GOVERNMENT, BİELS,, ETC.
YUENDERS:
and
SPROIE „MEXICAN, DOLLARS Current. In this Colony, for Telographis Transfer, Hom" thay" Bords Commissionem; ol! Hie
· Majorbyła Tressary. London, up to and for the Sum of £20,000, will be roogivad by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER COMMAND PAT-OFFICE, ll:+1- o'clock am on the 28′′
APRIE 1931,
The Tenders to state the Total Amount (in Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphio Transfer will be made for less than £100.
The Tender to be in Duploste, and in Baaled Covers, addressed to the THEA BURY CHEST OFFICER, COM MAND PAY OFFICE, and andorsed TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, el.
right to scaspt or reject any or all of the Tendery in reserved,
Copies of Forma of Tender oan be had on application,
"Parsons tendering for (Billa) ara
Cap
Noilfed thai, having regard to praziaipou ef klis Acta 23 George,
LUE
· 45: and 41, George L. Cap. 65, the acceptance of any sneh Tender is subject to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons chall be admitted to any share or pari, in or to any benefit to arise from thaí Cón- irol
made for the allotment of such
The
provisions in question do not apply to: Contracta entered into by any Incorporated Company iniša vorporated onpaolty and made for the general boasđt | of ike Company."
D/G. N.. L. WIMBERLEY,"
* Colonel), RAP O., Treasury Chest Ober,
[8194
His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hồng Kong
NOTICE.
GOVERNMENT INFANT
A WELFARE CENTRE at 8UA
and 86 Lookliart Road, Wanchai Reclamation is opon daily, between the hours of 9 in. and 19. noon (Bundays. and holidays excepted),
Advice and Trasiment are Free.
A'R. WELLINGTON,
Director of Medicaland: "
Sanitary Servicsa.
25th April, 1932.
WIZARD
SNIPE
WATCH THE STARTLING PAIR
You mostly so their «tails as they overtake you-ne they alwayü will
4
"Get a look
at the real comfort and magnificent engineering,
Consider
HILLMAN WIZARD
OR
HUMBER SNIPE
AT THE
DURO GARAGE
In Bathan Road, Kowloots).
GILMAN & Co, Ltd, Agents:
(A.P.3. T
BIRTH." GARNER. On March 24, at Ravens
wood. Highgate Road, NW. to SADIR. fee Maradon) wide off Leigh Garner of the Eastern staff of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited,
•HON
DEATH.. MACDOUGALL-On
at Apr 19, Shanghai, EMMA MACDOUGALL, aged 88 year..
Editorial and Business Offices: 11,
Lon:Home-Street. Tal. 30981.
[2118 Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
THE HONG KONG SOCIETY »
FOR THE PREVENTION
OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
TOTICE is hereby given that tho
Annual General Meeting of the Scalety will be held in the Board Room of Meaars, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, the ST MAY, 1832, av 4,16 pua.
By Order of the Committee,"
F. G. MAUNDER,
Hon. Secretary.
Hong Kong, 25th April,. 1938.
It is requested that nominations for the Committee and various Dillcos, daly, propsad and seconcied be for warded to the Secretary before the Meeting."
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
[2118
TEX FIFTH EXTRA RACE T MEETING Wille ha (RADE permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY or SATURDAY, 30 APRIL, 1982, com- mencing at 1.45 p.m.
The First Bell will bo Rung at 1.15 p...
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE,
to
Tel. 94511. London Office: 53. Fleet Street,
10.4
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG,,, APRIL 20, 1982. V
REVENUE-AND LIABILITIES.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THESDAY, APRIL 26,
The actual oxcars of revenue, over expenditure M¤#1,989,000: There were also, by the way, fair in- creas of money spent in Both the Treasury and the Imports and Ex- ports Offee Both fnorsnees were approved by the Retrenchment Commission, who evidently con sidered that the money expanded in the directions by scouring Botton control of the public purse in the one case, and by preventing smuggling in the other reuk be moro than justified on the revenue side of the accounts,
*ews and Views
Tale of the Day...
cultivating your
City-bred: Your method of
enop in oldi fashioned. I'd be surprised if you got more than to pounds of apples off that trad."!
Farmer; So would I1⁄2 1tk a pear..breed
Starting Gate for Athlatios..
