NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
SOCIETY OF ST, GEORGE, TONG KONG
NOTICE 18. HEREBY GIVEN that a SPECIAL GENERAL “MEETING" ∞" the Society of St. Georgo, Hong Kong, will be held on Wednesday, the 80th day of Marah, 1982, immediately after the termina tion of the Annual General Mesting when the following Resolution will. be proposed.
That the Euler of the Society bo amended as followsBy adding the following paragraph to the end of Bule 8-The "Committee shall have power to waive the payment of an entrance fos in the case of membere of His Majesty's Foress and Civil Servants attached thereto who with to join this Society.
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By Order of the Committes, LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Secretaries & Transurers
Hong Kong, 21st March, 1982.
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SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,
HỒNG KÔNG.
THE
THE ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Society will
be held in the Board Hoóin of Mours, Jardips, Matheson & Co. Ltd., on Wednesday, 30th March, 1982, as 4.80 p.m.
For the following purposes.
(a) To receive the Report of
the Committee and State- mont of Accounts for the" past year.
To alect the Officers, and Committee for the ensuing year.
(e) To consider the manner in which St George's Day shall be celebrated. (a) To transact any other
business of which due notice has been given. All Members are requested to attend.
···LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Secretaries & Treasurers, Hong Kong 21st March, 1982.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDIUTION,
IN THE GOODS OF FREDERICK JAMES HUGH WALLER, LATE OF LABORE CANTONMENTË PUNJAN. IN INDIA, à Major in HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL ENGINEINB DECEASED, INTESTATE,
COTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtus of Section 68 of Probate Ordinance 1887, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Olaims against the above Estate to the 18TH APRIL, 1932.
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All Creditors and Others are accord. ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before
hat date.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932
distraations enough for elever men, and an athletic blue or the Pre sidency of important University. nocletion often leads to a snorifier in the School." The same prin- ciple applies to the young naval officer who gets his.. "Arata" in the examinations for the rank of lieutenant. Ron powera of self denial and application "ara rovent ed by testa carofully designed to reveal practica as well as thcore tical knowledge, and the young officer who this early proves his metal is given every chance of carning quick promotion,
We all know, of course,
the
bookish type that has a fair for examinations and is the dolight of the cramuner, Civil Servior examinations are peculiarly tempt ing to that type of mind,,, but, fortunately, most bookish people have enough sense to go for one of the many pleasant posts suit. ably to their particular talente, and to keep clear of work where more learning, is of no assistance. The only flaw is that scholarly young men are often boereed by ambitious," relativom with fixed ideas as to the proper career for the scion of a family distinguished in one particular walk of life
*News and Views +
Tale of the Day.
income runs into thousands,
Mr. A. Of course, my husbunu s
1914 Call to Arms for 138.
A war ralio of unusual interest- a amali poster announcing the gen-
Mrs. B. How lucky you are! Mine merely strolls into the huneral mobilisation in 2014 - which ¡dreds...
wae offered for sale at 'auction was sold for less than 128, in Paris..
Boy of 18 for Wimbledon.
Vella in Brief.
Tiny voila are having a tremen dous succosa in Paris, They aro gossarmor affairs, made of the fin- est silk or not.
They do not come lower than the forehand, and may be worn either
ANOTHER WORLD
WONDER
SYDNEY BRIDGE
OPENED
THROUGH RAUTIR'S AGENCY.)
BYDNEY, Mar.. ··10. The Australian Premier, Mr. Lang, added to the wonders of the world when he officially opened the 19,000,000 harbour bridge, thus oul- mating seven years of labour. Sydney proper is now connected by A boy of 15, stopping on the the harbour with the vaat suburban
aren of North. Sydney, Centre Court at Wimbledon.
