NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
UNIVĒRSITY OF HONG KONG.
NOTICE.
7.ANTED technicians för
Wacteriological Laboratory of the Pathology Department, Hongkong University, on 4-starting-salary-pl. $190.00 a month; must be young and energetic and have a good knowledge of English: Apply with testimonials ad to character and experience to the Registrar
W. B. FINNIGAN,
15th December, 1932.
registrar,
(9209
ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY,
HONG KONG
ANNUAL BALL, 1933.
TEMBERS are reminded that it
M proposed to hold the above function on 8th January, 1933,
It will prova of considerable assist- ance to the Secretaries if lists of guests are sent as soon as possible to their offices, Gloucester Building.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,"
Secretaries & Treasurers,
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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.
NOTICE.
THE FOURTEENTH ORDIN ARY YEARLY MEETING, OF BHAREHOLDERS will be beld
in the Board Room of Mensri. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, DECEM BER 17, 1932.
ASSORTED CASES
-FOR-
CHRISTMAS. 1932.
CASE NO. 1 -- $45,00
Bot. Clos RoyalTM (Sparkling).
#
Honyer Guillet "Three Star" Brandy.
--Medoc: Claret.
French Vermouth.
Invalid Sherry.
Old Tom Gi.
Watson's "E" Whisky.
Coracao M.B.E.
2 Bota. White Wine (Orayon).
Castillo Part..
CASE NO. 2--$52,00
Bot. Gustave Ferrand Royal Extra Dry Champag
11
St. Julien Olarat.
Castle "G" Sherry.
"
44
M
Ressalt's Five Star" Brandy.
Frooch Vermonth. ·
Italian Vermouth.
Barnett's London Dry Gin. Watson's. "E" Whisky. Dewar's White Label: Whisky. Get Freras Peppermint,
2 Bota. Oporto Blanco Port...
ל
CASE NO. 3-$60.00
2 Bota Ayala Vintage Champagne. 1 Bot. Margaux Claret. --
*
Baix Fine Old Brown. Sherry- Robertson's Privateer Port. Castle 84 Port
Italian Vermouth.
Burnett's London Dry Gin.
#B Fine Old Brown Brandy. Dewar' White Label Whisky. Dewar's Victoria Vat Whisky. Heering's Cherry Brandy.
Special Cases made up to Order.
Bank Building, Victoria, Hong Kong A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
on Surday, the 31st day of. December, 1982, at 12 o'clock (Scop), for the purpose of receiving a State- ment of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the financial year ended 80th September, 1982, and electing Directors and Auditore.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 24th December, 1982, nntil Saturday, 14th January, 1923, both days inclusive."
By Order of the Board of Directors,
NOEL BRAGA,
Hong Kong, 18th December, 1982.
NOTICE
SALE BY TENDER.
Tthe ROYAL ARMY ORD
NANCE DEPOT, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST, HONG KONG,
of obsolete and unserviceable Javorament & Stores consisting of TENTAGE, OLD METALS, HOUSE HOLD EQUIPMENT, BLANKETS,
10
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, TELEPHONE 20616.
London Offen: 53,
The Bully Bress
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
„TO-DAY
(December
News and Views
Miss X (who bas gently-but firmly refected an offer of marri- age): What do you want the waiter for!
America Finds Outl
According to an eminent Ame- rican Mr Walter N. Thayer, Sport,
Crime is lessened in direct pro- portion to the certainty of deles Cricket-First Division: Royaltion and celerity of trial and cou- Navy Indian RC (L) Kow-viation loon C.C. Hong Kong C.C. (F.); Army University (F.); Public Brotherly Love! Works Department Sanitary Department (Civil Service 0.0. ground). Second Division: In dina RC Navs (L); Club de Recreio g. Police (L) Craigen gower C.C. v. RAS.C. (L); Hong Kong C.C. Kowloon C.C. (L.) University Royal Engineers and Signals (F.). N
Football:-Firat Division: St. Joseph's Club; Recreio Polico; Kowloon Lincolns Second Division: St. Joseph's e. Eastern: South China v Kowloon; Navy Evo Royal Artillery Club. Third Division Recreio Radio Sports; Univerally. Royal Engineers; Bouth, China. Royal Air Force; S.W. Borderors. .R.A.B.C.
