NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB,
OPEN DOUBLES FINALS,
8. A. and H. D. RUMJAHN
U.A. L. RUMJAHN
and
3. A. CABBUMBHOY
4.30 P.M. at I.K.0.0.
RESERTED SEAT...................................m$1,00, Booking at MOUTRIE'S up to 3.46 P.M.
There will be 300 Unreserved Resta for BALE on the CRICKET GROUND at $1.00 Each, and also 200 Tickets at 30 Cents Each for standing Room, all obtainable on the GROUND from .4 P. M.
Y. M. C. A. SALISBURY ROAD, KOWLOON,
H. E. GOVERNOR will
lay the Foundation
Stone of the New West Wing on THURSDAY, 7 MAY, at 5.30 ..
No Invitation Carda liave been issued, bat All who are interested in the T.M.O.A. ars cordially invited.
W.EL SHENTON, President.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931.
WEATHER REPORT.
have its quota of machine guns, and experiments are being made in
EAU DE COLOGNE Yesterday's weather report, fore the provision of heavier armamente
Triple Extract.
EAU
COLOGNE
EXQUISITE
• TROULE EXTRACT)
Librisque Exxcandij
cast and remarks, issued by the |'Royal - Observatory at 6.p.m.,
alated:
calibre as well as the number of for military aircraft. This concerns
guns, and the value of the torpedo as a weapon against naval vessels A moderate anti-cyclone is con- is being more and more realised. tral to the N.E. of Tokyo. A de-A certain sum is, therefore, set pression lies over Indo-China.
Local Forecast:-E winds, fresh to moderate; overeast; some rain,
Editorial and Business Offices: 1
Ice House Street. Tol. 80251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 63, Fleet Street,
B.O. 4
The Daily Press.
HONO KONG, May 4, 1931.
BRITAIN'S AIR ESTIMATES
FOR 1931-32.
SQUADRON LEADER P. C. Woop did n
aside under this hend. Experi- mental and research work, upon which flying efficiency so much de- pends, and out of which future im. provements in design may be ex- pected to come, are to continue.
The gross total
of the Civil Aviation rote is £104,000 higher cludes a considerable contribution than that of a year ago. This in-
from the oversens Governments. The opening of the African route is responsible for a large propor tion of the increased expenditure in the subsidies and grants. More is to be spent on air surveys, and technical equipment. The same amount is to be allowed to light aeroplane clubs as last year-that is £80,000-and the same amount is available for assistance in the train. ing of amateur pilots, but more pilots must be trained than former ly.
In the present state of Australian
Business.
News and Views
Advertisement is the life-stroam of progressive trade, It announ- ces. It proclaims. It creates and broadens demand."--Mr. Justice McCardje.
Old Associates,
A boy, on leaving the reformatory school was advised by the super intondent to avoid his old associates when he got back to London, go and so the magistrate !"** "What said the boy; "mayn't I
Knows Too Much !
Couleur de Rose.
A well-known
test gavo
Parisian bos- A "blue" dinner, Plates, glasses, table cloth, and upholstery worn all in different shades of blue. Thes food consisted e truite bleue, and the varied us sociations of the cornflower were lavishly introduced. The hostess
herself wore a blue dress, and, al- though without any marked liter- ery pretension, blue stockings, Her | husband contented himself with a reofer bus suit, blue socks, hand- kerchief and tie "All this," ex- plained the hostess, "is intended to make you soo life in couleur de Tore."
Representatives
The chairman of the House of Taxation Com- mitteo of the United States Con- gress, who helped to draw up the new Revenue Act, has had his London's Lido. income-tax statement returned to him for correction.
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In England!
It was stated in Parliament that 1800 bodies of dead children are picked up in the streets of Hong Kong each year. Over 11,031 in jured children were picked up in the streets of London in the last recorded year, as a result of traffic nccidents.
real service to Hong Kong by de finance no great help from Aus- The Heart of MAD,
tralia can be expected jurt. now,
The Lansbury Inde and ladies must have read with a thrill of gratitude and anticipation the nows that their kind unele has or- dered some thousands of deck chairs to accommodate the languers of their lizard spines. How gay and naked, in this merry month of May, will the staid Serpentine appear The Germans, who are excessivo in such matters, have abandoned the convention that one can only sun-bathe in summer. They xyrato unclothed in front of arti ficial lamps, and they repline simi- larly upon communal couches in which, for td., one can obtain tev
a thing of the past; the now. Ger- fut and pasty German is becoming many is lithe, and clad only in a swastika slip.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
· Concert in aid of St. John Am... bulance Brigade......
