Gande, Price. & Co.'s annual
"Page 6. mesting.
Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing
Page 6 Co.'s annual meeting.
Two Europeans were fined yester day for breaches of the Traffic Re- Page 6. gulations.
A mass meeting was held yester- day at the Tung Wah Hospital to pròtent against the recent Sanitary
Page 7., Brard order regarding small-pox.
A glowing tribute to the many feats of engineering triumphs ac complished in the Colony was paid by H.E. Sir William Peal at the Annual Dinner of the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Pago 12. Hong Kong last night
Week-end wireless programmes.
WEATHER REPORT, of the Imperial Institute. It sun- marises, upon the basis of the yeara Yesterday's weather report, fare-from 1913 to 1928, the production cast and remarks, issued by the both of the Empire and of the Royal Observatory at 6.25 pm, world, as a whole. It shows how far the Empire provides comple stated:-
mentary supplies of minerals from Captain Hamsay's New Port. its different parts; sufficient for its The King has approved. the ap- pointment of Capt. R. B. Ramsay, own needs and even for an export-R.N., as naval attaché. to. H.M. able surplus, and in what respecta Missions in Italy, Greece, Jugo
Blavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Al- ths Imperial resources ara in-
bania, and Turkey, with headquar- sufficient, and it gives essentialters at Rome, to date. April 28. statistics which trace for each part Capt, Ramany succeeds Cap. R. II. of the Empire the products, nources L, Bevan, who completes three years the appointmont. in April. in of imports, and destinations of ex- Since July, 1929, Capt, Ramany has hustled, motorcars port, of mineral war material. commanded the Kent, On the and honed bells rung, while o In regard to iron a well na China Station, and acted as Chief couple of vehicles were seized and of Staff and Flag Captain to petroleum Great Britain, in epite Adm] Sir A. K. Waistell, Com burned. Attempts were made to destroy, market stalls, but these of its vast resources, is an importer. mandor-in-Chief, On the other hand, modern ia-
wore atoutly resisted by the stall dustry, especially in electricity,
holders. The whole town was in motoring, and aviation, enlis for
an uproar until the polico inter more copper, nickel, and the various
vened and made 20 arrests. Three students were slightly injured. minerals which are constituents, of tion of the new iron and steel-alloys na This book represents the first well as for chromite," rabestès, and serious attempt of the Soviet HLs. Veroaica and New Zealand. Stato. Printing Office to produce other products. Of these the Eman art edition. The first volume,. pire output appears to be increns which takes one to the end of the
To-day's sports fixtures. Page 10, Home football programme for to- ing not only absolutely but in re thirty-fifth night, contains some lation to the world as a whole well printed on good paper, but is excellent illustrations, is tolerably
day.
Page 10. Besides the growing production in indifferently bound. Its chief
Starting times at Fanling to
Page 10. Northern Rhodesia, farther supplica glory, however, is its coloured var.
Results of King's College sports edition is limited to 10,000 copies lying alongside the pier, and al-
Page 10. appearance of a Russian ikon. The ly" before the occurrence. It was held yesterday.
Local football fixture for to-day and will take some twenty years
10, to complete. Each volume is sold though it was somewhat badly and prospects.
stressed by the shock, Com., H. L. Arrangements for the lawn bowls. in Russia at a price of six roubles seventy-five copecks, which cannot Morgan landed all available off-season were made at the annual cers and men, and rendered all general meeting of the Association cover cost of production, The jacket alone must have cost a small for possible assistance. H.M.S. Vero held yesterday, when the draw was tune. What is the motive which nica, added Mr. Alexander, has also made for the Spey Royal Cup
She has sus Competition.
Page 16. underlies the publication of this since been docked. expensive work! In his preface tained no extensive damage, and Maxim Gorki is eloquent about the should be fit for service by the end value of fairy-tales to young_au.
of this month...- thors. But there are few authors in Russin to-day who can afford to improve their imagination by the purchase of this costly edition. The real motive of the work is pro pagandist; to astonish the foreign bourgeois.
Hova Koxe, MARCH 24, 1931.
A MINERAL EXHIBITION.
Earthquake,
Mr. Alexander, replying to a
in connection with the recent question about H.M.8. Veronica
earthquake in New Zealand, said
THE importance of its mineral reef copper are now becoming avail. I nished Jacket, which gives it the the vessel arrived at Napier short- soureca to the British Empire is nhle in Canada, Newfoundland and being demonstrated at an interest-elsewhere in the Empire; while of ing Exhibition at the Imperial In-nickel ninety percent.
of the
British world's demands are met by the
Empire, chiefly
from Canada.
AA
stitute in South Kensington. Mr. L. S. AMERY, M.P., who open ed the Exhibition, pointed out in his opening speech, Great Britain
is still the most intensively developi ed mineral area in the world, and the Empire as a whole produces four hundred million pounds worth of minerals a year.
MR. T. M. HEALY.
An Admiral's Speech.
Indirect allusions to a speech
der-in-Chief word made in the
Mightier Than the Sword.
Sport.
morrow.
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