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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 1925.
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THE 43rd ANNUAL
A.P.B.
FRESCO FETE
OF THE
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
WILL BE HELD
IN THE COMPOUND OF THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
ON
SUNDAY, 5th DECEMBER,
1926,
from 8.30 p.m. to 11.80 p.m. UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND LADY CLEMENTI. ADMISSION.-$1.00 (each ticket entitled to a Souvenir) 50cts (without Souvenir)" Soldiers and Sailora in Uniform Admitted at Half Price:
In the afternoon from 2.30 to 6.30 p.m. several STALLS will be open and amusements specially for children will be provided. Tes may be obtained at 50 cents per head.
ADMISSION FREE.
The grounds will be brilliantly illuminated in the evening, and there will be music, both in the Afternoon and in the Evening.
SOMÉ FEATURES OF THE FETE.
TOY BAZAAR, XMAS TREE STALL, PICTURE GALLERY, TEN OEFT STALL, GUERING COMPETITION FOR A SUCKING PIG, LUCKY WHEEL CANDY STALL, DOLL HOUSE SUBPRISE PACKETS, FISHING POND, CHINESE STALL, FRENCH STALL, AMERICAN “ STALL, ETO, ETU,
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OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE,
VETERAN SHIPOWNER'S VIEWS | NORWICH CATHEDRAL PRAYER
UAPTAIN ROBERT -DOLLAR FINDS WORLD TRADE IMPROVING."V"
TOO MUCH SHIPPING TONNAGE
BOOK:
OHARLES · II. AND QUEEN CATHERINE.
"A ́charming reference to the ancient Captain Robert Dollar, the veteran traditions of Norwich was made by Mr. shipowner, and "Grand Old Man" of Justice Mackinnon when opening the Autumn assizes. He said he would be a the American shipping fraternity, re- turned to New York on October 14th, person of sluggish imagination who, in from another trip around the world playing a part in the ceremonies of the "Throughout the whole world, with the opening of the assizes for an ancient single exception of Great Britain, which city like that, was not stirred in his is under
"When just now," his unfortunate industrial imagination. An cloud," said Captain Dollar at a special Lordship added, "I was attending sar interview with The Nautical Gazette, vice in your beautiful cathedral, I found (New York) there is increasing pro myself provided with what was obvious. sperity-not anything very great, but a very ancient prayer book. In order noticeable just the same. The high price to find its date the title page being of subber and tin bas brought wealth to missing I turned to the prayer for the the Malay States and the Far East and King and the Royal Family, and I found the increasing production has had its printed, there the name of his late effect on shipping as there are more car-Majesty King Charles II., his Queen, Catherine, and James, Duke of York. It goes offering.
is equally all a part of the antiquity of this beautiful city that I find myself first addressing the grand jury of the city, and then I shall have before" me the grand jury of the county of Norfolk, Some of the greater more youthful com munities, like Liverpool and Manchester, da dot enjoy the privileges of ancient cities like yours and York, Exeter, and Bristol, where there are two assize courts and two grand juries. Lest you should be overproud I would add that this privilege is also shared by Haverford West and Carmarthen,"
More Tonnage Than Cargoes. "It cannot be denied that there in more tonnage available than cargoes to take it up, when we consider the whole world's shiping, not America's only, be- cause American shipping is only one unit. Considering the heavy coal ship ments from Hampton Roads which have absorbed ships that otherwise would be deflected to the Montreal grain trade, one would not quite suppose there was a surplus tonnage. The coal shipments, bowever, ara got a normal occurrence, but due to the accident of the industrial disturbance in Britain. While ship. operators can get decent ratas for posl they will naturally not accept the low prices ruling for grain."
Speaking of the U.B. Merchant Marine "Act, Captain Dollar condemned the whole structure. As he had already lodged tabulated objections at Washington and had grown tired of representing the hardships imposed, he did not care to go into exhaustive detail, he did, however, mention the fact that the law required his ships to carry water tenders. Out side America nobody knows what a water tender is," he exclaimed, I'll tell you what a water tender is. He is a man who sits on a box and opens and shuts little doors when he is told to. He draws his pay and does nothing for it
Sea Offers Fins Career..
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING. QUOTATIONS.
Da
NOVEMBER 2ND, 1995.
$1,170 buy.
Landon....
£113 nom. ..fl bay.
grong Bank Chartered Bank Macantile Bank A. & B...
De P.&O. Bank East As Back.......
Canton InsuIANCE ..........
nom.
......£13 nom.
fod bay.
