THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1927.
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Motoring Notes: A Weekly
Review dealing
with matters of interest to all local motorists.--
Bargains in Cars-A Local Succes Ago-Solving the Housing Problem.
[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER Į
BARGAINS IN "CARS.
Cara aro.like ladies dresses, they go out of fashion. There are some keen motorists who make a prac tics of buying a now car every year. They like to be up-to-date.
Few people with an incoma of Tess than $2,000 a month can afford to do that. To be fashionable. is ↑ always an expense.
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A LOCAL SUCCESS.
Only Twenty Five Years
The first effort of the Hong Kong Automobile Association to bring to gether the members for a social event was a real 'success,"
The Committee should be encour aged to continue their efforts. It is quite certain, now, that the members will respond. Further, it is evident, that the members wal There are, on the other hand, come the opportunity to meet to many people who feel that they gather more than once a year at; cannot afford the luxury of a new | the annual general meeting. car and so they do not buy a car The dinner dance held on Friday
well even last was organised. There were about 120 people present,
amber.
at all.
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That was three miles an hour in excess of the legal speed.
The local magistrates took the opportunity to say what they con- sider no doubt were a low good words in season" but which now sound very ridiculous.
RACING NOTES.
[BY 'RAPIER.]
Fanling Hunt, There was some good sport fast week-end at Fanling under ideal weather conditions On Saturday Messrs. Bousfield, Potts and Pym were the hares and they laid a false | trail which baffled everyone except Dr. Macgowan who managed to run them down mounted on Drake. On Sunday there was a drag from be hind Potts Bungalow and, a badger
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They told Sir Charles, that the was put up and run to earth. dog might have been a child, in fine rum finished at the Bungalow which case he would have been be of Commander and Mrs. Hartford fore them on a charge of man whose hospitality was much appre laughter, and possibly murder
Thoy evidently considered them-ciated by the thirsty riders. selves very lenient in their treat ment of the unfortunata "motorist. To-day the meet is at the Hunters' They let him off with regret and with the maximum penalty of £10 and costa
NO EVIL INTENT. Now-a-days we do not find that magistrates regard all motorists, as
Meeti
Arms at 2:30. On Saturday next at Potta Bungalow for hare and bounds. On Sunday the meet is at the K.O.S.B's Camp at the invita- tion of the Officers. The ponies
FOOTBALL
CHINESE TEAM FROM SHANGHAI,
DETAILS OF THE
· PROGRAMME,
• SOME GOOD GAMES EXPECTED.
The East China football team from Shanghai, which is coming to play a South China elever is expected to arrive at Hong Kong by the 8.3. Present Harrison on January 30th.
A committee of leading athletic club, officials has been appointed to mako arrangements for the game. As the Chinese Amateur Athletic Association, a new organisation, is- being asked by the Hong Kong Chinese Federation to e co-operate with the South China Athletic Association in selecting a from the two organizations, the team when chosen will be known as a “Southern China team, to dis tinguish is from a team of the 8.C.A. The visiting eleven; will meet Southern China and Re-
team
Such people should seriously con- sider the idea of purchasing a which was just about the right people of evil intent. They are be will be sent to Sheung Shui Police creio and then the South and Enst
second-hand car.
Indeed it may be said that any One who must consider econor y would be well advised to consider seriously whether a second-hand car is not much more useful to him or
to her than a new car.
Every beginner in the art of driv. ing a car is sure to have minor accidents which scratch off the paint or dent the mudguards of a car It is a good plan to purchase a accond-hand car for use until new car can be handled as it should be handled.
THE REAL THING.
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Of cour50, Do second-hand car gives the owner the same delight is does an absolutely new car.
There is, however, the other way of looking at the matter. It is that beginner is less anxious if he is not in charge of such a valuable
naset nis. a. NEW CAT,
There are to be had local bargains in cura just now for those who have ready cash for a purchase,
It may be something to do. with the custom of squaring up all debts at China New Year. Anyhow more than one bargain has been mentioned during the last fort night
The value of any second hand article is not easy to estimate. It is the old story of demand and supply.
In the recent weeks it is possible that some of the sellers of cars have needed ready cash and have been willing to take a low price for the
DEPRECIATION.".
In general it may be said that the selling price of a car drops as
soon as it has been used at: alt
The fall in price is much more rapid for the first one or two thon- sand miles of use than it is sub sequently.