Hockey-Mamak Tournament Wishart Incogniton "(Naval ground). 4 p.m.; Radio Sporta e Veteran (Caroline Hill) 4p.in.: Caer Clark Cup, St. Andrew's s Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club; Y.M.C.A.. Club de Recreio
Rugby: Triangular Tourna- ment: Hong Kong Rugby Club... Navy (Happy Valley).
YachtingRoyal Hong Kong Yacht Club Menagerie Hare.
Theatres.
Homer's Odyssey" in French,
18,000 Japanese for grani).
The number of Japanese emi- Ten thousand sheep have been! killed to provide for a new edition grants to South America has been in French of Homer's OdysMy" "more than doubood this year, comprising 100 sets of four volumes Against 5,602 - for last your, this. entirely printed on and bound in year's total will reach 15,000. The vellum. The total cost of the edi tion, will be about.£4,000 --
Gold leaf and platinum are used for decoration in the printing, and all the books have been subscribed for in advance.
Mr. To alter my order. If I've got to look on you as "just a Perfumed Page.. sister," that lunch is going to be po a fifty cents snack. -
Reclamation Causes Quakes.
number of Japanese emi- grants to Brasil for the present year will be the Buenos Aireas maru, sailing from Kobe on the is partly due to the fact that with 19th instant. The marked increase.
a view to encouraging emigrations, the Department of Orezione: AE- fairs has granted this year 150 extra per head, in addition to the passage money of Y200; hitherto allowed.
The day is not very distant, says a London Times leader, when news papers will recommend themselves not solely because of their new of The series of earth tremors which views or powers of general invec
It is thefapper vote" which rocked the Netherlands, Belgium tive, but by their perfume. The The Women Blamed,
difficultion That view, expressed. and Western Germany during the printing of publications on por past few weeks were caused, ac fumed paper with perfumed inks is the cause of Great Britain's cording to a report by the Nether is envisaged.
The smell must meet the occasion, by an American Professor and
be Senator, was cited in Facis by M. lands Seismographical Institute, by a disturbance of the balance of and papers that expect to the water pressure brought about| propped up, against tea pots, in Hanri de Korillis, a French jon by the reclamation of a large part honourable proximity to bacon and slist, who discussed the problems. of the Zuyder Zer.
egga, must take great care not to of "feminine preponderanos."', with clash. And it must not be forgot these two authorities. ten that though papers are bought. The sulatamen of their views, be to be read they remain to wrap in says, war"There would be lah crime, less brigandage, Jess waste,
Old and Super-Now.
.of
Wrote With Her Tongue,
One of the features of the Chica-particular vegetables and fish go. World's Fair will be great
It would be folly for a new Maya temple. It reproduces the paper so to scent itself that it temple at Uxmal, Yucatan, built would be disqualified for these more than 1,000 years ago by the humble functions. most enlightened aborigines North America. The origins! WAS generations in building; the du plicate goes up in 90 days. With electric cutting tools the grotesque head of a Mayan god can be turn Majestic: "June Moon" Cened out in a few hours but the or
King'e:ginal Mays, who did not even tral Born' to Love."
Thunder Below Queen's he know how to harden copper, spent
Oriental: lifetime in bringing a face or Call of the Sea."
c." Star: "Lord column into form, "Sporting Chance." Babe."
E
Dances.
Frimness in Paris,
Tes Dances:-Hong Kong hotel, A subtle question of women's Majestic Dancing Academy and rights is being argued in a Pariz King's Restaurant. Dinner Dances court. Some time ago a young King's Restaurant, Peninsula, woman of good family took a seat Hong Kong and Repulse Bay on a café terrace, and ordered a glass of bear. The waiter inform ed her that beer was not being served. Bhe therenpen asked for cup of coffee. This also the waiter said was not being served.
Hotels.
Miscellaneous, gas,
H.K. University Medical Society Dinner and Dance, loof Garden, Hong Kong Hotel.
In the past the attitude of the Editorial and Busen Oflens: 11,
Ios House Street. Tel European community has been_that- Night Editor (Wanobai Odes): it is hopeless to try and shoulder
Tel. '24511.
the burden of China, and the Government, though with certain: twinges of conscience, has shaped Tocial its policy on that basis. In
1 antibong Hd Wa problems, however, precedent and Outward America and Europe tradition are bad guides because sig Siberia by Tantalus 10 am.
