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1887
Christmas Cards and Children's Picture Books
also,
LARGE SELECTION OF STAMPS
which will be a delight to any Stamp Collector to receive,
STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN ON SATURDAY TO 3 P.M.
GRACA & CO.
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P. O. Box 620.
HONG KONG.
ENSIGN AUTO-RANGE"
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Focusses the image absolutely, sharply and automatically. It provided with a RANGE-FİNDER coupled with the lens focusing mechanism, and operated from the asual radial focussing lever.
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The Most Comprehensive Survey Yet Compiled of Reconstructional Progress in Modern China.
CHINA'S
NEW CURRENCY
SYSTEM
By TANG LEANG - LI
A survey of Chinese Currency and Banking System" in Historical perspective and of the reactions of the World Slump upon Chinese Trade, Industry, and Finance, from the beginning of the depression to the Establishment of State-Control of Silver-with. Statistical tables relating to movements of Gold, Silver and Prices in General.
ON SALE AT
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Publishers:
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936.
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TWICLETS
in St. George Cartons
TWIGLETS are obtainable at Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., The Sun Co., and Blue Bird in Hong Kong and in, Kowloos at Mears. Hung Cheong, Cheong Hing and Tai Wo, also at most other Stores, ROBERTSON, WILSON & CO., LTD., Agents for
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Society For Protection
Of Children
- $22,722.69 SPENT ON RELIEF WORK Annual Report
Interesting facts regarding the scope of work carried out by the Society of Protection of Children, are revealed in the Annual Report, which has just come to hand. The annual meet- ing of the Society, which will be attended by His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott. will be held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday at 5.30 p.
Among other things, the report the year being 5,308 as compared revenis:
with 5,339 fast year. The revenue exceeded the ex- penditure by only $26.80. Receipts totalled $22,722.69.
HAWKERS' LICENCES
PUBLIC AUCTION LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
HE Undersigned hate received PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
Instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
OK
MONDAY, DEC. 21, 1996 Coxxencing at 11 AM.
AT. "NORMAN COTTAGE" No. 11, GARDEN ROAD
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
OF VIEW FROM SUNDAY, Tax 2 TH DECEMBER, 1996.
LAMMERT BROS.. AUCTIONEERS.
The work of obtaining hawkers' One thousand five hundred and the parents to earn their living has
Licences and of generally assisting Tax:- CASH ON DELIVERY. seventy-two new cases, affecting 3,687 children, were dealt with; Thirty thousand three hundred and fifty-ve mothers and infants who attended regularly at the branches for advice, weighing. soup, fruit juice, cod liver oil and various other forms of reller were assisted; a
Through its Inspectors. 5.306 visits to children's homes were made;
were
Twenty-three children maintained at various schools or institutions;
Rent was paid in 23 cases, and Anancial aid in 101 cases;
been continued, for it is the Society's desire to enable parents to bear the responsibility for their own children, not to take this responsibility from those to whom It properly belongs. The Urban Council. which atace the beginning of the year has taken the place PUBLIC AUCTION.
of the Police in dealing with licences, has helped us as far as pcssible.
Recently the Urban Council has ing a policy which has for its announced its intention of initiat
ultimate aim the abolition of food- hawkers. Already no new licences Eighteen thousand three hun-are being issued for the hawking dred and ninty-eight tins of milks. of food and cigarettes. The 80- 144 tins of Lactogen, 157 gallonsciety is very apprehensive of the of cod liver oil, and soup to the results of such a policy, which will value of $185.89, was supplied,
deprive it of the means of enabling The Society ended the year with widows to support themselves and a financial surplus of $12.26.
their children. The matter is be- ing closely examined by a Sub- Committed with a view to making proposals which may lead to a re- laxation of the ban on the issue
But it is emphasised that be- cause of lack of funds, the society fould but touch the fringe of the gigantic task It set itself when it
was formed seven years ago.
THE
HE Undersigned bare received
instructions
TO SELL ST
PUBLIC AUCTION
WEDNESDAY,
of licences when the applicants are recommended by responsible charl-An --INCREASED WORK
ties and have no other possible During the year the Society dealt means of making a livelihood.
with one thousand five hundred and
seventy-two new cases, affecting three thousand six hundred and eighty-seven children, as compared
with one thousand one hundred
and seventy-three new cases affect- ing two thousand one hundred and
seventy-six children last year. The
total number of cases dealt with by the Society since its foundation is five thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four, involving eleven thou-
sand, seven hundred and afty-one
INDIRECT RELIET
This help takės many forms, for instance arranging with doctors and hospitals for proper medical care for parents, or finding them work. Frequently this has meant
setting for them a hawker's -
cence, supplying stock, and giving general assistance until the ven- ture proves successful
It has always been the Society's policy to avoid pauperisation. In some cases of temporary sickness with this year, some 1,000 required society provides medical attention, of the parent wage-earner the
children. Of the 1,572 cases dealt
medical attention.
need censes. This burden of
and cares for the children.
In
may be that nothing short of pro-
viding for the entire family is suf-
DEC. 23, 1936
CONVINCING AT 10.30 AM.
Ar TEXT SALES ROOM,
NUDDELL STREET
Ttructions from
HE Undersigned bare reoni veď
THE REGISTHAR SUPREME COURT,
{
To SELL BT
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON..
WEDNESDAY,
DEC. 16, 1986
Ar 12 O'CLOCK - NOON
AT THE SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET.
The Goods and Chattels at Room" No. 823, Asi Lift Building.
TERMS: AS CU-TOMERT."
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned pave received
Instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
WEDNESDAY,
DEC. 16, 1996
COMMENCING AT 2.30 PM.
AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DUUDELL STREET
Interesting and Valuable Collection of Early Prints of Canton, Macau and Hong Kong Toys! Toys!! Toys!!!
