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HONG KONG PAYTRESS, MONDAY ANUARY 20, 1983. **

MONDAYANIZES

A BENEFACTOR OF THE COLONY'S WATER BISHOP HALL AT ST. FILIPINO NATIONAL

THE BLIND

SUPPLY

Miss Johnson Describes BIG REDUCTION ON CONSUMPTION OF

The Braille System

LEAVING HONG KONG ON

FAR EAST TOUR

Miss Grace Johnson of London, who is a voluntary worker on behalf of the blind, whom she is helping by transcribing many articles and books into the Braille script, has been a guest at the Peak Hotel for the past two and a half years and left on Saturday by the H.A. Kashima Maru for an extended Hour of several months to the -Straits Settlements, India, Bunna and Africa, en route to her home, in London. She recently, returned to the Colony from a journey through Australia, Tasmania and Now Zealand.

In an interview with a repre- sentative, of the Hong Kong Naily Press, just before her departure yesterday, Miss Johnson explained how she became interested in work for the blind. It was while en gaged in War Work in London that she met a friend who was working at St. Dunstan'a, who suggested that Miss Johnson should learn the Braille system in order to be able to transcribe books for the thousands of soldiers blinded during the war, as well as other blind

the" throughou persona world. Her friend offered to teach her, insisting on her buying th necessary equipment immediately. The next day she received a mes sage from her friend, saying that because of illness it would not be possible to begin the teaching on that day, as planned, and two days later the friend died. Miss John- son was felt a special responsibility to carry out the promise made to her friend and to continue the work,

A Difficult Task:

Mis Johnson appealed to the lady who had taught her friend the Braille system, Miss Jeffrey, who is one of the voluntary work- ers in the great London Library- for the Blind (a Render and Cor-

Westaninster; Mi rector), in- Jeffrey explained-how very difficult it is both to teach and to learn Braille, and agreed to undertake the teaching only on condition that Miss Jahnson promised to devofe herself to preparing Braille litera- ture. It was arranged that Miss Johnson should study by correspon donce during a stay of about nine months in Italy. Upon her return to London, to her great delight and sury rise, Mis Johnson passed the difficult examination required by the authorities of the London Library and was awarded their oertificate and assigned to the Philosophic and Scientific Section.

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DECEMBER 1931

FAIRLY SATISFACTORY SUPPLY IN HAND

The monthly water return issued by the P.W.D. on January 1st shows that there are 1,629 million gallons in the Island Reservoirs, compared with 1,813 m.g. on January 1st, 1039. The Mainland supply was 531 m.g. compared with 529 a year ago. Total consumption. during December was 245.67 on the Island and 144.23 m.g, on the mainland. or 389.90 in all compared with 180 in December, 1931. The saving of nearly 100 mg, was almost entirely on the Island

At the present rate of consumption there is a fre-and-a-half months' supply-s satisfactory position compared with previous

years.

ISLAND WATER WORKS

Level and storage of water in reservoirs on January 1,-1033.

Reservoir.

Tytam Tytam Byewash

Tytan Intermediato

1932

1933.

Below OverBow.

16' 9"

Contents in

Millions of Below

Galions, Overflow.

311.02

11 1.10

25' 11" 79.10 40' 3 1,042.01 13' 7"

Wong Nei Chung

15' 4"

13.46

19' 0"

Contents in Millions of

Gallons.

320.33 .42 !!93,35

-1,107.76

10.01

Pokfulam Aberdeen Upper Aberdeen Lower

10' 4"

43.88

$1'

10' 8"

123.14

11' "

23′ 8′′

31.20 110.30 11.40

Total Storage

1,813.33

Tytam Tukh

1,629.45.

Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions

of gallons during the month of December:--

Consumption

Estimated population_................................ Consumption per head per day...

1031, 344.80* 381,750

21.1

1938. 215.67 million gallous.. 384,754

20.2 gallons.

*Includes, 06.14 million gallons, from Mainland. December, 1931-Constant supply throughout the City, Hill and

* High Level districts during the whole month.

December, 1932.-A 10.hours supply (6 am 11 am, and 4 p.m.-. 9 p.m.) was given, to all districts during the whole month,

MAINLAND WATER WORKS

Reservoir.

