NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE FANLINO HUNT AND
RACH CLUB,
NOTICE TO MEMBERS,
THE
Point-to-Point
Meeting
Arranged for the 10th April "and the Paper Hunt arranged for the 17th April have been CANCELLED.
THOMSON &.00.,
Secretaries.
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HONG KONG GENERAL CHAM- ∙BER OF COMMERCE. GENERAL MEETING OF IMPORTERS.
HE HONG KONG GENERAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE invites all Import Merchants in the Colony-including non-members of the Chamber-tasitend a meeting to be held in the offices of the Chamber, Chartered Bank Building, on: THURSDAY, 14 APRIL, 1932
at 4.15 P.M.
to consider matters of general im- portance to the inde, arising out of certain demands which have been made by the Chinese Pieco Goods Guild.
By Order.
M. F. KEY,
Snarstary.
Hong Kong, 6th April, 1932. (2085
THE HONG KONG MUSICAL
SOCIETY.
prunte
THE SCHNEIDER TRIO (PIANO, VIOLIN & CELLO)
in
TWO RECITALS OF TRIOS at the
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE
KD
WEDNESDAYS,
APRIL 137 and 20тa,
Yat 9,20 P.M.
Tickets (84.40 and $3.80) each. obtainable now from the Secretary of the Institute Ops to the public.
WM. POWELL, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOTIC
that the THIRTY-FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING of Shareholders will be held in the offices of Messrs. Perey Smith, Seth and Fleming, 8 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong, on Thursday, the 21st April 1982, at 11,80 a.m. for the purpose of repairing the Report of the Board of Directors and a State- ment of Arconnu for the year ended 29th February 1932 and olesting Directors and Auditors.
COME
OVER
TO-DAY
and see the finest motor cars in this Colony English
construc-
tion and body-work, high-power engines following the Ameri- can practise, and. every good point of both styles. BILLMAN
WIZARD
and
HUMBER
SNIPE
AT THE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL $1932
Commission wore quite Army that there must never again be a water- Amina ka that of 1920. The Government rejected the sugges tion, on the ground of expense,
News and Views
but evidently agreed with it, as an Tale of the Day. ident
"
Perhaps the most curlous sugges- Sho: Jack, I was wrong to treat tion was the importation of thirty you the way I did. You'll forgive Bussing police constables to replace, too, for being so angry with as many British police sergeants. you all last week, won't you 1"
He: That's all right. I saved The astonishing thing is that the
weren't on Inspector Genormt of Police made Ava pounds while we the proposal and because it would speaking terms." mena the saving of a lack of dollars the support seemed pretty gon ra There are many reasons against diluting our police force. with the Whitest" of Russians.. We are sure the idea is abhorent
to the British Comununity and let us hope that no more is heard of it What is right for cosmopolitan Shanghai, where the system works well, would by no mentis bo desir able in Hong Kong
The Government is rightly ca bious about the proposed prison staff roductions. In view
of recent happenings in. Victoria Gaol mach Oo the human side, however, the Com- mission takes a broad and en- lightened viow, and insists. ou "the GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents. | need to stop this perpetual incar-
DURO GARAGEomers in-opportuné.
in Hathan Road, Kowloon.
LAYO B
THELMA
DEATH, Moana-On April 5, at the Canton
Sanatorium, Canton, Moan, beloved wife of K. E. Mega, Shamoon, aged 19.
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The
grim's ProgreNN.”
The Dalai Lama of Tibet is a juling correspondent.
| A New Channal o
A new ordeal will face. cross- Channel passengers if the decision to introduce women into the Bi- tish Customs service is carried in to effect.
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NEW TERRITORIES PRODUCE.
E
U
M
FAIR IN KOWLOON
NEXT MONTH..
RESULT OF EMPIRE DAY COMMITTEE'S SUGGESTION.
