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The area which comprises 8,000 square feet is situated at Shun Ning Road, Kowlech and is suitable for industrial pur- poses.
Further particulars are avail- able from the Government Gazette of August 5, 1949 or from the Crown Lands & Sur- vey Office.
ANDREW NICOL, Actg. Director
of Public Works..
July 22, 1949.
SALE OF CROWN LAND
An auction sale of Crown Contury'
2. Land will be held at P.W.D. "The It.
Headquarters on Monday, thef has been proudly maintained! 15th day of August, 1949 atl Demonstration without obligation. 3 p.m.
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1949.
POLICE NOTICE
ANNUAL LICENSING OF DRIVERS FOR PERIOD 1st JULY 1949 TO 30th JUNE 1950
I. Date of Commencement of Licensing
Licensing will commence on Wednesday, 17th August at 9.15 a.m. and will continue dally between the hours of 9.15 a.m. and 12.15 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 3.45 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays excepted.
2. Place of Licensing
All Licensing will take place at Central Police Station. Hollywood Road, Ground floor, with entrance from the main dobr in Hollywood Road.
3. Order of Licensing
Licences will be renewed in "blocks" of 1200 per day commencing with Nos. 1-1200 on Wednesday, 17th August na follows:-~
4.
Wednesday 17th Aug.
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1200
Thursday
18th
1201
2400
Friday
19th
2401
3600
Monday
22nd
3601
4800
Tuesday
23rd
4801
0000
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0001
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Thursday
25th
7201
8400
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26th
8401
9600
Monday
201h
9601
10800
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31st
10801
12000
Thursday
1st Sept.
12001
13200
Friday
2nd
13201
14400
Monday
5th
14401
15600
Tuesselay
01h
15001
18800
Wednesday
7th
18801
18000
Thursday
8th
18001
19200
Friday Monday
0th
19201
20400
121h
20401
21600
Tuesday
13th
21001
23000
Drivers are requested, in their own interests, to attend on the day allotted.
5. A driver must produce his existing licence.
6. The fee for renewal of a driving Licence is $5.00.
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.
August 9, 1949.
POLICE NOTICE
ANNUAL LICENSING OF VEHICLES FOR PERIOD 1st JULY 1949 TO 30th JUNE 1950
WARNING
are
1. Owners of Private and Commercial Velletes hereby warned that if any unlicensed vehicle is found on "the road after the 18th August, 1949, prosecution will follow.... without further warning.
2. The registered owner of any private or commercja! motor vehicle which has been taken permanently off the roads of the Colony since 1st July, 1049, is requested to notify the Traffic Office, Central Police Station Immediately of the whereabouts or disposition of such vehicle.
their
3. Owners of vehicles who did not license their vehicles. on the dates allotted to their groups may renew vehicle licences as follows:--
Thursday 11th August
Friday 12th August
Monday 15th August
Tuesday 16th August
August 9, 1940.
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Motor Cars. Motor Cycles
Motor Cars Motor Cycles
1 - 2000 1- 500 2001-4000 501-1000
5001-7000 2001-9999
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Commercial Vehicles
HK5001 HK5100 Motor Cars HK 1-HK1200
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
NOTICE
REDUCTION OF CHARGES FOR CURRENT Charges for current will be reduced for all meters read and after October 1, 1949:-.
LIGHTING
With discounts as follows:--
Monthly account
JCRR LOAN AIDS KWANGTUNG FARMERS
1
In the Yao Tai district, North of Canton, a small Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction loan-has helped the farmers offset the alternato floods and droughts which have plagued the village since it was settled by their ancestors 400 years ago.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
in
ILK
When the Joint Commission | benellt only 800 mou, the farmers on Rural Reconstruction paid say it gave them the confidence needed to the final US$1.000 instalment and incentive, they of a US$2,000 low interest rate undertake on their own initiative loan, the farmers reported, the the purchase of pumps to irrigate
the remaining 1.200 mou. loan had Indirectly benefitted
Since
June. eyery family all of Yao Tai's 1.480 prople Yao has minde an extra contribu- living on the district's 2,000 ton of labour or
money to the mnou (about 333.3 acres) of cost and construction of the dyke land.
and the purchase of the three new pumps. Despite diversion of inbour to emergency flood work and.
the crop harvest in July 50 has been per cent of the dyke Completed
Although the loan wan ear marked for a dyke project to
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
Notice is hereby given that Interim Dividend, in respect of the year 1940. of $0.80 per share. Free of Tax, has been declared payable on and after 7th September, 1948.
