Corrective Foot Appliances and
Preparations of
Dr. SCHOLL
Toe Flex and Toe Right
Zino-Pads
Foot Eazers
Bunion Spring Bunion Reducer
No Grip Heel Liner
Walk Strate Heel Pads
Tru Span Arch Support
Tri Spring Arch Support
Anterior Metatarsal Arch
Support
Foot Soap and Powder
Foot Cream
Corn Salve
Bunion Lotion
Fixo. Corn Platers
Bromidrosil Powder
"2" Drop Corn Remedy
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO
FREE DEMONSTRATION.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WHITEAWAYS
MEN'S
BATH GOWNS
FOR BATH OR BEACH.
· THE
"TURCO" BATH GOWN.
FOR
Comfort and Utility,
Made from good quality material, strong towelling
News in Brief,
The Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., advertise that no late cars will run after 12.05 in the morning.
1
It is notified that Mr. Wilfridi Thomas Southorn, C.M.G., resumed duty as Colonial Secretary on April
23.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.
TRADE OF COLONY.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE IN
·IMPORTS 'SHOWN,
EXPORTS LOWER.
30,251
311,508) ( 108,852)
$ 3,056,039
$ 4,757,340
($3,918,085) ($2,760,479)
$3,781.29 $ 135,611
(3 2,780,109) ($
Iniporte
s
America (5 1,200) ($ Dentark
Exports
242,489)
France
5,072 5,108) (9. 494,390
008
4,029)
Fr. Indo-
China Germany
Holturi
"
39,878
84,633)
S 209.771 $ 7,021
9,529)
twelve months' period ende. Japan
(5 440,445) ($
(3
The Statistical Branch of the Imports and Exports Department reports that the total value of im- Italy ports into Hong Kong during the The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 68 degrees, The
March 31, 1931, amounted
to Kwong humidity was 95 at 10 am, and 93 $642,399,180, compared with
$582,017,053 during the corres- Macao
$ 043,108 |ponding period în 1924-25, while
($688,023) ($ 1.385,092) Norway
46,519 exports totalled $496,054,224, as
43,474) ($ against $509,914,543.
Netherlands $ 4,809,065
at 4 p..
Judge G. W. King, of H. M. Supreme Court, at Shanghai, is A passenger for Home with Mrs. King by the P. & O. as. Rajputuna.
08
$7.787,431 $3,191,431
4,363,507)
($ 2,304,564) $211,620 Chow W. (9 760,704) (3 939,125)
$ 1,847,370
$2421,617
338 G13) $ 1,276,220
The comparative figures (000's E. Indies ($ 5.913,122) ($ 920,248) omitted) are given in the follow- Philippines & 205,700 $ 027,898 ing tables by countries:--
Imports.
1924/25.
88.010) (3 811.108)
$. 41.986
24,760) $4,108,002
$ 1,831,401
Page 603) 8 2.731,354)
19,055 $ 21.602) (
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
ARTISTIC
DRAWING - ROOM
FURNITURE.
EASY LOUNGE CHAIRS,
LOUNGE SOFAS.
with wonderful soft carpels to match,
"JUST WHAT YOU WANT FOR REPOSE AND COMFORT.
THE INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE CO.
Show Rooms, David House, No. C7A, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 23546.
"BEWARE "
Of cheap DRY CLEANING. So called CHEMICAL CLEANING is soap and water with a little spirit spotting. Such method does not preserve cloth from moth and other insects.
**What is GENUINE DRY CLEANING?". Removal of all dust, spots, and soiling of a greasy matter by special spirit soaps and pure PETROLEUM BENZINE which can only be used in special machines installed in a fully licensed building approved by the GOVERN- MENT. There is only one large installation in the COLONY.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS, Mongkok.
After cleaning the cloth is sterilized and pressed with the latest steam presses.' All SUITS, OVERCOATS, etc.. "sent during May 1931 will receive ONE IMPROVED SANETEX MOTH PROOF BAG.
There is no surer method to preserve your clothes during the SUMMER than GENUINE_DRY, CLEANING and SEALING in a MOTH PROOF BAG.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
+
Head Office:--Mong Kok..
Kowloon Hotel Depot, Hankow Road .Hong Kong Depot:-16, Stanley St., Kowloon Depot, 19, Canton Road.
