FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931.
BIG NEW DUTCH OIL STORAGE BASE.
Harbour Extensions at Pulau Bintan.
OIL TANK "PARK."
Batavia, Jan. 16.
SERIOUS FACTS.
LOWER PRICES OR NEW USES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
:SEVERN BARRAGE.
BIG SCHEME MAY BE ABANDONED.
+
NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
.. IN CHINA MAIL.
Hong
BANK HOLIDAYS. TN Accordance with Goverment;
Ordinance, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, 17th and 18th February. (China
NOTICE.
on
London and Liverpool stocks After ten years' research and an over 100,000 tons, a plantation in- expenditure of 260,000, the original dustry 'sorganised, rubber about Severn barrage scheme for 4. a pound. These are stern. generating electricity may ba serious facts of the moment of abandoned in favour of Mr. Paul ruch more than passing concern Shishkoff's thermal storage inven-
Social Functions, The supplementary budget for to those financially interested-tion.
To-day--Tea Dance at 1931 provides for better harbour for, indeed, they are also of vital
Kong Hotel, 4.80 p.m. equipment at Tanjong Oeban, on importance to thousands of high-represent constituencies adjacent sula Hotel 8 p.m.
A group of twelve M.P.', who To-day-Dinner Dance at Panin-Now Year Holidaya). Fulau Bintan, immediately opy trained experienced men and to to the Severn Valley, will wait on.
Hong Kong, 12th February 1951, posite Singapore. in connection the Eastern portions of the Em- the Minister of
To-night Dinner to British with the construction
Transport, and Mission, Hong Kong Hotel roof by the pire. The question may well be Netherlands Colonial
urge that before the major achetne garden. Petroleum naked. What are we doing to Co. (an associated company of the rake use of this glut of rubber scheme shall be taken into
is considered further, the new February 21-Interport FootballT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Standard Oil Co. of New York) now available at such tempting sideration.
con-dinner, Peninsula Hotel roof garden, of an extensive oil tank park, prices? Will the problem be solv-
8 p.m. which has already so far advanced by offering rubber goods at ed that it can be operated at the tower, prices, or is it up to the Leginning of this year.
chemist to find new applications Oll from the company's ollfields f this remarkable hydrocarbon In Palembang can be stored at and once more balance supply and Tanjong Deban and from there demand? speculates the Chemial taken to oil tankers. The new es- Age. We are not concerned with tablishment is on a very large most of the obvious reasons for scale, and according to the coin the excess production, but it must pany's representative at Tanjong be admitted that here, Orban, 135 nil tankers with a total where, the march of science is
as else capacity of more than 2,000,000 to a large extent responsible. The cubic metres. have already visited defeat if infectious fungold dis- the island daring 1931.
ease. the intelligent USC of
the selection of high
It is expected that the oil base manured, will be in full working order by yielding varieties, have resulted the end of this month, and will to-day, and will result to an in- then accupy the same position as creasing extent in the future, In the other oil companies which very large yields of cabber to the ve similar tank installations on scre, a factor which makes for Jalands opposite Singapore.
cheapening of production provid- can be told.
It also hoped that there willed that the output be a big increase in shipping We are usually told that the ne- traße in view of the fact that tho tual net cost of rubber is not the ialand will be visited in the future determiring factor in the cost of Ly ships taking in oil or its de. rivatives, or importing and export- ing other materials.-Aneta.
SMUGGLED LOVE-BIRDS.
Sent From Germany As Canaries.
rubber goods both because the pro- portion of actual ruther used is jamall and the cost of working it a material item. If this is really o, mpre serious attention must e given to using rubber in the form of latex instead of as coagulated crepe, in which some of the valuable physical properties The list prosecutions under the The tra sport of latex as tapped of rubber are impaired or list. egulations prohibiting the impor- Fation of parrots in Great Britain with 33 per cent. of rubber is too took place at Croydon in Decem-costly and presents sundry pro- blems, including that of its keep. ing.
ber. It was disclosed that at- tempts had been made. to smuggle tove-birds from Germany by air.
