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LA SALLE COLLEGE.
Prince EDWARD Road (Kowloon)
Classes 8-9 inclusive.
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Admission of Day Boys on and after
the 7th Desember.
Admission of Boarders on and after the
7th January, 1937,
FOR PROSPECTOS APPLY TO»– Rev, Brother AIMAH, Director,
La Salle College, Kowloon-
Or
Rav. BROTHER MATTHIAS, Director, St. Joseph's Collage, Hong Kong.
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THE CHINA. LIGHT & POWER
CO. (1918), LTD. '..'
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Y VIRTUE of the Authority" Blather by Ordinary Resolution of the Company passed by Shareholders at an EXTRA- ORDINARY MEETING" held on 1st DECEMBER, 1981, the Directors of the Company have decided to offor to Shareholders Additional Shares in the proportion of one Addition Share of the nominal value of $5 for every Are Shares of which they are the registered bolders on
9th January, 1982.
Buch Additional Shares will be
issued at par. The full nominal amount of $5 por shara will be payable on acceptance of the off r on or before 1st February, 1932, in the case of Shareholders whose registered addrons is in the Colony of Hong Kong. In the case of Share holders, whose registered address is outside the Colony of Hong Kong, the date for payment will be lat April, 1992.
The TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from 2ND JANUART, 1932, to 9TH JANUARY, 1982, both "days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & 00.;
General Managers. Hong Kong, 3rd Dec, 1931.
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ENTRIES ULOSE at 12 O'brook NOON on MONDAY. 7TH DEORM
EB, 1931.
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THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931.
abolition of Hesused" areas. A
GILMAN'S completely false unes of security
for
A truly British car, with an engine up to American power · 'standards -- that's worth your study and final choice.
is dispelled by abolition, and strong deterrent against immor ality, namely fear of disease, is
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News and Views
HILLMANS removed. The idea that effective Tale of the Day.
inspection is porsible has long been
After violent outbursts of revolu. Gardening By Raliways, abandoned by the medical profes Sit down, you're an ass," shout- tionary ardour; the congresmen
Besides being one of the biggest tion. though an illusion thased one heckler to another. A third adopted unanimously resolution economic enterprises in Sweden, the tolerated places present no danger man called out,
You're both to the effect that literature is a State Railways, according to a re cent statement in the Swedish press, ba henith has a tenacious persist- ||
weapon of the class war. Then, is also the biggest gardener in ence, The argument as to the nd The candidats said, There seam after sitting up for ben days and Sweden. For many years past the vantage of segregation has inorn to to be a lot of aisee here. Let's hearten nights in order to arrive at this railway employees have received simple formula, like good Russians very popular occupation of the special training in gardening, which recommend it. But district a few them ond at a time.”
they went to sleep. hundred yards from Arsenal Street Said the first interrupter, "Very
signalmen and station porters, and and actually infringing upon Nathan well, you start off then."
at the present time, an outline of the art of tending bees, prepared Rond do not suggest segregation.
for the use of railway men, is heing Probably
put into practice in most of the little gardens along the railway. station, as well as at every signal lines throughout Sweden. At every maz's cottage, a garden is laid out at the expense of the State Rail-
these gardens are kept in order. gardening inspeptors to вес that.
What People are Reading.
SEE THE
HILLMAN
WIZARD
AT THE
FIRST!
in Hathan Road, Kowloon..
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pelin. Vleting,
For the first time since the War
our streets will not be English Service at Graves of Zep. so sedute as they might be when the Government policy is steadily extinguishing the "red rights," but
Alpine Dam Planned,
What is claimed will be the highest barrago in the world is to be constructed at Corps, in the De-
that is a matter for the police to was held at the graves, in Potters be 40 feet thick at its base and 10 ways, which also sent out special) ramedy. No one expects the streets
an English Service of Remembrancepartment of Isère, across the Drac. Built of stone and conereto, it will
feet thick at the top, and will form an artificial lake about 1,000 yards across, The water coming down
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Bar churchyard, of the crew of the to contain no reprehensible persons,German Zeppelin which was brought but at least the evil should be held down in flames so that place. In check by proper patrol.
