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IN View of the Forthcoming I Ball, member's and guests are
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THE
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
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、SEEKING ORCHIDS IN
DUTCH INDIES
HE EIGHTH EXTRA RACE MR. LAYCOCK'S FASCINATING (weather permitting) at Happy
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on November, 1929, commencing at 2
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TOUR THROUGH JAVA
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An interesting account of a trip! through Java to Ball, Lemok, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor and the islands in those regions in search of orchids is published as a supple- course; are of no assistance but ment to the annual report of the experience helps, as usual. Clear- ed and cultivated lands are gen- Malayan Orchid Society.
The author of the paper (Mr. erally useless (Bali was a fortan- Members are advised that they John Laycock, Singapore) explains ate exception) and old jungle is, must show their Badges to obtain that his object was to see "orchids of course, the desideratum. admission to the Members' Eacle-growing in conditions different turally this is not easy to find new
from our own and occasionally in the ports, nor even near the roads,
where cultivation always beging. Each member has the right to their natural habitats,"
Even in Though not greatly concerned introduce 2 non-members
remole places he Members Enclosure. tickets for with Java, where he had already Larantocka, mountains have been CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL. | whom can bo obtained iram acen orchids growing several times, cleared of the big o'd timber for tessrs. Linstead & Davis at $5 he called at Buitenzorg to make the greater part of their height; each up to Friday, 16th November, the acquaintance of some rare it is not always easy to see why: flowers, for the collection there is 1929.
very inclusive, at any rate so far as the orchids of the Dutch East Indies are concerned.
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The charge for admission for Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2.
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Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, &c. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
EITHER ENCLOSURE ON ANY NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN PRETEXT.
Hong Kong, November 9, 1929.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUR
to trees.
often the clearings are quite un- cultivated and the timber is not used for building purposes. · Λ streami bed with old jungle on its banks 19 generally a very likely place.
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Rich Coloura Continuing, Mr. Laycock writes: My next visit was to Heer Van Brero's orchid nursery at Tjipag-| anti. Bandoeng. For Malayan or- chids generally he is probably the best all round dealer, being a prac- tical grower with much experience and knowledge. He grows Vanda Tricolor as a "hardy perennial" in
better thus than in pots or tied on made-up beds in the ground and it is evident that with him they grow
A feature of his collec broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong The fallowing programme will be tion at present is a remarkably fine Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. q 360 lot of the large growing Archi-metres: pelago Dendrobiums, Undulatum,
1.48 p.m.-Weather Report. Veratrifolium, Undulatum var Aus-
7.48 p.m.-Weather Report. traliense (mere richly coloured
9 p.m.-Dance Programme. HALF YEARLY GEN- and showy than the type Undulatum TERAL MEETING of Voting var lilacinum (with lilac shaded play the followng
The Lyrie Dance Orchestra will Members will be hold in the flowers rather smaller and Jockey Club Room, Hong Kong compact than the type) and Aries, wave,
Extra-Foxtrot: On the Creat of a Club Annex, on MONDAY, 18th which greatly resembles Taurinum. 9.12 p.m.-(1) Foxtrots I'm still November, 1929, at 5.15 pm, He grows most of these plants In caring.
By Order,
the open with practically no shade; mean't for me.
9.24 p.m.-(2) Foxtrot: You were (and although fine plants of these species were not new to me, a plant 8 feet high with fourteen leads is something more than ordinary. plant of D. Undulatum or Veratri-' folium with one flower spike is curfous and interesting; but plants with 10 flower spikes present a showy mass of bloom, and Heer Van Brero gets plants with 40 spikes in
C. B. BROWN,
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Opening on Nov. 16, 1929. LANCIA GARAGE
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THE Undersigned, former chief Ten nude of the former Bien
more
9.36 p.m.-(3) Waltz: Underneath the Russian Bloor.
9.48 p.m.-(41 Foxtrot: Pretending. In a little Dream House.
10.00 p.m.6) Foxtrot (Blues):
10.12 p.m.-(6) Foxtrot: What D'yn
Say.
10.24 p.m.-(7) Waltz: Tegether. Interval 10 Minutes.-Press Local Football Reauits.
10.46 p.m.-(8) Foxtrot: Where is my Dream Girl.
10,57 p.m.-(9) Foxtrot (Blues): Oh! Baby where can you be.
11.09 p.m.-(10) Foxtrot: If it wasn't for you,
wishes to announce that he is
Climatic Contrasts opening a garage to be known as Wallace writes that between the LANCIA GARAGE and will un-two ends of the chain of islands
11.22 p.m.--(11) Woltz: Kiss me dertake any kind of repairs and from Java to Timor, there is a
again. storage. All repairs will be done great contrast of climate the west
11.34 p.m.-(15) Foxtrot: Good- under his personal supervision.
being moist and the east being dry night. Satisfaction guaranteed.
and parched. This is frequently 11.35 p.m.-Close Down. ascribed to the hot Australian winds. The change, he saYE, OC- curs about the middle of. Java.i
CESARE BORANDI.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
This statement, while generally ("THE PEOPLE'S FOOD"
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN true, requires several qualifications,
N that an Extraordinary Gen, and it seems that Mr. Wallace never Actions of the Central
Morning: commencing 10 a.m.eral Meeting of Scatholders and is true that Sumbawa, Suba, and
sharp.
