NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
VICTORIA Road between Cadogan Stroat, Kennedy Town, and Mount Davis Hond is CLOSED to traffic from the 8th January, 1033, until further notice.
E. D. C. WÖLFE, Inspector General of Police. ~Hongkong, 4th January, 1933.
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HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE" ASSOCIATION
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OMMUNICATIONS to the
The Hon. Secretary,
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,
c/o Messrs. LINSTEAD & DAVIES Gloucester Buliding,
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E hereby give notice that as from the 1st January, 1993
the business of the undersigned wil
be carried ou under the firm name of Hastings & Co.
HASTINGS, DENNYS &
BOWLEY.
1st January, 1088.
NOTICE.
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HASTINGS, DENNYS & · BOWLEY.
Jet January, 1988.
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bave This Day opened my office as a Solicitor, Notary Public, Prostor, Convoyancer, Patent & Trade Mark Agent under the style of Donnye Company. My temporary office will be Chung Tin Building, Des Voeux Road Central, First Floor.
"Dated the 3rd day of January, 1933.
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[146 Hong Korg, lat January, 1933.
NOTIFICATION.
REGISTRATION OF BRITISH BUBJECTS FOR THE YEAR 1933.
January.
British subjects are requested either to present their passports personally, or send them by a responsible British ubject to this Consulate General be- tween the houre of 10 am to 1 pm: and 2 pm to 4 pm.
in order that the endorsement of registration may be
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over and it has been discussed for There were, however, two big arguments against the reform, and until this year they held the field. In the first place it was urged that the so-called anomaly presented no real difficulty to the practical senmali, who always Thurs thought in terms of the helm and day, December 20, 1032, by not the wheel. The instinct to do Judge Milton D. Purdy at the so had become, it was suggested, US. Court for China, GEORGE W. MISSEMER to IRAIDA NAVAR deep-rooted, and the other method Ro, both of Shanghai,
was land-lubberly and a betrayal of the traditions of the sea. These traditions weigh more heavily than the soafuring community likes to The sea induces conser- admit. vatism and a worship of the past. The old way was linked with the clipper and the three decker, and a curious pride urged a retention
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HONG KONG, JANUARY 5, 1933.
"WHEEL TO STARBOARD"
PRESS THURSDA
JAP. DIET OPENED
BY EMPEROR®
SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
LARGEST BUDGET IN JAPAN'S
HISTORY
ANUARY 5, 1933.
News and Views
The Perfect Cash Register.
New York's Ex-Mayor.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY (January 3).
(XII Moon 10th day).. Auction
Sport.
A garage owner in California
Mr. "Jimmy" Walker, the ex- has a steam whistle which Bows Mayor of New York, is probably every time the cash register is already enjoying the hospitality of
Sales Room, 3 pm. Tokyo, Dec. 26-Faced with the punched, just to let people know the Maharajah of Mysore
The Maharajsh of Mysore was Concert of Vocal and Instrument- necessity of adopting the greatest when business is picking up. Some budget in the history of the Japan may like to calculate how many entertained, officially by Mr. Walal Music, Helena May Institute, ess Empire and with growing on such tools it will take to equal theer in New York City when he was 5.30 p.m. certainty regarding the eventual blast of another popular steam the Mayor, and on that occasion!. success of the Japanese programmewhistle--the one which calls work- in Manchuria, Emperor Hirohito ers to the "factory. youthful ruler of upwards 90,000,000. Japanese and subject peoples and ** spiritual father of 30,000,000 citi sens of the independent state of Manchukuo," convened the scasion of the Imperial Japanese Diet to-day.
44th
His Majesty drove to the old tem- porary parliament building, near Tokyo's widely known Imperial He- tel, in a gorgeous state coach of black and maroon lacquer, drawn by four sleek chestnut horses, and escorted by a detachment of lan- cera, and declared the session of parliament formally convened in an address from the throne calling on the legislators to perform their duties in accord with the provi- Bions of the Constitution.
The Diet convened preliminarily for organization purposes Decem- ber 24. Yesterday was a holiday, anniversary of the Emperor's as sumption of the throne on the de mise of his father, the late Em peror Taisho, on Deccembar 25 1926.
1.
What Russia Beads,
į
"Jimmy" Walker did not curb Hockey-Mamak Tournament his extraordinary fair for show 24th Battery . H.M.S. Wishart, manship. By-the-big-scale-public-U.S.R.G-ground, 230 p.m. Friend- receptious he staged for notabla ly: Y.M.C.A. Ladies v. St An- visitors he gained a reputation for drew's Ladies, D.G.S." ground, 6.00 haing the most "spectacular". Mn- p.m. yor in the world.