A.
B.
C.
The Collection comprises: Engraving
published from
A Fine Ausortment of Sketches by Captain E. Elliott DRESSED DOLLS, FORNITURE B..N.
SETS, LEAD SOLDIERS.
1842 from Sketches made in MECHANICAL TOYS, CHRIST.
Complete Set of Lithographs--
CRACKERS, WOODEN AND
mainly folio size-published in
"1838 by Auguste Borget,
MAS DECORATIONS, etc., etc.
Miscellaneous Engravings of
Scenes in Chins published in 1843.
ON VIEW FRox TUESDAY,
D.
Woodcuts of Hong Kong (24
it appeared about the years. 1854 1857,
also
THE 15Tя DECEMBER, 1936.
•
Hong Kong (Panoramis) by Lt
The Set of 3 Etchings of Old TERMS:-CASH OF DELIVERY.
In addition to new cases there other cases, illness of the parents are cases to which a supply of milk may make it quite impossible for or other food is continued till the them to cam a living, and then it supervision and feeding is carried on from month to month and from scient year to until the family is able to Happily such cases are rare. The
to protect the children Heath 1846 support itself. Cases Bill under Society is most frequently called supervision at the beginning of the Society's new year in November 1935 numbered, 721. This year 1,033 cases are carried forward being etill under supervision on October 31, 1936.
Of the new cases in the last year, 224 were reported to the Society by Officers of Clinics, Hospitals and Government Welfare Centres, and by Magistrates and Police; 1,309 directly by parents, relatives, or members of the public; while 30 were found by Inspectors. -
AVERAGE INCOME
and
upon to assist case in which the. A Few Rare and Interesting Early parents are able and willing to Cricketing Prints.
ON VIEW Ox DAY or BALE
work but cannot find employment, One Set of Byron's Works (17 Vols.). it is then the Society's aim to published in 1882. make the family self-supporting. Employment is, however. exceed- ingly difficult to find, and the So- diety is generally, as has been said, driven to providing a hawker's 1- cence and stock-in-trade, so that a living may be thus obtained until other and more satisfactory em- TERMS-AU CUSTOMART. ployment is available.
During the year 1935-1938, hawkers' Licences were supplied in 37 cases and renewed in 7.
The average income per head per month of the cases dealt with It is largely because the new has been steadily decreasing since policy of the Urbari. Council with the Society'a inception. In 1932 it regard to hawkers" licences" threa- was $2.93. this year it has fallen tens to deprive people of this type as low as $1.73. This gives some
of their only hope of eaming an Idea of the poverty which prevails honest living in intervals of un- among the classes for whom the employment, that the Soviety views Society works, especially when it the measures being taken with is realised that the figure includes | tych gruve anxiety.. the average income of every family whether the Bociety gives relief or not, which comes to the Branches Often mothers whose income is as much as $100 a month or even more, come to ask our Inspectors, for advice without applying for any other assistance.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCHONEERS..
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION..
THE
HE Uräersignal have, received:
instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1986 COMMENCING AT 2,30 P.M.
AT THIS SALES ROOM, No. 35, HANKOW ROAD,
KOWLOON
VALUABLE
A QUANTITY. OF
HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE:
Jomprising —–
need. Mothers are often obliged to spend one-third to one-half of their daily earnings in order to have their infants cared for in their absence. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. 14 Po-chun the Other forms of indirect relief arst step towards filling this need include the provision of vocation-wili abortly be taken. Mr. La has al training for the older children, given to the Society the use for feeding the mother so that she two years of a house in Clarence may be able to feed her child, etc., Terrace, and is going to rebuild it Teak Dining Room & Drawing etc. Five boys are being main-
and prepare it for the use as a Boom Furniture, Office & Bed Room: tained by the Society in the Indus- creche, The Canadian Sisters will Furniture, Black Wood Ware, Orna trial School at Aberdeen. twelve be in charge, and will take in ments, Pictures, Cutlery, Carpets at the St. Louis Industrial School, those children who are sent to Bugs, Gramophones and Records, The depression has made itself one at St. Joseph's College and one them by the Society's inspectors. Enamel Bath, Porcelain and Glas
at the Street Boys' Club. felt even among the poorest of the
Two In addition 'Mr. Li will give one Ware, Braas & E. P. Ware, Lanos, girls are being maintained at the hundred dollars a month towards Electric Table Lamps, Table Fan poor. Among the Society's cases Convent of the Chinese Blisters of running expenses, last year 221 had no income at all;
the Precious Blood, two at the has undertaken to furnish and
Radiators, Ice Chests, etc., etc. The Society this year the number without in-
Victoria Home and Orphanage, equip the house, and to pay the come has increased to 312. one at the Canossian Institute. expenses over and above those
DIRECT RETIEF
Mothers and Infants attend re- gularly at the Society's Branches for advice, weighing, soup, fruit fulce, cod liver off and various other forms of relief. The atten- dances at the three Branches dur- ing 1935-1936 have reached the huge total of 30.355.-
The Inspector make regular visits to the children's homes, the total number of such visits during
The expense of one other main tenance case, is being shared by this Society and the HK Bene- volent Society. The Society is a slating in one more case which has been committed by the Magis trate under Section 17 of the Juvenile Offenders' Ordinance.
The care of infants while the mother works is a form of relief for which there is the greatest"
VIEW FROM WEDNESDAY Tea 16rm, DECEMBER, 1936,
covered by Mr. Lis gift Buch work is of course experimental, and besides helping to all along felt need, will show the way for fu- ture developments and extensions," and give the society invaluable TERMS-CASH on Delivery. knowledge of the requirements of
conduct reber of this type the poor mothers, and of bow to
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS