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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
THIRTEENTH EXTRA
TRAGE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 3 NO. VEMBER, 1932, commencing at 200 1.1.
The First Bell will be. Rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE, Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting Not-Hombers to the Members' Enclosure and Olub Rooms st $3.00 for Gonilemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, etc.
Members
to
Badges admitting Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Bace Courve.
On my pretext will Children he permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
ELIZABETH ARDEN has made guessing ages an impossibly difficult
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She has taught women to hold on to youth, not to hide the ravages of age with cosmetics but to keep their skin young, firm and fresh by scientific
care.
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and which makes its universities cover the work of technical institu- tions this is a desirable system, but China cannot afford this. Sho is bound to apply a severe selective test to those whom she can afford to educate on a university level. What the League of Nations mis- gion recommends, then, is the build ing up of a sound primary system, which will ensure at least four years in the first place to every child, and so put an end to the
Example
News and
Views
"Mummy, when can I shave like daddy does P
"Not for a long time, dear." "Why not? I know the words now."
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The Old Cruiser.
Willesdefy Magistrate: What do you do when you're not in prison? Old Offender: I travel a bit for a change.
Sir Miles Latipend.
Sir Miles Lampson is to be the guest of honour at the dinner ar- ranged by the China Association on November 18, at Grosvenor House; Park Lane.
Seeing Green T
Berlin scientists now declare that the cause of jealousy in women is an excess of iodine in the blood.
Hollywood. Methods.
CHINESE CONSULAR INVOICES
THE REGULATIONS, ETC.,. ALTERED
www $
:
Cinema Sliding Boots,
Modern architecture has severu Arab pearl dealers in Bagdad, who Aro to be Been walking critics among architects themselves.
The Commissioner of Chinese about the streets of the Per One grave defect they see in their
Customs for Kowloon and District- with pearls work is in the roof of the big eines notified the Chairman of the sian gulf town's secreted in small knotted bags, ma building. "The modern einema,”
General Chamber of Commerce of have turned to film industry met- said one, "should be constructed the new regulations as regards. hods to aid them in selling their with a sliding roof, so that the
Consalar Invoices and the now acalo of charges. wares on a slow market. If a pro- whole interior can be flooded with a geod, sunshine and air in the morning," spective customer wants pearl, he has to buy a number of It seems strange that this sugges- inferior ones, this being the only tion has not been carried out ex- means of disposing of the less valu- tensively in cinemas, for it does ablo poarte.
appear contrary to common sense that such buildings should be per This "block-booking xystv.m
The latter, which has been for- has been adopted by the pearl mermanently dark and artificially chants to counteract quist trade sterilised when fresh air and sun-warded to us by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, is as conditions. The pearling season shine are easily accessible.
follows:- this year has not been up to stan
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dard, although the catch and quaÀ Forgotten Anniversary. lity have been normal.
Whoreas everybody remembers the Great War and its beginning. very few remember the fact that Tunis is looking forward to an Aug. 4, 1000, was the day when the
Old World Timis.
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It is interesting to pote that. where there are no Chinese Con- suls, American Consuls are to act cox behalf of the Chinese Govern. ment..
Office of Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District.
The Chairm
Hong Kong, Nov. 2, 1032. Hong Kong General
Chamber of Commerce,. Hong Kong.
Dear Sir.
Hitherto a superficial inspection influx of American visitors next. International Relief Force marched
according to Monsieur out of Tientsin, to attempt the re- I have to inform you that Cus-- of the men they are jealous about winter
French Resident-lief of Peking. The army number-toms Notifications No. 158 in regard to Consular Invoices is modified to led to the erroneous conclusion Manerron, the
that od only 18,000 men of all nations. the following extant;--- that the seat of the trouble was in General who is confident
Tunis will surmount its present and this notwithstanding the fact the brain.
economic and financial difficulties that Admiral Seymour had said it The fact that the colony is not so would take 50,000 to accomplish the developed and modernized as Alge task.
Necessity.
Necessity seems to have mother- ed the invention of an entirely new type of paper shoe. When a motorist sought Kansas tire shop for repairs the attendants were surprised to find that the blown. out tire harboured a folded news paper instend or the usual inner
abce.
Vatican and Bathing.
Rome, Thursday-A plea, for the stricter control of bathing costumes worn by visitors to Indian seaside resorts has been made by the Vatican in its official organ, the Osservatore Romana. The newspaper also de- nounces all beauty competitions and the publication of pictures of bathing girls..
