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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932.

WATER PROBLEMS

decided to go on with the change, the authorities proceed to instal meters by interposing them on house connexions from the rider mains in certain places, with the result that it is no longer possible to bring the sections concerned into use on the rider main princi- ple, rider main connexions to un- metered houses having been re- | moved. Well over two thousand houses have been disconnected in

DAY

BY DAY

PRINCES ONLY LIKE THOSE WHO ARE USEPUL TO THEM, AND BO LONG AS THEY ARE USEFUL-Napolcon.

According to a report made to the police by Lo Kwok-cheung, of 25, Poting Road, his dog was run over hy a bon in Nathan Road last night and had to be destroyed by police.

IS PARLIAMENT

UP TO ITS JOB?

N age ago, thirty years ago, the staff of "Hansard" with the A the inner circle Railway Verbatim offcial report was borst was driven by steam. It burrowed the unctuous fraud of spocches for President Hoover celebrates his round London laborious, noisy, outside local effect. The entiro 58th birthday-to-day,

acrid, subject to sulphurous hatta building would be compacted to in the dark and suffocated by its one-quartor size. There would be own' smoke.

no miniature rifle rango, no chess Parliament, the Inner Circle of boards, and no club rooms. Those the nation, runs on similar lines. wanting to lap themselves in deep Is Parliament up to its job? armchairs could stay at home. Pray allence for its honoured lea- There would be a series of cubiclos ders "The length of sittings is abso- for the private consultations of lutely intolerable," declares tho member. and visitor, and a set of A victim of insomniu, Wong Lui, Prime Minister. "Procedure is larger apartments meant for the took a dose of medicine to induce ably have to be changed," an expect strawberries on the Terrace arred 25, of 124, Cheungahawan Road, deadly slow, and will unquestion-deputation. But callera would not sleep, but he apparently used too nounces the Leader of the Oppost- (there would be no Terrace), nor much and was later reinoved to the tion. "Bogged in the awamp of its to waste the time of their repre- Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from own procedure." walls the Home Rentative touring St. Stephen's.

Secretary, Binking with eyes fixed

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the

naught Road, 4th Floor, at 12 noon to

this way. It will thus be seen that the Government has, as we re- marked in opening, already par- tially abolished the system. Yot in spite of this fact, and in spite also of the intimation that, had the matter boon debated, the reault would have been a foregone con- clusion, the Government now the effects, comes forward with a motion ask- ing the Council to express its views on the desirability of making the change! Which merely serves to show how farcical the Crown Colony system of government can become. We shall be much sur- prised if there is not a strong Unofficial protest at the Govarn- ment's action on this matter when the subject ngala comes before the Council. The authorities must be plainly told that they cannot "overlook" official promises and ignore the Unofficial viewpoint in the manner in which they have, done in this case.

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to the last on Free Trade, "The For the stimulation of members On the occasion of the Anniversary system is Il-informed," says the thoro would be of the German Constitution Day, the Secretary for Scotland cautiously. gymnasium, and thirty minutes room-the Gorman Counsul will hold an official "Debates excite much less atten there would be compulsory for reception at the German Club, 2, Con- tion," complains Sir Austen Cham-propagating the mens sana before 1 p.m. The office of the German Con-berlain. And the private member, debate atarted. Half the party suinte will be closed on that day, shuffling with the exhausted divi-divergencies would be exuded on sion queue to vote, as directed, on the parallel bare-after a little A fox terrier dog belonging to Mr. the Grey Seals (Prolongation of Greek rectification in the gymna- C. J. Waddell, of 633, The Peals, was Whiskers) Bift, is still more frank.alum, a little Roman virtue in the yesterday removed to the

Kennedy Westminster arraigns itself. forum. "Sweat and be saved." Town slaughter house for observation To begin the reorganisation of Having saved themselves the poli- after it had bitten Ku Sing, a cook Parliament, the Houses of Parlia- ticians could sweat to save the employed at 630, The

Peak. The ment ought to be pulled down- country. victim was admitted to the Govern- The colossal' Gothic wedding-cake ment Civil Hospital for treatment. should be cut up in slices and

dropped in the dustbin.