An attempt was made at the Public Schools Athletic meeting ät Stamford Bridge to introduce a lines as that used on a raco-course, starting gate much on the same but it proved a failure.
The gate is composed of tapes that cross the track in front of competitors" on the mark and are attached to arms which on the fring of the starter's pistol fly up
It is an mocspted axiom of nd ministration that public depart ments should be kept short of money; that they should be given less than they demand, and never be allowed to heap up credit balances, In fact, small deficits are no"grent evil. Only thus can extravagance, and the other evila due to lack of competition betrical connection with the trigger. This is accomplished by an ole The object is to present a rumor from anticipating the pistol and obtaining what is calling a flier." Entangled.
is,
averted Hong Kong's position however, exceptional The Govern mont was fully justified in estimat ing with caution. Things turned! out botter than expected The dollar
rose instead of falling, perhaps below a shilling. No one could foretell what it would do, and a mild pessimism was the current attitude. There has been, [moreover, a mighty building boom in the Colony. That was, boped for, but by no means a certainty. and if the returns for Land Sales had only come up to the estimates the two million dollar surplus would have looked small and with other takings dependent upon the om deducted the scale would probably have turned in the wrong direction..
The question arires as to whether taxation can be reduced. In view of the many public works urgently needed that is probably impossible Hong Kong is growing, and if it is to keep its place in the forefront
warda:
་་
Swallowed Hi Savings.
A maa, has committed suicido in Lyons by swallowing alt bẩn, say... ings. Ha waa Joan. Coifler, dgrd
ANZAC UNIT FOR H.K.V.D.C
PROPOSAL AT LAST NIGHT'S DINNER.
who owned a posperous café in ANZACS CONNECTION WITH tho Rue de In Vigilance. Ea Arst took an overdosa od voronal which only plunged him into a deep slumber
When he awoke he took from The forination of an Anzac unit his desk in his bedroom m bundle of the Hong Kong Volunteer De of frang 100-frane and 1,000fonos: Corps was strongly advocated frano notes which he carefully by Mr., O De Saille Robertson, at tord to shreds, rolled into a ball, the first Anzio Dinner at the Hong and tried to swallow,
Kong Hotel last night. The money stuck in his throat and he fell unconscious on the floor, but neighbours who heard the thud his fail called the police and he was taken to hospital.
C
"I have spokon to the Command, ant of the. E.K.V.D. C. about it." maid Mr. De Saillo-Robertson,
and if you are willing to prove your Anzao spirit, which I know shreds of hunk-notes from his throat up in sufficient numbers, he will There a doctor extracted the you possess, and are willing to join. but too late to save him. A post he only too pleased to start a mertem examination revealed a special Australasian Unit which number of other torn bank-noten in will wear the badges of Anzao and the throat. The man died of sufits distinctive uniform. Location
+
Dr. H. D. Matthews,, the Chair- mea and Colonel Godwin-Austin, S.W.B, also spoke at the dinner.
Dr. H. D. Matthews, in propbeing. the toast of The Anzace," refer. red to the glorious episode which took place on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula, seventeen years- Pago when the Anzacs effepted a
Haydn Bicentennial. Initiated in
Austria It was employed in only two. hosts In the frat, a competitor
Bicentenary celebrations in hon. who dashed off too soon, got his our of the composer, Franz Joseph head entangled in the tapes, which Haydn, began officially at Rohram, promptly flow upwards He was a small village in Lower Australia, able to disengage himself in time 20 miles east of Vienna
A bronze relief of Haydn was landing in a little cove which was without any serious inconvenience..
When the tapes were again set placed on the front of his carly to be immortalised as Anzac Cove, the athletes on the marked nyad homo and a commemorative supling and drove back the Turks in a them with some apprehension, and planted in the courtyard. Fres series of desperate battles extend inclined to linger on their start when the pistol was firod they weretivca of the Government and of the
dont Wilhelm "Miklas, representing over aaveral months
Years of Common Anxiety.
Then one side of the tapes bn-province of Lower Austria and of same elevated before the other, and leading music societies were pre- the competitor in the latter caso sent, was so handicapped that he wag easily beaten,
The Inventor's Problem.