Europe Baez by Ranpura, circuzatances change. The tighten, Inward Americs by ing of the housing and sanitary President Jefferson: regulations show that at the pre- sent time the Government by po means adopt a laisser faire attitude towards these problems, and the Society for the Protection of Child- ren has for its chief supporter the Government, whose grant is to be increased to 15,000 in the forth coming year. The Colonial Socre
HONG KONG, D17, 1932.
HONG KONG'S GREATEST PROBLEM
MOSQUITO NETTING, WIRELESS IT may cause some of us an uneasy
ETC., ETC.
Forms of Tender may be obtained
from the:--
ORDNANCE OFFICER, (Baler Branch),: RAO. Depot, Hong Kong. CLOSING DATE OF TENDERS
19 Noon, 29th DECEMBER, 1982.
[1897
NOTICE.
STORES, CORDAGE, HARNESS, quaim to learn that a large retary in his budget speech, further portion of the population of this Colony lives on an income of under announced that he was prepared to 4 por month. That sum represents ask the Council to vote a subsidy the "poverty line" above which on a dollar for dollar basis, or even the Society for the Protection of higher. No clearer indication could Children, extracts from whose re.be given of the local Government's port appear in this issue, feels confidence in the Bociety and of its itself unable to render assistance appreciation of the gravity of the in relief of want. We all know problem. The list of the contribu- that the Chinese coolie class is able tors and of the officials, show, the attitude both of Civil Servants and to live, and and live well, for a tiny sum and that for them prices of leading members of the Chinese are incredibly lower than whist Europeans pay for similar como dities. It is also true that the HE CERTIFICATE dated 27th glass in question is accustomed to THE
September, 1883, for One Bhare an extremely low standard of living 490 Paidkup Numbered 9690 in this and is neither discontented Doc Company standing in the Name of uncomfortable under these circum HOP CHUN of Foochow has been
Up-country, things are declared LOST, and if at the Expira ion of One Month from the Date often worse, and at least in, Hong bareof the above Document be not Kong there fa peace and security Portkooming, the Said Certificate will against briganda, floods and
be deemed CANCELLED and of No fect, and a NEW Certificate for the Bald Share will be issued; in its
tead by the Company.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN HONG
G KONG)
stances.
famines
SUNDAY.-
(December (18),"
Sport, Golf: Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Championship (final), M. W Budd v AB Stewart; Kowloon, Golf Club Championship (sini
finals), te
Hockey-Mamak Tournament St. Andrew's . Medway (Harina),
4 p.m.
Hunting Fanling Hunt Hounds Meet (Lok Ma Chau Cross Roads),
3.18 p.m.
Yachting Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club Third Championship Race (Cruisers).
Queen's: Everything's Rosie.” Oriental Million Dollar Legs." Majestic." Amateur Daddy." King's Business and Pleasure,"
Big Gamble? Star: "Silver Horde Central:
4...
rand.
A woman who could read and
less disorder, if, instead of taking to politics and sociology, the wo man took more thought of her duty to her family and her role of wife and mother.
Women ran to extremes,
d
it is, above all, to women that we aws the great mistake of Prohibi- hence, there are more..women than write with her tongue when the tion in America When, so years other muscles in her body were men the question will arias whe paralysed. has just – died after
them, by universal suffrage, the spending thirty years in a hospital ther we ought to hand over bo
country in England. She was Miss Beste effective rule of our Anderson, who, although blind and dumb, carried on correspondence by Braille.
"In a great civilisation it must be the male, the creative element, Developed to the last degree of that dominates. Matriarchal civi sensitiveness, her tongue passed lisations only produced the eld over the raised dota that represent mentary society of the first agev letters to the blind and helped her of mankind." to read books and letters With a Ane needle held in her lips and pressed againet: thick paper by Taxes Without Tears.- her tongue, abe was able to write
"I heard a very, warm debate her answers by the same Braille
between two professors about, the and effectual system, ⠀⠀
Another of her accomplishments most commodious
without grieving the subject. was to thread bends with her ton-ways and means of raising mone gue and lips, the be
The Ant, affirmed, "the justest method would be to lay a certain tax upon vices and folly; and the "sum" fixed upon every man to be
jury of his neighbours
an
On asking in bewilderment what was being served, she learned that the waiter, had instructions not fo
siz 291ðlur adipis - sarve any woman whose, face was
made up and who was sifting Hard Luck on Hearty Mariners. on the Café terrace alone. The young woman indignantly protest- It is perfectly true that an anti-rated, after the fairest manner, by ed that she was merely waiting rolling device for ships will be a there for a relative and strongly great boon for travellers (provid
The second was of opinion resented the suggestion that she ed that it does not involve com- might have been confused with pansatory pitching), yet it would, directly contrary: To tax those those young people who wait for be a mistake to assume that it will qualities of body and mind for anybody.
