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THE ́HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936.

Colonial Office Rejection

Results in

HONGKONG CIVIL

SERVANTS BAND

of H. K. Petition

By

Officers

Counter-Move

SOFT.

A NEW HAT

TOGETHER: FORM NEW ASSOCIATION

"GRIEVANCES" SAID TO BE REASON FOR NEW MOVE: GOVERNMENT REPLACEMENT OF BRITONS

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BY ASIATIC EMPLOYEES

"Telograph" Staff Reporter

Owing, it is stated, to dissatisfaction at conditions existing in the Government service, Civil Servants in Hongkong have decided to form a Hongkong Civil Service Association through which they can jointly air their grievances.

The initial steps have, I learn, already been taken.

Several branches of the Civil Service, notably the Public Works' Department Subordinates, the Public Works Department Engineers,: the Medical Department and the Cadets have already formed their own Associations.

A hearty farewell by members of the Public Works Department of the S. M. C. and his many friends was given to Mr. C. Harpur, retiring Commissioner of the Pubile Works Depart- ment, when he sailed on retirement from Shanghai in the Empress of Russia. Both foreign an Chinese members of the P. 1. D. assembled at the Customs Jelty, to bid Mr: Harpur adieu. A Chinese band was in attendance rendering selections and two huge cloth streamers were hung over the Customs Jelly, saying "Hearty Send-Off To C. Harpur, Esq., by P. W. D. Chinesp Staff." Above is shown a section of the orchestra, and Mr. Harpur having his last glimpse of Shanghal.

RADIOPHONE FROM

It is proposed that each Branch will elect a representative to ai HONGKONG TO

central organisation, which will represent the entire civil service.

Permission to form the Association was, I have been informed,

granted by His Excellency the Governor upon petition from civil LONDON SOON

servants.

It will be recalled that an attempt was made to form a Civil Service Association in Hongkong some nears ago, but the proposal was retoed by the Governor of that time.

to form J new Association was arrived at,

DECISION

it is stated, following rejection by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, of a petition from Hong- kong civil servants regarding the recent pay cut.

The petition smight restoration of elvil service salary cuts by proposing as alternative revenue-raisers an in- come tax on the wealthy class, In- treased assessment tax, tax on excess consumption of water, increased duties on liquors and tobaccos, and heavier motor and betting taxes.

Other "urigent" problema are also said to be seriously agitating civil ser- vants in Hongkong.

WIDOWS AND Orphans

One of these is the question of

administration of the Widows and

Orphans' Pension Scheme from

which, as disclosed in the "Tele-

graph" on Saturday, Government has made excess revenue of near- ly two million dollars.

Hongkong Smacks Its Lips At

Canned Beer

CANTON-SHA'I SERVICE READY

BEFORE the end of this month, you will be able to telephone your people or your business houses in London from your private telephone.

The magic of radio will bring 97 per cent, of the world's 30,000,- 000 telephone subscribers to your ‘phone.

Preparations for inauguration of a Canton-Shanghai radio tele- phone service are so far advanced that it is expected that regular communication will become a reality before the end of the month.

By utilising this service, the Hongkong telephone subscriber can speak to any part of the world.

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"Telegraph" Staff Roportar

Shanghai is in communication Hongkong is taking kind-with all centres, vis Japan.

of l'ending completion

the ly to "canned" beer.

Shanghai-London beam telephone It is now available, and is service, which in expected to be being sold in considerable urated early next year, the Japanese service will be used to quantities, at the Hongkong, relay traffic to other parts of the

world. Peninsula or Repulse Bay British material is being used Hotels.

the construction of the two

By next summer, canned beer The jurity--or Hongkong -- eiva should be all the vogue_in_Bong- servants are said to favour the adop-kong.

Here

tion in th. Colony of the Central, Briefly, to the consumer, the Fund recommended by the Colonialense for the can as against the Offce Committee on Widows and Orphans Pensions. It is understood bottle is that it weighs only half that the Hongkong Government does as nuch, occupies half the space. not favour adoption of this recom-ot an equal number of bottles of mendation, but desires retention of beer and is non-Brenkable, the present Scheme.