Peak Hotel Depot. Hong Kong Hotel (visitors only).
Tel. 21279.
quality
Hell's
tself, which has been in thi
same family ever since its the m ception."-Overseas Daily Fall
Wm. Sanderson & Son,14 Distillers. LEITU
E14180R
KUR SCOTCH SHART
VAT 69
COMPANY
6
His Excellency the Governor inj Coumell has directed that the names
Portuga!
($
1930/31. Sinta
of quick absorbent pro- perties and very soft. white and white with block coloured stripes.
of Mr. Richard Edmund Lee and United Kingdom $ 80,616 Mr. Ip Hin Fong to added to the Australia list of authorized architects.
$ 71,030
7.252
4.796
South
Burna
0,357
8,410
Canada Ceylon
4.082
4.036
America (3 Sweden
322,210
$
201
243
All
Price
$27.50
each.
At a meeting of the Seuate of the East Africu Upiversity of London Sir Reginald Egypt Fleming Johnston, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., India M.A. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Hong Kong), North Borneo New Zealand was appointed to the University South Africa Chair of Chinese, tenable at the Straits School of Oriental Studies, as from September 1.
($
305
Switzerland
210
171,760 146.213) ($ 194,603
150,005)
5,036
6,080)
18.398
11.981
Spain
407
265
370) 19,11
2384
3,532
20.801)
U.S.A.
$ 5.071.303
j..
94
$ 3,029,189
13.975
14,203
West Africa
West Indies.....
Other
$ Countries ($
(3 437,549) (8 2,922,523)
194,264 9
62,036) (S
B. Ep. (other) Belgium
303
1,437
5,486
26,547
2,121
11,504
70,310
0,736 89.275 lowing table with the February
figures in brackets:-
Total values by main groups of commodities are given in the fol
93,867 50,754)
1,322
Imports
Exportx
Centr
America
38
24
819
82
2,625
4.160
82,919
13,604
29.315
50,359
Building
2,697
3,016
Italy
2,176
4,971
A man, Wong Cheung, alias Wong Jupan Sik-cheung, and a woman, Choi "Kwong Chow W.
"Macho Shiu, appeared before Mr. Hamilton at the Kowloon Police Court yeater-N. East Indies
Norway day afternoon, charged with
the Fa murder of Kau Shuk, in a house in Reclamation Street on April 1. Bian
South America Accused were not repre- Sweden
77,697
74,007 0,016
1.287
7,047
71,597
5,104
60,248
6 -6
1,034
148
36,752
08
152
150 Foodstuffs
1,350
2.614
327
1.012
40
AR
Fuels
55
U.S.A.
Other
the
Total
47,449
1647
40,750 1,259
ART SILK DRESSING GOWNS.
Light weight, just right for present wear.
Smart designs and colourings,
$49.50 to $65.00.
CALL AND INSPECT.
WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
The China Mail
[Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription, excluding postage abroad, II.K. $30, payable in advance. Local delivery free.. Overland China Mail.
The weekly edition of the "China Mail" Annual subscription, H.K. $13 including postage $19, pay- able in advance.]
Published by
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Printers & Publishers.
No, 3A, WYNDHAM STREET, HONG KONG.
+
TELEPHONES
Business Office: 20022, Editorial Department: 24541.- Cable Address:-Mail, Hong Kong.
All communications should be addressed to the Newspaper En- terprise, Ltd.. to whom all remit. tances should be made payable,
London Offices:-S. H. Bywaters &Co., Ltd.. 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2..
ADVERSARIA.
"Without fear, favour or malice."
"Now That April's There."
Do you
The meeting of the Hong Kong | North Chino branch of the English Association, Middle China *South: China postponed from April 7, will be held
Guba in the Cathedral Hall, at 5.30 p.m.
Central on Tuesday, May 5, when Mr. A. H.Denmark Fenwick. B.Sc., will deliver a lecture France
Indo-China on "F. W. H. Myers." This is the
Germany last meeting of the season.
Holland
potting sheds and dark tool | 1931. houses. The calendars with the sented legally. The hearing was Switzerland
Spain pretty girls on them drop sudden- adjourned to Wednesday.
Mrs. Lee, who was 16.
