OUR WATER SUPPLY HONG KONG - STOCK
NEARLY DOUBLE-LAST
YEAR'S FIGURE.
By the
The water return fasued P.W.D. on June I shows that at that date Hong Kong's reservoirs contained 1,140 million gallons com- pared with 605 million gallons on the same date last year,
The reservoirs are by no means full but the position is satisfactory, and a constant supply is being given to all districts.
The figures are as follow:-
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.
1930. 1031.
"Tytam Tytam Byowash... 21′ 0′′ 24' 4 "Tytam Intermediate 43′ 9′′.. B′; B′′- Tytam Tufc. 03′ 9 337 BY Wong Nei Chung... 27 3° 17′ 8′′ Pokfulam ...... 21′ 11. 6′ 11′′ The above figures are the depth of the surface in feet and inches holow overflow level..
Storage in Millions and Decimals of Gallons,
Tytam
1.89 32.99
MARKET.
CROUCHER & CO.'S DAILY REPORT.
The market closos dull with general all round sellors of most stocks, at or below the official open ing rates.
Banks and Unions are offering at 82,010.00 and 2020.00 and Cantons can be obtained at, 81,490.00. Eong Kong Fires are wanted at $1,335.00.
A small lot of Waterboats was placed at $28.50.
Wharls cased to 8187.00 with, fur: ther shares offering and Providents are offering at 86.70 cithor for cash
or, the Settlement.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY JUNE 9, 1931
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
UNDERS 18BURD BY THE NON. ME, D. C. WOLFE, Q.M.G., INSPECTOR- GENERAL OF POLICE.]
General..."
Revolver Practice-The regular weekly revolver practice will inko
Rango to-morrow at 5p.m. It place at the Bowen Road Revolver
will be open to members" Indian Company, Hong Kong Police Reserve.
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Training Comiss."
of the
The weekly classes for Police Be serviata will in future taks" plade
quarters, 17, Queen's Road Central, at the Chinese Company's Head
All members of the Chinese Com pany who have not yet passed Part II. of Training Course should at
Hotels, roinnin steady at 17.00] tend. " cash with business at $17.30, for July.........
Chinese Company, Strength-Constablo 175 Ip Fing
having completed one year's service with effect from April 21,
Lands declined from last week's "Chi has been permitted to resign rate of $94.00 to $0.50 whilst Humphreys weakened at $21.50, There are sellers, of Realtys at $14.20.
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Utilities are offering at lower) rates all round. China Lights at 1930, 1931. $26.50. Electrics at 882.75 Trams 214.50 200.74 821.25 and Telephones at $38.00.
.99.
Canton Ices at 84.00 are in good 130.34 727,06 demand but Dairy Farms are lower 11.34 with buyers offering #20.70 with sellers at 830.00 for the Settlement. Watsons can be placed at $15.00 Consumption of water in the City and Lane, Crawfords were booked
Tytam Byewash
Tytam Intermediate
"Tytam Tük
Wong Nói Chung ..
Pokfulam
Total
320.16
5.34 20.85 40.58
505.84 1,138.16
and Hill District in millions and up to 27.00. decimals- of · gallons during the month of May:*
Estimated popula
1930.
1031.
Consumption. †288.16 $341.02
4-42,880 410,650
AN INTERESTING
INVENTION.
20.5
tion
Consumption per
head per day... 20.4
+ Includes 03.07 million gallons From Mainland.
§ Includes 05.03 million gallons from. Maintand.
THE WYLER WATCH.
May, 1930-From May 1 to 31,
The results of a very interesting." 1990, a 12 hours' supply to a.m. to invention have just appeared on the p.m.) was given to all Rider Main Hong Kong market in the form of Districts (principal mains closed from 6 pm to 3 a.m.) with the the Wyler unbreakable watch." exception of the area North of The greater degree of accuracy ob- Queen's Road between Murray tained by modern watch maker's Road and Eastorn. Street where a constant supply was maintained was not without disadvantage for during the whole month.
May, 1831. Constant supply throughout the City, Hill and High Level Districts during the whole month.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS.
