NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION No. 187.
„Cuoiono... PreenKTAYA... Y295RLJ; ALTERATION IN BIONAT USED FOR STOPPING SYHANURI, Jona, Ero, UNDER WAT THE Public is hereby notified that in accordance with the instruc- tions of the Chinese Government the signal hitherto used-both by day and by night-hy Cuatons, preventive vessels for calling the attention of steamers, janks etc. under way viz.
Three short and one long blasts
on the, whistle
has been changed to:
One short, one long and two short blasts, meaning "in the Inter- national Code of Signals "Stop heave to I have something important to communicate."
The subsequent signals to be used if necessary viz. MN Stop instantly or K (Anchor instantly or 1D "Heave to or I will fire into you") remain unaltered.
The change indicated above will take effect in the Kowloon Customs District from 1st January, 1933.
E. N. ENSOR,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932.
THE YULETIDE SPIRIT
AWARDRI
A rare Old Scotch Whisky is DEWAR'S, a Real Aristocrat blended and ripened
by men of skill and experience i
DEWAR'S stands supremely alone in its perfection of Bouquet, Flavour and
Strength,
DEWAR'S
"WHITE LABEL"
White Labell
EST SCOTCH WHISK OF GREAT AGE.
IT
NEVER
VARIES.
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Commissioner of Chinese Customs, Kowloon and District.
York Building,
Hong Kong, 27th December, 1992.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING &
MINING CO., LIMITED.
PATMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND OF SHARE YOL TIPE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1932.
THE Company having declared a FINAL DIVIDEND of BY five per cent), free of Income Tax for the year enderi 30th June, 1933, holders of Boarer Shares and bolders of Dividend Warrants received from Lon don on account of Registered Shares, will be paid their Dividend an present ing No. 41 Coupon of the Bearer Shares and Dividend Warrants on Begistered Shares to any one of the following Bazku
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATIUM,
The CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA & Ominai THE BANQUE Batɑz zOUR L'ETRAN-
The Payment will be made in Dolla
the boying rate of exchange, of the
E. J. NATHAN,
General Manager. THE KAILAN MINING
19929
ADMINISTRATION.
NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. CLXCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.
CERTIFICATES No. 2148 sxl
2194 för Fifty and Ten Bbarer respectively, per share paid up Numbered 61186/81185 and“ 98008: 95017 in this Society standing in the name of Mus. PAN KIM NEO have bean declared LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Month from th Data hereof the above Documents b not forthcoming the Baid Certificate will be deemed CANCELLED an of No Eftet, and NEW OERTI- FICATES for the Said Shares will be issued in their stand by the Society.
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager: Hong Kong, 23rd Tecember, 1982
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NOTICE. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
THE undermentioned Certificates
Dewar & Son
PER
DISTILLERS.
BIRTHS.
Sole Agents:
A.S.. WATSON & CO...
RICHARDSON-On December 14, 1932, at Shanghai, ROSA RICHARDSON, aged 3 months. Infant twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Richardson.
CAMERON. On December 13, 1932,
the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, to Dr. and Mrs. E. E CAMERON, A SOD,
DEATHS. ORAN-On December 90, 1939, at the Isoistion Hospital, Shang- hai, after a lingering illness, WILLIAM FRANCIS OBAM, son of the late Fred Oram, Custoņas Rivet Police, FIRTH On December 20, at the Paulan Hospital, Shanghai, Brasie Finra, aged 30 years, Mother of Billie Krenovand Mary Firth and widow of the late Bernard Firthi
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HONG KONG, DECEMBER 28, 1929
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT. IN GREAT BRITAIN
Turne are few subjects which pro voke more misunderstanding than the administration of unemployment insurance benefit in Great Britain,
`LIMITED...
Established 1841.
tributions paid and benente, drawn!
last five years. This woul transfer from the insurance scheme to a relief scheme an expenditure of about £4,000,000 out of £116,000,000. The income limit of non-manual workers should be raised from £250 to £300 a year, when the same limit can be adopted for health insurance. The means teet,” against which there has been considerable agitation, should be continued, but with certain safe guards.