Page 7.
To-day' wireless programme.
Page 4.
activities
Page 4.
Government. Houso during last week.
Sport.
Page 10.
Local football resulte. Home, football results and final League tables appear on Page 2.
H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament: Doubles Anal to-day.
Page 10,
meeting by Morning Dow."
Full details of Saturday's raco
Pago 0.
All the opening games in the lawn bowls League on Saturday had to be postponed owing to rain, Page 10.
Latest Cables.
Anti-Nanking activities. Page 0.
tinople' on May 3, having covered Capt, Stack arrived at Constan-
the distance in one day.
Page 9. His Majesty the King has ap proved the appointment of Viceroy. Lord Irwin as a Knight of the Garter.
Page 0..
Ex-
It imparts a lasting scribing to the Rotary Club, in his otherwise a lengthening of the line following an access of grief are minutes of artificial sunburn, The Chinese negotiations are making
A necessary adjunct to the
delightfully cooling and refreshing effect, enhanced by its exquisite aroma.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY toilet.
OF CANTON, 'LTD...' (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
FINTY-EIGHTE that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29TH Mar, 1981, at 11 O'cloox M, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Btatements
of Account to 31st DecEMBER, 1930.
and declaring Dividends, cto.
In Magnum Bottles
$3,50.
Sole Distributors:-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from Ìlru MAY to 20TH MAY, Beth Days A. S. WATSON
inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1991,
I
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
(INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
"OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-SECOND
NOT ORDINARY YEABLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hona KoNo, ou FRIDAY, 29TH Mar, 1881, at 11.15 am, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 81st DECEMBER, 1930, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOORS of the Company will be CLOSED from 11 MAY to 29TH MAY, Both Days inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER.
General Manager.
& CO., LTD. THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY,
THE KOWLOON DISPENSARY.
one of
.
Ita establish
most interesting address last week, towards the antipodes might be what is being done to design more readily undertaken. It is, of machines of a kind that will lead course, not impossible that it will to the developing of regular and safe could be provided through a supple- be done, as funds for the work
air routes between England and the mentary estimate. Far East. The whole question of nuent is clearly of much importance, air policy, from both a civil and not only for the improvement of communications with Australia, but a military point of view, is now also because of the influence, it A paramount importance. would have on sections of the route National progress in the connner-nearer Great Britain. Preparations cial held as well
for night flying have already been дв national
made on this route, and experiments security demands steady progress in may certainly be expected to be all matters connected with aviation, made this year. For that reason we make no apology for referring in some detail to the air estimates, n' summary of which was cabled Botne time ago by Reuter's The estimatce for the coming year total £18,100,000, about a quarter of a million pounds more
penditure on air service will repro- sent a greater increase than this, for there have been savings due to the cost of living and also consider. alle contributions from the Colonies and the Dominions.
Cases of a really "Broken" heart the doors. Now Lord Moynihan given to us from time to time by says that an examination of the mummy of tho hard-hearted harach of the Bible shows that his heart was literally hard.
The Gunman.
A gunman disguised himself and raided a music shop in Cleveland, Ohio (reports that friend of man, the New York cable,) Aftor rif and saw a
the till he turned suddenly man' with a revolver watching him. Forgetting his dia- guise, the gunman fired at his own reflection in the mirror and bolted down the street.
A Super-Studio.
Macclesfield Blk.
It is believed that the Soviet
Government is prepared to sell the such rapid progress that the Soviet
C.E.R. to China,
Page 0.
Shortly after ten on the night of May 2 à bomb exploded inside the residence of Mr. Jumnosuke Inouye, at Tokyo. Fortunately there were no casualties.
Tage ..
Sir Eric Drummond's Prize.