There are three attrnetlons enh- Substitution of European-Britished beer should have for the pic- 01 matshed by Asiatle and other employees in nicker, yachtsman, the civil service is also a grievance frequenter., whichi will, it is stated, provide

in Hongkong, sales of the new Association with one of canned beer have so far been its earliest tasks.

counted In hundreds. Across the In conformity with Government's Pacifle. approximately 4,000,000 decision, expressed during presenta- cans ef beer are, I hear, sold tion of the int Budget, to All vucnncles that occur in the civil daily; this fantastic figure is close service with Asiatics and other non- to that for the number of cans of Britons, the European staff has been British food packed in 1935, and with modicum of fore- considerably decreased during the anyone

this iden is Conversely, sight can see that past nine months. large increase has taken place in the going to spread.. non-European staff.

In the Police Department $10,500 has been saved this year by the com- pleto abolillon of posts.

EUROPEANS REPLACED

In the Sanitary Department five new Asiatle Sanitary Inspectors have been appointed, their appointment

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in

giant transmitters for the Canton- Shanghat service.

The ordinary trunk line service of the Hongkong Telephone Com- pany will be used to connect the Hongkong subscriber with Canton radio station.

It

RADIO BROADCAST

Jazz Medley by The Continental Trio

TWO STUDIO ITEMS

From Z.D.W. on a wavelength of 350 metres (845 kilocycles):

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme,

* p.m. De Groot and Plecadilly Orchestra,

the

Louise Selection (Charpentier): The Song of Songs (Moya); La (Grleg); Romance (Rubinstein); La Violetera (Padilla); } Love you

Paloma (Yradier): Destiny (Baynes); Standchen (Strauss); Ay, Ay, Ay (Perez).

7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations.

7.33 p.m. From the Studio. Ʌ Jazz Medley by "The Con- thetinental Trio."

Programme.

Is understood that radio- A Selection of Old Favourites

1. Shine on Harvest Moon; 2. Who's telephone fees between Canton and Shanghai have not yet been de-surry Now?; 3. Mary Lou; 4. My Silent Love: 5. Smiles: 6. Wonder cided upon. However, it is be- who's kissing her now: 7. Tea for lleved that a three-minute con- Twa; El. Medley: Among my. versation with Shanghai would Souvenirs; Whispering: Avalon. not cost the Hongkong subscriber more than $10.

SHE HAD TWO

BLACK EYES

IN QUARREL

New York, Aug. 25.

Millionairess Mrs. Katrina Bradford, pretty twenty- seven-year-old society woman, who will one day control two American fortunes, was to-day detained pending police investigation into the sudden death of her husband,

Her husband, John Bradford, thirty-one-year-old son of a former President of the Illinois Bank, was found dead The latest cans manufactured in in his apartment in fashionable Pasadena. the United States and sold in Hongkong do not affect the flavour Neighbours, hearing hys-j never did. We have been living en of its contents; in fact, many terical screams, discovered Iocal people declare that it resem- bles draught beer more thon the the tragedy and told the bottled variety.

police, who arrested, Mrs. Bradford

technical

having as its aim "the replacement of INVISIBLE RAY European Inspectors" (vide last Bud- pet speech),

One Cudet Oficer

hus departed BIDS TO OUST

from the Colonial Secretary's Depart- ment on leave. He will not be re- placed.

In the Supreme Court, Europem Bailiffs are to be replaced by 'non- Europeans, as soon as circumstances

permit.

STENOGRAPHERS OUT

ns

TRAFFIC POLICE

on

my money."

Mrs. Bradford is the grand-niece H. Harriman, dead American railway magnale, and is a member of the wealthy New York family of Vanrensselaer. She once eloped to Maryland, and was married there Lo Gustavo De Medina, attache at the Embassy. The romance thirteen

step- days. Her father, Lieut.-Colonel John Dunn. allger that the young diplomat had two other wives, one In Spain.

Spanish

charges of disturbing the peace until they have finish-lasted ed their inquiries.

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8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.

8.03 p.m. "From Foreign Lands" (Moszkowski).

8.15 p.m. Vocal_Gem+_from Grand Opera,

Aidn (Verdi): Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss); Rigoletto (Verdi).

8.40 p.m. Debroy Somers Band. Selection--Words and Music; Selec- Store; Ballroom

tion-

MemoriesValiz.cs.

p.nl.

News and ments from London.

Announce-

920 p.m. From the Studio. ".

A Pianoforte Recital by Rupert Baldwin, AT.C.L.

