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Foamite Firefoam
THE MOST EFFECTIVE FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tel Central 230.
Queen's Buildings.
QUEEN'S THEATRE
PLEASURE HOUSE DE LUXE
Commencing MAY 13th to 15th,
Miss GENEVIEVE FELIX "THE LADY OF MONSOREAU"
in.7 parts.
A Beautiful Colour Photo play adapted from the French Novel by Alexander Danas.
ALSO
at 5.15 and 9.15
P.M.
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BY
THE OLYMPIA FOLLIES!
THE LAST TWO DAYS.
ADMISSION :
5.15 & 9.15 pall
2.30 & 7.15 p.50.
EUX (to hold 6 Persons)
...$15.00
BOX (to hold 8 Person)
37.20
DRESS CIRCLE
2.00
DRESS CIRCLE
1.80
STALLS
1.50
STALLS
50
2nd CLASS
180
2nd CLASS
.30
Picture shows on THURSDAY, MAY 15th.
-USUAL PRICES-
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 15TH, 1924
NOW ON SALE.
THE
DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE
OF
CHINA, JAPAN, BRITISH MALAYA, INDO-CHINA, SLAM, PHILIPPINES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, ETC
JOE
1924
SIXTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION,
IS NOT BEING 25572D AND CONTAINE
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FORMIGN BUSINESSES, THRIE FERSONNEL AND AGENCIES OLASHIFIED HÜBINESS DIRECTORY OF THE CHIEF TRADE CENTRES” ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FOREIGN RESIDENTS IN THE FAR KAST GOVERNMENT AND OFFICIAL DEPARTMENTE
UP-TO-DATE-COLOURED MAPS OF THE PRINCIPAL PORTS IN THE JAK KANT. DESCRIPTIVE AND STATISTICAL LOCOUNTS OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES AND
STRÁDE-CENTRES (OF THE YAB XAST.
TREATIES, TARIFTS, STAMP DUTIES, HOKKELGE CHARGER, POSTAL QUIDE, ETC. BRITISH, AMERICAN AND, JAPANESE" NÁVIES AND COASTING VESSELA~
1,500 Pages
Complete Edition Abridged Edition:
1,500 Pages
$12 local arrency_
AN" EXTEXMELY USEFUL!! BOOK.
Writing from Bingapore, under date March 31st, 1922, Bir Godfrey Thomas, Private Secretary to HEE THE PAINOT OF WALES, BAYS ----
S-I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd. instant and am desired by the Prince of Wales to thank you for the copy of the 60th annual edition of "THE DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE FON CHINA, JAPAN, THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, ETC, zzo, which His Royal Highness has been pleased to accept, and which will be extremely useful during the remainder of the tour.
The Managing Director,
HONGKONG DAILY PZIER, LTE,
Βοκοτοπο
ON SALE
CONGKONG HANBARD REPORTS
Hthe MEETINGS:
BLSGISLATIVE COUNOUF
Session 19 de
Bevised by the Member?
PRICE
DAILY PRESS
Yours faithfully,
GODFEST TECMAN,
(Private Becretary)
SERETHEŠNOW FRENSH ZEMKAY.
THERAPION NOT THERAPION NⱭ2 THERAPION N03
No. 2 for Madder fazarri, 95% for wed Licin Disessa Me.Stor Chrenia WASINISIL- SALP BY LEADING CHEMISTS, PRICE IN ENGLAND.JA.” „DALE CEEIONS.CO-HATITNICA MAN, W., Zoeton,
DE MAR MJ, HER FORK CITY":
THE SOUL IN THE OFFICE. When Nicholas Nickleby went into a City Office, what satisfied then that ha was made for great things was his pretty Writing Perhaps other offices were not as simple of heart as that of the thers Cheeryble even then. It is under] stood that employers require different qualifications for positions of respon sheit now, according to Lord Asliheid, business has changed if the last few rearseIt is by no means ces to "be Roulless to be sucessful Chu tho contrary that man is likely to succeed- who possesses the finer instincts and uses them. This seems to be a little hard on the good men who rose to posi tions of importance some time, since. Surely they were not all of the stuff that Marley was made of before he became a ghost and Scrooge before he saw his visions. They had not all lost their souls. Sone of them possessed the finer in-
100,000 FEET OF FILM EXPOSED FOR FICTURE
100,000 feet of Film were sparet de Me. and Mr Martin Jahnson in making their remarkable big Game Photoplay":
"TRAILING AFBICAN WILD "ANIMALS." Of this tremendous footage, only Seren Reels have been re- Enined
Amin a known kind of Wild "and"many which are familling to Scientists and atmsiste, word photo graphed. The tucet vivid and exciting Scenes Wild Animal Life that hare even bom obtained are seen in the Picturd
ALLIES,
All Discriminating
Smokers
and the
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PROTECTION AGAINST DEST
WIND AND GLARE IS FUR-.. NISHED *BY THE SAFE GOGGLES WHICH WE SELL
CHINESE OPTICAL CO., Refracting Opticians.
