LOCAL ROTARIANS SAY
FAREWELL
Mr. W.H. Bell And Mr. S. Yamanaka
INTERESTING ADDRESSES
YESTERDAY
GIVEN
Members of the Rotary Club of Shanghai, who attended the weekly tirin held at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday, joined in bidding farewell to two popular follow Rotarians, Mr. S. Yamana- ka. of the Mitsu! Buszan Kalsha, and Mr. W. H. Bell, of the Asia- tic Petroleum Company, both of whom are shortly leaving Hong Kong after an extensive residence here,
One letter says; "At the same time I learned that you are now located at Hong Kong. That makes it possible for me to write
to, you which WES not possible betore because I could not remem- ber how to spell that Dutch name)" Another says: "Dear Yami, I always thought you would get so hot that they would havé to put you in an ice house." You know our office is in Prince's Build-
During the course of the tiffin Mr. W. N. T. Tam, president of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong, who was in the chair, introduced the following:-Mr. Henry Hul- zinga, of the University of Shang- hai: Mr. F. M. MacBain, of Mon- treal; Mr. Frank Wilson, of the Lingnam University of Canton; and Messra. C. Stigter, T. H. Jes- sen, A. Murdoch, L. M. S: Lloyd, T. W. Allatt, G, M. D. Wolt, J. W. Anderson. W. M. Barton. K. Miting, which is on Ice House Street. -zisawa, K. Munatu, Y. Haynzati, H. C. Hopkins, and Sir Than Niccol-
Son.
FAREWELL ADDRESS Following the timin, Mr. S. Ya- manaka made his farewell address to members and guests of the Ro- tary Club, in which he said -
"It has been a great privilege to become acquainted with fellow Ro- tarians here. Your association has mude my stay in Hong Kong a very pleasant one. My only regret is that I have to leave you just after beginning to know you. In the hope that it might interest you, I would like to tell you some of my experiences in Seattle where I first joined Rotary in the Spring of 1927. I was known there by the nickname of "Yam!" being an American abbreviation for Yama- naka. I was one of the very few member there who neither, smok- ed nor drank. In this connection I can vividly recall what happen- ed to me at a dinner at a small American city before the day of prohibition. The fellow who was sliting next to me had obviously
noticed that I had been
drink-
ing only water throughout the long course of the dinner, and when I
'you don't smoke either. What the hell do you do to smell like a man." (Laughter).
I am sure this fellow will write to me again, when he hears that I am going to Hokkaido, that even Ice House Street in Hong Kong found me too hot!
VARIED PROGRAMME
ARRANGED
I said something about strict 00servance of the attendance re- cords in America. Over there. while members are urged to keep up good records, programme com- mittees at the same time leave no stone unturned in order to make the meetings as interesting and diverse as possible by arranging a varied programme" for each meet- ing. such as scientific lectures by prominent men, classification talks by members, musical or theatrical entertain- ments. Rotary songs are sung at every meeting. Efforts are also made by the Committee in charge to afford opportunities to bers to get to know one another by holding gol: tournaments, semi- Bridge drives. annual outings. dancing parties atë.
humorous
ROTARY CAREER
INTERRUPTED
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mem-
My Rotary career was interrupt-
1936.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28,
CORRESPONDENCE EQUINE SPORTS
OBITUARY Infant Son Of Mr. & Mrs. W. Barclay
The funeral of James, the in- fant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bar- clay who died suddenly at the Kowloon Hospital took place yes- terday at the Colonial Cemetery, there being a profusion of nora) tributes.
Among the wreaths sent were those from: Bill Williams, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Danerberg, Mr. A.W. Black, Mr. and Mrs. F. Tyson, “Mr. and Mrs. William Orr. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Durrschldt, Grannie Mc- Kinnes, Aunts
Picnic For The Blind
(The Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Press"]
Dear Sir.
May I through your columns ex- press our sincere and grateful thanks to all those who so kindly contributed to the success of the Picnic last Saturday by donations. loans of cars, and gifts..
