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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED '1857.

No. 21,297.

骏七拾九百弍千登高弍第

日卷初月九年寅丙

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926 41

FACING FIFTY IN

HONGKONG.

PERMANENT TRADE EXHIBI TION.

SCHEME FOR SHANGHAI.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

NOOR

8.40 9.15 10:30 11.40 12.00 1.15 435 650] 9245,30,39

32,09 154 4 833

(732)-9.38) 10/51

185 455 5,51

Kowloon..

Yaumati...

Shatin

“Tuipo

Fanling

Sheangskri

Shumchun

5.39

3,254,49 5.38 6.33

12.21

13.04

1934 1:40 8.00

Tipo Market

Dep. 741

0.33 11.08

12.58

153 815

6,08

7.82 10,03 11.18

12.49

2,03 5.94 0.3s

Dep.

7,86 10.07 11.02

1932

407 6.28

(A1, 17.42) 10,18 11.28′ 1920

12.58

FM.

Shanahan

7,21

8.05 10.39 110

1.56

8,00

Sheangahni

7.28

BLR 10,45 11,47

8,07

Fanling

8.16 10:49 11,51

2.11

Tipo Karkat

7,12

· 2.78 | 10,59 |. 12.03 |

117 6.18 0.06 1375.00 CLE 5.24 0.19 4.38 3.34 8.99

alpo

7,48

8.30 11,04 12,07 |

Shatin

7.59

8,48) 1117) 12.91

Yannat....

8.12

8.35 | 11.29|| 18,9

Kowloon...

Art. 8.90 - 2,03) 11,57) 1241) 2,37

8.38 4.568,516,46 8.50 5.08 3,58 816

6.09 6.38 6117,08

Noor

Kowloo

„Dap: 6,10 8.85 9.15 10,50| 11,40| 12,00

9.23

Yaametire

Dap 6,50

9.24 10.39

Skatin

Dep. 7,03

9,36 10,51

Taipo

...Dep.

..Dup

9.58 11.06

„Dap 7.88

10.03) 11.18

Dep 7,86

9.17 10,07 11.99

7,42

9.18 10.18 11.28 | 13,20 19.53

7.16 12.00 2.31 5.38 7,39 19.21

7.31 2.45 8.51 12.84 258 6.05744 8,00-6 719 12.43 8.11 €20 7,58 19.53 815 6,24 8.09 6,30 8.06 19,531 8,21 |

·P.X..

417 3.30

4.246.27

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS"

*9.49 11,04

Taipo Market

Taling

Shrungahzi

Skurdaun

Dep. 812 10.83 11,40-1568,00 Dep 8,19 10.45 11.7

128

Skumabas

Skaungakui

Tenirit eor

...Dap. 8.23 10.49 11.51

Taipo Market

Dep 8.33 10.6912,02 Dop! 8,87 11,04 1907

3.21

4.83

442

Shatin

3.38

4,56

8.50 5.07

Tanmafie. Kowloda...

PASIRES

Dept -8.51

B61 17417.12.31

Dep 9.08 11.29 1283

099**

546

018

6.20

4.01

6.30

6.06

6.34 6.186,47 6.30 0.59 7,07

8.58 5.35 6.04 639

931 11.87 13,41 -2.97

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYE. ANO AN

Fanling Dep. 745 11 20 625 Shatankok.Arr, 8.40 12.25 835 7.20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO KOI JATH.

RADION

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1 KM PAG

Fanling Dep. 7,4 11,20 8.20 6.25 Bhatankok....ATT, 8.40 12,25 115. 7,90

AX

WEER DAYE

Sastankok...Dep. 4.50 10.15 1.06 5.00

AT 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.5 Fanling SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

STAZIONE,

Shatankok....Dep. 6.30 1018 205 535 Fanlingar. 7.35 11.10 8.00 6.10 Further information may be obtained at the Battwat Offiunt, Kowloon, är fram. Masaze. Tros, Coox & Sex, Las, Homexore, or from Tax Axxiidan ExPain Con- PANY, HONGKONG,

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H. P. WINSLOW, Manager,"

HONGKONG, CANTON

STEAMERS.

