MONDAY,”, DECEMBER 18, 1933.
PRETTY KOWLOON
WEDDING
Purvis-Hall.
CEREMONY AT ST. THERESA'S
CHURCH
A pretty wedding took place at St Theresa's Church, Kowloon when Tong Saturday afternoon Miss Dorothy Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hall, of Gatehead-on- Tyne, became the bride of Mr. John Murray Purvis of the Public Works Department, son of Mr., and Mrs. M. E. Purvis of Walker-on- Tyrie. The Rey, Father Spada officiated.
The bride, who wore a dress of bridni veil, and Ivory satin with
carried a bouquet of pink roses and pink gladioli, was given away by Mr., Thomas Coleman.
Her bridesmaid, Miss Ena Allen, wore a dress of old gold satin, with hat and shoes to match, and carried bouquet of bronze chrysan
themums.
Little Miss Idbelle Spoors, the
Looking for Cuban Defenses
Fident Grau San Martin of Cuba, pictured with members of his staff.
on inspection tour of artillery and guards which protect the Presidential
Palace in Havana. He is looking over anti-aircraft guns" on the sof of the palace.
flower girl, who was dressed in pale Engineering and Building
blue 'satin with pink roses, and
shoes and hat to match, carried a
basket of rose petals, while tho
Page, Master Billy Carr, was dress-
ed in pale blue satin, with white) rufile.
Mra
Thomas Coleman, the Matron of Honour, ware a dress of Howered georgette with hat ahoes to match.
and
Mr. M. E. Purvis, brother of the bridegroom, performed the duties of best man.
Following the ceremony a recep-¡ tion was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Carr. 200 Prince Edward Road, attended by about 80 guests. After the recep tion the happy couple left for their new home, the bride's going-away
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Big Construction Now Under Way.
REALTY COMPANY REPORT
Looking back on the records, of past years, the peak of Chinese |building has been passed this year, which has been a good one, Going from the new civic centre into the Eastern District of the Settlement it is interesting to note two Chinese building operations of good size as well as many smaller ones." This is according to the Realty Investment Company.
First on Yulin Road, near. Che mulpo Rosd, fountlationstare"being laid for 17 Chinese Hopps,
The
second is much larger on Tongshan Road, near Chusan Road, with 62 Chinese Hongs ~ánd. 15 Chinese shops. Plans have been submitted and accepted by the Council during the past two weeks and actual work will be started immediately.
On Route Des Soeurs, just off Avenue Joffre, "the Anla Realty Company are building a large-new Apartment Building -: modern three-room apartments. The foun- dations are in.
Adjoining the garden of thei Country Club and in back of the Ascot Apartments on Bubbling Well |Road,,4 large group of three|
The law requires that every ten light reflected from a mirror car- dress being a black pin-stripe con-years there shall be a fresh com-ried by the beam and focussed on storied residences will be ready for
to parison of the Imperial Standards a scale 7 m. distant, tume, with fox fur, and hat match.
A Marvellous-Balance
occupancy November 1933,
Two new buildings have been
of length and mass with their parliamentary copies.
• The weights to be compared are started this week by Realty Invest Last year was one of the appoint-mounted on carrier plates which, by ment Company en Amherst Road, ed dates, and the work has been for means of gearing actuated from out- At the corner of. Myburgh· · and MUI-TSAI PROBLEM some time past in progress at the side the room, can be gently lower-Avenue Roads, plans have been ap
IN HONG KONG. Anti-Mui-Tsai Society Annual Meeting.
ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS DURING LAST YEAR.
T
The Anti-Mul-Teal Society
Hong Kong held its twelfth annual meeting on Saturday evening at the Y. M. C. A., under the chairmanship
of Mr. Wong San-kan. A large at tendance of Chinese social workers was present,
The Chairman, in his opening remarks,, said that the liberation of
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National Physical Laboratory, un-ed on to the scale pans.
proved for 37 Chinese Shops and 56 der the direction of Mr. J. E. Sears, During this operation each of Chinese Hongs; also on Avenue the Superintendent of the Depart-these pans rests on a three-point ment of Metrology,
Foch, near Seymour Roads, “work support. These are next gently will soon start on 2 foreign stores The whole operation, it may be lowered, thus transferring, the added, takes about a year to com-weight, to the scale pans; but during and 4 Chinese Houses:** plete.
