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DAY BY DAY

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of their ignorance of English, for example, qualify for jury service. The point therefore arises who- ther any such should have the right to volo at Sanitary Board elections. It seems to us that the only basis on which this problem | coti ka nolved is, when applications SIDE OF THE MOON; IN EITHER CASE Budget, adds that Wellington's England. A kind of I. 0.owe

口口 are made fremption, for THERE IS ALSO A DARK HALF, WHICH Public Safety Conservation Bill arrangement. Registrar to nppy the jus arvice IS UNKNOWN TO US. WE ALL COME passed both Houses. This should

England safe for New On one of America's famous fust the atheant, and at IfDOWN TO DINNER, BUT EACH HAS A make

beach resorts the head lifeguard the latter is unable to pass that ROOM TO HIMSELF-Walter Bage-Zealanders to live in.

hot..

in paid $200 a week. He ought test, he should be ruled nut. The mere fact that a person brings to an exempted profession should not automatically carry with it the right to vote,

WE BEE BUT ONE SIDE OF OUR A contemporary, in publishing Shoop may now be purchased on BUT ONE London press comment on the the Instalment plan in some parts NEIGHBOUR, AS WE BEE

DO A mechanic has invented a mo- to be able to save off that. His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. M. J. Breen to botor-car which will stop without having to apply the brakes. We had one like that years ago. Fostmaster General.

meeting of

the

of

The worst thing about emor- gency taxes is that they don't al- emergency ways end when the

☐ ☐ One thing about. being bald, does. you can always claim to be very highbrow and polished.

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The lady who went into a trance when she heard that she had lost It is notified that the names Liang Kwong Motor Bus Co., Ltd.,

Bathing baskets are coming out a libe! action. probably woke up and the Kwong Hing Co., Ltd.. have again. Down to the sen with when the bill for costs was pre- been struck off the Register.

grips!

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aontod.

At Tuesday's It becomes apparent. Indeed, Rotary Club, Rotarian J. L. McPher when looking through the lawson will speak on "The World-wide governing jury service, that it "Y".

For badly needs overhauling.

have the example, what means authorities at their disposal of dis- covering who, and how many, amongst the Colony's residents are

Mr. N. S. Beale, Managing Direc- Hlable for such service? The law

a some new steps at a recent dance. many on says that the Registrar shall every tor of the General Electric Co. of

China, Ltd., arrived here year make an alphabetien! lat "of business trip by the .. President Yea! they were carpetted!

ច ធ all persons ascertained by him to Taft.

They say it takes three gonora- There are, we read, no direct be liable to serve as jurors." How

Mr. N. de Oliveira, the Brazilianj

By descendants of George Washing- does he select the names? Pre-Vice-Consul, at Shanghai has arrived tion to make a gentleman. TIRE COVERS Bumably by accuring such data as in Hongkong to assume the temporary that token, the great-grandsons of ton-living. This may explain why SPARE TIRES & TUBES he can from hong lists, the pro-post of Vice-Consul of Brazil in Hong-1 some of our young bloods might truth is at such a discount nowa TRUNK RACK & TRUNKperty-owners' roll, etc. Obviously, kong.

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BUMPERS

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Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932.

LOCAL ELECTION

PROBLEMS

O O A local Rapper discovered Trying to keep young worries man in Hongkong Especially if they're twins!

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possibly qualify.

An American Tournament (Mixed

Latest reports Doubles) is being played to-morrow on the hard courts at the Kowloon show that pence, The tournament opens in still raging Football Club.

in Manchuris. at 10.30 a.m.

on such a basis there must be many names never included either in the Jury List or in the list of exempted persons. However, it the moment the chief necessity would appear to-be some method of deciding

His Majesty the King has approved | exempted the the who, Amongst

appointment of the Hon. Str

Optimism classes, are entitled to vote at Henry Pollock, K.C.. to be an Unofficial: Sanitary Board elections, and who Member of the Legislative Council for expressed

cerning the de- of velopment The

point is of vital further period of four years. importance in view of the large number of people affected.

are not.

He

nrea 18 an

in

COR-

His Excellency the Governor has cereal crops in appointed Mr. S. H. Ross to set as a Java. Oats and Member of the Court of the University Ball?

of Hongkong, during the absence on leave of Mr. J. Hennessey Seth.

