NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE Fifty-second Ordi ary Jar TH
eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 25th May, 1933, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st Decomber, 1932.
The following Resolutions will also be submitted to the Meeting -
(2) "That ns from the 1st day of "January, 1931, the remusora- "tion of the Consulting Com "mittes bes increased from "818,000 to 824,009 per annuni.". (2) That as from the 1st day of
"January, 1933, the remunera "tim of the Auditors be raised from $1,250 to $1,500 per "annum for each Firm,"
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closel fron the 11th Lo the 24th May, 1933, both days inclusive,,
JARDINE, MATHËSON &
CO, LTD., General AgentN,
Hongkong, 4th Mur, 1933
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
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TOTICE is hereby given that un
on
Naordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at the offices of the General Agents, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Com pany Limited, Pixider Street, Victorin in the Colony of Hongkong Thursday, the 20th day of May, 1933, at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon or so soon thereafter as the Annual General Meeting of the Company shall have been concluded for the purpose of propsing and considering and, if thought fit, passing (with or without amendment) the subjoined Resolutions: as Extraordinary Resolutions viz:
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"(1) That the existing 10,000 shares "in the capital of the Company of "the nominal value of $250 each, upon which the sum of 8100 bas "been paid up, be divided into "50,000 shares of the nominal value "of 850 each, upon which the sum of "$20 shall be credited as paid up. "(2) That as on and from the 1st "day of July, 1933. the regulations "contained in the printed docu- "ments submitted to the meeting "al for the purpose of identifica- "tion subscribed by the Chairman thereof be approved and adopted "as the Articles of Association of. "the Company, in substitution for, "and to the exclusion of all the "existing Articles thereof."
AND NOTICE is hereby given that a further Extraordinars General Meeting of the Company will be held nt the same place on Friday, the Uth day of June, 1993, at 12 noun for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings of the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming, if thought fit, as Special Resolutions the above mentioned Resolutions respectively (No. 1 and 2.)
A copy of the proposed new Articles of Association of the Company with the alterations and mendments and any differences between the existing and the proposel new Articles incor- porated and indicated in red ink can be seen during the asual business hours at the aforesaid office of Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Company Limited.
Dated the 3rd, day of May, 1933.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Agents.
URGENT TELEGRAMS TO PLACES IN CHINA.
THE
HONG
Singing in the
KONG DAILY
BATH TUB
IS A HARMLESS RELAXATION THAT MANY OF US WOULD HATE TO MISS
YET HONGKONG FOOT" THAT SCOURGE OF THE EAST MIGHT EASILY ROB US OF THIS INNOCENT PLEASURE, BECAUSE IT IS OF WELL-KNOWN FACT THAT IT IS NOT ADVISABLE TO WET YOUR FRET FOR THIS TREATMENT UNDERGOING WHEN COMPLAINT.
BUT WHY HAVE HONGKONG FOOT?" WHEN WITH A LITTLE CARE AND ATTENTION AND THE HELP
OF
DULCIPEL
ANTISEPTIC AND DEODORANT IT CAN EASILY BE AVOIDED.
**PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE"
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and if you are lucky enough never to have had this complaint, there is no reason why you 'should now, providing you take a little care by dusting between your toes with DULCIPEL after your daily bath,
"DULCIPEL"
DUSTING POWDER Price Per Tin 75 cts.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Est. 1841.
other special food-preserving pro- VERSAS. Refrigerating has for long been the general means of making
Lo-LIANG.-The marriage sorang- el between Mr. TUNG FAN LO, son of Mr. Le Taz Sar, of 40, Bonham, Road, and Miss HELEN possible to send perishable food LIANO, daughter of Mr. LIANG YEN MIND, of 129, Canton Road, Tientsin, is solemnised to-day at the British Consulate,
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PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933
FUNERAL OF SIR CLAUD SEVERN
IMPRESSIVE SERVICE AT EWELME
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, April 13.-The funeral of Sir Claud Severn took place at Ewelme, Oxfordshire, yesterday. The Rev. A. T. Humphreys officiat ed, assisted by Bishop Wild, Bishop Shaw, and the Rev. L. Baldwyn. The chief mourners included Lady Soveru, Mrs. Herbert Wild, the Rev. John Wild, Mrs. David Wild, Mr. Paul. Severn, Miss Bullock, Miss Margaret Irvine, Mrs. But- cher, Mrs. Cresswell Cleanti, and Among Mrs. Gustuve Severn. others present were:--
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News and Views *
Farious Stamps,
The collection of British New Guinea stamps which has been sent to England by the Lieutenant Governor for presentation to the! King is a reminder of the famous Mauritius stamps, the first issued by a British colony.
