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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935;

YOUNG AUSTRALIA ENTERTAINED

Ladies Day At The Rotary Club

PROFESSOR SIMPSON'S WITTY ADDRESS: SIR WILLIAM WELCOMES GUESTS

Yesterday was "Ladies Day" at the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club when over thirty girls of the Young Australia league were the guests of honour. The Guests were under the lealership of Mr. A. J. Girdwood, Mrs. A. Lodeewyckx, Miss Leslie Bailey and Miss Margaret Lewis were also present.

present

A large and representative gathering of both sexes was present which taxed the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel to capacity and

those amongst were: His Excellency, th Officer Administering the Government, Sir Thomas Southorn attended by Mr.J. H. B. Lee, Private secretary, His Excellency, the General Officer Commanding, Lieut. General O. C. Borrett, Sir Atholl MacGregor, Sir Henry Pollock and Lady Pollock, Hon. Mr. N. L. Saith and Mrs. Smith, Sir William Hornell, Commo lore C. G. Sedgwick, Hou, Dr. S. W. T's, Mr. T. N Chau and many others.

In Introducing the speaker, the signaller in France in President, Prof. L. Forster said:

Your Excellencies. fellow Ro- tarians and Guests. I am sure that I am expressing your feelings when I say how sorry we all are that Lady Southorn cannot be present with us at lunch. She very much wishes that, she could come, but as she is just recovering from an attack of influenza, her have forbidden her to attend: She hopes, however, that she will be well enough to meet our guests later in the day.

doctors

My duty is an important and a

very pleasing one but I shall be as brief as possible. It is to offer. bebalf of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong, a very warm welcome to our Australian guests.

AIMS OF ROTARY

the sun.

the first tant. There are modern travellers winter of the war. One mornine who journey as ti there was noth- I took him, into the trenches ating marvellous under St. Ed. It was a bitter, miserable. They are happy only when they hopeless morning; and he was a

find things which, like a box of middleaged man.

So I asked him matches in ал or.ental why he had ever joined up.

palace, He

remind them of home. They take said he was a London busman, and a return ticke. every time the had joined up to get a holiday train stops. They write book to from these blinking buses. Then "de-bunk" travel: and their books We asked for battalion headquar, ters, and were told they were at spid tosh did Lewis Carroll deal. are dead y dul. Not in such in- the "Bus House." When we found His is the spirit of the ideal tra- this sacalled house, It was. a pile vel-writer; of bricks over a celiar: and there expectation, suspense,

the gift for rousing vas a wrecked London bus at the

bewilder- ment and surprise. Consequently his book is full of encouragement, and warnings, for all who wander

door. Naturally I said to him, just to cheer him up, as I say to you "This looks like a busman's holl-in strange lands. day."

on

would

THE GARDEN PARTY

At Government House

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ONLY ONE DAY

Over 120 guests were present at Government House yesterday af- ternoon; when His Excellency the Omcer Administering the Govern- ment and Lady Southorn enter- tatoed to tea the party of 29 girls comprising the Young Australia League.

Under the leadership of Mr. A. J. Girdwood, the Tour Director, the party assembled in the lobby before being presented to His Excellency and Lady Southorn, who were waiting to receive their guesta on the steps, leading to the

main hall.

The official guests were seated at three separate" tables and amongst those present wer

Hon.

Dr. R. H

Mrs.

His Excellency, Lady MacGregor, Mrs. R. H. Kotewall, Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Mr. Girdwood, Mrs. Lode- wyckx, Miss Bailey, Sir William herdson. Mrs. D. W: Tratman, Hornell, Lady Southern. Mr. Shep Chief Justice, Miss M. Lewis," Mr. Kotewall, Mr. Tse Ka Po, Wm. Teeling,

Ho Kom Tong, Hon. Mr., N. L. Smith, Miss Campbell, Mrs. Tse Ka Fo, Prof. L. Forster, Captain W. J. R. Cragg.

His Excellency and Lady Southorn were attended by Captain W. J. R. Cragg. AD.C.

This

of

Private films were then shown in a spacious room at Govern- ment House, the first being a film which is the property of Lady Southoru. Jamborally, which was one of the depicted. the

outstanding entertainments held in commemoration öf His Majesty's Silver Jubilee. when all the boy scout and girl guide troops in the Colony took part.