The Soviet Union in 1031 spent over $1,000,000 on foreign books, Most of this cum was applied to the purchase of natural scientific Extravagance Cut Short. and technical works. Booky on such cultural subjects as fiction, In New York during Mr. Wal- art, music, poetry and biographyker's mayoralty, municipal govern:} were reduced to a negligible mini ment entailed extravagant expense, mum, as may be judge from the the extent of which may be gaug following figures regarding the dis ed from the retrenchment measures tribution of the imported books: adopted after Mr. Walker's technique and precise sciences, 65 signation, by his successor: per cent, economics and poli tics, 16 per cent.; agricultare, 13 per cent. medicine, 4 per cent.; miscellaneous, a per cent. This ab sence of opportunity to purchase and read new books on cultural one factor which em- themes is mum, as may be judged from the intellectual and esthetic life of the
West.
Lightning Dangers, v
Reduced his own salary from $40,000 a year to $35,000.
Reduced the galaries of all other A maximum of city officials, to 812,000, saving several hundred thousand dollars annually.
Laid up an $18,000 saloon car bought by the city for Mayor Wal-
ker.
Told two chauffeurs, maintained by the city for the Mayor's use, that they would be put at other and more useful work.
Experiments on the harnessing of lightning have been carried out
Took an important city printing with artificially produced electric flashes in the Westinghouse General contract away from a firm which Electric and other laboratories is closely allied with Tammany throughout the world for some and gave it to another firm which time past. But now considerable bid 850,000 less. data from these experiments, ́ob.
For months the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, one of the largest professional bo dies in the country, has been en gaged on the preliminaries of the
To obtain ambitious task of combating the lightning menace. clear idea of the grim vagaries of
Do
Diplomats Present. The formal opening to-day was colourful in the extreme, with the highest figures of the Empire par ticipating and members of the diplomatic corps, including the American ambassador, Mr. Joseph Clark Grow, in the tribune reserv ed for the representatives of the tained directly from nature, may His Majesty left soon be available. For a scheme. treaty powere the Chiyoda Castle, moatencircled whose main object will be the study Imperial Residence near the center and possible control of the light of Tokyo, shortly after 10 a.m, and ning danger, is on foot in South
Africa. was met at the entrance of the par- Bament building by the venerable president of the House of Peers, rotund and genial Prince Iyesat Tokugawa, head of the family which for centuries ruled Japan and kept the ancestors of Emperor Hirohito virtual prisoners in the old capital came of his olan shortly after the lightning in South Africa, it may of Kyoto. Prince Tokugawa be restoration of the Imperial Family be mentioned that while, on an aver- to full power, following the open. ago, some parts of England experi parts of South Africa, particular- ing of Japan by Admiral Perry of ence about four storms a year, most the United States, and has been a foremost supporter of the Imperially Johannesburg, one of the great- est lightning areas in the world, regime all his life.....
After formal greetings Prince have at least ten times that mum-
ber. Tokugawa escorted the Emperor, who wore the plain mustard color field uniform of a generalissimo of The Draught Problem. the army, to a dais fronting the assembled houses of parliament. A well known writer on the sub- Members bowed their heads in reject of health remarks in & Home paper that it has never. been dis Terential homage" as His Majesty covered why people are so widely read his stereotyped rescript. different in their views on draughts Because of the approach of the and frowsts," why some people New Year holiday, the Diet sessions can work comfortably in a tem- will be suspended after a few for-perature which is unbearable to malities. The Diet will reconvene others, why some people want win in mid-January, hear the minis dows down and others want them terial addresses, and then adopt up. He might have added that if the budget which totals 2,239,325,728 science could discover the
centa).
་་
Budget Figures Final.
The budget estimates were com plated November and will not be changed. They have been defended by the minister of finance, K. Taka- hashi, against bitter attacks from
reason
President Roosevelt the First.
Theatres.
King's:
Queen's
Madame Racketeer,"
Bought."
Central
Oriental
The Love Contract
Palmy Daya""
Star: Bachelor Apartment." Mujestic: The Doomed Batta-
liam.'
Italian Opera Co.: Madame Butterfly, Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Dances.
Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, King's Restaurant, and Gloucester Building.
Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels, and King's Bestaurant.
Sunrise: -7.04 s.m.; Bunset; 5.53 p.m.
Tides:High at 223 and 17.12; Low at 0.39 and 23.44.
FRIDAY (January 6).
(XII Moch 11th Day). Epiphany.
Lammert's Auction, Furniture, 16, Hart Ave, Kowloon, 10.30 a.m.
