CORRESPONDENCE.
The Housing of Government Servants.
Sir. As I had no right of reply in the Debate yesterday. I should like to explain that I did not intend to suggest that fiorarn- ment Servanta were overpaid.
several
YING TAK CITY
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Help Needed.
Ying-tak, Novembər 12—Last night at six thing a fira broke out
from drog store. Soon the dames were beyond etrol and were driven swiftly by the strông My sale point is that it is bad wind from building to building, finance, in view of several other until the entire city was almost competing claims on our revsqua destroyed. The burning went on and the falling revenue an opium, all night. This morning the city tp spend
hundred thousand dollars a year in the was a heap of ashes and crumbl..
ing Tricks. I passed over the provision of an expensive and un- ruins this afternoon, going along nocessarily large type of hong the main streets of the city, and for Goverment Servants.
saw that not a single store was left in the city. The stores with many of their goods were con. sumed in the dam-s. Not only the store, but many of the resident
As an instance of extravagance. I may point out that the original proposal of the Government for hoosing Government Servants on the Homestead Site worked out, including Architects Commis sion, at an average of $85,000 per house or fat, and even included. the scrapping of the present Gov ernment Pavilions which have at least 20 years of useful wear in them yet.
Yours faithfully.
H. E POLLOCK. Hongkong, Nov. 15.
Disturbing Music.
Si- May I through your valu- able columns ask those who live near by Churches to kindly re- frain from playing their pianov, say between 11 and 12.30, which is the usual Service hour?
Ope goes to Church to worship, and it makes it exceedingly dit ficult to follow the sermon when some neighbour a few houses away starts playing a one-step or fox tro Thank goodness, there are not mans saxophones about in this place!
In a week surely one can keep away from the piano for shuur an hour, so as not to disturb a con- gregation. Yours, etc..
CHURCH-GOER. Hongkong. 14:5. Nov., 1921
YANGTZE FIGHTING CAUSES INSOLVENCY.
The Shui Hau Match Manu- facturing Co., Ltd., of Hankow, was originated in 1917 with a
sectius tave gone 100.
seven-tenths of the elts waci burned.
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