NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION,
THE ELEVENTH
ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING of the KOWLOON RESIDENTS ABBO- TATION will be bold in the Sz. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL, KOWLOON, on MONDAY, MARCH 97, 1931, Ar @ P.M.
BusTexas:—
Adoption of Report and Accounta for the Year ended 3187 DECEMBER, 1030.
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Election of Officers and Committee. Any Other Business, *
All members
STO
requested
10
endeavour to attend, and all others
interested in the welfare al Kowloon
are invited.
· CHAS. E. TERRY,
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Hon. Socrntary. [409
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
of the Sale by Pablis Auction t
DAT
be held on MONDAY, the FT of MARCH, 1931, at 8 r., at the Offices of the Public Worki Department, by Order of His EXCELLEROY THE of CROWN GOVERNOR, el One Lot of
at Mount Camera, in the al Hong Kong, for a term of 7 Joara, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of 18 AIZSTT TUB KING, for one further term of 75 years,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT!
No. of Bale
Haral Building Lot Registry No.
No. 326.
Monut Can eron.
Locality.
G.
Boundary
Mooquze
menta.
As per
ย
About
kquare feet
AnnuaÏTM
Rental.
4- ) Upset Price.
sals plac 2 103
B
PUBLIC AUCTION.
(408
PARTICULARE & CONDITIONS
by Public Anation to be held on MONDAY, the 92H DAY of MAROH, 1931, u 8 P.M., AL the Offices of the Public Works Depart ment, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY TUR
GOVERNOR, of
of One LAND at Shamshai. of CROWN
in the Colony
of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, lot July, 1898, commencing from with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fired by the Barreyor of Hu MAJESTY 7 Kixa, for one further term of 24 years less three days.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.
WEATHER REPORT.
The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Atoval Obser- entory, Hong Kong, at 7.10 p.m. terdag staten,
At of high presssire extends from Korea to the Bonins. A de Fression lies over Indo-Chine.
Loent forecast:-E, or variable Winds, moderate, generally overcast, somo light rain and fog.
BIRTH
Katz-On February 25, at Shaur- hai, to Mr. and Mr. W. KATZ, a daughter.
DEATHS,
the Commission believe that a | general revision and lowering of farve would do for me towards the recovery of passenger traffe than special fares for excursions, which are the often hedged about with special conditions: Competing ser
vices should bo co-ordinated.
★ News and Views
Prayers for Rouse.
Rupert Brooke Memorial.
An appeal for prayers for Rouse. The monument in memory of A very definita demand is made was made from the pulpit during Rupert Brooke, the work of the that heavy traffic should go by rail the service in Peterborough Chahe Athenian sculptor Michel Tombroș, rather than by road; and while dral by the Dean of Peterborough, which was cast in bronze in Bel- they would encourage the use of the Very Rev. James G. Simpson gium, has arrived in the Greek. lighter motor vehicles, the members on the Sunday after the end of the land of Skyron (the poet's burial of the Commission suggest that the Trial. Dr Simpson asked the con place), where it will be unveiled on duty on vehicles exceeding four tongregation, in the prayer for all Easter Sunday, April 8. The Iu in weight should be increased, and sorts and conditions of men, to pray,ternational Rupert Brooke Memeri- that on each additional ton a fur for the man who received sentence al Committee have taken the op- Hoss-On February 27, at Shang-ther substantial increase should be of death yesterday at Northampton portunity of this ceremony, which
Aai, GORDON Chardiz Ross, he imponed. There should be no more Assizes.” loved son of the late "dir. CRAIRIE Ross and of Mrs.
sura spent on new arterial roads. Attention should now CRAIGIE; aged 34 years.
le concentrat GIE SOME TOO. MARTING-On January 28, at Newed on road reconstruction and im- Orleans, La., EDWARD THOMAS, provement, the provision of Bypass aged 51 years Dearly beloved rinds, and the strengthening of father of Mr. T. A. Bockuy,
bridges; and emphhais in Inid, on the importance of improving exist- ing zonde from the". aesthetic as well as from the utilitarian point of
ve some
"FOSS"
CHOCOLATES ARE WIDELY KNOWN FOR THEIR SMOOTH RICH- NESS, TOOTHSOME.
