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TEA AND DANCING,
By kind permission of Lt. Col. EI E. VERNON, M.C. and Officers, the Band of the 3/15TH PUNJABIS will Flay during the reception. [936+
14 LONDON REGIMENT (THE LONDON SCOTTISH).
REUNION DINNER of Past A Members of "Ours" is being held in Mess LANE, CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT on SATURDAY, 24TH MAY, 1930 at 7.30 P.. for 8.00 7. Will these intending to be present please
communicate with:-
A GRIEVE, c/o Mesum JARDINE, MATHESDA, & Co., LTE, It is proposed to form a Local Branch of the O.C.A. Will any Past Member who is desirous of joining, kindly for ward his Name to the abors?
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RECEPTION ON THE ARRIVÁL OF H.E. SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.B.E.
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND PRE- SENTATION OF ADDRESS.
T A PUBLIC MEETING held at A the CITY HALL on FRIDAY, the 4ru APRII, it was decided to present HE, SIR WILLIAM PEEL, `K.B, Z.,
INTIMATIONS.
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N
that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of tha SHAREHOLDERS of HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED will be held at the Offices of Mesars. JARDIN, MATHESON & CO., LTD, on WEDNES DAY the 7T DAY OF
MAY, 1930, at 12 O'CLOCK Neos. To Receive, in par suance of the Chairman's speech at the last Annual General Meeting of the Compiny, a Statement from the Chair. man sa to the position in regard to the
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r the purpose of receiving at 1: the Report of the Directors together with & Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st DecUNDER, 1929.
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There is not much doubt that
WEATHER REPORT.
Mr. B. P. Daswani, manager of
In an advertisement appearing. there will be opposition to increased Messrs. Gebimull D. D. Bros., willment of the Hong Kong and Shang l'elsewhere in this issue, the manage Yesterday's weather report, fore-taxation, and Lord FARSFIELD's in- leave for Japan to-morrow by the hai Hotels, Ltd., announce that as cast and remarks, issued by the sistence upon the British Govern- N.V.K. m.s. Astma Maru on his from iny 1. tea dances will be Royal Observatory at 3.30 p.m.,
ment taking 20 per cent, of the firm's business,
held in the Peninsula Hotel every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. gross proceeds will make little or stated:
There will be dianer-dances on no difference to the public attitude The New Yorkers again put up Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Tea on this question. Even the fact fine performance to a crowded and dinner-dances will be held in that taxation in the Colony is light house at the Star Theatre last the Hong Kong Hotel every Mon in comparison with other com- night. They will present their final Repulse Bay Hotel there will be a day and Wednesday, while at the munities will not make the prospect how this evening at 9.15 p.m. at dinner-dance on Saturdays only.
the same theatre. of paying more a pleasant one. Nowhere has citizenship yet reach-
Yesterday was the 99th birthday: ed so high standard that tax- The following mortalities are re- of the Emperor of Japan, and the Editorial and Business Offices: 11.payers joyfully welcome being asked ported by the Medical Officer of Japanese ships in port were gaily Ice House Street.. Tel. Central for more money to maintain public Health for the week ending April decorated in honour of the occasion,
is a
3 cerebro-spinal business-houses
Pressure is highest to the north. east of Japan and relatively low over Indo-China. A shallow de- pression remains over S. Japan.
Local Forecast: E.
moderate; fair generally.
winds;
Ak
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with rigorous economy, and any tuberculosis, 24, of which one was E.C. 4.
to the treasury almost invariably arouses indignant protest against
A married woman was summoned the alleged extravagant handling before Mr. Whyte-Smith for ill-matsu, the Emperor's second bro- of public funds. It is easy to treating ber mu trat and LESS criticise in vague and general formally remanded for a week for terms; it is not so easy to indicate hearing on Tuesday, May 13. Bail just where wasteful expenditure is in the sum of $1,000 was granted. incurred, and where economy could
The Daily
HONG KONG, APRIL 30, 1930.
