NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
NOTICE DINAR ANNUAL
TOTICE is hereby given that the
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices" of the Company, Exchange Building, Des Voear Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 26th day of April, 1933, at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving & statement of accounts and the report of the Direc tors for the year ended 31st December, 1933:
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the CLOSED from "ompany will be
Thursday, the 13th April, 1833, to Tuesday, the 25th April, 1989, both days inclusivo.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
ALLAN KEITH,
“Secretary,
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Hong Kong, 4th April, 1833,-
NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
. CLUB.
FOURTH EXTRA RAJE MEETING SECOND DAY-17TH A'RIL, 1933
NEE conditions of Race No. 9 have Tered to read as follows:-
3-2.30 PM-Boa Vista Handi- cap--Winner 3150, Second $285, Third $126. For Chins Ponies, D Cines Subscription Urifins of this Club which arrived in Hong Kong on 2nd November, 1933, that have won one or more races at Race Meetings of this Clab. AT TIME OF ENTRY, barred. Entrance $5. Five Furlongs
By Order,
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C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
HONG KONG THEOSOPHICAL
SOCIETY.
"MANUK" LODGE,
17, QUEEN'S ROAD, 1ST FLOOR,
A SPECIAL SERVICE will be held og
FRIDAY, THE 7TH APRIL,
6.00 P.M.
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE BROTHER MANUK. BOTHER J. RUSSELL "WILL CONDUCT THE SERVIOK, ·.
A cordial invitation is given to all. friends,
There will be no lecture on Thurs day, the 6th April,
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VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
REMINDER:
THE Annual General Meeting will THE
be held in the Club House on WEDNESDAY, 5TH APRIL at 6.00 P.M.
F. W. T. ROSS,
Hon. Secretary,
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
6661
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
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HONG KONG, APRIL 5, 1933.
THE SLUMP--AND THE
WAY OUT
SPRING COMES TO QUARRY BAY
Charming Children's Festival
UNEASY LIES THE HEAD
THAT WEARS THE
CROWN
THE LETTER-HONGS ANOMALY
EXPLANATION OF RAISED CHARGES
six Singapore cents postage. With
Local
The Green Island Cement Com-
the increase of Chinese postage for foreign countries to 95 cents, the SUMMARY OF NEWS letter-hong postage should automa tically have been raised to 12 rostponed, with the result that at cento, but this step has so far heen. the moment the five-cents charge still rules. The Chinese Post Office is thus placed in the anomalous position of seeing ita letter buai-pany made a net profit last year of ried forward to next year's account. Page 13. tors who are free to charge the ces for Singapore go to competi- $41,000, all of which is to be car public what they please, while en
The case in which Kwok Hung Ki, a salesman employed by Mesars Goeke & Company is tharged with the theft by bailee of a motor car and with obtaining $1,000 by cheque fraudulently endorsed from the American Express Com- Page 8. Magistracy yesterday. pany was continued at Central
SHANGHAI,, March 29, Yesterday a Rautor message from Singapore, referred to agitation by the Chinese there against the pro- posed increase to 12 cents per let.joying the curious privilege of send- ing this underpaid correspondence tor of the postage on correspon through the Chinese Post Office all ilence from "letter offices in the way to destination at five-cents
South China. '.
per letter.
The May Queen nodded and
The situation has been explained
While the Singapore Chinese ob- yawned on her pink decked throne,
on inquiry at the Shanghai Post she was only six years old. The
124 cents, though this is half of pride that had filled her little Office. While most countries en jest to China making an increase to China's own charge to the writing heart sinon she was told that she force a strict monopoly in the car. was to play the May Queen at the Tiago of letters, China still permits publio, the same objectors willingly commercial letter-hongs in Canton,
Fince: October 1 last, eight centa Spring Festival, the joy of being watew, Amoy, and some other Fay at the Singapore Post Office dressed in the long white frock
ports to necept fra the public, and Singapore currency per letter, equani with its green train, and of wear- forward through the Chinare Posto 16 cents. Chinese, for carriage to ing the wreath of pink may Office, mail matter for Singapore, Chinese ports. blossom on her golden curls, the and a few other foreign destina-
China intends to increase ite happiness of her entrance with twotions with large Chinese. popula small squires, bearing her train. tions. To all destinations except letter bong rate not to 16 (Chinese) were forgotten as her Court desert Singapore, the Chinese Post Office conte as at Singapore, but to 12
cants only, still leaving the letter pd her to dance round the may charges the letter bongs at the inhongs free to gather in the corre pole and make music with drums
ternational rate of 25 cents per spondence which would otherwise cymtals triangles and bells.
be posted over the counters of letter.
