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5-6, BRACONSFIELD ÁROADE
#Sporting and Athletic Goods
· Movie Camorna” and Accessories
Hunting Wear
Shooting Equipment.
We have in Stock and for Sale Great varieties of used and unused
Postage Stamps
in sota, packets, bags, single and in approval books for collection. Also
Flower and Vegetable Seeds
from
Messrs. BUTTON & SONS, LTD., Reading.
Mesars, TOOGOOD & SONE, LTD, Southampton.
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GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stamps, Garden Beads, Religious Goods, Tuys, etc, etc. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREKT, PO Box No. 620. BONG KONG.
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ALCZA
CAR HIRE
Fox Ross Kona 42738
FOR KOFON: 67374
ENSIGN
CINE CAMERAS
with
.F 1.5
Lens
ZEISS
A. TACK & CO.
26, Des Voeux Road, Central
JAMERAS
BINOCULARS Developing & Printing
One Day Service,
The July Hotel in CANZON - Directly under European Management
THE VICTORIA HOTEL SHAMEEN
Guides
and Tripa arranged for and Special Care Taken of TOURISTA Address: " VICTORIA." Telephone: No, 1850),
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Kowloon,
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MODERN FLATS
floomed, Corner Prince Edward & Waterloo Rds. nearing completion. 3 Roomed, Corner Waterloo Rd. & Boundary St. nearing completion.
2 Roomed, Prince Edward Ed. next to
Railway Bridge.
MODERN RESIDENCES
7 loomed, 2014 & 206 Prince Edward Rd
7 Roomed, 170 Boundary St. opp. La
Falle College.
6 Roomed, Belfran Rd.
5 Roomed, 200-235 Prince Edward Rd.
nearing complotion.
MODERN SHOPS & FLATS
in Cambay Buildings, Nathan Rd,
TWO
APARTMENTS WANTED
TWO Samore Students WANT BOARD and LODGING with family, willing to pay not more than $40.00 each month. Write to Kimswar, [979 33, Robinson Hond.
FLATS TO LET
TTRACTIVE three roomed Flats
in Humphreys Buildings and two roomed fats in Nathan Road, Kowloon. All modern conveniences. Aho five roomed house in Minden Avenue, Kowloon. Apply HUMPH. REYS ESTATE & FINANCE CD. LTD., Aliandra Building, (150
LET.-It Kowloon, near Star
Terry, for immediate possession, in cool and quiet locality, furnished and unfurnished two-roomed European FLATS with flush system. Rent very moderato Alio; two-roomed semi- foreign FLATS TO LET in Haiphong Road. Apply to H. RUTTONJEE, 39, Haiphong Hond, Palace Hotel Baile inge, Kowloon, Tel. 57230.
HOUSES
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LETTER
Scots Invention: Death of Man who Piloted 20,000 vessels: Royal Scots receive Royal Greeting: Divorce Petition against Master of Falklands Dis- crimination Against British Shipping: Edinburgh Doce tor's Sons admitted to the Zoroastrian Faith.
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
Instructions
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THE Undersigned have received Undersigned have received? THE
Instructiona
TO SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION
TO SELL BY
[PUBLIC AUCTION
or
ON
SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 1933 | SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 1933
COMMENCING AT 12 o'clock nodn
AT THEIR SALES ROOM,
4. DUDDELL STREET.
A QUANTITY OF
GOODS
MISCELLANEOUS
Comprising
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Cement, Cutter Fish, Window Glass, Cotton Thread, Singlets, Hankerchief, Piece goods, Toilet Soap, Leather, Paraffin Wax, Com. poy, Mushrooms, Canvas, Vermicelli, Awabi, Matches, Rubber Tyres, Iron Sheets, Old Newspapers, etc., etc,
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and
N
Cases Mohair Plush
Casea Neamel Caps Cases Soap
1. Case Tooth Paste.
EDINBURGH, Fazi. 3. Discrimination Against British
Shipping. Boots Envention,
Capt. H. J. Moss, M.P. for Cam Anothblood using machine busland, Lanarkshire, has given has been designed and patented, an outline of proposals which Scot- an Aberdeen man, Mr. John Biatish members of Parliament are set, of J. Bisset & Sons, who has urging upon the Government with already achieved distinction by his a view to improving the position mechanical skill, has invented of British shipping and encourag wood slicing machine, which cuta uping activity among idle British timber quicker than the quickest of coastal traffic. The proposals circular saws, and promises to effect mount to a reprisal on foreign something in the nature of a recountries which restrict the opera- volution in the sawing and box tion of British shipping. Captain making industry. The machine Moss said: "Our proposals, if put works on the revolving knife prin into effect, will be beneficial from 40 ciple, and slices boards at the rate the point of view of coastal traffic 11 of 12.000 an hour-in full work and British shipbuilding. Foreign ing day about 100,000 boards. No Governments insist that British sawdust is left by the machine, in ships shall only land cargoes st itself an appreciable saving of raw certain porte known as ports-of- materials in the cutting up of thin call, and shall not convey the cargo. boards for boxes. It cuts with from port to port. In this coun amazing rapidity, and leaves the try, however, we allow foreign ships to land cargoes at one port, then pick up another cargo and convoy it to another British port. This means that foreign ships are carry- ing British cargoen between British ports to the disadvantage of qur own ships, which are lying idle. We propose that the same restric- tions operating against our ship- ping in other countries should be. imposed by us or foreign shipping and that n port-of-call should, be laid down. This would bring our idle shipping into operation and
boards with a fine smooth surface.
ber 23.