LORD PASSFIELD has expressed sur- prise at the statement that the cost of living in Hong Kong has in creased. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has asked for com- parative tables to be prepared,
be practised without a correspond
was
Majesty succeeded to the throne on December 25, 1925, the formal ceremonies being performed in the November following. Prince Taka-
ther, is now nearing Hong Kong on board the N.Y.K. Kashima-maru, on which vessel he is proceeding to England on a Mission to return the visit to Japan last year of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester,
of
We are informed by the Principal St. Louis Industrial School (Salesian Institute) that the feast of Don Bosco, founder of the Society; will be held on Sunday, May 4 Tho colebration was to have taken place on April 96, but as it was Saturday in Albis, it was the Kowloon Godowns appeared not possible to observe the feast before the Kowloon Magistrate on that day. The time table for the the charge of being in possession of celebration next Sunday is as seditious literature yesterday and follows: 7.30 A101 Community further enquiries, was remanded for three days for ass, with Fervorino: 9.30 a.in.,.
A Chinese who was arrested near
ing reduction of efficiency. A Sentence of eight months' im- glance at Hong Kong's balance-prisonment was passed by the Kow- GOVERNMENT GENEROSITY sheet shows that out of a revenue loon Magistrate yesterday on a wo of 2 million dollars, 15 millions man banishee who returned to the come from thirty-seven different Colony in spite of the fact that she taxes, duties, and licences. The was banished in 1929 for five years. largest single item in this list is 4 million dollars from assessed taxes, which shows that this source provides nearly 20 per cent of the Colony's total revenue. Stamp opium, tobacco, and liquor duties are the only other large sources of about 9 million dollars a year, or revenue, between them providing
43 per cent of the total revenue.
Solemn High Mass, nad p.m., Vespers Procession, sermon by The Estimates for the current year show an excess of expenditure over
Fuu Tao, a Scatman, made his Rev. Father Granelli followed by revenue of 4 million dollare, the appearance
Mr. Whyte Benediction of the Sacrament. gross total being 27 millions. Is Smith yesterday on a charge of this a just figure, or is it what having in his possession 220 gallons Joan Crawford, in Dramatis Film.
of dutiable Chinese wine. He was Joan Crawford is appearing on
will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 282 PREPARAED FROM PURE showing the cost of living in 1920
APRIL to WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY, Both Days inclusiva.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 22nd Apr, 1930. [9325
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THE
AHE FORTY-NINTHTH ORDIN. ARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Ofices of the undersigned on FRIDAY the lerx HAY, 1930, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a state
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At the same Public Meeting it was decided that the whole of the TEZATRZ BOTAL should be Thrown Open to the Public without charge sare only that the Stage be reserved for the Reception Committee, Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, Represents- tires of the Navy, Army and Air Forces and the Heads of Public Departments, the First Two Bows of the Stalls for the Consular Body and their wives and the
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1epresentatives of the Churches, also the CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME
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and 1999, with a view. "if figures warrant it of withdrawing or reducing the extra allowances now paid to Government servants to compensate for the alleged and
before
11
seemingly disputed-higher cost of Lord PassYIELD would call "genfined $500, with the alternative of Thursday at the Queen's Theatre
three months' hard labour.
crous "The Colony certainly is living. The Secretary of State has
generous in some respects, as
in "Untamed,” ber first all-talking also expressed mild surprise at the glance at the list of senior pen.
Gim. directed by Jack Conway. Miss Crawford is one of the inter- "generous" proposals put forward aioned officers shows-three Chief
A report has been made to the esting enigmas in pictures. A girl Justices, two Colonial Secretaries, by Sir CECIL CLEMENTI in his re-three Directors of Public Works, Folier by Lieut. J. S. Crawford, who is expected to be gay and HMS. Sirdar, to the effect that hilarious, coveted for parties be commendations concerning starting five Assistant Directors, three salaries. Meanwhile, however, his Medical Officers of Health, Harbour, a reindeer buoy, eight to add to the occasion with
he had stolen from him at Taipo cause she can be depended upon Lordship has given the formal
fathoms of rope and a bont's anchor approval requested by Sir CECIL
some time during the night of April that the recommendations of the
.15 and 16.
Salaries Commission be laid before
the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council," and "that pro- pusals be discussed and decided for raising the additional revenue re. quired. Since this interchange of despatches commenced Sir CECIL has left the Colony, to take up Another post, and Sir WILLIAM PEEL, the Governor-Elect, will come to Hong Kong to find a formidable problem awaiting solution. His predecessor has informed the Home authorities that the original estimate of the proposed increase in salaries was 31,300,000, but the most startling" collapse of the dollar Increased this
amount to $2,500,000, necessitating the raising of about another million dollars in annual revenue.