Kowloon Main

Kowloon Brewash Shek Li Pui

Shing Mun Reception....

Total Storage

1932.

1933.

Below OverBow.

Contente in Millions of

Gallons.

Below Overflow.

Contents in

*Million of Gallons.

Lovel

352.50

Level

43′ 10′′

.53.85

30' 9"

10*

104.76

yt 8"

.20.48

1' 11"

352.50 64.20 86.30 28.07

329.50

531.07

Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions of gallons during the month of December:-

1931.

142.08

204.200 15.5

1932.

144.3 million gallons. Consumption.parsectie me Estimated population

308,000. 16.1 gallons. Consumption per head per day....

December, 1931-Constant supply in all districts during the whole month.

December, 1932.-A 10 hours supply (6 a.m.-11 a.m, and 4 p.m.- 9 p.m.) was given to all districts during the whole month.

The reports of the Government Bacteriologist and Analyst show - that the quality of the water is satisfactory.

Total rainfall recorded by Royal Observatory from 1.1.31 to 31.12.31-84.39; Public Works Department from 1.1.32 to 31.12.32-

21.47.

Asked how she carries on her work during ber extensive world travels, Miss Johnson explained that books are sent to her by the London Library which she traus scribes into Braille, working often six or seven hours a day in her rooms in hotels, and then her manu- script in forwarded to London, where blind Braillist duplicates it, receiving for his work paymer, at the rate of about 6d. per leaf.. Some of the English books philosophy or science. run into five or six Braille volumes of 146 lenves cach, this being the limit of weight for postal transmission. Miss John. Hon has transcribed scane 30 or 40 volumes, besides hundreds of maga- zine articles, etc. Asked if she saying that she considers hlien a was the author of any origina! most pitiable and deserving class writings Braille, Miss Johnson of people, and that she has found modestly disclaimed any abilityhem very appreciative of effort on She has been sur- except as a Transcriber, but she heir behalf. admited that she carried on a very prised to find how many thousands extensive correspondence with blind are deaf as well as blind and re- friends in all parts of the world. joices in the knowledge that she is also that she has written & Braille ministering to these also, many of article on A Chinese Wedding," whom she has met numbers of them describing an elaborate marriage personally, and found them to be, which die attended, as well as in many instances, more intelligent other articles about her travels and clever than most people who which have greatly interested and have sight. amused her blind readers.

A

Postal Union's Help.

Modest and Useful Work. When une contraste. the idle lives The postage charges on the bulky Braille décamente are remarkably of many persons of wealth with the reasonable, making Braille litern-helpful and widespread influence of ture available for the poorer classes this work, it scems that surely amang the blind. There is a very more ladies and gentlemen of lai- low uniform rate of postage in all are would gladly devote their time Postal Union Countries and in New and energy to a useful pursuit, of Zealand the Braille documents are this kind if only they realized How carried free of charge. An inter- much pleasure they might bring to esting: item, ..... regarding postage those less fortunate than them. charges on Braille matter is the selves. difference between the cost of send."

H.K. UNIVERSITY

NOMINATIONS TO COURT

ANDREW'S, KLOON

CORDIAL AND FRIENDLY WELCOME

ELÓQUENT AND INSPIRING

SERMON

A most cordial and friendly wel- come was extended yesterday even- ing to the new Bishop of Victoria (the Right Revd. Ronald Hall) by the Vicar and congregation of St. Andrew's, Kowloun.

DAY

CONCERT IN HONOUR OF DR. RIZAL

PROMINENT FILIPINO

VISITORS

A very enjoyable concert was held a the Peninsula Hotel last night

y the Filipino community honour of their national hero Dr. Rizal.

in

Over two hundred members and

present and | The church was full for evensong, their guo were

several prominent visitors, from and the service went with a good followship and enthusiasm that ob Manila also attended. These were viously gave the greatest pleasure Judge and Mr. A. R. Teodors, Attorney to Bishop Hall. The prayers wern Utility Commisioner: road by the Vicar, the. Rov, Wd Mra, Jose del. Prado, Assistant Walton Rogers, and Mr. b. H. Fical Agent of Manila; Represents- Hunt O.BE., the Lay Reader.tive and M. M. T., Boncan, Mem The Bishop read the second lessoner of the House of Representa and also preached. A very helpful tives, and Mr. and Mra. V, R. Alberto. Others at the concert custom at St. Andrew's anrvices, included Mr. T. B. Wilson, General the brief explanation of each leston-of its significance and how the passage came to be written. The singing was excellent, the con- gregation joining in well, and the choir rendered very ereditably this RathemHe that Watcheth Over Israel from Mendelssohn's Elijah."

