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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Studebaker

TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932.

year, which shows that the rate- able value of the Colony has in- creased in twelve months by well over two and a quarter million dollars, which is the largest in- crease recorded in any one year

DAY BY DAY

YOU.

LET NOTHING DISTURB

PATIENCE, COURAGE AND if we except the building boom WITH year of 1925-26. The remarkable STRENGTH EVERYTHING CAN BE AT- growth across the harbour is evi- of donced in a year's increase

over 23 per cent. in the rateable

value of New Kowloon. Taking

TAINED.

DOWN RIVER TO SEE THE HEART OF LONDON

By J. M. N. JEFFRIES

ROM now on till the end of moored together in lines no ruler

the pennants

were

ALL

great dimensions but of com-nt their mastheads aligned in the fortable aspect, the Esex Queen, wind. Other

barges The Empresa of Russia arrived at slips awny overy Wednesday work in midstream, enormous and Certainly, there is no question,

Vancouver yesterday at noon.

afternoon from the pier besido unwieldy of aspect, like piers the Tower Bridge. In an invita- carried away by the flood, yet cach about Studebaker's ability to

The annual prize distribution of the tion which came to me to travel governed in the tide'o full strength produce any given car at just as

Munsang Collego will be held on low a price as any manufacturer, the Colony as a whole, during Tuesday, July 12, at 3 pin in the her she was listed as "the p.8. by one minu, handling oara | Essex, Queen," and the Initiala thick and nå long as trees.

There were fish "postmon," As a matter of fact, during the period of ten years the ratenble College premises, when the lion. Mr.preceding her name, whatever be past two years Studebaker has value has risen by no less than S.W. Tso will give away the prizes. their real maritime menning, by rapid craft with no thought but

expenses

and 89.12 per cent., a striking indica-

So reduced 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.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

The Hongkong & Bhanghal Hotels, Lid. Incorporated in Hongkong. Stubba Road

Happy Valley

The

WATER LEVELS.

WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

everyone

Mr. John Bernard Prentls was ad. me at least because of the journey of speed, painted some champaigne tion of the growth and expansionmitted as a solicitor yesterday morn which she makes are interpreted tint, tearing past with the londs for Billingsgate which had been ing. The Attorney General (the Hon. as "postscript." of which we see tangible evidence MP, C. G. Alabaster K. C.) moved that Postscripts. 4

la poured like malls into them by Mr. Prentis be admitted and in grant-aware, contain matter which emacka and trawlers. There was on all hands.

In these days of depressioning the application the Chief Justice should have been written before, a ferry-boat, loaded with carts (Sir. Joseph Kemp) wished Mr. at the very start of the epistles and with hay-wagons as though in and dejection, it is indeed autis-Prentis a successfull career.

Hongkong fying to realise that continues to forge ahead. The troubles in China during the past Twelve months have at least had one good effect here, in that they made it clear that this Colony is a place where business can be carried on under conditions pence and security. As time goes

a recon, siti srcuri, Beat River at see a re- on, we may expect to

Shiabfor.. 1,2 North Iver at cognition of that fact in more and

Taneyun 201 more business concerns making North River at

27,3 Shuf Hongkong their headquarters, All East River at

Shelung 18.5 this must be for the good of the

Hongkong Telegraph. Colony. Taking everything into

TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932,

BETTER DAYS FOR THE COLONY

consideration, we have every ren- 4son for confidence in the future. It is for our business men to rise they to the opportunities

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MADAME CHEMET

ARRIVES

LANES OF SHIPS.

of

meat that Hongkong is once again the growth of public educational She arrived here with her accom-inst Wednesday was the anniver-the world and of great sea-decds

England's Education Costs.

Eustace Percy Recently, Lord Signs are not lacking at pre-gave some useful figures showing

well on the high road

to prus perity. Visitors who land on ote shores, and business men return- ing from other parts. are 112 animous in the view that this

Colony strikes them as being one of the few places which appears to be bearing op remarkably well

under the generally prevailing de- pression. It may be true that in various Hines of business trade

than

and

head,

and

Was

is het all that it might be, but The number of secondary school Wonderful, the reception they gave prise, for many a delight, and for Hospital, where on the palace site

their

which they finish. The Essex mid-Bedfordshire, with not much Queen is a postscript to the life more counter than a mantelpiece. of London. The Essex Queen is but with long, narrow chimney- twenty, thirty years, decades of stacks rising as if out of her keel years overdue: the conscience of and looking like the boats Mark England should have created her Twain piloted up the Mississippi. and sent her on her mission long Here, in these active craft, were The following table issued by the ngo. She gives to thane who the Interests of the busy day. Kwangtung River Conservancy Com-board her knowledge which the Then, as we advanced, off Mill- mission shows the height of water multitude of vehicles taking Lon-wall, over a tangle of lesser spars in English feet on the daten named of

in the West, North and East Rivers: doners and visitors about the City and of intervening dock-buildings, July and the West End have never im-[rose the four masts of the Abra-

parted.

