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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936

HONG KONG'S POOR

CHILDREN

Cases Dealt With In

February

WORK OF LOCAL S.P.C.

WAS

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One of the features of the cases dealt with by the Society for the Protection of Children during Fel bruary

average! the low monthly income per head of families assisted. this being $1.49. In all, 125 fresh cases were han- dled during the month, and at the end of February there were 774| cases under supervision.

Synthetic rubber was

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These facts were reported the monthly meeting of the Exe- cutive Committee of the Society, held on Monday, over which Dr. R. H. Kotewall presided. Of the new cases. 91 were in respect of poverty alone and 34 in respect of poverty and disease. In 92 of the cases. milk or other food was provided and in 20 cases medica!! treatment was obtained.

Finance

The financial statement for Fe- that the net in- bruary showed come after deducting expenditure was $736.69. Receipts included a sum of 32,500 transferred from

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The Magic Stick

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The Padishah calmed

"Sinec none of you is prepared to disclose the whereabouts of the down necklace. I have had to summon

the Women's Auxiliary, this being slightly, and, assured of the divine help. I had a dream last the result of Lady Southom's

honesty of the first Sardar by the night wherein I was given private I was told that none of Hungry Baby Fund appeal, appre-whole Court, told the gendarmes advice.

you would yield to our infida-| ciation of which was expressed by

to release the prisoner. the meeting.

"I heard you say." Sikandar Suritions. You would have to dbmit

threatened to the divine power.” remarked. "that you the servants with punishment."

It was reported that the concert given in aid of the Society at the Peninsula Hotel by the Hong! Kong Choral Union and other ar- tists yielded a net profit of $296.j The Committee expressed thanks

Yes. O great Emperor." "And they would not yield?" "Not one."

"Did you say that the thief

to the organisers, the artists and would be forgiven if he confessed

the Hotel Company for free use of the Rose Room

¡at once?"

"We did, Our Lord" Mr. J. Middleton Smith. Hon.

"Did you say that the man who Secretary of the Bors Club, was provides the clue would be hand co-opted a member of the So somely rewarded?”

ciet's Executive Committee.

The inducement failed."

Then, turning towards the door, Wazir Akbar shouted for his ser- vant to enter. He came in load- ed with bundles of long sticks. weird in appearance, with notches all over them, like the poles. used by sorcerers.

to

When all the 250 servants had

last remaining one and began haranguing.

Wazir Akbar distributed slips of)

and paper among the servants asked them to inscribe their names jon them Then, calling each ser- İvant in turn, he asked him to pick The Committee considered a "Am I to understand." he said, up a stick and, after pasting his length the question of assisting the that there is not one man in my name label at the lower end.

to resume his place. China Youth Society to secure a kingdom who has the brains. site for the purpose of extending run to earth the thief, and restore its work, and also the possibility me my necklace?" His eyes moved had a stick each. Wazir took the of sending boys to the institution. passionately across the hall.

a From behind the third row It was reported that the Society'

**I have had to have recourse to operates a small industrial school young man with a straggling mous

Bending intermit this method because none confess. for homeless boys, who are paid tache rose up. for their work, which consists of tently as he walked across the floor, The traitor who is making his col- the making of brooms, floor mops, for it was bad Court manners to leagues suffer for his guilt may for some time, but not soap and bamboo blinds and print-rise thus, he took his stand indo so

permanently. These are things of! Ing. and that there are at present front of the Padishah

efficacy. prepared by a "As sure as the clouds must pass great 70 boys so engaged. These are also given lessons in Chinese. The and the sun be back in the sky, so Himalayan Yogi. Man may fail, matter was adjourned to a later must the necklace return into the but not these sticks."

And then, holding his own stick! meeting for the purpose of clear palace to where it belongs," he said. 1ng up certain points on which in-adding. "and will the great Em-in the air, he said, "All of them peror give me a chance to find it?" are of exactly the same length." formation was desired.

Sikandar Sur was amused by the He measured his stick with those of the servants, and it was found. The resignation from the Com- daring of the man.

"Where others older than your-that this was-80. mittee of the Hon. Sir William

"Now," he recommenced, "what Shenton, on his pending departure self have failed, you think

accepted can succeed?" he asked in a scorn-I want you to do is to keep your sticks with you till the morning. with regret, the Chairman pay-ful voice

"Others older than myself have preferably keep them under your his services! a tribute to

the failed," he said humbly. "So I pillows at night. You will be ing

of as a former Chairman

TOOms, and also I, so that we have Committee and a valued member. desire to be given permission to each one of you, locked-in separate Appreciation was also expressed fad it."

Sikandar Sur, half laughing at no chance to change them. In the cf the services rendered by Lady |

hall again. And hearken, Shenton as Chairman of the Wothe tragi-comedy, allowed the man morning we shall all meet in this

his wish men's Auxiliary.

"But say," the Padishah stopped this is important; the thief will be In view of the possible depar- ture from the Colony of Mr. T. M. the youth, who was about to resume surprised to and that his stick Thurs, 19th Mar Hazlerigg, the Chairman referred his seat. "By what name shall I has increased in length by two in- Morning came and Sikandar Sar, to bis invaluable services to the address you?"

"My name is Wazir Akbar," he Society, of which he was the foun repiled, "a third-class Sardar of accompanied by his retinue, stood secretly behind the palace hall ear Zer, saying that the history the Society was really the history the great Emperor's Court."

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