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NOTICE
The Twenty first Annual General Meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association will be held in SL Andrew's Church Hall, Nathan Road, Kowleon, on Friday. 28th February, 1941, at 6 p.m.
BUSINESS:
and
Adoption of Report Accounts for the your ended 31st December, 1940.
Election of Officers and Com- mittee
Any Other Business
JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1941
Postponed to:-
THIRD DAY--
Monday, 24th February.
FOURTH DAY-
Tuesday, 25th February.
FIFTH DAY....
Baturday, 1st March.
On Monday, 24th and Tuesday. 25th February, the first bell will be rung at 11.00 a.m., and the first It is earnestly requested that race will be run at 11.30 a.m. On members and all ofhers interested Saturday, 1st March, the first bell)
Kowloon will will be rung at 130 p.m. and the in the welfare of
An first race will be run at 2.00 p.m. ordeavour
prese. opportunity
be given fot The tin interval will be after bingng forward matters for the the fifth race on the third and consideration of the new Com-fourth days. mailfee.
to be
will
F. C. MOW FUNG,
Hon. Secretary.
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders
MEMBERS' BADGES AND
ENCLOSURES
Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently display- ed throughout the Meeting.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Preserving Communications
By The Four Aces
WHEN CHILDREN
OUTGROW THEIR
STRENGTH
With rapidly growing children, nourishment must keep pace with growth. When it doesn't the child gets thin, pale, weedy, with no energy or inclination for food.
For extra nourishment, doctors and nurses say there is nothing better than Horlicks. It builds up flesh, bone and muscle by provid- Most players would find East'sing all the essential food elements defensive brilliancy in to-day's in an easily digestible form. hand unusual, yet the opportunity replaces all the energy children fur it arises rather often!
North, Denier North-South vulnerable
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It
expend on work and play. Through its delicious flavour Hor- licks stimulates the appetite so that children get more good out of all their food.
Many boys and girls at the diffi- cult ago OWO their success in schoolwork and at games to the extra strength and vitality sup- plied by Horlicks. Get Horlicks to-day at your usual store.
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The bidding:
The bidding:
Helenket
You
Maler
North
East
South
West
19
Dbl.
10 20 3NT
24%
Pasa
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Jacoby Dbl. Pass
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11194 CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES TYSTEN
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and day per NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Club. Rooms at $10.00 THAT THE FORTY-THIRD OR-including tax-or $40.00 including DINARY YEARLY MEETING OF tax for the Meeting (ladies $5.00 THIS COMPANY will be held at and $20.00 respectively) are ob- the Office of Messi's, Jardine, tainable through the Secretary PUBLIC AUCTIONS Matheson & Co., Ltd., on FRIDAY upon the written or personal in- the 28th February, 1941, at 11.00 troduction uf a member, such a.m., for the purpose of receiving member to be responsible for all the Report of the Directors tu-
chits, etc. gether with a Statement of Ac-
Badges admitting to Members' RCE EN counts for the year ended 31st
Enclosure will NOT be on sale ut December, 1940.
the Race Course.
The Undersigned have received intruction
Sell 112
by Public A tetion on
FRIDAY, 28th February, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
emprising:
Teak wood Drawing Room, Bed Roont, Dining Room and Office Furniture. Chesterfekt Suites, Wardrobe & Cabin Trunks, Cut- Jery, Ornaments. Pictures, Clocks, E P., Brass. Aluminium, Porce- lan and Glass Ware, Electric Table Lamps & Heaters, Tea Sels, Camos, Gramophones & Records, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
:
also
A Quanilty of Blackwood Furniture and
1 Carpet Runner (New).
2 New Cour Runners.
1 Tientsin Carpet.
1 Iron Safe.
1 "Mullard" Radio.
1 Teakwood Bed Room Suite.
2 Enamened Baths.
1 Sink.
On View from Thursday,
27th February, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1941.
the
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from The Secretary's Office, 1st floor, Wednesday. the 19th February, EXCHANGE BUILDING, (Tel. 1941. to Friday, the 28th Fe-27794) WILL CLOSE AT 9,45 alin. bruary, 1941, both days inclusive. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 11.45 am. ON THE FIFTH By Order of the Board of Directors.
DAY.
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 12th Feb., 1941.
