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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1931.

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noada in such matter, which reflects no credit on offeialdom. It is not the local postmaster who is to blame. Having regard to the staff at his disposal and the cramped quarters in which he is required to work, it is' surprising that auch duties as are required of him are carried out so satis- factorily and expeditiously.

DAY BY DAY

HE THAT WOULD MAKE A REAL FROGRESS IN KNOWLEDGE MUST DE-

DICATE HIS AGE AS WELL AS YOUTH -THE LATTER-GROWTH AS WELL AS THE FIRST-FRUIT-AT THE ALTAR OF TRUTIL-Bishop Berkeley.

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Good News for Bad Boys.

From ROBERT LYND.

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is announced that a scheme is school, and if he had said to me in hand for establishing all sympathetically: "Just drop in over England playrooms in which whenever you like in future. This had children will be allowed to do is Liberty Hall," I honestly belleve Mr. C. M. Chromane, residing and say whatever they like. that out of shear contrarincar, I

There are other points of criticism connected with the Post

Savarin House has reported to the Offee which might be touched Police the theft of clothing valued at upon-with the additional force $230, stolen from his wardrobe some in time between Tuesday and Thursday len! by henvy Increases charges, out of all proportion to

21 YEARS AGO.

und

WAS

A

A playroom of the kind, we are should have become a model of told, already exists in Paddington punctuality for the rest of my life.

_wunder,...however, whether. under the control if control in not too strong a word-of the Na- these methods of encouraging tional Institute for Child Pay- virtae might not prove as effective - chology.

with men and women as with chil- the level of the dollar-but such The Commander of the JL.M.S.

have been Here the bad boy is told that dren. After all, we Herald reports that flags have been matters as the provision of new erectal un the summits of East whatever he dues or says will be called children of a larger growth. sub-offices in rapidly expanding Brother, Chu Lu Kok Inlands, Flood kept a secret from his parente, and we are just as unreasonable areas on the mainland, as the un-Point and on Saw Chau Island. These and, if he is discovered to be as we were in the nursery.

Angs have no navigational signi- seething with vengeful animosity Your Really Pet Aversion. necessarily early closing of the scaner.

against some particular one of his | Christmas parcel mail, are

relations, "he is given, an effigy. Hence 1 should like to see the is the un- Institution of playrooms for Colonel T. A. Robertson, President and, pretending this the relatively unimportant nt

it does seem to us, how-of the British Legion, asks us to con- fortunate relative, he is allowed adults. Here any old gentleman moment.

vey sincere thanks to His Excellency to commit whatever violence he with a bad temper could go after ever, that in the matter of the General Sandilands, Captain Pringent, pleases upon it--eut it up, bury it breakfast, and, for an admission

Miss M. Potter, Mr. Losseun, Mr, and and kick It."

fee of sixpence, he would be pro- main ofice 31 Kowloon, the

Mrs. Atwell. Mr. and Mrs. Danby, Other effigies are hung round] vided with a number of effigier Government needs to be shaken Meners, R. Shewan, W. A. Dowley the walls, and the boy may pelt labelled "Bolshevik." or whatever A. H. Lay, R. E. Oliver and A. Salmon these with any missile he happens was the name of his pet aversion, out of it indifference, The

& Son, for their generous gifts to the to find in the room.

go for them till he was out recent rapid improvement in the Poppy Day Auction Fund; also special

He would then go out In the course of time, apparent-of breath. thanks to Messrs. W. A. Dowley & dollar-sterling cross rate will, we w. F. Simmons and all these gentley, he grows utterly tired of kick into the world a better man, feel- niny assume, make available funds men who so kindly helped to make the ing effigles and throwing things at ing that he had done his bit and

them, and by the time this has hap- that the Bolshevik menace which the Government did not Auction such a successful one.

pened he has become either too aver for the day. expert last month. Moreover, Li

virtuous or too broken-spirited to Whipping Boys for All. budget for next year is used apon

hate his relations any more. a shilling dollar and while silver experts are loath to express an opinion on the future tendency of the metal. It appears probable that the "surplus funds" aforemention.

If a schoolboy, in a fit of fury ed will be considerably augmented

against a master, hurled a book I alf of us took to punching In 1982. It would not require a

through a window and were then effigies regularly, I fancy that be- provided with heaps of other fore very long hatred and bad particularly large sum of money

The rate of the dollar on demand-them in the same way, how many could angry

books and told that he might use temper

would have completely vanished to adopt the rudest suggestions of

public life.. end was 1s. 10%d.

