ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
IT is hereby announced that the
representation of Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark will be transferred to MEGARS, DOD WELL & Co.
Ln, from 18T AUGUST, 1932.
All customers aro kindly requested to address enquiries, orders, ota, ta our new Agents instead of to Mesere. B. C. Lay & Co. after that date.
For WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK,
H. W. MAXTED, Manager in the Far East,
(2874
CHINESE ESTATES,
LIMITED.
NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING.
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Company's Office at China Buildings (5th floor), Hong Kong, on Friday, the 29th July, 1982, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving the Rapart of the Directors and u Statement of Account for the year ending 20th February, 1932, and of electing directors and an auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 15th to the 29th July, 1982, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors, HENRY LOWCOCK,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, 14th July, 1932. [2877
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that
When your train runs into Victoria-
have
your own
car meet it.
Before you go home choose your own model Hillman or Homber From our stook, and learn to handle it in Hong Kong; we will arrange that a similar car will meet you anywhere in Great Britain or on the Continent when you arrive.
GILMAN & CO.,
LIMITED.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932.
the matter of smells, that in itself matters little. In these hard times we all have to grin and bear musil discomforts. Unfortunately the Dy is more than a nuisance; he is a disease carrier. He picks up germs on his adhesive toes and carries them round, dropping them where he pleases,
Tale of the Day.
News and Views
Boss of repair gans, to motorist whost car has broken down:-
"Aro you
fully insured?" "Yes, fully."
Women show the Way..
Mr. H. V. Ros, her husband,
| Seattle merchants are the first to stated that she became ill after he experience an organized move by had driven her from Hinilhead to womon to save plenty, spend wisely,
London, and share generously. The Geners!
She was sitting in the back of
"Good! What about putting this Federation of Women's Clubs, in the car, where the fumes from thỏ
convention right with a match!"
at the Puget Sound exhaust, which was leaking accumu city, votes to practical economics |lated.
Love Finds Out & Way!
Marriage licenses are being issued
into the home and make it under-
standablo even to children, Women
Most of the oranges, on sale in
buy 85 per cent. of the goods of The Answers Lemon, on credit at Lexington, U.S.A., but the country, the members are told, there are those who will maintain and the wise control of his tre- England this summer have been that the young man who lacks themendous purchasing power from grown from lemon pips,
The fact marks a big achievement necessaryt two dollars (gold) for the within will do more to solve indus- document still has no license to get
trial troubles than all the govern in fruit culture, and is the direct ment relief measures. Turning from sequel to prolonged experiments by married.
bonnets to budgeta the women and South African Government scien- that the hand that rules the bank tista. roll is the hand that rocks the re-
Heredity?
In one respect, at least, the old | cession. saying, "Like father, lika son,”
The experiments were inspired by the fact that the orange tres is ex- tremely susceptible to frosts which, in past years, have seriously affect- od the crop. The lemon tree, fortu- nately, is much hardier.
It will be interesting to hear what the Chairman of the Sanitary Board has to say, To how many promising inquiries, suggesting. terrible revelations, has there been a cold negative, and a brief ex- planation of the errors in fact upon which the implications were founded? It is very certain, more- over, that we do not have to accept everything that medical and allied scientists tell us, quite in the way they say it. Otherwise would not these deadly germs, millions of which can dance on. a needle's point, destroy us one, and all, in the course of about one calendar month! The picture is conveyed of these hardy, ingenious and male volent microbes breeding in their myriads, at the rate of a generation every hour, and all eager to pounce upon a vulnerable and undefended humanity. Thus is re vealed the tragic precariousness of life. The air is taiated, every meal is-fraught with peril, a visit to a
One hundred and forty-four years ago Ireland tried to unelt her own cinema is a plunge into the enemy's iron, of which she has important country. And yet somehow we sur deposits. Now another effort is to vive. Even in slum areas people be made to free Erin from her de-Fields. exist., Despite the flies, the salopendence on foreign supplics. A of soft fruit and the eating first step is the scientific utilisation to the Church of England. except Moving Ecuset with unwashed hands that goes of peat, the deposits of which cover that the word "abey" was omit- on, the Western portions of one-seventh of the Free State. Byted. Victoria are
not the HOULSTON-DEICHEN.-On July 7, at
of the use of machinery, it is expected, decimating Shanghai. GEORGE HOULSTON to
epidemies. Poverty supplies will be increased and MAUDE P. DEICHEN, younger and debility due to insufficient cheapened, and the bags of song daughter of the late Mr. E. Cfood, a high rate of tuberculosis, and story may become the cradle of A. Deichen of Rostock, Ger: the incidence of countless other pow industrial Ireland complete | to the King at Windsor Castle last
Have the car you want when you want it most, on leave.
