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FIRELIGHTING.
(BY LIET-GENERAL LOAD BADEN-POWELL.)
[Special to "Hong Kong Dally Piers." All Rights Reserved.]
As a backwoodsitan you have, of course, to be able to cook your own food-you can't lug your mother about with you to do it!
KOWLOON CHESS CLUB.
ANNUAL MEETING.
The annual general: meeting of the Kowloon Chess, Club' was held Inat night in the Central British School, Kowloon, Mr. G. F. Night- ingale, the President of the Club, being in the chair.
Addressing the meeting Mr. Nightingale said:-Our congratula- tions and thanks are due to Mr. Wong, our Secretary, for drawing ip such an excellent report on the activities of the Club during the past season, and to the Treasurer who has expended much time and labour in his endeavour to place and shavings, dry grass, or a little the Club in a sound fixancial posi- paper-änything that will easily tion." A very noticeable feature of take fire, and over that stack a lot | his statement is the item “unpaid of small dry sticks, standing on ¦ subscriptions-nił,” (Applause.) But you can't cook food straight end and leaning together, or stand- The Committee must also be con- off without ever having learneding against a log-on the windward gratulated on the success of the tow; and so I advise every Scout side of it.
Club in the Colony's championships to set to work and learn this before
and for arranging interesting inter- the next camping season comes on.
club matches. It is not necessary You can do a good deal by help-
to make further remarka except to ing in the kitchen at home and
proposo a vote of thanks to the Secretary, the Treasurer and the Committee,
seeing how the food is got ready. You could also get a baker to show you how to mix doagh and to bake bread.
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But it is no use merely to be shown how it in to be done; the thing is to do it yourself,
As a backwoodsman you have, of course, to be able to cook your own foodt.
Practice Makes Perfect,
You will make a few mistakes at first. Your dough will come cut like custard and your porridge will be burnt and your milk smoked; but after a few trials you will soon find yourself able to cook quite
well.
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The first thing that is necessary for cooking, even if it is only to boil a billy of tea, is to have a fire; and a tenderfoot makes a pretty good hash of lighting a fire until he knows how.
How Hot To Do it.
I saw a lot of young Scouts proc- tising it the other day, and they started with piles of flimsy dry grass. paper, dry bracken, and heaps of small sticks-all of which blazed up splendidly when they put
Remember, dry sticks are very different from sticks when it comes to lighting a fire.
Dry sticks are seldom found on the ground-they are generally, best got from a tree with a dead branch or two." Break these off and you will have dry sticks. For kind ling" a number of sticks partly split or splintered with your knife
.are useful.
Do you know what Punk is t Well, punk, or tinder; is what a good many backwoodsmen carry about with them for lighting their
fires.
It can be a small hit of cotton waste soaked in petral or spirits, or very dry, baked, fungus, or bark fire, or anything that will catch fire from the smallest spark.
Then, if you have no matches, you can strike a spark with a flint and steel the back of your knife on a stone will do it) and ro oct light to your punk.
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The report and accounts were adopted on the proposal of the President, seconded by Mr. G. M. Sequeira.
The Officers.
The following officers were elected for the present season-President, G. F. Nightingale, Vice-President, J. S. Smith, Hon. Secretary, C. E. Wong, Hon. Treasurer, S. G. Hayes, Captain, H. W. Randall. Com mittee: D. E. Carvalho, C. M. Sequeira and B. Saltau.
It was decided to hold the meet. ings of the Club at the same Hours ns last year, Mr. Sequeira pro- posed that a junior" championship should be established, and the Com- mittee will consider the matter. A vote of thanks was offered to the President for the able manner in which he had conducted the meet-
THE REPORT. Extracts from the report of last year's activities follow:-
Or you can do it with a magnify ing-glass if there is a good sun shining, by making the sunlight passing. through the glass on to a small amount of punk, and in a lew seconds it will get it smouldering: and you must then gently blow it up into a glow, and finally into a flame, with which you enn light the kindling.
