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WHAT TOO H IS DOING TO-DAY

INTERESTING ADDRESS BY REV. F. E. FORD AT ROTARY LUNCHEON

At the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday, the Rev., F. E. Ford gave an interesting address to Rotarians on the subject of "Too The speaker explained the aims of the organisation and gave several examples of the work it has done and is doing today, especially in helping out East,

"In many parts of the world," he said, "Rotary and Too H work together in close co-operation. You tend to have more senior mon in your ranks. We tend to go rather for the juniors although we do not want to exclude the seniors.

The Hon. Dr. Tso, 0.B.M., presided over the meeting.

POSSIBILITIES IN HONG KONG AND

FAR EAST

to almost all of you that Mr

The service

we can do in the world is probably of a higher order than that which bound those men together during the War, because it is a service to humanity and not only a service to a nation.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.

MEETING AT JARDINES

GOVERNOR PRESIDES OVER LARGE GATHERING

MARVELLOUS

MOVEMENT"

His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, presided over a large. gathering at the Beard Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Coin- pany last evening when the Rev. F. E. Ford and Mr. H. Chappell gave, a further address on the sims and objects of. Toc H.

Those interested wore asked to sign forma so that further particu lam of the organisation could be sent to them.

EMPIRE DAY FAIR

TO BE HELD IN PENINSULA HOTEL

LAST YEAR'S SUCCESS STIMULATES REPETITION

It has been decided to repeat in Hong Kong this year the Em pire Day Fair which proved so successful in 1992. The project was discussed at a meeting of heads of British firms and the prin- cipsi organisers of last year's Fair, held at Government. House ra‹ cently, when those who exhibited last May reported that they were catisfied the Fair had had good effects from a business point of view, and should be repeated,

VISIBLE SIGN OF IMPERIAL UNITY

How to Apply for Space.

Introducing Rev. Ford, His Ex-

As an exhibition of food and Committee entirely free, it is prob cellency said that although he did In his address:The Rev. Ford for his fellow men.

Territories in particular, the Fair hibitors. said: I think it is generally known

not know much about Toe H, he other articles produced by the Em-able that, as last year, it will not be could say that it was a marvellouse in general, and by the New necessary to make any charge to ex Chappell and I are touring round

"vement, one of the few good was a revelation to many, and was

The first thing the Committee part of the world in the interests

things which emerged from the war worth while for its local educational The Rev. Ford said, there wore value alone. Such a display was of Toc H. I would like you to

still many misconceptions as to an outward and visible sign of. Im- nocda is to receive applications, for space from British arma. An in- realise that Mr. Chappell has been

what Too H was aed dispelling a perial unity which it was just as dication of the iron required should A.D.C. to the Rav. "Tubby"!!

My three years experience in In- few of them he said the movement important to maintain in everyday he given as this will help later in

as in times of Clayton, the Founder Padre of Toc

The work ac the allocation of space. Last year H. during the past year and he dia satisfies me that there is plenty was neither an ex-Service nor a trading affairs joined me in Singapore last July of scope for service which finds Service men's society; they were national emergency.

regrettably excluded on account of I have been padre for To II. in expression in the 101 little jobs of met a section of the Church of Eng-complished at the Ottawa Confer averal intending exhibitors were India for the past three years and work done by men for their fellow land for their membership was as ence, in which Hong Kong on the lateness of their applications. the Christian Church; count of its peculiar circumstances Letters should be addressed to Mr. MAN. We have twenty one branches wide after five weeks in Mainya we went and groups in India and they are they were nof an objectionably had but a small part, could at any together to visit the Tac H. family working axtremely well. Some of hearty back-slapping brotherhood rate, be effectively demonstrated M. R. Key Hou Secretary, The in Australia and New Zealand the jobs of service they are doing nor a collection of saintly souls: locally by an exhibition of products Empire Fair, P.O. Box. 321; Hong where we found it in a very

social service from all parts of the British Em Kong. flourishing condition: Now we have are really very fine. I do not want they were not come to Hong Kong and from here to tell you of them in spirit bureau; and despite considerable pire. shall go to Shanghai and further north and we hope to go to Japan.