| three Superintendents of the Civil Hospital are a few of the pension ers on the books. In the 1930 Estimates more than $900,000 ap- pears under the head of pensions, some of which have been paid for
Chun, a street coolic,
twenty, thirty, and one event to: made a report to the Police to the forty years! A police force aum- effect that his two sons, aged eight bering about 1,250 Indians and and five respectively, have been Chinese has in addition, over 200 missing since Sunday. It was stated British members-one to every five that two men visited Ng, and later, constables. According to a police proposed to go out for some ten petition presented to the Govern with the boys. They have not been ment some years ago, an English scen since. lance-sergeant discharges duties equivalent to those of an inspector there are 200 Indians and Chinese in the London force. Moreover, above the rank of constable on the payroll.
whirl-
wind dance or smart line and yet who sometimes breaks under the strain of trying to be the life of the party." People think her frank. whole- heartedly independent. Yet, she is so sensitive that a blunt opinion often sends her into a dark, moody speli which she has to fight for hours. Joan Crawford wants the public to forget she is a dancer and remember she is an actress, and should her work in Untamed be a big step towards the realiza- As & girl At the Kowloon Magistracy res. tion of that desire. youth to be caned on the latter of Central America and then tra terday, Mr. Whyte-Smith ordered a brought up in an uncivilized part pleading guilty to stealing a pair ported to New York City, with Is this proportion of of pliers and, three, spanners tromits entirely different demands and officers to the rank and file to Mr. C. L. Gan's car outside 573, standards, she gives a portrayal seems that a foros of 1,250 con- and a driver's licence from Mrs. E. generous? Again to the layman it Nathan Kand, also a polishing cloth which has vivid dramatic colour. stables should not call for an estabWong's car, which was parked in lishment of 460 other men in higher the same street.
ranks.
of
Locking Back 25 Years.
Nobody will deny that salariés of
At the instance of Inspector public offxials should correspond
Subject to audit, the Directors of Reidie of the Sanitary Depart- approximately with those paid for the Unich Insurance Society
ment, G. de Champeon, of the similar services in local professional Canton, Ltd., will recommend the Messagerie Maritimes, was charg- and commercial circles, having re- payment of a final dividend of 16s. ed with allowing a smoke nuisance Sir CECIL CLEMENT, in his des-gard, bowever, for
to be created, in the harbour by patch to the Secretary of State, factors. First, that an official is 1928 They will further recommend the Company's steamier Tonkin on referred to various possible ways and second, that his position once share for account of the year 1929, ed, in reply to his Worship, that in a position of great responsibility, an interim dividend of 1948. per the 17th ultimo, Mr. Reidie stat
two special per share for account of the year
bonus of 20 per cent. on contributory premium.
established carries with it much and a greater security and many special privileges denied to those not in Government employment. Nobody
in regard to salaries, and it is
made
"Ours" to
On the other hand, if it is a fact
Looking Back 50 Years.
ran
of meeting this increased expen-
so far as he knew this was the first company prosecuted under the diture. A tax on petrol-presum
Ordinance. The,, representative of the Company stated that they tried ably of 10 cents per gallon-would produce 8200,000. Taxes on amuse- wishes to defend a niggardly policy where to-day under the heading of Cardiff coal, but sometimes
An advertisement published else. to abate the nuisance by using ments and betting have been con- sidered, but no large revenus froth obvious that capable nien will not the 14th London Regiment (the short of this. His Worship in- accept offers which are not attrae London Scottish) notifies that a ficted a fine of 250, and made an these sources was anticipated by tive. If it is a fact that the salaries reunion dinner of past members of order prohibiting, & recurrence of Sir CECIL, though reason is paid and allowances
is being held in Lane, the nuisance.-Hong Kong Daily given for this opinion. To the Government servants are not too Crawford's Restaurant on Saturday, Press, May 1, 1905. layman it seems that a very sub-generous, then wars and means May 24, and those intending to be must be found without delay for present are asked to communicate
The Foochow Chamber of Com- CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO- stantial sum could be raised from raising more revenue to meet the with Mr. B. Grieve, of Jardine, merce have displayed wisdom in
CHINA. STAM, STRAITS levies un entertainment (and not increasing cost of public services. Matheson & Co.
