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NOTICE C
Tenders are invited for the purchase of the fol lowing RASC supplies which are offered for
sole:~~
At No. 1, Base Supply Depot RASC Sham- shulpo
Flour 2 tonn (surplus
THE QUINA MAIG
SDAY, SEPTEMBER,
English cricketers out to gain victory abroad
London, September 24. England's team of cricketers are now on their way to Australia to try and bring back the Ashas, while a Commonwealth team, consisting of' d' mixture of English, West Indian and Austro- tion players, sailed to India for another "tour" of that country and Ceylon.
to Army Requirements) Thus, for cricket fans, the winter of 1950-51, is
Tender forms may be obtained from HQ, RASC, Whitfield Bar- rack, KOWLOON bee tween 9 am. and 11 aan. dally.
3. (a) The flour will be open
4.
5.
4.
going to be blessed with almost daily news calculated to gladden the heart of the enthu-' siast during the long nights and probably in clement weather.
Perhaps the word "gladden"
la not altogether opt for the news coming back from both
for inspection between | Australia and India may be gloomy. There is this to be
the hours of 11 am, and
4 p.m. daily on produc- tlon of a tender, form. The fact of tendering will be taken, as un acknowledgment of the tenderer having inspect ed the flour and of his having ascertained the approximate quantity' and its condition,
pb
(b) Offers are to be made for the flour now lying at No. 1 Base Supply Depot RASC, Shamshui- and the quantify stated in the schedule is only approximate. No llability will be accepted by the vendor, for, any discrepancy between the approximate and the actual quantity, since the Purchaser will be deemed to have availed himself of the opportu nity for inspection.
Tenders will be received up to 11 nm, on Thurs- day, 5th October 30, and. must be deposited at. HQ, RASC; Whitfield Barracks, KOWLOON in sealed covers market "TENDER FOR PUR CHASE OF RASC SUPPLIES".
Earnest Money amount- ing to HK$100/- will be paid to the Command
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sold for the MCC team at Icast, and that is that how- ever badly they do they will hardly disappoint anyone.
that "Public Enemy, No. 1" (teom a purely cricket point of view, of course) in missing. The Australiane may not think they will miss him much and believe there will be others to stop Inte his shoes, but the departure of great men like "The Dan" muật make a big paychological differ enco to a team. So, ever they do not bring back the Ashes with them, which too much to expect, is rather there may be surprises in store, for the Australians And in any casa the youngsters in the termi will get the invaluable.experience which only a tour in Austraila against the "inasters" of the game cnti give, This England team well
The dividends of the Selection not be paid at blended. There is experience in Committes may men tu Compton, Hutton, Wash-ance or even next year, but there brook and the skipper, Freddie seems a sound, prospect of sonie Brown. There is youth in future return in the near future. hopes like Brian Close, Warr and Sheppard, who are in for a fiery
They have called as the teami that hasn't a hope" and as such age In rather a happy position. However poorly they do they can say they were not expected to do better, and if they meet with success they will be heroes as any alde lu entitled to be that can defeat the Australians on their own pitches.
baptism.
There is a happy leavealag in the side and it might well be that the unweonters, especially, will rise to this great errardon. They can hardly do much worse than the last Englonul ride in visited Australia.