It is inevitable that the Associa tien will increase its membership. Also it is certain that when the longed for trade boom comes again to Hong Kong-as come again it must there will be spent on recreation more money It is, therefore, by no means im- possible that the annual dance of the Hong Kong Automobile Asso ciation will some day become the big event of the Colony..........
ginning to appreciate the fact that that the vast majority of drivers deplore any accident, and would much rather avoid one.
Da thres occasions the writer has† had the very unpleasant experience of running over a dog in Hong Kong. Fortunately, he was able to satisfy the dog ownera, either with aa explanation or a cumshaw, if you are at the wheel of a car It is a most unpleasant feeling and a dog poems determined to commit suicide. If you have any SECRETS OF BUCCESS. lady passengers or children in the Now is the time to record imear it is a happy relief to every pressions made by the successful one if the dog is killed outright, event of last Friday. They may be rather than for them to see it in of service to members who attend agony. the next annual general meeting.
First of all led it be stated that the general informality of the affair was greatly appreciated. People
did not have to worry about order of precedence and those thousand and one little things that make official functions so tedious to the individuals who have to take the lowest seats
"It must be confessed that dogs are now mur more wary than they used to be in Hong Kong. They do try to get out of the way. of car..
The driver is well advised to Bound his horn fairly soon so as to give the dog fair warning.
No decent person will wilfully inflict pain on a dumb animal, but is far too kind-hearted to wish for Hong Kong there seemed to be The President of the Association in the early days of motoring in any thing but the happiness of thany more dogs on the highways others. No one in Hong Kong basthan there are now.
Station at 10 o'clock and will move off shortly afterwards for the Camp
Kvanti Steeplechase Meeting. 7 Owners should note that entries
for the above meeting on February 19th close on Saturday, the 29th instant. The earlier these ptrics are sent in to M. Alec. Potts the better he will be pleased. Mounted Infantry And Hunt Point
to Point Races.
will combine to meet the Army-and Navy and the Hong Kong Inter-
port eleven.
Mr. Ng Sze Kwong is to act as chairman of the committee.
The fixtures tentatively arranged, are as follows an
February 3rd, Eastern China. v, Southern China, 4p. H. Club Ground,
February 6th, Eastern China 1. Recreio, pm. HK. Club Ground, February 8th, East-Southern China. Army and Navy, p.m., H.K. Club Ground.
February 12th. East-Southern China . Hong Kong Interport, 4 p.m., HK. Club Ground.
GOLF.
OXFORD . CAMBRIDGE AT
FANLING..
TO J.
On Thursday, February 3rd (Chi- pese New Year) the Mounted In fantry are holding a point to point race in the morning at an hour to be notified later. The race is for members of the M.L. on M.I. ponies only. It is a sealed handicap taking into consideration both the rider and the pony. Names of riders and Macnamara not later than 5 p.m. ponies should reach Mr. H. C..
a Tuesday, February ist. The winner will receive a eup kindly presented by Lieut.-Col. Hayley CAMBRIDGE WIN BY 6 POINTS Bell. The course baa been selected and anyone desiring to ride round
be another point to point race it may do so on Sunday afternoon next. On the same day there will under the auspices of the Hunt and entries therefor should be handed of duty that brings no reward to volved a dog never seems to have to Mr. A. Potts together with a fee the person, who performs it. Yet cost the unlucky motorist in Hong of 83 which will go towards the par- there are few who are so genuinely Kong anything like a fine of £100 of a cup for the winner
Those desiring tifin at the Hunters' anxious to see other people happy. and coats. It is, however, & good Arms should notify Mr. M... Maas
In short, anyons who has been policy to offer some small compen or Mr. M. M. Watson on or before. Davidson, F. Syme Thomson, E. privileged to work with him onsation in the case of any accident
Thursday. local committee will agree that that causes a loss to anyone..ob- the President not only balfefes in viously vary poor.inst week Annual Race Musting. the happiness that results from motorist who was not at fault duty, but also in the duty of happi-knocked over a hawker but did him ness. He certainly helped a great no bodily injury.. A dollar cum deal to make, people happy on shaw soon made the hawker
kappy. Friday lost.
a higher sense of duty, especially Fortunately, an accident that in
Nor muat the Honorary Secre tary be forgotten. It is not often that we find a reverend gentleman who has had an engineering train ing, but we have that combination of science and religion in the train ing of the Honorary Secretary; there is also a sense of humour which is often lacking in those who have had either a scientific or theological training.
