NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
RACE DAYS.
THE EXCHANGE BANKS will be open THE EXCHANGE BUSINESS on WEDNESDAY to BATUR DAY, the 3rd to 26th instant inclusivo, from Hongkong, February 19th, 1921. "1488
1.to 11 A..
**
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB RACE MEETING 1921.
D.A.J." 99 extend a cordial invita
tion to all their friends
to attend the forthcoming Race Meeting at their Private Stand;
No Cueda are being issued.
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
“HAREHOLDERS ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that the DIVIDEND on account of the year 1920 of EIGHTY CENTS (80 cents) per Share is now Payable at the HONGLONG & BHANGHAI KANKING CORPORATION, Hongkong. on Warrants to be obtained at the Company's Office, Alexamira Buiklings, Des Your Roud Central, Hongkong.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, February 21st, 1921.**
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NAVY CONTRACTS 1921-1922. CEALED TENDERS, in duplicate, for the
rapply of the undermentioned Storce. for H.N. Naval Service at Hongkong during the period 1st April, 1921, to 81st March, 1962, will be received by the COMMODORE, H.M. Naval Yard, until Noor on MONDAY, the 7th March, 1921-
Fresh Beef, Fresh Vegetables, Frozen Meat,
Soft Bread, Biscait, Rice, Sugar.
Forms of Tender sad any necessary informa tion may be obtained on application to the VICTUALLING STORE OFFICER, H.M. Naval Depét, Kowloon.
The right to reject the lowest or any tender is reserved.
H.M. NAVAL DEPOT,
KOWLOON.
February 21st, 1921,
PUBLIO ADOTION.
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CONDITIONS of
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY. FEBRUARY 91st, 1921.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
that on the 15th September, 1920, he MR H A CASTRO hereby gives notice
severed all connection with the Firm of EA BEAUMONT & Co. Jate of Prince's Building,
and started the Firm of
& Co, on 1st November, 1920, and
PREPAID
** WANTED ** ADVERTISEMENTS.
Better are lying as thir Offee for
Ba■ F. Q, AD, AP... AW, BF, BQ...
BB, BV.
that neither he nor the said Firm of 3. A. WANTED-LONDON FIRM of Importers and Exporters require the Services of CASTRO & Co have any connection whatsperera Manager for their Hongkong Offics. Best with the late E. A. BRAURONT & Co. and that referencon required. Prospects for a man of Mr. E. A. BRAVNOT has no interest whatsoever good standing, age 30 to 35, with suitabla in the Firm of H. A. CASTRO & Co.
Experience in Daily Pren at home. Apply H.A. CASTRO & CO.
Box BY, c/s Daily Press Office. H. A. CASTRO.“ Dated Hongkong, the 21st day of February,
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1921.
HONGKONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
RACE MEETING 1921. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY, · FEBRUARY 23RD, 24th, 25ta and féru.
TUCKETS of Admission to the Grand Stand
and "Enclosure may be obtained from Messrs. KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED, or at the Gato. Price $$ for each day or $12 for the Meeting.
No one admitted without à Tiaket, to be shown to the Ticket Inspector at the Gate.
R. J. PATERSON,
Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, February 17th, 1951.
NOTICE.
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THE SHARE-HOLDERS of the BAN.
QUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE are herewith informed that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of Frs. 20 per Share will be paid from FEBRUARY 1ST, 1991, où pre- sentation of their cortificates at the Head Office, in Paris, and at any of its Agencies. Hongkong, January 20th, 1991. {$78
T
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
. CO. LTD.
FLE THIRTY-SECOND ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company, will be hold at
the Offices of the Company, B. George'? Build. ing, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 22 day of FEBRUART, 1921, at 11.00 oplock in the forenoon, for the purpees of [receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending $1st December, 1920 and declaring a Dividend.
the
war CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 12th Formary, 1981, until TESDAL, the 22nd Feb
1921, both days inclusive,
By order of the
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, February 3rd, 1921.- -
The TRANSFER BOOKS
PARTICULARS ANDie Anation Bale, to be held on MUNDAY, at the ones FEBRUARY, 1921, at 3 P.M., at the Officesruary, of the Public Works Department, by Order of HI EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Bhamshuipo, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, commercing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of H MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of; 24 years, less a daya."
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
Locality.
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Boundary Ма
11:
+
་
LOATEDLE
Square Izet
Annual Bental
Upest Price.
about
As per min poo.
