NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.
*
HONG KONG CENTRE
XAMINATIONS for Sanitary.
Inspectors and in Sanitary
Belence will be held on February, 7th and 9th, 1933.
Candidates should apply to the local Secretary, Education Depart- mont, for Application Forms on or before January 31st, 1933.
A. O. BRAWN,
Local Secretary.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE COM- PANIES ORDINANCES 1911 AND OF
THE SIMPLEX PLASTER COM. PANY, LIMITED.
(IN. VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION)
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the Final General Meeting
of the above-named Company will, be held in the officon of the Liquidators, Marcantile Bank Building, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, 18th February, 1933, at 12 noon for the purpose of having the account of the Liquidators showing the manner in which the Winding Up has been conducted and the Property of the Company disposer! of laid before such Meeting and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidators and to pass the following Extraordinary Resolu- tion, viz:-
"That the Books Acounts und Documents of the Company and of the Liquidators thereof be retained by the Liquidators, they under- taking to destroy same at the Ex- piration of Five Years from the Dissolution of the Company."
JOHN FLEMING, 0.4. Joint A. RITCHIE, Cy Liquidators. Hong Kong, 16th January, 1933. (21).
CHINESE ESTATES, LIMITED.
“INTERIM DIVIDEND. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No
that an INTERIM DIVIDEND for year ending 28th February, 1933, of three per cent that is $3 per share, will be paid on all shares in this Company on the stat January, 1933, at
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933.
ELIZABETH ARDEN has made guessing ages an impossibly difficult
game.
She has taught women to hold on to youth, not to hide the ravages of age with cosmetics but to keep their skin young, firm and fresh by scientific
care.
There is now a special display of these preparations at Watson's in the new Elizabeth Arden salon, where a trained assistant will show
the correct use of these aids to Beauty.
you.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY EST. 1841.
Editorial and Busness Offices: 11,
Ios House Street. Tal 80851 Night Editor (Wanchai Office);
Tel. 94511, London Offes: 53, Fleet Street,
E.C., &
the Company's Office at Chine Build The
ings, 5th floor.
By The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 20th January, 1983, both days inclusive...
By Order of the Board of Directors.
` HENRY LOWCOCK,
Secretary..
Hong Kong, 11th January, 1933. -[230)
NOTICE.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, JANUARY 16, 1033.
BRITISH BROADCASTING
policy. The British Broadcasting Corporation-the BB.O. as it is commonly called-was registered on the 15th December, 1922, 15 a semi. public institution. The principlo, was adopted of putting broadcast- ing in the hands of a single and undivided organisation, with publio service, as a motive, Parliament actually retains the ultimate power, through the Government, to control the B.B.C, which now operates under license from the Postmaster. General, The Chairman, Vice- Chairman, and other Governors are appointed by the Government. Its. non-commercial character was assur-
THE British Broadcasting Cored by the limitation of profits to a poration has colebrated its tenth fixed dividend, the prohibition of birthday. The progress.it has made advertisement, and the fact that its during those ten years is pheno- pricipal source of revenue would be menal. It began with a makeshift share of the licence fees to be studio at Marcon House in the collected from listeners by the Post Strand, now it is housed in a Office. The last was a new device
PLANO AND SONG RECITAL
BY MR. AND MRS. A. M. HOWES SMITH AT L.M.I.
The following is the programme the Helen May Institute pinno mod song recital by Mr. and Mrs, A M. Bowes-Smith to-morrow, Tuesday:
Sonata in F Minor (Appas
Monata). Reethoven
|-(First Morément). « Three German Songs-
Chopin,
*News and Views *
The New Chronology.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(January 10),"
An Empress' Pearls, Hollywood 'now dates events The fishermen of Corfu, instead
(XII Moon Alst' Day). "B.CA. Before Chaplin, and of beating out to sea, new spend A.D.," After De Mille. To the their days groping among the
Sport. ordinary American. of course B.C. rocks around the island. They ar means prior to 1920-Before the fishing for pearls-the pearls of th: L/C. Molthy. P. Yvanovich (St,
Billiards Open Championship. ill-fated Empress Elizabeth of A Fatrick's Club), 8.30 p.m.
