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News and Views.

WEATHER REPORT.

the children's playground is not the si place for such persons to con- Yesterday's westler" report, fere-gregate. Perhaps our officiate are cast and remarks, issued by the unaware that the playground Royal Observatory at 3 p... exists; a recent incident when u

The M.O.H. is able to make the stated:-

parent took the question of frayed satisfactory announcement "that swing ropes into his own hands during the three days ended on might suggest auch a view. They July, no cases of notifiable disease may not be aware that the swings were reported. windr, are arranged so that any child

local

The anticyclone to the cast of Japan bus decreased in interity The typhoon is situated to the east) of S. Korea, moving N.X.E. Local Forecast : - Sy moderate, loudy, some showers....

BIRTHS.

at the URQUHART. On July 2

Victoria Hospital to LILIAN, the wife of A. URQUHART,

[+63 Ker. On July 1, at the Victoria Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. W J. S. Key of 7. Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon. a daugh

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The total output of the Kailan falling out of them might be pre-Mining Administration's aires for cipated into the road under the the week ending June 15 amounted wheels of a passing vehicle. Per- to 38,409 tons and the sales during haps they have not noticed the nice the period to 65,150 tons. hard concrete under the swings to save any small person who may

The engagement is announced of have P fall from dirtying its Mr. Alfred Morley, of the long clothes We do not know who de Kong Telegraph, youngest son of signed the playground, but many, the late Mr. and Mrs, H. J. Mor

Kowloon parents have suggested his ley, of Caversham, Rending, and natural and proper lodgings. Miss Irene E. Johns, elder dangh-

.[5059 Since the design and construction ter of the late Mr. J. A. Johns and ANNOUNCEMENT.. of playground appears to be be of Mrs. G. Johns, of Truro, Corn. A marriage is arranged between yond the capacity of the appro-wall.

GRAEME SISSON Bugu-Josts.priate Government Department, the

HEGR JONES, C. B. E., of Wrex-

Tel. Central 4511.

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on board the s.8. Porthos (French) which was at the time lying at the Kowloon Wharves. The prisoner is to be charged with embezzlement of $20,570.94 from the above firm es or before May 18, 1999,

fith so of the inte LLEWELYN Kowloon Iesidents' Association Wong Cho Or partner of the ham, Wales and of Mrs. Han might be assigned the task under Kwong Ah Company, Ltd., 6, Wing Jasts of Beckenham, KEST, and | official supervision. We would Lok Street, was arrested yesterday GLACK DOROTHEA, daughter of the

suggest that the Association call Late THOMAS PRINCE FOTHERGILL of Bedale, Yorkshire and of to their council two or three women Mrs. FOTHERGILL of Hill Side, pessionally trained in the mental Ripon.

and physical development of child renha are the obvious persons Editorial and Business Offices: 11.9 consult with an architect and Ice House Street. Tel. Central contractor to reduce the women's 12,

suggestions to practicable form. The Kowloon Residents' Associa tion, moreover, might be given the task of the upkeep of the ground, the Government reserving the right ef veto on any proposed plan, and on the regulations governing the use of the playground. The Chatham Road playground is, we believe, to be retained for the use of Chinese children, and if this is so there ΠΟ reason why the new ground should not be reserved for the children of those willing to pay

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, JULY,3, 1929.

A PLEA FOR THE

CHILDREN.

SCCDIS

A young Chinese girl age 12, has just died at the Government Civil Hospital from injuries to her spine received when she slipped and fell from the gangway on leaving the 8.8. Empress of Asia At the time she did not appear to have serious ly hurt herself and was able to "proceed unassisted. Later she com.

and was advised by a doctor to go plained of great pain in her back

to hospital. She died shortly after admission.