Death of Man Who Piloted 20,000
2 Vessels. Captain Alexander Bruce, who retired three years ago from the Clyde pilot service, died on Decem- One of the third genera- tion of a Peterhead family of ship aptains, Captain Bruce entered the ranks of the Clyde pilots in 1888 after 10 years in sailing ves sels, during which he made voyages to Zanzibar, then the headquarters
of the African slave trade. When would mean that British shipbuild-
he retired in 1929, Captain Bruce ors could serap old vessels and
Taxe--CASH ON DELIVERY.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
£21,673,175 LESS IMPORTS
FRUITS: OF BRITISH TARIFFS
was known as the "father" of the build now ones to cope with, in EXPORTS ON THE INCREASE Clyde pilots. During his 37 years creased coastal traffic. service, he pilated over 20,000 ves-
Royal Scots Receive Royal Greeting.
to the Zoroastrian Faith,
British. Exports in November represented £31,092,687, an advance. of £883,639 over October, but a de cline of £760,762 when compared with November, 1931:
Importa were valued
at
a result of Britain's tariff policy. The Trade Returns for November are again not without encouraging features, writes the London Morn ing Roki City Editor.
2
sels, which included giant liners, Edinburgh Doctor's Sons Admitted humble coasters, battleships and submarines. One of his most diffi- cult undertakings was the piloting Two sons of a Parice doctor of the Aquitania during the war named Samjama, of Edinburgh, from Southampton to the Clyde. have taken part in a curious andi One that occasion the Aquitanis, age-old ceremony in London, I£ | £81,800,734, an increase over Octo then, a hospital ship, was unable was the Navjot, the initiation cere ber of £738,670, but a decrease un to leave Southampton for three days many used by the Parsees, the November, 1931, of £21,673,170, owing to the petivities of sub-cient Persian race among whose marines in the Channel.
ancestors were numbered the three Wise Men of the East. The boys were admitted to the Zeroastrian faith at Zoroastrim House, Ken sington. They were aged 12 and The Princess, Royal never forgets 14, and wave bathed by two prieste
As compared with the previous the Royal Scots of which she is and take before the sacred fire of month there was a trifling moreasu Colonel-in-Chief Christmas in sandalwood. They were then dress in the value of imports and ah, in- variably brings a greeting to the ed in long, white trousers and black, crease in exports. Royal Sopts Club in the form of a velvet caps, with a towel thrown It is not surprising to find, as a hard and a large bunch of white round their shoulders. They knelt result of our tarif policy, that of: Heather tied with ribbon of the in front of the priests-one of whom last month's heavy decline in im tartan of the regiment, The card in a London accountant and were porta, compared with a year ago, received for. December 25, read blessed by then. Then all four no less than £15,485,000 was under Remembrance and all. Good repeated together the 3,000-year-old the head of articles wholly or main Wishes for Christinas and the New hymns of Zoroaster, the founder of ly manufactured. Iron and steel Year from Her Royal Highness the Persian religion. They contain manufactures dropped by over The Princess Royal, Christmas the oldest words in the world, still £2,200,000 woollen and worsted in use. The pricata scattered rice varne by nearly £1,500,000 and and pieces of coconut symbols of wearing apparel by £1,332,000.
Falkland,
The outstanding feature was the chanting their prayers, the boys. rost. The priests slipped over their lump in imports of semi-manufac It is learnt that a petition for heads the sacred rest, and finally tured fron and steel from Belgium divorce has been entered by the the sacred girdle of wool called Hon Mr Toon Sylvia Cary kufti was tied round them.
More Canadian Wheat. This against her husband, the Hoo girdle consisted of two or three A further feature in imports was Lucius Henry Charles Plantagener threads of wool which, when crack-the, reduction in the value of food- Cary (Master of Falkland), who is ed like a whip, is supposed to ter stuffs. It is interesting to note the the son and heir of the 13th Vis nify all evil spirits. The sacred change in the countries from which count Falkland Mm. Cary, who fire in a silver urn was then piled we obtain the largest deliveries of is 23 years old, is the daughter of high with sandalwood and spices, wheat. Capt. and Mrs. Charles Banham and in its leaping glare tall Par. The total quantity of wheat re-
WING HING CO. Divorce Petition Against Master of riches on the boys' heads Still
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COMMENCING AT 10.30 4.M. AT No. 5. AIMAI VILLAS, KOWLOON.
A. LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
(Full Particulars from Catalogus).
also
One Grandfather Clock One Lot Carpenters Tools.
ON VIEW NOW
TERMS: CASH on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
THE Undersigned, have recBITBOV
Instructions
TO SELL ST
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 1938
COMMENCING AT ́5.15 P.M.
AT THE SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET.
A FINE COLLECTION OF" POSTAGE STAMPS.
ON VIEW FROM MONDAY, THE 2835 JANUARY, 1998.
TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY.
-LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE
Undersigned: have received Instructions
TO SELL AY
PUBLIC AUCTION
FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1933
COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.
Ár Turm SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STEEN.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:
chairs, Dressing Tables, Wardrobes,
Teak Bedsteads, with Mattresses,
Southey, and she is a descendant see women--relatives and friends fceived was nearly, 3,000,000cwt. less Chesterfield Couches and Arm of Robert Southey, the poet. There the boys-came forward and garthan a year ago Soviet Russia with Bevelled Mirrors, Chest of are two children of the marriage, landed them with flowers aud both girls.
leaves. They had become members 3,777,000 cwt.; the United States, Drawers, Bideboards, Dining Tables, of the faith. The first Navjot cent, against 1,024,000ctDining Chairs Cabin and Wardrobe A Scottish Nationalist, mony performed in London was and Argentins, 182,000cwt., against Trunks, Desks, Teak Tables, etc. This year quite a number of about five years ago, when five Scottish families will greet the children of Mr. Saklatvala, the 204,000cwt: AIRLIE HOTEL 25 New Year undestral homes former M.P., were admitted to the From Canada, however, we re- Carpets, Bugs, Bookossen, Ten-Pork. Nathan Road, Kowloon. Un-in the "North Countree"
For iaith..
ceiced 5,903,000 cwt., against onty Porcelain Jara, Rattan Tables, and der European Management. example, the Duke and Duchess of
2,284,000 in November of last yearObair, Curios, Card Tables, Dinzier Excellent cuisine.· ́Modern Montrose are in residence at Boottish Leading Lady in London's The smallest decline in imports Crookery, etc.“ Apartments. Terms Moderate Buchanan Castle and Scotsmen: are
was in raw materials Intraco Gramophones, Records, Electrio "Sleeping Beauty." ton the fall was immaterial, while Table Lamps, Teak Filing Cabinote, Three minutes. from ferry, seeing in this considered refles. fel. 67857,
tion of the leading part which the London's youngest leading lady from the United States quantity Screens, Clothes Hangers, E. P. Ware, Duke has take in the new Scot for the presenti in The Sleep and value were greater than a year Knives and Forks, Bilk Bed Spreads, tish movement. He has written aing. Beauty" at the Lyceum Ehe ago For the first eleven months' message in which he says that is the youthful Boothieh, player, of this year the total value of cot Cooking Stoves, etc.
Scotland will find her soul and Sally Stewart, who is a 17-year-old ton imports from America, amount
and take her place in British nations,
adds: May big chance behind the footlights as y double the total for the previous
the Princess.
year. God bless her people."
BAKER Free State Shrinkage, imag
SERVICE TO LEADERS. THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD., and the HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through their London Office, at 53, FLEET STREET, E.C. 4, Tel. 3137, are prepared to give Subscribers and Visitors advice regarding accommoda- tion available, motoring faci ilities, suitable shopping
centres, etc.
— II, when at home, they will call or telephone to the above address they will
and the ation on
HONEYMOON ADVENTURE
An unsatisfactory item in the ex ports was the continued decline in
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
Inchiding
Desks, Armchairs, Couch
Jardipi Ithe quantity and value of coal sent Jose Tables, is rather unfortunate for him in abroad. The decline for last month Stools, etc., etc. fact it in the bane of his doggie was about 500,000, while for-the- ONE WHO DISLIKE IT ALL! life that Mr. Fraser Simson, his first elevens mantha, there is
| master, is the celebrated composer shrinkage, of £2,500,000. "Wogs, the spaniel which plays of "Maid of the Mountains and
an important part in the unfold "The Street Singer. This noces Exports of Cotton goods showed
derable amount of a small incrasse for ing of the mystery of "A Honey-sitates a moon:Adventure,” is, the much lov-musio of one form or another in partly due to ea pot of Mariter Simion, the the house. Being a well trained for British authors of the story: Footsteps dog he does not protest in the usual for China on the in the Night, upon which the film canine: ney by raising his voice ed a decline is based,
Binalongdrawn.
Wogs Mr. Henry Wog- under the piano and possesses him- rather
to glye him his full name by self in what patience he care
hich higsmistress:
him-like most
call The British pict
dogdetesta moon: Adventdreywill
Therefore it the Queen's Theatre from Bunday
Both
Ons Pianola by STEOR
One Cottage Fiano by STEOK
Chairs
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TERMS
1998