THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1950.
KOWLOON SHOPPING GUIDE
VARIETY AND
:
ORIGINALITY
GREETING CARDS
ANNIVERSARIES
BIRTHDAYS - WEDDINGS
VALENTINES
The Right Card for the Right Occasion
SWINDON BOOK CO.
25, Nathan Rd., Kowloon,
STANDING ORDERS TAKEN
ORDER YOUR
AUTUMN SUIT NOW
Tel. 59327
MATERIAL & TAILORING OF THE
HIGHEST QUALITY
at
HARILELA'S EMPORIUM
Back of Peninsula Hotel
1-2, Middle Road, Kowloon
SPARKLING BEAUTIFUL
CRYSTAL
A Choice Display At
G. M. ARTHUR & CO.
10, Nathan Rand, Kowloon.
Tel. 67513.
THREE PIECE
BEDROOM SETS
ATTRACTIVE REVERSIBLE WASHABLE
Price $80
only at
CARPET INDUSTRIES
63, Austin Road
Kowloon
EXODUS BACK TO CHINA
Many "refugees"
ure leaving
the mainland daily. According to vernacular Press reports, 4,000 Chinese who fled from their homes in China during the un- certain days of the Chinese civil
MAINLAND THE
SHOP IN
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COMFORT
Stay In Home Comfort" At GRAND HOTEL
IDEAL
Where Servico,
PLACE FOR SHOPPING
For the shopper who abhors a crowded street, Kow- loon is the ideal shopping contro, with its wide stroots, attractive display of goods, and the personal attention given by the shop owners to even the smallest purchase.
war return daily to the Chinese Women in Hong Kong are fortunate in the, variety mainland by rail.
lo
are stil!
con-
of beautiful things they can buy. A brocade jacket and hostess gown is an essential port of your wardrobe, and Ying Tai and Co. (the home of gorgeous brocades and silks), are making a special lightweight jacket and gown for the autumn months. They are in
figure, and .tu
$0
For those who have been face sille and Indies shoes'
Dairy Kraft
In
handwork on linen and lingerie, Swatow Weng Lee, a shop of famous for their selection Chinese goods are still getting chipments from China, Why that make it a rule to buy one beauti- ful handkerchief a week? no time you will have
coller- tion to be proud of, arid as ap oversens gift, they are very much
Besides handker appreciated. chiefs, they have hand towels. gloss mnis and sandwich tolder? all worked In the famous Che- for embroidery.
Start buying will soon be here.
How
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Greeting cards
Xmar
Comfort — Hospitality Is a Byword
Reduced Rates For Permanent Guests
Carnavon Road, Kowloon
Tel: 50147
There's nothing to equal MECCANO and
HORNBY TRAINS for Boys and Fathers too
THE MOST POPULAR TOY
FOR ANY BOY
at
Kowloon's Leading Toy Shop
SUNNY
80, Nathan Road,
CO.
Kowloon.
As sen-routes sidered
ed unsate for travelling. the civil war "refugees" return China by rail, turning the Colony's terminal railway station into an unusually busy place.
As out-bound trains leave the Tsimshatsui
terminal station, crowds of people, mostly North-
rich colours. man's or woman's heart. ern Chinese, Including a large beautifully tailored, as light Farm also specialises in percentage
Cheese nt $2.00 per ib, and Daic of ShanghaBanders,
feather, yet still cool.
