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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933.

ECHOES OF 1859

7.-Official "Snobbishness" Exposed

short

TRAFFIC CASES AT CENTRAL

Lady Fined For Caus- ing Nuisance

Charged with driving a car in a manner dangerous to the public in Caine Road on September 10,

JANUARY 21, 1859.

puraned here, we do not think Lo Wah, the driver of a public emanster from design, but from car was fined $50 by Mr. Schofield Certainly the manner in which

at Central Magistracy yesterday. nothing

of contemptible Trafia Inspector Alexander told public bustness is conducted in this Colony is most amusing. The nobbishness, and is exactly what the Court that the defendant dut might be expected from men in between two streams of cars oficials being entirely indepedent pitch-forked into public life upon coming in opposite directions on & of the Community, do not conalder such a limited area as this Colony blind bend in Cale Road the public entitled to the com- monest civility. Their position is presenta If the Council were al- I driver of the first down-coming car ways adjourned to a given day, in order to avoid a collision, ap- propped up by confidential mis-

and such adjournment were al- representations to the home goVways strictly adhered to, not that there was a collision between plied his brakes with such foren ernment, which has been so en-

The

-tirely successful, that the misguid. /.word would remain to be sald; but his car and the car immediately

fers in consequence.

In

of the Fress considered worthy of being informed, at least we pre- sume not, for our readers are aware what we underwent for im- puting favouritism to the Govern- ment on a previous occasion. If the adjournment be sine dle the consequence is that the meeting takes place without the Press be-

behind him.

Mr. H B. L Dowbiggin, who was the complainant in the casey said that bis car was going up. Caine Road at a rate of less than 20 miles an hour, and defendant's car went past at an extremely dan gerous speed, cutting in between the two lines of vehicles.

Inspector Alexander said that Mr. Choi and Mr. Bulmer Johnson had also reported the incident.

OFFICER FINED,

:

as matters are managed, the ad- ed men have arrived at the con-

journments are sometimes, sine clusion without knowing it, that the situations they fill are merely die: whilst at other times the ad-

journments are postponed. meant for their benefit, mainten- neither event is any public intims- ance, and dignity. As far as aftion given, nor are the members fability goes, or their duty to the public, or their obligations to the Crown, they are in the clouds, There are exceptions, we admit, but we declare to the best of our bellef we have correctly described the prevailing principle. We wish to explain ourselves more fully and by adducing details not only to prove our allegations, but to

Lieut. Q. D. H.- Flowerdew, Royal show how the public service auf- represented. On the other

nang if the adjournment be post- Artillery, was summoned for bay- poned, the members of the Pressing allowed his motor cycle to be To begin at the top. Only a low have their walk...for their pains, driven by an unlicenced driver in months since, the concession was

and get laughed at for their ro Main Street, Shaukiwan West.

Bombardier Wilson granted, of admitting the Press toward. It may be said that the

Was also the meetings of the Legislative matter has not been represented summoned for having driven the Council. This was certainly not in a respectful manner, of It would motor cycle without an appropriate done to oblige the editors or pro- I have been altered. We beg to say licence, prietors of the Hong Kong -news- that a contemporary addressed a

Trafio Sergeant B. G. Baker said. papers, but that the public might sapient friend and contributor who that about 7 pm on September be informed of the proceedings of has a seat on the Council on the their legislature. It stands to rea- subject, and failed to obtain either 10 the second defendant was driv- con that public notice should be redress or satisfaction. Our aming the cycle in Main Street, and given as to when the Legislative cial snobs revel in thus, they fan-pushed aside, an old woman who wad crossing the road with a bucket Council' sits: for should their in-cy, insulting the members of the of water. The backet struck the tention of meeting be kept secret, Press. They have not the sense nor

woman in the stomach, and she of course, the Press can be most breeding to discern, that they are

was sent to hospital from where effectually shut out. The course insulting the public.

she was only discharged about ten days ago. The defendant said he was taking the cycle back to Lyee- mun. He had a licence at home.

Mr. Schofield find each defendant

THE STREET SLEEPERS SHELTER

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OBSTRUCTION.

MN S. Ellis of the Asiatic, Petroleum Company, was fined 85 for having caused obstruction in Queer's Road Central.