Photography in the Dark
The speaker mentioned the inters State feeling and jealousy which was Bunk during those terrible yours of the war in a commer anxiety and pride for the men of Expeditionary Force at Callipoli the Australian and Now Zealand and Inter in Franco.
The day when a photographer will be able to use his camera in complete darkness is hrought "The horrible. new German bullet, remarkable achievement by British
within measurable distance by which is fred from a ride with tapering bore, can pierce half-inch experts who have been studying ille-Robertson said that he was Replying to the toast, Mr. C. De darkness photography." armour plate at 60 yards, and
The fruit of their research in the deeply sensible of the honour con- makes a wound like an explosive laboratories of Messrs. Ilford, Ltd. to lay the wreath on the Cenotaph bullet, is a notable addition to theisa photographic plate which, in and to speak, at that dinner.
ferred upon him in his being asked science of ballistics, but is going to help in diminishing the light filter, will give a photograph teen years ago to-night I was enting conjunction with a newly designed
y dark room... of a person or object in a complete-bully beef and biscuits and liking The filter is attached to an ante: but then we never felt safe it, even though I did not feel too.
ovils of whD, :-
not
sensitive.
"It is a highly valuable advance in photographic technique to take darkness picture," said. Mr. H. Baby Beas it Through,
H. Blacklock, secretary of the Royal Photographic Society", of] infant in of Mrs. A. Page, of
When David Paul Page, the Great Britain to reporter: Kettering, was born on February that further research will make it "There is every reason to believe. 20, ho weighed only 1 lb., 9 oz., and possible to obtain photographs in the doctor gave him a day to life.
aenal cellar, in a pitch-dark rail He was bathed in oil and swath-way tunnel and in the depths of
ed in cottor wool,
the ocean. Fed with a fountain pen filler,
and
·་
"It is hard to realise that seven-
Amusing stories of the Gallipoli
Anzacs in this Colony that to start could think of no better way to. perpetuate the memory of the
on Anzac unit of the E.K.V.D.C.. and quoted the remarks printed at the head of this column,
The Allied Forces."
ཐ་
The toast of the. "Allied Forces. Matthews and duly honoured. at. Gallipoli was proposed by Dr.
Premier Select
"Fifty Fifty"
"Premier Special"
Supreme
Adora"
Popular
ABOVE ASSORTMENT
OF
THE
FAMOUS
FOSS CHOCOLATES
JUST ARRIVED,
Each box
guaranteed to
be in perfect
condition.
LIMITED.
Reduction Coupon
20% Discount.
On presentation of this, coupon, you will be given of 20% discount on the quotations of our Glasses,
What should an inventor do when his researches lead him to such a of modern cities in the Far East. rosult? The young Maxin, Sir electric light bulb, and when the at Ansac," said Mr. Robertson. money must be expended on its position when he invented the lit up photographically but not Campaign were recalled by the Hiraan's son, found himself in this Burrent is switched on the room is
business and are the foundation of think of legitimate purpose the human eye to fall on the ob amenities. These amenities bring silencer for firearms,
visibly. The filter allows rays: He frankly owned, that he could which are too dark to be seen by speaker, who went on to say tha A.S. WATSON & Co., our wealth and prosperity. Many which the device would serve, but ject, and to these the new pinte is improvements are overdue, owing to many illegitimate purposes.
But, the need for economy during thehu said, invention was in his blood
and he could not help it. Feet six years. Waterworks, qurvey and dredging of the harbour, į hospitals, prisons, British schools and the medical research services al need public money. Reclama tions, roads and the opening of building sites are costly, but they more than pay their way! We are enjoying a great expansion, indus urially and residentially, an exPAN- sion that can add enormously to Taa Hong Kong Government's, financial returns, published in the
the Colony's wealth, but petty current number of the Government made Hong Kong what it is would economy on the services that have Gazette shows that the Colony be short-sighted folly at this time. more than holding its own against the distresses of our time, The clearest of all economio dauger signs is when revenue fall short of expectation. It means that the Government has over-estimated the wealth of the community, and has been unduly optimistic in experta- tion of revenue. The situation, when such phenomena oceur is out. of hand, and the authorities un not know where they stand or what the future will bring:
Hong Kong is fortunate in being in the opposite position. The Government estimated with such
trensa
INFANT WELFARE
CENTRE.
