HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935.
ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
BANK HOLIDAYS
HE EXCHANGE BANKS will THE
OPEN at 9.30 AM. and will CLOSE at 12 NOON for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI| NESS on MONDAY, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, the 18th, 10th & 20th, FEBRUARY, 1035. (Race Meeting). Hong Kong, 13th February, 1935.
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THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1935. 18TH, 18TH, 19TH, 20TH AND 2880, FEBRUARY, 1985.
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N Saturday 16th, Monday 18th, Tuesday 19th, and Wednesday 20th February, the first ball will be rung at 11 a.m., and the first race will be run at 11.30 am. On Satur
THE HONGKONG AND KOW-day, 23rd February, the first bell will
LOON WHARF AND GODOWN co, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN
THE
be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race will be run at 2,00 p.m.
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The tiffin interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days...
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they ART ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held and their Ladies must wear their Bad- at the Office of Jardine, Matheson &ges prominently displayed through- Co., Ltd., on Thursday, the 7th out the Meeting. March, 1935, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement f Accounts for the year endel Slet December, 1994.
The Transfer Books of the Come pany will be CLOSED from Friday, the 22nd February, 1935, to Thurs day, the 7th March, 1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors, F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 14th February, 1995.
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No One without a Badge will be admitted 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 $5.00 and $20.00 respectively) are obtainable through. the SECRETARY upon introduc. tion by a Member, such Member to be responsible for all Chits, etc.
Badges admitting to. Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Bace Course.
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The Secretary's Office, Brd Floor, Gloucester Building, (Tel. 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10 am. ON THÉ FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.30 p.m. ON THE FIFTH DAY.
DIOCESAN SCHOOL OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION,
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THE
THE Annual General Meeting and
Annual Dinner of the Associa
tion will be held in the Chinese Merchants Club-China Building, on February 23rd., 1985, at 7:00 p.m.. and 8.00 p.m respectively.
It is hoped that all Old Boys will be present at both the above.
Tickets can be obtained at the following placer :-
B. C. Randall Benjamin & Potta,
Ice House Street.
P. H. Stu-P. E. Sin & Co.,
14, Queen's Road C.
W. N. Thomas Tam-Bank of
China Building.
J. L Young Saye-43 Cumber
land Road, Kowloon Tong. Kenneth Chan-Gande, Price &
Co
Editorial and Business Offco: 11
Tea House Street Tel. 80251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)*
Tel. 84511.. London Office: 63, Fleet Street
E.O. 4.
The Baily Press.
HONO KONG, FEBRUARY. 15, 1935.
TELEVISION AND THE
THEATRE
19:
If Gossip We Must
'I went to a most unusual ‘Ameri-
(BY “PRUDENCE ")
Some real experts presided over severely, but decorated at the back the cooking. Mrs. R. M. Hert- by a long pointed cowl of pale derson (very trim in white and blue crepe. Mrs. Simon shewed terra-cotta) shared the honours of one" hibachi" with Mrs. Girondal A pretty girl in a bright gipsy scarf at another. Mrs. George Hill was busy at a third (looking Just too sweet in brown corduroy velvet), while. Mrs. Sanger herself, presided over the fourth, in a very dainty dress of brown spotted silk.
Who else were there? oh, num-
can party on Wednesday. when Mrs R. Sanger gave one of her wonderful "Sukiyaki" tiffins. She is a charming hostess and likes to do things on a big scale so more than forty people, sat down to tiffin.... I say sat, but of course the table was spread on the floor with gay cushions round. Four hibachi's" glowed warmly along Sir Oswald Stoll gave it as his side, and the long table was cover- opinion that television nowed with dishes of all the good practical, commercial and in- things that go into a real "Suki- evitable." He is convinced that yaki" Chopped meat and shredd-bers of people I know, and don't television with a high degree of ed white cabbage; spring_anlons | know, Mrs. Fred Tracy looked definition has now reached the and bean-sprouts; mushrooms and delightful in something dark, and stage of positive value in enter-bamboo-shoots. fried in the Mrs. Marshalf was very easy to tainment, and he looks to a time chafing dish with lashings of soy. look at in vivid cerise with a short leopard-skin coat. Mrs Anthony in the immediate future when the and fresh eggs cracked into it distant scene or show will be made it smells so delicious in the cooking was very chic in black and white both audible and visible in the that the very aroma makes one polka-dots. Mrs. Hoover wore love home by apparatus of reasonable hungry... Each guest was pro-ly ermine, with a black dress, Mrs. price. He added that this develop vided with a pair of dainty chop-Emmert looked marvellous all in Dr. Arthur Woo-China Building.ment would "call for the re-sticks and a bowl of rice, and then black, and had her pretty netce habilition of the entertainment of the savoury mixture. poured on Helen Emmert with her, and I fell the stage." It is clear that if we top. are large numbers to become lookers as well as listeners we must have something adequate at which [3221 to look. Not every day will yield" & Royal Wedding, or à Grand National Steeplechase, and the business of providing regular visual entertainment and instruction will be a considerable one. We may confidently expect the broadcast- ing stations in such circumstances
Kwok Chan-Banque de L'Indo. Chine, French Bank Building. Foter Wong-A S. Watson & Co,
Alexandra Building. Wong Sik Chung-H. E
Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.
