CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
20 WORDS #2 FOR ONE INSERTION PREPAID, #I FOR EACH ADDITIONAL INSERTION. AUDITIONAL WORDS 10 CTS PER WORD PEK INSERTION.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
NOTICE
REDUCTION OF CHARGES FOR CURRENT
Charges for current will be reduced for all meters read on and after 1st January 1948:-
LIGHTING
With discounts ns follows:
27.75"
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Fram. 87
cente
To
35 cents
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HEATERS
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POSITION VACANT WANTED. Fant experienced typlet (preferably male) with sound common sense, interested world wide affairs, prepared work towards #dvancement. Apply Box 386 "China Mail,"
WANTED KNOWN
YOU have heard Street W. 1"?
DUPLICATING SERVICE, A! classes of Duplicating work done accurately and quickly. Mode rate Charges. NIAGARA DUPLICATING SERVICE, 3rd flour, Chater Road, Tel. 26774.
NO OTHER GIFT will be more appreciated by bables and mothers than "EATCO" rubber Obtainable from all diapers. lending stores.
NEW Winter Sulling-Style and workmanship gunranteed to your satisfaction. Selected range of Engilsh
materiala. Telephone 21366 for tailor to call-King's (Ah Yan) Tullor, 4, D'Agullar Street, 1st Floor,
FOR YOUR BREAKFAST. Tifon, Afternoon-Tea & Dinner. You are welcome. Prompt Ser- vice. Alry and Qutel. Try Cafe de Luxe, China Emporium Mezzanine Floor Tel. 26428.
FOR SALE
NEW WOOLLEN OVERCOATS $65.. Genta/Lads! Purcoat, Slim teenage girl, $75! New Racing Bingenlurs, $1301 Typewriters! Side entrance, 289, top-floor, Prince Edward, Phone 67687 ( p.m.)
ALL PRODUCTS from For- noan obtainable through Gourgo Lin & Company, 202 Bank of East Asia Building, Tel. 24408- 22661,
LONGINES gent's wristwatch siainless steel new, fine Chrlat- mas present $200.00, 'Underwood office Typewriter 14" Noise- Juss, nowly overhauled, U.S.A. $750,00 Box 387, "China Mail."
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For THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents,
Hong Kong, 17th December, 1947.
BOSTON ←
STEAM LAUNDRY
BEST SERVICE
MODERATE PRICES
31B, WYNDHAM ST.
BUY RECORDS. THIS
CHRISTMAS!
AVAILABLE NOW
NEW POPULAR MUSIC * CHRISTMAS MUSIC * RELIGIOUS MUSIC
ELEPHANT RADIO
209. Bank of East Asta Bldg. Telephone 26218
M✰
THE GOLDEN GATE PRINTING PRESS
QUALITY job printing of TIENTSIN CARPET, beautiful every description. Letterheads. design, blue, background, 8 x 9, | Visiting cards. Copperplates. simdst new, Will sell cheap. Die stamping, Booklets, Balance In nection any har daytime. hecta, Envelopes and Office 2 Wandbum Sterat, Top floor. supplies. Copper, Rubber, Horr
Ivory stamps maker.
EXTRA
LONG
innerspring 14 D'Agullar Street, Central, mattresses with matching box Hongkong. Telephone 38485.. springs, 80 x 38, can be made
to buds by addition of wooden feet, two beda only well known Seally, manufacture. Call 23583 or write Box 388 "China Mai
TOYS AND GAMES at rea- sonable prices. Good variety. BUY NOW to avold the CHRISTMAS RUSH, THE WORLD'S NEWS CO Nathan Rd., Kowloon.
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UNDERWOOD LATEST MODEL just arrived. Lowest price. Also Typewriters for rent, Service guaranteed. Tel. 27582. Universal Typewriter Co., 22 Des Voeux Road, C., 1st floor.
8 BRAND NEW Brith Her- cules Wire Tying Machines at $310 (13 gauge), $800 (18/15- gauge) and $285 (10/18 gauge.) Apply Box 862 "Sunday Herald"
60, 7 SPECIAL Ught weight British type Bicycles by well known, manufacturer at : $110 each, Cassed for Immediate dé- Uvery. Apply Box 804 "Sunday "Herald":
-Mr. NG CHIK PAK 館鎩笳椙疆察
MORRISON & CO.
UNDERTAKERS Granite & Marble Works & Monumental Masons. Head: Office: 4-6. Morrison Hill Rd. Happy Valley-Tel.84362 Branch:
559-661 Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel. 50025
Belen's Beauty Salons
LA SALLE OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION
REUNION DINNER.
Subject to favourable response, the above will be held on the 23rd December 1947 at 7.30 p.m. at the Cafe Wiseman. The occa- Rion will also be in honour of the Rev.
