TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
22, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
SWATOW TRADING Co.
Established 1910.' MANUFACTURERS OF Swatow Drawn Work
AND.
ART EMBROIDERIES
ANNOUNCE
The opening of a branch store At Gloucester Building Arcade
shortly.
Watch this space for further Announcements.
SWATOW TRADING CO.
HEAD OFFICE:-6 Pedder Et. -
Opposite Hong Kong Hotel
'Phone 23308..
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest In Gentlemen's Outfitting
AT PRICES TO BUIT ANY PURSE.
PERFECT FIT......
AND
RELIABLE BUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Outaltern
64, Queen's Rd, C."
Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21258.
TANG YUK, DENTIET Buccessor to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street
TERMS VERY, MODERATE Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.
LITERATURE
BOOKS for All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.
THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street.
Next to King's Theatre.
Agents for
British & Foreign Bible Society The Religious Tract Society and The League of Nations' Society.
HAIR DRESSERS
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite. Queen's Theatre).
LIANG YOU
· Gentlemen's & Ladies'
HAIR DRESSERS.
King's Theatre Building, (D'Aguilar St. Side). Tel. 20316.
200
MEE DICK
BARBER SHOP
72, Queen's Road C. Tel. 23270. Ladies & Gentlemen's Hairdressers. .No. 76, Queen's Rd. C., 1st floor. Tel. No. 26497.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. Now Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L". Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
AMERICAN FRESH FRUITS
Emperor Grapes
Pearmain Apples
Sunkist Oranges
Sunkist Grapefruits Phillip Cling Peaches
EX S.S. PRESIDENT HOOVER Arrived here, September 21.
WING
COFFEE CO.
Tel 26869
139 Des Voeux Rd. C., Hong Kong.
Bring Your PRINTING. Problems to Us
THE NEWEPAPER
GHIBA MAIL BLDG.
ENTERPRISE LTD, JÀ WINDHAM ST.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order la Solicited.
iv.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 24459. 28A, Des Voeux Road, Ci
To Bon
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL..
COMPANY,
'Phone 22292,**
53, Queen's Road Central,
SHOES.
Pair
Black or Brows Shoes from $6.00. Black or Brown Roots from $8.04. Children's Boots or Bhoes from $2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. WONG SIU WOON
#1, Pottinger St. Phone #1474.
SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC GOODS
REDUCTION SALE NOW ON
* Inspection Cordially Invited.
THE LIANG YOU CO..
70, Queen's Road C
FOR
SALE
Flower and Vegetable
SEEDS
Indication points to a HEAVY - DEMAND
for seeds THIS SEASON,
To be of getting every varicly
Aure you wish we suggest that you ORDER TO-DAY.
GRACA & CO.,
No. 10, Wyndham Street.
P. O. Box 620. Hong Kon".
THE
CHINA MAIL.
RADIO TOPICS.
CHEAP SETS.
Success of Wireless Broadcasting in
Great Britain.
Singapore, September 2.
A Sungei Lembing correspondent writes further regarding cheap sets,
B.B.C.'S CRITICS.
Barking Up Wrong Tree.
A PLEA FOR REASON.
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NO MORE AMATEURS.
Banished from B.B.C. Programmes.
I read that the B.B.C.
has
grumblers will be grumbling that| there is nothing whatever to grum- ble at
SHORT-WAVE SHORTS,
If anyone picks up G.2.N.U. (wave-length 20:94 metros), operat-
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STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrise and Sunset in Colony,
September
22
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an fol-
Sunrise Bunset"
4.01. p.m.
6.12 6.21
6.12 6.20
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6.19
0.17
27
6.18
6.16
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6.14
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ing from 24.0 Greenwich time on Sunriso and Sunset In Kons Saturday nights and at intervals on Kong for September, 1981, Stan- Sunday, will they drop a postcard dard time of the 120th Moridian banished the musleál amateur from advice to Mr. C. Hugo, 8, Queen East of Greenwich) aro I have noticed in the course of the microphone, and intends hence-Street Place, London, who would lowe
greatly appreciate receiving samo? as follows:-With regard to the act many chance conversations, that forth to employ only full-time pro- referred to by your Nebong Tebal people who grumble about the fessionals, eays a writer in the
Experiments in the Medan broad: reader this week, to the gure of B.B.C. are apt to grumble about Musical Times. This is a decision £10 quoted should, 1 think, be added the whole of wireless, and, to talk that will be widely welcomed. Ona casting station are being continued,
experiment conversation 24 the cost of loud-speaker, phones, as if the B.B.C. had invented brond- or two newspapers, in commenting and 120 volts battery, 2 volt accumula- casting, Instead of being invented upon it, have tried to take out a with several Java towns took tor, aerial and earth wires etc., and by it, says a Musical Times corres-brief for the amateur, but their place. It has been announced that possibly cost of valves. These pondent.