Farsilel with the insurance soheme it is proposed to establish
Ia relief schema for all able-bodied
workers outside insurance; that is to say for those who are not in insured trades--this includes agri cultural workers and for those who have exhausted benefit rights. For
News and Views
Motoring Mystery.
Costly Fingers.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
December 98).
car owner walking wearily Kubalik, whose fortune has been 1 home the other evening looked reduced by the slump, has to pay P.W.D., Sale of Crown Landi, back to find two lamps, obviously enormous insurance on his fingers 9-pam. on a motor car, overtaking him at The total amount is approximate.
·Sport. ansila pace. He waited for a ly £26,000, and is made up thus: Cricket: - Triangular Tourną- lift, but whan the car came almost first, second, and third finger of mont: Army v Navy (Hong Kong- abreast of him he say that there the left hand 29700 each little 0.0 ground), 11 am was no driver. The rear seats were finger of the left hand £2200; Hookey: Mamak - Tournament - also empty. The engine was not thumb of the left hand 27500.To Police RAS.C. (Soakunpoo), running, yet the car continued on tal £17,500. The right hand is a its way Mystery! Nevertheless little cheaper. The first, second,
heatres he jumped in and sat down, and and third fingers account for £8000, in all, the thumb £900, and the still the car went forward;
little fingar 470, Bolved At Last,
New Mental Disorders." Mr. Geofrey Shakespeare, M.P. Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health, is of opinion that
p.m.
Central Bring 'Em Back Alive Star Sunshine Buse. Queen'ar Love on the King's Blonde Venus. Majes tie?: “! The Lost Squadron: " Orian: Amateur Daddy." Taiping: ne band Dances. Tea Dadices:Hong Kong Hotel, King's Restaurant and Majestic
* Coconauts./ADERS
the administration of this relief a mile's run the car stopped, and Though the danger of great Dancing Academy, Dinner Dances:
Knowing something of cars he without result, and eventually he pushed the electric starter, but aimply set back and waited to see what would happen. After about he stepped out to discover how it scheme the Commission would enlist had kept running. Just then a the assistance of the local autho voice by his side demanded, "What the devil do you mean by sitting rities. This would, they believe, my car P He explained the ensure its being administered wit position. No motive, power be greater discretion; and the local darned gasped the other fellow. authorities alone have the mathinery od thing for two miles!"
"I've been pushing the confound
and the experience requisite for such a service. It is suggested that ench local authority would be re- sponsible for the relief of unem ployment to the extent of a rate of four pence in the pound, which would produce over the whole try £5,000,000. The national chequer would "distribute a BUDE which, on the basis of three milljon
would amount unemy
£68,000,000
English Bagpipes.
Hotels.
epidemica has largely been solved King's Restaurant, Peninsula, I think that the speed and strain Hong Kong and Repulse Bay of modern life, especially in in- dustrial, centres, is creating new Entertainments:-Italian Grand mental and nervous disorders. Opera Co. Cavalleria Rusti These, I believe are responsible cane and Pagliacci") Str for much of the present discontent. Theatre, Kowloon The problem of the future will be to relieve the strain on those en- gaged in "industrial life." In spite of the present industrial, economic and social difficulties, he said, the health of the nation was not im- paired, but rather steadily im Proving.
So, MiscellaneoSÉ, - Annual Meeting of Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children, Cathedral Hall, 6.30 p.m.
