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CO-OPERATIVE EXPERIMENT

An experiment in co-operative methods in a little impoverish. ed Chinese village near here, which may have far-reaching effects in determining public policy towards 'the small farmer, was described by Bishop R. O. Hall, speaking at the Hongkong Rotary Club luncheon yesterday.

The Bishop took "Rural Reconstruction" as the title of his address which was designed to focus attention on the potential Importance of the Chinese farmer in the development of the nation.

to find a solution for them.

8, 1933.

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The President of the Club, Professor L. Forster, presided, and the following guests were welcomed: Rotarian IL. D. Howe of Hampton, Virginin; the Rev. Frank Short, Hongkong)- Mr. E. Geddes, Montreal; the Rev. J. W.. MacLean, Kowloon. Erofessor Forster said: It seemed, least twenty more beggars in Hong- to me appropriate that we should ask kong,

In the matter of saving physical lifo the Bishop, our honorary member, to address us at the first meeting of the there is a view-not held by the best new year. He is deeply interested in authorities-that it is better to let the the social problems of this Colony and weaklinga dia. But if you let a village who make up the of China, and on one is more anxious dio the person it, or not at

village don't die once.

unwelcome become They

Fan Kwei-nang, 26, unemployed, The subject Bishop Hall has chosen mouths in the adjoining towns. That was committed to stand trial at the to-day is "Rural Reconstruction." is only one reason why we townsmen You have already heard addresses on cannot afford to neglect the country, next Criminal Sessions, by Mr. E. I. Co-operative Societies by Mr. Strick why we must know as much about the Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magis- Iand and on Mr. James Yen's naks ways of larks as we do about the ways tracy yesterday afternoon, on two education mot

movement in North China, of "sparrers." In Fek Team we have charges of uttering forged $10 notes New York commodity exchange are

of the Chartered Bank of India, Aus-issued by Reuter. both describing the progress that is a fivefold policy. being made in certain directions in the

(1). W

We have attacked the root tralia and China. A further charge. districts. The

Bishop is reason of the poverty-the continual of uttering a similar forged bank-

and thousand dolines with the most gener- Tsing, a village between Canton, and at Taipo, where he is ous help and advice of the authorities developing a school for orphans whose of the Shing Mun Dam, in making education will not unfit them for rural the river bank safe from yearly life but will render them much better destruction. We still owe $700 of this equipped for it.

amount, but we have made the aur. vival of Pek Taam possible and ac have kept 100 people opt of the alums to of the cities.

&ing an experiment in Tecung | exposure to flood. We have spent one note was withdrawn.

here

The Bishop therefore, will address un with his practical experience draw upon and not discourse upon rurat development in mere academic fashion.

President (2).

Financing Village

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Inspector

QUOTATIONS

The following quotations

March

New York Cotton

stated May Choster-Woods that he had been instructed to with- July draw the charge of uttering a forged October $10 note of the Chartered Bank at December (1936) 10.46 Tung Lo Wan during November last Spot year.

on the

Jan. B. Jan. 7.

11.39 -11.16

11.13/15

10.85/86

10.80 10.47.

-10.61/01

10.10/10

10.10/10

12.15

11.80

New York Rubber

13.80 14.02

13.066/96

14.09/09

14.17

14.24/24

14.35

14.40/50

14.07n

14.60/00

Chicago Wheat

May

10214

10274/103

July

90%

00%/201

September

80%

884/88%

Total sales:-231 lots.

Monday's sales: 40,220,000 bushels.

Chicago Corn

62% 02/01% 02-% 62/62 Monday's sales: 4,641,000 bushels.

Lam Kai, master of a tobacco shop at No. 338 Matauwal Road, stated March that about 2 pm. on December 1 May man who spoke like a Shanghai man July The second method of at-went to the shop to buy a packet of September cigarettes for which he tendered a December The Bishop waist: The thought it fitting to ask a new member tacking the disease of which poverty note. There was no change, an to apenk at this first meeting of the is the symbol, is by Christian money the man went away and came back new year. I have thought it fit to lending. We have taken over early later and stated that he would necept speak of the oldest thing under the all the debts of the village at 12 por five cents leas.