In Paris Of The East"

baking "tanned and healthy. the party of thirty-three girls comprising the Young Australia League's delegation, Janded from the ss. Tai Ping, after a pleasant voyage from Australia- yesterday morning. charge of Mr. A. J. Girdwood, They are under the

tour director and. A. J. Shepherd- son, the secretary and treasurer. Other oficials comprise Mrs. A Loderwyckx, and the Misses Lesle Balley and Margaret Lewis

Dr. H. D. Matthews, president of the local Australian and New Zealand Association, together with Mr. M. F. Key, secretary of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce met the party, when the Tat Ping drew alongside No 5 Whart, Kowloon, shortly after

8 a.m.

The party Immediately repaired will stay before embarking on the to the Marble Hall, where they

President Grant for Shanghal According to plans, it is intended that they will stay for one day in Shangkat before sailing for Japan.

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The tour it was explained, was being carried out under the spon- sorship of the Nichi Nichi News- paper Combine, and they expect- Japan. It was planned to spend ed to spend at least 6 weeks: in

14 days in Tokio and another 12 days in Kyoto, while the rest of the time would be spent in tour. ing the country, which would follow rather unorthodox Mnes in that they would not follow the Thus the members of this party ordinary sterotyped tourist paths. will be afforded better facilities to be "educated by travel" (one qf the main objects of the tour) than could ordinarily be attained:

VERY IMPRESSED Interviewed by a representative of the "Daily Press," Mr. Shep- herdson said that the party was

After tea, the guests repaired to

PRIVATE FILMS

very impressed with the reception they received on route. In Manila the grounds, where the pleasant and the Y.W.CA. had entertain- in particular, the Rotary Club surroundings House

Governmented them royally, and they were were much admired by

splendid view of the harbour on

shown the sights of the town. the visiting Australian girls. The

the one side, and the Peak tower- You will say that my husman Alice falling down that long rabit the other must have made a great For instance, the description of ing over the dimunitive houses on had at least the advantage of see-hole, is very like a long voyage on One of the aims of Rotury is to while you are condemned to the cupboards, sheives, and maps: and

ing his bus in an unusual attitude:

impression on the visitors, judg- a ship. She was surrounded by ing from the comments overheard strengthen the bonds uniting dif-

too familiar experience of hearing sae thought the Journey

from them during the afternoon. ferent nations, and another is to

a teacher of literature give voice never end. She became introspec-memoration of the occasion was movements connected about a book. I have tried to meel

A group photograph in encourage

com- with youth that are worthy of sup-this. If I had merely been address tity; she asked herself questions

tive; she lost her sense of iden- then taken. port. We are achieving both those ing Rotarians, I could have fallen and repeated them backwards. alms at this moment. It used to back be the fashion to Europe a century themes, with which you are still beginning of the English psycholo- the stock class-room In that experience, you have the ago for young people who had just familiar, but which completed their schooling to make

they have gical novel. Would she ever arrive forgotten. As Returane are the anywhere? I don't know whether the grand tour of the capitals. The abject was to check the accuracy of the Round Table, I might have Australia: but we often do, ber modern equivalent of the Knights you felt like that coming up from of their learning and to provide a given them the usual exposition, of bacground by which their reading Malory's Morte d'Arthur.. Imagine, the Caucus Race bears a remark- tween Suez and Colombo. Then would become more vivid, and if you nad been confronted with vital. It is that custom watch you that! But for a special audience Of course the Caucus Race was an able resemblance to deck sports. young lades are now following like this, I had to choose a special unsuccessful effort to get dry: There is no substitute for travel book: some unravished classic: a while deck sports are a very suc← We can only see with our own eyes book which no lecturer has ever and hear with our own ears.

