1941-05-26 — Page 13

Agricultural Work In New Territories

The annual meeting of the New Territories Agricultural Association was held at Cafe Windsor on Satur day, with a good attendance of inembers and friends. The accounts were presented on behalf of the Hon. Treasurer.

The Chairman, the Rev. H. R. Wells, sold in part:

We have now been associated for ten years, and we should consider how much we have done to carry out plans and what may be donc further. The accounts have beun rend and we consider them as very satisfactory.

BUYING

BABIES

Japanese Consider Nazi Cult

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, May 24 (Domel).-Mov- We are grateful to the Government ing another step toward increasing for the annual grant which enables the population of Japan proper to us to carry on, but we need much one hundred million by 1955, the more support if we are io develop Ministry of Public Welfare in con- our work to the fullest extent. templating introducing Nazl-inspir Apart from the generous support of ed marriage aid fund system by Afr Joseph who is our great bene- which the contractors will not have factor we would not have been able to return the money provided, that to show such good results. He has four children sre bon during u helped to improve the place and is period of 10 years after the marriage. prepared to help us further by buy- ing adjacent land on good terms for the seller, if it is offered at men marrying under the age of 30 suitable price; he also kindly supplied and wanten under the age of 25 who funds for tools and for books, and are free from hereditary diseases and personally visited the station

physical detecta. several occasions, and examined the work of the farm Dod of the students.

Under the system, sus of Yen 500 to Yen 1,000 will be louned to

Instalment Plan

The money is to be returned on The Kernel Seed company ocen-monthly instalments in 10 years pled a large section of our land with without interest but a quarter of the a view, to attempt the production of loan will be deducted for a baby born sect suitable for this eligute. They during a period of ten years. arranged for a period of six years, The Ministry is also planning a which has not yet expired, and we system by which families with five hope they may be successful. Their children will receive a subsidy of Recounts and those of Mr Leung Tak Yeu 10 monthly for every additional are not included in

accounts: baby.

they report that they did not carn as The plan being drafted by the much as they invested during the Bureau of Population will be present- year, Our thanks pre due to themed to the next Diet session.

for this most valuable service,

It should be noted that much uf our Endowment Fund has been used and we must gradually repuy it, and build up that funt, so that the interest may appear ПБ ИП annual contribution, and help to develop the work. For this a large capital sum is needed.

to

Though there are parts of our work that we have not yet been able carry

out, everyone in Hongkong realises the value of our work and knows that we have helped the farmers so that the supply of veget-

Japan Looks To Her

Air Defences

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 26, 1941.

Elbrary, Encens Court

ISLAND RAID-One of the British invasion barges loaded with prisoners returns to the expedition.ship during the raid on the Lofoten Islands, off Norway. Denso smoke risos beyond the bleak coastline, where the British set fire to fish-oil factories used by the Nazis to manufacture explosives. The British captured 215 Nazis..

Australia's Child Endowment Plan Is Major Social Measure

TO TELL U.S. OF A.R.P. JOB

THE Child Endowment measure recently passed by the Commonwealth Par- liament constitutes a major national advance in social betterment in Australia. "It is a national investment in persons as compared with things."

The endowment provided is at the rate of 5/- per week for all children under the age of 16 years in excess of one child in SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" each family. Payments will be made in respect of all eligible TOKYO, May 25 (Domei)-children irrespective of the means, occupation or social condi- ables produced on the. Territory Iras Representatives of 27 private tion of the parents.

pay more'weges to men with families organisations hitherto, engaged Payments will be made direct than to others the family men would individually in Fewer Students

air defence to the mother except in special not get a job at all Two thirds The Institute has been carried on Ministry on Saturday and decid- by legislation.

activities met at the Home circumstances to be prescribed with a reduced number of students, ed to pool their resources for the and endeavours are being made to secure a large number of working creation of a better coordinated students to carry on our work. system for the protection Promises of support to local students Japanese cities from air attacks. have been made. It is hoped that others will assist in such support.

