NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PART by Pablic Austina DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
to be held on MONDAY, the Ara DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1930, at Sr... at the Officer of the Public Works Depart ment, by Order of H EXCELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN
WHITBREAD'S
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY,
WEATHER REPORT. Many Arins established in Victoria, whose business involved the dis Yesterday's weather report, foretribution of large quantities, of cast and remarks, issued by the goods in and around Kowloon, ex- Royal Observatory at 5.30 p.m., pressed themselves as being satisfied with existing methods of transport- ing merchandise across the water
FINEST LONDON stated:-
STOUT
Pressure is highest over Man- churia. A trough of low pressure extends from Indo-China to Guam.
Local Forecast: Light southerly or variable winds; fair.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1930.
*News and Views
The trial of the political scandals. in Japan is to begin when thê weather is cooler. The defendants include Mr. Ogawa, the former Minister of Education, General Yamanashi Mr. Amaoka, the form or Chief of the Decoration Bureau, etc., etc.. General Yamanashi will having been fixed for September 26- and 29 and October 1, 20, 92, 94 and
Brighton Corporation is consider Expressing doubt about the ue-appear, first, hearings of his case
LAND at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Oolony There are not 101 different / Editorial and Business Offices: 11, motorists whose pleasure tours are associations. Dr. Dulcan Forbes, as people in the East End..
of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be red by the Surveyor af His MARSTY TAX KING, for one further term of 75 years...
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 2388.
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality.
101 P
Adjoand Kowloon
No. 2843,
Tung Choi Stroet
FROM
Boundary
Mésanze.
ments.
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As per
ale plan
NOTICE.
Rental
* Upset Price,
Contents
Bquare fe
About
20,550
One Bottler, the Brewer!
Ice House Street. Tel. 3095).
Tel. 24511.
E.C. &
One Quality, the Highest! The Daily Press.
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Mr. Ogawa and Mr. Amaoka will have to wait till October before- they get a start and the Tokyo Municipal scandal will come last of all. Altogether the courts will be kept very busy after the long vacation.
The story of how a thief used the told at London Sessions: last month: He telephoned to a Highgate firme in the name of Phillips. The man ager drove the car to an address it Piccadilly, but found that nobody- named Phillips and an office there On leaving the building, the man- ager found that the car was missing.
by junk or sampan. Unless the outing plans to build a new rheumatic curacy of a man's statements, the look of these commercial concerns clinic at a cost of about £73,000. magistrate at Thames Court (Mr.
The scheme has already been ap F. J. Parrington-Ward, K.C.
come bere and has changed completely, the pro- proved by the Health Committee said: People posed new vehicular ferry will and has the support of the local think I am just an old fool from mainly serve the interests of a few branch of the British Medical Asso-the West End, but they make a mis ciation and prominent business take, I can find out things as weil at present somewhat restricted be Medical Officer of Health, has sug
Ar. Frank Roscoe, secretary of the sea front. Of these the com "bottlers," with 101 different Night Editor (Wanchai Office): cause of the delay and inconveni-gested three possible sites, all near
ence experienced in crossing the mittee recommend the purchase of the Royal Society of Teachers, said London Office: 19, Fleet Street, harbour under existing conditions, the Silwood. Hall Hotel at a cost in London that he knew. men who telephone to stent a motor-ear was qualities.
of £25,000.. Remodelling would cost had grown up as only sons of ador- Thirteen lakhs would be a very
another £35,000. Of the other suging mothers. He continued: "They generous contribution to a fresh-air gested sites, there is that formerly can never do things for themselves fund, but really the Government occupied by Lord Astor's house on They want someone to be adoring the front dear the Hove boundary, them or protecting them or doing cannot afford to be so generous in while the third, which is at the things for them all their lives. It these hard times.