On the northernmost point of Australia, cut off from civilization

The Bishop of Hereford recently addressed the Oxford Diocesan Con- ference at Reading on the scheme for the education of the Church electorate. A good many people,

After a year wait. Martin | Educating Church Electors. Chiatovich has found a buyer for hir automobile. He received a let- ter from the Smithsonian Institu tion of Washingten offering him $1,300 for his 1900 Pope-Hartford touring car, including the bucket | he said, showed a lamentable lack seats. In accepting the offer he of knowledge of the working and said the car runs as good now

organizaton of the Church. Ignor- it did 13 years ago. But it burns ance reacted in

a good many top much gasoline.

directions. In certain cases it produced open bostilty,, but in the Certain sportsmen in Canada majority it produced apathy, "which have changed their practice of tak- was the greatest enemy that the ing a shot with a gun at wild Church of to-day had to fight. He animals and birds for that of taking was pleading for "a movement to

shot" with the camera. They try to remove some of the ignor declare that they get just as great ance which existed. How many a "kick" out of their new form people, he wondered knew their of sport as they did out of their parson's stipead? The majority of former. destructive methods. What parishioners thought it was twice is more, they are furnishing an the amount it actually was In of teaching the example worthy of wide following their method

electorate they must start from the That chemists of the future will parish. Local pride and interest not only create life, but find ways in the parish could be used gradual- of altering personal character byly to develop in people pride and chemical compounds, is the opinion interest in wider circles.

If they

of Dr. Edwin Slosson. Such things could get people to interest them- as individuality, fascinating tem- selves in the work of the Church peraments, and charms of vivacity overseas there would be little dif are due to definite hormones, some ficulty in arousing interest in the of which are already known as cheinical compounds, he tells us. Courage is due to sugar, and a variation of a few hundredths of one per cent. in the glucose of the blood may make the difference

between cowardice and courage.

work of the Church at home. As a means of stimulating "interest in Church history, organization, and working, the lantern lecture had not exhausted its usefulnes

Industrial Friction lu Australia.

The industrial peace conference a symbol of the fact that leaders of industry and workers are at last awake to the knowledge that the vitality of Capt, G. R. G. Collins, adjutant the country is threatened by the of the 99th West Lancashire Field frequent strikes and by the friction Brigade, Royal Artillery, Terri-between employers and employees. terial Army, pleaded not guilty at The situation appears to have the Court-martial held in the Liver-grown more acute în recent years,

Even sex may be regarded as s chemical affair, which might be re-in Australia stands, as gulhted by small amounts of certain compounds in the blood or food.

Strangely enough it has, if anyth-

pool Assize Court recently to the and there has been a constant ter- charges against him of misapplying sion in evidence. The Arbitration by hundreds of miles of im-regimental money or with conduct Court, set up to prevent strikes penetrable bush or leagues of shark- infested sea lives the family of Mr.cipline by impreperty Berrowing

to the prejudice of military dis- and disputes, has unfortunately failed to serve that purpose. Gunn, telegraphist at the Cape the money. Capt. Collins died York station. They claim to be the any intention to defraud, and gave loneliest family in Australia, and the Court an explanation of his may easily be the loneliest family in drawing of various cheques payable the world. In three years they have to himself. He was found not guilty on the charge of fraudulent seen only twenty people.

misapplication, and the finding en the charges of improperly borrow ing was reserved. It was stated during the hearing that all the money had been repaid by Capt. Collins.

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Faper Famine in Russia.

CAN

a small annual sum towards its Ar the present time it seems hardly upkeep. No parent whose children the thing to mention any matter so daily to the existing playground of local administration other than would feel aggrieved at being asked the water shortage. But having in pay, say, 810 per annum for the risen out of those earlier stages of right of entry, for their children,

ing, contributed toward their evolution when water was the home to a ground which conformed with

development. For unions, at the and the diet of our distant an-modern ideas of child welfare. A

expiration of an award, bave been cestors, it is well to remember that very large number of other parents,

impelled to seek a new and more exacting award, while employers other aspects of life, and of ad- who refuse to allow their children ministration still exist, and no to go to Chatham Road-preferring

have felt that their industry and Mise Anne Nichols has lost apology is offered for reverting to even that they should play on the

capital were being unduly taxed by the well worn subject of the pro none too clean pavements of Eow-three-million dollar muit against the

such continuous and increasing de mised children's playground at loon's main street-would also be Universal Pictures Corporation.

manda. In some

cases this has Kowloon. This Colony boasts of only too glad to pay such a fee. Misa Nichols contended that the

resulted in the findings of the court many notable public works fine Those who were unwilling or un- film The Cobens and the Kelleya"

being flouted, with the inevitable roads that scale and skirt moun-Table-to pay would have to be satis- was plagiarised from, "' Abie'a Iriak