The whole of the original issue was used by the wife of the Gov eruor to send out invitations to a bail at Government House.
To-day the twenty-five survivors are worth thousands of pounds.
Disarming" Smile. Viscountess Gladstone, speaking! of a recent visit to China at the National Liberal Club, London, said:---
"The Chinese do not care much about war. That there have been civil wars is true, but there have not been so many battles.
"They work hard, and for long hours. They have patience and im- mense endurance, and they take the long view."
£400,000 Bridge Contract.
Lady Schuster, Sir Francis Mc-
"It is far safer to travel through Clean, Admiral Eyres, Cogunander and Mrs. Hampden, Colonel F. W. Chinn with a smile than with a Schofield, Mr. W. E. Stubbs (repistol. It will get you much far- presenting Sir Ernest Stubbe), Sirther in greater safety. Richard Gull, Major and Mrs. Cecil Whitaker, Mr. J. G. Legge (repre senting the Victoria Heng Kong Diocesan Association), Mr. F. B. Lyon Bowley Canon Edwards, the Rev. S. M. Winter, the Rev. Dr Nair, the Roy: S. J. Selwyn, Captain B. Whitaker, Major G. B. Hankey, Mrs. Eaglebott and the Misses Eaglebott, the Rev. I. S.
Messrs. Braithwaite and Milford, the Rev. A, H. Cadicott, Mrs. Bousfield, Mr. and Mrs. Les Engineers, Ltd., of Westminster, ter Palmer, Mr. A. Gemmell, Mr.
announce that a £400,000 contract John Barrington-Ward, Mr. J. C. has been awarded to their associat B. Gamlen. Mrs. W. B. Gamlened company in India for the con- the Hon. Mrs. Brunton, General struction of a double-track railway Smith, Mrs. Biddes, the Rev. R. M. bridge across the Nerbudda River, and Mrs. Hay. Mr. A. E. Bailey 200 miles north of Bombay. (representing Todge Malaya Freemasons), Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wainwright, Mr. Buckett, Mrs. J. P. Wyndham, Mr. C. T. Rogerson, Dr. McMullan, Mr. P. Wood, Mr. C. L. Lewis, and Mrs. and Miss Dudgeon.
HOME RAIL HOPES
"MODERATE OPTIMISM."
(Special Air-Maij Service)
of
LONDON, April 18. Dealers in Home Railway stocks right across the world, but modern are again reporting a keen inquiry science has shown that freezing for the Ordinary and junior Pre leads not merely to loss of flavour, ference stocks. The buying orders are mainly based on the better trend but also destroys valuable vitamins. of the weekly traffe figures. The New lines of research are therefore Southern receipts are especially en- being pursued to ensure that the couraging, but cren the big trade "more subtle properties of fresh-lines are beginning to show definite signs of a slow-down in the rate ness" may be preserved, probably of decline. by substituting chilling for freez
London Offee: 53, Fleet Street, ing.
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
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The yearly Report of the Food Investigation Board gives most interesting details of the work now in progress, regarding, for instance, the preservation of fruit and veget- ables in a frozen state, the scentific basis of curing pork, and experi- ments with the new method of gas storage," of fruit. This BRITISH FOOD RESEARCH method, which consists in introduc
HONG KONG; MAY 4, 1933
1783 FOR a country like Great Britain which, because of its high degree of industrialisation and the density
THE GREAT NORTHERN THE PASTERS RATENSION 1785
- TELEGRAPH CO.
TELEGRAPH.CO.
THE KOWLOON GOLF CLUB. TO HOLDERS or DEBENTURES ISSUED OF THE 18T JANUARY, 1925. ̧*
finest
Better receipts are now the chief source of hop for railway stock holders, Buductions of expenditure have been so large that they cannot be continued this year on anything approaching the 1932 scale. Nor should ten much, reliang; by placed on the curbing of road competi
The Salter Bill will help the tion. railway companies, but the benefits will not compare with those to be derived from a real revival in trade and greater movement of passengers and goods.
Co.
The bridge, which will be 4,800 feet long, will contain over 13,000 tons of steel. Owing to the nature of the river bed the foundations will be carried down to great depths necessitating some 2,000 feet of well-sinking.
A Golf Miracle. ·
In Harry Vardon's newly pub- ished "My Golfing Life" the ques tion raised-how many golfers have raised it "What is the best shot I have ever played 1"
Vardon thinks it was a shot on the 18th hole at Northwood.
