1939-02-06 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 6, 1939.

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"I Want to Marry the Man of My Choice GIRL DEFIES HER MILLIONAIRE FATHER Trip Fails to End

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Her Romance

OVE means more than riches to Miss Gwendy Shoring, lovely 18-year-old daughter of an Australian million-

aire.

To prove it she has defied her father, and is looking for a job in London so that she may become independent and marry the man she loves.

She has given up everything for her sweetheart-a hand- some 19-year-old coole's assistunt at a Dirrabandie (Australia) sheep station.

Recently her father, Mr. Edward Shoring, sheep farmer and gold-mine magnate, brought her to London in the hope that the trip would make her forget hier romance.

When Mr. Shoring sailed for Alis-f tralia later his daughter eluded him at the docks und, against his wishes,! stayed behind in London.

Önce Gwendy has made good in af career she is determined to return to Australia and rejoin her sweetheart. ANGRY FATHER

She told of her love story at a fat near Regent's Park where she is staying.

"Since I was 14," she said, "I have spent my summer holidays at Dad's sheep station at Dirrabandie.

"There I met Chris Starling, who is employed os a cook's assistant.

"We used to go riding together. Wel

'Mansion

House Twin' To Wed

The Hon. Elizabeth Blades, who is; | 29, and joint eldest of Lord und Lady Ebbisham's four children, is to be married this month, just six years after the marriage of her twin sister,

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士披来威士忌

The newest air glant, now at the Seattle, Wash., airport, is the "Stratoliner," a designed for sub-stratosphere passenger flying. The great ship, which will fly at about 20,000 feci, is scaled when in flight and will carry 33 passengers by day.

super ship

Hash And Stew School Brother Returned

Monotony Condemned

Her engagement to the Hon. Guy found we had a common interest in Russell, R.N., son of the late Lord music. Chris wrote me lyries: I set Ampthill and of the Downger Lady them to music. We fell deeply in Ampthill, was announced recently.

And in the middle of this month DXAMINATION of 1,696,527 schoolchildren in England

love.

"Dad was furious when be heard Londoners will see the marriage of

and Wales showed that the standard of nutrition in That's why he rushed me the second of the "Mansion House many distressed areas continued to decline.

Twins."

about It. to London. He thought the trip would make me forget Chris."

A smile it Miss Shoring's face as

she described how she had "escaped" the "Mansion House Twins" during

when her father was about to take

her back to Brisbane.

"We were going to the docks to-. gether in a taxi," she said,

HIS LOVE LYRICS

“Dad was laying down the law that

if I communicated with Chris again

¦

They were fair, pig-tailed girls of This is revealed in "The Health of the Schoolchild," 18 when London nicknamed them the report for 1937, issued recently by Sir Arthur Mac- the 1826-27 Lord Mayoralty of their Nalty, Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.

Sir Arthur comments upon "the monotony of hash, stew and soup" provided by many local authorities in areas where children are found to need solid nourishment.

father, then Sar Rowland Blades, CHIEF BRIDESMAID

The elder-by-a-few-minutes twin, the Hon. Margaret Blades, married; Lt-Col. Richard Wyatt in January He points out that these meals are 1903. The sisters have not changed often deflcient in calorifle values as their resemblaner to each other in well as in the elements of a well- the slightest degree.

bol need cliet which necessitous! "I shouted to the taxi-driver to

They still see coch other re-chlidren do not get at home mlik, stop, then darted out of the taxi brently, and Mrs. Wyatt has come cheese, eggs, precu vegetables and!

to London from her Sussex home fruit, and meat,

The would cut off my allowance. Then

I had un inspiration.

fore Dad could stop me, and ran up a site street.

"So Dad had to gn bek to Bric- bine without me."

Miss Shoring has been making a tour of the theatricd agencies in the hope of getting a job in the chorus.

"I have enough money to kust me for a Httle while." she confided.

"After that. I will be

tight

pol unless I loud a job.

"Up to now, is an only child, 1 have had everything I wanted, just by asking.

"But I want to earn my own liv-

ing Ro that I can be independent

and marry the man of my choler." Meanwhile, Miss Shoring continues to write to Chris, sodding him mumie for his love lyries.

