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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

FISHERIES RESEARCHIN HONGKONG: INTERESTING

TALK AT ROTARY TIFFIN

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Hongkong Rotarians were given a very interesting talk "Fisheries Research in Hongkont" by Rotarian Dr. G. A. C. Her- klots at their weekly til meeting yesterday afternoon, There was a large attendance and the President. Dr. Arthur Woo, was in the chair,

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Visiting Rotarians present were by man. The first is

remove from tne sen Mr. P. L Fung : Canton and Mr fishermen Philip Tsol of Swatow.

vast quantities of small and me The guests were Mr. 9. Y. Lin.dium sized fish obviously in fol- Dr. Ling, Messrs. J. E. Potter, S. E.lowing years there will be fewer Faber, R. Rozaret. Chu Chun-larger fish. The second factor is tin. Dr. T. C. Wang, Comdr. Mor-the amount of sun light falling un rison, Lt. C. A. L. Rickett, Messrs. the surface of the sea, the third W. F. Carmen, H. A.-Lammert, and the amount of phosphate brought N. H. Mackenzie.

in from the deep waters of the Atlantic by currents along the English Channel.

Before calling upon the speaker to deliver his address, Dr. Arthur Woo

MUSIC & DANCE RECITAL ON

FRIDAY

In Aid Of Chinese War - Orphans

GENERAL

PROF. W. CULLIS TO LECTURE TODAY

Cordial Invitation Extended To All

A high standard of entertain= | It is emphasised that to men ment" is promised those who in sy well as to woman, a cordial in- tend being present at the Musicvitation is extended to attend the and Dance Recital to be given in public lectures to be given by Pro- the Rose Room of the Peninsula fessor Winifred Cullis, O. B. E.. Hotel, on Friday, Oct. 18, at 9.30 M. &, D. Sc. p.m. by the China. Defence Lea-

gite.

in ald of Chinese War

Orphans.

The

11 announced

that an exhibition of paint- ings by Rotarian C, Roberts will be held at the Chinese Library of the Hongkong Uni- versity on Friday and Saturday Oct. 18 and 19 respectively.

the The vote of thanks to Speaker was proposed by Rot. R. P. Dunlop. after which private meeting of the Club was held. Addressing the meeting. Herklots said it: part:-

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which programme,

has Seen arranged by Mr. J. R. M. Smith, Mus. B. must appeal to music lovers In Hongkong. Though sunlight and phosphate cannot be coptrolled. they can be Mr. Smith will himself conduct and are measured very accurately, the Chamber Orchestra.. at home and so amazing is the knowledge of fish possessed by scientists in Great Britain and Northern Ireland that remarkably accurate predictions can be made.

LOCAL CONDITIONS

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MISS AI-LIEN- TAI

Professor Cullis is to speak it Helena May Institute today at 5.30 p.m. and again at the Y. M. C. A. Kowloon, tomorrow at 9.15 D.EL.

"What she will have to say will be of great interest to the entire English-speaking community as she will give some detalls of Britain at war and the effort that A most important feature of the is being made by every man and programme will be the dance woman, not only to resist a pos.. numbers to be rendered by Miss sible German invasion but towards Al-Lien Tai, who is making her completing the preparations, for first appearance before a Hong- a great counter-offensive.

K a benevolent Government kong audience.

INSPIRING MESSENGER wishes to improve the housing ar Her dances will include the

Professor Cullis is an inspiring the feeding of the community it ever-popular "Sylphides," a lyrical does not issue an edict that all dance on a Bible Theme. a new messenger and having personally For many years "I have dreamt

personal interpretation of experienced some of the bombing of the possibilty that there might new houses must be built accord-and

