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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY −1, 1929.

"SOUTH CHINA A.A. BATHING PAVILION.

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OPENED ON · SATURDAY BY LADY CLEMENTI. •

HIS EXCELLENCY'S TRIBUTE TO THE ASSOCIATION'S ENTERPRISE.

The new bathing pavilion of the South China Athletic Azio- ciation at Quarry, Bay was opened by Lady Clementi on Saturday, There was a gathering of several thousands at the function includ- ing all the leaders of the Chinese community..

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., and Lady Clementi arrived at the new pavilion promptly at 3.30 pm, and were greeted by the principal officers of the Association. His Excellency then inspected the South China troop of Boy Scouts after which Lady Clementi officially opened the building, by cutting a ribbon stretched across the entrance to the pavilion.

History of the Association. The official party then inspected the new building after which Mr. Li Yau Tsun, C.B.E., the Presi. dent of the Association, addressed the gathering. He thanked those present for coming and extended them a mest hearty 'welcome.

Dealing with the history of the Association. Mr. Li said that it hegan in a small way in 1916 with thirty members who were solely interested in football. Since then the activities of the Association had increased in all directions and the out-door recreations in which the members of the Association are interested were baseball, basket ball, volley bail, tennis, Chinese

now

few forms of sport with which the Association has not identified itself In addition to swimming, football, Baschall, volley ball, basket ball, tennis, boxing, ping-pong, racing and billiards are among its petivities. I feel that this interest in athletics is of the utmost benefit to the Chinese community of this Colony. The Hong Kong Govern ment has been glad to provide, this site for the Association's bathing pavilion. The structure now erect, ed is a vast improvement on the matsheds which preceded it and will, I hope, he only the Arst of many other bathing pavilions here. after to be erected, both in Hong Kong island and on the maioland.

SINGAPORE WATER SCHEME.

FLOODING A VALLEY IN JOHORE.

NARROWLY ESCAPED HONG RONG'S FATE,

How a vallay is to be dammed, and an extensive lake, created be tween jungle-covered hills, was ex- plained to a party of Singapore Municipal Commissioners at Pon- tian Kechil, some thirty miles from Jabore Gahru. #

Near the 20th mile on the Pon- tian Road,, some distance past the road leading to the Gunong Pulai, reservoir, amacadamed road leads. through jungle and pineappl estates to the site of the new re- servoir. This is the second instal-

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TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARY.

July 1st, 1920, marks the 62nd

"TH GEISHA."

ment of the Singapore Water CANADA'S CONFEDERATION CORRESONDENCE. scheme, on which the Municipal Commissioners embarked several years ago. The Brst instalment- the Gunong Pulai Reservoir and pipe line to Singapore-is complete, anniversary of the Confederation of TO THE EDE OF THE "RONG ZONG but although the reservoir

Canada. The day is observed an afficially opened, by E.E. the ually as a national holiday ana, Governor recently Singapore hagas in the case of Dominion Day, pendent on the island supplies, the until last month been entirely de 1929, when the Prince of Wales and object being to allow the Gunong Mr. Stanley Baldwin took part in Pulaj luke to all up.

special Jubilee selebrations, is fre The Water Situation, quently marked by country-wide How rapidly. Singapore's con- commemorations of the event which. sumption of water is increasing, brought together the British posses (Ap-escaped the fate of Hong Kong-

ILY PRESS.

Sir,-Iink a protest is called for agair the (I suppose intend- ed to bumorous remarks of 3. Per in your issue of to-day about Philharmonic Society and The eisha". I consider such commit quite uncalled-for and

boxing, ping-pong, bil- I with the South China Athletic and how narrowly Singapore has sions in North America into what unki Considering that there is

liards, track and field and swim ming.

had

Recently Chinese people taken a keen interest in swimming. Hitherto, swimming was enjoyed by the members once a week off the decks of hired launches. In 1926, the Government allotted to Association a piece of foreshore at Quarry Bay to erect a bathing matshed. This was completely de- stroyed by the severe trphoon of 1927 and ot"the committee think ing on the question of erecting a

Association every success. ¡ause.)

LADY CLEMENTI.

