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KOWLOON DAILY SUPPLEMENT

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ESTABLISHED 1857

Issued Gratis with the regular Edition of the " Daily Press

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Katoloon Supplement THE CHINESE Y. M. C. A.

Husa Koya, May 30, 1933.

AN ANIMAL PRESERVE

HOME FROM HOME FOR THIRTY STUDENTS

There are some people who can. not do good without talking about it, and it is equally true that there are those who do a lot of good and yet never so much as breathe a word about it. Those responsible | for running the Y.M.C.A. come under the latter category and in a conversation with Mr. Ko Kin Fan, the Executive Secretary of the Kowloon Branch of the Chinese Y.M.C.A.. I learnt a lot about the activities of that Association.

The

OVER

The ground floor of the building is devoted to recreation rooms, a hall and the library, while the up- per floors-three in all-serve as the living quarters.

There are alto-

THERE is always some fanatic at Home to denounce what are drama

gether thirty-three single rooms in tienlly called "blood sports," that

the building, and no sooner is one is, the liunting of the fox and the

of these vacated than it is taken up again by someone who has been pursuit of the stag. In Hong Kong

on the waiting list perhaps for months. There is always à long we have not the same fecundity of

waiting list and so great is, the de „fauns in the countryside to provide

and that the people in charge of like amusement for those who

Chinese "Y" (Kowloon the Y.M.C.A. are seriously contem- ♫ new wing chasing Reynard, and our chickens Branch) is housed in a four-storey plating building

as the present are consequently sale, from his building in Waterloo Road and at of the same siz nightly prowls. All that we have the present time its membership building to meet the requirements. numbers some 400, most of whom According to present plans, build- The best parting operations will begin either to- are bear and deer, both rare and are school-boys. few in numbers, requiring the most about the association is that it wards the end of this year or early serves as a home for Chinese boys in 1935 and a special drive for exhausting patience from the sports from the country who are here for funds to meet the expenses is to man who is sufficiently keen to

their education and who cannot be arranged. scour the local hills for them.enjoy the luxury of a private dat

I thought that a house with over residence thirty schoolboys in There is little doubt that not a pra, boarding-house. A single room in the "Y" without board, costs great many years ago, probably in

only hout 220 per month, and would naturally be a very noisy the early years of the British taking everything into considera-affair, and I asked Mr. Ko how that this big family was an orderly occupation of the New Territories, tion, this is very reasonable, for he found the lads. The reply was both pig and deer were fairly that sum entitles the member to use

the library, ping-pong tables and, and, in the majority of cases, the imys "turned in" carly. abundant. Unfortunately they were join in all the games and amuse-

and as most of them believed in inents run by the association. huated with such persistence that

putting in an hour's work or so before bed-time, the place was by now, if not actually extinct,

The noisest hour of the day was perhaps between 7 and 8 o'clock in Mr. Ko tells me that occasionally the evening because the boys have they have a debate and Christian their evening meal about 6 p.m. association in Bridges Street. Bible an hour or so in one of the recrea- classes are held from time to time tion rooms before going upstairs" but as the space at present avail to their own apartments. able is not really enough for meet-

The Chinese Young Men's Chris- ings, such occasions are comparatian Association is giving young

men who are away from their fami tively few and far between.

lies a "home frain homme," and the ta members and the officials work to gether 'very well. The spirit of give and take" prevails in this association, and where such a spirit

discord. exists, there can be very little

they are in grave danger of becom

ing so. There is evidence that deer are trapped by the villagers by all kinds of merciless methods, such as

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We have just received a fresh consignment of Porcelain horses, in bule green, as well as in various colours.

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kok for hathing, while volleyball and basket-ball are also popffar.

Meetings-the latter in the parent and after that they usually put in

The work of the Y.M.C.A. does not rest with members of that body alone. At the present time boys from about a dozen Chinese schools are benefitting through it, in that they have their physical training in the Y.M.C.A:

VEHICULAR FERRY

PASSENGER SERVICE STARTS TO-DAY

The Vehicular Ferry will in- augurate, from to-day, a regular daily passenger service.