Our mission in the Far East is to see if we can make start for the movement in the big centres out here, so I greatly welcome this opportunity to address your lotary Club and try to say a little about Too H-what, it stands for and what it will try and dom in Hong Kong if established.

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The Committee. A list of the Committee of the. Fair is given below:-

Chairman:--The Hon. Mr. J. JI

Paterson.

The unanimous decision of the meeting was to hold a Fair on the

Vice-Chairman:-The Hon, Dr. R. lines of last year's though provid- ing for some expansion, and im- provements based on the experience H. Kotewall, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. gained in the first experiment. J. P. Braga, and Mr. T. E, Pearce. Particularly, it wae thought that the

Committee:-Lady Peel, Lady Ho Fair should be held for a longer Tung, Mrs. W. T. Southors, Mrs. period, to enable the utmost benefit. a Borrelt, Mrs. Kinnaird Wat to be derived from the initial ex- penditure of time and offort.

of boastfuluess, but I commend publicity concerning the, Lighting Expansion and Improvements. them to you because whatever you of Lamps were not a Lamp Light may think of the ultimate end of ers' Union!!.

Mr. Ford explained the care Toc. H's higher ideala you must agree that the means by which we monios conected with the Toc are trying to get there are of de-lamps especially in regard to the finite and immediate civic value Ceremony of Light held prior and the jobs of the Toc H. members to each meeting of a branch or group. In silence, he said, in a da help the world along.

com dark save for the light of the lamp, the Elder Brethren of the Que of the great problems in Household were remembered, the India concerns our young folk com men whose bodies lay in Flanders, Rotary and Too H.

ing from home. It is a problem France, Galipoli and many other It is always a pleasure to talk to of giving the young men a welcome battlefields or in the depths of the Rotary Clubs about Tor H. for of the right sort when he arrives sea, the men through whose dying,

The Rotary and Toe H, have very much! The East can be an extremely lone certain spirit was created. in common-they both tend towards ly place for the young man arriv-silence was broken by the challenge 'Let your light so shine before fellowship and sacrifice before self, ing from Home for the first time. and we find, I am thankful to any He can get into any number of men" and thoughts pase to the it many parts of the world that difficulties without any difficulty at great task to which Toe is de Rotary and Toc H. work together all and Toc H. in India is doing dicated, of keeping alive that spirit of comradeship and service reborn in close co-operation. You Rotari- much to help in that way.

nt such cost in the mad days of war.posal of the Committen last year ans are limited in your membership often does not realise what Toc H.

"Every where," he said, by your rules and tend to have more is doing for him because it is do-

more extensive becommedation senior men in your ranks. We tenting it so quietly. We have a very hers pledged themselves by fair and have offered the same or even to go rather for the juniors ni-efficient aversens office in London thinking to inke Toe H really next May. though we do not want to exclude which is in touch with most of the "Everyman's Club and every mem- the seniors. It is a movement for big firms, which, if I might use ber too must undertake to do some young people but it is not a ques a phrase, export white labour to simple job of service. Such jobs are tion of years.

their offices in the East. They hear undertaken by us, not a profes in London when such youngsters sional but as amateurs; not as are going out and give them what angels sprouting wings and flutter advice they want, as to the condi-ing down with infinite condescen tions in the East and letters of sion to the slums, but rather in the commendation and they also write spirit of the areat Oxford and to Toc II. in the East, informing Bermeessey Cluba where Bermond- them of their approach. They are sey and Oxford men take equal met all along the line. At the end share in running Clubs and helping of the journey they are met not by to train up young Londoners.

The Prince of Wales and Lord an official but by a fellow man.

Plumer.