He found himself stymied by the club-house, his ball within two yards of a building rising 20ft. ard hiding the green.
To play over the corner of the building instead of round it made
Lady Astor on Women M.P.'s.
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Local.
W.
The case in which Mr. M Lady Astor, M.P., speaking at allums of the Chinese Customs the annual dinner of the National service is charged with the man- un board a trading junk outside Association of Women Civil Ser- slaughter of a three-year-old girl vants, said she was asked by na M.P. what she was going to say Lyceoon Pass was continued at flcer of the Customs to the Women Civil Servants, She Central Magistracy yesterday. The replied: "I am going to tell them second
every-launch of which defendant was in Page 7, that we want equality on
have except charge gave evidence.
The Kowloon Motor/Bus Com- thing that you men your morale."
Lady Astor added that all wo- pany, 1073, which as to operate the men M.P.s did not fight for wo-bus services on the mainland in men. They were too busy trying the middle of June, is to have a
nuthorised capital of 3 millions, of to please the men,
which between one and two millions will be issued. Kowloon Supple- ment.
Army
Tea.
A number of alterations in the rine table of the Kowloon-Canton
tailway appear on Page 7.
Ex-Service men are in agreement with the authores of "To Think of Tes," who regards man as the true tea-drinker. To paraphrase
A protest was made by Mr. J. Sydney Smith, What would the
Gould at yesterday's meeting of the Army have done without tea " What priceless macmories remain of Hong Kong Engineering and Con- brews drummed up" in ration ting struction Co., Ltd., against in. in any old shelter: And what tensed payments to Directors. was-a decoction that could rise, The Chairman, Hon. Mr. J. P. at its best, to the glories of "Ser Beza, and a fellow director, Mr. J. Scott Harslon, refused to consider geant Major's Ten."
A correspondent recalls an oceangcepting lower remuneration in
Page 7 sion when the remnants of a batta view of the heavy duties under- The Finnice Committee of the lion, back for sixteen kilometres, taken by the Directors, flopping for rest every ten minutes, were welcomed some five kilometres Legislative Council will to-day con- from their objective by a runner sider suppleinentary catimates of who announced "Buck up, every 10,000. The Government has ac- one. Tea's waiting for you when quired the premises of the old fea What heart it put men's Institute, for the purpose of into the weary warriors, and whatffices at a price of $197.000 nectar it was when they got it! Safe Travelling.
you arrive
"won-
81,000 is being asked for archaeo- logical exenvations. Bailiffs of the Supreme Cout are overworking issuing rents. An extra bailiff is .. being taken on temporarily
Page 6. In the Football League 1st Divi
On a raft of concrete outside Cardiff Station the Great Western Railway Co. is building a der" signal box. It has three sion, yesterday South China defeat floors, is brick built round a steeled China Athletic by 5 goals to nil frame, is fire-proof, central heated,RE. beat R.A.S.C. in a third Divi- and electrically equipped.
Page 10.
The House of Lords, an Tuesday night, passed the first reading of the Rubber Research Bill. Page 9.
There will be no fewer than 330 miniature levers, controlling 262 signals and 77 points. Opposite sach signal lever will be red, green, or amber spot lights which will tell the signalmen the position of the signal each controls. Above there will be two illuminated dia-
grams which will indicate to the signalmen the portions of the tracks that are occupied,
The Old and the Now.
be
All points and signals can sperated by a mere fick of the wrist. The system of control such that in no circumstances can
Ber."
is
an irresistible appeal. It meant points be moved during the pass an almost perpendicular rise with age of a trait. After the train has spin to carry the ball forward when passed, the signals revert to "dan the necessary height was reached.
"it We have travelled a long way Actually," Vardon puts it, was necessary to execute a shot the along the road to safety since the flight of which would alter at a Liverpool and Manchester line was opened, when a flag by day and a given point.".
lamp by night were considered suffi- cient protection for passengers.
It came off, and the ball pulled up close to the hole.
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Local and General
Two cases of small-pox: one im- ported, were notified on Tuesday.
Mr. Rein Loring, the Spanish riving in Hong Kong yesterday airman was among passengers ar- aboard the Empress of Asia.
A fine of $20 with the alternative of three weeks' imprisonment was imposed by Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central Magistracy yesterday on a quilty of street oratory in Holly Chinese medicine dealer who
wood Road.
WEB
sion match.
General.
Mr. T. V. Soong has arrived in America. He will discuse economic affairs with Pres. Roosevelt. Page 9.
The League of Natiens has issued invitations to sixty-six countries to attend the Werld Economic Conten.. ence in Londen on June 12.
