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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, -JUNE-13, 1980.
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL America lodge, England
'MACAO
NOTICE
Tenders are hereby invited for the construction of a Muni- cipal Swimming Pool whici will comprise a Pool 50 Metres in length, a Grand Stand with Cloakrooma, Showers and Tollet facilities, a Small Pool for Children, and Engine Room, a Cascade and Diving Tower, | a Restaurant, Cabanas and An- nexes and a Sustaining Wall.
By Maurice Wiggin
now,
Whatever the state of af- building chicken-houses fairs in the rest of the fine very fine ones, in the woodwork hotels at Torquay, Devon- they will have a properly equip
ing room at America Lodge. And room, with wall- shire, England, they are al-ped exerciso ways fully booked up at bars, rowing-machines, a vault- America Lodge. In fact there ing-horse. hasn't been a bed to spare Future plans
since 1941.
siays less than about No one three months at this comfortable Plans, blue-prints, calcula- old house, perched high on n tions, and any other informa-hilltop overlooking the tranquil tion will be shown, on request, reading the
bay. I have spent some time in at the Council's Secretariate,
culogistic letters during Office hours.
which guests have written after they have left.
Tenders should be handed in not later than i p.m. on the
12th July next,
once
Yet no one who has stayed at America Lodge ever visits It a second time. And to point the paradox-though there Municipal Council in Macao, can be few houses more finely 8th June, 1050.
placed, no one ever comments on the view.
JORGE GRAYE LEITE, President.
·
Of course, they will carry on with their gardening, which is al- ways popular among the guests.
Sitting In the dining-room of American Lodge, listening to the cheerful chatter of 26 gucats eat- ing at the small tables, I had to fight off a strong sensation of un- reality. It was just like the din- Ing-room of any other small hotel, small talk of knives and forks full of banter, and the conviviai and plates.
'At one table plans were being made for a group to visit Doreen's milk bar. At another, Angus
You will already have discern-(who used to play football for Gateshead) Was discussing ed that there is a special quality "Charley's Aunt" with another that sets America Lodge apart Geordie. The accents of England from the rest of Torquay's hotels. blended in a sociable hum. There is Indeed. It is unlque, and
I was hard pressed then to unique not only in Torquay. understand how Tom Drake There is nothing like it in the manages his miracle. I was still world.
wondering as I slipped. down the winding hill to "the front. But a new factor was operating by then.
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people who are unhappy. Now NOTICE is hereby given that there may well be destrees of the Sixty-second Ordinary unhappiness, even among the Yearly Meeting, of the Com-ellents of the sumptuous palaces pany will be held at the Fle-whose Boodlit facaden blandly front the unforgiving sca, But gistered Office of the Com-
the guests, who are driven up pany, 5th Floor, P. & O. Bulld
the step and winding hill to ing, Hongkong, on Wednesday, America Lodge are not neurotic June 20, 1950, at Noon, for ihr and maladjusted ས་ལ
vaguely DCTBONS, purpose of receiving the Re-fretfully, peevishly dissatisfied port of the General Managers, because the world is not ordered together with the statement of quite to their liking. They are Accounts for the year ended stunned by loss. They are suffer- December 31, 1940, to re-electing most acutely from shock. Members of the Consulting Committee und Lo appoint Alitors.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from June 20, 1950, to June. 20. 1950, both days inclusive.
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& CO...
General Managers.
Hong Kong, June 10, 1950.
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Here in America Lodge the deprived and
the
disconsolate are brought back to life. They grow confidence like a new skin.
Reluctant arrival
Most of the guests enter America Lodge rather reluctunt- ly, unwilling to admit that any human agency can make up to them for fate's Intolerable cap- rice. Most of them leave with a new sense of the limitable resources of the human spirit.
I have been privileged to profoundly examine in action Interesting experiment in
In group therapy, the implications of which should be pondered by all who nourish faint and fluctuat- ing hopes that one day the dis- Bonances of the human orchestra may be harmonised,
Tom Drake met me at the door; a tall, ruddy man with an athlete's springy step, and an orator's voice. He showed me over the house, and I must ad- mit that I sometimes found it not easy to keep up with him.
it.
that
water-
The greening hills that shoul- der the sun, the bright red bures and the gay fronts of shops; the painted boats and the pretty girls and the shimmer of the water
These things, the shapes and colours of the visible world at Its most beautiful, my eyes absorbed with grateful and vivid | fidelity.
I feasted upon them. Το the question in my mind- by what magle Tom Drake and his wife and colleagues rehabilį- tate the stricken people who come to them-these brilliant sights added a monstrous increment of irony.