The response to our appeal this year was truly generous. Since our last acknowledgment we have re- ceived $5.00 from the Hon. Mi. E Taylor and $3.00 from "FAL"
CLUB
Annual Dinner Dance
FUNCTION ON SATURDAY
outstanding
What promises to be one of the social event of the colony will take place it Peninsula. Hätel on Saturday night ane
when the Equine Sports Club are holding their first annual dinner.j dance,
the arrangements are leaving "no The committee responsible for stone unturned in their efforts to
and Uncles, M. making the total donations $507.00 [provide a jolly evening for all.
and 23 cars posal.
were put at our dis~
It is anticipated that there will hundred persons. be an attendance of well over
be a special table arranged in the Included in the decorations will
In addition to the outing and tea and a special anniversary dinner that night, gifts of handkerchiefs, towels, soap, and sweets were made shape of to each of the 54 girls and a sur-decorated with the Club's colours. a large horse shoe and plus of $434.10 is being handed over to Miss Moritz of the Blind Home for the purchase of suits and shoes as New Year presents for the girls.
The evening's dancing will be contributed by several well-known interspersed with cabaret Items
local artistes.
and Mrs. J.. J. Martin Aunty Black and Alec, Mr. arid Mrs. Turnbull, Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield. Mr. and Mrs. H. LL Barker, Uncle Frank. Mr. A. J. Shaw, Auntie and Uncle McCormick, Mr. and Mrs W. Bruce and Shelia, Uncle Bob Gertie and Teddie, Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. N. E Johnson, L C. Dennis, Mr. and Mrs.
B. T,
Williams, the Cameron family. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mayhew, Mrs. C. Gehring
Our thanks are also due to and family, Grannie
C. G. Anderson and Mr. MR. Debat 8 pm, and dancing will continue Barclay, Aunts
until 1 am. and
for invaluable help. to:-Dr. and Uncles, Bettle and
Mr. Laurence Kadoorie, Patron Jackie, Uncle Archie. Auntie Mrs. T.Y L for sweets: W.R. Lox-
of the Bessie. Hellen and Robert, Granny ty & Co. Ltd, for soap; Jardins,
Equine Sports Club. will Routenburn, the Standard Vacuum
a short Matheson & Co., Ltd., for biscuits; attend and will deliver Oll Co., 8. China Station. Latchi-
Daily Farm. Ltd., for ice cream;
speech.
Mr. John L. Quie. Pre- kok Ofice. Godown and Carshop.
Colonial Dispensary for
sident of the Club, will also be soap: Ploneer Family Store for sugar: present and will give d brief St. John's Cathedral for loan or
address.
Crockery: The Sher-O Club for
Mrs.
In conclusion we would like to thank all those who gave up their time and assisted at the Picnic- their help was indispensable.
Yours faithfully.
A. URQUHART.
no such thing as electric lights,water; The Flying Squad for pro- wireless or fans, and she was going viding an escort; and the Press for from London to Australia. The affording publicity to our appeal. ship bad to be changed at Colombo, Mr. Bell said, and he found this very hot business. However, it was at Penang, he re- called the incident, where a young feller was having dinner on a Bri- tish gunboat. A discussion arose regarding the tide running through the Penang Harbour and, to prove his side of the argument, the young
plunged overboard, dinner clothes and all, and swam around the ship. The young man then spent the next two hours telling the gunboat crew about it. Mr. Bell then pointed out that al- though he spent three and a half years in that city and did what other young men did, he got home every night.
H.K. BANK'S OLD SITE
When he was in Penang be got a little seedy as a result of which
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The dinner dance will commence
POPPY DAY FUND
A Thought
"You saw him, he had just re- turned on leave from France. What a thrill of pride you felt in his mud- stained tunic, his battered shrap- nci-helmet--"Tin-hat" he called it. You remember how he hunched the weight of his, equipment to the other shoulder as he answered with a happy grin "Ten days!"... Did he come through all right? You A dinner dance will be held at have sometimes wondered.. but Repulse Bay Hotel to-day at 9p.m..not often of late. It is a long time "since the War, and we are apt to forget... yet there are obligations we should remember."