No Bradman'
After all Australia will be without Bradman, which means
Cashier, Victoria Bar New racks, HONG KONG,
NO
IN
As for the Commonwealth players, they are mostly men.o ripe experience. The Indians will if they cur best this do well excellent all-round team in the Test series. The boot is rather on the plner foot in the ease of this tour. It might well be sold that the tourists are going as prea- chers of the gospel of cricket; that it is the Indians who are Ilkely to benefit more by the tour than the seasoned men from England Australia and the West Indies.-Reuter,
DULL EVENINGS
NEW ZEALAND
By Alan Hardcastle
are
How to find a truly typical, weekly worry. I'm not all for Zealand housewife? well-made New Zealand' by any and his receipt will be Statistics give at least some means, even if it is John's busi- pets. Too many of the things attached to the tender: pointers. She is someone who made in this country are shoddy. No tender will be con-lives in a smallish (two-three The kiddies shoes have salgs like
home,
well- cardboard and the uppers sidered unless accom- bedroomed)
I think shabby in no time. panjed by this receipt, furnished, and has about three some outside competition pad wouill This money will be re- children, a husband earning some good English shoes funded after the success from £500 to £600 a year, help a lot, but there's that Import
control. ful tender has been and, still by the Year Book,
So I knit all their jerseys, and accepted.,
she and the family own half new frocks and pants, and I car which means that knit some of my own cardigans there is a car, of sorts not far- and John's pull-overs." ther away than next door, and, as she gets on well with the neighbours, there will be Sun- day and holiday outings..
If her house is not all-electrle the will have any number clectrical gadgets, which
The Secretary of State for War daca not bind himself to accept the highest or any tender. (Sgd.) T. H. PHILLIPS,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant Director
Supplies-and- Transport. HONG KONG
| Soptember 24, 1950.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG REEL CLUB
The General Meeting will be held at the Helena May Institute on Tuesday, 10th October, at 5.30 p.m. to be following by the first practice of the season.
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Lako, entirely for granted;
Tea 6s 5d' lb. Yet Mrs. McNaughton did not
Butter at 2s a' seem so worried, pound she mentioned in passing. really but teapot in hand, the
of enlarged on the iniquity of the she jump in the price of tea, from 45 10.0s 6d-a-pound overnight." Her household has an electric
"We grow our own summer she added, "but hot water system, two or three vegetables,"
precas zadlaters, an iron and toaster, a these winter prices for vacuum cleaner; a jug, and a and fruit mean that we go just
Fancy, oranges at radio, of certainty-probably too, bit short. an electric sewing machine. It just lid a pound, and apples-in comos naturally, for coal costs country that sends away a million nearly 27 a ton and these con- cases every year-as, pound. It's a venient, egg-shaped carbonottes, And lettuces 10d each. 139 6d a cwt, while electricity, at good thing that the two children 4d and Gd a unit, is the world's get their apple a day at school, cheapest; and that is so well. and their half pint of milk at Neither money nor hoping will morning play-time."
McNaughtort And a domestic servant.
asked Mrs Abandoning statistien I met what sort of labour-saving device ¡Mrs. John McNaughton, 2, she would like most to add to
Khyber Road, Seatoun Heights her house
"A refrigerator is one thing I and as the street names, suggest hilly auburbs and looks out aver an electrie she lives in one of Wellington's really would love to have and cake mixer. Orie the home comfortable. She runs block of unit houses Just down harbour entrance on the other the hill has washing machines
Let's look at her cupboards installed. Ffirst. She has a lot of good "Being 1 parcel-packin' linen, plenty of floral china in momma-meat, bread, vegetables,. and soft furnishings” to make groceries Isn't funny any more." the open sea on one side and the Husbands help, but they to bright colours in curtains, and always in such a tearing hurry.
TV is
out
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Our long
in dresses tooy in tune with then the morning, that we can't sunshine outside, there is not a make up our minds: and then from heavy, dirk hanging in the house they don't know cabbage
carrots. So with ||week-ends and no shops on'Sa». There are not so many books | turday" at all, there is Friday till ¡ás Uters are in most· English Monday to buy for."
homes, but there is always
Fince thei Neller during nor stick of magazines and knitting war has she ever had a day's patterns, and in any, case librn worry about food, for rationing.
compared ries are free,
with Britain's was There is no television, nor never more than token rationing, aver, likelihood of it, for hilis and now all the coupons, have ond” velitys, and elélas" of less | been tom up. The longest,
300,000 and million pound queues are not for food, but for
TV stations don't go together.
