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SATURDAY,

FEBRUARY 17, 1934.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1934.

"THE MATSHED RAMP"

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Feb. 10th.-Up somewhat late, where he goes shooting and I do The complaint of the tramway this morning, having been upon one commission him to bring meʼan of the King's great shippes dancing, Aprigor if one be in scason and he But I doubt I shail company regarding the fallure of

much good cheer and do shoot it. Government to complete the

is weil

justified. many pretty Ladies. Before this be choused of it yet. '

13th.-Reading this day in the Quarry Bay

the Snake-pit where road between Causeway Bay and at which There is no more necessary plece in of road construction on the Govern- Muleygrubs gives me a good Newes-Sheetes I do see that Mr.

and yet re- ment's programme

Mr.

peatedly other works, adding per-count of the hound puppies and ID. Bradman hath become a partner this young man's hape to the amenities of the renk doubt not that all this shall make in a stock-broking firm. And I am district, have been given preced-for the betterment of the Hunt in at a stonde at ence. Promises are given and left the future. Danced very heartily versatility for, an' I mintake not, unfulfilled. Votes are made and and the surface better than I have he deals in sports gear and is in

Meanwhile, apparently not spent. motorists are summoned for techal ever known it so that, tho' I do himself a company besides playing cal offences in the almost sacrosanct tread a measure but ill, I find much at Krickett pretty well. It seems Whitfieid area and the tramway pleasure therein and, as I bellove, the officers of a luxury shippo do company continues to operate under do not tread upon my partner at all. see a sea monster in the Carribean But as for he supper and bever and I see no reason why not, for difficultica.

ages, all is in the most excellent every small village doth have its arrangement, and this morn its own in these days, and I do hear have written, I do rise somewhat most promising reports of one that I make shift to sojourns in the Kowloon Reservoir. Inte. However, order my papers in the office and And indeed it is said that the true after to my chirurgeon, having been reason the Government doth pro- somewhat in ill-health these last ceed with the Shing Mun scheme days. But Lordi after I have been that they would fair provide proper with him for a short space I do hebergage and accommodation for But when I tell this to decide that I do prefer my sickness this monster when it doth grow to

maturity. and so to the Clubbe where I do

UNJUSTIFIED HOPES

Although on n recent date it was held out that the new road would be completed by March of this year, present indications are that this hope may not be justified, as a considerable section has yet to be built, and this through a Bolid mass of rock lying between North Point and Causeway Bay The contractors having charge of

From the Office Butts

A bridge player suggests that Hongkong's street lamps should be sold by auction and modern ones f bought by contract.

A local lady who borrowed a red. days, explained that it was four bathing costume during the holl- too small for her. This sizes explained why we thought it was prickly heat.

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It is said that the Peak has becis peculiarly free of fog this year. Anyhow, it hasn't been mist!

A selentiat declares that human beings are taller at night than in the morning. Speaking for our- selves, we are usually shorter at ̧ ̧ ́a. the end of the month than at the beginning.

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the work at both ends of this take as a draft a glass of strong reed he does but laugh and says valuables at home when going

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PERMANENT RECOVERY

Although most people leave their bathing, there appears to be plenty of money in matsheds.

We should hate to be a goldfish, especially if somebody put us to the acid tent.

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which I do feel the there is no monster, but that it was difficult section have nearly cpm-waters for

Reservoir while pleted their undertaking, after better. This day I had intended our Nudist friend who had been And the catch-water. the original width, designed of to play at Krickett but news comes washed into the 100 feet had been narrowed down that the match be abandoned and bathing in (for reasons of economy, accord: I doubt not our adversaries did feat so it may be. This afternoon to we had been too hard for them the Court where I de listen to the ing to an official statement) to 75

hee summons, and it doth seem feet. The us yet uncleared, see- tion Iles through property owned At the Krickett Clubbe and saw

by the lawyers.

A fish has been named after its by private individuals, who were the older men play the stripling but a simple case and clarified in covenanted by their Crown leases and they do pretty well at it, and great measure

save that the But Lord! I was before minded to have performed their share of indeed had won

a Many a poor fish has been called But sarsaparilla. This evening to the road building, but hitherto younger men were more facile at that the stuff was mineral, even an local discoverer. That's nothing. of the "Ten Minutes names after his wife has caught had not done so for reasons of arithmetick, and so it is a tie.

