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REFUSE DISPOSAL.

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.

•

DAY BY DAY.

lay would at present scarcely be Justified. It may interest the Gov- ernment and the public, however, THE ERRORS OF A GREAT MIND EDIFYING THAN THE to learn that the Works Com-ARE MORE mittee of the Shangha! Municipal TRUTHS OF A LITTLE-Borne, Council has recently approved the

Mr. J. S. Mac Laren has been ap- Assistant Colonial installation of an incinerator at pointed an

a cost of over $27,000, exclusive of Treasurer.

firebricks, chimney, building, etc.. Tenders are being invited for the but including all machinery. In construction of a ferry pier at addition, there will be further ex-Wilmer Street. penditure for the services of an

....

The appointment of Mr. Henry expert who is coming East to su Robert Butters as a Police Magis pervise the erection of the ma-trate is gazetted. chinery,

The appointment is gazetted of Mr. Walter Schofield as District Officer in the Southern District of the New Territories.

The Government is inviting ten- ders for the construction of a 15 foot access road to the Christian Cemetery at Kowloon City.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. A.W.G.H. Grant- ham to be Assistant Postmaster General in addition to his other duties.

Eastern Extension notifies that owing to a typhoon causing inter- ruption of the landlines in Japan, all telograms to and from Japan, subject to except Nagasaki, are

By order of His Excellency the Governor-in-Council, Cebu has been it would seem that the time is declared a place at which an in- hardly propitious for the install- fectious or contagious disease, ation of a costly incinerator innamely, cholera, prevails. this alony. At the same time, we still maintain, as we always have, that this method is the ideal The question of disposing of the one for the purpose of disposing of Colony's refuse by means of in refuse. When the financial outdelny. cineration has been frequently look is clearer and the use of re- Observatory returns show that considered within the past twenty fuse for reclamation purposes is during June the average mean tem years, but the matter has always no longer necessary, we hope to perature was 81.9, the highest be- been shelved. At first, the Gov-ace Hongkong come into line within 90.8 and the lowest 70.3 There were 215.4 hours of sunshine and ernment took the attitude that the othr modern centres. But that 12.24 inches of rain. The average

humidity was 81. old-fashioned method of carrying time is not yet.

THE HUMBLER ARTS.

Some Thoughts on Creative Skill.

While atriding down a New Eng-man at the stone wall, and the man' land lane on a silver morning in in the thicket ware engaged in re- April, I heard the sound of ham-ducing chaos to order and in put- coming up from the valley. The outward things. Each had his ani- mer and saw, vigorously handled, ting a human stamp upon stubborn workman down there, I said to my ple share of the joy that always self, is not working for hire but comes of stern effort at self-expres man, else he would not work so were happy men, is his own taskmaster and fore-sion. All three of them, therefore, hard; and when I came in sight of ". him, perched high on a ladder, leaning against a decrepit barn, brief colloquy with the tree pruner I saw clearly, in the intensity of it was brief because he, like the Ile few minutes-I began to wonder his labour, that he worked merely other two, could spare me only a for pleasure and for play.

·

As I went on my way, after my

[one of them was finding the

the severest critic would, be obliged

How much a modern destructor capable of dealing with Hong kong's refuse would cost it is hard

Tenders are being invited for climbed down and sat for a few whether we have not unnecessarily talk of the arts. Poetry, music, archi- to say, but we should imagine that

ladder, while I stopped lo it would run away with consider the erection of three wooden bar minutes on the lowest rung of the narrowed the range and number ably more than half a million dol-rack sheds, kitchen, etc., at Taim with him. I found that he was a tecture, sculpture, dancing, paint-

Sha Tsui Police Station

professor in a university more g--were these all the arts that lars. The question naturally sug-

than a hundred miles away, and might be thought of, so that on that on almost every week end of who has no gift for any of them gests itself whether such an out- lay would be justified for the

the academic year he drove that must be shut out from artistic ex- distance and back again in order Pression forever? Thinking of the to spend a few hours at such hard three men behind me, I decided t sake of securing a cleaner har

work as he was doing now, re once that this could not be so, for bour and foreshores. There is

novating and altering the buildings artist's joy in making over an old the further point that whereas in

of this once properous but long barn, another was producing what Shanghai an excellent use for the

since abandoned farmstead.