SWEETNESS AND DELIGHTFUL FILLINGS.
MINTS, CREAMS, NUTS, FRUITS & CARAMELS ARE- DAINTILY AS- SORTED AND PACKED.
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\SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
The funeral of Mr. M. As Baptist took place n Happy Valley yester- ddy afternoon.
Page A To-day's wireless programme.
Shipping Intelligenez.
Sport.
Page 0.
Page 13.
bout discussed by Welter"
Tomorrow's Ewin-Crichton boxing
Page, 8. Volunteer Army Cricket match. will be an international festival of
Page poetry, to organize a cruise in
Full account of yesterday's racing, Greece for the Easter holidays.and tips for to-day. Pages 4 and 5. Tho. Labour Left Wing group Poets from Great Britain, Greece, will voto for the Government on France, Belgium, and other Euro- the rest 2 Bill, but they will pran, and Oriental countries, as well Latest Cables. enter a caveat on the alternativas America, will attend the cere vote, says a Home. paper. The mony of inauguration, in which the general argument of the Left Wing people of the island will join. will be that the measure is neither Comprunications in connection with urgent nor necessary, and if the this subject may be addressed to Government has, time to spend on Mr. Paul Vanderborght, the foun- the machinery, it ought first to re-der and general secretary of the form the procedure in Parliament. International Rupert Brooke 30. on the commitine system--for regium. ... forming the Commons. A section ut the Left favours proportional Pacists! representation, but the group pre fers the present system to the
....
The Polish Diet passed the third reading of A Bill authorising a Treaty of Commerce and Naviga tion with China.
Page 7 The United States Senate yester.
London Office: 63, Fleet Street, all members of the Commission, bat The Loit Wing has its own plan-urile Committee, Chimay, Bol day refused to consider a Bill to
R. C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, Manch 4, 1031.
individual membern 'added passages dissenting from certain points or making supplementary recoinmen Jations. Three members have sign ed a joint preposal for the formaternative vote, tion of a National Transport Trust,,
to which the Stato aliould delegate A Wealthy Sportsman.
M. Litvinoff was proposed as a candidate for the Nobe Pence Prize of 1931. The suggestion came from the Communist còm- -mittee of the Swedish Parliament.
selini was also advanced licka von-
the duty of managing on commer- There is much beside his specta. The report that the name of Mus cial lines all the nation's transportular lawn tonnis, his jaunty beret, firmation. No one would suggest and his gallant hand-kissing to For this purpose it is suggested commend Jean Borotra to the ex- that M. Litvinoff is anything but pacifist. There are few things TRANSPORT REFORMS IN that the properties of the railway cited interest of leminine which he would dislike more for
thusiasts at Wimbledon. Now that! motor transport companies, the ENGLAND.
be has joined the board of a big services, and the essential canals Rhineland iron company it may be should all be parchaerd and amal recalled the Borotra is probably wealthiest bachelors gamated into one national unit. prominent in the more robust kinds
of spart. It is a common occur rence for this zealot of thirty two to fly to London from Pars, re main in a city office till two in the afternoon, motor to a tournamen lose the first set, in recovering he eye, win his match-and so back to busines
Tux problem of transport in Great Britain is one to which attention
is continually being drawn. Both Both majority and minority pin passenger, traffic and goods trafficposals are far-reaching, and there have increased to such an enormous is no immediate prospect of the extent that it is now a difficult being taken up by the Government; question to know how to deal with but they form a solid foundation them. The effect of this great in upon which to build a national
among the
Continental country.