An Auspicious Augury. Lady Clementi, who then address. thered the gathering, said that she did not usually have courage enough to speak on public occasions but she was so happy to find herself at the S.C.A.A. pavilion that she had found her voice.

brought about by delay in the com- is now the oldest and largest of pletion of long-talked of works-is ali the Dominions of the Empire shown by the fact that of the

million gallons a day which Gunong Pulai "provides 4 million gallons

Remarkable Progresa..

During the sixty-two years since.

Th

sole indoor amusement in the Colly, ather than banal cinema sh, I think the Philharmonic Spety should be encouraged and made fun of. Such remarks as jose of your contributor will not" Base and Johore Bahru, both of North America Act; Canada has. ncourage ladies and gentlemen to mediate future. By the middle of had previously been four British show to entertain other members of which are to be supplied in the im-made noted progress. From what ive up time to rehearsals for a 1931, when the Pontian Kechil North American colonies with an

have been sold already, excluding the coming into force of the British the needs of the Singapore Naval

schemes will have been finished, the area of some 500,000 square mile the community. whole of the Goreng Pulai supply, new comprises nine provinces an It is easy to ridicule the efforts will have been sold. It is estimated ritories, the whole covering an a. Penn" might employ his pen in addition to the island supplies, the Yukon and North West Te of others, but not helpful, and that the Pontian Kechil reservoir of 3,685,000 square miles pid

another 20 years, as with certain 10,000,000. But it is largely ope will satisfy Singapore's needs for supporting a population of fer more usefully by writing a few

permanent typhoon-proof structure. I am to find myself in Hong Kong small additional works further areas couns of industrial growth tha the words of encouragement instead of

WEB

Thanks to the untiring efforts of the Committee, and particularly to the late Mr. Lee Hysan, the pre sent site

allotted by the Government. The bathing pavilion which was opened that afternoon was the only one of its kind erret ed on such an elaborate scale.

"I can't tell you all how. gind again. I think it is a particularly auspicious augury te he asked to open a bathing pavilion as one's first public event on returning to Hong Kong."

Lady Dementi then observed that there were very few places in the Mr. Li concluded by expressing world with things so delightful as his deep gratitude to His Exce Hong Kong bathing. She congratu: lency for being present and parti.lated the S.C.A.A. on the beautiful

ularly to Lady

Clementi for pavilion which they had put up in honouring them by performing the very pretty surroundings and voiced opening ceremony.

the hope that the women member- Mr. Li's speech which was in ship of the Association would grow Chinese was greeted with great applause.

H.E. THE GOVERNOR:

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some day to outnumber the men.

Mr. O. W. Luk, chairman of the South China A.A., also addressed the gathering, thanking a number of officials for their hard work which had rendered possible the completion of the pavilon at such a brief period. The erection of the building took, a little more than three months and this was in no rmall measure due to the working committee. some members of whom spent their time wholly at the pavilion while it was in the course of erection.

can be tapped giving a total capa-inst 62 years in Canada havebeen trying to be fanny at the expense city at Pontian Kechil of 13 of significance. In 1867 Cada's of people who are willing" to do million gallons a day. Provision output of field crops, which it that something to amuse their fellows. has been made for doubling the pipe time were of prime importa.ce,

FAIR PLAY.

Hong Kong, June 9, 1929.

line to Singapore when future ex-worth some G. $110,000,000 to-dayYours, fete, tensions make it necessary.

the similar figure is over en times Singapore is now consuming 16 as great. million gallons a day, and unfortámineral output, both of thich were Dairy prodution and nate Hong Kong, with a larger practically unknown at/Confedera gallons! As a matter of fact, but value of some 6:8230000,000 each. MR. R. C. LEE APOLOGISES population, is cut down to 4 million tion, now represent/an annual fer the new service reservoir on Primary forest prodation has been Fort Canning Hill. Singapore would valued during recent years at over.

"TO MAGISTRATE. now be undergoing the inconveni-G.8200,000,000 while the output of ence of mild rationing of water furs, and fisheries run to some ARRANGEMENTS THAT WENT supplies. On a dry day the pipes 15,000,000 and G.855,000,000 a from Thomson Road reservoir are year respectively, unable to carry sufficent water to meet the needs of the city, and the very large storage capacity of the In the manufacturing Fort Canning reservoir bas balanced Canada has now reached the stage the wet and dry days. Another where the annual gross value of the point, of interest is that the rainfall products of her industrial estab motor car unattended at Percival so far this year has been 10 inches lishments amount to well over under the average.