That is ho picture conjared up
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mess of over 20,000 tons of steely The bridge which is an intricato stretching 1,90 feet was built by
skill that when the two ends met Mr. Dorman Long, and was such a. triumph, for British engineering in 1830 it was less than an inch out according to plan.
tied over the hair, inside the felt by the official announcement that veil certainly holds the hair in place lawn tonnis prodigy, will play in borst, or also over the beret, The Vivian McGrath, the Australian in guaty wonther, and-dare one the Wimbledon championships this whisper it fit conceals any possi
year. He will not, however, be a ble lines in the forebend
Hundreds of thousands of Aus- member of the official Australian tralians and visitors from oversena team.
witnessed the opening ceremony; His remarkabla rush to front trumpeta biared; guns crashed: aoroplanes swooped over the world's rank is a striking commentary on loveliest harbour and procession W. T. Tilden's Tomark: "Catch ships, representative of all nasiona, 'em young."
passed under the great arch.
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Fight Given to Loser.
There was uproar aflor a fight at The Ring, S.E., when the name as the winner. of the wrong maui was announced
The contest was a 12-round bout' between Eco Phillips, of Birming am, and Fred Chandler, of Ken-
bish Town:
The referee, Mr. Matt Wells, the ex-lightweight champion of the world, told the .. that Chandler was the winner.
His announcement came like a hunderbolt, as those present com sidered Phillips had won easily.
There was continued booing, and some men attempted to get into the ring,
The late Lord FISHER beloved that favouritism is the way to efficiency," and many were the complainta of disgruntled persons against the Fish Pond." But the status of favourite" was, had made the Lord FISHER theory, only acquired by possession of the proper Entry to the Navy, qualities.
undar FISHER's Now Scheme, was by selection first, and then by a not very severe competitive examina- tion. The only weakness lay in the fact that the selection took place at the mature age of twelve tg
After five minutes of uproar the roferoe. informed the M.C.that ben
should have awarded the verdict to mistake, and that he Phillips, as his score and showed that the Birmingham boxer had
won practically avary round..
Cotnoidenes.
Mr. Charlottes Stanway, of Ongar, Essex, and Mrs. Ruth Ogel, of Blackmore, a neighbouring village, who were life-long friends, were born on the same day 75 years ago, died within an hour of each other, and both were buried on a Saturday at the same hour. Rash of No Known Disease,
class. Iawn toonia to become the Every year the tendency of first- prerogative of youth grows stronger.
Great Britain is fortunate in be ing able to put on the court two such young players as H. W. Austin and F. J. Pay
Miss Macdonald's Lucky Stooking.
Middleton and Margaret
Appealing for funds for the Mary Mac- Donald Baby Clinic in North Kon- sington, Miss labbel MacDonald told
Palladium matinee concra put one of my Blockings on in When I dressed this morning, side out. That is supposed to be lucky, but I took it off and reversed it. Do not make me superstitious; if you do not respond to my ap peal shall blame my stocking."
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The King's Message, delivered the opening address and The Governor, Sir Philip, Came
read out Majesty the King, while on the. message from His north end of the bridge, the Mayor of North Sydney cut the ribbon with the scissors used at the recent opening of the Kilvankull Bridge, New York, which were presented by the Mayor of New York as i gesture of goodwill.
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"New Guard"- Moves” Just before Mr. Lang severed the ribbon opening the bridge a mount
dragged him from his horse. severed the ribbon with his sword. Follow police officers immediately
the name of the people of New I declare this Bridge open in South Wales was shouted by a mounted man horse forward and cut the ribbon.
as he spurred.” bis
He was arrested and gave as his name, Captain Degroote. an ox officer in the Hussars. He was a A baby girl, Dorothy Good, of member of the New Guard" Or- Low Hill, who was the subject of ganisation recently formed to.." op- an inquest at Wolverhampton was pose all attempts to sosialis Aus- said to have died after being frigh, tralia and which boasts of B tened by a cat.
membership of 300,000.
Frightened to Death by Oat.
