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HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY 1936. On sale at all Book-stalls and at the Offices of the Publishers, 3A, Wyndham Street.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936.
BRIDGE NOTA
FORCING REBID
By Ely Culbertar
It is not only the partner -of the opening bidder who can make a "facing take-out."
When you have opened the bid- ding and your partner has made some response, a jump rebid in a new suit is forcing to game. In ef fect you are making a forcing take-out of your partner's res ponse.
The requirements for this bid- are about five honour tricks and a second biddable suit. This fivej honour trick requirement some- times can be slightly shaded [to. four or four and one-half] when. your distribution is strong [with]
and Business routine. Fees Moderate GENERAL NOTICES two five-card or longer suits] or Apply 6 Aimi Villas, Austin Road Kowloon
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
Public Auctions
HE Undersigned have received
instructions to sell by Public
Anction.
on
Friday, the 17th. July, 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, Black Wood Ware, Teak Bed Room Dining Room & Drawing Room Furniture, Ornaments, Cutlery, Porcelain & Glass Ware, E. P. & Brass Ware, Gramaphone & Records, Enamel- led Bath, Rattan Ware, etc., etc.
On View from Thursday, the 16th July, 1936.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, July 14th. 1936
THE Undersigned have received THE
instructions to sell by Public
Auction
CH
Saturday, the 18th July, 1936 commencing at 10.30 a.m. at their Sales Boom. Duddell Street
A Quantity of
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS
comprising:-
Artificial Silk & Cotton Piece
NOTICE
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that
an Interim Dividend of £2.10/- per share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for} the HALF YEAR ending 30th June 1936 at rate of 1/3.5/16 per Dollar.
THE DIVIDEND will be pay- able on and after 10th August 1936 at the offices of the Corpora tion, where Shareholders are re quested to apply for Warrants.
when you have strong support for your partner's suit.
Gail Patrick has the leading feminine role in the Columbia production, "The Lone Welf Returns,” which is now being shown at the Alhambra Theatre,
TWO CANADIANS HONOURED
Famous Agricultural
Workers
FOUNDERS OF “MARQUIS“ WHEAT
Ottawa. The Dominion of Canada cently honoured the memory of! two of her outstanding agricul-i turists who, by their research i work, had greatly helped to be autify and enrich the Dominion.
Tributes were paid at a State function during which a building | was officially opened in memory of the late Dr. William Saunders Sir Charles (who with his sou Saunders developed the famous Marquis wheat) and the late Dr. D. T. Macom, Dominion hor- ticulturist, often called the "Cana- dian Burbank."
Members of the families of these two outstanding men in Canadian agricultural history took)
wise unveiled a plaque and a me- morial sundial
With the following hands you HUNTER'S GIFT t in the ceremonies and like-
have opened the bidding with pne spade and your partner has bid; one no trump. You should now make a forcing rebid of three hearts:
SAK 8 5 3 H. K Q J 4 D. A Q 6 C. 2
S. AK 6 5 FLAK 4 2 D. K Q.7 C. 3 2
TO CANADA
Wonderful Buffalo Exhibit
PANORAMIC GROUP
Dr. Saunders rose from a drug- gist to a director of the experi mental farm system of the Domin- ion: He commenced the policy of scientific plant breeding, selection and importation of early maturing: cereals, small and large fruit trees, Ottawa: Mr. Harry Sayder, grasses and clovers, shrubs and noted Canadian big-game hunter, trees, and by his work had greatly has presented the Canadian Na-stimulated and expanded agricni- tional Museum with a magnificent tare in Western Canada.
Selection And Breeding habitat group of wood buffalo
Dr. Saunders started the selec- from Northern Alberta
The exhibit cost $22,000 to artion and breeding of different THE REGISTER OF SHARES with one heart on the following occupies a glass-faced varieties of wheat with an object of the Corporation will be closed hands and your partner has bidrant and occupies 14 feet deep of finding a wheat of high quality from 27th JULY to 8th AUGUST one spade you may make a forcing and standing against (both days inclusive) during rebid of three diamonds. which period BO Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of
Directors, V. M. GRAYBURN. Chief Manager.
transfer
Hong Kong, 7th July, 1936.
