NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
CHINA COAST OFFICERS'
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GUILD,
ORDINARY
GENERAL
MEETING will be held at the GUILD OFFICE, 67, Das Vaux ROAD, CENTRAL (DAVID HOUSE), TO-DAY, THURSDAY, 19TH JUNE, 1990, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M.
All Members are requested to attend.
TT.AURENSON.
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Branch Secretary.
HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS, LIMITED.
LOST SCRIP.
NOTICE 16 Certificate for the
TOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN following Preferred Ordinary Shares in the above Company is alleged to Have Been LOST, Namely, No. 45, representing 10 Shares, Nos. 6446 to 6435, Registered in the Name of JAN HENDRIK VAN GENNEP, LUHRS (deceased).
Application has been made to the
Dewar's
White Label
Wonderful
Whisky
Awarded 50 Gold and Prize Medals
also
Directors for the Issue of a Duplicate Dewar's
Certificate, and should No Objection
be Ledged with the Company within THIRTY DAYE from the Date hereof the Application will be complied with, subject to such Guarantees as may be approved by the Directors.
CHAS. S. ROSSELET, Secretary.
Hong Kong, 12th June, 1930.
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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING.
THE
HE SECOND. DAY of the MEETING has been Fixed for SATURDAY 14TH JUNE, 1950. at
O'CLOCK P.M.
4:
First Baddling Bell: 1.30 P.M.
By Order,
U. B. BROWN,
Secretary. [9524
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
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NOTICE
FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OBDIN. ARY GENEBAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the HONG KONG HOTEL Hong Kong on SATURDAY, the 14rs JUNE, 1930, at ... for the purpose of receiving the Reports of the Directors together with a Statement" of Accounts for the year ended 307H APRIL, 1990.
Whisky de Luxe
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
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already objectionable. Since tho authorities cannot order the destruc: Yesterday's weather report, fore-tion of a building which does not 1st nad remarks, issued by the conform to modern requirements, Royal Observatory at 5.23 pm, they have apparently withheld &p- stated :-
proval of plans which in one, parti- 4 depression covers W. and S.Wevlar bring the premises up to date. Lokal Forecast: - S. winds;
In future the Sanitary Bourd will moderate; fair to showery.
not make use of this "lever," It will judge cagh application upon its merita, and the fact that a house does not comply with the present regulations regarding light and
China.
Editorial and Business Officer: 11,
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251..
Tel. 24511.
* News and Views
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In view of the success of the radio-telephone betweeen Sydney and London, the New Zealand Government has decided to hasten the establishment of a radio-tele- phone connection Between the
(Australasia),
Night Editor (Wanchai Office) ventilation will not be sufficient hands with regular customers of the picious. Mr. Clynes has had pic of New Zealand for over five years.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street, ground for refusing the owner per- mission to improve his property so far as anuitation is concerned.
E.C. 4.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, JUNE 12, 1930,
THE HAPPY, MEDIUM,
As unsavoury but most important question was debated at this week's
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meeting of the Sanitary Board, and the result of that discussion was very satisfactory. From now the Board undertakes not to with hold permission to instal a flush aystem in a private house in order to induce the owner to rebuild his The Board will retain full discretion in dealing with such applications, and where the pro-
Victoria Vat premises.
