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A Resident Magistrate Among Other Things

By Our Special Correspondent,

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the lively days when the anti- Japanese boycott and the atten dant riots gave the police so much not quite sure of trouble. I am my facts, but as far as I can re-

there.

certain member, amount of trouble getting warrants signed in connection with the ter- rible outrage at Tsang Foo Villas. Fortunately, Mr. Fruser who was then Kowloon Magistrate, made it his business to be in touch with the Police and it was due to this that the work went on as expedi- tiously as it did.

A couple of days ago, the editor, his leading article on the need of an "official residence for Kow- Icon, mentioned the fact that it would be rather desirable to have, at the same time, quarters for the Kowloon Magistrate. He remarkod that it would be a good thing if all of the more senior members of "the Civil Service were on the spot in case of any eventualitics and I arr inclined to agree with him.

Since the article referred to was published I have been round prospecting" in. Kowloon and have made, to my mind, a rather If a riot were to break out in interesting discovery. No doubt the heart of Kowloon to-night a great number of people must (touch wood!) we may take it that have stopped and admired the the Kowloon Magistrate's prosence beautiful house known as "Salt would be urgently required. What A telephone call Ash," formerly occupied by Mr. E happens then? Cock of the Hong Kong and to the Peak, the journey down and Whampoa Dock, but as that gen. then the trip scross the harbour tleman has moved to the Peak, theft all seems such a waste of time, "official" residence- of the Dock Company since Mr. R. M. Dyer is retiring (that. I learnt from reliable source), the house was offered to let. The first people ap proached were the Government but they turned it down (this also I learnt on good authority), and now the people engaged in the Shing- mum Scheme have it he their quar-Hong Kong has been hit by the trade depression like the rest of the world, things are not nearly

ters.

I do not know the inside working

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and the fact that this can be easily averted goes on to emphasize the need of a resident Magistrate for Kowloon

Only a week or two ago, Mr. Felham, the British Trade Com. missioner, in a speech at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, remarked on the fact that although

of this, but one would have imagin as bad here as in other places.

ed that the house, situated as it

Prosperity was still very much

is in a really central spot in Kowardund the corner, and when one leon. would have made an ideal pauses to think that even in such dull times Kowloon is making so residence for anyone of the Govern- ment, either the Assistant Director much progress, what will it be like of Public Works, "Kowloon, or bet when the cloud lifts f ter still the Kowloon Mazistrate as it is within a stone's throw of the Police Court, Although in the near future this Court will be moved further towards the Ferry, this should not make any material difference because, as it is, the Magistrate has a much longer way from his house (up the Peak!) to his office at Yhumati

This is not the time for us to sit and dream of the what-might-have- been. It is now that we should be "up and doing," and enterprise should be the password, so with that in mind, let us hope that the powers-that-be will devote a cer- tain amount of their valuable time to some of the more urgent needs of Kowloon, and I humbly, submit that a residence for the Kowloon

To cite an instance of the de- sirability of having the Magistrate | Magistrate rear at hand, I will go back to category.

Britain's Reply to

De Valera

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SMOKING NEAR BENZINE TANK

Kowloon Firm Fined

A summons against Mr. Wallace Harper, of Messrs. Wallace Harper and Co., for allowing naked lights to be near a 500 gallons benzine tank in Nathan Road, on Novem ber 21, was heard before Mr. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,

Mr. Appearing on behalf of Harper, who had gone to Waichow, Mr. J. F.-Shea, Secretary of the Company, pleaded guilty.

Mr. J. Fitz Henry, of the Fire Brigade, told Mr. Wynne- Jones that as he was passing one of the Company's tanks in Nathan Road at 10.97 a.m. on the day in question, he

Bome clerks standing around the tank, smok- ing. When the licence was issued to the Company, the authorities understood that the place was used as a store-room, but it had how been converted into an office.

Mr. She agreed that the place f had been converted into an office, but said he thought the clause in the licence forbidding smoking" ro- ferred to benzine in bulk and not to the stations.

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His Worship pointed out seriousness of the matter and im- posed a fine of 850, at the same time issuing a warning that there must not be a repetition of the offence.

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sels under the name "Societe des matter in how consiliatory

Bols 'du Nord" for the purpose of spirit without making friendly relations more difficult. "Any direct bringing Finnish and Russian tim- and unequivocal statement of in-ber to Belgian markets. Trans- evitable results of secession would ocean. certainly be misrepresented as a threat, and used as material for The Times pays tribute to the propagands by those who are labouring to widen the breach be-

after which date they cannot be wise restraint of Mr. J. H. Thomas tween the two countries. A refusal and says the Government acted with real statesmanship in emto make such a statement is not the belief that close evasion. It is a necessary corollary phasising friendly relationship between the two countries is essential for com thon prosperity.

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of the Government's decision to refrain from any word or action which could be made with any plausibility to appear provocative

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Regarding de Valera's claim to express the feelings of the Irish people, "The Times" remarks that the recent general election in While officially, it is stated in Ulster has shown with what he throughout his dispatch, as though Dublin there will be no general must regard as cruff emphasis the whole Irish people were united election in the near future, poll that the great majority in that tical circles believe a general elec- part of Ireland are just as strongly in a desire to tear up the treaty to cut themselves completely loose from the British Empire. tion. cannot be long delayed Reu opposed as ever to separation from ter.

the British Crown, and it is a fundamental article of his creed The Manchester Guardian " that they are an Indivisible/por- says it is typical of the Opposition tion of the Irish people. Even Press to think the Government is Ulster is left out of account, wise to tread on a coat tall, * there are thousands of Irishmen trailed before them by Mr. de

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