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HERE, THERE

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Family History.

Judges, K.Cs, and barristers of

the Middle Temple have lost a

friend, through the death of Mr.

John Ing, the senior library porter.]

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1938.

HOPE RETURNS TO

HOP-FIELDS

SUDDEN WORLD DEMAND

RAISES PRICES

+

Mr. Ing died at his home in FURTHER INCREASES EXPECTED

Avenue-road. Tottenham. N., after

short illness.

He had been

a porter at the library for over 50 years, and` suc- ceeded his father as senior porter.

great-grandfather

started

(By, George Godwin.)

London. lers 'revolve and deliver up

The brittleness passes as

the

the

His works

ET under porter Before the July sun was high or crop. in the Middle Temple in the dew dried from the leafy 1828, and the Ing family had 189 avenues of the hop-field, I walked temperature declines, and the hops. years of combined service among behind a whistling man.

are then packed into pockets-

the books of the famous library. He went slowly down the dap-large baga-in which they are des- When Mr. Ing himself completed pled, glade, folowed by his patient patched to the Hop Market, in the 60 years' service, in 1928, the Mar-horse, and as he went an iridescent Borough. queas of Reading, Treasurer of the fan spurted from the nozzle in his

The method of marketing Das Act Middle Temple, presented him with hand.

changed since the Addison a cheque for £100 and a gold watch,

Before the growers were unorgan There must be no mould orised and had to accept what the

In recognition of his services.

of all beers and sles.

.

we are

In his uniform of magenta and mildew this year, no nettlehead or buyer offered. Now they are con-

eel worm, for things are looking solidated. gold Mr. Ing made a picturesque ap in the hop industry and hope of figure, and was known to everybody better times runs high.

The method is quite simple. The with Chambers in the Temple. It

Įhops are valued and priced by the was said of him that he could put whistled so blithely on his way as The buyer inspects and makes his

Perhaps that is why my friend experts of the Marketing

Board his hand on any one of the 60,000he soaked the hops, now volumes in the library which might owering time, with Bowers of aul- come up or do no business.

near offer. If it is too low he has to be asked for by a judge or bar-

phur. rister.

"Wait till yon sun's dried oc the For a people who have druga

The Brewing Process. "Bubble and Squeak” dew," he said, "and spraying is but beer for many centuries, One of the stories which Mr. Ing waste of a man's time." delighted to tell concerned a student who once asked him for "bubble and Hereford and Worcestershire, the hops in its brewing..

By mid-July in Kent and Surrey is, and, in particular, of the use of signally ignorant of just what beer

[squeak." Mr. Ing discovered that hops will be aglow with the mistle-

the student was referring to

Beer is not, as some people im "Bullen and Leake," but had for-green-white bloom Towards the product of barley malt, the base. toe-coloured burr that is their agine, brewed from hops. It is the gotten the name the lecturer had end of August dusty caval-cades of told him.

'aut-brown pickers will invade those Another student once demanded

Норв are introduced into the leafy aisles and picking will he- ja brandy and soda. Mr. Ing realis

process when the "wort” or bar- gin, and convenient; the beach is ed that what he required was

ley-malt is ready for a two hours" Hop Demand Increases. of

boiling in the copper. WHITEHEAD.-On Thursday, July all the Clubs, while its situation

sufficiently large to accommodate B.N.S., the index abbreviation

Jone of the books,

There is hope in the hop industry Hops play two roles in the pro 27, 1933, suddenly in Shanghai,

Once a book disappeared from today because the demand for hops auction of beer. First, they give James Antonie Sergeant (Toni) adjacent to a large, populous dis-the library for 30 years.

When it has increased

and will increase it a tang or flavour; secondly, they Whitehead, aged 4 years.trict makes it quickly accessible was returned Mr. Ing learned that much more. The last Budget, with act as a natural preservative. Beloved son of Mr. and Mrs.to most of the members.

the barrister who had borrowed it its long overdue concessions, turn- When you ask for "Bilter" you Sumad died.

His widow had found time in many years,

ed the tide, and now, for the first give to your beer a name that it Ralph J. Whitehead.

med up, the advantages afforded it in his bookcase and returned it.

American owes entirely to the hops in it. the Chinese community far out-

buyers are in the market for En-for hops are bitter in taste. glish hops.