If

I had done

as was told-

to help her sister in plapalur her EIGHT UP, EIGHT DOWN" wedding,

Figures for 14 local authorities in

in i

The Hen. Elizabeth Blades was the distressed areas show that chief bridesmaid at her twin's mar-eight of them the extent of malnutri- ringe at St. Margaret's, Westminster, tion in elementary school children in 1833, and it is likely that Mrs. was reduccrt. Went will take rome part in her) sister's wedding retinue,

Hotel Wins In Beetle Case

In the other eight the perceA- tage of malnourished children

in-j creased by varying degrees,

EMPIRE NEWS

CONTROL OF

IMPORTS IN NEW ZEALAND

After 37 Years

MARY JANE CROWE, of Church-road. Higher Tranmere, Cheshire, got the surprise of her ite recently.

"Heavens, It's William!" she erted. Keeing the grey-haired ma EN standing on the doorstep. The caller was her long-lost brother WHHam Henry, who had returned kome unexpectedly after 37 years in Anierlen.'

Directors Blamed For Failure

ROSS mismanagement on the

"GR

part of the directors in that provision was not made for adequate working capital to carry through the ambitious scheme for film production to which the company 1]። com- In nearly all cases the precitare.

mitted" is the cause given by the of children whose nutrition is des-! cribed as "back" is lower than

Mr. W. Nash,

Omein Receiver in the Companies the!

Finance Minister. Winding-up Department for the previous year. The serious increases li 2401 the exchange control influre of Rock Studs Ltd., of come in the slightly subnormal" mensures.

New Astor House, Aldwych. category.

Zealand, said the classes of goods

districts with increase

were;

Pen-

announced

Auckland.

for

In particulars of the winding-up

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JUDGMENT

the Plecadilly At Newelle-on-Tyne the percent-hitherto imported would continue to of the company the Oficial Receiver Hongkong Dept. Tel. 21279 Gloucester Bldg. 2nd Flr. Tel. 28938 given in the King's Bench Division. increased trem.11.1 to 16.8. and other was sat proposed. Hotel, Ltd. with costs, stras age of "slightly sub-norinal" children be accepted. recently in the case in which it was

Curtailment of trade sales that, moreover, the action of Peak Depot. Tel. 29352

the directors in disposing of valuable alleged a beetic ran out from a plate morganshire, from 13.3 10 22.4 to be introduced merely as a pro-Limited, caltre for severe criticism. Gil- The system of import licences was in changes in Rock Studios Land Trust, equipment and investing the proceeds of sandwiches at Masonic "Ladies' typridd, from 22.4 to 26.0; White- Night" danes

haven, from 9.6 to 17.2; Gateshead, fretion int cxmasive importa- Mr. F. W. Journeaux, secountant, from 17.5 to 22.1: Durham County tons A schedule of probier The company failed in February, Fund hs wife, of. Ashbourne Grove, from 19 to 21.4: Monmouthshire, goods was not contemplated. Inland and the statement of affairs fled East Dulwich, had sought damages, from 10 to 17.0; and Cardiff, from utal, charges would be increased. show ranking liabilities of £150,503 inleging Mrs. Jetrneux suffered 5.1 to 5.2.

food poisoning after eating sand-

LINDJA wiches, and the defence was a dental effected in the urban district of MINOR OUTRAGES of negligence or breach of duty.

The most notable improvement was

Hebburn, where the percentage of

Mr. Frank Soskice (for the hotel)glightly sub-normal" children was said: "Had it not been for this cock-reduced from 20.3 to 148 and the roach which walked out of the sand- wiches when the lady was out of the Deverntage of badly nourished child- room it probably would never have ren from 3.5 to 1.04.

MORE MILK IN SCHOOLS

ocenrred to anyone to bring this nction. The cockroach was a pure Of the children examined 15 per and unavoidable misfortune,"

cent. were classed as excellent, 73.0 Mr. Journeaux. recalled to the per cent, as normal. 16.6 per cent. witness-box, said lie previously made a claim against caterers alleging there was a beetle in food.

Mr. Soskice: Dld you get £10 out of them? Yes.

THE BEST METHOD William Watson said he had been employed at the hotel for six years u vermla exterminator. His job, he explained, was to go through

the

ns bad,

WAZIRISTAN

IN

and available assets of £50,437.