..

THE SERMON...

Agent of the Dollar Line, Mr. Diamond, of the Hong Kong & Shangbai Hotels, Mr. R. Bass, Mr. H. Ildefonso, Prof. Gen sales and Mr A. G. de Jesus, Secretary of the Filipino Club,

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.

The President, Dr. V. N. Abienza, in his address said “

It is the habit of nations to

The Bishop's scrinon was an ad- dress of real helpfulness and in-use when anniversaries of grewl spiration to all who heard it. De evente come around, to pause as livered untemporaneously, and with it were, to renew their strength of out even notes, it is impossible to spirit. December 30 came around, do it justice in a brief summary.

the anniversary of Kizal's untimely The Bishop took as his text the end, and we Filipinos” may be said words, we are no mom servants, to have paused and renewed the but cons, and Christ expected strength of our spirits. Himself of his glory and cams em- bodied as a servant,"

The observance" which

we hold to-day is a solemn declaration by the entire Filipino community that Rizal is deserving of the undying gratitude of his people and that the memory of his life and deeds should koep ever burning the fame el inspiration in the hearts of generations yet unborn.

There were, said the preacher, only two ways in this world. You must be eithor God's son, sharing in all that He gives and in thu way that He works, or, for all your foresight and cynical wisdom, You must live as a servant The bell rings and you must obey an Nothing could be nobler or more ther's will. For six years, said just for Filipinos who love their Bishop, Hall, he had had close con- country and its traditions, than to tact with young men froin the min-fulfil the high duty of paying tri ing villages. They used to have buto of admiration and respect to very cheerful gatherings, at many the memory of the greatest Fili of which the question is there, or rina patriot, Dr. Jose Rizal. is there not a God" was keenly argued. They used to write up

- A Man of 'Günfun

Rizal became a novelist and a for and against ", on a black-poet. He was a physician and an board 1. The sceptical argumenteve specialist.

Former Governor-

was always the same, and unless one had a real and loving faith it General Harrison has paid him was, what must be, must be hour as a patria, author, scienta That fatalism was the attitude of admirably of him, saying: of this ist and philosopher. Russell - wrote the servant and the alare, who sub mitted to what science called "fa, man the versatility was great What did this law of science" and the genius so many sided and real that they seem incomprehen- ninour to Only this, that in ible and one would be puzzled to the instances we have observed, cer tain causes produce certain effects cite from any other country, in any There was no explanation of what time, an equal prodigy. lay behind that procession of

Rizal was the greatest genius ever Ho events. But modern science did produced by the Malny race.

astonishing intellectual not drive out faith in God.

We waa must be sons or servants, and inprodigy, distinguished by amazing diverse achievements to many the top story of man's coul was the lines. He dedicated his life to sure belief in God's Fatherhood, in

aw

the ordering of the World, and a hat one great task-the liberation rejection of blind causation, with of his people from bandage. Life out design, and reason, and kind or death was nothing to him, sa liness.

long as he could serve his country.

But where the belief in sonship His supreme aspiration was to win flagged, the blind laws of servitude for his people by peaceful means took deep hold. What after all what the others failed by warlike was the essence of the Marxian method map.

Like every Filipino loyal to his creed? At first the kings and obtains ruled: then power in country and devoted to his people he too loved to see his native land svitably passed into the hands of free and in his real to achieve that the monied men in the towns--that was the present stage and later the end he encrificed his very life in order to hand down to posterity-a proletariat would gain the upper and free, happy and independent. hand and create a state without Rizal is venerated not only by his classes. The Marxians were the

That

servants of this law. They believed countrymen but by people the world it to be something stronger than ever, because he consecrated his idents and doctrines with his pre- themselves and inevitable. was the servitude of which St. cious blood.