Chinese Fost Offices at 25 cents per
Perhaps there could be no clearer example of the wisdom that lies behind the direction of Quarry Bay School than this lesson that is lehrat each year by one of the youngest children, that greatness big its obligations; but lest the lesson be too bitter a glimpse of the other side of the picture was given, when, at the close of the proceedings, it fell to the May Queen to present a basket of roses to Mrs Southon, and receive a kiss in exchange, before making her triumphant exit.
Joyous, Fresh and Pretty,
It is a long way to Quarry Bay, and people like Mrs, Southern, Mra. Burrett, Mrs. Minett and Mr. N. L Smith have little time to spare but they, as well as the parente, felt that they had been wall rewarded for their journey. The whole entertainment was.80 joyous in spirit so fresh and pretty that if Quarry Bay School would hold a festival every season, in stead of only in the Spring, we feel sure that there would be just as large a crowd, present,
The Programme..
Exceptions were made by China for Singapore, the letter rate being fixed at one half of the postage charged to the ordinary public. When the letter postage from China to foreign countries was 10 cents, the letter-hongs were given the five-cents rate to privilege of a Singapore, though from Singapore China the same letter-hongs paid
to
ecver.
The increased postage is not to the public, but to the commercial letter-honge, flourishing concerna able by the benevolence of the
only Chinese Government to make easy profits by a system which is" tolerated in a few Eastern coun- tries.-N.-C. Daily News.
Local and General
The annual
.
Mr. A. R. F. Raven, principal partner of Messrs. Raven and Boe to was severely cross-examined by Mr. F. C. Jenkin at the Supesme Court yesterday in connection with their claim of 880,650 from the Woo Les Land Investment Co. Page -
A beggar was found murdered in a disused gangster! hut in Shatin, Pago: 12. and two mendicants are wanted"" by the police.
The twenty-eight ordinary general meeting of the Union Waterboat Co., Ltd. was held youterday, Mr. J. P. Warren being in the chair.
Page 1*
Hong Kong will be the centre of operations in a mimic war, which the Navy, Army and Air Force are Page 9. staging today and to-morrow.
A suicide and a sudden death oc lulu to Hong Kong aboard the curred on the voyage from Hono President McKinley. Page 9... A delightful spring festival was Bay School,
Page 8. given yesterday morning at Quarry Sir Robert Ho Tung presided over the annual meeting yesterday of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao- Steamboat Company.
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General.
The Nazi boycott of Jews, it is
Page 0. reported, will not be resumed to-
The La Salle College Kowloon meating of the Victoria, Recreation Club will take will hold its annual athletic sports prizes will be distributed by Lady place at the Club House at 6.30 pm.today, commencing at 1 p.m. The day. to-day...
Peal, and in the course of the day His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, will visit the College Buildings.
A two-day extra Race Meeting will be held during Easter. The first day will be on Saturday, April 10, and the second day on Monday, April 17.
