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HÉTOBTER A HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 6rx, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous

Time Tables cancelled).

UP TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No.

- STATIONS

2

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Sow

28 * 10 817.

13 -28 | 6a }· 23 18 24 20 (AM. AM. AM. AM, LK. Mizod. P.M. | PIĄT.X. | PKLĮ PM. Z.L| P.X.; PE,

Kowloon Dep. 6.25 8.15 8.87 9.15 10.13 11.30 12.18 1.05 1.86 2.20 4.85 455 6.08 7.40

Yaumati. Dep. 6.33,

Shatin... Dep. 6.45).

Taipo Dep. 6.59

Ta:poMarket.

Dep 7.01

9.24 10.1911.41 12.12 1.19

9.88 10.3111.68 12.31 1.241

9.50 10.401208 13.45 1.37

1... 0.53 10.80 12,16 12.49 1.41)... Fazling Dep. 7.15.10.08 11.0112.82 15.69 1.51 Shaungahai...

...

6.03 6.36 7.48 6.18 6.27 8.00

5:28) 6.41 14

5.828,466.19.

| 4,12) 6:57 8.20

8.50... 5.477,088.34

Dap. 7.20 9.14 10.1111.0812.37 1.04 1.56) ... Shumohue

Art. 7.26 8.53 9.20 10.17 11.1212.43 1.10 2.09 2.15 3.05) 3,13) 5.55) 7.08) 8.40

Canton...Arr (11.251

STATIONS

6.86

DOWN TRAINS

45...

G.No. No. No. No. O 17 bow 19 18 18 11 AMT.M. F., P. FX. FX. †M. TM.:

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

13

15 0 5 4.3.A. A.M.

Chaton Dep....

8:00

8.40

Mixed

ww

4,20 8:14)

9.07

Shunchas. Dep. 7,03 7.50 10.30 10.48 13.10 2.444.08 4.84 5.25 6.12 8.50 8.458.00

6.12... Shengshui ..Dep. 7.00 1.57 10.55 13.38 2.51 4.154.41 5,93

11,00 12.88 3,55 4.20) 4,45) 5,456.25 ... 11.10 19.39 8,06 4816.01686... 11.14 12,44 8,114,35] 5,00) 6.09 | 6.10 11.28 12.58 9.24) 4.50) 5,14| 8.27 | 6,53) || 11.411.11 3,875.04 5.96 8.49–758. ...

...... Dep. 7.14802 Tipo Markot. Dep.

7.25 8.12 Taipo... Dep 7.30 8.18

Stacia Dep. 7.48 8.30 Yaamat...Dep. 7.56 8.43

Bu

Kowloon Art. 9.03 8.40 11.08 11.47 1.188.43 5.10 8.37 6.3 7.11 7.25 9.33, 9.41

O-First Class only. Will stop at any station on request. Q-Sundays and Customs Holidays excepted.

Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Ko loon, from Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Hong Kong, from The Amercian Express Co, Hong Kong, or from The China Travel Service, 8, Queen's Road, Hong Kong."

By Order,

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Manager.

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS

JOINT SHATICE OF THE HONG KONG, Canton and Macao STEAMBOAT Co., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION Co., Læn.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily, at 8 am, and 10 p.m. (Bundays at 10 p.m. only).

BAILINGS From CANTON-Daily at 6.m. and 4.30 p.m.

(Sundays at 4.30 p.m. only), CURTAILED SERVICE

Until further notice Day boats to and from Canton will sail on alternate days only.

HONG KONG-MACAO LINE.

AMENDED SERVICE

BAILINGS From HONG KONG➡ at 8 am, and 2 p.m. (Week days only).

SAILINGS From MACAO at 8 am, hnd Sp.m (Week days only).

EXOURSION TO MACAQ SUNDAY, 6TH AUGUST, 1993

·88. "SUI TAI”

will leave Hong Kong at 9 am, and Macao at 4 pas

HOLIDAY "EXCURSION MONDAY, 7 AUGUST, 1933 B.S. "SUI TAI?

will leave Hong Kong at 9 am and Macao at 4 p.m.

SPECIAL SALOON, FABES. WEEK DAYS. -Single: $1.00;. Return: $5.00........... EXCURSIONS.-Single: $2.50; Return: $4.00.- Nor-AllSteamboat Company's Siegmers are fitąd with Wirniens.