Harold North, of Cookson Street, Blackpool. Mrs. Mandell,
"You could anybody,"
Entertainments,
"Song of O' My Heart," To-day -- Queen'a
"The Battle of Paris."
To-day --Central
To-day Majestic "Innocents of Paris."
To-day. Star
the HONG KONG STOCK EX- CHANGE will be CLOSED TUESDAY, 17th inst. and WED- NESDAY, 18th inst., during the China New Year Holidays.
By Order of the Committee,
A. NISSIM,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 13th February, 1931.
The scheme on which experts have been working for ten years would cost at least £25,000,000
Theatre The Shishkol scheme, it is said, would cost £5,000,000, and. It is
Theatro claimed, would produce electricity at less than a farthing a unit.
Theatre; It is on that the Members of Parliament "Barbed Wire."
these grounds alone)
Theatre. will urge a thorough Government To-day-World Theatre, investigation of the new scheme."The Hawk," (Chinese picture). At the same time they will auggest that the £6,000,000 road and bridge
Home Maila scheme which is a corollary of the via Suez (Khyber); from Europe ALTERATIONS in the Generat
To-day- Inward from Europe undertaking will bo vis Siberia (Kashgar);
from America and ports
ing Station, the SUPPLY OF (President ELECTRICITY will not be avail-
the
March 5 Annual meeting of
Co., Ltd., Queen's Building, 11 a.m. H.K., Canton & Macao Steamboat
Miscellaneous, Sanday-St John's Cathedral 6.30 p.m., Special Service for, Men. Speaker, The Dean.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER THE Notify their Consumers that, owing CO. (1918) LTD., beg to
and 8 A.M. on TUESDAY, the 17th February, 1931.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hong Kong, 12th February, 1931,
barrage carried out.
Mr. D. J. Vaughan, M.P., for Grant); Outward for Europe via abla between the hours of 6 A.M. that, while he had been
Forest of Dean, stated Siberia (Khyber). 6 p.m. porter of the original scheme, he aup-
Sports. Sce Diary on page 8. considered It Imperative, on the count of cost alone, that the new
Meeting.
fully by the Government, says a scheme should be investigated
forning Post correspondent.
Investigations.
latest scheme is
Briefly and non-technically the to sink holes equipped with turbines so placed that they will fill with water as the tide comes in. As it recedes it will generate thermal power. original scheme was to drop the water from a great height, as is done in Italy.
The
ment
It is understood that the Govern
report on the original scheme, which has been postponed for some months, will be favour able.
Chief Petty Officer's Dance in R. E. Wednesday HLM.S. Cumberland,
Theatre.
BRIGAND ARMY.
TROOPS AFTER AFGHAN "ROBIN HOOD."
(Just Published.)
SILVER
and the
DOLLAR
compiled by
James Dalziel, M.I.Mech.E. Gives the Reasons for the Present Crisis, with Tables of the World's Peshawar, Dec. 6. Production & Consumption, from According to reports brought by which you are able to predict the The Government are fully cog
travellers from Kabul, King Future of Your Present Currency, nizant of the Shishkoff experi- Nadir. Shah is directing a plan of 50 cts. At All Booksellers, 50 ct. ments at Avonmouth and have campaign against Ibrahim Eeg, conducted some preliminary in-the young Uzbeg "Robin Hood,"
and the Publishers who for some months past has
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
B.I. STEAM NAVIGATION.
