvenue proves, it is not the only any men of the Company who like
Christian Social Hour 7 p.m.
the fu-:
(It has been decided to continue having alone, buildings of this meeting, at the request of iture should consist almost entirely solution for traffic congestion. All to tara up; on Tuesday, June 13
modern shops, hotels and blocks at 6.30 p.m. at Headquarters.
Anzac Company.
June.
Badminton Club 7 p.m.
Tuesday June 6. Fellowship Hour 8 p.m.
UNION CHURCH.
Sunday School, Kennedy 9.30a.m.
June 4. White Sunday, Morning Service, 10.30 Evening Service, 6 p.m.
now
no pre-
many Service Men, and the timeļaf glass, steel and an unporous ma of buildings I would supply with! has been changed accordingly so terial, in order to fight damp and. that it will not interfere with the grimy corrosion.
3 basement for the entrance and There will be no parade on Mon- Service at Wanchai).
Spare is as valuable. in London exit of cars, for parking and unday, June 5. Monday, 5th, and Thursday, 8th'as it is in Downtown. if not more;
loading.
An N.C.O. Class will be held on. valusble, yet the English, with that! As most of our public transport Friday, June 9, at Headquarters at strange extravagance peculiar to on the streets is double decked, I 5.30 p.m.; all N.C.O.'s are expected their race, continue to throw away would encourage all modern shops to attend. 'milliona by building roofs which to have two tiers of display win- The Company will parade at full are slanting and useless.
dows. If business men had ever strength in Mufti at Headquarters I would plan houses, particular watched women they would have on Monday, June 12 for Machine dwelling houses, with receding observed the amount of time spent Gun Instruction. Aa a definite terraces and flat-roefs that could be by women when travelling on tram-programme has been laid down for KENNEDY ROAD, HONG KONG. used as playgrounde for children Cars and buses in shop-gazing. Instructions in the Vickers
instead of the streets, lungs for They would realise that this second Machine Gun thoroughout the com The following are the forthcom-adults, and, for
women, drying floor is almost as valuable as ing Training Season, all Ranks are ing services, etc., at Union
grounds for their "washing." The street level. And, in times of fog, urged to make a special effort to Church, Kennedy Road.
importance of flat roofs and ter- the double-deck shop windows attend weekly parades from Road
races cannot be overstimated, if would be of practical value for on. This applica especially to we are going to get the next gen diffused illumination.
those Men who have had eration to live in taller blocks of I am convinced that the adoption vious Machine Gun Training. a.m. dwellings.
of these suggestions would save The Officers Commanding the Cockney Desires.
the lives of chlidren; that.my mo-lundermentioned Units will issue Having in my time lived with dern houses would do much to pre-their. Orders to their Commanda and amongst the very poor, I amvent rickets and tuberculosis, and separately:— Tuesday, June 6, Service Men's convinced that the methods and therefore would save many thou-:
Engineer Company, Bathing Party. Launch leaves ideals of Vienna or Berlin rebuild-sands of pounds of both private Scottish Company; Queen's Pier 5 p.m. return 7-p.m.. ing schemes ignore the wants and and public"money. "The pace of
A.A.L.A. Company, Every Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. in characteristics of the English poor, traffic in the city would increase the Church Hall, Devotional Meet The Cockney is one of the most by at least fifteen miles an hour. ing of the Soldiers' and Airmen's kind-hearted and convivial of and save petrol consumption. The Christian Association. Service neighbours in times of distress or return of the population to the cen men heartily welcomed.
sickness, but, nevertheless, he fatre of the city would do much to Saturday, June 10, Young Peoples not communaly-minded. He liker prevent the countryside, becoming Society Bathing Picnic Launch living in a tiny two-storeyed house, despoiled, and out of the reach of
Warsaw. .leaves Queen's Pier. 2.15 p.m. re-even if each room is revoltingly the majority of town dwellers in
A foundation to honour the: overcrowded. He wants his yard their hours of relaxation.
work of Paderewski is planned to chop wood in,
The Asset Of Beauty.
by the Polish Catholic Union of ground for his rabbits and his dogs. Planning for the next generation, the United States, It is announc and where his wife can hang out would place beauty and health ed here. her washing.
before wastage and hideousness. The organisation will have its My terraced dwellings would be Utility is seldom hideous; beauty headquarters in Chicago and will ideal for supplying these Cockney is an asset and not a luxury; ugli attempt to collect a national wants. They would also bava abess and discase are a costly la-fund of $10,000,000.-Reuter. large number of bed-kitchen-rooms, įbility.
Preacher at both services: The
Rev. E. G. Powell.
turn 6.45 p.m.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
[Branch of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.]
Macdonnell Road, Below Bowen Rond Tram Station.
Sunday Service 11,18 &.m
J.
a tiny bit of
FUND OF $10,000,000 TO BE RAISED
WALKING ARMOURY
Philadelphia.
fitted like a yacht with bunka, The English are always accused sinks, dressers and gas stoves as by the rest of the world of hating The Sunday School is held on part of the furniture, for those beauty, owing to their puritanical Bunday Morning at 10 o'clock, families who can afford only very traditions. It is said that they sus- Wednesday Evening Meeting at B little rent or for people who live pect sin and uselessness as the p.m. Reading Room at above ad-alone, and I would remember that urge of all aesthetics, so that busi- Detectives were suspicious of dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10 an electric fan to draw, out the ness men, borough councillors, and bulges in the clothes of a negro am to 12 noon, Monday and smell of cooking or washing la inother champions of purity.can.al-here so they took him to a police Thursday, 5.30 to 7 pm. The finitely cheaper than ah extra,ways find good reasons for the des station, in
traction of beauty and can always There they found: A loaded Public is cordially invited to at room. tend the service and visit, the] From an aesthetic point of view, explain why the Waterloo-road pistol in his overcoat; ditto in his Reading Roum. Branch at The under my dictatorship, London should be preserved at any cost, coat, two pistole also loaded, in Mother Church, The First Church would become as beautiful as a If I replanned. London I would his trousers; a quart far, fillod of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, North African flat-roofed city, and work on exactly opposite, princi- with assorted cartridges.ENE
ever-increasing number of ples, and savo liven, health, and. "I was going to shoot birds, (people, would desire to live in the money.
he explained Reuter.
Maša. U.S.A
in the Meas at 11.30 am. June 3, 1933.
Officers' Mess Library.
The following books are missing! from the Officers' Mess Library;- (repeated).
The Defence of Duffers Drift. The Defence of Bowlers Bridge. Will the Officer or Officers in possession of same, please return to the Library.
You
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