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Hongkong Daily Press.

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ESTABLISHED 1857.

No. 23323. 叁廿佰叁仟叁萬弍 H玖初月肆年酉 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY,

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after NOVEMBER 15, 1932, until Further Notics (all previous

Time Tables cancelled).

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Kowloon,Dep. 8.25 8.15 8.37 9.00 9.13101211.30 12.12 1.20 2.20 4.35 4.55 0.08 1.40

Ysumatt.Deg. 6.83

Shatin...Dep.) 6.40

Taipo...Dap. 6.50

Taipo Markat

Dep 7.0% Fanling Dep 7.18 Cheungshui....

Dep. 7.20

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+0,24 10:19/11,41 12.10 1.877

0.88 10,8311.58 12.31 1,89... 9,50) 10.46)12:08 12,46| 1.52)

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0.35 10.50 12,16 12,49 1.56; 10.00 11.01 1282 12.58 2.00

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5.47 7,028,84

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11.16 12.44 8.71 486 5.00 5.09 6.40

Bhumuchun.. Dup. Sheunghui ... Dep. Fanling Dap.

7.14 9.02 "... Taipo Market..... Dep. 7.25 8.12 Taipo.......... Dep. 7.80 8.16 Dep. 7.43 8.80 Dep.

Shatin Yaumati, Kowloon.

AFT.

7.18

MAY 3, 1933 叁拜禮 日叁月五年世玖仟臂英

Village Life And Village Industries In Hainan

UNSETTLED OUTLOOK: RICE CROP IN DANGER: SOME VILLAGE INDUSTRIES

Ikrom Our Kachek Correspondent.)

Sanitation in Kachek,

The Sanitary Corps of the 2nd division of Sin Han Koang's men inaugurated a clean-up campaign while they were stationed in Kachek. A meeting was called of representa tives of the Chamber of Commerce, the schools, the local civil and military authorities, and the hos

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DARING THEFT DURING WEEK-END

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEW YORK, May 2. AN international alarm has been proadcast by the New York police following a daring theft dur-

Museum and decamped with ben A clever gang entered the valuable paintings by Vandyk. Lawrence, Cranceh, Rubens, Rom- ney, Fra Angels and others.

ly as the sweet tuber," and peaing the week-end from the Brooklyn

Art Musenini nuts. Farmers who hire workmen, either men of women, by the year, provide food, shelter and clothing for them and pay about 330 in cash por year. In addition, most land- owners allow each workers a bit of paddy field, enough to raise a few bushels of rice for himself or her self.

A Remarkable Village. Hainan is primarily agricultural, and most of the farm work is done by the women, but village indus- tries play a big part in Hainanese life. Around the market of Big Road (Don-lou) some twelve miles from Kachek, the local villages have a number of interesting means of livelihood. To the south-east a mile or.so is the village of Leng-tui-hui, with ten families all of the surname Fu. Formerly there were only five families there, but when the trou- bles began several years ago five

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hats and baskets and trays and fish traps that are in such common use. Others have the long leavca of the screw pine into the coarse mats used for tying up betel-nut, salt fish or other merchandise, and for spreading out under the rice that is being sunned, the turnip shreds and the thin slices of sweet potato that are being dried, etc.

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mouthly inspection of housea and. shops was decided upon and due notice sent out in order that clean ing could be done. The various bodies represented at the meeting raised $100 for the purchase of additional receptacles for waste paper, etc., and for a disinfecting vab where carcases of rate could be rendered harmless, and for hiring additional street sweepers. The first inspection was held on April 10, conducted by the representatives of the mission hospital and the military, and in general results were very satisfactory, the shops, moet of more families living in another side, and with holes bored in the GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD., them, being ready and willing to have their premises gone over,

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New Year Superstitions, The country continues quiet but there are indications that the old cycle is beginning again. The local xillage people have a superstition that the behaviour of domestic animals early on the morning of the Chinese New Year gives auguries of the events to come. If the cats are calling, it is a sign that they small fresh fish and that fish will be abundant throughout the year. If the cattle are standing uneasily in their sheds instead of lying down

Every village in these regions bos families. The press is usually a at least one oil press among the section of a tree trunk, some six feet long and the farger around ground, hollowed out at the upper the better, laid lengthwise on the

lower side to allow the oitto drip out. A pit under the log holds the receptacle for the oil. Pressure is applied by driving two immense wooden wedges down into one end of the hollow log with heavy mallet, forcing a wooden plate back against the shed nuts Three- kinds of oil are found in wha re gion. The hang in" nuts yield proofing hats and other things. the thick dark oil used in water

