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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 1,

1937.

VICTORIA FREE STATE NOW ALHAMBRA

HOSPITAL

IS CLOSED

Was Another Jubilee

Memorial

Patients Go To New

EIRE, WITH NEW CONSTITUTION

Institution De Valera to Appeal to

One of the two large institutions affected by the opening of the new $4,000,000 Queen Mary Hospital has clused its doors.

The Victoria Hospital, which was opened in 1003, removed its last patient from the general block this morning, and the majority of the

Nation With Reforms

stuff has been transferred to the new UNITY OF WHOLE ISLAND

Institution. Two ambulances were!

effect used to

the transfer of patients.

Although the general block hing een closed down, the Medical De- partment is retaining the maternity block, which still has a few patients, und which will not be closed for soine weeks.

The Victorin Hospital ans no very uld assocations, Its origin dating

BANQAYITÁHNEMOGEN

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PICTURES Special Class In Competition

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IS ULTIMATE GOAL

Dublin, Apr. 30.

A bicameral, of two-chamber, system will be restored to the Irish Free State under the new Constitution issued to-day and which Mr. Eamon de Valera, the chief executive, will submit to the country at the coming general election.

The second chamber will be formed on a vocational basis.

The

Governor-General will be replaced by a tion, amateur photographers are re- President, who will be apart from party politics and

minded of the speetal class to be in-

"THE GREEN PASTURES" cluded in this years Telegraph" sectional interests, and who will be called a Tuachtaran.

A FABLE BY MARC CONNELLY

TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUR

ORIENTAL

for pictures of the locat celebrations. He will have the power to withhold assent from bills.

This section will form part of

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The name of the Free State will be altered to Eire, extend from June to August, inclu- the old name for Ireland (Erin is incorrect). sive, but advance notice is given thereof in order that amateurs, may muke a point of getting snapshots which will reflect the Coronation

A striking preamble to the new the whole of Ireland, its islands and Constitution rends

pending territorial seas, but that "In the name of the Most Holy establishment of jurisdiction over the Trinity, wherefrom is all authority whole of the country, the parliamen- For this special class, two hand-we. the people of Erie, humbly actary laws will apply to the Irish Free some trophies, kindly donated by Dr. knowledge our obligations to the state area.

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it is back only to 1897, but interesting coincidence that it form ed a Jubilee mernoriai.

an

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F. Bunje and Mr. J. C. M. Grenham, Divine Lord Jesus Christ, who sus- will be offered as prizes, Entries for Lained our fathers through the een-| The Blog will be of green, white all sections of the Competition openturies of trial, gratefully remem- and orange.

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The primary offcial language will the rightful Independence of our be frish, and secondary tongue nation...o that Bie dignity and English. freedom of the Individunt may be The President will be elected by assured. true social order attained, popular vote for seven year perlads. The Senate will be composed of the unity of our country restored and concord established with other na-sixty members, of whom the Prime lens, do give ourselves his Constitu- Minister will nominate eleven, the National University will elect three. tian."

Articles of the Constitution state Trinity College three and, the Dali that the national territory consists of forty-three.-Router.

In 1897 Queen Victoria hnd reign ed for 60 years and her Diamond was celebrated throughout Jubilee the Empire, this Colony being among the most loyal in its commemoration ot the me- the occasion. of the morials to that time is Victorin Road, originally known as Jubilee Roud.

The

decision to erect the Victoria Hospital as a Jubilee commemoration was taken in 1897, and on June

almost 40 years ago to the day that the foundation stone was laid by Sir William Robinson, the Governor of that time.

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The official opening of the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children-- to give it its full. title-took place on November 7, 1903. Sir Henry Blake, then Governor, ochuting.

Novel Scheme

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London, Apr. 30.

Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, to-day opened a block of flats at Bristol which are a new experi- ment in stum clenranee.

The flats are being provided to meet the needs of small families and elderly single people who are unable, owing to their work, to move to out- lying estates and who do not require a full-sized house, The families who will occupy theni are persons of very small means, and

this scheme the Bristol Corporation are tackling the hard core of same of the lower-pald workers in the slums.

The rents of the smallest flats are as low as four shillings per week, Inclusive of rates, waters and elec- furn)- tric light, and Inside ture for the tenants.

some

Sir Kingsley Wood said the greatest contribution that had been made by the present generation to social im- provements and security had been in respect of better housing for the people.-British Wireless.

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