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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-SIXTH ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company (since registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, the 3rd APRIL, 1941, at 11.30 am) for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Ac- counts for the year ended 31st OCTOBER, 1940.
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Children!
Children should be full of life
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 2, 1941.
BRIDGE NOTES
An Accumulation
By The Four Aces
"Please don't 'mention my name or town," writes a harried reader, "but tell me what went wrong. I'm considered a good player, but North is known as a terrible dub. What should I have done with the
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON and good spirits, they will be, too, South hand.
General Managers,
Hong Kong, 18th March, 1941.
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.
North Dealer North-South vulnerable East-West 60 part-scora
if their occasional health irregu larities are quickly corrected with Baby's Own Tablets. This specifle was devised by a children's doctor who made a special study of the
beset maladies which may
the
young.
Baby's Own Tablets are per- fectly safe for the infant in arms as for older children. The effect of the Tablets is mildly laxative and they are unsurpassed for the The THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL treatment of constipation, indiges- KQ8 6 GENERAL MEETING OFtion, wind', colic, vomiting, colds, SHAREHOLDERS will be held at croup, and worms.
Notice to Shareholders
the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell &
When infants are upset at teeth- Co, Lid, Hong Kong and Shang- ing time and sleep is disturbed, a hai Bank Building, on TUESDAY, dose
of Baby's Own Tablets is the 15th April, 1941, at 11 a.usually all that is needed to se for the purpose of receiving the matters right. Obtainable at all Report of the General Managers chemists. together with
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Statement
PUBLIC AUCTIONS Accounts for the year ended 31st
The Undersigned have received! instructions frein the liquidators
sell by Public
and others Auction on THURSDAY, the 3rd April, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2. Con- natight Iřal, Central, Second Flour, Room No. 205,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:
Hatstands, Glass Cabinets, Ches- terfield Couches and Armchairs, Gramophones, Pictures, Table and Hall Lamps, Wall Clocks, Pictures, Electric Heater's Steel Desks and Chairs, Bookcases, Carpets, Rugs, etc. etc.
December, 1940.
The
Transfer
Books of the
Company will be closed from 1st] April to 1518 April, 1941 both days inclus.ve.
DODWELL, & CO., LTD.,
General Managers.
24th March, 1941.
CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
Notice To Consumers
Notice is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, be increased as from 17th March, Sideboards, Danner Crockery 1941, by adding a 10 per Glass Ware, Tea Sets. Cutlery surcharge to the amounts charged cent, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
for electricity consumed for light- Dressing Tables, Steel and Teaking and power as per meters read Beds. Side Tables, Chests Drawers, Line, etc., etc.
A
Teak Wardrobes, Steel and Teak
Risu
of
Fine Selection of Blackwood
Furniture and Curios
Two Radio Sets
and
One Tientsin Carpet
One Tientsin Rug
Two Rolls Leather Cloth
One Frigidaire.
1 Rollflex Camera in
Case
1 Agfa Camera "Karat" 3.5.
14 Rolls Films--New
On View from Wednesday, the
2nd April, 1941.
Catalogues will be issued.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
.LAMMERT BROS.,
"Auctioneers, Hong Kong, 29th March, 1941.
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The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on THURSDAY, the 3rd April, 1941; commencing at 6.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central (2nd Floor). A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Austioneers. Hong Kong, 31st March, 1941.
"DOLLAR - ACADEMY
*Dollar, Scotland.
Preparation for Universities. Army, Public Services, Commerce;{ On list of Schools nominating for Sandhurst. Contingent of Junior (Division OTC.
Mild climate and healthful sur roundings. Specially suitable for colonial boys and boys from Ur- "ban areas. Preparatory School
•ndjacent. ·
Prospectus and full particulars may be obtained on application to the School Secretary.
Headmaster, HARRY BELL, BA
(Cantab.)