For three years he had done this, to call a work of art out of rough clinker can be found in the manu-

and he counted them the best field stones, and a third was pro- years of his experience because ducing beauty where there had facture of concrete slabs, here in

The tender of Messrs. Kin Lee well, because here he had the con- been ugliness:And it seemed to The Hongkong & Shanghai Hongkong there is no lack of ma-

terial for this purpose. We be- & Co., $6,855.86, for the formation stant sense of producing order and me that no one whatever, for rea- of a new Children's Playground at beauty where there had been mere sons of natural aptitude or lack of This barn, for example, training, need be shut away from Hotels, Ltd. llevc. iso, that at the moment Kowloon has been accepted by the decay.

upon which he had just begun the artist's delight of shaping and good use is being made of the re- Government.

operations, did not look a promis-making, of adding to the world's

but he treasure of beautiful things. fuse on the mainland by dumping

Among the passengers arriving ing object of attention;

The number of occupations that it for reclamation purposes at from Shanghai

yesterday was thought that, if I should come down Cheungshawan, at practically no Judge Sir Peter Grain, who has the lane a year hence, he would includes artistic elements is large, come down for the Full Court be able to show me a barn trans- I thought, and the mere fact that formed. It would then be altered many of them are connected with cost. Teking all the factors into session on Monday.

in shape, made weather tight, paint- utility of some sort should. no consideration, therefore, including

ed, and generally made to fit into longer obscure this fact. Although Just as I was it is probably true that the greatest the present financial stringency,

the landscape. leaving, he said: "You see, this of the arts are pure luxuries, hav barn is necessarily a part of my ing no usefulness beyond them- picture, and so I must get itselves and the pleasure they give, yet even in carpentry and stone right."

laying and ground clearing, there Four miles farther on I came to may be an aesthetic element, be- a man who was laying a stone wall, cause in these also one may ex- and he was laying it with a care press the free, uncalculating love and precision, with a minute at of beauty for its own sake. tention to the shapes and sizes and

How, far, I asked myself, could even hues of the stones, which went far beyond anything that this extension of the artistic effort could have beca expected of hired be carried? Well, certainly it must labour. He was working with an include gardening, for one thing, even greater absorption and vigor and this even on a small scale. For than the first man, and so I paused many centuries we have admitted while to talk with him also. He that the planning and manage- was an Englishman, who had spent ments of great private or public many years in the western United parks is artistic, but few have re- States in various kinds of busi alized that the laying out of a plot

the refuse cut to sea in barges,

His Majesty the King has ap-ness. He had been a farmer and of flowers-matching the colours proved the appointment of the a fruit grower, a travelling sales for harmonies and contrasts and and there dumping it, was quite

spectator of men and colaborating with the seasons-is The Egyptian Crisis, Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes to be man, a

equally so. "And, quite as certainly, satisfactory. Then, when com-

temporarily an Unofficial Member events.

time He had spent much

in embroidery belongs among the plaints began to be made of pol

The gravity of the situation in of the Executive Council in the

absent now, he had been working at this sewing, weaving, and the design- lution of the foreshore in various Egypt is well demonstrated by the place of the Hon. Sir Henry Pol-Japan and China. For six years, humbler arts, together with fine

Alexandria of two lock, who is temporarily

little farm, wholly for pleasure. Ing of garments. (No less a per- He had rebuilt the farmhouse alson than Michael Angelo, I recalled, parts of the Colony, it was sug-British battleships, sufficient in- from the Colony.

amazingly gaudy gested that Hongkong's refuse was dication that there are grave fears

Lord Passfield, Secretary for the most entirely, and quite without invented the of such a type that by incineration of foreign residents being concern- Colonies, presided at a dinner given assistance, and alse he had trans- costume of the Papal Guard in the

planted thousands of trees; but his Vatican.) The by the Government, at Lancaster masterpiece was to be this same Woodcarving, modelling in clay it would be unlikely to produce ed in the present imbroglio.