The father said that as the family Campbell, the Chief Comman- were walking home on Sunday night der" of the New Gaard, who was the cat went behind the child, who absent from the ceremony, prefer- Boreamed, collapsed, and died. ring to bathe, said although we The cause of death was given as had 100,000 men we knew that one. status lymphaticus, brought on by British officer was sufficient to deal shock due to fright, and a verdict with Lang and the Bridge situa was returned accordingly."
tion despite, the precautions taken including the presence of 1,400 policemen,"
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On paper the method of choosing Cadet Officers appears as good as human nature cản deviser
certain university degree of a standard, is, presumably, the frat qualification. The fohelustig, test is thus placed on the University Experts at the Ministry of Health authoritics, who are best equipped have been puzzled by a mysterious for this work, and a competent illness which attacked six children board confines itself to questions of one family at an isolated farm of character and temperament, near Pickering, North Yorkshire.
There is evidently no idea of The children's ages range from 7 Tess abolishing the Cadet officer into 16, and the only one, that died favour of the qualified professional was aged 13 and the first to be. men, axcept in the medical, angin affected coring and other highly technical departments. The system of giving a good general training in the language, customs and administra tive methods of a Colony, and then granting special facilities for specialised training is evidently preferred for a certain number of officers. The specialist must inevit, ably be needed to an increasing degree in a complex community mine the cause of the illness. Fook A heart attack caused Dr. Kaiser which. was disclosed yesterday, like Hong Kong, but the Colonial polsoning was suspected, but ex to fall, baton in hand, from a high scoms to have been nipped in the Office are of opinion, that a ground-haustive "inquiries have failed to platform, and he died within a few, Bud and the "New Guard" Or-tors of the Hongkong Engineering ing in the general work of govern. substantiate this theory..
ganisation frustrated. mont should be given before officers | are required to obtain the higher technical knowledge needed in their respective departments.
HONG KONG, Munch 21, 1932:
SELECTION OF CADET OFFICERS.
Some of us may read with a certain cynical amusement the elaborate apologia (reprinted elsewhere in this issue from, the Government Gazette) of the Secretary of State for the Colonies for abolishing the examination tests for Cadet Officers. The bare news was announced by cable some time ago, but now the full reasons behind the change are rovealed. There is soundness in the argument that recruitment should be
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a pumber of smaller, individual services particularly if selection is to be the method The danger of
The report of the Consulting closed preserves", and "pocket Committee of Hong Kong Fire-In- boroughs" is thereby largelysurance Co., Ltd., for presentation eliminated.
to the shareholders at the sixty third ordinary meeting to be held at the offices of the Company, on Wednesday, March 30, at noon,
states:-
1930
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TEXICAN DOLLARS Current
The Secretary for the Colonies in this Colony, for Telegraphic Transfer, in fact, painfully anxioue, to on the Lords Commissioner of His assuré us that the aolection com. Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and mittes has been placed on a settled shows a surplus of 8615,420,34, and Account-This accourt for the Bum of £50,000, will be received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER,
and permanent basis, and has been
it is recommended that this sum COMMAND PAY OFFICE, siil 11 protected against auspicion on the be appropriated as follows;~ o'clock am on the 21 MARCH, score of partiality or unfairness-To pay a Dividend. of
.880 per share ......... The Tendera to state the Total Amount if any such suspicion there were!" To pay an Exchange"
Fonnds Starling). No Telegraphic Perhaps in these democratic days fransfer will be made for loses then 2100.
Bonus of 83 per share. Tanders to be in Duplicate, and in the explanation, is needed, even if To add to Roinsurance Covers, addressed to the TREA- it calls to mind the lady who over-
Fund £12,608.8.8 SURY CHEST OFFICER, COM. MAND PAY OFFICE, and endorsed did her protests. No human system "TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT can be perfect and it would have BILLS,
been better to have admitted, by Fa tactful silence, that the merita of Nattts
a father would, inevitably, be silow. had an application,
Persons andaring for (Bill) arsed in rare and exceptional casUS heroby Notified that, having aged to to weigh in considering the claims the provisions of the Acta 22 Georg ILL, of aon.
6 and 41, George III, Cap. 82, the
Tea
right to accept or reje
of the Tenders is reserved,
Copies of Forma of Tandeva!
Cap.
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Appointments must acceptance of any en Tender is subject either be made by selection or by
to the express condition that no Member rigid and automatic tests. Some of the Bittiak House of Commons shall degree of favouritian must creep be admitted to any that or part in
to
Died While Broadcasting.
