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"SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925.

SERVANT RÉGISTRATION.

SATURDAY,

JULY 25, 1925.

DAY BY DAY,

which would be necessary for the proper working of such a system. we come to the fact that a reglatra- tion scheme would place. In the AND BRIGHTER IF OUR TEACHERS THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER

hands of unscrupulous or hasty WOULD DWELL ON THE DUTY OF tempered employers a ready weapon HAPPINESS AS WELL AS THE OF DUTY. Lord with which to take away the Avebury,

HAPPINESS

The rate of the dollar on de- and to-day is 2s. 3.15/16d.

:

MIXED

· ASHLEY STERNE ·

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in Group 1 (95 per cent. and over), Many thousands of visitora to and wore rated highly officient.

Wembley, says a writer, never seo the Exhibition at all. On the Latest reports from Canton other hand, at least one man are that the Hongkong strikers noticed there laat Monday must are to be employed upon road-have seen two. making from Canton yis Tung- The pay is 20 cents a day, shan to the Whampoa district.

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Attention is drawn to the very prices of the popular Essex and substantial reductions in the

Hudson motor cars, particulars vertisements of the motor trade of which appear among the ad-j in to-day's issus.

་་

RHYMES WITHOUT REASON.

A plucky young coastguard of

Douglas Went out all alone to catch

amouglas,

With only one hand he Caught six drinking brandy (He came of a family of jouglas.)

GRILL

AVTITORS DEJ

TWISTED TALES-

Moral-ASK MOTHER TO INSIST

ÖN HAVING STEWHAM AND

STIRRITT'S SEEDLESS,

(Advert).

*

"Aye, we ha'e nao bananas

Wo ha'e nae bananas the morni Tha's whusky and haggis, Tha's bapa an' tha's parritch, An' bannocks frae für bannock-

burn.

Tha's goy sonsy rock frae Auld Reekie,

Tha's alblins o' braw cooka- leekiej.

Ooh-ayel we ha'e nao bananaS- We he's nae bananas the morn!

On the other hand, supposing one of the Modern School had written "Twinkle, twinkle, little star!"—my hat, whatabout word values then? -

Go on, sointillate You little stuck-up Twinkly. Blinking

Star!

I often scratch my head. And wonder what you think you Are..

L.

character and livelihood bria servant. For let it be stated that.

In spite of the lamentable! On the other hand, Augustus there are indifferent masters and

failure of the recent Rattenbleitor went on anoaking jam by the mistressés just as there are bad

The Tung On arrived from Expedition (reported exclusively potful, so that when he grew up. sorvants. Another point to be Canton yesterday and reported in this column). I am glad to see he was eo fat and ruddy that

Jall quiet.

that the Expedition Spirit is not they made btm Mayor of his borne in mind is that there is not;

altogether dead. A prominent native town. an unlimited supply of domestic

The shipping arrivals and de-explorer and scientist, I read, is servants in this Colony, and that partures during the twenty-four ovan now organising an expedi- a scheme of complusory registration hours ending at 9 a.m. this morn-ion to explore aprtain head- ing wore six and twolve." re-waters of the U or Amazon might easily divert employees to

which lie in a hostile and possibly |spectively...... occupations to which registration

|cannibal zogion whɑrein no white Private J.-Razavot of the Ma-man has hitherto penetrated. I does not apply. Finally, although chine Gun Company, Hongkong wonder if, besides hostility and I am surprised to learn that the wo do not profess to have exhausted Volunteer Defence Corps, bas cannibalism, the intrepid voyager maintenance of the clock in the all the objections. It is much to be boon promoted to the rank of knows what he's in for? There clock tower of the Houses of

are deadly water-snakes in the Parliament Lance-Corporal. doubted whether the average house.;

costs £3 & wõek. Upper Amazon which are so long Hitherto, I had always imagined holder, once a registration law were His Excellency the Governor that they have to be kept on it lived entirely on ticki passed, would, after its novelty had has accepted the resignation by windlasses. There are furious Second Lieutenant E. B. Road of man-eating orobids which have

"The fault with Bo much worn off, bother to respect its pro- bis Commission in the Hongkong boen known even to run up trees modern poetry," says a literary visions. Ceylon is often cited as an Volunteer Defence Corps.

in pursuit of their prey. There critic, "is that its creators have aro orocodiles so buzo that they not the same sense of word-values example of a Colony which has the

Major J. Macready, D.A.A. and have to swim out to sea bofore as the older posts possessed." system in operation, but it will be

