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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20th, 1928.

LETTERS ON LEAVE.

NO. IL

- CONTAINING AMONG OTHER VERACIOUS MATTERS A

TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF PENANG...

FIBRE PACKING

CASES.

SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRA-

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MR. J. DA ROCHA'S ENTER- PRISE.

An unusual demonstration Wa

Once upon a time there was an Shops The subject is a sore. Imp who received promotion and one, as thanks to a corifounded became an Arch-Imp. and as such festival our berth was not ready had the control of a ward in the and we had to lie off in the Har Infernal regions. He carried on for bour from 10.30 a.m. until 1,p.m. about a week and then he went Result--all shops shut and до along to Beelzebub and said, "Look friends to be located in their offices. here, what about this new district The shopping question did, not made yesterday before representa- of mine 1 Of course. I know the perhaps matter so much as the tives of the various shipping lines scenery is lovely, and "my-er-guests Penang slipps are not very good.to prove the superiority of patent are perfectly charming. But the Singapore beats them and the local bre packing cases over the usual elimate Hell's Hell, of course, but patriots of Hong Kong may be glad wooden box, damn it all this is a bit too hott "to learn that the Hong Kong shops

Mr. J. da Rocha is the local And the Devil said, "Well, you are vastly above the Singapore ones. koow, you can't exactly expect Really, some one ought to tell John agent for this new form of packing Winter Sports, but anyway I'll have Little that a fan or two at each case which has, however, been in a look at it." So he rame round end, of the very large first Toor is use' in the United States for the one day and after about five minutes about as much, use as a snowflake past three years. The demonstra- he said, "You're perfectly right! in Penang Another large firm had tion was staged in his office with This is a bit too thick even for no lift! And they haven't even the the object of convincing local Gehenna! You had better" gå on excuse of six months cold weather! shippers of the reliability of fibre the waiting list for a job and l']} However, the stay there was not cases, since they had been until send this section up to earth." And very long and we are away for to-day officially banned here. so he did, and the name of it is Colombo.. I haven't mentioned our

Two packages of fire crackers onç now Pulo Penang or Georgetown.

gallant vessel before. She is, how: enclosed in a wooden and the other Seriously, there is something parti- ever, the most comfortable of the cularly overpowering about the heat

P. & O's running to the Far East

in a fibre ease were thrown from

third stores window, and were

no-

cases are both waterproc and fire-

of Penang. It has Singapore beaten and even when one is travelling to a frazzló for sheer steamy pene with two small children and no examined when they landed by re- tration. There was, on the day I nurse one is comfortable, if worried, presentatives of the shipping firms was there, a magnificient sea breeze Of course, one has one's worries-and of the press. It was found that blowing very freshly from the one of which is the bugler-fellow the woodep. box was lompletely north. The tide was in and the who lets off loud and pucous mashed and the packages of fire wayes were splashing over the front shricks as ear as possible to crackers which it contained, badly sen wall. But apart from this one nervous children, or as close as torn.

The abre case, on the other pot the hent wrapped one in an maybe to the time when they are hand, had sustained little or no invisible mantle of misery..

just going to sleep o'nights. But damage and its contents were It is an awful pity because it what will you my masters! The injured. It was also demonstrated really is a most charming place. parents aren't the only "people" oa The bungalows are delightful even board and the others have a right by Mr, da Rocha that those fibre prettier than in Singapore-and are to be warned of their meals, etc.! very comfortable to live in. The There is, however, one type of proof, place has much the same garden suffer so patiently and that is the

It appears that during the strike city look as is noticeable in most energetic idiot who calls meetings and boycott Mr. da Rocha went to of the bigger towns in the F.M5.- and suggests Sports Committees. America to arrange for a supply fcertainly this applies also to They take entire control. Parents

bave little time but they do get of packing cases, and there he made Kuala Lumpur). And the amen a chance to dance for a few minutes the acquaintence of these fibre con- ities of residence have recently been after dinner. But if I don't come tainers which are produced by the improved enormously by the com- to pay thirty shillings for two or Fibre Board Paper Products Co. in pletion of a sort of Peak Tramway three dances and the privilege of which leads to a hill station about having my children chivied off the San Francisco. He ordered a big 1,800 feet up." Whether or no it face of the deck by unskilful stock, but learnt subsequently that wielders of the leck quoit, ar will ever develop into a residential brilliant toreadors of the bull-board their use had been banned by the district like the Peak in Hong Kong Don't misunderstand me. Fremains to be seen.

The only

nuisance on board that I do not

in I can't do this. Therefore I have

Deck Hong Kong Shipping Board.

lent, but the frenzied endless series

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serious difficulty will be the waste games played as games are excel- Mr. da Rocha was, however, deter-' of time in getting to and from one's of compétitions that not à tenth of mined not to be beaten, and he office. But I am told that plans are in hand for a system of roads the passengers really enjoy simply packed a shipment of fo crackers up on the top, and at the station get my goat. I'm all for the "com about half way up, where there are

there's no doubt whatever that the matting covers, and under mune bonum," of course. But in fibre containers disguised by a good few bungalows in building.

