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Saturday, – JANUARY 27, 1940.

“TELEGRAPH"

WEEK-END MAGAZINE

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THE BOTANICAL and Forestry Department was orl- ginally constituted in 1872 ns the Government Gardens and Tree Planting Department. In 1880. It became the Botanic. and Afforestation Department, the Botanical and Affore. station Department in 1881 and finally the Botanical and Forestry Department in 1905,

Inevitably, the department has grown and, from the time it was entrusted with local afforestation, it has mude steady progress in producing a forest covering on Hong- kong Island and part of the mainland.

Its other activities, botanical, horticultural and agricul- tural, have generally increased and at the present time it plays an important part in local affairs.

It is doubtful if the value of the work performed in the pant by this department, has been properly assessed locally. However that may be, it is thought that its value is now recognised and that it will continue to rective proper valun- tion in the future.

Such local factors as, for example, the water shortages of recent years, by themselves should be sufficient evidence of the value of it afforestation and protection activities for without these activities water troubles would have been considerably more acute, not to mention the silting of reservoirs and catchwalers which would have taken pince.

These facts should be suflicient to emphasise that, in this Colony, developments in water conservation programmes, depend a very great deal for their success on subsequent àlforestation activities while the results from scenic and amenity points of view need no stressing.

At the present time, the department retains its composite mature by virtue of the fact that the Colony Is small and the department is able to deal with the work commented with its various sections in a manner both efficient and cetnomie. But for these factors it in highly prob- able that the Colony would have found it necessary to malatain separ- ate Departments involving much hen- vier expenditure,

EDWARDS (Souttler) KELLY goes ali Aryan

DONNER UND BLITZEN

THE news agencies seem worried.

About Hitler's long silence.

Most people would feel satisfied if it was eternal. This, of course, is taking a grave view of the subject.

Still, why should he talk. His actions are unspeakable.

He's just a nazi old mum.

We sald: Wait till we tell Lord Gort about this.

He said: You can't. Gott, mit

Unsk

Reminds us of the story about the Dutchman and the Nazi

"We'll make you Dutchies may 'Hell, filler," said the

Nazi. "Her will soon be in Holland."

"I wouldn't be surprised," said the Dutchman. "We already have your Kaiser.

That would be the Doorn of a new orn.

MANY `people describe Hitler s a monster.

We are so used to being a non- ster ourself that all this sort of lalk about Her

tenra,

borca

บร

called

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Last time we were

monster, we just looked at our

wife and bit our fingernails.

Then there's the type of people who think that Hitler's mad.

Really, you can't tell when n mon has the buts. This sort of thing for instance:

"Is Bliler sann?" "Sayin' what?"

"No, no! I mean. do you thinks irre's any insanity in his family?"

"His family has always bern Insanitary."

"Tul, tut!

Wasn't his father

a moron?"

"No, he was an aryan," I's enough to make an Iran Cross;

HITLER has sent

most of his corps to the Siegfried Line. He's being just plain rotten to the

corps.

it's hard on their swastikas, too. We remember our last swastika.

It was a beauty, too. The doctor had to lance it in the end.

Which is about all we have to any.

Heel. Hitler!

-BUT ARE YOU SURE?

Portugal, Spain,

Brazil, Uruguay.

Venezucia,

13. The centrosphere is a real enough place, rather dificult to get to, but it's there nil right:-

Above the atmosphere, below the stratosphere, in the centre

of the carth, outside the Heavi side layer.

14. Fer more than 100 years the has .bern name of Samuel Colt directly associated with the man- facture of:-

Patent medicines, revolvers, boots and sadilles, corploys

sombreros.

15. Of course you know what a turrier is, but which of these would

◄ you say was a hurrier?—

A breed of sportlug dog, a Cross-Country Tunner,

α

child

employed in coal mines, a game

bird.

Violin, viola, ocarina, bassonu, ahoe, eor Angials.

