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HONG KONG'S POPULATION.

A TOTAL OF 852,000.

KOWLOON'S POPULATION DOUBLED,

The Colony's total population, 'according to the preliminary re- port of the Ceustis Officer (Mr, W. J. Carrie) in 862,000 compared with 625,000 test years ago. Kowloon, as might be expected, is shown i have doubled its population, and the Island inhabitants have increased in numbers from 317,000 to 424,000, The New Ter- ritories and the floating population are very much the same in. numbers as they were in 1921."

Mates still exceed females, the respective figures being 480,00 men to 383,000 wamen. The disparity is not, however, is great proportionately as it was, being now 742 females to every 1,000 - males, compared with 033 in 1921. That auggests that mere Chinese are settling here and making the place their home.

THE

"MASCULINITY" DECREASES.

The Census of the Colony was however, that while the balance of taken on the 7th March, 1031. emigration "over immigration was about 11,000 during the two weeks

The preliminary census E]ነ• menced on the 10th February and continued up to the census day. The revision of the work done during! that fortnight and the actual censas

was carried out on the morning of

Sunday, 8th March

ding 28th February, in the fallow- ing werk ending on cents day there was a balanes inward of over 7,500 Jersons. The bulk, therefore, of

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1931.

MODERN INVEN-

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CHINA?

TO GIVE EVIDENCE.

INTERESTING DEBATE AT

UNIVERSITY,

Are Western mechanical invon tions really a curse to the Chinese people?" This was the very in- teresting subject discussed at a debate held at the Hong Kong University Union, on Wednesday night, on the occasion of the second general meeting of the Law and Commerce Society of the Univer Bity.

A large number of students and members of the staff was present. Mr. S. L. Wong, Chairman of the Society, presided..

The speakers were Messrs. Tam Yik Foug, B.A. (proposer), Chan, Kni Yin (seconder), Hu Pak Mi, B.A. (opposer), end Soen Gwan Tihoen (seconder), ~

The proposer began by remark- ing that there had been for the last forty years, especially after the

those who had left for the China downfall of the Ching Dynasty,

New Your holiday had probably 'to- turned.

&

REPORT.

The demand for cash shares con- Lines and higher levels were again recorded yesterday..

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary informs us that the Hong Koog | Carrongy Conimięsion wish to make Cantons were booked at $1400.00 it kupwn that they are proparód-tó and perhaps further small lots may interviw any persons who desire be obtained. Unions were again to place their views before them, taken at 8035.00 white Underwrit any time before the 30th of April. Persons who desire to avail, ters are wanted at $1.80.

themselves of this invitation are requested to send their names to

Douglases recently declined from $27.00 to $21.00 at which rate shares changed hands.

Humphreys are easier with small sales at $18.00,

at

Mr. N. L. Smith at the Colonial

Scoretary's Office, together with a precis of the evidence which they disire to tender and an intimation the rates and times on which it would be convenient for them to appear.

Hotels opened with buyers 815.10 and after the Annual meet ing of the company the market firmed up and there wore good

The Commission have already re- buyers at $16.25 with eventualceived evidence from a number of sales at 815.35.

gentlemen who appeared before the. Currency Committee of 1930 or have been put forward as witnesses by various public bodies in Hong Kung.

at

Trama were booked at 817.90. Forries at $93.00, Electrics $70.25 and Telephones at 845.00.

Cements were the distinct feature of yesterdays trading and shares, were booked up to $18.88 Juno and

$19.00, July and closed with buyers KOWLOON AMATEUR

at 18.40 cash.

Ropes also were stronger, $15.10

craze throughout China for adopt Reports received from the Chief The sensus of the floating populning modern mechanical science as Enumerators were on the whole tion was taken on two days, the 7th the only means of salvation. The being asked and taken. favourable and showed that the and 8th March under the supervision Chinese, especially the younger. Amusements are in demand at work on the preliminary census was of the Chief Junk Inspector, and of

wore dazzled by the $7.50. Wo hear a dividend of Inirly well done; the revision was palice officers in charge of launches generation, carried oat as quickly as could be for outlying areas.

so-called mechanical achievements; 82.25 is expected next month. expected and the returns were, with The following table has been pre- and, without dus consideration, ät few exceptions, received at the pared from the totals in the Enume Census Office in the course of a few raters' Summary Books as regards once come to the conclusion that the İny's.