£7, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
stincts. Offices are not all alike. The HONGKONG CICAR STORE LTD. business of one may be of a far, mora. technical and abstract order than that of another. The workers in one may not officially have the opportunities for prov ing themselves men of soul and the finer instincts which occur in the more human concerns of another. The statistical branch, or the cashier's department, may be full of the milk of human kindness, but they had better not pour it out in ofce-time. The accountant's eye may ba capable of rolling in as file a frenzy as any man's, but in his handling of the hooks he should have little opportunity for the use of "romantic imagination. But it is no doubt true that the tradition of the supreme efficiency of the Mr. Gradgrinds has been broken. A man is not required to be, or pretend to be, so austerely narrow as a past generation re quired of subordinates and preferred in higher positions We live in a world of bronder minds and wider interests, but Lord Alfield is careful to insist that the man with vision alone will not succeed." Such a man is apt to be un- fortunate anywhere. Even in the arts a certain power of adaptation to gross material necessities," a certain capacity for dealing with other men, are required in order to earn a living. In creativo work, in research where vision is the most valuable of qualities, the man with vision alone may do ill because he can see nothing but his own particular re- velation. It is one of the great mis fortunes of humanit that vision and the power of making use of vision, the quali fies of a leader and the ability to know where to land, are so seldom found in the same mau-Daily Telegraphi.
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
The Compagnie "de Commerce et de Navigation d'Estreme Orient of Saigon, reports under dates May 5th-
THERES
- LÖNG, LONG TRAILA
of
Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Booties, Mosquitoes,
all killed by
KEATING'S
BÄTTISH
ON SALE.
MADE
The cost of the community in local BOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG
currency has remained practically chauged. There has been some demand from
Japan, but no business resulted, the current prices of our matitet being] higher than those offered.
Some sales in broken rice have been concluded with France, but that market is generally dull, with no buyers.
The total amount of rice exported from the Ist January to 21st April, 1824- is-490,750-tons, against-499,500 in 1923.
We quote today white Saigon rice No. ifted, Japan quality, Hongkong 80.56 per pien, fo.b. Saigon for May-Jund shipment.
Messes Win G. Hale. &. Co., Ltd, whose circular is dated Saigon, 1st May says-Our market has been very quiet during the last fortuight, only small busi ness to Europe taving been liceted. Owing to the high prices asked Japanese buyers have completely withdrawn, and from all other countries, there has been no demand at al-ever from Hongkong
where the market is particularly infas,
ourable.
Arrivals of paddy being still very poor and holdershot at all in a hurry to sell it cheaper prices, rice sellers are very scarce and cautious, and the market eldies steady ga
Paddy Nothing fresh to report ex cepted the firmness of the prices in the interion.
LONDON DOCK CHARGES PROTEST.
eputation from the London Cham- her of Commerce and various trading. and cercantile associations and er changes protested to the Port of London Authority recently gainst the increase in the rates of the Authority?
In reply Lord Ritchie, of Dundee, deputy chairman of the Authority, said that while charges for discharging and on goods were now 5 per cent and 7 per cent respectively higher than in 1922, the charges on shipping wore down 20 per cent. Bod on rent 35 per cent The fact was that the Authority put down the charges to too low a figure in 198377 Even if there had been no wages in- eresee the Authority would have had to increase its charges.
Mr. Gosling, Minister of Transport, told Mr. Barnes that he was in com munication with the Port of London Authority on the subject of the intention to increase some of their charges.
£2,580,000 BUILDING.
WE WOOLWORTH SKYSCRAPEILSULU
The Woolworth Building, which, with ita il stories, said to be the tallent office structure in the world, was sold récently for 11,000,000 allora (about £2.580,000) The Woolworth Building in Broadway New York, is 702ft high. It was erected at a cost of about £3,000,000
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HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
May 1978, 1921. Hongkong And Shangasi
Banks
$1,170.6, Canton Insurances 872) b Union Insurances211 b. Fire Insurances $5-49 b.
Fangkats Combined). Kowloon
Wharves
hampo
Hongkong Lands
106
Hongkong Hotels 817) (old)$11 (new) b. Humphreys Estates
Cotton Mills
T3, 11.80 b Hongkong Rope34 (old) 33.60 (new) b Dairy Farms WALECTS
Hongkong Electrica Chin Lighte Hong Kong Tr
Peak Tram
manobranie, E64 cum will b
...39 (new) b. $15.60 (old)
bambuyers; 1.—lleri; alta,
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We have found only one mako
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They have proved ABSOLUTELY SATISFACTORY IN EVERY WAY."
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