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attend the Coremony at the Cenotaph are requested to direct their drivers to proceed in Des Voeux Road Contral to Statue Square, where the passengers will alight and walk to the Cenotaph.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police.
ath November, 1932.
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ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
LL Members, dosiring to attend A the forthcoming Ball, who have not yet returned their subscription lists are requested to do so na Bon as possible, so thing invitation cards enabling them and t'eir guosta to attend the Practico Dances may be issued.
D. B. ROBE, Joint Hon. Secretary.
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MEMBERS and their Friends are reminded that Opening Cruise will take place on Saturday the 12th November when Yacht racing Rowing, and Fencing events will be held at the Club House. The start ing time of the first Rowing event ia 3 p.m.
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R. J. VERNALL,
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE
T is hereby notified that pending the demolition and construction of our Main Building No. 10, Ice House Street the business of this Exchange will be conducted in Exchange Building, Dos Voeux Rosd Central.
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Secretary.
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The
MEMORIAL
in
News and Views
Facing Up to It.
It is estimated that the women
a year on cosmeties. That's a honny penny! -
claimed the President, in delight, for shades of white. These include "How did you time yourself?" polished ebony, with an attractive "By the clock up there in the sheen, a slightly steely black that only microscopic examination proves to he navy blue, -and "black" shades of purple.
following coremonial honour of the Chines who lost of Great Britain spend £30,000,000 | tower, sir," was the reply, their lives in the Great War will be observed, at the Chinese War! Memorial, the Botanic Gardens, on | Love on the Ocean. Armistice Day:
terranean
voyage.
"There may
Woman and Mathematics.
Further evidence that women have When the White Star liner Darie no enthusiham for mathematics is His Excellency the Officer Ad- | arrived at Liverpool it was stated | provided in the result of three ex- ministering the Government with that nine couples had announcedi aminations for higher appointments His Excellency the Commander-in-their engagements during the Medi- in the British Civil Service. Chief, the O.C., Troops, Hong Kong have been more, said the purser, Arca, and the Senior Royal Air "but only nine were officially pro- Force Officer will be met at the foot of the Botanic Garden steps by the Chiness Members of Councils, who will escort them up the steps to the Memorial. +
claimed.
70,000 Ton Liner.
Film Fantomime.
Nu serious challenge ins ENTAZ been inade to the legitimate then- Of the six women who sat for tre's monopoly of pantomime at the Class One examination, the the Christmas season, but there is Administrative Grade, from which more than a threat of strong com- the highest appointments in White petition in the Rancuncement made hall are recruited, not one took that one of the principal British mathematica as a subject one film companies is now busy prepar. won a place. The highest on the ing a screen edition of Pass in Paris, October 20.---Tha new list, who was awarded the forty floota," This operetta, as it will French 70,000 tons super-liner ninth plase, chose auch abstruse be styled, promises to be an im. Normandie of the Compagnie subjects 15 moral philosophy, provement on the somewhat time- Last Post will be rounded by Generale Trans-Atlantique ! was economic history and metaphysics. worn pantomime, as not only can Military Buglers. Then there will successfully launched at the St.
Women captured seven places out effects be secured in the studio be a short pause followed by Re-President Lebrun and numerous Inspectors of Income Tax. Not one produce on the stage, but, with the Lazaire shipyards in the presence of; of forty at the open competition for which it would be impossible to high officials
chose mathematics. The three exception of two members, the successful women candidates in the "whole cast will be composed of examination for the Executive children. It is a curious fast, and
veille.
His Excellency, the Officer Ad- ministering, the Government will then lay a wreath followed by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, the O.C., Troops, Hong Kong Area and the Senior Royal Air Force officer.
Land of Hope for Spinsters.