T. 9 W. Ohan-Diocesan Boys'
School
(Signed) T. S. W. CHAN,
Hon. Secretary.
in love with her frock cut so
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
(BY "NO QUARTER ")
how smart black looks when allted to a demure collar, of lace, and Mrs. Tyson too looked awfully nice in black, and Mrs. Arndt with a captivating "glengarry." I notice Mary Taylor in a fascinating bat with a long narrow feather, and Beatrix Bicheno in brown with a suede coat to match. I glimpsed Mrs Buyers in the distance and Mrs. C. Stark too; Mrs. George Grimble brought her sister (who has come out to visit, Hong Kong), and Dr. Helen Canaval managed to steal away from her patients for a little time and told me about the Gym-Class, for smalt children. which she holds in her house at Pokfulam, very good for them and great fun too... there were lots more fascinating frocks but memory falls me... or else per- haps I was too much occupied with that delicious bowl.og "Sukiyaki."
NEWS SUMMARY
At the Legislative Council meet- ing yesterday the Hon. Colonial Treasurer replied to the questions regarding produce exchanges in Page 7. Hong Kong.
PUBLIC AUCTION. DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS A limited number of tifine will be the Sale by Public Auction to obtainable each day at the Club Be held on MONDAY, the 25TH DAY HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI House, provided they are ordered of FEBRUARY, 1935, at 3 P.M., at the sent for, transmission to eye as matted legs. My moss-grown Tags when I have nothing much to write appointed by RE, the Governor to
BANKING CORPORATION.
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TOTICE is bereby given that the ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Lid, 18, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 23rd February, 1985, at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement! of Accounts for the year ending Slat December, 1984.
The Register of Shares of the Cor paration will be closed from Monday the 11th February, to Saturday, the 23rd February, 1985, (both days in- clusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered, By Order of the Board of Directors,
V M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager, Hong Kong, lat February, 1935.
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THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY
CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FORTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices
in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Telephone No. 2192".
On ne pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the first four days of the Meeting..
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day including tax for all persons includ- ing Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at $1.00 per day including tax.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate with in the precincts of Tas Hose KONG JACKET 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, Srd Floor, Gloucester Building.
Any persons found loitering with Serrants' passes in their posseZIÍCa will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclosure.
By Order, '
:
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, 11th February, 1935.
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Offices of the Public Works Department,
The report of the Committee
Issued
I write this, festering in grime. sunshine, and panstes and Violets to enter well armed the lists of Rats and large spiders are playing are decorating every bed. I find theatrical production, and to pre-cowboys and Indians over my flowers such a comfort, especially
inquire into the incidence of well as ear full-dress drama from bang around me in a profusion of about. Like the seasons, they, too, leprosy in the Colony has been by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER- fully equipped stage. We may elephantine decay.
seem to repeat themselves with
Page. 7. NOB, of One Lot of CROWN LAND expect it also to 'range the theatres near Kowloon City in the Colony of and music-halls of the land for
THEY HAVE TURNED OFF such a fascinating regularity in- Hong Kong, for a term of 75 yeare,
THE WATER!
my diary....
The 'report of the Directors of material suitable to its pro- commencing from 1st July, 1698
Pardon! Oh milles fois pardon. the Hong Kong and Shanghai Ah, yes! I see you smiling there
Madame! with the option of renewal at a Crewn grammes. We may even, if the
Banking Corporation for the year Hent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His example of its service to music bein the corner, old schoolmate!
ended December 31, 1934 has been MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term taken, expect it to give valuable Laugh on! Say to yourself in
Page 5. of 24 years less the last three days nancial aid to those companies thyme, if you will:-
issued, thereof,
FARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Hegistry No.
Lorality.
New Kowtoon Inland
Adjoining Lot No. 2389
New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 7339,
Boundary
Measure-
menta.
As per
sale plau
Contents in
Square feet
Rental.
Į Upset Price.