For some years past the tolerant
Arising out of suggestion if irascible douaniers nt Calais,
mado at the recent meeting of the Boulogne and other French ports Empire Day Committer, hold a The Dalai Lama Grateful for Pil have been reinforced by a number Government House, whereby facili
of middle-aged wonen in binsk ties might be made available for overalls and glengarry capa. U the purchase of New Territorios der the cold and vigilant eye of produer, arrangements are now in these women even the most harden-hand for the holding of a special ed tourist becomes painfully aware Fair for this purpose on May 23 of the packet of English cigarettes and 24. which makes a dangerous bulge in
This has been made possible the pocket of his overcoat.
through the promised co-operation And if our new women Customs of the New Territories Agricul officors are as grim in appearance tural Association and of
"
Try your brain at understanding this letter received from him by the Religious Tract Society in London. It acknowleges a Tibetan version of Bunyan' "Pilgrim's Progress," which the society forwarded to him a year ago through a missionary working on the Indian frontier:
Greeting.
as the policemen who flash" sus-others interested in the project Hyde Park after sunset, one might siderable length at a meeting of Received the letter and thepicious torch on a stationary sarin Matters wore discussed at con-
Ashey scarf gent on the 21st of
the sixth Tibetan month of the Ironsheep year, in which it was anid that Macdonald Sahib who is living in England had written. that the religion of Jesus Christ has been translated into Tibetan and printed under the title of
The Pilgrim's Progress,"
It is difficult for, us, who accept and spread the doctrine of those who wear the yellow hat, to ac- cept and live your religion.
I have reraived the copy you forwarded by post from the Re ligious Tract Society. Please thank them,
With Ashey: written on the ausṛ picious date, the 10th of the 10th Tipetan month of the Tronsheep:
your.
many
predict that the adroitest of silk the Empire Products. Sub-Com- mittee of the Association, over smugglers will soon abandon the which the Hon. Mr. J. F. Bunga
presided. game for one more comfortable...
Making a Better Beckenham,
...
It is hoped to hold the Fair on the plot of ground as the junction of Salibury and Nathan Roads, opposite the Peninsula Hotel, to which vegetables, melons in L son, poultry and eggs will be trans- ported from the various districte
in
Bockenham Council has decided doration of petty offenders against regulations, While not positively
to invite.members of the following helpful og the subject of hawkars
bodies to serve on their panel of
the New Territories. The ́at least the report brings that prob-
film censors:
prices of the products will be deter
lem to the notice of the authorities.
The Chamber of Commerce, Wo.mined by the Lan people, or whole- On the question of public health
men's Citizen Association,Wo- sale greengrocers, on a basis which men's Free Church Council, will assure the farmers a 'profit." the Commission is outspoken, Thero
Council of Christian Churches, Kowloon Tong residents have Girl Guides Association, Boy promised to be responsible for one can be no reductions, and all
Scouts Association, Men's Brotant of exhibita from their din suggestions are put forward with
therhood, National Citizenstrict, and it is hoped that residents evident diffidence. The incipient
Union, Association of Teachers,at The Penk, Shek-O and ather The society sheds some light on-
Mothers' Union, Educational places will similarly co-operate. epidemics constantly stopped by these obscurities by explaining that
Welfare Department of the South Mr. H. 8. Chen, proprietor of the engagement announced alert and efficient medical and exchange of silk scarves. takes
Suburban Co-operative Society. Tsin Wan "Sunny Farm," bas place in Tibet on all seremonial oc- CAMERON, son of the Rer, and sanitary services, are a warning of asions, and the "Ashey scarf is Beckenham, as you see, has a promised a supply of eggs as free Mr. 1. G. CAMERON, of Mero, what would happen were procna-one of superior quality befitting the highly developed social sense.
One gifts to the Fair. dignity of the hierarch. The
The elders of the New Terri- Wilta. England, to Miss GERAL- tions relaxed,
words. Those who wear the yellowbody alone appeafa not to be re-tories have shown much interest in DINE LOUISE SMITH, daughter of Mr. J. C. H. L SMITH, of In some of its recommendations, hat? refer to monks of the reform presented or recognised in the the Empire Day products. mavo- Hong Kong, and Mrs. Mwhere the personal element is iad sect of Iamsism.
ment, and have promised to dis Sarti, of Alameda, California,volved, the Raport may have
seminate the idea amongst the peo- ple on the mainland. U.S.A.
*(2063
ANNOUNCEMENT.
of PETER WEATHERDON GIANT
Editorial and Business Offers: 11.
Ice House Etreat. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. Holl.