The American peace prize for 101 has been awarded, under tha advice of the Cornegie Foundation, to Sir Erie Drummond. Seldom bestowed. has an award been so fittingly
HONG KONG GENERAL CHAM. | than last year's; but the actual ex- defuite policy of continuous im- concentrated on the gilded organ in Macclesfield not a single silk purposo. This is in truth a gener
BER OF COMMERCE.
GENERAL MEETING OF MONDAY, the 4TH MAY, 1931, at it in the OFFICES of the Dominato a Member of the Chamber CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, to to All the Vacancy caused by the Resignation of the Hos. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES as Representative of the Chamber on the Legislativo Council
In compliance with Bye-Law 30, Notice in Writing of the Names of Gesonders must be lodged with the Candidates and their Proposers and Booretary at least 48 Hours before the Time appointed for holding the Meeting.
By Order,
M. F. KEY,
Secretary.
MEMBERS will be hold on
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981, 1089 Hong Kong, 27th April, 1931.”
BRITISH TRADERS'. INSUR- ANCE COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in HONG KONG,)
'NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
(651
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
A small but important centre of one British industry is Macclesfield. There some of the finest silk in
Reporting on the latest develop- the world is still made on hand-ments of the extrality negotiations fooms, some of them hundreds of Dr. C. Wang declared that years old. The famons Maccles China could not accept the British and American demands. Page 9. field Squares," of richly satisfying colours, are made in this way. It was Macclesfiold men, who, from 1860 onwards, founded handloom weaving in the United States of America. Very little of it remains how in that country. Mass produc- tion by machinery killed it, and America now looks to Macclesfield The greatest care is being taken Mr. Val Myer is the architect of deod, Macclesfield's best customer. for its finest silk; America is, in-
For nearly thirteen. to stimulate British aviation, hav- the new B.B.C. headquarters in It is interesting to note that, in
years Sir Eric has devoted · his ing due regard to the necessity for will include one of the finest con- the whole world has suffered, the international co-operation, and in Portland-place. When finished it spite of the depression from which whole life to the furtherance of the most careful economy. Quality cert halls in Lon. The decoration Macclesfield silk industry has pros- so doing he has sacrificed many a rather than quantity is regarded as of the other studios will be left to pered. It is the only one of the brilliant inducement to the main concern, and the high has devised the decoration of the North that has done so. In cotton worth some £5000, but Bir Eris individual enterprise, but Mr. Myer tires great, toxtile trades of the isowhere. The prize itself is glitter quality of British machines is re-concert hall himself. The general and woollen there has been n cognised everywhere. There is the main decorative emblems being down or worked on short time, but be devoted to some international scheme is one of rigid simplicity, alump." Mills have been closed
Drummond has returned the money to the donors, asking that it may provement in design and efficiency,
mill has been closed. On the con- and the good effects of this policy
trary, sayoral firms have extended rich man, and his salary as Secre
our gesture. Bir Eric is not are obvious in the increasing sales
This is largely due to the high tions is largely absorbed by the their busincases and their premises, tary-General of the League of No- of British military aircraft abroad.
quality of the product. There is lavish entertainment inseparable During the past year some excellent
no doubt that Macclesfeld woven from his position. Sir Eric Drum- contracts were placed with British
a delight to the eye, and a great pipe and a book or two, with now goods are to-day, as much as ever, mond is a man of simple tastes. A Twelve, squadrons are to be re-manufacturers by foreign Govern
antisfaction to those who appreciate and then a new putter, represent equipped with aircraft, and threements, and this year it is confident-effect. The supports are stepped finish and quiet dignity. It is hoped the sum of his material ambitions. new squadrons are to be formed. ty expected that still better business
of what Macclesfield can do if the nelled, he would striko no casual that the world will learn more Untidy, tobaccoed, and grey fan Modern machines with modern
present suggestion for its taking acquaintance as the most eminent numbers. The war time types of engines 'will be used in much larger
part in next year's British Indus of leading diplomatists. The spat iries Fair textile soction is acted and monocle are no longer fashion- upon. aeroplanes are to be superseded.
ablo in the Council of the League. Even with these. contemplated addi- tions for next year Great Britain A doon deal has been written from will remain fifth among the grent time to time about the number of Powers in the strength of its first houses and other buildings that have line, the comparative figures for been erected during the past few the first line machines in the years in Great Britain. At the various countries at present being saine time complaints have been as follows:-France, 1,320; Italy, made that not enough is being done. 1,100; United States, 1,000; Hussin, In actual fact Great Britain in 1,000; Great Britain, 700. There being very rapidly rebuilt. The will be a further 38 new machines to statistics recently published in the
will be done.
