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HEW ADVERTISEMENTS
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.
IF
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore vant and, remarks, issued by the You still yearn for that taste Royal Observatory at 5.20 p.m., NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of real beer which you had atlased
that the TW-NTY FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING
at
of BHAREHOLDERS will be held tho Company Office, No. 2, Ice HOUSE STREET (ST. GROBOR'S BUILDING), FRIDAY, the 27TH MARCH, 1931,
home.
The anti-cyclone in central to the NE of Tokyo. A depression lies Don't count up the days before over N.E. China, Moderate mon soon along the S.E. Const of China you go on leave.
at 19 O'cios NOON, for the Just ring up
receiving be Report of the Directors, together with a Biatament of Acconata
for the Year ended 3 st DECEEA, 1030.
Tho TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from the
20616
21 MARCH, 193, to the 27 and order a case of MAROH, 1931, Both Daya inclusive.
C. BOND.
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 10th March, 1931,
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HONG KONG DEVELOPMENT
BUILDING & SAVINGS
SOCIETY. LTD.
(IN LiquinatioN).
THERE toing no quorum present, the GENERAL MEETING ronvened for the 19TH MARCH, 1931. was adjourned to THURSDAY. the 26TH MARCH, 1921, at the Baume Time and will be held at the Ofices of Mens PERCY SMITH, BETR& Vorux ROAD FLEMING, 6, DES CISTIAL
J. HENNESSEY BATH, 8. HAMPDEN ROSS,
Liquidintors.
Hong Kong, 19th March, 1931.
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HONG KONG DEVELOPMENT
BUILDING & SAVINGS
SOCIETY, LTD,
(IN LIQUIDATION),
THERE being to
provent
the EXTRAORDINARY GEN ERAL MEETING convened for the 19TH MARCH, 1931, was adjourned to THURSDAY, the 207 MARCH, 1931 at the Same Time, and will be held at the Ofoes of Maras. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, 6, DRE VOLDI ROAD CENTRAL.
J, HENNESSEY SETH. S. HAMPDEN ROSS, Hong Kong, 19th March, 1981.
NOTICE.
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ESERS MELOFERS & CO., an
M AGENTS of the NORDDEUTE
OHER LLOYD, BREMEN, regra to announce that owing to the foot that the 8.8. "COLUMBUS" ba bern chartered for This Hound the World Trip by a Tourist Company. No Permits for Inspection ca bo i.sued.
(499
GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
TENDERS for
SPECIE
and
NEXIOAN DOLLARS Current Transfer in this Colony, for Telegraphic on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Tenasury, London, up to and for the Sum of £35,000, will be Received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER COMMAND PAY OFFICE nutil 11 O'Clock Ad, on the 20TH MARCH,
WHITBREAD'S
PALE ALE
JUMUSE;
and over the N. China Sen.
Local Forecast-Ensterly winds, moderate; generally overcast ;' some rain and fog later.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kword have pleasure in announcing that the marriage of their eldest daughter MARY to Mr. SA1-W LIANO, B.A., Oxon, will take place on Monday, March 2, when a Reception will be held at the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel at four "o'clock. the
afternoon.
cards will be issued. (495
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News and Views
Coal Too Dear.
Mr. Walter Runciman, speaking In the Coal Trade Luncheon Club
ant detail of diet-fresh milk And as efficiently is the farm man- aged that the Chairman could state that the annual herd wastage was only: 17 per cent, as compared with an average of 23 per cent. at Home., We may take it that cattle like New York Drinking Deaths, Hong Kong, &d do not sight for
Charles Norris, Medical the lush pastures of England, as Examiner for New York City, re-in London, said:"I hope we they chew the cud, gazing the ports 15 deaths due directly or while at ships Homeward bound indirectly to alcoholism in 1930. through the Green Island exit from He asserts that hundreds of other deatha from the same causó go un- the Harbour,
recorded because doctors wish to spare the feeling of relatives and give other cause as those of death.
We wish the company every suc cess with their poultry. All egg lovers will be grateful if they can rely on getting eggs free from the ocensional mouthful of distressing
flavour that keeps one or tentar books while eating the native pre duct. What wealth will be added to the great Republic of China if the Dairy Farm Company can teach the Chinese hen to lay a better and larger egg!
If the Dairy Farm, with its milk, meat and fresh vegetables, give us
A Royal Game.
