1938-11-24 — Page 14

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER 24,

1938.

Marriage Schools Draw Queues

HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY

FROM CLASSES

Training-for-marriage classes have become so popular that hundreds of girls are being turned away at some evening technical institutes.

EMPIRE NEWS

PLANNING SECURITY FOR AUSTRALIA

Dressmaking, cookery, laundry work, child welfare, ¡domestic electricity and hygiene are the favourite subjects.

Most of the girls who want to take them are engaged or hop-! ing to be engaged to be married. Regent-street Polytechnic, one of the most important schools in Lon- don, has turned away a "tremendous number of applicants for cookery and dressmaking classes.

Sydney, Chelsea Polytechnic has had many The mobilisation of Australian vemore giris applying than ever before, sources in the interests of security but has managed to find room for was referred to by Sir Earle Page, them. Minister of Commerce, in the House!

of Representatives,

He said that the Commonwealth

and

RUSH OF STUDENTS

"It is impossible for us to cope tates should jointly plan the with the rush of students in this

1 " during the next seven to 10 years district, suld one evening schoo of the total Pay

ravene of their loan re-principal. "This year we have had aources available for new develop extra dressmaking classes and ments, throughout Australia,

"ilul that is not nearly enough.

I have made arrangements to take Mr. Curtin, Leader of the Opposi-a few more girls in the cookery

kitchens. tion, suggested that the National Works and Services Counca should take over the

the duties of both the Long Council and the Definee Council, and alan supply the need for an Austra

Han Employment Coun

Council. The real

remedy was unification.

Barwly Development.-The Federal Govermint plans the erection atj

We had one night for enrolling in these subjects.

"The Isis were due to open at 6 p.ms. At a quarter to six there were long queues of women and girls walling, and the lists closed

39 soon as they were opened, "We had to turn hundreds away,

Darwin of

if a hospital large enough to past when the girls saw the fists were serve a population of 20,000, although closing there was almost a free fight

the intubitant at present only mums to get into the classes.

ber 3,000. Two large hotels are to:

be built for air passengers and dier,

travellers. It is recognised that Dar-

win

is destined to become a strung

naval and military bast. naval and

Racire

sional

Tipsters

Banned-Profes

racing tipsters have been ull-

cially abolished

New South Wales

SHOT MAN DIES

DURING OPERATION

Landon.

Eviden that a shot man died chloroform

under the Gaining and Betting B from

the effects of

which has just become law. Draste maesthesia and shock from penalties are provided for broadcast-uperation was given at Denbigh ing and publishing: betting odds b Assizes when he brother-in-law wan for the running of the fast race at any race meeting. South Africa

UNEMPLOYMENT DUE TO DUMPING

Cape Town.

overseas

accused of manslaughter and unlaw

ful wounding. Harry Leslie BreeaP was alleged to ave shot his brother- in-law Francis Benjamin Morgan

| Jones in the neck. The wound Was

stated not to have been very dan- but during an operation for RUTOUS the removal of the bullet the sur- geot's stool slipped and he fell. The bullet surgeon could not locate the again and Jones died under the was anaysthetic. He was, however, Found

A strong demand that the Govern- ment should protcet South African industries against the competition of dumped goods from

have A persistently enlarged made by Mr. F. K. Dixou in his pre-to s'dential address to the South Afri-thymus gland, which caused a ten- can Federatesi Chamber of Indus-dency to be more susceptible to the effects of an anaesthetic. The hear-

tries.

Mr. Dixon declared that unemploy-ing was adjourned, ment was widespread throughout the country, though the Government's

parade 50 men, fully trained in air! statistics did not reflect this position. raid precautions. Including pas-mask There were very few Industries which were not working short time.training and the bullding of bomb-1

It was folly, however, to talk of a depression.

Young Native Delinquents-Dr. Ray Phillips declared at a Johannes- burg conference that the separation of parents and low wages of natives were largely responsible for native juvenile delinquency. The staff of a

large

proof shelters. India

STABBING CASE -SENTENCE

Calcutta,

Cyril D'Santos, an Anglo-Indian,

native school estimated that 85 has been sentenced to nine months' per cent. of the children were under-imprisonment for stabbing Mr. Ewan Shaw, general manager of the largest [ed.

To prove his theory that prosperity fles in the soil, last spring Henry Ford, motor magnate, settled 68 youths from welfare families in a back-to-the-farm move near his birthplace in Greenfield. Mich. He housed them in army teals, left centre, gave them 400 peres and provided tractors, right centre, and other necessaries. Now Camp Legion is harvesting 80 varieties of crops, from soy beans to honey. The experiment was so successful that Mr. Ford plans several new camps next year, Boys received $2 a day. Top, digging potatoes and, bottom, soriing them. Doys will enroll in Ford Trade School this winter.

15.000

WOMEN FIGHT

TO BE 'CHARS'

£4 A Week Is Offered

Fifteen thousand women, mostly negresses. be- sicged Washington Police Station recently, milling and fighting for 2,000 jobs as charwomen in Govern- ment buildings.

Before 3 a.m. 5,000 job- men for hours. A.R.P. Training-Nigel, 30 miles clucms In Calcutta.

Civil Service Commission oflì. from Johannesburg, is the Brst town D'Santos had been caretaker at the seekers had blocked the traffic

long line-up,cials ran 2

out of application in the Union to enll for volunteers cinema, but had been dismissed. and formed for umbulance work and air raid pre-While Mr. Shaw was standing out-Thousands more gathered, and forms, but the disappointed caullons. The Red Cross Society has side the cinema D'Santos stabbed him several hundred policemen women refused to budge until notified the Nigel men's ambulance with a table knife, causing a serious struggled with the frenzied wo- they were dispersed by mounted

section that it will be required to wound.

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and foot police. The char- women's jobs are worth about £4 a week.

Horse Made to Draw Car ¡And Cart

- was stated in a cruelty ense at Croydon recently that when police stopped a horse perspiration dropp- ing from it formed pools at its feet. The horse was stated to have drawn a cart to which was attached a saloon car from Banstead to Mlt- chom.

George Waller (22) and Mark Hiden (35), street traders, both of Wardley Street, Wandsworth, were each sent to prison for a month with hard labour.

Waller

charged with WRS

11- treating a bay mare by overloading [and over-driving it, and Hilden with |uiding and abetting.

CAR HAD FLAT TYRES The case for the prosecution was that the mare had pulled from Ban- stead to Mitcham n eart behind which was attached a saloon cur, the dead weight of which was about a ton. it d three fat tyres and one wheel was bare!

was

Mr. Hubert Evans veterluary sur- Keon, of Mitcham Road,

Tooting aald: "I have never

seen a horse She perspire · more.

very sporting tile mare and she would have worked until she dropped."

Waller sold that the mare had been hired, and he did not understand horses.

HARD ON ROAD HOGS

Berlin.

German police are now em- powered to punish an offending motorist by ordering him out of his car and making him let the air out of his tyres.

When the driver has listened to a lecture he may pump up the tyres and proceed, a wiser and wearler man.

This is an order of General Daluere, chief of polier, who estimates that 35 per cent of Recidents in Germany are caused by motorists, and only 8 per cent. by pedestrians.

Last year 8,000 people were killed and 175,000 Injured.

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