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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1933.
WOMAN'S PLACE IS THE HOME.
LIVELY VARSITY DEBATE LAST NIGHT
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ASSESSMENT RATES.
PROPERTY OWNERS - WANT
A REDUCTION. Voicing its protest against the high assessment rates on property, the secretary of the Hongkong and Kowloon Property Owners Associa
PERU-COLOMBIA DISPUTE.
LEAGUE TAKING GRAVE VIEW OF EVENTS
Geneva, Mar. 9. By a margin of 70 votes to 20,
The League of Nations has the motion that woman's place is the home, was carried at a lively tion Mr. Li Hot-tung, addressed again embarked on the grave pro debate in the University Union the monthly meeting of the Chinese cedure of drafting a report under Assembly Room last night. The Chamber of Commerce yesterday Article Fifteen.
taken in proposer of the motion was Mr. afternoon and explained that pro- This step has been
Buffered Frizer, seconded by Mr. R. Woolley,perty owners
much consequence of the unsatisfactory the Lengue's while the opposition was led by through the recent serious decline reply. by Peru to Miss Y. Langley, who was seconded in demand for business premises pence proposals. by Miss Tae.
and residental flats..
Only twice previously has the a report, When the motion was opened to The meeting resolved that a League framed such
the the house a number of the men petition should be sent to the Gov-namely in connexion with voiced their opinions, but only one ernment requesting it to consider Vilna dispute in 1921, and a fort- women under-graduate, Miss Rthe possibility of reducing the as-night ago in connexion with the Perry, spoke..
sessment rates in view of the large Far Eastern conflict.
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The proposers stated that by number of unoccupied houses, the home they did not mean a woman to present high rate of assessment and be conned within four walls, the fact that many Chinese tenants They based their argument on the were not paying the full amount of child, submitting that a child in water rate to their landlords. its tender ages, needed its mother's care more than" anything else. Woman's place in the world was to make her home attractive. One of the reasons for the present un- employment was because women had taken the place of men. ·
LADIES' NIGHT.
ENJOYABLE EVENING
EUROPEAN YM.C.A.
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The speed with which the Counell is handling the Colombia-
Peru quarrel is ascribed in some quarters to a desire by fervent supporters of the Covenant to remove the impression of lethargy created by the protracted handling of the Chinese affair, and to test out the possibilities of the Coven- ant with a view to applying the lessons learnt to Manchuria later-Reepr'e Special.
The opposition held that a woman who went into the world gained An enjoyable concert was giveri more experience; whereas if she at the European Y.M.C.A. Kowloon
"The Lark" (Glinka), stayed at home her personality, last evening. the occasion being solos, tact, perserverence and patience Ladies' Night. The programme "Polichinell" (Rachmaninoff), Pre- would become wasted. There had was a varied one und was arranged lude in C Sharp Minor, (Rach- been great women 3ike Florence by Mr. G. W. Trae..
maninoff) and Prelude in G. Minor Nightingale and Nurse Cavell, who The items were Is follow. (Rachmaninoff) by Professor S.. were what they were because they Dances by Misses Audrey Steele, Maklezoff; a humorous number
Tableta". "Cough
by did not stay home. Years ago and Eve O'Hagan; songs, "A Jolly entitled women liked the home, but the Old Cavalier" and "The Harper" Mesars. J. Oliver and G. Richards; tendency of the modern day was by Mr. Victor Sanders; and "Love a few Impressions by Mr. J. Oliver, that men liked the home better. in a Cherry Tree" and "One Fine and selected songs by Mr. J. Atha. Men had freedom and women had a Day" (Madame Butterfly) by Mrs. The accompanist was Bt. Lt. Col. right to demand the same.
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