Aboat
19,530
$
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CANCER FIGHT IN EAST PRUSSIA
994'8
[Spécial to the “Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright).1
Koenigsberg, Feb. 13. Intense widespread instercst was
whose work it considers most use- ful. Yet there will be plenty of critics who foresee in the coming
"Ruddy nosed No Quarter ...Never needs no water." Then, think again. When I rise
of television not that fresh hope from my bed at 11.90 or so, (for for the living theatre which Sir I am a great believer in early Oswald Stoll entertains but an-rising), where is my bath? Not gther nail in its contr With there they have turned off the drama and variety laid on" in water. Back from a long day's the parlour will the citizen trouble work at lunch time: a gin old boy? in any numbers to present himself Thanks. I will: hullo, whats this? at the box office, arid, if he does No Water? The same old tale. not, how is the theatre to live? One reply is to be found in the success of the Promenade Concerts since they were broadcast. And if the relay of a concert can bring out the public in thousands to see an orchestra and a conductor they have privately appreciated, how much more potent is likely to be the appeal of the actor" or actress whose image has charmed thrilled by the fireside?
OBITUARY
aroused here on Wednesday by Dr. Herbert Giles
the
communication of the chief
of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, medical councillor, Dr. Juengst to
Ltd., on TUESDAY, 5th March, 1985, at NOON for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 81st Desember, 1934.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 18th February to TUES DAY, 5th March, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directorë, 1. 8. GREENHILL,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 8th February, 1935. A
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TRINITY COLLEGE. OF MUSIC, LONDON.
LOCAL EXAMINATIONS
The following are the dates of the forthcoming Examinations :———-- PRACTICAL (Vocal & Instru
mental Music) about ast Week in May & lat. Week in June. Last day of Entry
February, 1985.
23rd.
THEORETICAL (Paper Word)
on #th. June, -
Last day
of Entry February, 1985.
28th
Entry forms & all, particulars may be obtainable from the Local Secretary
Wm. ANDERSON
c/o THE ANDRESon Musto Co., La.,
86 Big Toe House St.
Phone 21822.
| 8250
NOTIC
LIMITED.
TOTICE is hereby given that the SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 12, Des Voeux Road, Central, at 2.80 p.m. Saturday, the 2nd March, 1985, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 81st December, 1984, «
The Transfer) Books of the Company will be closed froth Satur- day, 23rd February, to Saturday, 2nd March, 1935, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, th February, 1985.
DIOCESAN. BOYS' SCHOOL.
FOUNDED 1869.
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Hoxe KONG.
HEADMASTER Ber. O.B.R. SARGENT, MA:
Bchool reopens on Mon February 18th, 1935, 4
New boys, testéon Saturday, February 6th, 1935.”
ו, וי་
OF
members of the Women's Father-
London, Feb. 14. land. Club about the steps now Dr. Herbert Ghes, formerly Pro- -being taken throughout East fessor of Chinese at Cambridge- Prussia to fight cancer a University, whose knowledge of grand scale. The office for public language and literature of China health and the provincial com-won for him worldwide reputation, mittee for
combatting cancer died yesterday in his 90th year. have together instituted and¦ British Wireless. organised
system of medi- He joined the China Consular cal examination for all women Bervice in 1867, serving as Vice- over
30 years of age, free of Consul at Pagoda Island in 1880 charge. Four claics have already Vice-Consul at Shanghai in 1833; been equipped in Koenigsberg it Consul at Tamsul in 1885; Con- self for this purpose.
sul at Ningpo in 1891. He resign- ed in 1893:
а
No legal compulsion is being brought to bear but the author- ties endorse Dr. Juengst's appeal to a women to submit to a thorough examination in her own and the nation's interests. The experience thus gained, and the observations made in East Prussia will be used as a basis for further researches embracing the whole Reich Transocean Luo Mis
SWISS COUNCILLOR'S RESIGNATION
[Special to the #Hong Kong Dally "Press” (Copyright).]
Berne, Feb. 13, The Federal Councillor, Edmond Schulthess who has been a mem ber of the Council for more than 20 years and who has been four tirnes elected Pres Swiss Confederation, have handed in his rest Avednesday,
which as
Entry forms, prospectuses and con all particulars may be obtained on ced some application to the Headmaster.
G. F. O. Box 88.Telephone 5777
Transocean
DEATH SENTENCES IN RUSSIA
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
Moscow, Feb, 13. Four railway omcials, charged with theft and defraudation of public funds, were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court sit- ting at Stalinnohad on Wednesday. Five other accused were given pri- son sentences varying between one to ten years. The property of all defendants are to be confiscat ed Transocean Kun Min.