от June

ironworking are already stone wall upon which he had been and clinkers of which use could be dispute is still between Nahas House, St. James's,

of the mem-

steadily and which he hoped to cookery-though it made. During the Budget debate Pasha, the former Premier who 23, in honour

has the support of the Wafdists, bers of the Colonial Office Con-working for three months pretty recognized among the arte, but ference. The company included: complete in another three. Even rather high-now holds a place un- two years ago, Unofficial members and Sidky Pasha who has only been Sir R. E. Stubbs, Mr. L. S. Amery, to my untrained eye that wall of warrantably low. In personal de

whether of the sort of the Council stressed the neces-Premier for a few weeks and whose M.P., Sir James Maxwell, Sir John his was a thing of beauty. He had coration, sity of more modern methods of installation in office was hoped to Sandeman Allen, M.P., Sir F. M. taken the rough stones that litter practiced by savages or such as refuse disposal, pointing out that, have the effect of providing the Baddeley, Dr. R. O. Winstedt, ed the hillsides all about and had may be found in the highest despite every care taken to ensure country with a more stable Govern. Major the Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore, compelled them into order, as a civilizations of the ancient or He was a modern worlds, I considered that M.P., Sir Frederick James and Sir ment. Now, however, there have Henry Gollan, K.C.

poet compels words." master of stones, and some of the there was certainly some stirring the non-return of garbage dump-been serious disturbances in Alex-

strength in the materials with of the athetic sense. The design- ed into the sea, it often drifted andria, mob violence has broken The health bulletin of Eastern which he had worked so long had ing of furniture, matching of back not only into the harbour, out and the situation is pregnant porta for the week ended Saturday got into him, I saw clearly that colours for interior decoration, ar but also to the foreshores on the with possibilities of an extremely last issued by the Director of he was a happy man and that his ranging of flowers, even the hang- tained the following cases, the three men who had not his resourcise faculties that are just as cer- mainland and on various islands. serious nature. The attitude of the Medical and Sanitary Services, con- work, which would have exhausteding of pictures, demand and exer:

British Government has been

figures in parenthesis indicating ces of joy, was done in the mood tainly artistic as those we wonder An assurance was then given that stressed and Egypt has been told deaths: Plague, Alexandria 8 (8), of eager play.

at in Titlan or Mozart, though they the whole question would be in- in the most definite terms possible Baghdad 4, Colombo 1 (1), Pnom-

And on that same afternoon. I are exerted on a much lower plane. But the art that is most acces- vestigated with a view to the in that Britain's attitude is one of Penh (1) Cholera, Calcutta. 53 clusion of funds in the Budget for strict neutrality and non-interven (28) Bangkok 3 (1), Pnom-Penh found a third man, who was prun-aible to us all, concluded, is that Small-pox, Bombay 16 (9), Calcutta alder and birch and brambles and speech. This art requiries no issue. At the same time, the Gov-19 (17), Madras 10 (1), Moulmein young pine. He was the head- erment has taken care to point out 10 (4), Rangoon 1, Penang 2 (1), master of a famous boys' school, special materials, no special place

(Continued on. Page 7.) The impression thus created that the Egyptian Premier will be Batavia 1 (1); Cerebro-spinal and he was working hardest of all or time, for its practice and in- was that the Government had at held responsible for the protection fever, Shanghai (5), Singapore 3 the three.

(1). last come out definitely on the of foreign lives and property. Bri- side of modern methods of refuse tain therefore refuses to take sides, but it remains to be seen whether destruction, having no doubt been a policy of non-intervention can be influenced by a report made some continued if the quarrel resolves it- two years earlier by, the late Mr. self into disorder and 'open rebel- Jackman, who had examined dif-lion. Firebrands in Egypt have in recent months hurled threats ferent types of Incinerators in

against the Throne, but in this they

a

despatch to

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once stood

1930, as soon as a 'satisfactory/tion in what is purely an internt 16 (9), Saigon 1, Canton 2 (1)ing trees, in a tangled thicket of of precise, fluent and beautiful'

scheme had been involved.

