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SPARTON RADIO
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trade, the manufacturers of build- ing materials. At once men are discharged, the movement com- mencing with unskilled labour, and gradually spreading through technical, clerical and professional staffs. Surveyors, architects and engineers aro affected. A loss of purchasing power all round results
DAY BY DAY
SINCERITY IS AN OPENNESS OF HEART: 'TIS FOUND IN A VERY FEW
PEOPLE; AND THAT WHICH WE SEE COMMONLY is NOT IT, BUT A SUBTLE DISSIMULATION, TO GAIN THE CON-
and the process of financial dis-FIDENCE OF OTHERS.-Charron. integration of the country goes on. Wherever the "axe" falls, there is another blow at eventual industrial
recovery.
"MARRIAGE" AGENCIES THAT DON'T MEAN MARRIAGE
By F. W. MEMORY
enthusiasm
and
is becoming a commonplace now- thrones, but one which other people. adays for judges and magis claiming to be of the moderns modern Struck by a bamboo pole dislodged trates adjudicating between husband have hailed with
be told that they were encouraged with praiso.
It has oven been urged that in the from scaffolding around No. 204, and wife
matrimonial Queen's West, Tan Kwal, 66, was brought together by A taken to Hospital with head Infurice, agency that they paid foes to be universities the students should be thot permitted to contract "temporary introduced, and went through
childless marriages" on the ground yesterday.
form of marriage. Equally astonishing is the fur.
I say form of marriage advisedly, that it would be "better both Intellec ther onslaught contemplated upon
An altercation between two Chinese What more could it be? Certainly not tually and morally." What an amaz marriage as understood by the Churching picture of life at Oxford and at the conditions of employment in the yesterday ended in one being serious and defined by the Frayer Book. In-Cambridge and all the other universi Civil Service. Already victims of ly stabbed in the body and his being deed, the proceedings savour rather ties auch a suggestion conjures up.
It is a picture from which the taken to Hospital. The assailant is of the market place than the state of multitude will recoll with horror and the "economy compaign" commenc-sald to be a Sanitary Department holy matrimony. ed by the National Government a coolle. year ago, It is proposed that Gov- ernment employees shall work longer hours and, simultaneously, suffer further salary, cuts, Civil servants in England, while they have, in the past, enjoyed security, are not highly paid compared with men in private employment. But A most attractive console with they take pride in their service to butt walnut control panel and the community and maintain a pleasing design. Has a remark-high ståndard of professional con- able five tube Superheterodyne duct. Anything which lowers their chassis with Pentade and Screen enthusiasm and narrows their out- Grid tubes and rectifier filter
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Letters of administration to the
$2,200 local estate of Mr. Wee Lee, inte of Tai King village, have been granted to Wee Tsih-pau, son, of 30, Wing Lok Street, Wee Chan-shi, hin widow, having renounced claim.
In the estate of Mr. E. P. Whelen, 2nd Engineer, late of the Seamen's Institute, who left local estate of 3500, letters of administration have been granted to Mr. E. P. H. Lang, Oficial Administrator, Supreme Court, no relatives having yet been traced,
1
There are those who do not hesitate disgust. The sanctity of women's to describe matrimonial agencies as virtue, one of the foundations, of happy married life as lived in Great organisations brought into being
Britain, would be deposed, the Church provide lonely soul to with mates," but actually existing to defled, and the final marriage bond, entity the physical desires of men already at the breaking point, sun and women.
ostensibly
+
the
dered for ever. Even moderns do not hanker for the left,off playthings SEEKING HUSBANDS.
of other men to become the mothers All of them may not be quite 50 of their children and to "love... bad as that, but it is notorious that comfort. honour .keep the "introductions" effected have no in sickness and in health ..
. for- relationship in point of numbers to saking all other ... keep... only the marriages that take place.
The desire of subscribers to these unto her, so long un... both shall
lve." agencies is achieved when they have The Bishop of London has gone out
denounce from been put in communication with a of his way to member of the opposite sex. That pulpit of the Chapel Royal, St. James's narriage la no: the purpose is demons- Palace, the insidious doctrine" of trated by the fact that time and again companionale morringe, and he has It has been stated in the courts that not hesitated to denounce the pre- The Royal Observatory reports that the man concerned in the case under valent practice of "week-ending" with the anticyclone remains centred near consideration was already married other people's wives and husbands.