604
NGO
PUBLIC AUCTION.
on,
376
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the Orre BALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 20 day of Finzuar, 1921, at Noos, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Cort of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 81st December, 1920.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Cor. poration will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 12th February to SATURDAY, 26th February, 1921 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A. G. STEPHEN,
Chiel Manager.
(473)
Hongkong, February 7th, 1921.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD.
THE Undersigned have received instruc
tions to sell by Public Auction, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd March, 1921, at ILM. NAVAL YARD, Hongkong, and at Kowloos NAVAL DEPOT, Cornmencing each day at 9.30 am, with an interval from 1 Noor to 1.30 r.. OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES, &c. Comprising-Life Bosta, Dingies, Whalers, Shanghai Baths, Electrical Fittings, Cooking Stoves, Ships' Fittings, Iron Bed Mattresses and Fittings, Ice Chests, Steel Tanks, Life Rafta, Life Belts, Motors, Carpets, Rugs, Mata, Bhoots, Tablo, Covers, at Cables, Canvas Hoses, Old
Steel
Wire Rope,
Blankets, Coan-
Canysa Baga, Old India Rubber, Ola Leather, Old Iron, Brass, Gun Metal and Steel, Coal Backs, Firewood, Iron Blocks, Lampe, Searchlights, &c., & S
terpanee,
Lots may be inspected on MONDAY, the 28th February, 1921 to
Terms of Balo:-As detailed on Catalogue.
HUGHES & HOUGH
By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty.
G.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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HE Undersigned have received instractions
to sell by Public Auction, "On TUESDAY,
the 803 March, 1921, at 9.30 AM., st The Naval Depot, Kowloon,meme me OLD AND SUNPLUS. VICTUALLING STORES, &c., de
Comprising
Blankets, Electro-Plate, Copper Pans, Hard- ware, Scap, Mees Gear, Table Linen, &o., Serge, Bemnants, Provisions, o., dc.
Terms of Sale:-As detailed on Catalogue. On View.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
By Appointment Auctioneers to tha Admiralty,
E$76
HE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY
EU
TO LET.
UROPEAN OFFICES; 1st floor (four in ena block) 16 to 19, Connaught Road Central (with usó of lift),
"A.B.". Apply to
Care of Daily Press Office. [154
TWO
TO LET.
TWO LARGE ROOMS to let for: Offos
14, Dos Vieux Road Central, Top Floor. Apply to
ROOM No. 1.
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WANTED.
PYURNISHED HOUSE on Peak, or higher level, for summer months, would take war servants if required, no child.
Reply to--
Box 309,
Care of Dally Press Office [809
WANTED.
INTIMATION
OF
WHISKIES
DISTINCTION
unsound wheat comes as a surprise and he'
The list of juriors for 1091 is published
wonders whether he has been daily consum- in the current number of the Government ing this four without knowing it to be bad. Gazette.
The death is announced of Mr. E. P. It is reassuring, however, to find the Food Controller saying that it has been the Allen, a well-known lawyer of Tientsis. regular practice of the Wheat Commission Death was dus to-double pneumonia after to subject the flour arriving in England a-brief illness.
to expert examination, and that the results, with the exception of an, in-
It is notified in the Government
significant quantity, which arrived in Gaselle that during the absence on leave satis. of Mr. Arne Schou Sorensen, Consul for
condition, have been
WATSON'S factory. He was quite unaware, he said, Norway in Hongkong, Mr. Svorrs, Berg
E
A blend of the finest Whiskies distilled in Scotland—
mild and mellow,
OLD VAT No. 4.
in reply to one of his questioners in will be acting Consul
Mr. H. W. Bird, who since his return Parliament, that Chinese four was con demned by every miller in the country from home to the East has spent some A year or two ago, we remember that weeks in Shanghai, came on to "Hong- the butchers of England were boycotting kong by the French mail stemor which beef from China and a few other coun-arrived yesterday from the North. tries. How far these boycotts are inspired
by genuine objection to the quality of the
The funeral of the late Mr. James
product, and bow far they are engineered Macdonald. Government Marine Sur
"་
His Excellency the Governor
bas
in the interests of competitive sources of veyor, will take place at the Happy Valley Cemetery to-morrow (Tuesday), supply we are unable to determine.