bottom of West-street, was bought is the same with some women, ton. by the Town Council from Sir They are daughters who stay at Oswald Stoll, who had intended it home foolishly thinking that it is stay with their
Until recently a tram driver.in as the site of a new cinemn. In their duty to
The tyranny of parents the service of the Birmingham Cor- is estimated that the clinic would mothers. provide for about 85,000 treatments is one of the curses of our lives poration, Mr. Wallace Jones, has
given Jies, yet even then these women are Orchestra." a year, and that the annual income The time comes when the mother just been appointed to the Halle Bot free and independent. They audition lasting an hour by Sir still go on doing things in the way Hamilton Harty, and secured the post of first player, succeeding Mr The theft of 200,000 cigarettes,mother would have liked.'" worth £400, from the premises of s
Harry Barlow, who is joining the ment is convinced that a better
new B.B.C. orchestra in London. been very considerably improved wholesale tobacconist at Tachbrook- system of transporting vehicles
upon during the intervening cea-road, Southall (Middlesex), was dis
Mr. Jones's appointment also in across the harbour is needed. It is tary, but the method of generating covered when the warehouse, was
cludes the Liverpool Philharmonic opened recently. The cigarettes
Orchestra. Mr. Jones joined the true the present method is some power remains unchanged in pria- wore packed for delivery to retail
Birmingham tramways from the what primitive. It is also true ciple, though not in detail
On ers, and the thieves took as many as
Royal Marines, Portsmouth, from their car could carry. They re- that once in a while there is con-
most main lines it is still necessary moved the back seat of the car and
which he obtained a free discharge siderable delay and congestion into raise steam, though electrifica- left it in the yard to provide for
under the Geddes axe scheme.
transporting the vehicles of joy tion of railways is being largely ther room for their booty. riders across the narrow strip of carried out in and around many water which separates Victoris
large cities. Conversion of existing |from the mainland Consequently,
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 4, 1830.
No need to look for fantastic trade mark,
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[9797
SEPTEMBER, 1994
Our Address will be No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONG KONG.
N. 8. MOBES & COMPANY, LTD.
HONG KONG CLUA
NOTICE.
[9788
N EXTRAORDINARY GENER.
AL MEETING of the ULUB will be held in the CLUB HOUSE OF FRIDAY, the 5TH SEPTEMBER, 19:0, at 5.30 P.M.
the name
WHITBREAD & Co.,
BREWERS AND BOTTLERS
all suffices.
The oldest Brewers in England,
":5.
AN IRISH REVOLUTION;"" Ir is a hundred years since Grokor CROSSING THE HARBOUR.
STEPHENSON drove a locomotive st the incredible speed of thirty- EVIDENTLY the Hong Kong Govern-six miles an hour. That speed has
the Legislative Council is to be asked this afternoon to sanction the Founded 1742, suitably re-expenditure of 13 lakhs for the con- presented by the oldest firm struction of new ferry-piers. When in Hong Kong.
and whence the vehicular ferries
would be about £17,000.
A girl claimed damages at Bow County Court, for injuries to her left leg. "In view of the texture of modern stockings the injury will always be seen." said her Counsel, Fashions may change," suggested the Judge. "Ob, I do not want to tested Counsel. 3. discuss the leg line of skirts," pro-
What is believed to be a piece of the Roman wall built round London in the days of Julius Caesar was
He
A somewhat startling proposal was made recently in the monthly. devoted to Franco-German rap- prochement, Deutsch-Frantaische
Sonats: Honry revealed recently when part of a Stimmen, by the prominent French wall collapsed in Trinity-square, politician. EC., No one claimed ownership of Jouvenel, in suggesting that a ple- the relic. It was a lonely wall lost biscite be held in both France and in London-about 35ft, long, 16ft. Germany on the early conclusion of an alliance between the two coun- high, and 4ft. wide. It had stood
da.
An experiment that will not be completed until the year 2020 has team lines, either by erecting over- been started at the Rothamsted head wires or laying down a third agricultural experimental station, rail, is an expensive undertaking, Harpenden, Herts. Ever since 1843, but now there is a third site when the Brat experiments in for tilising were made at Rothamsted, native. It is a curious coincidence they have covered longer and longer
recent generations. that, on the centenary of STEPHEN-perioda. This time all records have in a yard off Trinity-square un-tries. are coming nobody knows-or-it son's attaining, the "incredible been broken. Plans have been made noticed by
to subject five crops-roots, barley, Some time ago a protecting canopy Sir Robert Hamilton, M.P., who might be more correct to say that speed" of thirty-six miles an hour, seeds mixture, wheat, forest mix had been built over the original no information is yet available for the same rate of progress, has been tare and potatoes-to fifteen differ- Ronian stonework, and it was part has held judicial and administra-" publication as to whether the pro- attained, for the first time by ent kinds of fertilising treatments of this shell that broke away to-day, in different quantities. It will take some of the stones crashing through askylight into an oil merchant's posed new ferry service is to be a
a railway coach propelled by ninety years to carry through the public or private enterprise. All storage battery. Already there is series of treatments. By 2020 the premises: that is definitely known at the talk of the "revolutionising" of chemists of Rothamsted will have in their possession volumes of re- moment is that the Government railway transport as a result of the cords of the response of the differeht wishes to build two piers at points invention by a young Irishman of crops to different treatments under which appear) to be far from ideal, a new type of storage battery-Tarious weather conditions and will be able to issue reams of conclusions nor even the best sites available. battery which can be charged in as dating as far back as 1900. These piers having been construct-
many minutes
now takes OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ETC. ed. it is assumed the ferries con-
BCHINESE: As set forth in the Notice posted in the Club.
