ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG
JOOKEY CLUB.
· ADVERTISEMENTS.
Annual race MEETING, 1835. NO
18TH, 20, 21st, 22ND AND 25TH
FEBRUARY, 1933.
N_Saturday 18th, Monday 20th, Tuesday Blet, And Wednesday 22nd February, the first bell will be rung at 11 am,, and the first race will ho ran at 11.30 a.ra. On Saturday, the 25th February, the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m..
The tiffin mtorval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days..
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE.
Members are reminded that they and their ladies must wear their halgos prominently displayed.
No one without a badge will be ad mitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting non-members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax-or $40.00 including tax for the Meeting (ladies 95.00 and 820.00 respectively), are obtainable through the Secretary upon introduction by a Member, such Member to be respon
sible for all, chits, eto.
badges admitting to Members' En. closure will NOT be on sale at the
Race Course.
The Secretary's Office," 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building (Tel 27784), will close at 10a.m. on the first four days, and at 12.30 p.m. on the fifth day,
A limited number of Tiffins will be obtainabla each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Telephone No. 21020.
On no pretext will children be per- mitted in either enclosure during the first four days of the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $4.00 per day including tax for all persons inclurfing ladies, and is payable at the Gate,
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OB- DINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will le kold at he Hongkong Hotel, Hong Kong, on MONDAY, the 18th February, 1998, at 11.00 am, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Ao- counts for the year ended $1st December, 1932.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933.
HANKOW'S EXPORT HONG KONG STOCK THE BANK OF EAST.
year
TRADE
HEAVY FALL LAST
YEAR"
Hankow, January 97-Some very interesting figures have just come to light in regard to the export trade from here by direct loading During 1928 and 1920, steamers the tonnage taken away for each approximately 100,000 WAR The TRANSFER BOOKS of the tons, in 1930 and 1931 this was re- Company will be ULOSED from duced to about 50,000 tons, annual WEDNESDAY, 1st February toy, but for last year the figure had dropped to 13,000 tons. I have not MONDAY, 18th February, both days been able to get the total figures for inclusive.
the complete year, that is covering the shipments by river steamers as well, but the above figures give a more or less, good idea of how the trade of the port suffered by the direct general depression. The loading steamers have a SCOBOO from April to October.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 24th January, 1933.
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI. BANKING CORPORATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen'e Road Central, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 25th February, 1933, at 11.30 am. for the purposs of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,
1932.
.
Many troops have been passing through 'hers during the last week on their way to the North, and they have reduced the number of freight
trucks available for carrying gen- éral cargo, but the have not to any appreciable extent upset the general running of trains na heretofore ex- perienced under similar circum- stances.
The Hankow B.E.A.
The British Residents' Associa tion had their annual meeting on. Monday evening, and Mr. C. E. Sherwin, president, was in the shair. After outlining the work of The Register of Shares of the the Association during the past Corporation will be closed from Mon-year, he announced, the election of Committee for the ensuing day the 13th February to Saturday, the the 25th February, 1938 (both days year. The representatives for all inclusive), during which period no the Societies were re-elected, and
new committeg is now as follows: transfer of sharos can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors. VM. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are Hong Kong, 8th February, 1938. admitted to the Public Enclosure at
81.00 per day including tax.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men etc. wil
MARKET
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS
- ASIA, LTD.
DIVIDEND AND BONUS
. The Directors of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., announce that, There is no material change to be subject to audit, the profit for the noted in markets this morning, but year ending December 31, 103 China. Lights and Cements main-after writing off all charges and tained yesterday's slight advance, other contingencies, and including Ewos have come higher from Shang the balance brought forward from bai; consequently there were local 1931, amounts to 8033041.90, which the Directors propose to deal with buyers at Tls. 14.00.
at the forthcoming annual meeting as follows:-
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Sales.
Raubs, $11: Wharves, $144, Providenta (Old), sij. Hotels (New), 98.03. China Lights (New), 801. -Electric, 8761-
Telephones (New), @27). Cements (Combined), $10.10/10.15 Dairy Farms, deo]. Buyers,
Hong Kong Banks; $1,720. International Assce,, Tls. 4.15. Douglaset, 200.-
H.K S.teamboats, $22. Docks, 20
Hotels (Old), 89.80,' '- Hong Kong Lands, 877) Chinese Estates, 893. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 14.10. China Lights (Old), 819). Electrics, 870.
Telephones (New), 897) - Cements (Combined), $10. Dairy Farms, 820.16. Sinceres, $15.49
Government Loans, 4% Prem,
DISAPPEARING DISEASES
EFFECT OF HYGIENE
AND SPORT
London. It is a matter of com- món knowledge that certain - dis- eases, once usual in England, have now disappeared.