the 2nd February, passing the Morumsnė These questions in Parliament serve at
at b p.m.. least to draw attention to the flour milling industry in Manchuria, for Manchuria is the principal wheat-growing ares in China, sppointed, under section 19 of the Public and it is from that part of Ching that Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1003, flour has in recent years been finding its Police Sergeant C. Evans to be a Sani- way into the markets of Europe and tary Inspector for Stanley, viccInspector America While the Chinese Government Dorrington.
has been intens on fostering the four On March 20th, 21st and 22nd, Kobe milling industry in China the traditional will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
STENOGRAPHER & TYPIST (Lady A fine mellow Scotch Whisky.comic policy has been directed to dis-opening of its port. An claborate pro-
preferred). Apply by letter
HASTINGS & HASTINGS.
IMPORT-EXPORT.
318
GENTLEMAN, with large experience in the Export Trade in South China and capable of taking charge of depart-" ments, is open for immediate engagement. For
Box 397, c/o Hongkong Daily Press.
GILBEY'S
further particulars, please comunicate with SPEY
-FOR SALE
328
CYLINDER, 12-16 HF., five
4 Hamber Car, wire whele with spate, acetylene lighting.
May be viewed at the Hongkong Electric Company's North Point Generating Station any time by appointment.
FOR BALE.
62,570 SQUARE FEET OF LAND
couraging and preventing the export of gramme is being arranged by the com- cereals, except over the Russian boundary mittee which has been granted Y.50,000 line. But when the great war in Europe by the Municipal Council for expenses. drów large armies from the fields, which
Formal notice is given in the Gazette. resulted in a serious scarcity of wheat, that, in accordance with the provisions China relaxed the embargo on wheat of section 4 of the' Coroner's Abolition ' exports and a considerable overseas trade Ordinance, 1888, the duties formerly per- From Dairen alone last formed by the Coroner may be performed summer-that is to say from May till by any person for the time being par- August the export was 180,000 tons, and forming the duties of Magistrate.
ROYAL developed.
A fine old liqueur Scotch Whisky.
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SOLE IMPORTERS:..
&
CO., LTD.,
At Broadwood Road, Wong Quarters, Kitchen, Garden, Tennis Court and Lawn. For particulars apply to-
neichung, with 7-Roomed House and Servants AS. WATSON
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & Coy <37, Queen's Road Central."
[4SH
ANALYTICAL CHEMIST.T
ADVERTISER seeks a position of respon. aibility. Age 30, formerly chemist to the Federated Malay States (Kuala Lumpur) Government; Assistant in the 8. A. Government (Capotown) Laboratory; and, at present, Analysi in the New Zealand Government Service Possesses wide experience and training in Oils and fats; Fertilisers sed foodstuffs; foods and Drage: Leather and Tanning Barks; Paints and varnishes; Bubber and other Tropical Products; general technical organic and inorganic analysis; technical bacteriology; colloid and enzyme chemistry. Advertiser is specially interested in the Oils and Fats Industry,
Write-
“ANALTĒT."
c/o Gordon and Gutch Advertising Agency;
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
7408
EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY & YEAR BOOK OF CHINA,
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE THE CURRENT EDITION is still on Bais
st KELLY & WALSH, LTD, Hongkong and
HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at St. George's Building, Chator Road, Victoria, on THURSDAY, the Jan-March, Shanghai. 1921, at 11 o'clock .. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1990, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 28th February, 1921, to THURSDAY, the 3rd March, 1881, both days inclusive,
SHEWAN, TOMES & 00,"
General Managers. Hongkong, February 18th, 1931 "[463]
CHINA
Price: $3, stratod 400 pager. A splendid mailing list. A mide of information. ₤406
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
on August 3165 the wheat stocks stored in A woman living in a matshed near the
the godown at Dairen amounted to Ting Hau Temple, Siakong, on the Kow 140,000 tons more than 100 times the loon City Road, was visited in the early amount stored on the same date of the hours of Saturday morning by two men, preceding year. At the same time the ono of whom was armed with a knife. general disorganisation of the agricultural After binding her and the other inmate, industry in Bussis created a very largely an aged woman, they stole what property increased demand for wheat from the they could find. Poverty is no protection markets over the northern Frontier of from this kind of thief; ther only obtain China Yet with all this, in coned a haul worth eight dollars. nection with the great famine, in
H.E. the Governor gave a dinner party which some thirty millions of people on February 19th, the guests present are involved in some of the provinces being Hou. Mr. E. Irving, Mrs. Irving, adjacent to Manchuris, we do not hear the Misses Irving, Mr. and Miss Hast- that there is any lack of cereals in China: ings, Miss Crosbie, Mr. and Mrs. Me the cry is for money to purchase and Ewan, Miss McEwan, Miss Walker, Mr. transport them for the relief of the starv Rev. Mr. Holman, Mr. M. Breen, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsell, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, ing millions. Since the end of December E. W. Hamilton, Mr. J. W. Franks, last, as a measure of precaution, however, Major Cassel, Mr. Greenhill and Mr. BIRTHS.