Crash."
tria. The tale is that the Empresi¦ had a wonderful necklace of pearls. the gift of Francis Joseph. But (a) Morgen... Strauss, Bees for the "Hornets' Meat "{%
with every misfortune of the Habs b) Allorscelen...... Straties. () Serenade. Brahms, A shipment of 4,680,000 Canadian burg or Wittelsbach families
real became "discoloured.. 1--Barcarolle
boss was made to Canton, China. The Empress searched Europe tr Three Russian Songs-
recently, for the establishment of And a restorative for the failing (s) Wingenlied (in German)
an Oriental apiary. They were necklace, and during a tour of the Gretchatinoll packed in 117 boxes and special ar Eastern Mediterranean she was told (b) To the Children (in Eng-rangements were made by
that the only remedy would be to lish) Rachmaninoff. they were kept at an even tempera place the pearls in sen water for a
ture during the voyage..
certain time.
(0) A Fair Story by the Fire
(in English).. Merikanto. 5.-Scherio No. 3 in C sharp
mikör sympos, Chopin. 6.Four English Songs-- (a) Sweet Contant
Peter Warlock, (b) Nod
Temple Bevan. (c) Fair House of Joy.
-Roger Quilter. (d) A Song of the Open
Frank La Forge, soody.in G minor'
Brahmas.
G. B. Shaw's Biography.
which
The Hiding Place.
matchen:
Hockey Friendly Hong Kong Hockey Club seconds t
Yachting: Royal Hong Kong Y.M.C.A. (King'a Park), 5 p.m. Yacht Club's Sixth Championship Race for Ladies.
dent.
King's
Queen's
Theatres.
The Phantom Prosi-
The Guardsinan."
Central: Bird of Paradise. Oriental
Pandon 'Ua."
World: "Cracked Nuta." Star: Polly of the Cirous. Majestic: "This is the Night. Dances.
Accompanied by a trusted monk. | the Empress was rowed by a halt. The official' life by Professor blind fisherman to a remote cove Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Archibald Henderson entitled "Ber.. whose floor was below sea level on Gloucester Building, King's Res nard Shaw, Playboy, and Pro the island of Corfu, and there thurant, and Majestic Dancing phet," and recently published in necklace was concealed.
Academy. London, will probably keep its This according to the tale, wa Dinner Dances at Peninsula and place as the principal source for on the night of June 1, 1886. Ar Hong Kong Hotels, and King's all Shaw biographers in the future. sassinations and wars wiped out Restaurant. Professor Henderson's book is a the few persons who knew the story closely printed work of nearly 903 of the pearls. But some weeks ages pages and there is nothing omitteil, there arrived in Corfu an Italian of importance in Shaw's 'life, Fars who said that a monk dying in thermore, it contains much mate Venice had revealed the story and rial that is unavailable elsewhere: the location of the pearls. The
From the files. it in full of good stories, many of place is not proving sasy to identi
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
The following are all the particu- lars we have been able to collect regarding the supply of opium from Cilentta.
Particulars of the Opium Balza to be held in the year 1858 Faina Benares Chests Chests Ttl
1st Safe, on Mon-
day, Jan. 11. 1,815 2nd Sale, on Mon-
day, Feb. '8
.... 1,813 3rd Sale, Thurs-* 4th Bale, Wednes
day, Mar. 11... 1,815
day, Apr. 14... 1,816 5th Sale, Monday,
May 101,815. eth Bale, Monday,
June. 7
1,815 7th Sale, Thurs.
day, July 8 1,315 8th Sale, Monday.