REBUILDING BRITAIN.
screen behind the stage and upon the glass reflectors let into the walls of the hall. The walls themselves and constituting the main lighting will be a rough monochrome, the colour graduating from floor to hall is the ceiling, which has been ceiling. The main point about this designed with great ingenuity and although of cyclopean strength bave into powerful rectangles, which bean so proportioned as not to be overpowering. This ceiling is likely to attract more attention than any other portion of the building.
Local Notes and Events
H.E. the Governor has appainted Mr. Lam Heung Lun to be a Justice of the Peace.
Charged before Mr. W. Schofield on Saturday with crying his ware in a prohibited area, the Peak, a
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN HE FIFTIETH ORDINARY be added to the present strength, Report of the Commissioners of Chinese hawker was fined 82.
H.E. the Governor has appointed, provisionally and subject to His lieved to be that of the man who The body of a Chiness man, be- Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. Mr. made a fatal bid for freedom by C. G. 8. Mackie to be temporarily jumping overboard on Wednesday an Unofficial Member of the Execu- last when he was caught on board tive Council, in the place of Mr. the s. Chinhua attempting to saw J. Owen Hughes, and pending the one of the ship's steam pipes, was return to the Colony of Sir Henry recovered off Taikoo Docks Pollock, Kt., K.C.
Saturday and was removed to the Mortuary,
The quarantino restrictions im- posed against arrivals from Bang- seem to spring up in every dites, kok on account of plague have been Mr. Edwin Taylor to
removed,
GENERAL MEETING of bringing the British total up to Inland Revenue show that construc that the SIXTY-FIFTH SHAREHOLDERS will be held at 8265. Even so, the force will remain tion is proceeding at a surprising ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING the Offices of the Undersigned on of the Company will be held at its TUESDAY, the 1971 MAY, at below the strength limit fixed when rate. Around London small towns HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, NOON, for the purpose of receiving general policy was defined in 1923. HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29r the Beport of the General, Agents, On the other hand, although the tion. But this high-speed building MAY, 1981, at 11.20 AM, for the together with a statement of Accounts force will remain small in numbers, is not confined to London and the purpose of receiving the Report of for the Year ended the 81st it will gain in power and efficiency, big cities, it is general throughout the Directors and the Statements of DECEMBER. 1991. Account to 81st DECEMBER, 1980, and of declaring Dividends, elc.
The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 1T MAY to 29TH MAY, Both Daya inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hong Kong 2nd May, 1991. . ~[689 |
NOTICE.
"Emigroi that the Manufacturers
karo Delayed Shipment, the Consigo. ment will arrive on JUNE 10TH.
War MOTH PROOF BAGS
All Dry-cleaning Ordar Lists will be specially stamped, theso Liste must be returned to Oar Depots or Works, when'
• Bag will be gdron in Exchange for -Every Bail or Overcost that we have
eleaned during the Month of MAY.
Extra Bage cannot be supplied until
6901
****- By Ordar, -THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.,
Works Ofice..
The SHARE REGISTER and for the majority of the extra the whole country. During the past CLOSED from the STR to the 19 There will be "Furies" and buildings have been erected, or ap TRANSFER · BOOKS will be machines will be of the newest types four years well over a million new MAY, 1981, Both Days inclusive.
"Harts" for home defence; prob-proximately one to every forty per ably "Harts" for Army co-opera-sons in the country. tion; with the new 111.F," with, New houses, vast blocks of data, Panther" engine, as a general shops, theatres and cinemas, blocks purpose machine under the name of offices and factories are appear, of the "Gordon," and "Nimrods "
ing at the rate of a quarter of a
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Agents. Hong Kong, 28th April, 1931. [662
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME. ORIENT,
MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE AGENTS.
