THE
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JUST RECEIVED
SPECIAL CONSIGNMENT OF
LINGERIE (LATEST DESIGNS)
LOUNGING PYJAMAS.
NOW ON VIEW AT
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(KING'S BLDG.),
KOWLOON, TEL.. 21450,
ARCADE
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CENTRAL
ETHEATRE HE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT
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80 THIS IS PARADISE
1
PART IL
Another all-talking, singing and dancing Chinese picture
Starring
BUTTERFLY WU
Queen of Chinese Screenland
with
Shaw Pei Chen
Directed by S. C. Chang Recorded by Pathe Orient Co., Produced by the Mass Co., Shanghai..
NEXT CHANGE
Commencing 19th.
OWELL SHERMAN, BARBARA STANWYCK, „LADIES LEISURE.
COLUMBIA PRODUCTION -
COMING VERY SOON!
ANN HARDING
IN
"HOLIDAY”
The Greatest Picture ever Made 1
Watch out for the date.
∙AN RKO PATHE SUPER SPECIAL Production.
China
The
Mail.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
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Work of Society in Colony.
HEAVY CALLS ON FUNDS.
DARING ARMED ROBBERY.
Women Victimised in Canton Road.
BOOTY OF $400.
In view of the approgeb of the A daring armed robbery accur 48th annual "Al Fresco Fote" which red this morning on the
second
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Quietly Steady This Morning.
PROFIT TAKING.
The official summary issued by! the Stock Exchange to-day states:
The market opene dquietly steadyį
There were Sales of the follow- Ing stocks:-
is to be held on December 6, the floor of 330, Canton Road, Kow- Central Council present Д state-loon. There were only four and in some instances lower rates ment of accounts for the year 1930 women on the floor at the time, were established, due to profit-tak- and a report of the Society's work and a certain amount of violence | Ing. during the first nine months of 1931. was used on them by the intrud- The net proceeds of the "Our Poorers, four men, all of whom were Day Sale of Roses and the Fete armed with elves. The men de- held last December amounted to camped, after stripping the women $12,436.54, an increase of $754.55 of all the jewellery they were
of wearing. The value their on the 1929 figures.
booty, is stated to be $400. They made good their escape before the scared women recovered sucient- ly to raise an alarm.
Relief in Money and Provlalons,
During the nine months January to September, 1931, the Society has contributed to the maintenance of 147 familles, comprising 215 per- sons, to whom assistance has been
of given irrespective
race, na- tionality or creed. 1087 visits have been made to the poor in their homes during the same period.
The expenditure for the nine: months Was $5,800 as against $5,058.75 during the same period in
1930.
The Society has also during the first nine months of 1931 expended $97 in providing shoes and clothing for poor children and $90 in medical aid.
Housing Accommodation.
In consequence of the continued trade depression there is a large amount of unemployment in the Colony, and as a consequence the question of the housing of the poor still causes the Society no little anxiety,
The expenditure under this head during the whole of 1930, amounted to $1,974.28, while for the nine months January to September, 1981, the expenditure was $1,064.56 of wheich $209.22 represents grants made in special cases of temporary destitution.
The Society maintains a 4-storey building, No. 23 Kwong Ming Street, for the purpose of housing a number of poor families who are there provided with more healthy they und sanitary quarters than could, even with assistance from the Society, find in the cheaper and avercrowded districts of the City.
Education of Poor Children. This has always been one of the | first works of the Society of St.j Vincent de Paul all over the world.
FAIRENERALLY.
The Royal Observatory's re- port issued this morning saya:
The anti-cyclone over China has strengthened considerably.
There is no information con- cerning the Guam typhoon.
Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh; fair generally.
Typhoon Warning.
The following teegram. was received from the Manila Ob- servatory by the American Con- aulate-General this forenoon:-
Manila Nov. 18, 11.10 a.m. Typhoon in about 142 degrees Long. E., 11 degrees Lat. N., moving W.N.W.
Rainfall. Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10a.m. to-day nil. Total since January 1,.76.83 inchos against an average of 81.48
5.65 inches deficit inches.
Temperature.
The temperature at certalu apecited centres this morning
at 6 o'clock was:--
Hong Kong
69
Масло ....
63
Pratas Island
72
Foochow
66
Amay
65
34
Shanghai Manila
68
76
Chefoo
of 1930.
