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HONG KONG, JUNE 94, 1833.

MUSIC HATH CHARMS

possess tto nerves.

1933

A HOT DAY IN YAUMATI

HOW THE POORER CLASSES MAKE THE BEST OF THINGS

A

(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) » ̈

pen to be on holiday!

In order to find out how the people of the poorer classes are Quite suddenly, the crowd began faring in this hot weather which is to gather in one of the side lanes being made all the more trying and formed a ring. I wondered by the water restrictions, which the what had happened and on follow- Government must of necessity im-ing them, I found that the pro- Bose, I paid a visit to the "native i fessional story-teller had arrived."

in Yaumati yesterday in This worthy gentleman evidently yuarters the middle of the day, and although makes his living by telling stories I was streaming with perspiration,true or otherwise, and judging the large crowds of people who by the coppers that fell into the tin collected in Public Market Square that was placed by his side, I bo appeared to be quite cool and not lieve his is quite a profitable kind When I learnt that in the least peturbed by the very of business. intense heat of the afternoon sun.

this story-telling business is a daily Some of them were lying on mats affair, I began to see why the crowd spread in what shady spots there had come out in the middle of the were but the majority were merely day-and in a district which is not

by any means over cool. sitting around, just talking!

THE recent summons case against the proprietor of a radio supply stere for using a loudspeaker which caused annoyance

to Government clerks, gives the lie direct to the common belief that the Chinese The clerks in question were employed in the Statistical Office, and anyone who has had anything to do with the compilation of figures-whether on the debit or credit side-knows that such work requires concentration wid quietness. Having suffered our- selves from the terrors of the loud speaker we can in a measure sym pathise with those clerks. fortunately the average Chinese is nces. not so sensitive as he appears to be, and as a result Hong Kong and Kowloon are two of the noisiest places in which we have ever lived and that is saying a great deal. In the daytime the streets are filled

I made enquiries about this with car-splitting explosions from particular hawker and was told electric motor horns, bicycle bells, that he sold leung sui which means the yells of private ricksha" cool water." Actually, he sells a kind of soup made from herbs and roolies and the wailing cries ns the Chinese are firm believers in of hawkers and beggars, London, in spite of the perpetual but dull roar of its traffic, is a peaceful village compared with this Colony with its nerve-wracking noises.

while

"Cooling Water."

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The Water Restrictions, Many shops have sprang up in this

Just as I was about to come away, district but it is the hawkers who Un-carry their wares about in their enw a fairly old woman sitting "stalls that get most of the busi- by herself. She did not seem to

I saw one fellow with two of take any notice of anybody or what! these stalls, and on one of them was going on, yet she was evidently were displayed an array of earth- rather impatient about something old so I went up and spoke to her. She rn-ware bowls, kerosene tin perched rather pre- said that she was waiting for the variously, on an even older earth water to be turned on as she had to carry her daily supply home. ern-ware stove in the other stall.

This woman added that the au- thorities were very cruel to restrict the hours of supply and remarked that the poor people were put to a great deal of suffering. I told her that there was a chance of an in- erease of the hours of supply soon and that made her quite happy.

The poorer classes, in Kowloon are having a great generally Jeal of trouble.. in getting daily ration of water their and there have been known to be instances of trouble in the water queues. On the whole, however, I think people are better off than those living in the island as I be. lieve there are more street fopn- tains, proportionately, in Kowloon than in Hong Kong.

We have for sale Imported Portuguese Sausages, Salad Oil, Olives....... Home made Portuguese Sausages...by the babel of sounds which issue from loud-speakers. "In some streets ......Smoked Eels, Italian

in the residential areas of Kowloon and Australian Cheese

every other household switches on etc.

the radio shortly after sunset. Each gets i different station and so we have temurs, sopranos, bases, jazz bands and pianoforte solos " on the air" simultaneously. The effect is disastrous, and is pandemonium let loose. The row, and it is nothing else, van be heard streets away. To worsen matters, the radio "fans' thrown" wide open every window in their houses, so that the noise is intensified.