ing to such and such a plan or old Chinese dance motifs, based raids in London and south-west be established in this Colony an say that the Chinese must eat a on Chinese operatic melodies and England, is able to give first hand aquarium to be linked with some new food instead of their accus- "expressive dances" in the modern detalls of the morale of the people sort of fisheries research but tomed foods. No, it inquires into style... Interpreting different moods and their utmost confidence in an ultimate victory for democracy as there seemed to be no prospect local conditions, customs, tradi- of China's struggle today. of the realization of this dream.tions, and ponders over the results

well as of their astounding ability Then, as a result of a series of lof such enquiries and then makes the programme are Mr. Y. K. Sze to "stand up to it." Admission to

the meetings is free. /

events, some entirely fortuitous recommendations. interesen awakened in the If we went to the fishermen and local fishing industry, an industry (said your junks are wrongly de- "which" in peace time providesigned your nets are preserved by occupation for 50,000 men, women the wrong methods. your finance and children...

methods could be greatly improv- Vals interest was crystalised ed, your methods of marketing and through the support of two men, preserving fish are hopelessly out the Governor Sir Geoffry North of date-why, they would laugh at cote and the Vice Chancellat of

us and rightly so, Our first task. the University, Mr. D. J. Bloss must therefore be a study of local At about this time Mr. 8. Y. Lin junks and their equipment, of arrived in the Colony, his post in local methods and techniques, of the Cheklang Provincial Fisheries local customs and the reasons be- Station having been abolished behind them, of the fish in the sea -cause of the war, and Government their habits, their distribution, agreed to pay him a small amount migration, feeding habits and value monthly for him to work on local

As human food. Then and only problems at the University.

then shall we be in a position to give advice.

The Vice Chancellor of the FX. University readily promised his „co-operation" and Government generously agreed to the appoint- ment of a skeleton, staff and to voting enough money to inău- gurate preliminary researches. The Hongkong Fisheries Research Station was officially born in July of this year and is now three and a half months old,

AN EXPERIMENT

This new Government depart- ment is an experiment which has yet to prove its value. Every pald member of the staří is Chinese,! every member is employed in full time research, there is not one ad- ministrative officer, not even a

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But there is another aspect which is of equal importance. It is foolish to advocate a new policy without having first won the sympathy and fidence of your people. Only dictators ean "enforce · ¿views against the will of the people. So we are trying to make friends with the fishermen's organisafions and with the " fishermen themselves. That we have already enlisted their support I will presently in- dicate.

EXISTING CONDITIONS Our first problem is therefore to Clerk or a coolfe and there is not find out existing conditions: may one inch of red tape in the de- explain in relation to our staf

how we are attempting this.

Others who will contribute to

the-well-known singer, and Mr. Walter E D. Yeh, flautist.

MISS AI-LIEN TAI, who will make her first appearance before a Hong- kong audience, as a classical dancer, at the Music and Dance Recital to be given by the China Defence Les gie. In ald of Chinese War Orphans ¡st the Peninsula Hotel on Friday.

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. British West Indies,, Al-Lien Tai went to England to study dancing at the age of Afteen. A pupil fest of Anton Dolin and then of Margaret Craske,

South-Asia Muslim Delegation

HUGE SUM RAISED FOR WAR REFUGEES

The Chinese South-Asia Muslim Delegaton to Malaya, which under the leadership of Mr. Ebrahim Ma visited Hongkong last year, have visited 104 centres in 'he course of their tour of Malaya where they are engaged in raising funds for Chinese war refugees"

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940.-PAGE 5

LANECRAFT UPHOLSTERY

IN A' HARD WORLD A LANECRAFT CHAIR IS VERY SOFT. AMIU

ALL THE NOISE IT 18 PERFECTLY SILENT. IN A SHALLOW AGE

IT IS VERY DEEP, BUILT NOT FOR SPEED BUT FOR COMFORT. IT BALANCES THE GREATER PACE BY GIVING, YOU GREATER

PEACE. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FAST LIVING, TO STAY AT HOME..

