To the Editor of the "Norrw-Cuwa Dany News"
Sin—Prospective visitors and holl-day-makers to Hongkong will trid pleasure inthe following excerpts from the Hon, Mr. Mackle's speech at the last Budget debate, Atter extolling the merits of the southern Colony as a natural winter and holiday resort from October to March, he deplores the "grandmother regulations" which damp the exuberance of spirit concomitant. with holiday making. Unless a rather heavy fee is paid, he says, no ordinary and innocuous place of amusement can keep open its doors after midnight, Shanghai folks who have visited the place have greatly admired the scenery, the good motor roads, the beautiful beaches, but they never did like the idea of turning in before midnight—not whilst holiday making.
Shanghai, Oct, 13
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.