Ha

ment-

Four Day Display,

300, Mrs. E. Cock, Mrs. Hoare, Miss Westland, the Hon, Sir Henry The City Hall Buildings having Pollock, Kt., K.O., the Hon. Bir been condemned as unsafe, after Shou-son Chow, Kt, the Hon. Sir seventy years of service, it would William Shenton, the Hon. Dr. S. not have been possible to hold the W. Ta'o, O.B.E, the Hon. Mr. T. Fair at all but for the kind co N. Chau, Commodore E MCC. W the Directors of the Hong Kong Duclos, Capt. R. F. Walker, R.A., operation of Mr. J. H. Taggart and Lawrie, D.S.D., Major E and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., who the Rev. N. V. Halward, Mr. L placed all the largest public rooms Yau Tsun, C.B.E., Mr. Fung Ki of the Peninsula Hotel at the die Cheuk, Mr. Allan Cameron, Mr. T. H. R. haw, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Mr. M. T. Johnson, Mr. J. S. 5. Cooper, Mr. Ma. Man Fai, Mr. Choy Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. J. H. Taggart,

Cheong, Mr. P. Gockchin, MH. Green, Mr. E. H. Williams, Mr. Further, to meet the desire to B. C. K. Hawkins, Mr. S. -T. continues the exhibition for a longer Williamson, Mr. Tang Shin Kin, Mr. period, the Directors of the Hotel M. St. J. Walsh, Mr. J. A. S. Alves, Company have stated that they are 1, W. N. Thomas Tam, Mr. L. J. willing to allow the accommodation Davies, Mr. A. L Shields, Mr. G. to be used from Empire Day-which W. Sewell, Mr. T. A. Mitchell, Mr. Saturday following, thus permitting S. H. Strange, Mr, F. A. Mackie falls on a Wednesday-until the L W. Bush, Mr. A. W. Brown, Mr.

a four days' exhibition;

tosh, Mr.. O. Smith, Mr. A. Hicki, is Mr. B.. T. Barrett, Mr. D. C. Wil- Company As the Hotel generously placing all this accom-son, Mr. F. P. Franklin, Mr. G. G. modation at the disposal of the Stopani Thomson, Mr. H. Bragn

Duspiration from the War, Too H. looks back to the dark days of the world war and finds a light shining out of the darkness in the spirit which the emer gency called out. It was the spirit of being prepared to give rather than to get. If you look back on the war, I think you must agres that one really good thing which The speaker then gave an example | came out of it and this is trae of of two men going out East for the

Mr. Harry Chappell addressing all armies on both sides, was the first time.. The first had been in spirit of service and sacrifice. From touch with the Toc H. at home the meeting said The Prince of this was born a new sense of con- and was given letters of commenda Wales at the lighting of the sixty

new Lamps of Maintenance" at! radeship between men. It was a tion. He was wet all along the Birmingham last month made comradeship which, though it could line by members of Toe E. and cial reference to two of them. WHEN GREEK MEETS THE P. & O. ANNUAL not break that great vertical bar when he landed at Rangoon was

They were the rier which divided nation from great greet by a little group of ac- nation, did most effectively lessen tive members and taken to the home and the Malta Lamp,

ed the horizontal barriers which of one of them. There he learned had no bitterly divided class from the ropes and received an in- class within each nation.

"Plumer" Lamp,

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GREEK

MONEY LENDERS IN

MEETING

(Continued from Page. 6.)

beyond our contral, the total ex- penditure for the year under review has been reduced by no less than £255,000 as compared with the pre- vious year. (Hear, hear.)

troduction to the nearest unit, when young Indian boys in the Bombay Lots of people think the spirit he went up country. He found the slums. He came across some Toc

COURT of giving, of service and of com- place very friendly. The other H. men who said "We ha no radeship is perhaps the only thing young man could have got these money but we can get fellows who

