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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 29TH, 1926 肆拜雞

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

LE A.M. Noor

... Dep. 6,40 9,15 10.50 11.40 12,00 ...Dep. 8.30 9.24 10.39

9,95 10,51

Dep. 7.18 9.49 11.04

Sheungehui

3.11 5.94 6.19 7.49

Kawlcon...

35 3.39 7.10.

Yanmati...

12.09

1.44 5.89 7.19

Bhatin Tripo

Dep 7,02

19.21

2.43 |£.56 |3,51 İ7.31.

19.34

Taipo Market

Dep, 7.21 9.53 11.08

12.98

1.56 5,096,047,44 9.00 5.13 6.08 7.48

Fanling 2)

Dep, 7.33 10.0311,18

19,43

Dep. 7.36 10,07 11,22

12:59

Shumahan

... Art, 7,42 10.1311.28 12.20 12.68|

3.15 5,28 5.23 8,02 3.91 6,84 6.29 18,08

P.M.

1.X.

T

Shamokax

1.56

9.00

-8,07 4,24 8,00

311

5.24 6.19

8.201 4.99 8.25 442 —————|— 3.88 | 4.56 3.50 6.09 2.37 8,58 5.16

5.34 6,29 5.99 6.33 -5.5118,45 6,03 6,59 6.11

7.08

Sheungshui-

Fauling... Taipo Market

Tipo Shatin

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Yaumati... Kowloon...

بكتيف

Dep. 7,21 8.05 10.38 11.40 Dep. 7,298.12 10.45-11,42 Dop. 7,32 8.18 10.49 11.51 Dep. 7,42

8.26 10.59 12.02 ...Dep. 7.45 8.30 11.04 12.07 Dep. 7.598.43 11:17-1991 Dep. 812 8.35 11.09 12.33 Arril 8,20 9,03 11,37 12,41

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYS, STATIONI

AM

T.X. F.M Fanling ...Dep. 7,45 11.30 2.20 6.25 Bhatankok...Art. 8,40 1235 $.15 7.20

STATIONS

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, LX. 1. 2. P.M Fauling ...Dop, 7,45 11.30 8.40 6.25 Shatankok...Art, 8.40 18.25 416 7.20

4.17 5.18 6,08

7.34

WEEK DAYS, STATIONS, Bhatankok...Dep. 8.30 10.15 1.08 5.00 Fanling ...A 7.25 11.10 200 5.55

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYE,

STATIONA

LX, AM-FM 2.3

Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10,18 205 5,00 Paaling Art 7.95. 11.10 8.00 6.35:

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SOME OF THE ARCHITECTS? DIFFICULTIES.

RECENT STRUCTURES.

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PEERESS'S BILL LOST.

ADVERSE VOTE OF 4.

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號九廿月七年五十國民華中

MASONIC CHARITIES.

BENEVOLENCE IN 1926~~

RESULTS OF FESTIVALS,

The total gesult of the three festivals of the Masonic central institutions for A FEW REFLECTIONS REGARDING Viscount Astor, to enable peeresses in 1920 is highly satisfactory, although it their own right to sit in that Assembly. is lower by £79,702 than that for 1993. A similar measure was denied a second Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, M.P., reading inst session by two votes only.

who presided at the first festival, that The Chamber was crowded, and many of the Royal Masonic Benevolent In peerases were in their own galleries stitution, is Provincial Grand Master for Supporters of the bill contended that the Cumberland and Westatorland, one of only issue raised was the continuance or the smallest provinces in the English Normally towns are built in otherwise-of-the-sox-disqualification as jurisdiction, numbering-only-36-ledges. it applied to the House of Lords. Op but the province was represented by no ponents, on the other hand, represented fewer than 217 stewards, who brought of individual ladies, who possessed po the bill as a proposal to admit 'a score

up a total of £11,500. special qualification to share in the legis lation of the country.

The architect's task must be an extremely difficult one in Hongkong, for nowhere else has the designer of build- ings to compete to such a degree with

nature.

fairly wide plains, where the works, or the creations of man, stand out, or at least have the chance of standing out, conspicuously, to be admired without being swallowed up by a dominating background of nature's creation. I Hongkong buildings placed against the Peak are merged into it and are lost; their proportions are dwarfed, for the eye must, in contemplating them, con- tinue the outline of the building into the background above and find that, of the building and the background, the latter exerts the greater visual and aesthetic

attraction.

Such would be the impression one would get in viewing the buildings of the Peak from the other side of the harbour. The architect must take the nature of his surroundings into conside- ration when he is designing and we, of Hongkong and the peninsula, imagine he has greater scope on the Kowloon side than on this side of the harbour.

