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A FOOTLOOSE BACHELOR was HENRY!
Until a lady with trim ankles tried to pull his leg!
A JESSE L.LASKY Production
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4 SHOWS
DAKY
9.30-5.15
FOR HENRY
A FOX Picture with
OTTO KRUGER NANCY CARROLL NIGEL BRUCE HEATHER ANGEL HERBERT MUNDIN
MARGARET SULLAVAN in "LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?"
TARGANT FRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY ZİMB"
ORIENTALE
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY
THE SCREEN'S NOVELTY
WESTERN
COMEDY DRAMA. 3. GREAT STARS IN A
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A Universal Picture.
FLEXING
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TO-MORROW & SATURDAY.
The Immortal Love Idyll Of a Japanese Geisha Girl And a Yankee Sailor. Sylvia Sidney at her Best.
Wild Girl MADAME BUTTERFLY
wich
FARRELL BENNETT
BELLAMY
FOX PICTURE
SYLVIA SIDNEY CARY GRANT CHARLE RUGGLES
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 230. 5,20, 7.20 & 9:20 PM.
Ken
MAYNARD
KINCO ARENA
A roaring rodeo rider goes hot on: the trail of a gang of desperadoes- trail that leads from sawdust to Alkali in a picture that will le you breathless with excitan
China
Mail.
NINETIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934.
COLONY BUDGET TREASURY'S
(Continued from Page 1.)
EXPENDITURE ITEMS
The following are the items of
nor
NO INCREASED TAXATION "In view of the general depres- sion from which the Colony is suf-expenditure:-
His Excellency the Gover
.$ 153,644) fering the Government has made no attempt to meet the fall in revenue Colonial Secretary's Depart-
ment and Legislature by increased taxation, but it has been out of the question to remit Secretariat for Chinese Af-
Tairs any of the existing taxation... In
Treasury
Post Ofce
two matters, however, the Govern-Audit Department ment has already granted conces-District Office, North plons and is prepared to continue District Office, South to do so as long as present condi- Wireless Telegraph Services tiona obtain. First a rebate of 15 Imports and Experts Office per cent, subject to prompt pay-Harbour Department ment of the account, has been Air Services
Royal Observatory granted on all new accounts issued Fire Brigade by the Government after September Supreme Court 1, 1934, for excess consumption Attorney General charges under the Waterworks Or-Crown Solicitor's Office
Official Rocciver dinance 1903 in respect of rated Land Office tenesichts, hospitals, and charitable Magistracy, Hong Kong.
Magistracy, Kowloon Institutions.
Secondly the Government has Police Force
Prisons Department adopted a generous attitude with Medical Department regard to failure to comply with Sanitary Department the terms of building covenants Botanical and Forestry De-
partment within the specified time and in all
Education Department.... cases of genuine hardship free ex-Kowloon-Canton Railway tensions, or in the case of subse-Volunteer Defence Corps.. quent extensions, extensions at re-Naval Volunteer Force' Miscellaneous Services duced rates, have been granted ati
Charitable Services considerable sacrifice to the
re Pensions venue.
Public Works Department The Government envisages there- Public Works, Recurrent
Public Works, Extraordinary fore an anticipated surplus balanceNaval Arsenal Yard and Kel- of $12,601,259 at the end of 1984 let Island and an anticipated revenue of $30,585,650 for 1985. There is no disguising the fact that the Colony
Total
380,194
158,900
PROGRAMME
THREATENED
BOND SLUMP ON WALL STREET
ELECTION RESULT ·
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra- 274,700 phie Messages Ordinance, 1804, Re- 116,482 ceived September 15, 0.1? a.m.)
New York, To-day.
90,413
· 45,533) Tuesday's weakness of Govern- 520,002
ment bonds threatens the success 180,337 425,130 of the United States Treasury's re- 1,302,090 financing programme. The weak- 70,916 ness is attributed, principally, to 70,055
the Maine election results, which 322,555 262,468 are construed as an endorsement of 54,260 the "New Deal", and continued
54,314 heavy spending by the Administra- 24,055 ition.
73,15R
101,042 Favourable market factors yes- 46,472 terday were President Roosevelt's 2,989,761 plans for the reorganisation of the |
875,441
NR.A., that factory employment 1,780.233 1,186,291 during August was 0.7 per cent. above that of July, and that pay- 130,649 rolls were 1.7 per cent. higher than 1,081,700
984,513 the previous months.
140,108 Unfavourable factors were "The 35,987 Iron Age" report that caution is 1,610,210 restraining steel purchasers, and 2,070,000 the renewed weakness of steel 2,556,918 scrap.
191,867
1,612,100 Silt-edged Corporate bonds are! 2,389,450 expected to decline slowly, commen- 500,000 Burate with the losses in Govern- ment Issuca-United Press, per S.) $26,324,213 E. Levy and Company.
The estimates include $800,000
is at the moment suffering from the towards the new Government Civil CRUDE OIL OUTPUT DECLINES effects off a very serious depression Hospital and $300,000 towards the
in trade," the Colonial Secretary new Central British School. said.
NEW YORK RAILROAD'S HEAVY LOSS
New York, To-day. The New York Central Railway reports a loss of U.S.$1,211,632 during July,
/
U.S. EXCHANGES LINE UP FOR REGISTRATION
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Several smaller exchanges, in-
as against a profit of U.S.$1,253,258cluding the Seattle mining ex-
IN U.S.
Was
New York, To-day-The dally average crude oil production in the United States, last week, 2,404,450 barrels, 8.5 against 2,422,150 barrels last week,-Unit- ed Press, per S. E.: Levy and Co.
U.S. EATING MORE FRUIT
New York, To-day-The United in July last year. United Press, change, have claimed exemption Fruit Company has declared a per S. E. Levy and Company. from registration on account that dividend of 75 cents per share, they are too small to come under against 50 cents in the previous Mr. Chang Chi, President of the the Act-United Press, per S. E. quarter-United Press. per S. E. Judicial Yuan, arrived at Changchow
Levy and Company.
Levy and Company. yesterday from Peking.
TO-DAY.
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Alice White
Chester Morris & Alice White Adapted from Vina Delmar's Story "Sheba" TO-MORROW
Otto Kruger Ben, Lyon and UNA MERKEL in
"THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE?