HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937.
NEW "ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
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NOTICE,
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS DURING THE RACES.
(1).—It is hereby notified that on the days fixed for the Annual Wong-Nel- Race Meeting at Chong (February 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th), the follow..
BANK HOLIDAYS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1937
February, 1937.
The Exchange Banks will open at 9.30a.m. and will close at 12 noon for the transaction of public business on Monday, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th Tuesday and Wednesday, the 22nd., 23rd and 24th February, 1937. (RACE MEETING). Hong Kong, 18th February, 1937.
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On Saturday, 20th, Monday, 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd Febru. ary, the first bell will be rang at and the first race On will be run at 11.30 a.m.
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ing Regulations, under Ordinance HONG KONG & SHANGHAI Wednesday, 24th February, the
No. 2 of 1869, will be in force :-
1. All vehicles going to the
BANKING CORPORATION
Races at Wong-Nei Chong Notice is hereby given that will proceed clockwise round the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Happy Valley via Wong the Shareholders in this Corpora Nel Chong Road to the ention will be held at the Head trance gates.
Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 27th February, 1937, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1936.
Motorists from town are advised to proceed via Arsen al Street, Hennessy Road, Percival Street and Leighton Hill Road.
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gers will alight from and board Tranicars and Buses a) the main public entrance gate and (2) the members entrance gate only. 3. Pedestrians must walk on the footpaths, and not on the Roadway.
4. Vehicles must proceed at a slow speed in the vicinity of the Race Course. !
5. Vehicles will be parked in
first bell will be rung at 11.30 .., and the first race will be run at 12 o'clock NOON, and on Saturday, 27th February, the first bell will be rung at p.m., and the first race 2.00 p.m.
1.30
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The tiffin interval will be taken
after the fifth race on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, and after the fourth race on Wednesday,
MEMBERS' BADGES AND-
"ENCLOSURES Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED
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DEATHS LAURENCE--On February 10, 1937, at Bagulo, Philippine Islands, suddenly after operation Alice, dearly loved wife of Frederick L Laurence of Manlia, P.1,
HUNG-On February 18, 1937, at 8.30 p.m., in his residence. No. 3 West End Terrace. Hung Hing Kain, aged 52. Funeral arrives at Wing Pit Ting at 5 p.m. to-day.
H.K. RIFLE
ASSOCIATION
11204 Week-end Spoon And
Practice Shoot
to-morrow (Saturday
There will be a Spoon and Prac- tice Shoot at Stonecutters, by the courtesy of the Naval Authorities, afternoon, commencing at 2 p.m. sharp.
will A private launch
leave Business Office: | Queen's Pler at 1:15 pm., calling 15-19, Queen's Road Central at the Kowloon Public Pley at 1.25 Tel 30251.
p.m. Shamshulpo at 1.40 p.m. ar- Night Editor (Wanchal Office): riving at Stonecutters at 1.30.p.m. The launch will be available for Tel. 24511. London Omce: 53. Fleet Street the return journey on the com
Notice is hereby given that the Eighteenth Ordinary Meeting of. Shareholders will be held at the Registered Office of the Com. pany, No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, at 3 p.m. Saturday, the 6th March, 1937, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Editorial Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts for the year
The Transfer- Books of the ending 31st December, 1936. Company will be closed from Saturday. 27th February 1937 to Saturday, 6th March, 1937 (both days inclusive) during which period No transfer of shares can be registered.
By order of the
Board of Directors,
E.C. 4.
The
and
Daily Press.
KAN TONG PO, . BONG KONG. FEBRUARY 18, 1937.
Chief Manager.
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Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1937.
GOES POETIC
That well-known assertion that
The Register of Shares of the } their badges prominently display.THE HONGKONG LAND\ ¡f a man could make a nation's
Corporation will be closed from Monday, the 15th February to Saturday, the 27th February, 1937 (both days inclusive) dur ing which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.
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ed throughout the Meeting,
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting non-members
INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV EN that the Forty-Ninth Or
to the Members' Enclosure and dinary General Meeting of Share Club Rooms at $10.00 per day holders in this Company will be including tax—or $40.00 includ.held at the Offices of Messrs ing tax for the Meeting (ladies Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. $5.00 and $20.00 respectively) on Tuesday, 9th March, 1937, af the vicinity of the Race Course as directed by the Hong Kong, 8th February, 1937. are obtainable through the Secre. Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to 5014|tary upon introduction by a
member, such member to be res gether with the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st ponsible for all chits, etc..
