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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1930.
- Qfficial; Denial of
Rumours
Whichever way the forthcoming DAIRY FARM HERD poll of shareholders goes, the public shall be no less ready to wish the Steamboat Company many more years of usefulness' and prosperity. It is an asset to the general weal that cannot lightly be disregarded.
p.m.
News in Brief
HEALTH EXCELLENT.
With regard to the rumours circulat-
SANITARY BOARD Food As Medium of Disease
SPITTING IN, BAKEHOUSES
At the fortnightly meeting of the ing regarding the health of the Com-Sanitary Board, held yesterday after pany's herd, the Manager of the Dairy noon, a resolution was adopted to in- Farm Company assures the China Hall quire from the Government whether it that they are entirely without founda-was considered that conditions were tion, the herd being in excellent Health. aufficiently normal to justify the intro- lie addr:-
duction of by-laws for the registration The fact that the milk shortage fol- of food prolerving establishments. The annual meeting of the lowed to closely after the outbreak of The Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, Victoria Diocesan and Missionary rinderpest amongst the native dairies Pirector of Medical and Sanitary Ser- Association will be held in the at Tai Hang is no doubt responsible vices, in moving the resolution pointed Cathedral Hall on Friday at 5.16 for these rumours, but our herd is 85 out that as food was the medium for per cant immune against rinderpest, the spread of a number of diseases, it whilst the non-immune animals were all was right and proper that those who serumised against the disease prior to prepared food for aalo should be sub- Members and subscribers of the the local ontbreak. Further, the Com-Jected to reasonable rules and regula- Peak Club are reminded of the pany has not lost an animal from the flons made for the purpose of protect dance to be held on Friday. Tickets jdisease or during the immunisation Ing the health of those who partook of
obtainable on applicatlen to period during the past three years. such food. the No. 1 Boy at the Club.
The shortage of milk is due to the fact In seconding the resolution the Hon. that the demand la considerably Mr. J. P. Braga drew attention to the European named Charles heavier than is usual at this time of outery against spitting in public and Read (25), unemployed, was yes- the year, and our yield is at the mo- mentioned that as bakehouses terday found sick and unconscious suffered by certain of the native dairies extensively in the Colony, the simple The losses places where food was prepared very at the Kai Tack Aerodrome. The are to a certain extent responsible for condition against the practice of spit- Police removed him to the Kow-the-increased demand upon us.
ting might be effectively incorporated loon Hospital.
We have just received a shipment of in' the licence. pedigreo Ayrshiro cattle, of which 15 The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, (Direc
are
A
ment at its lowest abb.
were.
A fine of $10 was imposed on a will soon be in mlik. The addition of tor of Public Works) who presided in Chinese youth at the Kowloon these animals should go a long way the absence of Mr. G. R. Sayer, said Magistracy this morning on admit- toward taking care of the unexpected that Mr. Draga's commentary regard- ting riding a bicycle with his hands creased demand if such should con- ing spitting would be brought to the
tinue throughout the summer. His Worship told him that he was "simply showing oft!"
off.
H.M.S. Kent, flying the flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, arrived at Singnopre yesterday. She will in all pro- bability remain there for four days, after which she will return to Hong Kong.
We hope that the supply will be equal to the demand from April 1.
FORGED NOTE
notice of the President.
Another motion was for the suspen jaion for a period of six months of a warning notice requiring the removal of water closets at the New Moham- medan Rest House at 30, Shelley Street. It was adopted by the meeting after the Chairman and Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga had pleaded for a benevolent attitude
Thrown Into Water by by the Board.
Foki
CLEVER IMITATION
ROUND THE CINEMAS
Too! Kan, a foki of a shop in Lai-"Taming of the Shrew
was at the Kowloon
To-day
Alleged to be a member of a Triad Smoiety, a Chinese, who was shareholders-members of the produced before Mr. Whyte-Smith public become peevish or sug-at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, chikok Rond, gest ways and means whereby translations of documents in con-menths' bard labour, on being convict- was remanded for a week, pending Magistracy this morning before Mr.
