PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion on Wednesday, the 20th. Sept., 1939 commencing at 2:30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35
Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
comprising:
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received instructions from The Liquidator of The Deutsche Klub to sell by Public Auction on
Friday the 22rid. Sept., 1939 "commencing at 10.30 a.m. at No. 2 Connaught Road Cen-
tral, 4th. Floor The Furniture and Effects of The Deutsche Klub Comprising: Couches and Teakwood Bedsteads,
armchairs, Teak tables, Teak War-
Teak card tables, drobes, Dressing Tables, Chests armchairs,
Crockery, Glass-ware, Cutlery, of Drawers, Sideboards, Dining, Linen, Teak Ice chest, Electric Tables, Cabinets, Desks, Book Ceiling fans and lights, and cases, Ice Chests, Camphorwood Carpets Trunks, Tapestry & Leather, Covered Chesterfield Suites, Cut- lery, Silver, Brass, E. P., Glass. One large motor refrigerator
One Piano "Morrison' and Porcelain Ware, Curios,One 3/4 Size Billiard Table (in Chinese Hand Paintings, Orna- Gramo-
good condition) and accessories ments, Carpets, Rugs,
and phones & Records, etc., etc.
also
A Quantity of Blackwood
Furniture
comprising:
Desks, Chairs, Joss Tables, Opium Stool, Jardinieres, Curio Cabinets, Teapoys, etc., etc.
and
One Perambulator (new) One Motor Cycle "Harley
Davidson"
One Modern Bed Room Suite One Set Blackwood Armchairs &
Teapoys
One Electric Refrigerator "G.E." Five Radio Sets.
On View from Tuesday, the 19th. September, 1939 Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 18th Sept., 1989.
SEE ROYALS NEW NO. 1
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New Model Telefunken
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939.
LONDON STILL GROWING: POPULATION NOW 8,655,000
London is still by far the
city in the world. During 1937, the which 1,980 last period for which statistics have alarms. been compiled, there was an increase. in the population of 80,000, bringing the total to 8,055,000.
New York, with a population of 7,000,000, is still a long way behind.
This is one of many facts that emer-
local
largest Fire brigades received 11,669 calls, of were malicious false
The total debt of all London
March authorities at
91, 1937, was £162,795,433, an increase of £5,297,- 524 over the previous year. Interest and repayment charges amounted to £10,550,720, compared with £9,589,- 426 in the previous year.
There are 2.334 miles of roads and streets maintained by local nuthorities in the Administrative County, and the cost of lighting them is £257 per mile
ge from "London Statisties, 1936-38," to be issued shortly by the London County Council and published by P. S. King and Son (15s 6d). The 540 pages of this volume constitute a complete statistical record of the public services | per year. of the Metropolis.
There is a continuing migration of population to districts beyond the ad- ministrative county. The population of the county was at its highest in Since then it has fallen steadily, and in 1938 was 4,802,800.
On view from Thursday the 21st. 1901, when it was 4,536,287.
September, 1989
Catalogues will be issued
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
· LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 18th. Sept., 1939.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 22nd. Sept., 1939
commencing at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2 Connaught Road, Central. (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor) A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS
as
Of 50,000 London schoolchildren leaving elementary schools in 1937, 89 boys and 127 girls were described of "super-nonnal" mental condition.
L. C. C. lidos and open-air swim- ming baths were used by 857,000 bathers last year.
motor-
This growth of Greater London at
POLICE EFFICIENCY the expense of the administrative county is reflected in the decrease in The Metropolitan police were noti the number of elementary school-filed in 1937 of 7,203 stolen children in the county. Their numbers cars, and recovered 7,094.
Thirteen horse cabs were have dropped from 900,000 in 1915 to 543,000 in 1937. The decline in school population is proportionately much larger than the decrease in the total population of the county.
in London in 1987.
On Jan. 1 last the
licensed
Administrative theatres and County contained 88 music halls, 291, cinemas, 224 hotels, restaurants and public-houses, and 26 dancing halls and skating rinks. The theatres and music-halls can ac- commodate 124,000 people and the cinemas 303,000.
GREAT READING PUBLIC The subject chosen in this volume for special analysis is libraries. The detailed figures show that in the year ended March 31 last 40,116,733 books
The cost of running London's public were issued, to borrowers from public libraries in Greater London and life amounts to a large sum. In 1985- London 20,175,088 from libraries maintained 36 the total expenditure of by local authorities in extra-London. local authorities was £03,202,166. Of.
be added 2,078,559 this sum the L.C.C. spent issued from public libraries in ex- tra-London maintained by county councils.
On View from Tuesday, the To these must 19th. September, 1939.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
Hong Kong, 14th Sept., 1989.
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The growth of public libraries in the past ten years may be judged from the fact that in the administrative county issues of books. have risen from 14,- 512,112 in 1928 to 19,941,654 last year. The number of books issued per gistered borrower has risen from 29.3 to 31.1.
·
LONDON'S FIRES
re-
Following are some striking facts from this comprehensive work:
There were 7,060 hres in London last year, of which only 36 were serious,
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238.
GERMANS'
£35.156,-
SHORTER SHIRTS
The German trade journal, "Textil Zeitung," announces that an annual economy of milliona of yards of shirt material has been introduced by shortening the length of shirt tails.
The paper adds that, in view of the shortage of raw material for the German textile trade, it would be an enormous advan- tage if the old custom of wear- Ing detachable cuffe could be reintroduced.
The present "life" of a shirt is made much shorter by the fraying of the cuffs, and hun- dreds of
shirta thousands of would be economiced annually If the detachable 'cuffo were brought back.
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GOLF BALL DROPS IN MAN'S POCKET
What should a spectator do when a golf ball played by a competitor in a tournament drops in his cont pocket? This problem was set a spectator in the £1,000 tournament on Bast
Brighton course.
He was sitting on a bank at the back of the first green when a shot played by E. S. Jones, of Neath, South Wales, hit him on the chest and fell in the breast pocket of his cont.
After some discussion as to the pro- per procedure the spectator was asked to drop the ball, which he did, and then Jones played the shot without incurring any penalty.
Actually the player dropped the ball.
should have
Similar experiences are extremely rare. Some years ago I was present at a match at Sandy Lodge, Herts, in which J. H. Taylor, five times Open Champion, was playing. The ball from his drive to the 10th apparently disap- peared and was on the point of being given up for lost when a spectator standing on a. mound to the left of the green
Was asked to search pockets.
his
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