3. Here's a useful hint for you.

A modern dector will tell you that Es for the best method of taking medicine with an unpleasant faste is: To hold your nose and gl

a

it down quickly, to take it in pint of beer, to Tub your tongue with a piece of ice be- forehand, to give it to the car. 21 13 be you've forgotten al- rrady that Easter day:-

Is always fized in advance by the Archbishop of Canterbury. is the last Sunday before Pan- cake Day,

is the first Sunday after the first full moon begin- ning March 21. 22. By

have hay

Et you heurd quite a lot about the works by modern painters, but I'll bel all I've Fot that you won't find works by one ·

10. No matter how many times we of these men in the collection-

look out of windows, Iuts of us don't Toulouse Lautrec, Gauguin, scem to realise that one of the three

major substances used to make class 19:-

Olive oil. iron

ore.

varnish, wadi, kerosene.

Cezanne,

Fragonard,

van Gogh,

Matisse,

The most important develop ment to record is the fact that Gov- ernment has shown. Increened interent in matters connected with forestry and agriculture.

The following quotation from the Budget Speech of 11. E. the Governor (Sir G. A. S. Northcote) delivered In the Council Chamber on October 13, 1938, is simificant of the trend of polley in these matters.

"The estimates reflect the Isten- tion of extending the arca under Ceresis and at the same time of tightening up conservation melleds especially in respect of timber steal- ing. I understand that there has already been a notable decrease Ins this kind of larceny,

Ninety-nine years ago this month, on Jañunry 20, 1811. Captain Elliot announced The cussion of Hongkong to the British and 99 years ago to-day the Colony was formally taken over by re- presentatives of Her Ma jesty the Queen,

The ceremony would

appear

to have been as

informal as

it

well could have been. for all

by

F. W. FLIPPANCE

In His Annual Report To The Hongkong Government, Written

April, 1939.

in

"The Superintendent of the Bolatical and Forestry Department. has been instructed to report on the possibilities of agricultural deve- lopment of the New Territories including the larger Blinds."

IN the Colony of Tiongkong there are so primeval forests. The forest covering of Hongkong Island is entirely due to affores- tation currard out by the department.

This work began on a definite basis about the year 1876 but it was not until 1889 that planting on any large scale was undertaken. Thus the oldest plantation is little more than sixty years of age.

Afforestation activities on the mainland (apart from roadside tree planting ute, which commenced in 1899) began with the first planting in the Kowloon Reservoir area in 1002.

It may be stated that exploitation at this stare is not contem- plated and in view of the fact that ufforestation generally Is likely to be concerned with water conservation and erosion problems for many gears, the production of forest for timber purposes is likely, to re-. main subsidiary to the chief alm. Such extraction as takes place is

the nature of forest sanitation, thlanings, etc.

In the absence of complete statistical data it is estimated that this the total forested area is approximately 22 sq. miles. Or approximately 18 sq. miles is situated on Hongkong Island and the remaining 4 sq. miles on the mainland.

The Hongkong areas are continuous, apart from the town aren and provide the island with a forest covering from sea level up to 800 feet. The areas on the mainland are concentrated in four localities, In considering this section mention should be made of the leased forest lot" stem sponsored by Government. These licences, carne into general operation about 1900, Le, eight years after the New Ter- ritories were taken over.

The aim of the scheme was to ensure fuel supplies to the villa- gers and at the same time, endeavour to obtain a forest covering on the slopes.

In many cases it has resulted in perpetuating the "grazing"" rights of the villages and the mixture of forest an: "razing" alms has re- sulted in a sparge pine tree covering on the lower slopes of the hills, the land being expected to produce both trees and grass. The total area of such lots is 81 square miles. The trees produced are gener- ally of a stunted nature due to the local custom of lopping side bran-

ches for fuel purposes.

When, the tree has reached a height of about 12 f. and is 2-4 inches in diameter (B.), which dimensions are reached In about 12-15 years, it is removed for firewood purposes.

HONGKONG

CHE brates Its Centenary on January 26 Next This article

Year.

tells something of its

carly history

NINETY-NINE

history tells us is that the first landing party dis. embarked upon Possession Mount and drank the health of the Queen and gave the usual cheers,

The next day the Union Jack was hoisted over, the Island. So small an affair did it seem that there is not even a clear iden existing as to who hoisted the flag. The gentleman usually credited with this noteworthy pefor." mance afterwards denied having done it..

