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BANK HOLIDAYS,
BE EXCHANGE BANKS
OPEN at 9.30 AM. and will CLOSE at 12 NOON, for the TRANS- ACTION of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY TUESDAY and WEDNE- DAY. the 2D, JEP and trп MABOB. (RACE MEETING).
Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1031.. [375
NOTICE.
R.
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
DURING THE RACES
1931,
I-All Vehicles going to the
Bages at Wong Nei-Chung will
have som
some
proced via ARDENAL STREET, AND GIVE SOME TOO.
HENKEST ROAD, PESCITAL
STREET,
TRIGHTON HILLA
ROAD, and Round the HAPPY VALLEY VIG WONO-NET-CHUNG Road to the Entrance Gates.
Vehicles will return to Town via MORRISON GAP ROAD an} QUEEN'S ROAD EAST. Thésé Arrangements will be in force Between 11 A.M. and 6.30 r. II.-Passengers will 'nlight from
and board Tramours and Buses
Ltv
() The Main Entrance Gut and (2) The Member.' Entrance Gate (nly.
III. Tracks and Persons carrying large burdens will Not be Permitted WEST of PERCIVAL STREET or art of Murray ROAD Between the Hours of 10A.M. and 7 гm. IV-Pedes'rians must walk on the Footpaths, and not on the Roadway.
V.-Vehicles must proceed at
Flow Speed in the Vicinity of the Race Course,
T-Vehicles will be parked in the
Vicinity of the Race Course &# directed by the Police on duty.| VIL-Dogs are Not allowed on or Any Bear the Race Courio
Doy found. straying is liable
to be destroyed (Ordinance 1
"FOSS"
CHOCOLATES ARE WIDELY KNOWN FOR THEIR SMOOTH RICHI NESS, TOOTHSOME
SWEETNESS AND DELIGHTFUL FILLINGS
MINTS: CREAMS. NUTS, FRUITS & CARAMELS ARE. DAINTILY SORTED AND PACKED.
SOLE AGENTS -
AS-
of 1845, Section 16 Sub-section A, S. WATSON
9),
NOTE: There will be One Way
Traffic Only in QUEEN'S ROAD EAST from MONUMENT to ARSENAL STREET From 11
& CO., LTD.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931.
'WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore, east and rema, isused by the Royal Observatory at 3.20 stated:-.
The authey-long has wenkened and moved eastward, it is now central to the south of Korea. Fresh to moderate monsoon may be expected along, the S.E. Const of China and over ite N. China Sea.
Local Forecast:-NE. winds, fresh to moderate; overeant; sono | light rain and fog.
Editorial and Business, Offices: 11
Tee House Street. Tel. 3021. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
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reaction against it. This question of the survival of the novel is, however, closely linked with the matter of its cost. An eminent Lookseller ways that cheap new books may be left out of account, that experiments in this direction have always failed; the managing director of a famous publishing firm, too, thinks that reductions in the price of new novels would be uneconomic and harmful to all con- earned. But Mr. ARNOLD HENNETT, who knows a thing or two, says that attempts to cheapen new books must eventually succeed, and that authors will make more money out of them, Mr. BENNETT seems to be London Office: 33. Flert Street, on the right track, for very few of us buy new novels, except, perhaps, the work of a favourite author who is nel-prolific, say, Miss May Sinther, in this attitude. CLATE, or Mr. Benisrand himself." But the demand for fietion of every kind in enormous A. novel is still thy best form of escape from every day life, and from ourselves. Pre- sident WILSON, na cultured a man as ever lived, once "confessed that his chief pleasure was, when each long day's work had ended, to forget the cares of State in the excitement of a well-constructed | detectivs ! thriller."
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 27, 1932.
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