Brother Cassian, who will be leaving the Colony for a long, and well deserved, holiday.
or
Please
telephone 32348 write to the undermentioned c/o To Hing Co. (H.K.) · Ltd., St. George's Building, Ice House St., Hongkong, for particulars to do with the occasion,
F. M. CASTRO,
President,
La Salle Old Boys'
Association
WAR MEMORIAL FUND FLAG DAY Will all Hong Kong ladies who have volunteered to sell flags an Saturday, 20th December, please collect their tins, trays and flags from the War Memorial Fund .Room, 1st floor, Supreme Court (entrance from Statue Square side), between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday, 19th December,„
:
Kowloon aellera should colles' from the lobby of the Peninsule Hotel between the same hours or the same day.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers, Surveyors- and Appraisers,
Pedder Building. Telephone No., 20224 PUBLIC AUCTION The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Publk Auction on
Friday, the 19th December 1947 commencing at 2.30 P.M.
at their Sales Room No. 3 Hankow Road Kowloon,
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
& X'MAS TOYS comprising:
Steel Filing Cabinet Card Tables, Iron Beds, Cocktai Cabinot, Ico Box, Bureau Canvas Chairs, Chest Drawers, Kitchen Tables, Lawr Mower, Radiators, Chesterfiolé Suiter, Dressing Tables, Ward robes With Glass, Low Boys You can trust your personal Dining Tables, Sideboards, Glasr Beauty Problems your Per Cabinets, Chairs, Curlos, Vases manent Waves, Shampoo, Beta Tea Sets, Glasses, 2 Ename
expert 1 Lot of Toys, Tientsin Ruga
THE CHINA MAIL, THURS DAY, DECEMBER 18, 1947.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY
LIMITED
Notice is Hereby. Given that an Extraordinary General Moet- ing of the above named Company will be held at the Office of the
Letters From
Readers
Correction
Company, Exchange Building, Sir-Part of an item which Des Voeux Road Central, Hong appeared in today's "China, Mall" Kong, the 10th day of under the headlines
On December, 1947, at 11 a.m. to City Case" stated:-
"Kowloon
to the development of the Klang- wan area as the greater part of the city was then under foreign "settlement administrations. The Japs hatched out a couple of war, but schemes. during the these were found to bo. mere
consider and, if thought fit, to: "Of the 2,000 persons mention-pretty-pretty pictures as, the de- pass as a special Resolution the tionet In
the Pross, said Mr. signs were based on out-of-date following Resolution:————
Fowler, only between 700 and city planning conceptions. 800 are, boria fide
residents of When the Shanghai Municipal authority Government resumed the Walled City,"
afler VJ day, a City Planning
"That the new Articles of Association submitted to the Meeting, and for the purpose The correct version is as fol- Brard was set up headed by the of identification subscribed by
laws:
work of mapping out the plan. The Group consists of 4 Ameri-
the Chairman thereof. be In reply to the Magistrate's can returns, Brish returns, 2 approved and adopted as the question as to what would hap- Britons, 1 German (Socialist), D Articles of Association of the pen to these 2,000 people Dving American. Company, in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, all the existing Articles of Association thereof".
Out of the total of in the Group, in these sheds, when they were twelve menbers demolished, Mr. Fowler's reply four are fulltime appointed off- was "There are not 2,000 people cinls while the rest are practising The latter turn up as quite a lot of them that work architects.
office in the miting factories live else after normal
hours and work till nine in the evening or later. where."
Generally later. The Group storted work In
Working last. April.
at high- pressure, the frat draft of the Master Plan and Report was Mr. Fowler replied "Roughly produced in July. The said plan between 000-000".
and report were submitted to various authorities for study and criticism. Copies were to Pro- reasor Groplus of Harvard for
A print of the new Articles of Association, together with a On being asked "How many print of the existing Articles of people did in fact live in there ABRociation can be inspected at sheds?" the Registered Offices of the Company, Exchange Building
Des Voeux Rond Central, Hong Kong, or
Offic at the
of Mensra. Deacons, 1 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, Solicitors of the Company, at any time during the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. TAYLOR, Manager & Secretary.
Hong Kong, 19th Nov., 1947.
CHINA LIGIIT & POWER COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
ALFRED MARSACK; Public Relations Ofeer.
S'hai Expands
Sir-May 1 be allowed to ex pand on a few points concerning the article: "Shanghai Plans For Expansion" in your paper on the 16th instant?
his esteemed advice.
A second draft
was prepared by the Group in March this year and presented to the City Poil- lient Council for approval.
sound
Unfortunately I cannot give a description the Plan here for
of fear of taking up columns your valuable space white a slip- shot
would version
probably like Wellstan thing-to- First and foremost, it must become which will do more harm emphatically streased that the than good by way of preparing plan is not-quote-mapped out le public for a reception. AN by American architects-unquote I rav say here in that our ideas
nor is it a re-adaptation of a
aro-cr-much better than what "sheived" plan, Truo, a plan was reported in the artleie.
the Shanghai was drawn up by City Government prior to the war. This however was.conflued
He Frightenel
Notice is hereby given that The Cafe
Final Dividend Warrants in respect of the year ending 30th
September 1947, will be available Customers
for collection at the Company's Administrative Offices, Argyle Street, Kowloon, as from Monday 22nd December, 1947.
•
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
P. W. W. WOOD.
Secretary and Chief Accountant.
NOTICE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY, LIMITED.