H. K. Lands at $80. Ewos at $15.20/$15. China Lights at $27. Dairy Farms at $281⁄2,
H. K. Amusements $19.
There were Buyers of the follow- ing stocks:
Banks at $1.656.
Unions at $480.
Underwiters at $42.
Raubs at $421⁄4, Wharves at $150. Providenta (old) at $5.10. Providents (new) at $2.80. Hotels (old) at $14.80. Hotals (new) at $14.30. H. K. Landa nt $80. Humphreys (old) $17%.
·Ewos at $15.10. Trums at $21. Star Ferries at $89.
China Lights at $274. -
H. K. Electrica at $75%.
H. K. Government Loan at $2 per cent. premium,
There were sellers of the follow- Ing stocks:-
Venezuelan Goldfelds at $231⁄2. Hotels (old) at $15. H. K. Lands at $801⁄2.
H. K. Realties at $12. Trams at $21.
China Lights at $271⁄2. Watsons at $16.
Constructions (new) at $2.40.
FINANCIAL TIMES ON OUR CURRENCY REPORT.
London, Yesterday. The Financial Times comment- ing on the Hong Kong Currency Report points out that it was compiled before the suspension of the gold standard in Britain, and says that while this fact would have strengthened its de-
it is the policy of the Hong Kong dren in English schools was $2,260,cision against immediate stabi- an increase of $754.65 over the ex-lisation of the dollar the know- Council to afford to Chinese pour penditure for the first nine months ledge of the fact could scarcely have altered the direction of the children every facility for acquiring
useful knowledge of their
other arguments.-Reuter. own Under the head of education the language. Those who have B11C-. Society spent during the nine cessfully completed a five years months dauary to September, 1931, course in Chinese are, according to their aptitude, either taught a trade or sent to St. Joseph'e College for an English education.
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$494.30 for books and stationery, month, and carefully scrutinizes ture. Unfortunately, the low and $99 on tram, bus and ferry every item of the Society's expendi fares for poor children living at a
state of the Society's funds has The Society's vernacular School distance from school.
The total expenditure on educa-rendered it necessary to refuse as- the Kai Lap School at Wanchal tion in 1930 was $5,916.01, an in-sistance to many deserving cases continuca to Be Buccessfully
during this year, and in September conducted. During the nine crease of $1,297.44.
the Central Council was most reluc- General.
monthe January to Septem-1 Owing to the heavy calls on thetantly compelled to bring into force ber, 1931, the Society grant- !
It
ed to this school a subsidy of $460. Society's funds and the consequent general reduction in all grants to
unfavourable. financial position in poor under the Society's care. During the same period $74.50 was which the Society was placed, it was of the ever generous public of Hong is carnestly hoped that the response paid in school fees for poor girls attending the Tak Ying School for found necessary last April to form Kong to this year's appeals-"Our|| Girls, also at Wanchal, and $216 to sisting of the President of the Poor Day" on December 2 and the who are there being taught various Central Council and the Presidents the Society from the painful neces-
St. Louis Industrial School for boys
trades.
From January to September,
special Finance
Committee con-
Bazaar on December 6-will relieve
of the thres district Conferences,
sity of refusing assistance to really This Committee meets once in each needy and deserving cases during 1981, the expenditure on poor chil(Continued at foot of next Column.) the coming year.
Genuine
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KILLS GERMS
Dentaline is an Autiseptic Germicide and Astringent. Properly diluted it is delightful to taste and
refreshing to use.
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FOR her marvellous performance in "The Divorcee," lovely Norma Shearer was given the highest award in filmdom.
She is here now in a picture of modern love that to already hailed as the best picture of the year!
GEORGE FITZMAURICE
Norma
Production
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STRANGERS MAY KISSA
Mero-Goldwyn Mayer RCTURE
Rabt. Montgomery Nell Hamilton
Marjorie Rambeau
Irene Rich
From the best selling novel by URSULA PARROTT
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Old Man Gloom takes the count
in this Singing, Talking" Techni color Fun Fest.
-with
JOE E. BROWN
and
WINNIE LIGHTNER
GEORGES CARPENTIER ABE-LYMAN'S FAMOUS BAND and a host of others.
ENTIRELY IN TECHNICOLOR
AT .THE
STAR
a movietone
musical
romance
Ma
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THING
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