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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1947.

THE TRIALS OF ZBW

ZBW-Hong

Kong's radio tastes always differ, ZBW will

never succeed. station which frequently takes quite naturally

a verbal "beating" from criti-in satisfying everyone at the exi listeners. through the same time. columns of the press, has al- ways been, financially, a losing propesition,

The spate of correspondence which arrives in the Colony's newspaper offices from all with a gripe against ZBW shows a healthy interest on the part of The focal public in its social amenities. But in actpal fact the volume of adverse criticism is quite aut of proportion to and seems to be the facts, directed along

the wrong channel.

yesterday In an interview with the PMG, Mr. Wynne Jones. ZEW'S administrative head, I asked. fey and received. showed that details which

By MARGARET BRADBURY

Pepping Up

But in the matter of "pep- ping up" the local programmes Mr. Wynne-Jones generally

here pointed out that talent is very limited. "For instance" he said "there are only four planists in the Colony who are available part time. For gener- a programme talent auditions are held once a fortnight, and if it is at all possible we give applicants chance."

n

"Advantage is always taken. when noted people are passing through the Colony, from breadcasting point of view, but they cannot always be persu- aded to cooperate."

Judging by ZBW's

small broadcasting fee, the reason is not always hard to find..

Here is a list showing some the for this 1.000 estimate

62,744. Artists and announcers 40,00 Incidental expenses Printing

year:

Personal emoluments

before the war, the Government | ZBW does not get a sufficient. of the items included in [servant of whatever grade was large budget from: the funds considered to be more generously of the Colony for the station treated both as to emoluments, to aspire to achievement above and service conditions than the its present level. average worker in ether spheres of activity. Today, it is commor. knowledge thar Government has

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Said Mr. Wynne-Jones: "The allowed estimated expenditure for the current year studie work is $171,000. This

na account of the en-!

salaries to meet the inflated cost of living, and that a good many public officers are living under conditions of considerable hard angering side or maintenance ship, and rint, relatively, the civil | ee. At present the total servant is much worse off dan number of hences, in the

Records

Rent studios & offices Royalties etc. -Uniforms

2,500 2,300 6,400 12,600

3.200

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Dragged

the "vivilian." unless he happens eamy numbers just over 10 Into Bushes

to be currupt. One of the unfor- tunate consequences has, in fact, been an appalling increase in the! sale of corruption and if there en he reason in expect, salary re- visions to check and discourage such graft, the Commission's ap- pointment must be welcomed!

They are now coming into thai additional ground. There is the Colung in a steady flow but af course, no question that many are still much mure expensive public officers are grossly under than before the war when

cust only paid under present cenpomic con- GEC den valve get ditions for the services, they are $400."

Britain, that. espected to perform. It is to hel la hoped, however, that in the selec- maligned service, the BBC

by Purlin- tion of the Members to compose granted annually

which runs the Commission, some

thought an amount

tato millions of pounds though will be thrown back to pasi criti- it is not more than the sum cisms, of similar Commissions. In ef money brought in by lleen- clusion of some of the higher offres for the previous year.

e, ringing in about $120.- 000.

Before the war the tutal! licerce issue yearly was above 14,000. Beason for the drop is partly that sets have not been available and also that they aru extremely expensive.

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

Dit houde

M. STO AL 3. PAY, OFF.

**A' is for atoms, 'B' is for bombs, 'C' is for

'D' is for devastation..."

Old People

People Fall Easy Prey

Thousands

SNOW IN

MODERN SCIENCE

By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE

The scientists who recently created the first man-mode snowstorm over Grelock moun tain in Massachusetts, by drop- ping six pounds of dry ice pel. lets on a cloud three miles long, were amazed to see this cloud change its shape.

began

The transformation about two minutes after the dry ice was scattered from the plane.

The cloud originally was wide and somewhat flat, a

etratus

type. The first step in the change was streamers of snow of the cloud's pouring out

bottom.

Quickly after that pillars of cloud began to rise from-the

top of the stratus

formation.

These pillars were cumulus. that is, the familiar high-piled #

cyclotrons.cloud formations of summer,

that frequently curry

An

rain-

storms, often, with thunder, These cumulus clouds, have castle turret tops and low, flat, of which lark bottoms, out rain pours.

