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GIBRALTAR IN ITS HOURS OF EASE

FAMOUS BARBARY APES

STILL THERE

· LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Agenda For Next Meeting

NEW DUTIES ON LIQUORS

At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council the Colonial Secretary will move that the Re- of the Finance Committee

LEGEND AND TRADITION ACCOUNT. 7), dated August 26, 1936,

FOR THEIR PRESENCE

be adopted.

on

A fine descriptive booklet

The Colonial Treasurer will move a Liquors Duties Resolu about the new school has just

new duties jbeen issued, which states that on

Gibraltar is in men's mouths and in their understanding. Bombs tion, instituting June 26, 1934, the Hong Kong

intoxicating or spirituous liquors Government appointed Mr. Wave been dropping near British liners and British warships.

for prepared in the Colony. Linea has been in homes and other towns just over the frontier in imported into, or distilled, made Spain have been the scenes of bloodshed and terror.

Coining Offences The Attorney General will move.

"A Bill to amend further the Ofences Ordinance,

For civil war in Spain has thrown great responsibilites on the British sea command at Gibraltar and caused grave enriety through the tang of out Europe. As usual, the sea command of Britain has handled dif- ficult situations with unerring tact and sure decision. And if there Coinage had been no Gibraltar, no British Admiral no British ships and 15.5

"A Bill to validate sailors! Not only the nationals of our Empire, but countless men and women and children of other races, involved unwillingly in the undertakings which have Spenish troubles, could have turned nowhere else with equal conf-constructed or commenced over dence for the hope of succour and security.

and upon unleased Crown fore- shores and sea bed; and to enact

Case-

certain been

reclamation or other works of a

A. Cornell, F.RIBA., F.SI, to design and supervise the erec- tion of the new School. Sketch plans were prepared, and after discussion, and amendment, thank all friends and relatives who

were duly approved or Novem- sent messages of condolence in their recent bereavement for the ber 1 1934, by the Hong Kong Government, the Director of floral tributes and attendance at

Education, and the Committee the funeral.

of the Education Board.

The main outline of the build- ing is based upon the tradition- al plan that has been evolved HOMBRERO, khaki helmet, mammoth fortress., it has lost certain general provisions which over a number of years, and Eastern fez, and sailor cap none of its fascination. I know shall be deemed incorporated, un- other two offering such less expressly varied or excepted, adopted by numerous recently-mingle in Main Street, Gibral-no erected schools in England and tar Spanish Hower girls contrasts of beauty and stark, in fature Ordinances authorising America. It is known as the swing past with their inimitable mysterious scenes. It is pertinent to ask the rea-E-shaped plan, and consists grace in walking-dark-eyed. The very names reek and public nature over and upon such son for the extreme ill-teeper of a Central Hall, from which hatless coquettes. Constables moulder with the strong meat foreshores and sea bed."

the Socialists displayed by

The Hon. Mr. Lo Man-kam will radiate, left, right, and centre, in London police uniform patrol of the stormy past. towards the new Unemploy-

the various departments. pavements that glow with rugs, mates Gate, where the galleys move the First reading of ment Assistance regulations.

The School has been planned and gleam with polished brass of the Moorish invaders lay. "A Bill to provide for the in- The recent ebullition in Parlia-

this Black Hole, once * prison.corporation of the Superioress in ment did not arise out of the to comply with the latest rules Cheek by jowl with all Minister of Labour's explana- and regulations of the Board of Oriental merchandise you will Catalan Bay, home of the Hong Kong of the Congregation British Genoese tunny-fishers, whose of the Sisters of the Precious The demons Education, England, obtained find a typical little tory statement.

window, the red-roofed houses were bom-Blood" trators came ready primed, and from His Majesty's Stationery tobacconist's

¡Office.

and

The Attorney General will move familiar barded with falls of rock and bent on mischief. Fortunately,

Ample Accommedation cigarettes, writes Lawrence Gavalanches until the Govern- the Second reading of

the "A Bill to amend again Mr. Ernest Brown is not easily

The School is designed for Green, in The Navy.

ment built a protecting wall browbeaten or intimidated, and

Gibraltar is an English naval Southport Gate, where I was Pensions Ordinance, 1932."

"A Bill to amend further the he made out his case for the boys and girls, and will accom-

famous modate 360 pupils in 12 class-and garrison town with a fortunate-the

apes

Offences Ordinance, revised regulations with a cool rooms. The plans allow of fu- Spanish-African setting were at play on the western Summary -unconcern for the tumult ture extensions to be made on musical-comedy scene indeed, mountain face that afternoon 1982." around him, establishing at one the first floor to accommodate very different from the grim Devil's Tower, built by those "A Bill to amend the law. re- and the same time the fairness

another 180 pupils in-6 class-impression made by the Rock early Phoenician seafarers who lating to stamp duty.”