Canada is a Land of Hope for spinaters, more especially for those emigrating from Great Britain. Ac- cording to the Census Bulletin iesu- ed recently, the men of Canada out- number the women by 372,200. The final figures for. 1031 show that the Chinese Members at Council will number of males was 5,374,541 and then lay a wreath followed by Chi-that of females 5,002,240. nese representatives on the Sanitary
Board, the Senior members of the A Little on Account. District
It is reported from Bombay that Watch Committee, the Chairman of the Tung Wah Hos. a Hindu clerk who robbed his em pital, the Chairman of the Po player of £1450 wrote a letter in which he said-In my next birth Leung Kuk, and the Chairman of I will repay this amount by being tho Chinese General Chamber of born as a son to you, or by doing your household menial work." No Commerce.
doubt the offer was made in a spirit Thon wreaths will be laid by of positonce, but no doubt the em- ployer would have been better pleas. ed had the clerk offered something
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Rosa Koso, NoVENDER 9. 1932,
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
Tuz ilume Government is launching another great offensive against un- employment. A Royal Commission report has been published, Parlia
what
The question remains, should be done with this surplus population ? GENDHIR KHAN TAMERLANE would have found an easy solution, and a less directly brutal despot, like NAPOLEON, would have enrolled them in armies and trusted to war to stimulate in dustry, find employment and in other obvious wayn reduce number of useless moirths. may still be the solution!
the
That
Now industries, like radio and artificial silk, may have helped a little, but the paralytic seizure of commerce end finance has not allow- ed luxuries to develop as they should.
Haphazard emigration to new
no remedy. countries offers
In
Australia and Canada the drift
to
Group also shunned this subject,
The Fashion Queues,
a phase of psychology of which the shrowd film magnates are well aware, that screen stories played by children have a great attraction for adults, and Puss in Bouts will probably be no exception.
Expeneive Electioneering.
Nearly 2,000 women attended the two parades at a famous dress- maker's in London one afternoon last month, which is proof of the wholesale fashion in which well- known: women have deserted the Berlin, Nav. 2.The efforts of the Paris for the London openings. German Presidential Party to ob
tain the required signatures led to Queries of cars told the same tale! amusing incidents in Berlin which outside every exclusive dressmaking had to be stopped by police and
which gave the general public an hound in the West-end where!
amdes were taking place.
opportunity for good said hearty The wife of the Japanese Ambas laughter. This party had opened sidor Mme. Matsudaira, and Lady, an office in one of the central Newton were among the energetic streets of the city and had laid out hostesses of the diplomatic and huge books for the signature of social worlds who spent an hour and all those who might be willing to a half watching the creations of the support it. Soon it became known Queen's dressmaker in the famous to the passers-by that everyone Other members of the Executive
Hanover-square saloons.
signing his or her name would get and Legislative Councils have also.
paid 50 pfennigs. Of course quite been invited to take their places
Thousands of Sequins.
a number of unemployed drifted to beside the Memorial Arch.
Here are some of the fashion this place and collected the pay. Last Post and Reveille will be
Though often pietured as a grim,
ed gathering: blown by buglers of the South iron-nerved soldier, President Vonations shown to this distinguish, ment for their signature, but it Walon Borderers, and a body of Hindenburg is by no means lacking Chinese from the Chinese portion in humour, and does not mind tell. of the 40th Company Royal Engining a joke against himaclf. cera will parade under a British officer.
The steps leading up to the Memorial Arch will be lined by special Police Reserves, and a de faelmont of District Watchmen will parnde under Inspector Shaftain.
BISHOP OF SINGAPORE AT THE ROTARY CLUB
(Continued from Page 7.)
years to be reduced to $44,000,000 and very great reductions in the Civil Service are foreshadowed. That of course, means a very serious blow
on account.
A Hindenburg Story.