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We have now brought down the House, not only at Westminster.

but also, it is hoped, in the sense of having guined universal ap- gion. So, too, does the Nino Power

No man can think clearly or plause for the idea. The next step act. The treaties are not regis-work ably in such a national offico is to take away from Parliament tered at Geneva. But the pact has an Great Britain possessco. A fifty per cent, of its work,j been signed by fourteen nations spirited new member walks into The Assembly now is so postered On the steneral question of the and it is likely to be the principal the labyrinth, and within a month with detail, ao deluged in triviali- basis for a acttlement of the that monster Ennui, that Mino- ties, so oppressed, loaded down rider main system, it would appear future status of Manchuria. Intaur Lassitude, is gnawing him. and retarded under a dead-weight that the Government's conception, the end the question of whether Why do the bristles fall out of our mixed bale of parochial and na- of ita abolition in principle amounts or not Japan has slammed the new brooms? By reason of a sort tional problems that even an athie-

'open door" may prove of more of mange in the atmosphere. to a retention of the mains and vital concern

tie group meeting in a place to the signatory | The Chamber is dark and poky, cleared for action would discover their use as subsidiary units-that nations than that of whether she and you are aware that the it difficult to progress. The bur

violated the League of Nations antimacassara have been whipped dens must be is, if the method of fixing meters Covenant. The world may be more off the green benches the moment "Divide and rule" better.

redistributed.

to these mains is to be continued. interested in preserving peace before, walking in. The air, ad- In Edinburgh and St. David's Regarding universal meternge, it machinery, but the Powers are mitted through the floor, has been let two subsidiary Houses be get

more interested should be pointed out that the use trade opportunities. Japan con- become a triumphant

in preserving cotton-wool filtered until it has up, to the enormous pride of the

pneumatic Scota and Welsh, who have de of meters is of itself no guarantee tends that she has not broken the parallel to soda-water gone dat, manded a home of their own for that water will not be wasted. It door is still open and that she to compel the mumbling of primor- of the English, who have suffered Nine Power pact, that the "open The place was satanically designed years; and to the enormous relief Although the Legislative Coun- might be if there were no free has seized no special advantages dial prejudices, not to enable men the parish pump prolixity of their cil stands adjourned for the allowance and if each household in Manchuria. Yet the published to throw out their minds. Also it Westminster neighbours far too purpose of enabling the Unofficial had a meter. The Government reports are

that the Japanese has a powerful Victorian aspect. long. have taken over railroads, public so that often one looks to find if members to decide their attitude admits that it is unable to instal utilities and banks.

No more dreary nights of philo- And mani- the curate has dropped in for tea sophie sederunt while

an inter- on the abolition of the rider main meters in each floor of tenement festly the entire structure of the and is sitting in the Serjeant-at-minable Caledonian caucus keeps system, it is perfectly plain that houses. Thus the only way in sphere of influence" which no slippers.

government gives her at least a Arms' chair in embroidered carpet the lights burning over the school

curriculum in the Government intends having its which consumption per household other nation enjoys in that region.

Dunfermline And surrounding the Chamber Burghs. No more blather from the way. It can, in fact, be said that can be checked will be for the As a matter of fact, there is much there are flights of stairs, sudden Clyde. No more excited Celtle the rider main system has already owner to instal separate meters to to be said for the Japanese view turnings, blind alleys, gloomy spluttering over the low price of that their crowded islands must recessed, unexpected wigwams, Caerphilly cheese. What an en- been partially demobilised, despite determine the distribution of the have some

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guarantee of stable mysterious bolt-holes and corri-franchisement Thoy-the Scots the fact that the Government gave supply. Then, we presume, the economic intercourse with Man-dors as long as a penny tram-fare, and the Welsh--would do this sort a definite pledge that no steps landlord would attempt to make a

The right to live" is and batteries of Committee Rooms of thing more becomingly within would be taken in the matter until levy for excess

hard to deay. Whether that right adorned by hideous Old Testament their own gallant and bonny bor consumption in necessitates such control of Man-paintings, and-oh, how signifi-ders; and it would save time. T an opportunity had been given for accordance with the facts said to churia as the Japanese militarists cant! not a single little room would be understood that the a debate on the subject in the be disclosed by the meter readings. still another is how far Japan's constituents, not one solitary spot Houses, and would not interfere envisage is another question. And where a member can interview his Seots and Welsh pay for their new Legislative Council. Moreover, it Such a method would involve end- "right to live" can be carried be-for a politician to stand and catch with strictly English business. is obvious from the speech of the less squabbles, to say nothing of fore it infringes the similar rights the fresh wind of public opinion Colonial Secretary last Thursday the opportunity it would place in

of others. The United States and on his sedentary check. the League Assembly have told A crypt scented with the smells Parliament may be borrowed in- The plan for an Economic Sub- that the Government had long the hands of unscrupulous Japan that they will not recognise of dinner cooking on a mid-Vic-tact from Mr. Churchill, who alone since decided on the abolition of houseowners for indulging in any treaty or situation brought torian range.

