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BUSINESSMEN ON GOVERNOR
ALMOST RESENT ACTION OF COLONIAL OFFICE MR. S. H. DODWELL'S VIEWS
The Committees of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Com- merce and China Association gave) a tifin yesterday to Mr. Herbert Phillips, former Consul-General at Canton who has been appoint- pointed Consul-General at Shang- hai.
The Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,i who presided, said:
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Mr. Phillips' notable adminis tration has been marked by a far greater degree of that essential co-operation between the British Consulate, the Hong Kong Govern- ment and the Hong Kong business community than we have ever had before. This closer relationship in its turn has very materially im- proved the relations between the! two cities, and now, just at the moment when we might reason- ́ably be expecting to reap
concrete benefit from this better understanding, co-operation of a different and mysterious kind comes into play in the Government departments at home, which has resulted in the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office removing, at the same time, their two distin-! guished representatives in South China, and so appearing to us or-i dinary business men to be doing! their best to undo much of the good which the Treasury did by sending out to us their High Priest of finance and economics, į Sir Frederick Leith Ross.
Exceptional Service
I humbly apologise to Mr. Ph- lipa for the shockingly bad taste which permits me to speak in this ironical and almost treasonable
A new picture of Mrs. Wallis Simpo (left) posed with the ex-Mrs. Erskine Gwynne, Vanderbilt heir.
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ST. JOHN'S BEAT CHINESE RC.
KOWLOON TONG WIN
St. John's caused a by surprise
feated the Chinese Recreation
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Japanese Sportsmen For N. Zealand
in the Mixed Doubles Badurinton
Two famous Japanese athletes, League last night when they deKohel Murskoso and Kenshi in Hong Kong Togami, arrived Clab by the odd set in nine, thus yesterday by the NXE steamer also recording their first win sinceKitano Maru on their way to New the commencement of the League this season. When they encouns [tered the same team at Causewa“
Zealand.
Murakoso, a middle distance
Bay on November 26 last, theyer, and Togami, hop-step-
and-jump champion, are travel-į were beaten by 8 sets to 11
Kowloon Tong caused another ling at the invitation of the New upset in the League when they Zealand Amateur Athletic Asso- beat the University by 5 sets to 4ciation not only to display their at Kowloon Tong. The winning set skill and stamina, but also to ac
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was decided between K. S. Liew quaint that country with things JAPAN'S £66,000,000
and Miss J. Choâï and H. Kew.and Japanese.
Mrs. A. E. E Cutro. The Univer- sity were leading by 19-15 st one! stage of this set, but their hosts drew level, after which the game {was set ̄at 5. The Varsity pair held the lead for a few minutes, but eventually lost at 22-24. The University were without the ser vices of T. C. Lee and G. E. Soon last evening, otherwise, it is more than probable that the result would have been reversed:
BILLIARDS RESULTS
CHAN WINS BY SEVEN POINTS
NAVAL PLANS
Biggest Orders For 16 Years
FLEET TO CONTROL 1,300 PLANES
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CHINA OUT OF
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British Trade Expert's Opinion
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
IN CHINA
Though he discountenanced a idea that he was a technical man. Mr. AH George hi the address, One of the most exciting Although the strictest
which he delivered on Recentg St. John's deserved their win matches., in the Colony Junior secrecy is preserved as regards over the Chinese Recreation Club. Billiards Championship was seen details, the general scope of the Commercial Developments
China," before the British Ez- Roland Koh, who is still troubled at the Catholic Union Clab last | new Japanese naval pluginsers Association with the after effects of a sprain-evening, when
in Londoni Chan Hon-shui gramme, officially described as
nevertheless gave a great deal of ed wrist, displayed brilliant form beat F. Zimmern by the narrow the "third replenishment plan," information, which those whom he in partnership with Miss Mariel margin of seven points in the first has now become known.
was addressing will undoubtedly Smith
round of the competition. Neither As was expected, Recreio "A" of the players chalked up any out-amount of naval construction vot Mr. George, who is ComTESTCÏE.
It provides for the largest find of value-
maximum margin.