The accounts of the Britishvestigations. India Steam Navigation Co., which
The original scheme, apart from heen causing serions trouble in la controlled by the Peninsular its costliness, bas met with a cer, Badakhshan, the most northerly and Oriental Steam Navigation tain amount of opposition from province in Afghanistan. Co., show a net profit of £219,268, surrounding districts. Bristol Ibrahim Beg, like Baccha-1- for the year ended September 30
In particular hails the new Sakau, the late usurper of the (ugainst £222,487 for 1928-29) and
invention
a potential sal-Afghan throne, has had a meteoric A balance brought forward of
vation as the big scheme, it rise to fame, and by following £29,220. The dividends on the
was claimed, would result in the similar methods has been success- preference stocks absorb £145,000, loss to their port of at least ten ful in gathering around him an and, as Already announced, final
feet of water at high tide-army of supporters, estimated al payment of 4 per cent., tax free, serious matter for any harbour. from 10.000 to 16,000 strong, and is to be made
Mr. Shishkoff in a Russian naval comprising the riff-raff of various on the ordinary shares, thua maintaining the total architect who came to Britain dur tribes and absconders from the offer this cigar to listribu'ion for the year at the 'ng the war to collaborate with law.
"But I want one I can smoke
Nagela Lustige Wett, Berlin.
myself.""--
of Henderson Road, Wandsworth Common, S.V., and Gerald George Lester, Lower Porchester Street, Paddington, W., were each fined
£10.
dual rate of 8 per cent, tax free, The ordinary dividend requires 76,576, and will leave £26,912 to be carried forward.
at
totals
the Admiralty in certain inven tions. He has been experimenting his hydro-thermal system
with
over since.
EXHIBITION OF PERSIAN ART. Extraordinary Measures of
Precaution. -
The Afghan "Robin Hood" and his men are stated to be fully armed and equipped and are now concentriting at the town Khanabad.
of
In an attempt to stop their grow. ing nefarious Activities, King Nadir Shah has dispatched a large force from Kabul under the com mand of Field-Marshal .Sbab Mahmud Khan, and an early con is antici;ated. flict between the opposing armies
The balance sheet £11,310,151 (against £11,435,230), and all the assets are shown ander two oranibus headings: Fixed an sets, including shares in sub- sidiary companies (standing at Mra, Mandell and Lester were £738,197, against £732,658, are en- stated to be husband and wife, tered
London. Jan. 5. Mandell being the woman's maiden 26,980,624), and floating assets Persian Art, Illustrating sixty
£7,250,839 (against
The International Exhibition of name,
amount to £4,059,012 The Croydon
(against centuries of Iranian art; will be to have definitely announced their The Suleman Khels are stated town clerk pro- £4,454,606). recuting, said that the regulations that the disturbed political condi- Royal Academy b-morrow and will Shah as King. Only a small num- The report states ready for a private view at the intention to acknowledge Nadie were the outcome of anxiety caustions in India, combined with the ed by many deaths in the past 12 depressed state of trade nel 7 til February 28.
be open to the public from January.ber of uleman Khels months froin palttacosis.
have left They, have made the year a difficult
for India for trade purposee, and Ministry of Health regarded the one, and the prospects for the cur- and the Shah of Persia.
It is sponsored by King George the majority of the Ghilzais ro- frences as serious,
rent year are far from bright, Evidence was given that birds
The exhibition is
maining behind in the Ghazní area The oid steamer Lady Blake has example of international co-apers. clasele were consigned as canaries, but been sold for breaking up.
pre hostile. sove-birds were skilfully concealed involving serious damage to ship 80 Governments, 100 museums in ing the coming Winter In keeping
A fire, tion in the domain of art.
It is spected that the Afghan Over King will have a busy time dur- In the boxes.
and cargo, occurred in the cargo Europe, Egypt, Canada and the a watchful eye over them. North said that the consignorateamer Masula when near Gibral-United States and a multitude of had a habit of sending birds with- tar on her homeward voyage from private collectors have contributed out an under for them.
Mrs. Tester said she wrote only ship Nerbudda also Fustained con- fabulous
Bombay in June, and the steam nearly 3,000 exhibits, including for canaries on approval.
treasures, She siderable damage through being carpete, objets d'art. knew nothing of the love-birds run into by another ship during manuscripts.
and ancient Sunrise and Sunset in which came in the consignment ad- fog off the south coast of Spain. I dressed her. A Customs officer
Extraordinary recautions have
Colony.
had valued the love-birds at bo
tween 20 and £30.