Villadom Disturbed.
ria and Morocco is no doubt am į The British contingent was com- added attraction for many tourists. manded by Gen. Sir Alfred Guse- The source of a potential problem lee, and the Naval A.D.C, was none that there are almost as many other than Sir Roger Kayes, who Italians in Tunis as French. In contributed not a little to the suc cess, of the expedition and the fact that the British were the first to relieve the Legations on Aug. 14.
fact, up to the census last year the Italian population there was great or than the French. However, the French Resident-General states that the relations between the French and Italians are most cordial,
"Sultan of the Atlas."
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Mr. Lowas Dickinson.
Many generations of Cambridge men mourned the death of Mr. Lowes Dickinson. Kiug's Collego An Eastern potentate, who is had no more distinguished don. A Hellenist with a brilliant pen and known to the Moorish tribes over
a quiet, halting speech, he burned whom he rules as the "Sultan of the Atlas," arrived in London last to reform Europe and the world. month. He is El Glaoui, the Pasha The fact that man was a rational of Marrakesh, one of the quasi-being who refused to act rationally capitals of the Sultanate of Moroc made him unhappy, writes one of Residents of Hampton, the plea-co. His power is second only to his friends:-
"But he took mishaps, great pr pose a scheme for building cheap houses in the locality.. It is feared Glaoui is a modern-minded chief- small, with philosophie resignation. that house valuca will depreciate iftain who wears European clothes The last time I saw him was at the character of the place is thus altered. Unfortunately, so long as when travelling and understands Cambridge few months ago, London has to spread out and both English and French. An 18- when he had just returned from a swallow up thousands of acres of bole golf course forms parts of his country walk, during which he had London's fallen in a dyke almost up to his estate in Marrakesh, Breen fields every year few desir- ablo residential districte" that can be easily reached are altogether im traffic, ha declared holds no terror neck. His master Soorates could mune from the oventus! proximity. for him-be learned how to dodgn not have recounted the incident of cheap houses.
it during his visit in 1926,
more delightfully,”
Tos are obtainable at the lab London Offles: 53, Fleet Street,excessive illiteracy which exissant Thames retreat, intend to opthat of the Sultan of Morocco, El.
House provided they are ordered from
the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21020.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The Price of Admission to the Public Endorare is $9.00 including Tax, for all Perons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tio The Men, etc... will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of Tu HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting. By Order,
B. A..BLEAP,
Acting Secretary,
(272) Hong Kong, 81st Oct, 1939.
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KORO, NOVEMBER 3, 1932. '.
CHINA AND "HER UNIVERSITIES
The position in some provinces is much worse than in others, the rango being from about ton per cent of children in schoole in the such A3 backward provinces, Yunnan, up to seventy-six per cent,
in the province of Shansi. By having co-education in the earlier stages it would be possible to in crease very considerably the number of pupils in the primary stages, and by increasing the size of the classes in others a still for greater number could be given the advan- tages of early education.
Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar rose d yesterday and was quoted at 4ld.
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it.
The second concert of the season
will be held at the Helena May Institute to-day nẹ 8.30 p.m., when the contributors will be Mrs. H.
The P. & O. liner Rajputans, La Lockhart, Misa Amelia Loe, and from Shanghai, is due here at 6; Mr. C. Reg. Anderson, with Mrs. F. Grigg and Mr. True at the piano.
a.m. to-morrow.
From the files.
The present emphasis upon uni- versity education in China is due to the fact that the country which Professon L. FoRSTER in his survey is economically poor has taken over her system from the United before the Education Society of States which is economically rich. Hong Kong of the work of the This accounts also for the lavish Universities along the Yangtze stafing which one finds in the Uni. varsities of China, for again the Valley drew attention to certain American view is that a very im. aspects of China's Educacional portant function of a university, problem which perhaps need fur- if not the most, ia reeearch, and in order to set thinkers apart for their ther comment, The Professor sug work at universities it is neces- gested that China, in her anxiety sary to staff them very generously. a most desirablo Lo get into line with the rest of This again is
nim, but can only be attained the world, has devoted too much of
legitimately in those countries her energies to the higher side of which are sufficiently well off to education and too little to the afford this scope to its lecturers primary. There is no doubt that faad professora A large section of the 8.5. Suiyang from Shanghal | The skull was fractured and it is and Superintendent Nicholls, of the
the university staffs, then, should in one sense the existence of the be set from for the work in the Gifts of clothing and household
has stimulated the secondary schools, so that the universities goods gratefully recoived at above address on Mondays and Thursdays growth of middle schools and quality of the teaching in that sphere of education should be between 10.30 and 11.30 a.m.