For all the guests at America Lodge ore newly-blind. Tom Drake lost his sight more than 20 years ago.
(America Lodge is administered by the National Institute for the Bind in conjunction with the finistry of Labour. American моме endowed the original establishment in 1941.)
IASG to
library tomorrow
open
The International Affairs Study Group (Hong Kong) has arranged, Jointly with the British Council and. the American Library (U.S.. In- a public formation Service), meeting for tomorrow st the
Council British
premises, Gloucester Building (first floor) at 5.30 p.m.
Tom Drake is full of resource, but his basic principle in deal- ing with people who are suffer- ing from an seute, sense of loss
The library of the International day of June, is simple; to lead them into a
Affairs Study Group will then 1950, al noon, for the purpose
active life. On full and
hat be declared open. The founda- of receiving the Report of the principle he has organised the Board of Directors and a State- daily life of America Lodge, and ion of this library has been made and possible by the generosity of ment of Accounts for the year- some who have grievances to prominent local feltizens, who
find the day have made -ended 31st December, 1940, nourish might
donations enabling But the gliests, with and of electing Directors and little full.
the acquisition of bookshelves whom I talked freely, thrive on
und other necessary equipment Auditors.
namely, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. It is a full and varied pro- Fung Ping Fan, Mr. Y. K. Kan gramme, from the 7.30 am. call
Mr. C. Y. Kwan and Mr. Li Tea and the early morning walk, Fong
These bencfactors. and through the day's activities-members of the Group who have typing, writing letters, studying, also made contributions, will ba working in the garden or work-publicly thanked at the meeting. shops, bathing, akipping, sawing Mr. Dundas (British Council)
(ÜSIS) logs, strolling in the town-down Mr. Hudson
Dr. to the evening outing to the Kirby (IASG) will then maki theatre.
short statements describing the nature and purposes of the libra- ries established in Hong Kong by their respective organisations.
The Transfer Books and Re- gister of Members of the Com- pany will be closed from the 6th June, 1950 to the 12th June, 1950, both days inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directory,
E. R. CHILDE, Managing Director. Hong Kong, June 1, 1050.
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Each of these. libraries has Daris is a popular pastime, and sometimes a keen team of guests, different contents, offers a differ- after practising on the lawn, will ent service, and in the absence
of full Public Library services--| visit a public-house and play a match against the locals. Every each fulfills perhaps one part of
dance, and wid
wider community Wednesday there is a
The meeting will we have the testimony of Doreen Hong Kong. Way that these dances
proceed to a general discursion of this broader question, and tr sprightly a wall powers. p- therefore called under the
I met Doreen in a milk bar ing. "Library Facilities and Libr. near the Iitle Inner harbourary Problems in Hong Kong." where the newly painted boats
and no
Bre
In from the Devon seas. Yes, she
-MORRISON ON ELECTION DATE
of
All interested members of the ride the minutest swell that steals public, and representativen
other organisations having libra- could tell me the way to America res, are invited to attend. Lodge. She told me a good deal about the guestä,
too. Wonderful peoplo, she calls them. Every day some of them
the journey down manko
tho steep hillside to have coffee at her table. They grow to be friends, and when she has watched the miraculous contagion of con- fidence for three months. and seen the stricken people gain in poise and serenity, then they go for ever. Seaside friendships are like that.
Huddersfield, June 10. The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, said here today that he had no idea wher Britain's next general election would be
held.
"But I cannot be a terribly long time away," he added.
Tom Drake told me something of his plans. He and his wife Mr. Morrison said 'a' genero will soon be taking over the election may be pushed on us a' near-by Manor House, which will of a sudden." But as far as. ho add 40 beds to the 27 at America know, "not even the Prime Min- Lodge. They will keep poultry fater knows when it will be." there, and the men guests are Reuter.
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ONLY WHEN NECESSARY East discarded a diamond. Now Ho IF YOU were asked when an his contract was hopeless. able rubber bridge declarer de- discarded his last diamond on the and pends on the probabilities as to heart 10, but West ruffed distribution of a suit
suit, the best scored two clubs, to beat him.
Soutly could have protected answer is likely to be "only when necessary." In answer to the
the 3-1 trump ense against question of when he refuses to split easily. After winning the depend
on the probabilities, you lub return to the third.
trick, he can say "whenever he can u should have scored the spade
1 J. It a method of play which succeeds and A, then led the heart even if the suit is distributed un- East held up the A, the club 3 favourably," In other words, the thould have been discarded, fol- soundest procedure is that whicllowed by the heart 10, ruffed high works in spite of unlucky breaks. i Enst played the A and bring-
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