December, 1936. Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
Police on duty.
6. Dogs are not allowed on or
COMPANY, LIMITED.
near the Race Course. Any HONG KONG TELEPHONE dog found straying on or near the Race Course is able to be destroyed Note-Kennedy Road will be
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open to light motor traffic
from i z.m. to 7 p.m. (11).—Extra__ _Race Meetings during the year 1937.-On days fixed for Extra Race Meetings.
One way traffic will be enforced ja Wong-Nel-Chong Road,"
Kennedy Road will not be open
to motor traffic.
PARKING OF CARS AT THE
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RACE COURSE
1. The Stand at the public en
trance is reserved for Jockey Club Stewards and Officials only.
2. Morrison Hill parking ground opposite Civil Service Club and Village Road reserved for Private Cars.
NOTICE IS HEREBY
The Secretary's Office. 1st floor, EXCHANGE BUILDING, (Tel. 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 19.00 am. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.
GIVEN that the TWELFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEET ING of HONG KONG TELE. PHONE COMPANY, LIMIT: ED, will be held on WEDNES DAY, the 3rd day of March, 1937, at the BOARD ROOM DI the Company, Second Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Ac. counts and the Report of the On no pretext will children be Board of Directors, for the finan-permitted in either enclosure cial year ended 31st December, during the first four days of the 1936, and re-electing two Direct Meeting. tors and the Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 22nd February to the 3rd March, 1937, both days inclu- sive.
Dated this 2nd day of Febru
3. Ventris Road reserved for ary, 1937.
Public Cars,
T. H. KING, Inspector General of Police,
19th February, 1937,
Hong Kong.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
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Order of the Board..
W. L. McKENZIE, Secretary. 14, Des Voeux Road Centřai, Hong Kong.
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THE RAUB` AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED.
(Incorporated in Queensland).. DECLARATION OF INTERIM
DIVIDEND
per share on account of
The Register ei Shares of the Company will be Closed from Monday, 22nd February, 1937, to Tuesday, 9th March, 1937, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the
Board of Directors.
0. EAGER,
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Secretary.
A limited number of tiflas will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1937.
Boy, Tel 21920,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
The price of admission to the
Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public En- closure at $1.00 per day including tax.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tilins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure,
SERVANTS' PASSES Passes for Servants will be
issued on application to the Secre tary, 1st Boor, Exchange Build- ing.
Notice is hereby given that
NOTICE is hereby given that the Forty-eighth Ordinary Yearly an Interim Dividend of six pence Any persons found loitering Meeting will be held at the
the With Servants' passes in their Company's Oflices, F. &
financial year ending 31st March, possession will forfeit the same Building, Thursday, 11th
1937 has been declared by the and will be removed from the March 1937 at 11 am, for the Directors of the Company in Enclosure. purpose of presenting the Report Brisbane, payable on 12th March, of the Directors together with a 1937 to shareholders on the Regis. Statement of Accounts le 31st ters at Brisbane and Singapore December 1936 and electing Di on 11th March, 1937. rectors and Auditors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be chased frem 27th February to 11 March 1937, both days inclulve, dur. Ing which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
GIBE, LIVINGSTON.
& CO., LTD.,.
Agents
Hong Kong, 18th February, 1937. 15058
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Re- gisters will be closed from Friday, 5th March, to Thursday, 11th March, 1937 (both days inclu. sive), for the preparation of Dividend Warrants.
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, ⠀ Singapore, 5th February, 1937.
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By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 15th February, 1937. 5032
CHINA & JAPAN HOMEWARD FREIGHT
CONFERENCE
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TRINITY (OLLEGE OF MUSIC LONDON LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
HONG KONG CENTRE The following are the dates of the forthe-ming Examinations.
PRACTICAL Vocal and Instru- mental Manie) ab at 10th to 21th May, 1937,
Last day of Entry 96th February, 1937, THEORETICAL (Paper Work) on
12th June, 1937.
Last day of Entry 5th March, 1937.
Regulations, Official List of Pieces and Studies, Entrance Forms and Information on application to the Local Secretary.
J. E. Anderson, % ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.,:
Ice House Street, Hong Kong,
(6048
JAPANESÉ - ADMIRAL GOES TO TSINAN
Tsingtao, Feb. 18. Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commanding the Third Japanese Squadron, left here last night by train for Tsinaz, where he will on General Han Fu-chu, cali Chairman of the Shantung Pro- vincial Governmen
songs he need have no concern about who made its laws seems to attach much more importance to poetry than it does to politics; on that basis une bard would count for far more in the affairs of men than a whole Front Bench of Right Honourables.
pletion of shooting.
It is requested that, through Council representatives, the Hano- rary Secretary of the, Association may be informed not later than
(Friday) 3.30 p.m. to-day
how many members from each unit or club will be attending.
PROOF AGAINST GERMS
Canton Student's Claims
Canton, Feb, 18.
It is reported that after years, ments on nimself, a student of of practical "physical" experi the Legal Faculty of the Chung Shan University of Canton, named She Too-ki has succeeded in max-
ing his body immune against the That is not an estimate that is germs of small-pox, tuberculosis,
influenza, cholera, ordinarily reflected in the newa plague and other infectious dis- dysentery.
12 have been eases, having swallowed these columaas sharply reminded in messages germs without arty injurious from Japan. Conflict in the effects whatever. Diet and resignations of Minis-
It is stated that She Too-ki is in perfect health, and is proceed- ters have recently been reported ing to Nanking to request the at great length in the newspapers Government Health Department of this Colony, but the briefeat to test the truth of his claims by paragraph has served for the making a public demonstration, unnouncement that 41,496 poems
He arrived in Shanghal by the B. & S. steamer "Ming Sang” a by Japanese citizens were sub-
few days ago, and proceeded to mitted for judgment in the Nanking by train on the 15th in- Imperial New Year poetry constant. feat that was held in the Em. peror's Palace.
He explained that he was unable to make a public demonstration in Shanghai, owing in his ansdaty to reach the capital.→ Chinese Evening Press.
DEATH OF GENERAL CHU PUI TEH
But perhaps the poems were sharply political and closely con- cerned with the tangled skein of State affairs? Not at all-they were all on the theme (which the Emperor hituself had select- ed) "A Farmhouse in Snow.”
Nothing could be more pastoral
Nanking, Feb. 18. and less political; the mere
General Chu Pul-teh, Chairman thought of the farmhouse sur-
of the Military Affairs Commission rounded by snowdrifts is cal- died in Nanking yesterday from culated to reduce any hot gusts blood poisoning due to inflama- of party passion. Yet over forty tion of the left arm. thousand Japanese songsters at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, as His death has greatly distressed down to see what they would du he was a close attendant of the with it, and that at a time when Generalissime in all his important domestic politics were boiling up missions. to a crisis.
On the 14th instant, General
arm, and received a blood-streng-
It suggests a vastly different Chu falt uncomfortable in the left Japan from the politico-militarist thening injection. He was able to Moloch that we hear so much attend the opening ceremony at about forty thousand bards all busy with snowflakes round the larm instead of with irons in the fire,
And if they could turn out in such numbers for a chilly, mid- winter theme like that, how | many poetical divisions could be put on parade for "A Spring Poem on Cherry Blossom?
FORMER G.O.C. HONOURED
Major-Gen. Borrett
Awarded K.C.B.
Major-General O. C, Borrett. former G.0.C. in Hong Kong, who relinquished his appointment in September last year, was awarded a KC.B. decoration in the New Year Honours list issued on Febru- ary 1.
Prior to the present honour con- ferred by His Majesty the King, Major-General Borrett held the decora- C.B. C.M.G. and CBE tions which included the D.S.O.. £EverB] foreign medals, South African and European War medals and those for service on the North-West Frontier of India.
Born in 1878, he passed out of Sandhurst and served with the King's Own Rifles, 5th Bn. the Shropshire Light Infantry and the 6th Bn. The Liverpool Regiment. He was promoted to the rank of Major-Generai in 1830 while com- manding the British Troops in the Shanghai area, and later joined the China Command. From 1919 to 1990 he was A.D.C. to King- George' V.
Upon relinquishing command in. Hong Kong. Major-General Bir Oswald Borrett #718 appointed Lleutenant of the Tower of Lon- don, in succession to Lieut-Gen. Sir John E. S. Brind.