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Subscribers will be held in the Timor are very dry. Almost all the Cathedral Hall on THURSDAY, vegetation on Sumbawa, even the
Nanking. Yesterday. 21st inst., at 5.30 p.m.
little plants, is covered with most The Central Political Council was (1) To consider, and if thought disagreeable and painful thorns; held on November 12 and the fol- necessary, approve of the cactus and other spiny trees lowing resolutions were adopted:- proposed Church of England flourish. Flores, however, is a Trust Ordinance, a copy of different proposition; much. of 1. which can be seen at the Floras is RA green as parts Cathedral Hall or on applica of Sumatra. Indeed the natural tion to the Hon. Secretary. features of Flores are far (2) To elect two persons to re-more beautiful and attractive present St. John's Cathedral than any other large islands eart on the Body of Trustees to be of Java, and even than, much of constituted by the proposed Java itself. Alor is also green Ordinance.
from the sea to the top of the
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mountains; central and southern |Ball is green and gets a good deal of moisture. The differences of
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By Order of the Church Body,
W. L PATTENDEN,
Hon. Secretary.climate, and especially this matter Hong Kong, 11th Nov., 1929.
of moisture, are plainly-reflected in the plant life of the lalanda.
Vanda Limbata grows freely on all the islands from the east of Java to Alor. I saw one enormous clump of V. Limbata on Ball, and I collected some very fine ones at 4. Larastocks, the most eastern point of Flores; but the finest I saw New York-Officials of the De. were at Almere, in central Flores, partment of Commerce state that where one "Assm" tree sheltered, 5. the fact that twenty-two nations of at a guess, a lorry load of V. Lim- Europe have managed to balance bata, and I cut two large handfuls their Budgets, and, more particu of flower sprays. The plants from larly, that the British Empire is Almere were plump and vigorous making slow but sure recovery from whereas plants from Sumbawa, the economic shock of war should Sumba, etc. were more or less be matters of great satisfaction to shrivelled; Aimere obviously hav Americans. They emphasise also ing a fairly abundant rainfall. the extent to which American trade
Collecting on Bali
That with reference to the re- port submitted by Mr. Tan Yin-kai regarding the question of "People's food" of the whole country, a committee managing this affair be organised and the five problems concerned, be handed to the National Govern. ment for action.
That Mr. Taf Cheun-yla be op pointed a member of the Com-
mittee of the Foreign Affaira, and Mr. Tseng Yang-po, of the Committee of the Financial Affairs,
That Mr. Sit Tuk-pat, a men- ber of the Committee of the Political Affairs, be dismissed. That the resignation of Mr. Yoh Che-chang, a member of the Committee of the Political Tutelage, be approved..
That Lang Yun, Hu Ying. Chin Hon-ting, Chang Wal-hon and Chang Pang-hon be ap- pointed members of Committen of the Yunnan Provincial Government after Ita organization. Canton News Agency.
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Details of Health Bulletin
Tê-
depends upon European prosperity. On. Ball I collected quantities of In addressing a country-wide Vanda Sunvis; £is is quite com- audience by wireless Dr. Julius mon there. It seems to grow at Klein, Assistant Secretary for Com-elevations of 1,500-5,000 feet but, merce, said that for strictly prac as all the lower lands of Ball are tical reasons, as well as for the intensely cultivated the lower broader considerations of "world figure may be, misleading. In the well-being," Americans were hills of Balf, this Vends is found The health bulletin of Eastern genuinely pleased to note, the un-growing not only on old forest ports for the week ended November mistakable indications of an econo-trees but on trees planted for cul, issued by the Director of Medica mic revival in Britain and of a tivation, such as large coffee trees lowing cases:
and Sanitary Services, give the ful- general economic resurgence of the and the shade trees planted be
Plague British Empire.
tween them. Here also I cut large. Alexandria: 2 cosen, 1 death. American Investments under the bunches of flowers; I have often
Rangoon: 1 death. British flag he estimated at about heard it said that it is very diflcult
Charbon: 1 case.
Cholera $760,000,000. In addition, he said, to find orchids in flower in the Calcuttar 74 cacos, 48 deaths. the United States sold to the United jungle, but I have seen very many Tuticorin; i case, 1 death. Kingdom alone goods valued at on this trip. I also collected on
From Perb: 7. cases, 4 deaths. about £200,000,000. Americans, Ball another Vanda similar to and Swatow: a deaths, therefore, should be the last to which may turn out to be V. exult over any economic crisis that Helvola or V. Leucostelle.. would curtail British buying power. With only a day, or perhaps even only a few hours, at any one port The Prince of Wales, on behalf of call it is not easy to collect of the King, conferred a knighthood orchids personally, One has to upon Major W. G. Coxen, one of decide quickly where to go and one the retiring Sheriffs for the City has no time to make a second of London,
choledock Inhabitants of
Borbara: 5 cases, 4 deaths. Bombay: 8 casos, 3 deatha. -Calcutta:; 2 cases, 2 deaths” Cochin:23"cana,. 8. deatha Topimusin: 1 Carey 1 death. “Mádrás;: 21: casos. 4, danthe,
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