Tho "hai-bo" fruits give the

bitter oil burned in the shallow poinelo" yields the clear oil highly open lampe, and the "mountain esteemed for two divergent purposes

village some miles away tore down their stone houses and moved them over to Leng-tui-hui, setting them in compact formation and joining wall to wall. By ommon consens the original fivo fatiilies tore down their ancestral hy dad the stone to all theich of the village. The men of this village are blacksmitha. On market days they ply their trade in the town, on idle" days they are busy at their village forge, making plowshares, knives, etc. They burn the char- coal that they need for the fire, and have the clay to make moulds for their work. As the earth near their in placid content, and if the doge village is suitable for brick mak- are barking, it is a sign that thieving, one family has put up a bricks a hair oil; and as a bles, with ing will be prevalent for the next kiln. They sold a buffalo for $38 Peppers and other ingredients, for twelve months. Unfortunately, both which was just enough to pay for

a delicious sauce served with chicken these latter signs were noted at the the kiln. For 82 they can buy

or duck. last New Year--and last week seven enough blue-grey clay to make one or eight cows were stolen from a kiln of 8,000 bricks. The firm is kept village not far away from a large going slowly for eight days and market. Suspicion pointe strongly nights and then there must be in the direction of discharged twenty-four hours of inteiise heat. militia. There has also been a The bricks sell for 29 per thou- great influx of people returning sand delivered, and delivery by car from the South Seas because of con- costs about $2 per thousand. So ditions there, some I believe return- there is a fair monetary return on ing "by request" of the govern- each kiln, if bricks are, nat spoiled ments there, and with times none in the burning. This is a side-line ton good here, the 'outlook is not with this family of smiths, and especially pleasant, even though bricks are not made unless there theoretically at least Communists is an order for them. have been stamped out.

Crops and Markets.

Varied Village Industries..

Other villagers are salt carriers,

near the sea, to Doa-lou, early ench On the road from Diau-lam market market morning a group of ten, twelve, fifteen men may be seen rounding heaps in their flat baskets, carrying salt. They carry it in

covered with the sheaths taken from betel nut trees, to protect from who may be waiting for them along dampness. They sell to villagers

the road, at the wayside refresh- ment stands, and at the market.

Soventy or eighty catties make a load, and the present price is thir- teen coppers, or about, five and a half cents, a calty.

In the villages to the north-east Village people dare now to" walk of Doa-lou a particular brand of fascinating things to be seen in These are only a few of the the road," and it is pleasant to see course paper is made, used for, village itineration, and one, quite the little wayside refreshment stands parking around bodies in coffins, agrees going up every few miles along the and for some other purposes. To soventy-nine-year-old head of one of with the still vigorous inain road. There are not for the make this paper, the materials used, the family villages, as benefit of motorists, but for the arg the thin bark of a certain tree" Besides the land, each family he said, pedestrian, so little in evidence dur-known locally as "hio-mon" or ing troubled times. Is it a corollary" fragrant hemp'

must have some sort of a trade to

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and bamboo bring in a bit of money, if there is

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

to the above fact that the tea pulp. The biomosa bark is strip- to be real security of living." shops which increased so greatly ped from the young trees in the in market towns are now finding, forests and carried into the market it difficult to make ends meet and sold there to the villagers. Village farmers are clearing aghin Villagers near Kachek make the the gardens and paddy fields so long; bamboo pulp, macerating the bar- uncultivated, but in a tropical island boo after soaking it in water and where vegetation flourishes as rapid lime, and shaping the pulp into ly it will be another season yet be rough round balls, which are car- fore the land will be in shape for ried to Daa-lou and sold there.. sowing.

Thon the villagers combine, these

TO-DAY

(Maya)

(IV Moon 9th Day) Annual Meeting.-Hong Kong

Central: King's Queen's

Theatres..

Rockabye.". Mischief."

Faithless." Oriental: Bociety. Jirl." World: Love Race." Star: "Bunshine Suxie." Majestic: Back Street."

Dances.

Rain is very badly needed if the two ingredients to make their rico crop is to be saved. A thun paper product, and the rhythmic Engineering and Construction Co. der-shower on April 20 gave super- thump-thump-thump of their mor- Ltd. Mosera Lowe, Bingham and ficial relief, but the ground in the tags and mallets as they sound can Matthews Offices, Mercantile Bank paddy fields is oracking wide open be heard even from the edge of the Building, Noon. and the grain beginning to look market. yellow in the stalks. The local To the west of Doulou the people have a saying that in this region is stony, and the men of season of the year five days without rain means a small drought, and the days without rain a big drought, but they say now that heavy mins within a week will save most of the STOP The price el sace is still verzi Tow. Long green beans cân : be bought at the rate of two catties for seyen coppers, which is unusual ly cheap. Bean sprouts, eggplant, and various kinds of gourds and melons are on the market, and au abundant supply of sugar cane. Farmers are busy planting their tuber crops taro, sweet potatoes, cassava, a hairy tuber known, local-

villages there are stonecutters. They make squared stones for the mortised corner of houses and this door frames roughly shape atones to be need for the house walls, bad makenog je srinding mille King's Restau stones in which to set the door- nant Hong Kong Hotel; Glouces posts, and grave stones. In one ter Building; and Majestic Danc-. rather isolated village home in this ing Academy. region the men niso smiths, but smiths who make locks and keys, rant; Peninsula; Hong Kong and repair tools and cooking utensils Repulse Bay Hotels; and Glouces- and guns. Every village has men

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