ADVERTISEMENTS.
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
NOTICE.
ANTED technician for the Pathology Department, Hongkong, University, on a starting salary of $120.00 a month, must be young and energetic and have a good knowledge of English. Apply with testimonials as to character and experience to the Registrar.
W. B. FINNIGAN,
16th December, 1932.
Registrar,
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NOTICE.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG) THE CERTIFICATE dated 27th
September, 1883, for One Share $20 Paid-up Numbered 9890 in this Company standing in the Name of HOP CHUN of Foochow has been declared LOST, and if at the Expira- tion of One Month from the Date 'bereof the abare Document be not forthcoming the Said l'ertificate will be deemed CANCELLED and of No Effect, and a NEW Certificate for the Said Share will be issued in its stead by the Company.
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 14th December, 1982.
NOTICE.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
THE undermentioned Certificates
Tafes in this Company, registered in the name of Chow Pang deceased, bave been declared LOST.
If at the expiration of one month
from the date hereof the following share certificates be not produced to the Company, namely Certificate for 25 shares No. 5610556129 and Certificate for 50, shares No. 86180/56229, new Certificates for the said shares will be issued by the and thereafter. NO Company OTHERS will be acknowledged. A, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED Hongkong, 28th November, 1982.
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Exit from Amerion!
Queen Mary's Kindness,
Queen Mary has shown herself to In deciding to provide ninety two Stockholm Emigration from THANKS TO S.P.C.A. HELP-skating and hockey... rinks for the Sweden during the past year has be a woman of simple taster and winter us of unemployed young reached the lowest record in true democratic ideals and display- ERS AND SUBSCRIBERS
men, the authorities at Montrent years, according to the Central Buing a. splendid understanding of probably reasoned that if all work reau of Statistics. The number of human nature. A recent not of nud no play make fuck a dull boy,migrants was only 2,071, while im-kindness, nos of the many which have endeared her to the masses, (TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG to have neither work nor play would migrants amounted to 8,380.
DAILY PRESS."']
be a still greater disadvantau?
DEAR Sin-May 1, through the medium of your columns thank, on Bessarabian Wheat, behalf of the Society for Preven The Roumanian Government has tion to Cruelty to Animals, all voted a credit of 50,000.000 lei those who have so kindly subscrib-(about 3300,000) to buy good seed ed to the funds of the Society, A wheat which is to be distributed the same time I wish to apologise among the peasants. In accepting for the delay, due to pressure of the grain the peasant must agree work on the part of our Treasurer, to give back to the state the same. in publishing a list of friends who amount of wheat grown from the have subscribed: this list will be seed received before the end of given at an early date.
January, 1933
I also thank and appreciate the services rendered by all the ladies who kindly undertook the task of visiting the various offices, etc., in order to collect subscriptions. This work commands: the thanks of all members of the community interest- ed in the welfare of animals.
The Society in the Colony being carried on quietly but sure ly by members, who give their time and energy to the task ind, us much help is required, I would commend our work to all your readers-Yours faithfully,
J. RUSSELL,
Hon. President. Hong Kong, Dec. 18, 1932.
THE MESSIAH BEAUTIFUL SINGING AT UNION CHURCH,
Much of the grain will be dis- tributed in Bessarabia, but none will be used for food, for in no province or district is there shortage of wheat or corn for bread.
Tribute to Hoover,
The immigration figures are the was to drive from Sandringham to' highest in the history of Swedish calf upon Mrs. Seymour Corkran, statistics. In 1931, 910 persons of Dersingham, Norfolk, and con emigrated to the United States, gratulate her on the release of her Charles Corkran while the immigrants to Sweden grandson, Mn from that country numbered 4.810 from the hands of Chinese bandits," a surplus of immigrants over The Queen's bounty is shown int a special mannes every Christmas emigrafits of 3,891,
in the shape of hampers full of good things sent to a number of chosen "poor and aged friends." All over England these hampers will go this Christmas, and they are all individual gifts-tokens of her personal feeling for those aged people living in poverty..
Young Woman of Minois.
Feeling Young at 50.
of
Holes Laboratories.
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Recently in America and Canada there has been a great noise made about noise. This is not as modern is KIMISTIA for the cultured Greeks of Sybaris in 700 B.C. had
Schopenhaver, the German philo- regulations against noise.
sopher said. "noise is a true mur-. derer of thought." Herbert Spen- cer, declared, "You might gauge a man's intellectual capacity by the degree of his intolerance of
A man at fifty should be as sharp in the wits as at any time of his life, and as robust, if not as athle- tic, in his energies; writes Mr.necessary noise." John Drinkwater.
