1931-09-30 — Page 2

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and

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HOTELS

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in association with the Grand Hotel

Der Wagons Lits, Peking.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1931.

HONG KONG MAN'S WED DING.

KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION

AND ATTENTION OF-.-

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Phone No. 58008.

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Telephone 67003

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A

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Food and Wines especially good

AFTER-DINNER DANCE

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EUROPE HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

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MUSIC;

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and 8.00 p.m, to 8.30 p.m. Sunday Concerts-9.15 p.m. to11 p.m.

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Mr. Clayton L. Seite, Jan, South China pinnager of the American Aslatis Underwriters st Hongkong, and his bride, Miss Lillo Rita Galloway, of Sacramento, Cal. after their wedding, which took place at that residence of Mr. and Mrs. Otis D. Terrell in Shanghai Inst week.

ROSY FUTURE FOR

CANTON.

VITAL & URGENT NEED FOR PEACE.

ROTARY ADDRESS.

In a most interesting rublevsa,

Present Day Canton.

Up to the end of last year incre After dealing with the past his were completed 25 malona, with a Story of Canton, Mr. i. e Pont said; tal length of 00,000 ft.

The Canton of to-day covers anfon is going ahead with other pro- Besides rand construction, Can- area of 814 miles, with every indientia extending miles outset on an extensive scale, into the suburbs.

The Interior Harbour.

In order to provide ample facili-

The pugulation of Caton is $20,000, according to the last ceni. ses of the Burn of Public Safety, es to shipping and the handling and there are 176,436 houses to necargo, with a view to saving ex- the Municipal That Canton will be the biggestį When you are told that many othernment has long felt the neces

commodate this number of people, and delays, southern port and the centre of the hoses are of the old style, eacnity of constructing an interior commerce of the south within tertaining three or four

small harbour. Accordingly a site was years was forecast by Mr. ceroms, where two or three families was, at the north end of Hanam chosen last year, namely, Chaw Fong, speaking at yesterday's ay be living together, you will meeting of the Rotary Club, under quite understand the need for the

sland, opposite Shameen. The the Chairmanship of the Hou. M W. E. Shenton.

harbour scheme provides for the stension of the city

Siure

of relation of ta clamation of an area of about 11,000 ft.. the construction of a new Mr. Lee Fong referred to the Provisional Charter in February,nd of 4,300 ft., and the building earlic known history of the 1921, Canton has been governed by

Municipal Government through of several warehouses and wharvas. ginning of Canton, centuries are its Executive Council, composed of The total cost of the undertaking the arrival of Europeans, the cor- the dini relations between Chief the different bureaux.

the Mayor and the Commissioners will be $1,571,600 Canton currency. The When this work in completed, the hongs and foreign merchants, Mayor directs and supervises the Canton-Hongkong boats, now berth- growth of trade; Canton មាន it

affairs of the Municipal Goverung at the Canton alde, will more to-day anal Canton of the future.'

The Chairman said: We have ent and acts as Chairman of the than likely be requested to move off

Executive Council. The Commis-to the new Honam wharves, the pleasure of entertaining u num-

Suspension Bridge. ber of visitors to-day. They areioners represent the following Mt. Lee Fong, our speaker. Cal. bureaux: Finance. Public Works.

| Public Safety Public Health, This scheme was thought out Van Skoik, on the staff of lita Ex-blic Utilities, Education, Land, some twelve years ago, but it was cellency. the Governor of the and Social Reform. Philippine islands, and officially re- There is also the Municipal Ad- | tract was entered into between tho presenting the Secretary of War in visory Council, representing the Municipal Government and the firm the U.S.A.. Rotarian John citizens as an advisory body to the of Andersen. Meyer and Com- Hamilton (Honolulu), Rotarian A.

Municipal Executive Council,, and pany, for the construction of a aus, 1. Gordo

Rotarian

its fimctions are chiefly to submit pension bridge from the end of F.A. Bowen

Rotarinn 1. W. Gerber (Peking), Mr. W, O. the Executive Council petitions the Wai San Road, on the Canton Waser, Mr. D. Wilson and Mr. H. from the people and to examine the Bund, to the other side of Honam, works of the different bureaux. at a cost of $1,300,000 Hongkong A. Rodgers (all of Hongkong).

In addition to the above, there currency. The bridge will be 600 Addressing the gathering, Col.

are other agencies set up by the ft. long, with a centre path 40 ft. Sloik said:-1 wish you to know Municipality, namely, the City wide for motor traffic, and how often we, in Manila, Planning Commission, the Pur foot path on both sides for pedes- this Chub. here chasing Department, the Municipal triana. Work has gone on for over in Hongkong. We feel that Bank, and the Charitable Institua year and half, and it is expected here are our Rotarian neighton for the Poor. bours, and here are our friends. I want to say, on behalf of the Rotary Club of Monila, that we don't want

This bridge will be the first of The main sources of municipal any member of this Club to commit revenue are taxes and fees of all hree bridges, which the Municipal the crime of

Government has planned for the going through Manila

surte, fines and impositions, without coming and sitting down amunting annually to about purpose of relieving the congestion and breaking bread with us. I am $6,500,000, while the expenditure in the city and developing Honam happy to be here to day. I have Is about $7,000,000. (These are Island. The second bridge will learned in Manila Rotary that the average figures for the last two Rotarian who likes to stand up and ears. The tux per capita in Cau- listen to himself in Rotary makeston is thus about $7, which in for

apeutk of

Canton's Revenue.

a mistake and so I sit down---(Ap-below that of American cities plause).

where the municipal tax per capita

ta In Introducing Mr. Lee Fong, the is from $30

$60. Chairman said he was educated at The most impressive sign of pro- St. Joseph's College, Ivarkong, and gress in Canton to-day is the num from there proceeded to Trinity her of wide and well-laid ronds Hall; Cambridge, for the purpose of with asphalt surface. Under the continuing his education. In due scheme matured by the Bureau of course he returned to China and had Public Works, Cantón will have, held a number of

appointments in before long, G1 maloesleys

the Chinese Government. He was besides minor streets and

a Judge of the Supreme Court, The construction of these maloos Peking, and also held an appoint- is divided into three stages, their Hal length will be, about 240,000 ment in the Foreign Offee at Pek- fug. He had also been theft and the cost about $9,640,000 Chinese Consul General at Samoa Canton currency. For the subur- and he had now returned to long-ban towna and villages there is a king where he was a temporary re- further scheme to lay out 85 malons, sident.

Iwith a total length of 560,000 ft.

not till the end of 1928 that a cop-

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to finish in the early part of next year.

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