Mr. C. D. Dixon, British Cham- ber of Commerco; Mr. C. E. Pen- cock, St. George's Society; Dr. A. H. Skinnor, St. Andrew's Society; Mr. L. B. Howell, St. David's So- [284ciety: Mr. W. Crooks, United Services Association; Mr. H. J. Archibald, Mr. J. Kitto, Mr. W. E. Haraton, Mr. R. F. Hall, Mr. T.
Leprosy, for instance, though the C. G, Pearson, Dr. J. Darrock, Mrs. H. E. Ramany (en-opted to repre-term probably included various sent the Ladies), Mr. N. M. Fenton other skin discases then little un- derstood, was an accepted fart of (Hon. Secretary).--Ñ.C.D.N.
melinval life, for which some of our earliest hospitals were special ly built.
not be permitted to operate within the HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins, will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure.
SERVANTS' PASSES Passes for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building.
Employers are requested to dis tribute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the passes.
Servants are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing through on their duties but must remain in, their employers' stands.
Any persons found loitering with Servante passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclosure,
By Order,
Becretary.
C. B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 6th February, 1933,
OLD WYKEHAMIST DINNER.
"
SOCIETY,
THE ANNUAL SHOW of FLO. TAN VEGETABLES will be held at the VOLUNTEER HEAD. QUARTERS on THORSDAY, the 2nd MARUE, 1933, from 3 pm to 6.30 p.m.
ENTRIES WILL DEFINITELY CLOSE AT NOON on THURSDAY, the 23rd FEBRUARY, 1933, at the Hen. Secretary's Office, 11, Queen's Road, Central, bat intending exhibitors ars requested to SEND IN THEIR ENTRIES AS EARLY AS POSSI- BLE
Members who have not yet rid their subscriptions and ALL THOSE who WISH to JOIN the Society are requested to send $5.00 immediately to the UNDERSIGNED
L. J. DAVIES,
Hon. Secretary. [344 Hong Kong, 2nd February, 1933. [324
[T is proposed to hold a Dinner IT
during Race Weck, if numbers
Those who are are sufficient. terested are asked to notify,
C. E. R. CLARA BUT, The University.
REMINDER.
-
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER
CO. (1918), LTD.
inTtf from 9am to 5 pm, on TEE supply of electricity will be Thursday 9/2/33 on the South side of Prince Edward Road from Waterloo Road Eastwards to Ma Te Wai Village
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hong Kong Observatory, February 8
Previous On Data On Date
Day *t
st
at 4 p.m. 10a.m.
4 p.m.
Barometer... 80.01 Temperature Humidity... 79 Wind-
Direction Force Wother
29.95
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78
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→ B
0.40.1
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BRITISH BANKING
POSITION
Profits Decrease £890,000
WHAT "THE BIG FIVE"
HAVE DONE
Landon, Jan. 17.-Banking results for 1939 are now practically com- plete. The moral of the figures is that while the banks suffered as overy other institution from the depression's effect on their profits they have hold their own well, and shareholders have every reason to be satisfied with their position. The figures of the Big Five" may be act out as follows:-
£ —37,61i
Financo,
Profito.
Midland ... 2,018,142 Lloyds 1,530,311-376,303 Barclays 1,374,013 -220,812 Nat Prov... 1,393,319-153,088 Westminster 180,000 +28,728 Carry Allocations. Forward,
Midland .... -20,000 +9,382 Lloyd
-200,000 -7,300 Barclays --200,000 1,011 Nat Prov....÷100,000 -28,503 Westminster -150,000 +99, 728
To pay a Dividend of 20 per share on 88,988 shares absorbing $335,916.00 To pay a Bonus of 82
་་་་་
per share on 55,000
shares absorbing.....' 111,072,00- To transfer to Reserve 148,600,00
To pay a Bonus to the
Staf
To carry forward
94,000,00 312,553,96
$839,041.00
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
(BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
87)
RUGBY, Feb 7.
Paris
New York
3.42 11/16
Montreal
4.067
Brussels
94.633
8.53
-14 13/32
67
Amsterdam Berlin Milan
Vienna Stockholní Copenhagen Oslo ..... Bucharest Madrid Lishon
294 nom.
18:21/32
217/18
10.9/16
33 1
414
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110
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
3. nom. 411 O.R. 33) nom.
Bombay Shanghai
1/6.5/32
1/71
1/01
1/2%
115 9/16
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Prague
Athens.