At that time a woman named Wong un and one which, concerned as it a cent. per annum (ie. 1 per with food production, vitally affects month) of which 6 per cent, goes in this Club whose weekly ritual has to interest and the balanco into reserve Yukawan was in the shop paying er) and we have started a village Co- cards, and she changed the note for do with the inner man, (Laughter) and Rutal reconstruction is also, I believe, operative Bank from which each the man.

up to $30

Wong Yuk-way, widow, testified concerned with the most heavily family is allowed to draw capitalised industry in the world, if for a productive enterprise such as that she changed the banknote, and May

buffaloes to walk young the labour of centuries can be called new trees, enpital. For myself, however, born (as they walk puppies from an Englater handed it to a woman named July and bred a towman, the work and lish hunt), a sugar cane press, rent Cheung Tim-tal. That note was the life of a farmer is a new and inspiring of more fields ete We have invested only Chartered Bank $10 noten $2,000 in this double project and need further $10,000 to complete the first Day by tiny as 1 dabble in its part of it. mysteries I find myself in the po-

(3) The third is education, but tion of the little town boy on a Sunday School outing absorbed, in his education in which the three "R" Brst experience of the skylark. "Hare the least. Important. The most mister," he said to his teacher, important is to learn the lesson of "There's a sparrer up there and it co-operation which we believe to be can't get up and it can't get down and the way of health in economic life. Further, evidence was given by In- And a very close second is education spector Chester-Woods and Acting it aint alf 'ollerin." (Laughter).

in the use of leleure. I do not regard Crown-Sergeant II A. McKay, and betting and

gambling as a sin but as defendant was committed for trial.

ciucation. the mark of deficient Rural reconstruction is also a new (Laughter). We are helping them to department of the life of Christian learn enough of the three "Ra" to though he was not a Christian, no-one Missions and of the Chinese Church be able to be good co-operators and to had a higher regard for the Bishop's though, like nearly every new thing make good use of lelsure hours.

interest.

Social Disease

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Orphanage Set Up

witness's possession.

Mny Corroborative evidence, was given | July by Cheung Tim-tai, married woman, who testified that she in turn gave March womna. The latter gave evidener of July the note to Chang Wai-lin, married May wom handing the note to Chinese iletee- Live C342.

Winnipeg Wheat 89

New York Bilk

802

1.95% 1.95 1.9-4%

Total sales: 40 lots,

80/89

89%/80..

1.97/98 1.90%/07 1.964737

SZECHUAN QUAKE

THOUSANDS KILLED IN

REMOTE AREA ·

continues

mount-s

Shanghai, Jan. 7, personality and his work for the poor

Belated reports received from Szo- uf Hongkong (appinuse). He was In the missionary world, it Was in-

very glad to be able to pay this sincere chuan tell of tremendous loss of life cluded in the amazingly

from the Mapien and humble tribute to the Bishop's and property through earthquake..

Official advices physical work. (4) Fourthly, there is retivities of the missionary pioneers.

district state that "houses fell liko have Just celebrated the cen health, but in this the economic fac

The talk had been a very interest-packs of cards, trees were

uprooted, tenary of medical missionary work in or comes first, the purely medical. South Chinn. The next century will second. Until we can get a higher ing one and dealt, he ventured to say. and hills were apllt asunder." see medical missionary work become a standard of living and a 60 per cent. with one of the most pressing pro- The death toll, believed to numbor

present time. The thousands, liny unit in China's mighty army better physique, the Village Clinic we blems of the

for the whole district can Bishop had spoken of the place of the reports from remote areas are re-

farmer in China and he, the speaker, celveil.

that all the little books

and

Reports from Shongtu say that the could say he had come across lately enrfli shocks continued for five hours showed that the Republic of China and were accompanied by rumblings.

look hurled down the mountain sides. was increasingly Inclning to the same Entire villages were said to have been forward with intereat to the result of view. The Rotary Club would the experiment which the Bishop and his helpers were carrying on in the village described.