Q.M.G., and Captain A. E. Watts, they can turn round. There are Quite so. Yet I cannot think that seen from our news columns to-day A.E.C returned from inspection cunning that they can

enormous apes so intelligent and word values alone make all that: that although it is perfectly true duty in North China by the P. and shorthand and sing from tonic instance, surely has something to write difference. The subject, for that Registration Ordinance re-

O. liner Mantua yesterday. solfa, and, withal, 50 do with it. Burns, though occa mains on the Statute Book there, The total output of the Kailan fiendishly crust that they will sionally a trifle wonky, in his It has become

dead letter. Mining Administration's, mines and then, when they have caught values, but I doubt whether ha pursue a native for days on end, rhymes, was a mastor of word- for the week ending 11th. July, him, pull out his wisdom-teeth could have made a better job of Apparently nobody ever thinks of

1925, amounted to 84,971 tons, without an anaesthetic and bung "Yes, we have no bananas!" utilising its powers; servants there and the sales during the period him in a bill for five guineas. are employed by precisely the same to 76,349 tons.

In view of these facts I have wisht a weal

than its rightful author did. Just

methods as they are here. More.

decided not to offer my services Command Orders state that in as Official Cheese-Taster to the over, with all the general good in the classification test for Indian Expedition. tention in the world to operate such units during the year 1924-25, the 15/2ad Punjab Regiment appeared a law, in the final resort there is not the slightest guarantee that some employers would not ignore it! altogether. To take a case in point, "Mr. A.". had a particularly good Hongkong being still more or houseboy whose services he was less in the throes of a general strike anxious to retain at all costs, human of Chinese labour; it is, perhaps, nature being what it is we much only natural that the plea for the doubt whether he would risk losing registration of domestic servants that servant by insisting either on should once again be put forward registration or dismissal. It might by those who are suffering incon-be a counsel of perfection to urge venience as a result of the defec-on such a householder his large tions of their household staffs. We duty to the community generally,

A prominent magistrate statos would, however, seriously question but we fear these are days in which!

There has been added to the list that in his opinion at least ninoty of medical both the wisdom and the utility of personal interest for the most part, name of Dr. Annie Sydenham, of are directly attributable to the practioners" the per cent, of juvenile orimg-cases such a measure. Before coming to over-rides other considerations. the London Mission. She is a filme shown at the lower class of specific paints of objection, let us In closing, we are quite prepared Surgeons, England, and a Licenti- bad better call these balls Member of the Royal College of picture-palaces. In future we first ask the champions of registrato admit that the present method ate of the Royal College of Physinnermas. tion why domestic servants should of employing servants, mainly sicians, London. be singled out as especially appro- through the compradore, our neigh.

Another splendid new feature, priate subjects for such legislation. bours' "boy,"

this wook, good friends! Noth- or maybe other is little to be gained by Canton, for ing less than a Is the average Chinese household members of our own domestic staff, instance, trying to interfere in a BED-TIME STORY FOR THE PETS. servant notoriously less efficient citen leads to the most unsatisfac matter entirely resting between the Once upon a time there were

At a progressivo bridge-drive than, say, the average office, aasis-tory results. It does not follow, Shanghal Municipal Council and two little boys, Augustus and recently hold in a small country tant? Is he mere prone to so on however, that registration by law, Peking, or the so-called Central Archibald. Augustus was about town, one of the prizes was a live strike than, for example, the dock is the only solution of the problem. Government attempting to inter-imagine, was about five. Both occasion on which Mary had a fivo, while Archibald, I should sheep. This, I expect was the yard worker? From the criminal Some better method is obviously vene in a case of friction between were very fond of raspberry jam; little slam. standpoint, is he of a worse type desirable. Perhaps it may be found the British Consul at Canton and but while naughty Augustus than the thousands of other native in the creation, on a commercial an administration which has long wanted every day out of the

CRICKET GOSSIP. employees of foreign establish basis (as at Home) of a big successfully defied Peking's authori-pantry when nobody was look that at the close of the present There is no truth in the rumour menis? If not, then we know of Servants' Employment Agency, ty. The conference at Hankewing, good. Archibald only had a no adequate reason why hej along|perhaps working in close co-opera- appears to be the first direct attem very little jam given him overy season Hobbs will apply for the

alternate Lifeboat Saturday. For Chiltern Hundreds. of all workers, should be compelled tion with the Servants' Guilds, to to settle an affair locally; with father was only a poor charcoal- We have it on Mr. Ashley to submit to registration.

which employers would naturally only general matters, like treaty afford to buy both bear and jam will not captain Borstal in their burner, and therefore couldn't Sterne's own authority that he Let us now look at the question turn when engaging staffs. Some revisions, involving the whole every day.. One day, however, watch against the College of in detail. It is obvious that if such scheme as this would, in our Chinese people, being referred to Archibald wantod jam so badly Heralds. Registration Ordinance were

opinion, be far more reasonable and the Peking Government: It is in- that he yielded to temptation By a majority of four fifths the and stole just one tenny pip from resolution was rejected to make brought into force, it would have to cf far greater utility than a com- teresting to observe that the sugges- the pot of Pulper and Turnippo's the Oyal ciroular. apply to Chinese as well as to plicated legalised plan which, in tion for this meeting came from the Raspberry.