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HONGKONG, as the new -owners found it, must have been the reverse of inspiring. There were about five thousand in- habitants on the island; they hind a village where Victoria' ́finds itselt, and, of course, there were also those round the islaraf which even now exist.

in June of the He referred, of

23, flier, during the German ad- sand, vance on Toland made a mouthful over the activities of franciireurs in 17. Here's another of these the occupied areas. strange but trues. Statistics show nurse, 10:~~~ (and who Pro you to question them?) that most fatal accidents

occur inse

Road smashes, the home, rali- toap⠀ disasters, factories, plane crashes. 18 The

Grecks had gods for everything--they oven had who locked after the interests of Thier

His_maine was:

god

French troops fighting for Po- land, White Russian mercenaries, civilian irregular sharpshootLTS, anil-Nasi German refugees. 24. You don't need to be told that Japan is a collection of more than

1,000 stands, the biggest of which

Shikoku, Yeze, Honshiu, Hak- Haldo, Sakhalin, Formosa. Apollo, Zeus, Hermes, Ares, 25. Mr. Murgatroyd is now three Almes as "eld as his son Marmaduke

Eroi. 18. If you were to ask Leopold will be in three years' time. There Sickowski he would tell you quite is less than 25 years between their firmly that one

the instruments ages and Mr. Murgatroyd is not in

In this collection was completely out the 20's. Hew old are they? of place in his orchestra

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The colonising Instinct was very strong at the time, and the frit tand sale of the Colony took place first year of British posscusion. It was held at a time when the Government hid not properly surveyed the tand and in the next year, when a rising population had called for further housing and consequently given rise to the formidable boundary disputes that someilmer Judges at Home, a Com- ssion was appointed to define and mark out locations which had been sold.

The appointment of the Com mission was interesting in ́an- other way.

墉

QUEEN'S ROAD, na 'we know It now, does not appear to have been the product of a fown plan-

4

YEARS A

BRITISH

COLONY

ner but rather the offspring of chance, for the Governor found it necessary at the same time to instruct the Commission to settle the direction and breadth 0% Queen's Road und. Indeed, all the public roads. It seems that at that time the only road worth mentioning wis Queen's Road and that it had not been decided whither, it should lead.

By this time the population had risen to 20,000 "qulet, cheer- Yul and Industilous Chinese,” as the reports say, but It in worthy of note that however quiet and Industrious the new British subjects were, their quietness was merely a cloak for all sorts of nefarious practices.

The first buildings for the Government to

to put up were the Monistracy and the Gaol, and while these were merely for the

punishment. of evil-doers. It is

not a little amusing to learn of the various methods adopted to put down, night. Ihsoving. One

of the first was the use of the watchman, and, oven as now, ho, oft-limes fell asleep. To pre-

vent this, he was provided with two pieces of bambus which he would strike together af Intervals throughout the night to inform is employer indeed he were awake, that his servant was about und doing. This did not put a stop to the thieves, who. in addition to purloining the goods of lesser fry, levied upan the goods of the Chief Magistrate and the Governor himself.

In fact, so bad were things at this time that an "Old Stüger" local paper suggesting wrote to that

those who did not want their belongings stolen should Jack their buses and oil them to the floor, talking also good cari to go to bed with a loaded pistol under their pillows. It was not ns though the punishment meted out to these caught was not suf- nelent, for the whipping pont situated outside the old Harbour Office was well used, and in a very short time further steps were taken to deal with the mat- ter.

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HONGKONG street Hitting never was particularly briliuni, but there was a time when it did nol exist. Even when robbery was at Its highest, this form of prevention was not resoried to Until the establishment of a corps of night-watchmen had failed to prove as beneficial as was at firat

When 'the anticipated.

street Fighting did come about it was for not a Government venture the Governor called on all house- holders, under pains and penal- Wes to place a lighted lintern outside their doors from sunset to sunrise.

All Dai

time the Chinese wafchman had gone his rounds at night striking his bamboos. keeping his employer informed Bs to his faithfulness in his post and also warning any likely thkf of his approach.

The custom, however, eime to an end, not because of his abrur→ dity, but by reason of the foet that it interfered with the rest of one of The powers-that-wax, whose name, has been given to one of the principal thorough- fares of the city, which by this Sima had changed its original Nume of Queen's Town for the ons which it now bears.

Though there were many who protested at this; slopping of n method of provention; of crime, their objections were of no avail and the wish of the man on top carried the day."

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