Page 9! Far East. Martial law has been declared in Chiness City, Shanghai for three Page 9.
days.
A Government spokesman in- dicated that in the future, at the where, Japan is likely to presa for equality in armaineata as a matter Page 9 of principle.
Jananese and Manchukuo brоops again invading Chahar Pro- are
ince and the situation is reported to be critical.
Page 9.
Disarmament Conference and else
From the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
We
A contemporary says, that after the writ of certiorari in the Car- ribbean's Opium Case, shall have "Look out, there's a car coming."been disposed of, he will give the With this warning, two young whole affair a good hiring, and Chinese drew an aged hawker to try his best to do justice to the the side of Connaught Road Cen amusing amount of roguery and tral, where they relieved him of his rascality that the Ordinance during watch and chain. One of the cul- it short life has developed. prits escaped but the other was caught. The latter appeared before would advise our contemporary to Magistracy yesterday. He admitted disaster will be overtaking him that Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central mind what he is doing The same We do not allude to A number of previous convictions, overtook us. and was sentenced to six months' the infliction of a heavier fine than he can pay, with the addition of a homicidal incarceration. That is t For bringing an unregistered trifle-but we do not wish it to go mui-tani into the Colony, e Chinese any further, we would simply state married woman was fined $10. by without comment that Mr. Hoey Mr. Schofield at Central Magis has indignantly withdrawn his According to an advertisement tracy yesterday. It was stated the appearing elsewhere in this issue, girl-was presented to defendant for name from our subscription list.—- urgent telegrams to places in China 830. A shopkeeper was also fined Hong Kong Daily Press, May 4,". will be charged double ordinary 810 and ordered to make restitution 1858. rate as from May 1. The notice is of 821 to another mui-tai, to whom lesued by The Great Northern Tele- he did not pay wages for the past graphy Co., and the Eastern Ex three years. Defendant claimed he tension Telegraph Co.
had paid 833 in all to the girl's parents who wore in the country.
The pupils of Mr. F. Mason, ing an admixture of carbon dioxide annually into Great Britain, con- A.R.C.O., L.T.C.L. will hold a concert at St. John's Cathedral into the air of the storage room | siderable saving is affected by Hall at 5.30 p.m. to-day. so as to retard the ripening pro- ensuring that it arrives in good
Injured through alighting from cess of the fruit, has already been condition Investigation has shown
a moving tramcar in Johnston Road of its population, must of necessity applied with great success to the that whereas mild-cured unsmoked on Tuesday, a Chinese woman was of English-grown cooking breon cannot successfully be tran removed to the Government Civil
Hospital for treatment. import foodstuffs amounting in
The annual General Meeting of Public is hereby notified that value to about one million pounds apples, the Bramley Seedling, which sported from the Antipodes to URGENT tolegrams to places a day, the question of adequate can now be stored all through the England, carcasses of frozen pork the Society for the Prevention of gaol.
winter. Modifications of the samno travel well from the same countries Cruelty to Animals will be held in in China will be charged double ox-preservation of perishable food" "be-
method, involving a large amount and produce excellent bacon when the board room of Messra. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd. at 5.15 comes of the greatest importance of systematic experimentation, are sured in England. dinary rate as from 1st of May.
p.m, to-dag. With regard to fish, it is hoped Half of the meat the British nation now being applied to other fruits, consumes, four-fifths of its wheat Buch as pears and bananas. At that experiments now progressing and fruit, half of its poultry, eggs, present the only laboratory in the with regard to improved storage and dairy produce, and one-third world equipped for carrying out and transport will soon make it of its fish and vegetables come from such storage trials is the research possible for consumers far inland
Of apples alone England station in Ditton.
to avail themselves as freely as de overseas. itself grows between 300,000 and
Another interesting discovery in dwellers nearer to the sea of this 400,000 tons a year, but an addi-
A large number of school-boys were present at the heats of the
A meeting of representatives 1 Inter-School sports which xcellent food. A great deal of fish
off at the Caroline Hill clubs, associations and other or
ganisations interested will be held! in cured and smoked forms, and run consumed in England is marketed
was very keen and from all indica: board room at 5.15 thig afternoon, 91 per cent of micro-organisms van
Harbin.-Approximately 60 en- terest. Holders of such Debentures in food; and excellent work is Sir WILLIAM HARDY, so amusingly to-destroyed by wood-smoke. High tions some very good races should for the purpose of forming a Child- date they will no longer carry in- proved the importance of freshnces of the Food Investigation Board, research shows, that between 72 and Stadium yesterday. Competition at the Public Works Department
be seen on Friday when the finals!