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When human beings indulge in long bouts of sleep they do not scem to manage the business with quite the same amount of sense as the dormouse and other creatures who wake up when the fine weather comes. That young woman Illinois who went to sleep last Fe- bruary-is now reported to be showing signs of rousing herself. The moment seems singularly in- auspicious; if she gets up now. ade Already the figure of President will merely have lost one of the Herbert Hoover begins to loom 1 better sorts of summer. But per large in defeat. Bitter as repudin-haps the weather has been different tion must be to him, in the midst in Illinois, where she is now, stir. of a gigantic task well on its way, ring herself, the able, courageous, hard-working man in the White House must see from the very hurricane vote itself that any man in his position would almost certainly have shared his fate. Financial hardships, bred a
In Canada the people are becom- passion that demanded a change a change to almost anything a Intellectually he should be in fulling more and more conscious that change. When passion has spent exercise of his powers, and his the evil or noise is an "impurity" itself, its immediate victim will un-imagiastion, if he ever had any, to be dealt with as chemical im
Noise Ja- doubtedly find himself high in the should be working, if with less purities-elirainated. public esteem: His works are his facility, more profoundly than ever boratories" are growing in num bera in Canada. Noise is measur A very large congregation gather-monument; they will not be scrap-before. od at the Union Church, Kennedy ped; they will be carried on. A Something of life's earlier pro-ed electrically and expressed in Road, last evening to listen to the shift having been effected, the fusion may have gone, but he units of loudness called decibels. Messiah which was sung by a group country will see more clearly now should, if he does justice to his This unit, the decibel, has been de the smallest increment of the Colony's best known vocalists Mr. Hoover is a great President, a years, being a finer zest to the en- fined as to the accompaniment of Mr. G. E. great and beloved man.-Christian joyment of all that has not been which the average human ear can Longyear at the organ. The Solists Science Monitor.
discarded by his selective instinct. | detect. were Mrs. A. M. Bowes Smith (so- prano), Mrs. H. L. Lockhart (con- tralto), Mr. H. E. Gardner (tenor). Haying bad con year--not a very and Mr. W. H. Bailey (bass).
The Messiah," the grandest and long time, it is true-in which to most famous of Handel's composi observe the effect of their policy,tions, was beautifully and reverently the National Government' are now in a position to point to some do finite results. What those results are was recently outlined by Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN in the course of a public speech in which he briefly contrastad the present position with that of a year ago in Great Britain, and the position of Great Britain ss compared with that of other nations.
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the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs, J. 18SES BORIMBEN, &r Bon. The PERKINS, On December
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DEATH.
TREVOR-SMITH-On December 8, at Shanghai, MARIE EMMA TOEVON- Burr, aged 63 years.
Los House Bärenk. Tel. 30881.
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As Mr. BALDWIN pointed out, |-there-are-still-great-difficulties to overcome, but the positive
rendered. The familiar musical equences were fully enjoyed by all who were present. No more fitting way could have been chosen to mark the close of the Advent season.
PAVD. TENDERS NEW ROAD AT STANLEY: ABERDEEN VALLEY SCHEME
Local and General
In celebration of Christmas, the Chinese Y.M,C.A. is giving,a musical entertainment on December 23 at 8 p.m.
Among passengers leaving by the Empress of Japs were Mr. B. D F. Beith, Mr. and Mrs. E. Stone, and Mr. P. A. Cox.
The Hong Kong Ladies Hockey Club will hold their fifth annual dance at Lane, Crawford's Restau- rant on January, 11, commencing at
In the current number of the Government Gazette tenders are in- one for the construction of a 25- foot wide road from the main-Island-m Road at Stanley to R.B.L. 243, at Stanley together with a branch
A pótification in the Government Gazette states that unless The
At to-niorrow's meeting of the Rotary Club, Rotarian W. A. Cornell will speak an Some Rominiscences of Happy Days and Nights at the.. Theatre Royal Hong Kong."
from the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
The demonstration of physical education given by Miss EJ. Lee, B.P.E., and the girls of We mentioned a few days ago the Diocesun Girls' School on the that Mr. Wade has gona ta Cinton, School open air compound on Fri on Thursday in the Opossum gun- day, was successfully repeated on boat, taking Achoon the linguist Saturday afternoon before a large with him. We hear that, accom gathering of parents and friends panied by one of the officers of the There were many spectators pre: French Logation, the party landed under a flag of Truce near the site of the old factories, and delivered The International "Y.W.C.A. sommunication from Lord Elgin
sent
Editorial and Bannem Olions: 11,) achievements in Great Britain dur-road to Stanley Police Station. The Hong Kong Publis Billiard Saloon, Shanghai," has invited on all wo addressed to Commissioner el, N Urgent Appeal is made for Night · Editor" "(Wanihai Offos): ing the prst year are very great.work includes all necessary walling Ltd., shows causs' to the contrary, men who find, themselves affected by into. the hands of some Manderins
Winter Olothing particularly for Children.
Many requeria for blankets ·áre being made. Any covering of any kind or any thing which could be converted into a covering will be most gratefully received at the City Hall on Mondays and Thursdays between 10.30 and. 11.30 am.
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The Baly Press.
The Government also invites tenders for the Aberdeen Valley East Catchment scheme. The work consists of the distruction of the 2nd Section of the East Catchwater approximately 6,000 feet in length draining the southern slopes of Mount Nicholson and contingent works.
There is no comparison between the bridges, culverta, cross-drainage and general financial stability of the any other contingent works. country today and what it was twelve months ago. Great conver sion loans have been parried through in a manner which is little short of miraculous. These have provided an environment of confidence and of cheap money which must have a favourable effect before long on the Inbour market. While certain coun- tries continue to decline, in Grast BRITAIN'S STAYING POWER Britain the situation is improving
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 10, 1932.
human efforts made by the British people; the rub her bein stopped and there are many signs of improve ment.
Another tender called for is in respect of reinstatement of retain wall at Jardino's Corner, The Posk. The contract comprises the taking down of about 50 linear feet of retaining wall and rebuilding in cement concrete with rubble face- The Bank of England has pub-work, together with all necessary A YEAR or two ago we used to read in lished some interesting figures with drainage and other contingent
works. all types of journal of a world-wide regard to production. These figures economic blizzard," Thore seemed are most carefully calculated, and to be a general idea that a financial they cover a long period of years “Taking the years 1997, 1998, and and economis erisis had arisen which would test the resources of 1920 as representing the 100 per all those nations which had achieved cent, index,' said Mr. BALDWIN a high degree of industrial develop and that with regard to our pro- ment, but which of necessity must duction in the last twelve months soon blow itself out. The weakest we have actually bettered our would suffer for a time, and per- position from a figure of 75 to one hape aufler kosuly, but a new and of 78, and that at a time when the Zendere more stable balsas, would be corresponding estimates made in all Pater found. - Internacional trade on a the industrial countries of the world large scale would be resumed, and show that, with the exception of | Information should be prosperity would returns.
Japa, which has improved one
If Local Campanive desirous of this
up furtim Agencies will let ku know the Tau la which than interested the tRNEN KER
portunity offer.
That Bervios is offered to our
without : abarre mad,
• no obligation in incurred.
steps lied to be taken at once to
it will be struck off the Register.
The King's Exequatur, empower ing Mr. Rene Joseph Franccis Laurent Ohl to act as Vice-Conat for the Argentine in Hong Kong has received His Majesty' signa
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ture
the depression to use the Centre at who came to meet them, and by 98 Nanking Road in any way they whom they were courteously receiv with. The club room is warm and ed. Mr. Wade we are told, was comfortable, with magazines and desired to return in four days for books to be borrowed. Several a reply. The factories remained in typewriters are available to be ruins as they were left and are not uced and arrangements can be made carried away se was reported, the for giving dictation to keep a Dutch and French follies are in a most delapidated state and no pre- parations for resistance could be practice until a job materialises.”
observed Hong Kong Daily Fren, December 18, 1887.