Animals, Live
$1.2141.971
$ 43,130
35,726)
($ 1 000,228) ($ Materials
$ 1,174610 $ 764,344 ($ 1,114,765) ($ 543,346)
Chemicals & Drugs
Chinese Medicinea
931,114 3 430,702 ($ 571,100) ($ 231,941).
$ 2 837,400 $ 1,900,100 (8 2.243,309) ($ 1.190,743)
Dyeing Materials
$ 1.259,143 $ 879,769 (6 667,052) ($ 480,597)
$29,220.917
$18,277,466 ($17.505,049) ($12,722,601)
$ 1.329,425 ફ 285,073 ($ 670,165) ($ 204,994)
541,814 $ 241,329 $10,020) ($176,085)
Hardware $382,017 $042,309 (69,115) (£39,313) Liquer, Intoxicating
Imports not recorded in 1924/25. Included under "Others" in 1924/25: Export 25.
William Loe (master Australia Capt. mariner), Mrs. B. C. Randall, and Barma Mesars. Frank, A. T., and R. Lee.
Canada Ceylon
ly from the walls, because the The funeral took place at gum which holds the bit of silk Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, ribbon to the cardboard has lost yesterday, of Mrs. M. A. Lee, of Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, its resilience, and when you open whose death occurred in hospital on| the desk and take out your en-Thursday. velopes you find that the flaps are years of age, was the mother of United Kingdom $ 6,051 for ever
and anon stuck down and are utterly useless for corre spondence. Then the books and smaller children still at school. East Africa oh, the books! I could weep The service at the graveside was Egypt
conducted by the Rev. W. Walton India about that. Every morning I
Rogers. find their sacred skins fluffed with green hairs, and even when they are carefully wiped off it] leaves a
mottled stain. The covers are limp sticky and the dye comes off on your bunds, and' the paper smells likely
CORRESPONDENCE.
EXCHANGE CONTROVERSY. ·
North China
Middle China South China
391,542
352.803) (8
$ 1,020,553 (S 1,177,975) (S
$1,970,714
873,106)
$ 5,132.700 $ 4,893,440 ($ 4,144,731) ($ 3,074,341)
282,970 94.937) ($ 297,945)
S 2,119 S
($ 671,345) ($ 486,429)
$9,472.831 $ 3,078,073 ($3,538,316) ($ 3,834,369) $ 520.073 $ 318,439 ($ 175,791) ($ 140,000) Paper & Paperware
$ 1,130,232
$ 1.547 524 ($ 1,055,152) ($
Plecs Goods & Textiles
$14,407,325 $ 8,505,042 ($11,154,235) ($ 4,643,057)
Railway Materials
1930/31.
($ Machinery & Engines
439.732 451,782) ($
$ 4,500
$ 1.291,774
3,030
2,127
Manures
$ 123,339
125,385)
99,307 61,052)
1,923
2.405
3.255
2,463
1,021
1,474 170
Matals
253
313
ND Zealand
6,583
7.715
410
670
406
Minerals & Dres
North Borneo
1,063
1:800
Straits
South Africa
15
489
540
24,247
33,626
Nuts & Sends
West Africa
500,533
West Indies
287
13 223
Br. Emp. (other) Belgiums
1,028
3.536
Oils & Fata
101
35$
80,718
35,695 198,887
01,940 47,390
Paints
148,004
America
960 2,159
475
2,350
138
606
600
41.972
42,204
970
2,061
778
011
5:3
27,406
22,759
3,469
35,990
10.237
18.org
Tobacco
($
$ 1,145 635
4,650) ($
16,573)
8,522
13,587
Treasure
13,050
0,453
21,146
- 23,907
Vehicles
3 2 997,542 $ 9,031,384 ($ 1,388,248) ($10,787,052)
4,710
2,300
24
120
Wearing Apparel
$ 289.309 $ 86,021 13 150,900) (8 €3,823)
22,301
433
$ ર
Sundries
844.207 $1,414,033 504,051) ( 801,044)
To the Editor of "China Mall"] Sir, Throughout this exchange controversy, I have patiently wait; grave od for at least one of these taipan Central yard bones. The room is as hot or their satellites to come forward Dennirk as a heated green house, because with a convincing argument in sup-France
*
ง
Holland
*Macao
bu
211 20,273 1,710
Total ..$500,914 $495,954
(£80,552) (230,412) "Included Under China in 1924-25. H.K. 1924-25 2. 411⁄2d.