The meeting was then declared ad- journed.

of disease fighters. But man lives in have openers work.

only two bodies: a physical body and a do social body, and the social boily in (5) Fifthly we are converting two also suffering from disease.

town orphanages into a Rural Or This disease is not poverty. Pover-phanages at Tairo where we shall disease. train orphan boys and girls to be ty is a symptom only of Whint the disease is I will not attempt good farmers rather than third rate

namestownees: all, the to describe. After

re only! rheumatism, tuberculosis etc. are

We know that all that we can do symbols. The diseases they signify is a drop in the ocean. The Chinese are infinitely varied and not nearly so Government will do most of the work, well understood as we fondly imagine. but we are glad to be allowed to help And may I take this opportunity of with the very poor. And we hope saying a

word about Jesus's view of also that our more intricate experience poverty. He said "Blessed are the in a very limited sphere may prove peor," hat He did not add "Because a valuable laboratory for larger

Your you are poor" but

On the condition can be improved other hand Ife suggested that the wealthy were much less fortunate, not because they were wealthy but be- cause it was much more difficult to change their pesussion-clogged mind. It is easler He said for a cantel to go through a needle's eye than for a wealthy man to find the true meaning of life.

schemes.

Farmer and Future- May I add three more things. The rst is that I am a heretle about Chinese culture. A great Christian educationalist used to call himself a herelle. My heresy about loyal Chinese calture is both loyal and affectionate. Thi

This in the heresy: that Chinese literature, philosophy and ethics are less important than the actual achievements of her craftsmen.

his From my point of view then, as a Of all the craftsmen in Chinese Christian minister, poverty is like the tory the farmer is at once the most loathsome marks of leprosy, and as, outstanding as he is the most numer In Christ's name, we heat the lepers aus. It is through helping the of Pakhol so in Pek Taam we are set-farmers to a new freedom that the out to heal the poor, to remove future of China will be most surely the disease of which poverty is the established. Our own future in this city is so closely bound up with China

ing

Pek

Christian View,

Bymam is typical only of what that wo áre vitally concerned with all we are trying to do in many other that makes for her well being, w places. The commander of the XVIII Secondly, and arising out of this

Hongkong is closely bound Army Corps in France with whom I poverty was, had over 600 platoons of infantry up with the rural poverty in Kwang- under his commandi, but he made one tung. That poverty is already making a demonstration platoon. By giving great changes in the transient" them neelal attention he found out category in our city population. If it what was possible and then set them should ever prove true that the poor to show the others. Pek Taam is our est are the most permanent and least demonstration platoon.

transient element in the community Fek Taam is a village of 100 souls we should be compolled in the inter- all told with a cash income which it esta of justice and common honesty to His diffoult to satinate but which is make drastic changes in our public certainly less than $10 a person a expenditure. On the other hand a would year. In as far as they need cur- prosperous rural Kwangtung rency, rice is that currency, Two mean an increase in our trade and a years ago the pond, the village itself decrease in our poor.

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not

and all their fields were mortgaged at Thirdly if there are any who feel an Interest rate far beyond their that the well being of the poor is

to pay

Christian minister Its average is pro- the business of capacity bably 20 per cent. per annum, paid I would remind them that those who in rice. In the months before rice tacitly or explicitly take refuge in the harvest they had to borrow rice. to New Testament phrase The poor: ye ent, to be paid back with interest. hayo always with you,”! ara, as a rule, What their debt acceleration rate just those people who tako good care was under those conditions statisti- not to be, always, with the poor. clans will tell you.

(Laughter and applause). Appreciation

Preventing Beggara.

I only know that if yo had "ngt The lion. Mr. M. K. Lo, called upon"

intervened there would have been in

Ava years time no Pek Taam but at to propose a vote of thanks, said that.

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