JUMBLE SALE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1972 1932, at 10.30a.m.
AT CITY HALL.
AGENCIES.
primary schools. In fact many of raised.
At the present moment China is the universities necording to the report of the League of Nations not making the best use of her educational resources which need mission have themselves been cota redistributing over tho whole, pelled to establish middle schools rather than concentrated at the streams of upper end. Another problem which in order to ensure a
has been neglected hitherto 'has students who would be capable of boen rural education. The schools The London Uffos of the HONG benciting by such higher teaching, and universities have made too
KONG DAILY PAX88, 35,
This, however, is not desirable for liberal a provision for the poten- tial government official and too FLEET STREET, E.0.4, is constant- by receiving Enquiries from Home it means that the primary and little for the farmer, who forms the Manufacturers regarding Suitable secondary or middle schools are back-bone of the nation. The only Firms to act si Agents for their
virled is the kind that unfis: a products in Hong Kong and merely appendages of the Univer- surt of education at present pro sity, and that the pupils in them person to remain in the village. It ought not to be difficult to make can only regard themselves as successful in so far as they succeed the village school u natural port in catering the University in site of village lifa, if the teacher in of the fact that only a very small equipped with the right sort of fraction would benefit by further knowledge, neademic work even if they could afford the time and the money to get there..
Fonth China.
If Loot Companies desirous of taking ap farther Agencies will let us know the Liner in which they are interested the information will be forwarded to London and passed on to interested parties as op
wide.
of
Two cases of enterio, one diphtheria and one of meningitis were reported on, Tuesday..
Mr. Arthur Hanson, of Bur roughs Wellcome & Co., arrived by
yesterday.
Quarantine restrictions imposed by the Netherlands Indian Govern ment against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholers have been removed.
The total rainfall for October, as measured at the Ectanic Gardens amounted to one-hundredth of an inch. The record for complete dry: ness was spoilt on the last day of the month.
The two Chinese who were charg- ed on 23 counts of theffe at the Kowloon Magistraay were rester. day committes by Mr. Butters to stand trial at the next Criminal
Bessions, 22,
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Looking Back 25 Years.
Bombay and Lucknow are the first Tha body of a coolis lying at the Indian towns to possess motor fre bottom of the staircases of No. 4, apparatus. Lucknow has recently. Tit Hong Lane, off Jubiles Street, placed in commission
4. motor bas given rise to the possibility that steam fire engines of a pumping the man might have been murdered. capacity of 400 gallons per minute,
certainly possible that he fell down-Bombay Fire Brigade, has just re- stairs accidentally. The police areceived delivery of a petrol motor tender and combined fire escape, investigating..
with ladders to extend to a height, of 30 feet.
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The weddings will shortly take place between Mr. Viktor Caspar, Both these appliances have been engineer, of 10, Pak Hok Yung, canstructed, by Memra Morry, Canton, and Miss Gertrude Greeff, Weather & Sons, of London and it of the same address; Mr. Robert may also be of interest to our read- Millar, of Butterfield and Swire, era to know that the same firm have Tsingbau, and Miss Doris Pun- just supplied one of their 400 cheon, of a, Waverley Terrace, Kow. gallon motor steam fire engines to loon; and Mr. James McCloskis, the Singapore Fire Department. engincer, of the I.C.8.N. Co., Ltd., This last engine is the second of its Hong Kong, and Mia Lilian May kind in service at Singapore, the Ballantyne, of 18, Ebrington Street, fire one having been supplied early Londonderry, en route for Hong last year since when it has proved Kong on the s... Hanchi.
in every way is superiority over borse drawn engines. When Hong Kong enn afford it-Hong Kong Daily Press, November 3,
storm that has just passed over 1007. Formerly employed as a clerk at them. The 20th October, 1889, will: Mesars. Thomas Cook & Son, Laube chrafeled in the annuals of Looking Back 50 Years. Kau appeared before Mr. Kennedy Manila sa a dia triste. To some Skipton at Central Magistracy on cities it would prove, after the
(a) The certification foo payable to:
the Customus un cargo not cover. ed by Consular Invoice shipped frem abroad during November and December 1939 remains at Customs Gold Units 6. The triple fee of G.U. 15 for such cargo shipped from abroad o and after January 1, 1913, re- mains unchanged. 1. ASBESOMENT
(b)
VALUE:
Ov
MINIMUM
In order to determine whether- or not merebaudiso must be covered by Consular Invoice, the valuation of 2200 Chinese cur- rency is to be considered as equivalent to G.U. 110. The basis of valuation for consular invoice purposes, will be the f.oh. value of the goods con- eerned.
