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Kowlood...

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Taipo Market

Fanling Shoungehni

TIME TABLE:

WEEK DAYS

9.35 10.30 11.40113,00

A.M. Noor

Dep 3,40

Dap 6.50 9.24 10.39

19.09

15.99 $7.19

Dap. 7.16

Dep 7.02

9.36 10.51

19,91

9.49 11.04

19.84

9,56 5,096,04 17/

.Dep

9.69 11.08

19.39

...Dep. 7.33 10.09 11,19

12.49

Dap. 7.36 10,07 11.23

-12.53

8,00 5,186,08 (7,48 311 524 6.19 (1,48 3.15 6.29 6.23 (2,03. 3,215,34 6.29 19.06

1.58

8.00

457 5,18

PM. 8,08.

3,07

·4,24

5.20

-6,15

SIT

720

6.19

Dep.

7,42

3.21

4.38

5.34

6.29

-7.45 9,80 11,04 12.02

5,39

6,39

Bhatin

Dep. 7,59

8.45 11.17 12.31

3.39 4,58 5.51

8,48

Yaumali... Kowloon....

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Dap 8,12 8.20

8.55 11.29 12,83

8,50 5,08

6,03

6,58

9.03 11.37 12.41

2.37 8,58 5.16

8,11

-7.06

Shamchan

Shamchun.....

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Talpo Market

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Art. 743 10,18 11.29 1220 12.58

P.M. A.K. 8.06 10.88 11.40 Dep.) 7.21

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WEEK DAYS. STATIONS. Fanling ...Dep. 7,45 11.30 2.20 6.25 Shataukok...Art, 8.40 12.25 8.15 7.20

4.42

A.M

WEEK DAYS,

FM P.M. STATIONS, Shata kok...Dep. 6.30 10.15 1.05 5.00 Fanling A 7.23 11.10 2.00 5.55

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

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DIFFICULTY IN SELECTING SUITABLE FILMS.

TASK OF CATERING FOR ALL.

The action of the General Federation

The difficulty which the management of of Uniobs management committee the Hongkong Amusements, Ltd., experi-

Old memories were stirred by the ques-in rehning benefit in respect of the tion about road repairs asked by the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird at the meeting of the Legislative Council on Thursday.

The late Mr. Murray Stewart was a vigorous critic of the Public Works De- partment of this Colony "in the days of He Long ago before the Great War. complained on many occasions about the delay that took place whenever new road was being made or an old one was being repaired. He had to deal with a Director of Public Works who never hur ried about anything. He was not thin- skinned" and he was never "rattled.". His "masterly inactivity" used to make. the agile-minded Murray Stewart furious. Theofficial reply" was never really satisfactory, but it always promised that the "matter would be considered or that "every effort would be made," etc.

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ence in procuring, week in and week out general strike to all unions directly in-alas which are calculated to appeal to LIGHT volved in the miners' dispute was con- the Hongkong public, is emphasised in a Srmed by the federation's annual councilshort article in the current programme. meeting at Doret......

There were it votes against and only for a resolution submitted by the Boiler- makers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders to instruct the management committee to pay dispute benefit to the men.

The rule governing the payment of such benefit confines this to disputes in volving some alteration of wages, hours, or working conditions of the workers on whose behalf benefit is claimed.

Only one of the claimant unions, it was stated, satisfied this condition, its members being definitely connected with the mining industry, and theirs was the only case in which benefit was granted.

MORALE AFFECTED.

On one occasion Murray Stewart tabled & question about some road on the Peak Apparently the work had been suspended for months, and he wanted to know why The official answer, gravely delivered, by the Hon. Director of Public Works, was that owing to the dry weather during the winter it has been impossible to pro-serious effect on the morale of their men. ceed" or words to that effect.

bership and their relationship to the federation.

