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KOWLOON DAILY SUPPLEMENT

Hongkong Daily Press.

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ESTABLISHED 1857

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE

21, 1933

Kotolson Supplement PLAYGROUND FOR POOR

HONG KONG, JUNE, 21, 1933,

BOARDING HOUSES

CHILDREN

WHAT IS BADLY WANTED IN THE

SLUM AREAS”

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(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

Boys Will Be Boys,

It does seem pretty hard for boys to get a whipping just because they were caught playing football in the roadway. Boys will be boys, and they must have their games. Because they are not as fortunate as the more well-to-do lads who can get a game on some ground" or other, does it mean that they will have to give up all forms of sport 1

The boarding house in England is often the hallmark of extinction. Retired civil servants, merchants and officers from the Far East, the Near East and just the East, sink

There is no gainsaying the fact more remote "quarters. The boys their personalities in the sympa- thetic folds of the anti-macassar that of recent years Kowloon gen must have their games and if suit- and coo to hearty commercials of erally has grown enormously and nble grounds are not provided for mast notable is perhaps the them, they will soon play on the tropical days that are no mere, development of Kowloon City, You roadway, regardless of whether they! London boarding-houses are

O mati and the Kai Tack district. In are going to be a nuisance to traffic j often the last refuges of men who this matter the Government has or not. As far as I remember, a counted for something" in the shown much foresight and enter few boys who were caught "play- bard, hot countries, but who in prise, but as they cannot be expecting. football in a public thorough- England are soon lost in the un-ed to do everything at one time, it fare were promptly arrested and known crowd of pensioners. Thus is to be hoped that the oversight I brought before the Court, and I there is generally an air of pathos which I am about to mention will think they all knew what the rattan

was like, as a result. about a private hotel at Home, with receive their early attention. I re- its dingy tablecloths, its grimy for Chinese children of the poorer. fer to the sad lack of playgrounds horns in the hall, and the aroma classes, and as there are apparently of stale food which seems to ex many lots on the mainland that hude from the faded wallpaper. could be fenced in and converted East of Suez boarding houses of into suitable play-grounds, it would the better. type have little of that indeed be a good stroke of work if decrepit air Boarding-houses out something on these lines were done. East, in fact, fall into two types:

Although this article is meant to The first is comfortable and well be essentially about Kowloon, I feel équipped, keeping a good table, that I must drift a little in order and supplying a degree of comfort to show how useful such play grounds would be. One need only

Some of the districts in Yaumati, for which one would pay heavily take a tram-car through Wanchai Mongkok and Shamshuipo are dis at Home. Many people settle in any fine evening to see what good gracefully overcrowded and it is those places, grumble at them, but use is being made of the play a wonder we do not have more out- stay, giving as their reason that ground commonly known as the breaks of small-pox, diphtheria and it is less trouble than running s Rotary Club Play-ground." This plague. Yet "lungs" are not pro- nat.

is "on the Praya East Reclamation vided for these areas, although I On the other hand, there is also directly opposite the Sailors and feel sure it most realised how sore- the type described in hundreds of Soldiers' Home and although they these "lungs" are wanted.

Land is hard to get and valuable, area is very limited, a' mininture, "realistic" novels. They are not far to seck, and qut East the de- football ground, complete with goal but it is a short sighted and greedy ficiencies are multiplied. Whether posts etc., is marked out, and this policy of the Government to sell in Bombay, in Singapore or Kow- where teams like the Wanchai every square foot for building, and

Wanderers," Gloucester Gladia-ever an open space. loon, the same insipid oleograph tors," "Hennessy Hotspurs and that Kowloon, as a Peninsula, gets leers down at you from behind

Lockhart Lancers play off their plenty of cooling breeze from Lye- the mosquito net.. The mattress, Inatehes. A crowd of at least fifty moon, but this does not do away is hard, the drawers of the grown-up people watch these with the need for open spaces in wardrobe are warped, the chairs matches and Buch occasions are the congested areas. and the carpets clash as they made all the more important by did in the second-hand shop reason of the fact that a referee, where they reclined for years; complete with whistle, is provided the curtains are faded with over

for each game! much washing and the servants' white coats badly need laundering. Yet in this atmosphere men and women who have known the mean. ing of luxury and refinement in English homes, bravely smile as they crumble their stale bread and drink the watery soup, realising that a smile goes far to eke out uncertain prospects during the slump. Scorce of Europeans who come East are never able to afford their own bungalows, flats or homes and must remain en pension until such time as they can go Home on leave or retire.

Kowloon's Need.