BIRTH.
B.A.P. 12
SILBER. On July 11, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry J.
Silber, a son.
many.
MARRIAGE.
ENGAGEMENT.
WEED-COHEN.-The engagement is amounced between RITA COHEN, daughter of Mr. W. Cohen of Shanghai and CYRIL WEED, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. K. Weed of Colindale, Landon.
In Interim Dividend of 23 per Share, subject to deduction. of Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR onding 90th June, 1982, at rate of 1/3,,1/8 per Dollar.
THE DIVIDEND will be payable Dr оп and -AUGUST, 1982, at the offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
DEATHS.
Rceno
new
doesn't hold true. A survey of 15,000 cases na Sing Sing prison shows only two, children of convicts had prison records.
Lucky Ireland.
The Ebb Tide.
Fork and Bugar Wedding Cake,
A wedding cake made of minced pork and sugar was distributed to every guest attending the reception which followed the London wedding of Mr. Shiu Hong Ma and Miss Rebecca To.
to
(seeds) in the nurseries, and in their Lemon trees are grown from pips first year are "budded over". oranges by a new form of grafting, in which an orange twig is inserted an incision in the lemon sapling, and bound with raffin until it becomes an at the Church of St. Martin-in-the-integral part of the stock.
The couple, who have been be trothed since infancy, were married
The service whs entirely according
Rent Paid in Flags.
A little silken flag was handed
month. Only a few inches square, the coloured emblem represents one
Six houses and a dozen sheds which comprised the buildings of a logging settlement on the British. Columbia coast were loaded on rafts and towed 200 miles to a new set- ting.
Nelson's Last Words,
discases and the ravages of opium with its Wigans and Boltons, even, smoking are there in plenty. And perhaps, Chicagos and Detroits, yet the record of notifiable dis- enses is amazingly low. There can
of the strangest annual rents paid in be no question of concealment, for
the world.
The sale reported in Home papers of The Duke of Wellington, who a number of Nelson relics, every one of these sicknesses has a calculable death rate. There are is overwhelmed with County Court year, holds his estate of Strathfield-
Solicitor at Willesdon. My client hands the flag to the King each treasured for many years by the hero's Flag Captain, Capt. Thomas only two ways of disposing of the judgments and swamped with High sage, in Hampshire, as the decen. Masterman Hardy, will probably dend-dumping and proper burial Court writs, while mancy-lenders dant of the famous Duke, who was stir up again the controversy as to after notification. Thus there is a are closing 94 bin He has now presented with the estate by tho Nelson's last words. It is doubtful,
got a job at 23a week in ouc of the 12 shops he owned this time
check on the deaths, and from that the number of cases of each com plaint can be fairly well guaged.
Government alter his victóry · at
Waterloo. after MONDAY, 8th
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will to closed from MONDAY, 25th July,' : to SATURDAY, 6th August, (both days inclusive) during which peried no transfer of Shares can be registered. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 12th July, 1932,
A
[2365
COMPREHENSIVE AND
COMPLETE REPORT
of the
CARVALHO.-At the Paulun Hospital on July 8, EVELINE DE CARVALHO, aged 32 years. STEINER.-On July 11, at Shanghai, MAX HOLLMAN STEINER, aged 57 yours.
Editorial and Business Offices: 11
Ios House Street. Tel. 3021. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tel. 94511.. London Office: $3, Fleet Street,
E.O. 4
last year.
Across the World.
The voice of South Afrien has been brought to Canada. Telephone circuits and radio channels have been used to make available on a commercial basis telophone commu- nication from Ontario and Quebec
The Medical Officer of Health Eces, however, of opinion that des pite past immunity, a safe water supply, fairly careful inspection of food offered for sale, and a well organised system of refuzo and night soil collection, there is no particular reason why there should not to bad outbreaks of disease. The recent prevalenes of meningitis, with Cape Town and other import diphtherin and now cholera has ant points in the African Union. combined with the unusually hot weather to upset our nerves A candid discussion, either at the Sanitary Board, or at the Légis lative Council, an the whole ques tion of the danger of serious epide mics, of our precautionary methods, THOSE MICROBE ENEMIES. and of our resources for meeting such a crisis, should it arise, would no doubt do much to set people's: minds at rest.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JULY 18, 1932.