Now dear countrymen let the The Rt. Rev. Bishop Henry Val-Paul wrote

What was sonship, the opposite day of his martyrdom be a token torta and the Rt. Rev: Ronal Owen Hall, Bishop of Victoria belief! It was the fixed and in- of our renewed struggle until the have been nominated as Members moveable faith that the Universe sun of freedom rises, until the day of the Court of the University of was guided, not by these blind of our cherished dream will be s Hong Kong representing grant-in-laws, but by the Father. There reality when the fing of red, white aid schools for a period of three were, however, two kinds of sonship and blue with its three stars and

By natural law & man was sin shining sun will be hoisted in the years..

The nominations of Mr. T. H. of his father, even if he hated very spot where Rizal was done to R. Shaw, Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. J father or had never seen him. But death, thus heralding to the world H. Seth, Mr. Li Yan Teun, C.B.E., true sonship, was the slow unfold the birth of a new republio, the Mr. Chan, Yue Ting, Mr. Li Yiking by the father of his knowledge first Christian republic in the East, Mui and Mr. Wong Kwong Tin and experience to the son. In this the republic of our native land, the

Philippines. as Members of the Court of the the father took the initiative, but University of Hong Kong for a the son was free to Rocept or re been gazetted

ever, and if we knew better than whole-hearted support, further period of three years have ject. God had His own way, how

God we had no part in Him." Mr. Rogers read a very amastig And the greatest thing of God's letter about a certain Bishop who way was forgiveness, the perpetual was appointed to sen no OTE: forgiveness of those who wronged knew quita why, as he was without 36. Paul was an example of parochial experience. Bishop Hall the men driven by "the law." had had great parochial experience. Outwardly a proud man, inwardly and they felt that in him they had he was a slave. But, when he the man needed for the job. (AP The RevE.CH. Tribbeck threw off the hackits of the law plause.) gratefully acknowledges on behalf and took the form of servitude heThe Churchwarders also spoke of the Committee of the Bailors and entered upon the freedom of son- bristly, saying how much they Soldiers Home, the following dona-ship

SAILORS & SOLDIERS! HOME

NOTABLE 3UBSCRIPTIONS

FROM LOCAL HONGE.

·HALL

The interviewer remarked upon ing paper before and afer per the extreme modesty of Miss John- tions to the Extension Fand RECEPTION IN THE CHURCH foration a certain quantity of son in never once having referred The Hong Kong Fire Insurance

-8730 Go, Ltd. the plain paper from England cast her bonificent work in The Canton Insurance: Office

Isted

1730 After the sorvibe a Miss Johnson 1s shillings for post course of conversation in the Peak

tion was given in the Church Hall to en age and the same paper,

after

Hotel, where the interviewer has The Star Ferry Co

Ltd.

1,000 able the Bishop to meet members of eing perforated by the Braille and next to Miss Johnson's table The Hong Kong and Kowloon the congregations EN AN A Join cost only about 2 shillings for many months she shilingly Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd. 750 The Vicar, After lcoming the sura in transmission From Hang renlied that if he had bodil occupy. Douglas Lapraík and Co, 50 Bishop, said Kang on may sand 12 pounds of the next room and had to ads are urgently needed alli himilfhe

Braille annuscript to London for

listen to the

of the Braille pen

ono cent per-pounth Mine. Johnson is intensely Tested me her work for the blind, he

Continued af foot of next dolumil

gifts will be very welcome they not on! olick!!

may be sent either to the 8.0.1. this ter hour, ffPost or to the Sailors and and

Boldiers Home, 42 Hennessy Road. They

All cheques should be made, pay- able to the spararey, and order

a day re-of-the

Ben Excension Fund Account T

4

hoped the Bishop would be able to visit them frequently, and, if poi. ble in a few capes in their homes, a he had himself expressed n wished. On the other hand the enormous extent of the diocep realised and the immense, naturs of the Bishop's task

The Bishop, in reply, said it greatly heartened him that St. Andrews.c made him one of thems}

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