nylons and boxed chocolates,
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and
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"For two sold hours I try to open one of d' wife's jolly jars don along comes me eight-year-old kid an opens it!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barcla
SOM?hal Authority
borition
A real card reader in the South YOU KNOW HE CAN'RUFF | THERE ARE 1are occasions on would have loved those two club which you can be virtually cer- bids. He would have counted lain that the opening lead of a West 09 having probably five particular suit will be ruffed by cards of the suit und East four, Had ho your partner. That is the ease or possibly vice-versa. when the sulit had been bid by dorie su, he would have reckoned one opponent, supported by the that his four accounted for the other, and you yourself hold so rest of the thirteen, so that North many of it that none can be left could not have any. Such think- for the mon opposite you. If the ing would have caused a club opponents wind up with a differend for the lethal ruft, ent sult as the trump, you should by the diamond A setting tho consider their bidding an impell-contract. ing invitation to beat them with) a first-trick ruff.
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CK 1054 (Dealer: East. North-South
nerable).
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followed
This South was no card-coun- ter, however. Ho disliked lead- ing from his club K, so sélected the .8 of the unbid diamonds, North won, returned the diamond Q to make dummy use an honour for ruffing, and the show WAR over. Enst discarded a club and
the
rufted in dummy, scored the other
spade, then led dummy Club Q for a finesse. But, when scarded a diamond, East
in with the club A. Now
he had to stake all on the heart Gnesse. But, after 'trumps were vul-drawn, it worked and the loving
clubs were thrown on the dum my's hearts to make the contract
West North secure.
Exet
South
See him
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fight the
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TARZAN
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SLAVE GIRL
LEX BARKER
VANESSA BROAN-EUBERT ALDA
·HENISE MARCEL
ANTHONY SHIELDS Presby
SOL LESSER
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BANG JACOBY ADHOLD BELGARD
NOTICE
· DOLLÁR: DIRECTORY
(1951 EDITION)
Mrs. McNaughton" is" younL AS So she has always been able a mother of three Sundy, to bake a cake, ar pack a parcel WILL ALL FIRDIS, GOVERN- ared 0, Ross, aged 7, and the for relatives or friends (or just MENT, CLUBS, SCHOOLS, Baby Flipbath, two and a MIC people, whose names she did not. ETC., KINDLY REV16E ohn she said, is in bust-know un!! they they wrote back) THEIR COPIES AND HETURN ness, not in a big syay, but we in the Old Country,”!
TO THE NEWSFATEK
get along, although the cost of Some of the new settler' sons ENTERPRISE LTD, WINI everything is dreadful?
and daughters of English house- EOD HOUSE, WITHOUT Then we went back to statis- | wives have critlessed" the". New. ties: Bent 335 3d 'n' whai for her Zealand evenings and wook- FURTHER DELAY, Stato: Rouse (a good 208 lower ends as being: dúil.THIS IS than non-State rentals): 10s for just silly? mid Biks, MeNgyshione elbotricity another: 10s, for living | "We live, differently, and they room firingi 59 (for-tram; fares, have not had ɑmo to "get" into for, Jolin (some, pay a lak redre now and gulte comfortable waja. for suburban transport):, and, Her
sergio, there's no regular val- week hours keeping deviler thats no licensed night clubs," "no" dogs, to hét, "on bup. money.
that goes like the wind," suld plenty of horses go locals open Mrs. McNaughton, lekture's ga dier is o'clock, but how much ated door that worry Housewives? 108 "There are no dull evenlige in my and 7d | złów Zchjánđ- hóme, for there is But a great deal - too tilientò de In-
THE FAY:proplak who' And [araqly dull aro
West jeopardised his side's slam when he made that club bld
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on his second turn. Sipce, as he S-10 0 0 showed later, he was prepared to HAD support the rebid spades with his, D 5:3 two-honour doubleton, he would C Q10 7 have been better advised to leave club the clubs unmentioned. His bid and the immediately ensuing In the minor by to game in
In East combined to put
raise to
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(Dealer Fast, Bolly aides vul-
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