Lecture on the life of Frederic Vincent de Paul Society, Rosary znam, Catholic founder of St. Church Presbyterý, Kowloon, §. 15:
Whist Drive at Seamen's "In-
Report of a growing demand on the Continent for Scottish bag pipes is not so remarkable as may appear at first sight, for the Scots have never had a monopoly coun-elsim to the instrument. In slight Advertising the Sun,
ex-ly different form bagpipes were *** The Aurora Borealis is appar= |stitute, 9 pán. ¿Service Men's | known, to tho. Chinese, Assyrians, ; ently an electrical advertisement Dinner Party (Wesleyan Church), Greeks, And Romana centuries be|sign announcing the passage of 7.5.m. Laying of Corner-stone on fore Ecotland was put on the map, | charged particle from the sun, Flats, on side of Old Po Leang add the modern, Breton" "bignon" said Professor Andrade at the „Kok, by Hon. Mr. E R.. Hallétax, and the German Sackpfeife are Royal Institution, London
3.30 p.m., little else than bagpipes under a Strong evidence for their solar Best Principal Malli, other name.
-origin is offered," he said, "by the Inward Europe, via Busz,
fact that the Aurora displays are: Carthage. particularly striking every eleven years, coinciding with the period
to
This is a broad cutline of what the majority proposes and Parlia So far na popularity in Great Britain is concerned, a former ment will pronounce its views aponord Advocate. sought to prove, it later. The minority report chicaly from Shakespeare, that the of great sunspot activity, vaky would, briefly, adopt the socialfat pipes are English rather than principle of establishing & statutory right of the worker to beneft dur ing the whole period of unemploy ployed could be paid without strainname test at all; in fact,
without the application of a
would really abolish everything that relates the scheme to an
ing the available resources.
.
understood;
from the file
it
THURSDAY Cosmic rays, the Professor
(December 29). Sport. Senteli. Shakespeare, he pointed said, “are a very complicated pro aut, frequently refers to them, blem, Clearly this radiation does Billiards: Open Cha Fonship: generally localizing them in York- not come from the sun, for it is 18 6gt Buckle ve A. H. Cawick (St. shire and Lincolnshire, but never strong by night as by day, or from Patrick & Club), 8.30 p.m. mentions hem in his one Scottish; the milky way. Neither the a Cricket 5- Triangular
Tourna in the days of Edward I. and Ed. tion is established, although Comp C.C. ground); 11, m play," Macbeth." Court accounts are nor the origin of the radia inant Army v Navy (Hong Kong ward III. include payments for 200 papers by reputable authori pipers, while significantly enough, ties have been published on the the accounts of James IV. of Boot-1 subject during the last eight land include a payment for *** In-¦ year.” glie pypera.”” Whether the majo grity of Englishmen would now care "to accept responsibility for the in
strument is anotbar matter,
The Professor added-! Intan- sive research in Britain, Germany, and America, is proceed
may soon lead us to
Local and General
Then came the great siurp, which has lasted for an unexpectedly long time. The unemployed exhausted their periods of boneft in many cases, and the régulations had to be modified in such a way as to allow them to be paid sumy" to which they were not legally entitled. As the number of the unemployed increased and it became more and
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS more difficult for many of them to obtain jobs, the administration ber Our dates from the riv camis more and more generous and Whampoa, Monday after
Earl of Elgin). Baron the unemployed were given longer Commodore Elliott periods of benefit. In effect, to ton on Sunday iper many of the unemployed the scheme Haughty, retuning-name "eything. The Sunday school Christmka The Bittem, it seems, grounded Party of the Kowloon Union had ceased to be "insurance," it near the Brat Barrie and had Chuch will take place on Friday, was a method of giving relief for nearly capsized, but was ultimately December 30. distress, which is really the Zune righted. The Hemet, Cruifer, and tion of the local Poor Law authoNimrod, are anchored on the city rities.
The and
HIES. Whitehall left Shanghat | The Japanese Foreign Office an- last week for Nanking,
The Shanghai District Kuomin- tang is understood to be devising measures to suppress gambling and oplum traficking locally,
John Ambulanco rigáde that the number of personÉ vaccinated by their members during the current year tölaim 24,144.