King George watched Tom Reece play a few years ago. The present King used to play a very sound
|SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Home football results. Page 10. To-day's wireless programme. "
Page 4. Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & have come to the end of active legis Godown Go, meeting. Page 7 Meetings of the Legislative Coun Iation in the coal trade for many
Not only are we in oil and Finance Committee were the position at present of having to held yesterday.
Page 7. run our ships at a loss (coal is too
The case against ́an Indian dear), but there are something like moneylendor, who was charged with 4,000,000 deadweight tons of shipperjury, failed and the defendant Pago 0. was discharged, ring laid up-idle ships.
years to come.
The Sport of Kings."
recently shown at the Palace
'Page 6...
Page 7.
Hugh Wakefield has the most dif- fenit part to play in the film and comes out of it more than credit- Sport. ably. Opposite him Miss Dorothy Boyd gives her best performance. Mr. Gordon Harker once again shows that he is about the best ac tor at present in British films, and Patch lend excellent support. Messrs. Lack Melford and Wally Latest Cables.
Golf Notes: By Garn. Page 10. Cricket Noten By R, Abbít.
Page 10.
An earthquake, the centre of which was about 300 miles away, The British film version of Lan was felt in Hong Kong yesterday Page 7. The King's interest in billiards, Hay's play, "The Sport of Kings," afternoon.
Sorious charges of kidnapping shown by Lindrum's command was performance at Buckinghazi Theatre, WC, with Leslie Heuson, and indecent assault were prefer Palace, was perfectly natural, for Gordon Harker, and Hugh Wake-red against a Chineas at Central billiards has always been a royal field in the leading parte. It did Magistracy.
A Chinese prisoner at the gaine. Queen Maria Antoinette not belie expectations. There can played it at Versailies and George be little doubt that it will be the Criminal Sessione trial yesterday IV. played billiards at the Brigh same box-offico attraction on the changed his mind after listening to ton Pavilion. According to Shake-films as it was on the stage. The the evidence and pleaded guilty to charge of assault and attempted speare Queen Cleopatra was an ex- play, it will be remembered, was
Poge . ponent! King Edward, as Prince meduced some two years ago by robbery.
A general meeting of contribu- of Wales, used to play at White's the Hong Kong A.D.O. In the
tories in the Hong Kong Develop- with the lato Lord Sufield and film all the funniest scenes occur other friends, and later, when that on a ruce-course, which bears agent Building & Savinge Society. All frionds are cordially in many of the necessities for repro lub had come under the royal disclose resemblance to that at New. Ltd. (in liquidation) called for ducing out East an assimilation to pleasure over its rules as to smok bury, and it is in these scenes that yesterday, could not take place vited to the Reception. Nos in England, the Hong Kong ing, at the Marlborough, where Leslie Honsan is seen at his best, owing to lack of a quorum.
Electric Co. is a main source of our amenities. The Peak and the Praya lights testify each night to game. the enterprise. and prosperity of the Electric Company. From Ken-Teacher of Princes. nedy Town to Shaukiwan on the Island, from Tsim Sha Tsui to Lai Ethel Howard (Mrs. H. Boll), The death is announced of Miss
In the course of a riot at Dustel- Chi Kok and Tai Tack, hundreds daughter of Mr. Charles Howard,
several casualties resulting, Pago 0. of thousands of glowing bulbe pre-who had had an unusually inter- barrister, of the Inner Temple,
If in announced that the Dutch claim the triumph of electricity eating career as a tator of Princes.
The Lancashire Cotton Corpora- Rubber Committee have postponed and of the two companies that From 1993 to 1808 she was at the tion," which was formed last year, their visit to Londen for a few Pago. 9.. German Court in charge of the has issued its first balance sheet, days. supply it.
The Provincial Authorities at young Princes English education, which shows a net loss of £162,209,"
Yunnanfu bave captured the mur- What a strange place the Colony and later she recorded her experi-
Balchen, the hero of many his derers of Mrs. White and fre. must have been before the found-ences in a book entitled "Potsdam
Page 9. Princes." Mins Howard left Ger- toric flights, in participating in the Miller.
any in 1808 owing to ill-health, search for the survivors of the Anxiety is felt at Shanghai for and in 1000 went to Japan to take sealer Viking, which was wrecked the safety of the French freighter Page 9. Changkiang, which left Hong Kong five young at Horse Island. full charge of the
The stenographers of the Japan for Shanghai on the 13th inst. Japanese Princes, and teach them English and European ways. Such eso Diet who went on strike after
Page 0. an appointment had never been being attacked by Seiyukai follow- Press despatches from Korea to inde before, and she received highers in the Diet building have re- Tokyo state that the authorities Page bave ordered the detention of the One of her pupils is now Naval praise from the Japanese Court. turned to work..