Two Earthen Dams.

Industrial Development.

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ASTRAY..

Mr. R. C. Lee, who it will be re-

field, called. was summoned on Friday.

last for obstruction by having his

Street, appeared before Mr. .E. W Hamilton on Saturday and was fined $10 on admitting the offence.

for the chauffear of the car.

Inspector Nicols then itated the car was left unattended for twenty minutes.

G.83,004,000,000. The most import ant individual industries are pulp and paper makng, four railling, The Pontian Kechil scheme is a slaughtering and meat packing, saw Mr. Lee explained that he left much larger one than the Gunong milling, butter and cheese making the car outside his office in Per- Pulai works, and quite different and automobile manufacturing. The ival Street and that he had to go from an engineering point of view. first three of these each account to the Lee Gardens. Ha returned Whereas the dame at Gunong Pulai for gross production figures of from some time later and was told that are of granite and concrete, une G.8150,000,000 to G.$200,000,000 a Inspector Nicols had been asking being 120 feet high, the lake at Pontian Kechi: will be created by year, while the seven leading indus- tries all show a gross value of pro- two earth dams, one 2,500 feet long dusts of over G.$100,000,000 each. by 45 feet high and the other about

Foreign Trade Expansion. 300 feet by 65 feet. The theory of

In her growth as a trading nation construction is simple, though the practical application of it, needless Canada has also achieved remark to say, is not. In the longer dam able progress and it may come as steel sheet piling is driven 40 feet a surprise to many to know that into the ground-no easy matter the Dominion figures of total export where hard material and subter and import.trade are now the fifth ranean steams are encountered. Jargest of any country in the world Above this a concrete core, or and exceeded only by those of the and earth is banked up on either France and Germany. narrow wall, is built 50 feet high, United Kingdom, United States, Further,

His Worship asked defendant why he did not appear on Friday, according to the summons When a Magistrale summons you, it is don't attend" added Mr Hamil- à direct insult to his coujt if you

Bea Bathing in Hong Kong. His Excellency the Governor then addressed the gathering, his speech "being interpreted, sentence by kentence, to the vast gathering by the Hon. "Dr. R., H. Kotewall, CM.G. His Excellency said :--

Mr. Li Yuu Tsuen, Ladies and Gentlemen,-My wife asks me to Tea and Aquatic Display. tell you with what pleasure she has come here to-day, in order to After, the speeches tea was served opto this "fine bathing pavilion of on the extension bridge of the the South China Athletic Associa pavilion and members treated those tioa May I add that it has given present to an aequatic display (full ne, also, very. great pleasure to details of which appear in another By kind permission of accompany her on this occasion † | column). Both of us think that there is no Major R. Todd, the hand of the better pastime in the Hong Kong 3/15. Punjab Regiment, played summer than sea-hathing. It is a throughout the afternoon. healthy recreation for men, women and children, and each of us can make it as strenuous or as mild an we please, while at the end of our exertions, instead f streaming with perspiration, as we should H. T. Cresey, the Hon. Sir Henry side, making a dam. 250 feet wide Canada's favourable trade balance him to go to the Kowloon Docks. after almost any other form of and Lady Pollock, the Hon. Dr.

He had left instructions to a "care- recreation during a tropical sum-

at the base. In the shorter dam has in several recent years been mer, we leave the water very much Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. bottom of the watertight area, in-Jarger trading countries and her per any fine, but unfortunately the and 3irs. R. W. Wellington, the the concrete core is earried to the the largest of any other of the ful man" to plead guilty and had given him sufficient money to meet refreshed and cooler than we enter Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Tso, the Hun. ed it...