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The man who calls a wooden

His Excellency the Governor has appointed the Hon. Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, G.D.E., L.L.D., and the Rev. Frank hutan Short as Members of the Board of home," Education for a further period of two Judge,

years.

It is notified that at the expiration

of three months, the Hongkong North East Ferry Company, Limited, will. unless cause is shown to the contrary, he struck off the register and the company will be dissolved).

ilcal

Kay "is an We Idiot." should call him

house agent,

doya.

LADY (to hotel acquain taner): A terrible thing has happened. I've had a lot of clothes Atolen.

ACQUAINTANCE:,

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Some of these crookca must

have EL shads family tree.

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"No w

WO

shan't belong,"

as the would-be Club

members exclaimed when they were black- balled.

With the beer- tax still on in England,

It looks as if the people will have

to drink them- selves into pros- perity,

By

juve, pes!. Nearly all of "em, what ---

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Week-End Weather Forecast:-

The rate-payers' S.O.S. in Hong-

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Mainly warm In localities where kong is based on "Same Old Spend- the temperature is high; some hall. ing." Observatory returns for March othera don't; wind light, or slight- show that the average mean temperu-ly greyish; rain improbable, won't ture was 62: the highest being 75.2 be mist, anyhow, and the lowest 46.8. Thero WETO and 2.20

while the

Average

Chu Wai-san, a native of Kiang, aged 56, and in destitute circumstan- ces, attempted suicide yesterday by from the Po Tack Wharf. He was throwing himself into the harbour, picked out by boatmen and taken to the Government Civil Hospital,

While playing with other children at Po Hing Fong, near Blake Gardens, Lal Yung-hung, aged 12, living with Road his parents at 171, Queen's West, accidentally fell from the top of a retaining wall. He dropped on his head, and was conveyed to hos pital suffering from concussion to the brain.

The action brought by MCRST. me Court against Mesars. Compagnie Pinguet and Company in the Supre- Optorg, claiming $3,105 as damages for alleged breach of contract, con- Chief cluded yesterday before the Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp). His Lordship decided in favour of defendants, holding that the plain tiffs had falled to establish the ex. istence of a contract.

The Seven Towns of Britain. The mysteries which lie behind the figures of the British census of 1931 have not yet been probed to their depths, and years will have passed before all the information they hold will have been brought to light. Prof. C. B. Fawcett of London University has deduced from them that Great Britain is tending to become a country con- sisting of seven towns, with seven Only in respect of une body--the economic centres, around which Sanitary Board-have Hongkong revolve the lives of persons farm- Each rutepayers the privilege of exercising seven economic units. ing the franchise. Moreover, of of these units he speaks of a the ten members constituting that "conurbation." Thus the conurba-131.7 hours of sunshine Board, only two are chosen by the tion of London extends somewhat inches of rain,

humidity was 75. elective method. When it is fur-beyond the boundaries of the so- ther borne in mind that there is, called "Greater London," and in- as a general rule, no rush of can- cludes a population of approx didates when vacancies occur, itimately 10,000,000. His six other will be seen that elections are few urban units in Britain are those of Manchester, Birmingham, West However, next and far between. month, the electorate will have the Yorkshire. Glasgow, Merseyside somewhat rare experience of going (Liverpool) and Tyneside. to the poll, since there are two might, perhaps, have added the nominees for the seat which has Cardiff-Newport become vacant. One of the candl-eighth. The point that arises is that these seven are dates is IL well-known medical not merely practitioner, with admirable quali- the largest and most important of fications for such a position; the the town areas, nor even that they other, who comes forward as the already include half of the total nominee of the Kowloon Residents urban population of Great Britain. Association, can claim a most use- What is even more remarkable is ful record of public service. Can that during the last ten years their vassing has already begun, and rate of increase has been nearly although neither of the candidates twice as fast as that in the rest If this process has yet come forward with a "plat of the country. form," the contest should be a continues, the Britain of the not

distant future will consist exclu most interesting one.