1930-31 18. 2-11/18d.
Trade Figures.
732,006)
3 817,000
($ 1.208,873) ($ 554,891)
$ 9,041,742 $ 7,705,021 ($ 6608.990) ($ 6,724,033) Monthly fluctuations in the values of imports and exports since April, 1930. are shown in The March trade figures are 9 equivalents at ruling average rates the following table, the sterling. follow, the February totals being of exchange being included
brackets:-
all the windows are closed. You port of their contention that this Indo-China
Colony would not benefit from Germany have to keep them closed, because stable currency and I am beginning Hong Kong, Saturday, April 25, 1981. the fog. would come in otherwise to doubt whether any of them will Japan
No, they are content Kwong Chow W. und ruin what it has merely ever do so.
to stand aloof and dismiss the sub- spoiled. Yet when you write
Norway ject by vague and evasive state-N. East Indies Home and tell the dear folks what ments such as "Hong Kong, owing Philippines conditions are like in Hong Kong to its geographcal, position, must Portugal in April they haven't the slight-wait and see what China will do in Siam
the matter.". This naturally leads South America
Sweden est conception of the trials and
a newcomer to think that the cur-Switzerlandi tribulations through which the rency of Hong Kong and its neigh- Spain re-body must pass, steaming and bour are on a par, but Is that so? USA. member gelatinous, during an Eastern Has there not been, from time im-
Let us take Kwangtung for example. Other those lines, Spring. To be there now--were memorial, a difference of from 15 begin happiness enow,
to 30 per cent. between its currency Where and that of Hong Kong? ning "Oh, to be in England now
transactions have not been "put that April's there?" When 11
through In Hong Kong currency. learned them many years ago, in The Devil Woman,
did not this difference come into the English class at my prepara-The devil woman, Pipple Blister, calculation? Assuredly it did;
given in brackets:— therefore, would trade divort if the tory school, I never for an in-Laughed through her cocoa,
Imports, differenco which came Dribbled her purridge... stant thought their truthfulness On her eunburat bosom,
Into the Merchandise $71,773,140 (555,592,416) calculations were 130 to 160 per Treasure ..$ 2,007,642 1,808,248) April.... $38,405,208 would come to aught, but since I And whistled a. foreign air.
cent. (with Hong Kong "on Gold) Total.....$74,770,872 ($57,460,004)
Exports Instead of the present method of
May left the land where fall the Which made me languid:
Merchandise $64,434,250 ($37,721,867) converting U.S. Gold Dollars Treasuro...$ peaches. by the garden wall; Through the small' pano,
0,681,384 $10,787,052) June Sterling into Hong Kong Silver Total ......$64,065,034 ($48,608,019) where slyly through the cope with the skeins of spiders,
Broken and cobwebbed
Dollars and again into Kwangtung The total values of the imports July.... there pass light fest of wind on She looked, the devil woman,
currency I rather think the boot and exports of merchandise are
on the other foot and that shown below by countries, the August supple gruss, I felt the meaning Shaking her fat at the moon
Kwangtung should wait and see February figures being given in September $50,772 414 of those lines Brooding in East-Which rolled like a pebble
brackets:- what Hong Kong will do. ern palatines, I breathed accursed In the foamy lips of cloud.
What else can the Currency. Com- wreaths of fóg, and had a touch She was trying to recuse him
miasion do, in the face of the utter United Of a certain influence, of Hong Kong "dog."- "And like But whilst she was gazing
lack of orders reaching Home from Kingdom Hong Kong, but to recommend Im-Australia the voice of some old friend, who At that pellucid marble in the sky, mediata International action to con- Burma comes to borrow, not to lend, ro-I ato her porridge for her..
trol the output of silver, or falling flections fluttered in my mind, till All in one gulph: conscience. like a quick-drawn Which only shows you what an
Inordinately large mouth is mine............ blind, soon shut their memory Thon wo kissed and locked Angers, away with one more glass of old Sha quite forgetting her loss,
Though she was hungry.and thin,' And barren years had cut cruel-stars Across the downland of her shadowed
chooks.
this natural rectification, substitute Canada a remedy for this. Colony in the
Ceylon [form of a Gold currency?