NEW CLINIC OPENED IN WANCHAI.
A new Children's Welfare Centre was opened on Saturday in Wan- chai at 80A and 85B Lockhart Road want among the poorer classes in and promises to fill a long-felt
that district.
Dr. (Mr.) Hunter is at present,
said that there was a very real bond Colonel Godwin Austin, replying, between his regiment, the South Wales Borderers, and the Anzacs, 7,000-Miles Quest by a Maharajah.
which had continued long after the Housed in a portmanteau packed
episode of Anzac Cove, and in fact with hot water bottles
Captain Hopkins, who is regard-the two regiments were at this very To-day ho is doing well at 1 bed aa one of the best English day under one Bead in the Army 12 oz and his milk ration, has judges of horses in India, has na Lish been increased:
rived in Germany from Bombay, Int the behest of a Maharajah, to hunt for what are known as Isabella horas.
A Biar's. 38. Bd.
The other day peer who is financially interested in some of the leading theatrical enterprises was rung up by an actress who has teen umong the highest paid artists,
These have brownish-yellow confis and white manes and tails. They ara wanted to draw the Mahera jah's state coaches.
Horses of this type used to be bred throughout Europa by various princes, the studs of the Kings of "Can you get me a engagement Hanover in Barrenhausen being anywhere? she said to him. "Ispecially noted for them, but now have no engagement at all this so far as is known they are only week-and have just 38. 6d. in my bred by one private dealer in Ger- purse,
mony.
Colonel Godwin-Austin said that not only he himself but the whole regiment were very deeply honour. ed by the tribute paid to them by the Australians and New Zealanders of the Colony. If the Anzac Unit of the E.K.V.D.C. actually came into being it could depend on the strongest possible support from the 8.W.B, who would consider themselves bonoured to serve once again side by side with the Anzacs. (Loud "Applause.)
The evening was brought to a conclusion by musical and humorous Fitems."
* Local Notes and Events
in charge of the Centre which pre meningitis ware reported over the Five cases (two imported) of sented a spick-and-span appearance week-end.”. when visited yesterday by a repré
from the files.
The Great China Medical Co. (Druaginta & OPTICIANS)
No. 1, Wina Lox Stamer; (Opposite The Sun Co.).
WREATHS LAID ON CENOTAPH.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.
Representatives of the Australian and New Zealand communities to the number of about a hundred gathered in front of the Cenotaşlı yesterday morning to witness the laying of wreaths in memory of the Anzaon who fought and died at the landing at Anzac Cove, Savin Bay, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, seven- teen years ago.
The
Members are notified that they and caution that the correct mark was
ton to take up duty as Vice-Consul their Ladies must wear their Badger missed by five million dollars: prominently displayed.
Dr. Voncamp has arrived at Can- No One without a Badge will be Every head of revenue showed a admitted
the Members Enclosure. Badge admitting Non-Members to substantial increase over expecta sentative of the Daily Free Indogs without provocation, an aire charge of the Gorman Consulate.
for Germany in succession to Mr. Sarcowsky, who has been transferred the Members Enclosure and Diabtions. There was, however, a deaddition to Dr. Hunter, there are dale belonging to Mr. F. M. Ellis
Alleged to have attacked other to Hankow where he will have Rooms
$0.00 for Gentlemen and $8.00 for Ladips (Both maluding Tax)
in actual collections of also a Government aurs and one of 465, The Peak, has been removed are obtainable through the SECRE$1,240,000, under TARY apon Introduction by a Member,Receipts," which perhaps suggest
Miscellaneo lent for the time haing by the Chin
to Kennedy Town for observation. auch Member to be reposelble for that part of this ambiguous section.
There will be a meeting of the Looking Back 25 Years, H.K. Practical Psychology Club at 530: Y.W.C.A. Payment of All Chite, ato,
Among the passengers leaving for Lane Crawford's Restaurant at 8 Badgou admitting
The babies brought to the Centro Australia by the sa. Kamo Maru pim. on Friday, April 29 Speak to Members' was last your apportioned more are given a bath and are then me last Saturday was Mr. Jas. T. Débor: Dr. E. L. Allen, M.A., Ph. D., Enologare will NOT be on sale at the carefully under the departments.dically examined and treated: bio, formerly editor' of the China'[on Race Course.