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Something like that, ch small scale, happened from the scattering of six pounds of dry ice. The explanation is that when the water particles in the original cloud turned into ice, this reaction released a lot of of Britain's old, to inspection and that detailed heat. The heat changed the of the cloud to given formation consideration should be

Chain Reaction up a scheme of inspection. by the Government to drawing cumulus.

But the heat change The Report points out that the voluntary homes in which something vastly the residents are badly treated portant for man's prospects of can only, exist because of the

people are spending the even dilions of squalor and neglect, ing of their lives in grim con- not only in Public Assistance also i 80- Institutions, but called "homen" ras for profit by private individuals.

I

OWHER CAD

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more

did

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How a woman was dragged into some bushes and robbed by two gangsters while she was on her way to worship her ancestor's grave, was related by Mr. A. J. Clifford, Crown

chain I set up a Counsel, before Mr. Justice T.

purposes. J. Gould at the Criminal Sea-

This state of affairs has just traditional dread of the public mcking snow storms for useful reaction. That is, although the when Tin been revealed in the pages of assistance institution.

"Once in such a place" says dry ice started the snowing, stats yesterday Kwan-ming, 32, and Lui Kee, the Report of a Survey Com-

the snowfall continued under Ure aged persen's 19, were charged with robbery mitter of the Nuffield Feunda the Report, "the

its own power, and actually by violence.

tion, which inquired into the play on Found guilty unanimously by living conditions of old people dread of the public assistance

Institution by threatening to built itself up. Apparently, the sthe jury, Tin was sentenced to throughout Britain.

send for the Relieving Officer extra hent drew more moisture The Chairman of the Com. and seven years" hard labour 12 strokes, while Lui.

wha mittee was Mr. B. Seebohm every time that he or she re- to be precipitated by natural The General Electric The radical pleaded guilty, was given four Rowntree, one of Britain's best-inis ill-treatment or protests means, as snow, yours and. 10 strokes.

known social investigators. Re- against neglect. ·

scientists who made the snow- were Vincent J. The woman was robbed of a presentatives of the Ministry cure is the provision over

of period of time of an adequate storm

and De Irving and Schaefer' wrist watch and three gold of Health, the Department

the number of good hemen Guger rings. When she refus- Health for Scotland and

institutions Langmuir, Nobel Prize winner el to give up the ringe, first Assistance Board were ad- rublie assistance accused threatened to cut off visory members of the Commit-un a high and consistent level in chemistry..

of excellence."

The explanation of the dry "In Hong Kong, ZBW her finger with a pocket knife. tee.

Curtis What of the existing publie ice pellets is that each one, due A did the recent. The pair also took away her

assistance, institutions, popu- to its intense coldness, about interested Onanced by the Government, ac-

cording to Mr. Wynne-James: money, but eventually returned Report on the conditions

of larly known as "workhouses"? 110 degrees below Fahrenheit, droplets of Their squalor and conditions of chills nearby "because it is a public service $1 to her as her train fare homeless children in need

care and protection. This require in home.

misery life in them were "described' by waters rapidly that they form which the people much the same way as they The police arrested the second document of human

shows that much of the ex-Charles Dickens a century ago Gay hits of ice, probably too treme callousness, cruelty and Three months ago, the Curtis small to be visible under a require a sanitary service or a arcused on Dec. 6, nearly two water supply. We try to do months after the incident, and

in the pen Committee sucked the nation microscope. These bits act like greed described the very best we can to meet the first accused on Dec. 10.

Dickens with descriptions of some of seeds, a drop of snow forming pictures of Charles but we

today's institutions. Here from cach cne. This process public requirements.

still exists today.

how they uye described in the then spreads automatically it' cannot go above our financial

Shocking Cases

Rowntree Report.

nearby areas not directly cool- researces."

*In phrases similar to the

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when tell the story of "shocking!

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING

natural enough, but it is possible. to arouse much adverse comment if the Commission appearss to be | overweighted

with

parties,

POLICE EFFICIENCY

It is odd that the police, check ing up on the complaint of a Caminado corporal about ticket racketeering, shoid appear to be 'more interested in attempting to teck down the original culprit than in the police constable who refused to make an arrest. In the result, the nan identified next day by the corporal brought bis employer into court to provide hi with an alibi, and the case

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Public Service

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A confiscation order in res- pect of 38 bottles, each con- taining 500 tablets of Sulpha- ZW studio staff at pre-

unly four out- diazine, was made by Mr. sent numbers

at the nine G. Sheldon

Magistracy yesterday, side the engineers, with part-time announcers.