Ohins Underwriters........ North China Insurance
Müzi
$630 bar
bay." $1.45 101 Tia 1157 Union Insurance ..............
*1237 881. & Yangtase insurance ......................
Mex. $43 buy, Chins Fire Insurance........$200 buy. Hongkang Fire insurance $617 buy, Douglases
wel.
H U. & Stormboats...? nom, Hongkong Tugs...... Indo-Chinas (ref).
Do
China Nagar ****! Malabon Bugars Benguets......DIGITA Kailan Mining Ad.. Langkata (combined) 'Do (angle) Shanghai xplorations. Shanghai Lots Estim Trench Minas
ja
DOM.
buy 63 sel.
$15 buy. ...$27. mam.
$36 Dom Tom.
*** 11, 27 nom.
T. 14 nom. 11. 4 nom. Tis. 9 nom.
As a career for American boys, the veteran shipowner considers the sea as good as ever it was. It is a difficult problem," he said, to raise the right kind of officer personnel under the pre- sent conditions which enable a boy to
(Daf), mmmm...342 buy. quit whenever he feels like. On Cana-Shall Transport dian ships and English ships the boys ar Fer.... are bound as cadets to serve three to four Waterbosta......... years; the training they get makes real men of them; the men are a credit to the owners and to themselves and are re- spected by the crew. We encourage the right type of boy to remain with us and after, three years we take him on as boat- swain or as fifth officer, and give him every chance. I do not know if there is any law against it, but if the boys would Bign on for three years, we could make something of them and build up a fine officer personnel. There are any amount young college men who are keen to get a free trip round the world but do not want to follow the sea as a profession. If we took on all who applied we should have no room for passengers at all.
"As regards the government's idle tonnage, I think the beat thing to do would be to sink it unless it can be sold, in which caso it should be sold to whoever would buy, regardless of nationality."
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Foreign Shipping Improvements, Turning next to foreign shipping, Captain Dollar expressed the opinion that if the Germans bad postponed the war for two years they would have led the world's shipping.
The increase Italian shipping did not surprise him in the least No one can leave Italy with out a permit," he said, "and you can' get this inside an hour if you are going to travel on an Italian ship, but if you intend sailing by the Dollar Line or any other non-Italian line it will take any- thing up to six months."
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Ural Caspians..... HK & K Whats. H.K, & W. Docks, Hongkar! -
New Engineeringa.. Shanghai Docks HK. & M. Hotels
Hongkong Lands Hongkong Healtys H.K. Territorials Eumphreys Estates Prince Building...... Rural Landa. Ewo Cottons..İLER Orientals Shanghai Cottons (old)
Do,
China Buses... Hongkong Tramways Fosk Trams (old)....
(new). Do Singapore
Tractions Sin Tans Amusemente
Canton Ices Cemanis (combined).....
Do
EGIS.
... buy. „87-nom
$123 Bal .$59 now „Pts, 175 som.
31, 6.50 nom. Tls. 126 com. 191 buy.. $83 sal. $8.15 buy. : sei.
..............
$154 sel.
$39 zom
inom. 105,10,15 sol. T. 8.10 sel.
Tis buy
T. 231 boy.
T. 9 buy ...$2415 buy., 24.30 sa
(old) beer (now) China Lights (combined)
Da (old) He still pins his faith in the old-
Do. fashioned reciprocating engine rather
(new) ja than the modera Diesel engines, and China Providenta ....... does not believe the latter will be largely Constructions in used until the price comes down con-Dairy Farma
Der A Wings siderably.
One way in which the Dollar Line had Hongkong klectrics... developed a permanent trade was in buy-aco Electries ing cargoes for return loading. Captain H.K. Ropes (combined) Dollar declared that American ships were getting their share of business by straight Business methods. Shipping was & strict ly business proposition and to appeal for cargoes on patriotic grounds was not good business.
Do
(old) Do (now) Lane Gewwfords....... Mackintolis... Sinceres
Watsons: (old)-; ««««meragunen Telephones
...$153 nom.
..$7.50 nom.
15/- sol
sel
$184 bay. $5 DOM. 311 hom
AOKE.
$19 Bal Ji4j nom. 11 nom.
bay.
$1.80 buy. $19 nozi.
so nam." $811 buy.
335 nom.
310 zel 35 sel $8'rom 819 nom
The 435 sol
sale
EXCHANGE RATES.
(KRITISH WIRELESS.SERVICE.]