stead of being hurted in a kind, This ruthless gentlemanly way. slaughter of defenceless and rare animals is greatly to be regretted, the more so as deer do very little damage to crops here and therefore cannot be regarded as vermin. They do occasionally nibble at the lettuces and sometimes show a delicate appre- ciation of unripe papayas, but since most of the land is devoted to paddi cultivation it cannot be stated that the damaged sustained is sufficient thrive. In fact, it it would be a ly great to justify a savage attempt charming idea to stock such a párk to exterminate the graceful animale. with various animals not usually As far as the boar are concerned-found in this region and this and it is hard to be sentimental create a sort of local Whipsnade. about a boar-they are apt to be We have no zoo of any description, too dangerous à quarry for pensants for the miserable collection of the Botanical to pursue with primitive weapons caged beasts in and-have a sinister habit of turning Gardens cannot be called a 200, round and rending their tormentors and the provision of a wild animal

The new service came into opera- with their tusks. But we are in-park would be greatly appreciated formed that it is the custom of by the public. A small entrance tion at am. this torning and continued every twenty minutes be- certain gentlemen to venture forth fee could be charged so that in a

tween that time and 6.40 a.m. from. into the New Territories' every week-few years the money expended by Hong Kong and between & a.m. and end, armed with Volunteer service the Government in creating the 8.20 a.m from Jordan Road, Kow rifles, and lay in wait for these park and purchasing the animals loon. wild pigs. The result of these would be repaid by this means.. In. excursions is that boars are becom-any case,. Kowloon is arkably the deficient in woodlands and a public ing practically extinct in Colony, except in wooded ravines park abundantly planted with high up in the hills, where they banyan, oaks and eucalyptus trees, cannot be hunted without consider even with the all too-familiar coni- able difficulty. The benevolent fers, would considerably add to the

Every 12 minutes between 12.10 Government of Hong Kong may be picturesqueness of the local land-

scape. There might be a snake or p.m. and 11.36 p.m. from Hong interested neither in pigs nor in two in this Eden, but there are Kong and between 10.06p.i. and

from Jordan Road. deer but we are sure that it, to plenty of snake-catchers only to 11.43

These services will be followed by gether with most humane people in anxious to keep these unpleasant creatures in check, for hunting the the Colony, has no desire to see python and cobry, the krait and the 13,45 pm. and 12 midnight ferries Russel viper is hardly, likely to from Hong Kong and a mid-night these animals exterminated.. other parts of the Empire the Appeal to the average sportsman, ferry from Jordan Road.

but only to the man anxious to sell *** Special late ferries will be run greatest care has been taken by the his catch at a price to the cook and every 20 minutes between 12.20 a.m.,

Perhaps the Gov authorities to protect wild animals the shoe-maker.

Jordan Road. from persecution by establishing ernment might not feel inclined to and 2.40 am, from Hong Kong and involve itself in any new and, non- large preserves in which it is an essential expenditure, in which offence for the sportsman to tres-event a local resident with a few thousand dollars to.. spare might

An association for the study of pass. There is no reason why Hong and the ides of such a preserve Kong should not follow this attractive. What would be easier China's frontier affairs. example. A large area of the New than for one of our millionaires to been formally inaugurated Tertitories could be planted with take over a few thousand, acres in Shanghai. Gen. Chu Shao Liang the New Territories on a long lease and Mr. Shao Li Tse, Chairman of and in this and convert it into a beautiful the Kansu, and Shens Provincial trees and fenced in

Governments respectively preserve our wild animals could park stocked with deer and wild given every encouragement to birds? We recommend the idea to

anyone wishing to hand his name among the sponsors of the new or

ganisation. (Continued on next Volumn).

down to posterity!

In

Subsequently the ferries will run according to the following time

table:-

Every ten minutes between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. from Hong Kong_and between 6.40 am, and 960 p.m. from Jordan Road...

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The Blue Taxicabs Limited.

NOTICE.

Our Patrons are hereby notified that from the tat day of May, 1933 the fares for taxicab hire will ravert to exterio and tan canta the old tariff-16, 40 cents Firat mile for each subsequent Quarter mile.

In Addition the Company will run small taxicabs froms Now Ferry Plor Stand at Jordan Road, Kowloon, the tariff to be 40 conts First mile and 5 cents per quarter mile for subsequent mileage.

Also public care for hire Day and Night

4 seater car at $2.40 per hour.

$8.00

$4.20

Waiting time at half charge.

For large and small cabs or public care Ring 57417 and "87714 arid car

car will be sent immediatály from nearest stand. Office and Garage

Corner Nathan Road & Market Street, Kowloon.

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