Aug: 9 MINE 1,815 oth Bale, Thors
day.. Bept. 91,815 10th Sale, Thurs, 11th Sale, Mon
day, Oct. 7., 1,818 · day, Nov. 8... 1,815 12th Bale, Mon
f
390 2,703
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them new. Commenting upon his fy from the monk's description. So own philosophy Shaw says, "I am the fishermen have left their boats a sort of intellectual, 'dustman- and nets for the excitement of da and first rate weed-killer." He cavern treasure hunt. is alwayć anxious to kill old ideas! which, in his opinion, have out! grown their utility. How he does The Modem Aretic! this may be seen in his books plays, and publie utterances. Pro fessor Anderson's work gives a de tailed account of Shaw's amazing successes. It contains a great va riety of pictorial illustrations and, as the whole book was com piled with the assistance of the "Playboy" himself, it must be considered as the standard blogra-
900 2,50s phy.
800-2,705
800 2,705 800 2,705 880 2,705 800 2,705 500 2,706 SEO 2,703
660 2,708 878 2,713 day, Dec. 6 1837 878 2,713 Total of chests 21,002 1,600 32,248 Shewing a decrease in the supply of 8,097 chests Patna and 2,740 brought forward for sale in 1,657, Benares.
Of the above, 10,000 chests were removed for safety in an unpacked state to Calcutta, & portion of which muffered damage in transition, and regarding which there will be a series of claims for reclamation, unless stringent pre- Daily Press, Jan. 16, 1858.
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Bad Weather Expert.
TUESDAY (January 17).
(XII Moon 21st. Day), Lammert's Auction: Old and Surplus Naval Stores, H.M. Dock- yard, 0.30 1,02
Yaumati School Prite-giving, 17 Concert, Helena Mar Instituta, 6.30 p.m.
Sport:
ILTA.
Toronto, Canada-A new con-" Billiards:--Open Championship: ception of the native Eskimo per A. P. Poreira, jur, s. 8. M. da ple who inhabit Canada's sub- Cruz (St. Patrick's Club), 8.30 Arctic regions was given bore by p.m. Mr. Richard Finnie, official archi Horkey-Mamak Tournaments. vist and photographer of the Cann
19th Battery r. R.A.M.C. (Sooküm..." : dian Arotic under the Federal Depoo), 4 p.m.; Wishart. Veteran partment of the Interior.
(Naval Ground), 4.p.m.
52
Principal Mails, Outward :—" Air Mail, Service
Europe vin San Frane on and vin Siberia, Pres. Wilson, 6 pim. ́ ́
Europe, she advised her not - to“ tring very valuable pearl neck-
+
Eskimos, he said, were not "ra- frigerated, blubber-saturated 567 ages, but happy, intelligent and hospitable people, the finest, most Saigon-Marseilles, D'Artagnan, F generous and most. likeable people | P.m. of all uncultured races.”-
Europe rit Buez, D'Artagnan, 2.30 p.m. The Arctic climate, said · Mr. Researches and experiments are Finnie-tilting at another popular| constantly being made in England belied-by no means was unbear on ships at sea. There is, for ex able. The summers were short, but ample, a specialist whose work is warm and pleasant. Winters wer to test the effects of stórms on cold, but he had suffered far more ships. Hence, he only goes to sea with cold in civilization when wear when the very word weather is ing ita ridiculously inadequate expected. He goes all over the clothing."
lace that she owns, but to have, sz ship and, with precision instru-
Mr. Finnie predicted that within imitation one made. The Ameri ments, records movements-pitching the next four generations towns can woman took this savics, and; and rolling, vibration etc. He and cities would grow up across the after having compared the two, de then.
