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Company Meetings
UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Lid, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, on WEDNESDAY, 8th April 1936 at noon for the pur- pose of receiving the report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December 1935.
THE INTRAL MEETING
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS-
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD,
Kowloon Bay.
Shipbuilders & Repairers. Call Flar "*** Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors
FOR OPTICIANS
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY
Phone. 22232 53, Queen's Road Central
EXPERT MASSAGE FOR SPRAINS & STIFFNESS MRS. Y. AMANO No. 26 Wyndham Street,
** 2nd Floor.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB
HE THIRD EXTRA RACE
T MEETING will be held (wes
her permitting) at HAPPY) "ALLEY on SATURDAY, 11thị and MONDAY, 13th April, 1936, ommencing at 12.30 p.m. on each ¡day.
The First Bell will be rung at 12 NOON on each day.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP, Actg. Secretary. Hong Kong. 6th April, 1936.
BAND
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1936
"Grand-Brit,” the Columbia picture to be screened at the Alhambra "Theatre to-morrow, features, An Sothern and Ed-
mund Lowe.
BRIDGE NOTES AN UNSOUND
NOTRUMP
By Ely Culbertson
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
A Recital by Prue Lewis from Stadio. Daventry News Bulletin ·
19.30-210
The only time it is correct to | suppress a biddable suit is with a 4-3 distribution and from Ifour to fire honour-tricks, in which case a one notrump bid s proper. It is important to show the barren distributional possibi- lities of such a hand, but the orig-Weather Report inal notrump bid is preferred to [showing the suit only for that ren-
30%L
In the hand given below, South
Pan European Pro-
12.30. p.m.---Dance Music.
STAREDE,
1 pri-Local Time Signal and
105 pm Jazz Piano Recital by! Zaie da Costa.
120 p..-Medley by the News Mayfair Orchestra.
1.25 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins,
Forecast, Time and Announcements. possibilities of his hand and a
140 pin-A Relay of the Botary sound biddable major suit in or Club Tiffin Speech from the Hong The TRANSFER BOOKS of the By kind permission of Lieut.-der to show the approximate high Kong Hotel Roof Garden The Bev. Company will be CLOSED from Colonel A. C. Marsh and Officers, card strength by a bid of one no-W. MacLean on A Newcomers' Im-
trumps. This resulted disastrous pressions of Hong Kong"
CONCERT disregarded the distributional Eugby Press News, Local Weather
28th March to 8th April 1936 the Band of the 2nd Bn., Thely because North had no guide for both days inclusive.
East Lancashire Regiment will his opening lead and failed to make
play at the
the one which would have set West'a ambitious contract.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
General Managers. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1936.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
N
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-FIRST An- nual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registra: tion) will be held at the Houg Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on WED- NESDAY, the 15th April, 1996; at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a State
PENINSULA HOTEL
03
SUNDAY
19th April, 1936
Commencing at 9 p.m.
South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
S. 5 4
10 7 6 2
D. Q 87 3. C. 9.4 2
$. WE H.
[S. QJ98632N
J 6
S. A 10 ELAQ 8
D. A 9 5
C. Q 10 & 3"
· The bidding: (Figures
J 6
210 pm (Approx:)lose Down 4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programinė. 7-11 pm-European Programme. 7 pm-Grand Opera. "Faust"-Ballet Music (Gouned) “Madame Butterfly"—Sur la "Mer
Calmee (Poccini)
Mlle. Yoshiko Miyagawa
(Soprano). Tannhauser-Procession of the
*Guests to Wartburg (Wagner) "Tannhauser”-0 Star of Eve
(Wagner)
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone) 7.30 pm-Patricia Rossborough at the Piano.
1. Anything Goes Selection.
2. I'm in love alloover again.
3. Hooray for love!
4. Jill Darling--Selection.
after 3. If I love again.
bids refer to numbered explana- tory paragraphs).
South West North East
INT Pass
ment of Accounts for the year No Admission Charge. Pass
ended 31st, October, 1935.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Saturday, the 11th day of April to Friday the 17th day of April, 1986,, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
Hong Kong, 4th April, 1936.
LAMMERT. BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
Public Auctions
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
*
1/
Wednesday the 8th. April 1936 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35.
