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REW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB,
SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS
AND
AUSTRALIAN PONIES,
THE
1sts of subscribers to the above wil! LOSE on WED-
NESDAY, 31ST MAY, 1933.
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By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, th May, 1993.
NOTICE.
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HE HONG KONG WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL OLUB
THE
for business and professional women Rooma 8, 4 and 6, 1st, floor, Chung Tis Building (old King Edward Hotel, Des Voeux Road), will be formally opened by Mrs. Southern at Tea will be 5 p.m., June, 6th.
served from 5 to 7. nod all interested will be heartily welcome.
THE HONG KONG
་། JOCKEY CLUB.
P
THE EIGHTH EXTRA RACE
THE
MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY DO
5 гн "MONDAY,
JUNE,
commencing at 2,03 p.m
1933,
The First Bell will bo Rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Membere are notified that they and their Ladies mast wear their Badges prominently displayed,
No One without & Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Budges admitting Non-Hambers to the Members Enclosure and Olab Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both includ ng Ta1) are ob tainable through the SECRETARY upon the personal application of a Member, anch Member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for of all Chits, etc.
Payment otary Office, 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building. (Tel. 27784), will close at 12.0'ülock Noan.
admitting Members' Badges Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.
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Os No Protext will Children ba permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
Tiffins are obtainable at the Clau House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advanec. Telephone 21920.
·PUBLIC ENCLOJURE. The Price of Admission to the Public. Enclosure is $2.00 icoluding Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac. Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting.
By Order,
V
C. B. FROWN,
Hong Kong, 29th May, 1933.
Secretar
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29,1933
*News and Views
Voard Wester Wemyss.
Horatio Boltomlay.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local
Yesterday was
Dragon
Boat
It was about thirty years ago, that The death of Horatio Bottomley Festival and despite the rain a the late Lord Wester Wemyss, then in obscuro poverty raises many large number of boats, heating Page 7. KASHING, CHE. May 18.
"Orator Bottomley," was a lock pert in the event,
In the last football match of the For many generations rice in the Captain Rosslyn Wemyss, R.N., memories of the War and pre-war drums and shorting fiercely as ever, season, the Combined Services beat autumn supplies food and silk in M.V.O., and an appropriate staff time.
and Inw court the spring furnishes money for the of ofheers and civilian masters curious personality. Perhaps the
At the end of the goals to ni rural population, In this fertile commissioned the now R.N. College bust platform plain, intersected by both natural Osborne, with about seventy cadets speaker in England, in his time, the Combined Chinese by three and artificial waterways, irriga. between the ages of twelve had he knew more of company law and game, the Hon. Mr. Southern dis tion has prevented a famine of any thirteen. The College was then in libel law than anyone in the countributed the season's prizes.
His financial dealings were consequence for many decades,croased, tem, by term to about 400 | try, With good craps, the people have cadets or six terms." The Cap extraordinary, Nearly all that he both money and food. If silk is tain was a masterful man, a typical touched failed and still people good and rice poor, they hava Scottish laird, and while somewhat trusted him. money to buy food. When silk is
severe an Service, wus, off duty, post and rice good, they have food As 1932 was a good rice year, our people have plenty to eat but
but no money.
money is scarce.
The prospects this year for silk are not bright. The weather has been fitful, too cold or too hot unseasonably with a surplus of rain and 'excessive dampness.
New Methods.
Ex-
In 1911 à judgment for £50,000 one of the most charming of me. It was obtained against him by a man needed no small diplomacy to pre-who had put this money in his veab bickering between high irit hands. Somehow he lived it down, ed young afficers and equally high and emerged as the super-patriot spirited young masters, most of during the War, them fresh from the "Varsities, but "Rosie" Wemyss did it. In no sense a great maa he was supreme-
capable one, and everything ho attempted was done well. Much to bis own surprise, it is said, he be Local enterprise with gov-
came First Sea Lord, at a crisis, ernment assistance has tried perimental stations to demonstrate of the Great War and was "ne successful, if not more so, than any scientific imethods of Eelecting disease-free silk worm eggs
and of his predecessors-Prince Louis improved stages of culture. The of Batterburg, Lord Fisher, Sir majority of the country people look Henry Jackson and Lord Jellicoe, and listen with indifference. They all of whom had far bigger reputa- say the apparatus is too expensive tions in the Fleet. Hosts of navul and the methods more difficult officers and ex-naval officers, of the than the old way. Those who do carly days of Osborne College, as try faithfully, get better quality well as his old shipmates at sen, and a larger quantity of cocoone,
will have read with deepest regret Where the farmer owns has land and grows his own mulberry leaves, of the passing of this fine officer he can make a profit even at low and great gentleman. prices. Those who buy their leaves ars at the mercy of speculators who make contracts forward and then hold up purchasers to high prices at the crisis of feeding time. How- ever, the manipulators of the mar- ket themselves get stung when an epidsmic breaks out among the silkworms and they refuse to eat, the leaves at any price.
Beating All Records,
At Geneva the Disarmament Con- ference is discussing a Draft Con- vention. But it is a Disarmament Conference, with a difference. Non of the League's pet, celebrities present.
Victory Bonds.
The Victory Bond affair was an extraordinary expad of a public man, and the most popular dema gogue since John Wilkes. He asked people for money; they gave it; it was lost or frittered away, no one quite knows. At his trial the Judge said significantly, there 19 such a thing as a clever maddle." Conviction was inevitable, but Bot tomley felt quite aggrieved that the prosecution was counsel instead of to the Law Officers. That counsel was, Trevor Humphreys, now a judge, and in his day one of the most ruthlessly afficient men at the Bar.
left to a
merc
Iloilo.
Page 10. The M. V. Pulupandan which is being built by the South China Metership Building and Repairing Works was officially launched' yes- terday by Mrs. Pirovano, daughter l'age 7. of the owner, Mr. De La Rania of The surprise of Saturday's Lawn Bowls matches was the defeat of the Police R.Q. on their own ground by the Kowloon Dock B.C. Other Ist Division winners were Craigen- gower, Civil Service, and Recreio.