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YOUR VIEWS AND MINE!

A Weekly Column of Local Gossip

H.E.'S HOBBY

By

The Scout

Not many people in Hong Kong. ате aware that if there is one

Kowloon City was still Chinese Territory & good deal of gambling went on there much to the, annoy- ance of employers in Hong Kong, who found that the attractions of these gambling places played havoc with their starf. Cases of em bezzlement by people in positions of trust were so frequent that the Courts were moved to pass heavy sentences upon the offenders. Public opinion was so strong at the time, that employers stood together and it became a law in

any offices that any employee found gambling at Kowloon City was liable to summary dismissal.

sport for which His Excellency the Governor. Sir William Peel has a weakness, it is riding. H.E. can be seen practically every morning at Happy Valley, enjoying

his favourite pastime. Sir William takes a keen interest-in local rac- ing, and is a strong supporter of both the Hong Kong Jockey Club and The Fanling Hunt and Race Club being a familiar Agure as the steeplechase meetings at Kwanti. At the next Annual Meet-Of course, the horible did not end ing puntera will see His Excellency's colours on the course for ne has subscribed for an Australian pony and, frcidentally, has drawn fairly good one. Of course, those familiar with local racing "knows. that Lady Peel has been racing here for the past few years and that her candidates have SMOKI several races, both at Happy Valley and at Fanling.

A HOT WEEK-

The last week in August this year will be remembered as the hottest weather the Colony has had for many years. With twe typhoons brewing and the complete absence of rain, the weather was unusually trying. The sky was cloudless during the days and at the time of writing there is not the least prospect of any rain. Those who can enjoy the fresh air and swim after sundown per- haps did not feel the stifling at- mosphere so much, but the grow- ing number of people who work late in their offices will remember the past week as one of the worst this summer. It is not so much the temperature as the absence of wind and rain that causes the dis- comforts. Those who leave their homes in the early morning can tell you that despite the heat or the day, it is quite cool and plea- sant in the morning until an hour after sunrise.

BATHING. SITES

Now that the Chinese bathing clubs have been given a further lease of fe at North Point; the question that comes to mind is, how long are they going to carry on at that site? "Sooner or later,

SURCHARGE ON TELEGRAMS

No Longer In Force

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, Sept. 1. Beginning from to-day, the 30 per cent surcharge on all tele- grams fled at the local Chinese Telegraph Adminitration and its Swatow office by wire or radio to Hongkong will be abolished. This applies also to the Shameen branch of the Chinese Telegraph office.

The surcharge was levied by the "telegraph administration within the jurisdiction of the South-west Political Council as a means to secure a sum for the improvement of land wires. As the old wires have now been replaced, the sur- charge is therefore cancelled.

When the extra charge was first

imposed by the South-west Politi- cal Council eighteen months ago,

the Nanking Ministry of Com munications protested that such measure was ultra vires But later acquiesced.

IN HONG KONG time, regular balts at specified

TO-DAY

FINE

Yesterday's weather report, forecast anta remarks · lasued by the Royal Ongarvatory at 5.30 pm, ktálouse

A weak- anticyclonic area extends from Manchuria to the pacific east of Japan. -

The typhoon is centred about 100 miles west of Naha, moving WNW.

Forecast:-W. winds, moder- ate; fair generally" at first: perhaps local showers later.

THE TYPHOONS

Maniha, September 1.

A

typhoon warning from- Manila states:

The Typhoon in about 128° long E 26 lat N moving WNW. Typhoon in about 126* was received from the Manila Observatory at 11.45 a.m., Sept.. 1, 1933.

Manila, 1st 8,50 a.m., Cyclone or Typhoon SW of Naha mov- ing WNW or NW.

it is obvious, they will have to go. ehtht

and, if one might make a sugges-

tion, I should like to say that it

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To-day also marked improve- ment in tramc règuáltións, when all motor buses made, for the first

stops designated by the Municipal Bureau of Public Utilities. Here- tofore passengers could ; alight or board the 'bus at any place, and this was a source of danger to traffic.

Each bus was marked 10-day with a white number in order to show its route.. Bus drivers, are ordered to travel atarakudaï speed of 15 miles an hour and to exercise all rage in driting. The new regulations are to obviate ac=" cidents which have been inoreza- "ing of late...

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY

(September-2) (VII Moon, 13th Day).

Theatres.

King's: "Cynara.” Queen's: Devil Is Driving.” Central: "Happy Ever After." World: Strange Interlude." Oriental: Call Her Savage." Star: "Cruiser Emden" Majestic: Tarnished-Lady.""

Dances

Tea Dances at King's Restaur-

ant; Hong Kong and Repulse Bay

Hotels; Gloucester Building; and

would be a good thing for the there, but the attitude of employ-Majestic Dancing Academy.

clubs to form a joint Committee Crs acted as some deterrent. Many with a view to going fully into the years before that, licensed gambl-

Dinner Dances at King's Re-

question of securing a new site. ing was permitted in Hong Kong, staurant; Peninsula, Hong Kong. Is there any objection to develop but the resultant evil more than and Repulse Bay Hotels; and ing the Kennedy Town site? overbalanced the revenue provid-Gloucester Building. Already one Chinese bathing club ed from this source.

is there and if stiticient money is

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spent on it, Kennedy Town might, CHINESE FRUITS FOR be converted Into a very pleasant bathing place. Or possibly some other site might be suggested, but the great thing seems to me to be Ito get on with the question and hot to leave It until it is too late to act.

MORE ABOUT GAMBLING

It is learned that sometime agd arrangements were completed by the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Chinese Government for the ex- portation of Camèse fruits to for- discussions between the Bureau eign markets, and as a result of

· Principal Malls.

Outward for Australia by Tanda 5 pm: for Europe via Siberia by Kashima Maru 1.30 pm.

Sports."

Aquatics:-U.R.C. Night Fete 9 3.m. KXIASA Gala. 9 p.m. (Y.M.C.A.).

Lawn Bowls. — First Division,

and fruit merchants, Chinese Kowloon Bowling Green v. Civil Last week, "I wrote something fruits will shortly be shipped to Service (Club de Recreio (green); about gambling facilities at Bum- Liverpool. If the attempt to open Second Division Police R.C.V. chun and Macao, and, since then, up trade is succesful arrange-club de Recreio; Craigengower many people have spoken to me ments will be made for large-scale C. v. Indian R.C.; Yacht Club v. about these places. The consensus exportation. The English public, Hong Kong Electric R.C.; Kowloon of opinion seems to be that too if the experiment proves a Buc- 0.0., v. Civil Service 00. many people vint these places, who cess, will soon be able to buy

shouldn't, with resultant disasters and acquire a taste for latches, Shooting. Open 303 Bight to themselves. It is not my pumeloes, Bwatow oranges and Championship (Hong Kong Ride tention to dilate upon the evils of other fruits peculiar to China Club), 8.30 p.m.

gambing, but it does seem some-One of the fruits that much prized

what incongruous that while in China bat not very much

gambling is prohibited in Hong Known outside the country is the still. A week or ten days ago, B Kong, just outside British Terri Swatow orange. The large variety number of representatives of Bri tory there should be so flourishing of Chinese plums also - are

as a gambling resort, with most ofhown the people frequenting it are from The Hong Kong

A PAGE FROM HISTORY

Those who have some knowledge of the history of Hong Kong know that some forty years ago when

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