It was stated that the author- ities sent all the birds back to Germans.
GIRL GUIDES,
Before starting on a walking tour, soak the feet in warm water, to which a good handful of ordin- ary salt has been added,
Dry the feet thoroughly, then rub the soles and heels over with methylated spirit and dust with Fuller's earth or boracic powder. This will prevent the feet from be- coming hot and uncomfortable throughout the whole day,
Should there be any tendency to blistered heels, moisten a cake of soap and rub it, over the faside of the heel of the stocking and the in side of the heel of the shoe or boot.
ECHOES OF THE R101.-
At a meeting of the Committee
af the Council of the Boy Scouts
Association messages of
were received: from
of Czecho-Slovakia
France, wello
4thy Soonts
and
New C.P.R. Station at MontrealTM
1
3
marvellous
pating wall over $500,000, with)slation, will be approathed through a frontage of 231 feet, a doplijan ornamental garden which will be of 87 and maximum height of ticircled, anti-clockwist, by vebiM fest in three stories, the new Cans trainé and there will also be 'n uido dian Pacific Park Avenus station entranos, fromí a new 'ndyth-and-, In the north and of Montreal, con south street for: pasisigots" Kerly tract for which has just been let, is ing or leaving by trandars. It will alsted for completion by October of afford additional service, to real- this year. It will be of combised deate of the northers sections of classical and modern architecturs Montreal and is farideck of the of stone and marble construction sydr-growing. Brattia CH KUS TRIFWAY, and will de s'rgry, handsome addi- from and to the city, as the section to part of the city which of Vigor station and T13. tis Laurentian
・
STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrian and Bunsat in Hong Kong for February 1931, (Stan- dard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich) are as fol
Sunrise Sunset.
6.56 6.19
loving
Feb
13
14
-6.66 6.19
-25-
6.56
6.20
16
6.55 €.20
17
6.55 6.21
18
6.54 6.21.
19
6.6%
6.22
20
6.52 6.22
21
6.52 0.28
22
0.51
6.23
been taken to protect the collection by day and night
Retirement Closes
53 Years Service
bay joined the old foronto, ver 58 years ago, a 14-year-old Grey and Bruce Railway, A apprentice in the Motive Power Department. Today, the retirement of Robert Preston, superintendent of motive power, Eastern- Lines, Canadian Paclite Railway, closes career which is something of an aple
in the history
of Canadian
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the T. G and B. was taken over by the great Cana- dian system, XL. Prostom
then in Its OWN Infancy. Mr, Presten, from machinist in 1884, sored in various parts of the Dominion, accessively, 'as locomo- tive foreman; master mechanic and auperintendent
of motive power
on both Westá
ern and Eat-
ern Lines. Ho
intends to make his home In Toronto, where
he is well knowWN and saw many years of his long Bervice.
He is c- cooded by George White- ley, who bas been his ZİS- tant since 1915) and also has t long record in the service of the company, having started as fireman, at Fort William, Ont., in 1902. E employment in various posts of the
G. Whiteley
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An invisible zay will be used in the case of the Shah's couls Jewels. Anyone approaching too near will
break the ray, causing red lights AN AMERICAN STOVE. to flash at the policemon's stations and alarm bells to ring. Simul▪ American Scouts have a good taneously, It will automatically way for frying eggs when there is close the heavy wooden doors of no pan or other vessel handy, the chamber.
They place a brick in a fire until An instance of the difficulties in it gets very hot. Baving, drag the way of the Exhibition has been it from out of the fire and wiped the destruction of a
of clean, they cut a hold for place of valuable tiles sent by camel cara bread a large at half a crew van and were
Japaban. The bread is placed on the g rers were and dripping plate
and the egg broke
ita ft in frio
Forty
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