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Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 23. Aug. 25 Sept. 8 Sept. 10
Sept. 1
BOOKING PLANS FOR 1939
ARE OPEN
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to secure accommodation desired.
Van- couver
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1-1988,
100-SEAT PLANE ITOTE BETTING
TO FLY
ATLANTIC
NEARLY
Aerial Fortress Built £8,000,000
In Secret
Air
a
The United States Army Corps are having built the larg est airplane in the world six-engined giant capable of fly- [ing from New York to London and back non-stop, with a load of bombs and 100 airmen aboard.
LAST YEAR
7 Per Cent. More Than 1936
annual.
A futher expansion in the vol- The new machine is being con-
ume of betting dealt with by total- structed in secret. It will dwarf sators is shown in the Racecourse Victoria the Pan-American thirty-four-Betting Control Board's
Arrive ton Clipper now being tested for report and accounts for 1937,
Trans-Atlantic service. It will Total pools amounted to £7,903, Aug. 22 have a wing span of 250ft. com- 721, an increase of 7,27 per cent.. Sept. 6pared with the Clipper's 152, over 1936. This sum included. Sept. 19 and, fully loaded with bombs $2,149,225
off-the-course- and men, will weigh sixty-seven sources. tons.
Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to European ports.
TO MANILA -
Empress of Canada on Thursday, August 11th
Canadian Pacific
Union Building...
SPANS THE WORLD
Telephone
207527
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.) WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS, DIAMOND MERCHANTS,
:
UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)
Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manufacturers,
High Class English Jewellery
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from
The giant is being built... in Revenue, at £722,517, was: Santa Monica plant of the Dou- £53,620 in excess of the previous glas Company, where only a few year's figure. Expenses of opera- high-ranking air officers have toin amounted to £192,280, an in- been permitted to see the details crease of 8,493. The surplus, after of its construction..
providing for taxation, intérest. and charity, was' £318,176, 'against- $292,581..
Designed As A Bomber
It has been designed essentially
Of this surplus £150,000,- .com-
as a bomber "super-flying for-paring with 118,815 in 1936, was tress," but commercial versions, devoted to grants for horse breed- already in the blue-print stage, ing, horse racing, and veterinary have been submitted to Pan- science and education as prescrib- American
ed in the Acts of Parliament. A. 100-passenger Trans-Atlantic service.
total of £168,176 was used in the: reduction of capital debt.
for
Each of its engines will be of 2,000 horse-power, and it is ex- pected to attain a top speed of more than 200 mp.h.
'Grants included.
£54,128 for improvements in
Engineers and expert techni-racecourses and accommodation for cians, pledged to secrecy,
the public; are
working behind locked doors in
a specially constructed building £44,976 for increase of stake at the Santa Monica plant. A money; and heavy canvas shoud is put over
£16,500 to the racing authorities:
the machine's skeleton at night. to assist them in the duties of con-- Armed guards stand sentry at the hangar doors,
READ
The China Mail
“EARLIEST WITH
THE LATEST
INDO-CHINA
trol.
The fund for guaranteeing-race-- courses against loss in reduction of admission charges to the public has reached $15,982, and £10,127 has been set aside to assist owners in cost of transporting horses to race. meetings..
PERMANENT TOTES
Assistance by way of grants to horse-breeding including £6,600 to the Hunters Improvement, and Na- tional Light Horse Breeding So- ciety, £750 to the Shire Horse So- ciety, $300 to the National Pony So- ciety, and continued assistance to the Clydesdale Horse Society.
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY L licences from the Jockey Club and
TO SHANGHAI. CHEFOO & TIENTSIN
is SWATOW
To KOBE and OSAKA isang", "Kutsang"
10th Aug. 9 a.m. 18th Aug. 9 a.m.
To SANDAKAN
“Sandviken” 29th July 4 p.m. “Fausang” - 81st July 2 p.m. "Chaksang”. 2nd Aug. 4 p.m. "Taksang"""""4th Aug. 5p.m. "Yatshing" 7th Aug. 2 p.m. "Mausang" 19th Aug. 10
TO TAIPHONG
Tai Seun Hong
30th July 10 p.m.
SINGAPORE PENANG
"Hinsang"
4th Aug. 10 a.m.
X
The report shows that, of the 108: racecourses where racing under
National Hunt Committee takes place, 72 have now been provided: with permanent totalisator facili- ties.
great increase in the popu- larity of racing under, National Hunt Rules became evident ¦ to- wards the end of the year, and this continued to the end of the season In. 1988.
The largest totalisator turnover at any individual meeting was again obtained at Ascot, where the total amount staked in four days racing was $488,247. The com- bined win and place pools Royal
Cup amounte
Hunt
largest totalidator turnover
course was 8806.61825 where racing 1661