the action taken relative to the inferior make solely stage and cinema perform that the payments to and privileges
the leaden lininge Three Chinese, who were alleged of the tea, chests and the adultera, ances) and also, on betting and allowed those who are employed in to have created a disturbance by tion of Colong tea in the interior. sweepstakes, all of which come Government Departments are too preaching communism near Blake Representations were made at the under
the heading of luxuries. The generous, effort, must be made to Pier, have been arrested by the right time, moreover, to prevent effect such economies as will make police. It appears that the men the same abuses being practised This Large Volume of approximate only taxes which bring in large an increase of taxation unneccBRATY were addressing a large gathering during the ensuing tea season. As
ly 5,000 Pagen gives, in addition | sums are those on liquors and at least for the time being. How to the Usual Lists of Firms, an tobacco, the stamp duties, and the is it to be ascertained whether the principles when a Chi- most people are aware, the trade nese constable intervened. The men at Foochow was declined simply. Alphabetical List of Residents assessment tax, and of these Sir or is over generous? Only by care-given and they were captured and carelessness of the teamen, who Government's policy is merely just, tried to escape, but a chase was owing to the combined greed and in the Far East containing the CECIL was disposed to disturb only ful inquiry conducted by impartial placed under arrest.
mixed such large quantities of dust the last. The present general rate impression that much money could investigators. There is a general
with the leaf that they excited a of 13 per cent. in his opinion could be saved by a thorough reorgani- Elsewhere in this issue the public States, the chief market for this prejudice against it in the United Arranged, with the initials as well be increased to 17 per cent." with sation of the various public services. are notified that Kowloon's welcome tea. Having lost this important
as Surnames in strict alphabe-out any appreciable rise in rents That opinion may be quite un- to
William Peel, K.B.E., tical order,
warranted, but it will persist until C.M.G., will be held at the Club anxious to recover it, and last sea market, "they are now, it seems, or other undue hardship. Bir definitely shown to be wrong. In de Recreio on Monday, May 12, at son the carlior tea showed some im- CLASSIFIED LIST Cecil's experience of the ways of 1921 the expenditure of the Colony 5.30 pm. Tickets at $1 per head provement, though they fell off landlords must be either very limit was $15,738,000; this year's Eati- are obtainable at all Kowloon later on. The Foochow teamen, ed or peculiarly happy. Most mates amount to 17,266,000-an in- Clubs, or may be had at the door, also, by the exercise of a foolish crease of $11 millions in a decade. There will be tea and dancing, and parsimony in material of making. people and that any additional Lord PASSFIELD's surprise at being by kind permission of Lieut.-Col the leaden linings of the chests, burden placed upon a landlord's informed that the cost of living H. B. Vernon, M.C., and officers, caused great loss to purchasera shoulders is transferred to tenants the last ten years may be added to play during the reception.
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pound interest. From the $1,300,000 on learning that the cost of au- received in additional Esscssment ministration has also increased by rate, and $200,000 from a petrol-87 per cent, during that period.. tax, the local authorities would be liable to deduct $300,000 as a military contribution to the Im perial Government, and Sir CECIL CLEMENTI hoped this payment would
News and Views.
Sir
its destination in an unsound. con-- dition: This miserable economy of course is a "penny wize and pound Mr. J. H. Jessen, connected with foolish policy, for it is calculated the well-known firm of Jebsen &to disgust buyers and drive them Co., was a passenger on the out to other markets...We are glad to going President Cleveland. Mr. remark that the native Superin Jessen is proceeding home to tendent of Foreign Trade at Foo Europe via the United States. chow has, in response to Mr. Con
be waived, an act of grace, which The Canton Aviation Department Among other passengers travelling sul Sinclair's communication on he thought would go far to re- has purchased six wireless sets to by the same vessel are the Bev. the subject, promised to take men- move any onposition to the probe isetallad on scouting replied Mrs. Hewitt and two children, suren, to out a stou to the abuses Inosed increase in taxation Un
fortunately, Lord PASSFIELD is not
disposed to fall in with this sug- The total output of the Kailan gestion, failing to see any reason Mining Administration's mines for why the usual 20 per cent. should the week ending April 12 amounted not be deducted as a military con- to 112,080 tons, and the sales during tribution.
I the period to 97,632 tons.
who are returning to England 4 in question. At the same time be Cannda Dev. Hewitt was the Boyns asked the Consul to advise the Naval Chaplain in Hong Kong merchants to exercise great care Mr. Irwin S. Harris Assistant for the future in the purchase of passenger agent of the Dollar Line, tea, so that complaints may be is returning to Shanghai after have avoided." Hong Kong Daily ing been stationed temporarily here. Press, April 30, 1880.