FATAL CRASH Coroner's Inquiry Into overwhelmned Recreio "B" by the standing breaks, the highest being ed since 1920-21, when the eight Secretary to H. M. Embassy, was
Motor Cycle Mishap
a 26, recorded by Chan.
eight"
battleship programme, optimist enough to hold that China A very close match was also subsequently, scrapped under the has now recovered from the de played in the same division at the Washington Treaty was adopted, pression and, though the market Re-Civil Service Cricket Club last
That Albert Douglas Harold
way in front of him about the ac-weekly share report and market Hands was travelling between 60 creio "A" beat Recreio "B" by night, when Wong Pun-chi beat
states:-
issued at noon to-day
* Recreio "B" Trounced At King's Park last night,
and 70 miles an hour on a motor nine games to nil:
his tions of his superiors at home review
cycle when he crashed to Nevertheless, in the same breath I│
death, was the opinion expressed express the fervent hope that Business continues. brisk in by Sgt. James Scrim at the inquest when he gets home he will repeat mining shares, but local descrip at Taipo yesterday when a find my remarks in no uncertain terms fons are rather off colour, for ing of accidental death was in the appropriate quarters.
there is no doubt the greater turned by the District Officer
of gold North, Mr. J. Barrow.
M. A. Oliveira and Miss M. Stra (Recreio "A") A Barros and Miss M. Ribeiro..... beat A E. Xavier and Miss
S. Remedios
best
**-
beat N. Beltrão'and Mis. E. da
Sousa
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21-10
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22
3. 1: Remedios and Miss C. Sīvi (Recreio. “A”)
beat Barros and Ribeiro....
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shall certainly do so myself when speculative possibilities I reach England two months later shares draws operators to the The late Mr. Hands, who was -for what it will be worth be manila market leaving our local ground engineer for Imperial Air- cause I most strongly feel gentle shares neglected and inclined to ways, was killed on the Castle ment that after fortune has ́smil-
sag, from neglect.
Peak Road on December 13. · best Xavier and Remedios ed upon us to the extent of bless-
There has been a moderate Dr. G. H. Henry said the came best Belto ad Sons ....... ing us with a Consular servant volume of business transacted in of death was a fractured skull A Caralho and Mins 0. Ribeiro, and a Colonial servan with whom utility shares, China Lights being and laceration of the brain, but in
J.-Recreio “A”) and for whom it has been a real favoured up
beat Barros and Ribeiro to $13.70 and
the laddition he had a compound frac beat Xavier and Remedios.... 21-7 pleasure to work in British inter-ew shares dealt in at $10.35.ture of the right thigh, comminut-beat Beltrao and Souss ........... 21-4 ests, and from whom we have re- Sales of Hong Kong Electrics ed fractures of the shin bones, ceived exceptional service, there must surely be something radical-ere negotiated at $56 and $55%, fractured left thigh and abrasions Star Ferries offer at to both legs, chest, hands and closing.
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NEW DREDGER FOR YANGTZE RIVER
Second Largest In The World TENDERS FROM SEVEN FIRMS
The new programme, which is for engineering goods is small la B. G. Xavier by 300 points to 227 to be put în hand next year, is to proportion to the population, it i to enter the Second Bound of the cost one milliard yen-approxiate all the same worth cultivating? competition. Wong's hignestly £65,000,000 at present rates of
For instance, in the sphere of break was a 27, whereas Xavier exchange. It includes a number zalezys the Government has done. could not chalk up more than a of battleships probably of 35,000 much to facilitate the restoration tons--aircraft-carriers, cruisers, of its credit and has also mIZBRAU torpedo craft, and submarines, ed to build a considerable length besides many. Fleet auxiliaries of line. This, however, only such as high-speed oil tankers. amounts to 8,000 miles, mach" of Alf this new construction is to be which is of such light constraction completed in five years; why that it will eventually have to be replaced. In addition, schemes in- More Aircraft -
volving many thousands of miles Provision is also made for a have been prepared, so that the large expansion of the naval air openings for British enginee service. In recent years 22 new are undoubtedly wide. The govern squadrons have been organised, ment is also turning its attention Shanghai will probably have the and at present the Navy controls to road construction. second largest dredger in the 1,000 aircraft, including those At the St. John's Cathedral Hall world, to be operated in dredging based on coastal stations. This
Road Development ly wrong with a system which per-se, on publication of the head. The collarbone was brok- last night, the St. John's Cinh, beat the Fairy Flats, a "North-China figure is now to be increased to mits them both to be spirited away preliminary annual figures, which en as well as six ribs on the right the Chinese Recreation Club by Daily News" representative learn-1,300 first-line machines. There miles of road in China, but little of At present there are over 60,000 Just at the time when things are disclose the final dividend to be side and three on the left. There games to 4:52. getting better, without either by
ed in an interview with Dr. Her are 13 naval aerodromes, includ-this mileage is properly metalled your leave or consultation of any 3, making $5 for the year was a cut on the chin and ruptures
of the spleen, heart and liver. The David Kwok and Miss P. MacCaw of the Whangpoo Conservancy
bert Chatley, Engineer-in-Chiefing several in Korea and Formosa and much has been built solely for Tele- (against $5.50 for 1935)..
