1938-12-21 — Page 27

5.

$1 TIFFINS

at-

Jimmy's

Also A la Carte

China Bldg. Hongkong.

Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 21, 1938.

DEAD-END CHILDREN

Rotary Club Contributes To Local Society

In an eloquent address on "Children of the Dead End," Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier, Honorary Secretary of the Society for the Protec tion of Children, asked for contributions from the Rotary Club yesterday to help give the poor children of the Colony a happy Christmas.

On the suggestion of Rotarian T. D. [have a house, lent to us and equipped Wilson, who gave a contribution, aby the generosity of Mr. Li Po-chun,

for this cause.

P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND was afterwards taken up where for the past 15 months we

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

<Companies Incorporated in England.)

Taking Cargo on through BBs of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLON INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E, & 8. AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUD ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTY, KED SCA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC

PENINSULAN & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERI (Under Contract with UM. Government.)

All vessels may call at any ports on or off tha zouta,—and the route and all pallings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.

Steamers

*JEYPORE

CONFU

BANGALORE

CHITRAL

CARTHAGE

**BHUTAN

RAJPUTANA *BEHAR

RANCHI

Tons From H'Kung about ! 8,000, 21st Dec., Noon. 14,500 4th Dre., Noon.

0,000 31st Dec.

17,000 7th Jan. 14,600 21st Jan.

0.0001 20th Jan.

17,000 4th Feb. 0,000 11th Feb.

17.000 10th Feb. 0,000 25th Feb,

Calls Casablanca

Destination

Straits, Cinbo, B'bay & K'chi. Bombay, M'seilles & London. B'bay. M'scillen, Havre, L'don Hull, I'burn, R'ilam & A'werp. B'bay, Mellles & London. D'bay, M'reilles & London.

'bay, M'acles, Havre, don Hull, H'b, R'dam & Awerp Bombay, Marseilles & London M'neilles, Havre, I'dan, Hull, .Abg, 'dam & A'werp.

Marseilles & Lotion. (B'bay, M'sellien, Havre, L'dos Hull, 'bg, R'dim & A'werp All vessels may call at Malta

BRITISH INDIA APCAN JAILINGS (SOUTH)

**SOUDAN

• Cargo only

TALMA

10,000 31 Dec., 10.30 am. S'pore,

SIRDHANA

10,000 14th Jun,

Port Swettenbait Penang. Kangoon & Calcutta DO.

SHIRALA

6,000 20th Jan.

DO.

TILAWA

10,000 11th Feb.

DO.

0,000 25th Feb,

- 00.

SANTHIA

B.I. Apear Line Steamers have execilent accomtrodution for 1st & 2nd class passenger' EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINOS (SOUTIL)

NANKIN NELLORE

TANDA

7,000 91st Dec., 11 a.m.) Manila, Rahnul, Brisbane

3rd Feb,

Sydney, Melbourne & Hobar

7,000 7,000

4th Mar.

Regular monthly sailings from 'kong to Shanghai & Japan & kong to Australia Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days, SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

0,000 22nd Dec., 3 pun.

SIRDHANA

CARTHAGE

14.500 23rd Dec., Noo11.

*BEHAR

0.000

2nd Jan,

7,000

5th Jan.

3,000

5th Jan.

17,000

6th Jan.

NELLORE

SHIRALA

RAJPUTANA

TILAWA

RANCHI

10,000 10th Jan.

17,000 20th Jan.

Cargo only.

Japan.

Shanghai & Japan.

Shanghai & Jupan.

Shanghai & Japan.

Stinghai & Japan.

Japan.

Japan.

Shanghal & Japan.

All dates are applestate and subject to alteration, without notice, parcels measuring not more than B e.ft will be received at the Company's Omice up to a on the day previous to sailing.

For Passage Rates, Handbooka, Freight, etc, apply

E&O MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Connaught R.C.

Phono 7721

Agents

CANADIAN=PACIFIC

STEAMSHIPSHOT

BERTHING PLANS FOR 1939 ARE OPEN

MAKE BOOKINGS EARLY — to secure accommodation desired

TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE

via Shanghai, Kobe & Yokoltarus EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF JAPAN vin Honolulu

EMPRESS OF ASIA

EMPRESS OF CANADA vla Honolulu

.Noon, Fri, Dec. 23, Noun, Tues., Jan. 24.

Noon, Wed.. Feb. 8. ..Nonn., Tues., Feb. 21,

Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Tran:-Continental Trains Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to Europeau Poris

The Hon. Dr. L Shu-fan presided, und the Ruests included Dr. C. T. Wang, former Ambassador of Chinn 10 Amerlea and, prior to that, Governor of the South China Rotary District; and niso Dr. J. M. Henry, present Governor of the District and Chulman of the Canton Refugee Council.

Dr. Wang said he was glad to be again among the Rotarians he knew Of the servico

over three years ago,

have had a creche-the first of its kind in the Colony. Results have proved this new departure to be a most successful experiment. Work- ing mothers come at carly morning! "Tha and leave their babies, ranging from new born to two years in age. mothers are thus left free to earn daily wage and the babies, cared for by trained nurses, gain by their stay in clean surroundings and pro- Per feeding. -

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of our We have no institutions to others which Rotarians rendered. own and are grateful, as the Colony he was sure lip service only was not should be grateful, for the homes, une to which the local Club sub-orphanages and Industrial schools to zeribed.

which we can safely entrust cases

Attending Courte

ond

are

of

he would have tons o small payment which may Dr. Henry said pleasure in Informing Rotary Hend-cover the base cost of living quarters of the progress made by the remetimes, I suspect, less than that. focal Club, which was, in his opinion, tue of the best in the District.