London Office: 13, Fleet Street,
1.04
The Bady Press
HONG KONG, APRIL 7, 1038
THE RETRENCHMENT COMMISSION'S, REPORT.
School
...
Building of a Better Beckenham
It is the people who go to the
Alms:
Oxford Conservatism.
The refusal of & half-Blue to the Oxford icehockey team is an exim.
SUI TAL-VENEZIA
COLLISION.
subscriptions have been received from the following:-The Bon: Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Hon. Mr. G. Gordon Mackie, Mears. A. M. L Soares, W. T. Stanton, W. C. van. der Steen, W. E. P. Saunders, Woo Lai Tin, Paul M. Hodgson. T. J Draper, Bin Cheuk Man, Ho Wal Hing, Mrs. R. J. Paterson, Mrs E. Baker and "Anonymous,"
As the list will be closed next week, it is hoped that further sub- scriptions will be received before. then,
bleak appearance, unless its object Terms of Endearment. ia always kept"in mind, and also
Correspondance between "Mr. Mo- the fact that allowance is made for Govern and Mr. Boden Buxton Government rejection of many sug- affords an amusing contrast in gestions. The education problem forms of address employed by
Socialists. is approached with reluctance and the, Commissioners were well aware Bear Comrade," and ends, "Yours conservatiem can be carried.
Mr. McGovern's letter begins: ple of the absurd lengths to which In connection with the subscrip
tion list started by. Mr G. H. of their limitations in this tech- fraternally." As an intellectual
It is a particularly stupid exam-Potts, Chairman of the Maono nical matter. What they advise and on outraged intellectual at
Jockey Club, for the purpose" of employs the ple (1) because the present, Oxford making a presentation to the officers wil displease both parents that Mr. Buxton
stereotyped "Dear McGovern" and ice-hockey team is the best in Eng; and crew of the s.8. Chuen. Chow, pecially British parents who want Yours sincerely."
land; (2) because the majority of adequate schooling for their child-
Mr. McGovern's is the usual form the players are Canadians, and the ren and the teaching profession. Education, like the law, is a matter of address among Socialists, though decision will be misunderstood in where common sense" (or in there are variations. Mr. Will the Dominion; and (3) because ice other words the superficial view) Thorne writes to non-Socialists: hockey is a far more manly and "Dear Friend X." Mr. Maxton more popular game then billiards quaring guide. The auguste has an ending all his own: "Yours and chess, for which half-Blues are
of the Diocesan Boys
Already granted. in the cause." as the Central British Scbool, however redeems details The Bolshevista are more pictures- In its inanity the decision is on
que. which would, if put in force, carry Trotsky, written in the days when ment of the outworn rule that un- A letter from Litvinoff to all fours with the recent reinforce 118 Luck the time of Mr. SQUERR
the two men were friendly, is dergraduates may not sit in the THE
signed press your hands arm. cheapest seats at places of enter Retrenchment Commission's The Report is outspoken and M. M. Litvinoff."
tainment, Report must have been of the courageous and evidently gave the Government groat assistance in a greatest assistance to the Govern-difficult task. It is astonishingly ment in the task of over-hauling and modernising their office. oT- ganisation, their staffing and the administration of many technical matters, which are also handled by: private enterprise. The Commis- sion was a strong one, consisting of three of our most respected busi- 7380, one Chinese and two THE THIRD EXTRA RACE Dess
MEETING will be held (weather British, presided over
by Mr. permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on BREEN whose financial and adminis SATURDAY. 9TH APRIL, 1932, com- meneing at 1.45 p.m.; Brst saddling belltrative abilities have been fully
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be olored from 12th April to 21st April, both days inclusive.
By order of the Board,
W. LALEXANDER, Secretary.
Hongkong, 5th April, 1982.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
1.16 m.
MEMBERS' INCLOSURE Members are astified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
Mo. One without a Bade wil be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admiting Non-Members to the Members Exolosure and Clubh Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $8.00 for Ladies (Both including Tar are obtainable through the SORE. TARY upon Introduction by Member, Member to be responsible for
of All Chits, etc. Payment
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Base Course,
rache
demonstrated both as Postmaster-. General 'nadi Acting Treasurer, The routine, and the methods, of each Government Department were
to
compact and every paragraph in- vites careful consideration and die- ¡cussion. ~ We give elsewhere a'fow extracts but the whole document merits close and careful study by everyone interested in the welfare and good government of the Colony.