The privilege of voting in Ilong-sively of seven or eight towns or each of these kong is so rarely enjoyed that town areas. For there is probably no very clear there will be one humming centre idea amongst ratepayers as to who of metropolitan activity, from are entitled to exercise the fran- which will radiate local electric It may be railways, roads with their local chiae, and who are not, explained, therefore, that the automobile traffic, and telephone voters' panel comprises those who lines belonging to the one tele- Ench will tend to are on the Jury List and those phone aren. who, by reason of their calling, have its own coordinated transport are exempt therefrom. There is a system and its own town-planning long list of exempted persons, authority, providing zones of open ranging from pernous holding country between layers of built- townland. There will be a salaried once under the Crown to up legal practitioners and their movement for establishing in each clerks, newspaper editors and their case one powerful authority for staffs, doctors, chemists, and local government, to which the clergymen to masters of steamers. dozens of small authorities now Those liable to jury serylee are all treading on one another's toen will male persone botweed the ages of be subordinate. An elected gov 21 and 60, of sound mind, not erning body exercising authority amicted with deafness, blindness over one of the seven conurbations of Great Britain would draw to or other such infirmity, who are "good and sufficient persons resi-itself local patriotism and prestige, dent within the Colony," and are and would be able to take over! "not lynorant of the English lan: many duties now discharged by gunge." In other words, in the Parliament. Parliament would be abaonce of any property qualifica-set free for larger tasks, and the tion, such as exists at Home, the Jury List, with specified exemp tions, comprises the electoral roll. An interesting point, however, arises concerning the exempted class. The presumption is that when the law was originally draft- tod, it was intended that only those who would.ordinarily bo Inble to jury service should be entitled to exercise the franchise. But it is quito conceivable that amongst the exempted class there are many who, had they belonged to some other calling, could not, by reason

machinery of national government would work more smoothly. Thus

study of consus Agures shows how Britain in shaping itself, and how reformers may get to work to anticipato changed conditions..

Struck by a rock flung by a dyna mito charge in quarrying operations yesterday near Kun Chun Market, ad- quarryman, Joining Jordan Road, a named Choun Sam, employed by the Fooshing firm of building contractors, was removed to the Kwong Wah Hos. pital. His condition is not regarded

an serious.

the

Now that there's to be a real election in Hongkong, let's hope that the public will not show that it is sanitary-bored!

Exhibitors M-ean to Persuade Inhabitanta to Remember our E-mpire,

P-roducts Representative Of the D-ominions U-nite with Colony's New T-crritory Supplies.

There

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ጊዜ a young man Westphalia;

of

Who found the Nude Cult quite

a failure.

At first was a joke, But he had to revoke,

When he thought of the lack

of regalia.

"If they come for the rent just look dumb and say it, must have skipped my mind.”

"Fresh air is by no means taken in by the nose" asserts Mr. Lanepart. Enough to make any fad annoyed!

O O

If music be the food of love. Feed on Macduff, my boy! From rhapsody to "Fluttering

Dove,

Your food you must enjoy. 'Tis true "Allegro"

A

insist,

would

Your food should be unusual; bill of fare of Brahms

Llezt,

He gives for your persual. Now should you not enjoy his

chow,"

You'll earn his castigation; The prefix "high" won't fit your

brow.

If you choose syncopation.

If all the world wore bread and

cheese, Fastidiousness might vanish, But while it varies like the

breeze,

Our natures must be clannish. Perhaps "Allegro" ilkes boiled

enail,

To nourish his mero matter; While I prefer, on toast,

quail.

Or fillet baked in batter!

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-CYN.

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A local advertisement offered a

fur coat cheap for quack sale.

Doubtless a duck of a model.

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A distinguishe old one-legged

colonel

Once started to edit a jolonol; But soon, quite disgusted, Gave up he was busted, And said "This expense is in-

folonel!"

-In the olden days, restaurants gave a bottle of wine with every dinner. Nowadays, the customer is lucky if he gets a little food with the jazz.

O O

A man was recently refused ad- mission to the United States bo- cause he was too dirty. Making the banishment fit the grimo.

An Ohio man who can speak

į pix languagea recently married a

woman

who can sponk three.

That's extraordinarily good handi- capping.

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It seems that the League of

Nations works best at stopping

wars when there ain't any.

She was just temperamental 90 per cent. temper and 10 por cent. mental,"