T. Cobley strikes the ball rehearsal their own. The new road when Mr. completed will be taken behind the wonder fine, and though a younger Allbi," which I do reach very com- him!.

come with fortably from the Central District A.P.C. oil tanks, and in addition man, I can never hope

A wife's face is often painted. to obviating the present dan- in vision of his game. Later upon by hiring a motor coach and driving xerous journey through Whitfield the Peake where I dine with aby Queen's Road East to the trame

reduce to some extent the pretty Lady and her Lord and after lights at Arsenal Street where I do but a husband's is usually drawn.

the turn left, despite the Traffic Cop will

alive. Yet, who doth forget that the turn to time taken by trams on the Cause at cards-but Lord! I am

unlucky man must way-Bay Shaukiwan service.

when do think upon my wife, the port hand is not governed by poor wretch, I would not have it the starboard light even if it be otherwise. Home by tram-cost showing; and so to the Praya and bridge player took his partner out me two florins and being late sharpe right where the theatre is into two dancing clubs the other Is it possible to obtain the ad- must needs walk up the stairs to the second part of the first great

Going: Going: Gone.-New Year vantages at which revolutionaries my chamber, the lift being stopped, building at the corner this not vet ample space to park and a most aim without the horrors of revoluto my greatest possible discontent. being finished. And there I do find tion? Events in Europe lately And so to bed.

11th. Lord's Day. Upon waking comfortable theatre with as much resolutions. bring that question more sharply to

And I am minded that I Although the bathing season the forefront. Many people in this day I do find that my aus-room as even one of my girth can

asking it. picious was true and that I do desire. is still some way ahead, people England' to-day ure beginning to look about for Some of them, not being either suffer from a rheum upon my chest, must see this play more than once

Socialists or Fakeists, nevertheless and so do lie abed all day, which for at the second time one may pick will probably be caught napping. the facilities

enjoying

with a good booke to read comes up the finer points that one did agree that the old economic system

I trust that many will do likewise.

Can a photographer take a cold. Colony's principal summer-time has broken down and that no mere not so umiss, save that it irks me miss upon the first viewing. And

restore it. They cannot savour my pipe or even a

14th. This day Chinn New cigarette. Unfortunately, des-patchwork will diversion.

night with the insensate pite the fact that we are situate believe it is possible to substitute a new order for the present chaos

12th.--Upon betimes and to the Year's Day and I am awake half snap?

In some parts of the world they so close to the sea, facilities are without using violence, and with

I am not in health, yet for a person at present extremely difficult to a minimum of readjustment. It is oflice where I am very busy though cracker firing of the uncultivated most promising British concerned in business it is neces-savages who inhabit the town, and secure except by the process of peculiarly interesting to find some

crackers into the air and it may be either renting or building a Conservatives devoting attention to sary to praetermit no care in these more especially do I loathe the seem to have mistaken "Resolu It might be easier to keep the matshed or similar structure-at-this radical question, among them days. Later to my Chamber where small boys who do throw explosive tion" for "Revolution".

Lord Eustace Ferey and Mr. Harold reading in the Newes-sheet I see strike a driver of a passing car. some convenient spot. Macmillan, an intellectual of the that the American-woman-Lady- In-which-chance I do Bndly fear number of such spots is, how-moderate left wing of the party. Astor doth use the privilege of the that some may be killed as indeed wolf from the door if the storka ever, limited, and it thus comes The latter has worked out in detail House of Commons to make charge has happened in the past. All day didn't interfere so much.

a complete scheme of Industrial of corruption against unnamed

in not re-members, and will hot be specific watching them play at Krickett and

Growing a moustache in the reconstruction. He about that people who have

doth 3000 upon leave,

15th. All the morning at the army seems to bristle with difßcul- these bathing-sheds are in a very assured by the economic improve when an angry clamour was raised. at night did dine with friends who

Some of ment which has appeared in Britain Which indeed is what one fortunate position.

during the last six months, for he expect from her, and would that she

Amerique rather than a pussyfoot pretty easily. Thence to the Foot them, it appears, are by no man-fears that it may blind men to the were a member of the Senate of Kriekett match and the Clubbe wins ties.

in our English House. News from Balle where a very good game and

When a man gets the Freedom. ner of means above indulging in need of more drastic changes.