FOR SALE FIRST THROUGH FLIGHT COVERS
via Imperial Airways
from Hong Kong
01
If you have opened the bidding!
S. 6
R. A.K Q 753
D. A K J 54
C. 2
S. K 10 7 4
H. AQ 8 5
D. A K 72 C. 9
Un
a circular capable of withstanding the early panoramic-painted background 45 frosts of the northern wheat belts the prairie. He laid the feet long. A buffalo bull, a cow
groundwork for the achievement and a calf are shown fighting off of his san, the selection of Mar- a trio of timber wolves in a frozen is wheat, which was perhaps the marsh. The background of pines was painted from photographs of largest single factor
Canada the leading the Slave Lake district.
wheat in the work
The animals were.photographed | Tz. Macoun
succeeded
making of
in stills and movies many times developing many varieties of fruits before they were finally shot and which will grow on portions of
It is important not to confuse brought down by pack, aeroplane the prairie where it had been the game forcing take-out, which and train to New York to be hitherto impossible to grow such
produce. is a bid of exactly one more than mounted by sculptors and aria- necessary, with any other jump more than a year to build.
ans. The group took fifteen men
bids, some of which will be cover-
ed in later articles.
The Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Mackende King) paid tribute $0,000,000 Bison
to the Sanders, father and son, When America was first settled whose achievements" ranked" with The play of high cards as
by white men there were
82those of other great Canadians, signals is much too prevalent in the average game, but unquestion-posed to have been 50,000,000 bi-such as Alexander Graham Bell,
To Calcutta, Manila, Paris, Swiss,ably occasions do arise when it i, son roaming the great plains ly-verbor of the telephone, and Sir
Toronto, Boston, New York,
Melbourne, etc.
with back postmark of arrival. GRACA & CO.
Postage Stamp Dealers No. 10 Wyndham Street Established 1896 Hong Kong
POLICE DOCTOR
PUNISHED
the
of as positive a nature as is pos- sible. The difference between aļ six and a seven may be enormous
East. dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
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the Arctic and the Frederick Banting, co-discoverer vital that one defender be guided ing between
Gulf of Mexico. They seemed and insulin," the treatment for by the other. In such cases signalling card or cards must be inexhaustible source of food sup diabetes.-Beater.
ply for the Indians of the plains. However, they were quickly de- jcimated by the whitemen with
their effective irearms. They furnished food for the construc tion gangs of the trans-continen- tal railways; the late Colonel William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") was one of those who supplied buffalo meat to workmen. By about 1885 the bison had prac tically disappeared from
the Western plains, although a herd jor two of wood buffalo, a-kindred species, were known to exist in the wooded area of Northern Al- berta (now known as Wood Buf-l falo Park).
S. 7 3
K. K S ID. Q 54°
·S 10 5 42 ELAQ 76 2 D. 10 9 8 C. I
"Very Bad, Driving C. A 9 8 7 43
Alleged
Goods, Woollen Blankets, Artificial Silk Wool & Cotton Clothings, Artificial Elastic Braids, Cotton Threads, Artificial Silk Stockings, with disqualification
A fine of 20 and £4 10s costs.
for six
Hand Sewing & Kitting Machine months by Mr. Paul Bennett, the Needles, Metal Press Buttons, West London magistrate, on Dr. Toilet Soap, Condensed J. J. Laing, police divisional sur- Evaporated Milk, Colour Cello-geon attached to Shepherd's Bush phane Paper, Zip Fasteners, Rain-police station, for driving a car in coats, Electric Flask Lamp Bulbs, a dangerous manner at Goldhawk- Wool Yarn, Museels, Confec-road, Shepherd's Bush, .on tionery, Aniline Dyes, etc, etc. night of April 14. -
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMEET BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, July 15th, 1936.
