The new course at Fanling will, unless there is an earthquake or ai other flood, be open for play on and from Saturday, September 22 No-one makes any definite predict tions in Hongkong, for golfing 19 in the hands of the fates who preside over the green, and they have not been indulgent' of "ate. keepers of green have all. but lost their minds this summer. First came week after week of incessant rain, causing the grass to rot because it could not breathe under water. Then came fourteen days, of blazing sunshine, with practically no rain, of ursa, would seem like a wet gon in Shanghai, if the reports have drifted southward are believed. Now rain is falling again, and the grass is likely to be swamped fon the hard-baked clay soil.
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