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Murray Stewart waited patiently, watching that road like a cat watches a mouse. After some months had elapsed and never a sign of animation anywhere near the road, he, for the second time,

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The article reads:- Three times a week, fifty-two weeks in the year, we-bavo-to-find pictures for the Queen's, every one of which must please the public (or at least a large portion of it) under pain of correspondence in the local papers denouncing us for our dis of good taste. regard of our patrons' desires or our lack

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And before starting to pick these one hundred and fifty-six Photoplays per anours, we know in ad [Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances vance, that the whale, industry has not

of Hongkong.] turned out in that space of time that number of first class pictures.

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Futting this on one side, however, our 15, QUEEN'S BOAD CENTRAL. TEL. ORAL 75. troubles would still be all before us, even if there were that number of árst-class films to choose from. The public taste changes both rapidly and unaccountably, and so we have either to think a little in advance or to get left occasionally` with excellent "pictures that there is no de mand for A few case in point. Once animal pictures were a big attraction, those that once packed the theatres are now far superior alms of this class to only shown at a heavy loss. The public

Mr. J. Hill in moving the resolution, said that the Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders had buoyed up their members with the hope that they would be entitled to a week benefit from or at any rate, the Hongkong public- that federation. Even that hope had no longer wants to see cow-boys on the screen aad in this sweeping condemnation now been taken away. This had had it includes any film that features riding on borschack, therefore even auch master- At one time the biggest drawing card we pieces as "The Pony Express" fall fat

bad was Miss Norma Talmadge and the weepier the story the more it was liked. Nowadays sadness is taboo and directors

dread of the day when John Barrymore have learnt that photoplays must have a happy ending. We live in constant decides to make Hamlet; for it is certain

Mr. J. Nicholson (Vehicle Builders), seconding the resolution, pleaded that warranted a wide and generous view of the circumstances of the general strike

the claim made.

Everyone thought that the Prime

tabled his question at the Legislative Minister was on the side of the miners, we shall see the Melancholy Dane embrac

Council. The friends of. Murray Stewart said “Now he's got 'em." However, at the meeting the Hon Director of Public Works get up and solemnly answered the query, owing to the wet weather during the summer it has been impes sible-to-proceed-with-the-road in quea- tion" As Macaulay more or less, said in the famous poem about 'Horatio, "Even the ranks of Tuscany could scarce forbear to "-grin! The dignified mem-- bors of the Legislative Council were in a state that reminded one of the paper bags blown up by children. All except Murray Stewart and the Hon. Director of Public Works. The former was simply speechless with astonishment. The latter, as always, seemed to be thinking of some abstract mathematical problem. ·

and even at the eleventh hour there waing Ophelia in the final close-up, with still hope that the influences at work wedding bells in the offing. would avert the threatened criais.

LARGEST SELECTION.-

The Queen's is fortunate in having the "KILLED IN ACTION."

largest selection of pictures to choose Many as were the difficulties that had from of any theatre in the East. Para- followed the general strike, the air had mount, Metro-Goldwyn, United Artists been cleared for genuine crade unionism with the cream of First National, Univer ranks prior to April?

What," he asked, "was dividing our sal and Warner Brothers are theirs for A council of the asking-all beautiful productions, action that has now been killed in action magnificently staged and with well-known on its own chosen field of battle. We shall stars in the casts. But still the choice now get along on surer grounds." is difficult, for there are two widely dif-

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Mr. H. E. Tree (Ship Constructors and Shipwrighta), appealing to the who think for themselves and those who anagement committee to reconsider the want their thinking done for them. And claims, said: "Lam sure there will never both are equally important, for without be another dose of this so far, as my the support of either, success would be executive are concerned. They are deter-impossible. For the former such aims as half decide their own fate in future zad Abraham Lincoln mined that the members of the union

"Woman of Paris," "The Nibelungs

are a boom; that is to say, they will not be called out while the light comedy drama is most except by their own ballot vote." Batisfying to the latter.