The meeting was the sequel to the Mr David Chung has done very good decision reached nt the Vice-

increased enormously,

of

of the cost will be borne by payrolls which is approximately the propor tion that will be paid to wage Social Progress

An Englishwoman who was "Child endowment." Mr Holt told given up for dead after being

Children otherwise endowed e.g.earners." the children of war pensioners come within the scope of the scheme as also children residing in private

boarded out by the State, but not in Institutions wholly or substantially by State funds.

charitable institutions and children

work in the Institute and we look Minister's Conference on May 4, suppopal children will be treated

Coordinated Groups

the same as white children in com- parable circumstances.

the Parliament, "will help to en- sure that the exigencies of war do injured in a night raid has left not deprive our children of the for New York to teach A.R.P. necessary food and clothing

I ask the House," he said "to in to Americans. augurate another major

She is Mrs Humphrey Plow- reform which will stand as a con- den, A.R.P. Warden in a Lon- spicuous landmark along the road don suburb. New Yorkers will of social progress."

hear first-hand her views about The Leader of the Opposition, Mr how their city could stand up Curtin, told the House of Representa to a "blitz" such as London has lives that Labour Government's assurance tilat the pay-

endured. roll tax was the best present method

accepted the

She will tell them how to deal.

NEW STOCKS OF

VAN HEUSEN

TRADE MARK

"Country" SHIRTS

Made of Poplin in white, blue, grey and tan, also white, cream and grey in a new sponge cloth, cool and absorbent.

All have collars attached to match body of shirt.

$11.50 net

MACKINTOSH'S LTD.

MEN'S WEAR

SPECIALISTS

ECONOMIZE

ON

COAL

BY USING

GAS

FOR

COOKING

AND

HOT WATER

COOKERS and GEYSERS

on monthly hire from

$1.10

forward to its further development, which proposed the general mobili

In January last year we were sation of civilian experienced talents unable to hold our show as the to improve air defence. building was occupied by the Military

British subjects coming from Authorities until about the middle of The conference heard talks from overacas may claim endowment November, so that it did not leave Government offelals and experts, after twelve months' residence. enough time to arrange for the show. after which approved the proposal The present number of children An effort to get the local people to envisaging air defence organisation in under 10 years of age in Australia hold a show with our assistance was seven

separate bul coordinated is about 1,830,000 and of this number not successful.

groups, namely, surveillance, look-It is estimated that 1,000,000 will be of financing the scheme and when with fire hombs, how to sandbag war conditions, out and signalling: air rald warning: eligible for child endowment pay the bill had passed all stages Mr ARP. posts, and she will help to Owing to world seed was delayed last autumn and black-out control and camouflaging ments. The scheme will assist 500,- Curlin said. "The House looks with organise fire-fighting parties. the output of foreign vegetables was bomb shelters; fire fighting: first aid 000 Australian families. rather less than usual. Native and decontamination and general |

appreciation and admiration at the As a guest of the British. War Re- First Child Excluded vegetables, however, were abundant direction.

inbour expended by the Minister (Mrlief Society Committee, she will and no doubt the local farmers It is understood that the plan will

The first child of a family will not Holt) on this measure. It will give lecture to the Greater New York reaped the beneût.

undergo further touching-up by the come within the scope of the scheme him a notable pince in the annals Hospitals Association. The Director of Medical Services authorities concerned, after which it for two reasons. First of all, on the of his generation."

Mra Plowden was on duty at her HONG KONG & CHINĄ GAS COMPANY, LTD. has taken much interest the will be applied throughout the commonwealth Arbitration Court's health of the people in the New Nation.

fecent anding the basic wage as fixed Territories, but the task is almost a

from time to time is considered superhuman one.

quate for a

a family unit of three-a man-wife-and-one child. One child: in a basic wage family need be at no disadvantage in the matter of nutrition. Nutrition

and clothing become matters of concern as the numbers increase.

A great deal of propaganda 15 circulated about foodstuffs. tun

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our 1940 book we printed a simple catechism In Chinese on vitamin. We may help by producing vegetables that have body-building properties. This will benefit the New Territories and also Hongkong.

If we can assist in this kind of work

service,

to our

very

Messrs

Red-Nazi Pact

Feeler Meets Soviet Scorn

on

,-

Fade-

Secondly, the inclusion of first children in the benefit would have Australia by over 30 per cent. that increased the cost of endowment in

no

Liberal Provisions

whereas

SECOND SILVER WEDDING

Sir Lawrence Jones, wealthy

post when a German bomber, still

WRITE, CALL OR PHONE

carrying its full cargo, crashed 100 Central Showroom-Gloucester Bldg., (Corner of East Arcade). Tel. 24704. yards away. The terrific explosion Kowloon Showroom-240 Nathan Rd., (Corner of Jordán Rd.). Tel, 57341. destroyed the post, killing three

wardens.

The blast tore down a brick wall

and Mrs Plowden was buried under the debris. She suffered concussion and extensive bodily injuries.

Corpse Walked!

Taken for dead by rescue and de-i molition squads, she was left beside three corpses and covered with a tarpaulin:

turned, they found that one of their "corpses". had vanished.