limit the import of crude oil to 13,000,000 barrels annualy. Pagė, 7,
Agreement was reached yester- day between Sir George Schuster, garding the Indian Salt Law Finance Minister, and Gandhi re-
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It
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was learned authoritatively yesterday that the entire Dutch Rubber Committee at Amsterdam are proceeding to London this week for a "serious discussion" with the British producers on the re- striction of rubber production,
Page
An International Mortgage Bank
by than a war in which Rugsia were engaged. Yet it is stringe. of goodwill among men, seeing a consortium of 22 international fin to see him figuring as an apostle was founded yesterday at Basie by that his daily effort is to sow theancial establishments with a shar seeds of enmity and distrust. It capital of 25,000,000 gold.frana to would seem, indeed, as if the Soviet deal in rení estate in Europa. and the Fascist dictators have two
'Page 7. voices, one for at home and one for abroad. The Duce himself, in Committee appointed to investigate spite of his Tuscan, Disputations, has been figuring in the talkice 4: a dove of peace. And the simi- lar cooings of Litvinoff have ron-
hed, the cars of Stockholm,
A Fable,
The
The United States Senate Sub-
new locks.
to the Railway borrowing £500.000 from the British Boxer Indemnity Refund at five per cent, and re- teemalde in four years, Page 7
the difference between the price paid for foodstuffs to the producer and the cost to the consumer. Ind when a number crense is most noticeable in the system of transport
stress on the alarming tendency. towarda monopolistic control by, and big cities, particularly in London, of the more pressing, problema with Class Consciousmans and Its
small group of powerful combina where serious traffic jams frequently which the Government is concerned
Antidote..
tions and corporations " of the occur; but the trouble is not con- have been
satisfactorily dispord
Dr. Norwood, Headmaster of
Let us consider the nccidents | nation's food supply. Page 7. THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY fined to the streets of cities and of
Harrow, addressed a meeting of that rule our lives. He was A New York telegram Jeports.".. Oxford undergraduates in New stern-faced man, and his wish was that the death occurred suddenly towns, the problem affects the whole
College Hall connected with the law. Because of the strength of of Mr. Edgar Jadwin, a dístinguish- country. Over two years ago the
FAIRY TALES. Below Bridges Club, an amalgamma- his look he had gone through life ed engineer, who went to Pannum Government appointed Royal
tion of the Oxfaird and Bermondsey uncontradicted; from this very in connection with a meeting to Commission on Transport to ex- ANoren protest has been made by Boys' Clubs and the Bethnal Green fact he gained assurance, and when determine whether a Nicaragunn Club. In the modern world, to he spoke to those who toed the Canal could be built to relievo amine and report on the problems an expert in psychology against the said, when the wealthy lived at one line his voice was the voice of n arising out of the growth of road possibly frightening effect of" fairy end of the town and the poor at Heap Big Fellow. The strength inter-oceanic traffic or whether the Page 7. trafic, and to suggest measures for tales" on nervous children-Blue- the other, there was an ever increas of his look lay in two things. The Panama Canal could be fitted with
ing class consciousness. Fortunate. muscles of his face drew his brow
In order that the reorganisation the better regulation and control of beard" and "Little Red Ridingly in this country there was less together in an angry furrow; and all available means of transport, Hood" are wited in, this enso as 1-feeling between one class and this was echoed in the taut Ene of the Tientsin-Fukow Railway Quother than in any other commar of the mouth. One day he had Ministry of Railways has agreed may be effectively carried out, the with the exception of air transport, possible offenders. Many others
hile
There headacho. The oculist said, “You in the country. The first and second might be mentioned; - tho... talis
were many reasons for this, but one have been fighting against eyestrain reports of the Commission dealt collected by the Grim, brother important one wne the existence of for a long time; wear these glas. movements such as theirs There tos." Ralieved by the lenses. the On FRIDAY, 19TH MARCH,with the question of traffic on the contain many examples of geng was need for personal contact, if the Big Follow's eyes no longer drew
roada, chiefly from the point of ance and sudden death.. As these Empire was not to break asunder, the muscles of his face together in In the reconstituted Australian view of public safety, and with the tales derive from the oldest of and the same was true in regard to the effort to see, and his features Federal Cabinet Mr. Sollin in.. licensing of public-servies vehicles European folklore that charae the social life of the country, where relaxed into their natural genial Trime Minister and Minister for the great need whs for personal condition. The shearing of Sam Foreign Athirs and Industry, and and the co-ordination of road passen- teristic is one that ndist he expect contact. This was the work of the son holds a lesson for those who Mr. E. G. Theodore is Treasurer. ger transport. Many of the recom-ed; such stories proceed from young
toe the line.