1. A
Ho
i was not before a cute Communist wonderful evening cape organiser heard of it that the list composed of thousands of blue of signatures roso rapidly. Not lang ago, when addressing a sequins that looked like brilliant formed regular regiments of Com- anuniets which he lined up in an company of young soldiers, impress. | moonlight effects on the sea-
endless queue before the
office. ing on them the necessity of pre- 2. A Santa Claus red evening. The disciples of Karl Mary gladly cision and accurate observation, he gown worn with a red cape crinkled signed their names for the "Kaiser- look like Christmas cracker | Party," collected their half mark took out his watch and aid: "Now, to see which of you can tell me when paper.
and in coming out of the office two minutes Enve passed."
3. The British manufacturers promptly paid it into the cash-box Exactly on the tick a soldier havo defied nature by creating of the Communist Parly's election raised his hand. "Splendid!' ex shades of black to follow, the craze fund.-Transocean Kuo Min,
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Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar was yės- terday quoted at 18. 1-1/8d.
Quarantine restrictions imposed to us as well. We are indeed phes by the Straits Settlements against
ne-
ment is having a three-day debate, the towns is due not only to dising through a time of great anxiety arrivals from Hong Kong on
but we are trying to keep the flag count of Cholera bave heen Te-
E have been appointed Sole and Mr. LLOYD Cronos in clamourinste for up-country life, but to the WE
Concessionaires for Honging to lead the urban outofworks glut of wheat and meat marketa. Kong, South China and Malays for the back to small holdings left derilict A farmer, like any other producer, new portable publicity medium RITE- A-LITE Electric sigas.
The genuine sign bears the name RITE-A-LITE, which has been regiz tered locally and is protected by patent application number 3973 (31. The ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY
BUREAU LTD. ·
St Georges Building
•HONG KONG and at
Meyer Chambers SINGAPORE.
NOTICE.
have this day appointed
(£720
I ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY
by ex-Bervice min.
needs to market what he makes and to buy clothes, machinery and the amenities of life in exchange, The
flying and I think there are unmoved, doubtedly ways in which we are gaining through the expericace of
adversity.
"Highest Vocation.”
From the files.
Looking Back 25. Years,
A Song and Piano Recital will be given by Mrs. Niel Mathieson and Mr. A. N. Bowes-Smith at the Helena May Institute on Thursday November 17, at 5.30 p.m. Will those wishing to reserve tables for tea, please telephone Matron 22160.
While Mr. G. G. Wood Wis Berlin, Nov. 2-The following driving past the Orient Tobacco As work progresses on the Kow- diplomatic appointments were an Factory, Kowloon, 011 Monday on Canton Railway construction, nounced here to-day: Her von night at about 0 p.m. his cari ran improvements to expedita it are Freytag de Minister to Lisbon, Dr. into a Chinese youth fifteen years being introduced. The works at the Zechlin, fommer chief of the govern of age. The boys legs were injured south face of the tunnel at Kow- The queer crowd of people winent's Press Department, as Minis and he was taken to the Kowloon loontsai are tied with the latest fact remains, Juswever, that the un- tivities in Hong Kong-the. "Tocter to Mexico.
are forming a branch of their ac
Hospital where he died at midnight, electrical appliances. There, now, developed places of the world have I have ns there motto the per-
it is always day. Darkness cannot Captain J. Van Reed, master of impede the progress of the work, For travelling on the exprees got to be opened up, if the workers feetly admirable slogan or definition train from Canton to Hong Kong the Dutch steamer Tiiliboet recent for when night closes in numerous
of service"Service is the rent we of the world are not to be per pay for our room on Earth," Think on Monday morning, without a ly arrived from Batavia and Mani- powerful are lampe, the latest ex- crowded in more promising occupetually doomed to keeping twenty it over. This is the type of service ticket, a Chinese was fined $10 at la, has reported to the Harbour tant, light up the surroundings and the Kowloon Magistracy, or in authorities that a bady died on enable the workmen to carry on million unwilling drones. The lifto, which I have given myself default to serve 14 days' hard board his vessel and was buried at with the same ease as in daylight.
