FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1932,
SHOWING TO-MORROW
30th JAN
AT THE
KING'S
THEATRE
ALL BRITISH
NEWS REELS
Continuous
Programmes
From 11.45 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Caught by Camera, -
Chic Beach Costumes at Le
Touquet.
Whence a City gets its water
Birmingham Reservoir,
Defying the Deep-sea Death. Special photograph in con- junction with British Admiralty, showing new safety apparatus.
Tropical Talkies.
Launching of H.M.S. “Leander."
Musical Blizzard at Crystal Palace.
200 Bands-31 Years' Record.
Called to the Bar!
Sheep dogs exhibition.
Mr. Gandhi in the Cotton-shire.
1
Welcome to Kaye Don.
Drama in the City.
Scintillating City.
South Africa calling the British
Isles.
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Morning Session Very
* Quiet.
RATES SLIGHTLY LOWER.
The official summary of the Stock Exchange issued to-day states:
Electrics, $771⁄2.
Realties, $11.85. Lands, $81.
Constructions (new), $2.
Buyers.
we
THE
CHINA MAIL.
TAKING THE LIFT TO THE SUN
WHERE THEY LOOK DOWN ON THE REST OF THE WORLD.
HOSPITALS AND EPIDEMICS.
Special Launch to Be Built,
KOWLOON'S NEEDS.
The morning session opened very
"This way to the 102nd, Boor!", is good advertising for the shipping quiet and in A few instances
Here a the new thrill that New companies. have to record slightly lower rates. York is enjoying now that the State
Questions relating to the trans- "We get plenty of sunlight and port of infectious cases, of which Sales.
Empire Building is open to the that aida work. But we see lots of notice had been given by the Hon. public.
airplanes, dirigibles, and occasion- Mr. J. P. Braga, were answered by The world's tallest building has Billy a Zeppelin, and then everybody the Hon. Director of Medical and been open only a few weeks and knocks off business for half an Sanitary Services at the meeting of already thousands of people have hour. That is not so good for the Legislative Council yesterday. paid their four shillings apiece to trade. Sometimes we see a dread-as under:- ascend twelve hundred and fiftyful tragedy. A skyscraper hotel feet and gaze on the city far below. stands across the street. The other Director of Medical and Sanitary Q-Will the Honourable the They see Fifth Avenue and day we saw a girl jump from the Services kindly inform the Coun- Broadway as slender black ribbons twenty-fifth floor.
We didn't likecil whether he is satisfied with the cutting their way sharply through that. the man-made canyons of the city,
"In the Summer time, we see the existing arrangements for water- adequacy and efficiency of the They see lilipation motor-ears millionaires coming to work in their
moving forward in motor yachts at ten in the morning patients of communicable diseases
borne halting or
conveyance of infective groups, appearing like a slow pro-and we watch them return home at from the mainland to the island?
H.K. Steamboats, $25. Venezuelan Goldfields, $2.
Shanghai Cottons, Tis. 80. Yaumati Ferries, $27. .
Canton Ices, $5.
Sinceres, $16.
Benguets, $11.
. Chinese Estates, $95,
Realties, $11.65.
Singapore Tractions, 37-
Dairy Farms, $29.
One
not
cession. They see trains gliding four in the afternoon. This makes
A. The arrangements are us restless. along like worms and people as H.K. Government Loan, $3 per ants scarcely moving. They sea "We see a world full of canyons. have been taken to see that in altogether satisfactory but steps cent. premium.
Central Park'a 843 acres looking no
We look at the Chrysler Building future a launch will be available to Sellers.
bigger than a football field, and 73 storeys on one side, and the meet an emergency such as the Indo-Chinns (Pref.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Def.). $32.
neighbouring buildings, monsters State Empire on the other. for steel and stone when viewed day we watched a dirigible trying one referred to by the Honourable Hotels (old), $15.10.
Member. from below, dwarfed Cements (combined), $19.10.
to insigni- to hitch on to the Empire State's ficance.
mooring mast.
Special Launch To Be Built. Entertainments, (old), $164.
"Three hundred feet of wire
Q-(a) If the reply to the first Raubs, $89. Kailang, 30/-.
But it went either too high or too transportation in the specific case dangled from the airship's nose.question is in the affirmative, will he explain the failure to secure
Malabon Sugars, 2, Dairy Farms, $20%. Enterprises, $10.
BRITISH SECONDARY
INDUSTRIES.
