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LUCKY DOGS!

Palatial Mansions Opened

The pay dogs' homes situated in Tam Kung Boid, Kowloon City just below the Sung Wong Toi was formally opened by Lady Southern yesterday evening in the presence of a large and re- presentative gathering.

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The alte ori, which the Home stand-was granted by the Gov- "ernment on an annual permit. The new building was neces-. sitated by the Government's resumption of the old site in Waterloo Road for road widening purposes. The new Hope Es approached by double gates from Tam Kung Road, and the three blocks are carried out in a delightful colour scheme of støy, white and green.

The new premises are made possible by the generous support of the Ho Tung family whe wate financially responsible.

In the course of the proceedings Mr. I. Rumell, the pre- sident of the Society, expressed the thanks of the Society for the (help and publicity given by the Local Press at all times to the Society.

On arrival, Lady Sopthorn was met at the gate by Mr. J Russell (President) and Mr. D. Davies (Vice President), and in- spected a guard of honour comprising the 6th Kawloon Girl Guides & feature of this guard of honour was that every mem- ber had passed the Animal Lovers" Badge that afternoo2.

With Lady Southorn on the official platform wara: Mr. J Russell, Mr. D. Davies, Lady Clara Ho Tung. Lady Mary Ho Tung. Mrs. Russell, Mrs. G. F. Hole, Mrs. L. Ross, Mrs. J. J. Hayden, and Mr. Kwok Sin Lat

Amongst those present at the function were: Mrs. F. H Loseby (Secretary) Dr. E. H. Kotewall, Mr. and Mrs. B. Pestonji Mr. M. P. Talati, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jeffries, Mr. Leslie Ross (architect of the buildings) Mrs. Astley, Hon. Dr. A. R. Welling- ton, Dr. W. B. A. Moure, Mrs. W. 3. E. Mackenzie. Messrs. C. 3. Carrie, R. A. D. Forrest, S. H. Dodwell, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Perry, Mrs. H. S. Ronse, Mrs. D. Burlingham, Messrs. M. K. Lo, George She, Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Lo. Mr. E. C. Tregillus, and many others.

HO-TUNG FAMILY'S SPLENDID

GIFT

In welcoming Lady Southorn, Mr. Russell said:

"Lady Southom, Lady Ho Tung. Ladies and Gentlemen

Sir Robert Ho Tung is paying any excess of the cost of the building over and above the fund provided by Lady Ho Tung.". (Applause.)

"We are very grateful to you Continuing Mr. Russell said that Lady Bouthorn for gracing us with they were indeed happy to have your presence this afternoon."

two people there with them that -"Before asking Lady Southorn to day. Lady Southern for so gracious- declare the Home open we feel surely consenting to perform the cere that you would like to hear a little of the history of our Society lead- ing up to this event.

In the year 1803 a Mr. Hewett wrote to the press drawing atten- tion to the cruelty to animals in the Colony which he pointed out was due largely to ignorance and old- custom. His letter was given considerable publicity and aroused a great deal of discussion; as a result a public meeting was called for the purpose of starting a society for preventing cruelty to animals. A Committee" was form- ed of influential members of the community with HE. Sir Henry Elake as President.

"I cannot And that the Society achieved very much, but at the second meeting the question of a Dogs' Home was fully discussed and it was decided that proper kennels ought to be built. This seemed to have suffered the fate of so many other good resolutions.

"The effective history of the Society started in June 1921, HE. Sir R. E. Stubbs allowed his name to be used as President and since that date the successive Governors have always given recognition to. the Society by heading the list of our patrons.

mony, and Lady Clara Ho Tung who had found so much time in assisting the Society, and who had always attended their meetings.

He was glad to see that Lady Ho Tung's idea or 11 years ago was being realised that day. He was happy to be the president of the Society and to assist at this pleas- ing function. (Applause.)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934,

PUBLIC MONEY

VOTES

Eighteen Items To Come Up To-day

SOCIAL WELFARE

Active Work

(By Ker. T. F. Ryan. S.J.).

Qf some places it is said that the number of Societies engaged in ac- tive Social Work in them is legion, I

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case I was not asked,” one has often heard. And perhaps it was added, Votes totalling 383,064. are due

"If they wanted more, to come before the Finance Com-but that the number of workers is helpers they would ask for them." mittee of the Legislative Council comparatively small, for the same

Ione protests that there ac- this afternoon. details of which are people belong to all the socletics.tually was appeal made at a Gen- as follows:-

In Hong Kong no one would aug-eral Meeting, or on some other oc gest that there is a very large num-casion, the reply frequently is: Subsistence of Prisoners-$800.00.

'ber of active Social Welfare or- The deficiency is due to an in-ganisations, but the reason giren was genuind?”