Olga Xavier, 15, has been mis3 ing sinco 9 p.m. on March 9 ac The programme was a well-cording to a report made to the "Rationalisa-ranged alteration of songs anti Police by her mother, Mrs. Daledo,
dances, with two items by the living at Sugar Street, Wanchai, children's band and the play scene
The giant American naval airship, the U.S.S. Akron, the largest dirig have fallen into the sea off the ible in the world, is reported to
Jersey const Latest messages A fine of $2% was imposed by Mr. state that the airship is a total Wynne Jones at Central Magiswreck and that a heavy loss of life traoy yesterday on a Chinese who is feared. was convicted on a charges of gross. cruelty to a pigeon. It was stated that the defendant dangled the tightly tied round the wings seven bird with a string which had been
from Midsummer Night's Dream. Sir Francis Lindley, H.M. Am-times
The dancing throughout the
bassador to Japan, and Lady Lind-** school was excellent. The childrenley, will be guests at a dinner to being light on their, feet and neat be held in the Japanese Premier's in their movements, and the residence in Tokyo to-day.. dresses and grouping well arrang-
ed to make a pretty picture. But
For failing to exhibit the star-
The Organising Committee of the British Empire Fair to be held at the Peninsula Hotel next May, gratefully acknowledge contribu tions of 8200 from The British American Tobacco Co. (China), Lod, and of $100 from Mesars Dodwell & Co, Ltd., towards the
the singing and above all the band board light on his vessel, the coxs were perhaps even better. The wain of the motor boat Walla children sang up well and kept Walla I was fined $15 by Comdr. time and tune, while the band was Newill, at the Marine Court yester-expenses of the Fair. so delightful that it deserves a day. paragraph to itself.
The Schneider Trio are giving a
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Far East. According to a 'hinese despatch dropped a document into Chinese Military Headquarters at Shitmen- from Tientsin, & Japanese plane
demanding the withdrawal of Chi- ncse forces' from the area east, the Luan River, threatening drastic
Page 1 measures in the event of non-com- pliance.
Chinese reports state that three Jpanese planes dropped bombs
Page 9 inside the City of Dolanor on April The Pan-American Airways have bonghs 40 per cent of the stock of the China National Aviation Cor
Pago 9.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
When classes 9 and 10, the babies, filed in to the tune of their farewell concert at the Roof Gar drums, cymbals, bells and castaden of the Hong Kong Hotel this acts, one thought the timing very evening. Local music lovers should good, but when they lined up and not miss this last chance of hearing proceeded to play a medley of nur these extremely fine artists. sery rhymes, and above all when the first tiny tot laid her castenets on the ground and gravely stopped Miss Cotton forward to take the baton from fellows, then a burst of clapping nearly threatened to drown the music. Two other little conductors and took over, and did their stuff"
efficiency. with complate composure
Before Mr. Wynne-Jones at Cen-poration. trad Magistracy yesterday, 8. Twai, 28, described as an unemployed Japanese was charged with having entered the Colony without a pass- fendant came from Singapore, and port. It was stated that the de- when found by Sergeant Stevens While riding a push bicycle along Nathan Road, near its intersection took him to the Tokyo Hotel, where and conduct her knocked down a Chinese boy haul here had agreed to send him with Argyle Street, a Chinesa ho was staying. The Japanese Con received injuries to the leg. The back to Japan, and he would leave red vas sent to the Kowloon, Hosby a ship to-morrow week Pital for treatment.
The Police has in their possession a British passport, issued to one John Henry Gilbert, at Sydney, New South Wales, on June 8, 1932. It was picked up by an Indian guard in the Wanchai distriot on Monday.
TO-DAY (April 5).
(III Moon 11th Day). Anniversaries and Holidays.- Pure Brightness (Ch'ihy ming). Described as the wife of an em
Schneider Trio Concert, Horg ployce in the Chinese Maritime Customs, Cheng Wai Fu was charg-Kong Hotel Roof Garden, 9.16 p.nr. ed before Mr. Schofield at Central. Magistracy yesterday with con travening the mut tans Ordinance brought & 12-year-old mus tai into It was alleged that she unlawfully the Colony and subjected her to a punishment to which she would not have subjected her own daughter.
Catholic Lenten Mission; Fr Donnelly, S.J., on "Ideals,” Caino Road, a p.m.
Editorial and Business Office: 11,tary unit in the world." We now
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251,
know that they were wrong. Night Editor (Wanchai Office): Whatever may transpire, the
Tel. 24511.
War, the Slump, the Russian Re volution and the great mastery over production 'called' tion," are going to affect human life more profoundly than most of as imagine. Mr. C. CHAMPKIN gave the Rotary Club yesterday a charm ing and interesting picture of life in Government offices not so very many years ago. The slowness, the cary inefficiency, and on the other hand, the culture, the loyalty, honesty and security, have long ago passed. Government offices bum with typewriters, they are presided over by harassed, highly specialis ed, and efficient men who drive themselves and their subordinates THE world is constantly being as unmercifully.