Let us take the case of a car which, when now, cost, say, $3,000. Then if the owner utes it carefully and keeps the body work spick and span and the machinery in good condition, the car is practically as good as new after 1,000 miles. The management at the Roof The owner would, however, be Garden are also to be congratulat lucky if he managed to get ed on the excellent arrangements. 22,500 for the car after it has been
A MOTOR TRIP. used for 1,000 miles.
1 may enarracions
One optimistic owner recently startled the writer by saying that after he had run his car 1,000 miles it was in better condition than
when new.
He had taken such care in
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run-
ping in" the mechanism that he felt he ought to be paid for his professional services in the matter! However, he did not want to sell the car. It is a very different story when a car must be sold for what it will fetch. He might ask for $3,000 or more, but he would be a good salceman if he could get the money.
La London they have motor-car auctions and bargains may be made by those who have enough technical knowledge to be quite sure of the state of the mechanism which they intend to purchase.
SOLVING THE HOUSING PROBLEM.
resulted in a win for Cambridge by The match between" "Oxford and Cambridge at Fanling on Sunday six points to three
Cambridge won the foursomes by 8-1, and the singles, all of which were very hard fought matches, by
The teams were :-. CAMBRIDGE:—T, D. E. Pendered,
Da Wolfe, B. E. Lindsall and EW. Hamilton.
OXFORD: L. Smith, C. E. R. Beavis, D. W. Tratman, E. R Hallifax, A. E. Wood and G. B
The details of the games were
Foursomes.
Entries close as 5 p.m. today for the above meeting. Bengal was measured and registered yesterday morning. He has not yet been on Sayer. the course but he looks in excellent condition and very little training will be required to get him into racing trim..
Macao Race Meeting.
T. D. E. Pendered and E. David- son (4 and 3) beat N. L. Smith and C. E. H. Beavis
Of considerable interest to those
F: Syme Thomson and E. D. c. Hong Kong residents who wish to
The above meeting has had to be Wolfe (4 and 3) beat D. W. Trat own their own house are some facts postponed until February 19th and man and E. R. Hallifax. and figures presented by the Paris ready. The turf has not properly tan lost to A. E. Wood and G. P.. 20th, owing to the course not being R. E. Lindsell and E. W. Hamil correspondent of that enterprising settled owing to the dryness of the Sayer (3 and 13. Iliffe publication called Motor atmosphere. The Stewards of the Transport...
This gentleman shows how the Members to participate in this Jockey Club have agreed to allow superession of the horse by mecha-meeting. Most of the local jockeys dical transport has rendered land will be riding and a few owners are in Paris available for other pur sending over ponies
poca
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to suggest that next year it might now easy to live at a distance le as well to anticipate as increase of twenty or thirty miles, from one's
oflice: of numbers and arrange a dinner
A pioneer who keeps in excellent dance at Repulse Bay Hotel.
All of the members of the Astealth motors in to Hong Kong sociation possess car so that it from Fanling nearly every morning and returna at night along the would be easy to run out there.
be It might
a good plan to fix open road. the date months ahead so as to avoid a clash with other events The Taikoo Ball and & dance at the Peak Hotel prevented, so members from attending at the roof garden.
A moonlight night would be of the suggestion of advantage if Repulse Bay is accepted.
GOOD SPEECHES. The President and Captain Hart- ford made very suitable speeches on Friday last. It was good plan to let the visitors know what the Association is doing
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Perhaps some of them werê, per- sanded to become motorista.
be nervous about buying a second ONLY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
hand car
AGO.
What that run is worth in health to him seems to be beyond his powers of description.
He is, however, very sure that it is worth a great deal.
IN PARIS.
At the height. of the horse age one of the Paris enb companier maintained a fleet of 3,500 cabe and 13,000 horses
At the present time it owns 1,500 taxi-cabe and a fleet of delivery rans
Which reminds us that the day must come when we shall see many more taxi-cabs in Hong Kong and some eficiently organised system of delivery vans,
BRITONS AND “OUR RUSSIAN FRIENDS."
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Singles,
Pendered (1 up) beat Smith. Davidsan (up) best Beavis." Lindsell (4 and 2) beat Hallifax: Syme. Thomson last to Wood (1
kn).
Wolfe (2 and 1) beat Tratman. Hamilton lost to Sayer (2 up
VOICE.
