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This is the season when many well- meaning people begin to make good resolutions which they sincerely intead shall be faithfully cheerved as from the beginning of what is known as the New Year. That the majority of these resolutions very quickly resolve themselves into roadmaking material for that path which leads to a place said to be extremely uncomfortable does not matter. People in various parts of
the world have different ideas shout New Years. Thus what we call 1928 the Mohammedans call 1346-7 while to the Jews it is 5888-9, and
according to the Coptic calender
we
"HONG KONG & KOWLOON.
correspondence
*** 1925." In the
effect of this variation on arrange ments for annual conferences, ex- hibitions, etc., was that each year the date of the fixture must change if the days were to be the same, or the day must change if the date was fixed;
Here is a simple illustration of the effect on everyday business. There were 31 day's in October this rear and there were 31 in October last year, an apparent equality The sales for the 31 days this year were. say, £540; last year £520 an apparent increase of £90. But this year the month contained 5ve Mondays, Tuesdays. nod Wednes. days: last year it contained, five Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays. Therefore there were 27 working days this year to 26 last. so there no increase on the average daily sales. But, further, there was usually a regular variety in the amount of business done on each day of the week. so that a Saturday was not the equal of a Tuesday or a Wednesday, and so the average daily figure might not mean anything.
was
A solution of the calendar dif-
feulty was propounded by the League of Nations Committee on Calendar Reform in 1926. In their view, no advantage was to be gain- ed by any interference with the harmony of the civil year with the astronomical year. Leap Year, that was to say, would stand, and the beginning of the year must be January 1st. But the lack of cein aidence between the numerical and the nominal designations from year to year, the most serious defect in the calendar to-day, was easily re- morable. Without any interference whatever with the number of days in the year, we could have January. 1st of each year a Sunday and. in consequence, every day of each year bearing the same numerical and nomina designations from year to year by the simple act of giving one day any one day of the year-a special name (Year Day) other than a weck-day name. In theory the last day of the year was the most obvious for this pur- pose. but in actual practice it might be found more feasible to use December 25th for the day with the a political special name. point of view the question was what solution involved the least change
From
from established custom
the previous year.
Far East the old-style Chinese and Japanese calendars differed frem the Western method of calculation. hut China is following the example
It is worth while considering of Japan by falling into line with
some of the benchts a fixed yearly Occidental countries and observing
calendar would give. The proper January 1st as the beginning of a
comparison for business purpose new year. A cable from Nanking
was a period of the current year appearing elsewhere refers to the
with the corresponding period of With a fixed "encouraging observance by the Chinese people of the new method yearly calendar such periods, what- of reckoning. It will be many
ever their length, were truly com years before the old New Year day
parable because they would always. consist of the same number and the will cease to be celebrated: even in Japan the old-style date is still came kind of days. The loption widely observed among the country of thirteen months might, for some folk, and so it will be in China. minds, simplify the calendar, but Officially, however, January 1st it did not fix it. Its indivisibility into halves and quarters outweigh will be regarded in China-as in Western countries-as New Yeared the apparent advantages, espe
cially when by a few simple amend- Day, and now that this reform
ments of the present calendar we can be regarded as being accom-
chuld give twelve months with plished, it seems proper to consider. the next step. Everybody knows twenty-six working days in each, Once the calendar was fixed wo that even the accepted. Western
could get the comparison exact manner of arranging the calendar is
without going to the trouble of far from perfect. The movable re- ligious holidays cause considerable thirteen months at all.
The few simple amendments needed exasperation to business-men, but
are to drop August 31let, May 31st, there are other shortcomings which
and March 31st, and add February ingenious minds have tried to
29th, February 30th, and April remedy. One of the many tasks the League of Nations has undertaken ist, and id Leap Year have June 31st na Leap Day. By this means but has not completed is a reform
we retain twelve divisions in the of the calendar. The latest scheme for simplifying matters was put year, with thirteen weeks in each before the Manchester Rotary Club quarter, and twenty-six working recently by Mr. E. KEITH EASON, a days in each month, and have only Dublin Rotarian. Mr. EASGN said three scries of dates to remember. It has been "suggested that the the chief difficulty of the existing calendar is that days and dates do changes are so slight that they are not worth the political trouble of not remain fixed from year to year. For example, October 26th this year international agreement, but the merit of a case is not determined by the size of the adjustment. As machinery, a very tiny adjust sénat, may make all the difference
Bow
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a Thursday; last year the are in the year 1844-3. Indiá, one can live, simultaneously nearest corresponding Thursday
TERPOLibros www: October 27tbrand last year,
October 26th was a Tuesd other years," and still date one's
fe “between
17th, 1928.
GATHERING.
An official note was issued by the A "DAILY. PRESS Government of Portugal on Decem ber 6th, requesting the people of the country to adopt suitable measures to prevent spread oʻ typhus, fever.
