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RACE HOLIDAYS.
IS HEREBY GIVEN that all NOCRINE LESURANCE OFFICES
will be CLOSTD for the transaction v Public Business on TUESDAY, WEDNES DAY and THURSDAY, 25th, 26th an 27th instant respectively, at 11.45 m.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING, 1813.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day and Saturday (off-day).
Gath, 98th, 27th February
and lat March.
PICKETS of ADMISSION to the
GRAND STAND and ENCLO-¡ SURE may be obtained from Mesira Kelly & Walsh, Lo,, or at the Gate. Price $7 for the Meeting (excluding the Off-Day), or 83 per day. Tickets for the Off-Day, 82, -
No one admitted without a Ticket,
to be shown to the Ticket Inspector at the Gate
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Couris. Hongkong, February 20, 1919.
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THE STEWARDS THE
request the plessure of the presence of the LADIES at the GRAND STAND
The business of a flying school is pri.and the ENCLOSURE during the marily to fly: unfortunately, the clerk of Races the weather, has not been enlisted in the A Stand and Enclosure will be re-
school, and so far he has not manifested served for Members and fembers any desire to extend preferential treatment Wives and Families, Tickets for which to the budding sirmen.
will be sent out with the Memberi Tickets
THEOBY AND PRACTICE.
Flying, therefore, is not always possible. 'and the staff have prepared a nice little list of alternative lectures and studies which may take the place of practical demon- stration.
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and
These comprise, for officers, the theories fight. of fying by compass and aud of Aerial reconnaissance; the principles
For Upavon has been selected as the Flying School of the Royal Flying Corps, and on the breeziest upland of Salisbury of troops (British and
Plain it is turning out a corps of airmen drawn from both Army and Navy..
It is astonishing how the soldiers and sailors fraternise in their new ton-miles. from-everywhere quarters. Normally Jack and Tommy have a touch of oil and water in their composition; they are friendly. but they do not mix. Here, however, they FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF start & fresh page; they may have been
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all FIRE INSURANCE OFFICES will
be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY nd THURSDAY, 25th, 20th and 27th inst. respectively, at 11,45 A.M.
By Ordur,
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4. R. LOWE, Semestary.
Hongkong. February 21, 1913-
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sailors, marinos, cavalry, gunners, or in" fantrymon, but that belongs to the distant
past.
AVIATORS ALL?
of aerial internal-combas ion engines. magnetos, and the strengths and breaking trains of fabrics, timbers, and metals used in seroplanes; then, again, the ambitions airman has tost" the f rations Continental) and learns
thair ou to estiraste bérs from the ground occupied by these formations in camp and on the march; be must be able to recognise types of warship (British and foreign), and he must be an authority on artillery fire and methods of recognising different weapons-howitzers, mountain guns, field guns, Long Toms; ete These are a few of the "ologies" and ima" officers have to cram during their short course of four months,
PLAIN AND PANCY.
reams of essays on the various subject
At the end of their couro, after writing they go through a practical examination is plain and fancy flying, in pulling apart an At Upavon they become airman, and putting together various types of aeroplan airman they reinsin for the rest of theironginae, in serial recconaimaanes, and in service, and the civilian who suggests rignalling on the "buzzera telegraph that Mochanic Bowline, late of H.M S. Dreadnought, was a sailor, goes away with A profound reverence for the flying man's Vocabulary.
The Flying School is not, na ita name might suggest, a school in which flying is
instrument.
Among the rank and fle," who, as noted above, ara known as air mochanics, and not privates, there are two courses of study. Those who propose to become pilots trun with the officers. The remainder become riggers and fitters, titles which have a very wide application, for as every air-mgehame was a craftsman before he joined, a rigger
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T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Comme Hopking, February 20, 1913.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DASSES for Servants will be issued
on application to the Undersigned on SATURDAY, 22nd inst
No Servants will be allowed inside the ENCLOSURE of the Race Course during the Race Days WITHOUT TICKETS which can be had on application to the Undersigned. These Tickets are only available for servants or when on duty at the various Stands, while in attendance on their employers
Any Chinese found loitering about withServants passes in their possession, will forfeit them and the holders there- of will be removed from the Enclosure.
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, February 20, 1913, 246
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
taught. That is a mere olementary lesson, aud filter may be a boilermaker or a taller.Race to be run on the OFF DAY
TRE FINISHING SCHOOL
which must be learned at Brooklands or THE EXCHANGE BANKS will be i elsewhere.
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Bougkong, February 20, 1919.
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The Central Flying School is actually the academy whera a polish is put upon officers and men who have acquired their rudiment at preparatory schools.
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and corrugated iron; they comprise han-Ladies' Nomination). gurs, garage, workshops, lecture-rooms,
Sir
A Handicap for all China Ponies hospital, stores, fofficers' and men's quar-that may be started at this Meeting. The "acadomy" staff in drawn impartars, dining-rooms, and mess-rooms. NOTICE.
tally from laud and ses services, whi'e the addition to- the 12 officer and 60 six third 10 per cent, of the Entrance Fear. The are destined to accommodate. in Second to receive 60 per cent, and THE HONGKONG CIVIL SERVICE meteorological department is under the mechanics that make up the staff, some 30 Entrance 36. One mile and a quarter.
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LTD. charge of a civilian, Mr. Lampfext. officers and 60 rank and-file, who present.
IN LIQUIDATION.
The commandant is Captain Godfrey themselves three times a year for a course ly presented a prize for the Lady The Donor of the Cup has also kind. Paine, R. N, and the assistant command- of] Instruction. NY person or persons having Claims ans and instructor in theory and construcmersed in their studies, they have no nominate more than one Fony.
For the students Upavon is idest. Im Nominating the Winner, no Lady to Against the above named Society are requested to send in axe, on, ar bolors, manter Lidderdale, of the Royal Navy, the old bands
tion is a gunner, Colonel Cook
thought for counter-attractions. But to the 15th March, 1913, addressed to the the secretary; sad
A List of Weights to be carried will Lieutenant Kirby, on is too Eve-less to be exactly an Eden. pablished in the Press on the morning who form the staff Upa be posted at the Grand Stand and Liquidators.
V. C., who was prometed from the zanka (290 Hongkong, February 24, 1913. 273
the Royal Enginers, is the quarter. Four miles from the nearest villaze, sad of the Baca. master; while Captain Lithgow, RAM.C., married members of the staff, the Flying with no nearer accommodation for the holds the office, which all hope will prove a School has been christened Siberia by the Course on THURSDAY, the 27th Entries, will Close to the Clerk of sinecure, of medical officer to the school, Lbe airmen, who are praying for the tinde when the chief hardabip of their exile will The flying instructors are Major Treve-be removed by the erecting of quartera for hard, Royal Scots Fusiliers; Captain their wives and the little things they're Fulton, Royal Artillery: Captain Salmend. Jeft behind thım." n. Lancaster Regiment: Major Gerrand, Royal Marinos; and Lientemnt Langmoor, Boysi Nary Engineer-Lieutenant C. B. J. Bandall, Royal Navy, is the chief in- 19 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.structor in practical engineering and Honkong. February 22, 1913.
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