HONG KONG $ DIRECTORY
1929
NOW ON SALE
AT THE
DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO., 34, Wyndham Street.
AND AT
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. Ltd., Brewer's. Hung Cheong, 66, Nathan Road, Kowloon, -ILK. & Kowloon Ferry Wharf Store, Kowloon,
H.K. & Kowloon Ferry Wharf Store, Hong Kong Peak Trum Station Store, Low Tram Station, : Ler Yer. 12, D'Aguilar Street. Excelsior Co., 5, D'Aguilar Street.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929.
IS IT COLD-A happy family hesitating before "testing" the water at one of the local bathing beaches.
PIONEER ART SUPPLEMENT.
FROM THE EYES OF A "BIRD.”—A bird's eye view of Kowloon Point taken from an aeroplane, show- in the Peninsula Hotel.
(By courtesy of Squadron Leader S. Freeman, Officer Comisarding, R.A.F. base. Kai Tack),
SURF, PDING.-Two chubby young fellows are seen riding the aurf in
the wrong way, but who can blame them?
SUMMER
new
HOLIDAY. - A pagoda in modern Japanese style in Kyoto, taken by a Hong Kong resi- dent on short leave.
NOTE THE DIFFERENCE.-Com- pare this with the other. Here is a pageda in Kiyomitau Temple, also in Kyoto.
AFTER THE TYPHOON-At left, a "close-up" of the remains of hitherto elegant bathing matsheds at Re- pulse Bay Beach. Further evidence of the havoc done by the typhoon of Thursday before last is seen in picture at right.
Oh left. THE
HONG KONG
YANKS" The
ball nine of the
Hong Kong Base-
ball Club were
defeated by the
Filipino team on
Sunday last, in
(K.
spite of their
"Mascot," Fujiyama).
ANOTHER JAPAN SCENE.-A group of pilgrims standing on the Shrine steps at Nikke, a famous holiday resort.
OUR HOME RUN KING. Big Ben, Zafra, of the Phillies, is seen sugging the first home run of, the seaSOU.
CAB
RESIDENT'S PICTURE. Parada of five storeys which stands outside the Iesayo Temples of Nikko.
The
LAUNCHED BY FORMER HONG KONG LADY—Mrs. Stirling, wife of Rear Admiral A. J. B.. Stirling, formerly Commodore in Hong Kong, performed the christening ceremony when H.M. Sub- marine "Patrician" slipped off the stocks at one of the Home R.N. Bockyards.
EX-EMPEROR OF CHINA
Who is now living in straitened
circumstances in one of the foreign
concessions of the treaty port of