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND

EAST RIVERS.

July 17 July 18

5.8

1.- 5.7

18 1:3

2.2

2.3

His pruning shears flashed in and out among the twiga

and branches of a white birch and his hatchet played up and down in

the sunlight with a perfect ecstasy WHO WAS ? of toil In the course of our con-

versation he told me what profound

satisfaction he had taken in clear- ing these ten acres of land. Most of them had been covered; when he took the place two years before, The following, table, issued by with the piled debris of a recent England, India and the Straits cannot hope to count on support the Kwangtung River Conservancy woodcutting. Severed treetops in- Settlements, and who suggested from the British Government. Commission, shows in English feet terlocked with one another lay the water levels on the West everywhere, ugly stumps disfigured the desirability of introducing an There seems to be a danger, how River, North River and East every vista, auch growing trees as had been left could scarcely be seen up-to-date unit of one of the most ever, that the Wafd section, by Rivet, on the dates named

their power over the Egyptian mob

over the piles of decaying branches. successful plants. About eighteen

Well, he had come out here from Shinhing and their conspiratorial organisa-

at his school forty miles away. Tsingyuen months ago, in consequence of tion, contriving to do serious in-

Samshul

every slightest opportunity, often questions asked in the Sanitary jury to the Throne, although it

when he could remain for no more! Sheklung

than an hour, and he had worked Board by the Hon. Mr. Braga, the must be admitted that at, the mo The highest levels on record Government undertook to make ment there is merely a quarrel beare Shluhing, 41 feet; Tsing here for harder than he had ever

worked upon anything. tween present and past Premiers yuen, 29.2 feet; Samsbui, 27.3sults I might judge for myself. I enquiries regarding certain ex-with all the attacking being done feet; Sheklung 16.5 feet. periments which were being car by Nahas Pasha. Britain is still

The lowest level on record at judged that he had worked for play, and so had worked exceedingly ried out with refuse destructors in trying the policy of "self deter Samshul is minus 5 feet and at well. He revealed the secret of it all by saying that he did not feel Shanghai, the points covered being mination" in Egypt, but the Egyp3heklung minus 2,7 feet.

force

that this labour of his had merely the cost of construction and main- tians themselves may

Improved the land, rather, he had The only alternativé change. tenance and the uses to which the

would be the resumption of a Brilong as they are for the good of produced something that was not clinker material could be put. tish Protectorate and that is not the people of the country and do there before. He thought, in fact, We have heard nothing officially the aim of the British Government not redound to the destriment of that his work had been not very

A

The re-

on the matter since that time, but which is doing all in ita power to Great Britain. If this can only be different from that of an artist. :|

we

believe that investigations meet the wishes of the Egyptiana realised in Egypt, then out of the made showed that the capital out- and to grant any concessions so present dispute may come peace and contentment for Egypt's nationale.

Each of these three men was

doing artistic work, and doing it in the artist's way and wood-for pleasure: The man at the barn, the

SIR GALAHAD.

Sir Galahad was one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table"the goodliest company of gentle knights whereof the world holds record."

~All these splendid knights con- Becrated their lives to the search for the Holy Grail, the vessel used at the Last Supper, the gleam of which would erur and anon reveal itself to them as they Tode upon their quest.

Some of the knights fell dead upon the wayside, others gave up the search in despair, and to Bir Galshad alone, the purest and noblest of them all, was it vouch- safed to follow the gleam until he cams into the full splendour of the Grail in the golden city-be- yond the marhlands, the City of *Light

Not long are a famous states- man said of his party that they. followed the Gleam: This meant that, like Sir Galahad, they had a a shining ideal ever before their eyes, and would never reat content until they had achieved the quest upon which they had, started.