DEPARTURE OF MANAGING DIRECTOR.
Systematic instruction of the elec torate is casential for the accam. plishment of the reform. If one man, in every Chamber of Com- merce and every Chamber of Trade, Mr. Eason concluded, would ses
Young Sew Tin, a shop assist. that the subject was tackled, the time would soon come when the ani, who was charged before Major Government could arrangs with the Willson with having stolen $1,713 from his employers-the Tai League of Nations for an inter-Lee firm, of No. 1. Des Yaux Road TRIBUTES FROM THE STAFF. West, said: "I did not steal the money, I only embezzled it." Sen-
national convoption to fix up details of the reform. Perhaps our local Chambers will feel disposed to con- sider the matter and let Mr. Eason know what they think of his scheme.
"News and Views.
Another 19 cases of small-pox were reported on Friday.
A tennis tournament will be held at the United Services Recreation.
Club on Friday, January 4th.
The Duke of Abercorn has been gazetted Governor of Northern Ire land for a further period of six
years,
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Sir Henry Pollock has resumed his position as a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony.
The North German Lloyd an nounces that negotiations with the Hamburg-America Lite for a work- ing agreement have broken off.
The Bazaar Committee of St. Vincent de Paul have pleasure in acknowledging a further donation for the recent Bazaar from Misa Syb Joseph, through Leo d'Almada
Castro, of $50.
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2182 will be put up at auction at the P.W.D. Offices on December 31st at 3 p.m The property is situated at Mong Kok Tsui and has an area of about 4,718 square feet. The upset price
is $11.790.
Among the passengers on board the H.A liner Oldenburg, which arrived at Hong Kong on Sunday, was 'Dr. Foretzsch, who is on. his
way to Tokyo, where he had been appointed German Ambassador. His Excellency is accompanied by his family.
tence, of six months' hard labour was imposed.
Senator Walter E. George of Georgia last week announced that he will urge a tarif increase on jute and peanuts in an effort to help
He believes that the farmers. higher jute duty will react advan tageously upon the cotton farmers,” giving the growers an additional annual revenue of $75,000,000.
If Kid McCoy, former middle weight champion of the world and now chief of the San Quentin prison fire department, keeps adding to
his wardrobe he soon may be taken as an example of what the best dressed fire chiefs wear. The latest adorament of McCoy, who is in prison for killing a Los Angeles woman, is a white fireman's hat
in gold. with the lettering "Chief S.Q.F.D."
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Specifications are being prepared which will form a basis for con-
PRESENTATION TO MR. BREAKSPEAR.
A presentation from the whole staff of the Daily Prese, European and Chinese, was made on Satur-*· day morning to the Managing- Director of the paper, Mr. O. T.. Breakspear who is leaving for Home next Saturday "by the Naldera,
The assistance of Mac's Cafeteria was obtained and, for the time being. the reporters' room was turn- ed into some semblance of an up-to- date buffet. with the presentation gifts arranged in the centre of the
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well-laden tables. These took the form of a large silwer, rose bowi suitably inscribed, a silver cigarette box, a pipe and "some cigars for the voyage
Saturday being the... newspaper man's holiday there was a great gathering of the clans, the tracts for construction of ammuni- staff of the City Office-being-strong- tion and storage facilities in the
"Ty" re-inforced by the representa- Philippine Islands and Eawaii. According to recommendation in the tives from the Wanchat printing report of Curtis. D. Wilbur, U.S Secretary of the Navy, action has werks and even a few strangers" already been taken to acquire sites, were pied although, naturally, the The preliminary work in Hawaii is progressing and contracts will be party was essentially a family
made soon."
affair.
Mr. R. T. Barrett, the assistant- editor of the Daily Press. acted as spokesman on behalf of his col-
On December 7th Senator Genera! P. Nye of North Dakota in troduced a resolution providing fo the cation of Congressional Committee which would meet with Hugues a committee from the Philippine Legislature to consider problems of regret felt by all members of the the Philippines and make "recom-staff at losing a chief who had mendations to the President toward
He expressed the great
& solution. The group would be brought them very successfully composed, by terms of the resoln- through a troublous period, and tion, of nine Congressmen and seven referred to the excellent spirit of Philippine legislators.
co-operation which now animated
The death occurred at the German
Hospital. Peking, on December 3rdery department of the business, Ottomeier, formerly Professor of largely to Mr. Breakspear's leader. Ancient History and Geography at of Professor Alexander Patrick spirit which he attributed very
Peking University. War he was required to leave his work and long hours were called
During the ship and to the fact that when bard
position owing to his nationality and since then has had a very hard for the No. I was always willing. life. He was only 48 years gid to show the way by practical It is now ordered that the when he died. He belonged to a example, This good will, he point- Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long formerly very wealthy German Service Medal shail be worn after family at Shanghai, his father be all British War Medals in suching head of the Irwin & Ottomeine
Co.. may from time to time be order assigned to it, suspended from the left breast by a green riband of one inch and a quarter in width.