Page 7, mendations in these reports were primitive conception of society promptly adopted by the Govern when, the beat thing to be done with ment and incorporated in the Ronda, had man was to get him killed Trafic Act of last year, and they off as soon as possible, and as long are now part of the law of the as all the killing, was confirred to Jand. The Commission's third, and the wicked the requirements of final, report dealt with the far morality were fully sitished. And anore difficult aspect of the problem, in the old fairy tales the killing "the co-ordination and develop is so confined; it is the giants and mept of transport." The members ogres and wicked step-mothers who of the Commission have put forward are slaughtered, while those whom many recommendations; but they they wished to claim'ne their victims frankly confess that they have not | live happily ever ådter. The ar found any single ideal solution of rangement was one which satisfied A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, the problem. They claim only that simpler period of history, and the measures they recommend will it is curious how completely it still THE undermentioned Certificate for help to prepare a way for the work-seems to satisfy the ordinary child, of enteric lover.
40 Shares in this Company, registered in the Name of JOAOing out of a final solution, and in who accepts the happy ever FREDERICO NOLASCO DA SILVA, the meantime they suggest the op-after" and never fgprriek about Mrs. G. P. de Martin has kindly has been declared LOST. I
at the 0.6 Month from the pointment of a permanent advisory the horrors. Nevertheless. fairy consented to distribute the prizes Expiration of
Cheung Chau Government. ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Date hereof the following Ehare council to study the problem further tales can leave an impression of at
Certificate be not produced to the
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality.
New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1461.
Jnection of Fak Wing Street and Kwailin Street.
Boundary
Meneuro-
menta,
AB per
salo plau
Contenta i
Square feet
About
28578
G.
E.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Annual
Bental
170.
[409
18,841
Upset Prica.!
ST. PATRICK'S, BALL- On TUESDAY, 17TH MARCH, The Management beg to inform their Patrons that there will be
NO DINNER DANCE
on
FRIDAY, the ̧ 13тu” MARCH, and TUESDAY, the 17TH MARCH.
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
HOTELS, LTD.
NOTICE.
Local Notes and Events
Rain fell only on twelve days during the, month of February, amounting in all to 74 inch.
The Canton branch of the Royal Society of St. George held their annual ball at the Canton Club Theatre on Saturday when there For the week-ended February 25, were about seven hundred people there were 39 deaths from pulmon present. The President, Mr. H. ary tuberculosis, one death from Philips, C.M.G., O.B.E., in a short small-pox, one death from diphspeech welcomed the guests, Dance thuria und eight cases (one death) | music was provided by Micky's'
Melody Makers, a band of young musicians well-known to dancers iu the Colony.
According to a police report, two Marines are alleged to have at-
While, proceeding along Henges.
the driver of a seven-seater motor- sey Road about am. yesterday, ear had occasion to swerve in order to avoid running over a Chinese boy who dashed meross the road. This caused the car to overturn, but the driver and occupante escaped without injuries; the onr, however, was considerably damaged,
L
Looking Back 25 Years.
Who current number of the. Government Guzelte contains the final general statement of account of the Praya Reclamation. Works to March 31st, 1000. The contribu tious received from lot holders of the Bals by Public Auction Company, namely, Certificate No. 1780 and advise the Minister of Tran horror and distress, and it is School to-morrow at 3.15 tempted to steal a molor-car out. i amounted to 82,420,823. and the to be held or MONDAY, the for 40 Shares Nos. (5) U8B1305, (10) sport as to future development. usually impossible for an older The Britania, with Dr. S. W.