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LIFE OF THE POOR ER CLASSES IN H. K

II. WOMEN COOLIES,

WOMEN AND

MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE

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SCRAPS AND GARBAGE;

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Continuing his review of poverty in Hong Kong the writer here describes the life led by coolic women That is hard and penurious enough, but there are still lower depths. Sew women, beggars who sell discards from the existance market, orphans, cripples and the aged lead an

such that is hardly human. It is strange that with-

submerged tenth in our midst the Colony is extra ordinarily law abiding and free from crime.

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men.

FEMALE COOLIES

The women counterpart of the coolie class are as hardy as the In addition to looking after the family she has to cook the meals and mind the baby" and do all the household work and find time to give eight or ten hours a; day to a contractor who for thirty to fifty cents gets quite a lot of work done

Women are employed, as will be seen by any observant person, on all kinds of hard work. Breaking stones in common occupation. When stones are blasted from a hillside they fall, in big chunks. These have to be hammered into small pieces and mostly women are employed for this work

SERVANTS

The servants employed in local also among the households are poorest in the Colony. This is not true of houseboys and amahs in European households and in the families of the richer Chinese, but those who work in the hopes of the poorer classes of Chinese are no, better off than the coolie woman- cum-labourer.

伍拜雞 日 月捌年叁佰玖仟豐类

Price

ONE THOUSAND DROWNED

In Sianfu Flood

Peiping, Aug. 3.

"A telegram was received here this morning from Sian reporting serious floods and rauch damage in North-west Sianfu due to the Ching River overflowing its banks and breaking the dykes.

There were extensive floods on both sides of the river with most

Single Copy, 10 cts.

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COOL SUMMER SUITS

JUST RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT

OF “SUMMER - SUITINGS IN THE LATEST DESIGNS.

STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED.

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serious damages in the Sanyust MOTOR CAR INSURANCE

area: It is estimated that a thousand people were drowned while there were also heavy losses in live stock. Distress is wide- spread, and appeals have been sent out for financial assistance.

Reuter

The hours of duty are unlimiteds The pay is small but food is pro... vided by the employer. This food generally consists of the remnants of what is left over from the family meal and is of such quality that it is not in the least enviable, an some--- cases even the quantity is wanting.

from

The pay of antha an siek póorar Bouacholds is not mother 496- month.hese amans como mossly from the country and are not of much use in a European household. Their prospects therefore are stiret ly limited. Their money, which they have to supply their own clothing, cloga and other neces- sities, do not allow them a very big saving Most of these people remit to the country what little they can save. These remittances are made in a very primitive way. Several amabis hand their savings to one who is going back to the country. Each one will have some instructions to give to the carrier and the confusion that arises is easier imagined than described,

Their hours are very long. Vary soon after daylight, in summer and winter, they leave their homes to go to their work. Those with small babies, generally strap them on their backs and for the day the child will remain in that position. There is an interval of one hour allowed during the whole day's work and in that hour the child will be fed. As to the woman 'her self, she takes a heavy meal before leaving for her house early in the morning. Such a thing as lunch is unknown, but a cup of tea and a. bite of coarse cake is taken during the interval between the working hours, and that will be the only thing a coolie-woman will eat until she returns home, where a proper meal is cooked and eaten. There is no such thing as a holiday or Sun-class go to a home where a bed- day. The only time when there is any chance of resting without the prospect of losing employment is on the festival days.

are

When they lose their employment, this type of amah, like the coolie

IN HONG “KONG TO-DAY

SHOWERY

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, 'FORECAST, AND REMARKS, ISBUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.03

· P.M., ŠTATED, 20mm

PRESSURE REMAINS HIGHEST OVER THE PACIFIC TO THE EART OF HOKKAIDO. THE TYPHOON IS AP- PROACHING THE STRAITS OF KOREA ON A N. o N.N.E. TRACK. ".. LOCAL FORECAST: "S.W.

WINDS MODERATE, JAIE TO SHOWELLY.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(August 4)

(VI, Moon, 14th Day) " Office South, Hong Kong, 11 am.

Sale of Crown Land, District

Lammert's Sale of Household Furniture, Sales Boom, 2.30 p.m...

General Committee Meeting, Chi- nese Chamber of Commerce.

Whist Drive on board H.M.S. Tamar 8.45 p.m.