How The Indians Do It. Red Indians and other people who have neither matches
nor
The Club premises at the Central British School were opened on every Tuesday and Friday afternoon and members attended in large num. Gers, although there is still ample accommodation for more enthu
sianta.
Club Championship, The entries for the President's
year's figures, six members parti cipating as against only three in
An Excellent Hint, to STOMACH SUFFERERS
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those who suffer from acid-caused stomach dis
onters, such as indigestion, wind, heartburn, gastritla or other similar allments, here's an excellent way-in fact the only way to get rid of the trouble quickly, easity, and at a very little cost, After eating or when pain la felt just take a little 'Bisurated Magnesia. This amazing reedy removes the cause of your stomach trouble by neutralising acidity and preventing food fermentation.
which are the chief sources of all digestive ****
s. Doctors recommend it and many hos itals use it, while thousands of sufferers will tell you Bisurated Magnesia is the one stomach remedy you can rely upon to give quick and sure relief.
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TWO THINGS YOU SHOULD DO-
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1.-ATTEND THE NELSON DAY CONCERT
LEE THEATRE, ON
MONDAY OCT. 21st TO HEAR...
THE MASSED BANDS AND WELL-
KNOWN ARTISTES.
2-JOIN THE LOCAL BRANCH OF THE
NAVY LEAGUE.
By so doing, you will benefit NAVAL CHARITIES AND THE SEA CADET CORPS,
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Membership forms can be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, Mr. MARRIOTT, C/O CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co.
Members whose subscriptions are due should pay them to Mr. W. A. DoWLEY, the Hon. "Treasurer, without delay.
NEW ARRIVALS TO THE PORT.
THREE IN ONE DAY.
Three reels which arrived yes terday were making their first visit
10 the pert. Two are British, the
other flying the Swedish flag.
The Buccinum (British) own--
burning glasses, set fire by rubbing Cup showed an increase over lasted by the Anglo Saxon Petroleam wood together.
The easiest way is by putting a slat of dry wood on the ground and boring a hole through it with a stick of dry wood, twirling the stick by
means of a bow string. The fric tion of the two woods causes the kind of sawdust which comes from the hole to get red-hot, and if a little punk is then placed on it and blown into it it brings a flaine.
The American Scouts at the Jam borec gave a very good display of fire-lighting in this way.
a match to it, even to spreading So soon as you have got your among the surrounding grass-but small kindling fire alight, add bigger it all went out again in a minute | day slicka, upright and leaning to- or two after the blaze, was over,gether, until you can get a realiy and the bigger sticks, which were strong fire going, when logs can be to have made the cooking fire, never added. tank light."
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No-you want to begin a fire in of sticks at first, as they make the a small way by putting first same hot ashes and embers, which are drykindling" or small splinters' most necessary for cooking.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S.
HOSTEL.
DONATIONS TOWARDS THE BUILDING FUND.
:
Already acknowledged
The Joint Hon, Treasurers of the Organising Com- mittee of the Univer
ity Women's Hostel beg to acknowledge the following further dona- tions:- Received from the Sings- pore Committee of the Hong Kong University Women's Hostel-end instalment
$12,073.41
1927-1928. Mr. H. W. Randall in to holder of the Cup for the present be congratulated" on becoming the year, wresting the trophy from Mr. C. M. Sequeira by a margin of one point.
the
Colony's Championship,
The Colony's Championship at tracted nine entries. as against twelve the previous year. Most of more noted players of the Colony were included in the com- petition and a series of very inter- esting games was played. Mr. S. G. Hayes qualified for the title, winning by a margin of noe point. over Mr. Randall who took second Prize and is to be congratulated on
his success.
Finances,
For the past two years the Club
Company, Ltd., arrived here yes terday from Balikpapan with 6,500 Lons of oil fuel for Hong Kong, for She was built in 1810 by Bir the Asiatic Petroleum Company. Rayiton Dixon, & Co., Ltd., of
Middlesboro with a nett tonnage of 3,089 tons, and grose * 5,397 tona She was was launched as the B.S. Benwindmoor. Her demensions are length, 405 ft., Beam 34.2 ft., and Depth 26.4 ft. She was an- gined to 343 N.H. P. by Messra, Richardson Westgarth, Ltd., Capt. W. P. Thomas is in command with rew, of '10 Britishers and 37 Asiatics.