The climate conditions at the top driving force consists of about 10

this

I gather-(I did not have time to per cent. of the passengers who camouflage they were shipped to go up) very much resemble those get their way through the general San Francisco by the ss Takaoka on our Penk. It will be interest-apathy of the mase. Probably, how-

ing to see if they send a man up to ever, a special punishment awaits Maru on December 27th and the 16ok into the questions which arise them in the Hereafter. Apparently. Taiyo Heru on January 8th. in the Peak district. He would I am getting a liver. I must take learn a good few tips both what some exercise, Farewell

to copy and what to avoid.

SAMPAN BOY'S BAD MONEY.

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ENGLISH-CHINESE PAPER FOR HONG KONG.

GRADUATE OF TALE AS ENGLISH EDITOR.

A petition is being filed to-day in the office of the 'Becretary, for Chinese Affairs for the registration

The goods were received by Mr.

da Rocha in. San Francisco on February 11th in good condition and he invited the Shipping Board in that City to examine them immed- iately. Those gentlemen agreed that the goods (fre crackers) were not only in good condition but were less damaged than they would have been had they been sent in the ordinary wooden casca.

It was pointed out by Mr. da" of the China Tribune is a limited Rocks that fibre cases have still company under the Hong Kong further advantages over wood. Their Companies Ordinance of 1911-1915.

The petitioners, among whom are cost is a little less; they are less prominent merchants and news-hulky which means a saving on paper men of this city, propose to freight over a big shipment; the publish a new paper partly ia English, but chiefly in Chinese. ItU.S. customs duty on fire crackers will be called China Tribune; ita is 8 cents gold per lb, which means a very considerable saving as there Chinese name being "Tai Tung."

It will be independent," "non- partizan and devoted to the pro-was a difference of 4 lbs. weight motion of the best interesis of the between the two small boxes used Chinese people..

in yesterday's demonstration; and

A young sampan. boy who at- tempted to tender a counterfeit 20- cent coin appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis tracy yesterday morning.

The young boy bought a piece of sugar cane for which he handed the hawker a 20-cent piece. The hawker at once declared the coin was a fake and during the argument which enaued a watchman came up.

He decided to search the boy and in his pockets be found two 20-cent and fire 10-cent pieces all of which were bad. In one pocket he also found two 10-cent pieces which were genuine He then arrested the boy. of Yale of the class of 1887, will be since fibre cases can be folded flat At the Magistracy yesterday the its English editor. He has written they are returnable and can be used boy told the Court that he did not extensively for men was over and over again.

papere and magazines, and. can know that the 20-cent pieces were point to fifteen years' experience

Each fibre case is submitted to "a bad. He knew that the 10-cent in journalian. Prior to his coming 900 lbs. per square inch resistance pieces were bad but intended mak-here last August, he gave up his test before it leaves the factory.

Among other interested spectators vear of the reign of the King of The Magistrate thought it been employed for nearly nine years. the following were present at the

Mr. Wong Yew Kung, who has

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perpetual use in the temple of the tendered the bad 20-cent piece when dicate the note of the bell, he had two genuine coins and Shang, the second of the are crdered the lad to receive 12 strokes musical notes of the Chinese scale, with a rattan The coins are to and the south side of the temple, be destroyed.

mu," where the bell was hung, Professor Vocea thinks it must have formed part of a chime of five balls of different notes, which were used at the ceremonies in honour of an- cestors.

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lacsi Chinese papers during the of the C.P., T. B. Wilson of last thirty years and is highly Dollar and Admiral Line, Uremura esteemed by the Chincie com of the N.Y.K., Hirose of the O.S.R., manity, will be Chinese editor.

The managing director of the G. B. Lagyan and F. A. Mackintosh company is Mr Hee Sing Cheng, of the Blue Funnel Lise, V. M. 2. well educated young man with Grayburn of the Hong Kong and business interests in Hong Kong and San Francisco.ne

Bhanghai Bank, and Mr. Mencarini Mr. Yeung Shun Hang, the assista retired commissioner of the Chi- ant manager of the Moonraker

nese. Custeras. Motorboat Co., Ltd, is treasurer,

A Franciscan missionary, Padre Vaysseori, has presented the Mis sionary Intitute at Bergamo with valuable Chinese bell, dating from the sixth century B.C., which was given to him by a Chinese general whose life he saved after the de-

It was incorrectly stated in dest of his troops at Hankow.

Padre Vavassori says that his yesterday's Daily Press that im The bell is inscribed with strange friend gave it to him, saying:** Do privates of the Queen's Regiment characters and emblems, which have not look at the roughness of the had recently been convicted of been interpreted by the orientalist, work. We know it is very old and window breaking. The men in Professor Vaccs. They state that very precious, and that it goes back question belonged to another Commercial and Savings Bank the bell was cast in the fifty-sixth to many centuries before Christ," military unit.

The company has, oponed a temi As a result of the demonstration porary office at 144, Des aux the shipping community bava with- Road Central, over the National drawn all objection to the use of where information can be obtained. these fibre packing cases.

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The Upshot of the struggle is still uncertain but the Nationalists have obtained big initial successes. The Shantung front is severely menaced by Feng Yu Hsiang's advance towards Yenchow, while the temporary success of a diversion by Sun Chuan Fang in the rear of the Nationalist main army has been abruptly brought to an end.

Another Piracy by the Bias Bay gang has to be

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