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LONDON DAY BY DAY

Lendon, Nov. 29.

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's ap- pointment will be welcomed "in Australia and New Zealand. As the guest of the Victorian Gov- erament at the recent Centenary celebrations, he came into con- tact with politicians of all par- tlet.

spoken of as a possible candidate for # minor post before the Cabinet reshume in June. No- thing came of it. however,

Mr. Morrisbnis a Scot from Argyshire, and speak with a slight burr. He contested in 1923 and 1824 the Western Lies, where his abilty to speak, One'te was of use to him, and in 1929 obtained n safe seat in Gloucestershire. where it was perhaps les valu.

He left everywhere such an excellent impression that when the Empire delegations were her for the Jubilee celebrations, hole. failure to obtain the post 1r the Cabinet reshuffle caused surprise. One of his first tasks w he to consider arrangements for the next Imperial Confererce.

As I stated last May the next Imperial Conference has been tentatively fixed for the end of

1936.

IMPERIAL ECONOMICS

This will have the advantage f finding our own, the Canadian and the New "Zealand- Govern- ments with the greater part of the'r new term to run.

The last full Imperial Conference was held in London in 1930. That at Ottawa dealt only with econo- mic arrangements.

AS no outstanding" prints of Imperial constitutional relation sips remain to be settled, econo- mic and defence questions wi' dominate the next gathering.

This too, will be he'd in London. Mr. MacDonald's presence Dominions Secretary should make for smoothness in the negolia ⚫tions.

NOT YOUNGEST WAR MINISTER

Withough Judged by modern standards Mr. Duff Cooper-at 45 makes a young War Minister he sets up no record in this r spect.

He was called to the Bar on the same night as his wife in 1923. They made legal history in 1927 by being, briefed together in the 8am case.

WHEN MORRISÖN MET MORRISON

Mr. Morrison is chairman of the

Conservative 1932 Private Members Committee. an office occupied for 10 years from its foundation by Sir Gervals Rentoul,

As the result of a controversy there was a balot, in which Mr. Morrison defeated Sir Gervals Rentou).

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As a speaker Mr. Morrison hag gift for words and a sincerit of manner which enables him to "put across" quotations at length and with effect.

The subject was the Stcial's proposal that Parliament should back a loan for the rebuilding of .Waterloo Bridge,

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Mr. W. S. Morrison wound up both debates. H's speeches con- vinced a wavering House, and the proposals were turned down.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1935.

OBITUARY

Mr. Roderick

T. Barton

Through The Office Window

(By C, 1 C.)

At the opening of the Confucian Lecture Hall on Tuesday last, the Fox. Mr. N. L. Smalth sounded a note of warning in respect to the that the University was in anan- Hong Kong University. He said

are the usual complaints, but what can be done when both father and mother have to go out to work to keep the pot boiling.

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The sud news was received in tae Colony yesterday of the death of Mr. Roderick T. Barton, as the

should think of this and instead With Christmas approaching we age of 45. Tae deceased wis # brother of Mr. L. A. Burton of the dificulties, and that in an of spending all our money just on other few years, the Colony would our own enjoyment, we shoud Colonial Treasury, to whom the deepest sympathy is extended.

have to decide whether or not to spare a few loose dollars towards have a University: That the Hong the funds of the Society for the A telegram received by Mr. Barton yesterday from his sister:

Kong Pillar of Education has al-protection of children, whose good in England contained

ways been in financial difficulties work is beyond praise. the briet

is a well-known fact," but 'we' did message that Mr. Roderick T. Barton had died on November 29. But cannot the University be run not know that it is as bad as that. but it is presumed that At the

on a less amblilous scale? At pre- time of his death. the deceased sent there are too many doctors gentleman was living in South who after their graduation from Rhodesia where he owned

the Hong Kong University refused tobacco plantation. ·

to set up practice. And the reason known here. During his residence they are too poor to enter the field!

given by most of them is that in the Colony, he took 4 keen in competition with doctors who interest in riding, and Tras frequently seen at race meetings There are ausu too many graduates already well established. His genial disposition had won for from the Arts Faculty him a large circle of friends to working as junior clerks for a merë who are whom the news of his demise will

pittance. And in come as a shock.

conversation The late Mr. Bartor was con- that local University students do with several employers, I learned nected with the Hong Kong and not make good clerks. They told Shanghat Banking Corporation, for me that they would sooner have several years and during his as youths' from soelation with the Bank, he had here and train them up to dally any of the schoots been transferred to Hankow. office routine. Shanghai and Yökohama where he was a'so known and respected by a large circle of friends.