An exception to this rule is to be made in the case of mer- chandise shipped from Japan, Koren, Formosa, and other Japanese territories, and, when determining whether the value усл of such merchandise in requires that it be covered by: consular invoice or not; $200 Chinese
G.U. currenoy-not 110-ja to be taken as the basis for conversion.
2.
PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE;
Articles carried by passengers
in their baggage, provided they are not for sale, need not be covered by consular invoice even. if valued at or above 8200 Chi- nese currency.
3. A shipment of cargo from onc port of shipment abroad. to one destination and one can- sigace in China, even if divided up and partially transhipped to other ports on arrival in China, need only be covered by one Consular invoice.
4. IMPORTS VIA DAIREN:
Foreign goods entering other Chinese porta ria Dairen must be covered by consular invoices. In the case of products of the Kwantung Leased Territory shipped to other ports in China, consignees may apply to the Customs at destination for issue of consular invoice on payment of fee of G.U. 5 but without payment of ûne.
5. AMERICAN CONSULS AT TAIN PLACES TO ISBUS:
CEK-
As there are no Chinese Con- sils at Istanbul (Constantino- ple), Smyrna, Daurig, Helsing- fors, and Prague, and as it is not posible to establish addi- tional Consulates there for the time being, it has been agreed with the American Government that American Consuls at these places will issue consular in voices on behalf of China, and that until supplies of the Chi nese consular invoice form have beon furnished to thess Aineri- can Consuls they will use the form of consular invoice em- ployed in the case of goods shipped to the United States. Invoices on American consu]="" invoice forms issued by Ameri can Consuls at the above-men- tioned foreign ports are accord- ingly to be accepted in the same manner as Chinese consular invoices,
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Your obedient servant, (Sgd.) E. N ENBOR
Commissioner of Chinese Customs. Kowloon ; and District.:
Unmerciful disaster has follow. CHINESE INVOICE OFFICER
TO BE APPOINTED TO HONG KONG
a charge of embezzlement of 918,853 ravages of the cholers Bend, aed fast and followed faster "upon What is suggested is that China on July 9 lash He was remandedorowning misfortunate, but, rich in that devoted city Manila, Rocked-
resources, the fair capital of Luzon portunity offers
should now build up her educa 48 hours in custody
will flostrafs that marvellous resi-to is foundations by appalling This-Service is offered to our Banders
tional system from the bottom, and
earthquakes one year, its popula- Profimor 1 Robertson M.Aliance from adversity-which-places-tion decimated by the deadliest of- without charge and, of comes → The EuropeanTM view is that the in accordance with the conditiona
Lepidemica another, it is. liable. no obligation is incurred on either primary and secondary system as she finds them in her own cous Professor of Economics and Polk deriving their wealth from Nature's
should be rounded and should try, and not make any further pro tical Science will deliver his Pre-I inexhaustible storehouses alway throughout the south-west monsoon
to repeated. and destructive As result of an agreement be lead to industry and commerce, but vision at the present time for ex-idential Address to the Hong Kong display While confident that this in certain cases to technical colleges tending the educational work at the University Law and Commerce So will be the case, I am sure the entire typhoons. So accustomed are the tween British and Chinese Govern- and only for those gifted in the top. Her system would then ba ciety on Monday, November 1932 community of Hong Kong will join Filipinos to the last name visita-ments a Chineso Invoice Officer will academic anae to the University maze elective and only those who at 8.30 pm, in the Union Assembly me in expressing the warmest symthons that they scarcely count them soon be appointed to issue and
The American-system, however, would be likely to bring rest in Room, Tus abject of his addrées pathy with the people of Manila in aims at a College or Univ.rsity tellectual power to the nation would will be Capitalism and the Bussen, this dark hour of trouble and dissalamities worth consideration, certify consular invoices in Hong education for all, and in a country and themselves in the places of Plan. All interested are cordially treasHong Kong Daily Press, Not so, however, with the terrilie, Kong on behalf of the Chines
{[(isntinued" on" Previous Column) Government." invited.
November 3, 1802 which is economically prosperous higher learning.
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