Mr. T. E. Naylor, Socialist M.P. fer

There are, fortunately, certain pictures Southwark, B.E.,, and a member of the whose appeal is universal and if there London Society of Compositors, opposing were more of these, our task would be There is another good story about poor the resolution, said: It is no use ·BAY-

easier. The comedies of Chaplin and Murray Stewart. Near his house on the ing this will never occur again. A week Lloyd; the romantic dramas of Douglas Peak was a small piece of land that was been equally emphatic in saying such a

before the general strike we should have Fairbanks; D. W. Griffith's and Cecil DeMille's-big-spectacular productions very steep. A local architect duly ap thing could never occur. You never please all classes and need to thought as to their selection. As our patrons are. plied for it as a building site. Murray know."..

aware, we show them all! Stewart was told about this and said that:

The most disappointing thing, perhaps, it was impossible to put a house there. The chairman (Mr. G. W. Birch-in catering for the public is to see how However, as soon as the architect had enough, Cotton Spinners) said that the little effect, nowadays, the one touch management committee, while feeling of nature has, that used to "make the obtained the site he went to Murray sympathy for the workers adversely whole world kin" Such films na “Are Stewart, told him of his plans, and point-affected by the strike, felt also that it You & Failure," "Welcome, Stranger," ed out that the suggested house would could say, in the words of Mr. James "How Baxter Butted In" have a whole- this is neither the time nor someness and a touch of humanity that Sexton, depreciate the value of Stewart's real- the place for heroics."

should render them acceptable to all dence quite a lot. He therefore was wil-

classes of cinema-goers. As a matter of fact, as far as Hongkong is concerned, ing to let Stewart have the land för a

they have very little drawing power. It consideration, etc. Stewart was furious England. It is, indeed, curious how many is a long lane, however, that has no turn- and told his tormentor what he thought hardy Scots prefer the soft life of London ing and when the time comes for such of him."

and the South of the Tweed to their appreciation, it is our hope that we shall pictures to receive their due need of In due course the house on the edge native heath. Perhaps they have enough be able to meet the demand. of a cliff was built. Whereupon the archi-"Scotch mist" on the Peak to last them sect was asked by a friend in the Cluba lifetime.

Cherahom became a member of Parlia what name was to be given to it.. "Crow's nest " and - -"' Skin-o'-your-meat and Murray was often to be seen teeth and various other names were in the London office of the Bank." It suggested.. "Ob no?" said the architect. is believed that he had a lot to do with. "I'm going to call it Naseby that was the Chinese-loans negotiated there. the battle where the Stewarts were badly defeated"

Towards the end of his life he had poor health. He visited Hongkong two or three years ago and soon afterwards he died.

Despite all that has been written above, Murray Stewart was a very likeable men

He was really a very fine type, with a

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"Only now, when I am leaving Europe, have I learned that London is really wonderful city, from which we have a great deal to learn. In the matter of window dressing, for instance, the big American storekeeper cannot afford to miss visiting London," said Mr. Joseph Charles Rans, president of the Lyons California Glace Froit

He commenced life in Hongkong (with keen sense of public duty. Perhaps his San Francisco.pany of

his brother who is now Bir Gershon experience in the local. Legislative Coup- Stewart) in the Hongkong and Shanghai cik killed any ambitions that he might Bank They became known as Jack have had for public life in Britaip. son's boys, for the Grand Old Man of Possibly be persuaded his brother to ask the Bank was very fond of them both questions in Parliament about the inertia They left the Bank counter for the of this or that Government department. broker's picksha and soon duly retired to He probably could not trust himself to

(Continued on next column.) listen to official replies.

Mr. Raas on July 12th bought, just it stood, the window display in the Lyons Corner House in Coventry-street, W

"On my nexs visis to Europe I shalt spend most of my time in London," he continued. It is a curious coincidence that my firm and that from which I have bought this wonderful window display are of the same name, for there is no connection whatsoever' between the firms.”

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