Later, when the rescue men re-

Marian Talley Divorce Suit

The Government seem to be aim- ing at getting more land under cut-

MOSCOW, May 25 (Reuter). tivation and so helping Hongkong to "All attempts to penetrate the is, it would add £11,000,000 to the baronet, Lord of the Manor of be self-supporting in case of need. skulls of their Finnish buffoons large suin of £13,000,000 which the Fakenham, Norfolk, aged 83,

estimated to we shall be doing a valuable public are hopeless. What can a paper accepted scheme is

cost. Obviously look like which publishes these could contemplate such a great in-wedding recently.

his second silver. Government celebrated

Airs Plowden W45 located a Our thanks are due to those above ridiculous absurdities?"

thort distance away, partly re- mentioned and also to members ot

crease in the charge on revenue on And he attributes his long! covered from shock, and working the outgoing Committee, especially to from the pen of its well-known com- requirement.

"Pravda" carries this fierce rebuke top of that made inevitable by war and peaceful life to his interest |

away with the other wardens. Mr C. Tetzel who has been

in spiritualism.

know that anything had She didn' foreign policy, M. prominent in making suggestions for menintor

happened to her until she discovered He said to a reporter: the improvement of our work. And Zaslavski,

"I am blood on her clothes. 'An endowment of five shillings convinced of the truth of sur- The Berlin correspondent of the Auditor, Mr Kwok Pui-Finnish publication, "Helsinki Cano-

Her husband is a Major in the) for each child after the first is in cheung, and Hon. Legal Adviser, the

advance of anything attempted in Vival after death, and for that 17h (British) Lancers, and her son Hon. Mr M. K. L, and Hon.at, ad sent a report that "there Treasurer Mr Tong Tsung-po.

Australia or elsewhere. is a possibility of an agreement being

reason I have never attempted Captain in the Royal Artillery. Under the New South Our thanks are also presented to signed whereby the Ukraine would

Wales to communicate with my first all subscribers, Sir Robert Ho Tung be teased to Germuny."

Scheme-the

the only State scheme which wife. and Mrs (Dr) H. H. Tseng,

M. Zaslavski says: "It is time that is now superseded by the Common- the Hongkong

"In the case of one who has been wealth legislation-the payment was Shanghai and

Bunk,/this correspondent grew up and put ] 58. per week per child in exetas af/ very near to you the difßeulties of Fanling Hunt and Race Club, Chim away childish things." Light and Power Co., Ltd., and Green

one, but it was restricted to certain communication through a medium A Fairy Tale Island Cement Co., Ltd.,

families low wage

the are very grent. Referring to the Russian children's Commonwealth scheme covers all but have never wanted to get into Fung Kei-cheuk, Tang Wai-tong, favourite nonsense rhyme about cray-families.

"I have had many bereavements, Tang Pak-kau, Chun Kam-po, Chan fish working in the field with bam

Adolph Eckstrom, estranged

of Marian Chan-nam and W. T. Stunjon, and

Talley, In New Zealand the present Labour touch with any of those who have husband many others too numerous to men-correspondent heard this song, he Government's child in excess of two others, and have been quite is told a Hollywood judge recently one, but I have communicated with former Metropolitan Opera star, would send a message: "It is learn-

week that messages come through. Mr Wu Wai-kay read the Chinese ed from reliable sources in the Soviet the present war either did not endow 1- | European schemes existing prior to

Norfolk Home: сору of the statement; and the Union that crayfish are being used members of the Executive Com- for work in the fields; armed with

the first child or paid at a lower rate, psychical Research, and a member "I was president of the Society of How Scheme Financed they are cutting hay In

Finance for the scheme will be of the council for 40 years, and am

still a member.

Eckstrom, In an answer to her suit "shall not trouble to explain to provided by a tax on all payrolls at

"But I felt it would not be wise for divorce and custody of Susan this Finnish paper that no crayfish

the rate of 21 per ecoto amom to carry on Indefinitely with in- Eckstrom, said his wife was afraid are working in Russian fields," con-

excess of £20 per week. This tax

vestigations."

motherhood would jeopardilse her cludes the commentator.

will be paid by the employer and is

Sir Lawrence said that he sleeps movie career. expected to yield £7,000,000 a year. A further sum of £2,000,000 will be upstairs every night in his Kensing He said she cored nothing for obtained by the abolition of the You get more fatalistic the older you drugs she was taking to keep a tim ton house. "I am a bit of a fatalist. motherhood, and powerful reducing come tux reductions for children in

become," he sakl The

contract had caused Susan of

balance

be born CXCCAS

one. TOKYO, Mny 25 (Doulet).-Mr SHANGHAI, May 26 (UP)—The

£2,000,000

will be made up from been very happy. He married first

marriages, he said, had prematurely, Georges Ben Marchand, Interpreter US Navy transport Henderson is

had to lose 25 and First Secretary of the French scheduled to sall for San Francisco general reventold the Minister for Evelyn Mary, daughter of dead to play in her only picture, in 1933.