By Order,
T. A. BORBÉTSON, Liert. Col, Secretary, Hong Kong, 27th August, 1990. [9768
THE KOWLOON GOLF CLUB
that the SIXTH ORDINARY
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of THE KOWLOON GOLF CLUB will be held in the LECTURE ROOM, Y.M.C.A., KOWLOON, on FRIDAY, the 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1930, at 5.15 P.M.
W, ORCHARD,
9794]
Hon. Secretary.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1841
CORRECTION.
THE FOLLOWING NOTICE QANCELS
HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD., TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ÄN
that GENERAL MEETING of the MEV.
& EXTRAORDINARY
THE PREVIOUS ONE DATED 25TH AUGUST, 1930.
NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CHEE LEE FIRM
necting them will make their ap pearance in due course.
.
The first question that arises is whether present or probable traffic conditions really warrant the ex- penditure of three million dollars upon piers and ferries for trans-
hours.
ri,
A plaintiff in the King's Bench Division said: I am not a law yer, but only a wool merchant, and I cannot understand that writ."
Mr. Justice Swift,-No one else can. But if you are a wool merchant you might it is "woolly" enough. If you get a hill from your solicitors Never again in the future will the asking for payment for drafting stigma of having been born in prison that writy you are not to pay it. rest upon any Hull baby. The Hull You can tell them that I said so. City Council recently adopted aIt is the biggest muddle I have
under which proposal mothers will be removed from Hall Prison to a maternity home.
·
women
ever seen.
at Oxford recently on affairs in tive appointments in East Africa. spoke at the Liberal Summer Schoo! East Africa under British rule, He said: "The man on the spot. always thinks he knows best. He is always annoyed when someone 3000 miles away interferes. There are instances in which friction has
arisen between the Colonies and Downing-street, generally based on the supposition that the man at home does not know as much as the man on the spot. There is often a great deal of truth, in that sugges-
tion.
More than a year ago it was rumoured that Dr. JAMES DRUMS
Mr. Bobby Howes, the comedian. had invented a new form of storage
is a part-purchaser of the famous battery which had been put to
Viscount Burnham, in laying the Maidenhead river club. "Skindles." foundation stone of the Grammar His brother-in-law, Major Leslie severe laboratory fests with complete success, and would be soon ready
In view of the passing of the School extension at Heckmondwike Findlater, and a business friend, for practical trial on the railway Road Traffic Act, the Automobile remarked it was often said that the fare associated with him in the par- porting vehicles aéross the harbour. The long delay in publicly putting Association in London is issuing a youth of to-day was so 'sceptical of chase.
alphabetical: everything and 60 wanting in
On the occasion of the seventieth That the present system needs in the DRUM battery to a test of booklet giving 4
digest of the main features of the reverence that it no longer believed.
in what might be called senti-animiversary of his birth, a pre- provement nobody acquainted with actual work led many to be seep law as affecting the "owners of
The mentality and hero worship. He sentation was made in the village existing conditions will deny, but tical about the claims which had moter-cars and motor-cycles.
