NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
GREEN ISLAND ÖZMENT
COMPANY, LIMITED. *
【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the share capital of the Company having been consolidated to that every four of the issued shares of the Company of $2.50 each now constitute one $10.00 share, Share- holders are requested to send in their existing Share Certificates for cancel lation to the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building Dea Vous Road Central. Hong Kong, When this bag heen done Certificates for the new denomination will be issued to them.
By Order of the Board.
T. C. T. BECK,
ST. PATRICK'S BALL
53
EMBERS of the St. Patrick's
MSociety are reminded that the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BIRTH
TULLOCH.--On March 1, 1835, at
the Country Hospital, Shang- hal, to Mr. and Mra. J. W. W. Tulloch, a daughter.
ENGAGEMENT
Annual Ball takes place on Friday, NOETHER-AHWEE The engage 15th inst, at the Peninsula Hotel. Guest lists should be forwarded to the Hon. Ball Secretary as soon as possible.
For the benefit of Members and their Guests, à special dinner will be served at the Peninsula Hotel on the night of the Ball at the cost of $3.00 per person. Reservations to be made direct to Hotel Managements.
J. C. M. GRENHAM, Eon Ball Secretary MANUFACTURERS LIFE INS., Co., Asiatic Building.
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THE HONGKONG AND KOW. LOON - WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LTD.
Secretury,
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N
that the Forty-Sixth Ordinary Yearly Meeting will be held at the Company's Offices, F. & U. Building, on Wednesday, 18th March, 1935, at 11 am, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 81st December, 1914 and electing Directors and Auditors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 2nd March to 18th March, 1935, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Hong Kong, 21st February, 1985.
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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD' STORAGE COMPANY, IIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
OTICE is hereby given that the
THIRTY-NINTH ORDIN ARY YEARLY MEETIN of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, on THURS DAY, 14TH MARCH, 1985, AT NOON for the purpose of receiving
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN.
ment is announced between Miss Julia
Mr. Ahwee and Hermann Noether, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Noether, of Mannheim, Germany,
MARRIAGE
HOPKINS TENNEY.-On March
AN EIGHT DAY
WALK
Missionaries In Sorry Plight...
Hankow, March 6. Fifteen C. I. M. missionaries, and a baby arrived here early this morning. When Interviewed by Reuter, Moore, one of their num- ber, said that they started from
If Gossip We Must
CATSMEAT
(By "FELIX"):
Felix has been on the prowl
enjoyed the
1, 1935, at HBM Consulate-Nanchang on February 2, when last week, and though hounds are General, Shanghai, before Mr. the Reds were some 30 11 distant, his natural foe, he
Hunt Ball. v A D. Blackburn, Myrtle
and gathered the missionaries Jeanette,
of elder daughter from the other stations en route.
Felix wonders if the couple in Mrs. Christina Tenney and the
Suffering from severe hardships,
the alcove are thinking that late Willam Harold Tenney, of the party walked eight days to Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Ankang, the majority possessing though it was dim and secluded to Thomas Frederick Emanuel, only the clothes they stood up in it was not quite as dim second son of Mrs. Emma Hop- while the women were mostly clad secluded as they had hoped."
Chineso garments. They
! Was Red Riding Hood so awfully Bravelled from Ankang to Laohou-
good? kow by boat and thence by bus and traini Reater.
kins and the late James Hop-in Kins of Surbiton, Surrey. '.
DEATHS ZEE-On Sunday, February 24, 1935, at her residence, Lane 538, House 5, Gordon Road, Mrs. King Kwel Zee, aged 55 years, the dearly beloved mo- ther of Mr. Yun Shin Zee.
at Beccles, Suffolk, Adele Tur- ville Harvey, beloved mother of Sybil Fantechi (née Har- vey),
THE FORTYSUAL MEETING HARVEY On February 27, 1935, OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Jardine, "Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Thursday, the 7th March, 1995, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directora and the Statement f Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1984.
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from Friday, the 22nd February, 193, to Thurs day, the 7th March, 1935, both days. inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
· F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th February, 1935.