ren's Playgrounds Association. The gineers, assayists and machinists social atmosphere" or a temperatures and prolonged smok are due to be run off. terms a
object of the association will be to will comprise the skilled personnel must send same in to the Treasu era,
equip and manage play areas for
of an expedition to the Watung Meanrs, Linstead & avis, Hong being done by the British Food
surface distinguishing the best 'Eng- During the last few days, the children of the Colony for whom district of the Lower Sungari area, kong, on or before 31st, December, Investigation Board in devising sort of chemical public opinion." ing produce the fine colour and oily
If a number of apples are put tolish kippered herrings, a product water in the Pearl River has sud such facilities do not at present early in May to search for gold. ways and means whereby wastage
is often denly become very muddy in colour, exist. Reports will be presented to may be eliminated and freshness ripen soparately they will do so which, unfortunately, H. T. BUXTON,
be elected. ensured in foodstuffs arriving from at different rates, ripening at dif imitated by dipping the fish in dye and is also flowing very rapidly. the meeting and office bearers will The party will be divided into three Hon. Secretary. -
ferent times, but if they are stored and smoking it for a short period. According to experienced navaga Research work has to a large extors, last month, much rain fell in the upper reaches, which caused a 784 other parts of the world.
tent stimulated the recent growth large quantity of red surface soil The two centres in Great Britain together, the "social atinosphere where these important investiga. will rotard ripening in some cases in the British canning industry; to he swept into the river. Ition of those concerned that, in Low Temperature Research Station whole lot finally ripens about the
is beroby notifier for the informations are being carried out are the and hasten it in others, so that the and the work of every department accordance with Section 4 of the Nurses in Cambridge and the British Food same time. Hegistration Ordinance 1031, Part 13,
NOTICE is hereby given that all tion 300,000 tons are imported from connection with fruit is that certain
outstanding Debentures of the
in bulk produce what the Director above issue will be paid off on the then countries to meet the nation's vapours given off by apples stored
Dietetic research has 31st, December, 1931, after which demands.
1988.
By Order of the Committee.
Hongkong, 4th May, 1989
REGISTRATION OF NURSES.
"
"
were
SEARCH FOR GOLD IN MANCHURIA
EXPEDITION TO SUNGARI AREA.
groups had will start from. Harbin. Including police, coolies, cooks will and other necessary attendants, the The following weddings shortly take place: Mr. Tong entire mining, colony is expected to Chack Shum, draughtsman, of 8, number approximately 300.
Hong Kong. Aeroplanes, it is thought, will be af the Food Investigation Board "I am afrakl you will have to Rednaxeln. Terrace, has been of direct service to the abandon stone throwing as a sport and Miss Tong Yuk Lin, of 11, used to carry nuggets, passengers
Mr. Aberdeen Street, Hong Kong, Mr. home producer, and indeed Also to in the future," remarked the exporter abroad who sends his Schofield at Central Magistracy Yuen Kit Sing, contractor of 283, and provisions to and from the base The South Manchuria Railway ), May 16th is the last date on which Investigation Board's laboratory in Most Englishmen still consider produce to Great Britain. There yesterday when he fined six studente Tai Nan Street, Shamshuipo, and of operations. nurses at present in praction in the Ditton in Kent. The research con that bacon for breakfast is the
can be no doubt, even in times of of St. Joseph's College for throw Miss Wong Tsai Tai, of 203, Cheung Colony can have their names added to
Monmouth Path. It was stated Guilherme Faustino dos Santos, of spend Y.600,000 in equipping the the Register of Nurses without undergo ducted owers fruit, meat, fish, propen way of starting the day financial stringency such as the pre- ing stones in Kennedy Road, near Sha Wan Road, Shamshuipo, Mr. Company is said to be prepared to ing un examination,
eggs, dairy produce, and vegetables, well, and as nearly half a million want, that the money the British the boys stood in the middle of the 790 Wongnaichung Road, Hong expedition which, for the time
taxpayer contributes towards the
road throwing stones at a lamp Kong, and Miss Eulalia Maria
of Lourdes da Rocha, of 222 Wanchai being, will be an experimental pro. A, IL. WELLINGTON,
position. Iload, Hong Kong. is money well spert.
glass. (71g canning, during, smoking, and
Director of Medical & Banliery Hervice and deals with every form of tens of this commodity is imported maintenance of this excellent service standard, and erecked a pane
2nd May, 1939.
(Continued on neet Volumn)