u know," Embassy in Tokyo, is leaving on May in Manila to-day carrying 270 28 to take up the post of Consul in finished their China tour,

United States

Marines who have Labour and National Service (Mr die Bury St Edmunds. She but said she did it by diet and exer-

Holt) In

in introducing the child en- died, in 1912, leaving two sons and cise. The ship also enrries 123 Mbrines dowment bill, that it may be sux Lawrence Jones, is a banker.

one daughter. The elder son, Mr After the child was born, Eckstrom gested that we should finance family

sald, he took the child to New York to Japan in 1907, is noted for he transferred from North Chinn, anu endowment from credit expansion]

The second marriage was in 1910. will him, under an assumed name. Auency in the Japanese language and the Marino Band from Peiping. The but credit is alrendy being expanded Hail, Fakenham, Norfolk,

The family seat is at Cranmer and Miss Talley ignored repeated re-

quests to make a home for her.

mittee and officers for 1941 then cleeted,

were haikhoz,"

French Consul To Shanghai

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHTM

•

Shanghai..

Mr Bon Marchand, who frst came

Marines Leaving

in

is responsible for a number of books "China Press" stated that the Hen- but cre

derson brought 100 Marine replace- en Japanese literature, including the Japanese classics, In Shanghai, Mrments to China.

Bon Marchand will be joined soon

by Mr. Parson Gaston, 21, who is

In

Interview;

Mr Don

ס

Press

of

Britain's Quiet Week-End

Bafety to the limit of

Wugos fixed at flat rates without are now fix regard to the size of familles Chilld endowment is a special ment to wages and under this scheme)

it

Both

his

DUTCH SECTION

OF HOME GUARD

that she tried to conceal the birth of their five-year-old daughter whose custody she now seeks.

Duchess Praises Boy's Patience

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... May 30 *SS "Pres. Madison"

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Cholera At Macao

Telephone 28171

Russian Ships Here

A number of Russian vessels having arrived in the Colony recently -practically all for overhaul and ¡repales-probably led to rumours I is notified in the Government that a new aliippuig company would Gazette that Macro has been declared by formed in the Colony by a group a place Infected with Cholera,

jot Russion and Chinese merchants. the Under powers conferred by This report, however, could not be the Director of Medical conarmed at the week-end, but the Regulations services orders that valid certificate manager of the firm which acts as of Inoculation against Cholera. In agents for these Russian ships, when respect of passengers arriving in questioned on the matter, remarked Hongkong from Macao as one which: that he doubted very much if the Inoculated against Cholera not less

(1) shows that the holder has been report was correct.

Supple will be graduated according to the A Dutch section of the British size of the family. As it is, there- Home Guard-similar to the Ameri-

When the Duchess of Gloucester fore, a lugteni adjunct to the wege can Eagle Company-ls to be formed visited King's College Hospital in system, the money required to pay it in London. Hundreds of Dutchmen London recently, sho talked to a 18- logicat addition to the payroll have already enrolled, and it is hoped year-old boy who had Iain on his of employers,

to secure authority soon for Dutch-stomach for 22 weeks.

than six days and not more than six official scal, and "It is necessary for the Common- men in provincial areas to Join up wealth to collect the money, pool it with local detachments of the Home dine-street, Camberwell, was burned for Hongkong:

The boy, Arthur Rossiter, of Jar-months before embarking at (Macão, 2(8);iis signed or countersigned by and distribute It to the families bo- Guard instead of the All-Dutch Home on the back by an oll bomb.,

Government Medical Officer of (2) bears in", photograph of the Macao/or,by 'a Health Offeur of the ~~ “cause, obviously, if employers-had-to] Guard-company-

The Duchess praised his patience. holder attached and chopped with an Government of Hongkon The RESS

now atthlying in Tokyo.

Marchand said, "I have served here with ten Ambassadora and wish to return hero to devote my remaining LONDON, May 25 (Router), years to the promotion of cultural fow German aircraft, operating sleg- relations between France and Japan ly, have Rown over Britain to-day, after retiroment from my official No reports of any bombs being drop career, becalico my Japanese wife is ped were recolved up to 5,30 pm. burled here.

G.M,T.