think you will forgive me if I say it in the highest vocation to which man's life can be given and also that it offers the greatest possibility
The HOLMAN GREGORY Report pecus a statesmanlike document, fully recognising the three aspects of unemployment relief. t. Stimu lation of industries. 2. Training of men whose old callings are over-
tions. 3, Relief payments, to the unemployed. Unemployment to-day is due to shrinking markets and, the concurrent process of ration
alisation. At a time when fewer orders are being obtained, inven- tors and organisers are able to re-
duse the demands of industry for BUREAU LTD. of Hong Kong and human labour. In consequence the Singapore, as Solo Concessionaires and Distributors for Bouth China and prospects of men employed in any Malaya of the RITE-A-LITE Electric industry facing those conditions portable Advertising sign, which has
ficulty is that opening up" i an expensive process and it in perhaps cheaper to support the
drones.
not only of assistance but also dis interested service.
Inbour.
вел.
Ten
casea, of
A male passenger also died, These lights are also being installed whilst at sea, the body being at the north face of the tunnel. the Ceremony at the Cenotaph:
Persone arriving, by car to attend brought to Hong Kong for burial Shatin Valley, which is surrounded by high hills, is a very unhealthy are requcated to direct their drivers
enteire (three place. There the deadly malaria Thanks to the perfection of mili. I hope you will find my address proceed vin Des Voeux Road deaths) were reported last week. reigns, and so prevalent has it been Central to Statue Square, where Other notiflations by the M.O.H. among the excavators and others tary science au army of soldiers not a 'dull uninteresting geogra❘ the passengers will alight and walk were as follows: Diphtheria, two employed there" that the Railway
phical lecture but a mirror of the plare, a camp formed and the men Bishop and that it will help you can be quickly transplanted to any experiences of a hand working
to the Cenotaph.
cases and one death; meningitis authorities had to consider what four cases and two deaths; puer. could be done to protect the health supplied with all necessities. It to understand, how much the new
Professor. K. H. Digby will give peral, fever, one case. There were of the employees. Hong Kong an address to the Hong Kong 64 deaths from consumption. On Daily Press, November 9, 1007. you for your sympathy and sup
at 5.15 p... in the Union Assembly bill of health,'
Looking Back 50 Years. development armies" cannot go out port,
Room on Some Tendencies in clearest example the increasing use
into the fertile places;' as 'the The Very Reverend Dean Alfred
The Amateur Dramatic Corps of Sentence of four months' bard the Bulls made their, first appear- of electricity in domestic and indus pioneer caravans of settlers went Swann thanked the speaker on he surgery as seen during a visit to
Canada and Engalnd."
labour was passed on a Chinese, ance before & Hong Kong audience trial life, the harnessing of water out to the Middle West. If the hall of the Rotary Club and said he
an assistant to a military cook, yesterday evening for the benefit was glad that the speaker wound Director. power and the use of, oil have, re-sites, were wisely selected; if the up his address with an appeal for the 8.5. Kinshan is stated to have chens in Austin Barracks. When late Mr. Boyd, Head Commis
A Chinese woman passenger of who was caught in one of the kit of the widow and family of the (2737 duced the demand for con to needed proportion of manual work their backing for the new Bishop,
jumped overboard on Sunday while accused was surprised in the kit mariat clerk. The performance last point that gives little hope for era, mechanics and "brain workers”
the steamer was on its way from chen, which incidentally was stocki
night was under the patronage of arrival of the ship in Hong Kong, found on the ro Canton to Hong Kong On the ed with rations, an empty suck was Their Excellencies the Administra- Ha was dor and Major-General Sargent, the woman's effects were handed charged with burglariously enter. C.B., who were both present, to over to the Police.
ing Austin Barracks and with theft gether with Mrs. Marsh. Ma of a tin of black peper."
Willes, Miss Thornton and Major Hamilton, A.D.C. The theatre was The Lady Mother Superior and well filled on Monday with the
been registered locally and is covo ed, have become desperate. To take the secos strange, therefore that "land Bishop of Victoria will depend upon University Medical Society to-day Monday the Colony had a clean da
by patent application No. 32731/31.