Should we blame the merchants Egypt and compradores for indulging in, exchanga speculations, while Iack-East ing legitimate business, if by doing so they offset their overhead ex- penses with a little over to parti-New cipate in three Race Meeting
But it is liver-galling, this con- founded humidity, isn't it?
In our house the walls are stream ing with heads of poor, over-Walked to the window, and cursed worked old Ceres perspiration, thetoon.
I lit a cigarette. I lit another,
all in the silence
Suddenly she yawned, blew out the month?
candle,
and when you drawn your finger across you leave a mark like the I smoked a pipe
Africa India
$
fn
Imports
Exports $35,431,719 (£2,000,394) (£2,676,833) ....$54.305,387 $38,284,807
(£ 3,917,342)
(ε 2,761,695) $38 582,830
32,148.275 (£2,431,622) (£2,025,690)
$50,870,877
(£ 3,193
$40,133,181
$40,130.190
$39,207.052
(€ 3.185 980) (£2,002,776)
$53,168.170
(2 3,510,157) December $59 110,160
(47.788.520)
.:
:
821,094
Imports Exports $11,422,046 $ 419,572 ($ 8,578,027) ($ 673,181)
033,512 110,042 290,800) ($ (8
93,867) 102,940
October ..
November $55.110,372 (£ 3,433,778)
$42,000,00
$48,500,020
252,740) ($
89,945)
January $59,569,025
609,870254,773 694,011) ($257,431)
22.741
February
12.9221 (5
92,103 73,471)
21,802
28,380)
25,310) (8
25.816 $ 25,304) (8 1,713,633
34,147
($ 2,035.954) (24:08 0813)
Zealand (
Borneo
ment would reap 800 South Even the Govern- North
revenue if they thought of Afrka levying a tax on exchange con- Straits & tracts, There should be no qualm FMS as to the rate as people who could West
that are even mortified at the Belglut mind paying for the fun. Some of thought of, allowing their poorer China,
(other)
18,129
321,597
(£) (£2,301,212)
(£ 2,562,463)
March. $71,773,140
$37,721,807
($ 1,788,742) 954,434,250
(£ 3,532,584) (2,679,180)
Total $042 399,180
$401,300,755 (£38,702,011) (£30,089,216)
Average rate of exchange in Murch H.K. 8111-13/16.
Of that dirt-haunted room, akord to, play this game would not Br. Empire $8.388) (8161,886) the past year a total of 1,621,500
"writing on the wall" and the Listening to the wallpaper stuff on your finger looks like Crisping off in handfuls, London clay. The floors have the The mite carousing in the beams,
of having been awill. And the cral noises of the night ance
Which originate in the cistern.‹ downe, a minute, before, the rooms smell like an underground re wax something like thi
Then I read her poem dug-out-a mouldy, mildewy, And, so she
egetable smell, that you find in
10. The collapsed.
16A LIQUID P
co-inhabitants of this Inland to pay
171,843 18 800,278) (3 170,807)
3,554 320,018 1,631) (8 21,883) The fruit and vegetable pack of 31,482,173 $8,027,307 British Columbia in 1930 reached a (818,719) ($ 2,028,058) peak never before attained, exceed
Ling by 80,000 cases the former re- 1,925) 742242 tabled in 1928. During 38,048 4 017,041
$1,538,679 72,387 cases of canned fruits and veget- (3.1.435 056), (3... 86,303) ables went out of the canning BANIA 0,204, 1870 6,519,880. North (0,000 $
auts of this province" as compared', with 1,144,112 ín· 1929 and 1,445- (11.264.710) (3 2324,608) 300 in 1928. All of this produce 8,093,890 $16,080,081 was grown within British Columbia, 0,041,000);-($ 5,960,832) all cans made in Vancouver and all r
64054
19703) labour in compection, with this pack: `973,250 recruited in this provincaz,
for the extra cost of ranning the Chim, Colony by increased taxes on rent liquors and tobaccolt
China
Yours, stey ANTHTHEEE-PIEOKE RIKISHA
Middle
Eout
Cub
'1,787)
Central
اري