THE
XHE Undersigned have receives instructions to sell by Public
Anction
Saturday, the 18th. July, 1936 commencing at 1100 a.m
at their Sales Room,--
Daddell Street
14 Cases Shoe Polish.
4 Cases Insulators,
2 Cases Hat Ornaments.
2. Cases Tobacco Pipes.
19 Bores Doll Heads.
1 Case Knitting Needles.
1 Case Emery Apparatus.
I Case Auto Parts.
also
-
S. AK J WE H. J:10 9 8 2
$ D. K:1 2
C. 10 6
S. Q 9 3 6
E. 4
D. A 7 6 3
C. E Q 5 2
The bidding:
East South West
North 1 Heart Pass 2 Clubs Pass 2 N. T Pass 3 NT *Final bid.
Small Ranch Bought
In the early days of the century the Canadian Government bought a small herd of bison which had: jbeen raised on a Montana ranch by a half-breed from a few animals he had captured on the prairies. South opened the fourth highest
In all 672 animals were loaded on the the spade and East's jack won trains and shipped to Wainwright trick The ten of clubs was pass and Elk Island parks, in Alberta. Evidence was given that the deed by South and West and won by
By 1924 the protected animals had North's *ingleton jack. The fendant, driving on the Wrong
the confines of the park were in- side of the road with headlights spade return put declearer back Town in Wainwright Park until on, came into collision with a car on lead and he played his remain-
sufficient to keep them and nearly coming in the opposite direction. ing club, South again ducking
7,000 were skipped north to Wood in the vain hope that the ace would A previous conviction for 岛
Buffalo Park. - similar offence in 1931 was pro-go up. But the declarer used the ved, and the magistrate, in deal-nesse-safety play and dummy's
esch ing with the case, observed that nine held the trick. On this trick Preserve in Northern Alberta and North discarded the six of hearts,animals at Winwright are slaugh Dr. Laing was guilty of a very
his dainty notion of a signal Ontered for their hides and steaks. bad piece of driving.
the ace and another club lead The problem of preserving the North discarded two spades, hold-bison in Canada has, been solved. to his four remaining From an economic standpoint this hearts for dear life.
is important, as the flesh of many
ST. JOHN BRIGADE
Further Donations Acknowledged
ing on
J.
South found himself on jead
Now great herds roam this vast
2 year or so
number
of
of the bison is delivered to needy
with the king of clubs and faced Indians as food-Beuter.
a forbidding prospect. Dummy's
two established clubs were in
The Director of Ambulance has sight, and the heart king loomed
the honour to acknowledge with as a probable entry, considering club, three spade, and two dia- grateful appreciation and thanks East's original heart bid. His mond tricks the following donations Mrs. Chak Tai Kwong (per
Messes On Lok Yuen (per Mr.
Chak Tai Kwong) Messrs Wing Fat Co. (per Mr.
Chak Tai Kwong) Miss Wong Kew (per Miss Yo
Wai Sheang)
play of the diamond ace certainly Instead of “whispering? with the (was natural under the circum-heart sir North should have shout- 25.00 stances. North's follow suit card ed with a heart echo of the seven, of the eight, followed by declarer's followed by the deace. Under no 500 deace, was, it is true, the lowest circumstances could the low $5.00 catstanding diamond, but South hearts have been possible tricks. correctly concluded that North North could count two club and $ 1.40 (might have KJ-8 and be able to two heart tricks for his side. Un- Miss Blackburn Baby Clothing Auctioneers for St. John Hospitais. One trolley a higher card. The diamond less his partner, held the ace or from Dr. and Mrs. Phoon Sock Wah continuation made the contract a king of diamonds the case was
Laydown, -with a total of four hopeless. to the Cheung Chan Hospital
A Quantity of.. MISCELLANEOUS GOODS Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMEET BROS.
Hong Kong, July 15th., 1986.
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