1931.
it necessitated making the pivots of the balance shaft considerably thinner with a result that accuracy was gained at the expense of salidity. When a watch falls the balance pivots are almost inevitably broken. In order to prevent this 1030.
the arms of the Wyler unbreakable Kowloon Reservoir 10 11 "watch are made flexible and bent Sheklaipui Reservoir 8' 11" Reception Reservoir 10' 1' 17 instead of straight and stiff us in The above Ggures are below over the ordinary watch. Thus in the event of a fall or shock the balance arms give way in ali directions thus breaking up the shock and avoiding its transmission to the thin ex- tremities” of the shaft and to the 241.10 jewels. In addition. the Wyler 110.10 watch is constructed with a limita
99.07
tion ring which surrounds the Total 205.10 35.17 balance, and definitely absorbs the Consumption of water in Kow. shock already weakened by the loon-in-millions-and-decimals-of-flexible arms:- gallons during the month of May:
flow lovel
*Level with overflow. Storage in Millions and Decimals of Gallons
Kowloon Reservoir 202.00 Sheklaipui Reservoir 62.00 Reception Reservoir 9.45
Consumption Estimated popula-
1030. 1931.
1930. 134.02
The spindles of all wheels and the 1031.
organs of the winding mechanism 189.40
are constructed in steel specially 173,340 234,150 tempered in order to eliminate
tion....... Consumption per
head per day....
34.7 18.0 Constant supply in all districts. during May, 1030 and 1931.
The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water is satisfactory.
The total rainfall to May 31 1930, 10.17 inches; 1931, 34.23-ins.
LAI WAH COMPANY'S
STOCK.
SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
FOR $30,000, ...
breakage. The shapo, and the set- ting process of the jewels (rubics) have been studied in view of secur- ing the maximum of resistance. The watch glass also is unbreakable. The Wyler unbreakable watch is obtainable at Ullman's in Chater
Road
HONOUR FOR LOCAL
SCOUTMASTER.
THE WOOD BADGE,
Ladian Company. Strength-Constable R264 A; K. Karmint has been taken on the strength of the Indian Company as from June 1
TRAVELLING BY SIBERIA.
MONEY TAKEN. FROM PASSENGERS.
LACK OF GOOD FOOD,
Travellers over the Siberian
Min-
ALLEGED THEFT OF MOTOR TOOLS.
CHARGES AGAINST CHINESE,
NAMED SIMPSON.;
A Chinese, who calls himself William John Simpson, was charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with the theft of motor-car tools from the garage of an unnumbered houzo at Castle Peak Road on June 2. He was additionally charged with hav- ing ridden a motor cycle without the permission of the owner, Private
Angus, of the Argyll and Suther land Highlanders.
Mr. Horace Lo, appeared for the
watched the case for the police. dalence, and Mr. Le Bart Sparrow
Sergeant Clarke said that about 4.10 p.m. on June 2 he saw the defendant riding motor-cycle, No. 680, through Tain Wan village toward Castle Peak. The same evening he was seen repairing the machine outside Capt. Moir's house. Apparently, he failed to repair it, and tried to borrow some tools. Ho failed in this too, and was alleged to have pushed his cycle about 200 yards down. Castle Peak Road,
route should be warned of an atrage which is being perpetrated by the Soviet Government, and either be prepared to submit or take the alternative routen vid Suez or the Pacific, says a correspondent, of
last stop before entering Poland, the North China Daily New......
On arriving at Nagoreloje, the
the Soviet, and little difficulty in one's luggage is again inspected by
experienced through this. However, an inspector comes and demands your receipt for the amount of foreign money you registered when entering Russis, and also for the number of Russian roubles you bought after entering Russia. Immediately this is shown, you are rushed over to a desk whare other official demands anywhere from 15 to 30 dollars (gold) a per- .son. You ask for what?" and are told that avery person is sup- posed to spend seven and a half roubles a day while in Russia, or a total of 00, roubles for the trip, although rightly speaking one spends only seven days in Russia proper. The assumption is that Sharpshooters Company.
one must spend this in the dining Strength-Constablo F422 G. Har of the train, as one can buy Coutts has been permitted to. realmost nothing at the railway The defendant was alleged to aign having completed one year's stations where one stops.
have then walked back to Capt. | service with effect from Juno 1.
The following members have been
Moir's house and half an hour later taken on the strength of the Sharp-
The chief imposition about this
to have been seen riding a motor- shooters Company as from Juno schemo is that one is not forewarn-cycle, of which the number was not Constables R40 II. Greye, Ri17 Led, and it amounts to highway known, to Kowloon About this Dowdall, and R422 R. Stewart.
time a cycle was found to be mies- ing from the garage of Capt Moir's house. Motor cycle No. 686, which was ridden by the defen dant, was found abandoned at about 10 p.m. that evening about 200 yards from Capt. Moir's house. The tools were also found beside it the following day. The tools came from the garage of Capt. Moir's house.
