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Hongkong Daily Press.
ESTABLISHED 1857.
Hegistered sa a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.
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No. 21,352 號弍十五百卷千登萬式第 BAAT HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13TH, 1926. ***Ƒ#41+BRO+ PRICE: $3 PER MONTH
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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PIG BREEDING IN NEW TERRITORIES.
SCHEME TO MAKE COLONY SELF-SUPPORTING.
TENDENCY CHECKING THE
TOWARDS HIGHER PRICES.
QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED AT SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
NATIONAL CITY BANK OF
NEW YORK.
INCREASE OF CAPITAL.
STATEMENT BY INTERNATIONAL· BANKING CORPORATION, HONG KONG.
With reference to the recent announce ment in the papers regarding the increas ed capital of the National City Bank af New York, we are informed by the Manager of the International Banking Corporation that the Directors of the National City Bank of New York voted at their meeting on December 8th to re- conimond to the stockholders at the the capital be increased by the sale of anaual meeting on January 11th, that U.S.823,000,000, par value of new stock of the bank U.8.875,000,000 and the sur- at U.S.8200 per share, making the capital pius U.S.850.000,000, in addition to which the undivided profits will be in excess of U.S.815,000,000.
THE WEEK'S DIARY.
To-day.
H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m.. King, Edward Hotel tes dance, 4.30
p.m.
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Yachting: Ladies Section of R.EET.C. 4th championship race.
Philharmonic Society present ! Pirates of Penzance," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: North of 38," and Dick Norton and his "New, Globe Trotters.
World Theatre: "Robin Hood.". - Star Theatre: "Crinoline and
Romance"
vid Siberia (Fushimi Haru), 10.30 a.m.
Principal Mails:-Outward: Europe
Tuesday:
Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15 p.m. H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m.; Annual Meeting of H.K. Branch of Boy Scouts Association, at St. John's Cathedral Hall, 4.30 p.m.
FINEST OLD VINTAGE
LIQUEUR BRANDY.
The Delight of Epicures
Concert at St. Stephen's Girls' College CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO. ITT.
At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board some important questions will be asked relative to pig-breeding in the New Territories, and the necessity for an endeavour to make the Colony' self-sup- porting in so vital a commodity as pig 7.06 7.20 ment. Suggestions will also be made for means of government encouragement to settlers in the New Territories in
The National City Company's capital farming generally, including cattle, poul and surplus will be increased from try and pig-breeding, and the cultivata S. 825,000,000 to LT.S.$30,000,000 and Mr. O. E. Mitchell, President of the tion of market produce on a farger scale National City Bank of New York, also Mr. J. P. Braga, who has recently join-announced that many of the branches of ed the Board, will ask the questions, and the International Banking Corporation would at an early date be transferred to and operated by the National City Bank" of New York and that the latter bank t would automatically assume all the liabilities of the branches transferred and the change in name would otherwise Extraordinary Meeting H.K. and involve no change in the personnel or Territorial Estates, Ltd., at Shewan, staff or in the operation or conduct of Tomes & Co., St. George's Building, 11 the business.
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EXPATA AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS EXCEPTED. O-SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. ONLI
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HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO
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ADDITIONAL SAILINGS. STEAMER will Hare for Canton on
MONDAY, 13T TUESDAY, 14¤ THURSDAY, 10TE BATURDAY, 18TH,
Sunday, No Jailing
at 2 AM, and from Canton at 3 r.. Same Day.
MACAO LINE.
FROM HONG Koxe: 8 AM. and 2 r.M. daily (Sunday: 9 AM only).
FROM MACAO:
8 LML and 2 P.M.' daily, (Sunday: 4 P.M. only).
SUNDAY
EXCURSION.
On BUNDAY, 19th 1stAFT, 8.5. "SUI AN" will depart from Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9A.M., and from Macaci" at 47.3.
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Assurance by Monthly Fayrant Benefits of Life Assurance brought within mach of these to whom the payment of a larga rum, yearly, bail-yearly er.“ quarterly may be an incsurgjence.
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SHAMEEN THE VICTORIA HOTEL
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and Epecial Care: Taken of TOURIETS Cable Address: # VICTORIA."
they are in the following termi:-
What steps-if any, have the Gevery ment taken + carry out the suggestion contained in a report, in- corporated in that of the Economic Besources Committee (1990), that both on economic grounds and as a matter of expediency there should be an earnest endeavour to make this Colony self-supporting in so vital a commodity as pig-meat which enters so largely in the dietary of nine tenths of the population of Hong Kong and its dependencies?! [Note. This recommendation will be found on page Ixii, of the Blue Book issued by the Factories and Home and Cottage Industries Sub-Committee.]