The capita export trade second only to money had been mislaid. He was Mr. J. Braga, the Hon. Mr. W.

stead of using sheet piling. waterside face of the dam is pitch-that of New Zealand. Of course, just at the present E. L. Shenton, Mr. Justice J. R.

sorry for what happened. Sound Property. time it may be regarded as our Wood, Mr. and Mrs. E, W. Cared with granite, and stone toes" civiu daty to perform our ablutions penter; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gold in the sea, rather than whore in smith, Mr. H. R. Butters, Mr. E water drawn from our reservoire or Ralphs, Mr. A. E. Wright, and brought laboriously from the main- Mr. and Mrs. T. 5. Whyte-Smith. land, the delta of the West River

THE GUESTS.

Amongst those present were The Hon. Mr. and Mrs." W. T. Southern, the Hon: Mr. and Mrs.

THE BUILDING...

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Cam will have a weir overflow in the hold in the other bank. The longer Industrial, agricultural and trad-

A Beautiful Lake.

100,

Mr. Lee apologised for what had happened. He was extremely busy on Friday, it, being neccary for

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middle, and the shorter one ad over-ing activity have happily brought flow on the siphon principle.

about" condition of affairs in Canada where the country and its population are now enjoying a or even from regions more remote.

The lake will be a place of great period of prosperity which is cop- The greater the number of those"

The new bathing pavilion is a beauty. It will fill a wide, rather sidered by economic experts to be THREE MEN AND A WOMAN. among us who take a daily swim semi-permanent structure 150 feet shallow valley between low hills based, on sound foundations and in the harbour, the less reservoir long with depth of 52 feet. The covered with primitive jungle and which may be expected to continue Three Chinese and a woman water is consumed and the better, foundation consists of reinforced blukker The flooded area will be for some time. This condition with were before Mr. T. S. Whyte therefore, for the whole

com-concrete pillars, carried on widely about 550 acres, the maximum in the country is to no small degree Smith at Kowloon Magistracy on munity. From this point of view I spread and reinforced concrete foot depth & feet, and the available being communiented to other parts Saturday in connection with a zob- am certain that no one is betterings on the foreshore. The pillars capacity 2.800,000,000 gallons, as of the Empire with whom, through bery a 62, Portland Street, on pleased at the opening of this bath finish at road level, where they are against 1,200,000,000 nt Gunong various agencies such as steamship Jane 22. ing pavilion than the Hong Kong decked with hardwood joists and Pulai. The total cost will be lines and preferential trade agree The first three men were convict- Water Authority.

boards. The superstructure in 85,800,000, as against $3,500,000 for ments, Canada is gradually coming ed of stealing a black suit tase con- "The Chinese Benaissance.” formed of hardwood pillars with the Gunong Palai scheme,

in closer touch than had formerly taining a suit of clothing a pair hardwood framing filled with as- The top water level of the lake been possible.

of gold bangles and a gramaphone The growth and activities of the bestos sheets and glazed fanlights, will be 180 feet above mean sea The sixty-second anniversary of and 13 records; or alternatively South Chma Athletic Association The roof is covered with Malthoid. level, and a pumping station will Confederation, and, it is hoped, with receiving the goods knowing fill-me with admiration. This Asso The accommodation comprises be erected to raise the water, 320 many succeeding anniversaries will game to be stolen property. ciation did not exist when I served ladies' and men's dressing rooms feet-through a pine line four be remembered for the prosperous They were sentenced to six in Hong Kong as a young man; but with showers and lavatory accom- miles long to the filters at Gunong conditions obtaining through the months' imprisonment each. it came into being about fourteenmodation. A verandah 19 feet wide Pulai, whence it runs by gravita whole of the country and aa & stage The woman was charged with re- years ago, when the Chinese Re- extends the full length of the build tion to Singapore. About two and in the development of the Dominion ceiving the goods at her house at naissance began. It had at first, ing and has two bamboo pier ex- a half times as much granite as which finds her only on the thres- 582, Shanghai Street, whole they is Mr. Li Yau Tsun tells us no tensions, Aricntiful supply of was used at Gunong Pulai will go hold of a greater development which were taken by the first three de "More" than thirty" membung“

obtained from into the two para angis, and he will e ter both trong Artifemians, mekarandadak membershin has now increased to nullah nearby, water being piped stone is obtained from a quarry and also a more powerful link in weeks imprisonment. Borgeant some four thousand, and there are to tanks provided on the roof, half a mile away.-Straits Times. tife bonds of Empire.

Fowlie prosecuted.

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