How with The K.R.A.

books would he throw before he "ORAC

cach for increasing the

came to the conclusion that throw-other in the daytime when they accommodation of the present

Americnning books out of

had punched each other's effigies windows Wis if nothing better | Ginseng was stolen by thieves from duller than geography?

black and blue after breakfast? building and

The venom would have been re- would now be provided, some antisa West Paint godown,"

Again, if he hated his uncle, faction would result from this being arrested.

and if, having smashed the dining-tensed, and they would all be feel- room clock as a protest against g so fit as a result of the exer Ultimately, however. it

clse that

would positively they his uncle's existence, he were then ALVOMPA of tinkering with 1. C. True, a young Police Officer given all the other clocks in the exude benevolence.

who had only been in the Force house and told that he might

In time, indeed, efflgy-punching problem which deserves better six, months, was drowned as a re-smash them too, which would be night become a substitute for war treatment. At some time or other, salt of a launch and a police rowing get tired of first-smashing clocks could continue to hate a foreigner it is obvious, Kowloon must have gutter coming into collision in the or hating his uncle?

harbour. The

of ceswain a Post Oflice which will provide cutter also lost his life, and

It may be that the parent of the out of his effigy Geneva should having knocked the stuffing the future.

realising how quickly think of this. It would be more at the Peak Hospital, Stewart at least the service of the ordinary coxswain of the lunch was Hub human nature grow weary in ill-reasonable than war, and certataly

village post office in England.sequently charged with manslaugh- doing, will actually egg his chil- it would be less expensive.

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to all Heartfelt thanks extended

who attended the funeral of my late husband, N. J. Young. also for flowers and letters of sympathy.

DEATH.

ARTHUR-On November 13, 1931,

Allan Arthur of Gibb, Living- ton & Co., Ltd., aged 10 years.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 18, 1931.

THE POST OFFICE MUDDLE.

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course.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

“TELEGRAPH" FILES.

The following extrets are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended November 12th, 1910,

#

$14,315 worth of

ter.

be

must. Something reasonable substituted for the existing pill-

*

one

man

the

It must rertainly he very diss |heartening to a child to be invited to go on doing what he knows he ought not to be doing.

The Tiresome Phabiu,

dren on to do all the things that children have been forbidden to do

Similarly, the angry Communist could let fly *t a number of figures, pretending that they were members of the bourgeoisle, and wnld emerge in a better mood than if he had established a dic-. tatorship of the

preletariat.

from

in international affairs. Who

after

hox. It should need no demons-lighting is being carried out on jam cupboards with an admir- CATTINESS AT THE

tration that

Queen's Rond.

There

BEDSIDE.

amused me; but now that I am on the road to recovery and

have been allowed callers for the past two days, 1 think there is a still greater need for visitors to adopt new bedside manners.

Great improvement in the street for centuries. There will be raids profit-earning Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in ing father looking on and advis

- "Eat Rome more. Sammy. Get Institution 1ke the Post Office their village adjoining the Taikning: should devale a fair proportion of The old lamps are being replaceding expeditions, when the mother Sitrar Refinery at Quarry Bay. the spoon well down into the pot." will be days for bell-ring- its annust surpluses to enterprises by electric light, and before long in polo round, the

TEN 11 recent article

The Taiken will be as well lighted as neighbours' houses ringing tending to make it efficient.

the

The Daily Mail Mr. Beverley door-bells, and there will be no Nichols suggested that doctors need to run away, for the kindly needed new bedside manners.

understanding thel The rat returns show that during neighbours,

i have been in bed for 12 Motor Fatalities.

the week ending October 29, 1,373 situation, will come to the door days with pleurisy, and the article. When in his report for 1930, rats have been caught in Hong-and say: "Ring it again, little

Police, kong, and .596 in Kowloon, making man, and pall harder." The Inspector General of The lack of postal facilites in

had to record fifty-nine fatul road a grand total of 1963, the highest

Angelic Bobby. Kowloon una scale even remotels accidents, as compared with thirty return for many years.