On No Protext will Children be Land sales more than doubled cx- the ease of infants suffering from permitted in oisher Enclosure during pectations. Licences and Internet serious trouble, there are two cott The annual general meeting of the
mail and Sunday Herald. Tin Ara, obtainable at the Club Revenue increased by $4,765,000.available on the premises and can tion of Cruelty to Animale will take very farsasing person to foresee Queen's Collège during the absence by Lieut..Colonel A. B. Godwin...
The Meeting.
House provided they are ordered from Light duos by $329,000, Fees of be used if necessary.
the No. 1 Boy in advanos. Telephone Court or Office Paymenta by
$500,000,
The Price of Admission to the Public | $600,000;
$1020,
· PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
trivial.
The upper floors has been con the- Post Office
by verted into a little nursery and “an Expenditure increased. Enclosure is 82.00, poluding Tax, for by $3,000,000, despite a
Interesting innovation is the fact all Persons, Including Ladies, and is
out of that a small back yard has been payable at the Gate,
$619,000 for Public Works Extravailed off to enable the babies to Soldier and; admitted Hall ponors in Uniformare ordinary. The other
economies indulge in sunbathing. Bookmakers, Tie Two Men, etc., ware.
under Cadet Service
Dreams.
M. T. F. Hough left on Satur. day on the Empire for Home vis Australia.
•
Last Post was sounded by two buglers of the South Wales, Borderers, after which Mr. F. P Franklin and Mr. C. De Baille Robertson, on behalf of the Aus tralians and New Zealand Com- munities, laid a wreath as the foot of the Cenotaph, while at the same time a wreath on behalf of the South Wales Borderers was laid
HE. the Governor has been pleas ed to appoint Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe to be& member and to set as Se Hong Kong Society for the Preven-Government I did not require a oratory of the Governing Body of place in Jardine's Board Room on that the Road would be in this con-on leave of Mr. B. A. Irving Austin. Thursday, May 5, at 3.15 p.m.-" dition immediately the rain came,
Commander EG. Morris, R.N., judging from the quantity of earth, To spend their parting President and Lieut-Colonel Robertson laid Originally arranged to take place in place of sand and stono, which and his wife Mr. and Mrs. W. D.wreaths on behalf of the Royal to-night at the Union Assembly was considered by our Acting Sur Braidwood, the members of the Room, the University, the lecture on veyar General the correct material Craigengower Cricket Club held Navy and British Legion, respec Jade-China by M Gerondal has to make roads with. If it is not their annuel at home at the tively. been postponed until Thursday at too much to expect that public Valley on Saturday-Hong Kong 8.30 p.m. at the same pince. coventence should be considered, I Daily Press, April 28, 1907.
The buglers sounded the Rev would suggest that the mud be at!"
vielle as the last wrea laid
official par
the largest being The mothers of Wanchal district Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2527, once carried away and not left un- Looking Back 50 Years, wilk not be permitted to operate with 807.000 on Air Service. The big are indeed fortunate to have so near situated at Ki Lung Street, was til it is washed into the drains to In the Precincts of THE HONG KONG increases Jockar Ozun during the Race Meeting.
TIRas will be obtainable in the Ros- ($118,000), Police ($198,000), Medi there is no doubt that it will not Land Office yesterday to Mr. Wong condition. The small lake on the letter from a local resident Sir, Lake W
at hand, a much wanted clinic and sold by public auction at the Crown stop them and add to their fould We have received the following" aurant in the Public Bosfore
Among caf Department ($150,000) Military be long before the present wines bing of 15%, Yu Chau-Street, for foot-way, near the Supreme Court I think you will agree with me that high- By Order,
Contribution (81,088,000) and Pen-will have to be extended to cope The land has an area of about 919: Burveyor General should be bound the Queen's Road, calls for imme SA. SLEAF,
84,000. The upset price was 82738. in a nuisance for which the Acting the very disgraceful, condition of R Arling Becretary sions ($480,000) reflect the fail in with the requirements of the dis feet and Hta-annual-rental in to give explanation Hong Kong, diste attention on the part of the Hong Kong, 25th April, 1829 [2117 the burrongy and were inevitable. izlat..
Daily Press, April 26, 1882.
(Continued on Brevious Column) at the Dardar
Border