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NOTES OF THE DAY

The crash on the Now You

JACK HYLI

LTON-WITH

HALF AN HOUR TO SPARE

IN LONDON

"Half an hour to spare-what could only reach them in a shorter time than the half-hour you have can I do with it in London?" to spare,'

The Very Idea!

SALE AHOY!

BY EDWARD KELLY, BARGAIN HUNTER.

Stock Exchange comes as no sur priso. It has been evident for some time past that the stondy boost has been the result of speculativo pressure, bearing no relation whatsoever to economic realities. A similarly unhealthy When a business friend from condition has been noted in the Vienna put this question to me commodity markets and, even more in London the other day, I was

The truth is that London, com- dangerous, in Industry itself, startled to find that I could not

give him satisfactory answer. Europe, is the most difficult of all taken a large scale in anticipe. I was more than startled. I was cities. In which to spend an idle other day.

pared with the other capitals of

on a annoyed with myself for my half-hour pleasantly. I love Lon- tion of a consumer demand which fallure, and just a Httle diedon and the unfavourable compari-

|not a placÉ FOR

IDLING.

A GIRL Friend by the name of Flossie, whom. we have never yet met, was telling us about some bar-. gains we could get at the various stores in town the

We have always been con-

has not yet been created. Con-appointed that the London I know son does not please me, Bartly the sidered pretty good at driv- tinued movement along these lines and love so well could not provide traffic problem is responsible: the could only have the effect of me with a ready suggestion. And lovely things of London are not ing bargains. Whenever We I cast my mind over the times accessible in half an hour. But MOTORING precipitating a graver crisis than when in other cities of Europe Leven without our traffic problem the pay a dollar for a drink in the that which 'President Roosevelt too, have had half an hour to capital undoubtedly does lack the hotel, the "bargains." (Quch! was called upon to face when he sparo, and wanted to spend it in amenities that would make your Who threw that bricit?) entered office. The shake-out of a pleasant and inexpensive man-half-hour a pleasure instead of a the market should do a conaldorner. The comparison was, not a penance.

Which, to proceed, la murmur- able amount of good..

happy ono-for London.

Consider, shall I say, Vienna,ing an earful. But the sort of On first thoughts it would seem whence came the friend who set bargains we make and the sort. a simple thing to while away half me so hard a problem. Here your of bargains our headache makes an hour pleasantly and intelligent-odd half-hour is never a penance.

"I have owned and driven cats for over 20 years and not dill I purchased my Cadet havo realised the full joy of motoring • • ** That's one owner's opinion of the Cadet and Synchro-Mesh. There's magic in the gearbox. The power and flexiblity of the Cadet engine, perfect steering and decisive braking give you confidence and perfect control.

There is true comfort in the roomy coachwork and everything about the #ppearance of the Cadet expresses. good breeding.

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FOUR-POWER PACT

ly. But half an hour is a dificult You move about easily and freely, are two different animals, perlod to play with,

Within a few minutes you can bo

In the latter case all we've got

corner of a cheque.

The Four-Power Pact ceased

It does not, for example, per standing on the edge of one of to do is autograph the south-east to be of vital Importance from the mit you to travel far in a congest- the city's many swimming pools. moment that the French modifica ed city in search of occupation.rendy for a five-minute plange; in tions were accepted. The

London your open-air dip costs you inal WHY NOT WRITE

half a day. signaturo at Rome this week. HOME? fa not likely, therefore, have any.

influence

material

to

VAUXHALL upon European politics. When theatre, unless you wish to throw

CADET

THE CAR WITH THE SILKY PERFORMANCE

HONGKONG HÓTEL GARAGE. (SHOWROOM) Stubbs. Road. Phone 27778-0.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1993.

NORTH POINT AMENITIES

a scorg

HOW THEY DO IT

We remember the last sale, she took us along to.. We entered the shop which had something about ET CIE on the window, and wax ladies posing in the vory latest thing in corects inside the window,

Being a married man, we were not supposed to look, and besides, wo are above such snooping, so

Speaking of hargains reminde

It does not allow you to visit a IN VIENNA.