by post-card application to the rather that there had been a great cis Henry Crittall, J.P., chairman that it is necessary to spend three teen made for it: Last minuth, on booklet is available to all motorists did not believe that was true, but hall. Witham, Easox, to Mr. Fran- millions upon such improvement the Great Southern Railway in Secretary Fanum House, New reassessment of social values and and governing director of the A.A. branch office. It will be fol- superstructure of a title but to the Limited, on behalf of the employees This took the BERS of HONG KONG ENGINEER (A) being Lessee of the Chop has not yet been clearly-demon- Ireland, a party of twenty, engin Coventry-street, W.1. or to any that respect now went not to the Crittall Manufacturing "Company,
of CHY LOONG (4) CON-
strated. The points between which eers and officials were taken for a
bronze bust by FECTIONERY of CANTON and
Handbook, which will give a com- was supposed to have. Speaking of form of a HONG KONG and of its Registered the present vehicular ferry travels ride in a coach specially construct-lowed by the issue of an A.A. Legal quality and merit a man or woman of the company. Trade Mark "THE COCK BRAND" are vastly more convenient thaned for operation by the new battery, prehensive survey of the whole of the influence of parents in relation Mr. Reid Dick, R.A. and it was have CEASED to carry on their the proposed Jubilee Street and and a speed of just over thirty-five the law and regulations, affecting to public and grammar schools, he accompanied by an album contain- the motorist. A copy will then be said he believed that education de ing over five thousand signatures of Business as such Lensce as aforesaid
abroad. those in the school. and that the Original Partners and/or Jordan Road terminala. Surely it is miles was attained. The driving available to every A.A. member free pended as much on the home as on employee subscribers at home and Owners of the said CHY LOONG possible-as it would be much more arrangements are very similar to of charge.
those of an electric tramsar, except that the driver carries the motive power with him' on the vehicle, in- stead of drawing it from a cable overhead or from a conduit below. On this trial run the battery was not fully charged, some of the ex-
ING AND CONSTRUCTION COM- in the PANY, LIMITED, will be held BOARD ROOM of Mzsaks. SHEWAN,
TOMES and COMPANY, BL GEORGE'S BUILDING, CHATER EOAV, Hong Kong. on WEDNESDAY the TENTE DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1890, at TWELVE O'CLOCK BOON for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing as an Extraordinary Resolution the CONFECTIONERY have CAN- economical-to improve the present following Resolution
CELLED the Lease of the said Chop and Trade Mark accordingly. IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that ME. LEE KEE () has been appointed as MANAGER of Our CHY LOONG CONFECTIONERY
LEE KAN SEUNG of LEE SUNG
TAK TONG,
李堂车勤商
That the Capital of the Company be reduced from 81,000,000 divided into 100,000 shares of $10.00 each of which 36,500 hare been issued and are now outstanding to $700,000 divided Inta 100,000 shares of $2:00 Fook and that such Beduction be effected by Cancelling Capital which has been lost or is unrepresented by Available Assets to the Extent of $8.00 Per Share upon Each of the 95,500 Shares which have been issued and are now outstanding and by Reducing the Nominal amount of all the Rhares In the Company's Capital from $10.00 to $2.00 Per Share,
AND NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that a further EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the above gamed Company will be held at the Bame Time and Place on FRIDAY the TWENTY SIXTH Day of SEPTEM BEB, 1930, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the before mention d Meeting sad of ounirming if thought fit, the before mentioned Resolution as a Special Resolution,
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of August, 1830.
$7703
B. ALVES,
By Order of the Board,
Secretary.
LEE KEE of LEE MING TAK TONG,
李明堂李
LEE WING KWAN of LEE SHIU
SHING TONG, -
李耜誠堂李榮症
IP HING TAN of IP KING
YEL TONG,
葉敬機堂業路 IF YAM KWONG of IP CEE
SIN TONE,
案能袭堂系陈光
IF YAU WING of IP SET FAN
Tore,
葉樹曲堂葉幼柴 SUNG HUEN FUI of Suxa HAU
TAE Turn,
宋萍缀堂宋这培 Partners of the
loading and landing facilities, and the existing method of trans portation, rather than embark upon the Schemo which is now suggested. The number of people vitally in- terested in the haulage of vehicles from one side of the harbour is not very large. The volume of traffic-other than motor-cars whose Wars are naturally wishful to drive on pleasure beat along less familiar roads is not large, nor likely to be, seeing that transporta tion by water between the very
many convenient points along both foreshores is both safe and cheap
And, when needs be, it can be speedy.
*Local Notes and Events *
The management of the Kau Yu perts wishing to see how it worked Fong Theatre was fined $100 by Mr. under varying conditions of load. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy The test, was declared to be highly yesterday for allowing the gangway satisfactory, and arrangements are of the theatre to be obstructed by being made to carry out longer and chairs. more exhaustive trials on the Irish railways.
Chinese
Chan Fai, a quarryman, was A report of a murder at Au Tau, Territories, was made to the Police. taken to the Government Civil Hes near the Un Leong Village, New pital yesterday suffering from yesterday. No particulas were re- juries inflicted by the sudden break-ceived up to a late hour last night.
this morning, ing of a belt of a stone-crushing but these will probably be available
machine.