The Vicar of Potters Bar officias- ed, and a wreath provided by the from the Alps will accumulate in in the centre of the line of graves. Sautet: A 300-feet waterfall creat Icen! Ledge of Buffaloes was laid valley known as the Gorge du The German Ambassador has writed by this 420-foot wall will provide ten to the Buffaloes Lodge express- the motive power for a huge gen that the service, will be the fore- ing deep appreciation and the hopesrating station.
The greatest arguments against "' toleration " is that it never fails to create a huge interest, wealthy, | DURO GARAGE up and inhuman, whose whole object is the stimulation of vice by subtle and devious means. The supply, at young girls is maintain ed by a systematised traffe, and a machinery is perfected for exploit ing, and for reducing, to virtual slavery all women who have been cajoled or persuaded into this horrible mode of life.
GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents.
BIRTH.
(4.1.3. 3:
Charens.-On November 20, 1931, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM CHARTERS, a daughter
The fact that only 695 books GR from the Berlin Municipal Library military subjects were borrowed
still a serious-minded person is de- potry," of which 38,980 were bor rowed. And that the Gorman. is monstrated by some further statin- 14026; and science, 13,768. tips: history, 28,314; geography,
It would be a mistake, however,
out return from a borough near to assume that the Berliner has a monopoly of heavy reading: A ro- London showed that though 677,703 books of fiction were issued, history followed at 55,044, and English scored heavily with 99,880, travel literature accounted for 37,887,
proof that militarism is in eclipse can scarcely be held as absolute
in Germany. The full-blooded mili- tarist bas no use for reading at all. runner of many tokens of good will Grade Crossing to Go.
Still, it is impressive to see how. poor & show the science of war between Carmany and Britain.
makes compared with books alweni! Of the 3,000 grade cragningstillfed under history, Eterature and French "Eugger."
in existence of French railway Hopes of a settlement of the ingerous and thirty as requiring im af lines, 300 are considered as dan fortunate dispute which led last mediate attention. The Under- vear to the cancellation of France's secretary of State for Public Works Rugger" matches with the home and Tourism, M. Ghaton Gerard. Unions, are now running high. recently announced that it was the Police Court proceedings con
The breach may be healed by the | Government's intention to substitute stantly reveal the methods by which five former French Internationals orossings. There are, it appears, action of the small committee of bridges and tunnels for those level -callous and commercialised vice who have now drafted their resolu-funds available for the construction tions. Their recommendations en-of about ten of these tunnels or persistently puts pressure upon the strictly amateur nature of the will be carried on at this rate: the draws women into its net, and viengo (1) stricter rules for ensuring bridges each year, and the work parents and guardians to sell youngame, and (2) an important modi- cost being about 2,000,000 francs gitte. Moreover, it must be re-club championship.
fention of the conduct of the French annually. inembered that to license a girl to house is virtually to gontence her to innoculation with degrading and destroying disonse. It may seem curious that once vice-in-tolernte ed" a flock of human vultures des Editorial and Business Offices: 11cends to batten on the profits, but
· Ice House Street.. Tel, 20952. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tel. 24521.
DEATH
KLEIN.-On November 20, 1931 at Shanghai, ROBERT KLEIN, aged 83. years. U.S. Navy (retired).
ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
M.
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A. DE CARVALHO desires to ex- press his appreciation to all who conduled with him in his recent heavy bereavement.
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RO. &
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 4, 1991.
The draft resolutions have already been anbmitted to the two feder-
tions which now control French
A New Literary Society.
signifying Courage.
The Rev. Pat McCormick alludes Tagger." If they are accepted.
in the St. Martin's Review, that the why would be clear to a renewal model of what a parish magazine relations with Great Britain and may be, to the correspondence in the
Home Preas, about Dr. Sheppard' Ireland. But there can be no inter-so of the expressivs word "guts national matches with France this season.
to signify courage.