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DINNER DANCE
man was temporarily lodged. How.. ever, the man was intent not to
be kept a prisoner and he gained
his freedom by escaping in the early dawn. He could pot be found and when night came along again a party of "gobs" were land- he was given a short holiday in.ed and the man eventually dis-
covered hiding in his beach-but. Hong Kong where he spent ten days. There is a great difference
JOINED A.P.C. between
the Hong Kong of 40 years ago and the Hong Kong of to-day. the speaker said, and painted out that the Hong Kong Bank was in the old days located on the waterfront while the Hong
refused a cigar when offered one, ed during my sojourn in Soura- he shouted to me "You don't drink, f baya. On my departure, the Seattle Rotary Club passed a re- solution instructing the President to write in his name to the Pre Attendance rules are very strict sident of the Sourabaya Club to ly observed in American Clubs. ask to have me elected as a mem- Members whose annual attendance ber if there was a vacancy. The records fall to reach 80 per cent. Sourabaya Club conducts all its are liable to expulsion. Members, meetings in nothing but the Thatch therefore, attach great importance language. The only Dutch I know Kong Club stood on the present to keeping up good records and happens to be "Dutch Treat." In site of the Queen's Theatre. Dur- so, if one happens to be unable to spite of the efforts of the Pre-ing this holiday he met a very attend a weekly meeting
sident of the Sourabaya Club, my Club to which he belongs, he will election to membership was made Chater, who took him out to his old gentleman, Sir Paul try to make it up by attending a ❘ conditional
upon my passing a "country" home at Kowloon and weekly meeting at a Club in a language examination, for which, that, he added, gave ris tenera nearby town.
I never tried.
an idea of what Kowloon was at that me.
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"JAVA NEAR BALI."
of the
NOMINATION APPRECIATED
After interrupting my Rotary life for nearly four years. I had the pleasure of being elected a member of Rotary Club, Hong Kont. You can appreciate what life is like to a Rotarian to be out of the Club and so can under- stand my joy when I was able to resume this connection again. Fot this reason. I have to thank those who proposed and secorded me and to thank the Club for paving ac cepted me.
nice
At Penang he was fortunate in meeting with a great man whom
he saw a great deal of. That man was the Sir Henri Deterding of to-
day who was responsible in getting him- to transter his interests to the Asiatic Petroleum Company later. However, at Penang, when he was eventually ready to get out of it, he missed his boat This vessel, ran into a typhoon before she got into Hong Kong where she had just enough power of her own to crawl in and become scrapped. Mr. Bell said he went to Shangha! and did the usual things of the young men there but he also rode, played rugger and took an active part in that city's Volunteer Corps.
RETURNED HOME
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Poppy Day Fund Contributers: His Excellency the Governor... $100
H.K. & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd Eu Tong Sen
Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor Messrs. Benjamin & Potts Lieut.-Col. M. W. Logan Messrs. Logan & Amps Mr. and Mrs. E. J. R. Mitchell Hon: Dr. A. R. Wellington D. V. Steavenson T. C. Monaghan
British American Tobacco Co. Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson Mercantile Bank of India George W. Pope....... Anonymous
It was after some years of re- sidence in Shanghai that Mr. Bell again met the great Sir Henri De- terding, following which he joined
Company. This was 26 years ago. the staff of the Astatic Petroleum
The speaker then described an in- cident when he left Shanghai when the captain of his ship almost G, A Pentreath ...
pany's vessel outside Woosung. Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo collided with another of the com- Mr. H. W. M. Dulley
heard the bang. jumped out of G. B. 8. Thomson bed and stuck my nose out of the Tang Shiu Kin port-hole. I nearly banged my nose on the side of the other ship as it went past," Mr. Bell told his listeners.
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Mr. Bell then told his fellow Col. Matthews Rotarians about a man, whom he J. Bentler met in Penang and who was ex-T. M. Gregory traordinarily good to him. He Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga kindness and told him how awk could not repay his benefactor's
ward he felt about it. “Don't worry, I felt the same way as you Further contributions will be before," he was told by his bene-gratefully received by Mr. F." G. had received favours from told Fund, York Building, Hong Kong. factor. A Chinese gentleman he Maunder, Secretary to Earl Haig's him, you owe me nothing, but, Cheques should be made payable remember, if you meet any little to Thomson & Co, and crossed: dog, pass what good I have done "Poppy Day Fund."
to him." Mr. Bell then to you pointed out to his listeners that he was never able to pay off this debt for the good he was getting from others has put him into è greater debt than before.