At night conditions are little better, and even ardent disciples of the radis are liable to be deranged

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this drink as a health-giver in the hot weather, our friend the hawker does quite a brisk business every day.

I was surprised to see so many apparently unemployed people in the Square. I say "apparently unemployed "because they, one and all, gave me the impression that they had nothing to do but sit about and chatters There must have been several hundred people present, and they couldn't, all of them, hap-

K.C.C. CONCERT

PROGRAMME FOR TO-NIGHT

Tonight's concert at the K.C.C. promises to be a huge success and we give the programme below, from which it will be seen that those who are going are in for a treat.

The programme is as follows:

PART L

1.Instrumental and Vocal Trio. Messra, Dave Blumenthal-Gus 'D'Aquino-Ronnie Trus Japanese Duet

Madame and Monsieur de Tour 3.-The Rev. J. N. Bryan Lewis will

say a few words. 4.-One-String Violin Solos-

Selected

Mr. John Pymm. 5-Song-"Break O'Day

Wilfred Sanderson Mra, P. St. A. Sharpham. 6.-A Jazz Duet Arr. Violet Capel! Misses V. Bradbury and E Ford Accompanied by Mise E. Banker. *.-Dick Barty and a Piano.

15 Minutes Interval.

A committee has been appointed by the Government for the con--A sideration of the question of mar keting New Territories Produce.

The committee will be under the chairmanship of the Colonial Secre tary, Hon. Mr. D. W. Tratamen, C.M.G, and other members will be Hon. Mr. J.-P. Braga, Hon. Mr. S. W. Ts'o, Mr T. Megarty (Head of the Sanitary Department) and Mr. E. H. Williams (District Offoer, North). "

The formation of the committes follows questions asked at a recent meeting of the Legislative Council by Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga.

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PART II 1.-Instrumental and Vocal Trio..... Messrs. Dave Blumenthal-Gus D'Aquino-Ronnie True Spanish Burlesque ...... Messrs. J. J. Ferguson and J. C. M. Grenham, 3.-Humorous Sketch.

Madame and Monsieur de Tour 4-Tango Arr. Violet Capell Master G. Jowitt and Mise J. Bradbury. Accompanied by Miss E. Banker,

5-The Rev. J. N. Bryan Lewis will

my & fow more words. Song"Pipes of Pan"

Lionel Monckton Mrs. P. St. A. Sharpham 7.-Dick Barty will send you home ontinued as fast of next Column】

MR. BOTTOMLEY'S FUNERAL

TRIBUTE OF OFFICIATING CLERGYMAN.

LONDON, June 6. Two references to the Derby were made at the funeral service of Mr. at Golders Horatio Bottomley Green Crematorium.

In announcing the hymn the Rav Basil Bourchier, of St. Anne's, Soho, who conducted the service, said: The hymn, which in memory of my old friend, is 540, ao appropriate for to-morrow the second verse, Run the straight race through God's good grace.

Later, Mr. Bourchier referred to Mr. Bottomley's connection with racing, and said that Horatio assured of a place Bottomley was at the end."

There were few wreaths on th coffin and there were few mourners. except for members of the genera public. 2

One' wreath was from Mr. C. B. Cochran, another from Dorothy Chicklington, and a thi from his friend of many years. Mrs. A. Lowe, once known as Misc | Petty Primose, the actress.

The Rev. Basil Bourchier in bis remarks. after the service, said he was present by his own special desire to pay a tribute to one of the greatest men who had ever crossed the path of his life, to

Whatever the prem may care to say about me and what I have. said I regard Horatio Bottomley aa a man after God's own "hgart. I had known him: 24-years."

Mr. Bourchier concluded," "113 could, go to God with such cord as our friend Thould be in deed proud and grateful."

re-

with

God Ba

Chadwick,

True and

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