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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1932.

Studebaker

Certainly, there is no question, about Studebaker's ability to produce any given car at just as

So

expenses

past two years Studebaker has

reduced

and dividends that at the present time Studebaker is giving you un- questionably better cars for less money than are being produced by any manufacturer-

Bar Nono

Try a Studebaker and

Think It Over.

year, which shows that the rato. nble value of the Colony has in creased in twelve months by well ovor two and a quarter million dollars, which is the largest in. crease recorded in any one year If we except the building boom year of 1925-26. The remarkable growth across the harbour in cyl- ilenced in a year's increase of over 23 per cent, in the rateable value of New Kowloon. Taking

value has risen by no less than 89.12 per cent, a striking indica- tion of the growth and expansion of which we see tangible evidence on all hands.

DAY BY DAY

YOU.

LET NOTHING DISTURD WITHI PATIENCE, COURAGE AND STRENGTH EVERYTHING CAN BE AT- TAINED.

DOWN RIVER TO SEE THE HEART OF LONDON

FRO

By J. M. N. JEFFRIES

ROM now on till the end of these was the interest of old bal-

September a vessel of noflads and of old tales. great dimensions but of com- BARGES AND FERRY-BOATS. The Empress of Russia arrived at fortable aspect, the Essex Queen, Vancouver yesterday at noon,

alips

But further interests. were to Wednesday

come. Here were 'rowa of barges,

WATER LEVELS.

away every

(aware, contain

at

FIR

The annual prize distribution of the afternoon from the pier. beside moored together in lines no ruler Munsang College will be hold on the Tower Bridge. In an invita- could have bettered, the pennants low a price as any manufacturer the Colony as a whole, during a Tuesday, July 12, at 8 p.m. in the tion which came to me to travel at their mastheads aligned in the As a matter of fact, during the period of ton years the rateable | College promises, when the Hon. Mr.by her she was listed as "the p.s. wind. Other barges wero

Easex Queen," and the S.W. To will give away the prizes.

initials work in midstream, enormous and Mr. John Bernard Prentis was ad-preceding her name, whatever be unwieldy of aspect, like piers mitted as a solicitor yesterday man- their real maritime meaning, by carried away by the flood, yet ench Mr. C. G. Alabaster K. C.) moved that which she makes are interpreted by one man, handling gara ing. The Attorney General (the Hon. me at least because of the journey governed in the tide's full strength Mr. Prentis be admitted and in grant-as "postscript."

thick and as long as trees. ing the application the Chief Justice In these daya

of depression (Sir.

Joseph Kemp) wished Mr. Postscripts, as everyone IN There were and dejection, it is indeed satis-Prentis a successfull career,

fah postmen matter which rapid craft with no thought but fying to realise that Hongkong

should have been written before, of speed, painted some champaigne continues to forge ahead. The

nt the very start of the epistles tint, tearing past with the loads which they finish. The Essex for Billingsgate which had been troubles in China during the past

Queen is a postscript to the life poured like maile into them twelve months have at least had

WEST, NORTH AND EAST of Lo: don. The Essex Queen is smacks and trawlers. There was by RIVERS one good effect here, in that they

twenty, thirty years, decades of a ferry-boat, londed with carts The following tabla issued by the years overdue: the conscience of and with hay-wagons as though in made it clear that this Colony Kwangtung River Conservancy Com-England should have created her mid-Bedfordshire, with not much is a place where business can be mission shows the height of water and sent her on her mission long more counter than a mantelpiece, in English feet on the dates named ago. She gives to those who but with long, narrow chimney- carried on under conditions of in the West, North and East Rivers board her knowledge which the stacks rising as if out of her keel prace and security. As time goes

multitude of vehicles taking Lon- and looking like the boats Mark an, we may expect to

West River at see a re-

20doners and visitors about the City Twain piloted up the Mississippi. and the West End have never ini-Here, in these netive craft, were cognition of that fact in more and North River st

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12.parted.

the interests of the busy day. more business concerns making North River ht

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27.3 Hongkong their headquarters. All

East River nt

Saklung. 4.-18.5 this must be for the good of the Colony. Taking everything into consideration, we have every rea son for confidence in the future. It is for our business men to rise ·

to

the

opportunities they

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Hongkong & Chanchal Hololi. Zad. Incorporated in Hongkong, Stubbs Rond

Happy Valley

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1932,

BETTER DAYS FOR THE COLONY

Rre

that

occur.

war.

JIN

England's Education Costs. Recently, Lord Eustace Percy gave some useful figures showing Signs are not lacking at pre-expenditure in England since

the growth of public educational the Hent that Hongkong is once again

He set out to analyse the well on the high rond to pros causes of the growth and to show perity. Visitors who land on our

how it has been distributed be shores, and business men return tween Higher And elementary ing from other parts,

un-education, how far it is due to the animous in the view this riso in salaries, to the increase of Colony strikes them as being one prices, and to other causes. of the few places which appears works out far larger for secondary Naturally, the percentage Increase to be heuring up remarkably well

for elementary education. under the generally prevailing de The number of secondary school pression. It may be true that in pupils has risen by 120 per cent. various lines of business

to find that expenditure on higher education, in view of higher prices and improved standards, has gone

250 per up by £16,000,000 a year. But this sunt, despite the increase, is still small

than

Highest on Lowest July July

an woord, weerd.