There is unrestrained indignation aeroplane in which Burtin and sentence of Moenche are flying to Japan at Attaché to the Japanese Embassy in Madrid aver the in London, Miss Howard left death passed on Captain Sediles, Seoul or the ground that the route Japan in 1906, and a year later and the general feeling is that taken was different from that aane married Mr. H. Bell, Indian Civil "somebody has blundered" intioned.
Page 0. connection with the trial. Paze 9. (Continued on: previous coluenn.) Service.
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 83, Fleet Street,
E.0.4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, March 20, 1931..
'IT'S THE
REAL HOME-SIDE STUFF"! public utility and other leading money may have been more readily
SOLE AGENTS:—
A. S. WATSON & Co..
LIMITED.
HONG KONG CLUB NOTICE.
ing of these and other great enter prises that now play so big a part in the life of the place! An imeom. SERVANTS OF THE PUBLIC.fortable and precarious existence, in which the fittest only survived Work may It is satisfactory to know that the it must have been!
have been easier in those days:
companies of Hong Kong, despite carned, but the price in discomfort the difficulties of the last twelve and in toll of life and health was months, are continuing to make uncomfortably high. To most Eng
list people the daily rastine here. good profits without raising their is at now vastly different fron 9chargen to the general public to that at Home, except that we can an extent at all proportionate to get sorvania and escape the winter. the fall in the dollar. Tram and Apart from a few big factors of nature, enterprise and science have ferry fares are still the same, and been able, ria public companies, to the Chairman of the Hong Kong, create this piece of England, ten Electrió Ca., Ltd., was able to state thousand miles from the Honeland. that. 10 immediate increase in the Cost of electric current would be
THE THIRD YEARLY DRAW ING of 0 DEBENTURES (1928 Insta-1500 Each) of the HONG made KONG CLUB, Payable on WEDNES. DAY, the 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1931. held in the CLUB HOUSE,
will be brez AM, on FRIDAY, the
20TH MAROH, 1931.
Hanrets of Deboutures are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Order,
Secretary.
T. A. ROBERTSON, Lient. Ool
[444 The Tendors to state the Total Amonat Hong Kong, 11th March, 1991.
1931.
(in Pound Sterling). No Telegraphic Transfer will be made for less than £100.
The Traders to be in Duplicate, and Bealed Uorers, addressed to the TREA CHEST OFFICER, COM SUND PAY OFFICE, sad endorsed TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, Etc."
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
“CLASSIFICATION
The right to accept or refect any or sli
WNERS desiring CLASSIFICA of the Tenders is reserved.
Coples of Forms of Tender can be TION of Their PONIES for the had on application.
"Parsons tendering for (Bina) are EASTER EXTRA MEETING must hereby Notided that, having regard to Notify the SECRETARY by NOON | city of Kowloon. the provisions of the Acts 38 George lil, on TUESDAY, 24TH MARCH, 1981, Cap. 46 and 41, Georgo ILL., Cap. 51, the stating Names of Ponios to
subject | Classified. acceptance of any such Tender to the express condition that no Member
By Order, of the British House of Commons
in
be admitted to any share or part or to any benefit to arise from the Cou track
thereby
made for the allotment of *uch (Bills),"
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Local Notes and Events
The Queen's College annual athletic sports will be held at the College's ground at Causeway Bay o Saturday, March 28. Mrs. F. J. do Rome will give away the prizes at the conclusion of the sports.
A lecture on "Progress Con- will be delivered by Father G. ditioned by Law and Commerce
Byrne, S.J., D. Phil, on Tuesday, March 24, at 8.30 p.m. in the Union Assembly Room of the University
All interested are welcome.
On the ground that the captain! of the boat must be held respon
A remand of one wook was order. ed in a case in which a Chinese was charged with stealing or alterna tively with roceiving articles of cutlery from the military camp at Shamshuipo.
On a charge of obstructing a Ser- geant duty at Wanchai, an Indian guard employed by the Asiatic Point, appeared before Mr. Scho- Petroleum Company at North held at the Central Police Court yesterday. Mr. M. A. da Silva represented the defendant and ap plied for a remand, the houring be! ing fixed for Monday next.