Applications for Dividend Warrants should be made either personally or by letter to the Registered Office of the Com- pany.
0. Building, 4th Floor.
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The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 25th August, 194Ð, to "th September, 1949, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
GIBB. LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.. Agents.
Hong Kong August 8, 1949.
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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Teachers
employed Workers' Children Schools, whose students are being transferred to the new Govern- ment Workers' Children Schools, are reminded that the last dale on which applications will be received is August 12th, 1940. Applications should be sent to the Director of Educa- tion, Windsor House, 3rd floor.
T. R. ROWELL. Director of Education. Hong Kong, August 9, 1949.
1950 HONG KONG $ DIRECTORY
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July 28, 1949.
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Auctioneers, Surveyors and. Appraisers, Pedder Buliding? Telephone No. 20224.
By order of the Board.
S. GROVE.
Secretary.
Hong Kong, August 8, 1949.
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For The Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
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WAH YAN COLLEGE S.J. AFTERNOON SCHOOL
Because of the great number of applications, no more can possibly be accepted for the Afternoon School.",
HARRIMAN REALTY CO., LTD.
Real Estate
rokers
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A COMPLETE LINE-OF Steel Office Equipment
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inorths.
than
two
Yoo Tai farmers say they will have the dyke completed and the
installed pump
By the end of August.
1
They ennservatively estimate the dfke project alone will mean an increased yield of 2,000 pleuls rice a year on the 800 mou of
of
protected land.
The farmers are not ventur. Ing a
a queas on the increase the pumps will add, but they have already proved that their new irrigation and flood preventlan Improvements will work. This year's dyke repairs and one pump raved the crop on 300 mou of
Jand flooded by exces
For sively high water in July, tour days and a night more than 200 farmers worked to strungtien the dyke and pump the water out of the enclosure. The farmers estimate the crop they saved is) worth about
the US$6,500 or equivalent of 1,000 pleuls of rice. Their efforts mean gozi crop insurance. They know how good when they look across their dyke to the neighbouring fields and see a ruined crop on land silil water- logged from the flood.
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"I got him pretty well trained-ho automatically moveD on when Mra: Hennessey starts telling me about her operation!""
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
The Authority on Authorities"
WATCH THE SPOT CARDS
and the K'won for South wha scored the club J and returned the spade J to be ruffed by the heart
That gave the des fenders Ove tricks, setting the
ONE emphatic difference be- To the JCBR the irrigation lonu tween line and average players has been good invennien; of funds is shown by the way the small appropriated
the by
Would you contract one. United cards are watched. Slates Congress for a Joint Chin-be sun to notice that your part- It should have been set two ese and American programme 14 | ney played a five-spot as his first tricks, for a score of 500, more beneilt the rural people. Yoo Tal | card of a
particular suit and than a not vulnerable game would farmers have put the investment then later played a four? I have been worth. And it would to work and made it pay.
not, you may promptly classify have been if North had noticed yourself with the rank and air. his partner's play on the Such non-spectacular occurreures two club tricks-the 5 on the furnish the guide to perfect des¦ first and the 4 on the second. fence for the player who will, That could have meant only one heed therp.
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If North had come-on that
read the 5-1. way, he should have won the heart I trick with
his Q and led a low club for South to win. The latter would then have returned
B Aparic which North could! have ruffed with the heart 4. Thus the pair would have had three tricks from their trumps instead of two.
Tomorrow's Problem
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dical? North slipped. He played low
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