FRENCH PROMISE TO AMERICA
No Foreign Exchange Control
:
Paris, Feb. 18. The new French Ambassador in Washington, George Bonnet, will hand to the American Secretary of State a written promise by the French Government that no form. of foreign exchange control will be instituted in France, according to a report by the "Echo de Paris”
The paper states that Premier Blum has no intention to take any measures in the realm of finance that would disturb the Franco- U.S.A. monetary agreement"- Transucian News Service.
PAPAL LEGATE AT BANQUET
Tokyo, Feb. 18.
in su- The Emperor received dience this morning at the Im- perial Palace the Papal Legate, Cardinal Dougherty, who is return- ing to America after attending the Eucharistic Congress in Manila.
General Hayashi, the Premier, gave banquet to Cardinal Dougherty and other American delegates last night. Reuter.
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KING OF GREECE ENTERTAINS
Athens, Feb. 18. King George II of Greece - gave · a luncheon on Wednesday to the
the Third Plenary scesion on the Foreign Ministers of the Balkan 15th Tristant, but caught a chill which led to complications and blood-poisoning.— Thinèse Evening Prets.
MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY
Nanking, Feb. 18. High military officials and Party
leaders to-day sent condolences to the family of the late General Chu Pei-teh, chief adjutant of the Military Affairs Commission and member of the Central Executive Committee, who died here on at 11.20 p.m last night, following a brief illness.
Entente assembled here for the
This Balkan Conference.
COM- ference ended during the after- noon. An offefal communique on the outcome of the deliberations will be issued this evening.--- frunzucca News Cervica
VILLAGE "BATTLE IN INDIA
New Delhi, Feb. 17. Five were killed and three in- jured in a land dispute on the- North-West frontier.
The dispute arose between two
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LANTERN LECTURE · ·
ON VILLAGE LIFE
General Chu is a brilliant mil- tary strategist and took a con- At a lantern lecture given last spicuous part as an army corps villages, whose members possessed minor The Japanese admiral is sche-nig at the St. Andrew's Church commander in the Northern Ex-frearms and started.
skirmish. duled to leave Tsinan to-night Hall, Rev. Wittenbach, who is on pedition. He went to Canton last
Quiet was restored by mobile- on his way to Tientsin and Pel- missionary work
the year to assist General Chiang ping. At Tientsin. Admiral Base- villages in the Canton Della, and Kai-shek in settling the Kwanget police and 25 have been arrested gawa will call on General Bung who is well acquainted with the problem. Cheh-yuan, Chairman of the villagers, gave a very impressive || Union News, Hopel-Chahar Political Council talk about the life and conditions Union: New.
MR. T.L. SOONG'S RETURN
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among
RICKSHAWS NOT FOR GENDARMES
in connection" with the affair- Reuter's Bulletin Servico.
Litvinov's Vacation
of the villagers in South China.
With the help of the clearly llustrated· lantern plates, the speaker revealed the hardships
Moscow, Feb; 18. that the farmers have to bear and
The request of the Soviet. For.... the catastrophies of floods and
Canton, Feb. 18. eign Commissar Litvinov tolapend droughts they have to face re- Shanghai, Feb, 17. garding their crops. He spoke of According to local vernacular his vacation outside Russia was As previously reported Mr. T. L. the poor life which the farmers papers, gendarmes are not allowed refused by the Government and Soong, Canton Finance Commisare living, and made a striking to ride rickshaws, as much sight the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. Litvinov aloner is suffering from influenza comparison, saying that the re- is unbecoming. Their duty is to Ax and from Sanday, 21st, and is recuperating in the Wang venue they get from their crops maintain public order and dis-had applied for permission.
spend a considerable time at a la often less than the money spent | cipline of troops. inst., the above Office will be Yan Nursing Home..
It is reported that he is now in buying newspapers by any Geridarmes are however, per- foreign health resort. He will be Hemitted to ride motor cars and i granted a vacation but must situated at P. & O. Building, | completely recovered and that be public-minded person here..
bruses. They pay only half fare for spend it in the Gaucasus or the
Crimea. bus ridea
Traniscena: Faya Sérvice.
SWORN MEASURER'S OFFICE
6th Floor, Connaught Road, will be able to return to Canton also pointed out the ignorance of "Central.
the children, and strewed the zibed in two weeks time.--
of education. 5041 Chere: Evening Press.
"Orion News.
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