I was in Seattle until the Spring of 1931 when I was transferred to Bourabaya, Java. A few days after I received my, appointment to Sourabaya, I came across a fellow Rotarian in the street. "Yami," he said, "I understand you have been transferred to somewhere in the Far East. Where are you go- ing? To Sourabaya," I answered. "Where is that," he asked I told him it was in Java, the most im- portant island of the Dutch East Indies. "Java, Java," he repeated,
I sincerely wish the Rotary Club "that must be near Ball." (Laugh- of Hong Kong everlasting pro- ter). As a matter of fact, thanks sperity and I am sure that it will to the advertisements of the forever be an important instru- K.P.M., Bali is better known as
ment in the fostering of good fel- Java to average Americans. On lowship In this Colony between the many occasione I was asked by residents of all nationalities. American friends what kind of a thank you place Java was, what kind of peo- ple lived there, what kind of lan- guage they spoke there etc., etc. My golf competitors, knowing that I did not like the idea of going to Java and trying to make me feel unhappy, made it a point of ask- entire time to the public good. In ed them in a China Merchants'
found time to devote almost his Chefoo for the summer and follow the speaker said and added that he ing me questions about Jays, with thanking the speaker for bis re-boat. One of his fellow passengers with a feeling of very deepest res was going away from Hong Kong the result that I missed many amarks, Mr. Bell then delivered his 'short' easy putt. I became so dis-
was a man who had the remark-ret. Hong Kong was the only turbed. that anally I had to give address which he called "An Im-able habit of getting tight twice home be knew and his friends here a day. The weather was rough were more than all the others in during the trip and, the speaker the world put together. "I hope said, he sat down to play whist to be back again and do hope sic will be supplied by "The Tron-
see a great deal of my Chinese badours."lyt triends."
J
a falk on Java at one of the Ro- tary meetings.
HONG KONG NOT “SOLD” -- None of my
American friends bave
written to me to ask what kind of a place Hong Kong is. This means definitely that Hong Kong is not sold to the world at the face value of its beautiful scenery, clear blue waters and pleasant climsie. I properly savertised Hong Kong should draw many more tourists from all over the world and be a Mecca of pleasure seekers.
Just to Dlustrate what some of my American friends think about Hong Kong. I cite two extracts from letters which I have received.
MR. BELL'S TALK
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Mr. Tam then called the atten tion of those present to Mr. Bell whom he said represented the best type of Rotarian and who had
pression."
It was almost 48 years ago, Mr. Bell said, when he started to earn his lying as a clerk in the city of Belfast. He was then a great bicycle enthusiast and claimed the distinction of being one of the first to ride on a bicycle fitted with pneumatic tyres. After one of his meetings with the late Thomas Jackson of the Hong Kong Bank, he found himself taken out of his lobby that man and shoved into the Barik. The speaker' said he then came out East but it took him 17 years to reach Hong Kong. EARLY TRANSPORTATION · He travelled out by the P. and O vessel Ballarat. She possessed
After a military training, when he returned Home, he went to
Bandhurst, until the East Iured him out again. He went back to shanghai. On one occasion he had sent his wife and child to
"I do feel that what Rotarians are doing, they are passing on the good they receive from other,"
CHEERO CLUB
Programme Announced
The weekly programme of the Cheero Club is announced as fol- Iowa
'To-day: Dance commencing at 8 pm.
Thursday: Bridge and Mah young drives at 3. p.m.
Friday: Duplicate and ordinary Bridge at 8 pm.
Saturday: Dance at 8 pm. Mu-
Monday: Dance at 8 pm..
for two solid days with this man
At Chefoo he very kindly offered a seat in his sampan to another passenger but when they landed they were met by the United States Marshal there who had the latter arrested on a murder charge. The oficial adopted a wise plan in carrying out his duty by employ ing a well-known boxer to help him make the arrest. Bo much so that when the man attempted re- Rotarians and while he wished Sir Thomas and Lady Bouthern sistance the boxer got into action success to Mr. 8, Yamanaka in his left England on October 15 for West and the man was bundled away I new appointment at Hokkaido, he Africa. Their address will be Goy and put into the wash-house of wished happiness to Mr. and Mrs. ernment House, Bathurst, The the British Consulate where the W. H. Bell on their retirernent. Gambia
THANKED
On Friday, November 8, a Jum- The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo then ble Sale will held at 230 pm. Con- addressed the gathering and pro-tract Bridge will be pleyad áter posed a vote of thanks to the in the evening. speakers because their addresses were in the nature of Bwan songs. On behalf of the Rotary Club he expressed its members regret at the loss of two fellow
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