A message from H.M. the King Listeners-in to a symphony con-congratulated all concerned, on the The symptome were intanse abdb cert from a broadoasting studio successful conclusion of a magni minal paine, with a high fever, folab Vienna suddenly heard ficent triumph of engineering skill.. lowed by a septic rash which was crash, and the orchestre stopped deseribed as "extraordinary, and playing in the middle of Dvorak's sent fitting in with no known discase." Slavonie Rhapsody." The victims were not. all taken ill at the same time, and adults who had shared the anime food were not affected,
Mr. J. H. Thomas, among others, mensago congratulating those concerned ou their achieve. A few minutes silence, and then ment of which the British Empire, the announcer informed the wonder-inay well be proud. ing listeners of the dramatic death An amazing plot to seize Mr. of Dr. Ludwig Kaiser, who had been, Lang and to throw him into the A post-mortem failed to dealer-conducting the concert.
river at the opening ceremony,
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Local Notes and Events *
New Regulations regarding the storage of fireworks are given in the Gazette.
At to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club, Mr. Champkin will talk
"Thean
Anti-Aircraft Guns"
It is notified that the name of the Kowloon Tong and New Territories Develoment Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.
One case of small-pox and three of enteric fever were reported on Friday:
The Euro-American Heturned Students' Union, Hong Kong, hus donated the sum of 8510.00 for the medical relief of the suffering and wounded in Shanghai, through the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Prac titioners organization:
H.K. ENG. AND. CONSTR. CO.
PROPOSED DIVIDEND.
The report of the board of diroc-
& Construction Co., Ltd., to be presented at the tenth ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders, to be held at St. Georges Building, on- Tuesday, April, 3 at noon stater:-----
The Net Profit for last year, after charging $10,433.00. for, De- preciation and providing for Direc- tors' and Auditors' fees, amounts to 299,868:38, to which has to be added
From the files. balance brought forward from last
Looking Back 25 Years,
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account, 829,791.55, leaving avail- able at balance of Profit and Loss Account $128,800.18, with which it is proposed to deal as follows:- To pay a Dividend of 20
The annual meeting of share- holders in and subscribers to the The Oxford and Cambridge So. City Hall was held there yesterday
per cent. eiz, 40 cents2 His Excellency the Governor has Kong Hotel Roof Garden on Batur also present the Hon. Mr. H. E. ciety dinner took place at the Hong afternoon. The Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson. presided, and there were
per share on the "Old" appointed Mr. M. M. Watson to be day evening, a good muster of Pollock, K.O...Mesurs. A. G. Wood, To pay a. Dividend of 20:
shares, absorbing Member of the Medical Board, mombors being present. HE. Sir N. A. Siebs, E, Layton (Treasurer).
Mr. G. G. N. Tinson resigned. William Peel, E.C.M.G., K.B.E.,
per cent, viz, 1}"centé was in the chair. The toast of and Captain Marchant (Secretary). The forthcoming marriage is an Oxford University was proposed by
share. per
on the nounced of Frank Albert Morry, of Mr. Ho Loung, and of Cambridge The Hong Kong Cricket Club's 11, Felix Villas, nd Barbara Mary University by
"New" shares, absorb- tho Nicholl, of 18, Peak Bood:
Bishop of last match of the season took place
ing Victoria (the Right Rev. O R. on Saturday, commencing at 3 pm. To carry forward to cre
the team- Duppuy, D.D.). His Excellency The following was also proposed the health of the Messrs. W. C. D. Turner, R. Han-
dit of next year's Ac Bishop, and expressed the general cook. T. F. Pearce, AH, Young, regret felt by members of the Bo- Major H, E. Lewis, 119th Infantry,
count ciety of the forthcoming departure Lt. H. E. Stanger Leathes, I. M.S., of Dr. Duppuy, who Vice-Presi W. A Powell. H. W. Woodward, dent of the Society.
