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"HONG KONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:

ISLAND

Feet

Victoria Peak

Signal Station

Mountain Lodge

The Eyrie

1,725 1725

Mt. Davis

Bowen Road (filterbeds)

297

MAINLAND

TORETTA YOUNG

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THE CHENA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1937--

ADOPTED

CHILDREN

SENT ABROAD

Old School Tie Hits

ARE IN DANGER R.A.F.

It should be an offence for a 80- ciety or person to arrange for a The Royal Air Force is deter British child to be sent abroad for mined to make itself-more milit- adoption by, foreigners or by Bri-

ary than the Army, and appar- tish subjects without a court lently to insist on its civilian em-

ployees living up to it

cence.

Referring to the danger of send- Before a recent parade at a ing children, generally illegitimate, station of the RAF, the follow- to foreign countries, the Departing order was issued by the offi mental Committee on Adoption So-cer commanding • →→→ cieties and Agencies make this re-

“All civilians on the strength commendation in their report. of the station and not required on "In a country such as Holland," urgent work during the time the states the committee, where parade is taking place are to at- facilities exist for obtaining legal tend the parade. They will be recognition of an adoption, the drawn up in two ranks. child cannot obtain any status cor- "Civilians of officer status responding to that which legallshould form a adoption confers in this country. rank under the senior civilian of

“One of the serious consequences that status. of this is that it remains liable to deportation until it becomes of any age to be naturalised.”

Examples the report gives of this include:-

Protest Lodged

Apart from the snobbery of deliberately dividing industrial and clerical civilians into those of "officer status" or otherwise, the A boy sent to Holland, who, when order was against all precedent. payments ceased at seventeen, was For Civil Servants are not ex- brought back to England. He knew pected to attend military parades no English and was unaware that unless voluntarily, and the Civil he was a British subject, and Service Clerical Association has A man of twenty-four who had lodged an energetic protest with been returned from Germany hav-the Air Ministry. ing become a public charge. He There was, however, one ad- had been there since three and ditional complication which the

Brass Hats had not foreseen. knew no English

Exploited By Hawker

Many civilians employed by Comment is made on the perfume-the Air Ministry held commis- tory inquiries made by some adop-sions during the war and were tion agencies and societies before granted permission to retain their children are sent abroad, and the rank report describes the plight in which some children were placed through positions which, according to the Air Ministry, are not of "officer lack of previous inquiries.

A number of these now hold

In one case an adopted girl was status." being exploited by going round] with a man hawking on a barrow produce stolen from allotments.

Piquant Situation

But if a civilian who has per- mission to retain his rank par

Two children had been placed ades on "an official occasion," he with a man who was a heavy drink is actually entitled to wear uni- er, and a woman unsuitable to have form, and, so would become, în many cases, senior to the "senior. care of children.

civilian of officer status”!

A child was placed with an un-

A truly piquant situation thus married woman, who was found to

arises, for a despised "temporary be mentally unbalanced

clerk may have held a major's. The Committee also state they commission, while the senior were not satisfied about the stan-civilan may have been merely a dard of some of the hostels run by second lieutenant, or more pro- certain societies.

From one hostel three children

in an emaciated condition had been ladmitted to a London hospital, and

one died.

COURT WANTS PICTURES

Wives With No Photograph Of Husband

bably have never served at all!

AIDS IN FIGHTING T. B.

Tuberculosis is still responsible for more deaths annually than any other of the principal diseases ex

Photographs of husbands who fail cept cancer, said Sir MOMENT

to appear in court when summoned Wood, Minister of Health, for payment of alimony under se he opened the extensions to the Es- paration orders, are required by one sex County Council's sanatorium at of London's youngest stipendiary Black Notley. Magistrates, Mr. Frank Powell

The importance of good housing At Woolwich Police Court most

and working conditions could not of these husbands whose wives had

be over emphasised, for benefit taken action failed to appear.

derived from treatment in resid- "A photograph of your husbandential institutions might be, and would be a great help to me. Have often was, undone if the patient re- you got one?" he asked one wife turned to satisfactory conditions. The wife replied that she had not Much was being done in dealing and the All the other women concerned

with this white scou that they could not produce photo

crude death rate had been reduced, graphs of their husbands.

out the menace of the disease re- Imained.

Dublin, To-day.

The tuberculosis service, the Dr. Hans Koester, who has hither-growth of better habits of living. to been German Charge d'Affaires the large-scale housing

easures

in Dublin, left yesterday for Gar-taken since the war, and the in- misch, where he will spend a short creased protection of the milk sup holiday before sailing for Capetown ply had been important factors in assume his new duties as German the success achieved. They must Consul General Trans-Ocean:" continue on these lines.