arguments could get no further broadcasting communication necessary accossories
They seem to hold Sir John than the old tag that there been established between Modan and purchased locally will probably run the all-in-Reith personally responsible for amateurs are better than the worst every town in Java.aka cost well above $180/-, and-better the creation of electro-magnetic professionals, a truism that óper- results at this increased cost are waves, which is about as sensible ates on so small a scale that it In order to propagate the Nor- naturally to be expected than from as blaming Lord Desborough, for counts for nothing against a big wegian language and culture in the
All that le human must retrograde a little set costing much less. the presence of water in the and advantageous stroke of polley. United States a transmitting sta
not advance.-Edward Going still further If one can afford Thames. We have had enough of The ruling is opportune. A few tion is to be constructed by St if it does
Gibbon. it, probably the best results are the Jeremiahs (if Mr. Brabazon more gestures of this kind, and the Olaf College. obtainable from the set costing ap- Howe will permit the word) who proximately $380:- with accessories. are for ever complaining that broad-| As a beginner, however, with limit- casting has upset the economy of ed means. I am satisfied with the the musical world, and who have little two volver to which an extra. never perceived that it was an ac- valve etc.. has been added at an cident of history, and not a law of all-in 'figure, covering loudspeaker nature, that allowed the musical etc., of about $115/. This set world to subsist for a long period may be unorthodox, freaklah and entirely on audible sound-waves. poorly finished, but it was favour.. It merely happened, on this parti- ably reported upon and tested by cular planet, that Hucbald preceded Amateur Wireless in its two-valve Marconi by several centuries, and stage, and I have found it "gets one gave us the interim conditions that Bouf there"
cost. On Passed away in at a reasonable
nineteen- two occasions this week I tuned in twenties.'.
the
the Chelmsford whistle and tuning To treat interim conditions as if meant them to be hole and on the loudspeaker heard nature had
and on eternal is a form of narrow-minded- "Big Ben" strike seven Tuesday last I heard Jose Collins ness, and however much we may give three songs, including her sympathise with it (my own mind favourite "Cigarette" song. These, narrows to vanishing point when- together with other items,
a motor-bicycle passes), it fair' worthwhile loud- brings nothing to any practical dis- through, at spanker strength and to give an cussion of the new conditions. idea
came ever
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
4 3 12
Siriola Prime Cui
BuBock's Brains ....
of volume a talk could have If the B.B.C. is to be arraigned, been taken down in shorthand from let it be because it makes mistakes, treads on a nearby table. Eindhoven was ex-jor commits follies, or cellent on Thursday but I could not people's corns, or plays with loaded get there until after 10 p.m., al-dice, or behaves like a bull in a though it is in your columns as China shop, and not because it
broadcasts. available at 8.30 p.m. The same evening, a fraction of a turn of the tuning condenser brought in an- other reasonably loud music trans- but the broadcasting station in this mission not mentioned in your pro- territory are not nearly so well gramme for that evening.
equipped and up-to-date as those at home hence reception is of necessity Pig's Chitting bound to be poorer. But, bad as Two-Valve Receivers. Another Province Wellesley read-jour Province Wellesley correspon- er has a few pointed remarks to dents would have us believe the re- make concerning the use of two-ception to be, I repeat what I have valve sets in this country. He says: Baid in a previous note that most I notice in your wireless article in nights good entertainment is to be the Struts Timies of August 19, had over the ether in Malaya. that a Nebong Tebal reader criti- cises the two-valve-set mentioned by
you
his
[!
remarks
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26
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Poultry.
lb.
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Ib.
01
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28
11
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Corned
23 12
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串烧
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89 24 22
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80
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22
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27
20
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新鮮雞蛋
25. 20
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46
80
85
86 20 20
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10
12
Geese
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50
40
60
4
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20 18
14
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Pheasant
Kidneye
4
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*
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牛仔頭
set $1.50 $1.00 $1.00
羊排
Ib.
44 20
Log
44 26
Shoulder Saddle
#
*
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80
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21
**
44
Apples (California)
金山韩
48
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80
27
Bananas (bride's)
++
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20
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10
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40 26 29
Orangus, (Canton)
新物甜糕
29.