The Scottish Grand Lodge of, The death occurred in Johannes-Dominion and Sydney. The modu- Good Templars has solemnly cenburg at the age of 113, of Mrs.lating equipment necessary for the sured the Queen and Prince George Anta Vanzyl, who was the oldest New Zealand section of the service for visiting two model public houses white woman in South Africa, and has been ordered from Amalga-
mated Wireless in a London district, one of which probably the last of the Voortrek
Sydney. is run by a elergyman, and whichkers of 1930. was blessed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury. The resolution ex-
Sir Charles Fergusson B, of... presses regret that "Prince George much worse or some people must his family seat in Ayrshire recently The world must be getting very Kilkerran, Ayrshire, returned to visited a so-called public-house, stood behind the bar, and shook be getting very much more sus after serving as Governor-General
He received an enthusiastic welcome house, thereby countenancing what ture postcards of an alleged im a Royal relative of the Ind. Prince propriety sent to him, which he has from his tenants. Since the days of Leopold, declared to be the only remitted to the local police" for King Robert I the Fergussons have enemy England had to fear. We also a suggestion of a Home Office les is succeeded in the office of their consideration," and "there is been scated in Ayrshire. Sir Char- regret this all the more, as the Queen recently visited another prosecution for the manufacture Governor-General of New Zealand public-house in the same district." and sale of vulgar gramophone re: by Lord Bledisloe. In the course of The executive proceeded to deplore earnest plea for the suppression of was happy to be back in Ayrshire, cords. The next thing will be an a short address, Sir Charles said he the fact that Royalty thus sup- Is these distracting days of keen ported a system that led to degrada demoralising dance music and a although they had had a happy time controversy about currency prob- tion and suffering among many elese surveillanes of the language abroad. The people of New Zealand Jems and alarming reports
of people in the land. The censure is used by golfers in bunkers and club bad made them feel at home frem roundly condemned by many peo cricketers who are out first ball, the day of their arrival in the political upheavals accompanied by ple, A prominent clergyman in the
country. civil war, he is a lucky man who district declared that no cause had can find contentment and peace in suffered more from exaggerated ad- vocacy, unbridled language, mis- the pursuit of some hobby. The placed enthusiasm, and lack of philatelist is one such man; he can Christian charity than temperance.
COLLECTING STAMPS.
turn to his albuma and his still un- sorted specimens with the calmness. al spirit and cheerfulness of mind characteristic of those who find their recreation in mental rather than physical exercise. Elsewhere in this issue will be found the first of series of articles written specially for those interested in the hobby of stamp-collecting.
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Mr. Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, former Secretary of State, of the Kellog-Briand co-author" peace pact, and former Ambassador
to Great Britain, was recently re- commended for nomination as
Judge of the World Court by the faculty of the University of Minne- sota School of Law.
The international rink hockey L. Osbaldesten (former amateur tournament concluded at Herne captain of Alexandra Palace Skat Bay recently, when England won ing Club and now a professional) wins. The day's results were: Per- roller-skating endurance record of the championship by scoring four has established a world's non-stop
tugal 3, Belgium 1; Germany 3. twenty-four hours and one minute Switzerland 0; England 6, France at Forest Gate Rink, London. He France were runners-up with started at nine o'clock at night, three wins and one draw, and Ger-skated continuously without once many third with two wins and two leaving the track, and covered a dis draws.
tance of 300 miles 1,000 yards. He surprised everyone by sprinting for the last ten minutes.
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As supplied to the Houses/Posed change is open to objection Philately, to the true collector, is of Attleborough (Mass.), has estab prince for an extra. A group of pointed out that recourse may have
of Lords and Commons.
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
Established 1841.
THE HONG KONG TELEPHONE
on
on
for the intelligent study of stamps naturally leads to inquiry about the countries issuing them, and the reasons for changes of design and special issues.
Eighteen-year-old Violet Michael, lished a world record by weeping for five days. One evening she was prevented from going to a party, and she began crying. Tears for efforts on the part of her parenta ed steadily for hours, and all and fiancé to soothe her were in vain. The family doctor was called in, but the weeping continued, and although specialists were consulted and soporifies administered, the girl continued to sob, even in her sleep, and 118 hours passed before she became normal again.