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MADAME CHEMET

ARRIVES

LANES OF SHIPS.

Then, as we advanced, off Mill- From Tower Bridge she sails wall, over a tangle of lesser spars down the river, and at Blackwall and of intervening dock-buildings. turns into the great docks and rose the four masts of the Abra- traverses them. Thus her pas-ham Rydberg, the Arst of the sengers do something more than aniling fleet to arrive from Aus- "ace London; they see the cause tralia, four masts pointing their of the vast city's very existence, unblemished yellow against the GIVING RECITAL ON

they perceive the water-traffle of grey sky. Men think only of the FRIDAY

which London was born and by grace of sailingships, but those Although she has been touring which it is maintained, they visit stern yards faced the clouds with all the big cities of the world for the wharves and the lanes of ships the discipline of an army, rank Madame without which the streets and the behiak rank, Wild duck, amin the past twenty years, Renee Chemet, the celebrated Avenges of offices would never the wharves and storehouses of

Millwall, dew past them violiniste, set foot in the Colony have been built.

watched, and on then to where two for the first time this morning. It seems strange that such She arrived here with her accom trip, the first which every

other masts, low and grey these, Lon-eould be seen projecting. panist, Mme. Anca Seidlova, and doner and every visitor to London personal manager,

W. Fshould have made, has only just Schulz, who is also the president become

They looked dulled with feasible. Yet so it is: and wear, and to the top of one of the Bureau International de last Wednesday was the annivor-an old weathered barrel was fixed.

Mr.

Concerts of Paris and Tokyo.

ed by the Port of London

per head,

of ten

and students and

да L

time

Interviewed by a representative Bary of the maiden cruise institut- Shackleton's Quest, no less, with Au-her Polar look-out, biding her of the Telegraph noon after her thority only twelve months ago. time. Interests here arrival, Madame Chemet expressed The most that an individual can names and of deeds done across of great the view that. Hongkong seemed disburse to take part in one of the world and of great sea-deeds and bustle of Shanghai, her last and sixpence. Groups quiet and restful after the roar these cruises is three shillings still being done. port of call. Madame Chemet has

ELIZABETH'S GRASS PLOT, just spent two months in Japan scholars less still. The details

At Greenwich came the interests giving recitals in all the importent they can learn from the Author of history and art. There towns of the country. "It WOB me," said Madame Chemet speak-

beth kept upon the river bank, ing of her visit, "I was told that it But the price of passage in any opposite her palace, to reat was second only to that given to case is the price of a cinema-sent, Kaze which had it so magnifi- Kreisler."

the experience is for all a sur-cently upon the universe for so Madame Cheniet gave seven reprise, for many a delight, and for many years but now had grown

was

trada since 1913; and it is not surprising wonderful, the reception they gavey's offices or from any tourist the stretch of grass which Eliza-

is not all that it might be, but there is increasing evidence of a return to better times. And beneath all this there is the fact

that the finances of the Colony are shown to be in a healthy condi- tion, witness the steady manner in which revenue continues flow in. The latest returns,

to

ap

to March, show a credit balance

of well over thirteen and a half million dollars, the highest figure at which it has stood for somn considerable time.

the Legislative Council,

cent. to over

company.

the

citals in Tokyo and included in some maybe a coming-to-touch, if tired, and but asked a little green in relation both to the need and to of music; that the latter is exten- and with sounds which they have of soil.

those concerts her whole repertoire only for a few hours, with sights and a little sympathy from a span It still survives, unbuilt the cost of elementary education, sive can easily be understood when loved all their lives unattainably. upon, as a small public garden. Looking back myself on those We slid past it and past Greenwich which now costs nearly £60,500,- } it is realized that Madame Chemet

two

we

000, as against $25,600,000 before has been studying and playing com-four hours aboard, I find that as Hospital, where on the palace site posers of every nationality since we sped down the river on a England's two greatest architects the war. Teachers salaries, even she was a girl of seven. Though swift current all manner of in-have piled mountainously their after the recent cuts, account for French by birth, Madame Chemet terests were awakened in me. silver plate. Wo. breasted the the greater part of this increase. chose London as the city in which There was the sight of Wapping Observatory on its heights, sailed On the other hand, running ex- to make her debut; there she play- Stairs to begin with, and of the over the meridian and in so far peases are only up by about £6,-ed at Queens Hall under the diree-XVIIIth century inns which had added the interests of science to 500,000, and debt charges by she had studied..