Not Buying More Ships. Finally Captain Dollar said that be had no present intention of buying anybuy myk zyers; - sel-sellers; more Shipping Board vessels, as he thought he had enough and enough was as good as a feast. He sympathized with the Shipping Board in the difficulties they were facing, with people ready to pound them all the time, but did not see how they were going to sell their ships un less there was someone to buy. It seem ed to be the sentiment of the country that the American Merchant Marine ought to be in private hands, so that unless the Board could sell their ships the best thing to do was to scrap them. Boma people had said that the Shipping Board were selling their ships at an under-price, but that could hardly be correct when all the circumstances are considered.
ANITA LOOS" "PLAY BANNED.
A play, "The Fall of Eve," by Miss Anita Loos and her husband, Mr. John Emerson, authors of that amusing play at the Strand Theatre, Aldwych, W.C., "The Whole Town's
Paria Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen
Vienna
Helsingfors Lisbon Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama New York Geneva Milan Stockholm
Gentlemen Prefer Biking," and of " Oslo.
has been banned by the Lord Chamberlain, we?
It was to have been produced at a West End theatre and is a light farce, and plot hinging on the conduct of s young wife who, under the influence of drink, mistakes a friend for her husband.
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Bombay
RUGBY, November 22nd.
Hong Kong Silver. (spot) Bilver (forward)'
1271
31.87
12.19
20.43
18.20 34.42 192
9.7/18
2/04
OURENS
at 2.30, 5.10,
TO-DAY 2.15 and 9.20.
THE MERRY
WIDOW
The Picture and the Music.
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TO-DAY and TO-MORROW.
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in aid of the Chinese . MISSION TO LEPERS.
"One Crowded Hour of Glorious Life
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STAR
ALSATIAN WOLF-DOGS.
TWO WOMEN TREACHEROUSLY
ATTACKED,-
In recent years Alsatian wolf-dogs have, so to speak, swept all before them in the dog world. Fashionable women; in particular, have abandoned "toy" doga for these large, handsome and intelligent
creatures.
FINDLATER'S
STAG'S HEAD BRAND
BRITISH
Unfortunately, despite the LAGER BEER
efforts of breeders, the wolf strain haa not been wholly eliminated and many of these dogs are not altogether safe. As attack by an Alsatian wolf-dog on a Mrs. Warnock at Thornton, near Black pool, was described at Fleetwood in a recent number of the Daily Mail, when Mrs. Lilian Fish was ordered to keep the Alsatian and another dog under proper control.
Police Supeintendent Crapper said the Alsatian rushed at Mrs. Warnock, who had her three-years-old daughter with ber, jumped on her back, knocked her Mrs. down, and bit her on the neck Warnock devoted herself to protecting
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Mrs. Fish said the Alsatian. played with her seven children and she had never had..cause to complain of its temper.
Alsatians Race, a Traiz,
Two young Alsatian wolf-hounds, leashed together, broke away from Miss
Hongkong Bank Building.
Tel. C. 290.
Gladys Corbett, of St. Leonard's road, CLERGYMAN ON HOUSING AND
DRINK.
WISHES TO RUN A MODEL “PUB.
Bedford, when she attempted to lead them into A train at Warren-street Underground Station, Hampstead line, during the rush hour some time ago.
They dashed down the platform, west- tering people right and left. Just after the train departed they leaped down on
Speaking at a meeting of the National to the track, and, after racing madly By Council of Women at Church House, and down, entered the tunnel leading to Westminster, when the housing problem Goodge-street, the next station on the was discussed, the Bev. J. B. L. Jellicoe journey to town,
spoke of the appalling conditions in At the moment they entered the tuncertain areas of Somers Town, and of nel another up-train came in Miss what was being done to improve them. Corbett jumped into the trais with other The, alam problem, he said, was pre- passengers.
eminently a tremendous call to the 2/0.11/32
When this train arrived at Goodge Christian Church. The bousing question 4.84.50/84. street the two young wolf-bounds were was not by any means a poverty 'quici- 25.14 waiting on the platform for their mis- tion. There were many people who were tress looking very pulled and blown able to pay the rent, if only they could after their race through the tunnel.
find decent houses. “The whole quet- The distance between Warren-street tion of the public-house is intimately and Goodge-street Stations is about- &; connected with housing," he added. T third of a mile. As the service of trains am longing for the time when I can during the rah” hour is incessant, have a public-house myself. I do not” one train following immediately en mean a temperance public-house, hat a another, the dogs must have travelled real pub, where I and the people I fast and furiously to beat Miss Corbett's gather round me can learn together how train
to treat God's beer."
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