42
Oranges
#
3
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Fears (Caritou)
媽
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28
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80
70
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7
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16
16
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*
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45
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26
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BO 20 12
$ 16
48
80 20
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70
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22
20
20
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each 14
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Heart Kidneys
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in previous articles. I Wireless has brought a successful am in entire agreement with new industry to Great Britain why
and consider should it not do the same for Sheep's Head & Fest -; 羊如 that your readers are apt to Malaya? Previously, the Summer be sadly misled when you write ad- has been recognised as an off-reason vocating the use of such a set. for the radio industry, but, aceord- Head phone reception of nearby ing to the latest reports the year Sucking Pigs, to order stations is possible. Lut only under 1931 has changed all that. British Sust, Beef favourable conditions can distant radio works have never known, such stations be received with any pre-business. One largo firm of wire- tence to "entertainment" valve. Of less set manufacturers increased its Course, 'phone reception for the May business by. 10 per cent, com- tropics is decidedly uncomfortable pared with February, and was as- and only an out-and-out wireless fan tounded to find a 20 per cent. in-i would tolerate such reception. crease In June above the May Barbel Nothing less than a four-valve set figures, and the first three weeks Bream
is at all suffable, and personally of July showed a still further in-
Mation
"
Veal
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Sausages
4
No. 1
Fish
Catfish
Fish
牛羊仔仔
prefer a super-heterodyne act, crease on the June trading. "As Canton Frash Water A after several years long and expen- the result of our advertising cam- sive experience. I consider the paign during June and July said Ca least you can do is to correct the the manager of one firm, "the de-
Codfish Impression you have given your mand has been so enormous that we readers of the "wonderful" recep-havo been forced to suspend all ad- tion possible with a two-valve set vertising for the time being in order and so possibly prevent them epend-that our production may keep pace," Ing money unnecessarily and at the to a reasonable degree, with Dace same time impress on their minds demand." This firm has had to Dog Fish that the quality of the reception out build a new factory, which covera here là on the whole rather poor, 180,000 super fect of floor space and so that they should not expect too houses 6,500 employes. The fac-**
Craba
Outtle Fish
Dab
the
Eals, Conger
鹼
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泼水
much from their short-wave retory is almost self-suilicing--it in Frogs *** ceivers. Your articles have a ton- cludes saw-mills, a power station, a dency to give an exaggerated ac-well as its own enamelling, cellulose deplored since it can do no good daily output of the new factory ex- count of such reception which is to spraying, and plating shops. The Herrings.
¿Garoups
28
Gudgeon
to the science of wireless or to the coeds a quarter of a million com- Labrus pockets of your readers.**
ponents. Malaya. In in urgent need Louch
On Over-Enthusiasm.
of new industries, but nothing can Lobsters ...
be done so far as wireless is con-Mackerel The above corespondent, like the cerned until Government builds the Monk · Flah” previous one from Nebong Tebal, powerful transmitting station which Mullet cannot read these notes very care is so urgently required, and for Oysters fully or he would have seen that the which so many appeals have been Parrot Fish remarks made. concerning the two made. Straits Times. valve not were those of a Sungei)
Lembing correspondent and not my
own observations. I have definitely a wave-length of 24.5 metres bo Pomfret, White
Perch
The attempts to communicato on
Pika Plaice
far
refrained from.......expressing. an tween Bangkok and San Francisco Pomfret, Black opinion because,
I recollect, I have heard a two-valve set operat ing in this country. It is true, Belgium, lateners who do not pay however, that in previous notes I their licences are to be tracked have from time to time down rigorously. In twelve months written enthusiastically, of wire 1,358 have been proceeded, against, Shrimp less reception:
Singapore
as having given good results regular never service is to be instituted:
Prawna Rayb
Bock Flab Roach
Bahison,
Shark
Buapper
and such comments have been The Italian Official Journal has Bolen based on personal experience. It is decreed that the radio-electric 'in- Tench true that reception. In this country dustry is to be classed among the rabot is not nearly so good as in Eprope, war Industries...
Tarties, small fr, water
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Artichoker
Bean, Sprous
24
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Long
10
Beet Root
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Brinjale, Green
Red....
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42
17
42
42
18
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27
Cabbage, Chinese
48
4
#
(Bhanghel)
58
17
Cane Bhooth, bunch
82
28
Cauliflower (Large).
26 10
27
(Medium)
62
16
6
22
Carrots
Ib. 20
82
Celery, Chinars
14
10
62
10
Chillies Dried
辣椒千
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25
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26
10
8
28
80
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8
2
38
22 18
Garlic
10 6
46
23
Ginger. Young
10 7
48
15
Old
85
18
85 B
74
24
Indian Corn
60
21
Lettuce
繳生
20
1
.64
20
Water Chestnuts
10
44
2
Mandir
桂林馬路
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球趱
45
86
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84
15
Onions, Bombay
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52
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50
60
48
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45 14.
Potato, Sweet
*
Japanese
80
10
84 18
18
Pumpkin
44
22....10.
64 86
89:
22
10
Shallots
22
10
Spinach
84
80
Tomatoes
52 28
28
28: 1
46' 26
85
46
12
Water Cross
1.50
Water Lily Hoos
5022
Shanghal
American
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Rhubarb (Fresh)
Taros
Turnips, Punti '(Long)
Vegetablo MarroW
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