tion of Sir Henry Wood with whom been the companions of its heyday, the cruise. Another indication of the but $1,300,000, while medical services

the Turk's Head and the Prospect

But by now we had come to the Madame Chemet's programme of Whitby, fitting their bow docks, the Vietoria, the Albert, ter conditions prevailing was and schools for defectives, in which for her only recital here at the windows and their balconies in the George V, all linked together. forthcoming at the last meeting of we are still sadly behindhand, ac- King's Theatre on Friday evening between the dark ware houses as thirteen miles of unso

includes Ed. Lalo's Concerto in F. though they were heirlooms in hundred and forty-six acres of when count for over £3,000,000 of the in-

minor which has figured on all her niches. There were other alleys, supplementary estimates totalling | crease. Lord Eustace Percy fur popular programmes. It is under toe, some descending by ladder to water, a combination and a sight over seven lakhs of dollars were ther points out that during the stood that on her arrival in Europe the water, others mere gaps in the unequalled in the world, in some approved. This has been made past ten years, whereas local spend the distinguished French artiste long river frontage, short inclines or the council-chamber of land

and. of sea. will enjoy a short rest and will of foreshore, pari-coloured green

A tug took hold of possible by the rise of the dollar ing on education has risen by over

us and towed us as though $9,000,000, Treasury grants have then be heard in an extended sen- by the endless wash of Thames beyond the shilling mark, on risen only by £600,000. Two con-

son of recitals in the British Isles and black by the shadows out of wore a liner coming to her berth. which the original Estimates for clusions can be drawn,

where she is extremely popular.

which they came. The interest of open for no casual callers, opened The gates of the locks, which впун и 1932 were based. At the time the leading political review. The first

for us, bridges swung aside or Budget was introduced, 11.E. the

parted strangely asunder is that it is nonsense to talk about

with the soft movement of

We Governor promised

cats. that if the large economies on education, un-

came into the highways where the dollar rose, he would endeavour less these are to take the form of a

ships lay in ocean file. to alloente further funds for further attack on teachers' salaries maintenance votes and public--which we take to be out of the question. The second is that, even works extraordinary. It has now if economics could be made, the been found possible to discharge local aufhorities would have this promise. In the supplemen- strong case for the savings to go to | túry votes approved, there are the rates, and not to the Treasury.

considerable sums for mainten- ance and improvement of roads, whilst figuring in the extra- ordinary works are additiona to the Kowloon Hospital and a fur- ther substantial sum for the 100- foot rond between Causeway Bay and Ming Yuen Gardens. Both these latter undertakings repre- sent urgent needs, and it is gratifying to see that they are

CORRESPONDENCE.

Macao Trip Incident.

To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.]

[L

Sle-Last night I read in your paper the account of Mr. Poinsot's boat trip to Macao. In this nar- rative that sportsman admits huv ing damaged the nets of some fishermen, and having succeeded in to be expedited. Road mainten- escaping by using his engine, with- jance absorbs large Buma every out any throuble.

year, but this expenditure is nn

Does this strike you a very sportmanlike? It rather gives me absolute necessity. It is false the impression of being exceeding economy to permit our roads to ly unfair. Mr. Poinsot went there deteriorate, as they have been quite uncalled-for and was only out allowed to do in many localities, he was careless enough to damage to amuse himself. If in doing so

and it is to be hoped that this some nets belonging to fishermen, policy will now be abandoned who, by the way, were earning once and for all. Turning to an "amusement" at all, he might at their daily living, and not out for other point, the tremendous de-least have auggested some kind of velopment which is taking `place compensation by offering a few in the Colony is reflected in the dollars for repairing the cut nota. assessment report for the past

OBSERVER.

-Yours, etc.

劁

"We don't know what to do. Wo-want to get a divorco

now, but the lease on our apartment doesn't expire intil

Novem ber."

MYSTIC COLOURS.

Japanese, Dutch, American, German, Italian, but in these days chiefly our own British; the high- bridged Port Brisbane; the new Highland Patriot, with her flow- ing bows, her streaming funnels, her whole form amove, as though the wind had blown her lines into her; the aquamarine Moreton Bay from Queensland; the Maida; the Soudan and the whole clump of P. and O.'s in their mystic colours of sand and of black, night on the desert; the Tongariro; the Hard- wick Grange; the tossed Nowshera with the very shape of breaking waves in the stains

upon her Aldes; and a dozen more,

Here was

the greatest and deepest interest of all, amid the loading and discharging ships, amid the hanumerings and whist- lings and the cranes bonding their toten-heads, whero mon in singlets halted on gangways and waved to us, and Lascars patiently smiled as we passed. Through the criss- cross of halliards and the smoke drifting from funnels, the sky, before we turned back, took a re- mombered tone.

The breeze blowing

over the decks through passing rain came from the quarters of memory. Hero was England's greatest work, hor primary calling and the decks which sometimen I had trod.

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