This change involves the branches of the International Banking Corporation in Japan, China, India, Straits Settle- ments and Java and will come into force at the close of business on December 31st,
1926..
So far as the Hong Kong office of the International Banking Corporation is concerned, the bank's clients will, we are informed, be notified individually of the alterations which involve no real change as the International Banking Corpora tion has for the last twelve years been owned by the National City Bank of New York
ii. Hong Kong Food Supply:--
(a) With a view to make the Colony less dependent on outside sources for its food supply and so as to check the tendency towards bigher cost of daily necessaries, and to bring down (if possible) the high price of foodstuffs, will the Govern- ment devise some scheme of bonus payment or other simple method of A encouragement to settlers in the New Territories with, the object of fostering cattle and poultry farm- ing and pig-breeding, and to cul- tivate market produce on a larger scale f (b) Is the holding in the New Territory of an annual cattle and poultry show feasible; and, if so, will the Government initiate and help to defray the cost of such shows with a view to stimulate greater exter prise in agricultural pursuits and farming within the Colony 17
RESTAURANT AND EATING
HOUSE LICENCES.
QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED AT SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
At to-morrow afternoon's meeting of the 'Sanitary Board, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, pursuant to notice, will ask:-
Are applications for restaurant and eating house licences dealt with by the Inspectors of the Department and if so, what check is there that the same are dealt with promptly? ii. Are the ground surfaces of all pre- mises used as restaurants and eating houses for which licences are applied far, to be opened up, if so, what are the reasons for so doing? Should not houses built after the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance of 1903, be exempted from such, opera tions 7"
SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.
VISITING MANILA FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT.
lor Cathedral Organ Fuad, Missions to Sesmen and St. Peter's Church Fund, 8 p.m.
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Ilimarated wader the Companies Ordians of Hong Xona?
Dance at Helena May Institute for 15,Q's EDAD CENTRAL TEL. ONEIXAL 75, Victoria Branch M.C. Funds, 9.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Snob."
Star Theatre: Eater Madame." World Theatre: "Robin Hood "
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p.m.
Wednesday.
H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel tea dance, 4.30
Football: Interport H.K.F.C. ground, 4.20 p.m..
trial match. Matinee performance Pirates of Penzance," Theatre Royal, 4.30 p.m..
Lecture: Wireless Telegraphy by Capt. Miles at Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Snob.” World Theatre: "The Willow Pattern Plate."
a. m.;
Star Theatre: "Enter Madame." Principal Maila:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Hector), 10.30 Europe vid Siberia (Tjikarang), 130 Thursday.
p.m.
H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m Extraordinary General Meeting Royal H.K. Golf Club at Mesers. Jardine, Matheson's Board Room, 5.15 p.m.; followed by Annual Meeting at 3.30 p.m. Whist drive Helens May Institute, 8.30 p.m.
Sir Percival Phillips, K.BE., special correspondent for the London Daily Express and one of the five newspaper men accredited as correspondents in the
Social at St. Andrew's Church Hall, World War, is expected to arrive in Kowloon, to welcome Rey, and Mrs. W. Manila some time this month, according Walton Rogers, 8.30 p.m. to advices from Shanghai, says the Queen's Theatre: "Seven Chances.' Miniila Times. He is a passenger on
the ss. Empress of Asia and stopped at Shanghai for a short stay.
Sir Percival has won recognition throughout the world as a journalist ard writer. His vivid stories of the German invasion of Belgium and France will be long remembered. He was with the Bel- ging field army until the fall of Antwerp in 1914. He was attached to General Headquarters of the British Army on the Western front between 1915 and 1917.
During the revolution in Ireland, he covered the field as an accredited war- correspondent for the London Daily Expres.
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HONGKONG
HONOLONG HOTEL; Baruax BAY HOTEL,
PLAX HOTAL
Telegraphic Address 1 “KREMLIN, HONGKONG'
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SHANGHAI
ATOR HOUSE HOTEL; - Pazar Hormig
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Telegraphic Address: ‘CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the GRAND HOTEL DA WAGONS LE, PAZING.
World Theatre: The Willow Pattern KING EDWARD
Plate."