Lady Peel has consented to per sible, Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, form the opening ceremony of an R.N., fined Captain Bousfield of exhibition at the Po Loung Kuk the se. Tai, Ler $200 for overload. te-day at 11 am, when a variety ing his ship at the Ping On Wharf, of work made by the women in a: 7 p.m. on March 17.
centration and compact re-distribu-- tion is now the Feynote of our naval policy; for it may be said with truth that, outside Europe, the world contains no force, at prosent, which constitutes a danger to peace. The Singapore Free Prter from which the foregoing remarks are taken, evidently does. not fear complication arising out tion-Hong Kong Daily Press, of the Chinose proletariat' agita
March 20, 1908. Looking Back 50 Years,
Tho annual general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was hold at the City Hall yesterday. There were present:-Hon, W. Keswick (Chairman), · Hon P. Ryrie,
cars, E. R. Bolilies, H. L Dalrymple, H. Hoppius. C. Kahn, H. F. Grobbien, W. Forrest, mates will be on display. The J. Francis, E. Mackintosh, G. foundation-stone of the new Po Sharp, H. Foss, A. T. Manger, Leung Kuk in Leighton Hill Road, D. Bassoon, A. P. MacEwen, G. will be laid by His Excellency the C: Scott, H. W. Davis, W. M. J. Morgan, Framjee Arjunes, Governor on Monday at 3 p.m.
Thurburn, Lee Tuk Choong, Chang George (Becretary.) Sing Young, Ho Amei, and Fr
It was on Wednesday that three THE extent of unemployment in important companies, the Hong North America has been the subject Kong Electric Co., Ltd., the Duiry of many rough guesses. A more Farm Co., Ltd., and the Green considered estimate has been made Island Cement Co., Ltd.. hold their by Mr. H. R. BUTLER, Deputy annual meetings, All three have Director of the International decided to pay substantial sums to Labour Office. He reckons that their shareholders, and there is "between five and six millions is comfort in this continued stability not very wide of the mark" for of our leading firms. Building in the United States and that 175,000 The Colony goes forward rapidly. men are workless in Canada. For I is mainly in ferro-concrete, and the relief or assistance of these the local supply of satisfactory millions there is no existing _cement_has_played_its_port in for- Federal er. State organisation what- Sentence of two months' hard warding the reconstruction of old ever. The last few months have labour was passed on ao ex-motor car driver who was convicted of premises and in the now develop seen a feverish allocation of money the theft of a cont from the Motor nients that are inaking a mighty for relict works, a menerous ve Driver Guild at bal, Queen's Rond scament was passed on n bay "boy's Sentence of three month's impri-
Wost. The man sponse to calls on privado, genero-
was arrested ab] from the Peak Hotel, who was Mr. Ho Aici 'said:-Gentlemen, Central Magistracy, where he was convicted by Mr. Hamilton at I have a second proposition, which It is difficult to imagine life sity, the voting of loans to farmers
scen wearing the stolen cont
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, that the manufacture of salt with the theft of a bottle of whisky, he allowed to be carried anîn in Hong Kong without the Dairy for seed and fertilisers
LWO bottles of hear, two Hong Kong. Some time ago, last. Farin, Ico and Cold Storage Co. more important. than these apas-
General Wu Ting-yang, ex-Com-bottles of port, two table year, a countryman of mine sent That we should have an Ice Com- modio efforts is the tendency, which missioner for Reconstruction in napkins, cigarettes and a quantity a petition praying that a cer- O. B. BROWN.
Sucertary.pany goes without saying; that was Mr. BUTLER has marked, to look Kwangsi, left Hong Kong on if food from the Peninsula Hotel, tain wasto piece of land near Stan- Wednesday morning on a Japan. The "boy" was lont to the Penin- | ey be sold to him for the purpose only a question of buying and more favourably on systems of un-
of forming a salt fat there. The tling up machinery. But the im- employment insurance, or of public steamer for Shanghai to insula Hotel on the night of St.
terview President Chiang Kai- Patrick's Ball und was arrested in way the Chinese manufacture salt is to enclose a piece of land by the UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD,portation and successful management employment exchanges, which the shek on behalf of General Wang Fedder Street at 2.x.m.
sea, and let the water como-over it and evaporate. However, the NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. of a great hord of European cattl. fiercely individualist philosophy, of Shao-hung.
