THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 6, 1939
COSTS OF WAR TO COLONY BEGIN TO SHOW
ALL-CHINA PHOTO EXHIBITION
The first all-China. exhibition of pictorial photography opened at 10 o'clock this morning in the Peacock Room, Cafe Wiseman, Exchange Build- ing, under the auspices of the Hong Kong Photographic Society. It will remain open to-day and until Satur-
Special war expenditure day up to 8 o'clock in the evening.
The press were given a special pre- view yesterday evening, when they
totalling $100,000 will be submitted to Legislative were met by Mr. W. C. Clark, presi- Council, Finance Committee, dent of the society, and Mr. H. Me-
to-morrow.
year are as follows:
Kay, the secretary. The allocations to the end of the display are of a very high standard, Practically all the photographs on both pictorially speaking and from the technical point of view. One or two exhibits are of an experimental type, but generally speaking the exhibitors have adhered very closely to the main exhibition-pictorial
Postal and Cable, Censorship $25,000 Internment of Aliens
55,000 Department of Information 6,500 Miscellaneous items
7,500 Other items of increase due to the war are voted under other headings. The cost of printing the "Government Gazette" for instance has increased by $5,000 because of the many Supple- mentaries, the printing of Ordinances and Regulations has increased $2,500, and there are various new charges for the H.K.V.D.C.
TREASURY MOVE
by
purpose of the photography.
There are,
therefore, few photo-
graphs which take the breath away from the point of view of startling
viewpoint or technique. Indeed, the key-note of the exhibition might be a quiet sense of satisfaction at a good job of straight pictorial representation. It is also revealed that as a conse-
The exhibitors are both Chinese und Occidentals, quence of the re-allotment of the ac-
mainly résidents of commodation at the G.P.O. building Shanghai and Hong Kong, who meet to meet the needs of the Censorship on the common ground of their love Department, the Assessor's Department for the ubiquitous lens and film. Those of the Treasury has moved into Mari- with pet theories on the subject might na House, where offices have been try to distinguish the work of the rented costing $1,500 monthly.
Chinese photographers from that their Occidental cousins, and vice versa. Members of the press
who tried it last night found that it is pos- positive in only a few then one is generally
Uniforms for the H.K.N.V.F. have involved unexpected additional expen- diture of $9,200.
The total of votes to be submitted sible to be to the Finance Committee to-morrow | cases-and is $353,832, of which approximately wrong! two-thirds is due directly or indirectly to the international situation.
H.K.N.V.F. PAY
of
Some of the photographs on dis- play-those marked with a gold as- terisk-are being sent to salons abroad as a representative collection of pho- graphy from China and of subjects peculiar to this part of the world.
A sum of $40,000 in addition to $120,000 already voted is estimated in a vote to be submitted to the Finance Committee, Legislative Council, to- It is true that not a few of the un- morrow to be sufficient to cover pay asterisked photographs displayed are and allowances of members of the equally worthy of inclusion from the H.K.N.V.F. who have been mobilised. technical and emotional points of
It is revealed that 52 additional members have been mobilised since the previous vote and that a further 18 are to be mobilised in the near future.
view-but the judges wisely decided to make it a necessary pre-condition that only those photographs should be in the representative collection which, through choice of subject or other fea- tures, could obviously have been taken nowhere else in the world but in China.
SECRETARIAL HONORARIUM An honorarium of $1,600 per annum is to be paid to the Honorary Secre- tary of the St. John Ambulance Bri- Apart from this special feature of gade as from April 2, 1939, owing to the exhibition, lovers of fine photo- the extra burden of work occasioned graphy, of landscapes and trees, of by the expansion of the Brigade for country scenes and the sparkling of staffing first aid posts. Government sunshine on the water, will find much is to make a grant in re-imbursement. to interest and captivate them in this
exhibition; copies of most of the pho-
WOMEN ON tographs displayed, even where no
NIGHT WORK
The manager of the Hong Kong Rubber Manufactory, Matauchung Road, Kowloon City, was this morn- ing summoned before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon for employing 54 women at 9.45 p.m. on November 20.
Mr. P. M. Hodgson pleaded guilty on behalf of the Factory, and said the Factory was doing rush work to catch a ship.
Only 54 of the 800 women workers engaged by the Factory were at work.
A fine of $75 was imposed,
CANADIAN NAVY'S
PART IN WAR
Ottawa, To-day.
The Canadian Navy is ready for any call that might be made on it, and the normal six destroyers and Ave minesweepers have been increas-
ed by 50 craft of all kinds.
The pre-war personnel of 1.700 has been more than doubled.-Reuter.
MR. KENNEDY FLYING HOME
The
London, To-day. United States 'Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Kennedy, who is on his way home on leave, left Lisbon yes-, terday by Clipper flyingboat-Reuter.
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