The local Hot. Representative, Mr F. K. M. Ewart, of King's College has been informed that the Chief Executive of the Royal Life Saving Society have appointed the following as Oficial Examiners in Life-Saving Sergt. F. J. Toms, L/Bdr. W. E. J. Pratt and Gunner P. French, all of the 12th Heavy Battery, RA
Fire broke out early on Saturday morning at a house at No. 135. Connaught Road West, and lasted some three hours, the building being four storeys high. The alarm was
ed out, had been demonstrated in
a remarkable way by the spon- taneity in the contributions towards
A Washington message states that Senator Couzens, Republican, of the gifts which they were now ask- Michigan, has a resolution before ing Mr. Breakspear to decent. the Senate which, if adopted, would he a request that Andrew Mellon, Everyone, without exception, had Secretary of the Treasury, resign: expressed a desire to subscribe and There seems no reason to believe it was hoped that the presents that the resolution will be noted
apon before the close of the present would help. Mr. and Mrs. Break--- administration. Couzens and Met
pear, in the Homeland, to keep. lon are both men of great" wealth. and the former has had considerable them all in Hong Kong in kindly trouble with the Treasury Depart remembrance. ment over income tax matters. It
is charged by Couzens that he has been subjected to discrimination, while Mellon and his associates have received special favourable treat ment in tax matters.
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Mr. Breakspear, in reply, after expressing his great appreciation of the good-will" which had prompt. ed the presentation said he still raised at 4 a.m and both the Ken- At the Central Magistracy on bad in his posacesion the present nedy Town Station and the Fire Saturday Mr. R. E. Lindsell im Float responded. The fire was sub-posed a sentence of 6 months hard given to him by the Chinese staff dued at 7.30 am, an adjoining labour on a Chinese who was con- when he left the Daily Press some victed of having stolen money from house being slightly damaged.
The
a man who had helped him when years ago. He thought he would decisión of the award he was in difficulties. According to have to take care pot to make his of prints of the Hong Kong the prosecution, the defendant University Amber Photographic Fung Ku was out of employment comings and goings too frequent Club will be announced to-day, and the complainant gave him free or the impression might get abroad December 17th. The Vice-Chancellor, hoard and lodging. On December that he travelled backwards and Mr. W. W. Hornell, has kindly con- 10th the complainant returned zented to distribute the prizes home with $2.250 in his pocket, forwards with the object of making awarded for the best prints at 6 which he intended to put into the All members and Bank next day. In the morning
a collection of very useful and p.m. sharp.
friends of the Club are welcome.
he was surprised to find that both valuable gifts. Considerable im his money and the defendant were Canton by the 9.30 slow train; but paper during the past four years missing. The tatter had left for provements had been made in the on getting to the frontier and changing into the other train he and for those improvements he had was arrested, On searching the to thank the staff in all depart. defendant the police found 82.150
observations made at the Royal According to the meteorological Observatory, Kowloon, the maxi- mum temperature during November was 82.2 degrees on November 8th and the minimum temperature 57.5 degrees on the 16th. There were 1172 hours of sunshine and 0.815 of an inch of rain. The rainfall for the month at the Botanical Gardens was 0.94 of an inch on seven days, at the Matilda Hospital 0.74 of an inch on eight days. At the Police Station, Taipo, it was 3.94 inches on four days.
The four years had been
on him. In spite of what had ments. occurred, the complainant still very difficult for all classes of busi- pleaded for leniency to be shown.
ness, but in spite of this the paper but the Magistrate replied that re could not do so, as it would only had done better in 1929 than for encourage others, to do the same.
a number of years previously, It was, be thought, a record upon which they could, sincerely con- gratulate themselves, and when he returned to London he would have east, and remarks, issued by the the greatest pleasure in reporting Royal Observatory at. 6.10 p.m. stated:→→→
.WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore-
The anticyclone over China is
to the new Chairman of the Com.
A payment of 884,200,000 was made on Friday by the British Government to the United States Treasury, of which sum an amount of 827,000,000 is on account of re: payment of principal on the War Debt, the balance being the interest. ments to the United States since Guam is moving north-westward, Kong of which he might be proud.
Mr. D. J. Evans, formerly of the With this payment, the total pay unchanged. A typhoon W.N.W, of pany that he had a staff in Hong the funding of the British Debt Fresh to strong monsoon may be
Japan Chronicle, will take: Mr. amount to 8944.280,000, of which expected along the S.E. coast of
Local Forecast NE winds Brenkspear's place on repayment of principal. The amount 8147,000,000 has been on account of China and over the China Seu,
fresh, cloudy at first, clearing oustanding has pay heen reduced
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