Half an hour has never been a Germany.consented with the com- non-stop variety would

nway money; oven, half-an-hour of

be ex- burden to me in Vienna. If I want ment that the Pact was not what pensive at five shillings.

a rest and a drink and a view of the Inside the shop there wore quite what they expected, the whole The National Gallery would be passing pageant the nearest cafe is other ladies stripped to their | story was told. In its first form usoless unless you were In the never more than fifty paces away. garments too scare and too in- It sought to establish something noighbourhood and wanted to see Here I sit and drink pleasantly, timate to mention, while the shop a particular picture or two, since even non-alcoholically (where in assistant buzzed around with very closely akin to a Directory of to wander aimlessly among that London can I get a glass of iced renewals. Europe. It was objectionable for vast collection is to confuse the lemonade without undue bother?),

of reasons. The final brain and weary the feat.

or read one of the many newspapers and periodicals provided for me by draft la practically innocuous; it You may be a mile from the

a beneficent management. .I find represents resignation to solidari-parks, where with more lolsure you here, even

could sit in peace and watch tho

the newspapers and cannot tell you anything ex- ty among the four leading Powers, passing pageant. You might, of periodicals of my own country. cept that the prices looked like without which Europe would

News of home! I read, and.I feel:

the Hongkong Telephone directory. course, go and have a drink-as- ultimately find itself divided into suming that you were disposed to at home again-home that a few

One exquisite lace thingmegig. two hostile camps.

The main drink and that your idle half-hour minutes ago seemed so far away was a perfect bargain, marked tenance of peace would have be- did not fall within one

am impelled to write a letter to down from $100.00 to $99.99. The of those England. come practically impossible. In periods when the law decrees that

old saying that a woman pays sofar as it removes this danger, you must remain thirsty. Yet even

I snap my fingers, and behold! originated at a bargain sale. it must be regarded as useful, then you are seldom assured of any attendanceink, pen and paper as though Aladdin's genii were in Above and beyond, in seeking to comfort in the places where you and blotter are laid before me. In achieve anything like collabora-zo to drink, unless it should be the tion, it is inadequate. A Franco-lounge of a handy luxury hotel half an hour I have quenched my us of the time we went along to German rapprochement is not to where of course you pay

a high thirst pleasantly in the open air, so long ago.

an art exhibition in Hongkong not- Sociologically, the entire com- be secured by this method.” price for the drink!

read the news of home, written to munity has an interest in the

But wait an idea! Why not the life around me and 1 still tings, wondering which one would

wife or slater or friend, observed We were examining the pain plans of the Goverument to COLONIAL EDUCATION

write a letter home while awaiting have five minutes to sparo. your delayed tea? Your request

be the cheapest to send to our resume the bathing sites fre-

for pen, ink and paper is met with tong enough for me to listen to the when the attendant approached Five minutes. Well, that is just wife's mother on her birthday, quented by the Chinese at North At a recent meeting of the geress is approached and after offered to me by the cafe's wireless "What is your pet painting?"?

a flicker of eyebrows. The man music broadcast from London and us. Point. There is much more to Education Circle of the Royal some consultation with the servitor set; or to listen to the gay lilt of he asked, in accents sweet and the problem than ways and Empire Society, Sir George Max- you are informed that you can be the orchestra that plays Inside the low. means of providing adequate on "Some Problems of Vernacular with paper. Often not even pen have bought weeks ago!

well delivered a thoughtful address obliged with pen and ink, but not cafe; or to buy the new hat I should alternative sites. Our strongest Education. Although a member and ink are avaliable.

We were haughty with him. feeling, on examining the petiof the Colonial Office Advisory

"Our pet doesn't paint," we So you try the loungo Committee on Education, he spoke nearest hotel; but here, unless you UNANSWERED. tion of those most vitally affect- not as an educationist but as a are known, you are liable to be

of the THE QUESTION STILL

said, "and, besides, we came here to buy a picture, not to discuss our ed and the explanation of the Colonial administrator deeply i-auspected

girl friend's hobbies." Government's position, concerns pressed by the importance of educa- stationery for an unlawful purpose! can begin a "eit-down" ment within went to Sincere's, where we of using the hotel. In Vienna or Paris or Prague I We thereupon stalked out, and the underlying question of public administration.

tion as an essential factor in good. You leave the letter till another 30 seconds of sitting down and have bought our policy. We shall not easily for-policies, he showed that all Colonies the Thames Embankment at West-rapidly that at the end I still have twenty to sixteen conts. The

Reviewing past time and rashly decide to taxi to four couracs follow each other so posteard, marked down

mother-in-law

from get the fate of the Praya East alike had neglected vernacular minster, where you may breathe 10 minutes of my 30 to spare. And I card was inside a packet or -Reclamation.A large area of education,-and-had-preferred; not the air and see the ships. A can have my meal anywhere, in any cigarettes.