-But little heed is paid; the modern the mouth of the Yangtse and has when he placed his name on the books regained intensity. Fresh monsoon of the agency.
girl and the modern man have Ideas will continue along the Chan Const, As for the women, although a few and, apparently, beliefs in which the Rather than offer this excuse for and over the Northern China Sen. of them may genuinely seek husbands, tenching of the Church find no place; an onslaught upon wage standards 1 Loen forcenst:-N, E. winds, fresh; be vast majority well know what they for, as the Bishop of St. Albaris has pre doing when they send their 1egis-confessed, his remonstrance with "a tration fee-something like 220-to normal English giri of 22" only all over the country, the first pur-
the proprietor of the agency.
brought from her the nyestion, “Why pose of the National Government
The Government of Hongkong is There are, of course, thousanda of Is i wrong?" Ishould he to promote a big-sente understood to have arranged the im-lonely men and women longing for the portation of further large shipments society of others, hungering for love Demonstrations & Sales. plan for winter work, which would of copper coins in order to meet the in its highest form, who with all other shortage of cent pieces in local avenues closed to them turn to these IDEAL RADIO SERVICES take men off the dole and off the circulation, and 500,000 coins are ex-agencies for help, believing all they
role of public assistance com-pected by the end of the year, a fur-are told mittecs. The financial strength of ther 700,000 being due early in are still unsophistrictors. There
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COOMBS-At the Mathilda Hospital at 7.30pm, on 17th November, 1932 Harry Coons, aged 02. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day,
cloudy,
January.
by the
people in the
world; shy girls brought up in the seclusion of a country house, stored as it were in lavender and damask, The Compagnie des Messageries who have no workly knowledge, but Maritimes advises the public that the dream of a Prince Charming who shall new motor vessel Aramis, now on come, riding from they know her maiden trip, is expected to where, to bear them away blushing arrive in Hongkong on the morning but willing victims of ther loving and cordially invited to visit this Iniest of the 23rd instant. Everybody is honourable ardour.
On A
WORLDLY CLIENTS.
wo
not
the country was vividly illustrated the other day when the Treasury isstied £150,000,000 worth of bonds at 2 per cent. and found the loan heavily oversubscribed. Such IL demonstration of strength, while it stirs up the Stock Exchange to en- addition to the M.M.. fleet, while thusiasm, leaves displaced unem-in port. The Aranis will be berthed home, merry children prattling a ployed workers quite cold, literally at the Kowloon Wharves. and figuratively. A big National Long, as an emergency measure, to be devoted to the construction of Mrs. Son Choong Yew, aged 26, on necessary schemes of national de-
Wednesday, November 16, 1932,
which have at the Ipoh District Hospital,velopment, many of Ipoh, Perak, F. M. S. Dearly be been compulsorily stopped, would lived wife of Mr. Sto Choong put new life into industry and give Yew, Kampar.
hope to the workers. But further advances along the economy road opened by the National Government con only tend it into the wilderness. It has already lest many friends by the wayside,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932.
ECONOMY MANIA
Such is life to-day.
Pity the Red-
Haired Man!
By FRANK WALTON. NOW that women are returning to the gold standard and Titian- tinted tresses are becoming the favourite decor of woman's over-
fall.
cast.
↑
this
These poor things envisage a happy changing head, a Linely word from rufous man may show that this variety of red hair holds many a pit their knees, and in all innocence seek; to help fate by enlisting the aid of
I was born with red hair, the start- draws immedinte a matrimonal agent. It may be that charge of returning from some have been fartunate, but I do ling kind which before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Cen- majority of banishment, a Chinese who appeared know that they are not the clients the attention and encourages the unaus- seek. Preting parent ta indecent paraling thes ageneich tral Police Court this morning was Worldly wisdom is what they expect unusual and presumably delightful shimmering red curls. which demanded gome sentenced to twelve months hard in their clients--and for the most part babylood. It grew to Inbour. The nectised, according to they get it. Detective Sergeant Macdonald, was
That is why these agencies are so ridiculous Fauntleroy dress.
Imperceptibly to the black haired sprung up arrested for stealing a woollen pull numerous.
They have
I began over from Chosen & Co. where he had everywhere: in the provinces as well or merely mousey-haired, world,
boyhood archuses. On the turceny charge in concerned they are carrying on a per- oy being interent, and as gone under the pretext of making as London. So far as the inw distinction grew upon me. sentence of six months hard labour, feetly legitimate businens--or rather came with its gibes and sneers and concurrent with the other senience, one which, as the law stands, cannot shouts of "Ginger" I became an out- wax imposed.
he interfered with.
With all the cruelty of the primitive It is, however, only necessary to recall the number of cases in which animal inherent in the other boy I Other His Excellency the Governor, who a woman has gone to the courts com as made to feel a pariah.
boys, patterned iza the sombre returned to the Colony yesterday,plaining that under the promise of An Eyesore.
kindly informed our representative inarringe a man she had met through mould of undistinctive hair, shrick- ed derision. and poured contume- this morning that he had a
advertise- very a matrimonini agency or
ly upon my innocent map of red. An old resident who has oeens- enjoyable trip out, and found the, P. ment has defrauded her of money. They threw stones, "Ginger for son to motor up and down Stubbs de O. liner Rampura extremely com- That is another aspect of these or teniper" they shouted, "Ginger for
are Spite!" they yelled finger for fortable, though the weather proved ganisations; they provide and Koad daily has drawn our atten- unusually hot for this time of the used by unscrupulous persons and Ginger for that. Until, Worn The
During the voyage, His Ex-means for deliberate fraud on the with fighting, I withdrew from the special Parliamentary tion to a group of matsheds and year.
other shacks situated in the ravinecellency and Lady Peet attended an part of men, while women of the same battle nail took refuge in aneuring Economy Committee makes recom-
Wanchai Armistice Day service on board and kidney develop facility for black-f
aloofness, the north side of on
were greatly impressed by. Its sim mail. mendations that shock thinking flap and expresses some surprise pilcity and dignity. They greatly
In the Army became "Carrote," COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE.