R. L. D. Wodehouse. an embargo has been imposed on the BARROW. At Shanghai, on February export of six kinds of cereals from Man- 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. BARROW, churis, and wheat flour can only be a daghter. BENNETT-At Shanghai, on February 7th, exported by special permission. None of
to Mr. and Mrs. H. T. BENNETT, & these prohibitions or restrictions apply arrive about April 24th. Colonel Davy is
ESTABLISHED 1841.
BOR.
Phone 616.
(1)
}
Cooks-At Shanghai, on February 7th; to Mr. and Mra. MORTIMER C. COOKE, a daughter. HUTCHISON.At Shanghai, on February 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. Joan O. HUTCHISON, a daughter. PHILLIPS--At Shanghai, on February 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. T. J. PHILLIPS, a daughter.
.
THE MARBIAGE.
Colonel C. W. Davy, C.M.G., Royal Engineers, has been selected to succeed Colonel J..R.. Young, as Chief Engineer, China Command, and is expected to
WOLE
over the North not a stranger to Hongkong. He joined
the Royal Engineers in 1897 and In Manchuria the stationed in Hongkong in 1012-14. Dur ing the European War, he was mentioned in deepatahes twice and given the C.M.G. decoration. Since the war he has com- manded the R.E. at Rouen.
of Mr. Johan Herman Coolhass, of Hong- It is notified that, on the application
to land-borne trade |Manchuria frontier.
four industry has been developed to an extent that the quantity now produced is said to be sufficient not only to relieve the province from dependence on other sources of supply but to need an outlet into the world's markets. As a result of kong, the Marine Superintendent, or WATSON-WALKER-At Shanghai, on Feb.the great war the American product prac Japan Line of Steamship, H.E. the Nautical Inspector, of the Java-China- ruary 7th, JOHN WATSON, to MAGGIE tically disappeared from the Manchurian Governor in Council has been pleased to BRowN, MACKAY both of Falkirk, Stir- lingshire, Scotland.
market, and there was little to spare from direct that he may use and publish in DEATHS..
any other source for export to Manchuria. the Colony for a further period of siz months from the 7th day of November, MURDOCH. On January 23rd, 1081, The war thus gave a tremendous filip to 102, an invention for improvements in
WILLIAM MURDOCH, Jato Chief
the industry in Manchuria. Home milling apparatus for releasing lifebuoys at Engineer of Indo-China Steam Navi- gation Co., and youngest son of the had long been one of the important Letters Patent to be granted for the said night-time without prejudice to the late WILLIAM MURDOCH, Dumfrica | do.estic industries of this part of China, invention. Scotland, after prolonged illness, age and analysis of the product of these The Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to be 44. By cable.
native flour mills certainly show a con established under Article 304 of the HONGKONG Orion 10a, Dza Vaux ED.siderable percentage of impurities; but Treaty of Versailles is about to begin. the flour exported comes not from these work in London. A great part of the work of the Tribunal is to decide as to "home mills," but from the large mills debta whore 口 difference has arisan equipped with the most modern plant-between an ex-enemy debtor, and mills established by Russian, Japanese x-enemy creditor, or between the British and German clearing:offices. Thosa and German capital, There are also large interested can obtain the rules of pro- Chinese mills of the most modern pattern codure of the Tribunal through any book- in the neighbourhood of Harbin, but it seller; they are also printed, in full in the current number of the Hongkong is inferred from the fact that they are Government Gazette. CHINESE FLOUR.
run by Chinese from Ebantung, that the The average European in China-South capital for these mills came from German China, particularly-knows little or no sources and thus disclose the methods thing of Chinese flour. Whether his bread employed by the Germans for extending made of Chinese, Russian, Canadian the "phere of German interests in North Australian, or American flour he does not China under the cover of Chinese manage. know and cares but little so long as the ment.