TUITION GIVEN
EXPERT Instructre
and young girls Ind
(band,→ typing, bookk
Indles
English and French Apply 24
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and after 24th April, 1941. The existing scale of discounts will remain in force.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
D. W. MUNTON,
Manager. Hong Kong, 8th March, 1941.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public -Auction on
FRIDAY;-the 4th. April, 1941. commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon, A QUANTITY-OF-VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:-
Teakwood Drawing Room, Bed Room; Dining Room and Office Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Carpet Runners, Table Cloths, Napkins, Curtains, Wardrobe
Baby's Own Tablets
Safe guard Children's Health.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE
THIRD EXTRA RACE
MEETING, 1941
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0 KQ J 9 8 4
♣ 95 2
AJ 7
N
AQ 9 8 4 ◇ A 5
W
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AK B G 3 ♡ 6
1073 2 A374
A AQ 10 9 5 4 3
♡ K 5 2
0 G
10 3
The bidding:
North
East
South
West
PARS
PBBS
JA
30
Pass
3A
40
Dbl.
Pass
**2♡
PABB Рава
Pass
MIDI CARS VALŪTI
FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
a
2-5
(Retrated by The Bull Byndicate, Ines)
Skling Sadle says she'd be a wonder at the sport if it was a matter of staying on one's seat instead of one's feet.
INSTITUTE RESULTS
many
Results received by the Re- gistrar, International Institute of Accountants, Incorporated, show that
local candidates awarded
in were
Honours the Intermediate and Final
in examinations
De- held cember, 1940. It is noteworthy that all the candidates so awarded, except one, received their training at the School of Accountancy & Commerce, Kowloon. The follow- ing is the list of S.A.C. passes:
Intermediate Bookkeeping Norman Broadbridge (Honours); S..E. Bux; L. T. H. Phelps; Cheung Sig Kee; Yu Foo Lun.
Intermediate
#1
#:
"Four diamonds went for ride of 1,400 points; and you should have heard what North said about my bid- ding! My opening bid was
unsound, he complained, should have passed the second round, and I should have intermediate Auditing: — R. G. bid four spades L. Ng (Honours); N. Broadbridge rather than let him (Honours); E. D. Osborne; Wong stay in four dia- | Pak Wing.
ACE...
3 KING..2 QUEEN. 1 JACKTĄ
I
Bookkeeping Yu Foo Lun; L. T. H. Phelps; Yung Hin Ming.
Races Nos. 7 and 11-monds. It was a little self-contra- Intermediate Law L. T. H. dictory, but what should I have done?"
Second Day-- Coolgardie Stakes
Attention is drawn to the con-
should read as follows:- ditions of the above races, which COOLGARDIE STAKES. -Win- ner $1.000. Second $500. Third
Phelps; S. E. Bux.
4
Final Auditing: Chan Pui Kai. Final Law W. S. Anderson (Honours).
Final Law L. M. da Silva 2. The Faculty of Secretaries,
England.. Intermediate Bookkeeping: →→→→ Cheung Sik Kee (Honours); Lok King Wah,
Intermediate L:aw 1E - N. Broadbridge (Honours); E. D. Os- The opening bid was sound as
borne; Wong Pak Wing; R. G. L. a whistle, Many fine players re- Ng; Yung Hin Ming. fuse to pass such a hand in any Final Bookkeeping : W. S. position; certainly any good play-Anderson (Honours).
The er would bld it third-hand.