The third meeting of the current session of the Hong Kong Branch of the English Association will be On Friday night the police made held in the Helena May Institute, a round-up of private rickahas, at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, January parking them in the Central Police LOORING BACK 50 YEARS.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara will speak Station compound. As each owner pulsarsten on Light Verse.
came up to claim his vehicle It is rumoured that 10 ironcinds ho was served with a mummons are to be built at the Arsenal at The building of the new Technical for not having proper accom- Pagoda. -Foochow for the Chinese
sald children is to start in January. The Inspector Alexandra that General, of Nanking has forwarded Institute for the Colony's poor modation of his rickshaw Trans Government, and that the Governor Hong Kong Government has grant ricksha pullers had been warn the first quarter instalment of Ti ed the site of the old Tai Shinged about parking the rickshas at 200,000 for this purpose. We can Paper Factory to the Technical In night in such a manner that they not vouch for the accuracy of this the erection of a Technical Institute and sanitary lories. stitution, and the sum necessary for were liable to obstruct fire engines report, but as Foochow is consider- has been collected:
ed to have the best Arsenal în Chine, and labour is cheaper than at any outport, with the exoption Eight persons handed over to the perhaps of Hankow, there is overs Shanghai and Woosung Gendar probability of the rumour being merie Commissioner's office by the more than a canard-Hong Hong Greater Shanghai Bureau of Fab Daily Press, Desember 19, 1833. with the amassination of the late Looking Back 25 Years, Rear Admiral Wn Euang Tsung
Mr. Huang, who was banished (former Director of the Hydrogra phis Department of the Chinese
Navy) several months ago, have from Peking some two years ago. been transferred to the Shangliai; for his outspoken comments on thorities holding that this is District Court. the military au-Peking officials, and han
The ones of the Supreme Court There are problems still to be feed Besides will be open daily from 10 am to the evil of unemployment, there are 2 p.m. during the Christmas vaca the problems of Indiagriculture, tion (which commences on December disarmament, war debts and repa 94 and Terminates on January 1,lic Safety for trial in connection tions. One of the most pressing both days inclusive) except on problema at the moment, and our publlo and general holidays when that is now being dealt with, is that the offices will be entirely closed, of the Head 4 year ago and on Saturdays, when they will va Lod: Ktiation, One of those be open from 10a.m. te noon. steps was to cut down unemploy ment pay, and prevent further pay unjustifiably, and to ladeo who had meera upon filed live without their receiving pumplement pay liber they had schen
benefitä to whicht The test was appli different, disti rise to
iets to mdano, resi
That attitude has proved to be point, every other country is worsement to those who were receiving it be maintained for record purposes, matter in which they have no juris-14 bis home at Hair
off that it was a year ago'
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LAB wrong. The economic crisis per
smte. No country can claim to Zue unemployment statisics show have weathered the storm. All are similar resulta, In Great Britalii still striving to secure more markete unemployment is little different to absorb their surplus products. | from what it was at this time last The blizzard struck Great Britain year-last month, a decrease of with considerable force just over a 110,000 in the number of unemploy, year ago, and with such effect that ed was announced, but in Ge National Government had to be and the United States of formed to balance the Budget and restore the country's finances. One
LOCAL MAPS
HONGKONG
two of her greatest indui petitors, unemployment
important change was the abolition all comparison "worse of the gold standard, another was it was a year ago.
moet drastin econo in public ad- first
months tha?
diction
At the Publio Shanghai Mortu
In order that a complete list may it is requested that those ladies nad gentlemen resident in Hong Kong, other than those now serving in Hi Majsity's Forces, who have had any decoration conferred upou them by His Majesty the King, gave will inform the Chief Clerk of the late Mr. Fong Ching Hung, dis Colonial Secretarist, unless this department head in The Sins has already been done within 14 cere, Co who was seriously wound-
ed whilst attempting to, refut gally of would-be klans
has
been"" arrested together family, for making:
ty last week, Procurator Kuo conraming 800,000 for the development ducted an inquest over the remains of railways y
con to be
convict, serving & five-](#verdier of murder” Against: some at Victoria Gaol for person or persons unknown wi yae again, brought before turned-Mt.Fong wi Wydne Jones, at Central Magis more than 30 years tracy on Saturday, on a charge came to Shanghai soma/year
maliciously wounding fellow to take up a position in The Sincere prisoner. Ascussed is alleged to move Co. Whilst returning to ble attacked the man in question with home in Yuyuen Road, he was so are and inficted serions in costed by several men who tried to
which may cause the wound-forge bine into "ażmote
the loss of both arms, It be resisted had shouted tel that the injured man the gangstars Ared" at
Hospital for at least an-, blank, a ballet passing thro our weeks, and viioner way body Erwas rushed to t
Hospital where he died,
There
love that
him, as he