(8d.) EASTERN RITE-A-LITE LTD.
A. D. TYLER,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
FOURTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING.
..
Forms for the Fourteenth Extra
miners at present unemployed of was calculated, it would be strange horesman, auch a plan, might begin ever again seeing the inside of a if such ventures could not become slowly. The alternative is a cheer pit. The same story is told of largely self-supporting, and even ful acceptance of a growing army wheat, of rubber, of timber and if there was no market for their of idlers, deteriorating in personal
Remanded from Monday, à Chi- host of other commodities. The grain, thoir poultry and stock, at character and constituting a monace producers of the world can provide lenat the subsidy needed to set them to the state The world has waited nese who was arrested on a charge sisters of the Canossian Institute, members of the garrison; last night too long for the "turn of tide," of possession of an automatic and DRAFT Programines and Entry all that the distributors can dis-up and keep them in machinery for the boom that fellows depres: nine rounds of ammunition at talian Conront) wish to thank it was crowded with a fashionable Baco Meeting to be held on SATUR pose of, and leave some twenty would be less than, the dole they sion, and for a number of other Pokfulam Road, was sentenced to Mrs. Wellington for kindly presid audience. Those who had the DAY, 19th November, 1939 (weather million workers standing idle If draw at present. There are many we are content to wait Unemploy Kennedy Skipton."
remedies that may turn up if only nine months hard labour by Mr.ing at the opening of the Bazaar; please of witnessing the perform
also Dr. Wellington, the Hong ance will, we are sure, entertain o permitting, ray-bo-obtained at the the distributors were more of cient difficulties, political, financial and meat is an old-standing evil in
Kong Electric Cb, Mr A. Yannini valy hope that they may-have- Becretary Office, the Clab House, soms say less greedy for them-
A fine of 810 was imposed on the King's Dispensary, the Bri- opportunities of seeing the Buffs Happy Valloy, the Hong Kong Club,
peychological to such a policy. Great Britain. It has been incress. Village Hond.
bub at present those engaged in the
The regiment includes u to causes that are known, and will the U.S.8. Pope who was charged Bincere Co., Morita and Co. sions. Entries close at 12 o'clook NOON elaborato processes of distribution would be aghast at such a sugges not phas off themselvica. There is before Mr. Schofield yesterday with Chung Hing Store the Editors of considerable amount of dramatic on THURSDAY, 10TH NOVEMBER, often find that to get food into the tion. The vision and the deter. urgent need for a bold planning of disorderly conduct at Kato's Rex the English and Chinese Papers talent, and with such an admirablo work for men who have no reason. Inurant, Johnston Road, Wanchai, and the able band of the St. Lowis band to assist in the, musical part clothes on their backs, would entailmination of a CROMWELL or able prospect of returning to their on Monday night. In addition, to Industrial School for their bouuti of the programme, any appearance By Order,
loss and ruin to transport services DIBRAELI could alone inaugurate old occupations. It would bo in the fine, Kaiel was ordered to pay ful selections Grateful thanks are the Amateurs may make on the and grave financial complications, such a policy, But as CROMWELL torosting to know what the Ottawa #15 compensation to the restaurant also eptended to all who contribut stage cannot fail to be successful.- endangering the whole fabric of started his Army with one troop of Conference had to say on this sub for damage done to the fixtures ad towards tho success of the Hong Kong Daily Press, November
and fittings. Drutknued “at, foot of next column.j" lect.
the Bport. Club, and the Stablos, selves) the problem would be ensy; Liberal and Labour politicians/ing over since the war. It is due Joseph Elmer Kniel a stoker on taapin Aerated Water Factory, Amateurs de many futuro occa
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6. A. SLEAP,
Acting Becretary.
mauths of hungry people-and-
commerce.
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