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Mr. and Mrs. Jones had been in- vited to a friend's, for test.
"Come along, dearie," said Mrs. Janes to her three-year-old son. "and have your face wasted.”
"Don't want to be washed,” was the reply.
"But," said mother, “you don't want to be a dirty Hittle boy, do you? I want my little boy to have a nice clean face for the ladies to Joles."
A few minutes later the bay stood watching his father ing
“Daddy!" he cried. "I know why you're washing!"
"Young man," demanded the father, "tell me the truth; why do youz want
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BRITISH FLYING DIARY OF LOCAL
NEWS
Advance Of Civil Aviation
EVENTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Anniversaries and Holidays. Apparition of Our Lady "at' Lour- des (a. 1858) St. Romana, V.
Cinemas King's:—"The Littlest Rebel." Queen's-"Peter Ibbetson." Oriental:"Wit With." World:"Chinese Ficture.". Alhambra:-"The Littlest Rebel." Majestic:-"Secret Of The
Chateau"
Star-Straight From The Heart
- London, June 14. Statistics of activity at Heston wash-airport, near London, during 1935 provide clear evidence of the rapid advance of commercial: aviation. Even in the British Isles, with their frequently cloudy skies on the one hand and excellent ex- Meetings, Kowloon Chess Club, press railway services on the 5.30 p.m.; RAO.C. Association, other, there is scope for the in- Garrison Lecture Hall, 830 p.m.
Miscellaneous, tensive use of serial : transports-
Rotary Tin. daughter? Is it for her own saketion. Once an adequate ground Hong Kong Hotel; St. Andrew's or to pay off your debts?"
organisation, berves the country Church V.D.M.A. Working Party the way will be clear for manifold meets at 3 p.m. increases of trafic over the best Rehearsals-Hongkong Singers, results yet achieved
“Messiah,” St. John's Cathedra 350 p.m.
Social-Soldiers and Airmen's Christian Assen,
H.K. Union Church Hall, 7.30 p.m.
Sports
"Well," replied the lad, "suppose you pay off my debts Arst, and then wait and see."
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"Well, Johnny," said the teacher during the gardening lesson, "a you tell me what an herbaceous border is?"
"Yes sir. It's a lodger what won't eat no meat."
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Heston is the London headquar- ters of several of the home air transport companies. In some conditions of weather it is prefer- red to Croydoni as a landing place by Cross-Channel air liner Last Billiards-Steel. Coulson League. year 33 62 aircraft ascents änd Röyal Engineers v. St. Patrick's: landings were recorded, during the Naval Dockyard Police v. Garrison Union - v. controlled period between 8 am Sergeants; Catholic
Uficers: Fusillers Y. per cent were made by commer- Dockyard R.C.; Civil Service v cial neropianes. Exact record, was Chief and Petty Officers. not kept in the early month of Golf Completion Final Round 1934, but 15,246 aircraft movements Royal Hongkong Golf Club Ladies were recorded in the latter six Section Captain's Cup Competi months of that year, compared tion
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS forgetting the quintuplets, they and 8 pm each day. Of these, 49 Prison
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A man lost his hat in a strong wind. He gave chase. A woman screamed from a near-by-cottage:
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JAPANESE NAVAL TRÁIN. ING SQUADRON WILL
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with 17,954 in the corresponding Hockey East Lancashires sec period of 1935-an increase of 18 [onds v. PunjabTM Regiment (Sham- per cent,
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Moon-I Moon, 19th Day. Passengers who passed through Sunrise.-6.58 a.m. Sunset.-6.18 Heston in 1935 on the regular air-1.m. lines numbered 17,903. Again there Tides-High at 12.01 and 23.39; is no exact. 1934 record for com Low at 5.38 and 17.29.
· WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 parison, but a generous estimate for that year is 14,000, and 1995′ Anniversaries and Holidays, shows under this head, therefore, Lincoln's Birthday. (U.S.A.) The an increase of some 28 per cent Seven Founders of the Order bi of this passenger total, 8,668 were the Servites of Our Lady. Four- carried between London and Jersey teenth Anniversary of the Corona- by Jersey Airways. This Agure son of Pope Pius XI (1922). *** in addition to the company's
Auctions -Old and Sprpits Southampton-Jersey traffic, which Naval Stores, etc., at H.M. Naval represents by far the largest prp-Yard, Hong Kong and at Kow- portion of its activities Ita loon Naval Depot and Naval Arma- Heston traffic alone shows a 24 per ment Supply Depot, Hong Kong, cent. increase ou
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Effective radio communications and direction-anding are provided King's: The Gay Deception." at Heston. During the year in Queen's: "Here Comes Cookie." stallation was begun of a "blind Oriental: Am A Thief." fanding system which is designed World: "Chinese Picture" eventually to make feasible the Alhambra Bad Boy. safe approach and landing of suit Majestic Dressed 20. Thri abiy-equipped aircraft even in the Star Straight From The Heart." thickest fogs The Festor system Meetings Hong Kong Footbal will be the first of its kind in this Association Council, 5.30 p.m. country. Demands •, of "blind"
Entertainments, "Concertat landing are also reflected in ex- Cheers Club, 9 p.ni tension of the lariding area from 105 to 172 acres; work is now in hand which will provide runways of from 1,015 to 1,315 yards in length in all directions;;;
New 160∙MP.II. AIRLINERS ORDERED
Lectures-Prot, C. A. Middleton Smith addresses HK. University Medical Society, at Union Assem bly Room, 5.30 p.zig wat
Meetings. Annual, of The Star Ferry Co., Ltd. at Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Office, noon; Among important orders recent HK Football Assen: Counell, 5.30 ly placed with the Heston sales de-pm Monthly, of HK. Aquartuin partment is one from British Air Society, in Laboratory of Biology ways the new combine of several Dept, University, 8.30 pm How- Important Independent az trans loon Union Church Women's Gulla port companies for four of the 10 am: Kowloon Tong Anglican 1938 model of the de Havilland Church Committee Meeting, 6 p.m. Yokosuka, Feb. LDH 88 four-engined biplanes.
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