A FEW "BIRTHDAY!

· REFLECTIONS.

(Contributed.}

It came upon me quite suddenly the other day the thought that in a few months the two-score-years-and-ten tally will be chalked up against my name by old Father time and anyone else who takes an interest in my life.

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It suddenly dawned upon me "If forty is quite old? what is filty to be labelled What does she call me to her contem poraries- aa ancient." OT simply. a

senile old fool' or

what is the proper label "

IF YOUTH BUT KNEW, They are polite (when they remember) in our presence, the youth of to-day. The males call us Sir" and we like if because we suppose that it is a proof of their respect for us. In actual fact many of them regard us as a nuisance-barriers to progress and promotion:

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MERCHANTS,

Two hundred and fifty delegates from Mr. L. S. Regine, a prominent business all parts of the country attended the an man in Peking, China, is on a visit tonual conference of the Municipal Tram- Great Britain, says the Daily Telegraph, ways Association, which opened at Liver- in connection with a project for the pool on September 8th. establishment of a permanent Interna

Mr. Fergy Priestly, the president (gen- tional Trade Exhibition in the Far East, eral manager, Liverpool Tramways), De to be located at Shanghai. The main pur-cupied the chair, and in his presidential pose of the visit is to interest British address said the number of passengers

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It was young twenty-two, with the Chambers of Commerce, and business carried by the tramways in Great Bri shingled hair and the directness of speech houses having dealings in the. Far Easttain last year was 4,620,000,000, or 165 of her generation who really set me think-in the scheme, which as already received per cent more than did the railways ing. We had been chatting in a casual the approval of many of China's leading No critic had conceived the cost and manner and it seemed to me that, the statesmen.

affects of substituting for tramways any conversation had been running smoothly. Explaining the project. in detail to other known method of conveying by It was after dinner and that may excusa representative of the paper, Mr. Regine, road over 100 times each year every man, the conceit that made me suppose that who has been in Peking for twenty years, woman, and child in the kingdom. ahe was interested in my endeavours to said that the average Chinese merchant, Despite unfair conditions, tramwaya 15, Queen's Road Central. Tri. Carrtal 15. keep abreast of the times. All went well until he had seen a pattern or sample, were unsurpassed for the cheap convey until we discussed an individual "Oh! and could handle it, measure and weighance of great masses of the population in She must be quite old; something quite it, or in the case of machinery see it work industrial areas. Local authorities who as old as forty I should say, remarked og was reluctant to place orders-The operated tramways should have the necos"" Miss Twenty-two,

ezhibition would furnish a selling service, sary powers to run motor-bus or trokey" - and would maintain a staff of interpreters, vehicle services to connect up the differ- with the management in the hands of ent tramway routes, and also to serve representative business men.

as feeders to tramways by operating in On the subject of China's trade"Mr. areas adjacent to the tramway termini. Begine pointed to the remarkable in They should be allowed to join up with creases in both imports and exports the transport systems of neighbouring during recent years, despite the disturbed authorities by providing tramcar, trolley conditions brought about by political vehicle, or motor-bus services. Referring unrest and civil strife. From some to the General Strike, he said relations 923,000,000 taels (38. 3d.) in 1814, he said between the tramway authorities and the total volume of trade rose to 1,876,300 their employees were undermined by the in 1893, an increase of nearly 80 per cent. latter treating the national agreement as Under normal conditions trade should a scrap of paper. If agreements were to have trebled. British interests in be treated so lightly, it would have to be China," be added, "are very large, and seriously considered whether it was not The curious thing is that it seems im not many realise their magnitude. A futile to enter into national, agreements.