LET US SUBMIT DESIGNS AND QUOTATIONS WE HAVE A VERY LARGE RANGE OF MATERIALS IN STOCK SUITABLE FOB. COVERING PURPOSES, QUALITY TAPESTRIES, LINĖMS, AND PINE

HIDES.

LANE CRAWFORD • LTD.

The House of rality & Service

MANY CONVERTS The Delegation, according to in- formation reaching local Muslim As a result of the lectures, Mr. circles, have given 339 lectures in Ma and party have converted a ̈ various centres in Malaya and number of people to the Islamic have raised a sum of $250,000 in faith, and it is of interest to note Chinese National Currency to

that a great part of the money from wards the relief of Chinese war collected. In Malaya was refugees." Most of this money has Chinese non Muslims. already been remitted to General Omar Pel Chung-hsi, president of the Delegation,

It is learned reliably that the

Mr. Mata Wii, who joined the party in Hongkong and travelled with It to Malaya, is still in While in Hongkong, the party Singapore, it is learned, and has who gave her a thorough training in collected $1,000. This was spent lust concluded a trip to British classical ballet, Miss Tai later worked in buying 11 cases of of medical North Borneo, with Leslie Goossens and the Modern supplies which have been sent to Dance Group following experimental Rangoon, but are being held up money collected in Malaya will be and "expressionist" trends.

Interested in the new technique of there temporarily owing to the used for the construction of a partment. In consequence то

demand the Ballets Josa, Mise Tal won big

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on transportation Masum Hospital In the suburbs To illustrate that we have at- scholarship to Dartington Hall and facilities. possess freedom of action and

of Chungking. work goes on at all hours. Some ready won the sympathy of the studied there for a year. Later in

local fishermen's guilds may› I'fluences were Mary Wigman, Udya may be studying market statistics at 4 a.m., one or more mention that the Hongkong Chi Shankar, and the Indonesian Dancers may be working late at night in nece Fishermen's Guild is paying Aberdeen, field work may be in the salary of one of the student progress on Saturday afternoon probationers and the Kwangtung and on Sunday for time and tide Provincial Fisheries School. Hoi- wait for no man and the extra fung, is paying the salary of an

other. mural activities of the staff are in part controlled by the sea,

one

Every member of the staff

!

There are about 1,000 species of fish in local waters; these have to be identified, describ

ed it no descriptions already exist, and their value as a

who created such 'a sensation in Lon-

don shortly before the war.

A-Lion Tail has come to China to study the life and struggle of her own people in their own country: hopes to help in the development of

and

ja. Modern Dance of China, with the | technical ́ sceomplishment and wide experience the West has already igiven her.

"PIRATED" VERSIONS OF SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS:

SHOP FINED $100

The widespread practice of "pirating” well-known books. bad a sequel at the Central Magistracy yesterday when the HONGKONG BOOK SERVICE and the MODERN, READERS' SERVICE appeared sa defendants before Mr. H. G. Sheldon' on summonses brought by the publishers of the books they reprinted.

food for may or for other VAUDEVILLE AT The first summons against the

Mihes hivestiv£ted. Studles must be mälle of their setsonal detribution and these corte- fated with relative' abundance and sites, which involves good bit of statistical work. Studies must be made of the fishing grounds and why the fish visit them, whather for feeding, or for, breeding.

Y.M.C.A.

is a picked man and as we have had the whole of. China from which to choose—for the Sino-Japanese war has inter-

A fine of $100 was imposed and fered with Chinese marine re-

Hongkong Book Service was that all the books were ordered to be searches there has been plén-

on Oct. 1, at No. 40, Queen's Road turned over to the complainants. ty of choice. Every important

Central, second door; they know

SIMILAR OFFENCES ! dialect spoken on thủ Chinese

A Vaudeville entertainment has ingly sold infringing coples of the coast from ash in the

MacMillan and Co., Ltd; and

south to Mandinila `In the

been organised by the Services following works in which copy- Longman, Green and Co., Ltd., Section of the YMCA to take right subsists, namely, Hall's Com were also the complainanta in north can be spoken by one or

place in the West Lounge Theatre plete School Algebra, Hall and summonses brought against the other member of the staff. of the three graduates ons” li

it the "Y" headquarters Kowloon Steven's Shorter School Geometry Modern Readers Service, of No. tomorrow (Thursday) at 8.30 p.m. and Tipping's Middle School Com 33, Queen's Road Central, first from Hainan, one from Fuklan

The programme promises to be a position (part 1). The complainant floor, for similar offences. and one from Hongkong.