There was a good deal of excitement in the crowded Chamber when the figures of the division were being awaited, and when they became known opponents of the bill expressed their satisfaction in cheers.

which seemsete have been conceived at a time when an eye had to be given to economy-economy of space, not of money for the new office in Shanghai would seem to indicate that there, was difficulty not in getting but in spending, so lavish is the provision for the bank's needs up

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Masonic Institution for Girls, had to be abandoned, owing to the general strike. Lord Kensington, Provincial Grand Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances Master for the Western Division of

of Hongkong.J South Wales, represented a province which has been badly hit in the recent is, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL TEL: 75 CENTRAL. labour troubles. It is also a small pro-

[01 vince, numbering only 15 ledges, yet, despite these difficulties, it was repre- sented at the small gathering which met WHY

a dinnerless meeting on the day ap- pointed for the festival by 130 stewards, who brought a total of £1,098, an average of flodge, from 1,367 mem- bers. Labour troubles also found their Again in order to get a view of a build.

echo in the recent festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, yet Derby- Hing in Hongkong it is generally necessary to look up at it vertically from its base

shire was able to send up a contribution of £25,311 from. 987 stewards. The total or down upon it through its roof. Neither

Soine famous architect stated in of these methods show off a building in London the other day that modern build from the three festivals for the present its just proportions, and so it never ings were nothing more than cubes with rear, amounted to £310,928 from 10,568 Eccures. just appreciation. Where the holes punched in them. This, of course, the diffculties are taken into considera stewards, a notable performance when all ground is most level as, say near the is eminently true of many of our Hortion. Regard must also be paid to the fact ferry, the upturned eye sees not the fine kong buildings-they are not beautiful, architectural beauty, if it exists, of the they are useful. Yet in a way although building, but through a slit in the sky a private person must be granted the line between the tall buildings it catches right of erecting buildings according to a particularly fine view of the summit of his needs, so long as he satisfies the co- the Peak It is that agair which attracts ditions of the ordinance, it is now coming the attention and holds it, distracting ifto be recognised that he must expect from any thing which the architect a public criticism if his taste offenda to created. In fact the chief charm of the seriously, for the public cannot avoid buildings or the Peak is that they afford secing a bad building, as they can a bad windows, on which the sun glints during play or a poor book. A building may the day like so many heliographs, or that be private property but it ought not to they provide lights at night, which be a public eresore. There is a tendency London, as usual, figures largely in the mark its outline. The buildings do not to construct new buildings now withoce 1926 results, accounting for £96,411 of dominate the landscape but are entirely verandahs in order to provide more space the total and for 6,130 stewards, mere subordinate to it.

on the side walk hut it is doubtful who than half the total number. Derbyshire ther the advantages so gained outweigh is well away at the head of the list with the disadvantages. The Hongkong wea- £25,510, and the province of Cumberland ther is either too hot, too wet, or too and Westmorland is second with £11,505 to its credit. Essex, the third province glaring and the verandah provides pleasing protection against all It fur-on the list, is represented by £8,511, but ther enables one to contemplate the the members of that province are re- wares displayed in the shops, at leisure serving themselves for the 1929 festival and makes a tour of the shops in the of the Royal Masonic Institution for central part of the town a joyous adven. Girls, at which the Provincial Grand ture. Again the verandah for house Master, Lord Lambourne," is to preside. is the first line of defence against wind, Then, in decreasing order of amounts, rain and sun, To build houses without follow:-- In spite of these dificulties some pleas-

Kent, £5,253 (£700 more than fast ing effects have been achieved. The them as has been done recently is to Law Courts are sometimes criticised ad expose the main body-the family to rear); South Wales Eastern Division, versely. Critics want the building lifted these unpleasant features, for, unlike £4,774; South Wales Western Division, up with a fine flight of steps as a grand England, we do not get these things in £1,100; North and East Yorkshire, imposing entrance. But the building is moderation. Only those who dwell in £3,130; Hertfordshire, £3,088; Berkshire, quite imposing as it is, a classic design houses with verandahs, that afford 80 £2,830; Middlesex, E2,825 Warwickshire, in keeping with the importance of the many conveniences, about which they 22,C79; Surrey, £2.880; Nottinghamshire, function which is discharged within seem to become" unconscious, are entha £2,329; Somerset, £9,126; and. Monmouth- True it has a curious sort of roof, while siastic about recommending their friends shire, with only 18 lodges £2,307. the attachment of the light to it for the to dispense with them in building. It is purpose of showing the position of the safe to say where a choice exists that the cables in the harbour is practical orrooms-in-a-house-least used are the utilitarian but somewhat incongruous. It rooms-without-n-verandah. So the new suggests a further extension of the roof buildings of the A.P.C., the Bank of