Two of the most serious items in consequences of strike or lockout. the list of goods which are now in- Such a case was the timaler trade tains: huge reclamations, a mighty fed with Chatham Road until such Rose" by the Universal Pictures suficiently supplied in Russia are water supply (even if it has proved time as the Government wakes up Corporation. The judge expressed tea and paper. No Russian office dispute, in which the men refused unequal

exist comfortably without to accept the ruling of the Arbitra- to exceptional circum to a sense of the duty it owes to the opinion that though some ideas

plentiful supplies of these com- stances), and a city on a hill that its younger citizens of all nation- may have been copied the rights of modities; and with tea restricted tion Court for the return to a week

the plaintiff were not infringed. to a monthly retion of an eighth of visitors have called one of the alities.

of forty-eight hours against forty- wonders of the modern world. With regard to the new play- Both stories concerned antagonistica pound per person and instruc four hours. A further illustration

tions issued for a thirty per cent. But when it comes to a children's ground we would suggest that the Jewish and Irish families, who were reduction in the amount of punt was the recent water-front dispute, playground for the large Europead whole area be enclosed, with a united by a love affair between the consumed, wheels of office in which the ruling of the court was routine can scarcely be expected to rejected. and much trouble and in- community of Kowloon, the Gov. high wall on the Middle Road and younger generation.

revolve with normal regularity. ernment and its advisers are not Nathan Road sides, and by high

M. A. Khalator, head of the State convenience resulted from the hold- merely non-plussed.

Publishing Company, which con- close palings on the Chatham

ing up of water transport. Ex- Rond side to paralysed.

admit the fresh

centrates in its hands most of the amples are too numerous to need. publishing business in the Soviet breeze which generally blows from

Union and is the largest establish stressing. Whatever may be the ment of its kind in the world, has ultimate results of the peace-in- sounded a warning that the izade-industry conference, it is clear that quate output of paper is a threat if Australian industries are to be to the cultural progress of the placed on a really substantial cuntry. The demand for printed footing, some new arrangement matter in Russia is enormous.

must be found in regard to arbitra- Between January, 1928, and March, tion, whereby the expiraton of an

books, which was 15,000,000 in 1927, claims which no industry can stand. 1928, the circulation of newspapers award shall not be looked upon as doubled. The number of new school a signal for the presentation of

exceeded 20,000,000 in 1928, and is estimated at twenty-eight or twenty-nine million in 1999. Dur Looking Back 25 Years. ing the last two тепга threc

they

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the

In a written reply to Mr. Hore Belisha, who asked whether any decision had been reached about It is not that they lack the will. Lymun Pas A wall would offer raising the rates which may be com Everyone, from His Excellency the

a certain area of shade, and also pulsorily deducted from the pay of Governor downwards, admits that

serve to keep ont some of the dust each grade of naval rating for the there ought to be un adequate play- and dirt of Nathan Road. The maintenance of bis wife, Lieut.- ground, and the Legislative Council gate or gates should be kept locked, Col. Hendiam says:It is the views the project with appropriate each subscriber being provided with Admiralty's intention to assimilate sympathy. They have not stopped employed to act both as gardener and authorized by the Army and air a key, and a fur wong should be the rates of deductions from naval pay for this purpose to those now there. A considerable sum of custodian. Trees should be planted money, 830,000, was voted last year, to give shade, and flower beds, Force Annual Bill passed this railed off against predatory young Bession; but this wil involve and an adequate site set aside for angers, should be provided to give legislation in

the new. Parlia the purpose. And there the matter the colour and beauty which is now ment." atanda. The Council has done its recognised as an essential to the

successive editions of Karl Marx's The rains of the past week have "Capital, in 15,000, 20,000, and been as balm in Gilead. An almost part, but despite the efforts of the proper development of the child

A boy aged three and a half is 23,000 copies were rapidly swal continuous downpour for six days, mind. These should be a covered already nearly four feet high; can Icwed up, and there has been ought to enable the Water Authority Kowloon Residents' Association and playground, without seats, like that pick up his mother and carry her.

still

greater demand the inquiries of many correspond opened some months ago at the round the house; shaves every

for to grant us a full supply once ents to the local Press, some official Diocesan Girls' School, and also morning; and smokes cigara! Six Stalin's "Froblems of Leninism" again. The intermittent supply has