Government contributions 'ta DAT of MARCH, 1931 13 640/8399, (5) 11981/11988, (20) at the Offices of the fallic Works 11011 001101445) With regard to the railways, the person to tell in advanco which tale Tsp and party on board, will leave ide the City Hall early on Sun-8178,222 In addition the Gov
day morning. The two men were ornment contributed $328,300 for Department by Order of EXCELLENCY THE Gorgon, of
of One
Ons Shares will be issued by the Company companies are criticised for their or which incident will have that Blaze Pier at 2.30 p.m.
trying to start the car (an Austin, the re-construction of Government Lot of CROWN LAND. Wong No and therealier No Other will be lack of enterprise, and their in-effect on a particular child. That
piers. Altogether the revenue side. Seven, belonging to Mr. Weill, the of the acccants shows a total of Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, knowledged.
In an advertisement appearing focal broker) when 4 European" 23,300,409.23. A balance of 804,808 'for term of 75 years, with the A. 8, WATSON & CJ., LTD. sulicient study of the needs of the ought to make us rather careful option of renewal at a Urown Bent Hong Kong, 121 Feb, 1931.
straling community, Motor traffic about the sterics that are presentesewhere in this issue, it is e sergant saw them. The officer is to be refunded to lot holders and to be fixed by the Surveyor of His
on the ronds his intensified the ed to children, although, as already nouuced that the eleventh annun called out to them and they are Majesty TEX Koo, for oss farther term
railway companies difficulties, suggested, the child mind has general meeting of the Kowloonald to have run away, but after b which have arisen mainly from the habit of sliding lightly over atro Residents' Association will be held short pursuit both were caught and to the naval general trado depression. It is aug. cities that might perplex the more in the St. Andrew's Church Hall, banded over gested that an attempt by the rail reflectivo adult: One thing is both Kowloor, on Monday, March 9, 1931 true and obvious. No modern way companios to develop rival author writing for children would at 6 p.m. THE FINAL DIVIDEND declared read services is a mistaken policy, deal with rewards and punishments
for the Yene ending let DECEMBER 1930, at the Hals of Three and the capital involved would be in the terms applied by the old
When Chinese woman w Pannda Bierling together with a better apeat on the further electric the Crime Club would hesitate to charged before Mr. E. W. Hamil
folk stories; even a contributor to Bonus of One Pound Perling at Exchange in payable on and after fication of suburban lines. Bervices polish off all his villains quite so ton at Kowloon Magistracy yester the 2ND MARCH, 1991, at the Offices should bo spooled up and made permanently, From Alice in day with having brought an uns
Cut Wonderland '"' of the Corportion there andara mutanan berapan Pondroitirely diferent versiumigestive my Latte Colony Latin by in hdd insistio cuales are requested apply for Warata
should be compelled by law to pro-
unreality is presented.
It is she admitted the offenes it pleaded by the contractor engaged on the construction of ing now vide a scat-nt any rate for every curious that the two traditions, thed that she was a now comer and Y.M.C.A. extension, and the coolie
old and the new, should still manage Passenger who joins a main line exist side by side, and, for the consequppily did not know the reind since absconded. The hearing [394 train at its starting point; and most part, so happily.
| was adjourned till Friday. gulations, She was oned $25.
of 75 your....
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
{ No. of Balo. *
Registry No.
Locality.
No12719 and King Kwong Beitree Inland.
Boundary
Measure
kauta,
-par
1.1uane)
2,350
Square feet
Rental.
Upset Prics.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION;
By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manger
(697)
Hong Kong, 28th Feb., 1931,
of
tha
authorities.
Before Mr. Hamilton yesterday, | 1. Chinese boy!' employed at the European Y.M.C.A. was charged with the theft of a pair of roller skates belonging to the son of Dr. and Mrs. II. F. Sommers, of the Peninsula Hotel, The defondant stated that the rates and been
the Government Hong Kong Daily Preas, March 5, 1000? Looking Back 50 Years,
The very handsome doustion by Mr. E. R. Boilios to the Hong Joo Kong Public School affords another proof of the warm interest that benevolent gentleman takes in the uʻi spread of education. It is less than eighteen months since he generous devoted the sum of one thousand pounds sterling to founding scholarships in connec tion with the Government Central.
emot Ant, &tbnica Colle
and he now comes to the relief. of the Public School with a con- tribution of two thousand dollars to its funds-Hong Kong Daily [fren, "MarchTM4,"1892;~