Concert Music, Roof Garden, Peninsula Hotel,

Theatres,

Star: "Washington Masquerade,' World: "Hell Below.” Queen's Woman Accused." Central: "Little Damozel." King's Wild Girl" Oriental:

space can be rented at a small sum. Owing, to the difficult conditions under which they work, the amaha of this class never retain thein jobs When the children are sick, they for very long. In fact, so regularly

victims of ignorance and do they lose and find employment. poverty. Few kids among this class that some of them pay a regular know what it is to get freeh milk. retaining fee to the homes where It is quite safe to say that they bed-spaces are available at short are, on the whole, underfed and ill-notice. Each amah generally con nourished. Very small children are tributes something like thirty to Tea Dances at Gloucester Build- taught to eat rice with resultant forty cents a month towards beding; King's Bestaurant; Hong trouble

spaces and whenever any of them Kong and Repulse Bay Hotels. are out of employment they are sure of a place to sleep at night.

While the Chinese herbalist or native doctor is quite good, in his own way, in his knowledge of the ordinary sickness the same cannot be said about his treatment" of children's ailments. The mortality among the olfildren in this class extremely high and due to lack of proper knowledge of what children require, many mothers, after noh anxiety previously lose, their babies

The older children in this class receive no schooling whatever especially is this trns in the case of giris. They are absolutely illiterate and grow up to follow the footsteps of their parents-lend ing life of ignorance and poverty from birth

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BEGGARS

Beggars in Hong Kong come under many categories and the visiters who "do" Hong Kong in motor car or by touring only the main streets of the city can never have a proper idea of the depth of Let us first of all deal with a this beggar problems ? PATAS. sight that anyone can see daily in the heart of the city. If you take a walk along Queen Victoria Street, which is the road running from Desyeux Road to Queen's Road

Carnival Boat."

Dances.

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong. and Repulse Bay Hotels; King's Restaurant; and Gloucester, Build- ing,

Principal Mails.

Inward from Canada, America sid:" "via" parts by Empress of

Japan President Cleveland and President Monroe, from America and ria poris; front Europe vi Siber by Hakosaki Mart,

2.30 p.m.; Air Mail for Europe by

· Outward for. Australis by Nellore Hakoski Maru & p.m.; for Europe in Sten by Hakozaki Maru 8 p.m.

Sunrise 50 am; Sunset.-7.03

on the east side of the Central Low set 9.35 aged 18.00 Market, you will see & peculiar type C YA of beggars, NEE

Tides-High at 7.19 and 22.06;

"Along this street, on the pare,

Most coolic women are from the country, and inquiries show that the proportion of workers who are ment, you will see many Chinese overs of rice and other food after Hong Kong born are few. This women, in varying state of dirti their morning and evening meals. class of people are highly super-ness" with a "small basket by their Now, as the quantity of left-overs" stitious and spend quite a lot oD: sida. In this basket, you will find ↑ in the shape must vary from day joas papers, etc, and on festivala, vegetables. These are the discards to day, so the quantity of food which they never fail to celebrate, from the market. You will see half consumed by these poor women vary even if it means borrowing money, a tomato offered for sale, the other according to the amount of food

• While on the subject of the child-half having been cut away because they can bog. To see them is a ren of the coolie class, perhaps it it is too rotted to be consumed. pitiful sight to understand their would be just as well to note that Chillies, cabbages and other vegethardships and then to see them pass- they are, generally speaking, uables, bits of ginger, an onion oring the time of the day in this con-- great help to their parents as soon two, with parts amputated are dition, with no outlook or hope of as they attain the age of ten or offered for sale. These women bring better things, is to understand some eleven. Both boys and giris, accus all their children with them and thing of the poverty which is ram tomed to hardened circumstances, they have large families and pig | pant not only in Hong Kong but are very quick at learning the work their wares from dawn till well into throughout China. of their parents and they seem to the night. become smart and clever. The nextTheir customers are not time you see a little coolie boy any much richer than themselves. A where just watch him bargaining few ent

for a job or begging to be allowed they can eBERADA

very

about all that

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SEWING WOMEN

Thore is another type of beggar "their food which the foreigner, or visitor, nearby. should find out sad study about if do he is to understand some of the real

to carry your luggage. If you are by begging from the observant you will find you, have a and these shopkeepers gen

very business like young fellow to not hesitate to give them the left poverty, that exists in Hong Kong. deal with,

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