Final Bookkeping H.L. M, đã trouble really began with North's Silva (Honours); Lim Lee Seng. bid of three diamonds. He knew $300. For Australian SUBSCRIP.
there was no fit for spades and TION Ponies of 1941, Weight 142 that there would be serious trou- | lb. 1 lb. penalty for every $200 or ble if South had no fit for dia- part thereof won in stakes. Win-monds. He should have passed, ners barred. Jockey Allowance. knowing that South would rebid Entrance $5. From the Two Mile if he had a good hand; Post Once Round & In (About 1
South had a poor hand, the soon- Mile 171 Yards).
er North-South got out of the Note.-One Entry only will be auction, the better.
made for the Coolgardie Stakes (Races Nos. 7 and 11). Entries will be divid- ed into First and Second Sections by a Draw, Ponies that are entered for this race are barred from entering for the Rosehill Stakes, Races Nos. 5 or & on the 1st Day.
and if
Elementary Bookkeeping:--Paúl Cheng (Honours); Low Wei Ming (Honours); M. T. Trinh; Alice Lo; Yuen Wing Kin; Chan Bak Foo
'Advanced Typewritino: Lok King Wah; Wong Char Fat.
Elementary Typewriting-Alice Lo: Wong Yue Lam; Chan Bak
But South made a psychological error when he bid three spades. Knowing that North was a dub, he should have feared that North unsound bid and, had made an furthermore, that North might refuse to give up if given an- Foo, other chance. The chances are that three diamonds, undoubled, would have been the "final con- In the event of-there-be-tract; and that would have "cost, ing less than 21 Entries for North-South-only-400 points. The. this race, only one section actual catastrophe was the cumu :will be “run.
lative effect of one unwise rebid by South and two bad bids by North.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
PLATES TO
SPITFIRES
If the Army used smaller din- per plates, the eventual saving would buy a new Spitfires for the Ye erday you were Howard R.A.F., say the people in the pot- Schenken's partner and, with teries who make ten-and-a-nalf neither side vulnerable, you held: inch crocks" for the troops,
DRAFT PROGRAMMES and & Cabin ENTRY FORMS for the THIRD Trunks, Brass Coal Scuttle & EXTRA RACE MEETING to be Shovel, Fire Brasses, Gramo- phones & Records, Table Fans, held, weather permitting, on SA- Heaters, E.P., Brass, Glass and TURDAY, 12th and "MONDAY, Porcelain Ware, Ornaments, Filt-14th April, 1941; may be obtain ers, Cooking Stoves, Kitchen Utensils, etc., etc.
ed at the Secretary's Office, Ex-Bohraken changeTM Building; the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
also
A Quantity of-Valuable Blackwood Furniture.
and
2 "G.E.C." Radio Sets
1 "Century" Typewriter, "Corona". Portable writer. 1Univex" Cine-projector and
1 Cine-camera 8 mm.
1 Pair:Binoculars in Case,
.
1 Violin in Case. ***I "Singer" Sewing Machine,
Hand Sewing/Machine.
1 Set Table Glass,
1. "Westinghouse”. Refrigerator/
1 Kelvinator Refrigerator (in)
good condition),
On View from Thursday, the 3rd."April, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS
Auctioneers,
1941
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 3rd April, 1941.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN.
'Secretary.
. Hồng Kong a1st March, 1941.
W7:6:3 MK 42 OK 8:6
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The bidding
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ANSWER: Bid two hearts. You Have much too strong a hand to pass, and no other bid is really satisfactoryou hate to raise freely on only a three-card trump holding, but it's the best bid available.
Score 100% for two hearts, 80% for two clubs, 0 for any other bid..
"Question No. 680
To-day you hold the same-hand, and the bidding tinues:
What do tomorrow.)
Released
When breakages have to be re- placed, it seems, someone pulls out of a dusty drawer an invoice dat- ed a hundred years ago and dic- tates:
"Army, för the use of Tên thousand dinner plates to the alzear and spécifications .
the. Ilst we copy them-from- used in the Crimean War." At least that is what the people who make the pottery think,
the Army is terribly conser- vative and old-fashioned," said" a manufacturer.
NO PETROL BACK
TO HORSES
Horses, which had almost dis- appeared from Elre's car-alled streets, are back again now.
The petrol ration has been, re- duced from two gallons to a quar-
Last autumn
horses cheap.
(ADSWOT
Syndi-who
wer