Robert Kotewall; The Hon. Sir Rotarians T. C. Yu. Tientsin: E. Pam. Tsinan; G. G. Helde, Changsha II. Kodoorie, Shanghai: H. M. van der Schalk and A. Hoffmeister, Can- ton; E. Turley, Canaria; B, W. Robin con, Lo: Angeles; G. A. Fitch, Nan- king: were visitors at the meeting which included a large number ladies.

Mr. Crozier said, in part:

To-day the Juvenile Courts attended by the representatives the Society, members of the Women's Auxillary, who get into touch with ages and bring them to the nollee of the Soulety's fleers.

at preserving the health of children and rescuing them from the dangerous environment which is alt that their destitution has to

In the past week I have spent a lot of time at the Society's centres and them. what I have seen has made me realise

Our Soclety

offer

Lad year the Society spent $1,550 that more than ever are we in need beyond its income, and this year the of your support the Society's pro-income again fell short of expendi- items are multipled, its burdens in-re; but we are out for even more

the influx creased by

of refugees centres. Our mothers cannot afford

can 10 bures and trams, Nor they We have more hungry mouths

they feed-in normal times we do not, as afford the loss of a

day's wage

a matter of policy, give anything mall as it may be-if the nearest ather than purely temporary relief centre is too far away. A centre

$3,000 a for children whose parents are not

yent, Honglung horn-but, as you know, costs a little more than thee prople cannot, as yet, be sent and we have not got the money for But we are going out to ery more. back. Government and the Emer-1.

ret it. Expansion in the Immediate Reney Refugee Relief Conuitlee are doing their best to make provision lure does not mean launching out for these people; but organising into anything new. It menus enlarge homeless wanderers fakes time and in the scale of our present opera. meanwhile thele babies must be fed. tions.

Does not the fact that, as a com- The Socicly does, in extreme cases, pay up arrears in rent for mothers munity, we have not shouldered the rents, burden of these, aur own, hapless with the children-soaring

com- have increased the Society's liabili little children at have other ties. The rise in the cost of livingmunities, give them a claim on our as individuals? the price of food and wood-is mak- voluntary services

in many who would otherwise, he Our Immunity from rates and taxes! able to manage come to the Society for social services, in their regard for food for their children.

Is at the cost of the children's suf- fering.

of

Go

It was to assist the children ignorance and want that the Society

Same years ago, outside a hospital was started nine years ago; dedicated to the threefold proposition:- That in southern Europe, intended, I be- no child of whom we have knowledge leve, for foreign seamen, there was shall lack food; that we shall provide a notice "We Harbour All Disease or procure medical care for any such and Respect No Religions." The child as needs it: that, as far as our Society for the Protection of Children

little means allow, we shall rescue such in it

like that, for no mother destitute children from dangerous cn ever been refused who has ap

has tour vironment. The Society rentres, two on the Island and two Paled to it on behalf of an ailing or In Kowloon, managed by salarieder-nourished child, and we are Inspectors, to whom we owe more concerned as to her religious or than I can tell you, with advice front political attachments. honorary branch secretaries.

The sum of $30,000 kept our cen- We are asking into any of these centres and you will tres going this year. nee lines of mothers receiving good for $40,000 for 1939. It is not much rich soup, cheap, in cost, so that pre-in terms of sterling or gold dollars, gnant and nursing mothers will be at in terms of healthy mothers and able to build-up healthy babies.happy children its value is incalcul You will see rows of them feeding with that amount we shall be small bables with milk, orange ble to carry on and open two new Julce, codliver oil, and the same soup

soup entres. (Applause). that the mothers receive. The bables will be weighed and progress noted The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, in thank- in the Ale?, medical treatment wiling the speaker, said he was sure at be secured for this baby with "sore this season of good cheer and good- eyes" or that with tubercular glands, will, that Rotarians would not be

Educating the skin

content with merely praising the mothers is part of the Society's pro-speaker's sentiments, but would sub- gramme of service. This last year scribe financially to the cause, which 53,383 visits wore Dirich to the well exemplified the Rotary spirit. It was announced that there would Society's centres,

Then there is the Lien Yuet Slen no meeting of the Clubs Creche. At Clarence Terrace We Tuesday

01

next

Tragedy

MORNING

of a tired-

It's going

to be

GLORIOUS

looking bridesmaid

I don't want to see the wedding picture. I know I look dreadful!

Betty darling!! what is the Inatter.

You evex Iwake fired these days. You ought

TWO MONTHS"LATER\|

soe a

doctor!

Where's my

bouquet?

f'in so thrilled

THINKS:

How I dread this. I look awful

What a lovely couple!

-and the bridesmaids, aren't they sweet. Pity Betty looks so dull-spoils

it rather

·THAT

NIGHT

From a wedding comes a wedding, but not for Betty if you ask me!.

AT THE DOCTORS

...this waking

tired tells on your whole appearance. During sleep you bum up energy by breathing and other automatic actions. if this energy is not replaced- of course you wake tired. It's Night

Starvation!

Oh, mummy, I'm so thankful to you for helping

me!

beside the others- my face so dull- and thir tiredness

and so every night :

Does your daughter wake tired?

WAKING TIRED affects a girl in

her appearance and personality She never looks and never feels her best. She's unfairly handicapped. Give her Horlicks a cupful regularly at night. She'll wake refreshed full of energy and sparkle. Get Horlicks today.

HORLICKS

*PREISA B

GUARDS AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION

HERE IT IS-

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1

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