Paris still bad, whilst in Amerique better defence than attacque. And. sheer profiteering when it comes

another Government scandall be in the end Hongkong do have the of the City, it may mean his wife

is Home on leave. brought to light in the matter of better of it. air post contrackts. And this cor-

16th. Very busy all day at my

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either to selling or letting their PEACEFUL REVOLUTION sheds. There has thus arisen

the

of strong

In his view there can be no perruption in Government offices both what has come to be known as

manent recovery on the old lines; "the matshed ramp," a subject the failure of the World Economic there and in France seems to me to office and later writing letters in So after much which is arousing considerable Conference was inevitable because, be the naughtiest thing possible. my Chamber for to-morrow they do discussion at the moment. This at best, it was an attempt to denli Later comes Mr. Pitt to visit me, act the "Ten Minutes Alib" for with effects rather than funda- having heard that I am sick, and the first time and I shall have but is particularly marked in con-mental causes; and these causes He we talk for some long time over a little leisure.

Communists have glass of strong waters. It seems writing, and a less nexion with the plans for the deep, as the granting of alternative sites at rightly divined, in the general crisis he is about to depart for Swatow waters steaming hot, to bed. Repulse Bay to those who will of capitalism, a crisis arising from the increasing disproportion be become dispossessed when. the tween the immense power of pro- "Lido" scheme is an actuality,duction and the limited capacity of the markets, under indiscriminate It is stated that some of those competition, to absorb the goods. Macmillan. Conservative affected have no intention of tak- Mr. ing up the new sites, but are, though he is, is as definite as any offering the options, at quite of the Communists in making this avowal. His diagnosis is similar fancy prices, to other people.to theirs. But he sees no remedy He has no faith in Inviting his We have also heard of at least in class war.

countrymen to face the facts, he one instance-apart altogether state Socialism,

this "Lido" transfer puts before them suggestions which meet the need scheme-in which efforts have he believes would been made to sell a matshed site without destroying the supremacy on behalf of the lessee, who is no. of Parliament or the self-governing longer a resident of the Colony.powers of industry.

from

The mere fact that this is

possible suggests that there are NATIONAL PLAN

matshed sites occupied by people

His plan is a national one, but not. who are not the real lessecs--not temporarily occupied whilst the exclusively so, since he envisages of foreign trade on leasce is absent on leave, but an increase held more or less indefinitely.terms acceptable to foreigners. the country (agriculture being pro- This should not be permitted. He divides the productive trades of Actually, of course, the lessees vided for separately) into about a cannot guarantee futuro occupa hundred groups, each controlled by tion to anyone, since all sites are a representative Industrial council. held merely on yearly grants. Each council would strictly regulate None the less, a very consider-production. These councils, in turn able trafficking both in sheca would be represented on a National Economic Council. co-ordinating and sites does persist. In view the whole industry of the country. of the scarcity of available sites,We need not hero discuss the many no-one should be permitted to objections which enn ohuinugly Yo retain control of lots from pure brought against this scheme. Buf- The ficient to observe that there ure ly mercenary motives. whole matter is due for atten-moderato politicians in England, as tion, in which connexion the well as extremists, who believe that Government might do worse the present economic system has nation-wide plan of the heroic order. than investigate the situation ceased to be workable, and that a from all angles.

is necessary.

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A Warsaw netress is said to draw crowds by her hypnotic eyes. Evidently she is a kind of magnetic Pole.

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Parents of what is balleved to be the smallest baby in the world are up. inviting suggestions for an

propriate name for her. May we Hubmit Minniemum?

"Women's

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nowadays," says a writer. Easter

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When married, couples have tw minds with but a single thought you may be sure it belongs to th wife.

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About fifty per cent, of men wh reach the age of forty becom stout, anys a doctor. These, course, are the round figures.

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Getting off with a girl la ofta much easier than getting on y jer afterwards.

When a burglar was arrested

cently he had a pocket full

pawntickats. He apparently

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"Cold weather and longt niuga

help the gramoph

trade." The winter of our

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