was a different mattor. The pro- America has scorned hitherto. It
proposal did not meet with the Mr. G. W. Brophy, of the . E. Looking Back 25 Years, TWENTY-SIXTH AN.gress of this company is a romance is something of an irony that the
approbation of the Governor, end TNUAL GENERAL MEETING of farming. The Dairy Farm herd present exceptional crisis should be fight, to ulanila at 350 nm) yester
Galo Company, hopped off
The battle of Tsushima, while it was not allowed. I sto ne ob- of SHAREHOLDERS will be bold in the Offons of Messrs. Top is not the only one in the Colony, bringing the merits of unemploy day from Macau. He hoped to reach securing for a long course of years jection to it. The manufacture of the entire immunity of Japan, salt does not affect the intercute of from the perils of foreign naval China, while it would be a gront Co., LTD., on TUESDAY, the 31arbut its original promoters showed ment insurance to the notice of his destination in less than five hours, but up to a late hour last MARCH, 1931, at 5 P.M., for the the way and took big risks. It was America while in England the in-night no further details were cuterprise, has had for Britain a benefit to the Colony, and it is reault that is entirely for good. the duly of this Chamber to en purpose of receiving the Beport of daring assumption that British aurance system is creaking and available.
The battleship squadron wo ntain- courage all kinds of manufac the General Managers together with cattle would stand this climate and groaning under the unprecedented
tained in the Far East became, tures. I think if they were a Statement of Accounts to Slet be able to thrive without grass strain. At the moment when we The marriage of Mr. Sai Wa
witer the Russian fleet's destruction; | allowed to manufacture SOCIETY OF HONG KONG,
DECEMBER, 1980.
Liang, BA, Oxon., and Mary,
an unemployed fores, with no pros- as proposed it would increase the The possibility of unre wondering whether the sysl fødder.
ayalew, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
peet of ever being 'wanted even, sti promerity of the Colony, because a power in resorvo, ANNUAL DINNER will be from the favourable, reactions upon the con- commonly called the Dolc," is a Ho Kwong, whose engagement was
So it was THE LANE, CRAWFORD'S Company will be CLOSE ARCH, stitutions of such delicato animale failure they are wondering if they recently announced, has been fixed rightly sent to European waters him from 825,000 to 830,000 to forst
projector told me it would
RESTAURANT on MARCH 21 1981, Both Dates inclusive.
ter take place on March 30. A re- as dairy cown had to be faced. But can get along without it. America coption will be held in the after there re-distributed amongst the flat and he would keep from two to three. hundred men at work the flects as newly organised. The at B.15 P.M.
difficulties were overcome and the offers at least one lesson to these noon at the roof garden of the battleships in the Far East are We allow salt to be brought from Colony enjoya in consequence who denounes "the Dole" as the Hong Kong Hotel.
i now in the main thèse of our ally, Tonquin to be sold to the mono- Jupan, and occasionally one or | polists, in Canton, and if we were fresh and wholesome supply of source of all England's evile. Over milk. What that has meant for there a man who is mut of work
two of the United States; a Power to manufacture it here it would children, and, consequently, for has two resources on which to fall
with whose general policy in the tend to the improvement of the For East both Britain and Japan | Colony. Perhaps the Chamber FR-B. A. HYDEB is No Longer family life in the Colony, it is im- back-privata charity or erite
are entirely at one. Our cruiser would see its way to sending in a M
connected with
opportu
squadron, highly-efficient as it is petition Fiat possible to estimate. The steadiness Charity is limited. The opport
It was agroad that the matter, and stability of the European comnities for crime are not. We may
is quite strong enough to represent British influence in the new-and-be brought before the Committe munity is in no small degree due to thank the Dole if it has helped
favourable situation created by Tang Kong Daily Press, March 20, the renowed alliance. · General ¿on--|-1581, the adequate supply of that import to save England this Racket.
The provisions in question de act apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general beads of the Company.".
E. A. LANG, Colonel, R.A.PO,
Color Chat Offer.
His Majesty's Treasury Offoe, Hong Kong
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OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
All Members and Potential 'Mem-' bers wishing to attend are requested to sand in their Names, if they have not already done so, to one or other
of the JOINT SECRETARIES as soon as possible.
(N.L. SMITH, Joint Col. Beoy.'s Office. Secretaries:R. E, LINDSELL,
Supreme Court.
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DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
General
Managers.
NOTICE.
Garage.
Our
A. GOEKE' &.00.
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Mr. JH Hunt, of No. 3, King Park Drive, was sent to hospital on Wednesday to receive trentment in consequence of being bitten above the left ankle by a not dog, which appears to have attacked her without warning. The animal has been taken to the Ma- taukok depot for observation.
salt