EMERGENCY POLICE FOR KOWLOON.
VOTE FOR $28,800 TO
COME UP TO-DAY.
Among the votes to come before thoroughly examined and compared the Finance Committee of the
''.
Local Notes and Events ★
The Hong Kong dollar was yes
21240
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AND REFRESHING
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AND
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CONTRACTED BY
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THE HONGKONG
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If not satisfied your money back.
Qualified optician engaged from abroad,
· Eyes Tested Free of Charge: Classes Guaranteed for 3 Years,
No. 11, Wine Lox Szauer, East.
(Opposite The Sun Co.) "0
Telephone 28864.
ROBBERS STEAL- $7,000.
REVOLVER USED: BULLETS. LEFT BEHIND.
Evidence in the form of three re-
The forthcoming marriage is an- If a person is killed by a falling terday quoted as 18. 2d. on denounced of Capt, Albert Frank brick, "a charge of murder or volver bullets was left behind by
Horden, C.P.S. Likih, and Miss
mand.
"
One case of small-pox and five of covebro-spinal fever were reported on Tuesday,
Eva Margaret Rogers, of the Meni manslaughter may be laid against three armed robbers who made good cipal Isolation Hospital, Shanghai. the person responsible for the their escape from the premises of Also of Mr. Stacy Pierce Harris, work.
So spake the Magistrate and Export and Import firm at 61, of the U.S.S. Mindanao, to Miss yesterday morning in imposing on Jervois Street, during the tiffin Matune Hayashi, No. 37, Morrison Chan Cheung, of the Hung Tak hour yesterday with $7,000 in Hong The Point-to-Point Meeting ar-Hill Road.
firm of building contractors, a fine Kong surrency. ranged by the Fanling Hunt and Raco Club for April 20 and the
of $100 for failing to take neces
Fy precautions in regard to fall-
It appears that the master of the
Scenes of Goethe's. Fauit," Paper Hunt arranged for April 17 which were recently produced with ing debris at the junction of Dee firm, a Chinese named Ma Fat. Lun, have been chelled.
such signal success at Canton by Vaux Road Central and Gilman members of the German Commu- Street, where four houses are being nity, will be performed by the same pulled down. players at the St. Paul's Girls' School, Macdonnell Road, on, April
H.E. the Governor and Lady Peel attended the 7.15 showing of Sunshine Susie,'
with the procedure of modern busi- Legislative Council today is a sum the British Alm, ness houses.
there to put the official standpoint.
On No Prater will Uhildren be permitted in either Enclosure during She Meeting,
Tifius are obaisable at the Club mant Hours provided lay are ordered from the No. 1 Bay in advance. Telephone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, The Frise of Admission to the Publio Enclosure is $200, including Tax, for all Persons, fududing Ladies, and payable at the Gals.
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was writing at his desk at 13.30 p.m. when be heard a man call
from the outside of the staircase
The Chairman was of 828,800 in respect of an emer Int the King's Theatre on Tuesday 18 at 9.30 p.m. Admission is free Mendoza, who thought that a certi.The master opened the door and
T
geney police unit for Kowloon and
extra benta in certain arena.
There was again a packed house.
A Mexican seaman named Ramon door, which was holted, "Ah Wu" and all interested in the greatficate of identity permitting him to
saw three men outside. One of and to explain where, in publio It is explained that in view of
As announced on Tuesday, next work are welcome
land in Bristol in June, 1931, allow-them, dressed in a long coat, said: service, there must be divergence the possible reaction on Hong Kong work's Rotary Club tin will take
ad him to drop in on Hong Kong of disturbances in Chinn, the forma place on the President Hoover.
“Ma Sin Sang," which translated A successful whist drive, which in April, 1932, had his mistako from concerne that are run ation of this new emergency unit is The speaker will be Mr. A. M. was organised for the benefit of painted out to him by Mr. Wynne is a form of polite speech. Ma Fat commercial undertaking.
considered necessary. Moreover, re- Bowes. Smith, whose subject will be the Services by the European Jones at the Central Magistracy Lan then invited the men in to The Commision - recommended, cent building activity has resulted Those Bullion Brokeri."
