1935-01-31 — Page 9

HOUSE BILL DETAILS

GREAT STEP

FORWARD IN

SOCIAL REFORM

REHOUSING SCHEME IN BRITAIN

CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLUMS

London, To-day.

In moving the' second-reading. of the House BIH in the House of Commons yesterday, the Health Minister, Sir Hilton Young, sald that it marked an urgently need. ed step forward in great social réform.

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The Government's programme Tor deuling with the evils of the slums and overcrowding had de- veloped in two stages. The cam- paign against 'slurns had been successfully launched, and now! that the organisation period was aver they were now seeing the first results of the work based upan il.

In the last year; for which he had full records, the number "forf

Doctors who examined Mrs. Jane whim rehousing arrangements-Emery Newton in a paychopathic were

undertaken amounted to 800,-

000 persons. During January 5.- 000 new houses for rehousing slum dwellers had been erected.. and. within five years the rehousing of 1,250,000 people would be pleted.

OVERCROWDING EVIL ---

com-

The second stage was a direct attack on the evil of overcrowding. which was a great but not unman ågable problem. *...

The Grát essential was that of

test ordered by the Chicago court found that the former Michigan co-ed wife of the Negro Com- munist lender was "not only anne

but brilliant." She is the daughter

of a former-national commander of the American Legion.

PRESERVING

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1935

WILD GAME

To-day's Short Story.

IN MALAYA Let Freedom

Law Rigidly Enforced

In F.M.S.

GREAT GAME PRESERVE PROJECTED

Ring

By Robert Carson

The kid ahead of Mr. Ringgold

THE two cops made up a line Tjust outside the door leading was trembling with nervousness.

to the prisoners' dock in the night He turned his head sidewise and London, To-day court. One cop went to the head exhibited a sparkle of tears in his Laws had been enforced in of the file and the other took his eyes. Mr. Ringgold felt pretty. Malayn for years past for the place at the foot. The cop at good himself. For a dollar a trusty preservation of wild life, said Sir the head smoothed his hair with had smuggled in a flask of dege Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary a small pink comb and said:" for the Colonies, in reply to a

red for him, and he had knocked "You slobs stand easy for a while, the whole of it off prior to starting question in the House of Com-sec." mons yesterday.

the march that was to end before Mr. Ringgold was second from the bar. of justice. The result of the Commission's the front, feeling rather superior. report was a new and compre-to the rest of the stumblebums ac- the loathing gaols inspired in some Ho could not, himself, understand hensive ordinance drafted in the companying him. He had eight men, nor the corroding soul-sick- Straits Settlements intended to hundred dollars in the California ness that ate out the hearts of re- serve as a model for legislation Bank and the little woman had a gular inmates. He kind of liked in the Malay States, in order that job mopping in a hospital in Tucson. the atmosphere of this wormy old a uniform system may be achley-She didn't know anything about the joint. It had a well-lived, home- ed throughout the Peninsula.

Negotiations were proceedings ever she could not much, but albeen in all the the better cars in nest-egg and sent him money when like charm to it. Mr. Ringgold had he said, for the extension of the waya, enough to keep him in such the country and had seen a lot worse large existing game reserve in small necessities as rum and nickel than the present place. the State of Pahang, so that with; the contiguous territories of

Mr. Ringgold had prepared hia other States, the whole may arrest carefully, he was entering the serve as a national park in an court entirely ready to be incar- area to be recommended by the cerated by a benevolent state for the Commission.

Maj-General Sir Alfred Knox rescue missions had grown to know

beginning of the winter. The '- asked whether it was possible to him and were getting tough about preserve wild game by making it slaughter game, and instanced acept fall back on the resources of commercial unprofitable

providing him with food and lodg to

ing, so there was nothing to do ex- fine for killing a rhinoceros of ¡$250 when it was worth $2,000.

the police.

"Honest to God, mister," the kid Sir

Philip

When spring came he intended to said hoarsely, out of the corner of Cunliffe Lister

take a short vacation trip and then his mouth. "I ain't done a thing. It set himself up in business. Until Honest to God, mister., Why should that time Mrs. Ringgold could keep they drag me in? I'm not a crook her job and remain in ignorance of All I did was lose my job and go the eight hundred. Mrs. Ringgold broke. I can't help that, can I?"

FINAL GENERAL agreed that the question of com-

MEETING

South China Motorship

arriving at a national standard of Building & Repairing

what overcrowding was. This had been agreed upon and the survey made would give for the

Works Limited

The final general meeting of the

merce should be their aim. vas receiving the most careful consideration. -Reuter,

cigars.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Always Second," by Michael Fessier.