Silver (Spot)
21
South Africa
Typhus fever also, which less than a hundred years ago was a frequent and fatal scourge, is
unknown in disease practically England to-day,
The vanishing of both these dis cases must be chiefly attributed to the gradual awakening of the national conscience in respect of the need for wise sanitation and the control of infectious and contagious complaints.
It is perhaps not realised, how Faver, to how great an extent some unuch more familiar diseases are waning.
No reader, for example, of eigh i
and teenth
nineteenth century letters and, nemoirs can have fail- ed to notice how large a part simple anemia in young girls and gout in their olders played in the Both domestic life of the timen. #ore. in fact, commonplace in- vidents in the experience of every Icas that general practitioner thirty years ago. But it can be exfely said that they are definitely from
his practice disappearing to-day.
Indeed, chlorosis, or the simple. anemia of young girls, has already almost vanished; and there must ho many younger practitioners who have never met with a case of it..
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Gout also, both in its acute and chronic form, is far less often en- countered than it used to bo: and the elderly men and women with visible deposits of uric acid in the rims of their ears or knuckles have how become comparitive rarities. in the consulting room,
This has doubtless been due in There was thus an aggregate de oach instance to a quiet revolution crease of about £800,000 in profits. in, national habits. The immense The policy for dealing with this spread of open-air exercise for has varied Barclays has again girls," the attention paid in schools maintained its dividend at the rate not only to games, but to such FRIDAY, 10TH FEBRUARY,
Rain
paid for many years past. The details se defective teeth and at 9.15 P.M.
Highest open-air Temperature, 7.64 Westminster and Midland Banka septic tonails, has Ingely account- the disappearance of Lowest open-air Tempatur, 857 havé maintained their dividenda ated for Open to Members and Friends.
the reduced rate paid last year, chlorosis, with its attendant faint- B-Bine sky O-Cloudy, D- while Lloyd bas reduced its dising fita, "vapours," and debility. Tickets $1.50 (including tex)
Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning; tribution by 1 1-3rd per cent., and The same cult of exerise; in the From ESCRETARY, Oversens League, MMist; Q-Overosat; P-Passing the National Provincial has re-shape of golf, gardening, and country walking, continued through. Showers; Q Bquallą; B-Esin; Tduced its dividend by 1 per cent, Helens, May, Institute.
Thunder. [340
HONGKONG, BENEVOLENT
T
[TE » Committee of the above Society would be most grateful
if those interested in its work would kindly send their donations of auriptions.Moony is most urgent- Jy meaded and funda tye very low. -
No amount is too small and will be mojo bhan ffully received by the Hon Trésauter.
EL WYNNE JONES,
161, The Peak
THE KNOWING CHOCOLATE EATER
GETS NOTHING ELSE BUT
Frisi
Other banks within the London outriddle age together with a vaat intresse in temperance, both ---- | Clearing have experienced similar in eating and drinking, has no reductions in profits; Martine Bank doubt boen chiefly responsible for made £836,950 against £703,154, in the vanishing of gout as a nation- the previous year. It is paying wide disease.
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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
JAMINA From February:9; to 15'1838, HIGH WATER, LOW WAZNE
Hong Kong Standard
Heng
'Kong.
Times
30 10 10 6
Thur 9
F10
1020.23 3041 76 102946 21-19 18 0 IT DOB
Height,
the same dividend as last year-14. To gout and chlorosis may also per cent but a placing nothing be added rickets-n chetdeficiency to the Contingency Account against disease of childhood-once rife, but 100,000 previously. The carry for now, thanks to our knowledge of ward is increased from £139,921 to vitamins and national care of £185,089
children also fast becoming
Williams-Deacon's -Bank-earned rarity $288,005 against £275,405 in the previous year, and is again paying 12) per cent. Allocations urneunt
A Bill for the prevention of 18 50 30 to £25,000 against £40,000 and the cruelty to children will be pressated 084804 carry-forward Is increased to to the Japanese Diet next month
143484235,107. from £28,567, cer lo
21.59 7.9 15 10 4 1 Profite of the National Bank 11S4 50 044 totalled 2113,300 against £116,650.
1839 7 1600 28 ALENTLESSA.06.2009. The dividend in again 12 per cent
GARTETS TH | 14| TCHISONE CO
-16-
23 20 716 45 30 and allocations
OR OU 1:2
12:8 52 1735 26 against £25,000, last 0004838814-carry-forward-
1246641824 £31,144 to £31,543
TOBK
by time Department of Home Affairs Land is expected to come into forec
by Imperial decree early in Colo
reactied
retandilfe has Thin the Finance Ministry
Silver (Forward)
War Loan, 31%
600
160
18 11/16 997/1007
per £100
993
sterling
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