19256.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
TH
FIRST EXTRA THE
RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY 02 SATURDAY, 9th MARCH, 1985, commencing at 2.00" p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
the Report of the Directors together Hong Kong, 4th March, 1935..
with statement of Accounts declaring
a Dividend and Re-electing Directors
and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 2ND MARCH, to 14TH MARCH, 1935, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 21st February, 1983.
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CHINA ENTERTAINMENT, AND LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE IS FIFTH ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th Boor, og Wednesday, the 20th of March, 1935, at 12 o'clock Noon to receive the Directors' Report, and Accounta for the year ended 31st December, 1934, to Fleet Auditors and Directors and to transact such other business as may be properly transected at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.
And Notice is further bereby given that the Register and Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 12th to the 20th day of March, 1935, both days inclusive.
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HIAWATHA
TO-NIGHT
AND
GILES-On February 13, 1935, at
10. Selwyn Gardens, Cam- bridge, Herbert Allen Giles. lately Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge and formerly H.M. Consul at Ningpo. in his 90th year. REUTER.On February 28, 1935. at Chikunsan, near Hankow, Fritz Reuter, aged 57 years.
Editorial and Business Office: 11
fee House Street. "Tel. 30281
Night Editor (Wanchai Office) a
Tel. 94511. London Office: 53, Fleet Street
B.C.
The Daily
Press
HONG KONG, MARCH 7, 1935.
TREATMENT OF MALARIĄ
All the news of the very serious
malaria epidemic of
fever in Ceylon has added to the dismay and astonishment which it occa- sioned at its outbreak. It had been supposed that the discoveries of Manson, Ross and other ploners had effectually prevented such terrible outbreaks by measures calculated to reduce the number of disease-bearing mosquitoes. Yet that view finds very little support in the statistical evidence which is available for the world as a whole. The general incidence of malaria
3
NEW ARMOURED SPEEDBOATS
Built In Britain. For China
London, Mar. 5. The final trials of several high- powered, heavily armoured British. "built speedboats, for use in pirate along and smugglers suppression the coasts and rivers "of China, were completed at Southampton to-day.
or as
Felix hears that the Ball Was followed by a private Musical Bumps party.
We know, young man, that in your-position you have a lot of jumping up and sitting down to do. but surely even "out of hours" you can conform to the normal rules of courtesy.
•
Felix is informed that a certain Band of "Brothers caught their boat next morning after all. They were called with a hammer. FELIX'S SOCIAL EXAMINATION
Question 1.-Explain," with re- ference to the context-
(2) "I've lost my Paul Junes." (b) "What's that man got to do with the Hunt?"-He's the smell." The first of these craft, the Kuan
(c) "I, beat him and beat him Wei, will be shipped during the and he simple wont go any faster. week-end, and is consigned to the what shall I do? Do you think Chinese Maritime Customs authori-he's got Bighead?"
tles
1
The vessels draw only two feet of water, are forty-five feet long and are equipped with wireless and machine-guns.
A number of water-tight bulk- heads make them practically un- sinkable. Their speed is belg kept a close secret but it is known that they are capable of well over thirty knots.-- Reuter.
KINGS SILVER JUBILEE Review Of Combined Fleets
London, March 6. As part of the celebrations to mark the twenty ffth anniversary of the King's accession, a review of the combined Home and Medi- terrian Fleet will be Spithead in July. view it is hoped that the King, in his yacht Victoria and Albert, will lead the Fleets to sea and will witness tactical exercise.
held at After the re-
For a week during May, a rium- Home Fleet
SATURDAY, 9th INST. has not been seriously reduced ber of ships of the
AT
CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE
"...
At 9,15 P.M.
BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S
PARLIAMENT COMES TO
LIFE
will be present off Southend and others will be moored in the Thames to allow the public to see them.-
British Wireless..