Meanwhile the production fries and hard-beaten months ago

of been continued this year two months. Clarence Kehr, of wheel refuses to revolve and no-earth on which the children could Toledo, Ohio, was an ordinary baby, tensive increasing demand, and M. Daily Press, July 3, 1904.

paper bas lagged behind the in- later than last year.-Hong Kong thing is done. This, perhaps, is play, Seate would be needed both scarcely able to walk or speak

Khalatov estimates that, not- pot quite accurate. Two things in the open air and under cover Then something happened to his withstanding a ruthless redaction Looking Back 60 Years,

for the children and their attend glands, which suddenly became have been done-a few mule-sheds ante. Decently screened and de abnormally active and made his of the publishing programmes, there

"Sir-Really it seems

a sheer will be a shortage of seven or waste of time to go to church, and have been cleared away from the cently kept conveniences, for boys brain and body develop at an

I shall be driven like many Hong assigned site, and some grease and and girls, with an amah in attend- amazing rate. At three and a half eight thousand tons of paper re- ance, should be built, and not as he has become a man, with a man's

Kong men to pass my time in a quired for book printing, and an gutter refuse deposited in their they are in Chatham Road in close strength and powers of speed. His equal shortage in regard to the

more profitable manner. To go and place.

He re sit nearly two hours, and going and proximity to the main shelter, biceps measure nine inches, while printing of newspapers.

of number There is a place in "Chatham Trees planted near the swings would he refers scornfully to his old play medies for the situation. re- coming, and then feel quite empty is too much. And our good Bishop Road euphemistically called "the there should, if possible, be a cand

in years to come give shade, and mates as "these kids.

cluding the maximum development says always. "Why don't you. children's playground." It has one pit.

of the paper output, the substitu- come," and gets indignant (that is, tion wherever possible, of small as much as lawn sleeves can with print for large, the elimination of propriety) if people rudely get up all" superfluous blank pages, and walk out as the serion is about careful weeding out of less valuable to commence, of course for urgent and important publications, etc. private affairs or reasons of State, A few months ago it was for a mon cher

.Can no sound- time literally impossible to buy a ing board or any mortal appliance sheet of type-writer paper of even or arrangement be made that we tolerable quality in Moscow. The may know what is going on? aituation with typewriter paper has Again and again I am told that slightly cased, but there is now an inen intend giving up going to the neute shortage of note books. Still Cathedral on this account, that it another evidence" of the paper is a dumb show, excepting, strange famine is the fact that shop to say, when the officiating parson assistants are under strict orders to is at the far end of the chancel, wrap up nothing which is already miles away, and then we can catch packed or which would not actually the Epistle and Gospel ets, str

Hong Kong Dasty Press, July 3,

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From Japan comes the second re- great

advantage, namely, that it. If the group of rocks near the ported instance of a meteorite serves a double purpose on.

4 the east end of the site were retained, bitting a human being. A tiny #Box and Cox" system. During they should be railed off and plant pebble of celestial origin seared the ed with amall rock plants, and neck of a three-year-old baby girl the day it is used by the children, perhaps some plutocrat with a love at play near Tokio. A tremendous and in the eventag it forms an of children, might present the number of meteorites bombard the playground with a figure of "Peter earth each day, but they seldom fall admirable.camping ground for Row- Pan to crown the rocks. But no within range of civilization. There loon's coolies. No gae objects to plutocrat; however kindly, is going is only one fatal accident on record. the poor and homeless having some- to put money into the Chatham when a man was killed in India in where to rest in the cool of the Road patch. Nothing we have here 1837 by a falling stone. The tiny suggested is impossible given the stone, weighing only a few grains, evening, but we suggest that the goodwill of the Government, who that hit the Japanese girl was habits of some of these visitors are will not find Kowloon parents back found in the child's dress, still ward in supporting a playground warm, and proved to be a typical such that fartigation by the

I worthy" "of Tritish traditions avkroosite with e.black crust farmed Medical Umur Health right of which they may be proud instead by melting in Hight throughthe subject to deterioration by beng

'the air.

carried in the hands. reveal bacteriological reasons why of ashamed.

1879.

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