DR. LA SHU FAN is drawing official attention to, the fact that the Ken: nedy Town Infectious Disease Hos:
pital is now in the centre of a FORESHORE populated aren. Dr. Li is making his attack with great ingenuity and
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST | the questions that he is to ask at
is given in the
“HONG KONG
WEEKLY
PRESS"
“THE CHINA OVERLAND
TRADE REFORT."
80 Cents per Copy.
Subscription, paid in advanos--
annum for delivery in Hong
for example, whether he said, “ Kiss me, Hardy
But it is obviously true that, after The conditions of the grant wero that every year on the anniversary Hardy had told his chief that four- of the battle; the Duke and his teen or fifteen of the enemy's ships successors should hand the reigning had surrendered, Nelson replied: monarch a tricolour flag in remem- brance of the victory.
"That is well, but I bargained for twenty."
Dr. M. Stopes Gansed.
Dr. Marie Stopes has been ordered three months' rest at the seaside to recuperate from the effects of gas poisoning from the fumes from the
exhaust of her motor-car.
It is also highly probable that, after Hardy had said: "I suppose, my lord, Admiral Collingwood will now take upon himself the direction of affairs," Nelson vehemently cried out: "Not while I live, I hope, Hardy,"
Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar was un- changed on Saturday, the rate being Is. 3id., on demand.
At 1.15 am. on Saturday morn With the departure for Home of ing, an Austin Seven, belonging Mr. R. H. Griffiths, who sailed on to Mr. Thompson, of the S.C.A.,
WATSON'S
DELECTABLE
FRUIT SQUASHES
Orange Squash
Lemon Squash
Lime Squash
MADE FROM REAL CALIFORNIAN FRUIT JUICES, PURE CANE SUGAR AND THE
PUREST OF PURE
SPARKLING WATER..
TO TRY THEM IS
TO CONVINCE YOU
THAT HERE AT
LAST IS THE IDEAL
SUMMER BEVERAGE.
A. S. WATSON & Co..
LIMITED.
ABRATED WATER MANUFACTURES.
EST. 1841.
LOCAL FACTORY REGULATIONS.
ORDINANCE TO BE
AMENDED.
An Ordinance is shortly to be in troduced in the Legislativo Coun-
amending and consolidating th law relating to factories and work. shops and to the employment of women, young persons and children in certain industries. Accompany- ing the draft Ordinance are ex- tensive regulations.
important
Amongst the more
changes effected is the raising of the age of a "child" from 13 years
to 16, while there is a new definition
tory.
...
but driven at the time by Mr. C. the 8.8. Rawalpindi, the Colony lost Ono case of cholera and one of got out of control at West Pointcricketer. Mr. Griffith represented
H. Hours of 8, Granville Villas, a very prominent Rugby player and of workshop as distinct from fac miningitis were reported on Friday.and shot over the seawall into the Harbour. Mr.. Hoaro, extricated RIGHTS.nounced of Mr. Arthur Edvard back to the Praya, none the worse The forthcoming marriage is an himself without difficulty and swam Perry, accountant of the Assurance for his experience. Franco-Asiatique, and Miss Violet Catherine Chan of 740, Nathan Road, Kowloon..
LOCAL LAW BEING AMENDED.
While walking in Lower Albert The Gazette contains the draft Road on Saturday morning, Mr. of an Ordinance to amend the Fore-Floyd, living at "Block, Military shores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901 was robbed by a snatcher of her Married Quarters.ht Kennedy Road, The title of the principis Ordin handbag, in which 822.50. The thief ance (No. 18 of 1901) is An Or. escaped.
Due to arrive at Hong Kong on
Hong Kong in the last interport Power of entry is extended to all, tinguished himself by his fearless power is given to prescribe mean, with Shanghai and there dis- industrial undertakings, and new
tackling. He was a very good threo. of securing hygiene. quarter and his departure will
A man named Yup Yuk or Yup leave a gap in the Club team which A new provision is made requir Fun was charged before Mr. Wynne will be difficult to fill. Asing annual registration of all fac Jones at Central Magistracy on cricketer, Mr. Griffiths played for tories and workshops, while the tious papers. It was stated that forceful bat and a fine ficlder. Saturday with possession of sedi-Civil Service and proved himself a the defendant, why lately rejoiced
opening or use of unregistered fac- in, the name of John Jameson, hadi
torics or workshops is prohibited. accused was remanded until Mon- Union, which has been forbidden by a factory or workshop or industrial been deported from Calcutta, The The National Postal Employees The liability of the proprietor of day for a closer scrutiny of the the Central Government to hold c alleged soditious papers.