Whyte-Smith sentenced to four "TRANSFORMATION" RECORD improvement may be secured. It nection with the society.
fed of the possession of a $100 bank is easy to assert that the public
[note of the Chartered Bank,
A new record in "transformation" Members of the committee of the discussion of certain questions is
Mr. F. C. Moodie, sub-accountant or was established by the make-up S.P.C.A. and others who are help the Bank, gave expert evidence as to department of Mary Pickford and not in the best interests of ang with the sale of tickets for the the forgery. He stated that the note Douglas Fairbanks during the fla Company. With all due deference Fancy Dress Ball on Friday, are was forgery which would deceive ing of "Taming of the Shrew! to Directors who, it must, in all reminded that a note of their tickets anyone. One fault about it was that which comes to the Queen's Theatre
sold should be sent to the Hon. the red colouring on the background to-day. fairness, be borne in mind, are Treasurer, S.P.C.A., Percy Smith, was too bright, and the wording and placed in office by the share- Seth and Fleming, to-day.
lettering on the face were rather dull were turned into citizens of the More than 600 Hollywood extras as compared with those on genuine holders in general, there may
notes,
15th century Italian city of Padua
'The accused. stated that he got the the studio lot, where the tremendous $100 note in the course of business in set representing a thoroughfare of Canton with salt junks, and he did not the city had been erected, and laid know it was a forgery.
arise occasions when a reference At about eleven o'clock last night. A police searcher at the Shamshuipo in the astounding time of two hours. a rikisha with a passenger, was be-Ferry Wharf, where the accused was Seven assistants; skilled in the usa to shareholders could safely being pulled along Canton Road to-arrested, said that the man, on seeing of cosmetics and crepe hair, were made without in any way lower-ward Yaumati, when s Kowloon that the note was discovered to be a responsible for the performance. ing the dignity or reflecting on Motor Bus Co.'s vehicle going in forged one, threw it into the water. These seven artists arrived early at the reputation of
Directors, the same direction collided with its rear and damaged the right wheel. Directors are no more infallible The passenger was not hurt. than any other 66dy of men. It is not always easy to define what During the screening of the is or is not a question of a "purely Queen's Theatre, this week, the "Taming of the Shrew" at the
domestic nature." Directors may Queen's Orchestra, under the baton define it correctly; they may not of Mr. R. Bakalinikoff, will play a But if any question "requires for special overture followed by plane and cello solos. The orchestra will a Just appreciation an intimate e specially augmented for the
occasio
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 5, 1930. knowledge of the ramifications of a Company's business" it should not be absolutely impossible for share-
"STEAMBOAT STRIFE"
Whilst regret may be expressed
the general body of holders to possess it. Either there is dictatoriness on the part
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GUNBOAT ASHORE
Chinese Vessel Loses
Her Bearings
their preparations for the handling of the large crowd. They were ready when the players arrived. Then the work started. For the men, flannels and berets gave way to velvet and fur, beards and tights. And the women discarded short
skirted chiffon for long trains trim med with pearl. Turbans were re placed by gorgeous head dresses of the period.
share in the
transformation are Dorothy Jordan, Geoffrey Wardwell, Clyde Cook,
Edwin Maxwell and Joseph Gaw thorn, all of whom have important roles in support of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in "Taming....
$100,000 FOR QUEEN of the Shrew
Gift of Wealthy American
Pittsburg, Yesterday.
The Sun-Telegraph announces that Mr. AP. Moore, who was appointed
"
"HELEN OF. TROY”
Some highly interesting perdon- alties are to be found in the large cast of "The Private Life of Helar of Troy," the big First National
Out of the most famous of these
is Maria Corda, who plays the role
Returning to harbour at 8 p.m., yes terday, Lance Sergeant Hill, of the Water Police, who had been out on
Bobbed hair reached the waist patrol on a Police launch, reported that with one wave of the wig maker's DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
at about 8.30 p.m., ie sighted the Chin hand. Moustaches and bearda grew jese gunboat Hung Ham on a rock at
In a twinkling. Flappers became Suffering from severe injuries Ha Min Wan, Lama Island.