Hong Kong, Kowloon and New only salvation for China was the The date fixed for the census was Kowloon and from a rapid counting adoption of Western mechanical satisfactory. It was, however, only of the entries in the forms for the

inventions. 15 days after China Now Year and New Territories and floating popula- it might have been better to have [tion where summary booka were not waited another week or fortnight, I used,

The returns from the Harbour The figures must be taken as a Office and from, the Railway show, close approximation only.

PRELIMINARY FIGURES.

1921.

Males, Females, Tsitul. Island of Hong

Hong

21.083

317.001 126.316 Kowloon & New

Kowloon... 74,099 -48,750 123,449 New Territories 41,767 $1,30 83,163

1991. Malva, Females, Toini. 51;017 109,575 424,522 144,818 113,051 982,800 4,196 48,007 "06,503

ing predu.

Lile riu: 45,307

25,847 71,154

242,300 625,106

Floating includ-

Total......... 382,857

41,335 27,053 69,005

852,132 480,040 333,296

Two comments only need be made at this stage.

-This population of the Island of Hong Kong has increased by 77,000 only, a smaller increase than that which took place in the previous decade; the population of Kowloon has more, than doubled itself.

-The masculinity of the population continues to decrense. In 1921 there were only $33 females per 1,000 males; in 1931 the proportion had risen to 742.

EUROPEAN CHILD ASSAULTED.

CHAIR COOLIE-LOSES HIS TEMPER

Before Mr. Hehofield yesterday, a chair coolie was charged with nasuulting Mary Kerrick, the six

THE LATE MRS. EMILY

JUSTER.

INTERMENT AT HAPPY VALLEY,

In the presence of sorrowing re- latives and a large number of per- monal friends, the remains of Mrs.

But," the proposer

weng on, they overlooked the fact that eastern civilization is funda mentally different from that of the West."

Profundity of Soul.

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DIOCESAN OLD GIRLS' ASSOCIATION.

PRESIDENT REVIEWS SUCCESSFUL YEAR.

Miss Robinson, President of the Diocesan Old Girls' Association,

DRAMATICS.

A SPLENDID PERFORMANCE.

AJI

As

we briefly reported ygater. day, the entertainment arranged and presented by the Y.M.C.A. Dramatic Players at St. Andrew's Hall on Wednesday evening, was success and Was thoroughly, enjoyed by an apprecia- tive audience. It is to be regretted that counter-attractions had been arranged to take place on the same evening, an undoubtedly the plays

present,

For

"At the historical background of | prosided at the annual meeting of presented by the Dramatic · Club the Chinese people," the proposer that, body held on Wednesday at justified a larger number than were

"there has been a strong, argued, adhesion to a naturel profundity of the Diocesan Girls School when the soul (ns opposed to relentless she took the opportunity to thank meckaniam and rationalisation of life in the West)-an adhesion members of the Committee for which has been nurtured by Con- their work during the past year.

fucianism and Taoism. Since the

Tang Dynasty there has developed in the Chinese people a spirit of contentment, a love of peace, and

The annual report was read by Miss P. J. Andersont the Hon. Secretary, after which the state a belief in spiritual happiness and ment of necounts was read by Miss in virtuous life. All these havo M. Grose, the Hon. Treasurer. The mado Chinese culture and cíviien- ! tion so unique and lofty, and so profits of the year mounted to directly opposite to the relentless. 8304.16 and the credit balance of mechanisation and rationalisation of the Association stood at $1,737:98 life in the West. Now if we intro at the end of the financial year: duce modern mechanical inventions,

These reports were unanimously passed.

into Chinn, there shall be, as a natural consequence, à change in the outlook of life; a change "from" peaceful contentment to chaotic aggression; n change not to the better but to the worse. It will not only bring about the downfall of; Chinese culture and civilisation, but also cultivate a spirit of jingoiam among the people which has been sa alien to, and so much condemned by the teaching of our sages.