DEAD FATHER'S VOIC
SON'S STRANGE
EXPERIENCE, A
The little colony of British sub jects in Petrograd, most of whom are living in acute poverty, were deprived of the privilege of having a Christmas service, this year by A verdict of Accidental Death the Bolsheviks, who refused the re-
was returned at a recent, inquest at quest of the Rev. E. J. Harrison, Thames Ditton, Surrey, on Mr. pastor of the English Church at Frederick Blandy, 59, a labourer, Rigs, to visit Petrograd and hold a of Kingston, who was killed by a service there.
motor-lorry when eycling on the souls, and Mr. Harrison asked Eng.
The colony fumbers less than 100 Portsmouth road on Christmas Eve. The dead man's son, Mr. Fre send him a small contribution for at about 6.45 p.m. on Christrans lish people this Christmastide to derick Blandy, told a reporter that their relief.
Eve he was indoors at Kingston He has a long list of aged British when he thought he heard someone men and women who have not eaten walking up the garden path and real Christmas dinner since 1917, his father's voice calling, Fred
Fred!"
Thinking it
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It was his father who had returned, he went to the door
THE QUESTION
OF A
A
CAR
Many of these second-hand cars are purchased by dealers who "turn thom.uy and them up be. fore re-selling
Thero' is very little danger in
An astute sales manager of one: In one place of the original twenty- Dr. Noble was, it is often said," haying a second-haud car in Hong of the biggest motor manufactur-seven stables formerly owned in the pioneer of motor traction in and opened it to let him in. There was no one there and he returned Kong if it is purchased from a
ing concerns in Great Britain once different parts of Paris there are Hong Kong. We should be inter- reliable owner. There is such a small community that a good name
remarked that 80 per cent of the now public garages. Many of the ested to know who was the first to the house. That was approxi- mately the same time as his father is valued or shail we say that the touring ears were sold: because old sites were sold as much less person to open a public garage was killed at Thames Ditton, three
the ladies persuaded husbands or ground space is needed for a Also who will be the first to erect miles away. temptation to palm of a poor
a garage in the central district article as a good one is less here fathers to purchase a car. Perhaps garage than for horse stables,
a result of social events such ne On one of the sites à six-storied | capable of storing cars on ten or than elsewhere, because it is ob that of Friday last is to increase building, capable of housing 1,100 fifteen stories. If the whole of the vious that the purchaser will soon
the sale of cars.
care has been erected. The multi-building which houses the Brigade be able to get his own back."
storey garage is a development of had been devoted to that purpose Therefore, the beginner need not
a large number of cars would havo twentieth century. There is one in Hong Kong that has three stories, found accommodation. but we can easily imagine that the If there were available: ampla time will come when there will be garage space in the Central Dis twenty-storey garage in the tract Many people might be in- central district of Victoria. duced to build residences in out Something better than the existing districts, such as Pokfulam,
arrangements is needed. Mount Cameron, on the e Shok: 0]
b speed sad the duty of motorists in motor carretorate give wood Boad to great trade
When the
boom does have advanced in ideas since factorics for moving On the other hand a car that those days, as the following account earn from one department to an come to Hong Kong and South has run 30,000 miles has (if it has of an episode that took place other. No doubt in time the idea China, it will be seen, that the
will become more popular în beer properly treated and is a good 8. Albans at the end of 1921 model) another 100,000 miles be fore it and sometimes more than that
The pleasure seeker (that ex cludes professional men, such as doctors run about five thousand to eight thousand miles a year in Hong Kong
He would be wise to consult some friend who knows something about local prices and the mechanism of a car before he concludes his bar gain
The older a car the more is the annual repair bill, as a general
rule.
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If we look up the records of motering to be found, in the pages of journals or newspapers of only twenty-five years we come acrOSS some astonishing statements about ing
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ongwendung housing
The horse never was popular in
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A famous athlete of his day,
motor-buses, will Motor-cars and motorh Charles Bennett Lawes, had the this part of the world as a method enable people to obtain purer air misfortune to be driving a car which of transport, but in the "good old and easy transport. The pioneer ran over a dog. He was driving days the taipans were to be seen effort known as Felix Ville to the at a speed of Bfteen miles per hour, driving a carriage along the Jubilee west of the island, shows what is 137 Jermyn StPiccadilly LONDON
likely to happen in the not very according to the prosecution, when Road, ancaman S
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the calamity took place
· distant; future.
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