Many Hollywood motion pic- ture extra, clad in full regalia has assumed the form of diplomat or In connection with the animated prince, but it was the reversal of discussion as to what to name the such a case recently when a film various celestial bodies which the director mistook a visiting German astronomers are discovering, it is bit players and extras were stand- to be had to some other raster of ing by on the Paramount lot for names than that of Roman my- use in 1 Edmund Goulding. Suddenly a
picture directed bythology. What is to prevent the learned societies from finding out tention of the director. Goulding well dressed man attracted the at- the secret of the case with which beckoned to him. "Listen," whis- the screen
"moric fans" name the stars on pered the director, you're all out of character for this mid-western scene. Run over to the wardrobe department and have them fix you up with something." An embar rassed studio employee stepped for ward. Mr. Goulding," he stam mered, this is Prince Frederic One of the 320-mile-an-hour Glos- Leopold of Prussia, nephew of the ter-Napier seaplanes built for the former Kaiser Wilhelm. He is Air Ministry for the Schneider visiting the studio as Mr. Lasky's Trophy contest has been sold to a Rush' stood, is to use it in an attempt on private owner, who, it is under-
As a matter of emergency a the world speed record of 357.7 Sussex meeting of the British miles per hour made by the Super Legion was held at Worthing last marine Rolls-Royce S6. The pur-month, at which a resolution con
A big haul of contraband opium chuser is คา expert on super- demning war books was unanimous. I was made by Customs officers in charging motor-cars and aeroplane ly passed. The resolution stated Syddey on board the French stea- engines, and he hopes by super- that many war books defamed the mer Laperouse recently, and two. charging the special Napier engine honoured dead and grossly libelled members of the Chinese crew were to obtain an increase in power and living ex-servicemen and women, speed sufficient to create a new and called upon ex-servicemen" to. record. A speed approaching 100 hinder their sale by all legitimate miles an hour is being aimed at means. The resolution also asked
be successful machine will be entered for next Legion to issue repudiations of the the the beadquarters of the British
hygienic grounds permission something more than the mere ac- will be refused, but the Board. will quisition of a number of small not withhold the pesmit applied for pieces of coloured paper. The simply on the ground that the pre-collection of stamps is a hobby mises are old. Chinese members of which has a high educative value, the Board had complained that advantage had been taken of the power to refuse applications for Bush systems to induce owners of house property to pull down their Premises and rebuild them"
So chormous is the number and modern lines. If such has been the variety of postage-stumps nowadays? practice, it will be so no longer. that most collectors have abandoned Everyone recognises that the the idea of acquiring a world collec- general use of the flush system in|tion. Instead, they concentrate all buildings within the residential apen the issues of one continent, areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon or even one country, and endeavour would be most desirable. Every to make that specialised collection body also realises that, situated as
as complete as possible. In the Far we are in regard to water supply, East most philatelists try to obtain this obviously advantageous state as many specimens as they can of of affairs is for the present beyond stamps issued by the country in achievement. There must remain-which they reside and, of course, TOTICE. IS" HEREBY GIVEN for the time being, and perhaps for issues in adjoining territory. The NOT
e appearing elae-Should this that at a MEETING of the long time to come the proviso writer of the article Directors of HONG KONG TELLYEONE that no application for the instal- where very wisely begins by telling COMPANY, LIMÍTED, held on the 17th Day of FEBRUARY, 1930, a Call of $2.50 per lation of a flush system can be us something about the early postal year's Schneider Trophy. [9502
Shama was made upon all the Members granted unless the applicant can history of Hong Kong. To the keen holding Shares upon which only $2.50 per Share has been Paid and that such himself arrange for an adequate collector this information will be call will be payable to the Bankers of water supply from a source other of the greatest interest. It will the Company, The HONG KONG AND
than provided through the mains add considerably to his knowledge SHANGHAT BANKING CORPORATION at their Head Office, No. 1, Queen's Road from the, reservoirs. Mr. M. K. Lo of local conditions in connection Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on the expressed the view that the amount with postal affairs in the early days 30TH DAY of June, 1930,
of water it would be necessary to of the Colony, and, as the subject supply by the mains if the dush ia developed in subsequent articles, system
were generally employed will, we hope, assist very materially throughout the Colony would re- in the effective arrangement ef present only a very small percentage collections, of the quantity of water supplied for drinking and washing purposes. This point is an important one, and should be very carefully investigat-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON. DAY. the ST PAT of JUNE, to SATURDAY, tuo 14TH DAY of JUNE. 1930, Both Days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Manogers. Hong Kong, 4th June, 1930,
INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY, LIMITED, THE FORTY NINTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Mizosas. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.. LTD.: PEDDER STREET, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 18TH JUNE, 1930, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Anditors."
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Cmpany will be CLOSED from the {17a JUNE to Qwa JULY, 1980, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD.,
General Managera, "
Hong Kong, 28th May, 1030, [9481
9499]
COMPANY, LIMITED.
By order of the Board,
W. L. MCKENZIE.
Secretary.
NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD. -. {TECORPORATED IN Hors Koms).
Sharea, i per Share paid up,
TOURING MADE EASY.
ed. It may be that the additional Tan fifteen-day tours of France for amount of water required would not those travellers who buy the £20
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stories in war, books..