The footing which Manchurian flour has bread appears good and wholesome. He
TOURNAMENT LODON Orca: ·151, Flant Stake; B.C
February, at 9 p. at the HING YUEN GARDENS..
MAIN. EVENT
de
15 round Catchweight Contest ́SKY" KERBISON . A. B. HEWLITT,.. SUGAR REFINING CO., LTD.
HMS. Alderity (Welterweight Champion of the Colony),
,"』། TANNUAL MEETING of BHAREs (on production Current Membership FORTY-THIRD ORDINARY Booking at MOUTH'S FRIDAY, Feb. 18th HOLDERS of the above Company will be held Carita only) Appleton at the Offics of the General Agents, Pedder's Street, on FRIDAY, the 18TH MAROH, at 11 A. for the
purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1920.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 4th to 18th March, 1991, boy days inclusive.
JA „DINE, MATHESON, & Co., LTD., Gozeral Agenta. Hongkong, February 18th, 1991.
[464TM
THE INDO CHINA BTHAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY, LÆÐI
SATURDAY, 19 to MONDAY, 215- General Public.
Special Trams will be run before and after the
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„Tournament.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, FREEUARY 215T, 1931.
In divorce proceedings at San Fran.. cisco, Mrs. Mabel M. Goodfellow-Witchell has obtained a decres of interlocutory divorce from her husband Mr. James Henry Witchell, of Saigon. pondent cited in the case M The co-ree Danson of Saigon. Among the statements made in the proceedings was that res- pondent was married in Hongkong, that he was later with the Standard Oil Co.
now said to reside.
· FANCY - DRESS BALL. DERBY DAY-THURSDAY, FIE, 1911
has probably heard something of flour recently obtained in the markets of the where he was, aw till later in Saigon, in Manchuria, but to what world can obviously only be held if the ing to the wife's testimony ahe was A the requcet of numerous Patrone, the
Management have decided to alter the grown above from & Bupper Hall to Fancy Dress extent and for what markets interests quality of the product passes the tests of deserted in March, 1918, and deprived of
her four children, Dinner Ball; therefore, Tables may be Booked him but little unless he is a four expert examination, and in view of the on the usual lines, and holders of the Bupper
Dance Tickets can obtain a Befand on pressata merchant. The average man cats at large amount of capital now invested in The choirs of the next Governor-Gen- eral of the Philippines has narrowed tion of much Ticketa, da d
The charge per head for the Dinner Batimea Chinese- rice, and he would the wheat-growing and flour/milling down to Mr. Horbert Hoover, former
☛ 125 Director of the above Company have declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND on Deferred Eliares for the year 1930, at the rate. of 6/- per Bhare, han dengan je delningsanm Dividends for Shareholders on the Colonial Register ara fron of Income Tax and will be | Baturday Dances. pail at the rate of 2/10 per dollar. ""
Dividend Warranta will be obtainable on and after SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 1921. at the Company's Office N
TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will
16th, both days inclusive.
be CLOSED from February 18th, to February
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. JAD,
General Managers.
Hongkong. January 28th, 1997
[480
be en similar lines to the usual Wednesday and not be surprised if he were told that industry and the necessary transport Governor Cameron Forbes, former vice- he daily consumes Chinese flour; his agencies in Manchuria, it would be a Governor Gilbert, and Congressman baker does not tell him and, so long as serious matter indeed if it were placed Clarence Miller, according to a cable from Commissioner De Veyra at Washington. REPULSE BAY HOTEL. the bread appears of excellent quality he beyond doubt that the quality of the ex The Philippines Government has decided President-elect, Mr. Harding, to select. approach Roads to the above HOTEL does not trouble to inquire whence the ported cereal is such as to condemn it not to bring any pressure to bear on the art CLOSED temporarily for the purpose four comes. Hence the news that has in the foreign markets. The attention any particular man, Mr. Maznol of regrading. Patrons are, therefore, kindly been coming out from England recently drawn to the matter in the British Quezon, in & statement on the subject requested to use the steps opposite the Man of what is practically a boycott of Chinese Parliament can hardly fail to make for says: All we ask is that the United Entrance until completion of such work,
States send out the biggest man they cố [410
flour on the ground that it is made from greater care by exporters.
got for the position.":
THE