The Archive · 1934

Hongkong Observes Empire Day

Big Church Services: Cancer Relief Concert: Water Control Gets Commendation Frost Our Own Hongkong, May 25.

Both Anglican and' Catholic Cathedrals in Hongkong held services yesterday morning in obser-'The Very address to more than 400 school ehil-Gren at St. John's Cathedral.

"I want you to take away with you to-day the thought that your membership in the British Empire puts you under an obligation of loyalty, not first to King George, but first to Christ," said the Dean.

No one has been really incon venienced by the restriction water to ten hours a day. Cutting off the mains during the night, when taps drip and not a little wastage occurs, might well always be the Tule. The last few years have driven home one truth in Hongkong—the rainfall is always a most certain quality; it may begin late and end early; it way be only 40 inches. So every allowance must be made yor such contingencies,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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