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HONG KONG, May 31, 1934.
HONG KONG ADRIFT
the case that business has been on the downward trend for the rast three years and there are as yet few signs of recovery!"
While most residents to the Colony are aware of the fact that we are passing through troubious times. It is to be feared that there are a sufficient number, who,
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934.
OBITUARY
Miss A. A. dos Remedios
The younger set of the Portu- Ruese community in general and
St. Mary's School in particu-
IRON AND STEEL
WORKS
To be Erected at Tung Long
MR. ARIYOSHI ARRIVES
Position in China
Shanghai, May 30.
NEWS
SUMMARY
The wedding of Mr. E. C. (Ted- dy) Fincher the well-known Inter- port tennis player and Miss Marie Kacker, took place at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday,
Puse 7
lar have sirèred "a great loss From Our Special Corresponden} [afternoon and, in an interview of Commerce held its monthly com-
through the death of Miss Aurea Angela das Remedios, which oc curred at her residence, No. 4. Kowloon on Salisbury Avenue,
Canton, May 30, Various reconstruction schemes are to be begun this year under the second stage of the Three-Year Tuesday afternoon after a long Plan by the Provincial Department
ness.
of Reconstruction.
Tenders are invited for the
an construction of
iron and
to
at be erected
steel works
The deceased who was only 19 years of age, had been a teacher in St. Mary's School, and was held in high esteem by both the pupils Tung Long on the Pearl River of the school and her friends, as about four miles from the city. was evidenced by the large gather-The survey has been completed, ing present at the funeral yester and British, American and Ger
day.
She was a daughter of Mr. JC
man firms are interested In this undertaking. The project would
dos Remedios of the Hong Kong
cost $20,000,000 Canton currency and Shanghat Banking Corpora-
and the successful bidder has to tion. and a sister of the Rev. Bronnance" a good part of the total Leo Remedios, Messrs. Hector and expenditure, holding a Hen on the Hugo Remedios and the Misses plant. Dalin and Cynthia Remedios.
A paper mill is to be constructed The funeral took place at theat. Nam Shek Tou also on the Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley bank of the Pearl River, two miles yesterday, the Rev. Father L. M from here. Assessment of the land Rossi conducted the service. There there is being made, and it will be was a large number of the young-bought by the government from the er set of the Portuguese com villagers. The machinery will ar- munity present, as well as pupils rive from. Sweden in October, and of the St. Mary's School, and mem-several operators bers of the Children of Mary" Sweden to study the manufacture Association.
of paper. The mill will turn out newsprint and book paper.
are now
in
far
The new sugar refinery at Shun Cho near Whampoa has so turned out 1,200 piculs of sugar, the daily output being 30 picula. Government sugar is sold at $18 per picul. This product is sold exclusively by the National Goods
Floral Tributes Apart from 'family wreaths, * large number of floral tributes was lald on the grave, including those trom Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Gaan and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Rozario, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. B. Silva and family, Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Xavier and family. Mr. Sales Office of the Reconstruction and Department beginning from June This monopoly affects only Chinese dealers, as imported sugar into Canton is in very small quan- tity.
Remedios
14. C d'E. family, Mrs M. D. Rozario and family. Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Xavier, Mrs. L. S. J., S. Britto and family, Mr. and Mrs. F. X. V. Ribeiro and family, Misses Tuti and Cecilla Noronha, Mr. and Mrs. C. Savard Remedios and family, Clussy, Connie and Joseph Pereira, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Sva and fami- ly. Mr. and Mrs C. M. Osorio and Edith. Lily and Luchy S. Sanchez, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Rozarlo. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ribeiro and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. da Luz, JJ.
1.
Other sugar factories are to be erected at Hot How in Hainan Is land. Walchow on the East River, Swatow, and Hsu Man. a town in Southern Kwangtung. The plant at Wai Chow is to be constructed by
the agricultural department of the
1st Group Army.
because their circumstances and Maxwell and family, Mr. and Mrs SOVIET BUYING
their prospects remain unaltered do not fully realise what Hes ahead. For these, the announce- that ment in the latest "Gazette the Colony's figures for January 1934 are better than the corre- sponding figures for the preceeding year is a sufficient assurance that "things are not as black as they are painted." That we have by no means turned the cornerstone of the depression must be patent to all who have studied the subject. The reports of Company meetings published in the columns of local Journals frequently read like a tale of woe and with very few exceptions. dividends have been steadily dwindling or have entirely aisappeared. The spending power of the public has become more and mare limited and nowhere can one find better proof of "this than at the local race meetings where the attendance, this year has been
O. M. S. Oliveira, Miss Ethel Lopes, Mr. and Mrs. A P. Pereira, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ribeiro and family, Miss C. M. Britton, Miss Maria Ch. de Yau and Miss Olivia Yau, Miss and "Mrs. Teresa Lanschez, Mr. Arnulphy, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. de Pinns, Dr. and Mrs, J. W. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. B. Silva-Netto, inr.. Miss Ina Carvalho, Mr. A. C. Rozario. Misses Marle Geraldine Roza and Maria Figuereido, M. L. F. da Silva and A. L. da Silva, D. de F. da Luz, C. de M. C. Veira Ribeiro and M: M. de Veirs, Ribeiro, G. A. Cunha, DA R. Rozario. L.
WHEAT
Large Shipments
London, May 30. A Sovlet organisation in London is purchasing Australian and Ar- gentine wheat for shipment to Vladivostock
The Chinese General Chamber
mittee meeting yesterday afternoon. at the Chamber's Headquarters, as
Mr. Ariyoshi arrived here this
with Reuter, declared he had not yet decided when he would see Huang Fu or go to Nanking which many interesting matters
He tented having special in- structions from the Japanese
Foreign Office with reference to resumption of through trafic on the Pelplug line. He said the Issue will be settled between the Chinese Kwangtung Army and
local authorities.
Japan hopes the Chinese Govern ment can liquidate its debts to Japan, but is not prepared to make definite demands. Referring to direct negotiations, the Japanese
Minister said that hitherto two countries have been negotiating directly and there was nothing particular in such a step.
The Japanese feeling towards China was improving lately and he hoped China would reciprocate. Mr. Artyosht said the Japanese leaders are at one in their policy towards China. although they differed considerably in Internal
problems-Reuter.
POST OFFICE PROFITS
Large Surplus. Surplus
London, May 30.
General,
IIS
The Postmaster Kingsley Wood, in a speech last night, estimated that by Novem- ber there would be £2,000,000 sur- plus of Post Office profits which would be devoted to improving Post Once services after setting aside £10,750,000 required by the Finance Act for use in mitigation of general taxation.--British Wire- less.
A GRUESOME MURDER
Lhasa Outrage.
Birala, May 30.
were discussed.