Mechanical Inventions.

Referring to the evils of mechan. ical inventions, the proposer drew instances from the Great War, and said that the results of the udup-

A

newly formed amateur dramatic club we think that the programme arranged was a little ambitious, inasmuch as two of the three plays produced enlled for very little action. It does credit to the producer and his associates, there fore that, relying entirely on their ability, they were able to convey

To

their audience the various subiletics of the plays, mainly by very clever acting and good delivery of their lines.

The Y.M.CA. Dramatic Club During the year the Association

more fortunate in their: actresses than in their actors held bathing picnics and social functions which were largely at ended. Physical Culture Classes (although it is a recognised thing were also held under Mias Lec,that there is more of the actress Physical Instructor of the Diocein woman than there is of the san Girls' School.

The meeting proceeded to elect acton in man), but certainly, the officials of the Association for the ladica of the east were outstanding next financial year. The following in their performance. Of the three ladies were elected:-President,

Miss W. Robinson; Vice-President, Indies, Margaret Birt had to sustain Misa M. Kacker: Hon. Vice-Pre the more difficult characters. She sident, Miss F. K. Walters: Hon. appeared in two dissimilar roles, Secretary, Miss P. J. Anderson; first in "The Twelve Found Look Hon. Treasurer, Miss A Wood;

year old daughter of Major Kerrick, Emily Drysdale Juster were in. tion of mechanical inventions would General Committee, Misa E. Allen, and secondly in "The Stepmother,"

210011.

in the chair shelter near, the Peak terred at the Roman Catholic Ceme Train Station, on Tuesday after-tery, Happy Valley, yesterday, the Alistair Melutyre who was Ruv. Fathor H. Teruzzi officiating playing with the girl at the time, at the graveside. appeared as witness for the prose- cution.

Doceased was a daughter of the Into Mr. F. G. Dryadnie, bailiff of the Supreme Court. She was 30 years old and passed away at the Kowloon Hospital following an

Outlining the case, Sub-Inspector Logan, of the Mount Gough Station, said that on Tuesday afternoon both children_were_playing_in_the_chair operation.

The chief mourners were the shelier on the Peak, near the Tram" Station. There were some chair husband, Mr. Andrew W. Juster, covers-entiopies of the chairs and Miss Lilian Justor, daughter whers they were playing. From the while among other relatives and statements he had taken, the girl friends present at the graveside and the boy were supposed to have were Mr. and Mrs. J. Osborne, interfered with the canopies, by Anderson, Miss Maud Juster, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. J. Brook, Mr...

playing with or stepping on them. Franco, Miss Franco, Mrs. Lee, The defendant informed the police Master Willie Osborne, and others In addition to floral tributes that he told the children to go away from bereaved relatives, there were more than once. Ile went over to many tokens of sympathy from do them on one occasion and told them ceased's personal friends. not to interfere with the canopies. He was alleged to have struck the girl on the side of the head. There

be the broak-down of the Chinese

social structure, the inability of the moral and social traditions to bind the minds of men, conflict between capitalists and the labour class, and poverty and sorrow for China.

tions.

Miss O Barretto, Miss B. Choa, and her portrayals of both parts Miks K. Grose, Miss M. Grose, Miss K. Gourdin, Miss V. Shen were practically perfect. The hoa- purs were divided squally between and Mrs. A. Urqhart.

Kathleen Curtin and. Wendy Orme in their respective roles of "Kato" "The Twelve Pound Look" and 128 the secretary in "The Step- mother," both giving splendid per formances and earning well merited applause.

STRANDED FRENCH

STEAMER.

LOCAL TUGBOAT TO THE

RESCUE,

8.B.

In my opinion," said Mr. Hu, the opposer, the salvation of China lies in the whole-hearted adoption of Western mechanical in- ventions." He said that 70 per cent. of the Chinese population cultivat- ed land, and yet they had to supple-.