He mentions that a correspondent has sent un anecdote showing how a negro Preacher got over the
has precisely the same meaning). of a sheep ("pluck," by the way, difficulty of allusion to the innards
The coloured evangelist was ap-i parently denouncing a weak-kneed brother, for he said," The man has not the intestinal courage to do this."
such is the experience of all place and all ages. No one imagines that Hong Kong but abolition strikes a of the "International Union of Re- immorality will be rooted out of aiety. It bears the imposing title
The world has a new literary so
hard blow, and often a fatal blow,volutionary Authors. Its members at an interest whose object is to have just been holding teir first greate immorality and to complete being Bolshevists, appeared in uni congrena at Charkoff. Most of them. a vicious circle by persuading the form. authorities that "the demand" is on the increase.
"LE SPORT.”
WAR ON THE SOCIAL EVIL.
THE French, Government has decid- THE Government of the Colony is ad this year to subsidise the dove to be warmly congratulated upon |lopment of sport in the country to its decision to prosecute an uneom-
the tune of about a quarter of a promising campaign against the
million pounds sterling. In Bri- social evil in Hong Kong The first tain, which begat most of the
A European Rano.
The Poace Treaties may not have brought peace to Europe, but they, have given her, a Reno.
In Riga, the capital of Lettland, divorce can be obtained in the ensest circumstances for the modest fee of six shillings and eightperce. It can be procured, too, without the consent of the other party. This new divorce "Paradise" is rapidly acquiring & European popularity,
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already taken advantage of its and Germans, in particular, huevoA. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. facilities:
But it will offer no opportunity to British subjects. Owing to our laws regarding domicile, a Riga divorce in these circumstances probably would not be recognised.
Local Notes and Events
We have received from Messrs. Lane Crawford, Ltd, two red and sold desk calendars for 1932, of the pattern that has become so fami-
liar in local offices.
Among the forthcoming weddings
A short memorial service for the inte, Sir Newton Stabb will be held in St. John's Cathedral at 3 p. to-day.
From the files.
Booking is now open at Anderson duction of "Miss Hook of Holland" Music Co: for the forthcoming pro- Looking Back 25 Years..
HONG KONG & KOWLOON,
VAST INCREASE IN POPULATION.
250,000 EXPECTED IN RUSSIA BY 1030.
Ripe, Nov. 28-An increase of 100,000,000 in the population of Soviet Russia in the next twenty
years was forecast to-day by Pro- fessor Payevsky in the course of a speech at the Leningrad Academy
"In 1950," he prophesied, it
At a sitting of the Justices of the of Science...
to be permitted and no retura of untaxed under Mr. Snowden's Bud- the Hong Kong Football Associn. P.15 p.m. Children will be charged mises, 149 and 150 Queen's Road ita male and female labour baten-
this paper. Seven performances will be given, the opening night bourne and Mr. H. Craig-an ap- being on Friday. December 11, at plication for a licence for the pro- Soviet Socialist Republics to recruit
Intending patrons are requested to robo. On the motion of the Chair- than 250,000,000, which would be Central, known as the Stag Hotol, lions from a population of not less half price admission to all seats. book sarly.
was presented by Louis "Manual
man the application was granted.
sufficient labour to develop our re-
that they will be occupying new Ofoes no more girls are being registered by other nations, they are still Hugh Raymond Vaughan-Fowler of Society as advertised elsewhere in land (presiding), Mr. C. D. Mel-will be possible for the Union of
INSURANCE CO: bag to advise steps have already been taken and ports that are taken so seriously notified at Shanghai is that of by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Peace yesterday-Mr. F. A, Hazo as from MONDAY morning, 30TH
1. Soochow Road to. Winifred Hazel NOVEMBER, on the Begon Frost, to recognised houses" No trans wandering whether or not playing Fowler of 2, Houston Court. ASIATIC BUILDING, Quian's Road,
fields for the slum children will go
get. They will if the Treasury month's absence will be allowed. can be certain that for five years the land thus dedicated to public uses will not be built upon; and athletes may well be bred on un in five years quite a number of
B. JR. MITCHELL,
Branch Manager
1505]
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
1820]
By Order,
3. D. EVANS,
Hon. Secretary.
more than a
fera from one house to another are
an inmate after
Thus these establishments will be, tundily emptied and in three years' time it is estimated" that they will
The monthly Council meeting of tion will be held next Tuesday at 3.30 p.m. The draw for the second round of the Junior and Senior Shield competitions is included on the igenda.