The Nanking Ministry of Com-
In
Mr E. Schröter of Conduit Roadmunications has appointed Mr. Looking Back 25 YeaT). “ If the DRUM battery proves his made- report to the Police to Lau Kwok Shing managing director Now that the Peak has been under further teat to be all that the effect that whilst his motor car of the Chinese Telegraph Adminis provided with more light by the tration in Hong Kong to succeed Public Works Department, we are its inventor claims for it, then No. 343 was parked near his house Mr Kong Shiu Lui. Mr. Lau has asked to invite the attention of the there is no exaggeration in the yesterday, somebody stole the Au- arrived in the Colony to take up Department to the inadequate
street lighting in Kowloon. atatement that railway transport tomobile Association badge and the his new post...
Mody Road, for example, not a If any private company, believing will be revolutionised. The battery radiator cap. The value of the
A Chinese was charged before single light has been provided, and that a vehicular ferry between will store sufficient energy to propel articles was not given.
Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith at the the lighting in many other Jordan Road and Jubilee Street train for sixty miles, and within
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for thoroughfares needs attention. Our would be a practical business pro- ten minutes can be charged with Remarking that it was a serious returning from banishment before correspondent requests us to give a position, cares to embark upon such sufficient power to drive on to the case, Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith at the his torm had expired. Defendant timely warning to the officials who told his Worship that he had for, may be deputed to investigate the a project, all well and good, What next charging station. It is declar Kowloon Magistracy sentenced a gotten the term imposed. The complaint, to provide themselves
to threa
three months hard Magistrate, however told thede with lanterns if they go out at ever is necessary in the way ofed that the journey between Dublin Government approval should be and Cork can be shortened by two labour for the larcony of a wrist fendant that he had been sent to night lest they stumble in the holes prison for a similar offence before, and ditches in the roads which were given, but why $1,300,000 of public hours, but the most striking fact of watch, and some clothings from a be now sentenced him to six bad enough before the typhoon visit-
ed us, and are now much worse. money need be earmarked for build- all is the great saving in cost of duelling house in Taumati. It was months' imprisonment.
Hong Kong Daily Press, September 4, 2005. ing piers for a ferry service which
convert the stated that the man was arrested electrification To
Large quantities of circulars of a may or may not be operated by the existing line between Dublin and while going into a pawnshop.
Bolshevik nature were distributed Looking Back 50 Years: Government spending that money Cork by overhead wire or a third
The Health returns for Tuesday by Communists in a motorcar A number of junks in the harbour planation Possibly the
it would cost a million pounds: necessary enlightenment Wall Us To run the BCI VIDEA, elan and one along Nathan and Shanghai Roads, have lately been seen dying L CONCERT.
and batteries would cost only one-tenth non-Chiness of typhoid fever 21 Kuwe onderdry
plan
forthcoming this afternoon,
striking optimism in Ireland con- ended August 30 shows Ave cases of Bre-crackers were let off along the Canton authorities have engaged a NTH THEATRE 25 MOUNT convincing reasons given why the of that sum There is the most fatal Tho return for the week covered with coloured papers and Lion of the Juck people is the AUSTIN BARRAOKE on project should be approved by the cerning the new invention. Its typhoid (one death), three cases why so as to give the impression number of boats for operations on THURSDAY 478 and FRIDAY 5TH, Legislative Council. At the moment success means much for the country of diphtheris (one death), two that they were distributing adver the Canton river in case of war Commencing at 8,80 PAM. T
the actual position seems to be just it means the salvation of the deaths from puerperal fever, three tising leaflets A Chinese constable with Russia, and have issued a flag.
railways, and the triumphant vindi- deaths from influenza, fifteen from picked up one of the circulars and, to each of the bonts so engaged. ADMISSION$1.00 and 50 DTS
car with its occupants czcaped. 14, 1880. an it was when this question was cation of the great electrification malaria, and 50 from tuberculosis after a glimpse, gave chass but the Hong Kong Daily Press, September
(one non-Chines RESERVATIONS PEE, H.Q.75.
scheme on the Shannon.. MENENGAN 609 discussed a couple of rears ago,
OHY LOONG CONFECTIONERY, CANTON and Hong Kong, No. 1104, Canton Road, MONGKOK. CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME Hong Kong, 3rd September, 1930. [9792 ORIENT. MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE AGENTS
PEAK MANSIONS- Bit-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments, PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, KOWLOON
Detached and Semi-detached Villala
Construction with Garage.. CAMBAY BUILDINGSZ Flats wit: Modern Coure