the Choi-tin aged 19, appeared be- Listeners who take up

radio fere him charged with attempt- pen about the Colony's station want the programmes ing to export same on, s.s. to be more varied or colourful Haiying. S. 1. McMillin search- individualed accused as he was going on was dismissed. There is no en- according to their couragement in incidents of this view. They want them to cun- the Douglas Wharf to the ship at about 2.30 p.m; on Sunday. AS kind to public doperation in tain what they like, and stamping out crime and perty rackets. The Commando gave time in the public interest on two successive days, much of which i culd have been saved had pelice constable carried out his dury. Yet nothing was said in

disciplinary action, although on court to indicate proposals to take the face of it, the constable's of fence was more serious than that of the ticket racketeer. If there

Saturday, 8th February 1947.REA The first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.1.

Through numbers (8 Races-$16) may be obtained at the Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, also tickets for the Special Sweep ($2.00) on the last. rage.

MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST is one weakness of Hong Kong's

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

li

he

some

of

new

stat

as

wemmen

is

Motley Assembly "Puble Assistance

Institu-

as many as a hundred

less than two feet,

beds

the

Sub-Cooling

In

the Greyleck mountain

а

bean, might produce

tons of snow. several

На

cases of crud exploitation and tious friquently contain a mot-

liquid, although below* neglect of old and often sickley assembly of the destitute; cloud, the water particles were

the feat majority

are aged, still and people. whose loneliness

children, freezing in temperature. This dread of the serdid workhouses but there are also

and feeble-minded sub-cooling also is a known and epikplies makes them an easy pray for

"song, the blind and the sick. frequent phenomenon in clouds " une, institution : was and vapor. It is one cause of unscrupulous profiteers,

Here are

examples

stated by the matron that old icing on airplanes. found

by the investigators, people could not have any cup- The man-made now was all who, like the members of the cards for their private pos- tiny ice crystala.. Whether large Curtis Committee, did

not

sessions, as the mentally de- flakes of snow can be produced publish the identity of the

to be demonstrated, ficient girls who shared the remains people concerned.

"Miss X runs a home for accommodation with them would but it is likely they can, and their appearance will depend 20 old people, with charges sical their things."

Many of these institutions on weather conditions around ranging up to £3-3-0 a week"

were built in the early decades or in the clouds. save the Report. "The

of the 19th Century, and are Df Langmuir estimated that consists of a daily woman

inadequate structurally

by a single dry-ice pellet, the size cook and two young KEEP THE CEILING for my partner's spades,"

said, "and so I wanted to give with babies. The registration modern standards. There are narrow wards lit by windows LOW

him a choice between diamonds of the home as a nursing home steep, narrow stone staircases. enough ice nuclet to develop Rugardless of how a declarer and clubs. By bidding the was cancelled some years ago

ur and sometimes containing

five hour flight, sowing dry ice ed to the medical officer wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Micet police force that is inure apparent fec.s about the O. P. A., he lower-ranking suit, I made it after a patient had been report: Inat are too few and too high thought that one plane, in a to cover a few inches of snow "NO-ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED than another, it is the strange in doesn't like tu have too high a possible for him to pass if he vormingus and care for.

ability of the Chinese rank and ceiling on his contracts. Often preferred clubs or to slip into

"Miss X was recently fified separated from each other by pullets, could generate enough over a considerable area. This "Cases have come to TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

Badges atmitting ton-members to the Members' Enclosure file to bestir themselves to notice he would rather be trying to 5-Diamonds if he preferred for drawing an old-age pension

offerices even when they are per- make a game with ten tricks that suit."

after a pensioner's death. The

millions of tons of snow, are obtain- and Club Rooms at $10.00 including tax

"It developed, however, that home smells and is very dirty. notice of members of the Com- would require hundreds

mittee of aged persons dying ia

The first snowstorm. howi in eircumstances of great able through the Secretary upon the written or personal inpetrated right under their eyes. in a major, even with none to

of a high, as the defenders took two broken. The Area Officer to be seeking 11 tricks in froduction of a member, kneh memther to be responsible for This bland indifference can be adequate trump support, than five-odd was just one trick too Much of the furniture

lor and loneliness, because ever, carried a hint that much. attributed to one of two causes.

obe in the Assistance Board has re- local authorities, although ask study will be needed before El chits, etc.