"A Bill to amend the Public and the generosity of the scales

itself. Knife grinders. whistle thought, when they discovered and the humane and sympathe-

The centre portion of the the call of their trade. Tawny-the Pillars of Hercules, that Health (Sanitation) tic consideration towards the school contains an Assembly faced Moors, stately in turbans they had reached the very edge 1935." applicants with which the sys Hall to seat 480 persons in the and rainbow robes, hold out of the world. tem is being administered. The Auditorium, and 98 persons in embossed leather-ware for the success the Socialists had 18 the Gallery. There is a small admiration of the visitor. All

Dragon Tree months ago when the first set

and stage suitably fitted up for prize the life

cosmopolitan was put into distributions and stage plays. colour of Port Said is here. Dragon Tree, certainly of regulations

Dressing rooms, adjoin the without the vulgar rivalry of thousand years old, in stage, and a cinematograph touts. Gibraltar is courteous; Government the Ministry of Labour Promachine room is at the back of it has the charm of a serene Spanish Lines, scene of the that the bathing picnic which was

old age.

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"A Bill to amend the Public Health (Animals · and Birds) Ordinance, 1935.”

"A Bill to amend the Public

2 Health (Food) Ordinance, 1935.”

take

House garden. It is regretted by the organisers

bullfights, on the road to Spain. arranged The

by Kowloon Toug Sandy Bay, the Lido of the Group of the V.D.MA. to hope dwindled when they saw

fighting services, gay with sun-place on Monday, August S. and that the Ministry had succeed-

hats and beach tents, guarded was postponed until yesterday on ed in meeting whatever just to Messrs. Cheong Hing Co. on March 14, 1935. Building criticisms had been levelled

the account of the unfavourable wea against the earlier rules, and it operations were commenced on signposts of the world's high by a soldier who raises

April 1, 1935, and the founda- ways that thousands of travel- shark alarm. Market Square, ther. had to be cancelled again for vanished when they found a

a distance while last foothold of the Moors in the same reason. As it has now general recognition among all tion stone was laid at the north-lers see at classes of the community-and east corner of the building by comparatively few go ashore. Europe, selling their basket been definitely decided to abou His Excellency the Governor. (Cape Horn, the Canaries, Cape ware and fish, musk-melons and the picnic altogether, those from

EuropaPoint, not least among the unemploy Sir William Peel, KC.M.G.. Guardafui, and Cape Verde are figs.

where whom payments have been receiv¬ ed themselves that there is no BELL.D., on May 15, other such places in one's much of the world's shipping ed for sale of tickets will have. truth whatever in the prepos 1935, when an inscribed silver mind).

that the Board is "cheeseparing at the trowel and blackwood mall was now a museum rather than al provided by the architect and expense of the unemployed."

presented to His Excellency as So the Socialists, deprived of a memento of the occasion. reasonable argument, were The contract date for com-i driven back on clamour and pletion was June 30, 1935, but labuse. Their sole coherent de-lowing to the absence of ty- mand was for the abolition of phoons and heavy rain storms the Means Test, and it is to be during the summer (only 17 observed that Mr. Greenwood days were lost through incle- pledged himself and his partyment weather), and the satis- to that demand in the most unfactory progress made by the

"We

the equivocal terms.

can building contractors and

the building never agree." he said. "to any sub-contractora, regulations, however generous was completed by May 1, 1936. they may appear on the sur-

FINED

Guilty Of Assault On Employer

face, so long as a Means Test INDIAN WATCHMAN stands as part of the law of! the land". That will be a dis- jagreeable pledge to swallow if and when the Socialists come) into office again. What it means is that no applicant for! relief is to be asked any ques; Itions as to his means or the Feroze Khan, a watchman em- means of members of his houseployed by Messrs. Noronha and hold He is to be given "assis-Co., Ice House Street, who was tance" whether he needs it or yesterday charged with assaulting not, and no relative is to be re- Mr. L. E. Basto, his employer, quired to contribute towards was fined $10 by Mr. S. F. Balfour kis maintenance. That is a this morning when he appeared corrupting pledge to give and on remand.

At the earlier hearing, it to

fulfil Mr. impossible Greenwood knows it, and he and stated that the accused struck fist, his party are guilty of ajthe complabast with his flagrant piece of political dis-flourished a stick before him, and honesty. Mr. Brown had the was about to strike complainant courage at the recent debate in jagain' when stopped by a police Parliament to declare that the guard.

action of certain Socialist

was

municipalities, which deliberaf a centralised uniformity. ately gave allowances far in The Minister of Labour said at excess of what they would have the debate that he had visited given as out-relief in similar a large number of areas in per- cases, was the principal cause son to find out for himself how of the breakdown of the tran-jthe system was being adminis- sitional benefit system.

tered. His experience was that The revised. scales hence the Board's officers were show- forth will be uniform and firm, ing "very great care of the and but the very wide discretion able-bodied employed," deliberately given to the Board that there was no real com- and its officers, and the reliance plaint about the administration. which they will be encouraged Most people will fully believe to place upon the intimate that to be the truth.

The

Pe local knowledge of local com-Socialists were out to manufac- 永

mittees, will ensure a flexibility ture grievances and stir up a which should combine all the factions agitation. They more adventages of the old transf-than met their match in the tional benefit system with those Minister of Labour.

Though Gibraltar is passes.

their money duly refunded

to

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