PARLIAMENTARIANS AT SILVER JUBILER
Representative Gathering From The Empire
during the past twenty years, though its incidence in given areas has been reduced very greatly. The task, in other words, is so difficult and so costly that its successful accomplishment demands -larger resources than are usually evall- able, Ross himself refused to au- cept this evident truth as an object of a fatal kind to the plans. which were so much in his thought. He used to urge that, given the men and the money, malaria could be abolished from most, if not
London, March 6 from all, of the countries where it Replies hitherto received in- (Special Air Mail Service)
is endemic, and he looked upon the dicate that the assembly of Em- failure to achieve such a deliver pire Farliamentarians for the London, Feb., 12. Parliament, overlaid and almost
ance as proof of lack of enterprise Silver Jubilee will be the most re- suffocated for over three years by
on the part of governing authori presentative ever held in Britain the overwhelming Government
tles. But others who have studied Not only the Federal Parliaments majority, is coming to life at last. the disease have come more and of Canada, Australia, New Zea- it has taken the upheaval of more to believe in methods of land, South Africa, the Irish Free indignation all over the country treatment as an essential addition State, India, Southern Rhodesta LIANG CHI HAO,
about the menus test to do it, but to methods of prevention."
and the Legislatures of Ceylon, it is Managing Director.
& good sign that
Such methods of treatment are Bahamas and Bermuda, but the Parliament containing nearly five themselves preventive in character. State Legislatures of Australia [8803, bundred Toriea can respond #0 quickly to a popular cry for
If a patient with malaria can be and the Provincial Legislatures of Justice.
cured speedily, the disease will be Canada all will be represented by Nothing in Parliament this week localized because few mosquitoes eminent Parliamentarians.— debates of one kind or another on
match in importance the will become infected. Again, I Reuter.
active works to prevent the breed- the breakdown of the new un-ing of mosquitoes are in progress, employment assistance regime there will be fewer mosquitoes, to There is the debate that will take become infected, and there will be place on the Enabling Bill legalis a further limitation of spread. ing the "standstill" arrangement, For this reason great Interest is and then there is to be the Labour vote of censure or the Government now being taken in the new drugs The King has approved the ap for its deplorable mishandling of that are being offered as additious pointment of Mr. Ronald Hugh the whole business-linked with s to the ordinary therapy by quinine. Campbell, Minister at Paris, to be general attack on the Government's It was pointed out some time ago Minister at Belgrade, in succession failure to deal with unemployment by Colonel B. P. James in the to Sir Neville Henderson, who will as a chronic evil, et mag
Journal of Tropical Medicine and be relinquishing his post in the To have to face both a hot Hygiene" that the aim is the dis summer. ders and its lack of a policy for covery and manufacture of pro- British Wirdees. unemployment would have been & ducts effective for purposes which severe trial for the Government at quinine does not full, and so to
THE HONG KONG AND NEW TERRITORIES FERRY CO. LTD
SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY
MEETING
TUTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SBARE HOLDERS will be held at the Company's Office at China Building (5th Boor), Hong Kong, on Monday, the 25th March, 1985, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1984, and of electing an auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the ath to 25th March, 1985, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directore, LI CHUNG PO,
сад
over a
criticism of its means test "hlun-
·BRITISH MINISTER. TO BELGRADE
London, Mar. b.
antisfactory
Question 2.—Compare the advan- tages of the following places as "hide-outs" for seuls:-
the would-be-
The Cafetaria.
!
Repulse Bay in Winter
Repulse Bay in Summer South China Emporium Majestic
Give examples.
Signing chits at clubs of whien one is not a member seems rather arrogant, even if the club is the wrong side of the harbour. Fancy dress may have confused the offen ders, but nevertheless Felix pre- sents them with his weekly AWARD FOR BAD MANNERS.
4
*
Ma-ma, may. I en-ter my po-ny for the ra-ces?
15
1
No t-tle man: the list. closed last night for un-im-por-tant peo- ple....
Debs should form a Union to pro- Felix suggests that Hong Kong
Lect their interests against .3
·BH ANO 511- REY,
charming newcomer, who is making daisy chains of all their pet young
men.
(By "PRUDENCE") A most successful concert in ald of that most deserving charity The Benevolent Society was held yesterday. "' Under the patronage of Mrs. Charles Hoover (wife of the Consul-General) it was
R. Sanger- while Mrs. W. L. Marshall threw open her beautiful house on May Road for the occasion. It is not. | easy to seat over a hundred people. In an ordinary drawing room, but
Wear your heart on your sleeve next time, my curlyl-headed boy. Love laughs at locksmiths and American gangway guards, while rudeness organized by Mrs. will get you nowhere.