The late Mr. Barton, was well

DONATIONS

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Of a local social works in this Colony deserving as they all are I single out two as being the most deserving of help. The Society for the Protection of Children is one of them. The report presented by the Society last week makes pathe tle reading. Those who are eart

For Street Sleepers aderent wage and are able to

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The next social work calling for urgent assistance from the public clety. Just think what it is to be Is the Street Sleepers Shelter Sc- sleeping on the side-walk and with only a gunny bag as covering an these cold wintry nights. Those rooms and with elder down quilts of us who sleep in well heated and Whitney blanketa over fortunate human beings. And ir. should give a thought to these un-

this British Colony we should be more tolerant and compassionate to the poor Chinese who came here to enjoy our protection.

have so kindly taken updo "them The ladles and gentlemen wh

selves the most unpleasant task of sickly and having to come in contact with diseased Chthese are doing a most humane work, but their efforts would be unavailing

the general public does not re spand to the appeal for fundi Surely this is the time to think about the "under dogs." And eve; in these hard times, a couple o dellars will not inflict any hard ship to those who are assured a regular monthly wage.

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I fancy that English bookplate collectors (Lord Hareword was prominent collector

give their children "necessary' at some year:

To my knowledge there is до ago) are a vanishing race.

tention and comfort can have no censorship over c'ewspapers The first impetus to forming a

idea, even by the widest stretch c: Hong Kong at the present m The Street Sleepors' Shelter So-imagination, of the plight of those collection comes from having ones'

ment, but it would appear that c When" Mr. Winston Churchill own bookplate designed.

ciety acknowledges with grateful Bttle ones belonging to the poor. certain local club is making an at- This in thanks the following donations:- was made Secretary for War 1916 Itselt implies the possession

It is only by personal contact" that tempt to have newspapers EluEZ- of The Rotary Club he was 42. Eight years earlier more books than the modern Dr. Matthews

$200.00 we get to know of the miserable | led. 1. have always found tha? | Lord Mottistone, then Col. Seeley,, small flat usually houses,

25.00 existence of the unfortunate chil- local newspapermen are most ob- was appointed at the age of 41. I land they are evidently Dr. Sydenham

Miss D. Wise

10.00 dres, who. through no fault of liging, and they have and will at The new post means for Mr. more spacious in their style of

10.00 their own happened to be born in out of "their way to do a favour. Duff Cooper a substantial rise iving, and the bookman regularly

10.00 to a poor family.

to any local club or association in calary from £2.000 to 26,000 2

10.00 Mas his design engraved and

The cases daily brought to the the way of withholding from year He will be glad to get back, collects those of others.

5.00 attention of the Society are

their report certain matters which to a Department in which he has

4.00 genuine ones. And in none of may not be to the best interests already been a great success,

100 them can the mother or the fa- of the club or association concern- 1.00 ther be blamed for being heart- ed But for a club to intimate 801.74 less. When money is none too that all reports on speeches made

plentiful, even the fondest parents and matters discussed will be sub $1.077.7% become hardened to the crying fect to censorship is certainly lack- Donations may be sent to the needs of their children. Under-ing in savoir faire. It cou'd have Editor S.C.M. Post, to Mr. Andrew nourishment and lack of attention been more politely worded, Cheung, 9 Norfolk Road Kowloon Tong or to Miss R. Mow Fung c/o Gilman & Co. Ltd.

For a year during Mr. Baldwin's last Conservative Government, and for four years in the National Government he was Financial Secretary to the War Office.

In this post it tell to him to introduce the Army Estimates.

and te did so in, a series of speeches, all of which delighted the House..

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AGA KHAN FIRST AGAIN

Macehorse owners have last chance to-day of paying their hay and corn bu's for the winter season. Mat-rading ends to-day until March 23.

Very many owners

wil have gone through the season without having had a single success.

Racing is a costly business—it was. I belleve, Lord Derby who said that it cost him £850 a year! to keep each of his horses in training.