1
PEAK MANSIONS)" Six-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments -PRINCE EDWARD KUAD," KOWLOON,
*
Detached and Semi-detached · Villas Modern Construction with Garage,
"CAMBAY BUILDINGS”. Flatz with Modern Conveniences.
that a final dividend of $0.50 per A bankruptcy notification states
of Lo The Lim, of 65, Wing Lold cent has been declared in the case Street.
act Looking Back 25 Years.
on
H.E, the Governor has appointed
Colonial Treasurer, Collector of Stamp Revenue, and Assessor of The prisoners in the Municipal Hates, and to be the Commissioner Gaol, Shanghai, to-day made an to carry out the provisions of the organised attempt to escape. Mr. absence on leave of Mr. C. Mel. ed serious sword wounds and was Estate Duty Ordinance, during the Blennerhassett, head-gaoler, receiv Messer, O,D,E,, or until further conveyed to hospital. Two Indian orders.
warders were badly injured. The from Hong Kong for Chian and The postage on printed papers
prompt measures taken were success- ful in suppressing the outbreak. Owing to the bad weather, the The noted brigand Vah Mao Mao. Bfacno has now been altered to two match between the Hong Kong undergoing twenty years' penal cents per each two ounces or part Ladies' Hockey Club, winners of servitude, was killed, as well as two ounces, and four cents to all the Caer Olark Cup, and the Rest, another Chinese prisoners, while which was arranged for Saturday, five convicts were wounded-Hong HE the Governor has been wast postponed. It will be played Kong Daily Press, May 4, 1606.
osed to appoint Dr. D. J. Park, on Friday, at 5.16 p.m., at
on the K.B.S.F.P.A. ground, King's Looking Back 50 Years, Line, M.C. M.B., B.S. (Lond.); the conclusion of which the Caer D.P.H., D.T.M. and H., to act Clark Cup will be presented to the ax Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
winners, the Hong Kong Ladies Hockey Cluir.
other destinations.
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and "Ospreys" for the Fleet Air million a year, and the total annual Arm. The new British force will value of these new buildings was
in the Police Court, lulled to. Yesterday morning a Chinaman have some of the finest machines in assessed last year for income-tax the world, and in all but numbers purposes at over nine million
sleep by the soporific nature of the proceedings, had a valuable bangla it may be regarded as it to deal pounds. If we analyse the returns It is notified that at the expira
nently slipped off his wrist. with any possible emergency,
Although this was a tolerably' bold of last year's building we find that tion of three months the Chinese A Gorman and two Chinese, aro stroke of business, it does not equal future, with more highly powered places of entertainment, 274 hotele, trary, be struck off the register and Kongmoon. It is understood the walk into Court with a ladder, took the police for that of another member of the thiev There will be more flying in the 205,842 houses, 7,815 shops, 920 World Tour Company, Limited, will, wanted" by
unless cause is shown to the con- alleged fraud on a merchant ating fraternity who one day coolly enginesThis-in-itself will cost restaurants, etc., 23,007 Factories the company will be dissolved.
German was introduced to the the clock from the wall, and went more money Petrol and oil are and warehouses, and '595 schools
victim by the two Chinese. The off with it. This man went about estimated to cost £97,000 more next and hospitals were erected. The tory proof of the appointment off for some clothing which he (the no one thought of Interfering with The Carrile notifice that satisfac-former gave the European $2,000 bis job in such a business-like way scar Another incuitable outcoms erroara-have-thus isen more than Mr Arthur Ritzi as President of German) was supposed to sead to him, the natural presumption being of improving aircraft is that im- made up, and the rate of constructhis Colony of the Base! Evange Kongmoon, but after receiving the that he had been ordered by, some proved armament must be provided. tion of houses is now slowly decreas placed in hands of II.E. the Gover nothing has been heard of them the clock-Hong Kong Daity Press, lical Missionary Society has been money, the German went away and one in authority to clean or repair Every new military aeroplane must ing.
· May 4, 1881.
since.