R.N., R E. O, Bird, W. Peake, A. B. Ponsonby Hong Kong Delly Press. March 21, 1907. Looking Back 50 Years,
8400,000.00
40,000.00 It is notified that at the expira. tion of three months the Industrial 175,420.34 Development Elrondmill Company, Limited will, unless cause is shown 8613,430.24 to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved.
Note:The General Managers and
Consulting Committee with it. to be understood that the con». The Chief and Petty Officers of ornment. Civil Hospital, before Mr. Mr. E. P. Anslow, of the Gov. tinuance or otherwise of the H.M.8 Cumberland gave a success. Schofield at the Central Police above Bonus, in the whole or in ful dance on Saturday night in the Court on Saturday, prosecuted a part, will depend entirely on Garrison Lecture Hall, Wellington Chinese for stealing a mat from The Russian gunboat Sobol, Cap- Exchange.
Barracks, a large number of friends this car which was parked in Hoa tain, Alexis Boyle, arrived here 1937 Account:-The balance at and their dadies spending an en-pital Road. Detective Sergeant yesterday from Foochow credit of this Account is 3324,208.67.joyable ovaning..
Johnson stated that it was usual: bort. Ho Tung, Messrs. C. Bernard Consulting Commitler-Sir Ro-
for car owners, working at the Gov-
38,830.00
.121.08.
85,609.08
$128,050.13:
Directors:-Mr. J. T. Bagram re signed from the Board on the sib August, 1981..
On the 6th August, 1931, Mr. Lo Choung Shiu was invited to join the Board and his appointment ré quires the confirmation of share-
Brown, A. H. Compton, L. Dunbar, abeance on laave of Benhor Walde their vehiclen parked in Hospital and Mrs. March, arrived here yea
It is notified that during the ornment Civil Hospital to leave The Hon. WH March, C.M.G..holders at this meeting. or to any benefit to arise from the Coo- into the former method, and the T. E. Pearce and AH. White remar De Araujo, Vice-Consul for Road. On Saturday Mr. Anslow terday morning from Suez by the Bir Robert Ho Tung, and Bir tractShareby made for the allotment of letter can never be perfectly and tile but being eligible, offer them-Brazil in Hong Kong, Mr. Faustino was walking along Hospital Road series
Messageries Maritimes steamer Elly Badoorie, retire by rotation, solves "for
Antonio Xavier will act as Honor when he saw the defendant taking, provisions in question do not justed practical conditions. Mr. Felix A. Joseph has accepted ary Vice Consul in charge of the 'the mat out of his car. He gave n".
and, being eligible, offer themselves. apply to Contracts entered fulo by way Neither faults need impair then invitation to join the Consult Brazilian Consulate. Incorporated Company in its corporated efficiency of a forvino."
chase and the defendant was arrest ing Committee; his election requires
Major-General J. N. Sargent, for re-election, "capacity and made for the general benest | *
ed by a coolie of the Ellis Kadoorio C.B..who is to succeed: Lieut. the confrmation of Shareholders. of the Company,
AuditorsThe accounts for the It is announced in the Govern- Bohool. In sentencing the defen General E. W. Dolovan as Com Auditors. The... necounts havement Gaselle that by an order made dant, who had a prarious convic mander of the Forces in China and year have been audited by Mesarn. Blaghan and Miltrow, and Potey March 17, the Hong Kong Kit Worabip said that he would like to sand on the 15th instant on the B. Chartered: bean audited by Mesara Lowe, by the Governor did Connell onion fix hard iphoir biske Straits Setinmente, latt-Grave Lowe Sraith, Seth and Fleming who, he Bhoung Br Wo Ch'eung Yee Wur express appreciation to the coolie0 steamer Australia, to take up meansing eligible, offer themselves for is declared to be an unlawful for his action in bringing a thief to his appointment Hong Kong There are re-election.
sosiaty.
Daily Prem, March 21, 1882. ⠀
DGN WIMBERLEY.
Colonel, HAPO,” "Treasury Cheni Qilder. His Majesty's Framaury Offset
HongKong.
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The examination method has
much to recommend it. dergraduato to gaba University honours school brains, and character.
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