(St. John's) phones (old) eased to $28.75 sales fracture of the skull extended
Įmilitary purposes.-- Great exorts. Board. The new dredger, if pre- Every shipyard in Japan is now are therefore being made to and the "New" to $10.50. Trams from ear to ear and the brain was
sent plans materialise, will be 400 working to capacity on naval and ordinate matters and to close in better enquiry, after badly lacerated.
5-21 feet long and 62% feet wide, and mercantile construction, and near about a development which
the engines will develop 7,000 ly every yard is being extended have a profound influence on 2-21 horse power, pat
in anticipation of heavier de
country's, trade. In recent Plans for the purchase of the wands in the future.
considerable proščeşs new dredger have been under con-
Apart from the new ship-been made in bothy ... 11-21 In 1921. the Committee of Con-grame, the Navy has a direct takings Over 30005
sideration for a number of years building and air expansion pro-aviation and public utility 21-13 sulting Engineers for the Shang- hai Harbour Investigation recort→
kind whatsoever.
FREE CHURCHES SUPPORT FOR ARCHBISHOP United Religious Revival
Full support is expected to be given by other Protestant religious bodies to the campaign inaugurat ed by the Archbishop of Canter-
call to religion" in Coronation
year.
earlier weakness, at $12.50 buy-
ers
Picnic Party..
in for enquiry, and after sales at Hands, however, continued along
St. John's First Win
lost to 5. W. Liang and Miss
Cheting lost to. F. E Kwok and Miss
B. Perry best P. C. Leung and Miss M.
Caryn Roland Koh and Miss M. Smith (32: Jakn's)
(*)(St. John's)
5
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interest in other big Government towns in China, have-
cities are endeavouring to modern waterworks
G. A. Smith and Mrs. Beste mended the Board to acquire “ALİschemes which are being financed cal generating stations,
8-21 least two dredgers of the most powout of non-Service. funds. 24-21erful type which can be operated These incinde a far-reaching There is also a considerable amo
on the Fairy Flats in a depth not scheme of extracting oil from of building on modern lines. | exceeding: eighteen feet.” After coal, and for accumulating large.
Industry In Infancy they years of consideration, the reserves of imported and domes
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Evidence disclosed that Hands Hotels have suffered their usual (prior to Settlement) decline with was one of a picnic party compris sales down to $5.50, at which rate ng Lieut. Cmdr. E. C. Hovenden,
Capt. E. 0. Wanliss and Messrs lost to Liang and Cheong there are no-buyers. Weak
Colls, Formby and Wood, three be-beat Kwok and Perry holders, the aftermath of last
fing în motor cars and three on beat Leung and Chin years overbought position, keep motor cycles. The party met at this stock from responding to the Au Tau bridge and set out in the much improved. trade in the direction of Castle Peak
Jost
to Liang and Cheong Just best Kwok and Ferry Colony's hotel business. Realtys before reaching Un Long the beat Leung and Chura are a neglected stock around $4.50 party stopped to enable one of the nominal, Lands have again come members to adjust a machine.