Badger admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on Either they are often not them minor. That additional trick is tricks in hearts and

selves aware that an offence is sometimes impossible to attain clubs, and would have done the cently removed seven pensioned, have been unable to fulfil man can produce snowstorms sale at the RACE COURSE.

ed. The patients seen by the carve them into an institution." snow fell from a cloud about The Treasurers Compradore Office will close at 11 am. being committed; in other words. And usually, even if the trump same against 5-Diamonds or era as they were being, neglect their legal obligations to rewhere and when he will. This investigators The Report points out that two miles above sea-level. The and the Secretary's Office at 11.45 a.m. --Both Offices. at 1st they are themselves ignorant of support is just a card less than 4-Spades.

more expert players! Committee's

assistance in fancw fell into dry air and all North told him they were frightened and unhappy: not all public floor, Exchange. Buliding,

the law; ar they have excellent the standard to give the side Several

"In another such Home the stations are obsolete and un-of it evaporated before it reason for shutting their eyes in eight, it seldom will cost him

Bufisfactory.

reached the ground. Under to five of either minor. Though inmates were at the mercy of the absence of superior officers. more than one trick if he plays would have preferred 4-Spades

The committee recommendsome other conditions such andw When, therefore, a flagrant in soundly

that would have involved the a woman who was a patholo-

gical drunk."

that, during the next 15 or 20 pellets might melt into rain stance, not merely of failure to

risks of an unsafe trump

"Miss Y ran a small home years, local authorities and drupin.-Asscciated Press, make an arrest, but of outright

suit, there would have been one!

for six or eight old women'

voluntary agencies should pro trick margin of safety refusal, is brought to higher 'no-

a ngainst either minar contract. states the Report. "Her staff vide several thousands of small tice, the opportunity to make an

13.8 6.2 There was no argument by Collaisted of one girl of about homes for 30 to 35 residents. example is one that there can be S. 9 6 no excuse for overlooking. Time H. A K 10.

H. Q anybody that North should 17. Miss Y's manner to visiAs an interim measure until 8.7 6.53 D. 8764 have let West prevent a vul- tors was always strange, and these homes are built, the Com- her reply to an inquiry about miftec suggests that institu- and again, the police have made

5. A 9 8 7 nerable game by his barrier a resident's health was invari-tiens to accommodate up to 200

New Delhi, Jan. 28. requests for the support of public: D. 9

bid in hearts. If North had ably the formula 'She is very old people with restrictive

The Indian Chamber of Princes spirited Citizens in their difficult C. 421

merely doubled that, South well; she had a lovely dinner roles reduced to a minimum constitutional advisory committee task of crime suppression with

would have passed, and the 4- yesterday of roast duck and should be provided where suft has approved entry of India's a draft resolution inadequate resources. It is a pela

Hearts doubled would have

ahle buildings are available, declaring green pews. that cannot too often be reiterat

been defeated only one tricki

"Residents visited were not and that the member of clubs princely States Into a future In• ̈ Passes for Servants will be issued to Private Box holders ed. This, however, is not the way

infrequently found naked la for old men should be increns-dian Union must be regulated by ONLY on application to the Secretary, 1st Floor, Exchange to inspire public confidence.

agreement with individual bed, and very often crying. ed. Building, have ke

Miss Y eventually had a break On the subject of compulsory The states will not agree to duwt., and was diagnosed as a retirement, the Commitice feal any extension of Union dipromaniac.

that those who are elderly, but beyond those laid down, instin

British

cabinet mission not so old, should be able to which defined

defens com Inspection Need The Committee recommends continue in employment for asumications and foreign, altaird they wish-United the three subjects for union *Press. that all homes run for profit long as

control Associated Pre#=**** should be statutorily subjected

f

A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the

No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818).

NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.

at the Gate,

PUBLIC. ENCLOSURE

The price of admission to the Public. Enclosure is $3 including tax fox all persons including ladies, and is payable Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Races Meeting.

Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure

SERVANTS

.

PABSES

Any persons found loitering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure

By Order

CB. BROWN,

Secretary.

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Under what circumstances is C D Howe, said today 1 S 4 HCC that Moscow radio reports that North explained after this it better for a declarer to play the United States is testing hand that his reason for bidd his lowest card on a losing V-bombs in Canada are "quite, ing 6-Clubs was conservatism. trick, instead of false-carding untrue-United Press.

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