The process the hops undergo in The hop industry suffered a de-the brewery is fairly complicated. cline that went hand in hand with They are strained in a "hop bigh taxation. Last year the beer back," but the art of the business man consumption was just half of that is the determination of right quan-

jof 1914.

secret. tity. This is a brewer's A normal consumption of 20,000, Too many hops means loo bilter 000 barrels a year bringe £3,000,- beer. An insufficiency, 'on the 1000 to the hop-growing industry: jother hand, makes for an insipid One tooth: One tooth.

last year a mere third of that came drink that will not keep long in Two guns: Five bombs.

in.

good condition. Five bombs: One machine gun.

The pre-war duty was seven shil- Some brewers add hops to the Three machine guns: One more Mngs and ninepence per standard casked beer, belleving this method revolution.

barrel: it leapt to £6 14s. 6d. No to preserve it better. industry could stand it.

In the past American buyers have When things go awry with brew- always regarded English hops Jers, they go badly with growers. unsuitable for the beer of that The prices slumped until growers country. The activity of Ameri turned their backs upon their fields can buyers in London just now, the land the acreage declined.

jenormous demands that have

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OLD

Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 3, 1933

TOM

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The Chinese Bathing Clubs.

Any decision by the Govern- ment that would involve the de- privation of the bathing sites at North Point would need to be

based on circumstances more ur- gent than exist at present, and| while the value of the land in question is considerable, no rea Bon has been advanced which jwould justify the drastic action

Your Daily Smile

"What does the average

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other considerations. Furthermore, the Government would not be sacrificing a great] Friday Night. deal in revenue by abandoning spend most of his money. on?" the scheme for commercialising | the area, as compensation ia |Russian Multiplication Table, afforded by the not inconsider.

One eye: One eye.

able revenue obtained from Crown |rent. A petition is to be circu- lated among all sections of the Chinese community, and it is hoped that the expression of pub- lic opinion will modify the Gov-

ernment attitude.

Science And Popular Beliefs.

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WHAT INDEED? Hey-diddle-liddle,

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The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumps over the moon. What shall I see at ten to-night, If I see such things at noon!

Flirt's Motto.

Neck or nothing!

Facts You Did Not Know.

Airplane taxi service is

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Take Kent, for example, the coun-isprung up since 48 States went wet ty that accounts for three-fifths of-1,500,000 barrels of beer were con- our hop gereage. The acreage de-sumed in three weeks-suggest clined in East Kent from 3311 to that in future American brewers 2560, and in the Weald, from 6661)w! take a different view. to 5440.

Altogether, then, a review of the Last year, in hop-growing Eng-hop industry at this moment seems land, 3,000 acres were abandoned. to justify the happy optimism of The application of the Addison the Man of Kent whom I watched now Marketing Act to the industry did at his work."

One of the chief difficulties which is contemplated. The which besets the scientific in- eight Chinese Bathing Clubs atvestigator in the reluctance of North Point claim a total mem-every individual to doubt his per- sonal experience. If a man has bership of over 15,000, the value recovered his health after swallow- of their pavilions and matshedsing any particular medicine he available from a large number of something to restore sagging price And maybe he was right in his is estimated at over two lakhs, becomes convinced that this medi English airports to virtually every levels. But the fundamental trou- prophecy that the 10 per cent. while they provide exercise, sport which he suffered, and no argu-

cine is a cure for the disease from part of Europe.

ble, declining markets, remained. decline in hop acreage will soon be' and healthy recreation for overment based on the probability of

Before the Aot, Goldings-the turned into an increase in all the 10,000 people of all call classes coincidence is likely to shake his has been invented for raising and eat. After the Act they touched

Electrical operating mechanism finest variety-fetched £6 68. per counties converned. and ages.

For this reason there is lowering awnings and bolding them go. And so with Fuddle hops, always arrayed against men of in desired positions. comprehend the perturbation of scientific mind a body of popular

75 per cent. of the total produc- the Chinese, and it is easy to jopinion. Popular belief in water- Soft rubber head rests, attached The sudden world demand has

tlan: they rose from £3 to £8. sympathise with their

cause. divining, in cancer houses, and in to bath tubs with vacuum cups changed the scene. Already last Youth Of 15 On Remand The facilities existing at present bably always remain. It is in-

telepathy remains, and will pro- have been invented.

