1938-11-24 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER

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

Sydney.

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-atreet Polytechnic, one of the most important schools in Lon- don, las turned away a "tremendous number of applicants for cookery and dressmoking closes,

Chelsea Polytechnic has had many The mobilisation of Australian re-more girls 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!

RUSH OF STUDENTS

"It is impossible for us to cope and States should jointly plan the with the rush of students in this use during the next seven to 10 years district," said one evening school of the total revenue of their loan re- principal. This year we have had

for new develop. | sources available ments throughout Australia.

two extra dressmaking classes and

"But that is not nearly enough.

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

kitchens. fion, suggested that the National Works and Services Council should take over the duties of bath the Lean Council and the Defence Counell, and

the need for an Austra supply

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Employment Council. The reall

remedy

unification,

dy was Darwin Development, The Federal

Geschment plans the erection at Darwin of a hospital large enough to serve a population of 20,000, although the inhabitants at present only num- ber 3,000. Two large hotels are to be built for le passengers and other travellers. It is recognised that Dar- - svin is destined to become a strong}

and military

Tipsters Banned.-Profes racing Upsters have been of-

navu

Racing

sional

base.

We had one night for enrolling in these subjects.

"The lists were due to open at G p.in. At a quarter to six there were long queues of women and girls walling, and the lists closed is suon as they were opened.

"We had to turn hundreds away, and when the giria saw the lists were closing there was almost a free fight to get into the classes."

SHOT MAN DIES DURING OPERATION

London.

cially abolished in New South Wales Evidence that a shot man died under the Gaming and Betting Bill from the effects which has just become law.

ان

chloroform Drast.ej anaesthesi and shock fram 147) operation was given at Denbigh penalties are provided for broadcast- ing and publishing betting odds be fore the running of the last race at Assizes when his brother-in-law was any rac: meeting.

South Africa

accused of manslaughter and unlaw-

ful wounding. Harry Leslie Breese was

alleged to have shot his brother- in-law Franels Benjamin Morgan

UNEMPLOYMENT DUE Jones in the neck. The wound was

TO DUMPING

Cape Town.

stated not to have been very dan- gerous but during an operation for the removal of the bullet the sur- A strong demand that the Govern- geon's stool slipped and he fell. The ment should protect South African surgeon could not locate the bullet the industries against the competition of again and Jones died under

wasanaesthetic. He was, however, found dumped goods from overseas

have R persistently enlarged made by Mr. F. K. Dixon in his pre-to

South Afri-thymus gland, which caused a ten- sidential address to the can Federated Chamber of Indus-dency to be more susceptible to the

tries.

effects of an anaesthetic. The hear

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

statistics did not reflect this position. Parade 50 men, fully trained in air There were very

few industries

ruld precautions, including gas-mask which were not working short time.raining and the building of bomb-

was folly, however, to talk of n 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 stall of n

proof shelters. India

STABBING CASE SENTENCE

Calcutta,

Cyril D'Santos, an Anglo-Indian.

forge 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 fed.

To prove his theory that prosperity lies 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 Greenfeld, Mich. He housed them in army tents, left centre, gave them 400 acres and provided tractors, right centre, and other necessarles. Now Camp Legion is harvesting 86 varieties of crops, from soy beans to honey. The experiment was so successful that Mr. Ford plans several new camps next year. Boys will enroll in Ford Boys received $2 a day. Top, digging potatoes and, bottom, sorting them. Trade School this winter.

15,000

TO BE

WOMEN FIGHT

'CHARS

£4 A Week Is Offered

5,000 job-men for hours.

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

a.m. Before 3

Civil Service Commission offi- A.B.P.. Training Nigel, 30 miles cinema in Calcutta, trom Johannesburg, is the first town D'Santes had been caretaker at the seekers had blocked the traffic

a long line-up. cials ran out of application in the Union to call for volunteers cinema, but had been dismissed. and formed

but the disappointed for ambulance work and air raid pre-While Mr. Shaw was standing out-Thousands more gathered, and forms,

several hundred cautions. The Red Cross Society has side the cinema D'Santes stabbed him

policemen women refused to budge unti) 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.

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

HARD ON ROAD HOGS

Berlin,

German police are now cm- 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 proocci, a wiser and wearler man.

This is an order of General Daluege, chief of police, who estimates that 65 per cent. of Recidents in Germany are caused by motorista, and only 8 per cent, by pedestrians.

Last year 8,000 people were küled and 175,000 injured.

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Horse Made to Draw Car And Cart

It was stated in a cruelty ease of 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 Mit- eliam.

(22) and Mark George Waller Hidden (25), street traders, both of Wardley Street, Wandsworth, were each sent to prison for a month with hard labour.

111- Waller was charged with treating a bay mare by overloading and over-driving it, and Hilden with alding and abetting.

CAR HAD FLAT. TYRES The case for the prosecution was that the mare had pulled from Ban- stend to Mitcham a cart behind which was attached a saloon car, the dead weight of which was about a ton. It had three of tyres and one wheel was bare.

more.

Mr. Hubert Evans velerinary sur geon, of Mitcham Road, Touting, [said:" "1 Jinve never seen a borsa

perspire

She was a very sporting little mare and she would have worked unul she dropped."

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

BANDIT SERVED CUSTOMER

-Then Walked Out With £20,000 Gems

New York, Thursday. Into an elegant jewellery shop in the

lobby of Lho Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, recently, walked R2455 two young bandits. while one herded the manager and

two clarks into an offles and stood guard with a gun while they lay face downwards on the floor the other began briskly rifling the show-

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Al that moment a customer entered with a watch that needed repair. Ing.

said "Certainly, sir," the bandit

"Call back in three days." The customer handed over the watch and left. A few minutes later the bandits departed with a haul valu- ed at £20.000.

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