He visited the vessel and ascertained matrons with a few deft strokes of that internal friction has come to /of the Directors or apathy on the to his right hand caused by the that she had been on the rock sincs rouge and lining pencil, and strange explosion of a stick of dynamite Sunday when it was enveloped in a and colourful figures took their light in regard to the policy of part of shareholders. True, that foki of a fishing funk was yes- dense fog and lost her bearing. assigned places minutes before The position of the Hung Hàm is not Director Sam Taylor gave the signal the Hong Kong, Canton, and statement was qualified by the terday taken by the Police to the
to start the cameras. Among the Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, Chairman of the Steamboat Com-Kwong Wah Hospital, on the danger to navigation. it must be obvious that the best pany by the phrase relations Junk's return to port. According It is learned that tug was Imme featured playera to
to a report made by the master lately sent to the gunboat's assistance way to clear the air was by a with competitors. That quali of the junk, the explosion decur and a now engaged in getting her of
the rock. discussion of the points of differ-fication is an important one red whilst the Boat was fishing af once at a public meeting of share Directors, by the very nature of Kam Shan, In Chinese waters. The Yok! had fighted the dynamite holders. Few will be able to their duties must possess con- to throw it into the water, but subscribe to the Chairman's view fidential information in regard to
exploded before he could do so. in the preamble to his address at competitors that it would be at yesterday's extraordinary meet once undesirable for the whole ing. He stated that "the world to know; otherwise they Directors were asked to call this could not possibly "direct" the meeting of shareholders on their Company's affairs in the best il-
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. " own initiative but declined, as terests of shareholders. Whether in their opinion public discussion or not the question of farming out [To the Editor of "Cain Mail to be American Ambassador (in production which is drawing crowd-
land, but died prior to taking up his ed houses to the Majestic Theatre. of the questions which have been the Steamboat Company's buat Sir, I have read with interest appointment, has bequeathed 2000 raised is not in the best interests ness comes under that category or the report of the annual meeting of to Signor Caruso's widow, and $100,000
the Hong Kong Benevolent Society to the Queen of Spain. Rauter, not is perhaps not one for out-held-yesterday, at which appeals | of the Company and these quesiders to attempt to argue in view were made for increased public
Lewis Stone has a background of colour and interest. ~ A veteran of tions are, moreover, of a purely of the fact that shareholders support, and I shall be grateful if
twe wars, Stone is now a major in domestic nature requiring for
d you will spare me a little epace for
the US. Reserve Corps. He has just appreciation an intimate themselves have forced an lasue a:quggestion which I feel bure will
been a popular figure on stage and". therean. The majority of, share help to swell the Society's funds. knowledge of the ramifications of
Terrorised Natives Rush screen for twenty years, the Company's business and their haldera at yesterday's meeting When anyone who la at all well-
Constantine Romanoff and George To Mountains
Kosaomaros are both "well-known relations with competitors which certainly did not object to a public known dies in this Colony, hundreds of wreaths, mostly identical in shape
professional wrestlers; and, though it is impossible for the general discussion of the points in dia and composition, are sent down to According to the Exchange Tele both have done considerable picture- body of shareholders to possess." pute and the will of the the Monument and subsequently, I graph Company's Johannesburg cor- work, they were chosen mainly for It ought not but apparently it majority must always prevall, presume, carried down to the grave respondent, victory without a single their sinistar mien and oddities of
to be necessary to point out to the merits or demerits of where within a few hours they go casualty on either alde drowned the facial "architecture.
rotten and are removed by the efforts of the authorities, to capture Mario Carillo was an Italian the resolution before the extra cemetery authorities, I suggest the Transvaal rebel chief Sokonela, Count with a much longer and more that the Bteamboat Company is a perso public limited liability Company.
ordmary general-meeting It is still that on such sad dccasions only, nedr whose kesal was bombed from the unpronounceable name, Gus Partos.. dependent for its capital on public preferable that these be decided relatives or great personal friends air The natives, terror-stricken, Charles Puffy, and Emilio: Borgato
by the poll to be taken on the should send wreaths, and that other rushed down the mountain, and all are European actors of note. investment in shares, It. 15, date already announced: All that ple who wish to send a token of including Sekonela, surrendered to moreover, a public utilities con need concern the outside public is
respect should send a subscription Colonel Tale and the Native Com
Ten Years Ago the_Bong Kong Benevolent misliner, Mr. Biddulph carn dependent on public patron the principle of the affairs Society. The Society could assletArmed palke appeared before ort to ensure suc public Company being conducted, supplying the principal Clubs of the delivered an ultimatum. As he In the collection of each suns by Sekongla's kraal in the morning å fid ment of dividends
where feasible and
in printed subscription chief did pot reply to the demand) tia the sole fall light
not behind lists for display whenever the occs for à surrender, a Union Air Force de tes closed doors
anavointied, roum the krial,) After 15 rounds of close fighting spo (or Concern is not by
ropping bombs on either side * great deal of clenching, the fight ramburg and later diving and be Welterwelk bu Championshi being the kufa, citatch were fired, and Iron Bur wondeclared & draw by
{Colony, between Sky Kerrison atives leaving themeltar. Logans, tho bed, as referosis.
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