Star Theatre: "Recompense." Principal Mails:-Outward: Manila and Australia (Calulu), 5 p.m.
Friday. scholars, 11 a.m.
Display by Quarry Bay School
H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 pts. p.m."
King Edward Hotel tes dance, 430
Philharmonic Society present "Pirates of Penzance." Theatre loyal, 9.15 p.m.
Dance at Peak Club for members and subscribers 0.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Seven Chances." World Theatre: "The Great Divide." Star Theatre: Recompense." " Principal Mails:-Inward: Australia and Manila (Aki Maru). Cutward: Australia and New Zealand (Changle),
Baturday.
H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. Fanling Hunt Steeplechase, Kwanti Coutre.
He was born in the United States Brownsville, Pa., being his home town. He started his journalistic career in 1895 and until 1901 was associated with daily newspapers in the United States.
In 1901, Sir Percival 'accepted a posi-10.30 a.. tion with the London Daily Express, with which he has been connected ever since. He was with the Greek army in the war against Turkey in 1887; Spanish American War, 1600; the principal was correspondent of the Daily Express in the Russo-Japanese Waz, covered the Jamaica earthquake, was in Portugal Yachting: Challenge Cups for Racing during the revolution in 1910 and accom Yachts: panied the Italian expedition into Philharmonic Society's Bual per- Tripoli in 1913. He was at the Corona-formance of "Pirates of Penzance," tion Durbar at Delhi, India and was Theatre Royal, 0.15 p.m. with the Bulgarian General Staff in the Dance Craigengower Cricket Club, Balkan campaigns prior to 1914. He in Queen's Theatre: Seven Chances." TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. chevalier of the Legion of Honor. World Theatre: "The Great Divide."
Star Theatre: "Recompense."
(Continued on previous "column)
Principal Maila:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Kashima Maru), 9.30
Cricket and Football (details in Saturday's issue).
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HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION,
Mlectric Lifts and Lighting- Telephones on each floor. Hotel Launch meets all Steamers Telephone: Central No. 377 Tel. Addreea: VICTORIA
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J. WITCHELL, Manager.
PALACE HOTEL. TIL Kowloon No. 3. Tel. Ad: “PALACE Three Minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry Wharf and Railway Station:
Entirely under English Management
Electric Light and Fans Throughout. EVERY ROOM WITH PRIVATE BATEL
Lounge, Bar and Billiard Home Unrivall ed Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietress.
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TERMS, MODERATE
Special Tarine to Families on application to
Mas, 7. H. OKBERRY,
* Proprietres.
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servations made at the Royal Observatory som: Canada, ..., etc., and Europe E. M. BUTTON & Co., KOWLOON HOTEL
READINGS FOR NOVEMBER.
An extract of the Meteorological Ob
during November shows that the aver Did Victoria, B.C. (Talthybiua), age mean temperature was 68.0 degrees (compared with 745 in October), the highest being 83 on the 13th, and the lowest 60.0 on the 19th. There were 204 hours of sunshine (compared with 6.6 hours in October), and 4.96 inches of rain (compared with 3.27 inches in October). The average humidity was 73 (compared with 74 in October),'**
The rainfall for the month of November at the Botanical Gardens was 5.02ine. Op four days, at the Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett; it was 4.70ins. on five days, and at the Police Station, Taipo, it was 4.86ina. on three days.
The lowest reading on the barometer (M.S:L,) was 29.936 ns. at 15 hours on the 13th SPRING IN THE
The maximum squall velocity, as record od by the Dines-Barendell anemograph, was at the rate of 34 miles per hour at 3 hours 10 minutes on the 4th
4.m.; Canada, U.S.A, etc, and Europe vid Victoria B.C. (President McKinley), 3.30 p.m.; Canada, U.S.A., etc., and Europe vid San Francisco (President
Filion), 5 p.u
Sunday.
St. John Ambalance Brigade Annual Competition for **Ralpha Shield, Murray Parade ground 9 am
Golf: Final Royal HK. Golf Club Championship, Fanling. I. W. Shewan
T. D. E. Fendered. Cruisers.
„Fachting: 3rd Championship Race fot
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too large
To Secretaries. [Becretaries of clubs and associations, etc., are kindly requested to forward any No forthcoming events in the Daily Presi for inclusion in the above column, which it is our endeavour to keep a correct and up-to-date as possible. [
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High Standards combined with Low Charges place this in the Front Rank of Hotels in Hong Kong.
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