It's so nice to receive a card are on the platform either see-
Their tailors, all of Shanghai full cream milk powder at $1.65
worded which is appropriately ing their friends and relatives off fame, will fit you to perfection, per tin-nnd for the fruit lovers, on your birthday or anniversary or leaving the Colony them- dvise you on a style beat Smedley's Rhubarb at $1.40 per and attractively decorated. Some
and
in will always find a welcome selves.
people make a serap album of On the mainland, as elsewhere suited to your
enhance the beauty of the to their stock.
them and they are such fun te Victory Co. have just 'received brocade. in the Colony, the majority or Chang
of lovely pure wool-have
refer to. Swindon Book Store A Each week new stock is ar the Northern Chinese "refugeer"
s very interesting collec- The prices are live in particular calities. Ariving and ench shipment srems
every occasion, from most all the fints that housed the more beautiful than the last, so very
buy some for tlon for
greetings to the new born babe months (Both single fo wedding anniversaries. Sevin- "refugee" families were in new-order a jacket or gown from and double sizes are in stock) den Book Storn has also a very
the ly created buildings. This, ac-Ying Tal and Co. in Chungking
Press re- Arcade.
before they are all sold! cording vernacular
They fine collection of volumes on Art wide range in men's and are also have
the ports, was due to the fact that
both for office wear an intet books.
always first with and the newcomers could find dwel-ing a housing problem for 50
especial- Tings only in new tenement
many weary months, Grand Hotel
Sportsman's mocca buildings as other older build-is their salvation, for they have ly relected for the autumn sen
E..C. Fincher still has some ings are often occupied either the most perfectly furnished flats son, There
suede in
In smart styles to sult every Spalding golf clubs. For the by residents or "refugees" from in a very quiet neighbourhod, occasion. Victory Co. also have
cikb. beautifully balanced and was be of hotel comforts and the rents from which to choose an attrac-ifetime, Sets for both men and One other pinson, according to home, but with the added luxury a wide range of fountain pens, keen golfer they are the Idon YOU WILL PLAY A FIRST CLASS GAME”
watches and costume jewellery finished, and they will last aomo Shanghailanders.
use the "refugees" especially are so moderate, too, Ring or tive gift.
from Central and North call and see them for yourself.
womch are available' complete China found that dialect difcit!- Also, if you have friends just
with bars, balls fall mutkes) and lies forced them to live together possing through, again they will Sunny Co. is a shop to delight umbrellas for rain or shipe.. Im
: a with people who spoke their no be able to help you to secure any youngster's heart they al- urove your game by buying tive dialect.
first class accommodation at rea-ways have something new and set of matched clubs which There are quite a number of sonable terms: Makoa note original. Besides an excellent justly famous hy thelp..perform- districts of "Shanghailander" or right away--Grand Hotel, Kow-stock of tho world famous ance, "N2ol Kong Lo"-people of those loon. provinces other than Kwang-
For breakfast tung province on the mainland.
Dairy Farm know that to the majority of them are cen- The ma fred around Prince Edward Road. Englishman, no breakfast is cOST-
and) Chathain
plete withou: Marmolade, Rond, Jordon Rond.
Keillers "Little Chip" Marmalade Castle Penk Road
and Talpo Road. Only a very small num-at $1.43 per lb. tin is an excellent With the bread от ber of Northern "refugees" found purchase.
toast first spread with Daisy
Canion.
vanise those
i
with all the privacy of a private
Bre leather and
Attractive toys
Hornby trains and meccano rets. which will amuse small boys for have hours, they many happy the most attractive dolls houses for little girls.
To furnish them you can have
kitchen
tate from complete frigidaires, electric or gas cookers. to dining-room and bedroom sets
ich grown-up furniture,
are
Autumn fashions' As the cooler weather - ap- proaches (I'm told it really will come) it's time to think "of
and costume
skirt Harlleins Emporium, back of the Peninsula Hotel, Is famous for their choice of materials and
superb tailor-
dwellings in districts where no-Butter ($2.70 per lb.), you have which are exact replicas of the Ing. They
tive Cantonese were the mein dwellers,
Other "refugcer" who found rents in town too expensive, made their homes in squatter areas.
Since the mass exodus of the "refugees" from the Colony, number of thest districts have become less popular among the mainlanders.
Aside from the city limit arcuS. Northern "reluces" also, at one time "coloulsed" districts in the New Territories. Those "refugees" who settled down in the New Territories usually kept small scale farms,
A few former CNAC and CATC employees who preferred to re- main in the Colony rather than return to their native provinces in China, were among many who found the Territories more suit- abic to their taste.