Mr. Thomas on Need for Development.
RECIPROCITY.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The Greatest Thrill.
low, and no contact was made."
The Cloud Club.
Steamers of leviathan size rest at their wharves in appearance liko row-boats and the mighty Hudson
of a patient for whom application shines like a thin silver ribbon.
for conveyance was made shortly Bat the greatest thrill is to obsixty-six floors up, where business 26, and the spacial launch was not The Chrysler has its Cloud Club,
after 8 p.m. on Saturday, December serve the shadow of the State Bag men lunch daily. The name is available until 9.10 am on the fol-
pire Building lying across East River and over Brooklyn farther side.
on the
At night, millions of lights-lines of them on all sides with Broadway
more than fanciful, for on dull,
lowing day? rainy days, workers high up often themselves. In the clouds when they he proposes to make for supple (b)It in the negative, what leave streets free of fog to find special recommendations, if any, sit down to the day's routine.
marked as a kaleidoscope of flicker- Here are the vivid impressions of menting the present inadequate
ing colour. Fugitive dim lights
arrangementa for an office girl who works some thirty-efficient transportation of infec far below speak of motor-cara and five storeys up. "New York girls tive patients from Kowloon to Hong prompt and, omnibuses passing through the take to skyscrapers as ducks take to Kong? streets. Awed by the solemnity awater. They are our natural habitat, visitor stood breathless, until we prefer to work on the 30th A-(a) The question does not awakened from his dream by the floor rather than on the 3rd, and arise.
In Summer
(b) It is recommended that a
as soon as the finances of the Colony, permit,
The President of the Board of music of a jazz band which floated on the 50th in preference to the special ambulance launch be built Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, and up playing "There oughta be. 30th. Major Elliot, of the Treasury, ac-moonlight saving time." companied by the Secretary for the.
"There is a thrill in spending Dominions Mr. J. H. Thomas, met think this building is moving?" kick in it that never wears out. "Is it my imagination or do you one's day up so high. There is a a delegation representing industrial asked a nervous woman.
Kowloon Infectious Distance. and commercial interests this after-
There is a sense
Q-Does the Director of Medical "I think it's moving all right," elation.
of power and and Sanitary Services consider the noon to discuss preparations for the replied her companion. A scienti- panorama of beauty with its seven Kowloon adequate, in point of build-
At dusk the city is a Ottawa Conference.
present hospital accommodation in Referring to the development of on the window-sill. It stood quite visible towers. Everyone from the of doctors and nursing staff, to
fie-minded person balanced a pencil million lighted windows held in in- secondary industries in the steady.
ings and equipment and also Dominions, Mr. Thomas said that.
office boy to the president must cope with any sudden and wide- British industrialists should re-day's business. People buy knives, drop at the theatre. It is exciting disease in epidemic form such as is The souvenir shop does a good have a look. It is like the back- Scene showing suspending of such industries was inevitable and and postcards, all bearing the
cognise that the encouragement of wooden elephants, paper-weights It is unforgettable,
spread outbreak of a communicable
Gold Standard.
should harmonise their policy with magic words "Empire State Build-practical advantages.
taking place in the Colony at the "And the skyscraper has its present time? that development,
ing." Reciprocity must be the keynote
our office up here is. untouched by trol of epidemic disease provides A. The present scheme for con of all dealing between parties to send off letters and postcards
Some ait down right awa
and the scorching pavements below that all Kowloon cases of infec the Conference.
so When the sun shines it pours in tious disease which require hos- The Dominions, through their association with the that friends may know that the through the windows, but there ispital isolation and treatment shall British Commonwealth, received thrill has been accomplished. Then always a breeze. The skyscraper great advantages, not only in re- they step to a slot in the wall and is so convenient. It has its restau- conveyed to the infectious dis- gard to defence, but also through send their messages dropping down, rant, its beauty parlour, its little eases hospital in Victoria. Such the fact that their loans ranked as down, down to the ground floor group of speciality shops catering being the case no provision has trust securities here.
ready for the postman.
to the working girl."
been made for. bespital treatment Sir Gilbert Vyle, Chairman of the Many visitora, especially the
of such cases in Kowloon. To the average citizen New York British Committee on Oriental and Ornamental.