£400,000,000, of which about 10 per cent. "old" Seventy, or, in some cases even is in Chinese Government securities

No New Tramways Likely, sixty-five, but not fifty. Not even sixty British ships carry 37 per cent. of China's Mr. Alfred Baker, general manager, when a man may hope to retire and enjoy foreign trade, and represent 30 per cent Birmingham Corporation Trams, dealing of the tonnage employed in China's ports, a well-earned leisure. Mr. Baldwin is Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, and with the subject of road passenger, tranë- years past fifty and he runs the Empire. Poland are making a fair bid for China's port, said the slogan of scrap the Mr. Gladstone was, perhaps, unusual to trade, and not without success.

was invented and fostered by preciated currency helps them to a cer- be doing the same sort of thing when he tain extent, but it is mainly their efforts people interested in other methods of was past eighty, yet there are others.... that are responsible for it. America's traction. Until traffic thoroughfares trade in China from January to October could be widened much could be done to All of these cases fade into insignific-of last year was nearly double what it improve congestion by having by-pass ance when the artless words and the tone was for the same period of 1024

So much is heard on this side of the methods of traffic. of firm conviction used by Miss Twenty-warring factions in China that people do should have imposed upon them the same Private operators two are remembered. She has given not seem to realise the amount of con- obligation with regard to fares, services, verdict that no other words, not even structive work that is going on," added and cheap fares for the working classes words from her own lips, can cancel. It Mr. Regine. Notwithstanding her trou as were imposed on municipal statutory bles, China to day is more solvent than undertakings. The speaker declared that was a spontaneous and, from her, point a great many countries of Europe or Asia. undoubtedly the future development of of view, a nakedly truthful statement. ItHer national debt does not exceed 10s passenger road transport lay with double- per capita. Except from those who are decker six-wheeled motor-'ouses, having s will always stand.

paid for it, there is no anti-foreign feel carrying capacity of sixty five to seventy Well, what about if The allottating The bulk of the population, especi passengers. There was no doubt that span for a man is three score years and ally, the merchant class, rely upon the six-wheeled buses possessed many advan-

foreigners for protection, and flock to the tages over the four-wheeled type. ten. There are still twenty years more foreign concessions for safety against the would be a bold man who would prophesy Tea, at least, of them must be spent in militarista and their followers.

the future of road passenger transport. One could only judge by portents of the Hongkong. Are they to be years worth

times. There was, in his opinion, no living!

that could deal with the great density of public service vehicle at the present time traffe of large towns and cities so cheaply same time it must be stated that, beyond or expeditiously as the tramear. At the

no new tramways were likely to be con a few extensions of existing tramways, structed.

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Looking back on it all it seems absurd especially silly does that sublime faith to-day who does not possess it seems in oneself appear. And yet the youth of. fabby and spineless,

EXPERIENCE AND AMBITION It doesn't seem so long ago that the man who is now nearly fifty was twenty

That faith in oneself had its reactions. two What did he think then? It is only too true that he, also, believed in safe fifteen per cent. investment and

When a plausible friend" promised the slogan "too old at forty," He com-cleared off with the money it was evident plained to another and more sympathetic that mistakes in estimating one's fellow

man could be made. Miss Twenty-two that progress and pro motion were blocked by men who ought to have the decency to retire at forly He explained to that most wonderful Miss Twenty-two that long before he reached forty he would be auch A succeir at his job that he would have made way for the younger generation; he would be acting as a

a sort of benevolent Godfather to those wise enough to ask him for advice

When Shaw and others tore up by the roots faiths that had been planted in childhood; when it was apparent that the clergy were not infallible when the really horrible details of slum life had been seen when greed and avarice and worse bad revealed themselves as part then it became evident that the and parcel of human nature in the mass simple faith that is more than coronets " needs to be harnessed to humour and perhaps a little of what the parsons call. original sin ”—or an instinct of self- preservation.

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GUNS by W. W. GREENER WERLEY but any struggle is worth while that will ten years in than Hongkong. This is French and American. bring freedom from real anxiety about really a sociable spot and there is always money sisirs. The pleasures which at the bathing and Lennis and golf and... Air Rifles, and Ministure Rides,

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F] What about that last decade 1. "What scenery of Hongkong impresses itself upon shall we be thinking on the eve of sixty ↑ us more easily than it did long years ago. At any rate we appreciate Nature more in the autumn than in the spring time of

(Continued on nezt column.)

We shall be receiving congratulations because we are going home for good." ordeal. Let us, then, make the most of In our hearts we shall be dreading the

the next ten years and be grateful, that we are facing only hitys

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