Many of the Northerners in the New Territories have closed
a breakfast that will gladden any
down their farms and returned to China.
So if your son or daughter har birthday in the offing, visit Sunny Co. on Nathan Road and make your choice.
hey have all the famous makes of tweeds and Bannels, gabardines and serzes and all of us know what a feeling of well- being one has when dressed in a correctly-tailored costume or suit. Call In and choose, your meterial, before the best are sold.
While A large number of
For the homo "refugees" are returning to the
Crystal enhances any bomo Chinese mainland, smaller groups
Arthur & Co.. i are leaving for Taiwan. Those and G. M.
finest who prefer living in Talwan to Nathan Road. have the returning to the mainland, are selection on the mainland and in Austin Road have n hargain. usually former Nationallet mill- the Island.
wealthy business- tary men or men. Their departure from the Colony is usually procceded by the selling of their flats or houses on the mainland.
As a sequel to the exodus the housing problem in Kowloon has improved considerably. Once again on street
corners or in of tenement buldings, front
red papers advertising small houses or flats to let or for sale have appeared throughout the mainland.
⠀ Bedroom sets Once again Carpet Industries
This time it is three-piece bed- They
have complete sets of room sets. They aro washable. glasses for every type of drink, reversible and only $30 for the exquisitely cut vasses, fruit bowl set. and scent sprays.
Carpet Industries always keep Breakages occur in the best of an excellent stock, of Chinesa families and G. M. Arthur & Co- and Indian carpets and are or will do their utmost to replace investment in any home. They any of your cels, and for such also have some crurt sela jus“ lovely selection of crystal their arrived from the Interior-In prices are most reasonable.
and rickshaw designs.
kampan
For m'lady They are very reasonable and There is nothing to equal the make a most useful and unusual delicate workmanship of Chinesa gift for overseas friends.
"WITH FIRST class clubS
SPALDING (Henry Cotton) CLUBS
For Ladies & Gents Are In Stock At
E. C. FINCHER
11, Salisbury Road, Kowloon,
For NAPERY
Tel: 58818.
HANDKERCHIEFS
LINGERIE
OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY And WORKMANSHIP
SHOP AT
SWATOW WENG LEE CO.
52, Nathan Road, Kowloon."
Tol: 56087
Shop at
THE DAIRY FARM
For Quality & Value!
Daisy Butter
"
$2,70 per lb.
$2.00 Kraft Loaf Cheese
"Oak" Full Cream Milk Powder $1.65 por tin Smedley's Rhubarb
$1.40 No. 2 tin
Keillers Little Chip Marmalade $1.45 par 1 lb. tin
THE DAIRY FARM
ICE & COLD STORAGE CO, LTD.
TONG KONG
RODO HOUSE
240, TAI PO ROAD, KOWLOON
Cable Address: "RODOHOUSE"
1st class and comfortable living quarter
available at moderate prices.
Meals are much cheaper than the con trolled price but they are more wholesome.
Hotel Car provided for, our quests.
Register in the RODO HOUSE now.
H. CHAN, Manager.
KOWLOON
Call or Telephone 50976
JACKETS
A BLEND OF BEAUTY AND LIGHTNESS
In the Special Autumn Weight Brocade Jackets
Exclusivoly Tailored: At
YING TAI CO.
SHANGHAJ:
OF. SHANGHAI
323, Yates Read (Near Bubbling Well Road)
Tel: 34589
Cable Ad
HONGKONG: Chung King Archdo, Nathan Road, « Kowlo
Cable Add
JUST ARRIVED
PURE WOOL
BLANKETS
Soft-Warm-Colourful Prices Very Reasonable!
VICTORY COMPANY
The best Prices for the BEST GOODS
353, Nath
(Opp. Majestic Theatre)
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