"Yes, but, who believes that it

crease over the estimate in the

for not starting more is because the number of prisoners and witnesses

few active members which there for whom meals have had to be

are could not undertake any more, provided and a supplementary vote

work. This assumes, therefore, for $800 is therefore requested. that the same conditions exist here Police Force:-28, Rewards $500. as, elsewhere, a few active persons Owing to an under estimate of do all the work. the amount required to cover ex- It is not strange that active Bo- penditure to the end of the year cial workers should be few, for the it is requested that a further sum work is hard, and in addition it is of $500 be approved. During the uncongenial to many and positive past two months an exceptionally distasteful to some. But there number of returned banishees wete arrested.

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New Kowloon. General Works. 74 -Roads $10,000.00,

The increase in the estimated expenditure is due to the large development at New Kowloon, which could not be foreseen when the Estimates for the current year were framed.

Rightly or wrongly, with reason or without, there prevails among people everywhere the belief that Social Welfare organisations are just as full of cliques as other bodies, that most of them are run by a particular "set" who want no outsiders among them, and that in a great number the modicum of active work which is done is just a cloak for social climbing and self-advertisement.

are a great many people who do Genuine Work Recognised not engage in active work of this

Déplorable as such a state of kind for no other reason than that things would be if this were the. they have never been brought into truth, and "unjust as the criticism contact with any active organise must be in the vast majority of tion, and it never occurred to them

cases, it is undeniable that such an to go out of their way to get in opinion, often exists and keeps toch with one of them. That is away many good workers who the kind of persons that the Bo-would be otherwise willing to offer cieties, in Hong Kong as elsewhere, their services. Is there a remedy Kowloon. Maintenance of Wa- are most anxious to meet, for it

for it? Probably there is no really ter Works-$10,000.00.

is from them that they have most effective remedy, for the de- hope of swelling their ranks.

ficiencies of the worst always dim the reputation of the best, and while snobbery and insincerity.pre- wall in any Society they will; in the minds of some, de associated with all

The increase in the estimated expenditure is due to the expansion of the distribution service and the Increased cost of filtration and chlorination. Owing to the recent large additions to the water works, reservoirs and plant, maintenance charges also have increased.

Medical Department:-Upkeep of X-Ray apparatus -$1,000.00,

The increased expenditure is due patients treated. to "an increase in the number of October 3301 cases were dealt with To the end of as compared with 2544 for the same

period in 1933,

Light--$10,000.00,

Medical Department:--Fuel and

Lack of Helpers ...

It is very rare to find an active Social Welfare organisation that is not in need of additional mem- bess. Hard as it is to get financial supplies in these days of depres However, experience shows that sion, it is still harder to get work- the organisation which does genu- as who can be relied upon to keep ine work patiently and steadily on working even after the initia will eventually be recognised, by novelty has woin off. It is the most people at least, for what it greatest of piles that there Bhouldis, and if unfriendly remarka- are or cannot even be emciently car- be works that cannot be expanded made about it by some malicious ried out through lack of members,

tongues, these will not lower the opinion of it held by discriminating while at the same time there are people. Societies that are unduly people within reach, willing to touchy about their reputation, help and with leisure to do so, either for efficiency or for de- and that the desired contact be-mocratic spirit, are generally not tween the two cannot be establish- much better than those that make little secret about their social ex- clusiveness. The best test of any Society is the work it does, not the opinion of armchair critics.

The increase is mainly due to the following new additions to the de-

year: partment during the current ed.

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Yuk Hospital. Kowloon Hospital C. Block, Lady Ho Tung Infant Welfare Centre, Kowloon Infant Welfare Centre, Sal. Kung and Tal O Dispensaries.

District Office,. South:-Rent of Office $700.00.

Fire Brigade:-Light and Mec- tric Fans--$1,200.00. *.

After the president's speech Portions of Kowloon and Mong Lady Southorn accompanied by kok Fite Stations have been turned him went to the gate and receiv into Quarters for European and ing a silver key from Mr. Leslie Chinese officers of the Brigade, Ross and in declaring the home More gas and electric current have opened said "I declare this Home been consumed than 필요 open and wish it every success.”timated, and the vote of $8,300 18 Immediately after Inspector For almost exhausted.

ler of the 8.P.CA. then entered with four dogs the first to be ad- mitted to the Home.

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Many times the old bogey of "not being introduced," is the barrier.

"I did not give my services, be-

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Kowloon Magistracy October, 19395 S

on 11th Owing to certain work of a more permanent nature being required this year at the Volunteer's camp at Fanling the amount estimated is found to be insufficient and a supplementary vote for $261, is re-

Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen ap- pointed Second Magistrate in place of. Mr. S. F. Balfour who went on long leave on 1st April, 1934.

(4) Mr. W. M. Thomson appoint-quested. ed First Clerk and Magistrate on 1st February, 1934, in place of Mr. H. Owen Davies, S. C. and A. Staff. Magistracy, KowloonParsonal Emoluments $4,585.00.

The excess is due to changes in Re-personnel. Mr. J. H. B. Lee,

Miscellaneous Services: verification of Standard Weights and Measures-$1.701.00.