Those сте tho sured by those in a position to methods of commerce, industry and speak authoritatively that the government. A new efficiency and regime of hard work! But the Economic Depression is passing practical expression of these excel and one day we shall awake to find eat qualities is an army of unem- the clouds lifted and the sun-loyed, reckoned at fifteen million shine of prosperity smiling benign. in the United States alone and at ly on the human race. Ministers of least doubla that number in the whole world. Efficiency, "push and lending countries speak in this vein, ge, and the wonderful principles and big business magnates do the evolved in the North of England in places like Manchester, and en same. The crisis is largely due to thusiastically adopted and develop HE Sixty-fourth-Ordinary Gen-
eral Meeting of Shareholders psychological causes, and the leaded in Now England and Germany will be held at the Offices of the ers, as in time of war, have to are not enough. The world is undersigned on Monday, the 10th
in a psychological reaction; a de April, 1933, at NOON, for the purpose keep up popular morale, describing choked with over production. There sire for stability and security, s of receiving the Report of the Generala Tannenburg or a Marne as a Managers, together with a statement slight reverse, and a Neuve Chahunger for rusticity, for desert of Accounts for the year ended the
pelle as a notable victory, accord-islands, not of reality, but of fie tional tradition, that expresses it- 31st December, 1932.
The following Resolutions will also ing to the needs of the hour. Mr. sell in country catates for million be submitted to the Meeting -- JOHN D. RRÉFELLER is one of the aires, in seaside bungalows, chara
That a from the 1st-day-of
applications for the quiet jobs of January, 1983, the remunera greatest anil-most valuable assets banc excursions, and multitudinous tion of the Consulting Com- of optimism."I have seen slumps the world, as such librarian and "mittee be increased from come, and I have seen them go. caretaker, where if prospects are stage fright
A Delightful School. ***$18,000 to $24,000 per annum." It always has happened like that poor, competition and intrigues of Possibly rivals are eliminated.
After the eeptertainment. the "That sa from the 1st day of
January, 1933, the remunera and it will again," is his unshake modern science and organisation "tion of the Auditors be raised able belief. Mr. J. D. RoBILEE will make towards that old stability guests were allowed to go over the from $100 to $1,500 per is the richest man in the world, of life, and certainty of earning school and gee a display of the one's daily bread. In a Henry children's handwork and exercise amum for each Firm." The Share Register and Transfer and one of the oldest. Who is bet. Ford factory each man has to do a books. The work was exceptional-
That ly good and was praised and a Books will be closed from the 27th ter qualified to know what he is ample job quite perfectly.. March, to the 10th April, 1933, both talking about? He is more likely shuts out the whole joy of works mired by everyone. With its de- days inclusive.
to be right than anyone else! He which should animate the clover lightful and clever children and its until the end of the monthi
Moreover in the temples of Ameri- exceptionally nice school buildings, ca's industrial angel of light there it in a pleasure at any time to visit is no security at all, and the least Quarry Bay School, when they failure in mute chedience receives stage & Spring Festival it is a very We all hope that he is once again the final and irrevocable sentence of great pleasure which makes on the mark On the other hand pulsion into the lost army of the happy memory for a long time.
workiess. No wonder bootlegging the main causes of the Depression, and crime are popular in that
day, and is open to the public Two Appearing nightly in entertain Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel; economia tationalism run mad; War country. Debte and Heparations, armaments isation, either by violence or slow
Between breaking up of civil To Raise Funds,
It is the constant lament of the hundred exhibite are on view, and ment this week until Saturday
in the Rose Boom or the Peninsula taurant; and Majestic Dancing
Academy. Hotel is Mme. Neryvol, the accom- No. 67/196 dated Hong Kong 20th gold, unduly extended credits, over hive organisation, where the work does nathing to help in the pro-D February, 1922 for Four shares of this production, trust manipulations, kill themselves but periodically vision of training facilities for
and destroy the drones, thero promising British youth for the The 44th ordinary annual meet plished and graceful exponent of Dinner Dances at King's Restau registered in the name of LA SU and the turmoil in China and Ins must be é, new line of development Olympic Games. And it was Siring of shareholders of the Green clasale dancing in strikingly orifant Peninsula, Hong Kong, and where work and delure how the John Simon who draw attention Island Cement Co. will be held at ginal features She made her de Repulse Bay Hotels; and Glouces ang atinor in the fact that the Olympiads of the offices of the Company, Ex but at this establishment last ter Building. Exile, which benent none; or
ave, ho. Pindar to change Building, Der Formal Wakradend stalimi ndi
winners of the Central, on Tuesday, April 25, at gathering of dinga, ME L Mirabel who renders thé, piano, BC- Ung minority
11.30am for the purpose of re- be here the germ ceiving a statement of accounts and the report of the Directors for the year ended December 31, 1932 A profit of $31,000 was made last La lloc which is to be married
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co Ltd. cong, 20th March, 1933.