KING OF SIAM was a very wasteful woman and the Mr. Ringgold patted his quiver-

UNDECIDED

Next Move Lies With Delegation

possession of money gave her Illu- ing shoulder. "Don't take it 80 sions of grandeur; it was a good hard, bub," he said consolingly: "I idea to, keep her mopping.

CHINESE Y.M.C.A.

Fortnightly Meeting Yesterday

MR. WILLIAM CHAN ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

hear the beak in this court is a kindly guy. You probably won't get busted for more than three days."

first time an accurate knowledge shareholders of the South Chinn of the extent of the evil. The next would be the presentation of Works. Ltd. (in voluntary liquida- Matorship Building and Repairing schemes by local authoritles for tlon) was held at

"But the disgrace," the kid said. the provision of necessary. acco-Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mat- the office of

London, Yesterday..

""Think of modation in houses and in flats of thews today at 12.45 p.m.

No indication, that the King of

..."Disgrace hell," Mr. Ringgold re three or four storeys..

Siam has finally decided the ab-

plied. "There ain't any disgrace in An account showing the manner dication question was obtainable The Bill would give power to in which the winding up had been on inquiry of the household, of

being in gaol now. Ain't all the pull down, reconstruct, or recondi-conducted and the property of the Knowle Park yesterday...

big men in. the country, either in tion property, but rehousing schemes Company disposed of was laid be

It is learned that the King is

the can or on the way? It's betterį must be carried out in close relation

than a university education to cop: fore the Meeting,

still waiting to hear further from to the proposed schemes for town The following Resolution was the Siamese delegation..

Mr. William Chan, Secretary ora atretch in the big house. You planning as a whole.

the Chinese Y.M.C.A., was the live with nothing but the best peo then adopted:

Last week the delegation re-speaker at the fortnightly meeting ple, and don't pay tuition." "That the Books, Accounts and quested the King to reconsider of the Hong Kong. English Forum "Lay off the debate," the front Documents of the Company and of

This conditions, but it is under at the YMC.A., Bridges Street, cop aald. the liquidators thereof be retained stood that he replied that he was last evening, Mr. C. W. Young pre-

Junable to agree. — Reuter.

The Bill would make it a legally punishable offence, after the ap pointed day, to overcrowd a house in excess of the fixed standard.

NO GENERAL SUBSIDIES

in-

by the liquidators, they undertaking.

to destroy the same at the expira-

tion of five years from the dissolu- CLOTHING STOLEN ses tion of the Company.”

General subsidies were not tended, but would be given in when the housing authorities re- presented that they could not, without such assistanes, provide amall houses at inclusive rents of about 10-weekly in towpe and from 3 to 5/- in rural areas.

$23,845 STOLEN

FROM LIGHTER"

Two Months' Gaol For Unemployed

They marched into the ancient, elded.

decayed courtroom, a mangy crew, St. John's University, Shanghai, spectators gazed at them self- Mr. Chun, who is a graduate of and sat down. The sprinkling of Igave an instructive address on consciously. Due to the peculiar "Public Speaking.""

seating arrangements and the pre- Ample amusement and entertain. ponderance of hang-dog looks, t ment were provided for the So was hard to tell the innocent by ciety's members and friends, in the standers from the accused. form of music and games.

There was a short delay while the stealing clothing and a key from and led the community singing, from his chambers, a very fat, Pleading guilty to a charge of Paul's Church, provided the music not wait till morning. He emerged Mr. Andrew Chan, organist of Stjudge married a couple who could Tee Suen-chi, the No. 1 lighter-man while Miss S. Yuan rendered two pink-jowled man, almost hairless, aboard Lighter No. 19, at the Yau- well-chosen gultar selections. mati Typhoon Shelter, So Kin-tai,

with vapid Mr. James Poon and Miss Phyllis through thick spectacle lenses. blue eyes peering a 22-year-old unemployed, was sen- ing were in charge of the enter Having recently kissed a quite pre- tenced to two months' hard, labour tainment and refreshments, regentable bride and pocketed three of import uea Hing Fung Keej by Mr., E. W. Hamilton at the Kow-spectively.

dollars, he felt in excellent humour

He emphasised the value of work Thief Arrested In Macao

On Information

UNDER $500 STILL MISSING For the theft of $23,845 from the

export firm, of No. 8, pon Magistracy this morning.

expected of the public utility 80- cieties, whose efforts would be en- dournged to the utmost. He looked for grent assistance, particularly from the central housing advisory committee, in the work of standardi-sufe of sation and the simplification parts, and in the grouping of ordera Des Voeux Road West, Lau Yip Shu

materials.-British Wireless was sentenced to six montha' hard the Yaumati Police Station, stated

Detective Sergeant Dowman, of MOTOR FATALITY IN and smiled amiably at the throng. labour when he appeared on re-that the defendant was arrested on mand before Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones board the lighter at 2 o'clock yester- at the Central Magistracy yesterday morning with the key in his day afternoon,

possession.. In his pocket a pawn

for Service.