attempts to discover the fringe of the polar ocean to form cided that a safe in New York war causes. If a mistake has been made the nucleas of a new empire. The the best place for the genuine our in the design of a ship, it is not seroplane had changed the whole while she was away. likely to be repeated, for the in situation in the Arctic. Among In France she wore her necklace formation collected is at the dis other things it had helped the quite freely, left it lying about on posal of all shipbuilders. It is this tourist to discover the Mackenris hotel dressing tables, and other careful and methodical research. River, with its 2,000 miles of mag-wise treated it with the carelessness manship of English shipyards, spoiled country. coupled with the unexcelled craft nificent waterway through un in shipbuilding. In naval archi which makes Britain pre-eminent. tecture England sets a standard of Pearls! excellence for all the world. Io That few people can recognise seaworthiness English ships, on the real pearls when they see them whole, cannot be beaten. A great would seem to be the moral of an foreign liner Ime this year had adventure which has befallen an three sets of propellers in a search American woman visitor to France, for perfection and, after exhaus! When one of her Parisian friends hose of British manufacture,
(Continued on next Column)
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which seems to invite theft. At length, under her rough handling. the cord broke, and the pearls, haf to be taken to a Parisian jewella- to be re-threaded."""
"But these are real pearls, ma dame !" the jeweller exclaimed. For a long time the American visitor refused to be convinced; but even tually she made inquiries. She then learned that it was the
behind steel doors, in New York
I have This Day opened my office a
■ Solicitor, Notary Publis, Proctor Conveyancer, Patent & Trade Mark Agent under the style of Dennya & be Chung Tin Building, Des Voeux palatial building of its own in which soon thoroughly justified cautions be adopted.-Hong Kongtive tests, it was Anally fitted with heard that she was about to visit imitation necklace, that was lying Company. My temporary office will
Road Central, First Floor.
Portland Place. By the end of 1923 itself and which has been imitated
Dated the 3rd day of January, 1933. it had more than half a million in almost all European countries, Looking Back 25 Year,
H. L. DENNYS.
B.K. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
more
licensed listeners: That in itself in the British Dominions, and in (143 was a matter of amazement to a Japan. Throughout the world number of people who had refused countries have tended more and to take the new invention seriously.
to adopt, for broadcasting Now there are about five million purposes, systems closely resem licensed listeners in Great Britain, bling, and frequently modelled on,clared that they felt more at their and the number steadily increases, that of the B.B.C.
ara
Urgent Appeal is made for Winter Clothing particularly children. Lady requesta for blankets yung mada, Any covering of any kind why thing which could be converted Anything which could be convertly covering will be most sendaya
Thursdays, between 10.30 and
COMPREHENSIVE AND
COMPLETE REPORT
of the
is given in the
HONGKONG
Local and General
At tomorrow's meeting of the Rotary Club Mr. P. L. Collison will speak on Red Tape and Green Pencil."
Hunt and Race issue to Japanese policemen of shot Club Ball will be held at the
Success has followed the recent The Fanling proof" underclothing." An officer Peninsula Hotel on Saturday, who was attempting to arrast some February 18, dancing commenc Communists, lind ten shots fired at at 9.30 p.m. and continuing, unti him at close quarters, yet not one 3. am in the Rose Room with sup- penetrated his shot-proof under per Buffet in Roof Garden. garments.
A significant item of news, from Kotawaringin, in Dutch Borneo, says that the people there have risen in rehellion and have hoisted the Japanese flag. The rebels de-
ease under this foreign banner than under the Dutch fag. Three tor- In the early days of broadcasting Givert such a constitution, the pedo boats were upon this, des most listeners were satisfied with a now organisation had to consider patched thither by way of demon-
stration. At the date of last ad simple crystal set with a five or ten policy from a point of view different vices, says the Surabaya. Court, Major Harris, R.A.S.C. is giving mile range, To-day there are from that of an ordinary trading this was found to be not enough, lecture at the St. Andrew's Club probably millions of British homes concern. Its Directors had a and two men-of-wae were despatch to-night at 9 p.m. His subject will squipped with beautiful and efficient national responsibility to their military detachment he is reachem The Romanested to attend.
ed to edition. initipocate capable of receiving listeners which was not concerned ed the me the very night of which is reported that Genexal completely rid the Nile of its Netherland Consulate General at
of Wireless.