But the

who luresta heavily in the highest, class of bloodstock nearly always gets

Interest in the topography the House of Commons has been stimulated by the numbered and lettered picture of the House I dividend." gave two days ago,

owner

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The Aga Khan agar heads the 'Few M.P.s realise that when ist of winning owners for the they are crowded out of the past season with a total of jugs ordinary benches into the side under £50.000, nearly all won hy

stilhorses of his own breeding.

galleries upstairs they are

in the House." That means they.

can speak from there.

An M.P. put a question" from the gallery on Budget day some years agh,

Mr. Loya George, whose Par- Hamentary memory goes back t 1890, tells me that he once heard at Irish member make a speech from a side gallery, though he cannot recall the member's name. He adds that the M: P: in quer tlon was not called to order.

The limits of the House extend further vertically than they do horizontally. The Bar. at the op- posite end to the Speaker's Chair, is the strict limit.

6.600 GUINEAS FOR TUTTENCE

....

There is, of course, the other side of the picture. For instance, the Aga Khan paid £17,000 för the yearling cot by Hurry On- Ecurie It ever won a race, "and when last neard of was pulling o tradesman's cart in Pär.s.

Miss Dorothy Paget, too, has scarcely had the good fortune her expenditure has merited.

Her colt Tuppence, which caused such unexpected furore in the Derby betting just before the race in 1933, cost her 6,800 guineas at the Doncaster yearling sales.

Tuppence was not in the first The short cross-benches below dozer the Derby. By winning one, little race on the flat he brought 253 to his owner.

the Bar are not. In the House. No M.P. can put a question or speak from them. although they are nearer the Chair than the upstair galleries.

FOOT FAULT

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FOG-LANDING AT CROYDEN

L. Col. E. D. Matthews. Rev. J. R. Higgs... Mrs. T. C. Wong...... Mr. P. K. Au

A Woman from Washington Scarlet and Gold Previously acknowledged...

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT `DE PAUL

The Hon. Treasurer of the So-

LOCAL ESTATES

Probates Granted By

ciety of St. Vincent de Paul ack The Supreme Court

nowledges with grateful apprecia tion and thanks the receipt of the following donations to the Society's Furds.

A Share Broker

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Mr. Daniel P. K. Au Mr. W. A. O'Neill Mr. P. L. Hu'

$28.00

CHIEF JUSTICE LEAVES

ORDAINED TO PRIESTHOOD

FIRST CEREMONY OF ITS KIND IN SHANGHAI HISTORY

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Local estate to the value of $25,-. 200 was left by Mr. Edward Jones, $10.00 accountant, late of 548 The Peak, 10.00 who died at War Memorial Hospi-

The first ordination of its type 5.00 tal on November 10, 1935 Lettera in the whole history of Holy 2.00 a administration to the estate Trinity Cathedral Shanghai, was 1.00 have been granted to the widow, held on Last Sunday morning,

Dorothy Mary Turton Jones,

when at a special service the Rev. Michael Bruce, B.Sc., wis ordain- Miss. Fora Perry, otherwise Flord to the priesthood, Previous or Samael Perry, late or Tifeng dinations have always been to the Road, Shanghai, who died at Bom deaconate. **** bay on March 26, 1935, left local In place of the regular morning estate amounting to $5,000. Anservice, Mattins were said in the application by Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, Cathedral at 10 am, the "service The Chief Justice, Bir Atholl solicitor, the lawful attorney, for of ordination, which commenced MacGregor and Lady MacGrégór | sealing probate of the will was at 10.30.m., following the lines are leaving to day by the P. & O. | granted.

laid down in the Prayer Book for iner Ranchi for Home. Str Atholl Formerly of the Peninsula and the ordination of prieste. Bishop and Lady MacGregor will be away Oriental Steam Navigation Co..isted by the Very Rev. Dean. A John Curtis officiated, being as- for six months.