1605
·HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.A
that the Provisional Certificate
is where ho is in many ways the greatest man in the world-because he has always been right.
craftsman or tiller of the soil.
Later the two top classes pinyed four quite long and difficult pieces on the same instruments and ac
The little play who well acted and quitted themselves splendidly.
There will be a general Titania, and Puck were all three meeting of the HK. Univer no-one forgot their lines, Bortom
Friday, April 7 at 8.30 p.m. in the case was adjourned until next very good and showed no signs ofsity Engineering Society The woman pleaded not guilty and
Room at the University when weck Mr. B. V. Boxer, B.Sc., will de liver & lecture on The Historical Development of the Arch"
Santo Tomas University basket ball team, which arrived this morn-
Mr. F. A Merry, local representing on the s.a. Empress of Russia tative of John Dickinson & Co., from Manila en route to Japan and Ltd., leaves for Shanghai per s.8. Honolulu for a series of basket-ball His ments to play two games with tha Ranchi on April 7 and will be away games, have completed arrange
visitors will be stacked against thy address in Shanghai will be c/o the local teams on Wednesday and Chung Nam, Athletic Association Palace Hotel cables Lionbrand, Thursday nights at 9 o'clock. The Shanghai."
An exhibition of photographs is on the initial night and against the now being held by the Wah Yan Chinese Y.M.C.the following Amateur Photographic Club in the night. The games will be played at Scout Room of the College, The the Chinese Y.M.C.AZ exhibition will remain open till to
Salle College Buildings.
HE The Governor visita. La
Whist Drive, Seamen's Institute,
hist Drive, pm,
Chief Petty Officers' and Petty
Hall, 8.30 pm. Officers' Dance, Garrison Lecture
Mastings.
Sergeants Mess (H.K.V.D.C.). University Union, Great Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Victoria Recreation Club, Club
Theatres. House, 6 p.m.
Queen's: Five Star Final." Central: Once in a lifetime." King's Teas of the Storm
Country,"
Oriental. Cohens and Kellys in.
Africa
World: Harmony Heaven, Star: Behind the Mask. Majestic: "Outside the Law
Danges.
TOTICE 18. HEREBY GIVEN and international suspicions, Inc of disintegration, and the evolving of British Olympians that the State may be seen between 1 am and 8| April 8 during the dinner dance Gloucester Building; King's Res
Baak numbered 197041/127044 inclusive
hashem Lost or Stolen, and should dia, show not the least nign of this certificate not be priced to the passing. A new factor, Hunan Bant before 18th April, 1938, a paw
certificate for the share will be issued, dumping, may even aggravate the and the aforesaid Provisional Certif position. No doubt in the fourth, cata No. 57/495 will be thereafter tros ed by this Corporation as Nall end even the fifth centuries of bu and Vold
By Order of the Court of Directors,
VM GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
Gra
At present the
came like a 'crowd that Gece. bled at Wembley to see the Final, and getting-ang Weed and pub of hand, sw and, the pitch and helplessly.
the pla inili had come
optimists were saying Rome always muddles rough, enly need a good emperor,
The Legion is still the
com
dances
Hockey-Hong Long Hockey Los chibition Club Seniors v. Lanzoins (1: SN.C. ate of the Con- ground), 5 p.m., Paris and the two Athletica-La Nalla College An- Subtle Colege together, unl codingly well
Distribution cl buklenot mim Ground, Lovers of dancing the opportunity of witnessing these Sport attractive lays.
work