unnaturally, to Use

·land wrested from the sea, language and technique as

European Piccadilly your taxi is held up for street, without the need of tramping the several minutes and again at the pavements or taking taxi to a thrown open to development, and instrument of education and cul- Trafalgar-square, where it cour suitable restaurant. Whereas in offering endless opportunities for ture, and even although there is ageously negotiates the merry-go- London I must first find my re-in Hongkong. Umbrella dealers, You can see all sorts of sales. constructive model

agreement in principle as to the round only to be checked in White staurant; and then amid table for instance, make planning, importance of vernacular education, hall and again at the bottom of trappinga. of a semi-regal elabora- whenever a typhoon is hovering sacrificed to the speculator and actual practice lags far behind the Parliament-street by a procession; tion I must wait at lenat becoming a blighted, district of policy declared on paper, the vena so that you have just five minutes minutes for my first course and

about the Colony. This is known hideous, inadequate tenement cular school is the Cinderella of the on the Embankment before return-leave my dinner half-finished if Another specie is the land sale.

as saleing close to the wind, g blocks, now rapidly developing in the lecturer's belief, a

educational system. There is not, ing whence you came!

am not to exceed my time-limit. into slums. In Kowloon, much British Colony where there is any culties of spending your half-hour my precious 30 minutes sitting in sales, we are at a loss to under

single Here is one of the chief dim- If I wish just to be lazy, to spend the same story can be told. The attempt to raise the standard of in London: there are so interests of the community are vernacular education

many a chair under a tree, Vienna or above the pleasant places to visit, if you ruthlessly subordinated to econo- merest rudiments.

(Continued on Page 7.) We wonder mic ends. Social amenities be- whether our Director of Education come the sport of the land marwould challenge this statement. ket merely because they may

prove a source of profit to an

individual or a firm. Since LONDON UNIVERSITY

stocks and shares lost their attraction to the man with idle

It is said that visitors to Britain money, one district after

an-sometimes ask to be shown the other has become the scene of Church of England and the Uni- hectic development, generally versity of London. Neither of drab and unregulated. It is not these requests can be satisfied, for altogether a healthy sign. On both these institutions lack a cen- the contrary, the helter-skelter tral and official headquarters. This pace should, in itself, convey a feature of London University, how warning of reaction. And ever, will be somewhat modified by Government, which should be tish Riuscum of which the founda

the gigantic building near the Bri- seriously considering the pro-tion stone has been laid by the King. blems created by our excessive It is not the limb, the thews, the urbanisation, turns its attention stature, bulk, and big assemblances to North Point, one of the few of the body that denote the true remaining districts where thero worth of a man; nor is the real is an outlet, with a view to cast progress of a university necessarily

to be reckoned ing that too into the waiting

by the tons of arms of the speculator. To-day acres of ground which its bulidings masonry that it piles up, or the it is a boon to thousands of cover. Nevertheless, the edifice Chinese who indulge in healthy which London University will erect recreation after office hours. No on what is known as the Bloome». alternativo: sites would fill the bury site is a notable landmark ih gap created by the resumption educational progress in Great Bri of this area. Cheapness and tain. But where the new Blooms- Case of transport, wonderfully that it will not interfere with the bury building le expected to help Is handled by the tramway com-activities of the existing colleges, pany, is the cogent factor in the which will continue to perform popularity of the North Point their customary functions. But it. bathing pavilions. To order re- will provide an adeguato centre for moval is to deprive hundreds of many university, as distinct from their one relief from sometimes college, enterprises, it will be an sordid surroundings. Is it not willin innumberable ways simplify administrative headquarters; and time that this Colony considered the task of welding the diverss parta social necessities, a little more of the university Into a homogene. and compellad economic con- bus whole, by giving to it an actual siderations to conform to them?; and visible.centro.

ten

fortunes.

Not having attended one of these

experience with land sales was stand how they are done. Our last

when wo played with our model yacht in the horse trough at home.

In the habour most of the sail ing is done with junka. For that matter, most of the sales in, the city are of junk. 2 volt k

This is what is known as sales- manship. A salesman, ship is sometimes referred to as a barque, but more often there is a ketch in

it,

A salesman in the wine and spirit business is nearly always on the port tack.

In the navy, of course, : It's different. There, they sale. the Medway.

"The difference between sailors and saleswomen is that the sailors sail the suns and the saleswomen sees the sales,

And now, girls, before we tot- ter off to our daily milk and rum, let us give you a warning.onekt

Nover, never, attend saloa, after you are married. There's no such thing 'as a cheap bargain.. Anyłu one can say "cheap" That's what c the canary said when they fed it to the cat.ARBON WHEN

Never ba: tempted advertisement that says silk stock ings have been reduced, or bras- xleres have been marked down | half price, tee

-- The curse of our nation is the feverish¬ddsire on the part of “ourd) womanfolk to Meguro something for leks than it was yesterday:::

Why is it