Chief Inspector Marks was the. complainant in a summons for ob- struction against a lorry driver, Yuen Iu, who was fined $3.

NOISY HORN,

Traffic Sergeant Fryer said that the defendant kept sounding the horn for about quarter of an hour. She said that she was calling a friend who lived in Seymour Road.

PRINCE ABDUL KERIM

Member Of Turkish Royal

House In Hong Kong

The Street Sleepers Shelter Society make through pur columni the following appeal on behalf of of their very worthy cause One of the indispensably neces#pital, The X's Men's Club the sary principles of social welfare Y.M.C.A, the Po Leung Kok and for a community to-day is to learn other public-spirited Chinese and

Miss M. K. Fung, summoned for to combine its citizens in the larg- European citizens. The Govern- est number of co-operative func- ment are also giving all the as-having caused an annoyance with her motor horn in Caine Road, was tions for the common good. Thesistance possible. more fortunate groups in any social This diversity of representatives fined $10. order cannot take for granted their make an appeal in itself and lenda privileges and close their eyes to weight to the Association's claim the miseries of the many about! for support from all sections of them. The inevitable, tendency of the community. The Committee of the age, in other words, is the per- the Street Sleepers' Shelter Society sistent attempt to be mindful of are prepared to begin everything the welfare of the other fellows. in a small and experimental Thus this ideal of drawing all the fashion, to find out the most effec- social forces of the community to- tive methods of handling the pro- gether in the fellowship of a com. blem on a larger "scale at a later mon task is constantly being put stage. Therefore, during the period into practice. The slum-cleaning of experimentation, only a limited campaign being proposed in Lon- number of the distressful cases "don recently is clearly a casa inahall be admitted into a shelter point.

"to be provided for in the old. St.

Among the passengers arriving That even Hong Kong is not Peter's Church at West Point. At. lacking in this most energising.im- the moment, the Construction and here in the President Lincoln was.

Prince Abdul Kerim, the son of petus of ministering to the more Finance Committees are busily pre- unfortunate may be observed from occupied with raising funds the former Crown Prince of Tur- key, The Prince, who makes his the number of social welfare agen- adequate to "furnish. hundred or cies springing into existence in re- more berths and blankets and other home in Belruth, Syria, le' in the cent years. The former impres-requisites to carry out a very ten-Far East in the interest of Isla- sionistic way of protecting and tative programme, before the cold mism. caring for the poor, needy, help- days of mid-winter coming upon less and neglected, the petty done. us. The various Committees are the undone vast, no longer hold fully aware that this relief work true of this Colony. There is every is but a drop in an ocean, but they evidence at the moment that the nevertheless cling to the beller social conscience of Hong Kong is that the efforts point in the right fast awakening to the fact that direction. As experience grows, it the helpless and exceptionally dis- is hoped to be able to formulate tressing poor is a vital part of the larger plans of relleving these auf- whole social order. There is no ferers in the winter months, agend excuse for enlightened community

WILL YOU HELP? NG Ad to leave alone the 'more unfortuni- The Street Sleepers Shelter, 80- ate ones without their recollina ciety need employ no hysterical ultimately on our heads with re- language to depict the plight of the double force like a boomerang.-street sleepers, men, women and

Perhaps this is the primary rea- children. Not so long ago, Rev. N son for bringing into existence the V. Halward gave an address on this social welfare agencies in our midist social problem of Hong Hong, be- systematically engaged in tackling fore the Rotary Club. The pro the various social: problema: under blem, if one were to look closely crganizations like the 'Anti-Maltsat into it in mid-winter, comes as a Society, the Society for Protection real shock to onesalf, Mr. Hal of Chidren, the Juvenile Court the ward, Miss Ruby Mowtung and Maternity Hospital and clinics for others of the former St. Peter's the poor villagers in the New Ter-Club who made an investigation into the distress of this need sec-

The Prince (His Highness Abdul- Kerim) is a dignified man of mid- He has a long beard, dle-age. speaks good English and is well dressed in European style.

He is studying the religion of Islam and visiting the Moham- medan communtiles of the places through which he is passing on his present travels..

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