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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931.

THE HONGKONG

PRIEST

EXPLORER.

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION

AND ATTENTION OF-

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Phone No. 56008.

Cable "KowLOTEL

Hongkong.

PALACE HOTEL.

Telephone 57008

Telegraphic Ardresa "Palace."

A First Class Residential & Touriat Hotel Under Entirely European Management High Class Wines & Spirits Steel Coulson's Bear On Draught, Four Full Sized Billiard Tables Billiards, Snooker, ur Skittler.

MRS. J. H. OXBERRY,

Proprietress.

Penang

The Scenic Gem of Malaya

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Modern throughout and

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Kunnymede Hotel

Malaya's Premier Hotel

Food and Wines especially good

AFTER-DINNER DANOL ·

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"The Glacier Privat” Father Bernard Hubbard, S. Į. is ebown above exploring smoldering volcanoes in frozen Alzaka In the course of a grological expedition.

A JOURNALISTIC VALEDICTORY.

PRESENTATIONS TO MR.

A MORLEY.

Children's Fevers.

Recurring foverishness in chil- dren la very weakening and though the attacks may not appear serious they should not be 'rogarded with complacency. If they are allowed to continue, tho child's vitality and resisting power becomes lower and lower until there is grave danger of his falling victim to something much more serious.

During the hotter months chil- dreti are capocially subject to fevers by reason of the fact that the heat saps away their strength. Their appetites are also affected. In addition they often get chilled whilst they Dre perapiring,' through Rudden changes in temperature..

For simple fever in children there is nothing ner than Baby's Own Tablets. This pleasant tast- ing children's medicine is ideal for many reasons, but ehlefly because the prescription is composed of elements that act in a gentle and natural way. The laxative action of Baby's Own Tablets is soothing and cany; there are none of the unpleasant features, the purging in responding, Mr. Morley con- and the griping, with consequent veyed his thanks and said he had Injury to delicate internal always believed that if a man wasbranes, which are associated with happy in his work and had the old-fashioned crudo medicines. good fortune to be associated with congenial colleagues, then he had much to be thankful for.

Mr. Morley's Neply..

mem-

The tablets have a cleansing That and gently tonic action on the The entire staffs, Foreign and

The stomach, cool the blood and reduce Chinese, of the South China Mora-had been his happy lut on

Авл ing Post and Hongkong Telegraph Hongkong Telegraph and South the temperature rapidly.

health safeguard for Assembled yesterday to do honour China Morning Post and he would general

look back with pleasant children you Can use nothing to Mr. A. Morley, News Editor of the South China Morning Post, who of his stay

ar Kafer. Baby's Own has been appointed Editor of the Wylie, and the Board of Directors, Tablets

Colony-nearly 16 years. To Mr.

also check diarrhoen. Shanghai Times and leaves for the northern port early next week.

in this

betler

PAN YAN

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Agonte-

A PRODUCT OF MACONACȚIE.

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

without

he owed the gratitude of any callay croup, expel worms, whilst they are ployee who was fairly and con- for teething babies Mr. B. Wylle, General Manager, siderately treates, and if in the specially invaluable, easing the told Mr. Morley they hadi assembled course of his work he had tried pains and thus inducing the sound in order that he might be presented with some tangible evidence of the give of his best and had earned natural sleep so essential to the

confidence, that was only some little one's welfare. esternt in which he was held by the thing to which the firra and its Directors of the Company and by General Manager were

entitled, No parents should be his colleagues on the Morning Post If he might presume on an occa-Baby's Own Tablets. All chemists and Telegraph. Their regret atsion like this to give a word of jean supply you. parting was tempered by two happy advice to those who were Iris eireumstances. First, Mr. Morley Juniors, then he would say that no was leaving to take up a position effort ever went unrewarded, even which represented a definite pro-though immediate appearances Secondly, might seem to belle that truism. motion in his career, although he was leaving Hongkong. Hard work and loyalty were step- he would not be far away.

ping stones that never failed.

Mr. Wylle roferred to Mr. Conscientiousnesa and

Morley's efficiency.

an

Arriving in 1915 as s

Chinese Good Wishes.