Y. M.C.A., Assisted by the Women's yesterday morning. Mr. L. H. V cuts in six departments amounting in certain areas being insuficiently
Guild of Kowloon Union Church, Booth, Superintendent of Foice, drink tea, but when the men were in ad1 to $515,000 and the Govern form additional heats on the Frayn Finance Committee of the Legis V.M.CA on Monday. All sections visible means of subsistence and cont pointed a revolver at him and natrolled, and it is proposed to At to-day's meeting of the was held in the new lounge of the said that the man Was without inside the door the one in the long hus accepted reductions Reclamation, Shamhuino, Hung lative Council approval will be of the Bervices were represented, was not wanted here; the polico" amounting to $281,000. It must be hom, Kowloon City and Mongkok. sought for supplementary estimates and the prizes, deasted by Mears merely wanted an expulsion order told him to keep quiet; and he remembered that this was a Be unit is 817,544, and of the extra of $37,080 is also wanted in connor Mesars Lane, Crawford, Ltd.. were
The yearly cost of the emergency for 1831, totalling $96,800. A sumi 0. H. Bernard and Son and, made. It was.
was then bound: with wire and trenchment Commission. Its object beats 810,056.
tion with the current estimatest.
distributed by Mra E. L. Allen..
gagged with a towel. The keys of. was not to increase efficiency and
Georges Artur de Hour de Fas the safe were then taken from his Invitations have been issued by
tree, 48, described as a motor en- improve amenities, but to suggest asked for forming a children's play-
ground on part of the ground nt the Chief Petty Officers and the Mr. A. ML Soares, the local gineer, living at 27, Vick Tan Person, and the sum of $7,000 HK. economies that were possible with present allotted to the Kowloon Petty Officers of H. M.3, Cumber barrister, was fined by Mr. Street, appeared before Mr. Wynnp-curranty was taken. The man stay- out dangerously impairing the Cricket Club. The sum is for land for a flannel dance (the last Wynne Jones at the Central Police Jonce at the Central Magistracyed on the premises about 20 minutes formation, levelling and turfing, of the season) at the Garrison Lee Court resterday for failing to yesterday,, charged with posaos and then departed. Shortly after- machinery of Government. In shelter (including latrine) and see-ture Hall on Friday, April 16, be renew the licenes for his radio. sion of an automatic pistol and point of fact, many suggestions w. maypole and and vit. It is ginning at 8.30 p.m.
The Postmaster-General, who was entering the Colony without a wards a friend of the master ar- were made that abould tend to added that the present playground
in Court, stated that Mr. Soares proper passport. De Fastree plead rived and set him free, and on the Mesurs. Wim. Powell Ltd., adver, was unfortunate in that the warned that the automatic was useless, arrival of a foki report was made better working in the Departments at Chatham Road is extremely un-
suitable for ita purrions..
tisa that the thirty-first ordinary ing notice was, and passed on to as it could not be worked. The easy and advantages to the public. The Another sum of 82.750 is roonest general meeting of shareholders him by those to whom it was de- was remanded until Monday mora-to Police Headquarters. recommendation that a new Water for the arnation on Crown land will be held in the offices of Messrs. livered. A similar fine was imposed ing on an application by Mr.
-It is understood that the Criminal RODoperiment actually implied in at Kowloon City of s kiosk to serve Perry Smith, Bath & Fleming, B. on a Chinose; whose offence, accord- D'Almada e Castro, bail being "ndia Post Ofoe in blaar of the Des Voeux Bond Cutral, on Thurring to Mr. Humilton, was very much allowed or the amount of $100 a
Investigation Department are [2043 cressed expenditure. However, the present rented premises
day, April 21, at 11:30 am,
the same
burety being optional...
ducting enquiries.
Boldern and Salors in Uniform” are admitted Half Fro
Bookmakers, The Tas Men, eto, will not be permilled to operate with in the Precincts of Tas HanG KONG JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting. Tiles will be obtainable in the Ros taurant in the Pablo Enalouniro.
By Order,
Hong Kong, 4th April, 1982,
C. B. BROWN,
A further sum of 86,500 is to ho