Books dared

cessful effort discuss "in

to get wet. and pictures are merely supple-which the critics have never mur- paid. Finally there was the Dodo,

a class-room: everybody got prizes, and mentary to that. You will see dered to dissect. Yet it had to be and I need hardly tell you that Hong Kong not in imagination as you read, nor in the flat as in ple all ages, and in ali languages, and deck sports committee.

a book which read by people of there is always a Dodo stures, but in its three dimensiona always read with admiration and in the changing light and in sun- delight. Finally I chose Alice's rather reached the end

Then when Alice got ashore, or shine and shadow with all your Adventures in Wonderland.

of the senses concentrated as they must

tunnel, she went through alter- be when seeing, feeling, hearing

nate experiences

of gigantic and scenting a strange place for

elongation and Lilliputian diminu- the first time.

she was always ready to such a topic on a Ladies' Day) tion; because (if I dare refer to

drink everything that was offer- est or ed. Her first drink," to judge by the ingredients which she says its mixed flavour suggested, was obviously a cocktail. Later when

A more important function, how ever, of travelling is that it helps to destroy that parochialism and narrow nationalism which is the curse of this age.

BEAUTY OF HONG KONG

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

I hope my cholec "will not be that your party, should be a group misinterpreted. I did not expect of little Alices. And I do not wish you to expect that your experiences in this part of the world will re- semble the detalls of Alice in Won- derland. China is celestial. She

But Alice

on the

she sampled a bottle in the house

of the Rabbit, she said to herself

the

The average age of the girls was stated to be between 18 and 18. and they were recruited from been chosen by application, the all parts of Australia.

They had.

Anal selection being left in the hands of competent bodies

meet

Some Ane "shots" were shown and proved very entertaining in- deed. Two other Alms were screened,

one being entitles "Social Activities in the Colony"

SHANGHAI "PEEVED" and the other "Reminiscences. of Asked whether it would be HM the King's Silver Jubilee," possible for the "League" to raise which was immediately followed a girl's hockey side to by a film length of the Chinese local Caer Clark eleven on their Dragon procession during the return to the Colony after their Silver Jubilee. These latter films tour of Japan, Mr., Shepherdson. are the property of Mr. Tse Ka said that he was rather dublous Po, which were kindly loaned for if it could be managed, as most the occasion. Among

girls of the girls had not brought any who attended were:

appropriate gear along with them Misses Dulele

Babidge. Jean "I know that Baulcerstone, Alice Batters. Thel-play tennis, and others play golf come of them ma Butters, Jean Ferguson; Jean but I really do not know if we Kellet, Girdwood, Jean Harper, Naney could raise a side for hockey,*

Dorothy Lewis, Shella added our informant, Long, Alice Pearson, Peggy Phil- lips. Lorelle Sample, Dorothy and looking forward to seeing the

In any Enid Brindal, Alison and Eleanor short stay.

case, the girls were Neille Sims, Dorothy Williams, most of Hong Kong during their

So far as he

was Verna aware, Mr. Shepherdson said that tion had been made in Shanghai no arrangements of any descrip-

rather "peeved" that the party were only staying for a day at the "Paris of the Far East!"

Campbell,

Lorna Craig,

You suffer from this disadvan- entered her wonderland in pursuit tage, however, and that is you are

of a rabbit. But you. more wise- seeing Hong Kong, the most beauti- are visiting China in purst "I know something interesting is Daniel, Edith Finn, Lorna Green, ful place in the Far Tast, at the of culture. Therefore do not ex- beginning of your tour, and so all pect to find yourselves in the com- sure to happen"; and it did. In Nancy Hopwood, Barbara Hut- other places must suffer in company of March Hares or Mad Hat-this way, things happen

to all chins, parison. Still, you are coming back ters, nor in kitchens where cooks travellers, if they act in an equal Reid, Patricia Rex,

Phyllis Madden, Valda as the interested bodies there were to it and just as you will I hope throw pots and pans at pappery spirit "of confident initiative. be delighted with your impressions

Duchesses. When you go to a of Hong Kong before you go north garden party, you will not be ask-

ledge.

my yarn

>on an

THE GRYPHON

Then there was her introduction

human

Welis.

and Lucy

I am sure you will be confirmeded to play croquet with a flamingo "In your high spinion of its beauty a mallet, hedgehogs for balls, to the Gryphon. You remember about them impressively. ́after-

when you return.

or soldiers as hoops. And even if how he took Alice to meet the wards? Bo

the teacher tries to thought, but achieves far better We hope that your stay here will I am as tedious with