be of universal acceptance. In which men chiefly valus them- When her relative arrived the de fact the ship which does not roll solves the rate to be more or less manded and received an apology will be exceedingly popular with according to the degrees of oxen!- He was also informed that the cafe those "hearty" passengers who take ling, the decision whereof should in question, in common with great joy in their own immunity be left entirely to their own eral others, had made a firm rule from the seasickness of their fol- heart."
The highest tax was upon mas man on earth than he who, after a who are the greatest favouriten, of to the affect that the waiter had lows. There may be no producer stated.
craise or a voyage, can tells as the other sex, Wit, valour and many people as possible how fear- fully rough it was and how he and politeness were likewise proposed
to be largely taxed, the captain were the only ones who dined in the saloon on such But as to honour, justice, wisdom and such a day. The very thought and learning, they should not be because they are of some hundreds of sea-green suf- taxed shall, forers fills him with splendid qualifications of no singular a summer and perfume and pride" kind, that no man will either al- the perfume being that of the low them in his neighbour, or
Travelt. Bwift. 1720. cigar which he smoked on the best value them in himself :: Gulliver's deck, he alone with wind and ses.
The only makeup which the aggrieved young woman's pretty face bore was a touch of lipstick and a little pencil on her eye brows. This, however, it appears, was sufficient to transgress the rules of the café,
Both she and the member of her family who met her are now suing the café, proprietor for 280 damages for a public insult.
Local and General
The Colony had a clean bill health on Thursday,
chow-for
phonie
community. The problem it not merely one of sentiment. From the public policy point of view little or so concern need be felt regard- ing those who can obtain n'family Dooms of $10 per head, per month, Tea Dances fepulse Bay and Below theit level the consequent Hong Kong Hotels Majestic Land standard of living becomes a mattering Academy and takis
Entertainm of public interest, in which the welfare and prestige of the Calmy Concep are involved In the first place p.. there is the danger of epidemics When all allowances, are made it This is too evident to need stre is impossible to say that, conditions ing. The attitude of the Pubche are satisfactory. There is conclu-Health Department is clearly show sive evidence of skind that sweeps in the report of the Director of aside any such nasumption We Medical Services, which warns us (2897-refer to the rate of infantile mort that paat immunity carries no ality. The official figures are 12,055 assurance of safety in the future. births and 1,46% deaths per annum. Again, even if the human aspect be to This works out of 817 per thousand, eliminated; the financial losses that, der but as births are not always resocompany an epidemie, owing gistered, while deaths perforce have quarantine, and a variety of other THE undermentioned Certificates to be, the actual figure may be causes, are a serious matter. The inv for 75 shares in this Company, lower, though the Society pisoes it second consideration is that the ered in the name of Chow Peng at considerably over 500 per thou- efforts of the Building
PAUL LAUDER, -
General Manager.. Hong Kong, 14th December, 1982,
NOTICE
WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
hvn boon declared TDBT) and The Rep adds: When Departaments
at the expiration of one month
lukthe-dize hereof the following:
certificates be not produced to
namely Certificate for
56 06/5819
ertif
rate
Infantile of he
of non-
and
Sons to the
the police turned out the Emergency Squad in the Minfostic indi-Cabaret where, & free fight was re ported in progress. The Liidir; however, must have, been brief: na the, brawl was over when the police arrived.
is not one for sent
but for est
nd expert consid
· The clever solution sisters,
Maye, who have
y gratifyin
Peninsula Hotel
rost their engagement tos
they
form
The Hong Kong dollar opened at Is 3d yesterday but dropped during the day to is 341
and Marieh exceeding
ding, Baili
“give their farewe
Found holding?
prisoner in the
Point Poliss Beation
ppeared befor HIS
Stanley ones will give lecture to the University Christi Association today at 9 a.m., at the Union Assembly Room. All are cordially invited:
The Hoksin say that the Japanese Foreign Office has decided
hrone for the confer
List - Cisas- Order of homes Baty, in re skier meritorions ser-
nied the
WATSO
28th
about the much
by the Fede