EMPIRE CATTLE TRADE Solution Yet To Be Worked Out'

FURTHER TIME REQUIRED FOR DISCUSSION ·

It was alleged that accused and ticket, with which the stolen cloth- Liu Yuen Tat, manager of the firming has been recovered, was found, were friendly with each other. He admitted coming the previous Being unemployed, defendant was night and stealing the things. allowed to stay in the shop, where

he had free access to the office,

ISLAND ROAD.

No Further Deaths

TWO WORST INJURED STILL SEMI-CONSCIOUS

"Stand up," said one of the cops. Mr. Ringgold rose with the others and watched the majesty of the law waddle to the bench and sent him- self. They all dropped immediate-i ly. Underneath the judge's dafs was a table at which sat a comatose deputy from the public prosecutor's office, an equally comatose police-1 Enquiries" at the Government sergeant, two gentlemen whose vealed that Joseph Hau, driver of and Civil Hospital this morning, re duties asemed to consist of opening closing brief cases, and a icar, No. 2841 and Leung Chi-kong, myopic clerk. The clerk gargled a who were critically injured in a few words and the court was in Day year-old boy was killed on Island

Imotor accident in which a seven- session.

On December 18.complainant TIENTSIN SETS NEW

A RECORD

opened the safe, with the intention of remitting some money to Shang- London, To-day.hal, and discovered the entire

discussions, amount, missing. particularly with the Dominions could not be found..

Defendant also The safe had

Inter-governmental

10 Businesses Per Change Hands

B

Mr. Ringgold distrusted the Governments concerned, are, still probably been opened, with a dupli-

Road on Tuesday, are still in honest and manly informality of proceeding actively regarding the eate key, which was found in the The year 1984 constitutes

semi-conscious condition,

the tribunal. He contemplated the long term of the solution of the dustbin.

The five others who were also beak's pudgy profile until he livestock problem,

record among Tientsin Chinese injured in the accident, and who swivelled his chair around and The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Macao on information, and $22,390 ownership and localities of busi- ported to be doing as well as allowed his eyes to drift up to the arrested in commercial circles for changes in are now in the hospital, were re faced the defendants. Then he Walter Elliot, when asked in Par- of the total amount was recovered. (ness concerns in the Native City, could be expected. liament whether the fat cattle sub-

flag on the wall above the judge's Detective-Inspector J. O'Donavan According to figures in the hands. The accident befell a party of head, and patriotic sensations be-

Defendant Wes

Bidy would be continued after appeared for the prosecution.

March 31, said that the United

of the tax office, an average of eight Chinese, when Iron bars, pro- gan to swell in his breast. * F ten shops have closed up every truding from a lorry, ripped There was the emblem of the land the difficulties facing many of the AMOY UNIVERSITY day since last January and about through the windscreen and hood of the free and the home of the

Kingdom Government, recognising

Governments concerned, had decid- NEEDS MORE FUNDS ed, to extend the period of discus-ea

sion

They therefore proposed to Inj troduce legislation providing for further advances covering, in the play arst instance, a parlod cofe, three

months. British Wireless Service

Dr. Lim Boon Keng's Quest

an equal number of new stores of the car they were travelling in brave, the land of liberty, equality. have opened, with the result that and inflicted I térrible injuries on and fraternity, or unsparing Justice revenues of the bureau, have not every one of them. been greatly affected

ONLY ONE WILHELMPLATZ

IN BERLIN SHORTLY

g

CHINA SEEKS. TO RIVAL CANADA'S RECORD"

and brotherly love. Give me liberty or give me death, sald Patrick Henry Ho Anally died The dago red, Mr. Ringgold was aware, had gone to his head. He consider ed the dirty work confronting him va boen Born to and marshalled this eloquence, c

The kid's name was called and-he

Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Prezident of the Amoy University, who is now in Singapore with his col- One of the eight Berlin squares Chinese mother in the North They league.-is endeavouring to raise which bear the name of the las

RING FOUND AFTER 17 YEARS funds in support of the Univer Kaiser is to be renamed Riche

alty, and as it is the first time Wagner Plats, and alx others

A wedding ring lost in the garden the Malayan Chinese have been soon to be similarly renamed of a house at Palmers-road, New requested to contribute towards that the only surviving Wilhe Southgate, 17 years to go, has just the institution it is fully secta) platz, will be that which bben dug up in the garden

the famous Wilhelmst,

ed that a large sum will

ted to be three boys And stood up while the prosecutor read

and are the children

lives near Lungwai

the mining.

Both mother

to be doing

Judge leaned for- smiled beni

not

heked now," the kid said,

ontinues on Page 10)

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