For Assault.

It is not difficult to

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· RICE BOWL AS WEAPON.

Fear's hops are fetching between £12 and £13 per cwt., and the in- ful boon to thousands of workers(contended in an 'article, published |

dications are that they will rise

"You bave put your opponent in the city whose existence dur-in a recent issue of the Lancet on carried out it would be possible to higher still.

the subject of telepathy, to try to reach a conclusion whether or not

Work For 60,000,

away for ten days," remarked Mr. ing the hot, summer months submit these faiths to

examina-the results differed from those to This summer about 60,000 pickers Wynne Jones, at the Central Police would be rendered unpleasant tion, and this not so much because be expected from the theory of will leave

cities for

Court this morning, when a Chinese through the loss of the bathing the faiths are likely thereby to chances. No doubt there is sub-the hop- fields to gather the crop. youth, Wong Tak Lam, aged 15, privileges they now enjoy.

The suffer an because the dimculty of stance in this idea, but it cannot They are mostly women and child was charged with assaulting Chan devising a satisfactory test is over-be denied that the objections of ren. Many are expert from years Wing Chat, aged 20, at 23. Con- benefit to the health of the large whelming. Can a condition of Prófessor Edgeworth apply to it of experience,

naught Road West. numbers of Chinese who cons-"Ideal randomness,” as the late It may not offer the pecessary con- I have watched them at work, It was stated that the defendant, tantly use the Bathing Clubs is Professor Edgeworth has called dition

"Ideal randomness." these nut-brown girls whose fin- in the course of a quarrel with the the necessary condition of a scien-Thia dificulty is the loophole of gera work with in-credible speed, complainant, hit him on the head another factor which strengthens tine test, ever be achieved when escape for all who, possessing as they filled the baskets, I saw with a rice bowl, necessitating his the case for the retention of the popular beliefs are under examina-cherished beller, are determined to one girl pick 38 bushels in a morn-removal to hospital. sites. A further argument tion? It was found long ago that keep it. It is also the chink In the jing.

Wong Tak Lam was remanded on which possesses some force is the the telepathic powers of a group armour of science which perhaps She got a shilling for 52 bus- bail of $25, until Tuesday morning. of persons reputed to be possessed [can Dever .be closed. "Merethels, or a matter of seven shillings development of swimming as a of a special capacity differed in no chance," in other words, is a name for a morning's work. They do sport which is taking place in respect from those of a group of for ignorance rather than for quite well in a good year, and the the Colony. The Swimming ordinary controls. On the other wisdom. There is no such thing; hopping is a three weeks change

hand both groups showed a num- the average itself remains untrue from city streets. Clubs all have increasing member of "success" above what however substantial may be the The hops are picked into bins, or berships, the standard of swim- might reasonably have been ex- edifice of truth built upon it,, This baskets, and Laken from the gRE- ming is improving each year, pected. In an article " in "the is not, of course, an argument dens to the flu, or oast. My f and participation in competitive Scientific American Dr. E. E. Free against the scientific, and statisti- There anthracite Ares below send Tam Pak Bam was charged with sport by Club members becom-gests a new means of testing cal methods; it is not, certainly, up the heat that dries them out, possession of 20 taels of prepared

telepathic power. One person is to lan argument in favour of credulity, after which they become brittle opium. ing more and more intense make a throw with an ordinary die Rather it ought to serve as a warn- and call for careful handling.**** Inspector Hourihan said that the" North Point is an ideal location and concentrate on the numbering that every method of reason is In a modern bast there are floors accused, when arrested in Con- for the Bathing Clubs from all thrown; another, blindfolded, per-fallible and that there is nothing of rollers upon which the hops are naught Road West, was carrying

son is to state the number. Dr., quite so unscientific as a dogmatic leid, a device that obviates hand; the aplum tled "round his waist. aspects. Transportation la cheap Free thinks that if a very large assertion based on controlled exling. When the hops are dry the Accused was fined $2,000, in de- and the tram service is frequent number of such experiments wars periment.

Tell side of the past is opened, the rol-fault seven months' hard labour.

POSSESSION OF OPIUM

$2,000. Finė.

Béfére Mr. Schofield this morning