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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1938.

YORKSHIREMEN MEET

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AT CABARET DINNER DANCE QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL CABARET DINNER DANCE OF THE SOCIETY OF YORKSHIREMEN IN HONG KONG WAS HELD AT THE HONG KONG HOTEL LAST NIGHT.

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Your Excellency, Ladies and Gen- tlemen.

was

His Excellency the Governor, Sir stock of time! In the crypt of Geoffry Northcote, proposed the York Minister, hidden away in the Loyal Toast, and the President of dark, is a well, this well lay there the Society, Mr. J. D. Danby, pro-before the great Cathedral posing Prosperity to our Society, built. In fact the first Cathedral said:

was a wooden chapel built to COVER the well for the baptism, on Eas ter Day A.D. 627, of King Edwin of Northumbria and all his Court. Before proposing the toast of the

Ladies and Gentlemen, so evening I wish to extend a hearty for the ancient history of our won- welcome to our Guests particularly derful County and now, as the an- to your Excellency and the Presi-nouncer of the B.B.C. says, "Sport.” dents of the National Societies who It is, I think. generally admitted have honoured us by their presence that Yorkshire can hold its own in here to-night-

most events and last season again came out top in the County Cricket Championship. So far as

نویه

You all no doubt have heard of the Yorkshireman's advice to his son, when leaving home to start his life's career! For the benefit of our Guests who may not have heard it, it is.

"Hear all, see all, say NOWT

Sup all, ert all, pay NOWT And if iver tha does 'out

NOWT

much

once

know Yorkshire is still the only County that entirely plays men in their Cricket team qualified by birth in the County or from direct York- shire descent. All of you also no doubt watched York a 3rd League team make their gallant effort in the FA Cup competition this win- forter, only being knocked out in the

Do it for thi'sen” Contrary to this advice, it is cus- tomary on this night, when Yorkshire folk gather together and

we

entertain our Guests, for the Chair- man to make a Speech or at least say something and pay “sum'ât.”

Semi-final leaving Huddersfield and Preston NE to contest the Final- which no doubt will be another "War of the Roses," whilst Shef- field United are hoping to get back into the First Division. At Heading-

near Leeds, the County possesses one of the finest Cricket grounds in England on which many 2 Test As you all know, or should know

I remem from your early school days, York-Match has been played.

ber this ground being laid out, the shire is known as "the County of broad acres"--being the largest orginal design contained not only a County in England-but beyond that cricket field but also football, hockey. many English, as well as Scots, Irish and lacrosse ground, the latter was and Welsh know little of that part sunk so that it could be flooded for of England from which we York-skating in winter if there were suf- shiremen originated an have being.

our

the

any

ficient frost. I mention this ground to indicate that all kinds of Yorkshire is more than a County sport are provided for and indulged —it is almost a Country. It is then in Yorkshire.

I would now like to appeal to all. greater part of that grand old Nor-

Yorkshiremen and Yorkshirewomé. thumbria of Saxon-England. Many

to support our Society. If any of people of the South of England suf- fer from a false idea of the manu-you hear of new arrivals in facturing North. It is not so very Colony will you please advise long ago, probably in the times of member of your Committee or our some of our Grandfathers, that the hard-working Secretary, to whom we are greatly indebted for the ar- coalfields of the North became more

In this res important than the cornfields of the rangements to-night. South. The commercial importance Fect I would remind you that the of such "Giants" as Leeds Shef-objects of the Society are to pro- field, Bradford, Halifax, Hull &emote intercourse, cordiality, ben- blinds one to the real Yorkshire, one

good fellowship of the most-historically, romantic amongst Yorkshire people.

I will now propose the Toast of and naturally beautiful divisions of England. Leeds, Sheffield and the evening: and as indicated on the Bradford are after all only three shield above me, "Tak' hod an sup

lad"-The Toast is small circles in a land of Abbeys, Churches, Castles, wild-moorland and heavenly dales unchanged in parts from that time when the monks in about A.D. 690 vent through Northumbria, with the first, crucifix on their way North-con- verting England to Christianity.

To my mind, and I think most Englishmen will-- agree, York, and London are the two most powerful place-names in England.

uhere is a-rock-like assurance, and reliability in the sound of such names which is lacking in such names as shall I say-Berlin or even Paris. I might add these Cities York and London sprang from the same Mother Eboracum and Lone

Cities of the Eagles

One cannot talk of Yorkshire without reference. York Minister

which as all of you who have seen

dominates the City. Few

an live up to the "grandeur

in towers above the

in which Great

weighing 121⁄2 tons, takes hourly

evolence and

"Prosperity to the Society of Yorkshiremen in Hong Kong.

The B. 1. s.s. Talma left Singa- pore for this Port on the 21st instant and is due here on the 26th instant.

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