Capt. William Luke Broun, who 048. Trivett, the Rev. T. Gaunt, During Sir Atholl's absence the | died at 1 Cross Roads, Southborne- the Bev E. K. Quick, the Rev. Pulsne Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. dn-Bea, Hants, on March 2, 1935. EJ: Ottewell, and the Rev. Y. Y Landsel; will be the Acting Chief left local estate to the value of Justice while Mr. J. J. Hayden $6,900 A petition by Mr. G. G. N. will be the Pulsne Judge. 9 n Tiason, the lawful attorney, for dealing probater of the, will, was allowed. UPON AN

LORD JELLICOE'S GIFT TO GUILDHALL volume in the Guildhall Library records Lord Jellicoe's use

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Tn of St. John's University, who performed the ceremony of the laying-on of hands.

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IN SCOTLAND BEFORE

Phyllis Mary Perrin, late of

As Mr. Bruce's work is in con- nection with the Chinese Student 273 The Peak, who passed away Christian Movement, the special Being outside the House M.P&

di Kowloon Hospital on July 18 preacher was, appropriately, one feft local estate amounting to 2000. who is actively engaged in work may stand below the Bar to listen Yesterday's accident to a Ger-

Probate of the will has been grant-mong the Chinese students, name to debates. To stand inside the man air liner in the fog at Croy-

of that institution,- House is out of order:

don aerodrome" would not have

ed to the husband, Mr. Norman by the Rey, Y. T Tau, who opened Early in 1927 the librarian was James Perring 2

the service with a serion in the Mary a new M.F. Joining a happened at the Berlin airport. stopped in the corridor by 晶

form of a charge to the priest group standing below the Bar has There a radio beam system 13 visitor,

Local estate valued at $45,800 about to be ordained. Due to the who asked to speak to beery disconcerted by cries of operatiön;""enabling B

wás feft by Mr. Fong Packlw, or length of the service, which in- suitably him and gave the name of Jel *Order, Order!" : ?

equipped aeroplane to approach coe. He explained that he wish-who died at 10 Pak Yuen Lane, given only to the officiating clergy Ping Pak-kul retired emigrant, cluded the Litany, communion was Sometimes the chant is "Toe, and land in thick fog.

ed to sort his papers and, if pos- Kaukong Market Nani Hol, Dis- and to representatives of the large Toe!" which mystifies the

Experiments now

being carried sible, would like to do so in the met, on November 12, 1915. Pro- congregation in the form of mem member stil more. His fault has out by the Air Ministry may pro-library.naked been that he has put his foot just vids a somewhat similar system

bate of the wil has been granted bers of the vestry One of the workrooms was 10- to the sons, Fung Wal-huen and over the strip which marks the at Croydon. Meanwhile a German beginning of the House, and is fog-landing system is already in disposal. There he spent three

cordingly put at Lord Jellicoe's Fung Wal-yak therefore standing in the House. stalled at Heston aerodrome, but or four days a week for several

The new M. P. has also to learn a not yet in full use. that he must never put his foot At present British aeroplanes dio full of papers

month's going through a big chest Over the red-strip-of carpet which not as a rae carry the necessary runs along all the front benches.responding instruments. Until the To do so brings him within sword-fog-landing system becomes more distance of the opposite bench.

general it is hardly to be expected

·FINANCIAL SECRETARY FROM, that they will do so.

RANKS

The approach to Croydon air- The appointment of Mr. W. a port is made still more difficult in Morrison. KC BS Financial fog by the contour of the ground Secretary to the Treasury, is pro-and obstacles surrounding the hiotion from the ranks. He was aerodrome.

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Whan he had Anished he gave the librarian a copy of Rear-Admi, Harper's book on The Truth About Jutland" with this' inscrip- tion on the fly-leaf;

OXFORD STUDENTS.

KILLED

Two Oxford undergraduates were killed and two others were injured

Prior to his arrival in China in the early Spring of this year, the Ber. Michael Bruce was actively engaged in the Student Christian Movement in Bcotland rand,in particular, the University of Edinburgh, where he received his degree as a Bachelor of science.

Mr. John Richards, of Corpus 'In memory of kindly courtesy when a car in which they were Christi College, whose home was at extended to him at the Gulld-passengers was in collision with a Misterton Rectory, Lutterworth, hai Library-Jellicoe, A. F.; 17- | lorry on, the Northern by-pass and Mr. G. Maller, of Worcester 6-27.7

road, near Oxford late on Thurs-¦ College, who came from Hyde Park day night. The dead men were:- Square, London,

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