J
Felix awards Good Marks to Mrs. McEvoy for her Mona Lisa Smile.
"double" variety (so dear to the heart of all Londoners) and easily held the large audience present.
Mrs. Smalley for her charming Mrs. Marshall's is of the big
appearance.
The Peninsula Hotel for their ex- cellent pre-Hunt Ball Dinner.
Mr. Alexander for photographing his cocktail-party.
Mrs. Ropes for her Medici Collar, Mrs. Carter for unruffed calm at the bridge table.
And to himself because no one has yet guessed his (or her) ident- ity.
LET'S BE REALLY CATTY
The guests were received by Mrs.. Marshall who looked lovely in apricot yellow with a
collar of glittering sequins and she was AS- sisted by Mrs. Fred Tracy who looked awfully smart in brown. with gold embroidered sleeves- which sulted her marvellously."
The concert was a social (as well as a musical) event and there was a most representative gather- ing. Among those present I saw Mrs. Charles Hoover, and the Con- sul of France. Mr. and Mrs, 'N L Smith, Mrs. Wynne-Jones, "Mrs. Macfadyen. Mrs. Gerrard and Betty, Mrs. Dunbar, Mrs. George Hill, Mrs. Hance with Barbara and Heather, Mrs. Feld, Mrs. Nick Buyers, Mrs. Mackichan Mrs, Heil- To some who love to show their berg. Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Emmett hem and egg5-Legs.
and lots of others.
(By "DOGGIE")
One thing is worse than being talked about, and that is to be un-noticed herice enters Doggle, to beat up Catty.
To some Females, who take up all the dancing floor, with their big plates of meat-feet-
To those with red finger nails, that look as if they have been skinning Rabbits, and forgot to wash their harids.
To the false wigs and dye. To some males, who are worse than hens, with their-Cackle!
To the hate, the Courage, the Love and Whoopee! all to be found in Hong Kong.........
Seen at the Esces
LOCAL AND GENERAL
HMS. Grimsby left Shanghai on Tuesday for Pagoda Anchorage after being relieved by HMS. Adventure..
HMS. Kent, firing the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Frederic. C. Dreyer, and accom- panied by the Admiral's armed yacht Falmouth, is on passage, to
Bangkok where she is expected to arrive on March 9. She will leave Bangkok for Saigon on March 13 and arrive back in Hong Kong to wards the end of the month,
-
It was sad that Miss Marie Goetter had a slight accident on the journey from Canton and was unable
to appear with her ac- cordian-but it was a. splendid programme and other performers managed to fill the gap. Mrs. Sanger was in splendid voice. She gave three popular songs which were warmly applauded, and the two lovely German songs by Strauss, (Die Nacht and Aus dem Walde) · but the one I liked best was a new and tuneful setting of "The Birth- day."
Mrs. Arnold was there with her cello and Mrs. Evelle played all the accompaniments in her own. soft sympathetic way. Mr · J. C. Poole bad a great success and played numbers ·ot delightful.. melodies on the piano entirely
from-memory.
During the short interval Mrs. G. E. Sayer (the President of the Society, rose to thank Mrs. Mar- shall and Mrs. Sanger for ur- tanising this successful "Musicale" and she also expressed her appre clation of the kindness of those fr the audience who supported the good cause by buying tickets.
NEWS SUMMARY Hotel on the occasion of the visit
1
The final dress rehearsal of “Hiawatha” took place last night
of the Japanese Training Squadron „Page 7
Further games were played yes- at the China Fleet Club Theatre terday in the Open Singles and when service men were guests of Doublés Tennis Championships. the Philharmonic Society, Page 6. when the holders of both titles Page 11
The usual monthly committee meeting of the Chinese General The HK Hockey Club beat the Chamber of Commerce was held Army yesterday by the only goal yesterday when several interesting scored to become champions of matters were discussed. Page 6 the Triangular Tournament.
The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga pre-
sided over an extraordinary gen eral meeting of the China Light & Power Co. (1918), Ltd, when a re- solution to change the name of
the Company was adopted.