Programme. Movements from the Suttes of 16th

and 17th century composers

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A. FAMOUS FAMILY MR. AND MRS. WODEHOUSE RETURN TO COLONY

WATCHMAN SHOT

INDIAN HURT BY FRIEND'S 1. Galliard; Pavana (The Earl of

REVOLVER GOING OFF William Byrde (1540); Salisbury)

A shot heard about 2 ....Giles Farnaby (1570); 3. Prelude; Gavotte; Saru-

yesterday morning in Queen's Road and Gigue. ....Archangelo Corelli (1663); 4. Minuet....Henry

Central caused a considerable amount of alarm, until it was ascertained that Purcell (1658); 5. Pastorale

It was the accidental discharge of a fifteen years.

Apart from being known as a revolver which was being cleaned by brother of Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, an Indian walchman employed at formerly of the Hongkong Palice, and

bande

Scarlatti (1859),

p.m.

9.35 (Wcher).

"Euryanthe"-Overture

9.45 p.m. From the Studio. A Recital by Mrs. Neil Mathelson (Contralto) accompanied by Maurice Barton.

Programme.

1. A Memory ....Goring Thomas; 2. The Cloths of Heaven....Thomas Vaughan Dunhill; 3. Linden Lean Williams; 4. Like to the Damask Rose

Elgar.

10 p.m. Big Ben from London. The BBC. Dance. Orchestra. 11 p.m. Close Down..

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and frequencies are observed by Daventry,

Frequency 6,500 .. 9.510 k.. 8.58$ 1.

Wavelength "29,65⋅ meires 31.84 meiten 31.30 mptres

11.720.. .25.63 miren

metres

the Bank of Canion.

the

Many Hongkong residents will be interested to learn of the return of

Wodehouse to Mr. R. L. D. Colony, accompanied by his wife and three children, after an absence of

of the famous humorist writer "P. G.", Mr. Wodehouse has his own

It was, however, a more serious claim to fame here by reason of his matter than was originally thought, prowess as a cricketer and golfer. as an Indian watchman named Mala-In 1820 he won the local golf cham- for Khan, employed at David House,pionship, and appeared in the Inter- received the bullet in his right thigh port cricket series. and was admitted to the Government the Union Insurance Society of Can-

Mr. Wodehouse connected with. - Civil Hospital for treatment.

ton, on whose behalf he has spent the 'il appears

that Milafur Khan Intervening period in India and North visited a friend of his, Gulam Nadar, China. who was a watchman employed at the Bank of Canton. Gulam Nadar was engaged in cleaning his revolver ut the time of this visit, and during the conversation, the revolver sudden- ly went off, injuring Malafar Khan.

The Police

His brother, Mr. P. P. J. WodehousY was Assistant Superintendent in the Hongkong Police Force and went ex retirement four years ago to England. Mrs. R. L. D. Wodehouse was in Hongkong in 1914. She is the daugh- ter o

of General Baker Brown, C.BL.y

were notified, and (retired) then Colonel Baker Brown, quickly arrived on the scene, and the Chief Engineer of the China Com- Injured man was sent to hospital. mand. It has been ascertained that the affair was purely accidental, and no tolen against proceedings will be Gulum Nadar.

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7.30 p.m. ATA..p.m

Itai ..

A Programme of. New Grams. phane Itecards.

Mrs. Bradford is now in the London, Aug. 25. prison ward of the Los Angeles Extensive experiments in traffic) control by invisible ray, with a view General Hospital. She has two! to extending the system all over Brit-black eyes and a number of ain, are to be instituted by the bruises. Ministry of Transport.

Mrs. Bradford says she awoke St. Heller, The experiment at

and found her husband lying on j Female British stenographers in all Morden, on the borders of London, the floor. The apartment was

Chan Tal-sung, aged 33, unemploy Departments will be replaced by non- where pedestrians may operate traffic almost completely wrecked and Britons when they resign or leave the lights by invisible ray, is considered service.

empty bottles were scattered about.ed, appeared on remand before Mr.

CHL Macfadyen at the Kowloori having proved its worth. Rays to "He's been drinking the night be- RA? Two Nursing Sister oppointments be operated alone by vehicles and foot fore," said the blonde heiress. "In Magistracy yesterday charged with have been abolished in the Medical passengers will be tested in all the fact, he'd been drinking for months, possession of 170 herola pillo at No. 98. Department. One of the Sisters has principal traffic centres.