Trade, urged that as the Conference the lifts as they fall earthward at They appear as suddenly as mush- with any outbreak of communicable Empire children, get a keen sensation in seems to "breed" skyscrapers, medical and nursing staff when at full strength is adequate to deal would be mainly economic the Gov- the rate of 700 feet a minute. rooms. One day, a building is diseases in epidemic form such as Mr. Kancko designing lacquerernment delegation should be ac- Knees sag and hearts rise to the razed, a steam shovel is heard at
work.
companied by trade and industrial mouth. These lifts cost £800,000, work, and soon a familiar street is was taking place in the Colony advisers.
the biggest battery of lifts in the darkened by, a new steel skeleton.]
at the time these questions were Mr. Thomas welcomed the forma-world.
Naturally these giants come to be
drawn up. tion of a British Committee on Em- pire Trade to which Government if the lift went wrong.
Someone asks what would happen accepted philosophically.
Inadequate. Accommodation. Among the girls they arouse less sider that the provision for hos Q-Does the Government con could have ready access on technical "Nothing," answers the liftman comment than the new spring pital accommodation in Kowloon questions, and promised sympathetic promptly, as he presses a button to fashions. "Look," says someone, suggestion.-British Wireless Ser- anything broke the car would drop ing." Necks are craned and some growth of its population? consideration to Bir Gilbert Vyle's open the doors; "not a thing: If "they are putting up a new build has kept pace with the development of the peninsula, and the amazing six feet and then automatically one answers, "I wonder what it is,” stop.
and then all return to their desks. A Hospital accommodation inf
Some buildings are watched dur. Kowloon is inadequate, ja "That
is a dead certaintying their construction by the whole What immediate steps are Thousands of tests have proved city. The race for elevation he contemplated to remedy, the exist tween the Chrysler Building and modation for the, urgent needs of ing insuficiency of hospital accom the Bank of Manhattan-won by Kowloon residents?
Sicily in Song.
Mr. Barrington Hooper.
The Thunder of wheels. A Railway Symphony.
Complete Change Of Programme Weekly.
GERMAN AVIATRIX.
Has Slight Mishap in Rangoon.
MACHINE TURNS TURTLE,
vice.
CAR AND TRAM. Action by Mr. H. R. Sturt.
بس
TRAM CO. WIN.
it."
Random Impressions.
The
If these are the feelinge of stray the Chrysler aroused the keeneat new, two storeyed building visitors to New York's mammoth enthusiasm, and the Empire State buildings there are 200 of them is undoubtedly the city a prides posed for the time being to use is nearing completion. It is pro- As a sequel to an accident be impressions of those who work all fail, and the lower floot for the accom over twenty floors what. are the says W. F, Bullock in the Daily the upper floor for nurses quarters tween a motor car and a tram car on the morning of December day at these dizzy heights? In the Yet, even about this wonder the modation of women and children 9, an action was heard by the world all normal to them? Does New York business girl can be a sufferlig from non-infectious dis Puisme Judge in the Summary familiarity bread contempt? Xe bit blase. When the final touches para Court yesterday when Mr. H. R. and no
were being added, two business Kowloon Hospilial Extension, Sturt, of the China Underwritere, Here are the random impressions girls were walking up Fifth avenue. Berlin, Jan. 17, Ltd., claimed $40 damages from of worker high up in the Chania One of them remarked, Well; see Colonial Secretar
QWthe Honourable Fraeulein Elli Beinhorn, the the Hong Kong Tramway Co. Tower, fifty-six storeys, high, or they've nearly finished it now. German aviatrix, who is on a
Governm The plaintiff alleged that the 680 feste byth solo fight to the Far East met accident was entirely due to the
As they draw nearer to this white with a mishap on landing on the negligence of the driver of tram New Yorkers to Europe. Typists the sophisticated
He says "Skyscrapers are sending and silver structure which, even to
Finang aerodrome at Mingaladon, car No. 18. Plaintiff's car, which and secretaries get the wanderlust little breath Rangoon, according to a dis was being driven, along Queen's badly they see steamers patch from Bombay Road East to the Stubbs Road from far out at sex to dock
Awerady Fraeulein Beinhorn left Cal garage, found, on arrival, at the or slip out of their whart cutta for Rangoon on Saturday, function of Arsenal Street, that appear on the sea's hor and, after a few hours in the the red traffic light was against
nir, lost her way When she it and stopped The tram car
landed Mingaladon, where her was behind the car. When the machines turned
only safe
The avizuriE DE
she had light was changed, plain
fuel left chauteur moved on anderes
ited the track the
on and
and
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