It is true

The Sick Also Sarved, There is quite a lot to be said

in favour of these play-grounds and so far as I can see, there can be nothing against it. The Kow- In Kowloon, we find perhaps some loon, Residents Association have of the best recreation grounds that done a lot for the children in the exist here. The K.C.C. with i's Peninsula. Let us hope that gome a of the leading Chinese residents imposing pavilion is indeed ground fit for the Kowloon,tai-pans will take up this cause in favour while those in King's Park are in of Chinese boys who are so much no way inferior. These, of course, in need of a suitable place to take It will be are for the grown-ups, but the their daily exercise.

to children too have their own play- weil

bear in mina that grounds. A stroll along Chatham the play-grounds, if forthcoming, Road in the cool of the evenings is will also be able to serve a very all that is needed to prove how thetiseful purpose. little ones make use of the ewings, e-sawa, maypoles, etc. that are

them provided for

while the amahs too, make real good use of the seats. But all of this is only for the children of the better off

A poor Chinese coolie who may be unwell now cannot find nay quiet spot in the open in which to rest and get the benefit of the sun and fresh air, but if seats are provided in a playground as suggested this long-felt want would be remedied." It does nobody any good to have

It is still believed in England that Europeana in the East live in con- classes. ditions of princely luxury, · Bur- Although I have not seen any rounded by armies of liveried ser-street-football along either Nathan to take the air in a motor-road, vants who kow-tow every time Road or any of the, other larger all the time expecting to be run they approach the august presence; mobor-roads, I feel sure that there I down by one of the many vehicles that no one does much work, but must be a good deal played in the which use the road.

lolls all day in a long chair, sipping whisky sodas under a fan. What

TRAFFIC TIME AT CENTRAL

BATCH OF MOTOR-

SUMMONS-

roadto avoid two woodcutters walking on the loft.

a delusion is this Could some of the young adventurous innocents

Mr. Schofield imposed a fine of at Home see life in the East as it

83 and ordered defendant. to "pay really is, then they might be less

$18 damages to the driver of the lorry.. eager to answer that inviting ad- vertisement, or plead, with Uncle

Defendant.The driver of the. Jack to use his influence with some

A lorry driver was fined 85 yes-lorry swerved of his own accord. henighted firm. The fascination" which the East and the tropics terday by Mr. Schofield for failing Mr. Schofield. To avoid you, in general have always held for to keep to the left side of the yes. He did not swerve for his road when taking a bend. It was

the white man is largely due to stated that a military motor lorry the romantic mirage created by narrowly missed being run into, writers like Conrad or Kipling and and escaped thanks to the resource by artists who paint palm trees as fulness of the driver. though they were fringes of angels' Defendant told the Court that hair. The sun himself, however, is he had to get to the centre of the just as much to blame. He gilds

the green, coolth of an English lawn of the ship occupies his mind, how with a mellow baze that sends the quickly the griffin comes to realise

own pleasure;

$11.

Dangerous Driving. Trac-Bergeant Brittain moned Leung Kwok Chuen, the driver of a taxicab with driving bis cat in a dangerous manner in Garden Road. A fine of 825- WALI imposed.

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Li Lam Muk, the driver of a public oar was fined 890 for driv

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Sergeant Clarke said defendant was doing 22 miles per hour.

Doctor. Fined.

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In Addition the Company will run small taxicabe from Now Forry Pler:Stand at Jordan Road, Kowloon, the tariff to be 80 conta Firat mile and 5 cents per quartor mila for subsequent mileage.

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mind a dreaming of lands that are that life in the tropics is not all ing at a dangerous speed at Whit Corner Nathan Road & Market Street, Kowloon,

beer and skittles. How small doesfeld. his salary seem when he has enter ed the social set to which he wishes to belong, and, before his contract is finished, his exotic dream often enough ends in a boarding-bouse. He returns on leave to England a wiser and sadder man, and never ceases to enchant his friends and relatives with an account of his colourful experiences in the magic landsl

still steeped in magic and mystery to the majority, or slyly veneers the sea with a false lustre so that our longing eyes, tired of wet pave ments and dreary streets;, follow its patli until we see on the horizon the sort of picture that Conrad's books have drawn in the imagint tion. Yet after the excitement of that first voyage out, when ledgers instead of the phospherscent wake. (Continued at foot of next column)

Dr. A N Jones, of the War Memorial Hospital was fined 85.

car outside the Peak Hotel An- for causing an obstruction with his pexe Defendant who was absent last week, explained he had been away on holiday and received the summons on Monday.

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