THE HONGKONG
A limited number of tiffins will
ut be obtainable each day
the Club House, provided they ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, (Tel. 21920).
are
NO CHILDREN WILL BE AD. MITTED ΤΟ THE CLUB'S
ELECTRIC CO., LTD. PREMISES DURING THE MEET-
ING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-second Ordinary Yearly The price of admission to the Meeting will be held at the Com-Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day pany's Registered Office, 4th Flour, including tax for all persons in- P. & O. Building on THURSDAY,cluding ladies, and is payable at 20th March, 1941 at 11 am. for the Gate.
the purpose of presenting the
Report of the Directors together Soldiers and Sailors in uniform with a Statement of Accounts to are admitted to the Public En- 31st December, 1940 and electing closure at $1.00 per day including Directors and Auditors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 8th March to 20th March, 1941 both days inclusive, during which periud no transfer of shares can be registered.
I
By Order of the Board of
Directors,
The Undersigned have received GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., instructions to sell by Public Auction on
TUESDAY, 4th March, 1941
commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central. (2nd Floor)
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS (mostly China & British-Colonies)
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 19th Feb., 1941. •
WARNING
aro
Business Houses
hereby warned that all payments in con- nection with the 1941 adition of The Hong Kong Dollar Directory should be made, at the Offices of the publishers, through the post or by chit book..
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No one
is authorised to visit offices and collect money on be- half of this publication.
THE PUBLISHERB, The Newspaper. Enterprise, Ltd. Windsor Housa.
Agents.
Hong Kong, 21st February, 1841,
THE HONGKONG
tax.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc., will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public En- closure.
SERVANTS' PASSES Passes for Servants will be is- sued to Private Box holders ONLY 00 application to the Secretary,
1st floor, Exchange Building.
Any persons found loitering with Servants' passes in their pos-
ELECTRIC CO., LTD. session will forfeit the same and
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that the fol- lowing increases in the Company's standard charges will be made for current consumed in respect of ac-} counts issued for meters read on and after 21st March 1941:-
1. For Lighting from 15 cents to
16 cents per unit,
2. For Power and Heating from
3.
will be removed from the closure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
En-
Secretary. Hong Kong, 9th, February, 1941.
POSITIONS VACANT
RELIABLE
STENOGRAPHER 'and clark with good knowledge of English
5 cents to 5% cents per unit. and Chinese required by established ex. The discount of 10% on Pow-port-import firm. State age, qualifica. er accounts in excess of 1,000tion and salary desired to P.O. Box units per month will be dis- No.. 931, Hong Kong. continued.
.
By order of the Board of
Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents.
TUITION GIVEN
EFFICIENT and energetic Chinese typist wanted by American firm. Know. ledge of general office work. Stato ex- parlance, if any, and salary expected [to Box No. 791, 0/0 “The Sunday Her.
aid.
FOR SALE :
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ANSWER: Bid two spades. Your been "sinoked opponent's psychic spade bid has
out. and partner's spade double assures and he has length you Strength in spades. Garie seems little unlikely, but it isn't in.- possible and even a port score is not to be despised.
EL
ED
that
Score 100% for two spades, 20% for pass, 0 for any other bid,
Question No. 648
West opened the four of spades, dummy played low, and East. well, East made that unusund
play mentioned minute ago. It was perfectly clear him that South's no-trump bid was based on the miss- ing high spades -Q-10-9. Su if he took his King of spades and return- ed
To-day you are Mervin Mari's the suit, West
partner and, with both sides vul- would never, thereafter be able to lead a space; and East's single re-erable, you hold the same hand entry (the diamond Ace) would once again. But the bidding is: not suffice to bring in the long Schenken
You
Jacoby spades.
Dbl. 20 (7) What do you bid?, (Answor To-morrow.)
(Released By The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.)
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AVERAGE MAPI 67%
Since the spades were the main hope of defeating the contract, Eust made it possible to bring them in by refusing to win the first trick with the spade King. Instead he encouraged it continuation by playing the six of spades. South wun with the nine of spades and returned a diamond,
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REACH THOSE WHO
CAN AFFORD TO BUY
THROUGH
And now East's fine play bore Bait For West took his King of diamonds and was still able to lead a spade. Now South was last spade stopper and East was 644 helpless, for this knocked out his
bound to get the
lead with the "The China Mail"
diamond Ace in time to set the
contract with the rest of the spade THE PAPER THAT GETS
suit,
✡
黼
*
Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held:
OFF THE RECORD
INTO THE HOME
"Earliest with the Latest"
By ED REED
"I've got to go now-t see Baby wants to move on.”
Here's Luck
EWO BEER
Tel. 30311