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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1927.

SANITARY INSPECTORS.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR

HONGKONG POSTS.

The following "advertleoment. appears in The Builder (Jan. 21): Sanitary Inspectors required by the Government of Hongkong for a period of three years with pos- sible extension. Salary £220-£10- £300 a year payable Ideally In dollars at the Government rate of exchange which is at present fixed at 28. to the dollar. In addition, a strictly temporary exchange allow- ance of 20% of salary is at pre- sent paid, and thus at the prosent time the annual salary in dollare will be $2640 a year. The current rate of exchange being about 2a. to the dollar, the sterling equiva- lent of $2640 is about £254 a year. No income tax. Free passages, Candi- quarters, and uniform. dates, age 23 to 85, must have served as apprentices or improvers In plumbing or carpentry with Firms of good standing; should also have a diploma in santitation from the Royal Sunitary Instituto of England or some other Institute whose diplomas are recognised as certifying the fitness of the holder to fill a post as Inspector of Nuisances under any local Sanitary Authority in England or Scotland. They should further have a certificate in advanced building construction from the City and Guilds or any other similar Institution of equal stand- ing. A bonus increment on the initial salary of the appointment of £10 for each of the above certif- cates held by the person selected will be payable on appointment- Apply at once by letter, stating age, qualifications, and experience, and whether, married or singles to

IF WE MEANT WHAT WE SAID

the Crown Agents for the Colonies, SULTANS' TREASURES.

4. Millbank, London, SW. 1, quot- ing M/15126.

SANITARY INSTITUTE.

ALADDIN'S CAVE ON VIEW.

SIGNS AND SIGNS.

SHE SWEPT HIM OFF

HIS FEET?

Marvellous Brocades.

COSTUME SUST

DIPARIMENT

COSTUME SUPS

ence.

PARK HERE

唱

I DON'T SEE

ANY PARK HERE

DİOZY DY NEA BETVICE, INC.

ETHEL ∙HAYS

and the surprising thing about it fasten the aigette to the Sultan's is that it should still be in exist turban were as big as a bantam's Unique in the world is a com-

egg. Each Sultan had a new one, plete set of all the Sultans' gala

For it was widely believed in vying in magificence with that of costumes and turbans in marvell Constantinople that Enver and his predecessor, and a long row of ous brocades and tissues. Galaxies Talaat, the two leadera. of the imporial turbans, each with its of precious stones glitter on Committee of Union and Progress great green jewel, was varied only For the first time the Imperial the Sultans' aigrettes, diggers who were all-powerful there, dur-by the occasional ruby, of equal Turkish Treasury at Stamboul sabres, rifles, and ripe mouthing the war and have since both size, which had belonged to a men

met violent death, had converted arch with warmer tustes in colour. was recently opened to the public pieces.

The whole Treasury was twize its riches to their own personal Two rooms of the Treasury sent to Asia Minor for safety dur- Pavilion have been arranged bying the Wars of the past ten I was admitted says Mr. G. Ward the Director of Museums with years. Its exhibition to the public Price, to, sce the treasure once An interesting booklet deal-priceless objects dating over more is part of the liberal educational ing with the Royal Sanitary In than four centuries of growing policy of the republic. stitute is to hand and states that palace luxury and including booty

LOCAL EXAMINING BOARD APPOINTED.

་

The Hurem.

ends,

a grent favour in 1912, when a Sultan still wore the aword of Oaman. a local board of examiners has from ancient Persin and the

It is--or was then-arranged been appointed for conducting

The Director of Museums is now with characteristic Turkish care Orient.. examinations in Hongkong. Cap

repairing the ever-forbidden imlessness, but the haphazard heap- didates examined locally will be Among the Byzantine relics is perial harem, which will also being of its contents threw their expected to show a thorough know-

Its barbaric richness into "even more ledge of the laws in force in the part of the craniom of the tradi-thrown open in the summer. Colony and a general knowledge tional head of John the Baptist. vast labyrinth of apartments of dazzling relief. of the British Public Health There are four Sultans' thrones, successive Sultans, princes, and Statutes.

Including wonderful work of the their wives shows five centuries of

Turkish artistic development. The following examinations of early sixteenth century, the Institute are held in Hong-Indian art in perfect preservation Kong:

****[111 enamelled pearl-encrusted

Sanitary science as applied to

and

Platefuls of Gems:

A regular Aladdin's Cave is the buildings and public works, Sani-throne of the Persian Shah Ismail. old Imperial Treasury of Turkey,

tury Inspectors.

Health Visitors and School nurses.

School hygiene, including elo- mentary physiology.

The board of examiners for Hongkong, South China, nomin- ated by the Government of Hong- kong. and appointed by the In- stitute is composed of the follow- ing:

Patron-His Excellency Sir Ce- ell Clementi, KC.M.G.

Chaliman J. M. Addison, MB. E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Principal Civil Medical Officer, the Hon. Mr. 1. T. Creasy, M.Inst. C.E., A.M.I., M.E., Director of Public Works, Mr. W. J. E. Mackenzie, M.C., DA R.C.V.S., Colonial Veterinary Bur- geon, Mr. P.T. Lamble, M.R. San. I. and Sir Eric Stuart Taylor, Bart., M.D.

Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. Ralphs, F.C.S., F.R.G.S., M.R. San. I.

Vienna.---Mussolini's tax 03 bachelors has had an echo here. Within a short time after the alian parliament passed the tax law the "Austrian Alliance.for Women's Rights demanded through the press that Austria should use this method of increas ing marriages. At once the Aus- trian formed an Alliance for Men's rights. A battle start? with statistics as the principle bullets. The women uasert that there are now half a million un married men of marriagabiq ngo in Austria who are preventing an equal number of women from making a home by shirking their duty to marry. A tax or unrar ried men, graduated from $5 to $100 per year, according to in- come, is advocated by the women.. The men have retorted that the Jast census recorded only 100,000 nmarried men in Austria above the age of thirty, of which number approximately 120,000 have tried. marriage and are now enjoying freedom through divorce, separa- tion or death of their mates. That these men do not remarry is suficfont indication that mar- ringo fe not what is claimed for It, the men assert.

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Pearl-Studded Throne.

I remember a low, broad-seated throne, set all over with pearls- not of good quality, admittedly," but studded so thickly that it looked as if ten fainutes' work on it with a pocket-knife would yield. a fortune.

Of diamands there were but few, and those yellow and ill-cut, but wine-dark amethysts and milky pals, sky-blue turquoises, and Bantani's-Egg Emerald.

precious stones of lesser sorts lay.. "Precious stones, lay "piled in there in glass cases among the platefuls beyond counting. Size dust, the almost forgotten play- was everything in the opinion of things of days when the Court of medieval potentates, and the the "Grand Turk" was as splendid

which were used to as any in Europe. emeralds

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