Plans for construction & Scott Field, Illinois, of a 34,500,000 metal clad airship were made known low, commandant of the field. on: May 10 by Col. John A. Parge- Colonel Paegelow announced the plan, simultaneously with receipt of advices from Washington that a bill authorizing the airship had been introduced in Congrese. The projected craft will be 547.2 feet in length, will displace 3,506,500 cubic feet of "air and have a gas volume of 3,788,300 cubic feet.
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arrested. In a case carried by one of the Chinese, the Customs officers found 85 tins of first quality amok- ing crium, and secreted in the the drug were mess com six half-pound tins of discovered. The value of the opium exceeds £500.
Local Notes and Events
Among the passengers leaving on the Dollar liner was Mr. H. M. Stewart, a prominent Sydney buai- ness man who is on a world tour.
An ordinary general meeting of the China Coast Officers' Guild will be held at 5 p.m. to-day, when all members are requested to attend.
Mr. J, E. McKenna, U.S. Consul
Mr. G. Fahnstock, the well-known millionaire jacht owner, left by the as President Jefferson on a busi ness trip to the North on Tuesday.
No bids being received for the sale of the steamboat Kung Yick at Messrs.
Lammert Brothers' auction rooms yesterday at noon, the sale was withdrawn. The vessel at present lies in the harbour at Cheung Chow, and was formerly, a ferry-boat on the service between Cheung Chow.
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| Looking Back 25 Years.
NERTIFICATE No. 2968 for Six In that case general discussion of French Government, under, the new the s.s. President Jefferson, which Hong Kong and the island of hitherto. This is a step in the right-
be so lurge as is generally believed. inclusive tickets offered by the for Canton, was a passenger aboard Numbered 8911/8915 and 93962, in this this problem would be advanced scheme to bring back the golden left on Tuesday for Seattle and Society standing in the Name of at least one stage, though it will stream of foreign cash, will be ports. Mr. McKenna is travelling TAKATA & CO. of Tokie, has been be recognised-after last year's ex-
"wet." Everything that France to the United States on leave. Declared LOST, and if at the tion of One Month from the date perience that the Colony is not yet has to offer in the way of alcohol- THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & the above Document be not forth in a position to permit any further coming the Said Certificate will be deemed cancelled ad of No Effect, and NEW Certificate for the said Shares
MINING CO., LIMITED.
FATMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND OF SHAKRE FOR THE Xxas ENDINS 30TH JUXE, 1930,
THE Board having declared An INTERIM DIVIDEND of Une Shilling Per Share, Free of Income Tax, for the Year ending 30th Juxs. 1930, Holders of Bearer Shares and Holders of Dividend Warranta received from Loo. don on, account of Registered Shares
drain upon its.water resources,
will be issued in ite stead by the buildings is concerned, the position intend to get out two classes of that he was held up in Argyle United States on the same vessel | Hong Kong office have been absurd
Society.
PAUL LAUDER
General Manager.. Hong Kong, 7th June, 1980-[0612-
of 85.
Almost everybody has noticed how hard-worked are the postal clerks at Hong Kong. Sometimes they seem barely able to manage their onerous duties. Relief is at hand. The last issue of the Government Gazette should please the Hong Kong post-olice employees. They are to be allowed another hour in which to accomplish their daily task. That is to say, the General Post Office at Hong Kong will in future be open to the public for the instead of closing at 5 p.m. as sale of postage stamps until 6 p.a.
direction. By any by the hour will be extended to seven o'clock, at On the out-going Dollar liner was least; and the office will open an Mr. B. M. Armstrong, who is a re-
hour sooner in the mornings. For.. presentative of the Baldwin Lo- a public institution like the Post comotives. He is going back to the Office, which in England is open United States after a business trip to transact public business longer to the Orient. Another prominent than almost any other institution, business Man returning to the the hours until now observed by the after a business trip to the East is and indefensible.-Hong Kong Daily Mr. O. H. Ochs of Seattle.