Flying Squad.
The weekly instructional patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take place on, Friday, June 12. Fall in at Central Police: Station at 8.15 p.m. sharp. Dress: Khaki uniform
and cap with klaki” cover.
Not Forewarned..
robbery to have the money taken (Sgd.) D. L. KING, from you at the border, absolutely D.S.P. (R.).without alternative. The hardship arises especially with people who travel sócond and third class to save money, and who carry their own food.
CROWN LAND SALES.
GARAGE SITE ON MAY
.. ROAD.
As we came through recently we saw many people weeping as they parted from the last money they possessed. Several memalmost came to blows with the Soviet official. Inland Lot, "No. 3189, with an concerned in their anger at being ares of about 1,100 square feet, ad-held up in this manner, but the joining, May Road,, was sold by official naturally had the last word. public auction to the Humphroys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., at the P.W.D., yesterday, for $1,400. The upset price was $1,100; the annual rental is $8. We under stand garages will be put up on
the site.
Kowloon Inland Lot, No. 2505, situated in Boundary Street, Kau Pui Shek, fell under the hammer to Wong Wing Him for $10,800, the upset price being 87,838. It has an area of 6,226 square feet, and the annual reptal is 800.
...
He simply said he had his orders and it was not his affair that passungers had not been advised of this new ruling when entering Russia.
It would be very simple," when the Inspector asks one to register one's money on entering Russia, for him to say that, like all other countries, Russia must try to profit from the tourist "trade and that, therefore, she arbitrarily asks that seven sad a half roubles a person' be spent daily while crossing the coun- Bidding was pretty brisk when try. But not a word of this does Kowloon Inland Lot 2307, with an one hear, neither at the C.E.R. area of about 1,984 square feet, in offices in China or Harbin, nor Tai Non Street, was put up. The from any travel agency, although upset. price was $4,000 but it rose one is told that the ruling has been to $8,400 before it was knocked in effect for over five months. down to To Yun Shing. The annual rental is 238,
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
CHINESE KILLED IN NATHAN ROAD;
Chief Diaadvantage.
The chief disadvantage to the tourist is this: One would gladly spend the money in the dining car, one would indeed prefer to do so.. But after erossing Russin several times one finds that one is utterly unable to eat the food provided on the trains. There is so little to break the monotony of the long Two motor accidents, one fatal,journey that one would spend more were reported to the Polien over than the 60 roubles on food and wine as there is no other distraction the week-end
In the firet report,, an old man possible for the seven tedious days. of t attempt to cross But, to repeat, the food is so very Nathan Road opposite the Mongkok bad that one cannot sat it. Fur Police Station at 8.15 p.m. on thermore the service is so absolutely Sunday, was knocked down and kill vile in the dining car that, even ed by a motor-ear, driven by Mr. were the food tolerable one would D. Forbes, of 72, Nathan Road, still shrink from eating it.
The second accident occurred The waiters are so filthy, the car near Perceival Street, when a Chi smells so sour and is so dirty that nese, coolie was knocked, down by one is deprived of appetite, Ono a public motor car. The man re- BOCs waiters combing their hair ceived injuries to his head and was directly over the tables. On this removed to the Government villast trip we thought we would try Hospital
WOMEN. BURNED. TO
DEATH, A
EARLY MORNING OUTBREAK: IN KOWLOON TONG."
The sale room of Messrs, Lammert
At the Scout Bally hold at Gov- Brothers was packed with prospeo tave buyers when the stocks, furni ernment House on May 30, His túre and fittings of the Lai Wah Excellency the Governor, Sir Co., Ltd., at their premises in Des William Pool, prosented Mr. B Voeux Road Central, were sold by Dormer, Scoutmaster of St. Andrew's public nuction under instructions
“A fire, which broke out in the from the liquidators.
Troop, with the Wood Badge, an early hours of yesterday morning, It will be remembered that a honour much coveted in soputing destroyed five huts in Kowloon petition was recently presented in the Supreme Court by one of the circles, Mr. Dormer, who returned Chai, near Kowloon Tong. creditors seeking an order for the from home leave some months ago, daughter, aged respectively 61 and winding up of this concern. After qualified for this special badge at 21, were incinerated in the flames, considering the petition, the Court camp organised for Scoutmasters after being trapped in the burning allowed the voluntary liquidation
huts.