In the Centre tilstrict at Foo this operation the sans are, each carried by a two-point support, and chow and Hupen Roads, 14. Chin So far, complete comparisons not by the beam of the balance. ese houses will be started just as jhave been made of the Imperial Those two supporte next soon as the ground is cleared.,
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Two new theatres are now un Standard yard and four of its copies, gently lowered till the scale pans are
der construction in Shanghai," one of four other Board of Trade stan-carried by he beam. This done, the
situated in the Peking Road area dards and of two reference standards beam is, in its turn, gently lowered
called the Lyric and a new Chinese } belonging to the Laboratory, Cur-until it is carried by its knife edge|_ NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGE ... theatre on Hankow Boad. Construe. responding comparisons of the Provision is also made by which
tion on both buildings is well un- metric standards also form part of the weights can be transferred from The new authomatic telephono derway. the programine,
one pan to another, a frame being exchange at Walthamstow, which It is understood that the new The instrument used in the ope- raised under their carrier-plates and is to be known as Larkawood; will be Lyric Theatre will be a cluema
mul-taal 'from this most cruel form metre laboratory comparator, which then rotated round the axis of the opened early in the New Year..
The balance is mounted од
is erected in room the tempera- machine through an angle of 180 of child slavery still required much ture of which is thermostatically deg. work, and he hoped the members controlled within 1/10 of 1 deg, C. would continue in their efforts.
As a further precaution, only two foundation, of which the bottom In a lengthy review of the Se observations are made per day, one layer consists of a thick bed of com ciety's activities during the past of which is made in the morning pressed felt and cork. On this year the Hon. English-Secretary, after the whole apparatus has had rests a hollow brick plet. This is Mr. J. D. Bush. Illustrated the time to settle down during the filled up with sand, and on the top mul-tani evil with the many cases
night.
of this sand rests the thick slab of of cruelty to the slave girls which
The second observation is made alate which directly supports the in the evening when matters have casing of the balance and its operat again become quiet. The mean of ing gear. tention to the National Convention the observations on the yard is
had been officially investigated.
Mr. Bush called the members' at
The casing can be evacuated, sa
of Child Welfare Leaders in Shang-stated to be accurate to 1/250,000- that weighings may be made in hai fixed for next March which ap-
pealed for support.
vacuo when desired, and provision
For the comparison of the man-is also made that in other cases the Subsequently 'Mr. Wong Shee-tin, the Chinese Secretary, made his re-sures of weight the new precision air inside the casing shall be of
port for the year, which was fol- lowed by the election of Committee.
New Committee. An
balance recently constructed at the standard quality.
Weighings made last year, give Laboratory has been brought into use. It is erected in an inner vault some indication of, a minute change forming part of the old wine cellars in the relative weight of the stan The followingmömbers were.
of Bushey House."!
dard pound and the standard kilő- elected to form the General Com-
This balance was designed to gramme. The former is of platinum mittee for the ensuing : year: Mesura Wong Sam-kan, J. Masure to one part in a million and dates from many years hack, when carrying one pound in each whilst the kilogramme is a platinum? Wong, Wong Kar-ying: Wong Tat- kuf, Mak Mul-aang, Teo Yim-sun, P. It is, of course, controlled en-iridium alloy-Engineering,
tirely from outside the chamber in 'Chan Ming-shan,, Li_Kau-yan.
which it is erected, and the readings Cheng Kong-sang, Taul Mo-fet, Chenk Yan-ko, Cklu Fu-sang, Ho are made by means of a spot of Sum-yu, Dr. Ma Luk, Wat Lok
hing, Cheung Kat-sing, J. D. Bush, under Sub-Inspector A. L. Hop- Lam Woo, S. C. Young, Wong Sze kine Members will fall in at Tin, W. K. Fok. Yung Ting-sang, the Range at 5.50 p.m. sharp. Ma Yew-fung, Miss F. C. Woo, M. Inspection Parade-All ranks. of B. E., Miss Wong Shut-hing, Mrs. the Chinese Company will' parade' Wong Wab-sum, Tao Bze-fong. ut Central Police Station on
POLICE RESERVE. Orders for the Current
Week
Thursday, December 21 under Sub Inspector, R. J. Hunt for a general Inspection: of equipment etc., hy the Company Commander. Fall]
at 5.80 p.m. sharp. Blue Uniform; Cap with
| Cover," - Belt, with - Brace, |with Badge, "Pocket Po
Orders by the Họn, Mr. E, D, C, and note-book to be
C.M.G, Inspector General of Equipment: Omcar will
point of being present. will attend.
Chinese Co
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||house.
This advisant in Troued by the Brisk-koorina Tobason Co. cöminst kei
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MRS. E. L WYNNE - JONES,
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