COASTAL MIGRATION

good one and the following artistes was MacMillan and Co., Ltd. ̈ The defendant was summoned" People have often asked me The migrations of fish along the will take part:

The second summons, brought by MacMillan and Co, for know- "what we do and how we hope to Chinese coast and the causes for

Irene Arteuh, Norman Binning, by Longman, Green and Co, was ingly on Oct. 1, sold infringing benefit the fishing Industry; are such migrations must be investi Freddy Cleme, Jack Fountain, John that the defendant on Sept 20, coples of the following works for we going to start fish hatcheries gated. The rate of growth of the Gilchrist, Gertrude Goddard, "Les" did sell infringing copies of the which copyright subsists, namely,

another question frequently more important species, their food Gibson, Alex Graff, Harold Harri, following works, namely, New Hall and Steven's School Arithme asked To take the last one first and habits are other fields of work, son and Robert Richmond, Stanley Catholic Readers (4 volumes), The tie. Hall and Steven's School To the best of my knowledge Then there are problems concern-Hinchliffe, William Knight, David World and A General Geography Geometry (Ft. 1-8) and Nesteld's there are no marine batcheries in ed with the transport of the fish Kossick, Vic Labrum, "Mysto" the Mr. R. M.-M. King, appearing Grammar, books 1-4 (4 volumes), existence and we do not contem- In a fresh condition, "the process-Memory Man. Ernte Perry, Elvie for the complainants, exhibited The summons brought by Long- plate starting them here. If we ing of fish-smoking, salting, dry-Yuen, Norah Witchell

two books in Court. Oné, the man, Green and Co. was that de- "were asked to hatch trout for the Ing, canning The distribution, Stage arrangements are in the original cops, was sold by the fendant did sell infringing copies Jubilee Reservoir that would he marketing and consumption of hands of "Don" Grant.

publishers at $5, while the reprint of the New Method Readers, Vol quite a 'different story,

the nih, whether fresh or process

ed version was being sold at $1. la, 3, 6 and 7N ed, must also be investigated) :i All Bervice-men are welcome. A

Mr. King added that the new The defendants were further To do all these tasks requires

small charge of 20 cents will be school term had only just started summoned for unlawfully selling Fish are very probfie, one in time and men and our staff is only made for admission tickets are and as the result of these cheap, the books mentioned in the sum- dividual may lay hundreds of e'ght and we have been in action flow available at TMC.A. counters editions the complainants had monses to which false trade des thousands of exts it is not the as a team for only 3 months so lack of fish try that ever limits please don't be impatient of re- the extent of any thing but the sults new number of fist of marketable

VERY, PROLIFIC

In thú North Bex, tms

Umited by

free factor

the first of which is

There is an immense deld for us more, many others which we can- to work in, a great variety of pro- not possibly attempt until we have number b'ens, some ad hoc problems that

reased stan, proper labor

unly may be soluble in a month or two, troluble others that may take a decade orities.

suffered losses,

scriptions were applied contrary to He asked that a fine be imposed the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, and that the books be turned 1890 over to the complainants.

The summonses were adjourned ur FB Losely, for the de- to Friday, at 1150 am - 6: fence, sald that he had already Mr King is appearing for the other recisary facili- told his client that he must stop complamants, while Hiri M. A da

publishing such books.

Biva is for the defence.

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