Owing to the extremely hot Now liston and learn how weather European employers. Otherwise, normal times, few employers would Chinese side,

the match between We hope the out-

quickly vengeance fell upon the Mumbleohump Magna and there would be a very natural out-trouble to put into actual practice. atanding questions will be satisfac-wrongdoor! The next morning Pimpleport Parva was abandoned cry against discrimination, and

torily adjusted: certainly the spirit ho got appendicitis. His 'tom- without a ball being bowled. ¿ racial issues, which ought at all

Local Settlement.

of the first conference augurs well and shortly afterwards he died to cancel all its home matches as perature went up two therms; Gumply Green- C. O, has had.

costs to be avoided, would arise.

The report of a meeting between for the ultimate issue. Similarly, in frightful agony.

the cow has eaten the pitch. Moreover, from the standpoint of the British Consul General at the Shanghai and Shameen' affairs justice alone, if there be any bene-Hankow and the Chinese Commis can be settled without reference to:

The Harbour Master notifies at in a registration scheme it would sioner of Foreign Affairs, whereby the rest of Ching. There are big

that owing to a quantity of silt be inequitable to rule out there- several points of interest in the issues to be discussed between the

having entered the Yaumati Ty- LET OFF WITH CAUTION. from the Chinese employer of scr-present controversy were debated, Powers and the recognised Chinese

phoon Shelter by the Waterloo Next there is the inherent, is important as indicating a line of Government, which will fuvolve Yesterday a correspondent Road uullah, the east channel of the shelter is not navigable.Å wrote to the Telegraph complain- and perfectly. understandable, action which might well be follow-loternational conferences of the ing of hawkers plying their trade boat displaying a red flag by dey objection which

any worker ed elsewhere, in connection with greatest importance: These have without licences for the geloof and a red light by night is an- (whether Chinese

or foreign) various outstanding problems of a nothing to do with Isolated ques food, particulary in thel Wanobal chored in this channel.

distriot, would have to be ticketed and purely local, nature. There has tions which have cropped up This morning, seven such haw- docketed, and his thumb-prints and been a tendency on the part of the through the deplorable want of kers osme before Mr. S. B. B. for July includes a number of very photograph taken, for the purpose agitators to make every incident a restraint on the part of the Chinese McElderry, at the Control Magis informative articles. Bericulture of demonstrating that he is an national affair, so that Hongkong's populace and officials alike. without a licence. His Worship the timber trade on the Yalu, tracy, charged with solling pork in Shantung, real estate in Han- kow, the Nanking volvot industry, If European em-etrike decision was a direct out these matters be tackled first, en told the defendants that be war ployees will stop for a moment and come, it seemed, of the Shanghat the spot, and when they have been extraordinary conditions.brought the salt revenue are dealt with in taking into consideration the Chinese economic botany, and think of how they would like to be shootings. When the Hankow adjusted to mutual satisfaction, or shout by the strike, some detail; and there is a very treated in this way, there would, firing followed, and then came the at least on a basis of compromise, realising that the hawkers had interesting examination, with we feel aure, be more consideration Shameen affair, the advocates of a the greater issues can be taken up situation during the early days. China in

to some extent smallerated the statistics of the foreign trade of shown to the Chinese viewpoint on national agitation had ample fuel and analysed without any hindrance Therefore be would discharge The Soviet Government has this particular aspect of the ques-with which to feed the Gres of dis-throught comparatively minor con-thom with a caution, but he

warned them that any other ordered 100 more motor bussos tion. Then, passing over the tre- content which they were lighting troversies being dragged into the hawkers brought before him for survies on Moscow streets mendously cumbersome machinery all over China. But obviously thars discussions..

would be punished.

a British firm.

vants.

honest man.

·

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used to sheak all ho

HAWKERS CHAHGED.

Up there amongst the comets- And other celestial gadgets, Making a noise like a Woolworth pearl,

Bab Poof! Ring off!

Tho, Chinese Economio Bulletin

China in 1924