Crown Lami Balo, District Office Souti, 11
Mr. Franklin Roosevelt's election as the U.S.A. President recalls the earlier Roosevelt, the great Theo- dore, whose methods of doing dip
V.D.M.A. reception to Bishop of lomatie business at White House are referred to in the following ex- Victoria, Holena May Institute, tract from Smalley's transcription 4.30 p.m.
St George's Ball, Peninsula Hotel, 9.36 p.m. of the plaint of an Ambassador in
Bport. Washington.
Meeting of Creditors of Shanghaf⠀ Co., Ltd., 3 p.m
de
Your President thinks nothing of sending for us at any hour of Billiards: Steel, Coulson League, the day or night. It is not usual C. and PO Club v. Royal Engi-, that the personal representativeneers; St. Patrick's. Royal Artil of a sovereign should be sent for, lory; Borderers. Palace Hotel but we waive that and go. Once Garrison Sergeante v. Police, at the White House he says to
Hockey-Mamak Tournament: us whatever comes into his head. Veterans 12th Battery, Naval We are lectured, chided for our ground, pm. Friendly: HK. own faults or those of our Gov- Hockey Club "A Club ernments, told to behave better in Recreio, King's Park, 5 p.m. future, and so dismissed. We do
Chess:Kowloon Chess not take offence. We recognise CB.8. 5.30 p.m. the good intentions of the Presi
Entries Close for Macao's First dent. We know that he cannot Extra Race Meeting, 4 p.m., always control his impulsss or
Theatres. confine his apostolic mission "to purely domestic affairs. But we do not think it is a good way of doing business nor one that tends to smooth, away diplomatic dif- ferences.
Eats and Helmets,
Why does a man take off his hat on entering a house 1. Because ho is maintaining the custom estab. lisad in the days when a knight al ways removed his helmet, to show that he relied upon the protection of his bost as long as he remained tinder his roof.
"Club,
Love Contract." Central; Queen's: Bought." King's: Madame Racketeer. Oriental: "Palmy Days"J Star: "Bachelor Apartment," Majestic: "Doomed Battalion ** Italian Opera Co.:
Faust Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.”
Dances.
Tea. Dances at Gloucester Build- ing, Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant,
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong King's Restaurant and Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, and Gloucester [Building
Principal Malls, Inward-From America, Pres.
Van Buren
From Australia, Taiping.. Outward-America and Europe via Siberis, Pres. Madison, 5 p.m.
Australia Brisbane Maru, - 3.30-
denice.
of something obsolete and even yen (the yen at par exchange in for these wide differences, and, hav- confusing, but, for these very rea-approximately 50 cents gold but reing discovered it, could induce in song in the nature of trud, seaman-cently has been at levels around 20 mankind a general agreement, one of the most prolific of all causes of difference and dispute would be ship! There is a suspicion ashore
taken away and the power of some that seamanship often consists in
people to make others acutely mis doing a job in a difficult rather
mously.
In the same way we remove our than a straightforward manner,
erable would be decreased enor
Some judges have been notorions hats when we go into a church, be and a refusal to make full and ob- vious use of a device that simplifies
for the suffering they have caused cause the knight 'doffed his helmet commercial interests which assert
to people in their courts by their to show he was not afraid of be the old lore of nails and yards.
'cer.
eccentric ideas on the subject of ing attacked in the house of God, In order to conceal any latent the nation is faced with
bankruptcy if nation heat and cold. Probably more and in due course out of respect to prejudice the real difficulty of tain
ехреплет are. not pared
quarrels have raged round the rail the Real Presence, WORLD events of an alarming and the change, namely, confusion and al
Takahashi explained way carriage window than any
Jews do not romove their hats in i p.m./ HE, attention of British subjects significant nature have diverted uncer, was urged with particular that the Manchurian adventure other subject of contention, and their synagogues, because, since the Tent in the Canton Cousular
uncertainty during the transition down Mr. tricirected to the provisions attention from a small reform of vehemenes, emphasis being laid on proved even costlier than expected the difficulties which have been destruction of the Temple at Jera- of Article 215 of the Chion Order in no little moment to that important the fact that the old way worked but pleaded" inevitable necessity" ing on for many years about venaler, the Supreme Being is not his gauntlet as a token of cons
and approved demands for the tilation in the Palace of West Council, 1925, which provides for the compulsory annual registration of all section of the community out East, all right in practico.
Now the plunge has been taken.my for the largest peace time apminster have cost a great deal of supposed to abide in their ordín-
ery places of worship.