Extensive plans are now being A Di G, L Maddelburg, formulated in Uganda, Africa, tolanda has been attached to the napirant vice-consul of the Nether programmes from the stations of merely with profit-making. The is expected to overeve the dis half the world. And the technique B.B.O. was an educational institutong Kong Daily Press, Chiang Kai Shek has ordered the sudd The sudd are large float Hong Kong and Mr. H. Bok Chi
Hankow Municipal government to ingles of vegetation, which float- bulld hospital for soldiers wounding down the river to the sea, havs Coration at Paiping, left for his Inese, rocretary of the Netherland ed in the anti-communist campaign seriously obstructed traffic on the post on the 13th instant. A river for hundreds of centuries. The wedding was celebrated on Saturday afternoon, very quietly In the presence of a large gather
WELS
thought-or than it had suaded to think-it
per
This
It
at the Rosary Church, Kowloon ing of members and friends of the various Shanghai parks was
The planting of bulbi in between Mr. Carlos P. Basto and St. John Ambulance Brigade, Mrs out during the last month Miss L Maher A reception was Re Langley performed the in- ing to the Park Inspector' Boarelo, i
abeoquently held at the Club da auguration ceremony of the Floren for December to the Council
on-Nightingale Nursing Division | states that a total of 42,109, hài 19 at Tang's College on Saturday | been distributed for incorpora Wu Fah Hang, an employee of night. Following the ceremony's in bedding schemes or the the Bhas Bank of China, who was concert was hold,
wing of lawns The plant ang feature alleged to have absconded with mora
**** | bardy annuals, to embellish » than 8100.000 has been arrested by The annual speech day of the gard
wai commenced but of the Bureau of Public Fairlea OM8: Girls' School will
af" unfavourables? Boochow according to these held on Saturday next at 3. p.in/
Conditions caused this work
bacod
of transmission has improved at an tion as well as a purveyor of enter- amazing rate, In the early days thinment, Its programmes were the old station was proud of its framed to educate, to develop, and high-power transmission, which to instruct as well as to entertain
one and a half, kilowatt, and anuse. There was naturally is perhaps best evidenced by the Shortly this intressed to two and a considerable discussion a aroused in popularity of the adult educational half, and very soon it had plimbed the press and elsewhere. Many broadcasts. The to twenty-five. That seemed a listeners declared that they had is taken in talks on science, art
reatest interest EWS OF THE FAR EAST colossal power, and it did indeed bought sets and paid licences for and social affairs, and
usher in a new era; but how there entertainment and amusement only; language teaching. are many stations with transmitters if they wished to study various
A particularly inte working on the immense powers of, subjects they would adopt other of British Bro seventy-five and one hundred kilo methods than, listening-in. Others musical programm watts. Monawhile microphones and demanded & resonable number of teacher machines were as steadily improved, serious instructional items in the Da mid British manufacturers set a programmes. creditably high standard in the The Directors of the B.B,C, production of all kinds of apparatus favoured the latter view,
They British enterprise and research, adopted as a motto: Always try backed by British craft manship, to give the public something a little have a perfected their products better than what it thinks it able
wantExper
hown con- BUS
steadly clusively that they were right. The meet the present needs there is now
the EEO, Symphony Orchestra. public has discovered that it really 114 players, and chorus of
mething better than it singers,
outside profe are frequer
WEEKLY
PRESS
MĦE-CHINA OVEELAND.
AFIRADE REFORT.”.
Zemirient Walford
"British" people, "and"
the children;
of the
into
and an appreciation of Thin
ave
yod,
"in c they client Hall of the st. postponed until next
Stephen's Girls College when Afr
Kotowall will present the
be served after the 20
Year's-H
Volunteer
tending exhibitär to the Hon. Beer Urauls in which classos 16 only hibit, ali