HIT BY DEPRESSION The company was registered as a public company in July, 1936, with La nominal capital of £200,000 to New Delhi.

carry into effcet certain agreements The first communique from Waziri- John Henry Hes, Mr. Joe Rock and made between the company and Mr. lan for some weeks was issued re-Jue Rock, Limited, and to carry on- ently reporting comparative quiet.fbusiness as producers and distributors but the persistence of minor outrages, and exhibitors of flims.

Mr. Hea lud said that the failure to carry through the original pro- was due to inability to obinin money genome, entirely because of the de- pression in the Alm Industry.

An attempt has been made through The Omeial Rcéeiver states further i deputation of maliks, representative that money was advanced by Mr. of several tribal sections, to persuade tes to complete films. The number of children receiving certain hostile leaders that the pençe milk in schools, either free or on pay-pulley has been unsuccessful, ment, increased during the year from One leading and hitherto irrecon 2,510,886 to 2,071,058; Increased at-ilable malik of the Madda Khel tention is now being given to the pro-Wazirs has submitted. vision of milk in rural areas und Sniping and attempted dumpping; during school holidays.

and lorry looting continue.

Heavy guarantees for the com- pany's abillies caused Mr. Iles to NEXT WAR WARNING le his petition in February and he

was adjudicated bankrupt.

hotel destroyini vermin by the best British Intelligence

method that could be used.

Falls

London

nen

Calcutta.

"spray powder from bellows into

In an appeal to Calcutta business) cracks and crevices or any suspected

encourage the Auxiliary Nationalist party will join forces with any insects seule irritation and they part," he said. "The powder enuses

Forces In India, Maj.-Gen. G. M. the United Party, The average intelligence of Britons Assam District, says:

Lindsay, commanding the Bengal and The Rand Daily Mail, in a lead- rome right out." (Laughter.)

is declining rapidly, Dr. H. A. Fraser

ing article, welcomes the munifesto. Giving judgment, Mr. Stable said Mr. and Mrs. Journeaux Burden Mental Research Trust, who than the last, and that it will affect ness in the past.

Justice Roberts, chief investigator of the will be a struggle fur more desperate too much from acute political bitter- "I believe that war, if it comes, It says that South Africa has suffered thing the matter with food supplied telligence of 3,400 Bath children, re-comparably greater extent than the the emphasis Inid on the necessity for had not satisfied him there was any has completed an analysis of the in-fadio, and the East generally, to an

I wouldn't have

to them at the hotel.

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Workless Man's Saving

The paper, however, sees danger in

with

different formo

Inst war did, Outside propaganda avoiding everything by word or deed and help for revolutionary elementa that might damage relations between in this country was attempted during Stutes the last war, but the world has Government.

It argues that it advanced n long

long way

the technique even more necessary that every in- of these things since then, and the dividual should have the right to internal organisation for

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Going to Calcutta-The croy, the Marquess of Linlithgow AUSTRALIA

No indienion was given as to how and his family arrived at Calcutta DEFENCE OF PAPUA

repay the money.recently for their anpunt cold weather visit after their successful tiger shoot

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from an unemployed man. The case According to the prosecution, the in Nepal Teral. was adjourned for six months.

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man from whom the money

was

stolen lodged in the house where the SOUTH AFRICA

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Before he lost his employment he

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for Christmas presents.

POLITICAL PEACE MOVE

Johannesburg.

AND NEW GUINEA'

Sydney.

The Federal Government is inves- tigating the possibility of adminis- trating both the mandated territories) of New Guinea and Papua from Port Moresby, in Papun.

The inquiry is of special Import-

The manifesta algned by den. ance from the point of view of de-

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The boys poid perlodie visits to his Hertzog, Prime Minister, and Dr. fence of the territories, because. room between September 24 and last Mainn, Nationalist leader, wit a although the arming of Friday taking money an ench oe-view to creating a better spirit in territory is forbidden, there is casion...

South African politics is generally sirang probablilty that a defence base Most of the £63 was apont ni a) regarded us the fore-runner of Christmas carnival. The toys had ralitical alignmont, in which the which

new will be established. In Papus, over hot been in trouble before,

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