Frest, June 12, 1905. Looking Back 50 Years, page to-day will be found an article on postage stamps, mail, that
We are glad to note, by the last specially written for the information caused by the republication of a the sensation-Grat
will appear every Thursday, and that the Chinees Government had of local collectors. These articles report from certain Lisboa. papers philatelists who may wish for infor clained Macao-is subsiding. should write to "WS.", care of ridiculous statements, though ex- antion relating to their hobby Now as a matter of fact these the Editor of this paper. Our con- tributor will be glad to answer any the real truth, are calculated to tremely amusing to those who know inquiries on philately to the best of mislead people in Europe. Not tions will be published in due only has no claim been set up by the Chinese Government-though. they have never famally recognised, to be a trained nurse. Sang on the sion of Macao-to the colony, but Fannie Brice, as a child, wanted the right of Portugal to the posses-
amateur night" in New York, and fere with the port, much less to stage for the first time at an they have never attempted to inter- received 85 for her performance. blockade it. If the Chinese She is now the wife of Billy Rose should assert a claim to, the penin-,
and a try, the zureigate WHY auct shop which had looked after him thinks the business of making less know how to meet it. But while cusation made against an ex-Chinese in the world. She went to Holly it is most unnecessary, and unwis when he was destitute was the ac people laugh the most serious job such is suffered to lie in abeyance, saldier before Mr. Whyte-Baith at wood from the New York stage to and wanton for Lisbon journals to Kowloon Magistracy. The Magis make "Be Yourself," the all-talk fabricate rumours of the alarming trate described the theft as a ping, ell» singing United Artists" | character. that have latterly been mean one" and sentenced the de- picture showing at the Queen's disseminated-Hong Kong Daily fendant to two months' hard labour, Theatre to-day..."
| Press, June 12, 1880.
wines, beers, hard ciders will be A report has been made to the included in the price. The High polics by a vegetable gardener of So far as the modernising of old Commission of Tourism does not the Ko Tun Village to the effect Street, near Kowloon Street, by two appears to be rather peculiar. The tickets, one for "wets" and one Building Authority cannot order for "drys," The American tourist men who assaulted and robbed him the demolition of a house unless it will have-to-drink if he wants to is in a "dangerous condition," and get his money's worth, for there the only danger officially recognised will be no refund for full bottles in apparently the likelihood of returned.
For £20 not only will there be ing-upu tomebody's head railway and motor bus tickets CREASY, Director of Public Works, over France, hotel-rooms, and three assured the Board that every en- meals a day, but all one can drink couragement is given to the instal-on top of that! However, for those
"You must carn your money in lation of the flush system in all new ultra-dry tourists who do not warm
an honest way.". was the advice buildings and in existing structures to wine, France is willing to make given by the Kowloon. Magistrate which comply with the open-space a concession and give" mineral to a hawker whom he cautioned for regulations, calling for one-third of waters instead. When in France hawking without a license. Another Chinese was fined $25 or six weeks'
will be paid their Dividends on present CREDIT. FONCIER D'EXTREME" bricks and mortar suddenly colinps-
ing Coupon No. 37 of the Bearer Shares,
and Dividend Warrants on Registered
Shares, to either of the following Banks
at Shanghai or Tientsin -----
Tax Hose Kon & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION." THE CHARTERED BANK OF India,
AUSTRALIA & Cuina. The Bangs Balez FOUR L'ETRAS
GIL
Payment will be made in Dollars
at the Baying. Hate of Exchange of the Day.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTIZATION
P. O. YOUNG,
General Manager, NorThis Dividend is payable on the issued Capital (including the 560,000 Bonus Bhares to be "pred by Resolution of the Company passed en the 18th Dovember, 1999) of 1,860,000 Shares.
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On arriving in port from Singa- pore oa, Tuesday afternoon, the master of the gs. Bellerophon made report to the harbour authorities. from the latter port, twelve pil "to the effect that on the voyage grimas travelling aboard the vessel died.
the built-over area to be left open. do as the Frenchmen do, seems to hard labour for possession of six When, however, a permit is applied be the motto of M. GABTON GERARD, pe plus lottery tickets. for in regard to a house which is High Commissioner of: Tourism.
now insisted upon in regard to "wet." He felt that it tourists light and air, the official attitude could learn to drink French wines appears to have been negative, on and find that they are not intoxicat. the ground that partially to iming, some day, perhaps, America prove such property is merely pro- might revoke her prohibition laws longing an existence which is or at least relax them a bit.”
On
course.