REDUCTION OF CHARGES
1
"It is one thing being drank. and another thing being drunk and abusive." said Mr. J, G. Conklin at Central Magistracy yesterday
when 20-year-old Boris Markoff appeared in court for the second time during the past year on a charge of dia- orderly conduct.
A further charge of malicious- ly damaging a glass table, caus- ing damage to the value of $15 was preferred against him.
On the first charge (to which accused pleaded "Gullty"), hel was fined $50 with the option of three weeks hard labour.
de
On the second charge fendant pleaded "Not guilty" he was found guilty and fined $75 with the option of three re-weeks hard labour, the sch-
tances to be consecutive,
The following further ductions in charges will be made for current supplied from 1st January, 1948:
An incident occurred in thei Tai O Restaurant. Hennessy. Lighting from 44 cents to 40 Road, when Markoff, after eat- cents per unit.
ing $1.50 worth of food walked to another table, plcked up a Power from 19 cents to 18 bottle and banged on the glass and tcp, breaking the glass cente per unit.
frightening away the custom- crs.
Proportionate reductions will be made in respect of lighting and power supplied in, the New Territories, and the new rates
for will be charged
current
Insp. H. Brownrigg laring the month of January, secuted. 1948.
Defendant's excuse was that? he was drunk and did not re- member the affair.
pro
Bulk supply consumers are being notified direct of the de- rea ac affecting their Agree nenta with this Company for the
upply of current.
By Order of the Board
Of Directors,
P. W. W. WOOD, Secretary & Chief Accountant,
Hongkong, 17th Dec, 1947.
NOTICE
Maryknoll griner Students' Association
All former students who have
URBAN COUNCIL
NOTICE
PRIVATE CREMATIONS
The Urban Council is now able to undertake private crema Lions at the Government Crematoria at:-
Sookunpoa. Eastern Hospital
Road;
Kai Lung Wan (W.) Cemetery...Victoria Rd.; Kowloon
Boundary. Sti (between Fa Yuen Street & Railway).
Intion
50 LADIES Pure. Wool Bed Tinting, Facials, Manicure Baths, 1 Large Rocking Horse Jackets in attractive. pastel Pedicure. to Beten's shades and white: at $8 each operators (1st floor) above English Carpets, 1 Underwooot yet registerci liheir names Apply Box 868 "Sunday Herald" Lane Crawford's. Tal 33161 Typewriter 14, 1 Packard, Bell and addresses with the secretary 2
The fee for each. 41 Philco Radio, Deske, Typist are requested to send same for
will be $20.00. Tables, Tea Poys and Bath Roon,egistration to the E Mirrors Elc., Etc.
8. Motor transport for removing Acting Secretary,
the body from any address lö GLORIA REMEDIOS, Hong Kong, Kowloon: and New 114 Argyle Street, Kowloon, and for returning the
Kowloon.
remains after cremation will be provided without further charge. 4. For cases in the Now Territories an additional charge according to distance will be made to cover Increased trans portation costs;
ATLAS A "*
Wood Preservative.
Permanent profection, agálnék
PHIPING & TIENTSIN white auta, dry and wet rob
WOOL CARPETS
WHOLESALE
FOR RETAIL
CHI HING HONG
Road C. 1st Floor Clephon, 21855% HONGKONG
Concentrated,
Nod-inflammable.
No auiell,
Loopandlent
Particiilars" and supplies® fro
(China) Ltd
York) Bunding
Frigidaires
On View from Thursday, the 18th December 1947.
Terms: As Customary,
LAMMERT BROS... Auctioneers,
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT
NOTICE
It is hereby nolasi; that all 5.1 Further particulars may be offices of the Harbour Depart obtained from the Health ment will be closed on Christmas spector Ve
Day, 28th December 104
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No.
AND
uncil
JUNCAN CHANG. (Planning Group Member).
S.S. Aorangi
Sir, Can any of your readers Inform me the name of the Com- pany In Australia which owns or are agents for the "Ornnai."
that Renders may remember the "Orang" was anchored here In midstream for several months Immediately following the re- occupation.
The "Aorangi", which is the correct spelling of the Maori name, is owned by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., which came under the control of the
P. & Q. in 1917. The company operates a joint service with the Canadian Pacific
SS. Co. between Sydney and Vancouver under the name of the Canadian- Australian Line Ltd.-Ed, an
Ideal Xmas Present
PATONS AND BALDWINS FUZZY-WUZZY ANGORA WOOL
Now On Sale in Attractive Shades
At All Leading Stores,
*:
#
*
CONTROLLED PRICE
HK$3.90 per 3-0 BALL
E#
FIRST POST WAR SHIPMENT
HAS ARRIVED IN TIME FOR THE COLD WEATHER
BOND STREET W..
Mother & AccomDrin
of Demircino
OPENING SATURDAY 20th December
1947
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London
Models
Fashions
Fabrics:
HONG KONG HOTEL
SUITE 302.
Give Her the Fragrance
She Loves
Coty has that delicate.
of its own....D),
finable fragrance
The Choice of the Fastidious Women.
Select Coty Preparations for her Christmas Gifts.
You can't go wrong.
Sole Agents:
L. RONDON & CO”
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LTD.
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