Rufus," "Chocolate," Cato, Colum- men and displease the Conserva that such structures should be enjoyed the short time that they were They have probably been largely bus, Sir Philip Sidney, Bayard, Crom- tives on the ground of their premia permitted at this spot. This is were able to renew their acquaintance whleb Kipling has described as "with boon red, and that thought in some able to spend in Mainyn, where they responsible for that class of marriage well, even Napoleon and Caesar had ture disclosure. The aim is to matter to which we have pre- with a number of old friends. His out benent of clergy," but now more measure brought balm to my affliction. effect a further reduction of £100,- viously had occasion to refer, and Excellency had the pleasure of seeing commonly known as companionate. But, nevertheless, the germ of ing
So-called matrimonial agencies and feriority had been planted, 000,000 in public expenditure, we are hoping that as a result of Sir Cecil Clement! during his brief
stay in Penang, Sir Samuel and Lady companionate marriages are both wherever I went I imagined the finger will Wilson and Mr. G. E. J. Gent travelled sign of the times a sign which the of scorn pointing. State and national. Among the these comments some steps
taken either to remove this on the Ranpura na far as Penang.
bishops have denounced from their offered panaceas for the economic difleultics of the country are the eyesore or to make it less abjec-
tionable in appearance.
We have imposition of longer hours for Civil
heard it sald that these shacks- Servanta and lower wages, reduc belong to the P.W.D. and that tion of stuffs by the abolition of they are necessary in connexion Important departments of govern- {with work being carried out in ment, sighing reductions in house the neighbourhood. Whether this construction by removal of the sub-fis so or not we confess that we do sidy, and restriction of local de-not know, but we do know that the velopment schemes as far as pos- number of structures continues to sible. The folly is amazing. The row, until at present there are notion appears to hold that the best some eight or nine of them. Ap- ways to deal with unemployment [parently, they are occupied,
Chinose are always to be seen
ure to stop as many people from there, whilst there are strips of working as possible and to make cultivated ground in the immediate the others de more work for Icas locality such as one would expect wages, thus further reducing the to encounter in any small settle- purchasing power of those who re- ment. Needless to say, the salt- main at their jobs. Critica who ary arrangements are of the most a circumstance comment upon these developments primitive kind, as the frenzied plunging of reac- which serves to intensify, the nui- sance. If these buildings are tionaries in impossible efforts to
Government property and it is bolster up the collapsing capitallat really necessary to have some such system, as at present organised, contro at this spot, we suggest will not be proved far wrong if the that the present ill-assorted lot Chancellor approves the recom- bo demolished and be replaced by mendations.
structures of a more permanent
As we
stated yesterday, the and pleasing character. As they plans for restriction of capital ex- are at present, they are a blot on the landscape which cannot fail pendituro are all the more inexcus-
to be noticed by visitors. manking. nblo at this time when money is a use of the main road to the Peak cheap. The "economy" policy is Were they squatters' huts, they short-sighted from every point of would have been pulled down view. The arrest in the progress long since. We commend the mat of public works, for instance, has ter to the attention of the appro many reactions striking frat at the prints authority, in the hope that sheltered industrial, the quarrying Jong overdua netion may be taken.
"I wouldn't make him-angry, officer. He has a terrible temper,"
and
It was not until with a sudden necess of courage I deserted the |labyrinthine ways and seized the enemy in his camp by flaunting my redness that I anticipated the jokes and threw Rufus in the face of the tormentor.
The stark red, has mellowed now with manhood and become something Venetian. "That auburn-haired half- wit over there," is all they say,
Unless include the crowning shamo when a woman, pretending to pretty compliment about the "aleck brown wave," boldly naked, "And where do you get it done like that?"
21 YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM THE **TELEGRAPH" FILES
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week onded Nov. 18th, 1911.
*
The rate of the dollar on. domand was 18. 104d:
•
Watson's advertised sherry at $10.80 a caso and the Dairy Farm milk at five cents a pint.
Fighting took place between Manchu-officered troops and revolu- tionartes at Shumchun just over the British border and a company of the K.O.Y.L.I. ware rushed out to add to the British defence forces.
Owing to the
revolutionary cam paign in China, H.E: Sir Frederick Lugard announced that he had cabl ed the Viceroy of India cancelling- acceptance of an invitation to the Delhil Durbar.
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