Leicestershire and Rutland, Cornwall, for the purpose of drying the domestie China and the Bank of Canten offer no

inducement to linger leisurely beneath East Lancashire, Staffordshire, Bucking- washing,

them. One avoids them. Moreover, they hamshire Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, THE CENOTAPE.

appear to be somewhat naked and glar Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Oxford- The Cenotaph occupies a fairly opening. It is never safe to ignore or defy shire, Sussex, West Yorkshire and West site, a condition in Hongkong somewhat fold customs and traditions. The com Lancashire. rare, but the Cenotaph was constructed fart and convenience of the pedestrian Below £1,000, also in decreasing order, to stand in the middle of Whitehall, and shopper ought not to be lightly pars comparatively narrow thoroughfare and ed over.

Northamptonshire and Huntingdon. was designed by Lutyens to run, na it

shire, Dorset, Cambridgeshire, Worcester-Tr. Kowloon No. 3. Tol Ad: "PALACE THE UNIVERSITY.

shire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, were, with the narrowness of the street- hence its oblong nature. It is to be The standard, however, of the taste of Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Guernsey and Three Minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry wondered whether Lutyens, had he been community and the value it attaches Alderney, Devonshire, Herefordshire, Wharf and Railway Station, asked to design a war memorial specially to things of the spirit is shown not se Durham, Jersey, Northumberland, Shrop for this site in Hongkong, would have much in the quality of its business pec-shire, North Wales, Bristol, and Isle of

Entirely under English Management Elektrid Light and Fans Throughout." given us, for a fairly open space, & de mises (except in Paris) as in that of Man.. sign which he intended for a narrow one. those which serve a public or semi-public One pleasing feature ol. the lists is

EVERY ROOM WITH PRIVATE BATH, Probably not. Still it is a thing of purpose. The Law Courts have been that every province in the English beauty but it requires flags to brighten mentioned. They are pleasing in their jurisdiction is represented. The foreign

Lounge, Bar and Billiard Booms, Vorival it up, and make it alive. Owing to its classic beauty and form a striking constations contributed nearly £3,500. ed Coimme under the personal impervision of brightness and conspicuous position it trast with the headquarters of the Ad-

the Proprietress. inevitably invites comparison with the ministration which are neither dignified, more solemn and sombre, memorial in adequate nor architecturally worth look London of which it is in dimensions nading at Shanghai or a fifth rate town in design an exact replica

THE LAW COURTS.

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This last was undoubtedly a gallant effort to support the neighbouring pro- vince of South Wales Western Division Between £2,000 and £1,000, in decreasing. order, are:

are:-

Both the Girls and the Boys' Institu- tions are committed to large expendi- tures. It will shortly be necessary to re- move the former from Clapham Junction Canada can do better than this. The to a more remote position, while the University with its mixed styles perched foundation of the new Junior Bere NEW STRUCTURES:-

on the slope makes a brave attempt to School at Bushey will entail à consider. add dignity to the western part of the ably larger annual expenditure. The. The boom in trade following the war was beginning to reflect itself in the Colony. Ita yellow and red colouring is Benevolent Institution has also increased stately structures which were being erect somewhat flamboyant and one always the annuities payable to both aged. Free ed, not in brick, all stuccoed over, but suspects yellow plaster in this Colony masons and widows. The call of the of covering some inferior brick work. The Masonic Peace Memorial Fund has not in solid granite. A margin was being pillars of granite are perhaps too slender yet been satisfied, and at least a further found to satisfy the aesthetic sense after and too numerous but on the whole with £200,000 is required. There is also a the utilities had been catered for. The its tower and broad facade, it presents fourth institution, the Freemasons Hos new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Build from the harbour an imposing appear pital and Nursing Hozie, which has to ing is solid and satisfactory but is int ance, The founders were evidently be maintained and which does not make striking constraat with its parent who determined, that whatever else the Uni- an annual appeal to the Craft. Already it does not resemble one little bit.. Inversity might lack, the main building bad in seven years it has far outgrown, its fact one suspects its paternity: The to be a prominent feature, on the land- accommodation, and, reluatantly, the ample proportions of its mother extendscape and announce the fact that it was Committee are compelled frequently to ing leisurely from Des. Voeux Road to not an ordinary everyday structure to turn away urgent cases on account of Queen's Road with the fine open stretch keep out wind and rain, but a Univer lack of room. Within a short time an in front to afford space for admiration aity that, although it might not have enlargement scheme will be placed before will never belong to the new offspring, funds, would not too publicly proclaim English Freemasons, and this will en-

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