When a Russian was charged before. Mr. E. H. Williams yester- day with having entered the Coinny
•
In addition to the support of sources to the fullest extent."" Mesars, Lammort and Johl, Mins
NEW SPANISH FLAG APPROVED.
her concert to-night the gracious
It
assistance of Mrs. Kow, who will
sing as indicated in the programme
An ex-
Road and naked him to change
PURPLE STRIPE ADDED TO
all have been closed. In the case likely patches of soil. But Britain dings are announced:-Mr. Eric, without a valid passport, he plead. Henriette Murkens. has obtained for The following forthcoming wed of the districts frequented by Euro. is almost alone among the nations Frank Buttress, 13, Macdonnell ed guilty but stated that he had THE ANNUAL DINNER DANOR Perhe six months uotios has been advertising value which the Gov. who is travelling to Hong Kong on.
in not admitting that sport has an Rond, to Miss Doris May Biddock, came here in search of work.
was found that he had been sen here following. A very enjoyable will be held at the PENIN-TILA given to tenants, and then the ernment should heartily support. board the 23. Chitral; Mr. Poon tenced at the Consular Court, Tien concert uny he expected at the City HOTEL, KOWLOON. on FRIDAY, placen will be eliminated. The pro-Need ws change our policy? Right. Szewai, Chinese Y.M.C.A., to Misstsin, previously, whereupon he was Hall to-night, it is clear. After DECEMBER 18TH, 1991.
Tables may
be booked at the ceas in to be gradual so that they or wrongly, we believe, with a Mak: Yuk Ying, 03, Third Street, fined $60 or five weeks'.
MONARCHIST COLOURS," Peninsula
violin and piano music by Mias or Hong Kong Hotele. Government can guage the effects game is more than triumph at the
slightly parodied Kipling, that the West Point,
pulsion order was granted by the Donovia Hunt, Mr. G. P. Lammert Charge for each person. 38,0 Payment
Magistrate in addition, to the above will sing "The Devout Lover,' +i must be made when booking inkles, of its policy, and also, it was not game, and we stick to sport for No less than twenty-four girly sentence.
Madrid, November 28.The new tiaketa will be issued.
Then & Mendelssohn violin solo, considered possible to end at a
sport's sake as firmly as does the were charged before the Marine artist to his palette for similar Magistrade yesterday on a charge
A man named Chan Kam was and Mrs. Kew sings a song. Mr. Spanish flag, which adds a purple moment's notice, an interces which reason. We have deep within us, a of having boarded the ba Athelmuleted of the sum of 8100 yester Jokl joins Miss, Markens in & Bach stripe to the red and yellow of the effects some. ten thousand persons.
feeling that the greater the reward queen, lying at Taun Wan, githout day by an unknown. Chinese Hunt plays a Brahms rhapsody an proved today by the Constituent concerto for two violins, and Miss monarchist colors, was officially ap Many responsible and respectable and the publicity the loss the sport; obtaining the permission of the stranger secosted Kam in Queen's
that cricket is never so restful and master, or the officer in charge.
the pianoforte. Mrs. Kew gain members of all communities in the helpful as on the" village green,. They all pleaded guilty and were he money to save him the trouble sings. More violin solos, and Mr. Cortes when it passed, with sa over Calony will no doubt question the that "Soccer" is best played on a cach fined $50 or six weeks impri- of Boite on parted with the Miss Hunt brings a very promising article of the constitution laying Lammert singa The Rosary."-whelming majority, a supplementary wisdom of the Government's policy. croft, if indeed a bit of waste schment in default.
Kam thereupon the programme to a close.-Hong Kong HONG KONG TELEPHONE They will feel that the control nowvious grasp of the builder, and that ground can be saved from the avari-
above-mentioned sitm in. ten dollar
down the purple-red-yellow, as tho COMPANY, LIMITED.
exercised by the authorities will be in so far as the Puddlecombe Wan and Power Company are offering afterwards turned out to be a roll Looking Back 50 Years.