Two women, "A" mother" "and a
the dinner. once. We got there for breakfast at about 11 in the morn ing, to find the waiters asleep on the floor in their clothes Appar ently no provision-is made for say curployed on the train and one look at the dirt on their hands, faces and clothes quite literally turned ones stomach.
This criticism, might well be applied throughout the train. The porters are almost all utterly in competent. It takes them 15 minutes to make a bed and then it slips from under you. Unless you fight for it, you get no change of linen all the way across. They also are filthy as to hands, face and dothes; they never thoroughly clean your compartment, and moreover none of them speaks any language except Itassians. If the Soviet want,
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Borrowed Tools
The defendant informed witness later that he had borrowed' tools
from a Portuguese, who happened to ride past on a cycle, and was asked to return them the following day. The defendant said he did not know the name of the Portu guese or the number of his cycle.
After the evidence of Private Angus had been taken, the case
adjourned until next Friday.
B
good porters as bad ones in country with so many millions of people, even though the Five Year Plan is absorbing 99 per cent of the intelligence and energies of the high offaiale.
Never Again.
Without exception, the people we talked with on leaving Russia this time said that "they would never, travel Trans-Siberia again. Оле can always, if one wants to save money, take a small German boat which costs £00 from Shanghai to Marsailles; one has no changes, one Customs only to pass through; one
has excellent food and comfort, and it is worth a great deal, when one if off on holiday, to exempt oneself from these aggravating scenes en route
Mind you, one could have escaped paying out the gold at the end of the journey had one known what that sixty roubles had been spent was coming, and simply declared" during the trip. One would have kept the roubles (which one buys anyway when one entera Ruasin) and perhaps used them again or sold them to another traveller, or, as one man on our train said, he would rather have thrown them away than be, robbed of them. One could have given them to people along the way, although money means little to them, for the roubles which are bought at two for one gold dollar, in Russia, me finds outside of Russia selling for leas tan ten to one gold dollur. Which pust mean that to the peasant the world is still considerably smaller.
Fofood to Buy Roubles, Harking back to the matter of being tamed for not spending mongy in Russia, let travellers also be warned not to leave their gold dollars lying in luggage where the inspector can lay his hands on them. He simply takes possession of all your money if it is accessible, and withdraws from it whatever he seems to think he is entitled to take, Otherwise, you at least have the privilege of counting it out your- sells
let this be clear. You are forced to buy your robbles in Russia at the official rate (and not outside st the cheaper rate) as the inspectors demand the official receipt . for roubles purchased in Russia. 11 you buy less than 60 roubles, you are taxed gold or starling for the
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Mr. H. P. REES, who has been out from London only w B few months has already proved he can produce garments that are not only Stylish but Comfortable.
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cloth froma
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all dust, spots, and soiling of a greasy matter by speci spirit soaps and pure PETROLEUM BENZINE which can only be used in special machines installed in a fully licensed building approved by the GOVERNMENT There is only one large installation in the COLONY.
THE
STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS,
MONGKOK.
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Head Office Mongkok Howloon Hotel Depot, Brankow Road. Hong Kong Depot:16; Blanley B, Kowloon Dept 19 Canton Road, Peak Hotel Depot. Hong Kong Hotel (Visitors only)NLIN Valeteria Service 864, Nathan Road, (next door Masergio TuriTEE) 2. Peninsula Hotel Arcade
to continue, subject to supervision held at Gilwell Park Attending The fire huts stood in a group and the appointment of an addi. this camp, which is held annually, and once the outbreak commenced to mako a good impression with difference, and, beads that they tional liquidator
are scoutmasters from practically it quickly consumed the inflamable this railroad, as one surmise they take back whatever roubles you Bidding commenced at 813,000 for
material with which they construct, do they surely could easily find have left, that you have already. 15 ding commenced 15 000 of every troop in England, and Mr.ed, or former trained sorsaate, speaking paid for in gold or Sterling Sol STA31979. and the gure eventually renobed Dormer is to be congratulated on Thron fire engines, which were at least one language, who could in there is no way, of spending $20,000 in 8000 lids, the purchaser being one of the few possessing the rushed to the scene, prevented the give efficient service to passengers The money in Tunein, and getting being. Cheung, Hay Ting, care of Baronvins
fire from Caprending. The amount crowing: Biberis. It should be at anything of all for your money, you Yus Tai Cheung, importers and ex-nesssary qualifications before the of the damage has not yet been easy to find, or as simple to train are fleeced whichever (wat you look porters, Hillier Stroot,
badge may be gained,
(Continued on next Column.) at it
estimated.