ham Rydberg. the first of the salling fleet to arrive from Aus- From Tower Bridge she sails tralia, four masts pointing their down the river, and at Blackwall unblemished yellow against the turns into the great docks and grey sky. Men think only of the traverses them. Thus her pas-grace of sailingships, but those sengers do something more than stern yards faced the clouds with "see London" they see the cause the discipline of an army, rank of the vast city's very existence, behink rank. Wild duck, amid they perceive the water-traffic of the wharves and storehouses of which London was born and by Millwall, flew past them as 1 which it is maintained, they visit watched, and on then to where two GIVING RECITAL ON the wharves and the lanes of ships other masts, low and grey these,

without which the streets and the could be seen projecting. FRIDAY

avenues of offices would never

They looked dulled with time and wear, and to the top of one Although she has been touring have been built.

It seems strange that suchi aan old weathered barrel was fixed. all the big eitles of the world for the past twenty years, Madamo trip, the first which every Lon- Shackleton's Quest, no less, with the celebrated doner and every visitor to London her Polar look-out, biding her Renee Chemet, violiniste, set foot in the Colony should have made, has only just time. Interests here

great this morning. become feasible. Yet so it is: names and of deeds done астонн for the first time panist, Mme. Anen Seidlovu, and sary of the maiden cruise institut still being done,

Mr. W. F.ed by the Port of London Au-

ELIZABETH'S GRASS PLOT. expenditure in England since the personal manager,

At Greenwich came the interests war. He set out to analyse ti Schulz, who is also the president thority only twelve months ago.

international de The most that an individual can of history and art. There of the Bureau causes of the growth and to show Concerts of Paris and Tokyo.

disburse to take part in one of the stretch of grass which Elizn-

three

shillings beth kept upon the river bank, Interviewed by a representative these cruises. is row it has been distributed be-

sixpence. Groupa of ten opposite her palace, to reat the. elementary of the Telegraph soon after her n tween higher

and students arrival, Madame Chemet expressed per

gaze which had it so magnifi- education, how far it is due to the the view that Hongkong seemed scholars less still. The details cently upon the universe for so rise in salaries, to the increase of quiet and restful after the rour they can learn from the Author many years but now had grown any tourist tired, and but asked a little green prices, and to other causes, and bustle of Shanghai, her last (ty's offices or from

and a little sympathy from a span But the price of passage in any of soil. Katurally, the percentage increase port of call. Madame Chemet has company.

It still survives, unbuilt just spent two months in Japan works out fur larger for secondary giving recitals in all the important case is the price of a cinema-seat, upon, as a small public garden. was the experience is for all a sur-We slid paat it and past Greenwich for elementary education. towns of the country. "It

me," said Madame Chemet speak- some maybe a coming-to-touch, if England's two greatest architects there is increasing evidence of a pupils has risen by 120 per cent.ing of her visit, "I was told that it only for a few hours, with sights have piled mountainously return to htter times. And

since 1913; and it is not surprising was second only to that given to and with sounds which they have silver plate. We breasted the loved all their lives unattainably. Observatory on its heights, sailed Kreisler." beneath all this there is the fart to find that expenditure on higher Madame Chemiet gave seven re- Looking back myself on that the finances of the Colony are education, in view of higher prices citals in Tokyo and

included in four hours aboard, I find that as added the interests of acience to shown to be in a healthy condi-am improved standarda, has gone of music; that the latter is exten-swift current all manner

the cruise. those concerts her whole repertoire we sped down the river

of in-1

But by now we had come to the tion, witness the steady manner

up by 200 per cent. to oversive can easily be understood when terests were awakened in me.dlocks, the Victoria, the Albert, in which revente continues to £16,000,000 a year,

But this sum, it is realized that Madame Chemet There was the sight of Wapping the George V, all linked together, two flow in. The latest returns, "despite the increase, is still small has been studying and playing com- Stairs to begin with, and of the thirteen miles of quays, to March, show a credit balance in relation both to the need and to posers of every nationality since XVIIIth century inns which had hundred and forty-six acres

she was a girl of seven. Though been the companions of its heyday, water, a combination and a sight of well over thirteen and a half the cost of elementary education, French by birth, Madame Chemel the Turk's Head and the Prospect unequalled in the world, in Home million dollars, the highest figure which now costs nearly £60.500.- chose London as the city in which of Whitby, Stting their bow-sort the council-chamber of land in and of sen. A tug took hold of at which it has stood for somo 000, as against £25,600,000 before to make her debut; there she play-windows and their balconies

us as thought evened at Queens Hall under the diree-between the dark ware houses asus and towed Teachers salaries, considerable time.