University Lose Again bury, Dr. Cosine Lang. for a "re 34 can be taken at $34. Hum-la straight stretch of roadway, but Kowloon Tong Club beat the Uni| Conservancy Board's project for tic fuel against the contingency}. Industry, on the other bandë At Kowloon Tong last night, phreys have appreciated to $9.75. returned and passed them again, versity by 5 games to 4pm
dredging the bar of the Yangtze of war, and a plan for developing very much in its infancy, the Docks have improved to $14:65, going about 30 miles an hour in
was approved by the Executive the national steel and iron in China is the largest prodine E. E. Lee-mä: Misa M. Xavier It will not, however, be pasand should go higher. Cements the direction of Castle Peak
(Kowloon Tong)
Ynan at the end of 1990, but ow-dustry, with a view to increasing matches in the world, and sible for them to put forward remain idle, either side of $11 Shortly after that the party heard lost to P. K. Hui and Miss [ing to the troubles of 1962 there the present output by 50 per cent.
Ulia Khoo
{are well-establis their own programmes until full Constructions (new) can be taken the sound of a crash and, saw
... 17-21 was some delay in acquiring the Abeat K. L. Yong and Miss J. details are made known of the st 45 cts. Providents (old) were cloud of dust.
Japan is expected to make a and berbie wils They ran to the
first dredger, the Chienshe. Chos 21-15 Archbishop's plan to reswaken the depressed to $145, but close at scene, where they found Hands beat K. S. Liew and Miss J.
The project was finally settled at start room with the fortification central ma religious consciou.mess of the .-$1.60 buyers $1.55 sellers, and dead."
21-17 the end of 1992, and the first of the of certain islands, including, the bullt up pire by a solemn act of rededics- Wharfs improved to $110. Banks
Castro two new dredgeźs azzived in April, Bonin and Amami Oshima, which, Sh tion to the Christian life.
have kept fully steady and many
1985. It has always been the in- owing to the Washington Treaty, tabe The Rev. C. Ensor Walters and shares have been taken from
21-17 tention of the Board if the first have remained in statu quo since abes Dr. Bond, president and secretary $1870 to $1877% cum dividend.
24-22 dredger proved satisfactory, to 1922 respectively of the Methodist Unions, continue to advance, andị Church Conference, have issued] closing transactions were made at the following `staternent:--
$625 Hong Kong Fires came to "We know nothing yet of the business at $3011⁄2 and Cantons Archbishop's plans. The pre- at $307% Raubs are better, on sident, in his visitations of the the slightly increased output, and churches, has already been calling are again over $13 bid. them to an evangelical revival. In Philippine: Mining: Shares.
MUNITION DUMP DESTROYED
Rebel Air Raid On Madrid Depot
Balmanca, To-day.
Anderson
Henry Kew and Mrs. A. EHL
(Kowloon Tong) Jost to Hui and Khoo beat Yong and Chos beat Liew and Anderson
18-21
– N. Mackay and Ming T. Gonzalez
Kowloon Tong)
Jost to tai and Khoo
lost to Tong and Chon (beat Law and Anderson.
16-21
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obtain a second. The quantity of
Vice AdmiZonal has ber mnd to be removed in order to pro-f
appointed Commander-in-Chief vide a reasmiably navigable chan- the "Combined Fleet" in 21-11 nel across the Yangtze Bar, forsion to Admi. Takahashi.
the largest ships plying across the LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE: Pacife, at comparatively low tide PWLF LPt. is computed to be about 30,000,000 Recreio. *A* **7 10:57 614 cubic yards. As's certain aut 542 38 13 3 of re-silting must be expected in 43125/116...
"The town of Valdenorillo was Free Lances
his message through the Methodist East Mindanao have proved the attacked by a squadron of insur Locatio -574 423 408 the Bar, a quantity of about 40 publications, which will be issued popular favourite and large numgent bombing planes to-day. C. R. C..
on Jan. 1, he urges the same bera have been taken up to 28 cta. Many hita were registered by Kowloon Tang
thing.
with closing buyers at 71 cts. the attacking aircraft on a depot, St John's
the Archbishop is issuing Demonstrations improved to $1.60 which was compistely destroyed. Univers
and are worth buying on any de-
the churches (
find the Hetk
but back to lang the saINE
Gumaos Gold have dropped:
Keavy buying based cider
nfad the optimists,
been fre
72-512-44 4000,000 cubic yards would have to 1 716 6 4 be removed in order to dredge it 02 11 26 0 pro
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