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We have so long been so accus; head, would offer considerable diffi culties. This problem has now four hours every day in the library, barren and unfertile that it comes been overcome by the construction is not easy to follow in these day's as a surprise to be told by metal by the present company of, aj of hard work, rush and worry. In lurgical experts that certain areas wooden pier jutting for nearly two of the New Territories are rich hundred yards out to sea from the a more leisured age (such as that in mineral deposits, one of the shore, so that deep-draught, vessels. come alongside. A good which the technocrats prediet for most prolific of which is iron ore, may future generations) there is no more This is now being worked by the motor road has been built from the New Territories Mining Co., Ltd., summit of Ma On Shan, and the profitable way of spending one's whose operations have been de ore in conveyed to the base in time The, problem in this Colony scribed in our previous articles. motor-tracks, whence it is unload In addition to iron, however,ed into trolleys and wheeled along which confronts the would-be stu- there are considerable deposits a the pier. The altitude of the de- dent is not one of leisure only; it tungsten (used in the manufacture posits varies from about. 245 metres is the lack of reading-matter which of steel) and wolfram, until recent at its western extremity, to. about prevents him from re-stocking hisly mines were operated at Needle 305 metres at its western part, and Hill and other regions in the Main it was formerly considered that an mind with knowledge. Few us ofland, specially during the War,verbead, tramway of heavy con are in a position to purchase now when there, was a tremendous destruction, or a railway broken at books and the Public Library in mand for these minerals for the one point by a gravity tramway,

manufacture of munitions.

would be required. A considerable Hong Kong, apart from being in-

Hong Kong and the neighbour amount of prospecting work was conveniently situated for Kowlooning islands, as well as the adjacent. carried out about twenty years ago, including trenching, tunnel- residents, make little appeal to the mainland, are largely occupied by ling of shafts and holes,

granite (usually alight grey book-lover. The building is old and potash fieldspar hornblende granite).

Generally speaking, the deposit grimy and the books, such as they enclosing scattered: remnants of forms a bed along the contact line between the granite and an over highly-metamorphosed sediments of are, are in a tatterdemalion condi- probably pro-Cambrian age. Alongying sheet of quartzite, constitut tion, practically unclassified and the contact zone, the granite axing Ma On Shan Peak, which probably represents an uneroded poorly catalogued, and if not hope-hibits fine grained and prophytitit portion of the original cover rest

inclusions, the most abundant rock ing upon the summit of the granite facies. Among the metamorphosed quartzite next i tome graphitic bed. The dip of the ore body varies from 30 to 60 degrees towards schists and clay states Occasional North. At some points quartzite ly evidences of impure lime and intervenes between the one and the magnesia carbonate rocks are granite, but as a rule the ore tics observable. Younger: extrusions of directly upon granite. The one body basalt and porphories occur in the

is not a solid mass of iron ore, but eastern part of the granite area,

is broadly divisible into members viz., magnetite intermixed with hematite and a deep green, generally aphanatic gangue rock net (frequently abundant), pyro deposits, which occasionally quartz, gar xene, amphibole, mica, chlorite, enidete, and serpentine can be dis tinguished with the naked eye. A microscopic examination has shown that, the aphanatic mass is com less magnesia pyroxene, magnetite. posed, casantially of uralite, colour- COLOMBO JEWELLERY STORES and peridase, Jae occurrence of the latter mineral 13 noteworthy the relative abundance of this ele ment is considered to be of great importance.

lessly out-of-date are unattractive and unreadable. Two local clubs bave first-rate libraries, it is true, but it is not within the means of everybody to belong to those in- stitutions. Thus the great majority, comprising in all probability scores of book-lovers, and students, is de- prived by circumstances of one of the greatest and most valuable plea

sures in life,

The Ma On Shan Deposit. Several iron ore deposits haya been recorded within this area,

superficial occasional small veins, and contact including deposits. One of the last-named, the Ma On Shan deposit, is of great economic interest. This deposit is situate north of Kowloon, about one kilometre south-west of Ma On level) in the New Territories. The Shan Peak (689 metres above sea distance to navigable waters at Tolo Harbour is not more than four kilometres but owing to the rugged topography, the transporta- tion of ore to the shore, at White-

Kowloon, even though it may not be officially recognised as a civic entity, is sufficiently aloof from the Island to require severi, institu- tions of its own. Its need of a library is even greater than Hong Kong'i, for the latter at least has ite clubs and lending libraries whilst it has a distinct.advantage over the Mainland in its possession of innumerable places of entertain doubt an essential part of that ment. The resident of Kowloon is education is the study of suitable obliged to cross the Harbour for his literature. The man who never evening's pleasure, since his local picks up a book or reads a news. amusements are strictly limited. paper, notwithstanding any natūral intelligence he may possesá, misses. Kowloon's paucity of amusement some of the finest gifts of life-the centres is most keenly felt during experience and thought of others the wet season, when outdoor who have enriched the world by their contributions of culture, know creation is out of the question, and ledge and reason. If a public swim- except for our two cinemas and a ming bath is necessary for the im few cabarets, he has, as the Ameriprovement of the body a public library is doubly essential for the cans would say, no place to go" onrichment of the mind. There is very little pleasure in stay could justly assert that money ing in a boarding-house or a two- spent in providing a library for the people is not wisely invested; the roomed flat on a wet afternoon or interest it earns is the number of evening, and most of us have no good citizens it is able to turn out heart for braving the elements to Reading, by turning men's minds to serious matters and thus preparing seo film or to dance in some them for publis service, is a recrea biliously-lighted "academy."

tion,, even an orcupation, which it The provision of a public library should be the duty of every govern

ment to encourage in Kowloon would solve our most difficult problem-what to do with Ourselves in the evenings, and how

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GOLF IN GREAT BRITAIN

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wonderful inward half of 32 to help him. He putted excellently through. out, and at the 16th his putt for

3 hung on the lip of the hole The only blemishes in the round were a fi at the long fifth and a No one 5 at the ninth. The next best |

score was the 72 of C. G. Jones, of Borkshire, who, with his hand cap of plus 2. tied for second place with Captain W Wise, of Camberley Heath, who had a scratch score of 74\/

During the Wewe of the World qualifying rounds at North Hante in 1926 1. Robson had a score of GB, but that was in the late summer when the coarse was playing short. There are several ways in which Yesterday conditions were not public library, in Kowloon could ideal, though the course was in its he founded, and these three immeural excellent condition. Perry,

to keep our young people. out of diately suggest themselves: by gov-tarted well by driving the first undesirable places. Scores of youthernment grant, by públic subscrip- green, more than 250 yards away

tion, or by bi private bequest Con and getting his of both sexes, many of whom have sidering that Kowloon pays its full with par figures just left school, are condemned to share of taxes and revenue, the had 3 che hours of boredom because they have first suggestion, is not unreasonable, afth ther and

Moreover, we are convinced that if The FBIL was no good books to read; they are the Government were it was due to this not all, interested in einemus, the clear to making a pre

wood putt for a 3, at rom the the ninth he cut radio or Jude, and if they cannot for this purp read they are liable to, more or else get into mischief. It is often essential that the boy or girl who

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was 35 out and very good going Perry holed from 15 yards for a at the 10th and got down from diz yards for a 3 at 12th. He was still under. three holes to play The last three all take a den of getting in

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