tion of Sir Henry Wood with whom though they were heirlooms were a liner coming to her borth. Another indication of the bet-after the recent cuts, account

niches. There were other alleys. The gates of the locks, which the greater part of this increase.

programme too, some descending by ladder to ler ronditions prevailing Was

On the other hand,

aside for us, bridges swung running ex for her only recital here at the the water, others mere gaps in the open for no casual callers, opened forthcoming at the last meeting of

penses are only up by about £6,- King's Theatre on Friday evening long river frontage, short inclines parted strangely asunder with the Legislative Council, when 500,000. and debt charges by includes Ed. Lalo's Concerto in of foreshore, parti-coloured green the soft movement of cats. We supplementary estimates totalling $1,300,000, while medical, services minor which has figured on all her by the endless wash of Thames came into the highways where the

popular programmes. It is under-and black by the shadows out of ships lay in ocean file. over seven lakhs of dollars were and schools for defectives, in which stood that on her arrival in Europe which they cane. The interest of

made we are still sadly behindhand, ac- the distinguished French artiste these was the interest of old bal approved. This has been

Japanese, Dutch, American. possible by the rise of the dollar count for over £3,000,000 of the in-will enjoy a sliort rest and will ads and of old tales.

German, Italian, but in these days Lord Eustace Percy fur-then be heard in an extended sea- BARGES AND FERRY-BOATS.

chictly our own British; the high- beyond the shilling mark, {1}

But further interests ther points out that during the son of recitals in the British Isles

were to bridged Port Brisbane; the new which the original Estimates for past ten years, whereas local spend where she is extremely popular.

Here were rows of barges.fighland Patriot, with her flow- 19:2 were based. At the time the ing on education has risen by over

ug bows, her streaming funnels, her whole form amove, na though Budget was introduced, H.E. the $9,000,000, Treasury grants have

the wind had blown her lines into that Governor promised

if the risen only by £660,000. Two con-

her; the aquamarine Moreton Bay drawn. dollar rose, he would endeavour clusions can ba

says a

from Queensland; the Maida; the Soudan and the whole clump of to allocato further funds for leading political review. The first

P. and O's in their mystic colours. maintenance votes and public is that it is nonsense to talk about

of sand and of black, night on the large economies on education, un- works extraordinary. It has now less these are to talte the form of a

desert; the Tongariro; the Hard- wick Grange; the toused Nowshera been found possible to discharge further attack on teachers' salaries

with the very shape of breaking this promise. In the supplemen--which we take to be out of the

waves in the stains upon her. tary votes approved, there are question, The second is that, even

sides; and a dozen mora,

Here was the greatest and considerable sums for mainten-if economies could be made,

would have

deepest interest of all, amid the ance and improvement of roads, local authorities

loading and discharging ships, whilst

strong case for the savings to go to figuring in the extra-

and the hammeringe and whist- the rates, and not to the Treasury.

lings and the cranes bending their ordinary works are additions

totem-heads, where men 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 nky, before we turned back, took a re- membered tone.

to

the Kowloon Hospital and a fur- ther substantial sum for the 100-

the war.

crease.

=

for

the

It

foot road between Causeway Bay IF MEN HAD WINGS

HORSE POWER REQUIRED. FOR FLIGHT,

and Ming Yuen Gardens. Both these latter undertakings repre- urgent needs, and il in sent gratifying to see that they are

Professor d'Arsonval, Member to be expedited, Rond mainten-

of the Institut, read an interest- every ing Bums

communication io ance absorbs large

the year, but this expenditure is an Academie des Sciences from an- absolute necessity. It is false other scientific colleague on the

movement of birds while flying.

It has been calculated that, to economy to permit our roads to

the flying body of a deteriorate, an they have been unnintain allowed to do in mans localities, man, whose weight does not ex- cecd 100 kiloa, in a calm atmo- and it is to be hoped that this phere in a fixed or hovering posi polley will now be abandoned tion, it would not need more than one-eight horse-power with bird- Once and for all. Turning to shaped wings of not more than a other point, the tremendous

square motro, and that the man velopment which is taking place would have to flap his wings from in the Colony in reflected in the 18 to 20 times a second, Assessment report for

de-

Here lu some data for would-be the past inventors to work upon!

she had studied.

Madame Chemel's

come.

"We don't know what to do. We want to got a divorce now, but the lease on our apartment doesn't expire until November."

those

On

in

over the meridian and in so far

MYSTIC COLOURS.

ol

we

or

The breeze blowing over the decks through passing rain came from the quartors of momory. Here was England's greatest work, her primary calling and the decks which sometimes I had trod.

Howlers From France

XTHEN, as at the present mo.

W ment, the air is heavy with

political and economic portonts, it la a relief to turn for a space to (Continued on Page 7.)