G. F. Recs and E, R. Price were ment their food supply by foreign

extremely good in the parts allotted imports of foodstuffs. He solved the

to them in the latter piny, but-we-| problem- by finding remedies for The tug Henry Keswick left Hong think that they lacked the confid- floods and drought and by fertiliza- Kong at about 4 m. yesterday ence and case apparent in the tion of innds which could be easily for the Hainan Straits where the people playing opposite them, N.

V. Halvard as Sir." Harry Sims brought about by mechanical means. Lichow, a French steamer, strand.The Twelve Pound Look" was. China must open up her nines in after colliding with the

exceptionally good and gave an even order to be wealthy, and that also Canton on Tuesday afternoon.

better interpretation of the part. It is understood that the passen than in his previous portrayal at required Western mechanical inven-

The opposer further and thint gers on the 'Lamchow have been the Y.M.C.A, recently. His acting

which apparently auffored communication, public health and taken off, some in the .. Canton, was typical of the ponderous, self-

only made, business man. national strength (military and slight dannge and some by the... The small drama "In Port," economical) depended much upon Kiangsu (B. & S.) which happened which the producor cleverly wedged mechanical inventions. He went on to be in the vicinity. It is farther in between the two lighter plays, to prove that it was not Western understood that the passengers are mechanical inventions that caused being taken to Haiphong..

was extremely well acted by W. Robertson, 8. M. West, and J. J. world-wide unemployment, or gave riss to the World War of 1914-1016, -

Ferguson, all three actors being de- finitely suited to their individual or affected the eulture of the Chie nese.

China ten years ago, now had more parts. The surprising climax of this Mr. Chan, seconder to the pro. than 60 per cent. of the Chinese little drama is the point which has poser, draw the attention of the trade. Britain, her rival, now had to be brought out with effect, and, His Worship: This girl admits audience to the fact that West only 14 per cent. Thng showed that judging by the applause which playing with these covers! would say that the girl was stand. Inspector Logan: She did not ad mechanical inventions affected us the adoption of mechanical inven- greeted the performers, they lost ing near the coolis, with her nosonit playing with the covers to me,

indirectly."They (the inventions) Lions had certainly increased Japan nothing by their acting of what was to be conveyed. E. R. Price also played with effect the minor part bleeding.

but she admitted playing there, but are undesirable things, because we cae trade.

When the subject was opened to of n-butter in "The Twelve Found Lost His Temper.

the boy, Alistair McIntyre, informs cannot afford them; and they make

the house, many stood up to give Look! During the intervals. be... The coolio said the little girl me they were playing with the China more miserable," he said,

their views. The majority of thetween the plays pianoforte.selec speakore spoke against the motion. tions, were played by Mr., Rupert tripped" and hurt-her-nose as covers, result of the fall: He-could-call-

In our three other coolies to bear this out. In conclusion, Inspector Logan said ship said the children had better bo poser, said that industries, with the Robertson were among the speak that the defendant was a respect- warned by him that they ware not help of mechanical inventions," had ers, the former being a able coolie and perhaps lost his to play with the chair covers or near made the population of Java swell while the latter stood neutral.

When the yote was taken, it was them. "The coolie," his Worship from 35 millions in 1921 to 42 temper. I bailed him out myself," continued, "has in my opinion, used millions in 1931. Japan, which had found that 17 wore for the proposi- he added.

unnecessary violence with this girl, only a small share of the trade in tion while only 10 supported the

"(Continued at foot of neat column.)" opposer: (Continued at fact.of.utzt_column.) and he must pay 2.35 fine.”

'was & mark on her nose and sho bled freely...Private G. E. Coleman, came on the acons later and he

The Magistrabe: Bas-he-got a perfectly good record t

Inspector Logan: A perfectly good record.

To the parent of und of the child-

Modern Japan,!.

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ren concerned in the ease. His War Mr.-Soco,-acconder to the op: Mr. M. A. Cooper and Prof. Raldwinion the entertainment

was one of the best of its kind ever- presented at Kowloon, and, na we remarked recently in these columns, we sincerely hope that we shall sea bigger productions by these talented.

amateurs in the future.

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