Mr. Shura Wni-yau added the

COAL LABOURERS' PETITION,

REQUEST FOR INCREASES IN WAGES.

reporter, Mr. Morley was leaving good wishes of the Chinese staff. Asking for an increase in wages of as an Editor, and his record was As a superior, Mr. Morley had been about sixty per cent. over 1,000 taken coal labourers have antstanding example to all always considerate, sympathetic Chinese young Journalists. He was con- and

which concerted action by drawing up i generou unlities

Affairs. the Secretary for Chinese Their request for an increase repre- sents a desire for an improvement or their living conditions as the labourers contend that their daily wage of thirty cents (for ten hours) is adequate, and their petition suggests an increase to fifty cents.

fident that Mr. Marley's qualities, rendily commanded respect from petition which they whit present to conscientious application to duty, all. constant regard for accuracy, alten- Mr. K. C. Tsang. Accountant of tion to detail, keen and intelligent the Hongkong Telegraph contribute interest in questions of the houred his appreciation of Mr. Morley, and loyalty to la employers whereafter Mr. Shum, on behalf of would stand him in good stend in the Chinese staff handed to Mr. Morley, with best wishes, a fountain pen writing set. All the gifts were suitably inscribed.

Shanghai.

real

most

in-

In presenting their grievances the Mr. Morley had on more than

labourers say that during the Great one occasion been called upon to take charge of the editorial depart- Responding, Mr. Morley said he War period over 7,000 labourers were employed by the local Japanese and ments of both the Company's news-had always valued the goodwill, Chinese Grms, but owing to the sub- papers, and the confidence thereby loyal co-operation and very

sequent shipping and general trade reposed in him had been in every help extended to him by his depression of recent years the figure way justified. His versatility had Chinese fellow workers in the dropped to about 3,000 in 1927,-An also been shown by the manner in Company. There had been times official of the Cual Carriers' Guild has which, at different times, he had when, in the stress of daily made a statement that only 1,000 coal Assisted' on the managerint side.

publishing, words, which may have carriers are being employed owing to seemed a little harsh, had had to the decrease in the importation of Hongkong Journalists, be used, but that was all part and coal. Of the 1,000, only 700 are mem- It was interesting to note, said parcel of the stress of newspaper bers of the Guild.'

Assuming that they are working Mr. Wylie, that Mr. Morley was work, and it had always been his succeeding one of the best-known lot to be treated courteously by all every day of the week the members of the Gulid can obtain only about $10 a month. Offcials of the Guild and talented Far Eastern journ the Chinese in the firm. alists, Mr. Burton Sayer, who

have Interviewed the Secretary of thu Chinese General Chamber of Com- himself was formerly a member of the staff of the S. C. M. Post. The North China Daily News, in | merce, Mr. Lee Wan-kum, for adviso Moreover, he would not find him- an editorial note, refers to then connexion with their petition to the self entirely amongst strangers in appointment of Mr. C. M. Mc- Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

News Editor of the Shanghai, fnasmuch as there were Donald as

Mr. C. M. McDonald.

several former Hongkong journ- South China Morning Post, in the alists in that city. Indeed, Shang- following terms:

This will not being appointed correspondent of

hai evidently thought very highly be Mr. McDonald's first acquaint- The Times at Peking where he has of Hongkong newspapermen, and ance with the Colony for he was been until the South China Morn- well they might, for many journ- formerly editor of the China Mailing Post laid claim to his services. WES Mr. McDonald thus is an experienc- alists had gone from this Colony A Sentaman, Mr. McDonald and won for themselves a high educated at Stewart's College, ed journalist with wide knowledge Edinburgh, and entered journa of affairs and intimate acquaint- place in the profession.

of the lism by way

Evening ance with current Chinese politics. Mr. Wylle concluded by wishing Despatch. Later he went overzeas He is deservedly esteemed by his Mr. and Mrs. Morley happiness to gain experience in Western professional colleagues and by all and prosperity in Shanghai.

Australia, ou one of the Perth who have come in contact with him. handed Mr. Morley a handsome

newspapers, and in the F.M.S. on Hongkong la to be congratulated on silver rose bowl from the Directors the Times of Malaya. He subse his acceptance of the important ap- of the South China Morning Post,quently joined the China Mail and pointment to which he now goes Ltd., and a chiming clock from the after leaving Hongkong travelled and his success in that post will foreign stafls of the two papers. for nine months in Europe finally be expected and welcome.

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