THIRD TEST MATCH DISAPPOINTMENT
No, but honestly, Its carrying the thing a bit too far. I mean we've all played with pretty straight bats so far, out here in the East. We haven't gone native, and we've kept the flag flying pretty high, though I say it as shouldn't.
And now, at one fell swoop or sweep, the whole Babib tradition falls to the ground
A GUIDE TO DEBUTANTES WHAT TO SAY AT THE RACES I don't mind the look of that cne -bit light in the spavin
big-head, yeah, bighead he's got it! No he ham't- So crook ed he can't lie straight in bed --- a monkey to a fiver big-head, yeah, bighead do you know anything? sit down and ride" him long in the back, but deep through the heart bighead, yeah, big-head.
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to
A very large and appreciative audience assembled on Wednesday at the Helena May Institute hear Mr. Bowes-Smith's Chopin Recital in aid of the Benevolent Page 6.
Society's funds.
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The Hong Kong. Singers will give a rendering of Mendelsohn's "El- Jah" at the Cathedral on March 28.
Page 6.
An enjoyable concert was given... last night at St. Andrew's Church.
WHAT NOT TO SAY AT ·
THE RACES
The Society of Yorkshiremen' in Are those the horses? What Hong Kong held their annual yesterday when дет a pretty colour, I think I'll back meeting him Look what a funny long officers for the year were elected neck that horse has got with a sort
Page 8 or a bump on the end I think the policeman's horse looks the fastest of the lot shall we have tea now,, or watch the races Hall in aid of St. Andrew's Bene Darling, I shall SUREAM myvolent Fund
Page 6. Have they horse doesn't win.
"The result of the draw in the started yet How ever do they manage to stick on? Why is Open Singles, Doubles and Club I ask you fellow-Britishers to that brutal man whipping his Championship Tennis is published Page 10 stand by me, true Knights of the horse? He was quite near the on Order of the Bath, with Aqua Pura front. as your watchword.
Brrrh! It makes me go hand c alt over.
Disraeli once remarked, during the Thirty Years War:-
"Keep the bath taps running. and you'll keep the enemy running 'too."
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INTRICATE DIARY
Verbena") (By (With apologies to an esteemed compeer)
Feb. 12. How the days are draw- ing out!, Spring seems to follow Winter, and Summer Spring in an almost unbroken cycle of seasons. It might be some vast cosmic meal in which four courses repeat them. selves interminably.
My meaning was perhaps, best expressed by Madame Mal Quest, the famous French Diarist when she wrote:
Venez au dessus et voyez mol quelque temps." - *Feb. 13. Our garden has blos somed wonderfully with the spring
STRAIGHT FROM THE
BATHROOM:
(By "No Water") TAIL PIECE
The other day, inside, the Club, "I met old Colonel Rubadub, je
He grumbled from his easy
chair
The draw for the Wong Nel Chong and Bydney Maiden Stakes will be found on
Page 10.
The steel pontoon hulk Tung 'Hui" built to the order the Chi-
Customs was nese Maritime. launched at the Kowloon Docks Page 7. yesterday.
An Interesting lecture on Verdi" was delivered by the Rev. C. B. R. Page d
And said things were not what
they were "The modern youngster lives Sargent last evening.
"He hasn't got a scrap of guts.” "He plays with bits of a ma-
chine,
The draft programme for the Fanling Hunt and Race Club's meeting to be held on March 10 Page 10
"And doesn't know what man is published on
ners mean.”
as- he had got outside
the door.
chant who died on May 9, 1934 at
We all agreed he was a rade old his residence, No. 8. Hau Bang
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Lane, Canton left local estate to the value of $162,800 Wili of probate has been granted to Wan Kau and Wong Wan Chee, sons of the deceased, both of whom live at No 37, Jervals Street, Hong Kong
Smith
Professor C.
A telegram addressed to "Zeni- this morning from Singapore to wit deliver tradco" from Oakland, Cal, is lying replace the Bridgewater, which has dress on
ting unclaimed at the Eastern Exten- gone to the Africs station.
meet sion Telegraph Co.'s Office,
The RM8. Empress of Britain arrived at Bombay on Wednesday in the course of her "Round the World" cruise. She is due to ar rive in Hong Kong on Saturday, March 23.64
The Dol Feb 14 icket match vise Indies anar the
Steamship Lines ad- President Hong Kong at February 16, Manila at 9 pm.
HAMA, Lowestor arrive it Flong Kour
In connection with the BPCA 800 cabaret dinner-dance at the Hong 1935 at Kong Hotel Roor Garden to-night, the Unive latecomers who dins elsewhere will dance with the be able to throng on payment of the usual All such harges
will go the funds oft