Raze it, therefore. Liberate the visited by courageous and fresh among maturer politicians is the system and its substitution by "squeeze" at the expense of his about by anything except peaceful

į measures. That probably means victims from their environment. universal meterage. no matter tenants. That point aside, we see they will be called into consulta-Convert the Inner Circle of Gov- ideas.

In these unhappy days politics what the Unofficial viewpoint no call for the general adoption of tion before any Sino-Japanese ernment from the era of steam.

are-based continuously on a sub- might have deen. These may ap system which racks of selling settlement is reached. So far they Provide, instead of a warren.

stratum of economics-a 'subject have taken merely negative action.headquarters where men can stay pear rather sweeping statements, water on a commercial Imsis and That is useful for the present, alert; give them a place in which which in its abstruser aspects bores or frightens the average but they are borne out by the facts which, in any case, would permit But if they deny Japan's demand to subjugate and straighten the House of Commons member. Very disclosed by Mr. Halifax.

people to waste as much as they for a stable and responsible gov ponderous writings of a muscle- good (says Mr. Churchill), con-

ernment under her control in Man-bound Constitution. churia, they have some obligation

atitute body with special gifts The new Chamber would be to see that such government is spacious, austere and light. There mic perplexities, and let it be free for meeting industrial and econo- would be no accommodation for from party exigencies maintained by China.

and the

years.

In

be

Let un look back at what has like provided they were willing to happened during the past few pay for it. It should be the Govern- consequence ofment's business to provide a direct periodical hints of the Govern-supply to all houses, and to ment's attitude, an assurance was content with the levying of a water given by Sir Cecil Clementi in rate. 1929 that the system would not be abolished without an opportunity being given for a public discussion

Manchuria's Future. on the subject, but we have it on Chinese claims of "Volunteer" the word of the Colonial Secretary successes in Manchuria have yet to that "even then, however, the con- be tested. Nevertheless, the con- clusion was foregone." So we stant guerilla campaign is planly eventually reach a stage at which damaging to all Japan's schemes "the Government in 1932 definitely serious faults in the type of high- and she is beginning to realise the accepted the principle of the pressure salesmanship which abolition of rider mains and the knocks at a neighbour's door with sabatitution of universal meter-goods in one hand and a gun in age." Precisely when and by the other. It seems unlikely, how. whom this decision was made is ever, that there will be any early not disclosed: the only explana- or complete reversal of recent tion we have is that Sir Cecil Cle-

policy. The Manchurian pro- gramme apparently still holds menti's promise was overlooked," popular support, now that the that "the Government was at fault

army has committed the nation to in this matter," and that "an vigorous methods. For this very apology from the Government is reason, the Powera bave got to

called for." The public, however, is hardly likely to accept these statements as a reasonable expla-

decide what they are going to do about Manchuria. Is the rest of the world going to recognise the

nation of the developments. It Is, and concedo Japan the special new puppet state of Manchukuo in fact, difcult to see how such privileges involved, or is it going

a definite change of policy, involv- to insist on a rigid observance of

ing the scrapping of a system the Nino Power pact and bar any which had been in operation for infringement upon China's terri- administrative inte- over a quarter of a century, could torial and have been made without someone Poking and Nanking under which grity? Tokyo's tranties' with remembering the promise made by epcotal rights were obtained in Sir Cecil Clemonti. But this is Manchuris constituted recognition not the end of the story. Having of China's sovereignty in that roś

churia.

"Haven't you anything to do but scold me? Why aren't

you out raiding-speakeasies ?"

EL

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clamour of mob opinion.

He suggests 120 members, forty commoners, twenty Peers, and sixty business men, Trade Union advisers and experts. The com- position would reflect the strength of parties in the House, but mem- berahip of the Sub-Parliament- which would, be named by the party lenders would last for three years irrespective of plec- tions. All Bills affecting Industry would, after second reading, go down to the economists, and re- turn with the marks of their re- vising hand, to be endorsed or not ns the Executive and the superior House willed.

We have arrived now at 'an ·As- sembly working in rational sur- roundings, freed of the petty cares of two contiguous nations and absolved from the complicated donkey work of economic legisla tion. As Mr. Asquith liked to ob- serve: "We are getting on." But everybody will perceive that fur- ther alterations are imperative.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND BAST RIVERS

The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- misalon shows the height of waber In English foot on the datos named In the West, North and Enat Rivers:

iligheet on Town! Ang. record," on record. B

West River at

Bblaking. +41.7

| North River at

Shinhing .. +657

| North River at

Samabul ... +27.3 Pat River så "Bhekluna, ~2~

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