Fire Brigade: Incidental penses--$500.00.

New Road to Bathing Beaches 18. E. of Repulse Bay)-$8.444.00.

The full cost of the work was estimated to be $123,500, azid it

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Ex-on 5.2.34 in place of Mr. R. H. Wood.timated cost for the completion of First Clerk (8.C. and A.S.) whose the work, apart from the retention Lady Southern said:-

estimated salary for 1934 was $1,-money, is $118,000. Of this sum The excess on this subhead is due Lady Ho Tung, Ladies and to the more frequent conveyance or 942. Mr. E. W. Hamilton was ap- $50,000 is approved in 1934 Esti- Gentlemen, I wonder It is Ambulances on the Vehicular Fer-polated PM on 15.11.34 in place mates, $55,000 has been received because I am such a fervent adries and to travelling expenses in- of Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones who're from the Trust and Reality Co., and mirer of cats that I have been curred by one Station Oncer and

utilized in 1934, and $3,556. was chosen to open the Dogs Home, one Assistant Engineer who reside

spent in 1933. An additional-sum However, perhaps, the Committee in Kowloon Stations but are also

of $9,444 is therefore required to who did me the honour knew that on duty daily at Hong Kong

meet.1934 expenditure...

The Magistracy Magistracy, Hong Kong:-Per- sonal Emoluments-$7,693.00.

(1)Mr. E. W. Hamilton appointed as First Magistrate during the ab- sence of Mr. W. Schofield on long leave.

I have great sympathy with all Station. furred and feathered things. "At the "first meeting of the they have

especially in this Colony where many disadvantages Society as it is organised to-day with which to contend. Moreover, we find Sir Henry Pollock advocat-

in my schooldays from the age of Owing to the following changes ing the establishment of a Dogs' seven upwards, I had to write an of personnel in this department, Home as one of the vital necest essay on the Prevention of Cruelty the amount provided in the Esti- sities of our work. In June 1923

to Animals every year. I hope mates is insufficient:-- Lady Ho Tung announced her in-

the Bociety is promoting this tentions of providing the funds to essay writing in the schools here meet these needs, and immediately for I feel it is a very valuable donated the sum of $10,000 for the means of propaganda and of en- purpose. In the meantime. the old couraging young people to take an home was established and has interest in animals and to be kind done geoman service and many to them. All down the ages" a thousands of dogs have found re- fuge, food and rellef from their sufferings in that Home, and a large proportion have found new homes and become the devoted companions of their new masters.

love of animals can be traced and only the other day I came across this quaint saying from Flutarch:

"We ought not to treat living things like shoes or household. belongings which when Worn You can see, and appreciate with use we throw away."NE nlready the beauty of the build- Children and sometimes even ings, which have been erected here grown-ups are apt to be very en to the design, of, our architect Mr.thusiastic about pets at first and Leslie Ross, and I think when you then are liable to weary of them "haye examined the Internal ar- and neglect them.

rangements you will find that we have a home which architecturally and in every other way is one which need fear comparison with no other similar institution in any part of the world.

It must be a matter of great satisfaction to all dog lovers-all animal lovers in the Colony that this -Home has been built through the generosity of Lady Ho Tung And we hope that if only the funds are forthcoming it will be

A more beautiful, and I hope able to extend its work and in-

erosity, public spiritedness and

a more lasting record of the genclude other animals besides dogs. kind heartedness of Lady Ho Tung am glad to see that one room and Sir Robert Ho Tung cannot I has been set aside for that peer- think be found among the many less animal the cat. buildings in the Colony which owe their existence to the Ho Tang family (Applause.). S

I feel at this stage that I must guilty of what is almost a breach confidence and inform you that

The Bociety works hard under many difficulties but it does help to ameliorate the hard lot of pigs, birds and cattle in the Colony. we who believe with Blake that

agend

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(2) Mr. 5. F. Balfour appointed Second Magistrate in place of Mr Wynne-Jones who was transferred

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mained on PMK's paylist until the end of November their salaries being £1,400 and £1,150 per an- num respectively.

Medical Department--Analytical Labozatory.—$60.00.

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Imports and Exports Office:--- Cleansing Material and Washing- $100.00.

Radio Telegraph Apparatus and Wireless Equipment—$4,233.00 - Widening of Magazine Gap Road Expenditure to the extent of $811 | between May Road and Brubbs only was incurred in 1933 as the Road $22,132.00. apparatus and equipment, with the Owing to increased walling due Crown Agents accounts referring to re-alignment and the faulty na- thereto were not received until ture of the ground encountered, 1934. An unexpended balance of and the necessity for deeper foun $4,629 remained at the end of 1933,dations to retaining walls already but only $4,233 is required to com- constructed and passed, due to plete the purchase. -

saturation by heavy rains during Lymph Grinding Machine for July, August and September, it la Bacteriological Institute $375.00. estimated that the cost of the work

Volunteer Defence Corps $261.00 will be increased by $7,350.

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