I heard him come home in the night Apliu Street, second floor, on August Three new ray systems are to be and stumble over the furniture. been

replaced by two Chinese Mid-

20. Revenue Officer P. J. O'Neill wives.

the Immediate future. installed in

"I'd had a few drinks myself stated that the premises were raided the Sanitary Department the They will be followed by the number of second-class European installation of rays at a series of busy

that night, just a few. I was too by R. 9. Grimmlit, and were really a heroin factory, though no work was sleepy to get up then. When I Sanitary Inspectors has also been re-traffe junctions, where a whole se-

awoke in the duced in conformity with "Govern-quence of traffic lines and footways ment's policy gradually to replace will be brought under automatic European by Asistic Sanitary Inspec- control. fors as voenneles occur among the Should these experiments succeed, ing a quarrel with her husband.a.

Possession of Pills a former." (vide Budget speech) A the whole road system of Great considerable number of other posts in Britain soon may be covered with a week ago. She said that there was

Chau Wing-luk, 24, unemployed, no quarrel just before his death; this+Department have also been network of invisible rays; controlling

Her husband had worked as an charged before Mr. W. Schofield at abolished.

every vehicle and every foot passen-electrical Engineer, she said. But the Central Magistracy yesterday with. It is understood that the idea of with the uncanny precision of a he had been employed only. Introsessien et 10,500 heroin pills at forming o Civil Service Association scientific instrument. in Hongkong originated with the Lo

remanded for a week in Polica cuN-- London and Liverpool have been millently slece their marriage four Bonham Strand West on Sunday, was

years ago.

tody,to have the Analyst's report Cadets. Practically every Branch of selected as the centres most suitable

MY MONEY" Inspector Hourihan said defendant- sented to announce its intention state. Later other cities and busy"We took a trip to Honolulu last was carrying the pills in a rattan of Becoming represented in the move trame centres are to be selected far. Tebruary he planned to work basket when arrested. Buil. In the.. ments

a further extension of testare mathare W anld be:radford, but he sum of $2,500 was fixed,

him on the Bling, I found being done at the time. All the gear

for making pills was found,, Defen- Mrs. Bradford dcclured she hadnt was fined $150, or three months'

Inbour. received black eyes and bruises-dur-

the Civil Service is said to be repré. for the experiments in their secondary AAN DE NO.

19. Nat Genelia and bla Georgiana In programme of danco munie, and Claude Hulbert and Kaid Trevor "jame mère sensoras.!! 11.69. The Nawe and Announcemenja,

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1.15 p.m. Il Ben. The B.B.C Military

Ban 2.54. p.m. The polled kort."

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3.16 DR. A Recital by Rachel Oralia

(Australian Pine), 9.20 p.m.linchoys.**. 145 pm. The News and Annomisemmasta,

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· Transmitasion 2 *** (0.8.0.0.nat.)

-7 pm. --- Big Bang Tonlund - the- North-

Pier Grekosten,

o16] · Tarif." blasica) Interlude: 3. p.m. "Carlosition of the

"Theatre,"

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Mr. and Mrs. Wodehouse prrived by the Ranpura on Wednesday, after spending long leave in England.

The family is well known in Hong-. kòng, tho father of Ured brother, the late Mr. I. E. WodehuAIKA, C,BLOG having come out to the Colony to Join the Civil Servico in the 1919, as a Student Interpreter, being later

zagus sppointed an Assistant Boporttens fent ut Polige, dini antiwatiently Pallés Magistente. Un retired in IBM

0.30 p.m. An Organ Reciža),

Greenwich Time flynal at 8 pm. F. n,m. • The News and Antywanermanta. 1.30 9.15, A Récital af Closetra) Hanyu

Transpilusion 3

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10.18 "Kamante. 19,11 pas. À Mhari Harildi by : Laurs

Donor fanstorteni

MME, CHHANG KAI-SIIER

INFORMAL, VINPI TO GOVERNMENT AIOUNIS

Mutame Chiang Kai-shule, who in 111 pm. Kvenone, fjam Yach Minster,

ljuskii a byler way in the Colony, 17:33 pm. The New and Announcements had ten today with thin the

droomwich Time, Niangi at CE-MINU HR Kme "pfulgtand what I wae Haen | Uoyeriment froman.

Kovernor Hol: Endy Cahtegaalt ni

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he affair was entirely-informati Routery