Policemen, again, in such commensurate with the vigorous six the previous year, the first-

world when they saw small boys mushroom growth of the peninsula reaction was one of alarm, with a allowing vehicles freedom of move-breaking the windows of vacant

The following is a truthful ae- has long been manifest. The feeling that it was becoming lessment. Only by a clear perception houses, would smile appreciative count of the remarks of friends Hopeless inadequary of existing and less safe to move about long af what are the rules of the road, and, after helping them to col came ostensibly to cheer me

lect fresh supplies of stones. up. arrangements has revealed itself kong's rongested thoroughfares.

and by applying them in their would give them the addresses of Mrs. A: Well, my deer, and how not only to the resident, but also The Bou. La... himself deplored daily movements, ean the pedes other vacant houses in which there are you? Your mald told me this

the increase in the rond fatality trian de his share in decreasing were to the tasands of puple who figures, though he appeared to re-

still Home windows un-morning you could now have visi- tors, so I thought I would be the the number of roul necidents, to broken. pass through the Colony, who find gard the cause as carelessness by assist the police in their duty, and

wish such methods had been first to come to see you; then hotel facilities on the mainland pedestriats, rather than reckless to make the Colony a safer place If only my master's face had some first-hand news.

in vogue when I myself was a boy. could give the girls at the club equal. if not superior, to anything

By Jove, you don't look like ni- to be found on the island, and who,

tending any committee meetings when eventually they find the

this autumn. I think you should dingy shack described as the main

have a deputy till next spring. Can I suggest it at to-morrow's meating?

Kowloon Post Office express un- feigned amazemeni,

car for himself and the muturist.

nine

than

noms on the part of motor drivers, or laxity i police traffic direction. In this conclusion be themselves suggest that there i was probably right, as the figures,

very little wrong either with, thei ability of Hongkong motorists or There would be less complaint. the methods of handling wor perhaps, about the dimensions of traf. This is emphasised when the building. its utter lack of one considers the state of affairs dignity, its landscape desveration in America. For the first almost, if it professed to meet the months of this year more

24,000 people were killed in 'motor ordinary requirements of a Post accidents-n appulling figure.) Office. The Kowloon Residents' and incidentally the largest num Association has, on a number of ber over recorded for a Himilar occasions, pointed out to the period. If the rate is continued Government the absurdity of its until the end of December, the Imitations. Postal Orders of any in 1981 will be around 35.000. And total fatality list for the nation amount other than the smallest if the American writers, them denominations cannot be eashed in selves, are to be believed, it is the Kowloon and for many other nor system of handling trame which mal postni facilities, such as the is the direct cause of such horrify- postage of duty-paid articles, it is ing figures. In Hongkong the necessary to go to Hongkong. It reatest danger to motorista, is has been left to a newcomer to

not the traffic-congested streets,: but the Chinese coolie class, whose the Colony, the author of a letter road sense is almost negligible. of complaint published yesterday. One can stand at almost any polat to reveal an even more grotesque | In either Queen's Road or Des omission of service, namely, Voeux Road, almost any time of inability to supply an eight-cent day, and witness Illustrations of postcard. There may be a simple this and of the menace it is both explanation. It might so have also a common mistake in the happened that Kowloan's supply minda of a large percentage of had been exhausted and a new pedestriane, that they have the stock had not then been received. I right of the road. The obviour, But even in this unlikely event, it of course, should suggest itself to still appears to expose a complete them. If there is a footpath, then it behoves them to use it, thus diarogard of Kowloon's increasing

to themselves and motorlate.

it is

..

"

brightened when I arrived late at

"One upper berth, please."

FULLMAN

TICKETS

Mrs. B: Well, dear, and how are you? You look positively ghastly against those white pillows. I've been longing to come to see you.

your

so that I could know what complaint has been. Your hug- band has been most reticent.

By the way, how do you like my new bowler hat? Don't you think they were just designed for my type? And this white plume? Everyone says I look stunning in it.

Aunt Matilda: My dear child, hew fll you look; why, you have gone to nothing.

Who was that loud, common wo- man I encountered in the drive just now? She looked like a coster woman in that bowler hat with a huge plume. If

persons like

that

are goink

to wear plumes they will positively ruin the fashion.

the

By

doctor's way, have you seen the wife in her bowler hat with an ostrich..

It's o ..plume? gorgeous hat, but certainly not in- tonded for her out-of-door type. The milliner says my type is most. Rulted to the new fashion.

Mrs. C: Well, dear, how are you? You must look well after yourself, for this is a bad time of the year to be fl, with logs and chilly days nhead. You know, if you got a chill after plourisy it would most- certainly mean phaumonia.

Mrs. D (my husband's sister) :. Woll, and how are you? I thought (Continued on Page 7)