Before Mr. FI. Wynne-Jones at for which the Way could be said letters of commendation, but "had will give time and help in run to bave been worth while. I do to leave in a hurry." The resulting games, etc. The Indian Central Magistracy yesterday, an not know that that is true, but at was that he came out and foundpoke to the Toc H. men about his Indian money lender was charged any rate the leaders of Toc H the East rather friendlees place work and they offered to assist with obtaming" $3,800 under false after the War felt it was so and with no one to meet him on the Two or three men go there several pretences and fraud from another when they came back to the post way and when he got to Hangoon evenings a week and help in run. Indian money lender who represent all salarice, from the Board down- war days, they found disillusion felt more lonely than ever. Aff. he

good work ciation. The Court was crowded. I should like to pay tribute to our boxing, etc. ments and of these was that they got was instructions from his office ning the Club by organising games ed & Money Lenders Loan Asso-wards, is already in operation, and found that they were losing that and it took him six months to settle done by the Club is tremen- with other Indian money lenders friends on the Company's staff for spirit which they had learned "our down.

Jour and it has put, into who were interested in the case the sporting manner in which one there."

Continuing, the Heverend. Ford these boys the spirit which is the Mr. Bendall prosecuted and and all have not only accepted this

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The Rev. Ford quoted another against Aleko Lalus in October, 1999, would have been impossible. All of each other and to bind mening out from Home for the first

example in which two salore, mens was a classic example, of the pre- sfost and ashore have worked lik time.

sent case. Lalus was charged and one team. We are greatly indebted together.. in, this cause by the tie

Jabbers of foe H. had been invited to

fraud-and-false pretencas although Commanders and Chief Engineers of common service. That commolt Helping the Existing Organisations the Olub and there they to the convicted of obtaining goods by to our Superintendents, to our service now can take a bigher form

astonishment of crowds of onlookers, than in the days of the war. It One of the strong points of To played the most absurd games with the complainants in cach case add to the Officers and entire per- can be the service of the human H. is never to compete with exist this rabble of Indian boys. The mitted that they had given the sonnel of our ships for their loyal goods voluntarily. In the present and willing co-operation in this race. You will find men in Tbeing organisation, but to help them

analors looked upon this as a great case the money was voluntarily task, and, I may add, to the whole all round the world pledge to In India we have sedmen's mission favour and returned the compliment handed over to the defondant and of our staff ashore in all depart. do that thing. It is a very great at work. We go there and tell them by getting permission for twenty of the feature of the case was that mente, and to our Agtate abroad. idest, so high an ideal that many we have no money with which to these poor Indian boys to be shown of fraaid rather than false pretences. One and all bays worked harder of you may think it is hardly worth help them, but we have some an over the ship on which they were

Bawan, the complainant was than ever, and have made the in pursuing, but we pursue it by very Power" and that if they wish to serving. That," said Mr. Ford, really by nominal complainant. He foreste of the P. & O. Company simple means. We proceed by have any help in the Finning of is one of my most delightful ex was a member of an Indian money their own; We are also much ob lenders association of which both he liged to Mr. John, Silley, the bond pledging our members to be "good the mission, Toe H. will be only periences of Toe H. in Indio."--! mixers and be givers rather than too pleased, to lend a hand. In this The speaker concluded by saying: and defendant were members of Messrs R. & H. Green and Silley “ Too H. means a great deal to some Asystent of rasing money was Weir, for his most prinstaking, getters. Bo you'll find in any way we have been able to help very branch or group a real good collee materially in the organisation of men and it means almost every employed by the association by and energetic aid in this bon-1 tion of men, drawn from. All ranks whist drives, socials, and other acting to quite a few men and I am which means the defendant spection of societYou will find them tivities. Toe H. men get in touch quite convinced, Toc H. will mean highest bidder received the sum of meeting together, having gothing in with ring apprentices and young quite a lot to a number of people $3,800 on loan thu money, we in We mult all mjains that the gnad. be repaid on an instalment plan.understanding in the Shipping In- common when they first begun, but offers from ships and take them in Hong Kong gradually they begin to learn each to their homes, bungalows and Mr CF Bellamy returning The money was signed for by the du chummerich and strive to show that thanks on beh of the Rotary: defendant m two others but the car the shore people are not forgetful Club, to Mr. Ford, said that the defendant receiv ction of

of those who bring them things 40 address must prove to be an eye. The defendant their ships,

opener for many," I have had the morning of

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