▲ purchasing com in to be Appointed by the China Merchants 6.9,- Oo. to lating to of the company
below the Dutch folly or rather the site of it, the Chinese Baring Such was the position two years entirely carried away that fort Bex- ago when a Royal Commission on acted by the allice therempon tion. A mortar battery, has been
The formal opening of the Nan Unemployment Insurance was ap There was a conference held on yang Bros Tobacco Co.'s new pointed. Its terms of reference in Monday morning on board the premises in Avenue Edward VII., cluded an enquiry into the pravi Audacieuse as Whampoa present, dhanghai, took place on Biraday," Earl of Elgin, Baron Gros. -- Eir sions and workings of the scheme, Michael Seymour, Admiral Genoul and a requeat for recommendations | lv. and General Straubendee. with regard to its future scope, Hong Kong Dasly Prza, December
€ 33, 1887. -- means by which it might be made solvent and self-supporting, and ar- | LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS. rangements outside the soheme for M
Mr. Coluhoun, in the paper. the unemployed who are capable by him last month before the Royal and available for work. Now the Geographical Society Commission has reported, and made can be no doubt as to certain recommendations There are wealth of a annan. Of their way the through the south and the usual majority and minority trevallers meg with sections of the report, the former number of CATRYAZI being signed by five and the latter iron and OFF by two members of the Commission.
The majority report points out Tall they that it has been prepared in a gold bring
as silver
for 75 shares in this Company. The popular idea is that all and time of financial stringency and mah mark registered in the name of Chow Peng deceased, have been declared TOST sundry can claim the dole," and economio dislocation, which have into leaf
clonrer:
become worse since the Commission given to
I+Decembes
Looking Back 15
sad
I at the expiration of one month draw it for as long as they like from the date hereof the following without a question being asked. A
was appointed, and it has therefore by the authorities share certificates be not, produced to
been considered able to frame, the Company namely Cerlibate for review of the principles upon which 25 shares No. 86105/56129 and thin form of relief in administered,
proposals in the light immedi Certificate for 60 shares No, and the new proposals before Far-utely practical possib 58180/66229 new Certificates for the liament, meg make the situation points ont that the scheme really said ahares will be issued by the Company.
intended to deal with intermitten and thereafter NO OTHERS will be acknowledged. · · ---When the principle of State and occasional unemployment, and The Corinthian Yacht Club's One A 8. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, Insurance for British workpeople as such it should be maintained Design Class had, Hongkong, 28th November, 1989, against unemployment was intro but it is not intended to deal with yea
2888duced just over twenty years ago chronic and continuous.
no one foresaw that the problem ment. The unemployment would assume the proportions which scheme should therefore be retain it has now attained Employers, ed and contributions should remain workpeople and the State were to as at presents-It e contribute in certain proportions to ed in, tain, direct
H.K. BENEVOLENT
IETY
and: these
The Hong Kong Univer Medical Society will ve well party to Dr.B assistant to the Professor of Bus-
to-morrow at 5 p.m. in the.
embly Room
¿The:
rial of
known.
nounces the appointment" of "Mr. Goto, Vice-Consul at Tientsin, to the same post at Chinchow in Man- churia
Nanking messages indicate that the Living Buddha of Outer Mon- golia, mag shortly pay a visit to the Chinese capital to confer with the Central Government,
The total damages suffered the Nantao Telephone Administra tion in Chapei,. Woskung and Kiang- wan during the Smo-Japanies hostilities amounted to more than 8240,000 according to statistics compiled by the Administration.:
Dr. Road
rolíná No: 1268 the had brea
Three wounded oddiers were executed at Wuhu, saya the Sin wanpro, after they had escaped of 9 pm. from hospital and crested a lot of on the trouble among the residente. of the
According to Hengo, although the Capazese Government, have drafted a bill for the control of foreign ex- change, the measure when approved by the Tiet, will not be put into | operation immediately.
The Shanghai-Wusih section of the Shanghai Manking long dis. tance tele to the
that
be comp
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the 24th instant.
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the local railway
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