national convention in Shanghai undertaking is extended to offences on August 1, has despatched two in connexion with the employment Work has been commenced by delegates to Nanking to ask the of women, young persons and child.
to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary- Board raise the matter at issue with picturesque fore: and vivid- ness. It is pointed out that within two hundred yards of the hospital, the, odorous and unpleasant job of drying hair, etc., from slaughter houses is carried on. The smell dinance to validate Crown leases of from this worthy enterprise is pass foreshoro and sub-merged lands for Friday, on the m.v. Chichibu Maru, Chiness public bodies on the con- Government to lift its ban on the ed-over-lightly-it-is one of many reclamation, and to facilitate the under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. struction of two War Memoriai proposed meeting. The Govern ren. such amenities in the Kennedy making of such lease." The Or D. F. Robertson, of the D. F.Villages, one at Miaohongchen anament recently issued an order ban- Town area, and, we believe, modern dinance however, contained, in sec Angeles, a party of twenty Cali Kating. The reason that these two postal employees on the ground K.G. to Write Stories,
Robertson Travel Bureau, Los the other outside the north gate of uing the national convention of scienco holds that smells are not tions 3 and 5, provisoes requiring formians are en route on an extend-places have been selected as the that the Union is an illegal labour unwholesome, the well-known speci-the consent of lot helders which ed tour to the Orient, and around sites for the War Memorial Villages organisation, it having neither been
the world,
is that the heaviest fighting between registered with, nor having been men from a local Cement Works, tended to frustrate that object:
the Chinese and Japanese troops, recognised by, the local City Gov- for example, having been acquitted especially as the Ordinance contain Nanking messages report that in took place there and that both the ernment, with honour of all malevolenco. od ng provision for compensation view of the weak condition of Mr. Japanese and Chinese sustained thei The real point of attack is that There are many-Ordinances, of a result of their hunger strike.
and Mrs. Noulers, brought about heaviest, casualties there.
The Commercial Press, Ltd., Shanghai, will be re-opened on the "drying beds" collect flies, which the Crown Lands Resump the Nanking District Court, by Although the House Detention August 1, according to a decision and form a breeding place for tion Ordinance, 1900, and the Har munists are being tried on the It is not regarded as a conviction, meeting on Sunday afternoon at politics and in practia in the which the two alleged foreign Com is a prison, you are not a prisoner. reached at a special shareholders' | taining yot discreet, of his life, in these insocts. Flies are busy crea-bour of Refuge Ordinance, 1909. charge of having committed offences You will have a place to sleep and the Greater Shanghai Chinese Gen Divorce Court, has run tures. The suggestion is that they provisions relating to the payment state, is proposing, to transfer to thoih Taarland, a Norwegian, main store of the Commercial Press two editions.
are examples, where, subject to against the internal security of the I obtain food," said Mr. Wynne Jones aral Chamber of Commerce The
un through love their abode in these beds, and of compensation in proper cases, the cased from the court's detention claiming American citizenship, who is situated at the corner of Henan pay visits round the neighbour-internats of private lot holders are house to hospital for medical treas
He has the gift of light and was charged before him with vag and Foochow Roads with branche, readable narrative, and the know- hood, taking the Infectious Disease extinguished, or subordinated to the ment. In this connection; it is of Irancy. Taarland was taken off the ju more than 50 cities. These build-.
intereate of the public Hospital, now full of cholera cases,
interest to note that 32 local Chin-1 Bank Land 23. Granville in May 11; luga wore not in the war zone durledge of human nature which he has This amending Ordinance there ese scholars have despatched a jousill, He had spent what little funds ing the recent fighting near Shang gained in his long career should the tenements, and the shops of
the shops of fore repeals the provisoes referred telegram to Mr. Wang Ching Wei, he had while in hospital. It was hai, so the shareholders decided to provide him with an immense store
to above and makes provision for president of the Executive Yuan, indicated that the Bank Line wero re-open them in order to give work None of us like Bics, but, as inly affected.
|
Sir. Ellis Hume-Williams, until recently one of the outstanding figürea at English the Bar, has announced that he proposes to am- bark on the writing of short stories.. His book of reminiscences, enter-
Kong $18; including Postage to any Kennedy Town, in their stride. compensation to persons injurious requesting the release of the pri prepared to put hira on another ship to a faw of the thousands of the on which to draw for characterisa
part of the world-$18,
sonom
Ton July 24. Met
company's employees......
tion in the realms of fiction.