A Swedish Motor Vessel. Thuilt this year and on her maiden voyage, the Swedish motor.
arrived bere / vessel Shantung" from Gothenburg and Singapore. The vessel is owned by the Aktie Bovenska Ost.-Asiatiska Kemp. The Swedish East Asiatic Co.) for whom Mears. Gilman & Co.,
But for a cooking fire use plenty has been in a strong financial pos- are local agents.
tion so much so that last year it was possible to award better and more expensive cups to the winners of the tournaments. As can be seen from the statement of accounts we have a very antisfactory balance in hand.
HOSPITAL SUNDAY.
St. John's Cathedral is observios "Hospital Sunday" to-morrow and the collections will be given to the hospitals of the diocese. H.E. the Offeer Administering the Govern- ment, and Commodore Hill, R.N., will attend the 11 a.m. service the various hospitals and members together with representatives from
of the medical profession,
UNIVERSITY DRAMATIC
PRODUCTION.
The vessel was built at the Gotaverken A/B Shipyardant Gothenburg, Sweden, with a nett Lannage of 3,982 tons and grass, 0,300 tons. The vessel is propelled
motor engines which give her a speed of 13 knots. Her dimensions are Length, 450 Lt.; Beam, 57f1.: and Depth, 31 ft. Captain Hugo Borin is in command.
The vessel brought 1,000 tons of general merchandise for Hong Kong and 3,000 tons for through
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GREATEST
MUSICAL
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Inter-Club Matches.
During the past season several matches were arranged with other Clubs, our members suffering one defent in the four matches that were played. Our conquerors wereports. the German Club who won by four The vessel is equipped with the points to two in January last. How latest type of electric derricks, subsequent meetings, the first of of orgo within the shortest o did not arrive until late yesterday ever, we had our revenge in two capable of handling a large amount
these resulting in a victory for us sible period. The vessel is also
by five points to one and the second fitted to carry 10,250 tons dead evening from Singapore. The ves by six clear points. Earlier in the weight of cargo with storing tanks se! was from Antwerp and Euro- pean ports. She carries a carga. season we entertained a team from for vegetable oils, such as coconut H.M.E. Hermes, and won by one | oil. point.
of 406 tons of iron rods, wire and
glase for the port and some 6,000
tone for through ports. The vessel is owned by the Lloyd Royal Beige Shipping Company, and the Bank
was built in
1020 by Mrs.
The read with two others will
Announcement has already been
The Club has been in touch with maintain a monthly service" be made of the Dramatic Evening sr- the Shanghai Chess Club and the teen Scandinavia and the Far ranged by the Arts Association of Tientsin Chess Club throughout the East via Britain and the usual way Line, Lad, are local agents. She the University, when two plays year and both institutions extend ports. There is an accommodation
to any of our members, who might for seven first class passengers Bartman & Sons, Ltd., of Sunder the Mere Man," acted by women 1,000.00 undergraduates, and The Chost of visit either rort, an invitation to the mind a commodious land with a net tonnage of 3109
smoking lounges zed a spacious Jerry Bundler" acted by men
make use of their premises,
deck alosed in with glass window tons and grows, 4,953 tons. Her 100.00 undergraduates, will be produced The Committee desire to express panes.
dimensions are Length 400.2 ft.;. The vessel ie moored to Beam, 52.3 H. and Depth, 26.5 ft. under Professor Simpsone direc- their thanks to Mr. G. Frinklin Buoy No. A6. tion.
She was engined by Messrs. J.. Nichtingale and the school autho- $13,773.41
Dickinson & Sons, Ltd., of Bunder- Any surplus of takings over ex- rities for their courtesy in again penditure will be given to the placing their premises at our dis
land to 476 N.H.P. Capt. Lambe (Continued at foot of next column) Women's Hostel Fund.
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