Hankow Road, Kowloon
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:
Chesterfield Suites, Teak Bed! Boom & Dixing" Room Furniture, Office Furniture,- "Carpets, Ruga, Ornaments, Gramaphones & Be cords, Brass & E. P. Ware, Elec- tric Table Lamps, · Cutlery, Glass Ware, etc... etc.
معاد
A Few, Pieces of Black Wood Furniture
One RadioTM
“and -
Or View from, Tuesday the 7th.
April, 1936.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
Anctioneers. Hong Kong, 6th April, 1936,
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
YOU
Are invited to inspect, our stock of
Asiatic, Foreign and Colonial
Postage Stamps
in Sets, Single, Packets, Bage and in approval Sheets.
GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, &c, że No. 10, Wyndham Street, Established 1896
Pass
Gems--"Vzroni-
7.50 pm-Vocal que" (Mesaager).
pm-Local Time Weather Report. Closing Local Stork
Dbl (1) Quotations.
Pass
3N Pass Pass
3S (2) Pass 45 (3) Pass 1-A sound double. In view of North's pass, East might have doubled with a slightly weaker hand.
Signal and
8.05 p. "An Evening with Liszt" (Urbach);
8.15 p.m. From the Studio.
A Light Violin Recital by Fre Lewis accompanied by Lindsay A Lafford
Programme
1 Bolero German. Cavatina-Bohu.
2-West could not consider leav-2.
Lindsay A Latford.
ing the double in, despite the 3. Two Country, Dances- fact be had the opening lead. 4. Liebeslied-Kreizler since he held no re-entry for
230 pm-Jan Kiepura (Tenor), in
his long suit. Realising that Four Songs.
a mere takeout would indicate 1. La Danza (Bossini) extreme weakness and that his 2. Heute Nacht Oder Nie!
(Spoliansky)
original pass must have limit-3.
ed the strength of his hand-
My Heart is always calling you
(Stolz)
as did his failure to leave the 4. You, me and love (Stolz) double in-West correctly bid three spades.
13-Of course, West could not cou- sider playing notrump with no entries.
If South had opened the bid-
343 pm Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo, 1935," played by the Massed Bands of the Aldershot Command.
9 pm-A Relay of the Daventzy Newz Bulletin. (Copyright by Beater). 9.15 pm-Tanes from the Talkies played by Reginald Dizon (Cinema
ding with one heart, a heart lead Organ). would have automatically defeat-1 Sweet Music Selection. Hong Konged the contract With nothing 2 Roberta Selection.
to guide him but South's original 3. Mississippi Selection notrump call, however, North Naughty Marietta Selection.
9.30 pm-Light Orchestral Music. opened the fourth best diamond. Old Bohemian Town- East played the deace, which card Cara Mia
"NACET" | incidentally marked North for a My Dream--Waltz
REG TRADE MARK
Safety Razor
Blades
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Made of the finest crncible cast steel.
Low in price, but can be ab- solutely depended on to give you lasting service.
50 cents for 18.
Of All Dealers.
Moss Rose-Walte
fourth best lead and West, there Romantic Waltz Medley
fore, with two cards in the suit. Sweet Memories
Accordingly. South, hoping that! 9.50 p.m.Magical Comedy Selec- North "may have had both the Lion" sting by Garda Hali and George
Baker Queen and Jack of diamonds,
10 pm-Big Ben: finessed the nine, which West 10pm-Dance Music by Jack won with the Jack, Declarer led) Jackson and his. Orchestra. a low spade to dummy's King and 11 pm-Close Down. South won the Ace, exciting with of spades, on which dummy's three a second round of spades. West hearts and one low club were dis took the Queen and returned the carded, gave South cause for re- six of diamonds, finessing dum-grets, Knowing declarer had my's ten, which South perforce marked all the high cards in his won with the Ace
hand from his original notrump Unwilling to cash the Ace of id and that if he held the Are hearts and surrender all hope of defeating the contract, South exit of hearts and blanked the Queen ed with a low diamond, on which of clubs declarer would undoubt- edly go up with the club Ace and
West Biscarded a heart. This win the last trick with dummy's willingness to give the declarer Jack South threw the Ace of four-odd resulted in his making
Ave. After cashing the King of hearts. He hoped, of course, clubs, dummy's last diamond was North would hold the vital Jack, tramped to enable declarez, to ro-hope speedily dashed as West turn to his hand, and four rounde Act of clube for five odd."
cashed that exed- and dummy
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1936
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