Mock Turtle, and they made a

extract from this book a lesson-in be a happy one, and that you will as the dormouse was with his, party. They went singing and composition. I know it is assumed It is the special trick of Alice in effects. than exaggeration dogs. ❞ carry back with you pleasant you will not see my neighbours

dancing on the sea-shore. Now, that young women depend for Wonderland. There are, of course, memories of us. We also hope that trying to put me into the teapot on the China, coast we have two "terary emphasis on capital let other literary devices employed by your tour will be profitable to you Although you might welcome that.

varletles of Gryphon or griffin ters, underlinings and exclamation Lewis Carroll: the fabulist's met from the point of view of know. While I am here killing time to First, there is the equine variety. marks. But I know that you are hod of making animals, and even

aid digestion, there is no Queen some of them come from Austra

not the ones to be satisfied with cards, behave and to bawl out "He's murdering the la. So probably you have already, that. What then

is Carroll's arbitrary and exasperating supe. speak like I now ask fellow-Rotarians and time! Off with his head". Even been warned about the dangers special trick? Hong Kong guests to rise and drink I tried to be oratorical, and

of mis-placed confidence in him.

rlor people. There are outrageous the health of our Australian visi- told you that Rotary is a world Secondly, there is the

TALE OF TRAVELS

puns: they called the school mag- -tors, wishing them pleasant

wide social Journeyings and a safe return to

and philanthropic variety. He is particularly active

Most people when telling the ter "Tortoise because he taught their home.

system which revolves

on Hong Kong beaches at this tale of their travels, try to im- us: and there are delightfully international axis, no Eastern

ime of year. "When the sands Dress you by blatant exaggeration. sudden switches of conversation. are inimitable. The Duchess would shout "Talking of are all dry, he is gay as a lark". They offer an account of ships, But these axes, chop off his head." Buch It is he who will want to invite hotels, theatres, and festivities, trick that can be imitated is things don't happen in

you" to "a Lobster Quadrille. But

which are just the same as the these

paradox. parts. The Far East is the land don't let him, hear you sing "take

ones at home, but bigger, brighter You remember there was the of courtesy: where even Anglo- us up and throw us with the lots and more expensive. They mag- Cheshire Cat which growled be- It is with more than the usual Saxons learn to be tolerant of

ters out to sea". He'll do it.

nify everything. This is a childish cause it was pleased, and wagged post-prandial reluctance, that one another. Some of us are so

Along these lines I might multi-habit. It is so obvious that hard-its tall because it was angry. rise to speak. The most important far from home that we have got ply instances to prove the valuyone uses it nowadays, ex- There was an Irish gardener who people here to-day are the mem- out of the way of home truths; of Alice as a traveller's manual: astronomers. It does not count Whiting was called a whiting, cept fishermen, motorists, and dug in the earth for apples... The bers of the Young Australia League. but we are always ready to listen but I must get on to the second for much in Alice. But there is because "It does the boots and Now they are on vacation from to a far fetched jest."

part of my discourse. Having got another method; the method of shoes. And there was a school their scshop's and Universities.

my book, I will now try for the While I am a. teacher. They are

odd trick. t

paradox. Instead of making where, instead of the young ladies therefore bound to feel that my

Of course if Alice's, adventures What is the secret of Alice's the writer makes them opposite to "Uglification". Above all you will things bigger than expectation, learning to lock sweet, they studied bore no analogy to what you may enormous literary success? expect on your tour, I could hard-what methods did Lewis Carroll But although made contrary to one else, tried to repeat a popu By expectation. This sounds easy. remember that when Alice, or any ly have made her my book 1 infuse such delight into his sc expectation, they must not be lar rhyme, the result was usually think you may find some likeness count of her travels? I take it contrary to reason. A good para-a, most unexpected idea, in a very in your encounters; and I hope you are interested in this What dox contradicts the commonplace tarillar form.

PROFESSOR SIMPSON

Professor Simpson sald:-

talk is a bit of a "busman's holi

day."

However, I think I can show that even the most exciting vace

tions, may begin in this way: be

cause I was once very intimate with a busman. He was

NO ANALOGY

you will progress in a similar use is it "to be places and see truth, but is not itself untrus

my spirit. The spirit is most impor- things", if you cant write or talkTh's method requires a little more

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