Why do porters and brakemén British subjects during the month of the Merchant Service officers and Wheel to starboard" and "Wheelpropriations in history, money, besides being responsible Why do we shake hands? Be Resem Wo refer to the new style to port" are the orders that must The ministerial address this year directly or indirectly, for a good
scarlet neckeloths Because in the of helm. orders which came into be given in British ships, under will be particularly interesting as many scenes in the House And cause in the olden days adversaries employed by certain, railways wear force on January, lat, under Act of pain of legal penalties Naturally both Admiral Viscount Makoto no two people should be allowed grasped hands during truce as days of the Great Northern Rail- in Hong Kong, a deep sea and Saito, venerable prime minister of to marry until it has been-ascer precaution against treachery, and Parliament, and were enforced in rivor port, the prospect of the the present "National Cabinet, tained that they have views on the in the same way friends shook the Colonies by ordinance of the change has aroused some apprehen and Count Yasuys Uchida, minis subject of "draughts" which can hands to show there was no evil sion, and we noticed that the Katt ber for foreign affairs, are expect at least be adjusted by ressonable intended. We remove our glove ed to comment length on the compromise. One man's draught first, just as the knight removed sing not only had steam up yes. terday morning, but her safety situation in Geneva. valves were, lifting! Fortunately in Chinese launches no problem venient system in the days of sail, of fact quality of the Chinese when the ship was handled from people has always prevailed, and the poop and the officer in charge the orders to the helm are
its exchange rate on the United could see the helm itself and tolla red or wheel to green," the to strengthen the yen and stabiliza side-light colours noting as the States dollar Alpegged"? yen is. at w glance whether his orders guide,
to Japan's international „Mr.-J. T. Bagram (Consul Gen- One more link with the past has trade in the opinion of bankers anderal for Siam in Hong Kong), is the were obeyed. The steering wheel
industrialista. conveyed nothing of the rudder's been broken, and there is no
recipient of the 3rd Class of the JOREPH CONRAD to voice regrets for
The
he threat of s military dicta [144 position, and the helm, was the in the days of decks white as the saile, torship, possibly veiled under the Order of the Crown of Siam,
llible guide. Moreover, in the end for all the romance of thoad event of the ship at any time clear ships where, the clankof name of a national socialist, move, machinery was unknown, and the ment, has been constant in Japan
The opening ceremony of the new gathering stern way after being anchor was weighed the sound for more than a year and both the
taken aback, a heim onder had of fiddle and shanty. It is a pretty Salyukri, and the Minseito second Chu Kiang Iron Bridge, connecting advantage over “directions picture, but no more. Not all cap larger political party probably Canton and Honam, which was to tans were great gentlemen like will be loath to create any situa have taken place on New Year's based on the turn of the wheel. JossrH CONRAD, and the life more on which would offer an oppor Day has been postponed to Febru the steamship's often than not was hara and tunity for the extremists to seizsary 1, owing to a section of the
The Baite cabinet has the work being incomplete brutal: The sea is a botter pro
respective Governmenta,
made thereon.
Attention is drawn to the irregu Orders to steersmen have hitherto larity of entrusting British passports been given in terms of the helm to any person not of British nation was the safest and most con allty, and under no circumstances Should these documents be transmitted
by chit book or post.
HERBERT PHILLIPS,
Consul General-
B. M. CONSULate-Genxn614
CANTON. January 1st, 1983.
NOTIFICATION.
RITISH Shipowners whose vesela
are plying in the wate
the Canton Consular District bereby reminded of the provisions
uton Consulat District General ons of the 19th May, 191
levant extrac
every
When, how
arises. In these craft, the matter-
wheel
helm was hidden in the depths offession now than it was, and the
Cabinet Safe,
The address of the minister of ance will draw equal interest as growing section of the commer cial world has demanded mensores
observ
the ahin and the vossal was entirely decent, self-respecting, men', who his
ridge, then handla our modern shine for all that they are glad to say wheel to starboard, instead of hed hola port, are in no way
fr become ses sense that navigates the red past told ensign ships with clock work pre
ision to all the harbours of the Ser
is another's “fresh air.”
Emperor and
the best political
it will continue in
Accord
"(Continued on new column 3
sion with an improvised danger waya-porter onos averted & out signal made by covering a white light with the goarlet neckcloth he happened to be wearing at
time, be
Local and General
Central® Magistracy | Smal
Sentence of nine months hard The foll labour was impos by Mr. disea Schofield
Chinese, stated to enter yesterday be a dese from the Canton 4, police, for the theft" of clothing | monary consumpt from Chinese dwelling houses. On Monday three The defendant was
ported, one, each diphtheria and Me Hou Year's Day, wh stealing tools from
By the BM Bic
thd
made to pro