The Directors of the China Light Bills, receiving in exchange what Daily Press, December 4, 1006.
national colour scheme, GIVEN relaxed that disease will increase lose touch with the real motive that every five shares held by them. The small denomination on top, and the is the intention of the Scotch adopted a provisional clause of the TOTICE IS HEREBY
dorers become world-famous they to shareholders one new as share for of paper with one currency note of. There is a rumour current that it
At the same sessions of the Cortes MEETING of the that the main streets will present started them playing. The British new issue will be at far and the stranger disappeared. DIRECTORS of
Lodge of Free "Masons in Hong constitution, providing that, while HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMIT sorry condition after night-fall, youngster's approach to sport is amount due is payable on accep.-
Kong to give a ball some time dur BD, held on the 24TH of AUGUST, and that no place will be free of he goes to Southern France as a Company
still joyful and experimental. Iftance. The transfer books of the (
ing the present month in the all Spanish presidents must be will bo undesirable characters. Vice, they confirmed lawn tennis player and January 2, 1932 to January 8. easy steam of two boilers. The cap-District Grand Master of English president will be chosen by the Con- closed from of Aberdeen Dock, and was under Masonic Hall, and that the Deputy elected by popular vote, the first made upon all the members holding. Bhares upon, which only $5.00 per share contend, will not be diminished, is offered a chance to try palota, Shareholders whose addremes are tain of the Bower, sening the Solos Masons will be asked to grant stituent Cortes, December 7. WRS has been
he will gladly attempt the slinging outside of the Colony can pay before way coming towards him, ported a dispensation to allow all English set apart for the ballotting to the Bankers of the less segregated as at present. They anyone in the United States offers
his vessel, whilst unfortunately the Frca Masons who, may attend that Company, Tux Hora Kong & BranG.
Salway starboarded; and as, the ball appear in their regalin HAZ BANKING CORPORATION, at their will argue that in any grant him a place in American "Rug- More than 800 men are to take vessels were going in opposite This may, perhaps, go some way
No. 1, Qason's Дола Central,
ger, he will say that, though the part in a naval review at the directions they got into collision, towards allaying the disappoint town, and, most of all, in big sea-amo some overpadded and mur- Happy Valley racecourse this morn- Happily the master did not assume nt which would otherwise be felt 1ST DAT of DECEMBER, 1941.
The TRANSFER ROOKS of the had better be recognised and super-thusiasm, and indeed he will Howard Kelly, will take the salute. other, but merely scraped along
been known to take to baseball with mander-in-Chief, H.E. Admiral Sir not come full butt against each vious arrangement, Company Ill be CLOSED from the vised by the Government "than sample anything at least once-ox-The review will be under Capt. side. On the Bower, the main and, morning in the harbour between the he observed to his companion sadly. one paused, thoughtfully in front of 6TH DECEMBER to the 9TH DECEM
the wreaths on Neleon's monument. BER, 1991, Both Days inclusive. ignored.
cunt, perhaps, posing is a torea Reyno of H.M.S. Berwick. The and tickle were slightly damaged,
"Autres temps, autres mours}" Experience in Europe and lor. It seems, on the long view, Commander-in-Chief is expected at and a small portion of the rail was steamers Bowen and Solway. The "I Nelson were alive to-day they the right attitude, even though it 10.30 a.m.; and, after an inspection broken, whilst on board the Sol harbour on a voyage to Singapore, signal: The League of Nations latter was on her way out of the would expect him to make, the Americh, in Colombe and in means the foregoing of internation- of the companies, will take the the damago sustained was not of an Indian garrison town" has been al triumphs in a world of 'over- Falute from a march past that is ex important character-Hong Kong whilst the Bowes had just come out expects (or, rather, hopes) that no- that disonso decreases with the organised and subsidised' sport. perted to Just about an hour. Daily Press, December 4, 1881. Continued on Previous Column,) body will do anything.)
1991, a Call of $2.50 per share was
be paid, and that'snok Call will and it will not be kept more or with that sickle-shaped basket. If April 1 next year.
the
Nelson Were Alive/?
Two men were walking through
Head De Bon Kour, on ports there is a demand" that derous, be will try it. He has evening at 10:30 o'clock, when the Com- any serious features; the vessole did at the falling through of the pre- | Trafalgar square one morning, and,
By Order of the Board,
W. L MCKENZIE,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 28th Oct., 1981;
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A collision occurred yesterday